Image: The Verge Amazon Luna, the cloud gaming service, is expanding to Canada, Germany, and the UK. I certainly didn’t have that on my bingo card. Remember: Google Stadia is dead as a doornail, and Amazon Luna, the company’s rival cloud gaming service, wasn’t doing much better. It lost a lot of games, and that
Read MoreOscilloscopes are great for measuring the time and voltage information of a signal. Some old scopes don’t have much in the way of markings on the CRT, although eventually, we started seeing scales that allowed you to count squares easily. Early scopes had marks on the glass or plastic over the CRT, but as [Vintage
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games’ next big plan for the metaverse is to unify all of its disparate asset marketplaces under one brand, Fab. The new store will include assets from the Unreal Engine Marketplace, Quixel Bridge, Artstation Marketplace, and Sketchfab, and Epic will give creators 88 percent of earnings on
Read MoreSean Endicott / Windows Central: Microsoft launches Loop, its Notion and Asana competitor, in preview, letting users collaborate in shared Microsoft 365 workspaces on the web, Android, and iOS — You can now try out Microsoft’s new collaboration tool Loop. — What you need to know — Microsoft Loop is now available in preview.
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority A new feature was discovered in the beta version of Google Messages. The feature is believed to be an AI generation tool that will come up with responses to the text messages you receive. It’s possible Google could be planning to replace Smart Reply with this tool. The Smart
Read MoreImage: The Writers Guild of America While we’ve already seen the adoption of AI tools go hand in hand with layoffs for writers in other industries, the Writers Guild of America is reportedly ready to embrace the disruptive technology so long as it doesn’t directly impact how creators are credited and paid. Variety reports that,
Read MoreIf you’re what one might call unlucky, there comes a point in your life when you need to switch to a keyboard that’s more ergonomic than your average rectangle. A little prevention goes a long way, though, and there’s no time like the present to go ergo. Why not? You have everything to gain, from
Read MoreA rendering of CarbonCapture’s container-sized carbon removal modules. | Image: CarbonCapture via Business Wire Microsoft, an early backer of emerging technologies that take carbon dioxide emissions out of the atmosphere, has agreed to purchase carbon removal credits from Los Angeles-based startup CarbonCapture. CarbonCapture has a massive facility called a direct air capture (DAC) plant in
Read MoreImage: Epic Games Epic will soon let you animate your MetaHumans. The company first launched the MetaHuman creator tools in 2021 as a way of streamlining the process of making more realistic human characters. During its State of Unreal keynote at GDC 2023, the company showed off new animation tools that make it possible to
Read MoreImage: Epic Games Epic Games finally showed off the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) at its State of Unreal 2023 presentation on Wednesday. It’s a new PC application that’s set to launch Wednesday on the Epic Games Store as a public beta, and it will also feature a new scripting language called “Verse.” UEFN has
Read MoreTheo Wayt / The Information: Job listings site Indeed is laying off about 2,200 people, or 15% of its headcount; Indeed was acquired in 2012 by Japan’s Recruit, which also owns Glassdoor — Job listings site Indeed.com told employees on Wednesday that it’s laying off 2,200 people, representing 15% of its headcount …
Read MoreCoco Liu / Bloomberg: Microsoft announces a toolkit for developers to measure Xbox games’ energy consumption “to the nearest millisecond”, helping the company establish a baseline — How much energy does it take to play Xbox? Microsoft Corp. is helping developers find out.
Read MoreTechCrunch: After the Russia-linked Clop ransomware gang claimed to hit 130 companies, victims are coming forward, many of which used Fortra’s GoAnywhere file transfer tool — Clop claimed it mass-hacked 130 organizations. Now the list of known victims is growing — The number of victims affected …
Read MoreVibrant sound and longer battery life make the Ear (2) buds a better buy. But there are caveats.
Read MoreCounter-Strike 2 is official, and for some, it’s coming today. In a post on Twitter, Valve writes that a limited test for CS2 is starting today, which it describes as an “overhaul to every system, every piece of content, and every part of the C-S experience.” A website for the game describes it as “the
Read MoreApple has released the latest developer beta of its iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV software as a public release nears.
Read MoreRegieleki is coming to Elite Raids in Pokémon Go. Read ahead for everything you need to know to beat it and add Regieleki to your roster.
Read MorePetey gets an update that allows the latest version for ChatGPT to be used through an in-app-purchase.
Read MoreHugo Herrera / The Verge Alumni have been leading a community project to design, crowdfund, and build a phone to fill the iPhone Mini’s shoes. All right under our noses. Continue reading…
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Google, Meta, and Apple want Congress to limit Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, expiring at 2023’s end if not reauthorized — Top tech companies are mounting a push to limit how US intelligence agencies collect and view texts, emails and other information about their users …
Read MoreThe Glorious GMMK Pro brings custom mechanical keyboards to the masses, with loads of options and some impressive features. It does this, however, at a relatively high cost, which might put some off.
Read MoreCustomers can link their MyPanera membership to the Amazone One service to collect rewards and pay for purchases in a single action. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has announced that Amazon One — the e-commerce giant’s palm-reading payment technology — will be deployed at Panera Bread locations around the US. The
Read MoreBard prominently tells users it’s an experiment, but that doesn’t mean they’ll listen. | Image: Google If you don’t believe the rushed launch of AI chatbots by Big Tech has an extremely strong chance of degrading the web’s information ecosystem, consider the following: Right now,* if you ask Microsoft’s Bing chatbot if Google’s Bard chatbot
Read MoreKate Beioley / Financial Times: The UK CMA says Broadcom’s $69B VMware acquisition could make servers more expensive and requests remedies, warning of a potential in-depth investigation — Competition and Markets Authority says it may launch in-depth probe if concerns are not addressed — The UK competition regulator …
Read MoreApple’s iOS 16.4 will add a new feature designed to help make it easier for people to hear each other on phone calls.
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