Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority OnePlus 7T on T-Mobile is finally receiving the Android 12 update. This would be its last software update. It also carries the December 2022 security patch alongside all the Android 12 features. The OnePlus 7T on T-Mobile has been long overdue for the Android 12 update. If you’re stuck
Read MoreAndrew Chung / Reuters: SCOTUS declines to hear Wikimedia’s challenge of the NSA’s warrantless Upstream surveillance of foreign targets, leaving in place a lower court’s 2015 dismissal — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia …
Read MoreAlex Heath / The Verge: Sources: Twitter laid off dozens of sales and engineering staff last week, as Elon Musk demands the site’s ad targeting work like Google search ads in one week — He keeps laying people off anyway. — Dozens of Twitter employees across sales and engineering departments were laid off last week
Read MoreOmar Faridi / Crowdfund Insider: Berlin-based Pliant, which offers a B2B corporate credit card service that integrates with accounting software, raised a $28M Series A led by SBI Investment — Berlin-based Pliant claims it is looking back at a very successful year 2022. — While entering seven additional European markets …
Read MoreIf you often spin up a virtual machine just to run Windows, you might be sad that you have to allocate so much space for it. The Tiny11 project provides a Windows 11 installer that strips and compresses a bare minimum system do under 8GB of space. We aren’t sure what the licensing aspects of
Read MoreFood delivery services make it a breeze to enjoy restaurant food in the comfort of your own home. Despite various fees and restaurant surcharges that add a lot more to your bill, the convenience is undeniable, and millions rely on these services to cover their meal and grocery needs. DoorDash is one of the biggest
Read MoreBrandy Betz / CoinDesk: Chaos Labs, which offers an automated, on-chain risk management platform for DeFi protocols, raised a $20M seed led by Galaxy Digital and PayPal Ventures — Chaos Labs, a startup offering an automated economic security system for crypto protocols, has raised $20 million in a seed funding round co-led …
Read MorePYMNTS.com: Sydney-based DataMesh, which offers a payments processing system that it claims adapts to existing systems used by banks and merchants, raised a $30M Series A — DataMesh Group has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round to expand globally. — The Australian firm also plans …
Read MorePYMNTS.com: Sydney-based DataMesh, which offers a payments processing system that it claims adapts to existing systems used by banks and merchants, raised a $30M Series A — DataMesh Group has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round to expand globally. — The Australian firm also plans …
Read MoreIf you often spin up a virtual machine just to run Windows, you might be sad that you have to allocate so much space for it. The Tiny11 project provides a Windows 11 installer that strips and compresses a bare minimum system do under 8GB of space. We aren’t sure what the licensing aspects of
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images On November 21st, Elon Musk gathered Twitter’s remaining employees at its San Francisco headquarters to tell them that, after forcing out roughly two-thirds of the workforce in a matter of weeks, layoffs were over. He keeps laying people off anyway. Dozens of Twitter employees across sales
Read MoreTheodore Schleifer / Puck: Sources: the US DOJ’s Public Integrity Section is looking into possible campaign-finance violations by Sam Bankman-Fried or his associates — An elite unit of the Department of Justice has taken an interest in the political side of the FTX case, raising the possibility of more indictments to come.
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge As it nears the launch of two new smart speakers, Sonos appears to be taking another look at pricing across the company’s product portfolio — and raising them in some cases. The second-generation Beam, which was $449 just a week ago, is now shown as $499 on Sonos’
Read MoreVisual Studio 2022 17.5, the latest version of Microsoft’s signature IDE, is now generally available. Highlights of the new release include capabilities for C++ cross-platform development, AI-powered coding suggestions, streamlined API development, and improved code search. Also known simply as Visual Studio 17.5, the IDE can be downloaded from the Visual Studio website. To read
Read MoreModular construction toys like LEGO and Meccano are great for prototyping, but they aren’t so great for large builds. OpenStructures promises to be a modular building system for projects large and small. Originally conceived in 2007 by [Thomas Lommée], OpenStructures is a modern, more robust reinterpretation of Grid Beam, which was itself a reinterpretation of
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge “We’re a court. We really don’t know about these things. These are not the nine greatest experts on the internet.” Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan made the wryly self-deprecating comment early in oral arguments for Gonzalez v. Google, a potential landmark case covering Section 230 of the Communications
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Meta’s Quest v50 update adds an experimental setting called Direct Touch, which enables hand tracking for touching virtual buttons and keyboards — Hand tracking on Meta’s Quest VR headsets is about to get better. With the new v50 update, you’ll be able to “touch” things like menu buttons …
Read MoreLouis Rosenberg / VentureBeat: Researchers were able to uniquely identify VR users with 94% accuracy from only 100 seconds of motion data, using anonymized data from 50K+ Beat Saber players — Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous A.I. — A new paper from the University of California Berkeley reveals that privacy may be impossible …
Read MoreDemonstrators demand action from the Republican presidential candidates about the water crisis in Flint outside the historic Fox Theatre before the GOP presidential debate on March 3rd, 2016, in Detroit, Michigan. | Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images In the wake of disaster, maintaining close ties with friends and family is a crucial part of recovery. Those
Read MoreIgor Bonifacic / Engadget: YouTube Music rolls out a redesigned radio feature, allowing users to pick up to 30 artists when creating a station, apply filters to change the mood, and more — Almost every music streaming service on the market offers a radio feature, allowing you to create an automatically generated playlist around a
Read MoreCredit: Evan Blass Renders of Motorola’s next Razr phone have surfaced online. The images reveal a Galaxy Z Flip-like device with a screen that covers the entire outer panel. The renders also reveal what the UI could look like. Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip phones are some of the most popular foldable phones on the market.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is giving YouTube Music users the ability to create custom stations based on specific artists and to tune how the algorithm decides what songs it should play. The feature, which is called the “Radio Builder,” started rolling out on Tuesday and can be accessed by scrolling to
Read MoreNick Barclay / The Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. So much for the holiday weekend — it’s a busy week already! We’ve got another major shake-up at Spotify and a bitter cancellation at WNYC. Plus, Hot Pod Summit is this Thursday!
Read MoreEric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog: Takeaways from the Gonzalez v. Google oral arguments: the justices did not engage much with Gonzalez’s weak core arguments after their initial dismantling — I’m going to crank this blog post out before I get swamped with press requests. My takeaways: — I did not hear 5
Read MoreThe Apple Watch is facing two potential import bans over its EKG and pulse oximetry features. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Medical device maker AliveCor announced today that President Biden has upheld an International Trade Commission ruling that could result in a potential import ban on the Apple Watch over its EKG
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