Arcane Is a Work of Art
The Netflix animated series is based on a computer game, but you don’t have to play it to enjoy the show.
Read MoreThe Netflix animated series is based on a computer game, but you don’t have to play it to enjoy the show.
Read MoreEditor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi start this week’s episode off with the announcement of Hackaday Berlin on March 25th. It’s been quite some time since we’ve been on the other side of the pond, because we had to cancel 2020’s Hackaday Belgrade due to COVID-19, so excitement is high for all three
Read MoreWhy spend your free time vying for a Valentine’s Day reservation at an expensive restaurant when you could cozy up on the couch with some takeout and your new favorite game? These five co-op titles require that you and your partner (or pal, or situationship—I don’t judge) work together as you make some cozy, at-home
Read MoreUniversal Since Fast Five, each Fast & Furious movie has gotten more patently ridiculous than the last. The series has sent cars into space, returned two characters from the dead, and perhaps most incredulously, proposes that somehow John Cena and Vin Diesel are biological brothers. For the Fast X trailer, it feels like the series
Read MoreWith multiple top priorities on your plate, it’s hard to focus. When your brain is frazzled, it’s even harder. But there are a few smart ways to refocus quickly and get yourself back on track. All of us have moments when we are distracted by our thoughts or procrastination takes over. However, taking that first step can often help
Read MoreThe benefits of digital twins, defined by Gartner as “…a digital representation of a real-world entity or system,” are tremendous, particularly when coupled with augmented reality or virtual reality innovations. For example, in the manufacturing sector, new hires could explore digital twins to understand how they work and their connections with other technologies without posing
Read MoreApple may not have added a camera to its Apple Watch yet, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t thought long and hard about it. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge While gadget patents don’t guarantee anything, they can offer a glimpse into areas a company is exploring. Earlier this week, Apple was
Read MoreSaksha Menezes / Bloomberg: Analysis: Apple’s 2020-2022 revenue per new hire was $2.51M, up from $1.17M during 2017-2019, and higher than Meta’s $0.79M, Microsoft’s $1.06M, and other peers — There’s a reason why Apple Inc. is under less pressure than tech peers to slash jobs during the current slowdown: It hired more efficiently in the
Read MoreThere are a few binaries that wind up running in a bunch of places, silently do their jobs, and being easily forgotten about. ImageMagick is used on many servers for image conversion and resizing, and tends to run automatically on uploaded images. Easily forgotten, runs automatically, and with arbitrary inputs. Yep, perfect target for vulnerability
Read MoreLauren Feiner / CNBC: Lyft opens down 32% after saying it expects $975M in Q1 revenue vs. $1.09B est.; Lyft CFO blamed “seasonality and lower prices” for the weak guidance — – Shares of Lyft fell on Friday, a day after the company reported guidance for its first quarter of 2023 that was short of
Read MoreYou can find just about anything on streaming services these days. Your favorite sitcoms, reality TV, prestige dramas, live sports — you name it. But what about local channels? National and international news can be enlightening, but can’t you learn about what’s happening closer to home without a cable subscription? Yes, actually! Local channels may
Read MoreGMT033_EHDC3_1157 Good morning, readers, and happy Friday. Welcome to This Week in Space, our Friday morning roundup of the week’s most important space news. Today we’ve got a bunch of good news, including a newfound exoplanet and a dozen new moons orbiting Jupiter. We’ve also got a report of an absolutely wild idea — a
Read MoreThe Echo Show 8 is on sale for its second-best price to date (with a free Echo Show 5 Kids). | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge It seems like whenever there’s a holiday approaching, discounts on Amazon’s popular smart displays pop up everywhere we look. Most of them are decent, but today’s bundle
Read MoreAndrew Asmakov / Decrypt: Filing: bankrupt crypto lender Celsius wants to raise $14.4M by selling coupons and credits it got from mining company Bitmain — The proposed deal, filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York Thursday, comprises $7.4 million in coupons that give holders …
Read MoreRemember that “PhoneDrone” scam from a while back? With two tiny motors and props that could barely lift a microdrone, it was pretty clearly a fake, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a pretty good idea. Good enough, in fact, that [Nick Rehm] came up with his own version of the flying phone case, which
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Earlier this month, Samsung officially launched the brand new Galaxy S23 series. It wasn’t long before word spread that the Galaxy S23 series still doesn’t support Seamless Updates. What are Seamless Updates? When your phone receives an update — say, a new security patch or even a brand new
Read MoreGabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg: A look at Otonomo and Wejo, two struggling startups working to monetize connected car data; Otonomo to merge with roadside assistance tech provider Urgently — Auto companies promising billions in new software revenue by the end of the decade have been hiring engineers left and right …
Read MoreChloe Xiang / VICE: Researchers: some Reddit usernames and other keywords cause ChatGPT to give bizarre responses, likely due to the web data OpenAI scraped to train its model — Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses. — Chloe Xiang
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is getting ready to demonstrate how its new ChatGPT-like AI will transform its Office productivity apps. After announcing and demonstrating its Prometheus Model in its new Bing search engine earlier this week, Microsoft is gearing up to show how it will expand to its core productivity apps
Read More(Photo: AMD)Things move fast in the world of PC hardware. One day you’re sitting on the top of the throne; the next, you’re an also-ran. Such is the case with AMD’s fledgling Zen 4 mobile CPU, the “Dragon Range” Ryzen 9 7845HX. Earlier this week, it appeared out of the shadows and leaped to the
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Light Field Lab, which develops 3D holograms that users can speak and interact with without glasses, raised a $50M Series B led by NCSoft — Light Field Lab has raised $50 million to manufacture and commercialize its SolidLight holographic display platform.
Read MoreWiz SpaceSense uses Wi-Fi to detect motion and turn bulbs on automatically, but it’s inconsistent and flawed.
Read MorePhoto by Emme Hall for The Verge GM resurrected the Hummer as a luxury electric truck with off-road aspirations. But the end result is too big for the trail — too big for anywhere, really. Fact of the matter is the Hummer EV is too extra for its own good. Continue reading…
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Sources: Microsoft is preparing to share its plans for integrating OpenAI’s language tech and the Prometheus model in Word, Outlook, other Office apps, in March — Microsoft is getting ready to demonstrate how its new ChatGPT-like AI will transform its Office productivity apps.
Read MoreIllustration by Carlo Cadenas / The Verge Seven individuals connected to an infamous Russia-based cybercrime network that launched attacks against schools, hospitals, public utilities, and governments were exposed on Thursday after sanctions were imposed by US and UK authorities. The US Department of the Treasury and the UK Foreign Office released pictures of the seven
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