Wonderful things happen when we read the documentation. For instance, we’ve all seen a Raspberry Pi work as an Ethernet adapter over USB, or a ESP32-S2 presenting as a storage device. Well, [parkerlreed] has made his Steam Deck work as a USB printer after reading the Linux kernel docs on the USB gadget configuration, and
Read MoreIan King / Bloomberg: Intel is cutting 2023 employee compensation to preserve cash for investment, ranging from 5% of the base pay for mid-level managers to 25% for CEO Pat Gelsinger — Intel Corp., struggling with a rapid drop in revenue and earnings, is cutting management pay across the company to cope …
Read MoreKatie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: A survey of nearly 25K US adults: 29.5% used Twitter in December 2022 and January 2023 vs. 32.4% in October 2022; Democrats’ usage fell as Republicans’ was flat — Trust in the platform has dropped among Democrats and risen among Republicans. — The number of people using Twitter in the
Read MoreFinancial Times: The US and India launch an initiative to cooperate on critical and emerging technologies, including quantum computing, AI, and semiconductors, to counter China — Effort designed to counter China in the Indo-Pacific and wean New Delhi off its reliance on Russia for weapons
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Sentra, which classifies cloud data according to sensitivity and tracks cloud data security, raised a $30M Series A led by Standard Investments — The move to the cloud, accelerated by the pandemic, continues unabated. By 2025, Gartner estimates that over 95% of new digital workloads …
Read MoreCredit: Joe Hindy / Android Authority EA has announced that it’s shutting down Apex Legends Mobile. The title launched roughly nine months ago and even earned awards from Apple and Google. Apex Legends Mobile launched back in May 2022, doing a solid job of distilling the Apex Legends experience onto the small screen. In fact,
Read MoreIan King / Bloomberg: Intel is cutting 2023 employee compensation to preserve cash for investment, ranging from 5% of the base pay for mid-level managers to 25% for CEO Pat Gelsinger — Intel Corp., struggling with a rapid drop in revenue and earnings, is cutting management pay across the company to cope …
Read MoreWhile PS2 emulation has been great on my MacBook Pro, the M2 Pro Mac mini could be the ultimate gaming machine.
Read MoreDavid Satin / The Streamable: Peacock has stopped offering its free tier to new subscribers; existing users will continue to have access — Peacock will no longer offer their free tier for new subscribers, The Streamable has confirmed. Instead, new users who attempt to sign up for NBCUniversal’s streaming service …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Despite being one of the greatest pleasures in life, food can also be a stressful subject. Planning, buying groceries, prepping, and cooking is no easy feat when you have chores, school, work, and other responsibilities ahead. We often end up eating fast food or slapping a simple sandwich together.
Read MoreWe’ve called it a cross between the Battle School from Ender’s Game and ultimate frisbee. We’ve called it Final Fantasy X blitzball meets VR. It made two of our Best VR Games lists — three, if you count the one I did for CNET before returning to The Verge. It convincingly sticks you into a
Read MoreA photo from E3 2019, the year before the pandemic. | Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Plus GM’s Hummer EV SUV goes into production, and Paramount’s streaming service gets a rebrand. Continue reading…
Read MoreFrontier joins AT&T as another 5-gig capable ISP available in the United States | Graphic by William Joel / The Verge Frontier, an internet service provider (ISP) that services 25 US states, has just launched 5 Gig fiber internet service across its entire network. Frontier launched 2 Gig fiber internet service less than a year
Read MoreSohee Kim / Bloomberg: As memory prices plunge, SK hynix reports a Q4 operating loss of ~$1.4B, its biggest quarterly operating loss yet, vs. ~$900M est., on a 38% YoY drop in revenue — South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. reported its biggest quarterly loss on record, due to plunging prices in memory chips as
Read MoreA screenshot from Half-Life 2, which is included in The Orange Box. | Image: Valve Microsoft will be removing a bunch of beloved games from the Xbox 360 Marketplace on February 7th, according to a support page on the Xbox website (via Wario64), meaning you won’t be able to buy them after that date. It’s
Read MoreJohn Lewis used his AirTag to track his lost wallet being flown by American Airlines across 35 cities.
Read MoreRode’s NTH-100M headset | Image: Rode Rode is packaging the NTH-100 headphones with a headset microphone for broadcast, streaming, and other voice operations and calling it the NTH-100M. There is virtually no difference between last year’s NTH-100s and the new $189 NTH-100M outside of the new removable boom microphone and the required TRRS cable for
Read MoreSamsung is holding its Galaxy Unpacked event today. The event will be both in-person and live-streamed, which you can watch right here. Samsung will show off the Galaxy S23 series and more. The wait is over; the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event happens today. And you can watch all the reveals from the comfort
Read MorePassenger aircraft as seen flying over the Netherlands. | Image: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images With business continuing as usual, climate pollution from aviation could nearly triple by 2050 as demand for air travel grows, according to a new study published yesterday in the journal Nature Sustainability. It would cost up to $1 trillion to
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Microsoft disabled multiple fraudulent, verified Microsoft Cloud Partner Program accounts for creating malicious OAuth apps used to steal customers’ emails — Microsoft has disabled multiple fraudulent, verified Microsoft Partner Network accounts for creating malicious OAuth applications …
Read MoreSylvia Varnham O’Regan / The Information: Sources: seeking to boost Reels’ quality, Meta executives are leaning toward relaxing the company’s long-standing opposition to sharing ad revenue with creators — When Wall Street analysts dial into an earnings call tomorrow with Mark Zuckerberg, they’re likely to pepper the Meta Platforms CEO …
Read MoreApple’s T2 security chip is causing a ton of secondhand MacBooks to get scrapped.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge People aren’t buying as many computers, and chipmakers are getting hit hard — but AMD thinks that should improve long before the year is out. “The first quarter should be the bottom for us in PCs,” AMD CEO Lisa Su said today on the company’s Q4 2022 earnings
Read MoreOne of the most convenient things about having cats is their independent lifestyle: most are happy to enjoy themselves outside all day, only coming back home when it’s time for dinner and a nap. What your cat gets up to during the day remains a mystery, unless you fit it with a GPS collar. When
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A judge for the National Labor Relations Board has determined that Amazon broke labor laws in the run-up to union elections at its JFK8 and LDJ5 facilities in Staten Island, New York. According to the judge, the company threatened workers by saying they wouldn’t get raises or additional
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