Open for business. | Image: DIY Perks The Framework Laptop has been a godsend for DIYers. Not only does the modular design allow for quick and easy repair, but the swappable mainboard is a robust platform for all sorts of bizarre builds. Tons of tinkerers have used the modular mainboard design to create their own
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: AMD reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $5.6B, vs. $5.5B est., net income down 98% YoY to $21M, and Client segment revenue down 51% YoY due to weak PC chip sales — – AMD reported fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, beating Wall Street expectations for sales and profit, but guided
Read MoreSean Hollister / The Verge: Anker admits its Eufy security cameras are not natively E2E encrypted and produced unencrypted video streams for Eufy’s web portal, but says the flaws are fixed — / Anker admits its always-encrypted cameras weren’t always encrypted — and promises to do better. … First, Anker told us it was impossible.
Read MoreTJ Denzer / Shacknews: EA Q3: revenue up 5% YoY to $1.88B, vs. $2.5B est., net income up 209% YoY to $204M, net bookings down 9% YoY to $2.34B, and lowers FY guidance; stock drops 5%+ — The game publishing giant reduced its full year revenue expectations by about half a billion dollars in its
Read MoreA screenshot from Apex Legends Mobile. | Image: EA Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment announced the game’s mobile version will shut down in all regions on May 1st, just a few weeks shy of its one-year anniversary. As if that wasn’t enough bad news for players, it also said that once the game is gone,
Read MoreYou may have already known about the Shopify marketplace and how it is one of the best platforms to make money by selling your products and services online. Whether you are a Shopify designer, developer, industry authority, or someone who wants to start a Dropshipping business, to become an expert, you will have to learn
Read MoreImage: Blizzard Entertainment To coincide with the release of season 3, Overwatch 2 is reintroducing Overwatch credits, giving players ways to earn those credits via battle pass progression, and adding Overwatch’s epic and legendary skins to its shop at reduced prices. Altogether, this currency overhaul is meant to address the long-standing complaint that the new
Read MoreCredit: Tubi Tubi is among the best free streaming services out there, with a huge library of movies and TV shows you can watch on-demand or on live channels, all without paying any fees. That begs the question: how does Tubi make its money? And is Tubi safe to use? Tubi recently signed a deal
Read MoreImage: Second Dinner Marvel Snap’s Battle Mode update is now live, and my biggest problem right now is that no one wants to play. Is it because my handful of Marvel Snap friends and colleagues are afraid of the awesome power of my decks? Perhaps. Is it because it’s 2:30PM ET on a workday? Also
Read MoreJonathan Vanian / CNBC: Snap Q4: revenue flat YoY at $1.3B, vs. $1.31B est., DAUs up 17% YoY to 375M, vs. 375.3M est., and a $288M net loss, vs. $23M in net income YoY; stock down 13%+ — – Snap missed on revenue for the fourth quarter but beat on earnings. — Snap had a
Read MoreThe 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6. | Image: Hyundai Hyundai’s new Ioniq 6 has had its playdate with the EPA, and now the automaker is revealing that its electric “streamliner” sedan can travel an estimated 361 miles on a full charge. While the calculation is specific to the SE Long Range RWD trim, the AWD version
Read MoreSpectricity was founded in 2017 to create compact, low-cost sensors for smartphones. It’s been working quietly to develop that hardware ever since and revealed its first product, the S1 multispectral sensor, earlier this month. It may be a few years before the company’s new tech finds its way into phones, but when it does, you
Read MoreBrian Merchant / Los Angeles Times: The goal of the Big Tech layoffs is to bring workers to heel and cultivate an insecure workforce, as an official recession hasn’t hit the US or its tech sector — In Silicon Valley, the new year began as the last one ended — with tens of thousands of
Read MoreImage: OpenAI OpenAI, the company behind DALL-E and ChatGPT, has released a free tool that it says is meant to “distinguish between text written by a human and text written by AIs.” It warns the classifier is “not fully reliable” in a press release and “should not be used as a primary decision-making tool.” According
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is shutting down CoTweets, its collaborative posting feature that was one of the last big product updates introduced before Elon Musk’s takeover. A notice was posted on Twitter’s help center announcing the end of the feature. CoTweets allowed two accounts to co-author posts that appeared simultaneously on
Read MoreKiCad is undeniably the hacker favourite when it comes to PCB design, and we’ve built a large amount of infrastructure around it – plugins, integrations, exporters, viewers, and much more. Now, [Stargirl Flowers] is working on what we could call a web viewer for KiCad files – though calling the KiCanvas project a “KiCad viewer”
Read MoreAn Anker Eufy Floodlight camera. | Image: Eufy First, Anker told us it was impossible. Then, it covered its tracks. It repeatedly deflected while utterly ignoring our emails. So shortly before Christmas, we gave the company an ultimatum: if Anker wouldn’t answer why its supposedly always-encrypted Eufy cameras were producing unencrypted streams — among other
Read MorePhoto by AAron Ontiveroz / MediaNews Group / The Denver Post via Getty Images Unsurprisingly, most Americans frown upon antisocial behavior. Stealing people’s stuff, bending food safety rules, or smoking in large crowds tend to generate a lot of stern reactions. But get behind the wheel of a car, and all that disapproval tends to
Read MoreThe game is being pushed back six weeks. | Image: EA Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s release date is being delayed by six weeks to April 28th, EA announced on Tuesday. The game had been set to release on March 17th, but it’s being pushed back just a little bit. “In order for the team to
Read MoreHalo could look a lot different. | Image: 343 Industries Halo developer 343 Industries lost at least 95 people due to Microsoft’s recent layoffs, and the studio is apparently switching from its proprietary Slipspace engine to Epic Games’ widely used Unreal Engine for future games, Bloomberg reports. The future of Halo has been somewhat up
Read MoreSay you’re tinkering with a smart device powered by a CPU that uses Serial Wire Debug (SWD), but doesn’t mark the testpoints. Finding SWD on a board — how hard could it be? With [Aaron Christophel]’s method, you can find the SWD interface on a PCB within a few minutes’ time. All you need is
Read MoreAshley Capoot / CNBC: PayPal plans to lay off ~2,000 employees, or ~7% of its workforce, “over the coming weeks”, as the company addresses the “challenging macroeconomic environment” — – PayPal on Tuesday announced plans to lay off 2,000 employees, or around 7% of its workforce.
Read MoreJames Gunn at the LA premiere of The Suicide Squad. | Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic We’ve known for some time that DC Studios co-leads James Gunn and Peter Safran were cooking up a big, bold plan to effectively reset Warner Bros. Discovery’s universe of superhero movies in order to get the cinematic franchise back on track
Read MoreEnigma Labs launches a project to crowdsource and quantify data about “unidentified aerial phenomena.”
Read MoreGerry Smith / Bloomberg: Sources: as Apple launches MLS Season Pass, the company is shopping ad packages for up to ~$4M per season, without guaranteeing advertisers viewership numbers — Apple Inc. will launch its new streaming service for Major League Soccer this week with a lot of the traditional practices of TV advertising kicked to
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