Credit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Over two years have passed since the first Apple silicon-powered Macs hit the market. You’ll find the latest chip, dubbed M2, in the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air as well as the Mac Mini. As we’ve come to expect by now, it delivers great performance and battery life
Read MoreScotland! It’s the land of tartans, haggis, and surprisingly-warm kilts. It’s also ground zero for the first trial of full-sized driverless buses in the United Kingdom. It’s not just automakers developing driverless technologies. Transit companies are desperate to get in on the action because it would completely upend their entire existing business structure. Now that
Read MoreJason Schreier / Bloomberg: A look at Microsoft’s prized 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo, after a leadership overhaul, layoffs, and more; sources detail a pivot to Unreal Engine — Microsoft Corp. says it’s going to keep making new games in the popular Halo franchise at its prized 343 Industries studio — despite rumors to
Read MoreIna Fried / Axios: OpenAI debuts a free web-based tool to help determine if text was written by a machine, rated as “very unlikely”, “unlikely”, “unclear”, “possible”, or “likely” — – “It has both false positives and false negatives,” …
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify has deployed Google’s User Choice Billing in 140+ markets globally, to reduce Play Store commissions; how much the company is saving is confidential — In its fourth-quarter earnings, Spotify announced today its User Choice Billing program has now expanded to over 140 markets worldwide …
Read MoreExcited for my top 10 songs this year to just be the new Boygenius album. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Music users who love having a playlist of their favorite songs rejoice: Apple has made the Replay 2023 playlist available, letting you see which songs you’ve listed to the most this
Read MoreMatt Binder / Mashable: Twitter shuts down CoTweets, an experimental feature that let two users author and publish a tweet in tandem; in a month, CoTweets will show a single author — If you’re reading this, it’s already too late to post a CoTweet. — Did you use Twitter’s fairly new CoTweets feature?
Read MoreEven though Cyberpunk 2077 launched more than two years ago, it’s still able to bring everything but the beefiest gaming rigs to their knees with ray tracing enabled. Now help is on the way for Nvidia 40-series GPU owners in the form of DLSS 3 and frame generation. Although Nvidia first touted this technology at
Read MoreLauren Feiner / CNBC: A look at US cases that may set the bounds of free speech online, including Gonzalez v. Google, Twitter v. Taamneh, and a fight over California’s kid safety law — – The U.S. justice system, including the Supreme Court, will consider cases that will help determine the bounds of free expression
Read MoreWith technological advances, modern organizations face two increasing but related challenges: optimizing business processes through automation and building a competent and resilient workforce that will embrace and advance automation. On the one hand, organizations wish to adopt advanced technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), to automate their business processes and make their businesses more efficient
Read MoreUnlike his contemporaries, it isn’t expected that Tim Cook will have to fire employees in an economic downturn.
Read MoreMike Butcher / TechCrunch: Tech Nation, the UK government-sanctioned tech ecosystem builder, plans to cease operations on March 31 after losing its grant funding to a Barclays-run program — After over ten years in operation, Tech Nation, the UK’s government-sanctioned ecosystem builder for UK tech startups …
Read MoreThe newest model of The Frame TV is on sale at Best Buy and Samsung. | Image: Samsung Whether you’re gearing up for the Super Bowl or are just looking for a great QLED TV that doesn’t look like your average TV (we’ll explain), this deal on Samsung’s 65-inch model of 2022 Frame TV is
Read MorePerseverance has been depositing secondary samples of rock collected from Mars across the planet’s surface just in case it fails to deliver its onboard samples during a future collection mission. | Image: NASA NASA’s Perseverance rover has dropped the last of 10 sample tubes onto the surface of Mars, thereby completing humanity’s “first sample depot
Read MoreCredit: Kuba Wojciechowski Meta may be developing a new version of its previously canceled smartwatch. A leak claims the watch could use a custom version of Android that’s not Wear OS and run on a Qualcomm chip. The device is reportedly very similar in physical build to the first iteration of the smartwatch. The parent
Read MoreAmanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Stripperweb, a key forum for sex workers for 20+ years, plans to shut down on February 1, per its website, leading its community to rush to archive its content — The forum’s community is working overtime to archive decades of history — There are some people on the internet who don’t
Read MoreThe success of OnePlus may not be entirely thanks to Carl Pei, but the company did change dramatically (and not for the better) when he left. Pei went on to found Nothing Technology, but the firm’s first smartphone, the aptly named Nothing Phone 1, never fully launched in the US. Nothing’s next release, however, will
Read MorePhoto illustration by Will Joel / The Verge. Professor Chris Miller’s new book Chip War explains the complicated global politics inside your iPhone. Continue reading…
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Discord is slowing down graphics card memory clocks on some Nvidia GPUs. A recent Discord update has introduced a bug that slows down memory clocks by up to 200Hz on some Nvidia models, including the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti. Nvidia says it’s working on a fix.
Read MoreRobert Iafolla / Bloomberg: A National Labor Relations Board judge rules Amazon violated US federal labor laws as part of its efforts to resist unionization at two New York City facilities — Amazon.com Inc. violated federal labor law as part of its efforts to resist unionization at two facilities in New York City, a National
Read MoreTalk To Me. | Image: Sundance Institute Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a group of high school kids gets their hands on a cursed occult object, and after some fun and games, they end up being terrorized by a presence from the other side. It’s not the most original premise. But in
Read MorePhoto by Mark Sagliocco / Getty Images This year, the festival returns with a hybrid format, screening films both in person and online. Continue reading…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence, or AI, has found its application in many industries, including inventory management, supply chain management, and warehousing. In today’s modern marketplace, led by competitive SMBs and interconnected technologies that link sellers and buyers globally, being able to respond to change quickly is of utmost importance. Companies of all sizes experienced demand fluctuations when
Read MoreCasey Newton / Platformer: Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announce a venture to explore social apps, the first being Artifact, a TikTok-like app for news articles — EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are back.
Read MoreThe new HomePod 2 is here, and the reviews are in. But what do reviewers think?
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