Tuesday’s top tech news: Lightyear’s buzz fizzles
The Lightyear 0 at its unveiling last year. | Image: Lightyear Plus more details about Apple’s long-rumored VR / AR headset. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe Lightyear 0 at its unveiling last year. | Image: Lightyear Plus more details about Apple’s long-rumored VR / AR headset. Continue reading…
Read MoreWhen the first radios and telegraph lines were put into service, essentially the only way to communicate was to use Morse code. The first transmitters had extremely inefficient designs by today’s standards, so this was more a practical limitation than a choice. As the technology evolved there became less and less reason to use Morse
Read MoreThe Lightyear 2. (Image: Lightyear)Lightyear, the Dutch automaker responsible for the world’s first production solar electric vehicle, is undergoing quite a transformation. Just two months after shipping the Lightyear 0, Lightyear has announced that it’s suspending production of its flagship model to focus fully on its newest iteration, the Lightyear 2. After more than two
Read MoreNick Barclay / The Verge Another week, another round of layoffs. This time, it is Spotify. CEO Daniel Ek informed employees yesterday morning that the company would be cutting 6 percent of its workforce and said he took “full accountability for the moves that got us here today.” The most high-profile change is the departure
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: Twitter updates its web version to default to the timeline a user had open last, rather than reverting to the algorithmic feed; coming to iOS and Android “soon” — Twitter should now be less annoying about pushing its “For You” algorithmic timeline.
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority A leak has revealed the price of the Galaxy S23 family in Spain. The leak suggests that the device will be more expensive than its predecessor. It’s likely the US will be unaffected and the price will stay the same. The launch of the Galaxy S23 series is not
Read MoreI, too, am throwing my hands in the air for this change. | Image: Meta Meta is making a big improvement to controls in its social VR platform Horizon Worlds: jump is being remapped to the A button, according to a blog post about the app’s new v94 update. You might be surprised to hear
Read MoreJoe Rossignol / MacRumors: The new 256GB Mac mini with M2 and 512GB 14-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro have slower SSD speeds than previous M1 models because they have fewer NAND chips — While the new Mac mini with the M2 chip has a lower $599 starting price, the base model with 256GB of
Read MoreLyft’s policy arrives a whole seven years after Uber implemented the same one. | Photo by Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images Lyft is cracking down on late passengers. The ridesharing company quietly updated its support page with new wait time fees that it’ll charge at a per-minute rate, a policy that’s been around
Read MoreMack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: SoundHound raised $25M after reportedly laying off half of its staff and says it will pay former staff severance, which was allegedly contingent on the funding — Employees said their two-week severance was contingent on SoundHound raising more money. The company promised some of the investment would fund their payments.
Read MoreApple has released HomePod software version 16.3, launching a number of new features for the company’s smart speaker.
Read MoreElectric vehicles are selling fast. But unless people change how they get around, the demand for battery materials threatens its own environmental disaster.
Read MoreIllustration by Laura Normand / The Verge In testimony that was at times fiery and combative, Elon Musk came extremely close to expressing regret that Tesla investors lost money as a result of his tweets. Musk took the stand for a third day of testimony in a lawsuit brought by a class of Tesla investors
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge GoTo, the remote collaboration and IT software company that owns LastPass, has confirmed that, along with LastPass’ password vaults, it had customer data taken by attackers during a November 2022 security breach (via TechCrunch). The company, which was formerly known as LogMeIn, is updating its blog post
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Microsoft has just posted the second quarter of its 2023 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $52.7 billion in revenue and a net income of $16.4 billion during Q2. Revenue is up 2 percent, but net income has dropped by 12 percent. The results come just days after Microsoft announced 10,000
Read MoreSamar Haddad / The Verge It’s a new year, and while we may have a variety of hopes for the coming year — a cessation or at least a lessening of disease and war might top some lists — one of the things that you can be sure you’ll have to deal with are your
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft reports Q2 devices revenue down 39% YoY, Xbox hardware revenue down 13%, Xbox content and services revenue down 12%, and Windows OEM revenue down 39% — Microsoft has just posted the second quarter of its 2023 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $52.7 billion …
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft Cloud revenue grew 22% YoY to $27.1B, including Intelligent Cloud up 18% YoY to $21.5B, which was driven by Azure and other cloud services up 31% YoY — – Microsoft’s Azure cloud growth slowed to 31%, barely beating analysts’ projections. — The software maker took …
Read MoreGoogle’s Optimize and Optimize 360 website testing and analytics tools will no longer be available after September 30, 2023. Customers’ personalizations and experiments on Optimize and Optimize 360 can continue to run until September 30, but any still active on that date will end, the company said. In a bulletin published January 20, Google said
Read MoreA see-through Steam Deck, with JSAUX’s backplate. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Silly me. I thought I was buying JSAUX’s transparent backplate for the Steam Deck for the bragging rights. Transparent gadgets are fun! But you know what’s cooler than seeing inside your Steam Deck? Having a Deck that runs cooler, too.
Read MoreThe Lightyear 2. (Image: Lightyear)Lightyear, the Dutch automaker responsible for the world’s first production solar electric vehicle, is undergoing quite a transformation. Just two months after shipping the Lightyear 0, Lightyear has announced that it’s suspending production of its flagship model to focus fully on its newest iteration, the Lightyear 2. After more than two
Read MoreEverything in Python is an object, or so the saying goes. If you want to create your own custom objects, with their own properties and methods, you use Python’s class object to make that happen. But creating classes in Python sometimes means writing loads of repetitive, boilerplate code to set up the class instance from
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google could make it easier to set up your next Android phone. Lines of code hint that Google could add Android phones to the list of devices supported by Fast Pair. Google may be planning to roll out support on the same day as the Galaxy S23 launch
Read MoreImage: Samsung Samsung’s Galaxy Book 3 will feature an OLED panel that uses on-cell technology that embeds sensors directly into the display to create a thinner and lighter touchscreen. The company’s display-making arm announced that it has started to mass-produce the technology for notebooks and says it will come with “some models” of the “next-generation
Read MoreA vintage iPhone is getting an important security update well past its “fresh by” date. | Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge The iPhone 5S got its last OS upgrade in 2018 with the release of iOS 12, but it’s not totally down for the count. As AppleInsider points out, the 2013-vintage device got
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