Apple’s Intel-based Mac Pro launched in 2019. | Photo by Avery White for The Verge In the process of updating its Mac Mini lineup, Apple has discontinued the last remaining Intel-based Mac Mini computers. Its online store now lists three main variants of the miniature desktop computer powered by M2 and M2 Pro chips, with
Read More(Image: Riccardo Ragione/Unsplash)Beginning this year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be required to comply with a new law that waives animal testing requirements for pharmaceutical companies. Drug makers will now have the option to shift directly toward human trials without first testing their products on mice, rats, rabbits, or other animals. The
Read MoreApple M2 Pro / M2 Max chip labels | Image: Apple Today’s introduction of new Pro and Max variants of Apple’s M2 chip — as well as MacBook Pro laptops and a Mac Mini desktop to hold them — didn’t come with a trip to Apple Park. Don’t worry, though; the company still put its
Read MoreJames Vincent / The Verge: Getty Images plans to sue Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI in the UK over alleged copyright violation; unlike OpenAI, SD’s training dataset is open source — Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation.
Read More(Credit; LKAB) (Credit: LKAB)Rare earth elements are vital to a green energy future because you can’t build batteries and other EV components without them. That’s a problem for Europe, which has no rare earth mining operations. That could be changing, though. Government-run mining firm LKAB has reported the largest rare earth mineral deposit ever discovered
Read MoreDecades-old visa rules mean that job cuts disadvantage workers, companies, and perhaps the whole country.
Read MoreUber is expanding its electric vehicle partnership with Hertz to Europe. The ridehail company says it will make 25,000 EVs — mostly Tesla and Polestar vehicles — for drivers in select European capitals through Hertz by 2025. Uber drivers in London will be the first to get access to the new EVs through Hertz, with
Read MoreJess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google’s Nest appears to be working on AirTag-like location trackers, codenamed “Grogu”, with support for Bluetooth LE and UWB, possibly for launch at I/O — Google is reportedly working on a location tracking tag to compete with the likes of Apple’s AirTags and Tile trackers …
Read MorePhoto by Naomi Rahim/WireImage Nick Cave isn’t too impressed with ChatGPT’s capacity for music. On his personal blog, the singer-songwriter gave a withering rebuke to a set of lyrics written by the AI chatbot “in the style of Nick Cave.” “What ChatGPT is, in this instance, is replication as travesty,” writes Cave. “ChatGPT may be
Read MoreWashington Post: A draft House memo detailed failures by Twitter, YouTube, and other platforms to address extremism before January 6, much of which were not in the final report — The House committee investigating the riot avoided detailed discussion in its report for fear of offending Republicans and tech companies, sources say
Read MoreAs PC gamers, we’re used to getting on the hype train for the next big advancement, only to be let down by what we eventually find out was just marketing. For example, if you recall the Nvidia Turing launch, we saw ray tracing for the first time. It looked absolutely amazing, but we later found
Read MoreWIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on whether digital tools can solve a health crisis they helped create.
Read MoreThe company’s budget tablets keep improving. The latest 8-inch models are good value for Prime subscribers.
Read MoreApple’s business store is down ahead of the expected MacBook Pro announcement happening today.
Read MoreThe Verge: Interviews with 24+ people detail Elon Musk’s destructive Twitter leadership: brutal layoffs, relaunching Blue, losing money, and breaking the company’s culture — Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the social media site against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use the reach …
Read MoreLeaks suggest Google is working on its own first-party tracking tags to use alongside its in-development Finder Network. | Illustration: The Verge Google is reportedly working on a location tracking tag to compete with the likes of Apple’s AirTags and Tile trackers, according to developer (and reliable leaker) Kuba Wojciechowski. Wojciechowski discovered references that indicate
Read MoreAn image created by Stable Diffusion showing a recreation of Getty Images’ watermark. | Image: The Verge / Stable Diffusion Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation. In a press statement shared with The Verge, the stock photo company said it believes that Stability
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is rolling out its Azure OpenAI service this week, allowing businesses to integrate tools like DALL-E into their own cloud apps. Microsoft has been testing this Azure service for just over a year, and it will soon include access to ChatGPT, the conversational AI that made headlines
Read MoreAerospike on Tuesday said it was adding a new connector, Aerospike Connect, for Elasticsearch to help developers run full-text search queries. Elasticsearch, which is an Apache Lucene-based search engine, can be used to run full-text search queries on JSON documents through a web interface. Apache Lucene is a free and open source software library used
Read MoreReuters: Crypto prices are recovering in January so far: bitcoin is up 26%, including 22% in the past week, to over $20,000, ether is up 29%, and meme coins are rising — Bitcoin is on the charge in 2023, dragging the crypto market off the floor and electrifying bonk, a new meme coin.
Read MoreApple Card has reportedly cost Goldman Sachs an awful lot of money.
Read MoreLast year’s 13-inch MacBook Pro. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Plus a new Samsung camera sensor, and more foldable Pixel rumors. Continue reading…
Read MoreTechnology, corporate greed, and supply-chain chaos are transforming life behind the wheel of a big rig. I went on the road to find exactly how.
Read MoreTwitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the social media site against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use the reach of its platform for their own ends, and then one made himself the CEO. Continue reading…
Read MoreFor many organizations today, a multicloud strategy is the way to go. Enterprises are using multiple cloud services from different vendors to build infrastructures that support computing, storage, development, and other areas of IT. Industry research indicates the trend toward the multicloud use will continue for some time. A report by Grand View Research predicts that
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