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Scammers are selling fake 16TB portable SSDs for ~$100 on Amazon by hijacking listings like pillow covers, keeping the reviews, and listing new products (Josh Hendrickson/Review Geek)

Josh Hendrickson / Review Geek: Scammers are selling fake 16TB portable SSDs for ~$100 on Amazon by hijacking listings like pillow covers, keeping the reviews, and listing new products — When it comes to portable hard drives, bigger is usually better. You want lots of space for photos, videos, or anything else.

Poll: Does your charger have a USB-C port?

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority We’ve seen a change taking place over the years in the charger space, as phone chargers switch from having full-sized USB-A ports to USB-C ports instead. This change isn’t happening at a rapid pace though, but it’s still notable nonetheless.

Here’s your first look at official Galaxy S23 cases

Credit: WinFuture Official pictures of the Galaxy S23 cases have leaked. Samsung is expected to offer the typical Smart-View, clear, and silicone cases. Additional stand cases and military-grade rugged cases are also coming. After outing the official press renders of the Galaxy S23 series, folks over at WinFuture have now leaked the official pictures for

Samsung announces the ISOCELL HP2, a 200-megapixel, 1/1.3-inch smartphone camera sensor with pixel binning, that could debut in the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Samsung announces the ISOCELL HP2, a 200-megapixel, 1/1.3-inch smartphone camera sensor with pixel binning, that could debut in the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra — Just a couple of weeks ahead of the full launch, Samsung just officially announced the 200MP camera that will make its debut in the Galaxy S23 Ultra.

It’s Not Easy Counting Transistors in the 8086 Processor

For any given processor it’s generally easy to find a statistic on the number of transistors used to construct it, with the famous Intel 8086 CPU generally said to contain 29,000 transistors. This is where [Ken Shirriff] ran into an issue when he sat down one day and started counting individual transistors in die shots

Wikimedia says the UK’s Online Safety Bill was designed for social media and a proposed change, expected Tuesday, would limit Wikipedia’s freedom of expression (Chris Vallance/BBC)

Chris Vallance / BBC: Wikimedia says the UK’s Online Safety Bill was designed for social media and a proposed change, expected Tuesday, would limit Wikipedia’s freedom of expression — Wikipedia should be treated differently to the big social media firms in the Online Safety Bill, a leading member of its foundation says.

Samsung debuts what could be the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s main camera sensor

Credit: Samsung Samsung has announced the new ISOCELL HP2 200MP camera sensor. The company says the sensor has entered mass production. It could be the widely expected 200MP shooter on the Galaxy S23 Ultra. Samsung has finally lifted the veil from its long-rumored 200MP ISOCELL HP2 camera sensor. The company said in a press release

Sources: activist investor Ryan Cohen has built a stake worth hundreds of millions of dollars in Alibaba and is pushing the company to accelerate stock buybacks (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: activist investor Ryan Cohen has built a stake worth hundreds of millions of dollars in Alibaba and is pushing the company to accelerate stock buybacks — Cohen first contacted the Chinese e-commerce giant’s board in August to say he saw the company’s shares as undervalued

Microsoft makes Azure OpenAI Service, debuted in 2021, broadly available, giving customers access to the GPT-3.5 language model, DALL-E 2, and “soon” ChatGPT (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Microsoft makes Azure OpenAI Service, debuted in 2021, broadly available, giving customers access to the GPT-3.5 language model, DALL-E 2, and “soon” ChatGPT — Microsoft Corp. said it will add OpenAI’s viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service …

Dave2D posts hands-on with

“I know it’s just a hunk of plastic, but there’s just so much you can tell from it.” | Dave2D YouTuber Dave2D posted a video with a plastic mockup of the rumored Pixel foldable. The details are consistent with earlier leaks. Good news for foldables nerds! Continue reading…

Impressive Sawdust Briquette Machine

When you are a life long carpenter with an amazing workshop, you’re going to make a lot of saw dust, and managing its collection and storage poses quite a challenge. [Russ] from [New Yorkshire Workshop] built an impressive Briquette press to handle the problem. It’s a hydraulic press that ingests saw dust and spits out compressed briquettes

This 5TB Western Digital hard drive drops to an all-time low

You can buy the 5TB Western Digital portable hard drive for just $89.99 at Best Buy, which matches its all-time low price. | Image: Western Digital If you have a lot of data you need to back up or transfer, you might want to check out Best Buy’s current deal on Western Digital’s Easystore portable

No, you can’t get a 16TB SSD for a hundred bucks

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’ve searched for external SSDs on Amazon.com recently, you may have noticed something weird: mixed in with the 1TB and 2TB drives from brands like Samsung and SanDisk are a bunch of listings for 16TB SSDs, mostly around $100, and with surprisingly high user ratings. Every single

ZSWatch: This OSHW Smart Watch is as DIY as it Gets

We say it often, but it’s worth repeating: this is the Golden Age of making and hacking. Between powerful free and open source software, low-cost PCB production, and high resolution 3D printers that can fit on your desk, a dedicated individual has everything they need to make their dream gadget a reality. If you ever

An overview of the ML software development industry over the past decade: a decline of Nvidia’s CUDA monopoly, PyTorch overtaking Google’s TensorFlow, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)

Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: An overview of the ML software development industry over the past decade: a decline of Nvidia’s CUDA monopoly, PyTorch overtaking Google’s TensorFlow, and more — Over the last decade, the landscape of machine learning software development has undergone significant changes.

Here are all the ways you can charge your AirPods Pro

If you own an iPhone, the AirPods Pro is the obvious choice for listening to music, although there are alternatives too! Apple’s latest generation of AirPods Pro has just under six hours of battery life with ANC turned on, and the charging case provides another 24 hrs of listening time. But how do you recharge

Experience the Galaxy S23 before anyone else at these global locations

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung will have experiences set up to celebrate the Samsung Galaxy S23 launch. These physical event spaces will allow you to try out the Galaxy S23 before anyone else. The experiences open on February 1, the same day as the phones’ launch. Although we know for certain that Samsung

Report: Google working on an AirTag competitor, codenamed “grogu”

Credit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority A leak suggests a Google tracker, similar to an AirTag, could be in the works. It would likely have a speaker and almost certainly use the dormant ultra-wideband tech in Pixel phones. Not much is known about the product, but it would likely launch this year. Personal trackers became

Flappy Bird Drone Edition

Ornithopters have been — mostly — the realm of science fiction. However, a paper in Advanced Intelligent Systems by researchers at Lund University proposes that flapping wings may well power the drones of the future. The wing even has mock feathers. Birds, after all, do a great job of flying, and researchers think that part of

Russian attacks on Ukraine’s electrical grid are straining its mobile network, leading to a global hunt for equipment like batteries to keep the system online (William Mauldin/Wall Street Journal)

William Mauldin / Wall Street Journal: Russian attacks on Ukraine’s electrical grid are straining its mobile network, leading to a global hunt for equipment like batteries to keep the system online — Telecom operators and internet providers scour suppliers for better batteries, generators — Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s electrical grid …

2022 FPV Contest: Congratulations to the Winners!

We wanted to see what the Hackaday crowd was up to in first-person view tech, and you didn’t disappoint! Commercial FPV quads have become cheap enough these days that everyone and their mom got one for Christmas, so it was fantastic to see the DIY spirit in these projects. Thanks to everyone who entered. The

Laid-off Twitter workers must drop class-action severance lawsuit, judge says

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A judge has ordered a group of laid-off Twitter employees to drop their class action lawsuit against the company, which accuses Twitter of not following through on its promised severance pay package, as reported earlier by Bloomberg and Reuters. In a ruling on Friday, US District Judge James

Smart Home Technology for Your Investment Property

Do you have a rental property? Are you looking for ways to make it more attractive to tenants who might have many options in your community, city, or state? One way to do so is by offering more value for the rent they pay — and you can achieve this with smart home technology. According to

Blinky Business Card Plays Snake and Connect Four

There’s no better way to introduce yourself than handing over a blinky PCB business card and challenging the recipient to a game of Connect Four. And if [Dennis Kaandorp] turns up early for a meeting, he can keep himself busy playing the ever popular game of Snake on his PCB business card. The tabs are

Netflix streaming turns 15 today, which explains its non-committal temperament

Way back before the tudum sound, it was just the sweet sweet sound of a disc spinning up. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix streaming is getting into its angsty teenage years, as today marks 15 years since it launched its streaming services. It’s easy to forget what things were like before

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