Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority A new report suggests T-Mobile and Mint Mobile might be in talks about an acquisition. Mint already uses T-Mobile’s network, so this likely wouldn’t affect coverage too much. Pricing, availability of plans, etc., could change if this deal happens. Mint Mobile is an MVNO of T-Mobile. That means Mint
Read MoreThe American multinational oil and gas ExxonMobil Corporation headquartered is seen on December 29th, 2022, in Diegem, Belgium. | Photo by Thierry Monasse / Getty Images ExxonMobil predicted rising global temperatures with remarkable accuracy even as it attempted to downplay the existence of climate change, new research shows. It comes with damning data visualizations that
Read MoreTony Stubblebine / The Official Medium Blog: Medium launches a Mastodon instance on me.dm, promising members a service with reliable moderation, smoother onboarding, an interesting local feed, and more — The fediverse is a breath of fresh air for writers and social media — Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm …
Read MoreThe James Webb Space Telescope was not designed exclusively to hunt for exoplanets like NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), but it can still make vital contributions to our understanding of these distant worlds. NASA has announced that Webb just confirmed its first exoplanet, a world known as LHS 475 b that was previously identified
Read MoreI think you can guess what Minx was about from this image. | Image: HBO Max If you’ve been irritated by all the shows and films HBO Max has been dumping from its service, here’s some silver lining: at least one of them has been saved. Minx, which is produced by Lionsgate, has been picked
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TW Electronics revealed a new Google TV remote at CES 2023. The remote has technology that uses light to keep the battery charged. There’s no launch date yet for the remote. It’s a pain when the batteries in your remote die, especially if you don’t have an extra pair
Read MoreWhether it’s your favorite programming language, or your favorite beverage, there’s no denying Java is everywhere. Now, it’s even on the Nintendo 64, thanks to the valiant efforts of [Mike Kohn]. Even better, he’s coded a demo to show off its capabilities! The project took plenty of work. [Mike] went all the way down to
Read MoreDatabase-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider DataStax on Thursday said that it is acquiring Seattle-based machine learning services providing firm Kaskada for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition of Kaskada will help DataStax introduce data-based, event-driven and real-time machine learning capabilities to its offerings, such as its serverless, NoSQL database-as-a-service AstraDB and Astra Streaming, the company said in
Read MorePackage tracking is something we all do these days. You order something from somewhere, and it shows up eventually. Some folks order more things than others, and that necessitates a need for a package tracker. Package tracking apps help you track your packages from various shippers in a single, handy UI. It’s right up there
Read MoreAs a community we owe perhaps more than we realise to the RepRap project. From it we get not only a set of open-source printer designs, but that 3D printing at our level has never become dominated by proprietary manufacturers in the way that for example paper printing is. The idea of a printer that
Read MoreThe PHANTOM X2 Series revolutionizes the premium smartphone experience. Credit: TECNO If there’s one company that has truly moved the needle in recent years in terms of global recognition and innovation, it’s TECNO. The brand was a dark horse outside of a few locales, but now it’s making head-turning strides in over 70 markets globally.
Read MoreCredit: HBO Warner Bros. Discovery announced the price of HBO Max’s ad-free plan is going up by a dollar. This is the first time the price of the streaming service’s ad-free plan has increased. The new price is scheduled to go into effect today, but existing subscribers will start paying the new price in February.
Read MoreSemafor: Sources: Tiger Global struggles to raise its latest fund after investors learned it secretly paid a senior female staffer $10M to settle allegations of bullying — Tiger Global, the $60 billion firm that’s a major tech investor, has been struggling to raise its latest venture fund since investors learned …
Read MoreThe LG Artcool Gallery AC unit adds some style to your smart home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge The smart home at CES wasn’t all Matter, Matter, Matter. At The Verge, we covered the launch of literally dozens of new products at the big consumer tech show. From innovations in smart
Read MoreTCL’s 6-Series QLED TV is equipped with a 120Hz refresh rate in addition to the Google smart platform. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If your New Year’s resolution was to get a big 4K TV, we’re here to make quick work of that less than two weeks into 2023. Currently, you can
Read MoreThis illustration reflects that exoplanet LHS 475 b is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth based on new evidence from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. | Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI) The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first new exoplanet, an Earth-sized rocky planet called LHS 475 b.
Read MoreBut you’re paying a little more for a lot less than you used to. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge HBO Max is the next streaming service to get a price increase, its first one since launching in 2020. Starting Thursday, the cost of a new subscription to HBO Max will increase from
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Mobvoi launched a new app for smartwatches called TimeShow. TimeShow gives users access to dozens of watch faces with new faces added weekly. Creators can get paid for making and sharing their own watch faces using the TimeShow DIY site. The AI tech company known as Mobvoi has launched
Read MoreDan Primack / Axios: Letter: Social Capital narrows the scope of its Fund V to ~$1B with a focus on early-stage deals vs prior plan to raise much more and back growth-stage startups — Social Capital, the VC firm led by Chamath Palihapitiya, has narrowed the scope of its new fundraise, according to a letter
Read MoreBoth Apple and Meta have fallen out of the top 100 highest-ranked places to work in the United States.
Read MoreOlivia Rockeman / Bloomberg: Rent the Runway partners with Amazon to launch an Amazon Fashion online storefront featuring new and second-hand items, expecting ~$4.6M in revenue in Q3 2023 — Rent the Runway Inc. will launch an online storefront with Amazon.com Inc., expanding the clothing rental company’s reach beyond the subscription business model.
Read MoreGone are the days when customers stand in long bank queues. Previously, the bank customer would stand in line, almost longer than the time they took to visit with their soul mate or better half. Today we shop where we trust and feel esteemed. We, as customers, will pay for the prime help and great
Read MoreAnthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: Congress rejects the US Army’s request for $400M to buy ~6,900 Microsoft HoloLens goggles this fiscal year but approves $40M for the development of a new model — Microsoft Corp. won’t be getting more orders for its combat goggles anytime soon after Congress rejected the US Army’s request …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority One of the counter-intuitive developments in the streaming wars has been the rise of live TV streaming. In our haste to switch over the streaming, we’ve come to see the value of channel surfing and appointment viewing. Home company that has successfully bridged the gap between offering a Netflix-style
Read MoreSometimes, the best gift is the one you make yourself. [Pigeonaut] decided to whip up a few Game Boy games of their very own creation to gift to the special people in their life. The games were crafted using a platform called GB Studio. It’s a tool that allows the drag-and-drop creation of games for
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