Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge The Always Home Cam, Ring’s autonomous indoor security drone, made its public debut at CES this week. But it was flying in an empty room behind a glass door and disappearing into a side room between flights, so we never saw it take off or land. The demo,
Read MoreSamsung’s ViewFinity S9 5K monitor. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge A weird thing has happened at CES this year: display manufacturers not named Apple have announced true 5K and 6K monitors designed for creative work and productivity. These new monitors, which will appeal to Mac users for reasons other than “it’s white
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge CES will continue through the weekend, but The Verge has already seen a whole lot of what the show has to offer. This week on The Vergecast, myself, our editor-in-chief, Nilay Patel, and our senior news editor, Richard Lawler, get together and talk about some of the weirdest
Read MoreSennheiser’s IE 200. | Image: Sennheiser I mean, sure, if you’re wearing wired in-ear headphones in 2023, you could absolutely buy a pair with the cables going straight down. Or you could get a pair with wires that go up and swoops backward behind your ears like Sennheiser’s latest pair of earbuds, the IE 200,
Read MoreThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi ring in the New Year with…well, pretty much the same stuff they do every other week. After taking some time to talk about the nuts and bolts of the podcast in honor of Episode 200, discussion moves on to favorite stories of the week including
Read MoreVishal Chawla / The Block: Researcher earns $1M via Immunefi bug bounty platform after discovering a vulnerability in several Polkadot parachains that could have been exploited for ~$200M — – An Immunefi security researcher found a critical vulnerability on three Polkadot parachains.
Read MoreWhatsApp has launched a new proxy option that helps people send and receive messages even when a local internet shutdown is underway.
Read MoreThe next version of macOS will arrive later this year. Here’s the latest information.
Read MoreThomas Brewster / Forbes: Researchers: cybercriminals look for ways to use ChatGPT to create hacking tools, share AI generated malware code in forums, discuss creating dating scam bots — Users of underground forums start sharing malware coded by OpenAI’s viral sensation and dating scammers are planning on creating convincing fake girls with the tool.
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Google has enabled standalone turn-by-turn Google Maps navigation on Wear OS. Wear OS watches will now be able to use Google Maps without a phone. The feature will work for LTE watches and Wi-Fi watches (if connected to a Wi-Fi network). A long-requested Google Maps navigation feature has finally
Read MoreHTC has been teasing a lightweight augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) headset for a few weeks now. At CES it has finally pulled the wraps off it, and it is indeed a feathery-looking device. It’s called the Vive XR Elite and despite its diminutive nature, its price tag is assuredly not at $1,099. It
Read MoreCarly Page / TechCrunch: Rackspace will discontinue its Exchange service after confirming hackers accessed the personal data of 27 customers during the December 2022 ransomware attack — Cloud computing giant Rackspace has confirmed hackers accessed customer data during last month’s ransomware attack.
Read MoreAlthough the cutoff for saying ‘Happy New Year’ is somewhere around today, there’s still plenty of time to reminisce about 2022 and all that we accomplished. Hackaday alum [Jeremy Cook] spent much of last year designing and building a triple-zone PCB clock, dubbed the 742 clock. It is called so because of all the 7-segments,
Read MoreCamera tests show that the iPhone’s software is doing some strange things with photos and this video shows what Apple needs to fix.
Read More(Credit: Charles Sims/Unsplash)At CES 2023, Sony proclaimed an end to our long gaming nightmare. According to Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan, the PlayStation 5 shortage is over. If you want a PlayStation 5, you should be able to buy one without waiting in an hours-long line or paying an obscene markup to a scalper.
Read MoreThe second-gen Apple TV 4K with 32GB of storage is on sale for $74.99 at Best Buy. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Getting back into the swing of things after New Year’s Day always feels like, well, a year in and of itself. Thankfully, if you’re feeling the need to unwind with
Read MoreParticipants at Summer Games Done Quick 2022. | Photo by ICED / Games Done Quick It’s almost time for Games Done Quick’s first speedrunning extravaganza of the year. The 2023 edition of Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) kicks off on Sunday, and this year’s event looks to once again feature a week-long feast of incredible
Read MoreM3gan reading a book to Cady, her best friend and primary user. | Image: Universal Pictures Universal and Blumhouse’s M3gan is exactly the right amount of ridiculous, which is why it can afford to be a little shaggy toward the end. Continue reading…
Read More(Image: Sony Honda Mobility Inc.)Toward the end of 2022, Sony and Honda announced an unexpected yet fitting alliance: Sony Honda Mobility Inc. The partnership, according to both brands’ presidents, would eventually produce a series of electric vehicles using Sony’s technology for infotainment. Now that goal is beginning to manifest in the form of a single
Read MoreKathrin Hille / Financial Times: Sources: Taiwan’s space agency plans a low-earth orbit satellite communications project to help resist any attacks by China, inspired by Starlink in Ukraine — Country wants to emulate Elon Musk’s Starlink in wake of Ukraine war with low-Earth orbit start-up
Read MoreSustainable procurement and sustainability in businesses are more than just fancy buzzwords. Statistics support this argument: 60% more businesses engage in sustainable procurement than two years ago. 33% of consumers choose products and services that they believe make a positive social and environmental impact. 89% of sustainability managers and decision-makers state that sustainability has a
Read MoreThe exposure of hundreds of millions of email addresses puts pseudonymous users of the social network at risk.
Read MoreAutomated systems are increasingly making decisions in the workplace. Here’s how to curb the potential harms and abuses.
Read MoreThe next big thing in tech isn’t the blockchain or the metaverse—it’s a mind-bending wave of algorithmic content machines.
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