Credit: Sony Sony announced Project Leonardo during its CES 2023 press event. This game controller for the PlayStation 5 console was designed to assist gamers with disabilities with customizable buttons, control profiles, and more. There’s no word about the controller’s price tag or release. Sony used part of its CES 2023 press event to reveal
Read MoreAlthough billed as a balancing robot, [Aaed Musa’s] robot doesn’t balance itself. It balances a ball on a platform. You might recognize this as something called a Stewart platform, and they are great fun at parties if you happen to party with a bunch of automation-loving hackers, that is. Take a look at the video
Read MoreLawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: A hacker allegedly leaks a data set containing email addresses of 200M+ Twitter users, apparently a cleaner version of the 400M set circulating in December 2022 — A data leak described as containing email addresses for over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum for about
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Panos Panay is the man in charge of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft hardware, and he has CEO Satya Nadella’s ear. So when he says that AI is the future of Windows, we’re definitely paying attention. “AI is going to reinvent how you do everything on Windows, quite
Read MoreJessica Conditt / Engadget: Sony unveils Project Leonardo, an accessibility controller kit with a circular gamepad for PS5 that can be used on its own or paired with DualSense controllers — Sony is building a better PlayStation 5 controller with Project Leonardo, a kit that promises to make games easier to play for people with
Read MoreAMD’s RDNA 3 architecture is coming to laptops in February. | Image: AMD AMD is bringing its RDNA 3 graphics architecture to laptops this year. The chip giant is promising RTX 3060-level desktop graphics on the latest laptops featuring its new Radeon RX 7600M XT GPUs. That’s games like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla running at 100fps
Read MoreThis is where the magic will happen. | Image: AMD AMD has announced its new Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs for laptops. The list is a real who’s who of mobile processor architecture, including Zen 4, Zen 3 Plus, Zen 3, and Zen 2 chips. The potential star of the show is the “Dragon Range” Zen
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AMD is bringing its impressive 3D V-Cache technology to its Ryzen 7000 desktop processors. Starting in February, 3D versions of the Ryzen 9 7950X, 7900X, and 7800X will all start shipping with some big promises of PC gaming and productivity gains. AMD could be about to regain the
Read MoreTim Sweezy / HotHardware: Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Ride Flex SoCs for the auto industry that it says can simultaneously support digital cockpit and advanced driver assistance systems — On Wednesday, Qualcomm unveiled the automotive industry’s first scalable family of SoCs to simultaneously support digital cockpit technologies …
Read MoreLeyland Cecco / The Guardian: Apple quietly launches a catalogue of books narrated by AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents say could upend the audiobook market — Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash
Read MoreIan Thomas / CNBC: Internal email: Fanatics is selling its 60% stake in sports NFT company Candy Digital to an investor group led by Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital — – Michael Rubin’s sports platform company Fanatics is divesting its 60% stake in NFT company Candy Digital, according to an internal email obtained by CNBC.
Read MoreApple’s quarterly earnings call, which goes over the company’s fiscal performance, will kick off at 2:00 PM PT on February 2.
Read MoreThe Modular Lego Store, one of the first official unofficial Lego sets. | Image: Krisnow Have you ever wanted to be a Lego designer? Now’s your chance — if you create an original Lego set starting February 1st, 2023, you can compete to be one of up to five unofficial sets that Lego will officially
Read MoreAhead of its release in the summer of 2023, Apple TV Plus has shared a sneak peek for the second season of Foundation.
Read MoreAnalyst Jeff Pu believes that Apple is replacing the OLED display of the Apple Watch Ultra with micro-LED.
Read MoreMichael Elsen-Rooney / Chalkbeat New York: The New York City Department of Education, the US’ largest school system, bans access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT on school devices and networks, amid cheating concerns — New York City students and teachers can no longer access ChatGPT — the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot …
Read MoreThat’s a higher number than expected. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s ongoing layoffs will affect around 18,000 workers, according to a memo from CEO Andy Jassy, which says that the “majority” of the roles being eliminated will be in Amazon Stores and People, Experience, and Technology organizations. That’s significantly more than
Read MoreDell has announced the UltraSharp 32-inch 6K Monitor with a built-in webcam and included stand.
Read MoreThe company unveiled Project Leonardo, a fully customizable, accessible console game controller, built with the help of the disabled community.
Read MoreWhen you work in a medium for long enough, and you learn how it works more and more deeply, you eventually become its master. [Yukio Shinoda] is probably master of the LED bubble display. She started out with an idea, back in 1994, of a column of water and an array of solenoids to inject
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority The lone developer behind the best PS2 emulator for Android has “indefinitely suspended” development. In a post, the developer says he received “death threats” and other attacks. The AetherSX2 emulator will still work, but no future development is planned. For many years, the only choice emulation fans had for
Read MoreCrystal Kim / Axios: A US judge rules that the crypto deposits in bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network’s yield-bearing accounts belong to Celsius and not individual holders — Celsius Network’s bankruptcy might have just set a precedent in determining what crypto assets belong to whom when stored on a centralized platform.
Read MoreThe new Hue app will sync lights to your TV content. | Image: Signify Signify, owner of the Philips Hue brand, is launching a Philips Hue Sync TV app for Samsung TVs. The $129.99 app will be available on Samsung’s 2022 or newer QLED TVs (Q60 or above) on January 5th and will synchronize everything
Read MoreSamsung’s new SmartThings Station is a smart home hub, a wireless charger, and a SmartThings Find device. | Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge A little over three years after getting out of the smart home hardware game, Samsung is back with a new smart home hub. And this time, Samsung has figured out
Read MorePhoto by Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge Lidar hardware company Luminar announced it has acquired Civil Maps, a lidar data company based in San Francisco. The acquisition brings ultra-detailed and automatically updating 3D maps of various cities into Luminar’s fold as it plans to bring fully autonomous vehicles into reality. Luminar will integrate the
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