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A look at the longest tech boom so far, including crypto’s rise and fall, VR falling short of its hype, the marketplace economy’s growth, pizza robots, and more (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at the longest tech boom so far, including crypto’s rise and fall, VR falling short of its hype, the marketplace economy’s growth, pizza robots, and more — From pizza robots to the crypto meltdown, the long bubble has shown us the hilarious, the regrettable, and the unexpectedly

Snow Plowing by Bicycle

There are few challenges more difficult or dangerous than trying to get around the majority of North American cities by bicycle. Not only is the bicycle infrastructure woefully inadequate for safe travel (if it exists at all), but it’s often not maintained to any reasonable standard, either. This goes double in colder areas, where bike

What 2023 may bring for crypto regulation in the US and around the world, as bankruptcies stretch into the new year, attracting lawmakers and criminal probes (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: What 2023 may bring for crypto regulation in the US and around the world, as bankruptcies stretch into the new year, attracting lawmakers and criminal probes — CoinDesk’s policy team predicts the issues and topics that may take center stage over the next 12 months.

AIOC: The Ham Radio All-In-One Cable For Audio and APRS

The Ham Radio All-in-one cable (AIOC) is a small PCB attachment for a popular series of radio transceivers which adds a USB-attached audio interface and virtual TTY port for programming and the push-to-talk function. The STM32F373 microcontroller (which, sadly is still hard to find in the usual channels) is a perfect fit for this application,

A profile of Matrix, an open-source, decentralized protocol for messaging interoperability that saw its network’s users double in 2022 to at least 80.3M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: A profile of Matrix, an open-source, decentralized protocol for messaging interoperability that saw its network’s users double in 2022 to at least 80.3M — After years of walled gardens, cross-pollination could be in sight — Interoperability and decentralization have been major themes in tech this year …

Electronics Explained with Mechanical Devices

It can be surprisingly hard to find decent analogies when you’re teaching electronics basics. The water flow analogy, for instance, is decent for explaining Ohm’s law, but it breaks down pretty soon thereafter. Hydraulics aren’t as easy to set up when you want an educational toykit for your child to play with, which leaves them

Google phones: A history of the Nexus and Pixel lineup so far

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google unveiled Android to the world in 2007, two years after acquiring the operating system for $50 million. While many expected the search giant to announce its own phone as Apple did with the iPhone, Google’s decision to make Android freely available to any manufacturer was an even bigger

A look at the use of AI to design and test games, such as to tune difficulty, find world geometry flaws, and sniff out situations that make it impossible to win (Matthew Smith/Wired)

Matthew Smith / Wired: A look at the use of AI to design and test games, such as to tune difficulty, find world geometry flaws, and sniff out situations that make it impossible to win — The next generation of video game characters could be powered by AI, making them more engaging and challenging.

A partial list of all the EVs that qualify for the new $7,500 tax credit

Photo by Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge As of January 1st, 2023, a bunch of electric vehicles became newly eligible for the $7,500 tax credit, which passed into law as part of the $430 billion Inflation Reduction Act a year ago. Some models new to the list had lost their eligibility when their manufacturer

LEDCard: The Pocketable Ring Light

How many times have you found yourself fumbling about with lighting while trying to get a clear up-close shot of an object? Although smartphones come with pretty nice cameras these days, properly lighting an object and taking impressive macro shots isn’t exactly their strong suit. This is where [MisterHW]’s LEDCard is a very welcome companion.

Hats off to the brands that actually listened in 2022

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority One of the most frustrating things in the reviews business is repeating the same complaints year after year. We certainly don’t like reprising the same lines, but it’s extra disappointing when lingering issues prevent us from offering an otherwise solid recommendation to otherwise great phones. With that in mind,

Telegram’s revamped media editor adds a blur tool and more text options

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram’s latest update includes an overhauled media editor outfitted with a bunch of new tools to decorate — or conceal — parts of your image or videos. In an update on its blog, Telegram says it’s introducing a new blur tool that lets you block out certain areas

Use USB-C Chargers To Top Up Li-Ion Packs With This Hack

In USB-C Power Delivery (PD) standard, the PPS (Programmable Power Supply) mode is an optional mode that lets you request a non-standard voltage from a charger, with the ability to set a current limit of your choice, too. Having learned this, [Jason] from [Rip It Apart] decided to investigate — could this feature be used

As an adult with ADHD, Bluetooth trackers are a massive game-changer for me

Credit: Luke Pollack / Android Authority To the absolute shock of nobody who has ever met me, I have been living with ADHD for my entire existence. If you don’t know what ADHD is, Psychiatry.org has a great guide on it. The short of it is I have trouble focusing on just one thing at

Hands-on with Pixel 7 Pro’s Real Tone, which claims to render skin tones more accurately in photos, compared with the Galaxy S22 Ultra and iPhone 14 Pro Max (Chris Velazco/Washington Post)

Chris Velazco / Washington Post: Hands-on with Pixel 7 Pro’s Real Tone, which claims to render skin tones more accurately in photos, compared with the Galaxy S22 Ultra and iPhone 14 Pro Max — Google is trying to make its phone cameras more inclusive. We put it to the test against its rivals.

Sony’s A7R V camera is a technical triumph, so why is using it such a pain?

Sony has pioneered many state of the art features in modern cameras, but it still feels like you’re wielding something not quite meant for human hands. There’s only so much that really needs to be said about Sony’s A7R V mirrorless camera. Sony made so many right decisions with this new model, that it’s easily

The 10 streaming movies we can’t wait to watch in 2023

Credit: Apple As 2022 comes to an end and we celebrate the best streaming films of the year, it’s time to look ahead at what the new year will have in store. There are already plenty of announced streaming movies in 2023 to get excited about. With new titles from iconic auteurs like Martin Scorsese

New Apple TV Plus Movies coming in 2023: 7 films to look forward to in the new year

All the finest movies arriving in 2023, from Argylle to Napoleon to Ghosted

Kaleidoscope is a generic heist story but a fascinating experiment

Giancarlo Esposito and Tati Gabrielle in Kaleidoscope. | Image: Netflix On the surface, Kaleidoscope is a straightforward, albeit generic, heist story. It hits all of the beats you’d expect: the revenge-filled backstory, the complex process of finding a team and forming a plan, and the satisfaction of watching that plan unfold. And since Kaleidoscope’s story

My tech resolution for 2023 is to smarten up my home

Credit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Ah! The good ol’ smart home renovation. A task I’ve put off for a really, really long time. Being a tech journalist, smart home gadgets are naturally appealing to me. I’ve had plenty of them come in for review over the years, be it cheap home security cameras from

Why using iPhone Focus Filters should be everyone’s 2023 New Year’s Resolution

Focus Filters build on the Focus modes added to iOS 15 and they’ve changed the game entirely.

A DIY Pulse Tube Cryocooler in the Quest For Home-Made Liquid Nitrogen

What if you have a need for liquid nitrogen, but you do not wish to simply order it from a local supplier? In that case you can build your very own pulse tube cryocooler, as [Hyperspace Pirate] is in the process of doing over at YouTube. You can catch part 1 using a linear motor

You’ve Been Choosing Your Goals All Wrong

If you’re about to set your resolutions for 2023, stop. According to experts, this is how to pick the right ones, build good habits, and stay motivated.

A Crucial Particle Physics Computer Program Risks Obsolescence

Maintenance of FORM, the 1980s software that’s used for the field’s hardest calculations, rests almost entirely with one septuagenarian physicist.

A look at the impact of the funding crunch on India’s tech startups, which raised $24.7B from January to November 2022, down 35% YoY, per data provider Tracxn (Chloe Cornish/Financial Times)

Chloe Cornish / Financial Times: A look at the impact of the funding crunch on India’s tech startups, which raised $24.7B from January to November 2022, down 35% YoY, per data provider Tracxn — Funding crunch has triggered mass job cuts of up to 25,000 at country’s once-thriving tech companies

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