Makena Kelly / The Verge: Behind the rise of “cozy” games that encourage players to take their time in open worlds devoid of competition and went from niche to video game fixture in 2022 — For as long as I had a GameCube, I don’t think I ever once beat a game. … It was
Read MoreHannah Miller / Bloomberg: Solana cofounders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal scramble to move past FTX’s stain on their token, down 96% from November 2021; FTX and Alameda bought 58M+ SOL — Solana, the blockchain network once championed by Sam Bankman-Fried, is drawing immense scrutiny as industry watchers wonder whether …
Read MoreDebby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC begins mass production of next-gen 3nm chips in Taiwan, which need ~35% less power than 5nm chips, following Samsung, and also plans to build 2nm plants — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. kicked off mass production of next-generation chips Thursday, ensuring the island remains …
Read MoreTabby Kinder / Financial Times: Brokers and investors: Silicon Valley workers are offloading shares in secondary markets, compounding a fall in valuations, amid layoffs and a slow IPO market — Workers forced into sales at sharp discounts amid job cuts and stalled IPO market — Silicon Valley workers are rushing …
Read MoreCNBC: The SEC says FTX made two $100M investments using customer funds in fintech company Dave in March 2022 and blockchain startup Mysten Labs in September 2022 — – FTX and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried made two $100 million venture investments using customer funds through an FTX subsidiary, the SEC said in a pair of
Read MoreFolks from [Adafruit] are showing off a neat hack – USB host on RP2040, using the now-famous PIO peripheral. [Adafruit] builds a lot of RP2040 boards, and naturally, you gotta test them before you ship them to customers. They’ve been using very specific Teensies for that, and at some point, those became unobtainium. Based on
Read MoreCredit: Supplied by Xiaomi A reliable source has claimed that the Redmi K60 will gain the Poco F5 Pro name. That means the Poco F5 Pro should be equipped with a QHD+ screen and wireless charging. Xiaomi announced the Redmi K60 series earlier this week, bringing some affordable flagship-level phones to China. We’re expecting at
Read MoreAnton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: Jon Peddie Research: shipments of discrete GPUs fell 42% YoY to ~14M in Q3 2022, including ~6.9M units for desktop PCs, the lowest number since at least Q3 2005 — The industry shipped 42 percent fewer discrete GPUs than a year prior. — Demand for graphics cards significantly increased during
Read MoreCall it fake or simply new, but when [DusteD] set out to build a brand-new Commodore 64 with only new parts, it resulted in Project MaxFake64 that is electrically and binary compatible with any genuine C64 out there. While not really ‘fake’ in the sense that a C64 emulator is fake, it is in the
Read MoreJonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US appeals court revives a lawsuit accusing Google and others of violating children’s privacy state laws by tracking their YouTube activity for ad targeting — A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit accusing Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google and several other companies of violating …
Read MoreKate Conger / New York Times: Some Twitter users are reporting widespread service interruptions; Downdetector: the issues mainly affect its website and started around 7 PM ET on Wednesday — The issues surfaced several days after Elon Musk said he had shut down one of the company’s major data centers.
Read MoreWith disappointing iPhone 14 Plus sales, Apple is reportedly reconsidering the iPhone 15 lineup.
Read MoreApple’s ‘Find My’ device location system helped locate and rescue a car crash victim in California, according to a Facebook post from the San Bernardino County Fire Department.
Read MoreA new report says that Apple is expanding its manufacturing of the iPhone outside of Foxconn for the first time.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re having issues while trying to use Twitter tonight, you’re not alone. Dozens of users are reporting various errors, saying they’re getting messages that they’ve exceeded their rate limit, to the site appearing to be completely broken, or failing to fetch new tweets. DownDetector.com shows a spike
Read More[HolGer71] had a Mini-ITX Intel Atom-powered mainboard that he found useful for its vintage interfaces like COM and LPT. On a whim, he decided to give it even more vintage of a look – transforming it into a device more akin to a 50s home appliance, complete with a fitting monitor, mouse and keyboard. The
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Last week, just before Christmas, LastPass dropped a bombshell announcement: as the result of a breach in August, which lead to another breach in November, hackers had gotten their hands on users’ password vaults. While the company insists that your login information is still secure, some cybersecurity
Read MoreDanny Lewis / Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Christopher Phillips, the VP and GM of Google Geo, which oversees Maps and Waze, on the future of navigation, more visual and immersive maps, and more — A more immersive experience is coming to map tools, says Google Geo head Christopher Phillips — What’s the weather at
Read MoreModel railroaders typically observe their project from high above. It would be neat to see what the world looks like to the residents of your little town, but getting down to their point of view is difficult, especially if you’re working in one of the smaller scales. For those working in the N scale, there’s
Read MoreImage: Amazon Amazon is now delivering orders by drones in California and Texas with the aim to ultimately fly out packages to customers’ homes within an hour, Ars Technica reports. The retail giant’s drone delivery service, Amazon Prime Air, already dropped a small number of packages via drone in the backyards of customers in the
Read More(Credit: Valstar et al/Radiotherapy and Oncology)You’d think that existing exclusively within the human body would give way to a complete knowledge of the organs hidden within. Instead, we’re constantly discovering new parts of the weird and glorious biological machine we each call home. The latest in these discoveries are the “tubarial glands,” a pair of
Read MoreSam Kessler / CoinDesk: An anonymous Twitter user leaks an alleged list of API keys belonging to crypto trading service 3Commas’ users, after 3Commas said its users had been “phished” — The leak comes after 3Commas repeatedly told users that they had been “phished” after widespread hacks.
Read MoreHow do you work out how much storage you need? Here’s our guide to choosing the right iCloud storage plan for you.
Read MoreA portrait of Holmes by artist Sidney Paget. | Wikimedia Watching the copyrights on art expire still feels like a novelty. After all, the US public domain was frozen in time for 20 years, thawing only in 2019. But this weekend’s Public Domain Day will give our cultural commons a few particularly notable new works.
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images I hope you all had a happy holiday weekend and, with any luck, are off this week. Last week, I dug into the wonky, rocky economic outlook for podcasting in 2023. This week, I am keeping it light (plus, nothing much happens in the liminal space between Christmas
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