Get Ready to Play ‘Guess the Viral Variant’
Covid will stick around long-term, so we’ll need to find ways to predict its next move.
Read MoreCovid will stick around long-term, so we’ll need to find ways to predict its next move.
Read MoreShen Lu / Wall Street Journal: Sensor Tower: Pinduoduo’s marketplace Temu gained 10.8M installations in the US since Sep. 1, and became the most downloaded US app between Nov. 1 and Dec. 14 — Temu, a marketplace with deep discounts and copious coupons, has become the most downloaded mobile app in the U.S. — Copy
Read MoreI broke my iPhone 13 Pro, and when I was told the repair cost, I fainted. I looked at how much it would’ve cost with AppleCare+ – and I fainted again.
Read MoreRegular readers may recall that security researcher and general open source hardware fanatic [Walker] has been planning a rather unusual flash drive for some time — one that will only show its contents if the user makes sure to lick their fingers before plugging it in. We’re pleased to report that theory has recently given
Read MoreA disturbing trend in consumer electronics has been a steady disappearance of replaceable batteries on our devices. Finding a mobile phone with a swapable battery is a struggle, and many other devices follow the trend by sealing in a Li-Po cell. The result is an ever-shorter life for electronics, and a greater problem with devices
Read MoreFaiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: Twitter employees shed light on Elon Musk’s erratic leadership; a Signal message shows Musk wanted “full access” for Bari Weiss, which staff refused to grant — Musk’s intense focus on his social media company purchase has devolved into the culture wars. Meanwhile, Tesla is tanking.
Read MorePatrick McGee / Financial Times: Supply chain experts warn of a months-long disruption risk to Apple’s iPhone production and operations due to worker absenteeism, amid China’s COVID-19 wave — Supply chain experts warn outbreak following reversal of zero-Covid curbs creates uncertainty for iPhone maker
Read MoreRicardo Cano / San Francisco Chronicle: A new California law effectively bans Tesla and other carmakers from deceptively naming or marketing their semi-autonomous vehicles as full self-driving — Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate — A Tesla with Full Self-Driving software was reportedly responsible for causing …
Read MoreThe thermal printer is ubiquitous in today’s world, mostly found whenever we have to get a receipt from somewhere. They’re cheap, fast, and easy to use. Not only that, though, but as [Daniel] found out, they’re also pretty straightforward to re-program and use for other things than a three-foot-long receipt from a drug store. He’s
Read MoreAlex Castro / The Verge A Microsoft employee appears to have accidentally announced that Windows 11’s Notepad app is getting a tabs feature. The employee, a senior product manager at Microsoft, posted a photo of a version of Notepad with tabs, enthusiastically announcing “Notepad in Windows 11 now has tabs!” with a loudspeaker emoji. The
Read MoreCyberScoop: Current and former CISA employees and sources detail an agency lacking a clearly defined strategic direction and whose leadership is often focused on its PR — When Congress was still trying to understand the full extent of Russia’s 2016 election meddling and growing increasingly anxious …
Read MoreThe desktop feature is finally coming to phones. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is starting to test out its queueing system on iOS and Android. The feature has been available on the web for years now, and shows in the YouTube apps under certain circumstances — users who control their Chromecast
Read MoreIf you regularly fly your drones outdoors, you’ve probably worried about getting your pride and joy stuck in a big tree at some point. But flying indoors doesn’t guarantee you’ll be safe either, as [Scott Williamson] found out. He once got his tiny 65 mm Mobula 6HD quadcopter stuck in a roof beam at an
Read MoreSimon Hill / Wired: A look at XRAI Glass, an Android app for the deaf and hard of hearing that can caption real-life conversations when paired with $379 Nreal Air AR glasses — XRAI Glass, when paired with $379 AR glasses, can caption real-life conversations as they happen, with a few major caveats.
Read MoreDigital music has made keeping all your tunes with you a lot more convenient, but have we lost something with dematerialization? [Jordi Parra] felt that there was something lacking with the digital music experience and designed a Spotify player with a tactile interface. Specific playlists are selected via small RFID tags that look like a
Read MoreMicha Huigen / The Verge If you just bought a PlayStation 5, there are a bunch of great games for you to play on that console. Since its release in late 2020, dozens of must-play games have appeared, including several console-exclusive games that you won’t be able to play anywhere else. If you don’t have
Read MoreMartin Matishak / The Record: Joe Biden signs into law an $858B defense policy bill that confers more power and obligations on US Cyber Command — President Joe Biden signed a $858 billion defense policy bill on Friday, conferring more power — and obligations — on U.S. Cyber Command.
Read MoreCredit: Netflix 2022 saw some pretty major original streaming releases, including a highly anticipated Knives Out sequel at Netflix, a sequel to Enchanted at Disney Plus, a historical epic starring Will Smith at Apple TV Plus, and plenty more. Of course, it also saw some major bombs. So, what were the biggest streaming flops of
Read MoreIt’s time to fight the power. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Every major phone manufacturer is guilty of a serious crime, and I won’t be quiet about it any longer: they stole the power button from us. Apple, Google, Samsung: guilty, guilty, guilty. Long-pressing the power button used to bring up an
Read MoreThe Apple Watch Ultra is a watch that few people will ever put through its paces — but that doesn’t mean that normals like us aren’t allowed to love it as well.
Read MoreIllustration: Andreion de Castro Earlier this year, I wrote about genre-fiction authors using AI in their novels. Most wrote for Amazon’s Kindle platform, where an extremely rapid pace of publishing, as fast as a book a month, is the norm. AI helped them write quickly, but it also raised complex aesthetic and ethical questions. Would
Read MoreMicha Huigen / The Verge There’s more streaming competition than ever, but even still, Netflix remains on top when it comes to both breadth and scale. Put simply, there is a lot to watch on Netflix, to the point that even seemingly big-name series and films can get buried by the algorithm that’s trying to
Read MoreVirtually any platform you might find yourself programming on has some simple method of running a delay. [Joey Shepard] got rather creative on a recent project, though, relying on a rather silly nesting method that we’re calling 6502s All The Way Down. The project in question was a simple PCB that was shaped like a
Read MoreThis week, we found out Fortnite maker, Epic Games, will be paying about half a billion in an FTC settlement. We also got good news for Breath of the Wild 2 and several awesome games shadow dropped.
Read MoreAmanda Hoover / Wired: Mastodon’s decentralized nature raises concerns about the liability of users running their own instances, under copyright and privacy laws around the world — As the niche, decentralized social networking platform rises in popularity, it faces rising costs, culture shifts—and potential legal risks.
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