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Internal documents detail Google’s new performance review process, estimating 6% of full-time employees will get low ratings starting in 2023, versus 2% before (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Internal documents detail Google’s new performance review process, estimating 6% of full-time employees will get low ratings starting in 2023, versus 2% before — – Google has released new details of its performance system overhaul and it shows employees will more easily fall into lower-rated categories.

Arduboy Mini is a Fresh Take on an 8-bit Favorite

We’ve always been big fans of the Arduboy here at Hackaday. When creator Kevin Bates showed us the original prototype back in 2014, the idea was to use his unique method of mounting components inside routed holes in the PCB to produce an electronic business card that was just 1.6 mm thick. But the Internet

Exclusive: Here’s Google’s entire 2023-2025 roadmap for Pixel phones

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google’s Pixel smartphones have seen a huge boost over the past year. First, the Pixel 6 series brought a boost in critical and commercial success, something the company desperately needed after the relative commercial failures of the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4. Then, the Pixel 7 series saw even

Sam Bankman-Fried appears in US federal court charged with wire fraud and other crimes; a judge grants bail with a $250M bond, living in CA at his parents’ home (Luc Cohen/Reuters)

Luc Cohen / Reuters: Sam Bankman-Fried appears in US federal court charged with wire fraud and other crimes; a judge grants bail with a $250M bond, living in CA at his parents’ home — Sam Bankman-Fried appeared in a U.S. courtroom for an initial appearance on Thursday after being extradited from the Bahamas …

The 80-plus best last-minute digital gift ideas you can still get

You can gift the fitness enthusiast in your life a Peloton subscription even if they don’t own a Peloton. | Image: Peloton Waited until the very last minute to start your holiday shopping? Hey, we get it. Life gets busy sometimes, and judging by how long lines at stores tend to be on Christmas Eve,

YouTube beats Apple to win the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket

Google has announced that it is partnering with the NFL to distribute NFL Sunday Ticket. NFL Sunday Ticket will appear on YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels. Google is reportedly paying $2 billion per season for the deal. The war over who gets the rights to distribute NFL Sunday Ticket is officially over. Google has

God of War Ragnarök is a story about letting go

Kratos and Atreus in God of War Ragnarök | Image: Sony A spoiler-filled look at the ending of one of the year’s biggest games. Continue reading…

Google might just be on to something with gaming Chromebooks

Back in mid-October, Google revealed its first three Chromebooks officially designed for game streaming. At the time, I wondered if a gaming Chromebook actually made sense or if this was just another rushed idea that wasn’t fully ready for prime time. As it turns out, the answer is a little bit of both. Over the

An internal ByteDance investigation finds a few employees accessed data on US TikTok users, including two reporters, while trying to find sources for a story (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: An internal ByteDance investigation finds a few employees accessed data on US TikTok users, including two reporters, while trying to find sources for a story — The company’s internal investigation showed that workers also obtained data on a small number of other U.S. users.

YouTube’s NFL Sunday Ticket deal is a brilliant move for its subscription future

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The “pick me! pick me!” bidding war for NFL Sunday Ticket has finally come to an end, and YouTube won big. The company announced a “multi-year” deal that will see it carry Sunday Ticket both standalone (as a YouTube Primetime Channel) and through YouTube TV. It’s a massive

The new trailer for That ‘90s Show brings back some old friends

Topher Grace and Laura Prepon in That ‘90s Show. | Image: Netflix When Netflix first unveiled its sequel to That ‘70s Show, the focus was primarily on the new cast of kids hanging out in Red and Kitty’s basement. But in the first full trailer for That ‘90s Show, we also get a glimpse at

The SEC’s complaint against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang says FTX’s FTT token is a security as it was sold as an investment contract (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: The SEC’s complaint against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang says FTX’s FTT token is a security as it was sold as an investment contract — Complaint against Alameda’s Caroline Ellison and FTX’s Gary Wang contains allegations that FTX’s exchange token, FTT, constitutes an investment contract.

Investigation: Eric Schmidt helps fund the salaries of over 24 Biden administration officials through the Federation of American Scientists and Schmidt Futures (Alex Thompson/Politico)

Alex Thompson / Politico: Investigation: Eric Schmidt helps fund the salaries of over 24 Biden administration officials through the Federation of American Scientists and Schmidt Futures — Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google who has long sought influence over White House science policy, is helping to fund …

AMD Investigating Overheating Radeon 7900 Reference Boards

Though AMD’s all-new Radeon 7900 series cards have been relatively well received by the gaming public, all the news about them post-launch has been surprisingly negative. Reports have already surfaced of broken shader prefetch hardware in some cards using early silicon, which AMD has said isn’t a thing, and now German site Hardwareluxx has received

Crunchyroll showing a black screen? Here’s how to fix it

Crunchyroll is a terrific streaming service. The Sony-owned streamer hosts a huge selection of anime and other popular content. It’s not immune to technical issue though. One of the most common problems users encounter is a black screen where their videos should be. So, why is crunchyroll showing a black screen? Below, we break down

Another Magnetron Teardown

[Electronoobs] has a healthy respect for the voltages and ceramics inside a microwave oven. But he still found the courage to tear one apart and show us the insides and characterize some of the components. You can see the video of the teardown below. The danger of the voltage is obvious. However, there is also

Pathmatics: about 70% of Twitter’s top 100 ad spenders before Elon Musk’s takeover were not spending on the service as of the week ending December 18 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Pathmatics: about 70% of Twitter’s top 100 ad spenders before Elon Musk’s takeover were not spending on the service as of the week ending December 18 — Executives are promising big incentives and new technology while also trying to explain the actions of their new owner

Twitter begins rolling out public view counts for tweets, expanding on video view counts and analytics; Elon Musk says they will show how “alive Twitter is” (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Twitter begins rolling out public view counts for tweets, expanding on video view counts and analytics; Elon Musk says they will show how “alive Twitter is” — Twitter is rolling out a feature that shows how many people view your tweets, similar to features on platforms like YouTube …

Elon Musk’s giant payday on trial: everything he said in court

Illustration by Jason Allen Lee for The Verge Enjoy this enormous $900 PDF from the Delaware Court of Chancery Continue reading…

Tech self-care for the new year: a guide

Self care doesn’t have to mean at-home spa treatments. | The Verge Was the term “self-care” invented by the beauty-industrial complex to sell more bath bombs? Probably, but that doesn’t mean that setting aside time to take care of yourself every once in a while is a bad idea. That goes for the technology in

These were the video games that defined 2022

Illustration by Micha Huigen / The Verge Player-created stories, gigantic leaks, and a new force in mobile gaming. Continue reading…

2022: a space yearbook

Illustration by Micha Huigen / The Verge There was a lot going on in the space industry this year — here are some of the highlights. Continue reading…

YouTube lands NFL Sunday Ticket in major shake-up of sports streaming

NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers will be watching their games in a new place. | Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images YouTube will be the new home of NFL Sunday Ticket, Google and the NFL announced, ending the months-long question of where the major broadcasting package would end up. NFL Sunday Ticket

Apple’s Self Service Repair program now includes more Macs and the Studio Display

Apple has quietly expanded its Self Service Repair program to include a number of desktop Macs as well as the Studio Display.

Best Thermal Cameras for Phones (2022): Flir, Seek Thermal, Uni-T, Perfect Prime

These infrared imaging devices will show you how hot or cold the objects in the photo are.

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