Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Four mystery devices, 14 sets of samples, and three days of voting, and thousands of responses later — we asked and you told us which smartphone is Android Authority’s Reader’s Choice for the best camera phone of 2022. It was close, and I mean really close. To recap, we
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Findings revealed that global handset revenues have declined by 3% year-over-year. Apple’s revenue growth prevented a steeper decline. The revenue share for 5G reached an all-time high. It’s been a rough year for new phone sales, with more people choosing to hold on to their current phones. A new
Read MoreBloomberg: A Bahamas judge approves Sam Bankman-Fried’s extradition to the US; SBF’s case will now go to the Bahamas foreign minister for sign-off — Sam Bankman-Fried’s extradition was approved by Bahamas judge on Wednesday, clearing one of the final hurdles for him to be sent to the US to face a litany of criminal charges.
Read MoreElon Musk has confirmed that he will resign as Twitter CEO, following a loss on a Twitter poll about the decision.
Read MoreApple Music is great, but it has a little way to go before it’s properly excellent. A good start would be nabbing some features from Spotify.
Read MoreIllustration by Micha Huigen / The Verge It has been difficult to find great laptops this year. That’s partially because 2022 has been a bit of a building year for some companies, especially on the consumer side. It’s also because of the Intel P-series. I reviewed a number of laptops in 2022 across consumer, workstation,
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge We may have reviewed the Apple Watch Ultra back in September, but you didn’t think we were done, did you? The $799 Ultra was billed as the Apple Watch for outdoor adventurers and triathletes. So we spent the last three months devising a series of mini-reviews targeting
Read MoreMicha Huigen / The Verge Nobody can say that 2022 was an uneventful year. But if you wanted to escape reality occasionally by playing a really great game, enjoying a fantastic movie, or marathoning an exciting series, there were plenty of options to be found. Now that the end of the year is approaching, we
Read MoreTom Gerken / BBC: The UK’s Intellectual Property Office says sharing passwords for online streaming services such as Netflix breaks civil and criminal law — Sharing passwords for online streaming services such as Netflix is against the law, according to a government agency.
Read MoreControversy happens all the time, and that includes apps and games. Recent years have seen year-long beefs between major companies, and this year was no exception. We saw Google and Apple take digs at each other, Samsung getting into trouble, and Microsoft doing things that upset a lot of people. This may be the most
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Xbox Game Pass is one of the best subscription gaming services on the planet, thanks to a large library of games and an impressive same-day release policy for many triple AAA games. One thing you might not realize is that the service isn’t just for Xbox owners, as Microsoft offers an Xbox GamePass for
Read MoreShowing images on a TFT or OLED display with a small AVR microcontroller can be a challenge as it requires significant storage space. One solution is to compress the images, but then you need more RAM to decompress it, and that’s a whole other problem. [David Johnson-Davies] of Technoblogy couldn’t find a GIF decoder that
Read MoreAlan Rappeport / New York Times: New IRS rules requiring small businesses and resellers using apps like Venmo to report transactions of $600 or more cause pushback from business groups, others — Users of digital wallets and e-commerce platforms must start reporting small transactions, sowing fears among small-business owners.
Read MoreTwitter has gotten just a little chaotic lately, and several of us here at The Verge are exploring the alternatives. One of the more popular options so far is Mastodon, a decentralized microblogging (yes, I will call the Twitter format “microblogging” till my dying day) network that’s exploded since November. It’s a service with lots
Read MoreVarious leakers assert the Samsung Galaxy S23 launch date could be on February 1, 2023. That would likely be for the US, meaning it would be February 2 for most of the rest of the world. The phones would probably hit store shelves about two weeks later. According to three prominent leakers, the upcoming Samsung
Read MoreMicha Huigen / The Verge I had the privilege of using lots of incredible new phones in 2022, packed with the latest hardware and capable of impressive performance. But there’s one app I turned to again and again when I was using each of those devices, and it’s far from new or cutting-edge: Google Maps.
Read MoreUsers will need to unlock the ability to write notes by increasing their “Rating Impact,” a ranking system that indicates how often a contributor has rated other notes on the platform. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has announced that its recently released Community Notes feature will now require all contributors to
Read MoreIt looks like the next great iPad Pro upgrade won’t occur until 2024, not 2023.
Read MoreApple has this week confirmed two important updates it made to AirTags and the iPhone, including a very important anti-stalking feature.
Read MoreBefore there was SBF, there was another “ethical crusader” who learned the same hard truths about the technology of trust.
Read MoreThese accessories might not cure your anxiety or insomnia, but they can feel like a hug when you really need one.
Read MoreFeeling the pull of a clean machine? We’ll help you make sense of the company’s whirlwind lineup.
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Happy holidays! Here is our gift for you: over an hour of audio content dedicated to Bluetooth. If you’re lucky this holiday season, you may be given a brand-new phone, tablet, or gadget equipped with the short-range wireless standard we’ve dealt with for decades. Though it has improved
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Opinion post by Hadlee Simons 2022 has played host to a number of great smartphones, but it’s hard to argue that this was a year of exciting, innovative devices. The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra was a refined Galaxy S21 Ultra, retaining a very similar camera system but only really
Read MoreKevin Purdy / Ars Technica: Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton says 2023 will be a “recovery year” for the company and customers should not expect the Pi 5, due to ongoing supply chain issues — To avoid cannibalizing supply for other Pi products, the next model must wait. — Few who have tried to buy
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