Credit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Nothing will bring the Phone 1 to some consumers in the US as part of a testing program. This limited release will be part of the Android 13 beta program. Nothing confirmed earlier this month that it was in talks with US carriers about launching a smartphone in the
Read MoreMIT has been working on very thin solar cells made of a film just a few microns thick. The problem? The cells are so thin that they’re hard to work with. You could make a small solar cell on top of, say, a glass slide, but that’s not all that interesting since you can make
Read More[Carson Katri] has a fantastic solution to easily add textures to 3D scenes in Blender: have an image-generating AI create the texture on demand, and do it for you. It’s not perfect — the odd door or window feature might suffer from a lack of right angles — but it’s pretty amazing. As shown here,
Read More@twittersafety: After Musk said that major new policies will go to a vote, @TwitterSafety posts a poll on whether accounts primarily promoting other platforms should be allowed — Should we have a policy preventing the creation of or use of existing accounts for the main purpose of advertising other social media platforms?
Read MoreMolly White / @molly0xfff: Twitter has deleted @TwitterSafety’s tweets and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms — policy page and tweets announcing it are now gone. archive links for posterity: thread: https://web.archive.org/… policy page: https://web.archive.org/… https://twitter.com/…
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge; Image: Getty Images League of Legends developer Riot Games says Sam Bankman-Fried’s affiliation with the game is hurting the company’s image (via Molly White). In a filing in FTX’s bankruptcy case, Riot Games asks the court to terminate its League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) sponsorship deal with the collapsed crypto exchange,
Read MoreElon Musk’s platform could learn a thing or two from its most popular alternative—like how to build a social platform people actually want to be on.
Read MoreBy now everyone has probably seen the devastation wrought by the structural failure of what was once the world’s largest free-standing cylindrical aquarium. The scale of the tank, which until about 5:50 AM Berlin time on Friday graced the lobby of the Raddison Blu hotel, was amazing — 16 meters tall, 12 meters in diameter,
Read MoreWashington Post: Elon Musk says polls will decide major policies at Twitter and then launches a poll that asks “Should I step down as head of Twitter?”; “Yes” is leading by 10%+ — After a new policy prompted a backlash, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said future policies would be determined by polls.
Read MoreA MacBook Pro refresh is coming in early 2023, with M3 iMac possibly arriving later in the year, says Mark Gurman.
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk may be close to ending his run as Twitter CEO. After haphazardly establishing a ban on links out that put his site at odds with both The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz and his own supporters, like Silicon Valley venture capitalist Paul Graham, Elon Musk’s
Read MoreNew York Times: A profile of ex-FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame, a big GOP donor who emerged as a central player in the FTX scandal after flagging fraud to regulators — The co-chief executive of an FTX unit who told regulators about wrongdoing at the exchange was a big Republican donor. He also bought
Read MoreCredit: David Imel / Android Authority You may have heard a lot about 5G lately – the next generation of mobile network technology. According to carriers and smartphone makers, 5G has the potential to revolutionize the way we stay connected while on the go. But setting aside the hype for a moment, just how fast
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Twitter will stop users from promoting their presence on rival services, including Facebook, Mastodon, and Nostr, and will remove tweets and accounts that do so — Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their presence on certain social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post.
Read MoreMedical equipment often makes for interesting teardown videos: the strict requirements imposed by certification bodies mean you’ll find good quality components and a high standard of design and manufacturing. But when [Buy It Fix It] bought an ultrasound scanner on eBay, he wasn’t interested in tearing it down: his plan was to use it to
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their presence on certain social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post. In a post outlining these changes, Twitter says it will take action against users that violate this policy “at both the Tweet level and
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Opinion post by Kaitlyn Cimino I don’t sleep much. While I understand the world functions by daylight, I’ve always found my most productive hours start at a low light setting. Maybe fairytales shouldn’t make midnight sound like such an exciting hour to be losing shoes. When I do make
Read More@twittersupport: Twitter will remove accounts made to “promote other social platforms” and content that has links or usernames to Facebook, Mastodon, and others — We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.
Read More[Harry]’s newest robot, the MotherLoader V2, looks fantastic but was ultimately more of a learning experience and test bed for some experimental features. Luckily for us, [Harry] created a lengthy write-up detailing everything that he tried and revised. 3D printing and aluminum both feature heavily in antweight robots, in part because when contestants are limited
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority This past summer, my partner and I moved across the country from Connecticut to California. We elected not to move our ten-year-old television, figuring this was as good a reason as any to get a fancy new upgrade. After a bunch of research, we landed on the LG
Read MoreAfter two years with the AirPods Max, I find myself rarely reaching for them after picking up the AirPods Pro 2.
Read MoreJust get a new Mac and wondering how to get your entire Messages history onto your new Mac without too much effort? Here’s how!
Read MoreThe holiday season is here, and you better get your gifts sent off — today! But for the gift you are taking to family and friends — here are a couple of ways you can package your gifts. I’m hoping this will make it so you can present your loved one with a nicely packaged
Read MoreThe 2019 Pro Display XDR alongside the Mac Pro. | Photo by Avery White for The Verge Apple’s working on “multiple new” external monitors outfitted with the company’s in-house silicon, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This lineup’s expected to include an updated version of the Pro Display XDR, which was last released
Read MoreThe Shark FlexStyle, TheraFace Pro, and Dermaflash Luxe want you to cancel your next salon appointment.
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