Get a new game every day until January 5th. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games is once again giving away a bunch of free games over the course of the holiday season. Technically, the company will be giving 15 free games on the Epic Games Store, but since the sale kicked
Read MoreThe extra privacy does come at the cost of a few features. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has launched a beta of its client-side encryption for Gmail, letting businesses apply to test out the feature meant to make “sensitive data” and attachments unreadable even to Google. The company announced the beta,
Read MoreThis home with a Tesla Solar Roof and Powerwall could be an ideal candidate for the new Tesla Energy service. | Image: Tesla Tesla launched a new power utility provider service in Texas this week that lets select locals with home Powerwall backup batteries sell excess energy back to the grid. To qualify, residents must
Read MoreOnce you’ve got a Gimmighoul in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, it’s time to find some coins. Here’s how to evolve Gimmighoul into Gholdengo.
Read MoreNew York Times: Internal note: Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack leaves the company after more than eight years, saying Meta is operating at “half the effectiveness” — John Carmack, who was chief technology officer of Oculus, which Meta bought, is departing the company.
Read MoreApple is rumored to be ready to open the iPhone up, allowing apps to be installed outside the App Store. But developers aren’t sure whether they’ll benefit from it.
Read MoreSoftware-defined radio is all the rage these days, and for good reason. It eliminates or drastically reduces the amount of otherwise pricey equipment needed to transmit or even just receive, and can pack many more features than most affordable radio setups otherwise would have. It also makes it possible to go mobile much more easily.
Read MoreThe Guardian: Representatives from the UK, Germany, the European Commission, and the United Nations raise concerns over Twitter’s suspension of US journalists — Pressure grows on Elon Musk as EU says social media platform could face sanctions over suspensions — The United Nations is “very disturbed” …
Read MoreSilver Surfer stars in the game’s current season. | Image: Second Dinner Marvel Snap is finally getting a way to battle against your friends sometime soon. In a roadmap for the game shared Friday, developers Second Dinner provided details about the mode, titled Battle Mode vs. Friends, and said it aims to launch it in
Read MoreImage: Netflix As a Dragon Age fan, Netflix’s new show Dragon Age: Absolution was always going to be like catnip for me. I am unable to resist the alluring scent of not only a new Dragon Age anything but also a new Dragon Age something that might give me a few precious crumbs of Dreadwolf
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge; Image: Getty Images Three top Democratic campaign arms said Friday that they would set aside more than $1 million in contributions from former crypto golden boy FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, as first reported by The Washington Post. The groups plan to return the money to FTX customers as part of ongoing legal
Read MoreBrian Fung / CNN: Twitter sparked an international outcry by suspending journalists, and some legal experts say it could face regulatory scrutiny for blocking links to Mastodon — Elon Musk’s Twitter sparked an international outcry on Thursday by suspending a number of journalists at major news organizations who cover him.
Read MoreIf you’re doing any serious work with microphones, you’ll typically find yourself in want of a dedicated preamp. [ojg] needed just such a thing for acoustic measurement duties, and set about working up a cheap DIY design by the name of ThatMicPre. The design is based around the THAT1510 preamp IC, known for its good
Read MoreSemafor: Sources: the MD of Elon Musk’s family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter, offering shares of Twitter at $54.20, the same price that Musk paid — The managing director of Elon Musk’s family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter as users revolt, advertisers flee …
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority When you hear the word Samsung, your mind probably jumps to smartphones and home appliances. But most don’t know that the company’s influence extends far beyond electronic devices. In its home country of South Korea, the Samsung Group operates everything from hotels to hospitals and even runs the country’s
Read More(Credit: The Tech Outlook)Lenovo has dabbled in phones over the years, but most of its mobile efforts are concentrated in its Motorola subsidiary. A new leak from The Tech Outlook claims that Motorola is preparing to launch a Lenovo-branded smartphone called the ThinkPhone. The physical style is akin to the ThinkPad laptops, and it looks
Read More9to5Mac: Apple, Google, and Mozilla are collaborating on the development of Speedometer 3, a browser benchmark that measures responsiveness — Speedometer is a browser benchmark that measures responsiveness by simulating user interactions on demo web applications. Introduced by Apple’s WebKit team …
Read MoreIllustration by William Joel / The Verge I like to end each year by asking you all for your predictions about the year ahead, and comparing them with my own. Before we do that, though, I think it’s only fair to check in on the predictions I made here last year about 2022. Overall, I
Read MoreMeg Shen / Reuters: Foxconn’s Xingwei agrees to sell its entire stake in embattled Chinese chip conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup for ~$771.79M — Taiwan’s Foxconn (2317.TW), the world’s largest contract electronics maker, said on Friday its subsidiary in China has agreed to sell entire equity stake in embattled Chinese chip conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup.
Read MoreOnce a mainstay in arguments about how soulless and bloody video games could be, the franchise is now a star of narrative design.
Read MoreCredit: SlashLeaks Images of Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23 Plus dummy units have appeared online. The photos reveal a couple of design changes between the S23 and S22. There were no photos taken of a Galaxy S23 Ultra dummy unit. As we inch our way to the eventual launch of the Samsung Galaxy S23, details
Read MoreJosh Eidelson / Bloomberg: In a complaint to the US NLRB, the CWA alleges Apple tried to prevent union organizing in Ohio by creating a company-controlled pseudo-union — Apple Inc. tried to prevent union-organizing efforts in Ohio by creating a company-controlled labor group for employees to join instead …
Read MoreMike Masnick / Techdirt: By using flimsy, absurd excuses for banning journalists’ Twitter accounts, Elon Musk and his buddies show themselves to be hypocrites with no principles — Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go. It’s how it always goes. — Remember Parler?
Read MoreBy no means the worst in-ear buds you can buy, the Sony LinkBuds S certainly leave a lot on the table when it comes to sound.
Read MoreAndrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: The NHTSA launches a probe into GM’s Cruise, citing incidents in which its autonomous vehicles blocked the road or caused collisions by braking suddenly — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into General Motors’ Cruise, citing incidents …
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