It’s no surprise that these OLEDs look amazing no matter what angle you’re viewing them from. Thankfully, I don’t have to wait until CES 2023 in January to tell you about my experience seeing LG’s two esports-ready OLED gaming monitors. LG’s flat 27- and curved 45-inch UltraGear 1440p monitors are even faster than its TVs
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Meta, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and mapping company TomTom have launched a new mapping initiative in partnership with The Linux Foundation that could challenge the dominance Google holds in the mapping world, TechCrunch reports. The recently launched Overture Maps Foundation aims to encourage the development of new map products with openly
Read MoreHere’s how to evolve Charcadet into Armarouge and Ceruledge in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. There’s two evolutions, but only one per game.
Read MoreGreg Stohr / Bloomberg: Tech industry groups that include Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment — Trade groups that represent Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google said they asked the US Supreme Court to overturn …
Read MoreWhether you’re a tea aficionado or just a casual drinker, it’s important to pay attention to your brewing times: too short and you’re just drinking hot water, too long and your brew becomes bitter and astringent. [Bob] wanted to help his parents avoid the latter scenario, and made them a convenient little tea timer that
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.53B, Digital Media revenue up 10% YoY to $3.3B, and Digital Experience revenue up 14% YoY to $1.15B; stock is up 5%+ — – Adobe maintained its forecast for the new fiscal year. — The company’s earnings for the fiscal fourth quarter was
Read MoreMythic Quest is getting an Apple TV Plus spin-off all about the game and the people who play it.
Read MoreBloomberg: About 200 companies in China and Hong Kong, including Alibaba and JD.com, no longer face the threat of a US delisting after US inspectors reviewed their audits — About 200 companies based in China and Hong Kong are no longer facing an acute threat of being booted off American stock exchanges, sending shares surging.
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Steam Deck designers Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais took part in an interview to reveal what’s in store for the handheld gaming PC. The designers confirmed there are plans for a next-gen Steam Deck, but a “Pro” model is unlikely, for now. The two also say the Steam Deck
Read MoreWork work! Once the resigned cry of orcs in Warcraft will now be Chris Metzen’s new mantra as he emerges from retirement to rejoin the team at Blizzard. Today, John Hight, senior vice president and general manager of World of Warcraft, announced that longtime WoW veteran Metzen, also known for his work across Diablo, StarCraft,
Read MoreGoogle announced the digital ID feature at its 2022 I/O developer conference. | Image: Google Maryland was one of the first states to make state IDs available on Apple’s Wallet app for iPhones, and now Google is beta testing support for the “Digital Driver’s License” in the Wallet app on Android phones. The Apple Wallet
Read MoreApple Maps has added Look Around and other features in five European countries.
Read MoreAgent 47 is really going to miss Stadia. | Image: IO Interactive Ahead of the impending shutdown of Google Stadia, Hitman developer IO Interactive has detailed how Stadia players will be able to bring their progress from Hitman — World of Assassination to other platforms. Players will be able to do a one-time transfer, what
Read MoreThe crew of the International Space Station (ISS) was forced to abort a planned spacewalk late on Wednesday when a Soyuz spacecraft docked at the station sprang a leak. The Soyuz leaked coolant for several hours while ground control in Moscow and the ISS crew attempted to get it under control. Teams are still assessing
Read MoreSebastian Moss / DCD: Sources: Meta reviews some of its 11 in-development data center projects globally and lays off a Danish contractor, as part of a design change for AI workloads — As it plans radical shift to AI data centers — Meta is reviewing a number of under-construction data center projects around …
Read MoreIf you’ve worked in a bio or chem lab, you’ve probably found yourself handling all manner of plastic. Test tubes, fixtures, clamps — there’s a cavalcade of this stuff that fattens up the order books of lab suppliers every quarter. Sometimes, though, the commercial solutions aren’t quite what you need. For [AtomicVirology], the solution was
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft adds full Teams integration to HoloLens 2 headsets, letting users view calendars and more, the first major update since co-founder Alex Kipman left — Microsoft has long supported real-time video calls using Microsoft Teams on HoloLens 2 headsets, but now the company …
Read MoreSam Mulvey built his own radio station in Tacoma, WA. Is there a better way to meld ham radio practice with a colossal number of DIY electrical and computer projects? Sam would say there isn’t one! This 45-minute talk is basically the lessons-learned review of setting up KTQA 95.3 – the radio station on the
Read MoreFire TV comes to the Echo Show 15, but you need to use a remote. The Echo Show 15 now comes with the Fire TV interface, thanks to a software update that started rolling out last week. Amazon’s largest smart display already offered a few streaming apps, but the update brings more streaming services, more
Read MoreSarah McBride / Bloomberg: Brain-computer interface developer Synchron raised $75M from ARCH Venture, Bezos Expeditions, Gates Frontier, and others, bringing its total funding to $145M — Last March, brain-computing interface expert Tom Oxley sat down to dinner with Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos to talk …
Read MoreAshly Burch, who stars in Mythic Quest, is part of the team heading up the new series. | Image: Apple Apple is building on the success of its Apple TV Plus comedy about game development, Mythic Quest, with a new spinoff series titled Mere Mortals. The eight-episode series will be more like the excellent episodes
Read MoreIt was a year ago when we first got a glimpse of Dell’s Project Luna. It was designed as a modular laptop with easy-to-swap parts that could be upgraded, upcycled, or recycled, both to make repairs easier and to reduce e-waste. It was envisioned as an environmentally friendly laptop, distinctly easier to repair over its
Read MoreDeath Stranding | Image: Kojima Productions The Death Stranding cinematic universe is getting a little bigger. Not long after a sequel to the 2019 video game was announced, now comes news that a film is also in the works. The project will be a joint collaboration between developer Kojima Productions and Hammerstone Studios, led by
Read MoreScientists, engineers and administrators from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories following the announcement of a breakthrough in fusion research on December 13th, 2022, in Washington, DC. | Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Scientists need better targets to shoot and even more advanced lasers. Continue reading…
Read MoreWhen it’s flat, it’s impossible to tell that the Xeneon Flex is hiding a clever bending mechanism behind it. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge You’re either on team flat or team curved when it comes to how you prefer your gaming monitors to look. Corsair’s new $1,999 Xeneon Flex, a new
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