The new Microsoft Teams view in HoloLens 2. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft has long supported real-time video calls using Microsoft Teams on HoloLens 2 headsets, but now the company is bringing full Teams integration to its mixed reality headset. HoloLens 2 users will now be able to freely call people directly, browse and add Teams
Read MoreStartup studios continue to grow in popularity as incubators for new businesses. Rather than simply launching one startup, the startup studio model creates an organization whose business is launching startups. This allows the studio to develop processes, well-organized development teams, and growth plans. These can then be repeated and improved on with each successive startup.
Read MoreMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune: UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, launches a Stellar blockchain-based aid program to distribute USDC as aid to internally displaced Ukrainians via Vibrant wallets — For displaced people around the world, carrying cash is risky because it can be lost or stolen.
Read MoreIf you are addicted to playing video games, you might have definitely played or been playing Minecraft. Developed by Mojang Studios in the Java programming language, Minecraft is a popular sandbox video game among seasoned gamers. It is the best-selling video game of all time. As of 2021, the video game had 140 million monthly
Read MoreApple Watches are all well and good, but sometimes you want something that looks a little more conventional from an established watchmaker – and you can currently save $140 off a Fossil Gen-6 smart watch.
Read MoreFinancial Times: The US Commerce Department puts 36 Chinese companies on its Entity List, including chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies and AI chip maker Cambricon — ‘Entity list’ changes are focused on limiting development of advanced chips in China — The US has placed three dozen Chinese companies …
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Instagram is adding several new features to its app, and the first to roll out is called Notes. The feature allows you to send short 60-character messages to groups of your Instagram friends; the message will hang around for 24 hours before it disappears. It’s an interesting idea
Read MoreAn insider says production for panels on a new 15-inch MacBook Air will being in the spring of 2023, suggesting a release is close at hand.
Read MoreJennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Google finishes rolling out the Matter smart home standard to its Nest lineup and Android, following Apple and Samsung; Amazon plans support by the end of 2022 — Google announced today that it has completed the initial rollout of Matter to its Google Nest products and Android OS.
Read MoreApple has released the first round of developer betas for iOS 16.3, WatchOS 9.3 iPadOS 16.3, and Ventura 13.2.
Read More(Credit: Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (Credit: Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Microsoft’s storied bid to absorb Activision Blizzard is continuing to heat up, and it looks like the company is switching to a familiar tack by insisting its potential acquisition doesn’t have all that many special games to begin with. In a shareholder
Read MoreDavid Klepper / Associated Press: CCDH: when researchers on TikTok in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia liked self-harm and eating disorder videos, the app recommended more similar content — TikTok’s algorithms are promoting videos about self-harm and eating disorders to vulnerable teens, according to a report published Wednesday …
Read MoreImage: Mitchell Clark / The Verge Winter is here, and once again, warnings are going up about the spread of the covid-19 virus — along with the flu and RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus. To try to minimize the upsurge, the US government is restarting a program that it canceled on September 2nd, 2022, and
Read MoreThis week, we talk about the development of the Ledger Stax, a cryptocurrency wallet designed by Tony Fadell.
Read MoreHow do you keep Facebook easy to use without being trivial to exploit? The company is trying to chart a middle ground.
Read MoreAmericans no longer need a medical exam to start using hearing aids. This new over-the-counter offering is affordable and excellent.
Read MoreAlexander Martin / The Record: Meta reports taking down 200 coordinated inauthentic behavior operations since 2016, spread across over 100 countries, most focused on domestic audiences — Six years on from the shock discovery of Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election — and in the face …
Read MoreTwo Mac Studios don’t quite make an Arm Mac Pro. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Does anyone else vividly remember the day of June 22nd, 2020? I sure do. That was the day when Apple announced that its Macs were going to transfer away from Intel processors to the company’s own silicon.
Read MoreBenedict Evans: ChatGPT and other generative ML systems represent a step change in AI use cases, prompting questions on material for pattern generation and tolerances for error — A decade or so ago, systems based on something called ‘machine learning’ started producing really good results in Imagenet, a contest for computer vision researchers.
Read MoreOppo’s Find N2 Flip foldable clamshell. | Image: Oppo Oppo has announced a pair of new foldables in China today, and the smaller of the two is actually getting a release outside of its domestic market. The Find N2 Flip has a clamshell design similar to the Galaxy Z Flip 4 and starts at ¥6,000
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Soon, you’ll be able to pick up a pair of Sony’s OTC (over-the-counter) hearing aids at one of HearUSA’s 350 hearing centers or through its online store. Founded in 1987, HearUSA operates a network of retail stores that help consumers directly buy prescription — and now OTC —
Read MoreUber will use robots from Cartken to make deliveries in Dadeland. | Image: Uber Uber is expanding its use of autonomous delivery vehicles with the announcement that it will soon deploy sidewalk robots developed in Miami, Florida. The six-wheeled delivery robots will come from Cartken, an Oakland-based AI company founded by a team of ex-Google
Read MoreThese past few years have been visceral reminders of our mortality. But new technologies can offer a way for us and our loved ones to live on.
Read MoreIf you’ve got a high-end Samsung or Google Pixel phone, you can use magnetic cases to get in on the accessory fun.
Read MoreThis electromagnetic instrument is nearly a hundred years old but will still bring a smile to anyone’s face.
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