Leave most objects on top of a turntable, and set it spinning, and they’ll fly off in short order. Do the same with a ball, though, and it somehow manages to roll around on top for quite some time without falling off. [Steve Mould] set about unpacking this “Turntable Paradox” in a recent YouTube video.
Read MoreParesh Dave / Reuters: Ex-Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo is sentenced to 3.5 years in prison, after being found guilty in August 2022 of spying for Saudi Arabia by sharing user data — A former Twitter Inc manager convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in U.S. prison, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Read MoreMoney pit | Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk has sold another $3.5 billion in Tesla shares, according to a form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. Since November 2021, the high point of Tesla’s share price, Musk has sold more than $39 billion of shares, The Wall Street Journal
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Mews, which offers cloud-based hotel property management tools for reservations and more, raised a $185M Series C at a $865M post-money valuation — The Covid-19 pandemic grounded travel and tourism to a halt, but as those sectors pick up speed again, so too are the more promising startups …
Read MoreCallum Cyrus / Tech.eu: Hamburg-based Fashion Cloud, whose B2B data and content exchange portal is used by ~20K fashion retailers, raised €25M led by Verdane — Around 20,000 fashion retailers already use FashionCloud’s B2B data exchange to receive timely updates on stock and marketing from wholesale fashion brands and other suppliers.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Court filing: FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame told Bahamas’ securities commission on November 9 that FTX customer funds were used to cover Alameda losses — FTX executive told securities regulator crypto exchange was likely funnelling cash to Alameda trading firm
Read MoreApple’s new Emergency SOS via satellite feature on the iPhone 14 helped first responders find and rescue a couple who had driven off the road.
Read MoreApple has launched a new referral program for Apple Card where new cardholders can earn $75 in Daily Cash.
Read MoreWilliam Turton / Bloomberg: The US DOJ says it has started seizing 48 websites and charged 6 people for allegedly running “booter” DDoS-for-hire services used to launch millions of attacks — The US seized dozens of internet domains and charged six people in a sting intended to bring down a network …
Read MoreWith the iOS 16.3, iPadOS 16.3, and macOS Ventura 13.2 developer betas, Apple has added support for physical security keys.
Read MorePlans are moving forward to more closely coordinate the development of standard Java with that of GraalVM, a high-performance JDK (Java Development Kit) developed by Oracle. A mainline release of Java could get GraalVM Java technology for incubation, under an Oracle-led OpenJDK proposal dubbed Project Galahad. Project Galahad calls for an initial focus on contributing
Read MoreWhat’s the strangest wheel? The omniwheel. Unless you could whegs – “wheel legs” – as wheels. They’re pretty esoteric, but have their What happens when you mash up the two ideas? OmniWhegs! This research paper from Shanghai Technical University unites the two. The wheels roll as standard omniwheels until a servo on the axle unfurls
Read MoreCat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: A tech industry group including Google and Meta sues to block California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, saying it would result in content “over-moderation” — It’s the latest legal salvo over the future of social media regulation, an issue that has been appealed to the Supreme Court.
Read MoreI think Lady Dimitrescu will be very scary in VR. | Image: Capcom Resident Evil Village’s VR mode will be available on the PlayStation VR 2 the same date Sony’s new VR hardware launches in February, Capcom announced on Wednesday. And even better, it’s being added as a free update for owners of the game.
Read MoreRyan Mac / New York Times: Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including the suspension of accounts “dedicated to sharing someone’s live location” — The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner.
Read MoreWhether it is revenue, customer experience, or operational efficiency, big data has allowed businesses to achieve unprecedented growth. However, companies need data engineers, technical data experts, and programmers to make sense of large volumes of unstructured data. Businesses need to hire professionals who can write codes to process and analyze data to get any actionable
Read MoreDragon Quest Treasures is a spin-off from the main Dragon Quest series that follows Erik and Mia as child treasure hunters. It’s a more casual adventure that’s fun but might not appeal to everyone.
Read MoreA dust devil captured by instruments on the Perseverance rover. From the study authors: “These are images taken of the direct dust devil encounter by the rover’s Navigation Camera (Navcam). The images have been processed to show the quantity of dust. The colour scale ranges from lowest dust content (blue) to highest dust content (yellow).”
Read MoreTwitter doesn’t seem to like the jet-tracker’s creator. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hours after suspending @ElonJet, an account that tracked the trips taken by Elon Musk’s private plane, Twitter has now banned the account’s creator, Jack Sweeney. Twitter is also blocking links to versions of the tracker on other platforms, like
Read MoreCode blocks in Docs. | Illustration: The Verge Google Docs is getting a new feature that will make it easier to show code in an easy-to-understand way. The company announced that it’s adding code blocks to its “smart canvas” system, which will automatically add the proper spacing and color-coding for a variety of programming languages,
Read MoreMIDI controllers can be simple straightforward keyboards, or wild magical devices that seem to snatch notes from the very aether itself. As you might expect from the name, the Nanoaetherphone II is one of the latter. The device is inspired by the Theremin, and was built to celebrate its 100th anniversary. The Nanoaetherphone II is
Read More(Photo: James Yarema/Unsplash)Apple is said to be preparing to allow outside app stores on iOS in an effort to meet forthcoming European Union regulations. If the change goes through, third-party vendors like the Amazon App Store, Epic Games, and others could soon find their way onto the iPhone and iPad for the first time. The
Read MoreI dare anyone to turn their nose up when receiving a shiny iPad Air for the holidays. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The holiday shopping window is closing fast, but there’s still time to pick up a few things that will arrive in time for your favorite nondenominational gift exchange. Whether
Read MoreImage: Aniplex Nier: Automata, Yoko Taro’s quirky but heartfelt action RPG, is being adapted into an anime that will be streaming on Crunchyroll early next year. The show, which was first announced in February and officially titled Nier: Automata Ver1.1a, will begin streaming January 7th, Crunchyroll spokesperson Tyler Schirado said in an email to The
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: EnCharge AI, which builds semiconductor hardware and software stack for AI at the edge, emerges from stealth with a $21.7M Series A led by Anzu Partners — EnCharge AI, a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge, today emerged from stealth with $21.7 million in Series …
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