Illustration: The Verge Google’s search results on desktop will load in a continuous scroll instead of dividing into pages, the company has announced. The move follows a similar change made on mobile in October last year, but isn’t quite an “infinite” scroll. Instead, Google will load six pages of results into a single scroll before
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: London-based Chattermill, which analyzes customer feedback data across channels to give companies actionable insights, raised a $26M Series B led by Beringea — Chattermill, a platform that helps companies unlock insights by analyzing customer feedback data from across myriad digital channels …
Read MoreWe’re not sure about the rest of you, but to us, a keyboard without a number pad all the way over to the right just seems kind of — naked? We might not be accountants, but there’s something comforting about having the keypad right there, ready for those few occasions when you need to enter
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority There are quite a few ways to share files between your PC and phone these days, giving you more options than the old reliable wired connection. How do you share files between your PC and phone, though? Do you still stick to wired transfers? Do you prefer cloud-based transfers?
Read MorePranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: Some laid-off tech workers on H-1B visas from Meta, Shopify, Twitter, and other tech companies say they didn’t get adequate immigration support from companies — Some former tech employees on work visas in the US are experiencing an existential crisis: “Is it worth staying here for a job and country
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google is now rolling out the December 2022 security patch for Pixels. The update is available for Pixel 4a and higher devices. It includes over 70 bug fixes and improvements across several areas. After releasing the December feature drop for Pixel phones and the Pixel Watch, Google has also
Read MoreMehnaz Yasmin / Reuters: E-commerce marketing company Rokt says it raised a secondary funding round at a $2.4B valuation, up from $1.95B in December 2021, as it prepares for an IPO — Tech startup Rokt said on Monday it raised its valuation to $2.4 billion in a secondary funding round led by investment firm Square
Read MoreRebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Uber reaches a $10M settlement with the City of Chicago for listing restaurants in Uber Eats and Postmates without consent and charging excess commissions — Uber has agreed to a $10 million settlement with the City of Chicago for listing local restaurants in the Uber Eats …
Read MoreWhen [Michael Rechtin] learned about Radial Vector Reducers, the underlying research math made his head spin, albeit very slowly. Realizing that it’s essentially a cycloidal drive meshed with a planetary gear set, he got to work in CAD and, in seemingly no time, had a design to test. You can see the full results of
Read MoreBlake Brittain / Reuters: SCOTUS refused to hear an appeal by Virginia-based Centripetal Networks to reinstate a $2.75B award to be paid by Cisco in a cybersecurity patent dispute — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by Centripetal Networks Inc to reinstate the largest award in the history of U.S.
Read MoreApple’s anti-union efforts in Atlanta were illegal according to the National Labor Relations Board.
Read MoreEmployees at a St. Louis Apple Store say the IAM is the reason for them withdrawing their unionization effort.
Read More[Sergey Lyubka] put together this epic guide for bare-metal microcontroller programming. While the general concepts should be applicable to most any microcontroller, Sergey’s examples specifically relate to the Nucleo-F429ZI development board featuring the ARM-based STM32F429 microcontroller. In the realm of computer systems, bare-metal programming most often refers to programming the processor without an intervening operating
Read MoreKenrick Cai / Forbes: Runway, one of the two startups behind Stable Diffusion, raised a $50M Series C led by Felicis Ventures; sources: Runway’s valuation is $500M, and ARR is ~$1M — Runway ML, one of the two startups behind the popular AI text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has raised new funding at a $500 million
Read MoreThe latest update to the Uber and Uber Eats apps shows the company may be close to launching support for Live Activities on the iPhone.
Read MoreThe company could be facing another labor board complaint. | Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Apple illegally interrogated and made coercive statements to employees during a union drive at one of its retail stores in Atlanta, Georgia, according to a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board reported on by Bloomberg. The company
Read MoreAccording to new data from the Alliance for Audited Media (AAM), publisher growth is slowing on Apple’s news aggregation service.
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge After shifting iPhone production away from China, it now looks as if Apple’s got its eye on iPad production. According to CNBC, Apple is discussing producing some of its iPads in India to help diversify its supply chain. The news comes almost two years after reports emerged that
Read MoreSam Altman / @sama: Sam Altman says ChatGPT crossed 1M users since it launched less than a week ago — ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users!
Read MoreRachael Levy / Reuters: Sources: the US Department of Agriculture is probing Neuralink for potential animal welfare violations after complaints that its animal testing is being rushed — Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid …
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was one of the Steam Deck’s showcase titles when it first went on sale — now, it’s one of likely dozens of popular EA games that don’t launch properly anymore. Nearly four weeks ago, Valve retroactively revoked the Steam Deck Verified status of
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Facebook warns it could ban news in the US if Congress passes a bill that would require the platform to negotiate with and compensate publishers for their content. Andy Stone, Meta’s head of policy communications, said on Twitter that Facebook will “be forced to consider removing news” from
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As labor movements in the video game industry build up momentum, over 300 quality assurance workers at ZeniMax Online Studios, former Bethesda parent company and current subsidiary of Microsoft, are in the process of organizing a union. The workers are organizing in collaboration with CODE-CWA, which has assisted
Read MoreWhen you think of a vehicle that can do it all- water, land, ice, snow and more- the hovercraft often comes to mind. And while they might not be ubiquitous, hovercraft catch the imagination of many a hacker just as it has for [JamesWhomsley] of [ProjectAir]. [James] has built a small, but just big enough
Read MoreRuth Wilson in His Dark Materials. | Image: HBO Ahead of the premiere on HBO, the cast behind the fantasy series explains why the last season is the darkest and most complex to date. Continue reading…
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