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Epic makes RealityScan app, which lets users scan real-life objects to turn them into 3D models, available for free on iOS, after a limited beta launch in April (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Epic makes RealityScan app, which lets users scan real-life objects to turn them into 3D models, available for free on iOS, after a limited beta launch in April — Epic Games’ RealityScan app, which lets you scan real-life objects and turn them into 3D models for video games or other

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates one of gaming’s hidden figures

Gerald “Jerry” Lawson is one of the overlooked founding fathers of gaming. Among the litany of recognizable names in the gaming industry, there is one that’s often left out of the conversation. Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, the engineer responsible for the development of the video game cartridge, among other outstanding achievements, is the subject of today’s

Parler’s owner says it “has mutually agreed with Ye to terminate the intent of sale of Parler”, after announcing the deal in October (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Parler’s owner says it “has mutually agreed with Ye to terminate the intent of sale of Parler”, after announcing the deal in October — Despite a joint statement between Ye (fka Kanye West) and Parler in October noting that the two had reached an agreement for the rapper to buy …

How to change your video doorbell ringtone

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge A video doorbell is a high-tech upgrade for your front door, adding visual voicemail to your doorstep and a heads-up to who’s there on your smartphone or smart display. Another fun and little-known feature of smart doorbells is the option to change up the doorbell’s ringtone. Depending on

Discord renames Premium Memberships as Server Subscriptions and makes them available for all US creators; Discord will take a 10% cut of subscriptions (James Hale/Tubefilter)

James Hale / Tubefilter: Discord renames Premium Memberships as Server Subscriptions and makes them available for all US creators; Discord will take a 10% cut of subscriptions — Over the past year, Discord has been testing creator monetization through what it called “Premium Memberships”-a monthly paid tier similar …

Nvidia’s melted power cables are an Nvidia problem, PCI standards body suggests

Image: Nvidia Two weeks ago, Nvidia and tech watchdog GamersNexus agreed on one thing: if your Nvidia RTX 4090 graphic card’s 12VHPWR power cable starts smoking and melting, it’s probably because you didn’t plug it in all the way. But the PCI-SIG standards body is now suggesting that Nvidia and partners should have accounted for

The Galaxy Z Flip 5 could have two major design changes

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A rumor has revealed new details about the next Galaxy Z Flip phone. The rumor claims that the Flip 5 could have a larger external display. The rumor also suggests that the phone could have a new hinge that would make the foldable display crease less noticeable. It’s never

The Mandalorian’s third season premieres on March 1st

It’s a slight delay — Disney previously announced the show would be coming February 2023. | Image: Disney The Mandalorian’s long-awaited third season debuts on Disney Plus on March 1st, Disney announced on Thursday. Disney had previously said it would be out in February, but it turns out that we’re getting it just a little

Sources: Apple is ramping up work on a mixed-reality headset to be introduced as early as next year and has renamed the headset’s OS from realityOS to xrOS (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is ramping up work on a mixed-reality headset to be introduced as early as next year and has renamed the headset’s OS from realityOS to xrOS — Apple Inc. is ramping up work on a mixed-reality headset, its first major new product category since the Apple Watch …

Face Supply Chain Disruptions : Work Smarter, Not Harder

Supply chain disruptions are nothing new. However, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions have become more common. At first, these issues caused major shortages throughout the country. Now, shortages are still occurring along with inefficient shipping processes. These issues have forced business owners to struggle with ways to stay afloat. Delays,

Disney’s latest AI tool de-ages actors in seconds

Image: Disney Remember when making actors look older or younger in movies was a huge deal? The amount of postproduction work to achieve realistic results was immense back in the day, but now, researchers from Disney have revealed FRAN, a new artificial intelligence tool that can convincingly age or de-age an actor in a fraction

Source: a16z’s Future is shutting down; Future hasn’t published a new article in months, most of its editorial staffers have left, and its newsletter is defunct (Insider)

Insider: Source: a16z’s Future is shutting down; Future hasn’t published a new article in months, most of its editorial staffers have left, and its newsletter is defunct — Future was the next big thing in media. — Launched in June of 2021, it was billed as a buzzy new tech publication …

Rescue That Dead Xbox With An External PSU

There is nothing worse than that sinking feeling as a computer or other device fails just after its warranty has expired. [Robotanv] had it with his Xbox Series S whose power supply failed, and was faced with either an online sourced PSU of uncertain provenance, or a hefty bill from Microsoft for a repair. He

The Supreme Court battle for Section 230 has begun

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The first shots have been fired in a Supreme Court showdown over web platforms, terrorism, and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. On Tuesday and Wednesday, petitioners filed briefs in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, a pair of lawsuits blaming platforms for facilitating Islamic State

Valve’s Steam Deck Giveaway Is Already Experiencing Issues

(Image: Valve)Valve has some pretty grandiose ideas for spicing up this year’s Game Awards. On Wednesday the company tweeted that it would be giving away a Steam Deck every minute of the event. Considering the Game Awards is typically a two-to-three-hour affair, that’s anywhere from 120 to 180 Steam Decks…except we’re a week out from

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Expects to Install Brain Chip in Humans in 6 Months

(Credit: Neuralink) Elon Musk took a short break from tweeting yesterday to host another Neuralink “Show and Tell” event. At the last one in 2021, Neuralink revealed it had implanted its brain-computer interface chip in the brains of monkeys, giving them the ability to control a game of pong just by thinking. In the latest

How to block a phone number on Android

Samar Haddad / The Verge When a number that is obviously spam hits your phone, Android will almost always warn you and allow you to immediately block that number (and report it as spam). But what if a number is not immediately recognized as spam? Or what if you’re dealing with a harasser who won’t

Car Batteries: More than Just Wet Lead

Working on car electrical systems used to be easy. The battery simply provided power for the car’s starter motor when starting or to run the small number of accessories when the engine wasn’t running. The rest of the time, the alternator charged the battery and provided power for the rest of the vehicle and the

New Amnesia game offers ‘semi-open world’ gameplay and a gun

Frictional Games Frictional Games, maker of SOMA and the Amnesia series, has announced it’s working on a new entry in its roster of survival horror titles with Amnesia: The Bunker. With a release date sometime next year, Amnesia: The Bunker seems to be unlike any of its predecessors. For starters, in the game’s short announcement

Modder gives iPhone 14 Pro Max the worst feature of Android phones

Credit: lipilipsi A hardware technician has modded an iPhone 14 Pro Max. The modder gave the iPhone 14 Pro Max a curved display similar to the ones found on Samsung Galaxy devices. The modder showed off the results in a series of photos and a short video. Unlike Samsung and Google, Apple has never been

The EU wants to legitimize carbon removal schemes

The weekly meeting of the EU Commission on November 30th, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. | Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images The European Union has taken a major step toward legitimizing attempts to pull carbon dioxide out of the air. Yesterday, the European Commission adopted a proposal for new rules on how to certify carbon removal,

OpenAI’s new chatbot can explain code and write sitcom scripts but is still easily tricked

OpenAI’s latest tool / toy is an AI chatbot. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI has released a prototype general purpose chatbot that demonstrates a fascinating array of new capabilities, but also shows off weaknesses familiar to the fast-moving field of text-generation AI. And you can test out the model for yourself right here. ChatGPT is adapted

Apple reached 25% smartphone market share in China in October, retaining its top OEM spot for a second month; one in four devices sold in China was an iPhone (Varun Mishra/Counterpoint Research)

Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: Apple reached 25% smartphone market share in China in October, retaining its top OEM spot for a second month; one in four devices sold in China was an iPhone — – One in every four devices sold in China during October 2022 was an iPhone. — While the sales for

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ first trailer is full of Maximal action

Optimus Primal in his beast mode. | Image: Paramount After years of Paramount’s live-action Transformers movies feeling like they were coasting on their good looks, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ first teaser trailer is here to remind everyone that Beast Wars has always been the superior chunk of the larger Transformers franchise. Transformers: Rise of

Watch this live Nintendo concert featuring holograms of K.K. Slider and Splatoon 3’s idols

Image: Nintendo Move over, Spotify Wrapped. My favorite music thing on the internet this week is Nintendo’s official English translation of its Splatoon 3 and Animal Crossing concert with holograms of the characters from the games. The concert, starring the musical dog K.K. Slider as a DJ and the idol superstars from Splatoon 3, originally

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