Facades: How a first-time iOS app developer built a better Apple retail store guide than Apple itself
We sat down with Apple Store aficionado Michael Steeber to talk about his new app, sticker pack, and the future of Apple Store archiving.
Read MoreWe sat down with Apple Store aficionado Michael Steeber to talk about his new app, sticker pack, and the future of Apple Store archiving.
Read More@coinbasewallet: [Thread] Coinbase says Apple “blocked our last” Wallet iOS app release until the exchange disabled sending NFTs, claiming Apple wanted a 30% cut from gas fees — You might have noticed you can’t send NFTs on Coinbase Wallet iOS anymore. This is because Apple blocked our last app release until we disabled the feature.
Read MoreLogitech’s MX Mechanical Mini for Mac offers a great typing experience and a suitably Apple-like aesthetic.
Read MoreEver since Elon Musk wheeled $44 billion in through the front door of Twitter and started making big changes, despairing users have been looking for an alternative platform to post their intellectual shower thoughts on. The two contenders at the moment seem to be Mastodon and Hive Social. While both currently have low numbers of
Read MoreCredit: Google Google is bringing a host of new features to Android. These new features are for photos, messages, Google TV, Wear OS, and more. There are even some holiday-themed features to try. The holiday season is the time for giving and Google appears to be in the mood to give its users some gifts.
Read MoreTeaser art of Ballister Blackheart and Nimona from Annapurna’s upcoming Nimona feature. | Image: Netflix After co-producing a number of animated projects like Sausage Party and Missing Link with the help of other studios, Annapurna Pictures is gearing up to launch its own in-house animation arm with two Disney alums leading the division. Today, Annapurna
Read MoreCade Metz / New York Times: A look at Anthropic, which raised $580M led by SBF in April to research “AI safety”, and 70 AI-related organizations SBF and FTX executives invested $530M+ in — Mr. Bankman-Fried and his colleagues spent more than $530 million to battle what they saw as the dangers of artificial intelligence.
Read MoreAn artist’s impression of a tidal disruption event. | Image: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology It was an event not seen in more than a decade: a sudden flash of energy launched out from the center of a distant galaxy, bright enough to be
Read MoreA very boring render of the IdeaPad 1 from Lenovo’s website. | Image: Lenovo Back in September, AMD launched some of the first mobile chips from its upcoming Ryzen 7000 line, the budget-oriented “Mendocino” series. At launch, they were described as tailored to “the everyday laptop,” combining last-gen Zen 2 CPU cores with high-end RDNA
Read MoreHere are a few Holiday Gift List Ideas. It is always fantastic to hear from people who are excited about their gift-giving lists and who have some unique ideas to share. I have a few of these items — but I’d love to hear what other gifts you have loved, either for yourself or items
Read MoreThe Echo Show 8 is the larger and more capable version of the Show 5. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Cyber Monday is in the past, but some new and great tech deals have arrived for us to tell you all about. The flashiest one is a bundle from Amazon that pairs
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter alternative Hive temporarily shuts down after researchers found vulnerabilities that would have let hackers access DMs and edit others’ Hive posts — The team at the newly popular Twitter alternative Hive is in over their head. The company has now taken the fairly radical step …
Read MoreMonarch Tractor, an electric smart tractor company, says its first AI-powered farming vehicles, dubbed the MK-V, are rolling off the production line. It’s the Livermore, California-based startup’s first product, and it uses Nvidia’s Jetson edge AI platform to perform agricultural tasks with or without a driver behind the wheel. “The NVIDIA Jetson enables the MK-V
Read MoreKeep building up your team and catching all the Pokémon you can! Transferring Pokémon to and from HOME and Scarlet and Violet is coming soon.
Read More(Photo: Nick Fewings/Unsplash)Most of us have by now realized that conventional plastic recycling is more fantasy than reality. Despite our best attempts at separating out product packaging in the hope that some of it will be reused later, only 6 percent of the United States’ plastic waste is ever recycled. The rest of it ends
Read MoreSnapping pictures is not technically difficult with modern technology, but taking good photographs is another matter. There are a number of things that a photographer needs to account for in order to get the best possible results, and if the subject matter isn’t particularly photogenic to start with it makes the task just a little
Read MoreAndroid’s latest updates aim to boost accessibility and add fresh quality-of-life features for drivers and watchOS users. | Image: Google Android has announced a batch of new features for mobile and smartwatch devices, introducing new accessibility tools and quality-of-life updates for digital car keys, Google TV, and watchOS. One of the major announcements is the
Read MoreWhile the Pixel Watch had a decent debut, not everyone is convinced Google is serious about wearables. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Earlier this fall, Google finally launched the Pixel Watch. It wasn’t a perfect smartwatch, but it was a respectable first attempt in a category that Google notoriously neglected for
Read MoreSummer Game Fest host Geoff Keighley at The Game Awards in 2019. | Photo by JC Olivera/Getty Images Summer Game Fest is back again in 2023 with its first-ever in-person kickoff show on June 8th, which just so happens to be a few days before E3’s big return. For the past three years, Summer Game
Read MoreApple’s long-rumored AR/VR headset could arrive as early as next month. Could it launch with an included “smart ring”?
Read MoreUpgrade your loved one’s home office with these picks that make every day a little easier—and a little more fun.
Read MoreImage: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Keeping your mind and body in tip-top shape takes work, but these gift ideas should make things a bit easier for the fitness buff in your life. Continue reading…
Read MoreWhen it was recently announced that the Linux kernel might drop support for the Intel 486 line of chips, we took a look at the state of the 486 world. You can’t buy them from Intel anymore, but you can buy clones, which are apparently still used in embedded devices. But that made us think:
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Frore Systems, which develops the AirJet system to better cool processors, raised $100M led by Qualcomm Ventures, bringing its total funding to $116M — One of the top problems facing device manufacturers today is overheating hardware. The chips inside PCs generate heat, which …
Read More(Photo: Max Fleischmann/Unsplash)The San Francisco Police Department, one of the country’s largest municipal law enforcement agencies, recently revised its equipment use policy to include its surprisingly diverse robot stockpile. Though most of its robots disarm bombs or conduct reconnaissance in dubious conditions, some ground-based robots can be used to carry active explosives. Inevitably, this led
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