Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google quietly revealed that the Pixel 7 devices were actually the first 64-bit only Android smartphones. The Tensor G2 processor inside these phones indeed supports 32-bit operations, but the company decided to disable 32-bit support in software.
Read MoreImage: Honda Honda will bring its hands-free highway driver-assist technology to the US by the end of the decade, making it the latest automaker to offer partially automated driving tech to customers. Honda Sensing, the company’s Level 2 advanced driver-assist system (ADAS), is already available to car owners who have opted to add the feature
Read MoreLooking for a scenario to justify ditching spreadsheets? How about this one? Click. Delete. “We’re sorry, your data cannot be recovered.” It’s the stuff of CEO nightmares: losing data due to a small slip of the finger on the mouse. Getting hacked and losing confidence in critical information about shareholders. If you’re a CEO or
Read MoreThe new Visible rate lock program locks you into a mobile plan rate for five years. When you join Visible as a new member, you lock in a $30 or $45 rate, depending on the plan. You have until January 3, 2023, to get your locked-in rate. It’s no secret that inflation is hitting people
Read More(Image: Sony)Just about every household name in the tech space wants a piece of the metaverse pie, and Sony is no different. On Tuesday the company launched Mocopi, a motion-tracking system that translates one’s physical movements into animation in a virtual space. Mocopi, named for its motion capture abilities, uses six wireless trackers worn on
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Airbnb launches a program to help renters find an apartment in 25 US markets and then list a spare room or occasionally the whole apartment on the platform — Airbnb really wants you to Airbnb an apartment. So its latest step is to find renters a place, which they can also
Read MoreDanny Nelson / CoinDesk: US crypto exchange Kraken plans to lay off 1,100 people, or 30% of its workforce, citing a need to “adapt to current market conditions” — The crypto exchange is laying off 1,100 people, sending its headcount back 12 months. — Crypto exchange Kraken said Wednesday …
Read MoreWould you let this man stick wires in your brain? | Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge So let’s talk about Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company. There’s a “show-and-tell” event coming at 6PM PT / 9PM ET today, November 30th, and ordinarily I would be providing you with the service of telling you
Read MoreLike the Commodore 64 and other keyboard computers of yore, the [Elevated Systems]’s CJ64 fits all of its processing and I/O into a single keyboard-shaped package. This iteration of the project takes it to the next level with an enclosure milled out of aluminum instead of the mere 3D printed enclosure of the previous versions.
Read MoreProtesters are calling for China to ease restrictions most nations have already ditched. But the country faces a fraught path toward normalcy.
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Today, Twitch announced it’s implementing a new safety feature that might feel familiar to streamers who’ve battled against the hate raids that plagued the platform last year. Called Shield Mode, the new feature enacts an emergency lockdown of a creator’s stream. “Shield Mode is a little different from
Read MoreApple’s M2-powered iPad Pro is on sale for $100 off at Amazon right now. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge The problem with Black Friday and Cyber Monday? Sometimes a deal is so good, it’s gone before you can even hit the “checkout” button. Apple’s latest 12.9-inch iPad Pro was one of those
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: NYC-based Teampay, a low-code service to help enterprises automate software purchasing, raised a $47M Series B, comprising $35.25M equity and $11.75M debt — In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay …
Read MoreTrue crime programming is everywhere in the streaming world, including Netflix. Many Netflix true crime documentary TV shows and movies have become extremely popular, and one even became a pop culture phenomenon. We found what we think are the best examples of this subgenre on Netflix. You might be surprised at the subject matter of
Read MoreAlex Cranz / The Verge: Amazon Kindle Scribe review: great battery, display, and accessories, but lackluster notetaking, outdated document syncing and software, and small writing delay — Amazon’s biggest Kindle ever is also the first to let you pair it with a stylus for note-taking.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge DoorDash is laying off around 1,250 workers. The update, posted by DoorDash CEO Tony Xu, explains that the company grew too quickly during the covid pandemic, leading to an increase in operating expenses that could soon “outgrow” the company’s revenue. “While we’ve always been disciplined in how we
Read MoreSmash World Tour organizers claim sabotage could be partially responsible for Nintendo’s decision to shut down the third-party tournament. | Image: Nintendo The Smash World Tour has announced that both the upcoming championship tournament and the 2023 Smash World Tour have been canceled after Nintendo demanded the event organizers cease operations “without any warning.” As
Read MoreMars is the only known planet aside from Earth that has polar ice caps, but unlike Earth, the ice on Mars is mostly of the “dry” carbon dioxide variety. Naturally, there’s great interest in better understanding the Martian polar regions. A new analysis of Mars using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed
Read MoreImage: Devolver Digital Netflix has once again quietly added some games to its mobile app — and there’s some cool stuff to dig into in this batch. Headlining the update is Reigns: Three Kingdoms, the latest entry in the card-swiping strategy series. This iteration is inspired by the 14th-century novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms,
Read MoreOlivia Carville / Bloomberg: A look at TikTok’s role in spreading the “blackout challenge”, leading some kids to choke themselves to death, as critics say the company could be doing more — “Sissy’s tangled!” — The 5-year-old boy’s panicked cries echoed down the hallway of the Arroyos’ three-bedroom clapboard house in Milwaukee.
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use
Read MoreCredit: Corning Corning has announced Gorilla Glass Victus 2. The new glass boasts improved drop performance on concrete. Expect similar performance when it comes to scratch resistance and drops on asphalt. Corning’s Gorilla Glass is the most popular protective solution for mid-range and high-end smartphones today, with Gorilla Glass Victus and Gorilla Glass Victus Plus
Read MoreAt its annual re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched a new service, dubbed Amazon Omics, designed to help bioinformaticians, researchers and scientists to store and analyze genomic and other biological data types to accelerate scientific advances for precision medicine. Omics typically refers to fields of study in biology that end with the suffix
Read MoreAnnie Lowrey / The Atlantic: A look at Black American crypto investors, many of whom bought in near the top, as the market declines from its 2021 peak and some lose significant sums — Neglected by the traditional financial system, they got into cryptocurrency with gusto—but late. — Two years ago, a Maryland-based …
Read MoreButtons and smartwatches belong together. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge For me, the worst part about running in cold weather isn’t the freezing wind, black ice, or the fact that my face feels like it’s been stabbed with one thousand needles. It’s the 10 seconds spent shivering as my icicle fingers
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