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Global smartwatch shipments increased 30% YoY in Q3 2022, led by India, up 171%; Apple grew 48% YoY, Samsung dropped 2.7% YoY, and Noise grew 218% YoY (Woojin Son/Counterpoint Research)

Woojin Son / Counterpoint Research: Global smartwatch shipments increased 30% YoY in Q3 2022, led by India, up 171%; Apple grew 48% YoY, Samsung dropped 2.7% YoY, and Noise grew 218% YoY — – Driven by the basic smartwatch segment, the global smartwatch market grew 30% YoY. — India grew 171% YoY, taking the top

AWS Glue upgrades Spark engines, backs Ray framework

AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service provided by Amazon Web Services, showcases Python and Apache Spark capabilities in a version 4.0 release introduced this week. The upgrade adds engines for Python 3.10 and Apache Spark 3.3.0. Both engines include performance enhancements and bug fixes, with Spark offering capabilities such as row-level runtime filtering and

Man discovers why walking in NYC with $95,000 in iPhones is a bad idea

Credit: Gary Sims / Android Authority A man purchased 300 iPhones from the Apple Store on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. The man was robbed and beaten shortly after leaving the store. Close to half of the purchased phones were taken from the man. When the sun goes down, it’s not exactly safe to be walking around

HPE Q4: revenue up 7% YoY to $7.87B, vs. $7.37B est., including Intelligent Edge up 18% YoY to $965M, HPC & AI down 14% YoY to $862M, and Compute up 16% YoY (Kathryn Hardison/Dow Jones Newswires)

Kathryn Hardison / Dow Jones Newswires: HPE Q4: revenue up 7% YoY to $7.87B, vs. $7.37B est., including Intelligent Edge up 18% YoY to $965M, HPC & AI down 14% YoY to $862M, and Compute up 16% YoY — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s fiscal fourth-quarter revenue increased as the company responded to strong demand.

Amazon built the most realistic version of SimCity we’ve ever seen

Image: AWS and uCrowds Amazon has a new AWS service, AWS SimSpace Weaver, that lets users build massive simulations that look like real-world SimCity maps. The idea of this new service is that users can take advantage of Amazon’s massive AWS resources to run simulations that scale across multiple servers without running into computing or

The new Super Mario Bros. trailer is a peach

Nintendo Today, Nintendo gave fans a second look at The Super Mario Bros. Movie with a new trailer, giving us another opportunity to hear Chris Pratt as the preeminent pixelated plumber. We also got the first official glimpse of Donkey Kong and Princess Peach and heard Anya Taylor-Joy’s rendition of the Mushroom Monarch. It’s interesting

A security researcher says Anker’s Eufy security cameras sent images to the cloud without user consent and could be accessed without authentication (Nicholas Sutrich/Android Central)

Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central: A security researcher says Anker’s Eufy security cameras sent images to the cloud without user consent and could be accessed without authentication — Allegedly, Eufy cameras aren’t as secure as they claim. — What you need to know — Security researcher Paul Moore has discovered several security flaws in Eufy’s

CrowdStrike reports Q3 revenue up 53% YoY to $581M, vs. $574M est., subscription customers up 44% YoY to 21,146; stock drops 17% on weaker-than-expected growth (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: CrowdStrike reports Q3 revenue up 53% YoY to $581M, vs. $574M est., subscription customers up 44% YoY to 21,146; stock drops 17% on weaker-than-expected growth — – CrowdStrike shares dropped 18% after the company reported third-quarter results that beat estimates but said new revenue growth was weaker than expected.

Pinterest says it is ending the creator rewards program that it launched in 2021, which offered cash bonuses when creators completed certain goals (Kaya Yurieff/The Information)

Kaya Yurieff / The Information: Pinterest says it is ending the creator rewards program that it launched in 2021, which offered cash bonuses when creators completed certain goals — Pinterest is ending its creator rewards program, which offered cash bonuses when creators completed goals such as hitting certain engagement metrics, The Information is first to

AWS’ SimSpace Weaver aims to help run large-scale spatial simulations

Enterprises that need to run large spatial simulations and predict real-world outcomes for complex scenarios like citywide traffic flows need significant computing horsepower. At its annual re:Invent conference Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new managed compute service designed to support such large-scale simulations by using multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances

Republicans Ron DeSantis, Ken Buck, Mike Lee, Marsha Blackburn, others mention legislative action to curb Apple’s app market power after Musk tweets about Apple (Sara Dorn/Forbes)

Sara Dorn / Forbes: Republicans Ron DeSantis, Ken Buck, Mike Lee, Marsha Blackburn, others mention legislative action to curb Apple’s app market power after Musk tweets about Apple — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of Republicans criticizing Apple after Twitter owner Elon Musk claimed …

This is why streaming Netflix, Disney Plus, and HBO Max keeps getting more expensive

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s a lose-lose situation. While some streamers are losing money by paying to get content on their platforms, others are losing money by distributing it on their own platforms. The result? Price hikes. Continue reading…

This Electric Outboard Conversion Makes for a Quiet Day on the Water

Nothing beats a day on the lake in a little boat with an outboard motor putt-putting along behind you. It’s great fun, if perhaps a little noisy with all that putting going on. And maybe that oily sheen on the water in your wake is not so nice. it could be that the fish are

If you’re a bad enough dude, you could win actual prizes with the PlayStation Win-A-Thon

You could win cash, in-game currency, or even consoles during the two-month-long tournament. | Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment Starting on December 1st, PlayStation gamers will be able to compete in ladder tournaments against other players for clout and prizes. Dubbed the “Win-A-Thon,” the ladder tournaments for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 run from December

AWS launches Clean Rooms, a service to help users inside an advertising or marketing organization share data without inadvertently sharing raw or personal data (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: AWS launches Clean Rooms, a service to help users inside an advertising or marketing organization share data without inadvertently sharing raw or personal data — AWS today launched a new service that will help users inside an advertising or marketing organization share data with other employees inside …

In an interview, SBF claims he donated about the same amount to both parties this year, but the millions he gave to Republicans were “dark” money donations (Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez/Fortune)

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune: In an interview, SBF claims he donated about the same amount to both parties this year, but the millions he gave to Republicans were “dark” money donations — SARAH SILBIGER—BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES — Sam Bankman-Fried’s donations to Democrats are well documented.

AWS announces Amazon DataZone, a service that uses machine learning to help enterprises catalog, discover, share, and govern their data (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: AWS announces Amazon DataZone, a service that uses machine learning to help enterprises catalog, discover, share, and govern their data — At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced Amazon DataZone, a new data management service that can help enterprises catalog, discover, share and — most importantly — govern their data.

Overwatch 2’s Season 2 is a battle for Olympus

Once again Overwatch 2 is the best in show with its skin design. | Blizzard The inaugural season of Overwatch 2’s battle pass is almost done, with season 2 starting on December 6th. With the new season come a fresh set of skins, a new hero, new map, and a new game mode, all with

LG and MSI are taking on Samsung’s Odyssey G9 with giant curved OLED gaming monitors

The $1,699 LG-45GR95QE has 800R curvature — you can sit just 0.8 meters away and still get the full effect. | Image: LG My request has been granted: Samsung’s jaw-dropping lineup of ultra-wide, ultra-curved, ultra-fast gaming monitors is about to have much-needed competition. LG and MSI are both angling for your dollars, and unlike Samsung,

It feels like incredible customer service might be bad for the environment

My controller’s joystick broke off. Sure, I’ll take the free brand-new controller, but I really just wanted a replacement plastic part. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge It’s a good day when you get a free replacement for something broken. For me, it was a new controller. My old controller had its right joystick

Microsoft to Offer Sony 10-Year Call of Duty License to Appease EU Regulators

(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Microsoft’s bid to acquire Activision Blizzard is on thin ice. Antitrust regulators from several regions have been reviewing the deal all year, and several have recently expressed concern that the acquisition could drastically reduce competition within the video game industry. With European Union watchdogs especially wary, Microsoft appears prepared to

AWS unveils Amazon Security Lake, a service that automatically centralizes an organization’s security data from cloud and on-premises sources into a data lake (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: AWS unveils Amazon Security Lake, a service that automatically centralizes an organization’s security data from cloud and on-premises sources into a data lake — AWS today announced Amazon Security Lake, a new purpose-built data lake for security-related data.

The best Netflix shows you aren’t watching: 10 hidden gems you’ll love

Credit: Netflix Netflix pumps massive amounts of money into its original programming. That has led to some huge, global hits like Stranger Things, Squid Game, The Crown, and more. But a lot of Netflix originals fall through the cracks, and some of them are terrific. So, what are some hidden gems on Netflix? We bring

At its halfway point, NASA’s Artemis I mission breaks a record

“Orion reached its maximum distance from Earth during the Artemis I mission when it was 268,563 miles away from our home planet.” — NASA | Image: NASA On Monday, NASA’s Orion spacecraft reached its farthest distance from Earth, clocking in at 268,563 miles away from our planet. This marks the halfway point of the 25.5-day

How to share a Google calendar and make scheduling meetings easier

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Are you looking for an efficient and easy way to schedule meetings? Sharing your Google calendar helps you do that by essentially handing that job over to the other party. Others can get a glimpse into your schedule and find a time slot that works for both of

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