The Noc Design / The Verge Cyber Monday is behind us — but is it really, though? Many of the deals that started on Black Friday continued through the weekend, remained with us on Cyber Monday, and now, we’re here. It’s Tuesday, and there are still many great tech deals available on gadgets like earbuds,
Read MoreAxios: Source: Yahoo plans to launch a retail stock trading service for Yahoo Finance and strike deals with sports betting companies to bolster Yahoo Sports — Yahoo’s latest deal underscores its move to boost revenues and use its cash to grow its core businesses, including Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Mail.
Read MorePhoto illustration by William Joel / The Verge Has sound quality taken a back seat to convenience? Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: Polestar Polestar is making its own e-bike. In a recent interview with The Verge, Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath confirmed that the company was working on a battery-powered two-wheeler along with Sweden’s Allebike, with which it had previously worked on a Polestar-branded nonelectric mountain bike. But that said, Ingenlath said he is cognizant of how
Read MoreEnterpriseDB (EDB) provides enterprise-class software and services that enable organizations to harness the full power of Postgres, the popular open source database. EDB’s contributions to the recent Postgres 15 release, most notably the introduction of the MERGE SQL command, demonstrate the company’s continuous commitment to the Postgres community and to innovation in Postgres. EDB’s new
Read MoreAnalytics software provider Startburst on Tuesday said it was adding data discoverability features to Startburst Galaxy, a managed Trino SQL query engine service. Trino, formerly Presto SQL, is an open source, distributed SQL query engine for big data that allows users to query data from multiple data sources, including NoSQL databases, within a single query. To read
Read MoreTesla has been promising its Full Self-Driving feature would be available “soon” for the last several years, and today might finally be the day. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has tweeted that the Full Self-Driving Beta is now live for anyone in North America who wants it — minus the most important feature. Of course, you
Read MoreApple has awarded its Apple Podcasts Show of the Year award to Slow Burn’s series on Roe v. Wade.
Read MoreWill Shanklin / Engadget: Amazon announces Create with Alexa, a generative AI that lets children create animated stories via voice prompts on three topics, available on Echo Show devices — Tools like DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, which generate images based on a few lines of text, briefly set social media ablaze this year.
Read MoreRT Watson / The Block: Report: Fanatics’ sports NFT service Candy Digital lays off as many as half of its 100-person staff; the startup raised a $100M Series A in October 2021 — – Despite achieving unicorn status last year Candy Digital decided to let go of a large number of its roughly 100 employees
Read MorePortal, the first-person puzzle game that spawned a thousand memes, is getting a glow-up on December 8th, courtesy of a free piece of DLC. Portal with RTX was originally announced alongside Nvidia’s new RTX 4080 and 4090 graphics cards and adds ray-tracing support along with remade hi-res textures and models to the game. The result
Read MoreDavid Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Internal FTX documents detail SBF’s desperate attempts to cling on to power, convinced he could save FTX; SBF claims “numerous parties” were willing to invest — Emails and text messages show how lawyers and executives struggled to persuade the 30-year-old entrepreneur to give up control of his collapsing crypto
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter will no longer take action against tweets that contain covid misinformation or the accounts that post them. Instead of announcing the change, the platform added a note to the pages that outline its covid misinformation policies, saying, “Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Adobe: US consumers spent $11.3B on Cyber Monday, up 5.8% YoY, above Thanksgiving’s $5.29B and Black Friday’s $9.12B, driven in part by deeper discounts — Expectations for this year’s holiday spend online were lukewarm, but initial activity — driven by deep discounts — has bucked predictions.
Read MoreYouTube Music’s 2022 recap will highlight your top tracks and artists. | Image; Google The end of the year is fast approaching, which means it’s time for the world’s biggest music streaming services to summarize your listening habits in the most shareable ways possible. First out of the gate this year is YouTube Music’s 2022
Read MoreCredit: Steve Hemmerstoffer/91mobiles OnePlus Nord CE 3 renders have leaked online. The images show a phone with flat edges and two circular camera housings. We already got an unofficial look at OnePlus Nord CE 3 specs thanks to serial leaker Steve ‘OnLeaks’ Hemmerstoffer earlier this month. The tipster is at it again today though, giving
Read MoreWhile biologists still aren’t exactly sure how it works, a new study closes in on why the insects that pester Savannah animals zig when anything zags.
Read MoreChris Bryant / Bloomberg: Analysis: Palantir, which invested $450M since 2021 in early-stage companies via SPACs, has lost ~$333M, or 75% of its portfolio, offset against some revenue — Palantir Technologies Inc.’s raison d’etre is identifying patterns hidden within mountains of data.
Read MoreMark Harris / Wired: A look at the FBI’s January 6 investigation geofence warrant: Google identified 5K+ devices; dozens appear to have been in airplane mode or had data deleted — Google provided investigators with location data for more than 5,000 devices as part of the federal investigation into the attack on the US Capitol.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Jack Ma has been living in central Tokyo for nearly six months, keeping public activities to a minimum, after China’s crackdown on tech and businessmen — Billionaire has spent almost six months in Japan after largely disappearing from public view
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images After a long weekend away, today let’s talk about the largely positive reception that Elon Musk’s radical remaking of Twitter is getting from tech CEOs — and whether those views are likely to change if the fight that Musk is picking with Apple erodes even more value from
Read MoreAn agreement can’t magically end the catastrophe of plastic pollution. But it could be a step in the right direction.
Read MoreThere’s a lot to like about Google’s first-ever smartwatch, but its third-party app support is where the device really takes off. Find out the best Google Pixel Watch apps to grab to make the most of your device. The best Google Pixel Watch apps Out of the box, the Google Pixel Watch is stacked with useful
Read MoreA 4D printed object is like a 3D printed object, but it changes shape or self-assembles when its environment changes. [Teaching Tech] has been reading about this technology and decided to try to replicate it using his conventional 3D printer. His attempts to make a joint that changes when submerged in the water looked at
Read MoreIn the current state of the world, it is nearly impossible to survive on a minimum wage salary. Even if you work 40 hours a week, you will likely land somewhere below the poverty line if you depend solely on your minimum wage job. Although disheartening, there are many ways you can supplement your income and keep
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