Credit: Adam Molina / Android Authority I’ve had smart speakers since the first Google Home was announced in 2016 and, for those six years, I’ve known that you can use the speaker to play different relaxing sounds like a make-shift white noise machine. But the feature always seemed like a cool party trick to me
Read MoreIt isn’t just the white color scheme of the DualSense that’s $20 off. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony switched on some very good holiday deals on digital video games for PS5 and PS4, as well as PS5 accessories, like the DualSense controller. I won’t list out all of the game deals
Read MoreFrom generative AI to outer space, here’s how to find a community on the social platform that discusses topics you actually find engaging.
Read MoreIf you also struggle to find the balance between toastiness and coziness, this set is cool, comfortable, and really, really cute.
Read MoreWith everyone doing videos these days, you might want to up your narration game with a teleprompter. [Modern Hobbyist] can help. Since he does videos — like the one about the teleprompter below — we assume he built it out of his own need for the device. Actually, this is his second teleprompter. The first
Read MoreNew York Times: A look at South Korean conglomerate Naver’s experiments with a fleet of ~100 office robots, including efforts to make employees comfortable with their presence — Naver, a South Korean internet firm, is trying to introduce robots into the world of cubicles and conference rooms without making employees uncomfortable.
Read MoreWelcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 221st edition here, with Google’s Black Friday deals, all the ongoing Twitter drama, bad news for Blizzard gamers in China, and more. This weekend, I can’t wait to relax before the madness of
Read MoreCredit: Austin Kwok / Android Authority Opinion post by Curtis Joe Over the last decade, I’ve put a lot of time into mobile games. I’ve written guides and videos to help players get better at them, and I’ve even used mobile gaming as a central topic in a university paper. However, it might surprise you
Read MoreWhen it comes to locomotion, robots don’t typically do more than one thing at a time. Walkers stick to walking, and rollers stick to rolling. However, this simple method of enabling a cheetah-style quadruped to stand and even walk a little is pretty clever. With just a couple of rigid struts attached to the shins
Read MoreYou can score a $51 discount on Apple’s second-gen AirPods Pro, but only for a limited time. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It looks like the real Black Friday deals have officially landed because Woot’s current deal on the new AirPods Pro is the best we’ve seen on the excellent true wireless
Read MoreJames Vincent / The Verge: Interviews with lawyers, analysts, and employees at AI startups on unresolved questions concerning copyright and fair use shaping the future of generative AI — The last year has seen a boom in AI models that create art, music, and code by learning from others’ work.
Read MoreThere’s a furnace in Minecraft that is used to power all kinds of things in the game. [Joel] of Joel Creates decided he wanted to build a real-world replica, and did exactly that. The furnace consists of a 30 cm aluminium cube, inside which the coal is burned. Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) are then placed on
Read MoreTechCrunch: India’s new draft data protection bill proposes allowing cross-border data transfer with certain countries, unlike an earlier version which imposed restrictions — India has proposed a new comprehensive data privacy law that will mandate how companies handle data of its citizens …
Read MoreChris Metinko / Crunchbase News: Analysis: FTX Ventures, which launched a $2B fund in January 2022, participated in 47 venture rounds that raised ~$3B, with the firm leading or co-leading 19 — While everyone is still sifting through the immediate FTX wreckage, there is a good chance more decimated debris is on the way.
Read MoreParesh Dave / Reuters: A court filing from Epic’s lawsuit shows Google allegedly agreed to pay ~$360M over three years to keep Activision Blizzard from launching its own app store — Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has struck at least 24 deals with big app developers to stop them from competing with its Play Store …
Read MoreStrava segments are one of the most popularly used features of the fitness app. Worldwide, users compete on segment leaderboards, maxing out their effort on specific stretches of runs and rides. Find out how to create a Strava segment and start competing on a favorite stretch of your own. Read more: Strava: Everything you need to
Read More[Mark Dufour]’s TACO VR project is a sort of robotic platform that mimics an omnidirectional treadmill, and aims to provide a compact and easily transportable way to allow a user to walk naturally in VR. Unenthusiastic about most solutions for allowing a user to walk in VR, [Mark] took a completely different approach. The result
Read MoreRebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Parallel Domain, which is building a data-generation platform for autonomy companies, has raised a $30M Series B led by March Capital — Achieving autonomous driving safely requires near endless hours of training software on every situation that could possibly arise before putting a vehicle on the road.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Robin Wheeler, Twitter’s head of ad sales, seems to have left the company yet again, just over a week after Elon Musk reportedly had to convince her not to resign. On Friday evening, Platformer’s Casey Newton reported that Wheeler had been fired from the company, though the details
Read MoreBrian Heater / TechCrunch: Pickle Robot Company, which makes robots for unloading trucks at warehouses, has raised a $26M Series A led by Ranpak, JS Capital, Soros Capital, and others — Fulfillment has arguably been the hottest robotics category over the past two years, as companies have looked to stay competitive with Amazon …
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: Robin Wheeler, Twitter’s head of ad sales, seems to have left the company, a week after Elon Musk reportedly convinced her to stay; sources say she was fired — Robin Wheeler, Twitter’s head of ad sales, seems to have left the company yet again, just over a week after Elon
Read MoreBrianna Wessling / The Robot Report: ISEE, which develops tech to turn the most common logistics yard trucks into autonomous vehicles, has raised a $40M Series B led by Founders Fund — ISEE, the Cambridge, Mass.-based developer of self-driving yard truck solutions, announced that it raised $40 million in Series B funding.
Read MoreJude Karabus / The Register: A New York judge issues a default ruling against two Russians Google accused of running a botnet infecting 1M+ devices, ordering them to pay Google’s legal fees — Judge tells tale of two men, their lawyer, and a ‘willful campaign… to mislead the court’ — A New York judge has
Read MoreParesh Dave / Reuters: Internal emails: Google sets rules for hosting HQ guest speakers, like making a business case and considering company goals, after row over an Indian historian — Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google this week introduced rules for inviting guest speakers to its offices, days after it canceled …
Read MorePokémon Scarlet and Violet both offer exclusive Pokémon that aren’t in the other game, but fortunately, you can still catch them all by trading with other players. Here’s everything you need to know about trading.
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