Where did the explanation go? | Photo by Sven Hoogerhuis / BSR Agency / Getty Images Ticketmaster has taken down its explanation for why buying a ticket to Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour was an absolute disaster. The explanation, titled “The Taylor Swift Onsale Explained,” was live in two places on Ticketmaster’s website on Thursday
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Samsung published a press release boasting the speed of its Android 13 rollout. The company announced that users can expect the One UI 5 update to hit tablets before the end of the year. Samsung said that it wants the next One UI update to be even faster. For
Read MoreVerizon Test Drive makes full use of eSIM technology by allowing potential customers to trial the service before they commit to signing up. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon has introduced a new early access program that allows you to test its network for up to 30 days. There’s no SIM card
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge There’s a new effort to tackle Ethereum’s legacy of pollution, even after the cryptocurrency drastically reduced its greenhouse gas emissions this year. Ethereum software company ConsenSys launched a new initiative alongside more than a dozen tech and Web3 companies yesterday during the United Nations climate summit taking place
Read MoreThe last image taken by LightSail 2 before it re-entered the atmosphere. | Image: The Planetary Society After three years in space, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 mission burned up in the atmosphere on Thursday, November 17th. During its mission, the crowdfunded spacecraft made 18,000 orbits of the planet using its giant reflective sail and
Read MoreElon Musk / @elonmusk: [Thread] Musk announces “new” policy that “negative/hate tweets” will be “deboosted & demonetized”, reinstates Kathie Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and Babylon Bee — New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority A leak claims that the OnePlus 11 may have a ceramic body with a metal frame. It’s rumored that the screen could have a single punch hole selfie camera in the upper left corner of the display. The leak also suggests the phone could have 16GB of RAM
Read MoreThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney review the literature on a hack-packed week of action. We’ll find a Linux machine inside just about anything, including curb-side TVs and surprisingly secure EV chargers. No Internet? No problem — just tunnel IP through WhatsApp! We’ll see that 3D printers can be repurposed for
Read MoreJoseph F. Kovar / CRN: Closed-loop PLM software maker PTC to acquire ServiceMax, which offers cloud-based field service applications built on the Salesforce platform, for about $1.46B — The acquisition, the second this year for PTC, aims to extend PTC’s closed-loop product lifecycle management offerings …
Read MoreCredit: Angel Studios The Chosen is a crowd-funded series about the life of Jesus Christ. It has released two seasons so far, and The Chosen season 3 is fast approaching. So when is the Chosen season 3 release date, and where will you be able to watch it? We tell you everything you need to
Read MoreKirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Internal email: autonomous delivery startup Nuro is laying off 300 people, or 20% of its workforce, to preserve cash, and says it has $1B on its balance sheet — Nuro, the autonomous vehicle delivery startup backed by Softbank, Google and Tiger Global Management, is laying off about 300 people …
Read MoreSpO2 is more than just a buzzword, it’s an important metric for insight into your overall health. Find out how to measure your blood oxygen levels using your Apple Watch. Read more: Everything you need to know about the Apple Watch
Read MoreIt isn’t difficult to find deals when building your commercial real estate (CRE) portfolio. The tricky part is the funding. CRE is one of the most lucrative portfolios, offering advantages over residential investments, although interest rates can be higher. Commercial investment property loans are one of the reasons why. To understand how to invest in
Read MoreIn the short time it has been operating, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unlocked a new realm of astronomy. It can peer farther into the cosmos, detecting objects too faint to appear in less powerful telescopes. A pair of new studies explore two such objects, which are believed to be among the oldest
Read MoreMost RC cars replicate real-world race cars or fantastical off-road buggies for outdoor escapades. [diorama111] is an expert at building tiny desk-roaming models, though, and built this exquisite micro semi-truck and trailer. Based on a 1/150 scale truck and trailer model, the build starts with the tractor unit. It’s disassembled, and its plastic wheels are
Read MoreArtemis 1 launches from pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Image: NASA/Joel Kowsky Hello, lovelies, and welcome back to the best Friday space news roundup this side of LEO. This week, we’ve got updates aplenty from NASA. The agency’s CAPSTONE cubesat has entered lunar orbit. Faulty calibration on the James Webb Space Telescope is
Read MoreWill Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: Meta AI and Papers with Code pull Galactica, a large language model to generate scientific text, days after its launch, amid criticism about incorrect results — Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense.
Read MorePhotography by Joel Goldberg for The Verge Ideas for all the types of dads you may have in your life, from gadget-hounds to wannabe woodsmen with a penchant for the great outdoors. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Qualcomm Qualcomm and Mediatek are the two biggest third-party chip designers in the Android smartphone space. Everyone from Samsung and Xiaomi to Oppo and Motorola uses these chipsets in their phones. The battle between the two players reached new heights in 2022 as the high-end Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 family duked it out with
Read MoreDue to Twitter’s new policy of testing new features on production, the interest in Mastodon as a potential replacement has skyrocketed. And what’s not to love? You can host it yourself, it’s part of the Fediverse, and you can even run one of the experimental forks for more features. But there’s also the danger of
Read MoreThe new Echo Dot features an integrated temperature sensor and snappier performance than before. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge While we’re going to be knee-deep in Black Friday deals a week from now, there are plenty of sales to check out if you’re planning to do some spending this weekend. If
Read More(Photo: Francesco Gallarotti/Unsplash)We all know that talking to our plants technically supports their growth—albeit not super noticeably—but what if we turned that concept up a notch? Scientists recently tested the effect of funneling carbon dioxide-rich exhaust toward a vegetable garden, and the results were (literally) huge. A team of agricultural researchers at Boston University came
Read MoreForbes: A profile of Caroline Ellison, the risk-loving, “very mathy” Alameda Research CEO that sources say was “virtually invisible” in Alameda’s last days — Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is a math whiz who loves Harry Potter and taking big risks.
Read MoreThe AirPods Pro may let you boost your hearing, but that’s not enough to make it a hearing aid. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The line between hearing aids and hearables has blurred ever since over-the-counter hearing aids hit shelves last month. Case in point: a new iScience study that claims a
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