Sometimes, I’ll sit down to review a phone, not knowing that it will be the last of its kind. I didn’t know that the Galaxy S23 Ultra would be the last time I’d use a Samsung phone with a curved display, nor did I know that Google would ditch its rear-mounted fingerprint sensor following the
Read MoreWhether you’re setting out before dawn for that epic summit or need some light during a power outage, these are the best flashlight and headlamps you can buy.
Read MoreImage: Samar Haddad / The Verge Popular music changes all the time, but there’s been one consistent element in practically everything released in the last two decades: Auto-Tune is everywhere. What started as a simple audio processing tool in the 1990s has become the dominant force in music. Artists are training to sing with Auto-Tune;
Read MoreSweet dreams are made of these, from special lamps to noise machines.
Read MoreImage: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 60, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, it’s a lot of gaming stuff this week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been… doomscrolling
Read MoreOral phenylephrine was shown to be ineffective for treating nasal congestion over a year go. This week, the FDA took the first steps toward removing it from pharmacy shelves.
Read MoreOral phenylephrine was shown to be ineffective for treating nasal congestion over a year go. This week, the FDA took the first steps toward removing it from pharmacy shelves.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever been wondering what you should make next, it can be a daunting task to decide with the firehose of inspiration coming straight from the series of tubes that makeup the World Wide Web. Perhaps a more curated digital catalog of projects would help? Featuring “1000 Useful Things to Make,” [NODE]’s Make it
Read MoreSodium-ion batteries are cheaper than lithium-ion batteries — and they’re also more environmentally friendly. And “In the past few years, sodium-ion battery production has increased in the United States,” reports the Washington Post, with a new factory planned to manufacture them “in the same way as lithium-ion batteries, just with different ingredients. Instead of using
Read MoreIf you ever played an arcade game and wondered what was inside that joystick you were gripping, [Big Clive] can save you some trouble. He picked up a cheap replacement joystick, which, as you might expect, has a bunch of microswitches. However, as you can see in the video below, there are some surprising features
Read MoreIf you ever played an arcade game and wondered what was inside that joystick you were gripping, [Big Clive] can save you some trouble. He picked up a cheap replacement joystick, which, as you might expect, has a bunch of microswitches. However, as you can see in the video below, there are some surprising features
Read MoreIf you ever played an arcade game and wondered what was inside that joystick you were gripping, [Big Clive] can save you some trouble. He picked up a cheap replacement joystick, which, as you might expect, has a bunch of microswitches. However, as you can see in the video below, there are some surprising features
Read MoreOn Tuesday Massachusetts voted to become the first state to allow gig-working drivers to join labor unions, reports WBUR: Since these gig workers are classified as independent contractors, federal law allowing employees the right to unionize does not apply to them. With the passage of this ballot initiative, Massachusetts is the first state to give
Read MoreIt is a fact of life that 3D-printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers join. Some of this is due to voids and imperfect layer bonding, but you can — as [Geek Detour] shows us — work around some of this. In particular, it is possible to borrow
Read MoreIt is a fact of life that 3D-printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers join. Some of this is due to voids and imperfect layer bonding, but you can — as [Geek Detour] shows us — work around some of this. In particular, it is possible to borrow
Read MoreA little while ago Oasis was showcased on social media, billing itself as the world’s first playable “AI video game” that responds to complex user input in real-time. Code is available on GitHub for a down-scaled local version if you’d like to take a look. There’s a bit more detail and background in the accompanying
Read MoreA little while ago Oasis was showcased on social media, billing itself as the world’s first playable “AI video game” that responds to complex user input in real-time. Code is available on GitHub for a down-scaled local version if you’d like to take a look. There’s a bit more detail and background in the accompanying
Read More“The majority of strokes could be prevented,” reports the Associated Press, according to the first new guidelines in 10 years from the American Stroke Association, which are “aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that.” Stroke was the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2023, according to the Centers for
Read More“The majority of strokes could be prevented,” reports the Associated Press, according to the first new guidelines in 10 years from the American Stroke Association, which are “aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that.” Stroke was the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2023, according to the Centers for
Read MoreTuesday at California’s Vandenberg Space Force base, the U.S. launched a Minuteman III missile, “in an important test of the weapon’s ability to strike its targets with multiple warheads,” according to Air and Space Forces magazine: The Minuteman III missiles that form a critical leg of the U.S. nuclear triad each carry one nuclear-armed reentry
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from Digital Trends: A number of popular generative AI platforms are seeing consistent growth as users are figuring out how they want to use the tools â” and ChatGPT is at the top of the list with the most visits, at 3.7 billion worldwide. So many people are visiting
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from Digital Trends: A number of popular generative AI platforms are seeing consistent growth as users are figuring out how they want to use the tools â” and ChatGPT is at the top of the list with the most visits, at 3.7 billion worldwide. So many people are visiting
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority My husband and I were in the process of moving homes, and as part of the delightful mess, we’ve had to uninstall every smart home product we’d set up in our old rental to move it to our new place. A Roborock vacuum, a connected air quality monitor, a
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: Intel’s Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week… Intel thankfully has the resources to maintain this automated service for per-kernel commit/patch testing and has been maintaining their public kernel test robot for years now
Read MoreA hidden feature in iOS 18.1 will automatically reboot a locked iPhone when it is asleep but hasn’t been unlocked for a while, presumably as a security measure. The feature has been identified as an “inactivity reboot,” and is similar to a feature found on Macs. The Mac version, known as “hibernation mode,” saves the
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