Let’s face it, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better location tracker if you’re tapped into the Apple ecosystem. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Thanksgiving is just around the corner, meaning airports everywhere are about to get slammed. Thankfully, if you plan on flying out of town this holiday season, Apple’s AirTags can
Read MoreImage: Motion Twin Some of the most beloved roguelikes are single-player — the likes of Hades, Balatro, and Dead Cells are all solo titles. But Windblown, the new roguelike from Motion Twin, the studio that created Dead Cells, showed me just how cool it can be to play a roguelike with other people. In Windblown,
Read MoreLet’s say you’ve got a fun little organization that does things together under a collective branding or banner. Maybe you want to celebrate that fact with some visually appealing signage? Well, that’s pretty much how [Jack] of the Purdue Hackers felt, so he and the gang put together a sizable logo sign to advertise their
Read MoreLet’s say you’ve got a fun little organization that does things together under a collective branding or banner. Maybe you want to celebrate that fact with some visually appealing signage? Well, that’s pretty much how [Jack] of the Purdue Hackers felt, so he and the gang put together a sizable logo sign to advertise their
Read MoreStarlink has launched home Internet service to 99.5% of residents in the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ) after a multi-year collaboration with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory to minimize interference with radio telescopes. “The vast majority of people within the areas of Virginia and West Virginia collectively known as the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ)
Read MoreCredit: Android Headlines A leaker has claimed that the Galaxy S25 series will support seamless updates next year. This should make for a much faster, less intrusive system update process than previous Galaxy flagship phones. The Galaxy S25 series would join the Galaxy A55 5G in supporting this feature. Google has offered seamless updates on
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung will reportedly launch a Galaxy Z Flip FE model in 2025. This will likely be a cheaper Flip phone than the Galaxy Z Flip 7. If confirmed, Samsung would be joining Motorola and Nubia in offering a cheaper Flip foldable. Motorola and Nubia debuted mid-range Flip phones in
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Read MoreGet up to $5,000 off refurbished cameras and tech + free shipping in November 2024. Browse the latest Canon promo codes and deals from WIRED.
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A new global inventory has catalogued air pollution from space activities from 2020 to 2022. The inventory includes time, position and pollution from 446 launchers as they ascended and the tracks of re-entries as objects are heated to extreme temperatures and break up or burn up
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A new global inventory has catalogued air pollution from space activities from 2020 to 2022. The inventory includes time, position and pollution from 446 launchers as they ascended and the tracks of re-entries as objects are heated to extreme temperatures and break up or burn up
Read MoreThe dialogue that greets you when you try to open an unsigned application in MacOS Sequoia 15.1. Many MacOS users are probably used by now to the annoyance that comes with unsigned applications, as they require a few extra steps to launch them. This feature is called Gatekeeper and checks for an Apple Developer ID
Read MoreIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images On Friday evening, Okta posted an odd update to its list of security advisories. The latest entry reveals that under specific circumstances, someone could’ve logged in by entering anything for a password, but only if the account’s username had over 52 characters. According
Read MoreCalifornia signed an agreement with major airlines to increase the use of sustainable aviation fuels, aiming to reach 200 million gallons by 2035 or about 40% of the state’s air travel demand. The Hill reports: The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and Airlines for America (A4A) — an industry trade group representing almost a dozen
Read MorePhoto by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple announced a new service program to fix iPhone 14 Plus phones that have rear cameras that won’t show a preview. Here’s Apple’s specific definition of the affected phones, according to the service program page: Apple has determined that the rear camera on a very small percentage of
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from the Royal Navy: The Royal Navy has successfully demonstrated the capabilities of ground-breaking cold atom technology. P2000 vessel HMS Pursuer hosted the trial, which unlocks new possibilities in areas such as covert monitoring, which require precise signals for accurate positioning, navigation and timing. The Office of the Chief
Read MoreSamsung’s latest earnings report confirms plans for “XR devices” in 2025. The company has already expressed interest in an XR headset, and this suggests it’s still a priority. Separately, an old patent application is inspiring speculation about how this new hardware might take shape. Are we in the early days of an AR/VR/MR renaissance, or
Read MoreImage: Disney Plus / Marvel But Marvel’s WandaVision follow-up stuck the landing by spelling out the secrets that were hiding in plain sight. Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: Disney Plus / Marvel But Marvel’s WandaVision follow-up stuck the landing by spelling out the secrets that were hiding in plain sight. Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: Disney Disney released a new trailer for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, its new Star Wars Disney Plus show premiering next month, and it looks like the show is going to be pretty fun. “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew follows the journey of four kids who make a mysterious discovery on their seemingly safe home planet,
Read MoreIntel is rolling back one of the biggest changes to its laptop chips in years. The Verge: Remember how this fall’s Lunar Lake laptops ditched the idea of memory sticks, putting a fixed amount of RAM on the processor package instead? Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger now says that turned out to be a financial mistake,
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft is modernizing how its Windows Hello authentication, which includes facial and fingerprint recognition, works in Windows 11. The revamp to the Windows Hello experience is now in beta testing with Windows Insiders, and includes visual changes, new iconography, and improvements to passkeys. Not only will this new UI appear on the Windows
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google appears to have started the rollout of the Messages read receipt redesign. The redesign moves the checkmarks from outside the bubble to inside the bubble. The read receipt has also received a new animation. Earlier this year, it was reported that Google appeared to be working on a
Read MoreCloud sustainability is a funny topic. It’s like dental care; everyone agrees it’s important, but who wants to discuss the particulars? It’s much more fun to talk about the new “shiny keys” of IT: AI and its endless possibilities. Cloud sustainability is so five minutes ago. However, like dental care, ignoring the issues will not
Read MoreAustralian mathematicians have proven the famous “infinite monkey theorem” impossible within the universe’s lifespan. The theorem suggests monkeys typing randomly would eventually produce Shakespeare’s complete works. Scientists Stephen Woodcock and Jay Falletta calculated that even 200,000 chimpanzees typing one character per second until the universe’s heat death would fail to reproduce Shakespeare’s writings. A single
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