You can save $120 on the OnePlus Pad and get a free keyboard case valued at $149.99. | Image: Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple’s new iPad Mini might be hogging the spotlight, but it’s not the only great tablet on the market. If you’re looking for a slate outside of Apple’s ecosystem, the original
Read MoreCredit: The Verge Amazon officially announced the new 2024 Kindle lineup. The new devices include the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, the first Kindle-branded e-reader with a color display. Other refreshes include new versions of the Kindle Scribe, Kindle Paperwhite, and the Kindle. Updated: October 16, 2024 (10:40 AM ET): Amazon accidentally announced these new Kindles early,
Read MoreInvestors scooped up only a small number of the Trump family’s new World Liberty Financial crypto tokens after website reliability issues interfered with a launch event.
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ax9RR6I9Y About a year ago, Google announced a new subsection in the world of Chromebooks: Chromebook Plus. The “Plus” moniker lets consumers know that those machines meet certain spec and feature criteria, guaranteeing a premium experience. This solved the long-running problem of companies creating Chromebooks that looked really nice (and cost a pretty penny) but
Read MoreApple has proposed for a shortening of validity for security certificates used by websites from 398 days down to just 45 days, a move that system administrators have objected to publicly. SSL/TLS helps keep website secure for users Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates are used to make sure that a website user’s connection
Read MoreProject Know How builds on Adobe’s work with Content Credentials. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of Adobe’s most notable experiments this year could help combat misinformation and ensure artists are credited for their work, no matter where it appears online or offline. Announced during the Sneaks segment at Adobe Max, Project
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority A leaker has claimed that a mid-range OnePlus phone is in the works with some impressive specs. The apparent features include the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip, a 6,000mAh battery, and a 50MP telephoto camera. It’s possible that this could be the OnePlus 13R in global markets. OnePlus is
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft launched its Surface Laptop 7 earlier this year without Intel chips, in a bid to promote Windows on Arm and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips. Now, it looks like a Surface Laptop might arrive next year with Intel’s latest Lunar Lake chips. A Surface Laptop prototype has
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google is including the October 2024 fixes from the Pixel Update Bulletin and Android Security Bulletin with the Android 15 platform update for Pixel devices. The Pixel Security Bulletin contains 29 fixes specific to Pixel devices, including fixes for five critical elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities. Alongside the release of Android 15
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The Android 15 update seems to have broken the Instagram app. Swiping between stories is impossible, and the app is randomly freezing up. An updated version of the app doesn’t appear to have the issue, but it’s not available on the Play Store just yet. In what appears to
Read MoreThe Euclid mission has revealed the first part of a 3D map of the universe, showcasing 14 million galaxies and tens of millions of stars with unprecedented detail. “The Euclid mission, launched in 2023 and run by the European Space Agency (Esa) with contributions from Nasa, sent its first snapshots in November of that year
Read MoreDr Laura Hayes discusses solar phenomena, going where no man (or woman) has gone before and the impact weather in space can have on the earth. Read more: The solar physicist unlocking the secrets of the sun
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google could be preparing to bring the Pixel Studio app to the Pixel 8 series. The app is currently exclusive to the Pixel 9 series. The app uses on-device AI and Google’s Imagen 3 AI model to generate images from text prompts. It looks like Google is preparing to
Read MoreDespite just being announced on October 15, Apple’s brand-new iPad mini 7 is eligible for an exclusive coupon discount on top of bonus savings on AppleCare. Save on every new iPad mini 7. [Image credit: Apple/AppleInsider] To save on every model, ranging from the entry 128GB Wi-Fi model to the top-of-the-line 512GB Wi-Fi + Cellular
Read MoreApple has added a few new features to the macOS Notes app for adding elements to text. Here’s how to use the Notes Attachments Browser. The Notes app in macOS 15 Sequoia adds some new features, and one of those is a new Notes Attachments Browser. Notes has long allowed users to add attachments to
Read MoreThe Register’s Jessica Lyons reports: Apple wants to shorten SSL/TLS security certificates’ lifespans, down from 398 days now to just 45 days by 2027, and sysadmins have some very strong feelings about this “nightmarish” plan. As one of the hundreds that took to Reddit to lament the proposal said: “This will suck. My least favorite
Read MoreThe Register’s Jessica Lyons reports: Apple wants to shorten SSL/TLS security certificates’ lifespans, down from 398 days now to just 45 days by 2027, and sysadmins have some very strong feelings about this “nightmarish” plan. As one of the hundreds that took to Reddit to lament the proposal said: “This will suck. My least favorite
Read MorePhoto by Scott Olson/Getty Images Former president Donald Trump threatened in an interview today that, if elected president, he would “do something” about Google but stopped short of specifically saying he would break up the company. In the interview, Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait mentioned the US Justice Department’s proposal to possibly break up Google and
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Global sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles rose by an annual 30.5% in September, as China surpassed its record numbers recorded in August and Europe resumed growth, market research firm Rho Motion said on Tuesday. Gains in the U.S. market have been slow and steady
Read MoreIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission is officially looking into broadband data caps and their impact on consumers. On Tuesday, the FCC approved a notice of inquiry to examine whether data caps harm consumers and competition, as well as why data caps persist “despite increased
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: This fall, thousands of fake albums were added to Spotify, with some appearing on real artist pages, where they’re positioned to lure unsuspecting listeners into streaming by posing as new releases from favorite bands. An Ars reader flagged the issue after finding a fake album on
Read MoreAndroid’s new mobile network security features aren’t available in the stable Android 15 update that recently rolled out for Pixel phones. The settings page for these features was added in Android 15 Beta 1, but it was removed in the final beta. Google hid the settings page for mobile network security because “hardware support isn’t
Read MoreImage: The Verge Google Chrome has begun to phase out uBlock Origin. The developer of the free ad blocker, Raymond Hill, recently reposted a screenshot that shows Chrome automatically turning off uBlock Origin because it is “no longer supported.” The change comes as Google Chrome migrates to Manifest V3, a new extension specification that could
Read MoreThe Pixel Tablet displaying the new Home Controls screensaver. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge A new Home Controls screensaver in Android 15 turns your tablet or phone into a smart home dashboard, where you can control devices with a single tap. The interactive screensaver does away with the need to unlock
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Meta is adding an “activity status” to Threads so that you can see who’s actively online as you’re scrolling your feed. In a post, Threads boss Adam Mosseri pitches it as a “way to help you find others to engage with in real-time.” The activity status will show up next to your
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