Photo: Marvel Studios The MCU’s Scarlet Witch may be dead, but Marvel’s keeping more of WandaVision’s story going with yet another spinoff, this time focused on Paul Bettany’s Vision. Variety reports that Star Trek: Picard executive producer Terry Matalas has signed on to showrun a currently unnamed Disney Plus Marvel series revolving around Vision (Bettany),
Read MoreCredit: Joe Hindy / Android Authority Truecaller’s AI Assistant offers features like automatic call answering, message taking, and spam detection. Users can now train the AI Assistant to answer calls using a digital clone of their voice. Previously, users had to choose from seven pre-set digital voices for the assistant. Truecaller, the popular dialer and
Read MoreAn area of dense primary forest in the Loango National Park, Gabon, on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. | Photo: Getty Images Some of the biggest names in tech are joining forces to try something that many before them have failed to do: use trees to cancel out their greenhouse gas emissions. Google, Meta, Microsoft, and
Read MoreMacworld If you think there are far too many emoji already, get ready for some bad news: There are always more emoji on their way. The conveyor belt of emojis never stops, and new emojis will keep arriving on your iPhone until the heat death of the emojiverse. We’ve now got a good idea of
Read MoreIt certainly isn’t a new idea to compile a language into an intermediate language. The original C++ compiler outputs C code, for example. Enhanced versions of Fortran were often just conversions of new syntax to old syntax. Of course, it makes sense to output to some language that can run on lots of different platforms.
Read MoreImage: Cath Virginia / The Verge A pair of legislators have a plan to save Section 230: kill it so that Congress is forced to come up with a better version. That was the topic of discussion at a hearing on Wednesday in the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and technology. It came on
Read MoreWhatsApp’s security team warned that despite the app’s encryption, users are vulnerable to government surveillance through traffic analysis, according to an internal threat assessment obtained by The Intercept. The document suggests that governments can monitor when and where encrypted communications occur, potentially allowing powerful inferences about who is conversing with whom. The report adds: Even
Read MoreTo those who have kept tabs on nuclear fusion research the past decades beyond the articles and soundbites in news outlets, it’s probably clear just how much progress has been made, and how many challenges still remain. Yet since not that many people are into plasma physics, every measure of progress, such as most recently
Read MoreThere’s never been a better time to buy Samsung’s flagship smartwatch than today. The 47mm model of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 Classic is down to just $297.71 on Amazon right now, with the $132 price drop no doubt timed to coincide with the Samsung Discover sale. Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 Classic (47mm) for $297.71
Read MoreGoogle TV is finally adding support for picture-in-picture mode, which puts app content in a tiny window overlaying the screen, in Android 14 for TV. Picture-in-picture mode has been supported on phones since Android 8.0 was released nearly seven years ago. However, picture-in-picture on Google TV won’t be enabled for media content. Most smartphone screens
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile has begun notifying customers that it’s hiking their rates by as much as $5 per line per month. The company’s help account on X confirmed the price increase, telling one person that it was “adjusting prices to respond to rising costs.” Reports suggest the hike applies to
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: For those of us who came of age in the early days of personal computing, the names “Intel 486” and “Windows XP” evoke a nostalgic whirlwind of memories. The 486 was the hot new CPU of the early 90s, while Windows XP became a household name and Microsoft’s most
Read MoreImage: Warner Bros. George Miller’s Furiosa paints a broader picture of Mad Max’s apocalyptic world while letting its heroine play second fiddle in her own film. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has revealed how it landed on the name Gemini for its AI model. It appears astrology played a big part in coming up with the name. Inspiration was also taken from the NASA moonshot program called Project Gemini. Google first mentioned Gemini to the public during I/O 2023,
Read MoreMacworld If you’re looking to buy a phone for under $500 right now, it’s hard to recommend an iPhone. The only iPhone priced under $500, the $429 iPhone SE, is more than three years old and has an outdated design and an old camera. The iPhone 13, which is a better phone, starts at $599.
Read MoreAmazon is upgrading its decade-old Alexa voice assistant with generative AI and plans to charge a monthly subscription fee to offset the cost of the technology, CNBC reported Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of Amazon’s plans. From the report: The Seattle-based tech and retail giant will launch a more conversational version of Alexa later this
Read MoreMacworld Don’t you hate being tethered to whatever socket your phone is charging from? Well, let’s change that because this two-cable bundle from INIU features USB-C to C fast charging cables that are 6 feet long each. The whole bundle will cost you a mere $8.40, down from the regular $14. You can expect high
Read MoreThe European spec ID.7 electric sedan. | Image: The Verge Volkswagen’s impressive ID.7 all-electric sedan — a vehicle type that is increasingly uncommon in the US — won’t be showing up on our shores anytime soon, the automaker announced on Wednesday. It cites changes in “market dynamics” as a reason as well as strong SUV
Read MoreMarvel fans can step into the MCU and help save the day with an exclusive, immersive experience, available on Apple Vision Pro. Marvel Studios ‘What If…’ “What If…? — An Immersive Story,” will feature elements from the original Disney+ animated series of the same name. The show reimagines how different characters within the Marvel universe
Read MoreThe United States has assessed that Russia launched what is likely a counter space weapon last week that’s now in the same orbit as a U.S. government satellite, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder confirmed Tuesday. From a report: “What I’m tracking here is on May 16, as you highlighted, Russia launched a satellite into
Read MorePhoto: Sonos He stands behind the new app, which underwent months of testing, but acknowledges that Sonos should’ve warned its (very) passionate customers about missing features. Continue reading…
Read MoreDr David Browe, chief technology officer and one of Altach’s inventors, said more than a decade of research and development has been conducted on the product. Read more: Altach Biomedical raises €1.2m for cartilage injury treatment
Read MoreThe U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday urged U.S. lawmakers not to adopt a bill that aims to create a new legal framework for digital currencies, saying it would undermine existing legal precedent and put capital markets at “immeasurable risk.” From a report: The U.S. House of Representatives is expected later on Wednesday to take up
Read MoreWhen [Daniel Eichhorn] designed the Pendrive S3 project, he wanted to use an off-the-shelf USB enclosure but also add a button for the user to start certain actions. Drilling a hole into the enclosure would be an option, but decided a touch sensor on the top of the enclosure would be much more elegant —
Read MoreImage: Entertainment Weekly / Netflix A new actor, but the same white wig. We already knew that Liam Hemsworth was taking over as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher, replacing Henry Cavill. But now we have our first (official, anyway) look at the actor in the role, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly. And
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