Gamma, a free emulator of the original Sony PlayStation, was added to the iOS and iPad App Stores on May 11th. Screenshots from the Gamma emulator on the App Store Gamma is similar to developer Riley Testut’s Delta emulator, especially in terms of the interface. Like Delta, it allows customizable on-screen controller skins, and includes
Read More“One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies do not seem to add up,” write two U.K. researchers in the Conversation: Galaxies rotate much faster than predicted by applying Newton’s law of gravity to their visible matter, despite those laws working well everywhere in the Solar System. To prevent
Read MoreWhen the United States launched the KH-9 Hexagon spy satellite into orbit atop a Titan IIID rocket in 1974, it brought a calibration target along for the ride: the Infra-Red Calibration Balloon (IRCB) S73-7. This 66 cm (26 inch) diameter inflatable satellite was ejected by the KH-9, but failed to inflate into its intended configuration
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from PetaPixel: A photographer and content creator has set the world record for the fastest drone flight after his custom-made aircraft achieved a staggering 298.47 miles per hour (480.2 kilometers per hour). Guinness confirmed the record noting that Luke Maximo Bell and his father Mike achieved the “fastest ground
Read MoreGamma, a free emulator of the original Sony PlayStation, was added to the iOS and iPad App Stores on May 11th. Screenshots from the Gamma emulator on the App Store Gamma is similar to developer Riley Testut’s Delta emulator, especially in terms of the interface. Like Delta, it allows customizable on-screen controller skins, and includes
Read More“One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies do not seem to add up,” write two U.K. researchers in the Conversation: Galaxies rotate much faster than predicted by applying Newton’s law of gravity to their visible matter, despite those laws working well everywhere in the Solar System. To prevent
Read MoreIn this week’s Apple crime roundup, the Citizen app uses Apple Store theft footage in advertising, a Philadelphia Police scandal involving a smartphone app, stolen softball gear recovered thanks to AirTag, and more! The Apple Store in Emeryville, Calif. As we do every other Sunday, this is the latest in an occasional AppleInsider series, looking
Read MoreThe Mother’s Day flash sale at Best Buy drops Apple’s latest MacBook Air M3 down to $949 with a Plus membership. Best Buy Plus members can pick up an M3 MacBook Air for $949. Best Buy’s Deal of the Day features triple-digit savings on several M3 MacBook Air laptops, with the standard 13-inch model on
Read MoreToday, there’s no shortage of AI tools and services online. You will even find Android apps with AI-powered features. Many AI apps for Android use OpenAI’s GPT model to answer your queries. AI’s functionality is not just limited to chatbots; the music industry now uses it to create music, photography sections to generate AI images,
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from the Register: The co-author of SQL, the standardized query language for relational databases, has come out in support of the NoSQL database movement that seeks to escape the tabular confines of the RDBMS. Speaking to The Register as SQL marks its 50th birthday, Donald Chamberlin, who first proposed
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: For the past several months AMD Linux engineers have been working on AMD Core Performance Boost support for their P-State CPU frequency scaling driver. The ninth iteration of these patches were posted on Monday and besides the global enabling/disabling support for Core Performance Boost, it’s now possible
Read MoreTime for some Abe’s Oddysee! | Screenshot: Gamma iPhone users without a penchant for jailbreaking can finally enjoy the blocky polygons and shifty textures of the original PlayStation with Gamma, a free PS1 emulator that hit the iOS App Store last night. Gamma comes courtesy of developer ZodTTD, which has been creating emulators for the
Read MoreImage: Samar Haddad / The Verge Not all video games need video. Over the years, games that exist only in audio have taken players into entirely new worlds in which there’s nothing to see and still everything to do. These games have huge accessibility implications, allowing people who can’t see to play an equally fun,
Read MoreCredit: Walmart Opinion post by Rita El Khoury For the first time in a while now, I find my consumerist self jealous of not living in the US. The reason? Walmart, and more specifically, the latest Walmart Google TV streaming box. The new onn 4K Pro box is, by far, one of the most exciting
Read MoreHisense’s flagship TV brings over-the-top brightness but still comes out a winner.
Read More[Matthew “wrongbaud” Alt] is well known around these parts for his hardware hacking and reverse-engineering lessons, and today he’s bringing us a JTAG hacking primer that demoes some cool new hardware — the PiFEX (Pi Interface Explorer). Ever wondered about those testpoint arrays on mSATA and M.2 SSDs? This write-up lays bare the secrets of
Read MoreDespite its name, the Pocket 3 isn’t exactly comfortable to stuff in tighter pockets. | Photo by Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge I can’t think of anything permeating mainstream camera culture as aggressively as the DJI Osmo Pocket 3. The Fujifilm X100VI has stolen some of its thunder among film simulation enthusiasts, but DJI’s still
Read MoreGazelle’s latest long-range electric bike has a mind-boggling Bosch smart system and is extremely comfortable, smart, and pricey.
Read MoreAn effort by some staff at an Apple Store in Short Hills, New Jersey to form a union has failed in a vote among the workers there. Short Pump Town Center Apple Store Operations lead John Nagy of the of the Short Pump Town Center Apple Store told Bloomberg that staff there had filed for
Read MoreWhich material should you buy? Percale or linen? We tested dozens of sheets to find our favorites and break it all down.
Read MoreImage: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 37, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, send me links, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been writing about iPads and LinkedIn games,
Read MoreCysts in both wrists made reading a literal pain. But Lamicall’s Tablet Holder takes that pain away by holding up my Kindle for me.
Read MoreMacworld In this new age of internet threats, you could spend more time worrying about your data privacy than you do actually working or comfortably browsing. If you wish to enhance your digital experience, Windscribe VPN offers an all-in-one solution to privacy and internet security that’s now available for a new low price of less than $70.
Read MoreWorkers at the Apple Towson Town Center store in Maryland have backed their union’s plan to hold a strike over unresolved issues. Apple Towson Town Center store (Source: Apple) The Towson store unionized in 2022, and representatives had said they were disheartened by what were described as Apple’s insufficient responses to concerns. Unions at the
Read MoreSoldering, for those of us who spend a lot of time at an electronics bench, is just one of those skills we have, in the way that a blacksmith can weld or a tailor can cut clothing. We have an uncommon skill with hot metal and can manipulate the tiniest of parts, and incidentally our
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