The iPad is kind of a computer… but kind of not. | Image: Dan Seifert / The Verge When Apple CEO Tim Cook and a bunch of his deputies take the virtual stage next week to announce new iPads, they’re going to spend a lot of time talking about specs. If the rumors are true,
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google is rolling out a new way to conduct Google Messages updates. The update notification takes up your entire display and opens every time you start the app. It’s a not-so-subtle way for Google to encourage you to keep Messages up to date. Keeping your Android apps up
Read MoreDo you love listening to music or sleep sounds to fall asleep faster? You might also like playing the alarm tones through your headphones or headsets. It’s not a good practice to play an alarm through headphones, as there are increased chances of disrupting sleep patterns and damaging the ear, but if you don’t want
Read MoreCath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Follow along as websites, apps, and services adopt passkeys in preparation for a passwordless future. Continue reading…
Read MoreGoogle is making its last attempt to fight back against a historic effort by the US Department of Justice to break the tech giant’s grip on online search, as the most significant antitrust trial in 25 years comes to a close in Washington. From a report: A federal court in Washington began hearing closing arguments
Read MoreMacworld It’s been a month since the release of iOS 17.4, which introduced a few minor tweaks (like new emojis) for all users, but it has a massive change to app distribution for those in the European Union. In compliance with the Digital Markets Act, that version allowed alternate app stores, changed policies and terms
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Apple Watch’s atrial fibrillation (AFib) history feature, which records and alerts the wearer’s relevant heart events, has been qualified to join the FDA’s Medical Device Development Tools (MDDT) program — a first for a “digital health technology.” That means the Apple Watch is now usable in clinical
Read MoreThere aren’t many better Bluetooth speaker options to soundtrack your summer gatherings than the JBL Xtreme 3, and it has never been anywhere near as cheap as it is right now. A massive Amazon price drop has reduced the device to just $179.99, saving you $200. JBL Xtreme 3 for $179.99 ($200 off)
Read MoreImage: The Verge Apple is exempting more developers from the Core Technology Fee (CTF) it introduced in the European Union. In an update on Thursday, Apple announced that developers of free apps without monetization won’t have to pay the new fee. To qualify, Apple says free apps must not have “revenue of any kind,” including
Read MoreThe YouTube channel for iFixit performed a teardown of the Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin. The video shows that both devices make repairability a pain with difficult to remove batteries. iFixit finds that both devices probably should’ve just been an app. The first wave of AI devices is here for better or worse depending
Read MoreCath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The FBI cut its warrantless searches of American data in half in 2023, according to a government report released on Tuesday. According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s annual transparency report, the FBI conducted 57,094 searches of “US person” data under Section
Read MoreImage: University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO) officially opened on Tuesday after 26 years of planning and construction. Sitting 18,500 feet high on Mount Chajnantor in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the 6.5-meter optical-infrared TAO telescope is now the highest in the world. TAO replaces a smaller version of itself called
Read MoreApple is tweaking how it applies a new fee that can apply to iOS developers in the European Union as it continues to configure its approach to the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA): Developers of free apps will be able to avoid the fee entirely under changes it announced Thursday, which apply from today, while
Read MoreSatya Nadella, the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation speaks during the “Microsoft Build: AI Day” event. | Photo by Peerapon Boonyakiat / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Microsoft just agreed to support the development of 10.5 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity around the world, a massive amount of electricity to
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp Communities is getting two new features. Users in Communities will be able to plan events directly in the app. Users are now able to respond to announcements from admins. WhatsApp just got a new update that introduces two new features the company says are meant to bring communities
Read MoreAlphabet paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 for Google to be the default search engine in the Safari browser, according to newly unsealed court documents in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google. From a report: The deal between the two tech giants is at the heart of the landmark case, in which antitrust enforcers
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify could soon bring shortform video clips to more areas of the app. A test spotted by Music Ally shows clips surfacing on playlist pages, allowing you to swipe through a vertical feed with videos less than 30 seconds long. Spotify first introduced clips last year as a
Read MoreOutabox, an Australian firm that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffered a breach that shows the problems with giving companies your biometric data.
Read MoreWheels do a great job at rolling over all kinds of terrain, particularly if you pair them with compliant tires. However, they’re not perfect, and can get stumbled by things like large vertical steps. Enter the PaTS-Wheel — a compliant mechanism that can tackle such obstacles with ease. The PaTS-Wheel takes advantage of printable flexural
Read MoreArtificial intelligence might someday make technology easier to use and even do things on your behalf. All the Rabbit R1 does right now is make me tear my hair out. Continue reading…
Read MoreMongoDB has made Atlas Stream Processing, a new capability it trailed last June, generally available, it announced at its MongoDB.local event in New York City. It added Atlas Stream processing to its NoSQL Atlas database-as-a-service (DBaaS) in order to help enterprises manage real-time streaming data from multiple sources in a single interface. To read this
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge An article in by HouseFresh, a site dedicated to air quality, hit a nerve in February: it outlined how independent publishers have been gradually bumped out of Google search results, with big media companies taking their place. Months later, the situation has only gotten more dire, according to a follow-up published by
Read MoreMacworld The Studio Display is more than a pretty monitor—it’s also loaded with high-end features you won’t find anywhere else, including a FaceTime camera, spatial audio, and three built-in USB-C ports. All that comes at a price, but today it’s cheaper than it’s ever been: Amazon is selling the 27-inch Apple Studio Display for $1,300,
Read MoreIn the aftermath of the Capitol riot, far-right militia groups are using Facebook to organize—and they’re not worried about getting banned by Meta.
Read MoreJoshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection. Seattle Times: Known as Josh, Dean lived in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit is based. He
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