Earth has a long-running fever that shows little signs of easing. The planet has set high temperature records in each of the last nine months, and March is poised to become the 10th. From a report: Multiple locations around the world observed unprecedented heat on the month’s final weekend, as if to put an exclamation
Read MoreThe creators of Arc, a browser promising to browse for you with AI tools, have hired Charlie Deets, who was formerly one of two designers on the Apple Safari team. Arc Search for iPhone If you’ve not been paying attention, you may have missed one of the up-and-coming browsers promising to revolutionize content consumption online.
Read MoreAre you there, Bixby? | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Bixby’s not dead yet, apparently. A Samsung executive tells CNBC that the company is “working so hard” to equip its voice assistant with AI features, suggesting that the company sees the likes of Gemini as competition — not a replacement. That’s good to
Read MoreThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a new way to combat the impersonation scams that it says cost people $1.1 billion last year alone. Effective today, the agency’s rule “prohibits the impersonation of government, businesses, and their officials or agents in interstate commerce.” The rule also lets the FTC directly file federal court complaints to
Read MoreApple Card customers taking advantage of the high-yield Apple Savings account will see their APY decrease for the first time from 4.5% to 4.4% on April 3. Apple Savings The financial sector is no stranger to fluctuating numbers, so what goes up generally must come down. Apple has been on a winning streak for its
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: The management-consulting giant McKinsey is dangling career-coaching services and nine months’ worth of pay to staffers keen on leaving the firm, the British newspaper The Times reported on Saturday. The Times reported that managers for McKinsey’s UK offices could spend up to nine months searching for a job instead
Read MoreRobots are cool, so check out [Atlin Anderson]’s Spiderbot (video, embedded below) which can be made with 3D printed parts, hobby servos, and ESP32-CAM module for control and a first-person view. Looking for a new project? All of the design details are shared online if you’d like to make a hexapod of your own. We
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge You can’t really blame Meta’s executives for wanting to limit the amount of political yelling on Instagram and Threads. That stuff can get pretty toxic. As a result, both of Meta’s social networks now limit what Meta terms “political content” from people you are not following. However, if you are a Threads
Read MoreMacworld If you’re an AT&T subscriber, you might want to keep a close eye on your credit reports. The company has disclosed that approximately 7.6 million current account holders and approximately 65.4 million former account holders “were contained in a data set released on the dark web approximately two weeks ago.” While it’s unclear how
Read MoreCath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images The holiday we didn’t ask for is back. Continue reading…
Read MoreApple AI research reveals a model that will make giving commands to Siri faster and more efficient by converting any given context into text, which is easier to parse by a Large Language Model. Apple is working to bring AI to Siri Artificial Intelligence research at Apple keeps being published as the company approaches a
Read MoreGoogle has announced plans to eventually merge its Angular and Wiz web frameworks. The company says it is already looking for ways that Angular could benefit from Wiz’s superior performance, while Wiz could benefit from Angular’s focus on developer experience. In a blog post posted by the Angular team on March 30, proponents said that Angular
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Android Police, written by Dhruv Bhutani: As someone who is an early adopter of all things smart and has invested a significant amount of money in building a fancy smart home, it saddens me to say that I feel cheated by the thousands of dollars I’ve spent on
Read MoreTo settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy.
Read MoreMacworld A user on X (formerly Twitter), @SonnyDickson, has posted images of what he claims are the “first cases for iPhone 16” and they show off the same design changes that have previously been rumored. (Note that they are for the regular iPhone 16 models, not the Pro variants.) As you can see, the most
Read MoreIllustration by Laura Normand / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a new way to combat the impersonation scams that it says cost people $1.1 billion last year alone. Effective today, the agency’s rule (PDF) “prohibits the impersonation of government, businesses, and their officials or agents in interstate commerce.” The rule also lets
Read MoreLooking to build a laptop all on your own? Check out the Pinkpad, a DIY laptop project that as if appeared out of nowhere, gives you a based on an off-the-shelf Dell motherboard. This build projects an aura of unabashed competence – the website brings you to a different universe, the documentation is as curt
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Today, more than two decades have passed and most of the files shared on The Pirate Bay in the early years are no longer available. BitTorrent requires at least one person to share a full file copy, which is hard to keep up for decades. Surprisingly, however,
Read MoreZac Hall reports via 9to5Mac: In a newly published research paper (PDF), Apple’s AI gurus describe a system in which Siri can do much more than try to recognize what’s in an image. The best part? It thinks one of its models for doing this benchmarks better than ChatGPT 4.0. In the paper (ReALM: Reference
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google releases Android 14 QPR3 Beta 2.1, delivering fixes for a wide range of bugs and glitches. The update addresses issues like launcher crashes, charging problems, app freezes, and more. Google continues its efforts to squash bugs in the latest Android 14 QPR3 (Quarterly Platform Release 3) with today’s
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority One UI 6.1 has restored a burn-in prevention feature that was absent from One UI 6. The feature works by subtly shifting pixels to prevent permanent image retention. Samsung’s best smartphones are known for their beautiful OLED displays, and the new One UI 6.1 update introduces a key feature
Read MoreAccording to a filing with the SEC, OpenAI has removed CEO Sam Altman’s ownership and control of the company’s venture capital fund that backs AI startups. Reuters reports: The change, documented in the March 29 filing, came after Altman’s ownership of the OpenAI Startup Fund raised eyebrows for its unusual structure–while being marketed similar to
Read MorePhoto: Waffle House (Flickr) Get ready for the next battle… at the Waffle House. For a while now, Tekken fans on social media have been pestering Katsuhiro Harada, longtime Tekken producer, to add a Waffle House battle stage. All the posts seemingly got to Harada, who finally asked, “Why?” The resulting thread on X was
Read MoreThe latest version of the web rendering engine Babylon.js has arrived with performance and rendering enhancements to support 3D capabilities and more. Version 7.0 of the rendering and game engine was announced on March 28. Directions for getting started with Babylon.js can be found on GitHub. Procedural geometry in version 7.0, also called Node Geometry,
Read MoreArty A7-based prototype of SatCat5 with custom switch I/O board. (Credit: The Aerospace Corporation) To the average microcontroller, Ethernet networks are quite a step up from the basic I2C, SPI and UART interfaces, requiring either a built-in Ethernet MAC or SPI-based MAC, with tedious translation between Ethernet and those other interfaces. Yet what if this
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