Putting essential features at your fingertips is good, actually. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Pixel 2 is an almost five-year-old phone, but it introduced a feature that I miss more and more with each passing year. It was called Active Edge, and it let you summon Google Assistant just by…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Thursday reversed a district court’s denial of judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) to Amazon of no induced infringement and vacated a jury verdict finding that it had induced infringement of Vocalife LLC’s patent for a method of enhancing acoustics. Judge Hughes authored…
Enlarge It’s the weekend, which means it’s time for another Dealmaster. Our latest roundup of the best tech deals from around the web includes a hefty discount on Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service. You’ll have to be a new user to take advantage, but if you’ve been thinking about giving the service a try,…
As I walked the halls of the massive Boston Convention Center this week for AWS re:Inforce, the division’s annual security event, I spoke to a number of vendors, and one theme was clear: Cloud security really is a shared responsibility. That idea has been around for some time, but it particularly hit home this week…
NASA is smoothing out the final details of its future program to bring back treasured martian samples, also known as the Mars Sample Return Program, and its new helicopters might make future missions much simpler. The proposed system for retrieving and returning samples from Mars to Earth is in what’s called the conceptual design phase,…
Smartphones are notoriously grody. You’ve probably heard the toilet seat analogies before: The average phone is anywhere from seven to 10 times dirtier than most porcelain thrones, depending on who you ask, and one in six is supposedly contaminated with fecal matter. (Truly sinister stuff.) If you’re checking your phone as often as most people…
While technically it’s Leo season according to the astrology calendar, Virgo supremacy is year-round. And there’s no other person to prove this point than the queen herself, Beyoncé, with the release of her latest blockbuster album, Renaissance. Her seventh solo album, Renaissance, celebrates queer Black music and communities, sampling from different dance genres like Jersey…
Several mobile homes in Jackson, Ky., are flooded on Friday, July 29, 2022. Heavy rains poured into Appalachia this week, displacing hundreds of people. AP Photo/Dylan Lovan Flash flooding has hit parts of eastern Kentucky, leaving at least 25 people dead. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said the death toll is expected to rise. “This is…
Ted Cruz (L) and Jon Stewart (R) are embroiled in an all-out Twitter war over veterans’ healthcare — specifically, the former’s ‘No’ vote on the PACT Act. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Drew Angerer/Getty Images Comedian Jon Stewart and GOP Sen. Ted Cruz have gone to war on Twitter over the PACT Act. …
Insider Intelligence These days, it’s imperative to start your workday not just aware of the news in your industry, but with a full understanding of its context and meaning. But who’s got time for all that, especially given the volume and speed of the news today? We do – and now you do too!…