Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Calendar’s new “known senders” option is supposed to make it easier to keep spam from clogging up your schedule. Toggling on the setting prevents invites from people you don’t know from automatically appearing in your Calendar. This way, Google Calendar will only automatically add invites from people…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
It’s a good idea to check out which apps you have installed every once in a while. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge As we use our phones year after year or transfer everything over to a new device, many of us have accumulated a catalog of apps that we downloaded at one…
Google Wallet users in the US can download the app in the Google Play Store. | Image: Google The new Google Wallet app is available to all customers shortly after people in 39 countries started seeing it available on their phones Monday. Google Wallet’s official rollout is the latest step in the long history of…
KIMIHIRO HOSHINO / AFP via Getty Images Remember when Facebook’s News Feed was chock full of apps like Zynga’s FarmVille? This era in the early 2010s was Mark Zuckerberg’s first big attempt at making Facebook much bigger than just a social network and more like a platform for developers akin to Windows. It was a…
Enlarge (credit: Qualcomm) Qualcomm’s long-awaited update to its smartwatch SoC line is official. These chips have typically been called “Snapdragon Wear,” but it sounds like that brand is dead, so it’s time to meet the “Qualcomm Snapdragon W5+ Gen1” and “Snapdragon W5 Gen1.” Qualcomm promises that the chips provide the company’s “most advanced leap yet,”…
A B-52 in California on August 8, 2020, before it carried out a hypersonic test. US Air Force / Kyle Brasier The middle of July saw a whopping three successful hypersonic missile tests by the United States—tests of missiles designed to go at least five times the speed of sound. On July 13, DARPA announced…
Yep, Actuator is coming to you a day early — mostly because it felt a bit weird to drop the robotics newsletter right in the middle of the robotics conference. Good news for everyone who’s sick of me telling you to SIGN UP FOR FREE RIGHT HERE: This is the last you’ll be hearing that…
HBO Max just released the first official trailer for “House of the Dragon,” the “Game of Thrones” prequel series that premieres on August 21. The show takes place 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones” and is based on George R.R. Martin’s book “Fire & Blood.” Two centuries before the War of the…
Google has announced they will be taking a two-week hiring freeze, according to an article published by The Information earlier today. This comes after the company announced last week they would be slowing down their hiring process for the remainder of the year to take a fresh look at their overall hiring process. The company…
We’ve written a few times about Alt, a platform that helps trading card collectors (think Pokémon, NBA, NFL, etc.) research, buy/sell, and securely store high value cards. This week, after a few months of quiet testing, the company is announcing a new product: Alt Advance. The idea? If you’ve got rare/valuable trading cards stored with Alt,…