Nick Barclay / The Verge The Ethereum Foundation has announced that September 6th will be the starting date for the system-wide transition known as the Merge. The first domino will be toppled on the 6th with the activation of the Bellatrix upgrade, which will then set the rest of the Merge process in action, with…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
If you’ve been dealing with a decrepit, dying iPhone all year, your time is almost here — Sept. 7 to be exact. Yes, Apple’s keynote iPhone event is locked in for early September, which means it’s just about time for the company to announce a boatload of new products, chief among them being this year’s…
In April, social messaging app WhatsApp announced it was working on a new ‘Communities’ feature, a way for separate groups to come “under one umbrella,” in what sounded like a hopeful competitor to Slack. Now, the feature is available for beta users. The Meta-owned messaging platform has been slowly rolling out incremental updates over the…
Let me cut to the chase: If you’ve been waiting four or five years to upgrade your MacBook Air, go ahead and do it now. That’s because the new 2022 MacBook Air, powered by Apple’s in-house M2 silicon, is just about the ideal work-from-home (or work-from-wherever, really) companion. For a starting price of $1,200, this…
Nvidia’s RTX 4090 has been spotted in what are apparently documents from a manufacturer, indicating that the flagship graphics card is already in production. At least that’s the theory, but we need some heavy seasoning with this leak – which comes from the Baidu forums (in China), as highlighted by a regular Twitter rumor pedlar,…
Spoilers follow for She-Hulk episode 2 and Shang-Chi. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law episode 2 has arrived on Disney Plus – and it may have secretly set up Marvel Studios’ forthcoming Thunderbolts movie. The second entry in She-Hulk’s live-action series – Superhuman Law – is on the short side from a runtime perspective. However, it’s an…
German factories are buckling under weight of soaring energy prices. Picture alliance/Getty Images The German economy, the largest in Europe, has a big industrial sector that’s under huge pressure. Factory inflation just hit its highest since records began in 1949 as electricity costs soared 600%. Germany’s addiction to Russian energy is helping to push it…
Carl Paladino’s history is riddled with scandals because of his offensive remarks. Hiroko Masuike/Getty Images Carl Paladino, who drew flak for praising Hitler, received 48% of the GOP vote in his district. Paladino lost his Republican House primary to New York GOP chair Nick Langworthy on Tuesday. Despite his controversial remarks, he’s received strong support…
China’s central bank has moved to shore up the yuan after it fell to a two-year low against the dollar Tuesday. AlexSava/Getty Images China’s central bank fixed the yuan at a stronger-than-expected level of 6.8536 per dollar Thursday. It aims to prop up its currency after it fell to a two-year low against the dollar…
Average 30-year fixed mortgage rates inched up again today. Investors have been waiting for the Federal Reserve to indicate whether it will continue its aggressive pace of hikes to the federal funds rate. Mortgage rates have been elevated this week as a result. Mortgage rates don’t move directly in step with the federal funds rate,…