One of the great things about Twitter is that you can reach out to any public user with a quick @ mention to their username. One of the worst things about Twitter is that it’s all too easy to abuse that feature. But it turns out, the bird network may be working on a way to…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Samsung announced this week that One UI 5 and Android 13 will begin rolling out to the Galaxy S22 series at the end of this month. They revealed the rollout timeline during the keynote of the Samsung Developer Conference as they highlighted the updated experience users will see. Following that announcement, Samsung took to its…
More than a year after Google launched Wear OS 3, Fossil has decided to release a smartwatch running it, while offering an upgrade for others. The Fossil Gen 6 Wellness Edition smartwatch arrives this month as the company’s first wearable to run the Google x Samsung x Fitbit operating system out of the box. Despite…
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Although Playdots is going away, Two Dots will live on. | Image: Take-Two Take-Two is shutting down the gaming studio Playdots, the creator of puzzle games like Two Dots and the just-released Apple Arcade title Garden Tails, as first reported by Bloomberg. Due to the closure, Take-Two will cut 65 jobs beginning in January, per…
Keep my name out of your tweet. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is working on a feature that lets you control who can mention you, with the test version discovered by app researcher and engineer Jane Manchun Wong letting you block mentions completely. Twitter privacy designer Dominic Camozzi confirmed that the…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Netflix is launching a $6.99-per-month version that includes four or five minutes of ads per hour and video quality that tops out at 720p. The new “Basic with Ads” option, to be available starting November 3, will also have slightly fewer movies and TV shows than the pricier tiers….
Enlarge / A Project Starline booth, featuring a 3D display and a massive array of cameras. (credit: Google) Google actually seems serious about its wild “Project Starline” video booth idea. The mysterious project was announced as part of the Google I/O 2021 keynote but was initially overshadowed by more tangible Wear OS and Android announcements….
Enlarge / Artist’s illustration of a tidal disruption event where a supermassive black hole spaghettifies and gobbles down a star. (credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab) Back in October 2018, astronomers spotted the bright flare of a star being shredded by a black hole 20 million times more massive than our Sun 665 million light years away—a…
Enlarge / In culture, nerve cells spontaneously form the structures needed to communicate with each other. (credit: JUAN GAERTNER / Getty Images) One of the more exciting developments in AI has been the development of algorithms that can teach themselves the rules of a system. Early versions of things like game-playing algorithms had to be…