Samsung is reportedly planning on making space for an S-Pen holster within the next-generation Galaxy Z Fold 5 smartphone. While the S Pen stylus does work with the Galaxy Fold range – indeed, there’s a special, thinner Fold Edition that comes with a protective pouch, as well as a special case – the inability to…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
What are the pros and cons of sponcon? Pro: It’s great marketing for your brand. Pro: You form professional relationships with influential social media creators. Pro: You get fresh, engaging content promoting your business. Con: you’re going to have to pay — that’s where the “sponsored” part comes in. Surprise! The best things in life…
Fire tablets and other Alexa-enabled gadgets are currently on sale at Amazon. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge It’s Alexa’s birthday, and to celebrate, Amazon is discounting a wide range of its smart home products, including Echo devices, Fire TVs, Blink video doorbell systems, and Fire tablets. We’ve outlined a few highlights here…
Illustration: The Verge Google is adding package tracking features to Gmail, which should make it easier to see where your orders are at a glance while you scroll through your emails. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company says you’ll start seeing “a simple, helpful view of your package tracking and delivery information right…
OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund, OpenAI says. The $100 million entrepreneurial tranche was announced last May…
Four years ago, Comma.ai founder George Hotz turned to his board — of which he is the only member — and fired himself as CEO. At the time, the goal for the famed iPhone and Playstation 3 hacker, known as geohot, was to build out a new research division to focus on behavioral models that…
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, interest rates for mortgages dropped to historic lows. Predictably, home buyers made hay, taking full advantage of the favorable financial environment to pick up new homes and refinancing mortgages on their existing homes. Startups operating in the financial side of the real estate tech market suddenly faced…
Web3 developer tooling startup Tenderly is getting into the node game with a new product it announced today called Web3 Gateway. The product will help web3 developers read, stream and analyze blockchain data, according to the company. The offering builds on the company’s observability stack, which it says indexes over nine billion transactions across more…
Elon Musk, the newly self-crowned chief twit, seems to have lots of ideas to wring every last red cent out of Twitter users. My dude is turning Twitter into the Spirit Airlines of social media platforms. Musk seems poised to crack open users’ wallets at every turn, or at least make the attempt. Some of…
UPDATE: Nov. 2, 2022, 3:10 p.m. EDT This story has been updated to include the latest pricing and deals from Apple, Beats, Bose, and more. Check out our top picks of the best deals. BEST HEADPHONE DEAL: Bose QuietComfort 45 headphones provide some of the best in class active noise cancellation and comfort — $249…