This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside Alphabet X’s new effort to combat climate change with seagrass For years, Tidal, a project within Alphabet’s “moonshot factory” X division, has been using cameras, computer vision and machine learning to get…
Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge We discuss some devices and strategies that can keep your turkey hot and your temper cool. Continue reading… Read More
Only 56 percent of doctors strongly welcomed patients with disabilities into their practice in the new paper. Getty Images This story originally featured on Undark. Ben Salentine, associate director of health sciences managed care at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, hasn’t been weighed in more than a decade. His doctors “just kind of…
The holidays came early for Windows users. Windows / Unsplash Microsoft continues to push out new features for Windows 11, breathing new life into the operating system that just passed its first-year anniversary. The latest update, the rather unimaginatively named Windows 11 2022 Update, is the most significant upgrade the software has received to date…
Stack Commerce We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Inflation anxiety is real. An NYT survey notes that nearly 9 in 10 adults worry about the continuously rising prices of goods and services, making it pretty clear that it’s an issue that affects almost…
Meta’s body blow layoff announcement will see the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp making its first-ever major layoffs as a company, cutting 11,000 employees, 13% of its total; predictably investors are responding favorably, bumping the stock up by over 5% in pre-market trading. While the dust settles and we start to get an idea…
If the global pandemic taught us anything, it’s that you could work from anywhere as long as you had a computer and good wireless signal. However, getting paid when you live, say, in Argentina but work for a company on the other side of the world is not so simple. Many fintech startups have taken…
IBM wants to scale up its quantum computers to over 4,000 qubits by 2025 — but we’re not quite there yet. For now, we have to make do with significantly smaller systems and today, IBM announced the launch of its Osprey quantum processor, which features 433 qubits, up from the 127 qubits of its 2021…
Edge computing cloud and global data network Macrometa has raised $38 million led by Akamai Technologies, as the two announce a new partnership and product integrations. The funding also included participation from Shasta Ventures and 60 Degree Capital. Akamai Labs CTO Andy Champagne will join Macrometa’s board. Macrometa founder and CEO Chetan Venkatesh told TechCrunch…
A new workplace accessory looks to solve the issue of adding fiddly extra screens to your laptop or work PC. The newly released 4 HDMI Multi Monitor Adapter from Plugable is able to add four HDMI displays to almost any computer running Windows 10 and newer, or macOS 11, including Macs with M1 or M2…