Whales face numerous threats from humans, not the least of which are ship collisions — the World Sustainability Organization estimates 18,000 to 25,000 animals die each year. There may be a technological way to minimize those deaths, however. Reutersreports Chile’s government and the MERI Foundation have deployed the first smart buoy from the Blue Boat…
Optimize the experience of Pixel 7 with the Bellroy Leather Case For Pixel. This case comes with the premium leather wraps from edge to edge. As a result, it gives your Pixel 7 a touchably soft, seamless feel in hand. In fact, this case will feel surprisingly slim, thanks to the silhouette. This will actually…
Apple is rumored to be a frontrunner for streaming rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket package, but CNBC today reported that “existing restrictions around Sunday Ticket have slowed negotiations between Apple and the NFL in recent months.” The report claims that Apple is not interested in “simply acting as a conduit for broadcasting games” and…
The Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches are eligible for the upgrade to Wear OS 3 starting today. | Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Last week, Fossil announced the Gen 6 Wellness Edition, its first Wear OS 3 smartwatch. But starting today, the company is also beginning to roll out the Wear OS 3 update…
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta — Facebook and Instagram’s parent company — is currently at the center of controversy in India, where a local publication claims the company removed an Instagram post on behalf of an Indian politician. Meta has since pushed back on these claims and accuses the outlet of using…
Enlarge / The Nvidia RTX 4090 founders edition. If you can’t tell, those lines are drawn on, though the heft of this $1,599 product might convince you that they’re a reflection of real-world motion blur upon opening this massive box. (credit: Sam Machkovech) The Nvidia RTX 4090 makes me laugh. Part of that is due…
File this under ‘better late than never,’ but I have a few thank yous to share. Some would argue that it’s too late, but I don’t believe so. Very young me didn’t have access to many books. Our family didn’t have much extra money to spend on books, and with one car which my father…
This year was huge for the crypto developer space even though the digital asset market continues to wallow in a downturn, according to a new report by web3 developer platform Alchemy. Although the crypto market capitalization is down about 58% year to date, web3 developers are pouring into the space. The report found that developer…
Linux creator Linus Torvalds’ latest update, which details some key information for the first release candidate of version 6.1, has some underlying messages and pleas to the project’s developers. He opens by saying that “we ‘only’ have 11.5k non-merge commits during this merge window, compared to 13.5k last time around”, which is “not exactly tiny,…
US President Joe Biden. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Biden officially launched the application site for student-loan forgiveness on Monday. This means the applications will now be processed following a beta testing period. But GOP lawsuits could still pose a challenge to this relief. Student-loan borrowers can now officially apply for President Joe Biden’s one-time…