Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was a bit of an unknown when it burst onto the scene in 2017, a new IP from Ninja Theory that did daring things with its portrayal of mental health in an unsettling period setting. Now it’s getting a sequel in the form of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, which was showcased in…
Remember the name Sharp? The electronics manufacturer featured on Manchester United shirts back in the 1990s, its fair to say that the rise of other brands in the TV market has relegated them in the pecking order of things. But they launched something of a comeback in 2021 with a new range of affordable smart…
Google last week unveiled the Pixel Watch, a Wear OS-based smart watch that has a round display and a suite of health tracking features. We picked up a Pixel Watch and thought we’d compare it to Apple’s newest flagship wristworn device, the Apple Watch Series 8. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos….
Medical artificial intelligence (AI) promises great rewards but also comes with great risks. Here’s what’s happening in the field now.Read MoreRead More
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. Why the sci-fi dream of cryonics never died When Aaron Drake flew from Arizona to the Yinfeng Biological Group in China in 2016, he was traveling there to guide China’s first forays into…
Apple’s native iOS keyboard in Dvorak layout. | Screenshot by Jon Porter / The Verge Here’s a fun iOS 16 feature that’s almost completely slipped under our radar: native support for the Dvorak keyboard layout. Ars Technica reported this week that the touch-typing optimized keyboard can now be selected in Apple’s software alongside the more…
Vincent Kilbride / The Verge Last month, all four major online social platforms — Meta, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok — released their plans for combating misinformation and disinformation in the weeks leading up to the 2022 US midterms. Meta will have voting alerts, real-time fact-checking in both English and Spanish, and as it did in…
Jarett Sitter / The Verge A day in the life of a 20-something on TikTok who works in tech might look something like this: start the day with free breakfast and a latte. Immediately go out for a multihour lunch break. Return to the office and wander around the spacious, light-filled space, visiting the nap…
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft introduced several new devices this week including the Surface Pro 9, Surface Laptop 5, and Surface Studio 2 Plus. They’re all fairly iterative updates; you know that’s true when Microsoft’s hype videos emphasize new colors and integrated 5G connectivity (for the Arm-powered Pro 9) as the most…
Enlarge Shortly after our review of the Ryzen 5 7600X and Ryzen 9 7950X were published late last month, AMD sent us a box containing the other two members of the Ryzen 7000 launch family: the $400 Ryzen 7 7700X, and the $550 Ryzen 9 7900X. Absent a six-core member of the family in the…