Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft isn’t happy with Sony and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority. The UK regulator signaled an in-depth review of Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard last month, and the CMA has now published its full 76-page report (PDF) on its findings. The CMA says it…
Enlarge / The Pixel Watch. It’s a perfect, round little pebble. (credit: Ron Amadeo) SPECS AT A GLANCE: Pixel Watch SCREEN 1.2-inch, 450×450 OLED (320 ppi) OS Wear OS 3.5 (Android 11) CPU Dual-core Samsung Exynos 9110 (10 nm) Two 1.15 GHz Cortex A53 cores (plus a low-power Cortex M33 co-processor) RAM 2GB GPU Arm…
Enlarge / Please don’t do this. (credit: Getty Images) Big Tech wants to kill the password, with “Passkeys” being the hot, new password replacement standard on the block. Passkeys are backed by Google, Apple, Microsoft, and the FIDO Alliance, so expect to see them everywhere soon. iOS picked up the standard in version 16, and now Google is…
Enlarge (credit: Pavel_Korr | iStock / Getty Images Plus) The US has taken its next step in its boldest efforts yet to disrupt China’s military by blocking access to memory chips and chip-making equipment that are crucial to modern defense systems like stealth aircraft, satellites, and cruise missiles. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that…
Enlarge / NASA’s Space Launch System will make a nighttime launch on its current timeline. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann) A little more than two weeks have passed since NASA prudently rolled its Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft inside the massive Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center to protect the hardware from Hurricane Ian….
Enlarge (credit: Image courtesy of University of Sydney) Today, Nature Astronomy released a paper that shows off the sorts of science the Webb Telescope was designed to produce. Early on, the new telescope was pointed at a system of two massive stars that orbit each other closely. Ground-based observations had detected a ring or two…
Enlarge / A man receives an H1N1 nasal flu spray vaccine at an urgent care center on October 16, 2009, in Lake Worth, Florida. (credit: Getty | Joe Raedle) The nasal version of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine failed an early-stage clinical trial, dashing hopes for better infection prevention and forcing researchers to re-think the design….
A child showing off foraged mushrooms. Deposit Photos Some animals are able to stand, walk, or even run moments after birth. Baby humans can pretty much only cry, spit up, and poop, and don’t really start doing anything very physical until several months into their lives. But, there may be a reason why, as a…
SAVE 45%: As of Oct. 12, the Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen) is on sale for just $54.98 at Walmart as part of its Rollbacks and More sale. That’s $45 in savings and just shy of its lowest price ever. Amazon might be in the spotlight right now with its Prime Early Access Sale, but…
Tom Cruise in “The Mummy” (2017) Universal Brendan Fraser, star of the 1999 “Mummy” movie, said that Tom Cruise’s 2017 reboot wasn’t “fun.” “‘The Mummy’ should be a thrill ride, but not terrifying and scary,” Fraser said. 2017’s “Mummy” flopped so badly Universal scrapped plans for a monster-focused shared universe. Tom Cruise’s 2017 “Mummy” movie…