Want to jump straight to the answer? The best customer service software for most people is Gorgias or Freshdesk. Good customer service software puts your support teams in the best possible position. They’ll stay better organized with less busywork. That’s more time to spend solving problems and delivering a five-star experience. Your employees have exactly…
Want to jump straight to the answer? The best virtual office service for most people is Opus Virtual Offices or Alliance Virtual Offices. For small business owners and freelancers, virtual office services offer all the advantages of renting actual office space without having to pay rent. Virtual offices offer a professional mailing address with mail…
After its teasers SoC last week, Qualcomm is announcing two new wearable chipsets today. To succeed the Snapdragon Wear 4100+ platform, Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 and the W5+ Gen 1. Both SoCs are built on the 4nm process and represent a drastic improvement to Qualcomm’s offering for wearables. Qualcomm touts that its…
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) continues to closely monitor the cybersecurity environment in Eastern Europe with regard to the war in Ukraine. Many Russian government cyber assets have remained focused on Ukraine and related issues since the invasion began, while Russian APT activity outside of Ukraine largely remains the same. TAG continues to disrupt campaigns…
Several decades ago, quantum computers were only a concept — a distant idea discussed mostly in lecture halls. Flash forward to today, and the race is on to build fault-tolerant quantum computers and discover new algorithms to apply them in useful ways. For all the aspirations of quantum computing, the reality is that unlocking its…
After more than eight years, we introduced a refreshed version of the Chrome icon for the 100th update for Chrome earlier this year. Today, I chatted with user experience interaction designer Elvin Hu and visual designer Thomas Messenger to go behind the scenes and learn more about how the Chrome icon was designed. What was…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will start allowing the developers of non-gaming apps in the European Economic Area (EEA) to offer alternate payment systems. In a blog post, Google outlines its plans to comply with the Digital Markets Act (or DMA), a piece of legislation aimed at regulating big tech. The DMA…
Screenshot: Qualcomm While Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear chips power the vast majority of current Wear OS watches, the platform itself has never really delivered. Thus far, Snapdragon Wear chips have been repurposed mobile processor designs built on outdated tech and are a big reason why Wear OS watches have been so lackluster. But today, Qualcomm is…
Enlarge / Here is a preliminary design of a Mars lander to be built by Impulse Space. (credit: Impulse Space) Relativity Space has not launched a single rocket, and Impulse Space has never tested one of its thrusters in space. Nevertheless, on Tuesday, the two California-based companies declared their intention to launch an ambitious mission…
Enlarge / Plankton are under real threat as our oceans warm and acidify, but they’re not all gone yet. (credit: tonaquatic/Getty Images) For the past few days, it has been hard to look at social media without coming across a scary-looking report from the Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post. “Scots team’s research finds Atlantic plankton…