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Samsung’s Galaxy S23 may cost more than its predecessor
It seems like Samsung’s planning on charging more for the upcoming Galaxy S23 than it did for the S22, at…
Read More »The Samsung Galaxy S23 might be able to survive a waist-high drop on concrete
Like I told you in November, Corning says its new cover class should be able to survive a one-meter drop…
Read More »Smartphone sales are so bad even the holidays couldn’t help, says IDC
Smartphone shipments have dropped nearly 20 percent year over year during the recent holiday period, as consumer demand softens amid…
Read More »Google changes its rules for the Android platform in India
Google will let Android users in India use third-party billing options starting next month as part of its compliance with…
Read More »Apple issues security update for the almost 10-year-old iPhone 5S
The iPhone 5S got its last OS upgrade in 2018 with the release of iOS 12, but it’s not totally…
Read More »How to use Clear Calling on the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro
When Google announced its new Pixel 7 and 7 Pro smartphones, it promoted a feature called Clear Calling that would…
Read More »Surprise, surprise: the cell carriers didn’t get rid of passwords
Originally announced as “Project Verify” in 2018, ZenKey was meant to be a single sign-on system, similar to the sign…
Read More »37 million accounts hacked in latest T-Mobile data breach
T-Mobile has revealed the company’s second major breach in less than two years, admitting that a hacker was able to…
Read More »Samsung Display shows off a new folding phone hinge that can rotate 360 degrees
Samsung has a new prototype display that could send its folding phones in a new direction: 360 degrees. Samsung Display,…
Read More »Galaxy S23 spec leak leaves few surprises ahead of February launch
Spec sheets for all three devices in Samsung’s upcoming flagship smartphone lineup, the Galaxy S23 series, appear to have leaked…
Read More »You can finally repair your own Samsung Galaxy S22
When Samsung first launched the self-repair program in August, customers only had access to limited OEM parts like replacement back…
Read More »Samsung will unveil two “premium” mobile devices at Unpacked, says TM Roh
For Samsung, Ultra means big. Ultra means bold. Ultra means the best of the best in performance. To take everyday…
Read More »Samsung’s new 200-megapixel camera sensor is almost certainly inside the new Galaxy S23 Ultra
It’s not all about big numbers; moving to higher-pixel-count sensors has real image quality benefits. In this chapter of the…
Read More »The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 may finally get the crease right
The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 could come with a much less visible crease thanks to a potential design…
Read More »Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and Plus images leak ahead of the February 1st launch event
Like Samsung’s Galaxy S23, the Ultra and Plus seem to share a metal frame and glass cover design that closely…
Read More »Clear Calling on the Pixel 7 is like noise cancellation for hard-to-hear phone calls
You probably haven’t been on the phone with someone who’s using a serger sewing machine. I have, and I’m here…
Read More »Samsung will give you a $50 credit when you reserve and preorder the Galaxy S23
Samsung’s next Unpacked event will kick off on February 1st, when we expect it to launch the Galaxy S23 and…
Read More »Marvel Snap PvP mode drops very soon
After weeks of playtesting, theorycrafting, ladder-climbing, and a bunch of shit-talking, I am ready to face my friends in Marvel…
Read More »Here’s our first look at the Samsung Galaxy S23
Samsung’s Galaxy S23 series is expected to be unveiled for the first time at the upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event on…
Read More »Samsung Galaxy S23 teasers hint at high resolution cameras and improved low-light photography
Samsung’s upgrades for this year’s Galaxy S23 lineup include higher-resolution camera sensors and improved low light photography, according to a…
Read More »Twitter defaults to a For You page now, just like TikTok
Twitter is changing how you move between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed…
Read More »It’s Kang’s world in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s newest trailer
As silly as Jonathan Majors’ Loki villain was, it’s been kind of hard to imagine how the actor might bring…
Read More »Elon Musk wants to move trial away from San Francisco over ‘local negativity’
Elon Musk has asked a judge to move an upcoming trial for a shareholder lawsuit out of San Francisco, citing…
Read More »The Verge’s best of CES 2023
Another Consumer Electronics Show has come and (almost) gone, and The Verge was there to capture all of the biggest…
Read More »Google Stadia is shutting down soon, so transfer your games and saves while you can
Google Stadia, the company’s not-long-for-this-world cloud gaming service, will be shutting down for good on January 18th. (Specifically, January 18th…
Read More »Microsoft is running an ad in The Washington Post to say that it’s cool with unions
A New Year Opens New Doors As we enter a new year, we remain committed to creating the best workplaces…
Read More »Razer Blade 16 hands-on: a dream gaming laptop
Razer has given us a first look at the Razer Blade 16 and Razer Blade 18, which will be released…
Read More »AMD’s Ryzen 7000 X3D CPUs arrive next month to take on Intel for PC gaming
AMD is bringing its impressive 3D V-Cache technology to its Ryzen 7000 desktop processors. Starting in February, the Ryzen 9…
Read More »Chrysler’s cockpit concept is a preview of our screen-packed, button-less future
By 2028, iconic American automotive brand Chrysler says it will be an electric-only company. As such, it needs an interior…
Read More »Shower pods are here to turn your bathroom into a spa
Ever wish you could bring the spa home with you? Well, now you kind of can. Kohler announced a new…
Read More »CES 2023: all the news from the year’s biggest tech conference
Maybe this would look better inside an actual car. As usual, LG Display isn’t waiting until the show starts, or…
Read More »Sony’s A7R V is an amazing camera plagued by bad ergonomics
There’s only so much that really needs to be said about Sony’s A7R V mirrorless camera. Sony made so many…
Read More »Grubhub must pay DC $3.5 million over claims it charged customers hidden fees
Grubhub has been ordered to pay $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit from the District of Columbia that claims the…
Read More »Twitter will soon let you swipe between tweets, topics, and trends
Twitter will soon let you swipe to switch between different views containing recommended and followed tweets, trends, topics, and more.…
Read More »Google Voice will now warn you about potential spam calls
Google has announced that it’s adding a red “suspected spam caller” warning to Google Voice calls if it doesn’t think…
Read More »India to standardize USB-C charging on mobiles by 2025
Mobile devices in India will be required to adopt USB Type-C as the standard charging port for electronic products by…
Read More »Hand Mirror uses Apple’s MacBook notch in a wonderfully clever way
We’ve covered Hand Mirror before. It’s a simple, free Mac utility that lives in your menu bar. Whenever you click…
Read More »Microsoft’s making Excel’s formulas even easier
Microsoft has announced it’s making Excel’s autocomplete even smarter, at least in the web version that comes with Microsoft 365…
Read More »Go read this story about a mood decoder developed by neuroscientists that can measure depression
Whenever I see news about deep brain stimulation, I perk up. The procedure — which involves implanting electrodes deep into…
Read More »What keeping a bullet journal can teach you about using to-do list apps
On July 6th of this year, I officially ended my three-year-long experiment with trying to organize my life using a…
Read More »YouTube’s testing its Queue system for its iOS and Android apps
YouTube is starting to test out its queueing system on iOS and Android. The feature has been available on the…
Read More »Users report Google Calendar bug creating random, fake events
Numerous users have reported experiencing an odd glitch in the Google Calendar mobile app over the past few days. The…
Read More »Twitter’s new view counts for tweets offer measurement without meaning
The internet is, in many ways, built on fraudulent measurement. Measuring article and video views keep the wheels of online…
Read More »How to take control of macOS notifications
Are you annoyed by how quickly the macOS notification banners that appear in the upper-right corner of the screen disappear?…
Read More »Attorney says facial recognition got her kicked out of a Rockettes show
Kelly Conlon, an attorney from New Jersey, says she wasn’t allowed to see a Rockettes show at Radio City Music…
Read More »Geohot resigns from Twitter
George Hotz, known for being the first person to carrier-unlock an iPhone and jailbreaking the PS3, both under his hacker…
Read More »More than two million users have flocked to Mastodon since Elon Musk took over Twitter
Mastodon, a decentralized social media platform that many are turning to as a Twitter alternative, saw its userbase skyrocket from…
Read More »Elon Musk should step down as head of Twitter, says poll
Elon Musk may be close to ending his run as Twitter CEO if he abides by the results of a…
Read More »Ford’s electric F-150 Lightning is getting more expensive, again
Ford’s raising the price of its F-150 Lightning pickup yet again — this time, by about $4,000 (via CNBC). The…
Read More »Apple reportedly backs out of NFL Sunday Ticket negotiations
The Athletic’s Daniel Kaplan backs up Byers’ reporting, saying on Twitter that he’s told, “Apple has indeed bowed out.” While…
Read More »Tesla’s new virtual power plant lets Texans sell electricity back to the grid
Tesla launched a new power utility provider service in Texas this week that lets select locals with home Powerwall backup…
Read More »Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon
Twitter is blocking users from tweeting links to many major servers for Mastodon, one of the most notable Twitter alternatives.…
Read More »Elon Musk bought Twitter, and here’s everything that happened next
The Twitter checkmarks cometh. Twitter is gearing up to relaunch its verification program as soon as tomorrow, though the release…
Read More »Polestar and Cake extend their partnership to include a new electric moped
EV maker Polestar is extending its collaboration with Swedish e-motorbike company Cake to release a new battery-powered moped that, for…
Read More »Only a quarter of US iPhones are sold through Apple
A new report from CIRP says that only about 24 percent of recent iPhones purchased in the US were sold…
Read More »Meta shuts down its Connectivity division after nearly a decade
Meta’s shuttering its Connectivity arm almost 10 years after launching the initiative, according to a report from Light Reading. The…
Read More »The best instant photo printer you can buy right now
Instant photo printers are sort of the quieter, less-cool sibling of instant cameras, but they’re arguably more practical. They don’t…
Read More »Take a look at Nothing’s first permanent physical store
Nothing will open its first brick-and-mortar store in London’s Soho district later this week, offering products like Nothing’s Phone 1…
Read More »Google’s giving Pixel 7 Pro owners more control over macro mode
Google’s updating its camera app to give Pixel 7 Pro users more control over its macro mode by adding a…
Read More »The latest Motorola Moto G Play is a 4G-only phone for $170
The 2023 Moto G Play sticks with a 6.5-inch LCD screen but increases the refresh rate to 90Hz. It’s still…
Read More »How to enable end-to-end encryption for your iCloud backups
With iOS 16.2, Apple is bringing advanced security features to more of your data. Among other things, it is adding…
Read More »Amazon Echo Auto (2nd gen) review: smaller but not smarter
Amazon’s second-generation Echo Auto is a tiny Echo for your car’s dashboard. It has good microphones, is easy to install…
Read More »Apple’s new App Store policies add more price points, going all the way up to $10,000
Under the updated App Store pricing system, all developers will have the ability to select from 900 price points, which…
Read More »Pixel 7 phones are getting a VPN and call enhancements today
If you’ve been eager to try Clear Calling on the Pixel 7 but unwilling to download beta software to use…
Read More »Motorola’s Edge 30 Fusion is coming to the US in pink, and I don’t hate it
The Edge 30 Fusion comes with upper-midrange specs, including a previous-gen flagship Qualcomm processor, the Snapdragon 888 Plus 5G. That’ll…
Read More »1 billion people will be connected to 5G by the end of the year
5G is about to hit a major milestone. Telecom equipment maker Ericsson says in its latest mobility report that 1…
Read More »Corning’s latest Gorilla Glass can now survive a one-meter drop on concrete
When Samsung announces its Galaxy S23 lineup in February, it might have the toughest screens on a smartphone yet —…
Read More »Samsung’s Galaxy S23 lineup will reportedly launch in early February
Samsung will announce its next flagship phone lineup, the Galaxy S23 series, in the first week of February 2023, according…
Read More »Samsung may be readying a Self Repair Assistant app
Samsung seems to be working on a new self-repair app to aid customers looking to fix their own devices. The…
Read More »The Galaxy Z Fold 4 is the most versatile gadget you can buy
It’s easy to see the appeal of folding phones — they are big screen devices that get smaller to fit…
Read More »7 games to distract your baby cousins this Thanksgiving
“You got games on your phone?” It is a question that haunts Black gamers whenever they return home for Thanksgiving…
Read More »I went to the Genesis point of Dish’s 5G network, and all I got was disappointment
The moment I’ve been waiting the past few months to experience finally came on a bus ride down the Las…
Read More »Google Messages has started letting some users react with any emoji
Google has started letting some users of its Messages app react to text messages with any emoji, instead of limiting…
Read More »Hands on with Honor’s new Magic VS foldable, its first releasing outside China
The Honor Magic VS is a new foldable smartphone from the former Huawei subbrand that’s actually planned for release outside…
Read More »Embracer is ripping a beloved mobile game away from people who paid for it
Three weeks after shutting down the studio that produced it (which had incidentally just finished going through an expensive rebrand),…
Read More »Vivo’s X90 Pro Plus is the first phone with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset
Vivo doesn’t outright name the X90 Pro Plus’ chipset as the 8 Gen 2, likely because of its partnership with…
Read More »How a Pomodoro timer app helped me regain my focus
Focusing never used to be a problem for me. I was the annoying kid who could study for eight to…
Read More »Verizon will now let you test drive its 5G network for free
Verizon has introduced a new early access program that allows you to test its network for up to 30 days.…
Read More »Watch an iFixit employee shoot a battery with a nail gun to teach us all about safety
Repair specialists iFixit have released a new video of themselves stabbing and, ultimately, nail gunning a series of batteries in…
Read More »Google Maps’ new ‘Live View’ AR feature launches in London, NYC, LA, and a few other cities
Google revealed some initial details about Search with Live View in September, but now it’s announcing the Google Maps augmented…
Read More »Qualcomm has a new chip brand
Qualcomm has announced a new subbrand of CPUs for its Snapdragon family of products, called Oryon. The new CPU will…
Read More »Evernote’s getting acquired by mobile developer Bending Spoons
Evernote is getting a new owner. In an announcement on Wednesday, the note-taking app announced that it’s getting acquired by…
Read More »Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 gives us a glimpse of 2023’s Android flagships
Qualcomm has announced all the details of its next flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, with a focus on…
Read More »TikTok is testing its long-awaited in-app shopping feature
TikTok’s in-app shopping feature is finally beginning to roll out in the US market. The company began testing its TikTok…
Read More »Leica’s Phone 2 is the red dot version of Sharp’s Aquos R7
Or you can buy basically the same phone — minus the red dot logo — for 189,360 yen, which is…
Read More »How to track your luggage — or anything else — with AirTags
This summer, we made the tactical error of visiting extended family in Europe. As the trip approached, we noted with…
Read More »Nintendo will “strengthen digitalization” in new partnership with Super Mario Run developer
The joint venture will establish a new company called Nintendo Systems Co., Ltd, which is set to open in April…
Read More »T-Mobile may be looking to spend big on fiber home internet
T-Mobile is reportedly considering building a multibillion-dollar fiber network that it would use to provide home internet service, according to…
Read More »Google’s Pixel 7 and 7 Pro get minor November update ahead of new features next month
Battery & Charging Fix for issue causing increased power consumption while certain apps installed *[1] Display & Graphics Fix for…
Read More »iFixit starts selling parts for the Google Pixel 6A
iFixit doesn’t just provide the necessary tools and parts to repair all of your expensive technology but also provides detailed…
Read More »Signal users can now share and create Stories
Stories are now available to everyone on Signal, allowing users of the encrypted instant messaging service to create and share…
Read More »How Marvel Snap was designed to fit into your life
The developers at Marvel Snap have done their job a little too well. In an interview with The Verge, the…
Read More »I can’t believe I waited this long to get a smartwatch
I’ve used every new flagship phone from Apple, Samsung, and Google this year, and they’re great! But they’re also boring.…
Read More »Huawei’s new foldable Pocket S combines a familiar design with a lower price
Almost a year after Huawei announced its first clamshell foldable in the form of the P50 Pocket, it’s back with…
Read More »Apple’s own 5G modems might come to iPhones later than expected
Apple will once again rely on Qualcomm modems for its 2023 iPhones, Qualcomm said on its Q4 2022 earnings call,…
Read More »Qualcomm is predicting a “double-digit” drop in phone sales
Qualcomm, one of the primary providers of chips and modems in phones, is predicting that phone sales will be down…
Read More »Xiaomi concept clips a full-size Leica lens onto a smartphone
Xiaomi’s new concept phone allows a full size Leica camera lens to be attached to the back of a prototype…
Read More »T-Mobile is reportedly adding an activation fee for online orders
T-Mobile hasn’t responded to our request to confirm the new charge, but according to the internal documents obtained by The…
Read More »Netflix is acquiring cozy game developer Spry Fox
Netflix is acquiring Spry Fox, the indie developer of “cozy” games like Cozy Grove and Alphabear, Netflix announced on Monday.…
Read More »There are too many iPads, iPhones, and Apple Watches
Last week, I decided I was going to buy a new iPad. There’s nothing wrong with the sixth-gen iPad I…
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