Crypto Miners in Texas Need 'Approval to Energize' in New Grid Hurdle Admin Thursday, March 31, 2022 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Texas has started requiring new large-scale cryptocurrency miners to seek permission to connect to the state's power grid in anticipatio...
Microsoft: Xbox Minecraft ray tracing preview was a mistake Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images Microsoft started testing Minecraft ray tracing on the Xbox earlier this week, and no...
Alexa can now notify you about deals up to a day in advance Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit The new feature works on fourth generation or newer Echo smart speakers. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon’s Alexa has launched ...
Morbius is one long quick time event about battling bad habits Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Jared Leto as Michael Morbius, the Living Vampire. | Columbia Pictures Sony’s latest Spider-Man villain feature will drain you Continue ...
Dell’s Dual Charge Dock puts a Qi phone charger on a laptop dock for $368.99 Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Dell’s latest laptop dock adds a little something extra: a Qi wireless charging stand that lets you see and charge your phone while also co...
The Steam Deck just got a dual-touchpad keyboard and some much-needed fixes Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Did I speak too soon? Two days after my one-month check-in with the Steam Deck portable gaming PC, Va...
Facebook’s algorithm was mistakenly elevating harmful content for the last six months Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The social network touts downranking as a way to thwart problematic content, but what happens whe...
TweetDeck might become a paid Twitter Blue feature Admin Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit It’d be a big selling point for the subscription service. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s starting to look like the upcom...
I’m done with Wyze Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Image: Wyze I just threw my Wyze home security cameras in the trash. I’m done with this company. I just learned that for the past three ...
Apple and Meta shared data with hackers pretending to be law enforcement officials Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple and Meta handed over user data to hackers who faked emergency data request orders typically...
YouTube is finally rolling out picture-in-picture mode for YouTube TV on iOS Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is rolling out a picture-in-picture mode for YouTube TV on iOS devices running iOS 15 or ...
Apple will allow Dutch dating apps to use other payment options within existing apps Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge To help bring an end to wrangling with Dutch regulators that stretched over the last several mont...
Sony’s new PlayStation Plus makes retro games an expensive option Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit The new PlayStation Plus Premium subscription will have PS1 games, but it’s the most expensive tier. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge ...
Apple finally lets ‘reader’ apps like Kindle, Netflix, and Spotify link to their own sites Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit It promised this change in September, 2021. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is making good on its promise to let some d...
Intel Enters Discrete GPU Market With Launch of Arc A-Series For Laptops Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit MojoKid writes: Today Intel finally launched its first major foray into discrete GPUs for gamers and creators. Dubbed Intel Arc A-Series and...
Pluto's Peaks Are Ice Volcanoes, Scientists Conclude Admin Tuesday, March 29, 2022 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Existence of volcanoes makes idea that dwarf planet is inert ball of ice look increasingly improbable. From a report: Strung out in the icy ...
Messenger gets new shortcuts that let you send silent replies Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit The new shortcuts give you new tools for your chats. | Image: Meta Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is introducing Slack-like short...
Russian Tech Giant Yandex's Data Harvesting Raises Security Concerns Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Russia's biggest internet company has embedded code into apps found on mobile devices that allows information about millions of users to...
watchOS 8.5 may have broken fast charging on the Apple Watch Series 7 Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit The Series 7 was the first Apple Watch to get fast charging. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge While the Apple Watch Series 7 didn’t c...
Hackers Steal $600M From Play-to-Earn Game Axie Infinity's Ronin Network Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit A cryptocurrency affiliated with the popular free-to-play blockchain game Axie Infinity has been hacked in one of the largest crypto heists ...
Here’s where you can buy a Nintendo Switch Admin Monday, March 28, 2022 Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit The Nintendo Switch OLED model boasts a vibrant, 7-inch display and slate of minor upgrades. | Image: Nintendo The Nintendo Switch was, ...
'Most Severe' Cyberattack Since Russian Invasion Crashes Ukraine Internet Provider Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit A "powerful" cyberattack has hit Ukraine's biggest fixed line telecommunications company, Ukrtelecom. Described as the most se...
Microsoft’s high-end Surface Pro 8 has hit its lowest price ever at Best Buy Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit You can currently save $300 on the Surface Pro 8 at Best Buy. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Monday doesn’t have to be all bad, es...
Mountain Everest Max review: peak performance Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit A keyboard with a lot of great ideas, well executed Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/BTsozYU
Museums Are Cashing In on NFTs Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit An anonymous reader shares a report: "To wake up to one of these things is pretty special -- to have a Leonardo at home," said Joe...
How 'Crazy Eddie' Electronics Chain Scammed America Admin Sunday, March 27, 2022 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit In 1983 the annual revenue at the electronics chain Crazy Eddie was roughly $134 million (or about $372 million today), remembers The Hustle...
Will Europe's Push to Reduce Russian Fossil Fuel Use Hurt Its Climate Goals? Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit In 2021, the European Union imported about 40% of its gas and 25% of its oil from Russia, reports the Associated Press. But now EU officials...
Amazon workers say they weren’t all alerted as smoke spread through a warehouse Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon workers claim they weren’t all properly alerted as what they thought was smoke filled the ...
'Wordle' Creator Says Unauthorized Clones Drove Him to Selling His Game Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit In January the virally-popular game Wordle was sold to the New York Times for between between $1 million (£758,345) and $5 million. Now the ...
'Rolling Rhino' Tool Converts Ubuntu Into a Rolling Release Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit "Rolling Rhino is a tool long ago created by Martin Wimpress, who until recently was part of the Canonical team," one Linux blog p...
KDE's New Swipe Gesture Makes Windows 11 Look Bad Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit "Microsoft has been struggling to reach a state of convergence between tablet and desktop ever since Windows 8 and the original Surface...
CNBC: 'Stem Cells May Finally Offer a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes' Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit On Saturday CNBC published a remarkable headline. "Stem cells may finally offer a cure for Type 1 diabetes." There are 537 million...
Are Movies Dying? Admin Saturday, March 26, 2022 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit As viewership drops for Hollywood's annual Academy Awards ceremony, "Everyone has a theory about the decline..." argues an opi...
That Big Tech Exodus Out of California? It Didn't Happen Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit "Wannabe innovation hubs from coast to coast have been slavering over the prospect that the work-from-home revolution triggered by the ...
Apple Pay closes loophole that allowed Russian users to pay with Mir cards Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Pay will no longer support Russian card payment system Mir, closing a loophole that let Rus...
Watch Out, Facebook. American Non-Profit Creates Social Network for Older Adults Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Wikipedia points out that America's two largest-circulation publications are the two magazine sent out to over 38 million members of mas...