Halo Infinite’s campaign co-op preview kicks off in July Admin Thursday, June 30, 2022 Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit You’ll be able to try out co-op very soon. | Image: 343 Industries Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries is finally going to kick off ...
Raspberry Pi announces the Pico W, a $6 microcontroller equipped with Wi-Fi Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Raspberry Pi has introduced a successor to last year’s Pico , a $4 microcontroller based on the RP2040 chip the company designed itself. T...
How to delete your period tracking app data Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Kristen Radtke / The Verge Warnings to delete cycle tracking apps flooded social media in the wake of the United States Supreme Court’s d...
Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing 'Geo Tracking Data' To ICE Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is selling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a suite of features used...
EA’s ‘pre-pre-pre-alpha’ video of the new Skate still looks pretty great Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Image: EA EA announced in 2020 that a new Skate game was on the way , and on Thursday, we got our first look — well, sort of. The compan...
FTX Closes in on a Deal To Buy Embattled Crypto Lender BlockFi for $25 Million in a Fire Sale Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit FTX is swooping in to buy crypto lender BlockFi for pennies on the dollar, CNBC reported Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter. ...
A Wide Range of Routers Are Under Attack By New, Unusually Sophisticated Malware Admin Wednesday, June 29, 2022 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit An unusually advanced hacking group has spent almost two years infecting a wide range of routers in North America and Europe with malware th...
A Pro-China Online Influence Campaign is Targeting the Rare-Earths Industry Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Disinformation operatives seek to undermine firms in the Western world as China fights to maintain near-monopoly power. From a report: An on...
Nerf’s Gjallarhorn rocket launcher from Destiny is truly gigantic — preorders begin July 7th Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Image: Bungie If you were worried that the real-life foam firing version of the infamous Gjallarhorn rocket launcher from Destiny would ...
Firefox Can Now Automatically Remove Tracking From URLs Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Mozilla's latest Firefox browser release has a new feature that prevents sites like Facebook from tracking you across websites. Called Q...
The Xiaomi Mi 12S Ultra will use a huge 1-inch camera sensor co-developed with Sony Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Xiaomi says it split the $15 million development cost of the new smartphone camera sensor with Sony. | Image: Xiaomi Big-sensor cameras ...
Electric vehicle companies have a serious quality problem Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge The chip shortage and supply chain crisis are doing more than just driving up vehicle prices — they’r...
Apple Promises 'White Glove Experiences' For Its Most Helpful Community Members Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Apple is rewarding the most active and helpful members of its support forums with its new Community Plus program. The invite-only program gi...
Bored Apes Creator Sues Conceptual Artist For Copying Its NFTs Admin Tuesday, June 28, 2022 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit The company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club has sued conceptual artist Ryder Ripps for selling duplicates of its Bored Ape non-fungible tokens o...
Facebook and Instagram will remove posts offering abortion pills Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook and Instagram are removing posts from users that offer help accessing abortion pills, sa...
Facebook Groups are being revamped to look like Discord Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Facebook Groups are about to get some big changes, and if you’ve used Discord, the new...
Biotech Wizard Left a Trail of Fraud -- Prosecutors Allege It Ended in Murder Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Serhat Gumrukcu faces trial in a purported plot to kill an associate who could have exposed him and derailed a drug-development deal worth m...
Waymo’s self-driving trucks will deliver home goods for Wayfair Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Waymo will deliver home goods for Wayfair using its fleet of autonomous semi-trailer trucks, the compan...
Svelte Origins: a JavaScript Documentary Admin Monday, June 27, 2022 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Svelte Origins: The Documentary tells the story of how Svelte came to be, what makes Svelte different, and how it changes the game as a Java...
Here are the best Apple Watch deals right now Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Apple’s latest Apple Watch, the Series 7, boasts a larger display and faster charging than its last-gen predecessor. | Photo by Vjeran Pav...
Popular Game Valorant Will Start Listening To Your Voice Chat Next Month Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Riot Games will begin background evaluation of recorded in-game voice communications on July 13th in North America, in English. In a brief s...
Why Inflation Looks Likely To Stay Above the Pre-Pandemic Norm Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Even as supply-chain snarls ease, wage growth and price expectations are ticking up. The Economist: The bad news on inflation just keeps com...
Supreme Court rejects Apple’s bid to continue fighting over two Qualcomm patents Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit The Supreme Court declined Apple’s bid ( pdf ) for a hearing over two Qualcomm patents (US Patent No. 7,844,037 and US Patent No. 8,683,362...
Facebook is Bombarding Cancer Patients With Ads For Unproven Treatments Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Clinics offering debunked cancer treatments are still allowed to advertise, despite the company's stated efforts to control medical misi...
Satellites are Sinking Faster Toward Earth. Scientists Blame Solar Wind Admin Sunday, June 26, 2022 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit "In late 2021, operators of the European Space Agency's Swarm constellation noticed something worrying," reports Space.com. &q...
Tim Berners-Lee Skeptical of Web3, Touts Decentralized Internet Without Blockchain Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Sir Tim Berners-Lee "is skeptical about a blockchain-based internet," reports the Next Web. Instead, they describe his new vision ...
How China Hopes to Fly Mars Samples to Earth Two Years Before NASA and ESA Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit "China's Mars sample return mission aims to collect samples from the Red Planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years ahe...
Valorant will start monitoring your voice chats starting July 13th Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Image: Riot Games Riot Games, the developer behind the free first-person shooter (FPS) Valorant , will start monitoring players’ voice co...
Are Today's Programmers Leaving Too Much Code Bloat? Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit Long-time Slashdot reader Artem S. Tashkinov shares a blog post from indie game programmer who complains "The special upload tool I had...
Why MapQuest, Jeeves, and Other 'Internet Zombies' are Still Around Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit "The dream of the 1990s internet is still alive, if you look in the right corners," argues the New York Times' newsletter On T...
Report: Apple is gearing up to launch a ‘flood’ of new devices starting this fall Admin Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s poised to release a slew of new devices between this fall and the beginning of 2023, acco...
Google says attackers worked with ISPs to deploy Hermit spyware on Android and iOS Admin Saturday, June 25, 2022 Add Comment TECH, The Verge - All Posts Edit Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A sophisticated spyware campaign is getting the help of internet service providers (ISPs) to tric...
Is Dyslexia an Evolutionary Advantage Rather Than a 'Disorder'? Admin Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit LinkedIn recently added 'dyslexic thinking' as an official skill. And now the U.K. national newspaper the Telegraph reports on scien...