Jony Ive’s latest product is the Apple Stage, a giant rainbow under which...
According to MacRumors, Cult of Mac and a variety of social media reports, Apple employees are having a unique day at Apple’s spaceship campus — one filled with rainbows. Last week, drone videographer...
View ArticleA Memory Called Empire is a brilliant blend of cyberpunk, space opera, and...
In Arkady Martine’s debut novel, A Memory Called Empire, Ambassador Mahit Dzmare, an emissary from the distant Lsel Station, is called to the center of the vast Teixcalaanli Empire after her...
View ArticleValve is making Dota 2 players pay to avoid toxic gamers
Dota 2 is no longer free to play if you want to have the best experience. In this year’s Dota 2 “Battle Pass” — a premium subscription that usually offers cosmetics and other optional curiosities to...
View ArticleThe high and low points of Game of Thrones’ final episode
Warning: spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones’ finale, “The Iron Throne.” Game of Thrones’ finale left us with a lot to talk about. Like the rest of the eighth and final season, it moved startlingly...
View ArticleWho were the people at Game of Thrones’ pivotal finale meeting?
HBO’s Game of Thrones is a dense series with a huge weight of history behind its story. So in practically every episode, something happens that could use a little explanation. Every week, The Verge...
View ArticleAfter the US took down Huawei, could DJI be next?
The US Department of Homeland Security has warned of the dangers of Chinese-made drones, according to an alert obtained by CNN. The alert cautions that consumer-level drones, of which the vast...
View ArticleGeorge RR Martin teases what’s next in wake of Game of Thrones finale
The TV adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire might be over, but its author George RR Martin says he’s still hard at work on finishing the book series behind HBO’s adaptation. In a blog post published...
View ArticleThat tiny Google alarm clock from Lenovo ships next month
Lenovo’s Smart Clock, the small Google Assistant-equipped smart display that it announced at CES, will be released next month on June 2nd. 9to5Google notes that the device is available to pre-order...
View ArticleAmazon turns warehouse tasks into video games to make work ‘fun’
Conditions in Amazon’s warehouses are notoriously grueling, but the company has a new tactic it thinks will make employees’ lives easier: turn work into a video game. As detailed in a new report from...
View ArticleIndiegogo’s CEO steps down amid layoffs
David Mandelbrot is out as CEO of crowdfunding site Indiegogo, citing “personal reasons” in his farewell LinkedIn post. The company also laid off some employees, according to sources familiar with the...
View ArticleFujifilm’s GFX 100 is a medium format camera that performs like a mirrorless
Fujifilm has just officially announced its next medium format camera, the GFX 100. The latest GFX, the new model joins the GFX 50S and GFX 50R, released in 2016 and 2018, respectively. The GFX 100...
View ArticleTrump’s latest explanation for the Huawei ban is unacceptably bad
Over the past week, the US government has taken extreme and unprecedented steps against Huawei, cutting it off from every US partner at the risk of a long-term rupture in trade between the US and...
View ArticleSpaceX successfully launches first 60 satellites in massive Starlink internet...
Update May 23rd, 11:35PM ET: SpaceX successfully deployed all 60 Starlink satellites into orbit following liftoff, and the individual vehicles will fan out in orbit over time. The company also landed...
View ArticleSnap is looking into licensing music for users to embed in posts
Snap is in talks with Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group to license songs for users to embed in posts, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The deal would...
View ArticleFirst American Financial exposed 16 years’ worth of mortgage paperwork,...
Brian Krebs has revealed that a company that primarily works in real estate insurance has left as many as 885 million records exposed on its website — going back to 2003. First American Financial...
View ArticleAn astronomer captured SpaceX’s recently-launched StarLink satellites on video
Earlier this week, SpaceX successfully launched its first 60 StarLink satellites into orbit around the Earth. An amateur astronomer in the Netherlands caught sight of them orbiting Earth after...
View ArticlePoland has filed a complaint against the European Union’s copyright directive
Poland has officially challenged the European Union’s recently-approved controversial copyright directive, according to Reuters, saying that the legislation would bring unwanted censorship. The...
View ArticleAMD’s Navi GPU is coming to PCs this July as the Radeon RX 5700 series
Slowly but surely, it feels like AMD is tracking towards building a graphics card that can truly compete with Nvidia for your high-end gaming dollars, and hopes are pinned on Navi — the next-gen...
View ArticleNvidia announces RTX Studio laptops aimed at creators
Nvidia has kicked off Computex Taipei by launching a new software-hardware initiative aimed at creators, along with an extensive lineup of laptops to support it. Nvidia Studio is a collection of APIs,...
View ArticleDell’s overhauled XPS 13 2-in-1 has Intel’s 10th Gen processors and a normal...
Back at CES, Dell updated the XPS 13 with an improved webcam that finally put it back on top where it belonged, and at Computex 2019, it announced that it would bringing that same improvement to its...
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