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Rode’s NTH-100M headset | Image: Rode Rode is packaging the NTH-100 headphones with a headset microphone for broadcast, streaming, and other voice operations and calling it the NTH-100M. There is virtually no difference between last year’s NTH-100s and the new $189 NTH-100M outside of the new removable boom microphone and the required TRRS cable for allowing devices to utilize the microphone, but it’s a welcome addition to the crowded headphone space. One feature from the NTH-100s that stood out among other media production headphones was the dual-sided cable attachments, which could be plugged into either the right or left ear cup. The clever modularity here allows those same cable ports to accept the boom mic attachment and new TRRS cable, so users of the NTH-100 only... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23577972/rode-nth100m-gaming-headset-announcement

Open for business. | Image: DIY Perks The Framework Laptop has been a godsend for DIYers. Not only does the modular design allow for quick and easy repair, but the swappable mainboard is a robust platform for all sorts of bizarre builds. Tons of tinkerers have used the modular mainboard design to create their own cyberdeck designs . You don’t even need to buy the whole laptop to do it! DIY Perks has taken that to the next level with this triple-screen laptop build. Unsatisfied with the lack of screen real estate and poor ergonomics in most laptops, they used their skills to cobble together a portable cyberdeck workstation. Photo: DIY Perks The Framework mainboard, some elbow grease, 3D Printing, and a tiny bit of soldering. The bill of materials... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23580097/framework-laptop-triple-screen-diy-perks

Image: Blizzard Entertainment To coincide with the release of season 3, Overwatch 2 is reintroducing Overwatch credits, giving players ways to earn those credits via battle pass progression, and adding Overwatch ’s epic and legendary skins to its shop at reduced prices. Altogether, this currency overhaul is meant to address the long-standing complaint that the new cash shop placed one of Overwatch ’s most unique and desirable features — its well-designed skins — behind a paywall that was just too expensive. As Overwatch season 2 nears its end, the developers published a blog highlighting their takeaways from the season. They addressed new hero Ramattra , including the tweaks they’ve made to his abilities, competitive ladder updates, and changes coming to rewards for... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23580218/overwatch-2-skin-shop-overhaul

A screenshot from Apex Legends Mobile . | Image: EA Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment announced the game’s mobile version will shut down in all regions on May 1st, just a few weeks shy of its one-year anniversary. As if that wasn’t enough bad news for players, it also said that once the game is gone, so are any items or extras they purchased in Apex Legends Mobile . EA shared the news about the change as part of its Q3 FY203 earnings results. A news post from the company described the shutdown as a “mutual decision” reached with its “development partner”; Apex Legends Mobile was developed by Respawn and Tencent’s Lightspeed & Quantum Studios , which also handles the mobile port of PUBG . Respawn’s post reiterates that note but starts by claiming, “Following a strong start, the... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23580285/ea-apex-legends-mobile-shutting-down-refunds-battlefield

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is shutting down CoTweets, its collaborative posting feature that was one of the last big product updates introduced before Elon Musk’s takeover. A notice was posted on Twitter’s help center announcing the end of the feature. CoTweets allowed two accounts to co-author posts that appeared simultaneously on users’ profiles. As of last July, select users in the US, Korea, and Canada were able to use CoTweets after the company began testing the idea last spring. While CoTweets were still limited in rollout, many people anticipated they’d be helpful for brands doing collaborations or announcements. As of today, users with the feature won’t be able to post new CoTweets. Existing posts will be visible for another month before they... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23580062/twitter-cotweets-dual-posting-elon-musk-takeover

Image: OpenAI OpenAI, the company behind DALL-E and ChatGPT, has released a free tool that it says is meant to “distinguish between text written by a human and text written by AIs.” It warns the classifier is “not fully reliable” in a press release and “should not be used as a primary decision-making tool.” According to OpenAI, it can be useful in trying to determine whether someone is trying to pass off generated text as something that was written by a person. The tool, known as a classifier, is relatively simple, though you will have to have a free OpenAI account to use it. You just paste text into a box, click a button, and it’ll tell you whether it thinks the text is very unlikely, unlikely, unclear if it is, possibly, or likely AI-generated. In... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579942/chatgpt-ai-text-detection-openai-classifier

The 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6. | Image: Hyundai Hyundai’s new Ioniq 6 has had its playdate with the EPA, and now the automaker is revealing that its electric “streamliner” sedan can travel an estimated 361 miles on a full charge. While the calculation is specific to the SE Long Range RWD trim, the AWD version is no slouch, either, with a maximum range of 316 miles. Compared to the similarly sized RWD version of Tesla’s Model 3, the Ioniq 6 SE Long Range RWD could go a whole 89 miles further based on the EPA estimates. Hyundai isn’t topping Tesla’s Long Range AWD Model 3, though, which has a 358-mile estimated range that bests the highest-stamina AWD Ioniq 6. Hyundai is certainly ecstatic about the excellent EPA results for the Ioniq 6. The automaker had previously estimated the US... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579583/hyundai-ioniq-6-epa-estimate-range-ev

Promotional art for Street Fighter: Duel . | Image: Crunchyroll Capcom and Crunchyroll are launching a new Street Fighter mobile game very soon, though it doesn’t sound like your typical Street Fighter title. Titled Street Fighter: Duel , Crunchyroll describes it as “the first ever RPG in the series,” and based on a summary on Crunchyroll’s website , it will feature 2D brawling, too: Are you ready to duel it out in the world of Street Fighter ? Be prepared to travel the globe to recruit and level up iconic characters from across the Street Fighter series. With a team of champions, players will throw down in beautifully animated 2D brawls on all-new and iconic stages from Street Fighter ’s past to take down Seth and the Shadaloo’s army of mech clones in an extensive story mode. Street Fighter: Duel is a... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23580037/capcom-crunchyroll-street-fighter-duel-mobile-android-ios

Image: GM General Motors has started production on the Hummer EV SUV at its Factory Zero in Michigan , according to Nicole Schmitz, a spokesperson for the company. The Detroit Press reported Monday that customers could start receiving their orders by the end of Q1. That lines up with GM’s FAQ stating that the SUV will be available in “early 2023.” I won’t blame anyone who’s thinking, “wait, haven’t they been making these for a while,” because GM started delivering the truck version of the Hummer EV, which sports a five-foot-long bed, in December 2021. In October 2022, the company announced that it had made 782 of the vehicles during 2022, and said it had around 90,000 reservations for both the truck and SUV versions. Last summer, The Wall Street... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/30/23578761/hummer-ev-suv-production-beginning

Nick Offerman as Bill and Murray Bartlett as Frank | Image: HBO The Last of Us’ third episode illustrates why breaking away from the source material can be exactly what a video game adaptation needs to do the original story justice. Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/30/23577959/the-last-of-us-hbo-episode-3-bill-frank-kathleen

Image: Internet Archive I never thought I’d actually have fun with a calculator emulator. But here I am, toying with the old-school graphing calculators that the Internet Archive has freed from their plastic chassis and put in a digital form for all to enjoy. The Internet Archive calls this new collection the Calculator Drawer. There are 14 calculators to choose from, including the HP 48GX, TI-82, TI-83 Plus, and even the Electronic Number Muncher, which is an 80s-era toy calculator. The Internet Archive doesn’t just emulate the interface of each device, either; it incorporates their physical design and buttons, making it feel like you have the actual device right in front of you. Screenshot: Emma Roth / The Verge Doing some tough math... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/29/23576677/emulated-calculators-internet-archive-mame

Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI claim the lawsuit doesn’t hold up. | Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB (Photo by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI want the court to dismiss a proposed class action complaint that accuses the companies of scraping licensed code to build GitHub’s AI-powered Copilot tool, as reported earlier by Reuters . In a pair of filings submitted to a San Francisco federal court on Thursday, the Microsoft-owned GitHub and OpenAI say the claims outlined in the suit don’t hold up. Launched in 2021 , Copilot leverages OpenAI’s technology to generate and suggest lines of code directly within a programmer’s code editor. The tool, which is trained on publicly available code from GitHub, sparked concerns over whether it violates copyright laws soon after its release. Things came to a head when programmer and lawyer, Matthew Butterick, teamed... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/28/23575919/micr

Frankly, you’re not losing out on much if you opt for Apple’s last-gen wearable. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Apple Watch remains the go-to smartwatch for iPhone users, but unless you absolutely need some of the new features found on the Apple Watch Series 8 , the last-gen Series 7 remains an attractive wearable — that is, when you can find it. Thankfully, you can currently pick it up at Walmart in the 45mm, LTE-equipped configuration for $329 , which is $200 less than its newer counterpart typically goes for. In terms of specs, the Series 7 is a lot like the newer Series 8. It features better dust resistance and a larger display than its predecessor, along with all the fitness-tracking metrics you expect and compatibility with watchOS 9 . What it doesn’t offer is things like menstrual tracking and crash detection, two features unique to the... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/28/23574116/apple-watch-series-7-amazon-fire-hd-8-plus-table

Song of the bots. | Illustration: The Verge Google researchers have made an AI that can generate minutes-long musical pieces from text prompts, and can even transform a whistled or hummed melody into other instruments, similar to how systems like DALL-E generate images from written prompts ( via TechCrunch ). The model is called MusicLM, and while you can’t play around with it for yourself, the company has uploaded a bunch of samples that it produced using the model. The examples are impressive. There are 30-second snippets of what sound like actual songs created from paragraph-long descriptions that prescribe a genre, vibe, and even specific instruments, as well as five-minute-long pieces generated from one or two words like “melodic techno.” Perhaps my favorite is a demo of “story... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/28/23574573/google-musiclm-text-to-music-ai

Suppression, not suspension. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is promising that it’ll take “less severe actions” when disciplining accounts that break its rules; it’ll only suspend Twitter accounts that engage in “severe or ongoing, repeat violations” of its rules. The company also says it’ll be letting anyone appeal suspensions starting February 1st, and that those doing so will be judged using updated standards. What will Twitter do instead of suspending your account? The “less severe actions” are things that Twitter has been doing for years , such as limiting visibility of a tweet, or telling a user to remove a tweet before they can get back onto the site. Today’s change is that Twitter is promising to reach for those tools more often, instead of going straight for the ban button. The... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/27/23575170/twitter-less-severe-actions-suspensions-reinstatement

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Department of Justice announced this week that FBI agents successfully disrupted Hive, a notorious ransomware group, and prevented $130 million worth of ransom campaigns that targets no longer need to consider paying. While claiming the Hive group has been responsible for targeting over 1,500 victims in over 80 countries worldwide, the department now reveals it had infiltrated the group’s network for months before working with German and Netherlands officials to shut down Hive servers and websites this week. “Simply put, using lawful means, we hacked the hackers,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco remarked during a press conference . The FBI claims that by covertly hacking into Hive servers, it was able to quietly snatch up over... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/27/23574257/fbi-us-justice-department-seizes-hive-ransomware-network-servers

Image: Rare GoldenEye 007 has finally landed on Xbox and Nintendo Switch in a simultaneous dual-release of two titles with some important differences. On Xbox, GoldenEye 007 is a remastered version of the legendary Nintendo 64 title that first launched in 1997. The remaster includes 4K resolution, smoother frame rates, and split-screen local multiplayer, similar to a 2008-era bound-for-Xbox 360 version that was canceled amid licensing and rights issues but leaked out in 2021 . Meanwhile, Nintendo has released GoldenEye 007 as part of its Nintendo Switch Online service. N64 games were added to the service in 2021 , though you have to splurge on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack tier to get access. GoldenEye 007 is also available to play... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/25/23570607/goldeneye-007-xbox-release-remaster-nintendo-switch

Photo Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Bad news: flagship phones cost a small fortune these days. Good news: we can help you pick the right one and get the most for your money. Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/22163811/best-phone

A previous-generation 14-inch MacBook Pro with a potentially faster SSD than the the latest models. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The base level 14-inch M2 MacBook Pro reportedly has a slower SSD than its predecessor, according to tests done by 9to5Mac . In BlackMagic’s Disk Speed Test, the 512GB SSD in Apple’s latest flagship achieved read speed scores of around 2,970 MB/s and write speed scores of around 3,150 MB/s, compared to 4,900 MB/s reads and 3,950 MB/s writes that the M1 Pro with a 512GB SSD was capable of. That means the 2023 base model has around 39 percent slower reads and 20 percent slower writes than the one released in 2021 . The reason for the difference is likely down to chips. According to 9to5Mac , the 512GB SSD in the previous-gen 14-inch had four NAND storage chips, whereas the one on the M2 Pro seems to have two. Those are obviously... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/24/23570010/apple-ssd-slower-m2-pro-14-inch-nan

I, too, am throwing my hands in the air for this change. | Image: Meta Meta is making a big improvement to controls in its social VR platform Horizon Worlds : jump is being remapped to the A button, according to a blog post about the app’s new v94 update . You might be surprised to hear that wasn’t the case before, especially given that the A button has been widely used for jumping in video games for decades. But before now, you jumped in Horizon Worlds by pressing the right thumbstick as if it was a button. If you ask me, that wasn’t ideal; not only is jump not where you might expect it to be but the right thumbstick is already used to rotate your character, so pushing down the stick to jump could also lead to accidental turns. The A button as the default will be in effect for “all players and worlds” with... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/24/23569905/meta-horizon-worlds-jump-button-controls-v94

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk insists that 420 isn’t a joke to him. In testimony during his ongoing securities fraud trial on Monday, Musk argued that the $420-a-share price he proposed back in his infamous “funding secured” tweet from 2018 wasn’t a weed joke but actually just a coincidence — with a dash of karma. Musk was asked about the proposed share price by Nicholas Porritt, an attorney for a class of Tesla investors who are suing the billionaire CEO for the loss of millions of dollars that they say resulted from his bungled attempt to take Tesla private. And it prompted an eyebrow-raising response from Musk regarding what he considered a serious proposal despite nearly everyone else taking it as an obvious reference to cannabis . “You rounded up to... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/23/23568257/elon-musk-securities-fraud-trial-testimony-420-tesla-pif

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung TV Plus, the app that houses hundreds of free channels, could eventually make its way to other, non-Samsung TVs. That’s according to media tech reporter Janko Roettgers, who writes in his Lowpass newsletter that Samsung’s in talks to bring its streaming app to TCL TVs. Introduced in 2015, Samsung TV Plus is a free, ad-supported streaming (FAST) service that comes preinstalled on newer Samsung TVs. The service gives viewers a way to flip through a collection of channels, much like you would with a traditional TV service. Samsung TV Plus has a pretty strong slate of content for a free app, with Samsung adding popular shows like Top Gear , Law & Order Special Victims Unit , NCIS , and Chicago Fire last August. It also offers a range... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/22/23566741/samsung-free-tv-plus-streaming-tcl

Image: Square Enix The development of Marvel ’s Avengers is coming to a close. In a blog post , developer Crystal Dynamics announced that the game won’t receive any new updates after March 31st, with support ending on September 30th ( via IGN ). While you’ll still be able to play the game in both single-player and multiplayer mode, Crystal Dynamics says it “can’t guarantee that we will be able to address issues that occur” after support ends. The last — and final — balance update will take place in March, and from then on, all cosmetics, including “every Outfit, Takedown, and Nameplate” will be available for free and without the purchase of credits. Any remaining credits “will be converted into in-game resources,” Crystal Dynamics says. It also provides a... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/21/23565629/marvels-avengers-development-ending

Soon you may be able to more-or-less set one of the tabs as default. Twitter’s next update should make it less insistent that you use the “For You” algorithmic timeline, according to a tweet from Elon Musk . He says the app will “stop switching you back to recommended tweets,” and remember if you left it on the reverse-chronological “Following” timeline or a pinned list. Musk’s promises should be taken with a grain of salt, but I hope the company delivers on this one. Until last month, Twitter had a button that let you set a preference on which version of the timeline you wanted to use. That option went away when the company rolled out a UI that let you swipe between the two timelines , with the app defaulting to opening on the algorithmic one. Next Twitter update will remember whether you were on For You... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/20/23564806/twitter-for-you-timeline-update-default-remember-tabs

Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk will never stop posting, no matter who tells him to stop. That was one of the takeaways from his brief testimony during his securities fraud trial , which took place in a San Francisco courthouse Friday. Lawyers for the plaintiffs peppered Musk with questions about his tweets as they work up to his infamous “funding secured” tweet from 2018 at the center of this case. Musk is being sued by a class of Tesla investors who claim his bumbling attempts to take Tesla private that year cost them millions of dollars. airtickets   Musk wasn’t asked about that tweet yet, though. He took the stand for a little over 30 minutes before the trial recessed until next Monday. But the plaintiff’s lawyers got in plenty of questions about his Twitter habits,... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/20/23564629/elon-musk-twitter-testimony-securities-fraud-trial

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Depending on where you live, the HomePod Mini and the iMac may have just gotten more expensive. The Apple Post noted that the company’s small smart speaker went from £89 to £99 in the UK, and outlets like MacRumors and 9to5Mac have reported a similar €99 to €109 jump in other European countries like Austria, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. In the UK, each pre-made iMac configuration also went up in price by £150. In France, iMac prices went up by €100 for the base model and €110 for the other models, though they stayed the same in Germany and Ireland. It’s hard to find a pattern in the increases. In New Zealand, the HomePod Mini’s price went from NZ$159.00 to NZ$179.00, while it stayed the same in neighboring Australia.... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23563357/apple-homepod-mini-imac-price-increase-uk-europe

BP Pulse branded charging stations built by Tritium. | Image: Tritium BP Pulse, the EV branch of oil and gas conglomerate BP, placed a new order for DC fast chargers from electric vehicle power supply maker Tritium. The companies have not specified how many chargers are in the new order, but Tritium calls it its “largest ever order from a single customer.” The transaction means there will soon be even more available chargers as EV adoption grows and government-mandated deadlines to eliminate combustion cars looms closer. “We’re looking forward to putting these chargers to work across three continents,” BP Pulse CEO Richard Bartlett states in a press release. BP Pulse currently operates about 60 charging locations in the UK based on its online map and is working to expand in Australia, Europe, and the... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562864/bp-pulse-orders-tritium-dc-fast-ev-electric-vehicle-chargers

Samsung Display prototype. | Image: Samsung Display Samsung has a new prototype display that could send its folding phones in a new direction: 360 degrees. Samsung Display, the subsidiary that makes the company’s screens, showed off the new prototype display and hinge at CES 2023. The “Flex In & Out” display can rotate 360 degrees, meaning it can be folded inward and outward, company spokesperson John Lucas told The Verge in an email. In addition, the display comes with a different hinge design that supposedly creates a significantly less visible crease. That’s because the “water-drop hinge” could allow the display to form a looser shape — like a waterdrop — when folded inward. This subtler hinge would also put less stress on the display. Image: Samsung Display S... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562651/samsung-360-display-prototype-z-fold-5-smartphone

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has updated its developer rules to ban third-party clients, almost a week after it unceremoniously blocked the apps’ access to its platform , offering almost no explanation to what was going on ( via Engadget ). The new rules state that you can’t use Twitter’s API or content to “create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.” The rules, updated on Thursday, make it clear what that means: “Twitter Applications” refers to the company’s “consumer facing products, services, applications, websites, web pages, platforms, and other offerings, including without limitation, those offered via https://twitter.com and Twitter’s mobile applications.” The clause banning alternative services was... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562947/twitter-third-party-client-tweetbot-twitterific-ban-rules

Image: James Bareham / The Verge Fake bylines. Content farming. Affiliate fees. What happens when private equity takes over a storied news site and milks it for clicks? Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562966/cnet-ai-written-stories-red-ventures-seo-marketing

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The era of Netflix password sharing will soon come to a close. Netflix has plans to enforce password-sharing rules “more broadly” toward the end of the first quarter of 2023, the company announced in its earnings report today . “While our terms of use limit use of Netflix to a household, we recognize this is a change for members who share their account more broadly,” Netflix writes. “As we roll out paid sharing, members in many countries will also have the option to pay extra if they want to share Netflix with people they don’t live with.” The company also announced that CEO Reed Hastings is stepping down after 25 years of running the company and will pass the baton to Ted Sarandos, who had already been serving as co-CEO, and Greg Peters,... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23559483/netflix-password-sharing-crackdown-earnings-q4-2022

Nick Barclay / The Verge As Netflix announced its quarterly earnings, co-founder Reed Hastings revealed that after 25 years of running the company that grew from delivering video disc rentals by mail into a streaming behemoth, he is no longer its CEO. He named content chief Ted Sarandos co-CEO in 2020 , and Sarandos will continue on in that role but will now share duties as co-CEO with Greg Peters, Netflix’s former chief operating officer. In other executive moves, Bela Bajaria is now Netflix’s chief content officer, and Scott Stuber has been named the chair of Netflix Film. Ted & Greg are now co-CEOs. After 15 years together we have a great shorthand & I’m so confident in their leadership. Twice the heart, double the ability to please members & accelerate... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23560593/netflix-reed-hastings-co-ceo-steps-down

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s putting your Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger account settings in one place. The company’s rolling out a new Accounts Center that lets you manage your preferences across all your Meta accounts from a centralized hub. The revamped Accounts Center will live in the settings menu on Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, which means you can adjust your account settings for Facebook from Instagram — and vice versa. It also applies to Meta’s standalone accounts that the company started letting Quest owners use in lieu of a Facebook account last year. Image: Meta Some of the settings you can toggle include personal details, passwords, security, ad preferences, and payments as well as the permissions you’ve given each... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562762/meta-instagram-facebook-accounts-center-settings

Spoiler alert: this is one of them. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s going to be an interesting year for laptops. We’re coming out of CES 2023, the annual trade show where the tech industry shows off the products we’ll be seeing hit shelves throughout the upcoming year. Big players, from Dell and HP to Razer and MSI, unveiled their weirdest and wackiest new products. There’s a lot to look forward to this year when it comes to display technology, chip capability, AI features, build, and more. But a few products really stood out from the rest. In no particular order, here are the laptops that I’m most excited about testing in 2023. Lenovo Yoga Book 9i Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Yoga Book 9i’s kickstand is included! Various companies have been trying to do funky... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23561010/ces-2023-laptops-lenovo-razer-lg

The US Treasury Department has identified Bitzlato as a “primary money laundering concern” in connection with the Russian government.  | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge US authorities announced on Wednesday that the Russian co-founder of Hong Kong-based crypto exchange Bitzlato had been arrested in Miami for allegedly processing $700 million in illicit funds. Bitzlato’s crypto assets were seized and its digital infrastructure was dismantled by French authorities working alongside the US (in addition to other international authorities). The US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has since identified Bitzlato as a “primary money laundering concern” in connection with the Russian government. In a statement coinciding with the arrest, FinCEN accused Bitzlato of “repeatedly facilitated transactions for Russian-affiliated ransomware groups, including Conti, a... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562271/cry

You can currently get a $35 Dell Gift Card when you buy a Nintendo Switch from Dell | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Discounts on the Nintendo Switch are pretty rare, but today, picking up the standard, non-OLED model from Dell at full price will get you a free $35 gift card . Nintendo’s handheld needs little introduction at this point; it’s a marvelous console to play at home or on the go, and its two Joy-Con controllers allow for two-player gaming right out of the box. And it’s the only place to experience exclusive and very fun titles like Splatoon 3 and Fire Emblem Engage . There are also ports of big open-world games, like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim , and it’s one of the best consoles to get if you like role-playing games (RPGs). Something to note is that Dell’s gift card can only be applied to future purchases at its online store, not to this one,... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23560748/nintendo-switch-apple-watch-ultra-series-8-jabr