A huge phishing campaign has targeted over 130 companies, including Twilio and Signal

The 0ktapus phishing campaign is one of the best-executed security attacks of this scale to date. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over 130 organizations, including Twilio, DoorDash, and Signal, have been potentially compromised by hackers as part of a months-long phishing campaign nicknamed “0ktapus” by security researchers. Login credentials belonging to nearly 10,000 individuals were stolen by attackers who imitated the popular single sign-on service Okta, according to a report from cybersecurity outfit Group-IB. Targets were sent text messages that redirected them to a phishing site. As the report from Group-IB states, “From the victim’s point of view, the phishing site looks quite convincing as it is very similar to the authentication page they are used to seeing.” Victims were asked for their username, password, and a two-factor authentication code. This… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/DwT9ZKC via Grabey Blog
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Elon Musk says Tesla cars will connect to Starlink’s new cellular-broadcasting satellites

Soon with satellite connectivity. | Photo by Loren Grush / The Verge Elon Musk just announced that the upcoming second-generation Starlink internet satellites include cellular antennas for connections with phones from T-Mobile in the US, and potentially other operators as well. Following the event, he responded to tweets asking whether the connections will work with Tesla’s electric cars, which currently connect to AT&T’s LTE network. According to Musk, the answer is yes. Yes — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 26, 2022 He didn’t go into detail about how it will all work or how much data owners could expect to access from the connections when they’re somewhere out of reach by terrestrial cellphone towers. Musk said during the event that the satellite-to-cellular coverage from Starlink will be capable of… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/CFPN9DQ via Grabey Blog
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The best Chromebook for 2022

Acer’s Chromebook Spin 713 | Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge The best Chromebook for anyone who wants Chrome OS on their laptop Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/IQy2ADK via Grabey Blog
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Harvestella turns Stardew Valley into a Square Enix RPG

I can’t wait to grow carrops in Harvestella. | Image: Square Enix Nintendo just shared a detailed look at Harvestella, the upcoming farming sim / RPG from Square Enix, in its latest Treehouse Live presentation, and after watching the video, the game is now one of my most anticipated titles of the year. The farming looks like many other farming sims you might have played — and I think that’s a good thing. You’ll have a plot of land where you’ll work with your crops, and you can plant and water things on a tile-based grid. The actual mechanics appear to be fairly streamlined, so hopefully they don’t get tedious; I was particularly happy to see that the “water wand” was generous with where it tossed water. Some crops have clever names, too, meaning you’ll be growing things like “carrops” and “cucumbles”… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/wB5IlgE via Grabey Blog
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Now we know who is in charge of Netflix’s Horizon Zero Dawn TV show

Aloy takes on a fearsome enemy in Horizon Zero Dawn. | Image: Sony We may have just learned that The Umbrella Academy’s next season will be its last, but we also now know that showrunner Steve Blackman will be developing Netflix’s series based on the PlayStation game Horizon Zero Dawn. Blackman’s involvement in the upcoming show — and his new multiyear deal with Netflix that also includes developing the sci-fi show Orbital — was reported by Deadline on Thursday. “Horizon Zero Dawn and Orbital are elevated, event-level projects grounded in characters that fans will love and relate to, which are hallmarks of Irish Cowboy productions,” Blackman said in a statement to Deadline. “We’re thrilled to be working with Netflix and all of our partners on developing these ground-breaking stories.” In an interview… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/zfNBS2Y via Grabey Blog
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Walmart can now put your groceries in your garage with a myQ smart garage door opener

Walmart can deliver your groceries to your garage. | Image: Walmart Walmart is expanding its Walmart Plus InHome program, adding Chamberlain’s myQ smart garage door controller technology to its list of in-home / in-garage delivery partners. Starting in September, Walmart Plus InHome delivery customers can have their groceries securely delivered into their garage if they have a myQ smart garage door controller. And if they don’t have one, the company will install one for free. Walmart’s in-home delivery service currently works with the Level Lock smart lock and the Aladdin Connect Genie smart garage door opener, as well as any keypad-controlled lock or garage door. Even without the free offer, partnering with Chamberlain will greatly expand the number of customers who are equipped to use the service; The… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/gBHtzI0 via Grabey Blog
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My iPhone is calling to me with a different voice

Sing me the new song of your people. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s upcoming iOS 16 update brings with it a lot of new features — things like the ability to customize your Lock Screen, edit iMessages, or copy written text from a video. But Apple’s also made an under-the-radar change to some of the iPhone’s sounds, which some of us hear at The Verge noticed while using the betas. When you go to the Find My app and choose the “play sound” option for an iOS / iPadOS 16 device, you’ll now be greeted with what sounds like an electronic xylophone, instead of the pinging sound that played on iOS 15 and before. The change also applies to when you ask your Apple Watch to ping your phone for you, except the sound plays once instead of over and over. One of my co-workers described the new sound as higher… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/S0qL2fk via Grabey Blog
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Nvidia says it built too many GPUs — expect sales while it works on something ‘new’

The RTX 3080 Ti, one of Nvidia’s top-shelf current generation cards. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge PC sales abruptly tanked this quarter, so Nvidia, like Intel, is suddenly under the gun. What are you going to do about the billions of dollars of growth that just went up in smoke, investors tend to ask! But while that’s an annoying situation for Nvidia during today’s Q2 earnings, it’s an intriguing one for gamers like you and me — because Nvidia tried to placate those investors by revealing that exciting things may be on the way. First: discounts! Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed what we’ve suspected for months: Nvidia actually built too many gaming GPUs and is now being forced to sell them for less money. “We found ourselves with excess inventory,” says Huang. “Our strategy is to sell-in well below the current sell-through levels in… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/7WcDs0B via Grabey Blog
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Cover Screen OS makes the Galaxy Z Flip’s front display better and worse

This screen is just not meant for full-sized apps. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge The Galaxy Z Flip 4 is a great little foldable held back by a too-tiny front display. It’s just hard doing much on a 1.9-inch screen. Even though Samsung tried making it a little more useful in this year’s iteration, it’s still just a little window from which you can view notifications and certain widgets, but not much more. Developer IJP addresses just this pain point with its Cover Screen OS, a free app on the Google Play Store. It’s been available for the Galaxy Z Flip 3 and got a recent update to support the Flip 4. And it works — but it’s also kind of awful for reasons outside of the developers’ control. To IJP’s credit, the app does a nice job of walking you through a somewhat involved setup process — you have to give it a lot of… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/GLwocR5 via Grabey Blog
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How to remove Facebook posts from your feed without also losing all of your friends

Samar Haddad / The Verge Sure, Facebook can be a great way to connect and stay in touch with family and friends. Yet, more often than not, it’s a headache that can turn toxic thanks to the News Feed. Whether it’s fake news, envy-inducing vacation photos from a classmate you barely know, or a relative’s upsetting political post, there are just some things better left unseen. True, you could unfollow a page if you want to stop seeing those kinds of posts, but you can’t exactly unfollow your uncle or a close friend without potentially putting those relationships at risk. Thankfully, there’s a way around it. It turns out, you can customize your Facebook feed so you don’t have to see their posts without needing to unfriend anybody. There are a number of ways to do… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/0b2oEmY via Grabey Blog
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Find the best AI-powered app to transcribe your audio

Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Whenever a popular online app announces a change to its fees, or in the services it provides for those fees, you’re going to get a reaction from its subscribers — especially the long-term ones. The latest app to cause this type of dismay is Otter, a recording and transcription service that recently announced downgrades of the services it provides on two of its plans and raised the price on a monthly plan. For free users, it means that they will no longer have access to all their past transcriptions — only the last 25. For paying customers who are on Otter’s Pro plan, the change will be nearly as (or more) drastic: they will be downgraded from a monthly allowance of 6,000 minutes of transcribed audio to 1,200 minutes and from a maximum of… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/U5ISV8W via Grabey Blog
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Acer’s Vero 514 brings its ‘eco-conscious’ concept to a Chromebook

So green. | Image: Acer Acer is adding a Chromebook to its Vero lineup, which it says is meant to offer laptop buyers an “eco-conscious” option. Like the (rather disappointing) Windows laptop that came before it, the Chromebook Vero 514 is made using recycled plastics, has a chassis that’s 99 percent recyclable, and comes in packaging that’s 90 percent recycled paper, according to the company. Acer’s press release even suggests that part of the Chromebook’s packaging can be “transformed into a multi-purpose triangular laptop stand,” if you’re loathe to throw anything away. Before we go over the recyclability, though, let’s quickly go through the specs — it weighs in at just a hair over 3 pounds, which is reasonable for a laptop with a 14-inch screen, and is… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/JwgxnZr via Grabey Blog
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Here’s how much Apple charges for every part to fix your own MacBook

Image: Apple Yesterday, Apple revealed it would expand its Self Service Repair program to let you fix your own MacBooks, and today the program is here. You can now download full repair manuals for your 2021 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros and the 2020 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro and M1 MacBook Air — and shop for parts you might need. But what will Apple actually let you buy, and how much will you really have to pay? That’s not obvious until you enter your serial numbers and root around the company’s entire store — so we did it for you. Many prices seem (relatively) generous! Others, not so much. You can’t just replace your own battery or keyboard on a MacBook Pro, for example! You have to buy the entire top lid that comes with that and other parts… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/euOZSiy via Grabey Blog
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University can’t scan students’ rooms during remote tests, judge rules

Photo by Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty Images An Ohio judge has ruled that a Cleveland State University’s virtual scan of a student’s room prior to an online test was unconstitutional. The ruling marks a victory for digital privacy advocates around the country, who have spoken loudly against the practices of online test proctoring for many years. Chemistry student Aaron Ogletree sat for an online test in the spring 2021 semester. Ogletree was asked to show the virtual proctor his bedroom through his webcam prior to the beginning of the test. A recording of the room scan as well as the testing process that followed was retained by Honorlock, the university’s third-party vendor. Ogletree sued the university on the grounds that the practice violated his rights under the Fourth… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/pwUgcs9 via Grabey Blog
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Chamberlain discontinues its HomeKit hub for myQ garage door controllers

The Home Bridge Hub has been discontinued. It was designed to connect Liftmaster and Chamberlain smart garage door openers with myQ technology — such as this Liftmaster Secure View opener — to Apple’s HomeKit platform. | Image: Liftmaster Chamberlain Group, makers of myQ connected garage door openers, is discontinuing its myQ Home Bridge Hub, a device whose sole purpose was to connect myQ-enabled garage doors to Apple’s HomeKit smart home platform. myQ is a smart garage door controller technology that is built into a garage door opener or a separate retrofit wireless hub and connects your garage door to Wi-Fi. This lets you open and close it from anywhere using the myQ smartphone app. The myQ Home Bridge Hub, which extended that control to the Apple Home app, has been out of stock on Chamberlain’s website for a few weeks, and the company confirmed to The Verge that it’s been discontinued. “As our products continue to evolve, we have decided to discontinue production of… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/PeJ0hBn via Grabey Blog
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VW strikes a deal with Canada to build EV batteries in North America

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Volkswagen signed a memorandum of understanding with the Canadian government to “explore opportunities” to bring some of its electric vehicle battery manufacturing to the country. The move is seen as an effort to ensure that the automaker’s plug-in vehicles qualify for the US’s revamped EV tax credits, which place stricter requirements on where battery and vehicle manufacturing can be done. VW says it plans to build a “dedicated Gigafactory” somewhere in North America, and today’s agreement most likely increases Canada’s chances of being selected as the location. VW says it plans to build a “dedicated Gigafactory” somewhere in North America The automaker is tasking its battery supply management company, Power Co, with spearheading the… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/nd75oTb via Grabey Blog
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The Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake has a new developer

Saber Interactive had been helping out, and now it’s reportedly taking over. | Image: Sony Embracer Group is moving development on the upcoming Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) remake for PS5 and PC from Aspyr Media to a Saber Interactive studio in Eastern Europe, according to Bloomberg. The game, announced last September in a short trailer during a Sony showcase, was originally being made by Aspyr, which is known for its ports of KOTOR and KOTOR II. But development on the remake was paused after a demo was shown to Lucasfilm and Sony, Bloomberg reported in July. Saber had been helping with development on the remake, but a cryptic statement in Embracer’s earnings report last week seemed to suggest that Saber could be officially taking over. “One of the Group’s AAA projects has transitioned to another studio… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/x28e7OI via Grabey Blog
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Make your back-to-school routine better with these smart home tricks

Amazon Alexa’s Routines, which play from devices like this Echo dot speaker, help my family get out of bed and stay on track in the mornings. | Image: Amazon This week, my kids headed back to school. For most parents, that means a weekend spent buying composition notebooks and Ticonderoga pencils and unearthing moldy lunchboxes from last year’s book bag (just me?). In my household, it also means reenabling all my back-to-school smart home routines. I’ve been using my smart home as an extra pair of parental eyes and ears for years now, and I think all parents need some home automation in their lives. The little things the smart home does well — lights that turn on when you walk into a room, a TV you can shut down with just your voice, a doorbell that shows you who’s there — are so much more useful when you are also juggling little people and their various demands. (A caveat to all this: I use… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/uk8E0Dw via Grabey Blog
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The Game Awards sets a date: December 8th

Image: The Game Awards Mark your calendars and get those predictions in because The Game Awards returns on December 8th. Geoff Keighley’s award show / marketing sizzle reel will be held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles for the show’s ninth year. We have a date! THE GAME AWARDS Thursday, December 8 Streaming live around the world from Microsoft Theater in LA. Hard to believe this is our NINTH show. We’ve been working all year to bring you something very special. pic.twitter.com/VS9qOhyltQ — Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) August 22, 2022 This is the ninth year for the program in which fans and journalists vote for their choice of winners in categories like Content Creator of the Year and Best Narrative Game. The hallowed Game of the Year award is… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/4UgGdsn via Grabey Blog
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Google’s terrific Pixel Buds Pro are already $25 off at Amazon

The new Pixel Buds Pro are discounted alongside the Google Pixel 6A today. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Welcome back to the arena of deals. Our inaugural discount this week is on the excellent Google Pixel Buds Pro, which released less than a month ago. Typically priced at $199.99, you can currently find these new earbuds on Amazon for $174.99 in their black or yellow colorways. The Pixel Buds Pro are a drastic improvement over their middling predecessor, boasting solid noise cancellation, improved battery life, and multipoint Bluetooth support. While the sound quality isn’t quite up to par with some of our top picks, this discount makes the Pixel Buds Pro worth considering if you’re on the hunt for a fresh pair of earbuds. Read our review. There’s still an opportunity to score a discount on the recently released Google Pixel 6A. Normally… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/lCvVHJr via Grabey Blog
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Microsoft is putting more ads in Outlook on iOS and Android

Image: Microsoft Microsoft has started putting more ads in Outlook mobile for iOS and Android in recent months. The Outlook mobile app gives users two options for organizing their inbox: a single inbox with everything in it or a tabbed inbox split into two categories — “focused” with important mail and “Other” with all the rest. Previously, Microsoft only put ads in the “Other” tab for free users, but it’s now adding them to the single-inbox mode, too. Image: James Vincent / The VergeAn ad inside Outlook mobile on iOS. The change has been rolling out over the past few months and essentially means Microsoft is making it harder for free users to avoid ads in Outlook mobile. Whatever inbox mode you use, there’ll be ads somewhere… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/kuvyljd via Grabey Blog
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Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal is getting a second season

The Rehearsal, the docu-comedy TV show created by and starring Nathan Fielder, has been renewed for a second season, HBO has announced. The new came just ahead of the show’s sixth episode and season one finale on Friday night. “One more chance to get it right,” reads the Season 2 tagline, though a premiere date is missing from the announcement. Ostensibly, the basic premise of The Rehearsal is that it’s a comedic documentary series designed to help ordinary people tackle difficult moments in their life by giving them an opportunity to rehearse it beforehand. But the show approaches this simple premise with a budget and attention to detail that can make the scope of each rehearsal feel dizzying, and the show as a whole becomes… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/rzycaB8 via Grabey Blog
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Google AI flagged parents’ accounts for potential abuse over nude photos of their sick kids

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A concerned father says that after using his Android smartphone to take photos of an infection on his toddler’s groin, Google flagged the images as child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to a report from The New York Times. The company closed his accounts and filed a report with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and spurred a police investigation, highlighting the complications of trying to tell the difference between potential abuse and an innocent photo once it becomes part of a user’s digital library, whether on their personal device or in cloud storage. Concerns about the consequences of blurring the lines for what should be considered private were aired last year when Apple announced its Child… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/Y6OiWn4 via Grabey Blog
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Netflix’s ad-supported tier may have some commercial-free content

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix’s upcoming ad-supported tier might not show commercials on all the content included in the cheaper subscription plan. A report from Bloomberg suggests that Netflix may cut commercials from newer original films, as well as certain kids’ shows. According to Bloomberg, Netflix may not run ads during original movies when they’re first released, and will instead insert ads at a later date. It’s still too early to tell how long Netflix will show a newer movie without ads, but as noted by Bloomberg, this decision may help alleviate some of the concerns filmmakers might have about ads detracting from their work. Netflix original kids’ programming will also reportedly get the ad-free treatment — just like Disney Plus plans on doing with… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/g8jtROm via Grabey Blog
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Tesla’s Full-Self Driving software is going up in price again

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla’s increasing the price of its Full-Self Driving (FSD) software to $15,000. In a post on Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the new price will go into effect in North America starting September 5th, representing a $3,000 jump. Drivers who order a vehicle before September 5th won’t have to pay the newly-increased price, Musk says. The price hike comes as Tesla begins rolling out FSD beta 10.69 to drivers, a version Musk calls “a big step forward.” It’s still unclear whether Tesla plans on raising the price of its FSD subscription, which currently costs $199 per month. After wide release of FSD Beta 10.69.2, price of FSD will rise to $15k in North America on September 5th. Current price will be honored for orders made… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/J0a9835 via Grabey Blog
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A YouTuber just uncovered lost footage of the American Sailor Moon

Image: Ray Mona / Library of Congress The decades-long search for the American version of Sailor Moon has finally come to an end. Ray Mona, a YouTuber who documents her efforts to find lost media (including the never-released Mean Girls game), has managed to unearth the pilot episode of the unaired, never-finished series that the Sailor Moon fandom has come to know as Saban Moon. The story of the Americanized Sailor Moon starts in 1993, about two years before the debut of the dubbed Sailor Moon that we know today. At the time, animation studio Toon Makers teamed up with Renaissance Atlantic Entertainment, the producers behind the original Power Rangers, in a bid to make an English version of the series. The two companies pitched a project that blends live-action with… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/gfX60a9 via Grabey Blog
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Destiny 2 and Fortnite crossover leaked ahead of Bungie event

Image: Ginsor (Twitter) Bungie appears to be getting ready to add Fortnite skins to Destiny 2. After Fortnite leaker MidaRado teased a potential Destiny 2 collab over the weekend, Ginsor — a well-known Destiny dataminer — has confirmed the crossover with an image showing off several classic Fortnite skins in Destiny 2. The image, which was likely obtained from Bungie’s own website, includes a Titan armor set that looks very much like the Black Knight skin that was originally obtainable from the season pass of Fortnite season 2. Destiny’s Warlock is also shown with a Fortnite-like Drift Mask, and the Hunter looks very much like Fortnite’s Omega skin. It’s not clear how Destiny 2 players will be able to obtain these Fortnite skins, or when they’ll be part of the… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/aFeC01b via Grabey Blog
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FTX’s money isn’t insured, FDIC says

FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) slapped the Sam Bankman-Fried-owned cryptocurrency exchange FTX with a cease-and-desist order over “false and misleading statements” that suggest its assets are FDIC-insured. The FDIC doesn’t cover stocks or crypto, and only safeguards funds held in insured bank accounts. In a letter to the exchange, the FDIC points to a now-deleted tweet from FTX president Brett Harrison, which states “direct deposits from employers to FTX US are stored in individually FDIC-insured bank accounts in the users’ names.” The referenced tweet also says that “stocks are held in FDIC-insured and SIPC [Security Investor Protection Corporation]-insured brokerage accounts.” The FDIC claims this falsely represents… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/h7UxXs5 via Grabey Blog
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YouTube removes video that tests Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta against real kids

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge YouTube has removed a video that shows Tesla drivers carrying out their own safety tests to determine whether the EV’s (electric vehicle) Full Self-Driving (FSD) capabilities would make it automatically stop for children walking across or standing in the road, as first reported by CNBC. The video, titled “Does Tesla Full-Self Driving Beta really run over kids?” was originally posted on Whole Mars Catalog’s YouTube channel and involves Tesla owner and investor, Tad Park, testing Tesla’s FSD feature with his own kids. During the video, Park drives a Tesla Model 3 toward one of his children standing in the road, and then tries again with his other kid crossing the street. The vehicle stops before reaching the children both times. Does… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/FAy4Qv7 via Grabey Blog
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Please, Lego, let this engineer bring your computer brick to life

These aren’t Lego bricks. They’re computers that look like they belong. | GIF by Sean Hollister / The Verge; Video by James Brown James Brown loves building weird displays. Like animatronic skulls, or mechanical bit-flipping cellular automatons. Or, in this case, an entire computer inside a mock Lego brick. Not just any brick, either. I’m talking about the classic sloped Lego computers from our childhood spaceships, now brilliantly brought to life. They display fake radar scans, scrolling text, even an interactive homage to the Death Star trench run targeting computer that moves when you touch the exposed Lego studs. @verge James Brown bought the tiniest, cheapest OLED screens he could find. He wanted to build a keyboard, but his mind’s eye soon saw an even more perfect combination. He tells The Verge he probably won’t sell them — at least not without legal… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/jZ7nDMK via Grabey Blog
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Twitter tests a special tag to highlight phone number-verified accounts

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Elon Musk’s bot-baiting aside, Twitter has had many people call for changes to how it identifies accounts and what can be done to call out which ones are more legit than others. Now engineer Jane Manchun Wong has dug up a Twitter label that would put a mark on accounts with a verified phone number. She also noted another test feature showing view counts for tweets, which some users already have access to for their own tweets under the label of “analytics.” However, she said it’s unclear if this would be limited to the author or visible to everyone. Linking an account to a number is one way to highlight that it was created with more effort than the simplest macro and could be used to filter out which tweets appear the most prominently or… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/ZuYtjnQ via Grabey Blog
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The high-resolution smartphone sensors are coming

Megapixels as far as the eye can see. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge According to a new report from Korean outlet ETNews spotted by Android Authority, it’s looking very likely that the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra will use the 200-megapixel camera sensor that the company launched last year. That is a whole lot of pixels, and Samsung isn’t alone in this newest megapixel arms race — Motorola beat the company to the punch with the Motorola X30 Pro. Even Apple, a 12-megapixel camera devotee, looks like it will finally move to higher resolution 48-megapixel camera sensors with the iPhone 14. It’s not all about big numbers; moving to higher-pixel-count sensors has real image quality benefits. In this chapter of the megapixel race, it’s all about pixel binning. Samsung already employs this with its 108-megapixel… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/hAx4E0y via Grabey Blog
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The PlayStation 5 is almost easy to buy

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Throughout the pandemic, it has brought me extreme joy to pen articles celebrating that hard-to-find tech is getting easier to buy at retail cost. First, it was the Xbox Series S and Nintendo Switch OLED, then the Series X, and almost all Nvidia and AMD GPUs followed a few months after. We’re getting very close to being able to say that the PS5 will soon join the club. Yesterday, we wrote that Sony had kicked off another one of its once infrequent (but becoming much more frequent) PS5 restocks, and the $549.99 console bundle that includes the PS5 with a disc drive along with Horizon Forbidden West is still in stock about 19 hours later. Even after everyone has had the chance to run through the queue and make a purchase, there’s still… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/cPmOYZf via Grabey Blog
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Jetpack Joyride 2 is worth an Apple Arcade subscription on its own

In Jetpack Joyride 2, you get a gun. | Image: Apple Jetpack Joyride 2 is the first mobile game I’ve loved in a very long time. I was obsessed with staying on top of the best iOS games in the early days of the iPhone — titles like the original Angry Birds, Hook Champ, and Ridiculous Fishing — but as the vast majority of mobile games have shifted to a time- and money-gobbling free-to-play model, I’ve largely stopped playing them. I have enough entertainment to juggle already; managing yet another free-to-play game just isn’t appealing. But to my surprise, I kept finding myself opening Jetpack Joyride 2 when I had a few minutes to burn. It happened during my Dedicated Video Game Playing Time, too. Over the course of a few days, I just couldn’t stop collecting coins, dodging missiles,… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/R7M9wiC via Grabey Blog
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O No, Lenovo doesn’t like Framework’s circular power button

The offending power button on one of Framework’s designs. | Image: Framework Framework, the startup that produces modular laptops that are designed to be repairable and upgradable, says it’s in a spot of legal trouble over the design of one of its power buttons. In a tweet, the startup claims to have been contacted by Lenovo’s legal team, who say the circular design of the power button on one of Framework’s designs is too similar to the stylized “O” Lenovo uses in the wordmark for its “Legion” brand of gaming laptops. “Consumers could believe that Framework’s Broken O Case or the motherboards they cover are produced by, sponsored, endorsed, licensed, or otherwise affiliated with Lenovo, when that is not the case,” a screenshot of the legal letter from Lenovo posted by Framework reads. The offending power… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/8fJtsA6 via Grabey Blog
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Embracer Group, the company forging one IP portfolio to rule them all, explained

Image: New Line Cinemas The Embracer Group is a doozy of a media company. It’s 11 parent companies in a massive trench coat that are themselves composed of several more parent companies that own publishers and developers and the rights to video game franchises both AAA and indie. Earlier today, it added a bunch more companies to its roster including Limited Run Games, Maneater developer Tripwire Interactive, and the intellectual property rights to parts of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit universes. To list all of Embracer Group’s companies and assets would take an unreasonable amount of time and space and would get kinda boring. So here are the high points in the company’s portfolio. What video game franchises I’ve heard of does Embracer now own? Embracer… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/Shb05PF via Grabey Blog
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