Although Apple said in a recent court filing that Jon Prosser “still has not” replied to the company’s July lawsuit against him for allegedly stealing trade secrets, Prosser tells The Verge that he is in communication with Apple about the case. “All I can tell you is that regardless of what is being reported, and…
The ornament also plays the console’s startup sound. | Image: Hallmark The Halo 3 soundtrack could soon be joining classics like “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Deck the Halls” on your holiday playlist, if you deck your halls with Hallmark’s new Xbox 360 Keepsake ornament. It’s now available from Hallmark’s online store and Amazon for $28.99…
Last month, my colleague Liz Lopatto explained how a gummy bear battery bank was taking over the ultralight backpacking world. I’m talking full-grown, outdoorsy adults nerding out about gummy bear merch beating the battery pros at their own game! Liz and I quickly agreed: We should put it to the test. Could the gummy bear…
Patients wore these smart glasses that paired to a retinal implant in their eye. Several dozen patients regained some of their vision thanks to an implant inside their eye paired with a set of smart glasses. The study was published Monday in The New England Journal of Medicine, and researchers report that patients could see…
There are but three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Google’s next Pixel phone getting thoroughly leaked before the company can even announce it. (Multiple generations of Pixel have been publicly unboxed, disassembled, and even reviewed before Google can show them off.) But it seems Google doesn’t want leakers to have all the fun —…
Small power banks are a dime a dozen, but Iniu’s P55-E2 portable charger stands out for its combination of size and capacity. We saw the this model drop in price during Amazon’s recent October Prime Day sale, but a fresh discount has now made the power bank cheaper than ever. Right now, you can pick…
If you live in NYC, there’s almost no way you’ve missed the Friend AI pendant subway ad fallout — whether you’ve taken pictures of the most inspired graffiti on the ads in the tunnels, tried to avert your eyes from the near-constant presence of the device pictured on all the ads inside subway cars, or…
Here are just a few of the services impacted by the outage. | Image: Downdetector A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took down multiple online services for several hours this morning, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services, and more. Some of the impacted platforms, including Fortnite, Epic Games…
I’ve read a lot of horror books over the last two years. But my absolute favorite is easily Mariana Enriquez’ Our Share of Night. The book was originally published in 2019 in Argentina, but it only got an English translation in 2023. While it doesn’t quite reach Stephen King lengths, at nearly 600 pages, I’d…
By the time I arrived, the waterfront park in downtown Portland, Oregon was already awash with people as far as the eye could see. The No Kings protest in June had turned out around 10,000 people across the city; this one saw several times that number just downtown, with thousands more choosing to join localized…
