reader comments 33 Alphabet’s earnings call was yesterday, and as usual, the company took in a lot of money ($86.31 billion), thanks mostly to ad click-through rates being at a certain level. More interesting, though, are the product numbers tucked away in the report. For the good news, a big announcement was the success of ..
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Enlarge / The Fitbit Charge 5 came out in September 2021. reader comments 90 Fitbit owners are getting frustrated with Charge 5 fitness trackers quickly losing their charge and, in some cases, exhibiting additional problems. Google has denied that the problems are tied to firmware updates. But users remain skeptical, and some are fed up ..
Enlarge / For the NBA YouTube launched “Multiview,” which is coming to Sunday Ticket. It’s four games in a split screen. reader comments 30 YouTube TV may finally get a configurable split-screen mode. Google’s cable TV replacement service launched a 2×2 “multiview” feature in 2023, but it relied on pre-made choices cooked up by some ..
Enlarge / Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! Andrew Cunningham reader comments 147 The business arm of Raspberry Pi is preparing to make an initial public offering (IPO) in London. CEO Eben Upton tells Ars that should ..
reader comments 78 The Japanese government is finally letting go of floppy disks and CD-ROMs. It recently announced amendments to laws requiring the use of the physical media formats for submissions to the government for things like alcohol business, mining, and aircraft regulation. Japan’s minister for Digital Transformation, Taro Kono, announced the “war on floppy ..
reader comments 117 If you run the Chrome browser in Windows 10 or 11 and you’ve suddenly discovered that you’re running Microsoft Edge instead, you’re not alone. The Verge’s Tom Warren reports that he and multiple other users on social media and Microsoft’s support forums have suddenly found their Chrome browsing sessions mysteriously replicated in ..
Enlarge / Box art for IBM OS/2 Warp version 3, an OS released in 1995 that competed with Windows. reader comments 101 In a move that marks the end of an era, New Mexico State University (NMSU) recently announced the impending closure of its Hobbes OS/2 Archive on April 15, 2024. For over three decades, ..
Enlarge / The most interesting thing about AMD’s Ryzen 7 8700G CPU is the Radeon 780M GPU that’s attached to it. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 61 Put me on the short list of people who can get excited about the humble, much-derided integrated GPU. Yes, most of them are afterthoughts, designed for office desktops and ..
Enlarge / The Fossil Gen 6 smartwatch. reader comments 62 Fossil was the only brand keeping Google’s Wear OS alive for years, but now the fashion brand is quitting the smartwatch market. Just before the weekend, the company confirmed to The Verge: “We have made the strategic decision to exit the smartwatch business.” The company ..
reader comments 54 It’s almost hard to believe this is happening again, but Pixel users are reporting that an OS update has locked them out of their phones’ internal storage, causing app crashes, non-functional phones, and a real possibility of data loss. Over in the Google Pixel subreddit, user “Liv-Lyf” compiled a dozen posts that ..
