Alphabet’s Wing will deliver DoorDash by drone in Dallas-Fort Worth / Orders from 50 retailers and takeout providers can be flown to eligible locals at launch. By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Dec 18, 2024, 3:00… Read more
read more...Alphabet’s Wing will deliver DoorDash by drone in Dallas-Fort Worth
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Seagate is getting ready to launch its first high-capacity HAMR hard drive
By: The Verge
It’s been more than two decades since Seagate began working on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) — and now the company may finally be ready to release a hard drive using the technology. A new product page spotted by Tom’s Hardware shows an Exos M hard drive sporting up to 32TB of storage using Seagate’s Mozaic… Read more
read more...LG will bring its wireless TV tech to Mini LED models in 2025
By: The Verge
Often at CES, you’ll see a very impressive new technology debut at exorbitant prices before trickling down to more affordable models a couple years later. Lo and behold, that’s exactly what we’re seeing with LG and its Zero Connect Box. We got our first look at it with the M Series OLED in 2023. Now the… Read more
read more...Death of a Unicorn’s first trailer brings a fairytale creature into a dark comedy
By: The Verge
A24’s lineup of films for 2025 is starting to become stacked — with fantastical creatures, that is. While the fantasy adventure The Legend of Ochi is slated to hit theaters next February, the dark comedy Death of a Unicorn is due out in the spring. And you can get a feel for it in the… Read more
read more...Social networks in 2024: bless this mess
By: The Verge
If you had to pick a social network winner, it’s probably Threads. Two years ago, after Elon Musk acquired Twitter and announced his intention to ruin it forever, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw an opportunity to build a text-first social network. Now, barely 18 months after its launch, Threads has more than 300 million users… Read more
read more...This Z-Wave smart plug can work over a mile from your house
By: The Verge
European smart device manufacturer Shelly is launching 11 automation devices that can connect to the home from over a mile away. Shelly says its new and updated Wave devices are built around the Z-Wave Long Range (Z-Wave LR) specification, and will be available in the US in the first half of 2025. The benefits of… Read more
read more...Hyte Keeb TKL Review: Unique aesthetic and ultra-smooth switches
By: Tom's Hardware
Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Hyte Keeb TKL offers an impressive, enthusiast-level typing experience in a very unique package. Pros + Super smooth switches + Great sound-dampening + Unique bubble case aesthetic + Durable double-shot PBT keycaps Cons – Awful keycap legends – Rotary knob feels cheap / flimsy – No per-key RGB Why you can… Read more
read more...Russia plans EUV chipmaking tools that it says will be cheaper and easier to build than ASML’s — country outlines new roadmap to smaller chips
By: Tom's Hardware
Russia has unveiled a roadmap to develop its own lithography machines, aiming to create less costly and complex equipment than ASML’s systems, according to CNews. These machines will use lasers operating at a wavelength of 11.2 nanometers instead of the standard 13.5 nm used by ASML. This wavelength will be incompatible with existing EUV infrastructure and… Read more
read more...Qualcomm says its Oryon CPU cores have 1% or less of Arm’s original technology — cores in Snapdragon X PC chips are almost entirely custom
By: Tom's Hardware
Although Qualcomm’s Oryon general-purpose cores, found inside Snapdragon X processors are based on Arm’s Armv8 instruction set architecture (ISA), they use very little technology developed by Arm. This is according to Gerard Williams III, one of the lead developers behind Oryon and a variety of Apple’s processors, reports Reuters. “One percent or less,” said Williams when… Read more
read more...The quickly disappearing web
By: The Verge
Every few days, I open my inbox to an email from someone asking after an old article of mine that they can’t find. They’re graduate students, activists, teachers setting up their syllabus, researchers, fellow journalists, or simply people with a frequently revisited bookmark, not understanding why a link suddenly goes nowhere. They’re people who searched… Read more
read more...Samsung’s Freestyle projector’s price has plummetted
By: What HIFI?
Samsung’s Freestyle projector drops to £399 thanks to a £300 discount
read more...Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews
By: The Verge
Intel is having an incredibly rough year — but at long last, the company’s discrete graphics card initiative has produced a card worth celebrating. While we haven’t managed to review it ourselves due to a fluke issue, the $250 Arc B580 “Battlemage” GPU launched to nigh-universal praise, has already sold out most everywhere, and Intel… Read more
read more...Apple’s App Store is inviting me to ‘search the way you talk’
By: The Verge
I opened the App Store today to find an emulator I’d read about, and a new prompt appeared under the search bar inviting me to “search the way you talk.” I hadn’t seen the prompt before on my iPhone 13 Pro Max, and quite frankly, I had missed the iOS 18.1 update note about it…. Read more
read more...Apple Maps on the web now has Look Around
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Following the beta launch of Apple Maps on the web in July, Apple has now recently added Look Around street-level views for several cities to the site, 9to5Mac reports. You can activate Look Around as you would in the Apple Maps app on devices like the iPhone or iPad by selecting the binoculars icon on… Read more
read more...Grubhub pays $25 million for allegedly tricking customers and lying to drivers
By: The Verge
Grubhub has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that claimed the food delivery service misled customers and drivers while also damaging the reputation of restaurants. The proposed settlement will require Grubhub to make several changes to the platform, such as showing the total delivery cost when customers place an… Read more
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