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Leo Says 58 – Intel Rocket Lake and Adaptive Boost Technology

Leo Waldock 1 day ago Featured Announcement, Featured Tech News The news embargo has lifted on Intel 11th Gen Intel Rocket Lake-S so we know plenty about feeds, speeds and prices. In addition we have discussed Core i7-11700K after a few hundred CPUs mysteriously went on sale early in Germany and France. Add in the… Read more

iPhone Flip foldable smartphone

Apple is developing an inwardly folding smartphone with a clamshell design. Read all about the expected iPhone Flip and its possible design here. Since Samsung released the Galaxy Fold foldable smartphone in 2019, many are wondering when Apple will introduce its first folding phone. But we still have to be patient. Various sources have indicated… Read more

Intel’s New CEO to Host Live Chat on March 23, Ahead of Rocket Lake Launch

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is scheduled to deliver a live webcast on March 23 from 2 – 3 p.m. PDT (5 – 6 p.m. EDT) to discuss “the new era of innovation and technology leadership at Intel,” the company announced today. The webcast will be available at Intel’s newsroom. Gelsinger… Read more

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano review: light it up

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. If you’ve used a ThinkPad before, you probably know 90 percent of what to expect from the ThinkPad X1 Nano. All of the staples are here. It’s got the black carbon fiber chassis, the discrete buttons on… Read more

New Google Nest Hub smart speaker designed for extra bass

Home News (Image credit: Google) There’s a new Google Nest Hub smart speaker in town, and it comes with a boatload of upgraded abilities. Such as? It’s louder, with a new design and faster processor. It can also track your sleep, but more on that later. It looks nigh on identical to the previous Nest… Read more

The PS5 is getting DVR support in Japan this year

Sony has announced that the PlayStation 5 will get DVR functionality in Japan by way of a new app that’ll work with its Nasne tuners. The app will be called Torne (pronounced to-ru-ne) and should be available later this year. Torne was originally a TV tuner add-on for the PS3 that was released in 2010… Read more

Google Nest Hub Max vs new Nest Hub: The differences explained

(Pocket-lint) – Google offers the Nest Hub Max and second generation Nest Hub, as the two devices within its smart display portfolio. The second generation Nest Hub succeeds the older Nest Hub, formerly known as Google Home Hub, which you might find cheap now. With a very similar design apart from physical size, how do Google’s… Read more

California bans ‘dark patterns’ that trick users into giving away their personal data

If you’ve ever struggled through a maze of online customer service to cancel a subscription or delete an account, you’ve likely encountered “dark patterns” — user interfaces that are designed to trick and frustrate users. The concept was coined in 2010 but is slowly being addressed in US legislation, with California this week announcing that… Read more

Elon Musk produced a techno track about NFTs he’s selling as an NFT

Elon Musk is getting in on the NFT gold rush by selling a new electronic music track he’s apparently produced as an NFT. Yes, you’ve heard that right — it’s a song about non-fungible tokens, which Musk appears to have minted (or plans to mint) on the blockchain. Musk did not include a link to… Read more

A secretive metaverse creator bought the $69 million Beeple NFT

MetaKovan, the pseudonymous founder of MetaPurse, is the buyer behind the $69 million winning bid for a Beeple NFT at Christie’s yesterday. It was the third-highest sale price ever for a work from a living artist. “When you think of high-valued NFTs, this one is going to be pretty hard to beat,” MetaKovan said in… Read more

The best wireless earbuds to buy right now

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The true wireless earbuds market has never been more crowded than it is in 2021. With so many to choose from, finding the best earbuds can seem daunting. But the vast selection is actually a good thing:… Read more

These new 3D-printed homes in Austin are going for $450K

When it showed off its 3D-printed homes at the South by Southwest festival back in 2018, Austin-based construction technology company ICON told The Verge its Vulcan printer could create an 800-square-foot structure for about $10,000. It seemed like only a matter of time before higher-end 3D-printed homes became a reality. Now, a new development in… Read more

Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million

Until October, the most Mike Winkelmann — the digital artist known as Beeple — had ever sold a print for was $100. Today, an NFT of his work sold for $69 million at Christie’s. The sale positions him “among the top three most valuable living artists,” according to the auction house. The record-smashing NFT sale… Read more

Building the ultimate retro computer

Although I assembled it myself, and its software all comes from an open-source DIY project, in many ways my MiSTer is the most versatile computer I own. It’s a shapeshifting wonderbox that can change its own logic to make itself run like countless other machines as accurately as possible. From old arcade boards to early… Read more

I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV now

This afternoon, I was updating the streaming apps on my 2020 LG CX OLED TV, something I do from time to time, but today was different. Out of nowhere, I saw (and heard) an ad for Ace Hardware start playing in the lower-left corner. It autoplayed with sound without any action on my part. Now… Read more