Imagine you’re an X user who's actually excited to make the app your primary payments app after X Money finally launched Monday, after years of delays, for US Premium and Premium+ subscribers. You transfer funds and set things up so that your paychecks automatically deposit to X, where you expect to...
The scale of AI-generated media can be hard to grasp. Starling Lab, a research collaboration from Stanford University and the University of Southern California, estimates that it took until 1975—149 years after the invention of the camera—for humanity to create 1.5 billion images. It took generative...
Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that’s a bilingual text, like the Rosetta Stone, or a known relative to compare it to. Linear A, the writing system of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization on the Greek island of Crete, has neither. Linear A is described as...
Nothing has had a strong visual identity since the Ear 1 were released in 2021 for $99 and challenged the notion that a highly featured headset requires a high price. The Ear 3A have the same transparent look as Nothing's previous earbuds, with a clear case and stem design accented by a solid-colore...
A Wing drone carrying a DoorDash delivery. The food delivery app company says it will build its own drones going forward. | Image: Google DoorDash is launching a new drone delivery program called DoorDash Air. The largest food delivery app in the US said that it has approval from the Federal Aviatio...
The Remarkable Paper Pro bundle comes with a stylus and a folio cover. A lot of us here at The Verge are fans of Remarkable’s digital note-taking tablets, and right now one of its higher-end options is much cheaper than usual. The Remarkable Paper Pro normally sells for $629 on its own, but Woot is ...
Just two months after a bumpy launch earlier this year, Ferrari has reportedly already hit its 2026 sales goal for its polarizing, Jony Ive-designed Luce EV . Ahead of Ferrari announcing its quarterly earnings on Thursday, the Financial Times reports that Ferrari was aiming to sell "just under 500" ...
As schools across the country continue to implement cellphone bans, a new Pew Research Center survey shows they continue to gain support. Seventy-seven percent of US adults support banning cellphones in middle and high school classes, and 48 percent support banning them for the entire school day. Th...
X sued the WFA in 2024 for conducting what it called a "systematic illegal boycott" of the platform after it saw a decline in advertising revenue following Musk's $44 billion takeover of the social network.
Google is expanding its Play Age Signals API, giving Android developers a privacy-preserving way to tailor experiences based on users’ age ranges.
The ban largely affects U.S. imports from China, which currently dominates the global market for making humanoid robots and solar inverters.
Waymo robotaxis are now using freeways in Phoenix with more cities to follow in the coming days.
To the horror of commenters across the internet, the Ferrari Luce appears to be a sales success.
M-PESA Ethiopia has expanded its digital its digital payments platform by introducing prepaid electricity payments through M-PESA Super App, enabling customers with Ethiopian Electric Utility Smart Meter devices to purchase electricity direct from their mobile phones. The new services allows users t...
Boston Consulting Group published an article this month, authored by Hamid Maher, Patrick Dupoux and colleagues out of its Casablanca and Paris offices, setting out three priorities for Africa’s digital and AI economy: build the infrastructure and data foundations through public-private partne...
The Africa Deep Tech Foundation (ADTF) has launched the Africa Deep Tech Challenge (ADTC) 2026, focusing this year on a single, practical goal: getting artificial intelligence to run entirely offline on standard laptops that run on the hardware most African builders already have. Dubbed “The L...
Onafriq has announced a strategic partnership with digital asset infrastructure provider Privy to advance the adoption of stablecoin-powered payment services across Africa, marking another step in the continent’s evolving cross-border payments landscape. The partnership will feature Privy̵...
KCB Foundation has launched the Farmer Visibility (FaVi) initiative, a digital empowerment programme targeting 30,000 smallholder farmers across Kenya. The nine-month initiative, implemented in partnership with KCB Bank Kenya and Heifer International Kenya, aims to strengthen financial inclusion, ex...
Rather than targeting individual devices, attackers are compromising hospitality Wi-Fi gateways to steal corporate credentials at far greater scale. The post DNS Poisoning Campaign Makes Hospitality Wi-Fi Spots Inhospitable appeared first on TechNewsWorld .
eBay and three former executives agreed to pay nearly $56 million in a settlement over a macabre campaign of cyberstalking and harassment that targeted two journalists in 2019. As we've previously written , the case involved deliveries of live cockroaches, a funeral wreath, a book about surviving th...
Last week’s unprecedented security event in which two OpenAI security hacking models trespassed into the network of fellow AI company Hugging Face was enabled by exploiting one or more zero-day vulnerabilities in Artifactory, JFrog, the product’s developer, said Monday. In an incident mimicking a dy...
A bizarre series of events in a college microbiology lab class left 33 people—including students, professors, and lab workers—believing they were exposed to a deadly germ. Of those, 32 began taking an antibiotic regimen as a precaution to prevent a life-threatening infection. Two also underwent lumb...
Nearly a month since its launch, a first-of-its-kind commercial satellite built to save NASA's Swift gamma-ray telescope from a fiery reentry is having problems of its own, the agency announced Tuesday. The Link satellite developed by Katalyst Space Technologies "experienced issues with attitude con...
Audi provided flights from Washington, DC, to Munich, Germany, and accommodation so Ars could see the Q9 and Q7. And we also drove the new RS5. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MUNICH—It has taken Audi a little longer than its rivals, but with the debut of the 2027 Q9 this evening, the co...
