Day: July 10, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nearly four years after the lights went out at AlphaBay, the feds are still charging people with criminal activities linked to the dark web marketplace. On Friday the SEC and the Department of Justice announced charges against Apostolos Trovias, a Greek national who they allege posted on dark […]

With the power of current Apple Silicon based Macs, and the next generation Apple Silicon computers that could be coming later this year, plenty of Intel-based computers will be left without a purpose. So why not convert your old computer into your own Netflix-like streaming service using Plex? more… The post How to convert your […]

The upcoming Apple TV+ current affairs show hosted by Jon Stewart, entitled The Problem with Jon Stewart, begins filming next week in front of a live audience. Event website 1iota is currently advertising free tickets to the recording next week in New York. more… The post Jon Stewart’s new Apple TV+ show begins taping next […]

Bo Burnham in Bo Burnham: Inside | Photo: Courtesy of Netflix If you can’t get “Bezos I” out of your head, then you’re in good company as a soundtrack to Bo Burnham: Inside scored the comedian the first Billboard Top 10 appearance of his career. But since the musical comedy special was on Netflix and […]

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo spaceplane is carried between the two fuselages of its WhiteKnight carrier aircraft during a 2016 test. | Image: Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic will launch Richard Branson and three company employees to the edge of space on the morning of Sunday, July 11th. The company is promising quite a show for the mission: […]

As of now, the rumors about AirPods 3 are sparse. While many sources suggested that the product would launch in the first half of the year, it’s now clearer that Apple is saving its announcement for the upcoming months. And when the company finally announces the AirPods 3, I don’t think Apple will kill its […]

Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) For this weekend edition of our Dealmaster deals roundup, we’ve got a nifty bundle for Nintendo’s Switch Lite and several deals on high-profile Switch games, joint-lowest prices on Apple’s M1-equipped MacBook Air and Mac Mini, and good prices on a few wireless headphones and portable SSDs. You can checkout our full […]

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Tesla began sending out over-the-air software updates for its long-awaited “Full Self-Driving” beta version 9, the definitely-not-autonomous-but-certainly-advanced driver assist system. As promised by Elon Musk, the software update (2021.4.18.12) began uploading after midnight on Friday, giving thousands of Tesla owners who have purchased the FSD option access to […]

In recent years, there have been two “takes” I’ve made on a quick judgment. They were that the AirPods wouldn’t be a product hit and that MagSafe was a solution in search of a problem. I couldn’t have been more wrong on both of them. AirPods have gone to become a massive hit, and MagSafe […]

Enlarge Walter Freeman was ambidextrous, so he could do two lobotomies at the same time. These involved jabbing two icepicks from the junk drawer in his kitchen into the eye sockets of two different patients until he felt the thin orbital bones behind their eyes crack. Swishing the picks back and forth was then all […]