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Ayaneo’s Next Lite is a $299 Steam Deck competitor with unofficial SteamOS
/ It will run HoloISO, and have Windows drivers available. Never mind that “subscription” bit Share this story a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Ayaneo Ayaneo’s attempt to launch a bargain-price competitor to the Steam Deck has been confusing, to say the least, but the company has now published a product page that clears most things up. The Ayaneo Next Lite will cost $299, will not ship with an official build of SteamOS but rather an unofficial fork, and come with a four-year-old AMD processor that’s arguably less potent than the one in the original Steam Deck LCD. While the ...
Substack keeps the Nazis, loses Platformer
/ Platformer is leaving Substack over its policies around pro-Nazi publications using the platform a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Illustration by The Verge Platformer, the tech newsletter started by Verge alum Casey Newton, is leaving Substack over its policies around and response to pro-Nazi publications using the platform. Newton notes that after identifying seven Substack publications “that conveyed explicit support for 1930s German Nazis and called for violence against Jews, among other groups,” the platform removed one on its own along with five others on the list. The other...
TikTok Is Reportedly Enlisting LVMH To Help Combat Fake Goods Sold in Its App
TikTok is gearing up to grow its e-commerce business in 2024, aiming for $17.5 billion USD in sales by the end of the year. As part of that goal, the app wants to combat faux luxury items sold in the TikTok Shop.The ByteDance-owned app is in talks with luxury brand conglomerate LVMH to prevent counterfeit items from being sold in-app, Bloomberg reported.The two companies want to team up to deliver an “elevated shopping experience” Toto Haba, senior vice president of global omni-marketing for the LVMH-owned Benefit Cosmetics, told Bloomberg.As TikTok angles to grow its e-commerce business “tenfold,” per a previous report, the app is seemingly concerned that faux items will dissuade customers from shopping there. It also appears to be differentiating itself from other online shopping platfor...
2023 Was Officially the Hottest Year on Record
Many people may be feeling like this past summer was hotter than usual. As it turns out, global temperatures were warming not only in the summer season but throughout the entire year.A new report conducted by the European Union climate monitor and published by The New York Times details that 2023 was the warmest year in a century and a half.“Averaged across last year, temperatures worldwide were 1.48 degrees Celsius, or 2.66 Fahrenheit, higher than they were in the second half of the 19th century,” the newspaper reported.Previously, the hottest year on record had been 2016, which trumped record temperatures in 2015. Prior to that, however, the hottest year on record was 2014. Between 2014 and 2016, temperatures were consistently rising each year.Climate scientists may have taken reprieve i...
Dexcom’s new continuous glucose monitor is a health tech gadget with purpose
/ The Stelo CGM is meant to give Type 2 diabetics who don’t need insulin a more affordable way to monitor their blood sugar. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>The Stelo CGM will look similar to the one pictured here and is based on the Dexcom G7.
eBay will pay $3 million over bizarre cyberstalking campaign
Policy/ Tech / In 2019, a group of seven former eBay employees sent live insects and a bloody pig mask to the publishers of a newsletter critical of the company. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: eBay eBay has agreed to pay $3 million in connection with a 2019 harassment campaign directed at a Massachusetts couple that had been critical of the e-commerce site. The US Department of Justice announced the maximum criminal penalty on Thursday and said the company committed six felony offenses. Specifically, the DOJ charged eBay with two counts of stalking through interstate trave...
Reach will fall in Halo’s season 2 trailer
/ The second season of the Halo live-action series premieres on February 8th. a]:text-gray-13″>If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Halo season 2 is less than a month away, and Paramount Plus has just revealed the season’s latest trailer. Master Chief and the Spartans (excellent name for a Halo cover band, by the way) will return to face off against the Covenant on one of the most important locations in the Halo universe: the planet Reach. The trailer lets you know immediately what the stakes are for Halo season 2, with a voiceover addressing the people of Reach. The voice — possibly belonging to Makee (Charlie Murphy), Master Chief’s girlfriend — continues, saying she will be the instrument of their extinction. We’re trea...
The latest mini-console is this adorable Atari 400
/ The chunky classic is getting a modern rerelease this March. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Plaion / Retro Games Ltd. The mini-console trend that started with the tiny NES Classic has largely slowed down, but there are still some cute game-filled gadgets coming. Case in point: the 400 Mini from Plaion and Retro Games Ltd. It’s exactly what it sounds like — a shrunken-down version of the Atari 400 — and like its contemporaries, it comes with a bunch of games preinstalled. The device itself is about half the size of the 1979 original, and it comes bundled with an updated v...
Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees
Google/ Tech / Or more than a thousand? Depends on the definition of “few”. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Illustration: The Verge Turns out Google’s postpandemic reckoning didn’t just hit the Google Hardware team this evening — it’s taken similarly sized bites out of Google Assistant and Google’s core engineering teams too. Google just confirmed to The Verge that it’s eliminated “a few hundred” roles in each of these divisions, meaning Google has confirmed layoffs of around a thousand employees on Wednesday alone, if we use a reasonable definition of “few”. And those are only th...
Google is losing its Fitbit leaders and laying off hundreds of AR employees
/ Google confirmed “a few hundred” hardware employees are getting axed. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google’s hardware division just took a body blow. The company has confirmed it’s laying off hundreds of hardware workers, especially in its augmented reality division — and 9to5Google is reporting that Fitbit co-founders James Park, Eric Friedman, and other Fitbit leaders are leaving the company entirely. Update, 1:42AM ET: It’s not just Fitbit and AR. Around a thousand Google layoffs were just confirmed, and there may be more. Here’s ...
Kia gets its first customer for the PV5 modular electric vehicle: Uber
/ Kia says the lineup of futuristic vans and trucks will redefine commercial fleets. Uber needs to get more drivers into EVs to fulfill its 2040 climate pledge. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Kia Kia and Uber have signed a memorandum of understanding to use the automaker’s newly announced PBV modular electric vehicles for ridehailing. PBV, which stands for Platform Beyond Vehicle, was introduced during CES in Las Vegas as a family of EVs built on a flexible vehicle architecture, with different swappable body types. The vehicle can be transformed from a minivan to a full-si...
First Bitcoin ETFs approved by US regulators
/ Now there’s a Wall Street approach to cryptocurrency. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>Take that, Satoshi!
