Technology

Apple offers a lot of accessibility options for the iPhone. Having difficulty seeing things on your iPhone? Make them bigger. You can also make them brighter (or less bright, or even differently colored if you have a form of colorblindness). You can even make them less migraine-inducing, or have Siri read and describe everything on your screen to you. If you need help when it comes to hearing sounds and voices on your iPhone, you can adjust audio dynamics, read transcriptions, or have your iPhone flash a bright light when you get a call or a notification. Maybe you prefer a different way to control your iPhone. You can customize touch gestures — or even use the AssistiveTouch feature to use single taps where more complicated touch gestures might otherwise be needed. You can integrate perip...

The global release for the highly anticipated Nothing Phone (1) is fast approaching and here’s your chance to take a closer look at the brainchild of OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei. Retaining much of Nothing’s signature design language, the new Phone (1) features a transparent back paired with an aluminum frame to offer a retro-futuristic look while enabling the company’s innovative, 900-LED Glyph Interface to shine through, allowing you to see who’s calling or texting, your battery life and more. The main display comes in the form of a 6.55-inch OLED screen with HDR10+ support and runs at 120Hz to provide crisp, fluid imagery and coverage of one billion colors. Powering everything is a custom-made Snapdragon 778G+ chipset from Qualcomm specifically for the Nothing Phone (1). The chip include...

CASETiFY has just released a new anime collaboration, this time with the cult-favorite Dragon Ball Z franchise. This sizable collection sees the characters Goku, Krillin, Piccolo, Vegeta, and Frieza, as well as Frieza’s henchmen Zarbon, Dodoria, and Captain Ginyu — a single Saibaman also makes an appearance. Covering scenes from the Saiyan Saga to the Namek Saga, the characters are featured on custom Impact cases, a brand new collection of Hologram and Lenticular cases, Airpods cases, MacBook cases, MagSafe wireless chargers, Apple Watch bands, and AirTag sleeves. “We are excited to partner with Toei Animation to present some of the most recognizable characters onto a new platform of everyday lifestyle accessories,” said Wes Ng, CEO and Co-founder of CASETiFY. “This collection brings a sen...

Here is something I didn’t know when I purchased Amazon Ring cameras and Amazon Echo Dots: there is a webpage where law enforcement can fill out a form, say there’s a life-threatening emergency, and get access to your data without your consent, a court order, or any kind of warrant. There’s nothing in the Terms of Service about this, and the company has maintained for years that it helps police get consent first, but it’s happening anyhow. Over the past seven months alone, Amazon has provided private Ring videos to law enforcement 11 times, the company told Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) in a letter dated July 1st and provided to press this week. Here are Markey’s questions and Amazon’s answers about that specifically: (Markey is focused on Ring, which has its own specific form (pdf) that law en...

OpenSea co-founder and CEO Devin Finzer revealed this afternoon that the NFT marketplace is laying off about 20 percent of its employees. Finzer did not indicate how many people that represented. A Forbes article in January celebrating Finzer and his co-founder Alex Atallah’s $2.2 billion net worth (each) said the company employed more than 70 people, but an OpenSea spokesperson tells The Verge that 230 people will remain with the company. When we profiled OpenSea in February, the company had just received an additional $300 million in funding with a valuation of $13.3 billion and was the dominant player in selling the tokens, earning a 2.5 percent commission on trades. Still, a sustained drop in activity and prices has led to headlines about how NFT Sales Are Flatlining or have Fallen Off...

The hit online puzzle Wordle is being turned into a multiplayer board game. The New York Times, which purchased Wordle earlier this year, is partnering with Hasbro to bring Wordle from the digital world to the physical one as Wordle: The Party Game later this year. Wordle rose to prominence in large part because, at least for a little while, it seemed like literally everyone was sharing their results on Twitter. But actually solving a Wordle puzzle is generally a solitary endeavor. In Wordle: The Party Game, though, Wordle becomes a group activity. One player thinks of a five-letter word that other players have to try and guess first. Once people have made their guesses, the word-thinker will slide translucent yellow and green tiles over correct letters. You’ll make your guesses with dry-e...

New car events are usually pretty cringe, full of pointless pyrotechnics, emotionless futurescapes, shameless pandering to “the youth,” or hapless CEO antics. (Remember Elon Musk’s Cybertruck window smash fail? Simpler times.) So it is with some degree of hesitation that I must point you to this video from Hyundai as the latest exhibit in this ongoing series of “car companies present depressing visions of the future.” The video, which was released yesterday, was intended to reveal the sleek-looking Ioniq 6, Hyundai’s latest electric vehicle with a 77.4kWh battery and 379 miles of range. Instead we got a smorgasbord of buzzwords — “trashion,” metaverse, NFTs — ideally aimed at appealing to a youthful demographic, but going about it in the worst possible way. car companies present depressing...

Chrome OS, Google’s Linux-based operating system for its Chromebook devices, has been around for more than a decade, but the company has made a small but notable branding change: it’s now called ChromeOS, with no space in between. James Croom, Google’s senior director of marketing for ChromeOS, confirmed the change to The Verge. You can see the change for yourself all over Google’s ChromeOS dev page (though the official logo at the top appears to have a lowercase c.) That’s three entire spaces saved just in this screenshot. (And four if you count the logo.)Screenshot from Google’s ChromeOS dev page The change hasn’t rolled out everywhere just yet. On this ChromeOS page on Google’s Chromebook site, for example, Google still spells the operating system as two separate words. According to Cro...

Instagram has expanded its creator subscription program, introducing new ways for users on the platform to generate an income. Through the program, which launched in January, Instagram is now allowing creators to lock even more of their content behind a paywall. The platform’s Subscriptions feature previously only applied to Lives, Stories and Badges. Creators determine a set monthly subscription cost of up to $100 USD maximum and followers sign up to subscribe via a button on their profile. Subscriptions are now also applicable to Reels, Posts, Chats and a special subscriber-exclusive homepage. CEO Adam Mosseri announced the update in a video posted to social media. “Subscriptions are a great way for creators to have a predictable income and for fans to get exclusive content from creators...

Hisense is on its way to becoming a household name in the realm of technology with the astoundingly large and crystal-clear Laser TV. Taking a trip to the movies or setting up tricky projectors are now things of the past, as the Laser TV brings an immersive experience right into your home at a reasonable price point. The burgeoning brand assures at-home tv viewing experiences will be forever changed by the Laser TV. This new television technology employs lasers to provide ultra-short throw projection on a whopping 100-inch screen that is sure to make friends, family, and neighbors envious. Although the Laser TV is revolutionizing the modern at-home experience, the technology was created back in 2014. Just as flat-screen televisions were beginning to exponentially increase in size, the Lase...