Over the past years, Russian search and tech giant Yandex made an effort not to fall behind its Western counterparts and had developed its own smart devices, self-driving cars, as well as its own food delivery and ride-sharing services, among other pro…
Twitter’s new Verified service will include gold checks for companies, Elon Musk confirms
Twitter plans to launch its updated Verified program next Friday with manual authentication and different colored check marks for different types of users, Elon Musk has tweeted. “Gold check for companies, grey check for government, blue for individual…
The best Black Friday Amazon deals on Kindles, Echo speakers, Fire TV devices and more
Now that Amazon has not one but two Prime Days per year, you might think they’d run out of deals. Not so. The world’s largest retailer has plenty of deals to go around for Black Friday, including these discounts on their own devices. And for this sale,…
Arrival CEO steps back amidst the electric van startup’s financial woes
Denis Sverdlov, the CEO and founder of the embattled EV startup Arrival, has stepped back from the company’s day-to-day operations, according to The Financial Times and Bloomberg. Sverdlov won’t be leaving the company completely but will instead switch…
Elon Musk will offer ‘amnesty’ to banned Twitter accounts amid more layoffs
Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk says a “general amnesty” for banned accounts will begin next week for those who “have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam.” He polled users on whether Twitter should offer the amnesty, seemingly overlooking t…
This golf robot uses a Microsoft Kinect camera and a neural network to line up putts
Robots that can whack a golf ball down a fairway aren’t exactly new, but building one that can play the nuanced short game is a more complex problem. Researchers at Paderborn University in Germany have done just that with Golfi, a machine that uses a n…
Google says Google and other Android manufacturers haven’t patched security flaws
Google has disclosed several security flaws for phones that have Mali GPUs, such as those with Exynos SoCs. The company’s Project Zero team says it flagged the problems to ARM (which designs the GPUs) back in the summer. ARM resolved the issues on its …
Critter & Guitari’s 201 Music Synthesizer is the long-awaited successor to its Pocket Piano
Critter & Guitari’s lineup of hackable music computers and video synths are undeniably unique. They do things that practically no other instrument can, plus they’re probably the most visually distinctive portable music devices out there. Its latest…
The best early Black Friday tech deals for 2022
Black Friday may still be a few hours away, but we’re already seeing a bunch of great deals on our favorite tech. This comes after a slow trickle of deals popping up across the web ever since the start of November. While we don’t have the supply chain …
Water recycling technologies developed for space are helping a parched American west
Whether you live in the rapidly drying American West or are aboard the International Space Station for a six-month stint, having enough water to live on is a constant concern. As climate change continues to play havoc on the West’s aquifers, and as hum…