Month: January 2023
Apple’s Black History Month plans may tip an earlier than expected iOS 16.3 launch
Audio player loading… To celebrate February’s Black History Month, Apple is rolling out this year’s Black Unity Collection featuring a special edition Sport Loop for select Apple Watch models plus new curated collections and content for multiple iOS platforms. 2023’s Black Unity Sport Loop (opens in new tab) is made…
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Git patches two critical remote code execution security flaws
Audio player loading… Cybersecurity researchers from X41 and GitLab has discovered three high-severity vulnerabilities in the Git distributed version control system. The flaws could have allowed threat actors to run arbitrary code on target endpoints by exploiting heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities, the researchers said. Of the three flaws, two already…
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The Verge is partnering with the Computer History Museum to explore the past and future of tech
We’re excited to announce that The Verge is partnering with the Computer History Museum this year to explore some of the most important innovations that changed the future of technology and our relationship with it. Located in Mountain View, California, CHM does extensive work in preserving, explaining, and making the…
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The Health Tech Products That I Think Will Blow Up This Year
While I’m still skeptical about the accuracy of this sort of AI, I visited two other exhibitors who analyzed my skin with wildly variable results — one told me I had a skin age of 25, and the other 42. The latter scolded me specifically about my eye bags but…
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Your Wi-Fi router could spy exactly where you are in a room
Audio player loading… Your humble Wi-Fi router (opens in new tab) signal could be used to track your movements around a room, bat style, a new report has claimed. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University recently published a report in which they detailed an experiment using ordinary off-the-shelf Wi-Fi routers to…
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The State Department wants memos written in Calibri now, not Times New Roman
The State Department is changing with the times. According to a report from The Washington Post, employees have been directed to use 14-point Calibri when writing certain documents instead of the traditional Times New Roman. The mandate is set to go into effect in February. In a memo cheekily titled…
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