Month: December 2023
How to create stickers on the iPhone using your photos in iOS 17
Creating stickers from photos is an easily overlooked iPhone feature tucked into iOS 17. Using Apple’s machine learning algorithms that quickly separate a subject from its background, it extracts pictures of you, your friends or pets (or anything else it detects as the picture’s subject), transforming them into digital decals.…
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A First Look at Matic, the Reengineered Robot Vacuum
We spent some time with the prototype robot vacuum from two ex-Google engineers that will be available in March 2024. Source
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2023: a year in art on The Verge
Design by Elana Schlenker, with illustrations by James Kerr, Erik Carter, Charles Desmarais, and Rui Pu For The Verge’s end-of-year package about Twitter’s downfall, we turned to designer Elana Schlenker to create a world as deranged and unruly as the year was for the social platform, complete with a toggle…
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AWS is reportedly making some big changes to its sales team
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is becoming increasingly concerned about competition from Microsoft and Google, despite being the number one cloud provider globally, to the degree that the business is now looking to reorganize its 60,000-strong sales team. The report comes from The Information, which cites AWS Head of Sales Matt…
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The Morning After: You can now repair Samsung’s foldables yourself
If they feel brave and technically capable, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 owners can now fix their phones through the company’s self-repair service. The do-it-yourself program is also expanding to the Galaxy S23 series, Tab S9 series and the Galaxy Book2 Pro, all in collaboration with…
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Adam Sandler’s new Netflix movie Spaceman looks like an eerie Interstellar in first teaser trailer
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Six months into a solitary space mission, an astronaut starts to think that his marriage may be in trouble. Luckily for him there’s a mysterious creature from the beginning of time hiding away in his ship, and that creature turns out to…
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