Category: author_name|Mat Smith
The Morning After: Google uses Drake’s ‘Texts Go Green’ to explain RCS to Apple
Google has been trying to nudge Apple into adopting the GSMA’s RCS messaging protocol, from not-so-subtle jabs at I/O 2022 to lengthy Twitter threads from the head of Android. The latest tool from the makers of Android? Drake lyrics. The official Android Twitter account shared an “unofficial lyric explainer video”…
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The Morning After: Half of Japan’s businesses are still using Internet Explorer
Microsoft has been reminding everyone willing to listen that the end of Internet Explorer is nigh, but many businesses in Japan seemingly did not take heed. Almost half are reportedly still using the browser. According to Nikkei, many of those companies put off making the switch to other browsers, whether…
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The Morning After: First look at the transparent Nothing phone
As suspected, the first phone from Nothing — Carl Pei’s new company — is going all in on the transparent gadget look. This seems to be Nothing’s design aesthetic, matching its wireless ear(1) headphones from last year. According to snippets of video from an event at Art Basel, where the…
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The Morning After: The world of cryptocurrency continues to wobble
Transaction freezes at Celsius Networks, which we reported on a few days ago, seem to be just the start of another stormy week in cryptocurrency. Binance has been sued over the collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin, and Coinbase — one of the biggest cryptocurrency platforms — cut over 1,000 jobs…
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The Morning After: Sony made a $3,700 Walkman
Sony has released two ultra-high-end Walkman MP3 players aimed squarely at audiophiles — and no-one else. The headliner, the $3,700 NW-WM1ZM2 (pictured left), combines an S-Master HX digital amp with “fine-tuned” capacitors, thick Kimber Kable (to link the amp to the headphone jack) and a 99.99 percent pure gold-plated, oxygen-free…
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The Morning After: An extended look at Bethesda’s space epic, ‘Starfield’
It’s early Monday morning for most of you, but the work week started early for Engadget, with Xbox’s big Summer Game Fest showing. Given how many game studios Microsoft now has for its consoles and game streaming service, we were expecting a whole bunch of announcements, trailers and things to…
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