Walmart won’t hike prices based on your shopping history, CEO says
Walmart says it won’t change product prices based on your personal information or the time of day, as reported earlier by The Wall Street…
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The SaaSpocalypse that wasn’t, with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes
Today, I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian. Atlassian is one of those companies that every other…
Bose’s first wired earbuds in 11 years add noise canceling
Everything old is new again as today Bose announced its first pair of wired earbuds since discontinuing the option in 2015. The new…
Philips’ motion-tracking smart toothbrush uses AI to make you a better brusher
The Next-Generation DiamondClean 9900 joins a growing list of devices with built-in displays that have functioned just fine for decades…
Honor’s Magic 9 Pro Max has a big camera and a bigger battery
Honor launches its new Magic 9 flagship phones in China today, and the 9 Pro Max features a design revamp, a capable camera, and a colossal…
Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music
Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It’s a sampler and groovebox…
Googlebooks might be the real deal
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 145, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I’m…
The smart home graveyard is getting crowded
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the fragile state of your…
Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance
The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and…
These smart glasses have been recalled for overheating temples causing burns
A company called Inmo that makes several different variations of smart glasses has issued a recall for its Air3 because the left temple…
Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents
Haptics tech company Taction sued Apple in 2021, alleging it infringed two of its patents. Now a federal jury in San Diego has awarded…
OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’
As reports of OpenAI’s models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the…