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The bean-shaped Galaxy Buds Live have an unusual design for true wireless earbuds. | Image: Evan Blass Samsung’s upcoming bean-shaped earbuds have leaked again in a series of new images that also include its charging case for the first time. The images were initially leaked by Evan Blass, before being republished by 9to5Google. As well as giving us our … Continue reading Images of Samsung’s bean-shaped earbuds leak again, including its charging case. Continue Reading →

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge I. After two years of work, an independent civil rights audit of Facebook is now complete. The company had been under pressure from Congress and civil rights groups to undertake such an effort for some time, but the audit was voluntary on Facebook’s part. And while sometimes these … Continue reading What a damning civil rights audit missed about Facebook Continue Reading →

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has made it more difficult to buy a new laptop recently, and we’re now starting to see how PC shipments have been affected. While PC shipments declined sharply during the impact to manufacturing in Q1, both IDC and Gartner report that shipments have now grown in Q2 despite an … Continue reading PC shipments surge as the world gets serious about working from home. Continue Reading →

Image: Apple Apple’s first Macs based on its own ARM-based silicon will include a new MacBook Air, as well as MacBook Pros with 13.3-, 14-, and 16-inch screen sizes, according to a new report from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The research note was reported by 9to5Mac and MacRumors. Apple officially confirmed the long-standing rumors of a switch … Continue reading Apple’s range of unannounced ARM-based MacBooks detailed in new report. Continue Reading →

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A number of popular apps and services including Spotify, Pinterest, and Tinder were inaccessible today on iOS devices due to a now-resolved issue involving Facebook log-ins. There were widespread reports on social media of apps crashing whenever launched on iPhones and iPads, and corresponding outage spikes on DownDetector.com. The cause … Continue reading Spotify, Pinterest, Tinder, and other iOS apps were crashing again due to a Facebook issue Continue Reading →

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook’s iOS SDK is causing a number of popular iPhone apps to crash today, including Spotify, Pinterest, and Tinder. You don’t even need to have the Facebook app installed for other apps to crash, as developers have implemented the Facebook login through their own apps. This is the … Continue reading How to stop Facebook’s iOS bug from crashing Spotify, Pinterest, Tinder, and other apps Continue Reading →

And with or without 5G, this isn’t a great laptop for $1,399 Lenovo’s Flex 5G has a lot to live up to as the world’s first 5G-enabled Windows 10 2-in-1 laptop. Not just that, it also needs to convince people that putting ARM-based processors in a Windows laptop is a perk, not a liability that … Continue reading Lenovo’s Flex 5G proves it’s too early to buy a 5G laptop. Continue Reading →

An unexpected sequel Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise is almost as awkward to review as Deadly Premonition must have been to follow up. So let me just get this part out of the way: Deadly Premonition fans, by which I mean people who genuinely, unironically liked Deadly Premonition, may well dig this game. It is delirious in most … Continue reading Deadly Premonition 2 leans into the best and worst parts of the original cult classic Continue Reading →

Masks for sale on Etsy. Etsy sellers have been a top source for stylish masks since the start of the pandemic — but some of them, it turns out, are barely masks at all. Sellers have been marketing masks made out of mesh, lace, and other materials with visible holes in them. The masks are often marketed … Continue reading Etsy sellers are offering sheer mesh face masks that provide ‘very little protection’ Continue Reading →

Image: Rivian EV startup Rivian has raised $2.5 billion, bringing its total funding to date to around $6 billion ahead of the launch of its all-electric pickup truck and SUV in early 2021. $5.35 billion of that has come in the last year and a half alone, with Rivian scooping up big investments from Ford, Amazon, … Continue reading Rivian raises $2.5 billion ahead of launch of electric pickup and SUV. Continue Reading →