Time will tell whether the new “Pro” bit in Pixel 9 Fold presages the arrival of a lower-cost foldable, or if it’s simply a nod to the high-end pricing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
There’s now a 45mm (left) Pixel Watch 3 along with the original 41mm size. The Pixel Watch 3 isn’t the new smartwatch on the block anymore — which is an interesting place for Google to be in. It’s easier to forgive flaws when you’re a newbie, launching a first-gen device in an already crowded market. … Read more
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Alongside a fleet of new phones and two sizes of its Pixel Watch 3, Google has just announced its latest flagship earbuds, the Pixel Buds Pro 2. They’re priced slightly higher at $229, but Google has included enough improvements that I don’t think most people will be dissuaded … Read more
The plural is actually “Pixels Pro,” like attorneys general. Google’s Pixel phone lineup is getting a little bigger this year. The Pixel 9 series now counts one standard model — the Pixel 9 — and three Pro models: the Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold. They all offer updated … Read more
The Pixel 9 Pro XL, or the newest face of “What is a photo?” | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge I played a new kind of AR Pac-Man game yesterday, guiding a circle on a phone screen toward a series of little dots that seemed to hover around a conference room. In this version, … Read more
Gemini gets a new voice chat mode. | Image: Google Google is rolling out a new voice chat mode for Gemini, called Gemini Live, the company announced at its Pixel 9 event today. Available for Gemini Advanced subscribers, it works a lot like ChatGPT’s voice chat feature, with multiple voices to choose from and the … Read more
An investigative journalist reported that the FBI issued a standard ‘Glomar response’ to a request for information on Satoshi Nakamoto but with an “interesting assertion.“
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by STR / NurPhoto, Getty Images The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has filed federal labor charges against Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump over their “illegal attempts to threaten and intimidate workers” during Monday night’s interview on X. At one point in the interview, Trump … Read more
Image: Netflix Want to try your hand at Squid Game’s Red Light, Green Light but without the mortal danger from the Netflix series or having to participate in the Squid Game reality TV show? Then get ready for Squid Game: The Experience, an in-person “immersive adventure” launching in New York City in October. “Front Man … Read more
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Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Payoneer’s $61 million acquisition of Skuad, Robinhood and Dave’s second-quarter results, X’s progress on its payments and more. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The big story Last … Read more
The competition recognized the “creativity and degenerate nature of the crypto community,” said UNFK founder Agent Lovelace.
Residents of the 50th state will again be able to access Coinbase thanks to new “regulatory clarity.”
Labeling and annotation platforms might not get the attention flashy new generative AI models do. But they’re essential. The data on which many models train must be labeled, or the models wouldn’t be able to interpret that data during the training process. Annotation is a vast undertaking, requiring thousands to millions of annotations for the … Read more
Hawaii residents can gain access to the Coinbase platform, including crypto staking options, following recent regulatory changes.
The Asia Pacific region has long been an important market for wealth management firms with the plethora of developing economies and a burgeoning retail investment market. But there’s still a huge market to capture: About 40% to 45% of personal financial assets in the region are held in cash and deposits as of 2023, according … Read more
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Crypto interests are planning to go after Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in their biggest-ever single campaign, setting aside $12 million to support the Republican candidate seeking to snatch the Senate seat from the current chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, who has been highly critical of the digital assets sector and reluctant to embrace crypto … Read more
ZUG, Switzerland/August 13, 2024/–Apex Fusion, a promising federated multichain L1 solution is excited to announce the launch of its highly anticipated public testnet. This marks a significant milestone in the project roadmap and a big step in knocking down fragmentation, one of the most significant barriers to Web3 adoption, efficiency, and security. Apex Fusion interconnects … Read more
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Grzegorz Wajda, Getty Images During their glitchy, rambling, two-hour “conversation” on X last night, Elon Musk made the case to Donald Trump that climate change was real and maybe electric cars weren’t as bad as the former president has been making them out to be … Read more
Ethereum and DeFi will “both surge in the coming months” according to analyst Michaël van de Poppe: X Hall of Flame
Hive’s new high-performance computing platform clocked around $2.6 million in sales in the second quarter of 2024.
The Solana-based Dead Dad Coin has a head-turning name, but the creator insists it’s not a crass stunt—and that his father would’ve loved it.