Phone makers keep experimenting with ways to incorporate E Ink, from secondary displays to relying on it as the only display, but its lower refresh rate can make experiences feel hampered compared to LED and OLED.
But Infinix put E Ink’s Prism tech on the back of a phone, leading to something very customizable and very pretty.
Android expert and new feature hunter Mishaal Rahman spotted a new toggle in development in the latest Android beta: an option to turn on dark mode even in apps that don’t support it. If you don’t feel like waiting, you can already try the feature out by enabling developer settings.
As a part of its latest software update (v5.16.6), Amazon’s introduced a dedicated screenshots folder that’ll come in handy while taking notes. The folder will contain all the screenshots you take after updating one of the current Kindles or Kindle Scribe, which you can then access by connecting your e-reader to a computer.
To take a screenshot on your Kindle, simply tap on the upper right and lower left of the screen at once (or the upper left and lower right).
Kohler’s got an E Ink version of its Numi 2.0 smart toilet on the show floor — and it’s got the whole Verge crew in a tizzy. Jen has all the deets, which you can check out in this video! Rumor has it, that whooshing sound you hear in the distance is a rogue Alex Cranz making a beeline toward the E Ink toilet as we speak.
“I kind of don’t understand the trade here?” Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine writes of the hack of the SEC’s Twitter account yesterday, in which a fake approval of Bitcoin ETFs was briefly posted.
Linda Yaccarino was at CES yesterday to try to talk more businesses into using Xitter. If I were a troll, using the opportunity of screwing with one of X’s core constituencies and the feds at that precise moment in time would be too good to pass up. The trade is an epic lol, I believe.
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X’s news account claimed responsibility for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne having “rescinded its disciplinary action against Juan David Campolargo,” a student who had gotten in trouble for an account that pointed to events on campus that had free food available.
The low-stakes case was the first apparent instance of the site defending a user in trouble for their posts. The Verge has reached out to the university for confirmation.
The FTC extended the deadline to February 29th; previously, the deadline was January 17th. Epic will pay $245 million.
ChatGPT Team is targeted toward teams with no more than 150 people. It still has many of the features found in ChatGPT Enterprise, including access to GPT-4 and DALL-E 3; the ability to create custom GPTs; advanced data analysis; a shared workspace; and most importantly, control over data.
Pricing starts at $25 per user/month for annual billing and $30 per user/month when billed monthly.
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Gboard is adding a new one that pops up whenever you connect a physical keyboard to an Android tablet. You’ll get quick access to emoji, text suggestions, and importantly, an option to show which keyboard shortcuts the app you’re using supports — handy indeed.
The Elon Musk-owned platform quietly removed the option for Premium subscribers to use NFTs as their profile pictures, as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. X also scrubbed all mention of NFT profile pictures from its support page.
This comes a little less than one year after Meta ended tests that let users share NFTs on Instagram and Facebook.
I’m in Samsung’s CES booth this morning, where I finally got to see the new Ballie robot in action. It was cool! Helping with workouts, tracking air quality, making calls. And then… it got very confused about how its projector screen worked, and eventually stopped showing anything at all.
Poor Ballie might need a nap after all this work this week.
Not every Netflix original gets the privilege of a release on DVD and Blu-ray, but Wednesday is one of them. A physical copy of the show’s first season will be available on March 26th, 2024. It’s currently up for preorder on Amazon for $19.99.
