Becca Farsace and The Verge video team will take you through the best tech Las Vegas had to offer over the last week.
Matter took home our Best in Show award because of its potential for connecting the smart home, but it had plenty of competition on the show floor.
And with that, CES 2023 is over.
Now we wait to see all of those screens, chips, sensors, and cars appear in real life. That is, of course, assuming ever actually ship — on the Vergecast we had some doubts about that Sony sedan.
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The Lionsgate project has been in development since 2015 and was originally filmed two years ago starring a pre-Tar Cate Blanchett.
Deadline now reports that director Eli Roth, who is also a producer on the film, is “amicably” handing over direction to Miller for a couple of weeks of reshoots in March while Roth works on a new horror flick.
The USDA granted Dalan Animal Health a “conditional license for vaccination of honeybees against American Foulbrood disease caused by Paenibacillus larvae.”
As the NYT explains:
Before you start imagining a tiny syringe being inserted into a bee, the vaccine, which contains dead versions of the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae, comes in the form of food. The vaccine is incorporated into royal jelly, a sugar feed given to queen bees. Once they ingest it, the vaccine is then deposited in their ovaries, giving developing larvae immunity as they hatch.
[The New York Times]
Was on a Superior Court Clerk’s Office records request (PDF) for theft charges against this guy who allegedly decided Office Space was a good inspiration for a real crime.
The cops say he edited code on an e-commerce site’s checkout basket to redirect shipping fees on some orders to his personal account. And what did he do with the money?
When asked where the money now is, he stated it was “gone.” He clarified that he had used the money to invest in stock options, particularly GameStop stock options, and reiterated that all the money was now gone.
Card Shark made our list of ten recommendations for games from 2022 to try on your Nintendo Switch. And now, a sale has dropped its price from the usual $19.99 to $13.99.
As Jay Peters explained in his review, it’s good not only because it’s playable in short bites, but also because cheating is encouraged.
The cheats start small, like wiping the table in a certain direction to tip off what your opponent’s strongest suit is, but, by the end of the game, you’re stringing together multiple techniques in a row in complex schemes to win a round.
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Despite Elon Musk’s previous assertion that Twitter is done with layoffs, Bloomberg reports the company just let go of more people from the moderation team.
And as for the thousands of people affected — whether involuntarily or by their own choice — Fortune reports severance agreements are arriving with less compensation than many expected, and in a format that landed the messages in spam folders.
“I mean I expected him to f**k us (he did),” an impacted employee wrote to Fortune. “This is about 1/3 of what he contractually owes us based on his purchase agreement.”
The Ring Always Home Cam promises to fly around your house to keep an eye on things from every angle, but it’s not ready for release just yet — and won’t come out this year.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy got our first in-person look at the device, along with a lot of Amazon’s other upcoming smart home gear, at CES 2023 this week.
You may remember New York Times writer Kashmir Hill from episodes including hacking a stranger’s smart home via Google, lifting the veil on Facebook’s shadow profiles tracking people who don’t have Facebook accounts, and making an exhaustive attempt to live online without the big five tech companies.
Now she has announced a release date for her book on Clearview AI, the facial recognition firm she once called “The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It.”
Your Face Belongs to Us is a gripping true story about the rise of a technological superpower that has been long-feared by the civil liberties community and long-desired by governments and authoritarian regimes. And it is a powerful warning that in the absence of vigilance and government regulation, this kind of technology will fundamentally change our ability to be anonymous.
They might be onto something with this Yoga Book 9i.
With two 13.3-inch OLED touch panels and a surprisingly adaptable keyboard add-on, it makes a solid case for dual-screen devices.
