The new take on Flappy Bird will include alternate game modes. | Screenshot: The Flappy Bird Foundation Last week, The Flappy Bird Foundation announced a game called Flappy Bird. But while the group has been framing it as the triumphant return of a classic mobile game, Flappy Bird’s original developer, Dong Nguyen isn’t calling it a comeback — in fact, he says he’s not involved at all.Nguyen posted as much on X (for the first time since 2017!) this morning, saying he didn’t “sell anything.” The Flappy Bird Foundation wrote in the announcement it shared with press last week that it had “acquired the rights from Gametech Holdings, LLC,” which had secured the trademark from Nguyen, but it doesn’t appear as though that was the result of any dealings between him and the group.No, I have no related with their game. I did not sell anything. I... Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge Instagram might roll out a way to share comments on other Instagram posts to Threads, according to Alessandro Paluzzi, who often reverse engineers Meta’s social media apps to find coming features.Paluzzi shared an image showing that when commenting on an Instagram post, there could be a new dropdown menu that lets users choose to share the comment only to Instagram or “also share on Threads.” Meta has made a few moves to integrate Threads with its other platforms in the past, such as showing Threads posts on Instagram or Facebook (and, later, letting users opt out of that). The Twitter-like short-posting social network also lacks DMs of its own, but users can still receive or send messages through Instagram. The bigger effort, of... Continue reading…

Whether you do your work on the latest iPad Pro, one of the best laptops, or a custom PC, you still need software to get those tasks done. Unfortunately, it feels like everything is a subscription these days, from the movies and TV shows we watch to the software that we run on our computers. That's fine if you only use a few specialist programs, but the snowball effect adds up as you add more software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions.

PC-building has become a lot more accessible in recent years. As long as you do enough research beforehand and follow the instruction manuals, you shouldn't have any issues assembling your ideal rig.

If you have an Nvidia graphics card, you've probably heard of ShadowPlay. It's a feature that you can enable so that when you press a key bind, it saves the last X amount of minutes to a folder on your PC. It's constantly recording using a hardware encoder for a limited hit on your GPU, and it's something that you can't really get on any other hardware. AMD's equivalent is ReLive, but it pales in comparison to ShadowPlay and its performance. However, with OBS, you can make your own ShadowPlay that works on any machine... and yes, it even works on Mac.

The new Tile Mate and Tile Slim. | Image: Tile Tile, one of the leading makers of Bluetooth item finders, has just added a twist — its newest trackers can now send SOS alerts that notify friends, family, and possibly even emergency services.The 2024 Tile Pro, Tile Mate, Tile Slim, and Tile Sticker are the first new products since Life360 bought the company nearly three years ago, and many facets are unchanged: they should each ring slightly louder and have slightly better water resistance, but the credit card, key fob, and sticker configurations are all roughly the same size and weight. There’s no mention of UWB signals for precision tracking, unlike Apple’s AirTags and Samsung’s SmartTag 2. The Tile Pro is once again the only model that offers a user-replaceable battery. All but... Continue reading…

Have you been keeping up to date with what's happening with HaLow? If you haven't, HaLow is a new technology designed to push Wi-Fi signals as far as they can go for some serious long-distance signals. The last time we saw HaLow in the news, it had set a record by maintaining a 1Mbps connection from 1.8 miles away. Now, Morse Micro has revealed that it has achieved a 2Mbps connection at 9.9 miles away, which sets a new world record for the longest-distance Wi-Fi connection.

If youve got a blinking red light on your router, theres something wrong with your connection. Depending on the brand of router, the red light can mean a few different things, but for the most part, it indicates an issue connecting to the internet.

Image: Nilay Patel Apple has hiked the price of its battery repair service for the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. Now, it will cost $119 to get your battery replaced in either phone — a $20 jump over its older fee. The price remains the same for the standard and “Plus” models, as do those for last year’s phones, as MacRumors notes.The company doesn’t seem to have started charging more for other battery replacements yet, but it wouldn’t be unexpected. In 2022, Apple drove the cost of iPhone 14 battery service up by $30 to $99. Increases for iPad, MacBook, and older iPhone battery repairs came after that, and Apple Watches followed suit later. (One longs for the salad days of battery drama-induced $29 battery replacements!)Defective batteries are covered... Continue reading…

When it comes to taking photos or videos, your phone is one of the most advanced tools that you have in your arsenal. Its always there and always ready whenever you need it, and with the constantly improving qualities of phone cameras, its also capable of taking some beautiful photos.

As Chrome continues to lead the pack for browser market share, Microsoft has been hard at work trying to make Edge a viable contender. We already feel that Microsoft Edge has the best tab management on a desktop, but Microsoft seems to want to take its browser even further. Now, a new feature has been spotted on the Edge Canary branch that allows users to upload, edit, and share images using Designer without ever leaving Edge.

The devices we use require plenty of power to reach maximum battery capacity. And with the amount we use our devices, like our smartphones, its important to have a quick, safe, and inexpensive solution at the ready. ESRs latest Qi2 MagSafe chargers with CryoBoost might be exactly what youre looking for. Launched in early 2024, these chargers are designed to give you MagSafe-like speeds without the hefty price tag.