And on the other side of the iPhone, there’s a Notes app. | Image: Moft Moft is launching a new MagSafe accessory that adds a literal notepad and pen to the back of your iPhone. The company’s new “Snap Flow” looks like a slim magnetic origami kickstand (like the one Moft is known for) but opens up like a book to reveal a paper pad and a really nifty ballpoint pen that magically folds into a prism shape.It’s hard to believe there’s a product in 2024 that lets you take handwritten notes while using a revolutionary pocket computing device as a clipboard. Sometimes, the phone and other apps are the hurdles to writing down a story idea in my Notes app before it’s gone forever, so it could be nice to jot down thoughts the old-fashioned way.The Snap Flow has refillable notepad paper, a clip so you can use a... Continue reading…

Last month, Intel promised to bust the "myth" that Arm is better than x86. While time will tell whether Intel lives up to its promise, instability issues related to Intel's existing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs have still not been addressed properly. Worse for Intel and its users, a game publisher recently claimed a 100% failure rate with 13th and 14th Gen CPUs.

If you're an avid DIscord user like me, then you probably know that the service can be enhanced with bots and a Nitro subscription. However, did you know you can use modded Discord clients, enabling you to use custom themes and plugins? It's really easy, and there are a ton of programs out there to do it, like Better Discord.

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President Donald Trump. | Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump will no longer be subject to extra severe penalties for content rule violations on his Facebook and Instagram accounts, Meta said on Friday. Previously, Trump’s account could be fully suspended for even a relatively small infraction that wouldn’t lead to the same penalty for any other account. Now, with the Republican National Convention taking place next week, he’ll be treated more like everyone else.“In assessing our responsibility to allow political expression, we believe that the American people should be able to hear from the nominees for President on the same basis,” Meta’s president of of global affairs, Nick Clegg, said in a company blog post. He added that the previous restrictions to Trump’s... Continue reading…

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The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 Classic has been one of Samsungs most popular watches to date. With its traditional design and powerful features, its not hard to see why. On the other hand, the Galaxy Watch 7 has a lot of new features, including a new chip made with a 3nm process and an upgraded sensor package. So is it worth upgrading? The Watch 6 Classic looks more like a traditional watch, and the Watch 7 looks like a smartwatch. One is faster, while the other has a sick rotating bezel input with a classic look. If youre in the market for a new smartwatch and dont know which one to get, read on, and well go through the perks of each one to help you decide.

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge OpenAI is a leader in the race to develop AI as intelligent as a human. Yet, employees continue to show up in the press and on podcasts to voice their grave concerns about safety at the $80 billion nonprofit research lab. The latest comes from The Washington Post, where an anonymous source claimed OpenAI rushed through safety tests and celebrated their product before ensuring its safety.“They planned the launch after-party prior to knowing if it was safe to launch,” an anonymous employee told The Washington Post. “We basically failed at the process.”Safety issues loom large at OpenAI — and seem to just keep coming. Current and former employees at OpenAI recently signed an open letter demanding better safety and transparency practices... Continue reading…

Back in June, Microsoft began tracking an issue in Windows 11 where the Photos app may fail to start under certain conditions. This typically happened after the June 4 update was applied on the Photos app, which caused the app to display a spinning circle and then close immediately after launch. In its initial investigation, the Redmond firm discovered that the problem was likely to occur if certain policies were applied on a machine. Now, it has offered a workaround for the bug, while it works on a permanent fix.

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Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images The European Union has warned X that its blue checkmark verification system violates rules under the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), finding it to be deceptive for users and against established industry practices. Following its investigation into the platform, the EU also found that X is failing to comply with transparency obligations regarding advertising and providing public data to researchers. It’s the first time a company has been formally accused of breaching the DSA under the EU’s so-called preliminary findings. X now has the opportunity to defend itself in response.In its press release, the EU says that changes made to X’s blue check system — which allows any user to pay to be “verified” — prevent users from determining the... Continue reading…

Although Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are competing browsers, they are built on the same Chromium codebase. Despite being based on the same project, Microsoft regularly adds extra features to Edge, often to the ire of many customers. That said, the Redmond tech firm has now built a capability that improves productivity across all Chromium-based browsers, including Edge and Chrome.