How to Turn Your Phone Into a Webcam (2024): Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android - Technology news - NewsLocker (2024)

Upgrade your Zoom meetings with that snazzy camera in your pocket.

The 16 Best Messenger Bags, Crossbody Bags, Slings and Shoulder Bags (2024)

From everyday canvas sacks to rainstorm-ready sling packs, these one-strap wonders shoulder the burden.

This Is What Would Happen if China Invaded Taiwan

The new book World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century lays out what might actually happen if China were to invade Taiwan in 2028.

Web3 gaming hit Pixels announces Chapter 2 updates

Pixels, the largest Web3 game by daily active gamers, today announced the release of Chapter 2, which includes updates for its million daily active players.Read More

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Gorilla Tag crosses 10M VR players and $100M in revenue

Another Axiom announced that Gorilla Tag has crossed 10 million players in virtual reality as well as $100 million in revenue.Read More

AMD is investigating claims of stolen company data

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge AMD is looking into a potential cyberattack. A threat actor that goes by the alias “IntelBroker” is selling data that it claims was obtained from an AMD.com breach this month, BleepingComputer reports, and the company confirmed in a statement that it’s looking into the purported theft. IntelBroker claims that the data for sale includes future products, employee databases, and customer databases.
“We are aware of a cybercriminal

Why healthcare startup Color is partnering with OpenAI on a cancer screening copilot app

The startup focused on improving cancer patient experiences believes it can help doctors decide quicker what tests to order.Read More

Hello Kitty Island Adventure goes cross-platform on PC, Nintendo Switch

At today's Nintendo Direct, Sunblink announced Hello Kitty Island Adventure is going crossplatform in 2025, starting with PC and Switch.Read More

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This universal remote wants to control your smart home sans hub

One remote to rule them all (but in the darkness, you probably still can’t find them). | Photo: Cantata Universal remotes might be on a comeback tour if devices like Cantata’s Haptique RS90 and RS90X actually materialize and are as good as advertised. The connected remote purports to double as a comprehensive smart home controller, but it’s merely a Kickstarter hopeful for now. Serial remoters (remotees?) have pledged more than $300,00, with less than $10,000 needed to fully fu

Nvidia overtakes Microsoft as the world’s most valuable company

Cath Virginia / The Verge Less than two weeks after Nvidia jumped Apple in terms of its overall valuation, the GPU maker has now passed Microsoft to stand as the world’s most valuable company based on the chips it makes that are key to powering a boom in generative AI technology.At the close of trading on Tuesday, its share price stood at $135.58, up $4.60 from the previous day and pushing its market cap to $3.335 trillion. That’s more than Microsoft ($3.32 trillion), Apple ($3.29 tr

Blockchain is creating a smaller world, engaging fans and evolving technology

CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: As technology rapidly reshapes the sports landscape, forward-thinking teams, leagues and startups are pioneering new ways to engage fans around the globe. From VIP experiences that money can’t buy to digital collectibles and participatory Web3 models, innovators are blending cutting-edge tech with core human desires for connect…Read More

Noam Chomsky isn’t dead yet

Chomsky often was critical of the media. | Photo by Heuler Andrey / AFP via Getty Images Everyone dies eventually, and famed linguist Noam Chomsky will be no different — but at the time of this writing, he is alive. And, sadly, his wife is explaining to people that reports of his death are “false,” according to The Associated Press.
Chomsky, 95, has been hospitalized in Brazil as he recovers from a stroke he had last year, the AP reported earlier this month. He’s having d

Luma promoted its AI video generator with some very familiar incorporated monsters

Over the weekend, AI startup Luma official X account posted a series of videos created using its video-generating Dream Machine tool, which the company website describes as a “highly scalable and efficient transformer model trained directly on videos.”The only problem? At about 57 seconds in, the Dream Machine-generated trailer for Monster Camp — an animated story about furry creatures journeying to a sleepaway camp — features a slightly AI-smudged but still recognizable

An AI video tool just launched, and it’s already copying Disney’s IP

Last week, AI startup Luma posted a series of videos created using its new video-generating tool Dream Machine, which the company describes as a “highly scalable and efficient transformer model trained directly on videos.”
The only problem? At about 57 seconds in, the Dream Machine-generated trailer for Monster Camp — an animated story about furry creatures journeying to a sleepaway camp — features a slightly AI-smudged but still recognizable Mike Wazowski from Pixar&rsq

Amazon union workers and the Teamsters have inked a deal

Union organizer Chris Smalls speaks following the April 1st, 2022, vote for the unionization of the Amazon Staten Island warehouse in New York. | Photo by ANDREA RENAULT / AFP via Getty Images Amazon Labor Union (ALU) members voted to affiliate with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in a move they hope will bring new life to a yearslong struggle to secure union contracts for Amazon warehouse workers.
Amazon has tried to block various efforts to unionize across different branches of the

Hue launches a pricey new sunrise lamp

Hue’s new Twilight bedside lamp costs $280. | Image: Philips Hue Following leaks last week, smart lighting company Philips Hue has confirmed it has a new sunrise lamp called Twilight. The company also announced several other new products, including a less expensive light strip, new decorative Lightguide bulbs, and the Datura ceiling light. The new products are available now, except the ceiling light, which is coming on September 10th.
The Philips Hue Twilight ($279.99 / €279.99) is th

'Metroid Prime 4' Gets a Release Date After Years of Troubled Development

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has a release date and a new gameplay trailer, both of which were announced at Tuesday's Nintendo Direct.

An effort to fund an internet subsidy program just got thwarted again

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Don’t hold your breath for a resurgence of government internet subsidies. Republicans and Democrats can’t seem to agree on a way forward to fund the program, and passing such bills will only get more difficult as Election Day inches closer.
Democrats and Republicans have introduced dueling bills to reauthorize the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auctions, where the agency doles out access to freque

The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge What if your laptop didn’t need a processor from an established brand like Intel or AMD? What if it didn’t even rely on proprietary paid architectures like Arm and x86? RISC-V is one of the answers to those questions — it’s free for anyone to use! — and modular computer company Framework has just decided to welcome RISC-V into its laptop lineup.
Specifically, Framework has partnered with DeepComputing, the company behind t

ElevenLabs unveils open-source creator tool for adding sound effects to videos

To showcase its Sound Effects API, ElevenLabs has released an open-source tool for creators that uses AI to apply sound effects to any uploaded video.Read More

Penguin Solutions expands OriginAI Solution to accelerate AI factory deployment and optimize performance

Penguin’s OriginAI solution includes validated architectures backed by intelligent cluster management software and expert services.Read More

STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus

Students and young workers from more than 120 universities have pledged to refuse work at Google and Amazon until the Israeli contract is dropped.

Fisker tried to out Tesla Tesla, and now it’s bankrupt

Fisker CEO Henrik Fisker. | Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images Earlier today, Fisker finally did what has seemed inevitable these past few turbulent months: declared bankruptcy.“Like other companies in the electric vehicle industry, we have faced various market and macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted our ability to operate efficiently,” the company said in a statement. “After evaluating all options for our business, we determined that proceeding with a sal

Android 15 just reached a major milestone

One step closer to a final release in the fall. | Image: The Verge / Android It’s beta software season, baby. Google is releasing Android 15’s third beta today, taking it one step closer to its final release. With this update, it reaches platform stability, meaning that APIs are finalized and developers can start testing their apps with this near-final version. Not much appears to have changed since the last beta dropped, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few interesti

Sphero’s Bolt Plus robot has a screen parents would want their kids to look at

The Sphero Bolt Plus’ new full-color screen can help kids troubleshoot their code. | Image: Sphero Sphero has updated its RC Bolt robotic ball with a higher-resolution LCD screen, providing improved visual feedback that promises to make the new Bolt Plus a better STEM tool for teaching kids the fundamentals of programming.Originally making a name for itself with a simple remote control ball that could be steered using a smartphone, Sphero eventually found massive success by leveraging its

TikTok is copying Instagram again with Whee

Image: TikTok TikTok recently launched a new Instagram-like photo-sharing app called Whee, as spotted by Android Police and APKMirror founder Artem Russakovskii.
TikTok is explicitly positioning Whee as an app for sharing photos with only your closest friends. “Capture and share real-life photos that only your friends can see, allowing you to be your most authentic self,” according to Whee’s Google Play description. “Whee is the best place for close friends to share life

The 36 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (June 2024)

The Bear, Black Twitter: A People’s History, and Shōgun are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.

AIs are coming for social networks

Butterflies AI. So far, generative AI has been mostly confined to chatbots like ChatGPT. Startups like Character.AI and Replika are seeing early traction by making chatbots more like companions. But what happens when you dump a bunch of AI characters into something that looks like Instagram and let them talk to each other?
That’s the idea behind Butterflies, one of the most provocative — and, at times, unsettling — takes on social media that I’ve seen in quite a while. Af

Sony’s PlayStation Portal update adds public Wi-Fi support

The Portal is getting a very slow trickle of software updates. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The PlayStation Portal is getting a couple of modest features it should have had in the first place. Sony announced on its PlayStation Blog that a software update for its handheld remote player will allow users to connect their devices to public Wi-Fi networks that require sign-in, like free ones found at hotels and cafes.
Also in this update are new visual cues when you tap or swipe the

Athletes sound warning about extreme heat at Summer Olympics

New Zealand’s Marcus Daniell (TOP) and Michael Venus compete against USA’s Austin Krajicek and Tennys Sandgren during their Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games men’s doubles tennis match for the bronze medal at the Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo on July 30th, 2021. | Photo by Vincenzo Pinto / AFP via Getty Images Athletes are raising concerns about how extreme heat might affect the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, according to a new report. They’re worried that soaring temperatures pose