TECHNOLOGY

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 19, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)  It’s the last Installer of the year, so we’re going to do something a … Read more

In a hospital in northern Norway, just south of the Arctic Circle, a landmark experiment is taking place that could transform the way we treat ageing in the years to come. Called ExPlas – exercised plasma – the clinical trial involves taking blood plasma from young and healthy adults who exercise on a regular basis … Read more

Fashion and lifestyle by Ellie Bramley Fashion and lifestyle have a knack for the surprise. The out-of-the-blue rise of butter moulding, say, or the sudden coolness of a shoe with a cloven toe. Fashion followers will find inspiration from the athletes at the The Paris Olympics. Photograph: Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters Divergence and disparateness are the mood … Read more

LG announced the CineBeam Qube (model HU710PB) laser projector yesterday: It’s got a minimalist look and stature, weighing 3.28 pounds and measuring 135mm square on one side and just 80mm wide at the front. (For comparison, the iPhone 15 Pro is just shy of 147mm tall.) It also has an unspecified number of HDMI eARC … Read more

SUDBURY, Mass. (NEXSTAR/WWLP) – The discovery of credit card skimmers at multiple New England-area retail outlets has prompted local authorities to urge customers to be wary of similar scams. On Christmas Eve, an employee at a Sudbury Farms supermarket in Sudbury, Massachusetts, was attending to the self-checkout area when they discovered a skimming device, which … Read more

(NewsNation) — A man serving time for theft recently revealed to the Wall Street Journal how he accessed people’s iPhones, altered their security and stole their cash. Aaron Johnson, 26, spoke to a reporter from the newspaper who has been investigating a “nationwide spate of thefts” where people exploit a vulnerability in the software design … Read more

If you bought a Vizio TV in California after April 30th, 2014, Vizio may owe you some money. The company has agreed to pay out $3 million after a 2018 class action lawsuit alleged that its marketing of 120Hz and 240Hz “effective” refresh rates was “false and deceptive.” Vizio denies that it did anything wrong, … Read more

In June, thousands of Reddit communities plunged into darkness – making their pages inaccessible to the public in a mass protest of corporate policy changes. Users of a social network lambasting it is nothing new; but Reddit’s moderators rebelled on a scale never seen before. Six months later, users and researchers say reforms sparked by … Read more

Layoffs are an unfortunate reality of any industry, but the scope and scale of video game layoffs in 2023 are far beyond a typical year. More than any specific video game or piece of news, layoffs defined the past 12 months. Companies large and small have felt their impact. Unofficial figures estimate 9,000 workers have … Read more