Nvidia each but confirms GeForce 40-series launch.

A 40-hour countdown watercourse by Nvidia includes Easter eggs similar a Discord “User40” illustration with an Ada Lovelace photo. Lovelace is Nvidia’s rumored next-gen GPU architecture, and each the hints of 40 each but corroborate the GeForce RTX 40-series volition motorboat time during a special broadcast astatine GTC. There’s adjacent a Ti oregon Tie joke thrown successful for bully measure.

Puerto Rico goes wholly dark, again.

Nearly 5 years ago, Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, sidesplitting thousands and causing the worst blackout successful US history. Reuters reports that the land is without powerfulness erstwhile again aft Hurricane Fiona struck aboriginal Sunday.

In 2017, US officials told The Verge that the land couldn’t repair its mode retired of catastrophe and would request to rebuild. But conscionable days earlier Fiona hit, the GAO reported that lone $1 cardinal has been spent connected semipermanent rebuilding projects retired of a $32 cardinal fund.

President Biden says “the pandemic is over” — but that’s not conscionable his call.

Even though Biden besides said that COVID-19 is inactive a problem, expect this 60 Minutes soundbite to go the halfway of a heated governmental statement astir whether the pandemic is truly over. As Verge health newsman Nicole Wetsman explained past year, the “end” of the pandemic won’t travel from 1 idiosyncratic declaring it so — adjacent if that idiosyncratic is simply a satellite leader.

Fortnite meets Splatoon.

Epic conscionable released the latest play of Fortnite, which adds caller locations, weapons, and a quality played by Brie Larson. Perhaps the astir notable thing, though, is simply a traversal mechanic wherever players tin aquatics crossed the land arsenic a glob of liquid metal. It feels a lot similar Splatoon. Coincidentally, Nintendo released Splatoon 3 earlier this month. Now we conscionable request the squid kids successful Fortnite.

Collapsed crypto co-founder Do Kwon insists he’s “not connected the run.”

South Korean authorities issued a warrant for Kwon’s apprehension aft the autumn of his company’s Terra stablecoin wiped retired $60 cardinal successful funds. Kwon was initially thought to beryllium determination successful Singapore, but present section constabulary can’t find him. On Twitter, Kwon maintains that he’s not moving from the police, and says he’s consenting to cooperate.

I americium not “on the run” oregon thing akin - for immoderate authorities bureau that has shown involvement to communicate, we are successful afloat practice and we don’t person thing to hide.

South Korean prosecutors aren’t buying it, and said successful response that Kwon is “obviously connected the run.”

Apple has a Will Smith problem.

The New York Times reporting connected the lose-lose concern astatine Apple implicit the merchandise of Emancipation, a $120 cardinal Civil War play starring Will Smith that finished filming astir a period earlier Smith climbed connected signifier during the Oscars successful March and slapped Chris Rock:

“If they shelve the movie, does that tarnish Apple’s reputation? If they merchandise it, does it tarnish their reputation? ... Hollywood likes a win-win situation. This 1 is lose-lose.”

The movie is said to person generated an “overwhelmingly affirmative reaction” successful backstage assemblage screenings, according to NYT’s sources, with Smith’s show described arsenic “volcanic.” Some are present pushing for the film’s merchandise earlier the extremity of the twelvemonth to marque it eligible for awards consideration.

Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory reached a caller milestone.

After opening the Austin-based works back successful April, Tesla announced connected Twitter that the determination built its 10,000th Model Y electrical SUV. We’re inactive waiting for the “future location of Cybertruck” to really commencement gathering the thing, though, and that isn’t expected to hap until adjacent year.

What happened to CryptoKitties?

CryptoKitties, a blockchain-based crippled known for its NFT cats, took disconnected erstwhile it archetypal made its debut successful 2017. Things person travel crashing down since then, sending the worth of astir CryptoKitties plunging. Matthew Smith implicit astatine IEEE Spectrum has an fantabulous writeup connected however the game’s breeding mechanics and Ethereum state fees contributed to its demise.

CryptoKitty successful the past 3 months is astir 0.04 ether, oregon $40 to $50, which is often little than the state required to implicit the transaction. Even those who privation to casually ain and breed inexpensive CryptoKitties for amusive can’t bash it without spending hundreds of dollars.

Developers are already spicing up the iPhone 14’s Dynamic Island successful ways I didn’t expect.

One developer, Kriss Smolka created a Pong-style game, called Hit the Island, that challenges you to bounce a shot betwixt your paddle and the Dynamic Island to gain points.

Meanwhile, Christian Selig, the dev down the Apollo app for Reddit, added the amusive enactment to support an adorable pixelated favored connected the Dynamic Island erstwhile utilizing the app. I don’t person an iPhone myself, but I’m looking guardant to seeing however different devs enactment their ain rotation connected the caller feature.

The Fifth Circuit truly blew up the First Amendment by upholding the Texas societal media law.

The instrumentality still isn’t successful effect, but the court’s sentiment sets up a Supreme Court conflict implicit the aboriginal of contented moderation and the First Amendment. Mike Masnick has a bully (if wonky) breakdown up already. It’s… well, it’s 1 of the dumbest First Amendment opinions successful a agelong time.

The information that Oldham claims, that “the Platforms are nary antithetic than Verizon oregon AT&T” makes maine question however anyone could instrumentality thing successful this ruling seriously.

Forget vinyl.

If you admit media preservation, marque immoderate clip for this Q&A with the “last antheral lasting successful the floppy disk business,” Tom Persky of floppydisk.com.

The customers that are the easiest to supply for are the hobbyists – radical who privation to bargain ten, 20, oregon possibly 50 floppy disks. However, my biggest customers — and the spot wherever astir of the wealth comes from — are the concern users...Probably fractional of the aerial fleet successful the satellite contiguous is much than 20 years aged and inactive uses floppy disks successful immoderate of the avionics.

New unspeakable First Amendment ruling dropped.

Remember erstwhile a Texas appeals tribunal decided to blow up net moderation with nary explanation? Well, it yet explained itself, and truthful acold I don’t consciousness immoderate better. We’re inactive moving our mode done the decision, but you tin work it below. For now, though, the Supreme Court already temporarily blocked the law portion its tribunal conflict continues.

Watch Tim Cook explicit his honorable sentiment astir iMessage, Android, and greenish bubbles.

It’s not hard to fig retired why Tim Cook won’t hole the greenish bubbles and SMS fallback that comes with texting Android users from your iPhone utilizing iMessage.

But you’ve got to spot this effect for yourself, arsenic Cook (while laughing) suggests Vox Media’s LiQuan Hunt should “buy your ma an iPhone” to hole the issue.

So present what bash you bash with your aged phone?

I’m guessing astatine slightest a fewer of you snagged brand-new iPhone 14s today, and I emotion that for you, but I’ll support utilizing my Pixel 6.

But if you inactive person your aged telephone and privation to debar creating unnecessary physics waste, Kaitlyn Tiffany writes successful The Atlantic that your champion stake — contempt recycling programs and flashy robots — is astir apt to conscionable support it.