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Sony has warned that PlayStation consoles will become more expensive if the Trump administration goes ahead with higher tariffs on more Chinese exports, the WSJ reports. The Trump administration, which raised tariffs from 10 percent to 25 percent on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods this past May, is now threatening to expand tariffs to an additional $300 billion of Chinese exports, which would include video game consoles.In preparation for the potential expansion of tariffs, Sony says it&rsqu

As NASA forges ahead to the Moon — and eventually to Mars — the agency is hoping to get some help from the commercial space industry. Today, NASA announced new partnerships with various aerospace organizations, aimed at advancing technologies related to landing on other planets, navigating the lunar surface, transferring propellant in space, and more — all of which could be critical for future missions.
Ten companies now hold a total of 19 partnerships with NASA through the age

A prototype of a non-invasive headset design — which wasn’t used in the typing experiment. | Facebook Reality Labs Facebook has released an update on its ambitious plans for a brain-reading computer interface, thanks to a team of Facebook Reality Labs-backed scientists at the University of California, San Francisco. The UCSF researchers just published the results of an experiment in decoding people’s speech using implanted electrodes. Their work demonstrates a method of quickl

The Apple Card, the company’s credit card that was announced at its services event this past spring, will begin accepting applications in August, the company confirmed during its 2019 third fiscal quarter earnings call.
“Thousands of Apple employees are using the Apple Card every day in a beta test and we will begin to roll out the Apple Card in August,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said.
The Apple Card will come in both a digital and a physical, titanium card form. However, the Apple Ca

David Dobrik is celebrating four years on YouTube this week. It’s an odd anniversary, but the celebration happening right now on Twitter and Instagram is an acknowledgment of how much influence Dobrik’s videos have had on YouTube culture.
Dobrik, who has more than 13 million subscribers, started his career on Vine. When he came to YouTube in 2015 — alongside other popular Vine stars like Jake and Logan Paul, Lele Pons, and Liza Koshy — he brought the app’s quick-cut

If you know anyone who says phones have become boring and predictable, point them to gaming phones. The Black Shark 2 Pro, which was announced this week, prioritizes some specs that you probably won’t hear the largest phone makers mention onstage, or at least not yet.The Pro is a slightly revised model of the Black Shark 2, which was released earlier this year. The updated version improves on the touch response speed of the display by around seven milliseconds, down to 34.7ms from 43.5ms.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple today reported its fiscal third quarter 2019 earnings, earning $53.8 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $2.18. That revenue is a 1 percent jump year over year. iPhone revenue was $25.99 billion compared to $29.47 billion a year ago. That means the iPhone represented under half of Apple’s revenue for the first time since 2012.The all-important services unit took in $11.46 billion in revenue. Wearables saw a big boost, likely thanks to

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Hulu today announced that Android TV would be added to its list of supported platforms for its live TV bundle. Starting next month, owners of an Android TV-compatible television or set-top box, like the Nvidia Shield, can access Hulu’s bundle, which includes its streaming-only offerings in addition to more than 60 channels of live programming. Additionally, Hulu is also bringing its refreshed user interface to Android TV with the update.
The service costs

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The race is on for who will be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. Once again, 20 candidates will be spending two nights trying to convince US Democrats that they are the right person to run against Donald Trump.This time, CNN is sponsoring the event, which is taking place at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. Things should be lively, especially on the first night, as front-runners Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren square off. On Wednesday,

Before Quentin Tarantino’s much-anticipated Once Upon A Time in Hollywood premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019, the director pleaded with viewers not to reveal the plot. “I love cinema. You love cinema. It’s the journey of discovering a story for the first time,” he wrote. “I only ask that everyone avoids revealing anything that would prevent later audiences from experiencing the film in the same way.”
The Russo brothers posted similar letters for

TL;DR: The ultra-portable Nintendo Switch Lite is the newest iteration of the handheld console that changed it all, and you can pre-order yours now at Amazon and at Walmart for $199.96.The Nintendo Switch was the console that changed handheld gaming forever. A small, portable device that could support huge games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on-the-go? One that you could place on a dock and seamlessly transfer your gameplay to your home TV screen without having to even pause what

Image: Wyze Smart home appliance maker Wyze is expanding its lineup to include a new connected wall plug that’s up for preorder today in a pack of two for $15. The device is pretty standard: it connects to an outlet, communicates with the Wyze mobile app, and lets you monitor and control power to whatever happens to be plugged in, be it a lamp or a coffee maker.It works with Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant, but notably not Apple’s HomeKit, as is the case with a lot of smar

Image: AT&T AT&T has issued a press release letting you know the following facts: the company intends to “pilot an all-new connected TV experience with no satellite needed” called AT&T TV. It’s going to be a TV streaming service, basically, but it will only be piloted “in select markets.”But AT&T already offers a TV streaming service called DirecTV Now, which will now be called AT&T TV Now, which is different from the upcoming AT&T TV. But d

Image: Nintendo The Nintendo Switch Lite is now available for preorder on Amazon in gray, turquoise, and yellow, as well as the Pokémon Sword and Shield special edition consoles, via a tweet from Wario64. It costs $199.99 and will release on September 20th in the US, the same day that The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening hits shelves.
Whether the Switch Lite is your first Switch or your on-the-go option, there are a few things that you should know about it. According to my colleag