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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 149, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy It Actually Feels Like Fall Now At Least In My Neighborhood), and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I've been reading about Demis Hassabis and computer chips and permafrost , enjoying the first episodes of Machine Gods , filming the next season of Version History (pet season!), seeing You Can See Everything and then reading and listening to absolutely everything about it, painstakingly updating all the stuff in my 1Password , making tiny documents with Tiny Little O … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/Ejp73hb

Brick’s new app blocker is designed for bedtime doomscrolling

The Brick Night is considerably bigger then the OG Brick, and more than double the price. | Image: Brick Brick, the company behind the $59 gadget that blocks you from using apps on your phone, has launched a new device that's designed to help you cut back on doomscrolling in bed. The $129 Brick Night introduces a location-based element: instead of requiring you to tap your phone against the device, like the OG Brick , this version uses Bluetooth to automatically kick in when you enter your bedroom (or any other room you put it in). The Brick Night uses two CR2477 batteries, and you can set a location zone of up to 25 feet x 25 feet. Both this and the Brick allow you to select specific apps to block instead of rendering your entire phone inacces … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/nmdCz3Q

Retro gaming is being overrun with AI

Retro video games are everywhere lately - especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser , Wind Waker on the iPhone , Super Smash Bros. in mixed reality . Over the past month or so, these kinds of unexpected projects have gone viral with incredible frequency thanks to new AI tools, as hobbyists take apart games and then rebuild them for new platforms. But while AI has supercharged the pace of these ports, it's also tearing apart tight-knit communities dedicated to preserving games. Decomps and recomps - shorthand for decomposition and recomposition - are a form of reverse engineering that involves breaking a game … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/ignZ7uS

Startup equips genetically enhanced dogs with Palmer Luckey’s military tech

The Warhound website calls this “a new breed of dominance.” | Image: Warhound A new Texas-based defense startup has a plan to improve military and police dogs in the US: it's going to genetically modify them and equip them with Anduril's military technology. Warhound is the brainchild of Anduril's Palmer Luckey and Ben Lamm, co-founder of Colossal Biosciences (the company that says it's trying to resurrect extinct animals ), and it's already secured $200 million in funding from investors. Warhound plans to use Colossal's work in genetics, cloning, and animal biology to "produce healthier dogs with characteristics suited to demanding missions," with Anduril then equipping them with its "advanced cybernetic Augments." T … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/C34kJgd

No, the iPhone Duo isn’t a small phone

Don’t be fooled; only one of these is a truly small phone (it’s the iPhone 13 Mini on the left). When we published our review of the iPhone Duo , I got a lot of hopeful questions from my fellow Mini fans who took note of the cover screen's Mini-ish 5.4-inch size. "Is this… a small phone that turns into a tablet?" they asked. And I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but no. The Duo is not the small phone we've been looking for. I wish it was. I like a small phone. I own an iPhone 13 Mini that I refuse to surrender, even though it barely lasts a full day . But the Duo is thick and heavy. You will feel its weight every time you read an email, scroll Instagram, or put it in your pocket. It is a dense phone, and after a week with the Duo, … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/NUBPOCz

The world’s first triple 200-megapixel camera phone is great

The Find X10 Pro Max’s design is still camera-centric, but less extreme than most Ultra phones. Oppo's Find X10 Pro Max is the first phone with a triple 200-megapixel camera, which you're likely to see as either a masterful feat of engineering or a load of hyped-up marketing nonsense. The truth is somewhere in the middle. We've seen 200-megapixel cameras in phones before, starting with 2022's Moto X30 Pro . This year's Vivo X300 Ultra was the first phone to feature two of them - with 200-megapixel main and telephoto cameras - and is still my favorite camera phone on the market. With the Find X10 Pro Max, Oppo is trying to do one better: It's the first to use a 200-megapixel ultrawide camera too. Only the selfie camera runs at a more mo … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/y6fElvA