‘The Late Show’ host and his wife have been married for nearly 30 years. Find out everything you need to know about Evelyn McGee-Colbert here!
‘The Late Show’ host and his wife have been married for nearly 30 years. Find out everything you need to know about Evelyn McGee-Colbert here!
What can you expect from Google’s Made By Pixel event? Well, according to the media invite we got (brag), it’s promising new Pixel phones, watches, buds and more.
Last year, that was true. The same event gave us the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Buds Pro 2. I think that was everything?
As for that “and more” part, recent rumors suggest Google is working on Pixelsnap, a proper response to Apple’s MagSafe tech. Android phones have been slow to adopt the Qi2 wireless charging standard — I mean, check out all of Samsung’s recent phones. But… wireless charging? I hope Google has something more exciting planned.
— Mat Smith
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The death of compact cameras has been exaggerated. If it’s not the viral Fujifilm X100 series, it’s Sony’s vlogging cameras and now an update to its RX1R fixed-lens compact. Coming nearly 10 years after the RX1R II, it features a 61MP Exmor R sensor, along with Sony’s latest image processing advancements and top-notch object tracking, supported by 693 phase-detection AF points. Why not 694, eh?
It won’t match Sony’s A7 full-frame cameras, but video-wise, it can capture 10-bit 4K video at up to 30 fps. The kicker, though, is the price. While the Mark II was a heady $3,300, the RX1R III is a bank balance-shaking $5,100. And if you want a thumb grip? 300 bucks. Thanks!
Samsung has taken its premier foldable to the next level. With the Galaxy Z Fold 7, it’s improved the size (thinner), battery life (longer) and camera (sharper, higher resolution) and that’s without talking about the improved, bigger displays and even tougher build. According to Sam Rutherford’s review, it’s “foldable phone nirvana.” The price of folding enlightenment is still $2,000.
You can subscribe to Quicken Simplifi for only $3 per month, which is half off its usual $6-per-month price. Notably, you pay for the whole year, instead of month to month.
When we tested out several budgeting services and apps, Quicken Simplifi was our choice for best budget app overall. With its easy-to-use interface, it excels at tracking regular income and bills. Just don’t overthink the whole spending money to save money thing.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-engadget-newsletter-111554654.html?src=rss
CBS revealed the reason why Stephen’s stint on ‘The Late Show’ is ending after more than a decade.
CBS revealed the reason why Stephen’s stint on ‘The Late Show’ is ending after more than a decade.
Kristin was seen in an unexpected Jumbotron moment at a Coldplay concert in the arms of her boss, Astronomer CEO Andy Byron, in July 2025.
Kristin was seen in an unexpected Jumbotron moment at a Coldplay concert in the arms of her boss, Astronomer CEO Andy Byron, in July 2025.
Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming home for The Office and Love Island USA, is going to cost a good bit more starting on July 23, Variety reports. The streaming service’s two existing tiers will cost an additional $3 per month, and Peacock will also start testing a cheaper $7.99 “Select” tier that includes access to NBC and Bravo shows and a limited number of titles from the NBCUniversal back catalog.
With the new price hike, Peacock’s ad-supported “Premium” plan will go from costing $8 per month to $11 per month, and the “Premium Plus” plan, which features fewer ads, will go from costing $14 per month to $17 per month. The discounted annual subscription for the Premium plan is now $110 per year, while the Premium Plus plan is $170 per year. The updated subscription fees will go into affect for new and returning customers on July 23, and on August 22 for current customers.
While these fees are still on the low end of the $25-per-month that Netflix charges for its most premium tier, this is the third time Peacock has raised prices in the last three years. The streaming service’s cheapest plan went from $5 to $6 per month in 2023, and then from $6 to $8 per month in 2024. At this rate Peacock subscriptions will cost an additional $4 in 2026.
Peacock hasn’t achieved the same level of critical acclaim as competitors like HBO Max or Netflix, but the timing of its price hike does follow a recent hot streak. The most recent season of Love Island USA, which streams exclusively on Peacock, was hugely popular. Nielsen rated the show as “the No. 1 most-watched streaming reality series” multiple weeks in a row in June, according to NBCUniversal, and the show became Peacock’s “most-watched entertainment series on mobile devices, with nearly 30 percent of viewership happening on phones and tablets.”
Testing out the new Peacock Select plan seems like a further attempt to capitalize on that reality TV-focused audience. If you’re interested in Bravo and whatever shows are exclusive to Peacock, you can pay $8 and get a huge library of episodes to watch.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/like-clockwork-peacock-is-raising-subscription-prices-again-203644730.html?src=rss
Vimeo, the business-focused video sharing and hosting platform, is bringing back its Apple TV app after ending support for all of its TV apps in 2023. While the company hasn’t been trying to be a YouTube competitor for a while, TV apps were always more convenient than Vimeo’s proposed solution of casting video from a smartphone or tablet.
The rebuilt Vimeo Apple TV app lets you access Vimeo’s curated library of Staff Picks, your personal library of uploaded videos and anything you’ve saved to your watchlist to watch later. Vimeo also says the app supports “enhanced playback with chapters, speed controls, and multi-language options.” The app is available to download and try now, provided your Apple TV is running tvOS 18 or later and you have a Free Vimeo account.
Vimeo originally pivoted away from being a direct YouTube competitor in 2017, several years before it dropped support for its apps. Since then the company has styled itself as more of a enterprise service, providing a way for businesses and professional creatives to host and sell videos, and even build their own streaming services.
Spinning up a new TV app doesn’t necessarily mean Vimeo is changing strategies, but if you’ve got some student films hanging out in an old Vimeo account, you now have a much easier way to watch them at home.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apps/it-only-took-two-years-for-vimeo-to-realize-deleting-all-of-its-tv-apps-was-dumb-212724092.html?src=rss
Trump’s physician released a memo revealing his 2025 chronic venous insufficiency condition. Learn about the president’s overall health here.
Trump’s physician released a memo revealing his 2025 chronic venous insufficiency condition. Learn about the president’s overall health here.
The Unicode Consortium has announced that it’s adding what’s essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as “Hairy Creature” alongside a selection of other fun new emoji options in Unicode 17.0.
It might seem strange that a consortium of companies as powerful as Apple, Google and Microsoft would practically subtweet one of North America’s most famous semi-mythological creatures. But the global nature of Unicode makes avoiding region-specific nomenclature preferable whenever possible. To me, that’s Bigfoot, plain and simple, but elsewhere in the world it might scan as a yowie, yeti, nuk-luk, hibagon, orang pendekor or an almas.
Besides “Hairy Creature,” Unicode 17.0 also includes the following new emoji additions:
Trombone
Treasure chest
Distorted Face
Fight Cloud
Apple Core
Orca
Ballet Dancers
Unicode 17.0 is slated to be released on September 9, 2025, but these new emoji likely won’t be added to Android and iOS until a bit after the standard is updated. You’ll just have to make do with what you can create with Genmoji or Emoji Kitchen while you wait.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/unicodes-new-emoji-refuses-to-put-respect-on-bigfoots-name-184412935.html?src=rss
Google has filed a lawsuit against the operators of a what is believed to be the largest smart TV botnet in the world — BadBox 2.0.
The company said in its complaint that this China-based botnet had compromised more than 10 million uncertified devices — including TV streaming boxes, tablets and projectors. Google said that cybercriminals pre-installed malware or used malicious apps to download malware on hardware that was running open-source Android software. These compromised devices were then used to conduct “large-scale ad fraud and other digital crimes.” In addition to the lawsuit, which is an injunction against the botnet’s operators as well as unspecified damages, Google said it has updated Google Play Protect to automatically block known apps associated with BadBox 2.0.
The FBI is also working to dismantle BadBox 2.0, with an alert about the operation issued last month. The original BadBox botnet campaign, which also primarily infiltrated Android operating systems, was identified in 2023 and disrupted in 2024.
Google has been a target for this type of cybercriminal activity before. In 2021, it disrupted Glupteba, which at the time was one of the largest botnets with about one million Windows PCs impacted.
Read the full complaint below:
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Add this to the list of “things that might be fun if you had a buttload of money”: Someone forked over $5.3 million in a Sotheby’s auction to own a piece of Mars. The Red Planet meteorite was discovered in 2023 in a remote area of the Sahara Desert in Niger.
Martian meteorites of any size are incredibly rare. To get here, an asteroid first hits the Red Planet to eject material from its surface. (Sotheby’s says there are only 19 Martian craters large enough to have spit out this one.) That chunk then has to travel 140 million miles through space to reach Earth. Only 400 of the 77,000+ officially recognized meteorites hail from Mars.
The meteorite is known as NWA 16788. Its reddish-brown, scarred exterior almost looks like the Red Planet’s surface in miniature.
This is also an exceptionally big Martian meteorite. It’s about 70 percent larger than the second-biggest piece of Mars found on Earth. It measures 14.75 x 11 x 6 inches and weighs over 54 lbs. It’s big enough to represent about 6.5 percent of all known Martian material on our planet.
The winning bid was for $4.3 million. After fees, that comes out to over $5.3 million, making it the most valuable meteorite ever sold.
Before bidding, the auction house sent a small piece of the space rock to a lab, which confirmed its distinctly Martian chemical composition. Over 21 percent of the rock is composed of maskelynite, a glass produced when the asteroid struck the Martian surface.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/science/space/someone-paid-53-million-for-a-piece-of-mars-191502853.html?src=rss
