What are things iphone can do that android can’t? Followup of this post https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1hzzaeh/what_are_things_android_can_do_that_iphone_cant/ Apart from the Apple Ecosystem stuff of course submitted by /u/jayesh_f33l

Sony’s Layer-2 Blockchain ‘Soneium’ Goes Live The 78-year-old technology giant is the latest big name company to release a blockchain using Optimism’s OP Stack.

Is Bitcoin Bottom In? BTC’s Price Action is Inverse of December Peak Above $108K BTC’s latest price action seems to contrast sharply with the uptrend exhaustion observed at record highs above $108K in mid-December.

Binance.US Chief: The SEC Called Us a Cauldron of Fraud, Without Any Evidence The debanking of Binance.US is Operation Chokepoint in action, said the exchange’s interim CEO Norman Reed.

Crypto Bank Sygnum Gets Unicorn Status With $58M Round The Zug and Singapore-based lender closed the oversubscribed “strategic growth round,” which was led by BTC-focused venture capital firm Fulgar Ventures

Company Behind Illicit $24B Telegram Marketplaces Launches Stablecoin Huione’s stablecoin is “not restricted” by regulatory agencies.

Nintendo’s Alarmo will be available for everyone starting in March Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeAnother day, another announcement from Nintendo that isn’t the next Switch. Today the company revealed that its alarm clock, Alarmo, will be available at select retailers starting this March. The announcement includes the US, UK, and Europe. The $99 alarm clock launched late last year, but is currently only avail…

Chinese social media app RedNote tops App Store chart ahead of TikTok ban Photo Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesRedNote, the Chinese social media app also known as Xiaohongshu, rose to the number one spot on the Apple App Store as a US ban closes in on TikTok. The app offers a mix of pictures, short-form videos, and text posts across “follow,” “explore,” and “nearby” feeds. A cur…

AGDQ 2025 earns $2.5 million for charity with its best event yet Image: Games Done QuickAwesome Games Done Quick 2025 has concluded, raising just over $2.5 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Every Games Done Quick event is worth tuning in to either live or later via VODs, but this AGDQ was uniquely fantastic, filled with runs that’ll go down as some of the best GDQ has to offer. Here are some of our f…

Meta is already working on Community Notes for Threads Illustration: The VergeMeta announced last week that it would be ditching fact-checkers in favor of X-like Community Notes, and self-described “leaker” Alessandro Paluzzi shared screenshots on Monday showing what the feature might look like in Threads. Based on the screenshots, it appears you’ll be able to start the process of writing a Communit…

‘Goodbye to my Chinese spy’ might be the last great TikTok trend Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesTikTokers are coping with the app’s potential ban with an unusual trend: by bidding farewell to their “personal Chinese spy.” The trend, which pokes fun at security concerns surrounding the app, has users thanking their “spy” for surveilling them and filling their For You page with entertaining conte…

Google Messages brings back customizable contacts Illustration: The VergeGoogle is adjusting the “profile sharing” feature in its Google Messages app to allow users to set custom contact names and photos on their own devices for their stored contacts and others they send text messages. As reported by 9to5Google, a change rolled out late last year that overrode your custom names and photos with …

Apple’s latest iPad Mini is down to its lowest price to date The seventh-gen iPad is the cheapest tablet in Apple’s current lineup to support Apple Intelligence. | Photo: David Pierce / The VergeIf you’re in the market for a highly portable tablet, Apple’s smallest tablet has fallen to its lowest price to date at multiple retailers. Right now, the latest iPad Mini is on sale at Amazon and Best Buy with W…

Has anyone experimented with intentional delays during checkout? Curious about customer experience innovations beyond the traditional. Say for example you have an obvious processing gap between product creation / selection or before checkout where instead of optimizing on the backend to eliminate the pause, you add a guided meditation and make the wait intentional. submitted by /u/Eldria_the_Cat

Do i need a tax id number to return a parcel back to Australia I bought an item off of an etsy seller based in Australia (I’m from the US) . When filling out a return label, it asks me for a recipient and sender(optional) tax id number. This number is nowhere on the original parcel. If i don’t fill this out, will the parcel be sent back? I’ve never shipped internationally before, and I don’t want this to be…

Oppo and Realme facing sales ban in Thailand after preloading unauthorized loan app and possibility of breaching personal data collection law submitted by /u/Nimda0X

Data Broker Hack Exposes Location Info From Millions of iPhone Users Data broker Gravy Analytics has been hacked, and location information from millions of iPhone and Android users is at risk, reports TechCrunch. Gravy Analytics’ parent company Unacast disclosed the data breach earlier this month , and said that its AWS cloud storage environment had been accessed by an unauthorized person using a “misappropr…

Apple Stops Signing iOS 18.2, Preventing Downgrading Apple today stopped signing iOS 18.2, which means that iPhone users who have upgraded to iOS 18.2.1 can no longer downgrade to iOS 18.2. Apple released iOS 18.2.1 earlier in January. When new versions of iOS are released, Apple typically stops signing the prior version after a week or two. An update that is not signed is not able to be installe…

U.S. Judges Demand SEC ‘Explain Itself’ for Rebuffing Requests for Crypto Rules In another 11th-hour court loss for Chair Gary Gensler’s tenure, judges in a Coinbase case again call the SEC’s crypto position “arbitrary and capricious.”

MoonPay Buys Crypto Payment Processor Helio for $175M MoonPay’s acquisition of Helio is reportedly valued at $175 million.