More screen equals more fun. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Foldable season is back, and Motorola is leading the way with refreshed versions of its Razr Plus and Razr flip phones. They’re arriving next month in some poolside-worthy colors, with upgraded screens — a big upgrade in the case of the 2024 Razr — and IPX8 ratings for full resistance against water immersion. And you know what else is pretty hot? The prices haven’t gone up. The Motorola Razr Plus 2024 still starts at $999 and comes with a Snapdragon 8S Gen 3 chipset and 12GB of RAM. The cover screen now measures four inches, a significant upgrade from the 3.6-inch panel on the previous generation. It’s an LTPO display with up to 165Hz refresh rate; the inner screen is still a 6.9-inch 1080p OLED. The main rear camera features an updated... Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge Threads will now let people like and see replies to their Threads posts that appear on other federated social media platforms, the company announced on Monday. Previously, if you made a post on Threads that was syndicated to another platform — like Mastodon, for example — you wouldn’t be able to see responses to that post while still inside Threads. That meant you’d have to bounce back and forth between the platforms to stay up-to-date on replies. Thanks to this upgrade, you’ll probably do less of that, though you’ll still have to be on the other platform to actually reply to the replies. In a screenshot, Meta notes that you can’t reply to replies “yet,” so it sounds like that feature will arrive in the future. Image:... Continue reading…

In 2018 metal detectorists in Norway found curiously shaped and obviously old iron rivets scattered around in the shallow soil of a field at Jarlsberg Hovedgård (Jarlsberg Manor), the ancestral home of the aristocratic Wedel-Jarlsberg family. Further investigations by professional archaeologists have found proof that this site near the historic city of Tønsberg in Vestfold county once featured a burial mound, and that a large Viking ship was entombed inside of it along with the deceased.  Today, there are no signs of the burial mound present on the earth’s surface. Its location was long ago repurposed for agricultural activity, and repeated plowing of the field obliterated the mound completely. However, a team of archaeologists from the University of Oslo was able to confirm the presence of a burial mound on the site many centuries ago, based on data collected during ground-penetrating radar surveys that detected the mound’s hidden traces.   Read moreSection: ArtifactsAncient TechnologyNewsHistory & ArchaeologyRead Later 

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