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Affirm beats in Q4 with $261.8M, up 71% YoY, vs. estimates of $225M, with 7.1M active customers, up from 5.4M in the previous quarter; stock up more than 20% (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Affirm beats in Q4 with $261.8M, up 71% YoY, vs. estimates of $225M, with 7.1M active customers, up from 5.4M in the previous quarter; stock up more than 20% — – Affirm reported better-than-expected revenue for the fourth quarter after the bell Thursday and gave strong guidance for the current quarter.

Musical Cyberdeck is Part Synth, Part MIDI Controller, and All Cool

When a new project type starts to get a lot of exposure, it’s typically not long before we see people forking the basic concept and striking out in a new direction. It happened with POV displays, it happened with Nixie clocks, and now, it seems to be happening with cyberdecks. And that’s something we can

Apple releases official trailer for ‘Wolfboy and the Everything Factory’

What you need to know Apple has released the official trailer for ‘Wolfboy and the Everything Factory.’ The series will premiere on Apple TV+ on September 24. Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s next Apple TV+ series is coming. Apple TV+ has a new trailer for its upcoming cartoon series. The company has released the official trailer for ‘Wolfboy

Apple VP Kevin Lynch has taken over the Apple Car project

What you need to know Kevin Lynch has reportedly taken over the Apple Car project. The executive takes over the project from Doug Field, who just left Apple for Ford. The watchOS VP is taking on the Apple Car. The Apple Car project already has a new boss. As reported by Bloomberg, Kevin Lynch, Apple’s

Epic tests Apple with new request: let us relaunch Fortnite in Korea

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games has asked Apple to reinstate its Fortnite developer account so it can release the game in South Korea, following the passage of a bill that will force Apple and Google to let apps use alternative payment systems. “Epic has asked Apple to restore our Fortnite developer

Snyk snags another $530M as valuation rises to $8.4B

Snyk, the Boston-based late-stage startup that is trying to help developers deliver more secure code, announced another mega-round today. This one was for $530 million, with $300 million in new money and $230 million in secondary funding, the latter of which is to help employees and early investors cash in some of their stock options.

Epic asks Apple to reinstate its Fortnite developer account in S. Korea, after passage of a Korean bill forcing app stores to allow alternative payment systems (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Epic asks Apple to reinstate its Fortnite developer account in S. Korea, after passage of a Korean bill forcing app stores to allow alternative payment systems — Following the passing of a bill allowing alternative payment systems on the App Store — Epic Games has asked Apple to reinstate …

Doogee S96 Pro review: This thing is a tank

Mainstream smartphones aren’t necessarily built to last. That shiny piece of glass and metal probably won’t withstand harsh environmental conditions. So then, what will? That’s where rugged smartphones come into play. The Doogee S96 Pro provides a durable experience at an affordable price. The question is, will it hold up in the day-to-day? Find out

Everything we know about The Wheel of Time TV series heading to Amazon Prime

Credit: Amazon The Wheel of Time TV series is heading to Amazon Prime Video, and it promises to be the next big fantasy event series. With Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series still almost a year away, and HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon due sometime in 2022, this will be a

Sony PlayStation Showcase reveals Wolverine, Spider-Man 2, KOTOR Remake, more

Credit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Sony held another one of its virtual PlayStation Showcase events today, and as promised it offered up a number of new trailers and announcements for its PlayStation 5 games library. Here’s a quick look at what was revealed today. Marvel’s Wolverine Insomniac Games, the makers of the hit Spider-Man

Radiohead teams up with Epic Games for Kid A Mnesia: Exhibition

Radiohead is teaming up with Epic Games for Kid A Mnesia: Exhibition — an interactive experience coming to PlayStation 5, PC, and Mac in November as part of the band’s upcoming Kid A Mnesia release. Kid A Mnesia is a commemorative rerelease of Radiohead’s iconic albums Kid A and Amnesiac, along with a third, new

Texas passes law that bans kicking people off social media based on ‘viewpoint’

Photo by Montinique Monroe/Getty Images Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a bill regulating how social media companies moderate content. The new law, passed as HB 20 in early September, controversially prohibits banning (or demonetizing or otherwise restricting) content based on “the viewpoint of the user or another person,” whether or not that viewpoint is

California defense attorney Jay Leiderman, once dubbed the “Hacktivist’s Advocate” and known for defending whistleblowers and hackers, dies at 50 years old (Dell Cameron/Gizmodo)

Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: California defense attorney Jay Leiderman, once dubbed the “Hacktivist’s Advocate” and known for defending whistleblowers and hackers, dies at 50 years old — Leiderman’s rebellious lawyering made him a go-to attorney for Anonymous hackers. — Alerts

UK dials up the spin on data reform, claiming ‘simplified’ rules will drive ‘responsible’ data sharing

The U.K. government has announced a consultation on plans to shake up the national data protection regime, as it looks at how to diverge from European Union rules following Brexit. It’s also a year since the U.K. published a national data strategy in which said it wanted pandemic levels of data sharing to become Britain’s

Squad Mobility eyes shared platforms as target for its compact solar electric quadricycle

Squad Mobility’s vision of the perfect urban vehicle is a low-cost EV equipped with solar panels, swappable batteries and enough zip and range in its diminutive 6.5-foot package to meet the needs of city drivers. The early stage Dutch startup, which recently revealed the final design of its quadricycle, is now assembling working prototypes in

The biggest announcements and best trailers from Sony’s PlayStation Showcase 2021

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony is the latest video game company to put on a big virtual event, and its PlayStation Showcase 2021 didn’t disappoint. It was a chance to show off some of the biggest games coming to the PS5, and while there were some notable absences — Sony still isn’t

FDA has rejected nearly one million flavored e-cigarettes

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After a year-long review of millions of e-cigarette–related products, the Food and Drug Administration says it has rejected 946,000 flavored products, prohibiting them from being marketed or sold. It also said that the applications for 4.5 million products were missing materials that the agency required to make a

EU planning to go after Google again, this time over Google Assistant

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google may be subject to another antitrust investigation by the EU. The EU Commission is examining whether Google is forcing OEMs to install Google Assistant as the default voice assistant. Antitrust regulators will release a final report in H1 2022 and may launch an official investigation after. Google is

ET Deals: $150 Off Apple MacBook Air M1 Chip, $50 off Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet

Apple’s MacBook Air laptops equipped with the company’s revolutionary M1 chip offer excellent performance for a wide range of tasks, and you can get one now with an $150 discount. Apple MacBook Air M1 Chip 13.3-Inch Laptop w/ 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD for $849.99 from Amazon (List price $999.00)Amazon Fire HD 10 10.1-Inch 32GB

Jio and Google delay the JioPhone Next, which was planned to launch on Friday, blaming chip shortages and says the launch is now scheduled for early November (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Jio and Google delay the JioPhone Next, which was planned to launch on Friday, blaming chip shortages and says the launch is now scheduled for early November — The JioPhone Next, the much-awaited smartphone designed by Google and India’s Jio Platforms to tap hundreds of millions of users …

Source: Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling collectibles, is raising new capital at a valuation of $1.5B, following its $50M Series B in May (Kaya Yurieff/The Information)

Kaya Yurieff / The Information: Source: Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling collectibles, is raising new capital at a valuation of $1.5B, following its $50M Series B in May — Whatnot is raising new capital at a valuation of $1.5 billion, according to a person familiar with the deal.

Java internet address resolution plan proposed

Looking to enable Java applications to have finer control over internet addressing, plans are afoot in the OpenJDK community to develop a service provider interface (SPI) for host name and address resolution. A JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) under consideration calls for development of such an SPI for host name resolution so java.net.InetAddress can use resolvers

Drill Press Runs Faster On a Treadmill Motor

Are you tired of the same old video style from your favorite content creators? We can’t say that we were, exactly. But nevertheless, we appreciate this creative departure from [Eric Strebel]’s regular fare as he soups up his drill press with an old treadmill motor and a few extra features. First off, that commentator in

Apple Watch exec takes over secretive car project

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Just two days after Ford hired away Doug Field, the head of Apple’s secretive car project, the tech giant has tapped Apple Watch exec and former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch to take his place, according to Bloomberg. It’s the latest changing of the guard for the project, known

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is getting a remake for the PS5

The legendary Star Wars roleplaying game Knights of the Old Republic is getting a PS5 remake, Sony announced today at its 2021 fall showcase. The remake is being developed by Aspyr, which had previously worked on the Mac, Android, and iOS ports of both the original Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel, Knights

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