How do I change my Home button back to normal? Don’t worry; it’s easy! If you have an iPhone or iPad with a Home button and Touch ID — like the iPhone SE (2020) — there are a few unique customizations available to you. If you’re looking for an easier way to trigger actions with
Read MoreNetflix‘s new action-packed revenge movie is here. Kate follows an assassin on her last mission through Tokyo, taking on virtually the entirety of the Yakuza. For fans of revenge flicks and martial arts movies, Kate will definitely have some appeal, but for anyone looking for a fresh new entry in the genre, it’s likely to
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Read MoreGamers of a certain age will remember fondly all the hours spent playing Diablo II, which originally launched in 2000. Here we are 20 years later, and the remastered version is almost ready for release. However, fans of ultrawide monitors won’t have as much to celebrate. After nerfing 21:9 ultrawide support in the last phase
Read MoreDavid Friend Contributor Share on Twitter David Friend is a serial entrepreneur, six-time founder, and the current co-founder and CEO of cloud storage company, Wasabi Technologies. More posts by this contributor Brand power vs. product power The herd sours on unprofitable unicorns again The U.S. produces more new startups and unicorns each year than any
Read MoreThe official Android 12 release date is unknown, but only a few weeks away. The schedule suggests we could see an Android 12 launch in mid to late September. The beta program is now essentially complete, so it’s just a matter of time. We are now into the final stages of the Android 12 rollout.
Read MoreFor the next few weeks, the vast, vast majority of iPhone 13 buying advice will be strangely fixated on whether or not it’s a compelling upgrade from… the iPhone 12. Spoiler alert: it’s not. It never is. Not year over year. Not any iPhone. No one expects it to be. Not even Apple. Now yes,
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple, like many tech companies, has an intimidating employment agreement that it makes employees sign to protect its trade secrets. Though the agreement is in place to prevent workers from sharing internal details of Apple’s products and processes, it is unclear whether they can speak out about working
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Read MoreTaylor Soper / GeekWire: Shutterstock acquires Seattle-based online photo editing service PicMonkey for $110M in cash — Publicly-traded photography giant Shutterstock has acquired PicMonkey, a Seattle startup founded nine years ago that provides online photo editing and graphic design tools.
Read MoreSila Nanotechnologies next-generation battery technology made its commercial product debut Wednesday in the new Whoop fitness tracker, a milestone that caps a decade of research and development by the Silicon Valley startup all aimed at cracking the code to packing more energy into a cell at a lower cost. Billions have been spent over the
Read MoreLossless music streaming has been a fixture on major streaming services in the last couple of years, coming a long way from Tidal being the only major service to offer the feature. Nowadays, the likes of Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Deezer all offer lossless music streaming. You have to pay extra for this feature
Read MorePrivate equity giant Thoma Bravo has taken a stake in Intel 471, a provider of cyber threat intelligence for enterprises and governments. The strategic growth investment, which comes as organizations double-down on cybersecurity amid a pandemic-fueled rise in cyber threats, will enable Intel 471 to evolve its product suite, broaden its go-to-market strategy and continue
Read MoreA number of Spotify playlist curators are complaining that the streaming music company is not addressing the ongoing issue of playlist abuse, which sees bad actors reporting playlists that have gained a following in order to give their own playlists better visibility. Currently, playlists created by Spotify users can be reported in the app for
Read MoreA screenshot from The Playroom. | Image: Firesprite Sony announced that it will acquire UK-based studio Firesprite, the developers of The Playroom and The Playroom VR. It’s unclear what Firesprite might be working on in its new first-party capacity, but executives are already hyping what’s to come. “Firesprite’s ability to weave best-in-class gameplay with new
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Mobile game publisher Jam City raises $350M in equity and debt, after a $1.2B SPAC merger fell apart, and buys rival Ludia for $165M — A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next. — Jam City has raised $350 million in funding and it has
Read MoreKoyo, a fintech startup using open banking to offer loans to people with poor credit histories, has closed a Series A funding round of $50m in debt and equity led by Force Over Mass, with participation from existing investors Forward Partners, Frontline Ventures and Seedcamp. New investors in Koyo include Force Over Mass, Matt Robinson
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Read MoreIt’s been a wildly unprecedented year and a half by any metric. The pandemic has utterly transformed many industries and made or broken others. In the world of technology, however, few categories were as well positioned to embrace a changed world than connected fitness. The space was well on its way prior to the arrival
Read MoreTwitter Twitter is launching Communities, its rival to Facebook Groups and Reddit, for tweeting with others who share specific interests. Starting Wednesday, Twitter users can be invited to an initial batch of Communities that include #AstroTwitter, #DogTwitter, #SkincareTwitter, and #SoleFood (a group for sneaker enthusiasts). Once people join a Community, they can tweet directly to
Read MorePhoto by Allison Johnson / The Verge Google is releasing what it says is the fifth and final version of the Android 12 beta, adding that the official release of the full Android 12 operating system is “just a few weeks away.” The new beta release will also be the first one that Pixel 5A
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority After going through the early developer preview phase, the fifth Android 12 beta is here. The latest Android 12 beta is a release candidate, meaning the stable launch is next. Google says its main goal is to make Android 12 “more intuitive, better performing, and more secure.” You can
Read MoreThe travel industry was one of the hardest hit by the pandemic, and startup Headout was no exception. A marketplace that let tourists make same-day bookings for tours, events and activities, the app expanded around the world after launching in 2015. Then COVID-19 hit. But business is growing again thanks to rebounds in domestic travel and
Read MoreTwitter is a useful place for following breaking news and keeping up with what the people you’re already interested in are doing, but its relative dearth of discovery features and a lack of organized community spaces make it pretty hard to connect with anyone you aren’t actively seeking out. The company is thinking about changing
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority Google has released Android 12 beta 5. The stable Android 12 release will follow in the next few weeks. Beta 5 finalizes app-facing surfaces and behaviors. Google has released the last and final beta for Android 12. The latest update, just like the one before it, doesn’t add many
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