Rivian has filed to go public | Photo by David Becker/Getty Images Electric vehicle maker Rivian, backed by Ford and Amazon, filed for an initial public offering on Friday on the Nasdaq exchange. The company filed its IPO confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission in August, and it was made public today. According to
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple TV+ has debuted a new featurette for season two of “The Morning Show.” “Inside the Episode: ‘Laura’” dives into the third episode of the new season. Season two of the drama series is streaming now. Go inside the third episode for season two of “The Morning Show.” Today, Apple
Read MoreAn Xbox One is a great way to pass the time and game with friends while waiting for Series S and X to come back in stock. We’ve scoured the web for the best Xbox One deals that are available right now. If you’d instead find out more about the latest Xbox Series X and
Read MoreSony appears to be reintroducing an old concept for two of its newer Playstation 5 games — game trials. Sony will now let you try the PS5 versions of Death Stranding: Director’s Cut and Sackboy: A Big Adventure for free if you live in the United Kingdom, for six hours and five hours, respectively. PlayStation
Read MoreCodeSee, a maker of tools that help developers to visualize and understand large codebases, has unveiled OSS Port, a community website that aims to connect potential contributors with open source projects, and ease the process of onboarding. CodeSee says it is addressing a situation in which developers spend more time trying to understand code than
Read MoreLooking for something with a bit more style than the traditional kitchen timer, [Martin Jonasson] decided to take the last couple of months to design and build his own take on the idea using a rotary encoder, 16×9 LED matrix, and a Teensy 2.0 microcontroller. Were there better things he could have spent that time
Read MoreToday you can get a compact 13.3-inch Dell laptop with a Core i5 processor, a 1080p touchscreen display and a sleek aluminum chassis marked down to just $699.99. Dell XPS 13 9305 Intel Core i5-1135G7 13.3-Inch 1080p Touchscreen Laptop w/ Intel Iris Xe Graphics, 8GB LPDDR4x RAM and 256B M.2 SSD ($699.99) Dell’s new XPS
Read MorePhoto by EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/AFP via Getty Images Since the dawn of time (around five or six months ago), people all over the world (Twitter users in the United States) have been puzzling over a very important question: why doesn’t the COVID-19 vaccine card fit in a wallet? I tried to figure out why the
Read MoreThere is some good news for the Mortal Kombat game franchise as one of its installments titled Mortal Kombat X will be available on PlayStation Plus in October without any cost. PS Plus will also see free of cost access to several games that is Mortal Kombat X, PGA Tour 2K21, and the upcoming game
Read MoreMary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Vareto, which makes software to help companies with financial planning, raises $4.2M seed led by Menlo Ventures and $20M Series A led by GV — Vareto, a startup aiming to help companies conduct more forward-looking financial planning and analysis, is coming out of stealth today with $24 million in total
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge NBC has an excellent story that takes a look at the trend of young adults attempting to buy prescription or recreational drugs from dealers on Snapchat — and ending up with fentanyl instead. The report tells the story from the perspective of several parents who have lost children
Read MoreDid you just pick up a Nintendo Switch Lite? Awesome! You’re going to find a ton of games to enjoy on your new handheld portable gaming machine. But what if you want to game around others without disturbing them? You’re going to want to pick up a good pair of earbuds or headphones. There are
Read MorePhoto by Dan Seifert / The Verge Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. This week: lots of events and showcases! Nilay, Dieter, and Verge managing editor Alex Cranz start
Read MoreKelly Sheridan / Dark Reading: PE firm Symphony Technology Group says it plans to merge McAfee Enterprise and FireEye Products into a single entity with nearly $2B in annual revenue — McAfee Enterprise and FireEye Products will merge into a single entity with nearly $2 billion in revenue following the close …
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Learning a new language on an Android device? If the language uses a different alphabet or employs accents that your primary language does not, you may need to add a new software keyboard to your phone. Luckily, Google’s standard Gboard keyboard includes a plethora of language-related keyboards;
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Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Google has confirmed previously announced plans to launch a Google Pay bank account have been canceled. Google first announced plans for bank accounts known as “Plex” in August 2020. The report claims that Google Pay’s new leader didn’t want established banks to think it was competing with them. If
Read MoreSee which one of your favorite characters is left standing. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is headed to Nintendo Switch on October 5, 2021. It’s basically a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate but with your favorite cast of Nickelodeon characters including Aang, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, SpongeBob SquarePants, and many more. Each character has their own fighting
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / The Record: Google announces a $1M sponsorship for Linux Foundation’s Secure Open Source, a new pilot program to enhance the security of critical open source projects — Google has announced today a $1 million sponsorship for a new pilot program aimed at enhancing the security of critical open source software projects.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Days after announcing new safety tools designed to protect streamers against hate raids, Twitch is experimenting with a new feature that will allow users to pay money to promote a stream. Rumors have been circulating on social media that the new feature is in the works, and a
Read MoreDiscord is ending its Stage Discovery | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Discord said Friday it’s going to sunset its Stage Discovery tool on October 4th, less than six months after it launched. Rolled out in June, Stage Discovery was designed to help users find its social audio rooms called Stage Channels. It
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Biden administration is considering ways to impose bank-like regulation on stablecoin issuers, including prodding them to register as banks — Move would aim to address concerns that the digital currency could fuel financial panics — WASHINGTON—The Biden administration …
Read MoreThere’s a reason people still watch movies like Labyrinth, Time Bandits, and The NeverEnding Story decades later.
Read MoreSeveral years ago, Intel unveiled Loihi, its first public neuromorphic research processor. The term “neuromorphic” is essentially a catch-all for any type of processor that attempts to mimic the function of the brain. Because the brain is a complex organism, different chips can be neuromorphic in different ways, depending on which aspect of the brain’s
Read MorePhoto: Nikola Motor Company A federal judge has administratively closed a $2 billion patent infringement lawsuit hydrogen trucking startup Nikola filed against Tesla in 2018, essentially pulling it off the Northern District Court of California’s docket because the two companies stopped responding. Nikola has until October 6th to show cause as to why the case
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