Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A judge reduced the amount of money that Tesla will have to pay to a Black former employee who successfully sued the company for racial harassment and discrimination. Last October, a jury awarded Owen Diaz, who worked as an elevator operator at Tesla for nine months in 2015–2016,
Read MoreWhat you need to know WhatsApp has announced Communities, a way for people to run a collection of groups. Groups now feature message reactions and more. WhatsApp’s new Communities feature is finally here. WhatsApp has announced its new Communities feature including new admin capabilities and more. The Communities feature has been available in various forms
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk just blew up the entire tech news cycle this morning with his offer to buy 100 percent of Twitter at $54.20 in cash, days after quietly becoming one of its largest shareholders and then rejecting a previously accepted seat on the board. And amazingly,
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton announced in a press release today (via CNBC) that it plans to raise the cost of its all-access subscription for live and on-demand classes from $39 / month to $44 / month starting on June 1st, 2022. However, new, lower prices for Peloton’s exercise equipment are
Read MoreSunPower Station in Hongyuan county, Sichuan province, southwest China on 24th June 2015. Sunpower stations at Hongyuan and Zoigê County are the first of Apple major solar projects in China. | Photo by Jie Zhao/Corbis via Getty Images Apple suppliers have more than doubled their clean power over the past year, the company announced today.
Read MoreYou can react to messages with a thumbs up, heart, laughing face, shocked face, crying face, and prayer hands. | Image: WhatsApp WhatsApp announced on Thursday that it’s adding emoji reactions to its chat app, letting you express your feelings toward a message without having to send an individual emoji as a message. Although the
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Creators making YouTube Shorts will now be able to use video clips from billions of YouTube videos in new Shorts, the company announced today in a blog post. In YouTube Shorts — the company’s TikTok clone — creators were previously only able to splice short audio clips from
Read MoreWhat you need to know Popular naval strategy game Abandon Ship is coming to iPhone and iPad. Gamers can download Abandon Ship from June 14. Ever fancied yourself as a budget Jack Sparrow? Fans of the popular Abandon Ship game on Steam will soon be able to plunder the high seas on their iPhone and
Read MorePrivacy concerns about the Internet have been around since it broke into the mainstream from the academic world. But, for decades, the voices warning us about the dangers inherent in it were considered little more than prophets of doom, paranoid maniacs yelling in the desert. But then, the likes of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden
Read MoreMore than just group DMs, WhatsApp’s new feature is a major expansion of its comprehensive encrypted messaging.
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: WhatsApp rolls out Communities with expanded admin tools and other features, letting schools and other organizations host group chats with thousands of users — Meta is throwing billions of dollars into building out the metaverse as the future of social networking but in the near term …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Subaru is giving every Outback driver wireless CarPlay — so long as they buy a new car. The 2023 Outback supports wireless CarPlay via the 11.6-inch STARLINK entertainment system. No pricing or availability information has been given so far. No more wires to trip yourself up over. Subaru has confirmed
Read MoreNext to the advancement of the 5G network service, the best upgrade to the iPhone 12 was definitely the MagSafe feature. This set of magnets is built into the iPhone 12 and later models, enabling an entire line of cool accessories that make use of the MagSafe system for charging, mounting, and more. These are
Read MoreTo the uninitiated, it might seem like a gimmick to 3D print pharmaceuticals. After all, you take some kind of medicine, pour it in a mold, and you have a pill, right? But researchers and even some commercial companies are 3D printing drugs with unusual chemical or physical properties. For example, pills with braille identification
Read MoreA mysterious and dangerous location on Monkey Island. | Image: Terrible Toybox Read on for an interview and the first screenshots from Return to Monkey Island Continue reading…
Read MoreThomas Wilde / GeekWire: Amazon announces two mobile games for its Amazon Kids+ service, the first games published through Amazon Mobile since 2015 — Amazon is publishing two new mobile games through its Amazon Kids+ service, based on the original Amazon specials Super Spy Ryan and Do, Re & Mi.
Read MoreVishal Chawla / The Block: Terraform Labs, which runs the Terra blockchain and UST stablecoin, gifts 10M LUNA tokens, worth ~$880M, to the Luna Foundation Guard, likely to underpin UST — Quick Take — Terraform Labs said it ‘gifted’ 10 million ($880 million) worth of LUNA tokens to Luna Foundation Guard.
Read MoreTwitter’s board has to accept Musk’s $41 billion offer or make a counterattack.
Read MoreAudiobooks — just like books, but for your ears! You might not have time to read, but you might have time to listen. If you’ve got a long commute or spend a lot of time gardening, then audiobooks are a good way to make your time more productive. Apple doesn’t provide a separate audiobooks app.
Read MoreDepending on who you ask, the Norden bombsight was either the highest of high tech during World War II, or an overhyped failure that provided jobs and money for government contractors. Either way, it was super top secret in its day. It was also expensive. They cost about $25,000 each and the whole program came
Read MoreKyle Alspach / VentureBeat: Obsidian Security, which helps companies secure SaaS apps, raises a $90M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $119.5M — While businesses have embraced software-as-a-service (SaaS) in a massive way, the questions around how to best secure the use of data …
Read MoreThere’s no questioning the benefits of Twitter. It’s a convenient way to get your memes, world news, and pop culture hot takes all in one place. But being an active Twitter user requires sifting through a daily deluge of toxic characters, including QAnon, white supremacists, bots, deepfakes, and more (although you can’t find Donald Trump
Read MoreWhat you need to know Netflix has begun to use the tvOS 15 media player on its Apple TV app. Subtitles have moved to a new location at the end of the progress bar. The new tvOS 15 interface is now being used by the Netflix app. Netflix has updated its Apple TV+ app to
Read MoreWhat you need to know The Arrival Doom mod has been released for free via the Doom and Doom II iPhone and iPad games. Gamers just need to sign in using their Bethesda ID to get the new levels. 11 new levels have been made available for download for free. Fans of the original Doom
Read MoreThough director David Cronenberg is capable of inhabiting a number of artistic modes as a storyteller, his deft command of body horrors like Neon’s upcoming Crimes of the Future is what he’ll always be known for, and with good reason. Hard as it’s been to believe some of the early buzz about Crimes of the
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