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Indian payments body refuses to acknowledge Coinbase’s India launch, saying it is not aware of any cryptocurrency exchange using UPI payments instrument (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Indian payments body refuses to acknowledge Coinbase’s India launch, saying it is not aware of any cryptocurrency exchange using UPI payments instrument — The National Payments Corporation of India, the governing body that oversees UPI in the country, said in a statement on Thursday evening …

US labor board moves to block Amazon’s favorite anti-union tactic

Companies like Amazon often use mandatory meetings to persuade workers against unionizing. | Photo by Yana Paskova / For The Washington Post via Getty Images The National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel plans to ask the board to rule that mandatory meetings about organizing are a violation of the National Labor Relations Act, a significant

Google is using AI to update business hours that are out of date on Google Maps

It looks at data like Popular Times, images from street view, and more. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has shared how it’s using artificial intelligence, including its restaurant-calling Duplex tech, to try and keep business hours up to date on Google Maps. The company says that if it is confident enough

Send your favorite emojis and Memojis from your wrist with Apple Watch

It’s easy to send an emoji using your Apple Watch. Here’s how you do it! Whether you love them or hate them, emoji are here to stay. They’re fun because they allow us to express ourselves with a simple icon, and while emojis may appear different on other platforms, they all convey the same meaning.

Remoticon 2021 // Rob Weinstein Builds an HP-35 from the Patent Up

Fifty years ago, Hewlett-Packard introduced the first handheld scientific calculator, the HP-35. It was quite the engineering feat, since equivalent machines of the day were bulky desktop affairs, if not rack-mounted. [Rob Weinstein] has long been a fan of HP calculators, and used an HP-41C for many years until it wore out. Since then he

Keep it classy with a fine leather case for that iPhone 13

Any old case for a shiny new iPhone 13 simply won’t do. You need something with a little panache to dress up that fancy smartphone, and that’s exactly what the best leather cases for iPhone 13 are designed to do. We’ve chosen a selection of leather cases in different styles and varying price points to

OpenPhone, which provides SMBs with a business phone line through its mobile app, raises a $40M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $56M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: OpenPhone, which provides SMBs with a business phone line through its mobile app, raises a $40M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $56M — Pam answering the phone at Dunder Mifflin become one of the most iconic refrains of life at The Office, and it’s really

Live your best day playing the emotional Sumire on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

What you need to know Sumire is now available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The popular Sumire sees gamers play a single day in a young person’s life. Sumire is available for $5.99 via the App Store. The popular Switch and PC game is now on iOS and Mac. Sumire, a popular and emotional PC

The best Etsy alternatives for selling your crafts

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Since its launch in 2005, Etsy has become well known as the place to go for handcrafted, one-of-a-kind items from a wide variety of creators. Unfortunately, over the last few years, that rosy reputation has darkened a bit. To begin with, buyers have been noticing an influx of

Moonshot – A Journey Home slingshots into Apple Arcade on April 22

What you need to know Moonshot — A Journey Home is coming to Apple Arcade on April 22. Gamers will be able to play on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. An Apple Arcade subscription will be needed to download the game. Time to fling yourself across space. Apple Arcade subscribers are getting a new

Gigantic Solar Flare Carves a ‘Canyon of Fire’ Into the Sun

Good news for those who love the Northern Lights: Earth is directly in the line of fire of the sun’s latest coronal mass ejection (CME, or solar flare). But this is no ordinary solar storm. When this CME broke loose, the monumental forces tore open a twelve-thousand-mile-deep scar in the sun. ‘Canyon of Fire’ The

Inside an 11 Ton Clock with 1,000 Pieces

We aren’t ashamed to admit it, but we like clocks. We’ve built quite a few and clock projects show up regularly in the pages of Hackaday. But there is one clock that is among the most famous in the world: Britain’s Big Ben. It has been getting some repairs and the BBC was nice enough

TCL’s excellent 6-series 4K TV is $290 off today

TCL’s 6-Series TVs combine Mini LED panels with two HDMI 2.1 inputs for gaming. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge OLED may be the pinnacle of TV panels, but they’re still pricey — even after discounts. One very good alternative, the Mini LED-backlit TCL 6-Series with HDMI 2.1 ports, has dropped to a

Mexico City-based online-only supermarket Jüsto raises a $152M Series B led by General Atlantic, after raising a $65M Series A in February 2021 (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Mexico City-based online-only supermarket Jüsto raises a $152M Series B led by General Atlantic, after raising a $65M Series A in February 2021 — Jüsto, the Mexico City-based online grocer, continues to run on all cylinders with a goal of saturating the Latin American market.

How to change the font on your Samsung Galaxy phone

Follow a few quick steps to download and apply a new font to your Galaxy phone. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge One of the best things about a Samsung Galaxy phone is that it isn’t a “one size fits all” experience. Case in point: your phone’s font. If you’re not happy with

Rocket League Sideswipe season 3 is here with a new 3v3 mode and more

What you need to know The popular Rocket League Sideswipe has a big new update for season 3. The newly updated game now includes a 3v3 limited-time mode. Game controller fixes, a new arena, and a spectator mode have all been added in this latest release. A new limited-time mode literally changes the game for

Apple should consider expanding wearable tech and make a smart ring

Apple should consider entering the smart ring market. Though Apple was definitely not the first company to start the wearable health tech market, it certainly is the one that seems to have nailed it. Before the first Apple Watch, people had fitness trackers like Fitbit, but after the Apple Watch, everything seems to have shifted

Just What On Earth Is A Therm?

With the news here in Europe full of the effect of the war in Ukraine on gas supplies and consequently, prices, there it was on the radio news: a unit of measurement so uniquely British that nobody uses it in the real world and nobody even has a clue what it really means. We’re speaking

Indian conglomerate Tata Group rolls out Tata Neu, a “super app” combining at least seven services associated with Tata, competing with Jio Platforms and Amazon (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Indian conglomerate Tata Group rolls out Tata Neu, a “super app” combining at least seven services associated with Tata, competing with Jio Platforms and Amazon — The 154-year-old Indian giant, valued at $103 billion, operates 29 listed companies across nearly a dozen sectors including retail, travel to automobiles

Total War: MEDIEVAL II arrives on iPhone and iPad

A PC strategy classic comes to iPhone… What you need to know Total War: MEDIEVAL II is now available on iOS and Android. Feral Interactive has remade the classic PC strategy game for iPhone and iPad. It features touch controls, real-time battles, and the classic campaign from the original game. Feral Interactive has today released

Home Widget update puts HomeKit cameras, more on your Home screen

What you need to know Home Widget has a new update available for download. The new update adds support for HomeKit cameras and more. Now you can do even more with your HomeKit accessories. A new Home Widget update adds to an already popular app by giving users the chance to put their HomeKit cameras

Sources: Indian online learning startup Unacademy laid off around 1,000 employees to cut costs; Unacademy last raised $440M in August 2021 at a $3.4B valuation (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times: Sources: Indian online learning startup Unacademy laid off around 1,000 employees to cut costs; Unacademy last raised $440M in August 2021 at a $3.4B valuation — Bengaluru: Edtech startup Unacademy has laid off around 1,000 employees, including on-roll and contractual staff, in the past few weeks …

Musk is very wrong about a Twitter Edit button

A Twitter Edit button sounds good, but it really isn’t. I’ve been paying $3/month for a Twitter Blue account for months. It offers various “premium” features that vary by platform, including select ad-free articles, bookmark folders, themes, and custom app icons. However, those features aren’t why I continue to pay for a membership. That would

Game Boy games are still alive and thriving. Here’s why

Though other gaming fads have come and gone, it seems that the Game Boy will never die. Nintendo’s Game Boy handheld system is such an iconic element of pop and geek culture that it’s become the default name for any handheld video game console, Nintendo-made or not. Since its debut in 1989, it completely shifted

Dead Cells’ new ‘Queen and the Sea’ DLC is available now

What you need to know Dead Cells’ Queen and the Sea DLC is now available and is priced at $3.99. The original Dead Cells game is now just $4.99 for a limited period. Dead Cells is available on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. Fans of the original game now have some new content to get

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