What you need to know “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey” is now streaming on Apple TV+. The series stars Samuel L. Jackson as Ptolemy Grey. Apple has taken us behind the scenes to see how the actor was aged (and de-aged) with hair and makeup. Samuel L. Jackson went full Benjamin Button Apple TV+.
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Nord Security, the Lithuania-based startup behind NordVPN, raises $100M, its first ever funding, at a $1.6B valuation led by Novator Ventures — VPN usage has surged in the last several years, with growing concerns over data privacy and security — and sometimes completely different motivations …
Read MoreA prototype of SpaceX’s Starship rocket on the launchpad at Starbase in Texas | Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images The US Army Corps of Engineers has closed a permit application for a proposed expansion of SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas — a potential snag in the company’s plans to add new
Read MoreWashington Post: Apple restores the “Smart Voting” app run by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s supporters in Russia; Apple removed the app after the Kremlin threatened its execs — Apple has resumed allowing Russians to download an app run by supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny …
Read MoreSome Cadillacs are also affected. | Photo by Clara Margais/picture alliance via Getty Images Ford and Chevrolet are reportedly halting production on their respective flagship performance cars, the Mustang and the Camaro, for a week thanks to supply chain issues (via Jalopnik). While the pauses probably won’t make it that much harder to get a
Read MoreWhen you’re setting up a Discord server, you will want a way to enforce rules. If people go around spouting nonsense all the time, things will devolve into chaos rapidly. If you don’t have time to set up moderators, you may want to look into a Discord bot that can do it all. Luckily for
Read MoreBidding on an eBay auction is all about getting a bargain price for the item you want. Once a seller names the starting price, it’s you against other buyers competing to place the highest bid before the listing ends. However, there are some tricks you can use to help win and keep your wallet happy.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: banks including JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are considering whether to use Zelle as a payment option to compete with Visa and Mastercard — The money-transfer service boomed amid pandemic. Some banks want to expand it to retail payments.
Read MoreLibra / Diem may be shut down, but “Zuck Bucks” could be coming next. | Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Meta may have given up on its Diem cryptocurrency, but the company is still exploring finance products, according to a new Financial Times report. The parent company of Facebook and Instagram reportedly has
Read MoreSarah McBride / Bloomberg: PitchBook and NVCA data: US VCs raised $73.8B in Q1 2022 and invested $70.7B across 3,723 startup deals, down from $77B invested across 4,282 deals in Q1 2021 — The U.S. venture industry raised $73.8 billion last quarter, more money than in any other previously announced three-month period and more than
Read MoreJessica Golden / CNBC: Sports e-commerce company Fanatics raises $1.5B at a $27B valuation led by the NFL, MLB, and others; the NFL invested $320M, the biggest portion of funding — – The NFL, other major sports leagues, players unions and team owners are leading the latest round of investment in Fanatics, the online sports
Read MoreNikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Senator Patrick Toomey introduces a bill to regulate stablecoins, including defining a “payment stablecoin”, creating a license for issuers, and more — The Stablecoin TRUST Act would give stablecoin issuers a variety of regulatory regimes to abide by, but enforce disclosure and redemption requirements.
Read MoreWith the Rust roadmap for 2024, the developers behind the popular language for fast and safe system-level development are focused on flattening the learning curve as well as on helping users help each other and scaling the Rust project overall. Unveiled April 4, the Rust 2024 roadmap is offered as a starting point, with the
Read MoreUse amiibo to show off a little in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe! Instead of unlocking secret items to give you an advantage like you do in Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, amiibo unlock cosmetic upgrades in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. You use amiibo to unlock special themed outfits your Mii can wear while
Read MoreUnited States teens overwhelmingly prefer Apple iPhones to Android devices. Apple Pay is the top payment option among teens. Google needs to do more or risk losing ground. The latest research is in and Apple is still the overwhelmingly popular choice among US teens for phones, as well as some services. Piper Sandler conducted its
Read MoreHannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta has drawn up plans to add “social tokens”, lending services, and a non-blockchain virtual currency dubbed by employees as “Zuck Bucks” to its apps — Meta has drawn up plans to introduce virtual coins, tokens and lending services to its apps …
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google plans to hide and block Play Store apps that don’t target an Android API within two years of the latest major Android release, starting on November 1 — Google is preparing to clear its Play Store of outdated apps. The company warned Android app developers that starting on November 1
Read MoreA screenshot from the first Max Payne. | Image: Remedy Entertainment Remedy Entertainment is remaking Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. The company is establishing “a new development agreement” with Rockstar Games for the remakes, which will be released as a single title for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X
Read MoreBest Buy is currently discounting a bundle that contains Microsoft’s Surface Pro 8 and Surface Pro keyboard. | Image by Becca Farsace / The Verge Tablets exist in a space between phones and laptops that is becoming increasingly muddled. As phones become more powerful and gain larger displays, laptops continue to get lighter. Tablet manufacturers
Read MoreWhen you start subscribing to a service, it’s easy to take those premium features for granted. For example, after subscribing to Spotify, it can be hard to let go of uninterrupted, ad-free listening. However, while Discord Nitro is incredible in its own right, the service is very much usable for free. So, what if you
Read MorePhoto By Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images It takes a special kind of asshole to promise a big cash tip to your grocery delivery worker, only to snatch it away at the last minute. But as we reported in 2020, tip-baiting is a real problem for Instacart — and the company has
Read MoreImage: Apple Apple reportedly will soon provide a new Face ID repair option for iPhone X that doesn’t involve replacing the whole device (via MacRumors). The option comes after Apple’s recent shift to soon provide a TrueDepth Camera service option that can fix the face unlock feature of the 2018 iPhone XS and newer models
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Amazon will increase its Music Unlimited plan on Prime from $7.99/month to $8.99/month and its Single Device plan from $3.99/month to $4.99/month on May 5 — Amazon is increasing the price of its Unlimited Music subscription for Prime members, the company announced on its website.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Creators making money using Instagram Reels say their payouts have been slashed in recent weeks and target metrics for monetization have ballooned, according to the Financial Times. Payments are down as much as 70 percent per view and videos need millions more views for creators to get paid.
Read MoreWhen your Nintendo Switch requires a replacement charger, you want an option that is reliable, inexpensive, and one of the best Switch replacement chargers. We’ve looked into chargers and determined that these before you are the best of the best. Our top recommendation is to stick with Nintendo’s official Nintendo Switch AC Adapter as it’s
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