Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Twitter has accepted Elon Musk’s offer to purchase the company for $44 billion, the company announced in a press release today. Musk purchased the company at $54.20 a share, the same price named in his initial offer on April 14th. “Free speech is the bedrock of
Read MoreImage: Venmo If you use the Venmo app, you probably recently received an email explaining that the company is making changes to its user agreement — including a fairly onerous arbitration clause that, among other things, has you agree that you will not become part of any kind of class action suit. You can opt
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Billionaire Elon Musk will buy Twitter for $44 billion. Twitter’s board approved the sale today. It is unclear how this will affect Twitter in the short- and long-term. After a rollercoaster ride of offers, rejections, and re-offers, it’s official: Elon Musk will buy Twitter (via CNBC). Twitter’s board today
Read MoreLauren Feiner / CNBC: Twitter has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk”, for $54.20/share in cash, in a deal valued at ~$44B — – Twitter’s board accepted billionaire Elon Musk’s offer to buy the social media company and take it private, the company confirmed.
Read MoreThe new tool makes it simple to find photos, links, podcasts, and other items shared with you through Messages. When people send you content, be it pictures through Messages or a link to a new podcast, it used to be a pain to find that content later. In iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, Apple has
Read MoreGoogle Cloud has submitted its popular open source service mesh technology Istio for donation to the vendor-neutral Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). “Today we are excited to announce that Google and the Istio Steering Committee have submitted the Istio project for consideration as an incubating project,” Chen Goldberg, VP of engineering at Google Cloud wrote in a
Read MoreJoin us on Wednesday, April 27 at noon Pacific for the Software Defined Instrumentation Hack Chat with Ben Nizette! Imagine, if you will, the perfect electronics lab. Exactly how it looks in your mind will depend a lot upon personal preferences and brand loyalty, but chances are good it’ll be stocked to the gills with
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple has confirmed that it is having problems with some services. Apple Music is having problems right now. The App Store is experiencing issues, Apple says. If Apple Music is down for you, you aren’t the only one. Apple has confirmed that some of its services are currently experiencing issues
Read MoreCSAM hosting in the United States rose 64 percent last year, putting the country second in the world, a new report found.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, smartwatch advocates and wearable tech companies thought the devices could help with illness detection. They wanted to flag people who might be sick with the disease using things like their heart rate and oxygen levels. The strategy could still be
Read MoreWhat you need to know WhatsApp is testing a change that will allow people to keep messages that would normally disappear. Anyone can mark a message to disappear even after someone removed its expiration time. If anyone decides to make a message disappear, it will disappear for everyone. Surely the whole point of disappearing messages
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Companies like Netflix, Disney, and HBO do battle over media streaming of movies and TV shows, but all of their services combined pale in comparison to YouTube, which says it delivers over a billion hours of video streams every single day. Now, Google Cloud is announcing general availability of
Read MoreWhat you need to know Blizzard has confirmed that Diablo Immortal will arrive in the App Store on June 2. Gamers will be able to play Diablo Immortal on iPhones and iPads with iOS and iPadOS 11 or later installed. PC players will be able to sync their progress from mobile to desktop and back
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Q&A with Roblox Chief Business Officer Craig Donato on being “all in” on the metaverse, seeing brands as creators, moderating user-generated content, and more — It’s a pivotal time for brands as they figure out how to navigate the metaverse.
Read MorePerhaps for an improved transparency mode? | Image: SnoopyTech It seems that Sony’s next flagship over-ear headphones aren’t the only ones that have leaked ahead of a public announcement, as official-looking images of a new set of Sony noise-canceling wireless earbuds have hit the web thanks to leaker SnoopyTech (via Android Police). According to SnoopyTech,
Read MorePrefer to use Spotify over Apple Music for music streaming? Now you can ask Siri! When Apple released iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5, it included the ability to let you set a preferred music service with Siri. There was originally a misunderstanding on if this was a way to set a default app like you
Read MoreWelding is often a hot and noisy process. It generally involves some fancy chemistry and proper knowledge to achieve good results. Whether you’re talking about arc, TIG, or MIG, these statements all apply. The same is true for explosion welding, though it’s entirely unlike any traditional hand welding methods you’ve ever seen before. Today, we’ll
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Stripe is testing a way for users to receive their payouts in cryptocurrency, starting with “a select group of creators on Twitter.” Creators who earn money through monetization features on the platform can now get their earnings in USD Coin (USDC) — a “stablecoin” cryptocurrency tied to the
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re an Apple user, then you might be seeing some problems in the App Store or with Apple Music. Apple’s system status page lists issues affecting “all users” for both services noticed since 11:41AM ET without going into detail about what the problems are. In our tests,
Read MoreWhat you need to know WhatsApp has been updated to version 22.9.80 and can be downloaded from the App Store. The new WhatsApp update includes support for voice calls with up to 32 people. New interface changes include updated audio message bubbles and more. Users can look forward to voice calls with up to 32
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple is out with its latest Apple Pay promotion. The new promotion offers savings at Panera and Jimmy John’s. The promotion is good until Monday, April 25. Get delicious offers with Apple Pay. Update, April 25 (1:30 PM ET): Today is the last day Apple Pay users can save at
Read MoreWhat you need to know Activision has announced the fourth season of Call of Duty Mobile kicks off on April 27. A new Battle Pass will be released with new content available. Call of Duty Mobile is a free game for iPhone and iPad. A big new season is just around the corner. Activision has
Read MoreOsato Avan-Nomayo / The Block: Millions of dollars worth of NFTs were stolen after Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Instagram and Discord were hacked and a malicious “mint” link was promoted — Quick Take — Bored Ape Yacht Club’s official Instagram account was hacked. — A hacker stole 91 NFTs from users …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Zen Pinball Party has been updated to add a new table. The classic 1998 table The Champion Pub is now available to play. Time to party like it’s 1998. Apple Arcade pinball game Zen Pinball Party has been updated to add the classic 1998 table The Champion Pub to the
Read MoreSpaceX’s Crew Dragon is loaded onto a recovery vessel | SpaceX/Axiom Space The first crew of private astronauts to visit the International Space Station have successfully returned to Earth, splashing down off the coast of Florida soon after 1PM ET. Their return marks the end of a 15-day mission to the ISS, a trip that
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