What you need to know “Severance” is now streaming on Apple TV+. Apple Music has dropped a “Defiant Jazz” playlist in celebration of the dance party scene. It’s time to recreate that incredibly awkward dance scene. “Severance” may have just wrapped up its first season on Apple TV+, but the party is just getting started
Read MoreLaurie Clarke / MIT Technology Review: How crypto investors are pushing for semi-autonomous crypto zones in Central America, as they risk repeating the region’s long history of corporate colonialism — A new class of crypto investors have bold plans to rebuild society from scratch. But their pet projects risk repeating the region’s long history of
Read MoreOliver Knight / CoinDesk: Research: blockchain game companies raised $2.5B in Q1 2022, up 150% YoY; blockchain gaming accounted for 52% of all blockchain activity in March, up 2,000% YoY — Usage and investments across the blockchain-gaming sector increased in the first quarter to make up 52% of all blockchain activity.
Read MoreA major vulnerability impacted the vast majority of 2021 Android phones. The issue is caused by compromised ALAC audio code. The vulnerable code was included in MediaTek and Qualcomm audio decoders. A bug in the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) impacts two-thirds of Android devices sold in 2021, leaving unpatched devices vulnerable to takeover. ALAC
Read MoreAn activist from the Extinction Rebellion (XR) climate change group, wearing a mask depicting Jeff Bezos, takes part in a protest outside of Amazon’s headquarters in central London on November 26, 2021. | Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images A lot of companies talk green this time of year — here’s what to look
Read MoreLauren Feiner / CNBC: In a speech on disinformation, Obama said social media firms’ design choices contribute to polarization, and called for more transparency and Section 230 reform — – Former President Barack Obama criticized social media companies for contributing to polarization through design choices on their platforms.
Read MoreA picture of Valve’s official dock. | Image: Valve Valve has quietly updated the specs to its still-unreleased official dock for the Steam Deck handheld gaming PC, as reported by Review Geek. The Steam Deck tech specs page originally said the dock would have one USB-A 3.1 port, two USB-A 2.0 ports, and an Ethernet
Read MoreWhat you need to know CIRP has released a new report about the iPhone 13 lineup. The report shows that the iPhone 13 lineup made up three-quarters of iPhone sales in the March quarter. The iPhone mini, however, only made up around three percent of sales. The iPhone 13 is a bigger hit than the
Read MoreThese apps and online spaces can help you manage your eco-anxiety—and take steps to tread more lightly on the planet.
Read MoreImage: Google With all the apps that we tend to have running on our phones, it’s a constant worry as to whether the battery will be able to make it through the day — and that’s not helped when apps misfire and run power-draining features in the background. According to 9to5Google, a recent bug in
Read MoreAmazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled Amazon DevOps Guru for Serverless, a service that uses machine learning to improve the operational availability and performance of AWS Lambda serverless applications. Introduced April 21, the AWS Lambda support is a new feature of the Amazon DevOps Guru service for monitoring application behaviors. Amazon DevOps Guru is also
Read MoreStart lining up for the PlayStation 5 at Sony | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A year and a half since its release, the PlayStation 5 is still extremely difficult to get your hands on. Sony has been one of the most reliable retailers when it comes to console restocks, though it usually
Read MoreInflation-Strapped Rideshare Drivers Get Cash Offer from Hyundai and Firefly. This is an IoT-meets-Advertising Startup Backed by Google Ventures. These types of cash offers will propel critical EV adoption and growth. Gas Prices and Chip Shortages Push Costs With gas prices reaching an all-time high and chip shortages pushing the cost of vehicles to stratospheric
Read MoreJosh Ye / Reuters: Chinese social media and e-commerce app Xiaohongshu has laid off 9% of its staff amid crackdowns; Xiaohongshu raised $500M in November at a $20B valuation — Chinese social e-commerce app Xiaohongshu, known as China’s answer to Instagram, said it had cut about 9% of its staff as the company joined other
Read MoreImage: Alex Castro / The Verge OnlyFans has “temporarily paused” Russian accounts and says it can no longer serve Russian creators. The company confirmed the change to Motherboard in a statement today. The subscription-based platform popularized by sex workers had previously allowed Russian creators to stay and continue to get paid despite economic sanctions. In
Read MoreImage: Instagram A new test from Instagram could make it harder for you to see recent content in the app. Though you can now look up all sorts of recent Instagram posts centered around a particular hashtag, the test will only let you see the posts with the most likes or short videos called ‘Reels’
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority If you are looking forward to small Android phones, you likely won’t get them any time soon. The iPhone 13 Mini is doing very poorly with US consumers. Apple’s lack of success here likely will push Android OEMs to focus on bigger models. Here at Android Authority, we see commenters
Read MoreIt’s one of those things that certainly sounds simple enough: take a picture of a receipt, run it through optical character recognition (OCR), and send the resulting information to whatever expense-tracking website or software you wish. There’s already company’s that offer such a service, so it can’t be too difficult to replicate on your own…right?
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: Snap reports Q1 revenue of $1.06B, up 38% YoY, vs. $1.07B est., global DAUs up 18% YoY to 332M vs. 330M est., and net loss up 25% YoY to $360M — – Snap missed Wall Street expectations for profit and sales when it reported first-quarter results on Thursday after the bell.
Read MorePhoto by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Following a 23–16 Wednesday vote, Florida’s Senate passed SB 4-C, a bill designed to dismantle any and all of the state’s special tax districts that were created before 1968. Though there are over 1,800 different special tax districts in the state, given the GOP’s ongoing fight with The Walt Disney Corporation,
Read MoreApple will likely continue to rely on Samsung to supply components for the M2. Samsung would provide a critical component necessary in high-performance chip design. Apple is hard at work on its upcoming M2 chips, and it looks like Samsung could continue to play a key role in manufacturing them. Apple and Samsung’s relationship is
Read MoreBut Google’s own app can still record calls. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is changing its Play Store policy to clamp down on a workaround that call recording apps were using, potentially closing the final loophole that allowed these apps to exist (via NLL-Apps on Reddit). On May 11th, a rule
Read MoreTake your productivity up a notch with Slide Over and Split View on iPad. The iPad is a terrific tool for both work and leisure. It even has a bunch of Multitasking features that allow you to do even more with it at once, though you might not yet know how to use features like
Read MoreCatarina Moura / The Block: Crusoe Energy Systems, which uses excess natural gas from oil extraction to mine crypto in 86 data centers, raises a $505M Series C led by G2 Venture Partners — Bitcoin miner Crusoe Energy Systems raised $505 million in a Series C round to accelerate the growth of its mining operations
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter tests suggesting third-party apps in its Twitter Toolbox, including Block Party, Bodyguard, and Moderate, when select users block or mute in its web app — Company will third-party apps directly on Twitter itself — Twitter has a novel idea as to how to win back developer trust …
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