What you need to know Apple has released a new firmware update for the MagSafe Battery Pack. Firmware version 2.7.b.0 should bring the usual round of performance improvements and bug fixes. The MagSafe Battery pack got a new update today. The MagSafe Battery Pack for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 has gotten a firmware
Read MoreAds could be coming to Netflix in the next few years. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After years of rejecting calls for an ad-supported streaming tier, Netflix co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings said on Tuesday’s earnings call that the company is “quite open to offering even lower prices with advertising, as a
Read MoreThe Nintendo Switch has a vast, expansive library of titles. There are plenty of triple-A titles and indie games to choose from, and you can find yourself quickly running out of space on your Switch if you aren’t careful. If it gets to the point where you’ve maxed out your storage and want to get
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Demostack, which offers a “demo experience” service for SaaS sales teams, raises a $34M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $51.5M — Demostack, a San Francisco, California-based startup creating a “demo experience” platform for software-as-a-service …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple Card has added another merchant that gives 3% Daily Cash to cardholders. Customers can now earn 3% Daily Cash from Ace Hardware. You must use Apple Pay using your Apple Card in order to get 3% in Daily Cash. The 3% Daily Cash club continues to grow. Ace Hardware
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Chris Novak, Xbox’s head of research and design who has been at Microsoft for nearly 20 years, is leaving the company, he announced Tuesday on LinkedIn. In his current role, which he’s had for more than five years, he led the user experience for things like Xbox Game
Read MoreHealth experts have long warned us about the massive germ infestations that populate our favorite devices, especially smartphones. Now, it’s more important than ever to keep bacteria and virus germs out of our lives as much as possible. One way to guarantee a virtually germ-free phone is one of the best ultraviolet phone cleaners. The
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Brave announced a new feature for its browser on Tuesday: De-AMP, which automatically jumps past any page rendered with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages framework and instead takes users straight to the original website. “Where possible, De-AMP will rewrite links and URLs to prevent users from visiting AMP pages
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Reed Hastings says Netflix plans to offer a cheaper, ad-supported plan to consumers “over the next year or two” — Netflix plans to offer a cheaper and ad-supported plan to consumers within a year or two, the company said, as it pushes to bring more “accessibility” to a wider base of
Read MoreWhat you need to know Worldwide smartphone shipments fell 11% in the first quarter of 2022. Apple’s market share grew from 15% to 18% year-over-year. Samsung still led global shipments with a 24% market share in the first quarter of 2022. iPhone continues to grab market share while the smartphone industry declines. Apple’s success with
Read MoreRyan Browne / CNBC: Robinhood revives its UK expansion plans after agreeing to buy crypto app Ziglu, one of the few crypto companies to secure Financial Conduct Authority approval — – Robinhood has agreed to buy Ziglu, a London-based fintech app that lets users trade bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies.
Read MorePhoto by Becca Farsace / The Verge Tesla is asking a judge to delay a lawsuit filed by California’s civil rights agency that accuses the company of racial discrimination and harassment at its factory in Fremont, California. In a filing in state court in Oakland, Tesla revealed that it is also being investigated by a
Read MoreWhen Google launched Nearby Share in 2020, Android users everywhere rejoiced. They finally had a tool to rival Apple’s AirDrop, a simple way to move files between devices without having to attach them to an email or upload them to Google Drive just to download them again on a new device. Now, ahead of Google
Read MorePhoto by Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance via Getty Images Blood tests that screen pregnant people for signs of genetic abnormalities run the risk of giving people false or misleading information, the Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday. The agency put out a safety communication stressing that the widely used tests, often called noninvasive prenatal tests (NIPTs),
Read MoreGuns. Luxury apartments. Duped Secret Service personnel. Did the FBI uncover a foreign plot, or something more ridiculous?
Read MoreOn the shortlist of workshop luxuries, we’d bet a lot of hackers would include an overhead crane. Having the ability to lift heavy loads safely and easily opens up a world of new projects, and puts the shop into an entirely different class of capabilities. As with many of us, [Jornt] works in a shop
Read MoreEmily McCormick / Yahoo Finance: Netflix reports losing 200K subscribers in Q1, vs. 2.5M net additions est., and revenue of $7.87B, vs. $7.95B est.; the stock is down 24%+ after hours — Netflix (NFLX) reported an unexpected decline in first-quarter net subscribers as the company navigated an exit from Russia and an increasingly saturated North
Read MoreA picture speaks a thousand words, and given that tweets are limited to 140 characters, images are more economical. In fact, 97% of people focus on visuals on Twitter, so it’s essential to have eye-catching imagery to build your profile. Here’s how to choose the right size for your banners, profile pictures, and images on
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix’s struggle to boost its subscriber count took a dire turn in the first quarter of 2022. The company reported a loss of 200,000 subscribers globally compared to Q4, and it’s forecasting even bigger losses to come. Netflix estimates it could lose up to 2 million subscribers in
Read MoreFruit Stand Workers United is organizing at Apple’s Grand Central Terminal location. | Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Fruit Stand Workers United, the union attempting to organize Apple’s Grand Central Terminal store, says that if its drive succeeds it plans on pushing for a $30 an hour minimum wage for the location’s employees (via
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: IBM beats in Q1 with revenue of $14.2B, up 7.7% YoY, vs. $13.85B est., and its software segment bringing in $5.77B in revenue, up 12% YoY, vs. $5.63B est. — – IBM beat consensus on the top and bottom lines. — The technology services company offloaded Watson health-care assets to a
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix announced in March that it plans to crack down on password sharing, and in its first quarter earnings letter to shareholders (pdf), it gave a big clue as to why. First, it’s increasingly clear that the pace of growth into our underlying addressable market (broadband homes) is
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: Netflix estimates that its service is being shared with more than 100M non-paying households worldwide, including 30M+ in the US and Canada — There’s a whole lot of password-sharing going on across Netflix’s customer base — and the streaming giant is eager to pocket a big chunk of change from the
Read MoreYes, you can control your Mac as you speak! With Voice Control in macOS Monterey, users can use speech commands to control their devices. The feature has been designed for those folks with limited agility, mobility, and other conditions available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. However, it also serves as a great new way to
Read MoreNvidia’s GPU supplies are improving. GeForce RTX 3000 series are expected to stay in stock indefinitely. Nvidia’s supply issues may finally be improving, making it easier to find some of the company’s latest GPUs. According to Nvidia’s website, the company’s GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs are in stock and available. As Digital Trends points out,
Read More