Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A report details Elon Musk’s alleged ideas for increasing Twitter profits. Monetizing tweets, increasing celebrity interaction, and slashing high-level salaries are some of the ideas. Musk allegedly gave these ideas to banks in order to secure billions in funding to purchase Twitter. The tech world was rocked earlier this
Read MoreSometimes the projects we write up for Hackaday require their creators to produce pages of technical explanation, while others need only rely on the elegance of the hack itself. The Scope Probe Caddy from [Tonyo] has probably one of the shortest write-ups we’ve linked to from a Hackaday piece, because its utility is self-evident just
Read MoreSebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Insider Intelligence: while Amazon has 39% share of US e-commerce market, it grew by just 0.2% in 2021 and so far in 2022, the slowest rate in years — Tech giant remains nation’s leading online retailer, but signs of weakness have emerged recently — Amazon.com AMZN -12.05%▼ …
Read MorePhoto by George Rose/Getty Images Sixteen states as well as several prominent climate activists sued the United States Postal Service this week over its plan to purchase 148,000 gas-guzzling delivery trucks over the next decade, alleging the agency failed to consider the environmental impact of its decision. The states accuse the USPS of only performing
Read MoreThe Hatching monster hiding under a bed. | Image: IFC Films Animatronics designer Gustav Hoegen has worked on some of the biggest film franchises around. He’s helped bring to life the likes of the adorable mechanic Babu Frik from Rise of the Skywalker and the towering engineer from Prometheus. But some of the most stressful
Read MoreTo start our week of vulnerabilities in everything, there’s a potentially big vulnerability in Android handsets, but it’s Apple’s fault. OK, maybe that’s a little harsh — Apple released the code to their Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) back in 2011 under the Apache License. This code was picked up and shipped as part of
Read MoreCNBC: Filings: Elon Musk sold roughly $8.4B worth of Tesla shares this week after agreeing to buy Twitter — – Elon Musk sold roughly $8.4 billion worth of Tesla shares in the days following his bid to take Twitter private, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Read MoreAdam Serwer / The Atlantic: Right-wing users are celebrating Elon Musk buying Twitter not because of his “free speech” promises but because of the right-wing populist agenda it could serve — Conservatives on Twitter have greeted Elon Musk as a liberator. The mega-billionaire is in the process of purchasing …
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and editor-at-large David Pierce discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. On today’s episode, David, Nilay, and Verge deputy editor Liz Lopatto get into the
Read MoreIngenuity captured images that shows debris from the Mars landing site featuring Perseverance’s parachute and backshell | Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech New pictures from the Ingenuity helicopter offer a fresh perspective of the wreckage left behind when the Perseverance rover landed on Mars last year, NASA said on Wednesday. Launched in 2020, the Perseverance rover successfully landed
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you applied for financial aid through Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in the US in early 2022, there’s a very good chance some personal information was provided to a platform that’s completely irrelevant to the process: Facebook. This report from The Markup exposed that, as
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge The Apple Store, located in Atlanta’s Cumberland Mall, is the first of the company’s 272 retail locations to file for a union election. Employees have written an open letter explaining what changes they are pushing for: fair compensation and transparency on alleged pay inequality within the company, a commitment to
Read MoreReuters: Donald Trump posted a message on Truth Social for the first time since it launched two months ago, saying “I’M BACK!”; messages are called “truths” on the app — Former U.S. president Donald Trump posted a brief message on Truth Social late Thursday for the first time since …
Read MoreThis is another good benchmark to run One of the games we often use to test gaming laptops and PCs here at The Verge is Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s a popular, demanding game that includes a wide range of effects and scenery, from snowy blizzards to sandy roads and dynamic gunfights. Its benchmark is
Read MoreElon Musk’s focus on free speech focuses too heavily on the platform’s big debates and not its communities.
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Read MoreNegotiations on the Digital Service Act have concluded—but outside experts still aren’t entirely sure what’s in the legislation.
Read MoreCredit: Impact Radius What’s new on Paramount Plus in May? We are getting yet another Star Trek live-action series, a new rural crime drama, and much more. Read more: Best exclusive Paramount Plus shows
Read MoreBuyDig is currently selling the Xbox Series S with an extra controller for just $294.99. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge We’ve been seeing a lot of good deals on Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox Series S console recently, but today’s BuyDig deal stands out because it comes bundled with an extra Xbox wireless controller
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Read MoreKate Clark / The Information: Sources: Palmer Luckey’s AI-powered defense tech startup Anduril is raising a $500M-$1B Series E at a $7B valuation, up from $4.6B about a year ago — Anduril Industries, a startup that sells artificial intelligence-powered defense technology, is raising capital that could propel …
Read MoreCredit: tagtech414/Reddit If you’ve been following tech news lately, you’d likely know that Google is getting ready to launch its first smartwatch. The Pixel Watch, as it’s being called right now, is not a complete stranger, thanks to multiple leaks and rumors. We’ve even seen the device’s prototype in the wild, photographed extensively by someone
Read MoreWhat you need to know The UK is making moves to give regulators more control over streaming companies like Netflix and Apple TV+. A new code will require that streamers adhere to standards surrounding privacy, complaint procedures, and more. Streamers offering a UK service will need to behave in the same way as traditional TV
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: online used-car marketplace Carvana, which saw its shares drop ~30% in recent weeks, was forced to sell half of its bonds to Apollo Global for $1.6B — Online used-car retailer was spurned by lenders to fund deal — Carvana Co. ‘s financial troubles spilled over into debt markets …
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