What you need to know Apple is once again running a special Activity Challenge for Earth Day. The new challenge will run on April 22. Those who are taking part will need to work out for 30 minutes or more. Do a workout for 30 minutes or more and you’ll get a special badge. Apple
Read MoreJoseph Cox / VICE: Court docs: T-Mobile paid hackers ~$200K via a third party to stop an ongoing leak of stolen data on 30M customers, but the hackers kept selling it regardless — After hackers targeted T-Mobile in August, T-Mobile hired a third-party firm that went undercover and bought exclusive access to the data.
Read MoreBloomberg: KKR agrees to buy Barracuda, which helps companies manage and protect cloud data, from Thoma Bravo; sources: the deal values Barracuda at ~$3.8B including debt — KKR & Co. has agreed to to acquire cybersecurity company Barracuda Networks Inc. from Thoma Bravo.
Read MoreMichael Bellusci / CoinDesk: NFT and metaverse content creation company Infinite Reality announces an all-stock deal worth $470M to acquire esports company ReKT Global — ReKT is known for its ownership of the successful esports teams Team Rogue and the London Royal Ravens. — Metaverse company Infinite Reality …
Read MoreiMovie 3.0 is available now for iPhone and iPad. | Image: Apple Apple’s new iMovie 3.0 update for iPhone and iPad has a major new Storyboards feature that’s designed to make it easier to create videos in the app with pre-built templates. The app will offer 20 different templates covering many video types, “including cooking
Read MoreIt’s been one heck of a ride for the PC industry over the past two years. With everyone stuck at home during the pandemic the industry saw record breaking sales quarter-after-quarter. As a person who writes articles about this, I can’t even count the number of times I wrote about it. However, as we ease
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Read MoreMacOS users have long enjoyed a simple yet useful feature: Quick Look. It lets you select a file and press the spacebar to see a preview of it. It can be used on almost anything, including videos, PDFs, Word docs, and images. Even better, with the file displayed you can press the arrow keys to
Read MoreImage: Bandai Namco The latest Elden Ring speedrun world record is less than 10 minutes now. It involves a metronome, absolutely no fighting, and, in the final seconds of the run, a player torn apart by one of the game’s final bosses. It is deeply silly, and I love it. Distortion2, a popular Soulsborne speedrunner,
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple TV+ has signed an overall deal with Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone. Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman both worked with Apple TV+ on Greyhound. The new multi-year deal includes TV shows, documentaries, and unscripted projects, according to the report. The deal includes TV shows, documentaries, and unscripted projects.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon workers only make up a third of US warehouse employees, but in 2021, they suffered 49 percent of the injuries for the entire warehouse industry, according to a report by advocacy group Strategic Organizing Center (or SOC). After analyzing data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Read MoreCNC machines and 3D printers tend to have plenty of cabling which must be neatly managed while the machine moves. If not properly taken care of, wires can easily end up tangled in the moving bits leading to a dead machine at best, and some kind of raucous fire at worst. [Nikodem Bartnik] decided to
Read MoreA new 2TB Google One plan from T-Mobile includes unlimited original resolution photo and video backup. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile is introducing a new Google One membership option for its customers that revives Google’s unlimited photo storage backup service… for a price, of course. For $15 per month, it includes
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple has updated Final Cut Pro to version 10.6.2. The new update adds support for Apple’s new Mac Studio. New features make it easier to remove duplicates and more. Apple has added optimizations for the new Mac Studio as well as some new features. Apple has today released an update
Read MoreWhile a personal eBay account is excellent for individuals to casually sell items around the house, a business account is suited for those dealing in bulk sales, especially if they are making the product themselves. You can even customize your eBay storefront with unique branding and offer promotional discounts to buyers. Here’s how to open
Read MoreUnlimited Google Photos storage is back for T-Mobile customers. The magenta carrier’s new plan costs $15 a month. The new plan comes with 2TB of Drive and Gmail storage. Google is partnering with T-Mobile to provide a Google One plan with unlimited Google Photos storage. Google used to provide unlimited storage for Google Photos users before
Read MoreWhat you need to know TikTok has made its Effect House AR development tool available to all. The Effect House open beta is a progression from the previous closed beta. More than 450 creators have already made new effects for TikTok, the social network says. Almost a year after it began testing it, TikTok has
Read MoreAs we head into spring flowers are starting to bloom, and Twitter is also beginning to blossom with fresh GPU rumors. So far there’s been a lot of reporting on Nvidia’s next-gen Ada Lovelace architecture. Rumors from AMD, however, have been exceedingly rare. Interestingly the Nvidia rumors point to a nuclear reactor GPU consuming 600W
Read MoreLet your iPhone and iPad know what type of Bluetooth device you are using. When you pair a Bluetooth device with your iPhone, it will allow the sound from your iPhone to come through another device. Whether that’s a pair of headphones or a speaker, you can enjoy your audio through the device you want.
Read MoreEven though the Camera app has gotten better, these apps are the way to go if you want manual control. Over the years, Apple has gotten incredibly good at making the iPhone camera better and better with each generation. I mean, with the iPhone 13 Pro, I feel like it’s the only camera I really
Read MoreIt’s difficult to escape the topic of energy supply at the moment, with the geopolitical situation surrounding the invasion of Ukraine leaving the natural gas supply to an entire continent in jeopardy. Fortunately we’re watching the green shoots of an early spring here in the Northern hemisphere so the worst of the winter weather is
Read MoreA new feature from Snap will let publishers on Snapchat automatically create posts based on stories published to a website. According to Axios, more than 40 publishers from the US, the UK, France, and India will begin using Dynamic Stories to automatically share published content to Snapchat. Dynamic Stories uses a publisher’s RSS feed to
Read MoreWhen you flip your monitor, you don’t want your content to be sideways. | Photo by Kaitlin Hatton / The Verge Most of us probably use monitors that are placed in a landscape, or horizontal, configuration — in other words, the top and bottom are wider than the sides. This works fine for most people
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: TikTok is rolling out Effect House, which lets creators make AR effects that others can use in videos, to all users after a closed beta test last fall — Last August, TechCrunch noted TikTok was working to build its own augmented reality (AR) development platform called Effect House …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple has updated its iMovie iPhone and iPad app to make it easier to create home movies. Storyboards and Magic Movie are two features added in the new update. iMovie is a free download from the App Store. It’s never been easier to create movies. Apple today released a new
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