Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter announced Tuesday that it has acquired OpenBack, a push notifications company. OpenBack offers “device-side control of push notifications,” according to Twitter’s head of consumer product Jay Sullivan, and Twitter could use the team to pull up timely information even when you’re away from the app. “The best
Read MoreEric Migicovsky: On the 10th anniversary of smart watch maker Pebble’s Kickstarter launch, its founder says Pebble failed as it tried to expand beyond a hacker user base — I’ve been giving a talk on the importance of learning from failure to every YC batch for last few years. I wrote this post in 2017
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple TV+ has announced a new workplace comedy called Loot. Loot will premiere on June 24. Maya Rudolph will star alongside Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Ron Funches, Nat Faxon, and Joel Kim Booster. Apple TV+ has another new comedy show on the way. Apple TV+ has announced a new workplace comedy
Read MoreRomain Dillet / TechCrunch: Apple updates iMovie for iOS and iPadOS with Magic Movie, for automatic movie creation from clips and photos, and storyboards for a template-guided approach — Apple is releasing an iMovie update today for iOS and iPadOS. iMovie 3.0 introduces two new major features — storyboards and Magic Movie.
Read MoreWhat you need to know Nomad has announced the new Base One Max iPhone and Apple Watch charger. The new charger is MagSafe-compatible and offers 15W wireless charging. At $149.95, the new Base One Max isn’t the cheapest way to charge your devices. This is one good-looking charger, that’s for sure. Nomad has today announced
Read MorePhoto by TIM VIZER/AFP via Getty Images The Amazon warehouse that collapsed with employees inside during a December tornado outbreak might have harbored a “grave violation” of building code that made the structure extremely vulnerable, according to an attorney representing the family of a worker who died there. A tornado outbreak tore through the Amazon
Read More(Photo: Dingzeyu Li/Unsplash)Menopause is no joke. Between hot flashes, sleep problems, chills, seemingly nonsensical mood swings, and associated health risks, this period of a person’s life is inconvenient for some and miserable for others. Biotech startup Celmatix is hoping to change that. CEO Piraye Beim, who founded Celmatix back in 2009, is working to develop a
Read MoreWith the use of mobile phones and different applications, people now look forward to making payments to various vendors. If you want to develop an eCommerce financial app, it is quite important to integrate a payment gateway to generate more sales and improve the user experience. As per the statistics around 73% of total mobile
Read MoreNomad’s Base One Max is better-looking than most wireless chargers. | Image: Nomad Nomad is expanding the range of its MagSafe charging accessories with the new Base One Max. The Max follows the Base One from March and adds an Apple Watch charger to the heavily weighted MagSafe pad. It retails for a similarly heavy
Read MoreBumping bass and three audio modes make this a great party speaker. As a professional DJ, fitness instructor, and music lover, I’m entranced by high-fidelity audio. Amplified sound is a requirement at every social gathering. I often bring one of the best Bluetooth speakers for iPhone, iPad, and Mac on vacation, to the beach, or
Read MoreSpotify is relaunching Greenroom as Spotify Live. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify is rebranding its Greenroom live audio app as Spotify Live and will bring its features into the main Spotify app, the company announced Tuesday. Spotify Live will be available as both a standalone app and a livestream feature in
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Chris Dixon on a16z’s structure, the energy impact of blockchains, centralization in Web3, NFTs, investing in Yuga Labs at a $4B valuation, and more — Regular listeners to Decoder know I’m pretty skeptical of crypto. But I want to come by that skepticism honestly …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Moon Gray, Ocean Blue, and Sunset Pink Beats Studio Buds are set to be unveiled tomorrow. The new colors will be functionally identical to the existing colors. Expect the new colors to sell for the same price as the old ones. Moon Gray, Ocean Blue, and Sunset Pink Beats Studio
Read MoreImage: Beats Beats has announced new colors of its Studio Buds earbuds that will go on sale beginning tomorrow: blue, gray, and pink. They join the existing black, white, and red options that have been available since last year. The price remains unchanged at $149.99. All colors of the Studio Buds can be purchased from
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority There are four model numbers at the FCC that all appear to reference the Google Pixel 6a. It’s difficult to say for certain, but this strongly suggests a wider global release than we saw for the Pixel 5a. It’s possible Google could launch the latest A-series phone during Google
Read MoreOne of the finest investments your company will ever make is taking the time to make the appropriate recruits and carefully considering your recruitment approach. Recruiting a developer may take a long time and cost a lot of money, taking up to a month and costing up to $30,000. Given this reality and the fierce
Read MoreWhat you need to know FastBot is a new iPhone and Apple Watch app for tracking intermittent fasting. Intermittent Fasters will see detailed information on the fast they’re doing and what stage they’re at. Now you can more easily track your intermittent fasting. FastBot is a new intermittent fasting tracker for your iPhone and iPad,
Read MoreNikkei Asia: Major iPhone manufacturer Pegatron, Mac manufacturer Quanta, and iPad maker Compal suspend factory operations near Shanghai amid strict COVID-19 measures — TAIPEI — Three key Apple suppliers have suspended production in and near Shanghai as strict COVID-19 lockdown measures show signs …
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Kubit, which helps track and analyze user engagement data, raises an $18M Series A led by Insight Partners, bringing its total capital raised to $24M — Showing that the product analytics industry is alive and well, Kubit today announced that it raised $18 million in a series A funding round led
Read MoreLast year’s Pixel 5A was a fantastic product, but like the Pixel 4A before it, the phone’s August release didn’t do it any favors. Google’s original A-series budget phones — the Pixel 3A and 3A XL — shipped around the same time as the company’s I/O conference in May, a more sensible mid-year release that
Read MoreImage: DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused browsing app is available in beta on Mac, but you’ll have to join a private waitlist to gain access. Just like the mobile browsing app, DuckDuckGo on Mac uses the DuckDuckGo search engine by default, automatically blocks web trackers, and comes with the famous “Fire” button that burns up your browsing
Read MoreAre they bugs? Are they snax? I actually have no idea. Nobody does! What you need to know Bugsnax is a game developed by Young Horses Games, featuring creatures that are a cross between bugs and snacks. The game was previously exclusive to PlayStation consoles, but is heading to Nintendo Switch and other platforms. Nintendo
Read More[Görg Pflug] wrote in with his really nice graphics library. It’s got multiple layers, two text consoles, greyscale, internal halftoning, and sprites. It can pull off a number of classic graphics tricks and demos. Oh yeah, and did we mention it runs on a freaking ATtiny85 and an I2C OLED screen?! This is an amazing
Read MoreWhatever your budget or grip style is, we’ve found the best gaming mouse for you. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Multiple picks for all budgets Continue reading…
Read MoreIonut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: RaidForums, used by Lapsus$, Babuk, and other extortion gangs, is seized in a US-led international operation; Europol says the hacking forum had 500K+ users — The RaidForums hacker forum, used mainly for trading and selling stolen databases, has been shut down and its domain seized …
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