Callan Quinn / The Block: Center, which wants to index and organize every NFT on every chain and says it has indexed 120M NFTs so far, has raised $11M in seed funding — – NFT tooling company Center raised $11 million in a seed funding round. — The company is attempting to index and organize
Read MoreGMT259_21_34_For ESA_Thomas Pesquet_1019_DEXTRE – night pictures The International Space Station was conceived and built as a symbol of post-Cold War cooperation between America and Russia. And for thirty years, it’s been sailing peacefully in low-earth orbit. However, all that is about to change. Yuri Borisov, the new head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, has
Read MorePhoto by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Senator Joe Manchin has had a change of heart about electric vehicles. The West Virginia Democrat, who previously described federal tax credits for EVs as “ludicrous,” announced a surprise deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on a reconciliation package that includes $369 billion for climate and energy
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google announces Play Store policies to address issues with intrusive ads, alarms, VPNs, and impersonation of brands and other apps — Google announced new Play Store policies for developers on Wednesday that aim to address issues with intrusive ads, alarms, VPNs, and impersonation of brands and other apps.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge From Elon Musk Twitter impersonators to dubious Discord chats, cryptocurrency and non-fungible token (NFT) scammers have stolen billions of dollars from investors over the last few years. But now, politicians and law enforcement are turning their attention to Apple and Google — companies that operate huge app stores
Read MoreWhile most people may think that a keyboard is just a board with keys, those who read Hackaday will no doubt know that there’s an infinite variety of beautiful designs to suit any use case. [Peng Zhihui] is the latest to impress us with an excellent custom keyboard that packs several unusual features (video in
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify has announced another new way to mix and match music on its service with your friends. Its new Friends Mix playlist type aims to get you out of your comfort zone with tracks that your friends have been listening to. Unlike Blend, one of its other personalized
Read MoreMarguerite Reardon / CNET: Senate and House Democrats will introduce a bill to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules and reestablish the FCC’s authority over broadband networks — Senate and House Democrats are set to introduce a bill to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules and to give the FCC authority over broadband networks.
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Frontegg, a user management service for B2B SaaS providers, has raised a $40M Series B led by Stripes and Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $70M — Frontegg, the popular user management service for developers who build B2B SaaS apps, today announced that it has raised …
Read MoreImage: Instagram Instagram will begin asking some US users for race and ethnicity data in order to study how different groups experience the platform, the company says in a blog post published today. A random assortment of Instagram users will get a pop-up in the app that leads to a survey asking for their race
Read MoreThere are some things that leave indelible impressions in your memory. One of those things, for me, was a technical presentation in 1980 I attended — by calling in a lot of favors — a presentation by HP at what is now the Stennis Space Center. I was a student and it took a few
Read MoreMario Kart 8 Deluxe surprisingly received an Expansion as DLC, to be released in waves. After much waiting, the second wave was finally announced.
Read MoreHIV infecting a human cell. (Photo: National Cancer Institute/Unsplash) Doctors say a patient in California appears to have been cured of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It’s the fourth time anyone in the world has seemingly been relieved of the virus. The patient, a 66-year-old man who otherwise wished to remain unidentified, has been living with
Read MoreThe first solid discount we’ve seen on the latest MacBook Pro | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Summer solstice has come and gone, which means that a new scholastic year is just around the corner. Thankfully, several of our top picks for laptops suited for students are currently on sale. In addition
Read MoreChina’s Long March 5B rocket ahead of launch | Photo credit should read CFOTO / Future Publishing via Getty Images Sometime this weekend, a massive booster from a Chinese rocket will begin an uncontrolled fall back to Earth from space — and because of its considerable size and weight, parts of it may survive the
Read MoreImage: Findaway Spotify’s purchase of Findaway, a platform that allows users to create, distribute, and monetize their own audiobooks, cost it €117 million, or around $123 million USD, the company revealed today. Findaway will provide the infrastructure for what will become the third pillar of Spotify’s business. The streaming service first announced the acquisition last
Read MoreRussia has been trying to block the anonymous browser since December—with mixed results.
Read MoreR Markdown has been one of the more compelling aspects of the R ecosystem, making it easy to incorporate results of R code into a text. Plus, R Markdown files can be exported to a variety of formats—Word, HTML, PDF, PowerPoint, and more. You can even export complete books and websites. But R Markdown has
Read MoreIna Fried / Axios: Meta partners with YouGov and Oasis Labs to survey US Instagram users’ race and make sure its products operate fairly; Meta will only get aggregate data — Facebook parent Meta plans to partner with an outside group to survey the race of Instagram customers in hopes of better understanding …
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge We’ve all done it: sent a text message and then instantly regretted it. Whether it was a text to your parent with a spelling error that they’d never let you live down, a message with a wrong word in it (“I don’t want to come to the
Read MorePS-specific buttons, Xbox analog stick arrangement. Sony has enlisted accessory company Backbone to make a PlayStation-ified version of the excellent Backbone One mobile controller for iPhone. It gives off PS Vita vibes, except somehow, Sony was okay with Backbone keeping its Xbox-like analog stick arrangement. The $99.99 controller, which can be pulled open to fit
Read MoreSpurred by increased international employment, global expansion seems to be everywhere. Case in point: Comparably shows that Squarespace is making inroads around the world. Rahi is entering Africa. And Elsevier is heading deeper into India. It’s not hard to understand why organizations would want to go big. Heading overseas opens doors to untapped talent pools
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Retool, a low-code service for creating enterprise apps, raised a $45M Series C2 from Sequoia and others at a $3.2B valuation, up from $1.93B in December 2021 — The explosion of cloud computing, broadband networks, smarter devices and a vogue for building SaaS startups has created a universe …
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Sony begins testing support for 1440p games on the PlayStation 5, a widely requested feature, alongside a curated gamelists and new social tools — Beta testers get access today — Sony is starting to test 1440p resolution support for its PlayStation 5 console, a highly-requested addition.
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