Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On the heels of Spotify’s blockbuster audio drama Batman Unburied, the company is promoting Gimlet executive Mimi O’Donnell to head of scripted fiction at the streamer, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. Batman Unburied notably unseated The Joe Rogan Experience when it debuted in May
Read MorePictured: Sony summoning the Yakuza games to PlayStation Plus. Sony has announced that it’s bringing eight games from the (mostly) beloved Yakuza series to PlayStation Plus throughout the rest of the year, with the first hitting the service in August. Be warned, though — if you’re subscribed to the base PlayStation Plus Essential tier, you’ll
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint to block Meta from acquiring Within, the company behind the virtual reality fitness app Supernatural. The FTC claims Meta bought Within to absorb competition in the fitness market, where it already owned the similar app Beat Saber. The complaint
Read MoreApple TV+ has shared the first trailer for its upcoming dark comedy Bad Sisters.
Read MoreLaptop computers may be ubiquitous today, but there was a time when they were the exclusive preserve of rich businesspeople. Back in the early ’90s, the significant added cost of portability was something that few were willing to pay. As a result, not many laptops from those days survive; for those that do, keeping them
Read MoreAlzheimer’s disease is a form of progressive dementia that we’ve labored to figure out for decades. Scientists made some headway with the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease, but progress is slow, and the hypothesis is incomplete. Now, a startling report has surfaced, accusing a prestigious Alzheimer’s researcher of systemic, deliberate research fraud. The results of
Read MoreApple has changed the way editing iMessages works in the new iOS 16 beta and it’s made a strange choice.
Read MoreInstagram showing a Timehop post in 2014. | Photo: The Verge When Facebook made a bid to buy Instagram in 2012 for a record-setting $1 billion, many people thought Mark Zuckerberg was making a mistake. But purchasing Instagram turned out to be one of the best tech acquisitions of all time, helping secure Facebook’s dominance
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Does it feel like deja vu all over again? It should if you track console restocks at all. After yesterday’s public queue of a PlayStation 5 restock, Sony has another one today that’s just started. You can jump on in right here and try your luck at getting
Read MoreHello. Apple has added an edit history to iOS 16’s new iMessage editing feature in the latest developer beta released on Wednesday (via 9to5Mac). You’ll be able to check the edit history by tapping on the “Edited” text that sits below an edited message, and when you do, all of the edits will appear above
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We’re still at least two years away from ditching the invasive cookies, fingerprinting, and other tech that track user information and behavior across multiple sites for advertising to using Google’s preferred Privacy Sandbox set of replacements. Google originally published its intention to phase out support for third-party tracking
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft’s security and threat intelligence teams have reportedly caught an Austrian company selling spyware based on previously unknown Windows exploits. The new details were released on Wednesday in a technical blog post from Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC), published to coincide with written testimony given by the
Read MoreLaptop computers may be ubiquitous today, but there was a time when they were the exclusive preserve of rich businesspeople. Back in the early ’90s, the significant added cost of portability was something that few were willing to pay. As a result, not many laptops from those days survive; for those that do, keeping them
Read MoreThe oddly prophetic 2006 comedy film Idiocracy features an isotonic drink called Brawndo, whose marketing continuously refers to its electrolytes as a miraculous property. Brawndo is revealed in the film to be useless for agricultural irrigation, but yesterday perhaps a couple of Hackaday writers could have used a bottle or two. At the MCH hacker
Read MoreMicron has become the first NAND flash company to introduce a TLC design with over 200 layers. Last year it made headlines with its 176-layer NAND, now it’s surpassed that with 232-layers. This allows Micron to achieve 2TB of capacity per NAND package. This increase in density will boost more than capacity though. Micron says
Read MoreDevelopers can now download and install the fourth version of macOS 13 beta. Here’s how to do it.
Read MoreSometimes the best way to cool down is to heat things up.
Read MoreHere’s how to get the new iOS 16 beta on your iPhone.
Read MoreGet your hands on the newest iPadOS 16 beta now.
Read MoreSamsung has settled into a predictable cadence in the last few years — S-series smartphones in the spring and foldables in the fall. We are expecting to see the company’s 2022 foldables revealed at the upcoming Unpacked event on August 10th, but there’s less to reveal after the latest leak. We now have what appear
Read MoreWant to test out all the new features of watchOS 9 for yourself? The fourth developer beta is here!
Read MoreKevin Breuninger / CNBC: US Senate passes the Chips and Science Act, including $52B+ for US chipmakers as well as tax credits to encourage investment; the bill now heads to the House — – The Senate passed bipartisan legislation aimed to help the U.S. compete with China by injecting tens of billions of dollars into
Read MoreAnimal Crossing: New Horizons won’t hurt or help your mental health Video games aren’t hurting people’s mental health, and they’re not helping it. In fact, they don’t do much to move the needle at all, according to a new study of tens of thousands of gamers. For years, policymakers and public health bodies have expressed
Read MoreImage: PlatinumGames A 45-second clip has sent the Nier: Automata community into a collective state of euphoria, confusion, conspiracy, and good-ass memery. Reddit user sadfutago uploaded a clip to the Nier: Automata subreddit containing a never-before-seen section of the Copied City. Someone randomly posted a video on the Nier Automata subreddit showing they found a
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s improving Gmail’s search results, which should make it easier to find a specific contact. It’s rolling out “intent matching for names and email addresses,” as well as new “personalized suggestions.” With intent matching, a machine learning tool Google uses to help you find topics related to your
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