Bitcoin sold off after Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) revealed in its latest earnings report that it had sold 75% of its bitcoin holdings. Bitcoin has shed more than $700 from its value since midnight. However, cryptocurrency as a whole retains its $1 trillion market capitalization, at least for now, as the bitcoin price is still over 15%
Read MoreKelcee Griffis / Bloomberg Law: Apple reaches a deal to settle a patent case with Koss, which in 2020 alleged that the AirPods violate five Koss’ patents; terms of the deal were not disclosed — Apple Inc. dodged a patent-infringement trial over its AirPods after reaching an agreement with headphone maker Koss Corp. to settle
Read MoreImage: Instagram If you’ve opened Instagram recently and noticed more Reels on your feed or less engagement on your posts and felt the platform was beginning to look a liiiittle too much like TikTok, you’re not alone. The app’s second most-followed person agrees. Kylie Jenner shared a screenshot of another user’s post on her Instagram
Read MoreStephen Shankland / CNET: Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon join NIST in calling for an end of the leap second, which keeps clocks in sync with the Earth’s rotation but can cause glitches — Syncing clocks with the Earth’s rotation causes more problems than it’s worth, according to Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.
Read MoreImage: MiHoYo Genshin Impact’s impending Sumeru update is set to add some beautiful new areas to explore, and the game’s developers shared a look at some of the new zones in a new video. The new areas will be divided into two major zones: a rainforest and a desert, environment artist Jax Huang says in
Read MoreIllustration by Carlo Cadenas / The Verge Unsurprisingly, it seems like the type of people who shun vaccinations are not great at preventative cybersecurity either. As reported by the Daily Dot, “Unjected” — a dating site specifically for people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 — failed to take basic precautions to keep users’ data
Read MoreThe Hisuian Discoveries event is almost here. Read ahead for everything you need to know to make the most of this event.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority HMD Global has confirmed that future smartphones with the Nokia brand will no longer have camera hardware provided by Zeiss. The partnership actually ended in 2021, but was made official today in a statement. Zeiss is currently partnering with Vivo for its smartphone cameras. One of the biggest smartphone
Read MoreYou too can make a Verge-themed Lego minifigure. | Screenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge Lego is testing a new online Minifigure maker, the Minifigure Factory, that lets you create a Lego person of your very own (via Jay’s Brick Blog, which I promise has no relation to me). In the tool, you’ll be
Read MorePhoto by Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images for Coachella Meta launched a new feature on Monday that allows creators to monetize Facebook videos that feature music from major artists like Post Malone and Tove Lo. By incentivizing creators to stay within the legal bounds of music use on its platforms, Meta may be able to
Read MoreGoogle Glass. Every major tech company is working on computer glasses. None of them really want to go first. They all remember how Google Glass, and the “Glassholes” who wore them in public, became the laughingstock of the world. So they’ve been waiting, biding their time, refining their prototypes, and every so often making sure
Read MoreThe golden arches of a McDonald’s restaurant are a ubiquitous feature of life in so many parts of the world, and while their food might not be to all tastes their comforting familiarity draws in many a weary traveler. There was a time when buying a burger meant a conversation with a spotty teen behind
Read MoreThere is no straightforward “download” option for an image in a Google Doc. Issue There is no obvious way to download an image from a Google Docs document. Quick fix Download the document to an HTML file. The full story Like most online publications, The Verge uses a CMS (content management system) to upload its
Read MoreThe game’s going to be releasing “a few months” late. | Image: Sony The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, a video game where you play as the titular jewelry fan, has been delayed from its September 1st release date. According to a statement posted on Twitter by the game’s developers, Daedalic Entertainment, it’ll be releasing
Read MorePhoto by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images The Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program, which famously helped put Tesla on the map, is set to hand out its first loan in over a decade. The department will announce a $2.5 billion loan to a joint venture of General Motors and LG Energy Solution
Read MoreThe latest version of the Android 13 beta for supported Pixel phones is now rolling out. Android 13 Beta 4.1 fixes a few connectivity bugs. The final version of the mobile OS is still due for launch sometime in August. We are getting closer and closer to the final version of Android 13. Today, Google
Read MoreApple is highlighting Veterans Square, a new 3-unit apartment building that’s part of the company’s $2.5 billion commitment to combat the housing crisis in California.
Read MoreTaylor Lorenz / Washington Post: Creators are turning to chat apps like Discord and Geneva to build communities, which they say offer a more intimate experience than traditional social networks — Influencers are setting up groups on chat apps, like Geneva, Discord and Telegram, which they say offer a more intimate …
Read MoreDigital displays are useful for quick and accurate readout, but lots of people prefer the physical motion of a needle moving along a dial. For instance, many smartwatch users choose an analog face to show the time, and modern cars with digital dashboards often default to showing an analog speedometer. Following this trend, [Miro Pavleski]
Read MoreThe gang’s all here. | Image: Nickelodeon The first animated movie from Avatar Studios, the team Nickelodeon set up to work on movies and shows in the Last Airbender universe, will feature Avatar Aang and his friends, according to an announcement made during San Diego Comic-Con (via Gizmodo). While there’s no word on casting or
Read MoreAlex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: The NFL launches its NFL+ streaming service, offering a $4.99/month tier and $9.99/month Premium tier with full game replays; NFL+ replaces Game Pass in the US — It will cost $4.99 per month at launch Monday, and include live local games on mobile devices, as well as live audio
Read More(Photo: RR Auctions)Over the past year there have been some rare vintage Apple products up on the auction block. Most were semi-complete systems though, and part of the original batch of PCs sold by the Byte Shop in Mountain View. Now the printed circuit board (PCB) made by Steve Jobs to procure that original order
Read MoreFollowing along with the 2022 Hackaday Prize theme on building a better world by doing what we all do best – hacking together solutions – the fourth round of the Prize focuses on making our local communities more resilient against and sensitive to severe weather and environmental disasters. Whether it’s an early warning system for
Read MoreWindows is pretty good with hard disk file systems. While you may think that you’re stuck with the same partitions and format your hard disk came with, Windows will let you change things up as per your preference. It’s not too complicated, either. Here’s how to format and partition an external hard drive on Windows.
Read MoreCredit: Google Google marked the 10th anniversary of its Google Play online store with a new logo design. The new logo matches the branding for many of the company’s other software products. Users can also get a nice birthday boost in Google Play Points as well. In March 2021, Google decided to rename its smartphone
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