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Tesla says “bitcoin impairment” had a negative impact on its Q2 profitability and that it has sold 75% of its bitcoin, worth approximately $936M, in the quarter (Stacy Elliott/Decrypt)

Stacy Elliott / Decrypt: Tesla says “bitcoin impairment” had a negative impact on its Q2 profitability and that it has sold 75% of its bitcoin, worth approximately $936M, in the quarter — “Bitcoin impairment” prompted the sale, the company said. — Tesla sold 75% of its Bitcoin, worth approximately $936 million …

How to download and install watchOS 8.7 on your Apple Watch

Apple has released watchOS 8.7!

Apple releases new versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS

It’s light on features. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s latest slate of updates — iOS and iPadOS 15.6, macOS 12.5, watchOS 8.7, and tvOS 15.6 — are starting to show up for some users. Given the next versions of the OSes are likely due out in a few short months (and

The new trailer for HBO’s House of the Dragon has the blonds out in force

HBO Max HBO finally dropped a newer and longer trailer for its Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, and you will not be shocked to learn the trailer is full of dragons and also plenty of Targaryens with their tell-tale white blond tresses. The new show premieres on August 21st on HBO (streaming

Cut Just About Anything with This Combination Lathe and Wire EDM

They say that if you have a lathe, you have every other machine tool too. To some degree, that’s true — you can make almost anything on a lathe, including another lathe, and even parts best made on other machine tools can usually be made on a lathe in a pinch. But after seeing this

Now Google Photos has a shortcut to help you find your screenshots faster

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An update for the Android Google Photos app (versions 5.97 and later) can help you go directly to a list of screenshots, according to Android Police. With the update, you’ll have faster access to screenshots by using a shortcut, accessible from the Photos icon on your phone’s homepage

Research: Reddit’s brand-safety approach to monetization is cautious, labeling all subreddits as no_ads until a manual human review applies some_ads or all_ads (Ryan Barwick/Marketing Brew)

Ryan Barwick / Marketing Brew: Research: Reddit’s brand-safety approach to monetization is cautious, labeling all subreddits as no_ads until a manual human review applies some_ads or all_ads — New research may pull back the curtain on Reddit’s seemingly inconsistent approach to monetizing its communities.

Google Calendar’s ‘known senders’ filter should help stamp out spam invites

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Calendar’s new “known senders” option is supposed to make it easier to keep spam from clogging up your schedule. Toggling on the setting prevents invites from people you don’t know from automatically appearing in your Calendar. This way, Google Calendar will only automatically add invites from people

How to clean up the iPhone apps you don’t use

It’s a good idea to check out which apps you have installed every once in a while. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge As we use our phones year after year or transfer everything over to a new device, many of us have accumulated a catalog of apps that we downloaded at one

The new Google Wallet is now available to all users

Google Wallet users in the US can download the app in the Google Play Store. | Image: Google The new Google Wallet app is available to all customers shortly after people in 39 countries started seeing it available on their phones Monday. Google Wallet’s official rollout is the latest step in the long history of

How the ‘Move Fast’ era of Facebook led to one of its biggest scandals

KIMIHIRO HOSHINO / AFP via Getty Images Remember when Facebook’s News Feed was chock full of apps like Zynga’s FarmVille? This era in the early 2010s was Mark Zuckerberg’s first big attempt at making Facebook much bigger than just a social network and more like a platform for developers akin to Windows. It was a

TIL that WordPerfect is still around, getting updates, and is currently on sale

A screenshot of WordPerfect 2021. You read that right. Recently my colleagues and I were discussing the history of word processors (that’s just the kind of thing we do here), and a few of them reminisced about using one called WordPerfect many, many years ago. Given that its heyday was in the eighties, I hadn’t

Memo: Dan Wright, CEO of enterprise AI company DataRobot, resigned after less than 1.5 years, following employee uproar over stock sales by senior executives (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Memo: Dan Wright, CEO of enterprise AI company DataRobot, resigned after less than 1.5 years, following employee uproar over stock sales by senior executives — Dan Wright, CEO of artificial-intelligence software pioneer DataRobot, has resigned less than a year and a half after ascending to the position …

Wind farms could join oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 23: U.S. President Joe Biden points to a wind turbine size comparison chart during a meeting about the Federal-State Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership. | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Biden administration is eyeing chunks of the Gulf of Mexico as new areas to expand its growing offshore wind ambitions. Today,

WhatsApp rolls out chat migration from Android to iOS and vice versa for all users, requiring Android 5 or above, iOS 15.5 or above, and the Move to iOS app (José Adorno/9to5Mac)

José Adorno / 9to5Mac: WhatsApp rolls out chat migration from Android to iOS and vice versa for all users, requiring Android 5 or above, iOS 15.5 or above, and the Move to iOS app — It’s official. WhatsApp finally lets users transfer their entire chat history from Android to iOS and vice versa.

Mojang Studios will not support or allow NFTs, as they “create models of scarcity and exclusion that conflict with our Guidelines and the spirit of Minecraft” (Minecraft)

Minecraft: Mojang Studios will not support or allow NFTs, as they “create models of scarcity and exclusion that conflict with our Guidelines and the spirit of Minecraft” — Hello everyone! Recently, we’ve received some feedback from members of the community asking for clarification …

John Fetterman and Dr. Oz trade memes in Twitter fight

Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman campaigns ahead of primary election | Photo by Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Over the last few weeks, the Fetterman and Oz campaigns have been locked in an online tit for tat as the midterm election cycle continues to heat up in Pennsylvania. The Oz campaign has repeatedly

The new Google Wallet rolls out to all users with Android 5.2+, available as a separate app in the US and Singapore and as a Google Pay update for others (Jasmine Hicks/The Verge)

Jasmine Hicks / The Verge: The new Google Wallet rolls out to all users with Android 5.2+, available as a separate app in the US and Singapore and as a Google Pay update for others — Google Wallet will be a separate app for US and Singapore users and a simple Google Pay update for

The DHS Bought a ‘Shocking Amount’ of Phone-Tracking Data

The ACLU released a trove of documents showing how Homeland Security contracted with surveillance companies to scour location information.

Volkswagen’s software unit Cariad partners with STMicroelectronics to co-develop semiconductors for its cross-brand single software platform (Monica Raymunt/Bloomberg)

Monica Raymunt / Bloomberg: Volkswagen’s software unit Cariad partners with STMicroelectronics to co-develop semiconductors for its cross-brand single software platform — Volkswagen AG’s software unit will start designing chips for the first time, partnering with STMicroelectronics NV to co-develop semiconductors for its cross-brand single software platform.

Google says it will pause hiring for two weeks, not affecting offers that were already made, after saying last week it would slow hiring for the rest of 2022 (Erin Woo/The Information)

Erin Woo / The Information: Google says it will pause hiring for two weeks, not affecting offers that were already made, after saying last week it would slow hiring for the rest of 2022 — Google said it will pause hiring for two weeks, after saying last week it would slow its pace of hiring

10 Great Deals on Air Purifiers, Carpet Cleaners, and More

Your home could probably use a refresh, right? These products can help.

OpenAI makes DALL-E 2 widely available in beta through a credit-based payment structure; users will get free credits and can buy more in increments of $15 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI makes DALL-E 2 widely available in beta through a credit-based payment structure; users will get free credits and can buy more in increments of $15 — Today, DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s AI system that can generate images given a prompt or edit and refine existing images, is becoming more widely available.

Interview with Marja Koopmans, director of Alexa smart home, on how embracing the Matter standard will help Amazon realize its vision of ambient intelligence (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Interview with Marja Koopmans, director of Alexa smart home, on how embracing the Matter standard will help Amazon realize its vision of ambient intelligence — The director of Alexa smart home explains how Matter can help realize Amazon’s vision of ambient intelligence

Romanian hacker faces US trial over virus-for-hire service

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Cybercrime may be a global industry — but that doesn’t mean criminals are immune from facing prosecution across borders. The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that it had extradited dual Romanian / Latvian national Mihai Ionut Paunescu — known as “Virus” — to the US from

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