Regulatory pressure continues to ramp up on big tech firms like Apple, and a new lawsuit takes aim at one of the iPhone maker’s lesser-known cash cows. According to an antitrust lawsuit filed by Affinity Credit Union, Apple has abused its market position with Apple Pay to keep other companies out, earning fees on every
Read MoreElon Musk has also spoken out about the dangers of AI and the need to evaluate it very seriously. The internet drama between Elon Musk and Twitter has been building for months, and you’re probably wondering when we’ll reach a resolution. Now we know: October 2022. A Delaware judge has sided with Twitter in its
Read MoreDoom was first released for MS-DOS, and is one of the pillar titles of the broader first-person-shooter genre. It’s also become a bit of a meme for being ported to any and every weird platform under the sun. Now, a group of developers in Costa Rica have found a way to flip that joke around
Read MoreThe tags include an e-paper display to show your flight info. | Image: Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines says it’s becoming the first US-based airline to roll out support for electronic bag tags, small programmable devices with e-paper displays that are designed to replace the paper tags currently in use. It plans to launch the new
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with Matthew Ball on his new book about the metaverse, which he sees as the next phase of the internet, Meta’s big pivot, AR hardware, and more — Let’s talk about the metaverse. — You probably can’t stop hearing about it. It’s in startup pitches, in earnings reports
Read MoreFor prototype electronics projects, most of us have a pile of resistors of various values stored somewhere on our tool bench. There are different methods of organizing them for easy access and identification, but for true efficiency a resistance substitution box can be used on the breadboard to quickly change resistance values at a single
Read MoreNetflix has confirmed not all of its content will be available on its ad-supported plan. The new ad tier will launch early next year in markets where advertising spend is significant. Netflix is in the process of creating an ad-supported tier for its subscribers. While the new plan will make the streaming service more affordable
Read MoreYour Skype ID, also known as Skype name, is a unique identifier that Skype generates for you when you create an account. You can share your ID to make it easier for others to find you, and you can use it to find other contacts. It’s not the most obvious information when you log in
Read MoreGenshin Impact can be quite fun if you’re into open-world role-playing games like Breath of the Wild. That said, there comes the point where the game gets dull if you’re limited to a few characters. If you’re finding yourself in this situation, you may want to look into acquiring new characters. Let’s go over how
Read MoreAriyana Griffin / Forbes: Gordian Software, whose API enables airlines to sell flight add-ons like seat selection or additional baggage, has raised a $25M Series A at a $200M valuation — In 2017, Stephen Grabowski and Joe Sarre were working together with travel booking company Skyscanner.
Read MoreNatalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal: Senate votes 64-34 to advance a bill to provide ~$52B in US chip production subsidies, paving way for a larger package that would include additional R&D funding — Significant bipartisan support in first procedural vote signals likely passage of larger package to address chip shortages
Read MoreThe aptly-named [chip-red-pill] team is offering you a chance to go down the Intel rabbit hole. If you learned how to build CPUs back in the 1970s, you would learn that your instruction decoder would, for example, note a register to register move and then light up one register to write to a common bus
Read MorePhoto by Christophe Archambault/AFP via Getty Images Netflix wants linear TV to die. CEO Reed Hastings has been banging the TV murder drum for more than 8 years now, and in the investor call today, he reiterated his belief, confidently saying that Netflix was in a great place because linear TV would be dead in
Read MoreMary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft unveils Viva Engage, a social-community app launching in late August, that brings Stories and other image and video sharing tools to Teams — Microsoft is adding Engage, another new Yammer-based app to its Viva employee-experience platform. Here’s what it is for and how Microsoft is positioning it.
Read MoreIf you live in a home with a garage door opener, you may have experienced one or more inevitable moments. You pull up to your home, you press the button on the garage door opener, and… nothing. Or you can’t find the garage door opener. Or you have to mash the button repeatedly to get a
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority You can now reserve a Galaxy Z Fold 4, Galaxy Z Flip 4, Galaxy Watch 5, and the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro directly from Samsung. Reservations are free and entitle you to a bevy of free stuff when you place your order. You have until August 10 to
Read MoreThis now-lost city on the outskirts of Hong Kong is perhaps the most influential gaming location you’ve never heard of.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The electric rebirth of Scout, the classic off-road SUV brand, is getting real this week as Volkswagen names Scott Keogh as CEO of its new spinoff company. The former head of VW Group America, as initially reported by Axios, pushed for VW to start a new electric truck
Read MoreAndrew Hayward / Decrypt: Zebedee, which focuses on adding Bitcoin and Lightning payment support in games, raises a $35M Series B led by Kingsway Capital with Square Enix among investors — Zebedee has raised another $35M to power in-game payments via the Lightning Network, and the gaming giant is onboard. — In brief
Read MoreNetflix actually used this image in its announcement tweet. | Image: Netflix Sam Raimi’s incredible Spider-Man movie trilogy will be available on Netflix beginning August 1st, the company announced on Tuesday. Raimi’s trilogy is the best Spider-Man trilogy, and I won’t hear another word edgewise. I know the films aren’t objectively the best — the
Read MoreThe owl is cute, though. | Illustration by Alex Castro/The Verge Last year, I decided to start learning Korean. It was entirely on a whim — I don’t live in Korea and have no reason I’d ever need to go there. Nonetheless, it’s been an incredibly rewarding experience, and I’ve gotten to a point where
Read MoreThe map includes filters for narrowing down what type of locations you’re looking for. Instagram’s latest update aims to make it easier for users to find local businesses or attractions by adding a searchable map that lets you “discover popular local businesses near you,” according to an Instagram Story from Mark Zuckerberg. The map will
Read MoreCorin Faife / The Verge: Google finds Android spyware, distributed outside the Play Store, that Russians disguised as an app for Ukrainians to launch DDoS attacks against Russian sites — Details were published in a blog post from the Threat Analysis Group, which tracks state-backed cyber activity
Read MoreThe class action lawsuit alleged that the company knew about the problems with its MacBook keyboards.
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: Netflix plans to launch its cheaper, ad-supported plan in “the early part of 2023”, starting in “a handful of markets where advertising spend is significant” — Netflix is angling to win over a new bloc of value-conscious consumers — and help turn around …
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