Illustration: The Verge An appeals court has upheld the status quo in Epic’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple, affirming a decision that was largely a victory for Apple. In a ruling delivered on Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Apple’s closed app store and security restrictions didn’t violate antitrust law, but that Apple
Read MoreWe like a project that makes us think, and that was certainly the case with [MS-BOSS]’s octave downshifter that’s an entry in our current op-amp contest. Instead of resorting to an FFT, or a PLL, it uses a technique best described as a custom analogue computer to implement the maths of octave downshifting. It’s an
Read MoreWhat if you could tweak the recipe on ice cream to keep it frozen at higher temperatures? The idea comes from massive conglomerate Unilever. Among other things, the brand owns a wide variety of ice cream brands, from Ben & Jerry’s to the Magnum and Cornetto lines. Instead of running freezers at the industry standard
Read MoreWhen assessing the value of new tech — what comes to mind? Assessing the value of Generative AI has gotten a lot of buzz for its novelty, unique applications, and potential impact on the business world. The “buzz” has contributed to the reported size of the generative AI market: $8 billion in 2021, with a
Read MoreAllied Employees Guild Improving Sega Today, workers at Sega of America’s Irvine, California, office have filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The new union, Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega (AEGIS), is partnered with the Communications Workers of America and consists of a supermajority of 144 employees across Sega’s QA,
Read MoreThree people were saved after they got stuck in a water-filled canyon and used their iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS via Satellite feature to call for help.
Read MorePhoto by Daniel Slim / AFP via Getty Images The Supreme Court is set to hear two cases that could decide if the First Amendment allows government officials to block users on personal social media accounts where they post about their work. The cases are O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier and Lindke v. Freed, both concerning public
Read MoreTo protect its Confidential Computing cloud infrastructure and gain critical insights, Google leans on its relationships with chipmakers.
Read MoreJavier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: to avoid an official antitrust probe by EU regulators, Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office, following a complaint from Slack to the EU — Tech giant makes concession in an attempt to avoid formal EU antitrust investigation and follows complaint by rival Slack
Read MoreIllustration: Laura Normand / The Verge Okay, I’ll admit it: I did not expect the Twitter checkpocalypse to result in Dril accusing Elon Musk of violating federal consumer protection laws. It’s been four days since Musk removed the last “legacy verified” checkmarks, leaving Twitter’s blue checks in the hands of people who pay $8 per
Read MoreMalathi Nayak / Bloomberg: A US appeals court affirms a lower court’s 2021 ruling largely rejecting claims by Epic that Apple’s App Store policy banning third-party app stores was illegal — Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling upholding its App Store’s policies in an antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games Inc.
Read MoreBlake Brittain / Reuters: SCOTUS declines to hear a case regarding AI-generated inventions, after a lower court ruled patents can be issued only to human inventors, not AI systems — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to the U.S. Patent …
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Snapchat sees a spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the “My AI” chatbot feature, powered by OpenAI GPT tech, that launched to users globally on April 19 — The user reviews for Snapchat’s “My AI” feature are in — and they’re not good. Launched last week to global users …
Read MorePhoto by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Rad Power Bikes is partnering with Redwood Materials, a battery company founded by a former Tesla executive, to recycle e-bike batteries when they reach the end of their lifespan. Customers will be able to bring in their depleted batteries to Rad Power Bikes’ retail locations, after which the
Read MoreClimate change poses an existential threat to who we are and how we function as a society. Rising global temperatures, fueled by excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, will result in strained infrastructure, species loss, and sea level rise. The consequences of these changes will be catastrophic for many and disruptive at a level that
Read MoreGrowing up, I was a big Formula 1 fan. Whenever I saw the Ferrari duos–Schumacher and Barrichello–I was glued to my TV. But it’s not just the sheer speed that enthralls me. The number of hours put in by the drivers and much more by the crew, with the underlying passion for going half a
Read MoreCloud Service Providers (CSPs) offer an ever-expanding array of instance types, ensuring that for any given workload there exists the perfect hosting option that matches the exact needs of that app or business service. But with this expansion comes an ever-increasing challenge to match the workloads to the offerings–there are many things to consider: Capacity:
Read MoreRedis assumes the default GCC compiler on supported operating system distributions for reasons of portability and ease of use. The build compiler flags, present since the early stages of the project, remained quite conservative across the years, with -O2 as the default optimization level. These flags have worked well. They provide consistent results and good
Read MoreAll the work has paid off. Altogether, we improved Redis performance by up to four times the previous speed. Redis’s GEO commands (formally geospatial indices) are a powerful tool for working with geographic data. Redis can store an object’s geographic coordinates, such as store locations or delivery trucks on the move. Then Redis can perform
Read MoreIn a recent research survey from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group, we found that only 4% of organizations have the ability to get real-time insights from their data. For another 28%, it takes days, and 45% report that it takes weeks or longer for them to gain insight from their data.1 There is a rapidly growing
Read MoreRunway’s new iOS app is its first available for mobile. | Image: Runway AI startup Runway has launched its first mobile app on iOS, letting people use the company’s video-to-video generative AI model — Gen-1 — directly from their phones. You can download the app here, with free users offered a limited number of credits.
Read MoreOlivia. | Photo by Helen Havlak / The Verge If you’ve got a pet, it’s likely you have something cool that you use to either feed the pet, amuse the pet, watch the pet, track the pet, or travel with the pet. Well, the folks here at The Verge are no different: many have animal
Read MoreMartine Paris / Forbes: Pop star Grimes tells fans to create AI-generated music with her voice, saying she will split 50% royalties, the same as “with any artist I collab with” — In the wake of the AI-generated hit Heart on My Sleeve going viral with deepfakes of multi-platinum artists Drake and The Weeknd …
Read MoreApple’s annual developer conference might seem like a good time to announce the next Mac Pro, but it appears Apple disagrees.
Read MoreSpotify is falling out of favor, and many want to shift to different services. But how do you cancel your Spotify subscription and move to something else?
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