Bloomberg: Source: Binance Asia-Pacific’s head Leon Foong resigned from the exchange, the latest senior executive departure; Foong helped expand in South Korea and Japan — – Foong led Binance expansion into markets like Japan, Korea — Market share has declined after a global regulatory crackdown
Read MorePeople swarm around the S5 at its reveal in March 2022. VanMoof’s future is less clear. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Lavoie is buying bankrupt e-bike maker VanMoof. The e-mobility subsidiary of McLaren Applied announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the VanMoof e-bike business. The announcement
Read MoreEven the lavender version of Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 2 Pro are on sale right now. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple may release a new set of AirPods with support for USB-C in a matter of weeks, but if you’re embedded in the Samsung ecosystem, there are more suitable pairs of earbuds
Read MoreCamomile Shumba / CoinDesk: Interbank messaging system Swift and Chainlink successfully transfer tokenized value across multiple private and public blockchains via Chainlink’s CCIP — The interbank messaging system Swift announced in June it was collaborating with Chainlink and dozens of financial institutions to test connecting blockchains.
Read MorePhoto by Todd Owyoung / NBC via Getty Images Though some Ana de Armas fans have insisted that Universal tricked them into seeing Danny Boyle’s 2019 musical Yesterday with trailers featuring the Blonde actor, a US district judge has found that not to be the case. It’s unclear how serious Peter Michael Rosza and Conor
Read MoreJames Hunt / The Block: A US judge dismisses a lawsuit against Uniswap, founder Hayden Adams, a16z, and others over scam token sales as software cannot be held accountable for losses — – Uniswap founder Hayden Adams hailed the court’s comments as “based” after a class action lawsuit alleging liability for scam token sales was
Read MoreImage: The Verge X, the platform previously known as Twitter, is expanding the amount of data it collects on users. The social network has updated its privacy policy to include carveouts for “biometric information” and “employment history,” as spotted by Bloomberg. “Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety,
Read MoreThe Horizon Ultra is bright enough to overcome some ambient light. | Image: Xgimi Home projector upstart Xgimi just announced its new Horizon Ultra model, dubbed the “world’s first 4K long-throw projector with Dolby Vision.” While I wouldn’t hold out too much hope for the device to produce an image with jaw-dropping HDR, it’s certainly
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Ivy, which offers an API to create a “network of networks” for open banking payments globally, raised a $20M Series A, after a $7.7M seed in July — Open banking — where traditional banks open their data up with APIs to build new financial services for their customers …
Read MoreFor a lot of reasons, home etching of PCBs is somewhat of a dying art. The main reason is the rise of quick-turn PCB fabrication services, of course; when you can send your Gerbers off and receive back a box with a dozen or so professionally made PCBs for a couple of bucks, why would
Read MoreImage: Nintendo At its most recent Nintendo Direct, the company showed off some fresh gameplay for the upcoming platformer Super Mario Bros. Wonder. But we also got a look at some new hardware — or, at least, a new color for the OLED version of the Nintendo Switch. The tablet is getting a Mario makeover
Read MoreCarly Page / TechCrunch: Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes laid off 100+ employees as it prepares for a major restructuring to separate its consumer and corporate-facing business units — Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes this week laid off 100 employees as it prepares for a major restructuring that will see the business split into two, TechCrunch has learned.
Read MoreImage: The Verge Threads, the X (formerly Twitter) competitor created by Meta, is working on a way to search through posts using keywords, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. You can see how Threads’ new search feature might work in the image embedded below. While your search for a specific keyword will pull people up with
Read MoreNintendo As people eagerly await Starfield reviews and rev up their Xboxes for the game’s early access opening, Nintendo decided that it would not be left out of today’s video game news. During today’s interestingly timed Mario Direct presentation, Nintendo shared roughly 15 minutes of gameplay from Super Mario Bros. Wonder and announced a new
Read MoreGillian Tan / Bloomberg: Sources: CoreWeave is exploring a ~10% equity stake sale valuing the company between $5B and $8B; source: CoreWeave revenue is projected to hit $1.5B in 2024 — – Company counts Nvidia, Magnetar as existing equity investors — Startup raised $2.3 billion in debt from Blackstone, others
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The newest Oxygen OS 14 Closed Beta references a new “Dedicated RAM for games” feature. This feature could allocate some dedicated RAM space to games, improving the startup speed for the game and minimizing loading time. The feature could be an extension of the existing “Quick Startup” feature present
Read MoreBlazing 5G network speeds and the proliferation of video content means we’re burning through mobile data on our devices faster than ever. This can be problematic if you’re on a limited data plan that charges you more for going over your allocation, or even more so if you’re abroad and paying by the gigabyte. Even
Read MoreFinancial Times: Document: the UK plans to increase use of AI-based facial recognition tech by the police, potentially deploying new biometric systems over the next 12-18 months — Move comes after privacy campaigners and independent academics criticised technology for being inaccurate
Read MoreAisha Counts / Bloomberg: X updates its privacy policy to include biometric information as data it plans to collect for safety and security, along with data on users’ jobs and education — – In policy shift, X will use the data for safety, security — Employment, education history will be used to recommend jobs
Read MoreJosh Taylor / The Guardian: Australia abandons its plans to mandate age verification tech for porn sites, citing privacy and security concerns, and will instead focus on educating parents — The eSafety commissioner is to work with industry on a new code to educate parents about how to access filtering software and limit children’s access
Read MoreJonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta lets users submit requests to access, alter, or delete some of their third-party information that Meta uses for generative AI training — – Meta updated its help resource center with a form that gives users some control over what personal data is used to train generative artificial intelligence models.
Read MoreEmilia David / The Verge: The US Copyright Office seeks public input on AI and copyright issues, including the use of copyrighted works to train AI; written comments are due October 18 — The US Copyright Office is opening a public comment period around AI and copyright issues beginning August 30th as the agency figures
Read MoreJon Brodkin / Ars Technica: The FCC rejects ISPs’ requests to eliminate an upcoming requirement that they list all their monthly fees, saying “every consumer needs transparent information” — Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says “no.”
Read MoreWhen we say vintage video game, some of you may think of the likes of Lemmings, Mario or maybe even Donkey Kong but the game that [Vintage Apparatus] restored is slightly older and much more minimalist, using an LED matrix and some 7-segment displays rather than this newfangled color CRT thing. The game is disassembled
Read MoreCredit: MySmartPrix OnePlus Open is said to be tested for 400,000 folds by the company. The foldable phone might end up being equally or more durable than the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5. OnePlus Open seems to be inching closer to launch if the increasing frequency of leaks about the device is anything to go
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