Details about Marvel’s forthcoming Black Panther spinoff series have been sparse since the studio first announced it a couple years back. But ahead of What If …?’s season 2 premiere on Disney Plus, the streamer’s just shared a few promising details about what to expect from The Eyes of Wakanda. Along with reminders about the
Read MoreLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Hackers breached Coin Cloud, which went bankrupt in February 2023, and stole the data of 300K users; source: the Bitcoin ATM company didn’t have a security team — In November, the cybersecurity collective vx-underground wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that unknown hackers were claiming …
Read MoreKurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Sources: X generated just over $600M in ad revenue in each of 2023’s first three quarters, down from $1B+ per quarter in 2022 and on track for ~$2.5B in 2023 — – X to miss internal goals for ad revenue, people familiar say — Musk’s personal tweets continue to scare off
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Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Apple is rolling out the first iOS 17.3 beta today. The update contains a new anti-theft feature called “Stolen Device Protection.” Stolen Device Protection makes it easier for victims to protect their data and lock thieves out of the stolen phone. Today, Apple is rolling out a new iOS
Read MoreScott Stein / CNET: Meta adds multimodal AI to its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses as an early access beta in the US, letting Meta AI answer voice queries by taking and analyzing photos — I tried these Ray-Ban AI glasses, and they’re pretty wild. Here’s how the experimental feature works. — “Hey, Meta.
Read MoreImage: Fntastic The Day Before, an open-world zombie survival MMO, experienced a dramatic series of events resulting in its developer closing down four days after the game’s launch. After a much-hyped trailer launch back in 2021, The Day Before became one of Steam’s most wishlisted games and, after a couple of delays, it launched in
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Sony is investigating claims by the Rhysida ransomware group that it stole sensitive data from Insomniac Games, including personal information for the voice actor who portrayed Peter Parker in Spider-Man 2. Australian outlet Cyber Daily reported today that the group had posted some of the data as proof
Read MorePhoto by Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images Back at E3 2017, I had a plan. The annual convention always had a wide range of game developers in attendance, offering reporters like me the opportunity to talk to prominent folks from all over the world. I decided it would be the ideal place
Read MoreBack in the 1980s, printers were expensive things. Scanners were rare, particularly for the home market, because home computers could barely handle basic graphics anyway. Back in these halcyon days, an obscure company called Thunderware built a device to convert the former into the latter. It was known as the Thunderscan, and was a scanning
Read MoreChristian Vasquez / CyberScoop: The US Senate confirms former National Security Agency executive director Harry Coker as the next National Cyber Director, 10 months after Chris Inglis resigned — The former National Security Agency executive director will oversee federal cyber policy as the first Senate-confirmed NCD in 10 months.
Read MoreTim McDonnell / Semafor: The US DOE opens The Office of Critical and Emerging Technology to coordinate the use of AI and other tech to fight climate change, prevent pandemics, and more — The U.S. Department of Energy today opened a new office tasked with coordinating the government’s support for and use …
Read MoreAqara’s Presence Sensor FP2 can now be used as a sleep tracker. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge The innovative Aqara Presence Sensor FP2 that debuted at CES 2023 is getting three significant new features that could make it more useful and more effective as a smart home sensor. Sleep Monitoring Mode,
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta is finally going to let people try its splashiest AI features for the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, though in an early access test to start. Today, Meta announced that it’s going to start rolling out its multimodal AI features that can tell you about things Meta’s
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The Google Play Movies & TV app and web client will be discontinued on January 17, 2024. It will be replaced by Google TV and YouTube. Users will still be able to access previously purchased content, but from Google TV and YouTube. Google Play Movies & TV has been
Read MoreCarl Franzen / VentureBeat: Microsoft releases Phi-2, an AI language model the company says outperforms Mistral and Llama 2 at 7B and 13B parameters and is small enough to run on a phone — The rapid pace of generative AI news and announcements isn’t slowing down, even as we reach the final stretches of 2023
Read MoreParesh Dave / Wired: On November 17, YouTube removed code that said if a channel is in the YouTube Partner Program, which gives a cut of ad revenue, leaving researchers in the dark — YouTube removed a snippet of code that publicly disclosed whether a channel receives ad and subscription payouts, obscuring which creators benefit
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Mint Mobile is doing a new promotion for the holidays. Mint Mobile has partnered with Oscar Meyer for the promotion. New customers can get three free months of service and free bacon with the purchase of a three-month plan. It’s pretty common for companies to do something special with
Read MorePhoto illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Philip Pacheco, Getty Images Epic won. What does the lawsuit’s architect think? Continue reading…
Read MoreHumans are funny creatures. For whatever reason, when handling a piece of electronics, we tend to equate heft with value. If something feels too light, it gives the impression of being cheap or inferior. As such, it’s not unheard of for gadgets to include a little chunk of metal that serves no purpose other than
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Netflix is going to start publishing a new report twice a year that details the most popular shows and movies on the platform. The first report, released today, details the most-watched content from January to June 2023, and it’s perhaps the best look yet at how much people
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Netflix publishes its first What We Watched report, detailing the most-watched content from January to June 2023; The Night Agent was #1 with 812M+ hours viewed — Netflix is going to start publishing a new report twice a year that details the most popular shows and movies on the platform.
Read MoreThomas Germain / Gizmodo: The UK Judicial Office issues guidance letting judges use AI tools like ChatGPT, while warning of their shortcomings, for tasks such as writing legal rulings — The UK now permits judges to use the “jolly useful” AI chatbot in court. — Robots may help determine your legal fate if you end
Read MoreAllison Johnson / The Verge: Google plans to give users the option to store Maps Timeline data locally on their device and shorten Maps’ default auto-delete history feature to three months — Google Maps has gotten some fun updates recently, and now it’s offering some more privacy-forward tweaks as it adds more ways to control
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