Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple just released iOS 17.1.1, and it has fixes for a couple notable bugs that have popped up recently. One bug was pretty bad. Some users had reported that if they tried to charge their iPhone 15 using BMW’s in-car wireless charging, certain NFC features like Apple Pay
Read MorePhoto by Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple just released iOS 17.1.1, and it has fixes for a couple notable bugs that have popped up recently. One bug was pretty bad. Some users had reported that if they tried to charge their iPhone 15 using BMW’s in-car wireless charging, certain NFC features like Apple Pay
Read MoreChavi Mehta / Reuters: eBay reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $2.5B, gross merchandise volume up 2% YoY to $18B, and forecasts its Q4 revenue and profit below estimates; EBAY drops 5%+ — E-commerce platform eBay (EBAY.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday as rising competition …
Read MorePhoto by Stephen J. Cohen / Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Hope you all had a great weekend. Today, I’ve got news on James Corden’s new SiriusXM deal, Theo Von’s rise on the charts, and, in what I will admit
Read MoreImage: Nintendo Nintendo’s foray into movies isn’t stopping anytime soon: the company has confirmed that it’s working on a live-action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda. The movie will be directed by Wes Ball, best known for the Maze Runner trilogy and the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto
Read MorePaige Smith / Bloomberg: Robinhood reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $467M, vs. $478.9M est., trading revenue down 11% YoY to $185M, including crypto trading down 55% YoY; HOOD drops 8%+ — – Third-quarter crypto notional volumes fell 55% on the year — Online brokerage plans to launch EU crypto trading in weeks
Read MoreImage: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Soon, Instagram users will have a choice about using read receipts in direct message conversations. Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri both announced on their Instagram Broadcast channels that the change is currently in testing, and Mosseri included this picture showing the toggle as well as what it looks like
Read MoreThe Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 pulls from past privacy bills to overhaul how police and the feds access Americans’ data and communications.
Read MoreRevenant Hill. | Image: The Glory Society Revenant Hill, the much-anticipated follow-up to indie hit Night in the Woods, has been canceled. According to development studio The Glory Society, the decision was made after members of the team were forced to step away from the project due to “recent serious health issues.” “Making anything complex
Read MoreWithin the messy world of international politics, a major consideration by governments concerns which types of kn0w-how and technology can be transferred and sold to other nations, with each type facing restrictions depending on how friendly the political relations are with the target country at that point in time. Amidst all of this, there are
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Reddit starts testing its own add-ons, including those that make posts with live scoreboards and that help mods ban spammers, with a small number of subreddits — Reddit is beginning to test the first of its own add-ons built through its Developer Platform.
Read MoreImage: Ubisoft Ubisoft, the game publisher behind franchises like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, is laying off 124 employees at its visual effects studio and on its global IT team. Hybride — the name of Ubisoft’s Montreal-based visual effects studio — has worked on several big-name projects, including Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,
Read MoreCapcom has revealed the launch date for Resident Evil 4 Remake on iPhone and iPad. The game will launch next month on December 20. A demo will also be available for download. During Apple’s iPhone event, Capcom producer Tsuyoshi Kanda revealed two Resident Evil games would be coming to the iPhone 15 Pro and iPad.
Read MoreThe ROG Ally certainly isn’t perfect, but it’s still a big step forward for Windows handhelds. Thanks to the rousing success of the Nintendo Switch and Valve’s Steam Deck, it’s safe to say that portable gaming is having a moment — something The Verge’s David Pierce discussed at length with the Polygon crew on a
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit is beginning to test the first of its own add-ons built through its Developer Platform. The company’s first add-ons, available to a small number of subreddits and only to mods, will include tools for mods to more easily monitor and remove comment threads; ban spammers and remove
Read MoreIt’s a fact of life — all good things must eventually come to an end. The trick is not to focus so much on the chapter that’s closing, but look ahead to what comes next. This is precisely how the Hackaday Prize ended its incredible ten-year run on Saturday during Supercon. This final year of
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: The Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub previews for YC startups a new Nvidia GPU cluster option for AI in Azure and aims to expand access to startups in M12 — In the midst of an AI chip shortage, Microsoft wants to give a privileged few startups free access to “supercomputing” resources
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority If you wanted to read Instagram messages without letting anyone know, you previously had to use a workaround. Meta’s CEO has confirmed that users now have the ability to turn off read receipts. When you send a direct message on the popular iOS and Android app Instagram, a read
Read MoreKia Kokalitcheva / Axios: IBM debuts a $500M enterprise AI venture fund, to invest in startups across stages, with no set target of annual investments or capital deployment timeline — IBM is dedicating $500 million to invest in generative AI startups focused on business customers.
Read MoreAndrew Webster / The Verge: Crunchyroll debuts Game Vault, offering five mobile games for free to subscribers of its two higher-cost tiers, and promises a “new wave of titles coming soon” — Crunchyroll is making a bigger push into games. … The new feature is called the Crunchyroll Game Vault and is available starting today.
Read MoreWABetaInfo: WhatsApp rolls out the ability to search for messages by date in its web client, to those enrolled in its beta program — WhatsApp is releasing a new search message by date feature to some beta testers who previously joined the official beta program of WhatsApp Web, making it easier …
Read MoreRon Amadeo / Ars Technica: Google pushes an update for Pixel phones fixing security bugs and an Android 14 storage bug locking some owners, who use multiple profiles, out of their devices — Google’s “solution” can’t do anything for bootlooping devices. — It’s the start of November, and that means a new Android security patch.
Read MoreIllustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A new program called Lantern aims to fight online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA) with cross-platform signal sharing between online companies like Meta and Discord. The Tech Coalition, a group of tech businesses with a cooperative aim to fight online child sexual exploitation, wrote in today’s
Read MoreIt might be hard to believe, but until October of this year, there were only two official Google Stores — both in New York City. Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA, had a Google-owned shop that sold various Google products, but nothing like the official Google Store in Manhattan, for example. In early October 2023,
Read MoreZack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Ancestry, MyHeritage, and 23andMe have begun notifying customers that their accounts will use 2FA by default, following the theft of millions of 23andMe records — DNA testing and genealogy companies are stepping up user account security by mandating the use of two-factor authentication …
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