Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. For all of the changes Spotify has gone through over the past year, there is still more to come. Those three-year podcast deals the company struck are coming up
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: Snowflake announces Snowflake Cortex, a fully managed service designed to help business users and developers work with AI-fueled apps on its Data Cloud platform — Companies use Snowflake to store their data in the cloud. With the ever growing interest in generative AI and large language models …
Read MoreCredit: Netflix Netflix will allow ad-tier subscribers to download shows and movies starting by the end of this week. This will make the service the first to offer the feature for an ad-supported plan. Binge watchers on this plan who have watched three episodes in a row won’t be shown an ad on the fourth
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft’s 365 Copilot AI assistant is now available for certain enterprise customers. Microsoft is quietly launching its Microsoft 365 Copilot system for a $30-per-month premium per user, but enterprise customers will need to commit to at least 300 users and pick up the phone to Microsoft to get on the list to access
Read MoreThe new indoor / outdoor security camera from TP-Link’s Tapo packs a lot into a small package. | Image: TP-Link Tapo, one of TP-Link’s two smart home brands, is continuing to expand its footprint in the home security camera space with the launch of the $39.99 Tapo C120. This pint-size smart home camera fits in
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Apple is reportedly working on multiple health monitoring features for the Apple Watch Series 10. The company could give the smartwatch a blood pressure sensor and a sleep apnea detection feature. Apple is also said to be working on adding a noninvasive blood glucose monitor, but it likely won’t
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority In the UK, Apple tried to block a mass lawsuit related to “batterygate” woes. However, a judge has ruled Apple can’t block it, opening the door for this and future suits. In the US, Apple needed to pay $500 million in a class-action suit related to batterygate. Remember “batterygate”?
Read MoreBack in the old days, finding out your location on Earth was a pretty involved endeavor. You had to look at stars, use fancy gimballed equipment to track your motion, or simply be able to track your steps really really well. Eventually, GPS would come along and make all that a bit redundant for a
Read MoreThe Fitbit Luxe didn’t qualify for our list of the best cheap fitness trackers, as that rundown is on devices under $100. The Fitbit Luxe would usually run you $130, but thanks to this early holiday deal, you can now pick it up for the bargainous price of just $79.95. Fitbit Luxe for $79.95 ($50
Read MoreAs players dug into the latest Spidey game, they noticed something odd: Non-player characters were having very weird conversations. Here’s why.
Read MoreOliver Knight / CoinDesk: The US SEC charges SafeMoon and its exec team for selling unregistered crypto securities and misappropriating investors’ funds the team had said were “locked” — The team bought luxury cars and homes with funds that they told investors were “locked,” according to the regulator.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Apple’s been signaling for years that it wants to dive more deeply into healthcare. A lengthy new Bloomberg report details just how far the company wants to go, while also explaining why it just hasn’t gotten there yet. Its biggest ambitions, says the article, have been slowed in part by concerns from
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’ve ever used an Xbox media app and wondered why it was a little slow, clunky, or didn’t have the latest features you find on the equivalent web-based version, then hopefully that will be a thing of the past soon. Microsoft is finally allowing Xbox app developers
Read MoreImage: Apple Apple’s new entry-level Apple Pencil with a USB-C port for charging is now available to order, the company announced on Wednesday. At $79, the new Apple Pencil is the company’s most affordable, and it comes with features like tilt sensitivity and the ability to attach magnetically to the side of an iPad. To
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Read MoreAt its annual Snowday conference on Wednesday, cloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake unveiled new development interfaces and machine learning features for its Snowpark developer framework. The new tools, which are mostly in preview, include Snowflake Notebooks, Snowpark ML Modelling API, and Snowpark ML Operations enhancements. To read this article in full, please click here
Read MoreApple’s iPhone 16 Pro could have an upgraded version of the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s telephoto camera lens.
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Read MoreApple is adding 8 games and 50 updates to Apple Arcade this holiday season.
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft is adding new gestures to the OneNote Windows app to improve the text and inking experience. If you have a device with a stylus, like Microsoft’s Surface tablets, you can now use more gestures to manipulate your digital handwriting. Microsoft has added the ability to strike-through text, delete it by scribbling over
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: US v. Google offers a rare look at Google’s top 20 queries by revenue for a week in September 2018: iPhone, insurance, cheap flights, online colleges, and more — Not all Google searches make Google money. Google often says that it only shows ads on about 20 percent of queries,
Read MoreProduct Studio, Google’s AI-powered image editing tool for merchants, is rolling out in the US starting today. | Illustration: The Verge Google is introducing new Shopping features that allow merchants to quickly update product imagery using generative AI and make it easier to display important shop information to attract new customers. Starting today, Google merchants
Read MoreAnna Irrera / Bloomberg: HSBC launches a blockchain platform to tokenize ownership of gold held in its London vault; HSBC is one of the world’s largest custodians of precious metals — – System creates tokens representing gold in bank’s vault — Blockchain allows investors to more easily track gold they own
Read MorePrior to his arrest, the FTX founder did a string of media interviews to tell his side of the story. In the courtroom, those comments came back to haunt him.
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