Letterboxd has been acquired — and promises ‘very little’ will change

Image: Letterboxd Letterboxd, a beloved film reviews and social media platform that took off during the pandemic, has been acquired. Its new owner is a Canadian holding company called Tiny, which promises a “fast, friendly, and simple” process for founders looking for “quick, straightforward exits.” The deal, as reported by The New York Times, values

Power Supplies Without Transformers

For one-off projects or prototyping, it’s not too hard to find a wall wart or power supply to send a few joules of energy from the wall outlet to your circuit. Most of these power supplies use a transformer to step down the voltage to a more usable level and also to provide some galvanic

Now you can water-cool your PS5, too

A PS5’s internals, inside a QuantumX waterblock, inside a Raijintek case, with custom water cooling and bracket. | Image: EK Water Blocks Changing the look of your PS5? Easy — the slightest amount of elbow grease will let you pop on new plates. But if you want to seriously mod that sucker for bragging rights,

Ford accuses UAW of holding contract negotiations ‘hostage’ over EV battery plants

Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Ford CEO Jim Farley accused the United Auto Workers of holding contract negotiations “hostage” over the company’s forthcoming electric vehicle battery plants. The UAW strike, which is now in its third week, expanded today to include more facilities, including those operated by Ford. The strike comes amid a historically consequential

MakerDAO passed a proposal letting the DeFi lender invest up to $6B in short-term US Treasuries, double the current limit; the MKR token is up almost 3x in 2023 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: MakerDAO passed a proposal letting the DeFi lender invest up to $6B in short-term US Treasuries, double the current limit; the MKR token is up almost 3x in 2023  —  – MakerDAO can now invest up to $6 billion in Treasuary Bills  — The project’s MKR is 2023’s best-performing major token

End of an Era: Netflix announces it shipped its last DVD today

Credit: Netflix Netflix announced it would end its DVD business this fall back in April. The company announced that the final shipment was this morning. The company bid farewell to the service with a video tribute. If you were an avid movie watcher in the late 90s to 2000s, then you likely used Netflix‘s DVD

Letterboxd’s founders sell a majority stake to Victoria-based Tiny; a source says the deal values the film-focused social network with ~10M users at $50M+ (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: Letterboxd’s founders sell a majority stake to Victoria-based Tiny; a source says the deal values the film-focused social network with ~10M users at $50M+  —  Two designers from New Zealand built a wildly popular social network for movie buffs.  Now, they’re cashing in (and sticking around for the sequel).

Retrotechtacular: How Communism Made Televisions

For those of us who lived through the Cold War, there’s still an air of mystery as to what it was like on the Communist side. As Uncle Sam’s F-111s cruised slowly in to land above our heads in our sleepy Oxfordshire village it was at the same time very real and immediate, yet also

Score a chance to get the Sony HTX8500 soundbar at an insane $200 off

The Amazon Prime Big Deals Days sale is coming on October 10 and 11. In other words, it’s Prime Day 2. That also ushers in the welcome return on Amazon’s invite-only deals, which give you the chance to buy high-end devices for way under the retail price. One such offer right now is on the

New York City Is Drowning

Heavy rainfall led to dangerous flash flooding in New York City and surrounding areas this morning.

A movie about the failed Titan submersible is already in the works

Image: OceanGate It’s only been months since the implosion of OceanGate’s Titan tourist submersible, but Hollywood producers are already working on a film based on the incident. MindRiot Entertainment will make the film, with E. Brian Dobbins (The Blackening, Black-ish) serving as co-producer, according to a report from Deadline. The movie will follow the events

BeReal says its app has 25M+ DAUs, up from 20M in October 2022, disputing a Similarweb report estimating that BeReal’s MAUs declined to 16.06M in August 2023 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: BeReal says its app has 25M+ DAUs, up from 20M in October 2022, disputing a Similarweb report estimating that BeReal’s MAUs declined to 16.06M in August 2023  —  Just under a year ago, the buzzy new social app BeReal looked to be on the rise, with reportedly 20 million users launching

This Pixel Watch 2 leak shows features adopted from Fitbit

Screenshot by Wes Davis / The Verge Google’s Pixel launch event is next week, but the company can’t stop the bleeding when it comes to leaks on product reveals. This latest leak gives us a peek at new Fitbit features included on the upcoming Pixel Watch 2, which leaker Evan Blass shared on X, the

Report: Apple uses two microscopic QR codes on iPhone displays to track defects, which has helped cut its suppliers’ faulty screen report rates from 30% to 10% (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)

William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Report: Apple uses two microscopic QR codes on iPhone displays to track defects, which has helped cut its suppliers’ faulty screen report rates from 30% to 10%  —  Apple spent millions to add a barcode to iPhone displays in order to save being charged hundreds of millions by manufacturers claiming faulty

Hackaday Podcast 238: Vibrating Bowl Feeders, Open Sourcery, Learning to Love Layer Lines

Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this week’s episode off with some deep space news, as NASA’s OSIRIS-REx returns home with a sample it snapped up from asteroid Bennu back in 2020. From there, discussion moves on to magical part sorting, open source (eventually…) plastic recycling, and the preposterously complex method newer Apple laptops use

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that the company has paid out nearly $20M to creators; Elon Musk said in July 2023 that the first payments totaled $5M (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that the company has paid out nearly $20M to creators; Elon Musk said in July 2023 that the first payments totaled $5M  —  The company formerly known as Twitter has paid out nearly $20 million to creators, according to a post from X CEO Linda Yaccarino.

Supreme Court to hear landmark social media moderation cases

Photo by Celal Gunes / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The Supreme Court announced Friday that it would be taking up two major First Amendment cases, challenging a pair of Florida and Texas laws allowing states to control how large social media companies moderate content. The GOP-backed laws, both passed in 2021, make it illegal

The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years

Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one. Continue reading…

Liquidators say Singapore arrested 3AC co-founder Su Zhu when he tried to leave the country and sentenced him to four months for not complying with court orders (Jacquelyn Melinek/TechCrunch)

Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: Liquidators say Singapore arrested 3AC co-founder Su Zhu when he tried to leave the country and sentenced him to four months for not complying with court orders  —  The hedge fund’s other co-founder Kyle Davies is also being called for arrest and imprisonment

AMC Plus is getting an ad-supported subscription tier

The ad-supported tier will cost $4.99 monthly. | Screenshot by Wes Davis / The Verge AMC Networks says it’s introducing an ad-supported version of its AMC Plus streaming service. The plan will cost $4.99 per month and provide users access to the same content library as the $8.99 ad-free version. According to the press release,

These Pixel 8 and Pixel Watch 2 leaks tell us everything about the products

EA Sports FC 24 isn’t a huge change — but EA hopes it’s the start of something bigger

Image: EA EA Sports FC 24 — or FC24, for short — is a huge release for Electronic Arts, launching today on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and Switch. But you wouldn’t necessarily know its importance from playing the new game. FC24 is the first title since the publisher’s split from FIFA, the sport’s global governing body,

‘EA Sports FC 24’ Is Just ‘FIFA 24’ in a Different Jersey

New name, same game. The world’s biggest and best soccer game has a new look, but under the surface things still feel very familiar.

Discord is down, users seeing “blocked” message (Update: Back)

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Discord was facing an outage, and many users were seeing a “Sorry, you have been blocked” message. The outage appears to be connected to a Cloudflare outage and maintenance. Discord is now back, and service has resumed. Update, September 29, 2023 (10:40 AM ET): Discord is back online. We