Bloomberg: E-commerce marketing company Klaviyo prices its 19.2M shares at $30 a piece, raising $576M in its IPO at a fully diluted valuation of $9.2B — – Data automation firm prices shares above marketed range — IPO follows trading debut gains by Instacart, SoftBank’s Arm
Read MoreJeep’s first electric car is fun to drive, practical, good-looking and already award-winning. So why isn’t it coming to the US?
Read MoreMost of the time, you’ll know where your cats are — asleep on the bed about 23.5 hours a day and eating or pooping the rest of the time. But some cats are more active than others, so there’s commercial options for those who want to keep tabs on their pet. Unfortunately, [Sahas Chitlange] didn’t
Read MoreThe Nikon ZF is the company’s latest camera. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge After nine years of occasionally chasing the retro-camera-with-modern-features unicorn, Nikon may have finally gotten the formula right. The Japanese camera maker is announcing the Nikon ZF, a modern mirrorless camera packed with fairly high specs — like a 24.5-megapixel
Read MoreIt’s hard to read the headlines today without feeling like the world couldn’t possibly get much worse. And then tomorrow rolls around, and a fresh set of headlines puts the lie to that thought. On a macro level, there’s not much that you can do about that, but on a personal level, illustrating your news
Read MoreMicrosoft has traditionally been very tight-lipped about its Xbox and gaming plans. A new leak just opened the floodgates.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches the Red Teaming Network, a contracted group of experts to help inform the company’s AI model risk assessment and mitigation strategies — In its ongoing effort to make its AI systems more robust, OpenAI today launched the OpenAI Red Teaming Network, a contracted group …
Read MoreCasey Newton / Platformer: Bard’s “Google it” feature adds the ability to “double check” answers by highlighting phrases with supporting or contradicting information found by Search — Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search? — Today let’s talk about an advance in Bard …
Read MoreMariam Sunny / Reuters: Neuralink opens enrollment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients, which is expected to take about six years to complete — Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval from an independent review board …
Read MoreThe gaming world experienced a bit of a resurgence in 2020 that is still seen in the present day. Even putting aside the effects from the pandemic, the affordability and accessibility has arguably never been better. Building a gaming PC can have its downsides, though, and a challenging issue to troubleshoot is input lag or
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: The Linux Foundation launches the Unified Acceleration Foundation to create an open standard for accelerator programming, an evolution of the oneAPI initiative — At the Open Source Summit Europe in Bilbao, Spain, the Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation.
Read MoreHayden Field / CNBC: How Airbnb Head of Trust and Safety Naba Banerjee cut parties reported on the service by 55% from 2020 to 2022 and launched an anti-party AI system in May 2023 — – As the person in charge of Airbnb’s worldwide ban on parties, Naba Banerjee has spent more than three years
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Calgary-based ZayZoon, which provides SMB employees access to their earned wages whenever they need them, raised a $34.5M Series B co-led by Framework and EDC — ZayZoon, a fintech firm that got its start charging employees $5 to get paid sooner, has raised $34.5 million in a Series B round co-led
Read MoreThe latest Apple Watch packs the same impressive durability specs as last year’s model, but that doesn’t mean you can’t add extra protection. Keep your device pristine with one of the best Apple Watch Series 9 cases available. These unassuming additions can protect your device from accidental bumps, scratches, and damaging impacts. The best Apple
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Happy Tuesday! Got a super-packed issue of Hot Pod today for everyone. First off, I’ll take a look at Spotify’s chief public affairs officer’s lengthy new blog post about Apple’s
Read MoreScreenshot from Vincent Zhong’s iPhone 15 Pro review. In a recent interview with IGN, an Apple executive claimed that the iPhone 15 Pro was “going to be the best game console.” I was skeptical; although Apple boasted about the capabilities of its new GPU in its A17 Pro chip and said high-fidelity games like Resident
Read MoreRichard Nieva / Forbes: An interview with Instacart founder and former CEO Apoorva Mehta on Instacart’s beginnings, his decision to exit the board, a reluctance to go public, and more — The grocery delivery giant’s founder and former CEO speaks exclusively to Forbes about his decision to exit the board …
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Fitbit posted a video teasing an announcement for September 28, 2023. The person in the video is wearing a device around his wrist. The device could be the Fitbit Charge 6. Earlier today, Fitbit rolled out a redesign for the Fitbit app. But that wasn’t the only thing the
Read MoreImage: Roblox Roblox is now rolling out the ability for developers to create subscriptions that they can sell in their experiences, according to a forum post. The company announced in July that it was working on these tools, saying that they could help developers “establish a recurring economic relationship with their users and potentially increase
Read MoreEhren Kret / Signal: Signal announces PQXDH, a new cryptographic specification meant as a first step to advance quantum resistance for the Signal Protocol — The Signal Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world.
Read MoreIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge The Justice Department has removed access to publicly posted trial documents in US v. Google amid a dispute over how files should be made available online, according to reporter Leah Nylen of Bloomberg. Nylen, reporting from the courtroom, said that Judge Amit Mehta will make a decision in
Read MoreGo ahead, wear that new jersey right out of the store. | Image: Amazon Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology is both extremely cool — just grab what you want and walk out the door, no checking out or paying necessary — and extremely complicated. Amazon’s system uses computer vision, which requires a complex system of
Read MoreThe Verge: Memo: Phil Spencer tells staff the FTC v. Microsoft documents leak is “disappointing” and that the company failed to live up to its confidentiality expectations — / ‘We all put incredible amounts of passion and energy into our work, and this is never how we want that hard work to be shared with
Read MoreIs that a Charge 6 I see? | Image: Fitbit It’s been a big day for Fitbit fans. On Tuesday morning, the Google-owned subsidiary started rolling out its new Fitbit app, and later in the day, it teased news on September 28th about a new Fitbit device. The news teaser is brief: it’s a six-second
Read MoreImage: Laura Normand / The Verge Xbox chief Phil Spencer has just emailed Microsoft employees about the massive Xbox leak that happened earlier today. In the internal memo, obtained by The Verge, Spencer says Microsoft’s Xbox plans “were unintentionally disclosed” as part of the FTC v. Microsoft case. Documents revealed a lot: a disc-less Series
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