Even as music streaming services and podcast apps dominate most of our listening time, it’s still a great idea to keep a radio on hand, if for nothing else than in emergency situations. After all, blizzards, hurricanes, and other natural disasters can quickly take out both home and mobile Internet access. If you’d like to
Read MoreTaylor Lorenz / Rolling Stone: Extremely Online book excerpt: how Julia Allison invented the concept of a content creator in the mid-2000s, for which journalists and others villainized her — In her book ‘Extremely Online,’ journalist Taylor Lorenz details how Julia Allison invented the concept of being a content creator a decade before it caught
Read MoreDan Taylor / Tech.eu: Tallinn-based digital forensics and incident response tools provider Binalyze raised a $19M Series A led by Molten Ventures, taking its total funding to ~$30M — Binalyze, a London-based cybersecurity firm, raises $19 million in Series A funding to expand its digital forensics and incident response solutions in the market.
Read MoreBloomberg: A memo by a lawyer for the ~2,000 former Twitter employees laid off after Musk took over says X has agreed to enter settlement talks set for Dec. 1 and Dec. 2 — – X Corp. agreed to meet with employees’ lawyers, per memo — About 2,000 ex-Twitter employees sued for backpay, bonuses
Read MoreWilliam Turton / Bloomberg: Sources: Caesars Entertainment paid tens of millions of dollars to hackers who breached the company’s systems in recent weeks and threatened to release the data — – Hackers stole data, extorted company, people familiar said — Caesars breach came in weeks before MGM announced cyberattack
Read MoreThe company landed an unprecedented hit with the mobile game Pokémon Go. Seven years later, it’s still struggling to recapture that success.
Read MoreImage: Niantic There are few game titles more literal than Monster Hunter. This is a world filled with monsters, and your job is to hunt them. But what makes the series so engrossing is the gameplay loop tied to those hunts: the way you prepare by collecting the right gear, weapons, and potions; how you
Read MoreFor hundreds of years, we have been told what Newton’s First Law of Motion supposedly says, but recently a paper published in Philosophy of Science (preprint) by [Daniel Hoek] argues that it is based on a mistranslation of the original Latin text. As noted by [Stephanie Pappas] in Scientific American, this would seem to be
Read MoreThe company landed an unprecedented hit with the mobile game Pokémon Go. Seven years later, it’s still struggling to recapture that success.
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok expands its revamped creator fund Creativity Program Beta beyond the US to eligible creators in Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the UK — TikTok is expanding its revamped creator fund, called the “Creativity Program Beta,” beyond the United States.
Read MoreStarfield’s New Atlantis. | Image: Bethesda I’m not ready to upgrade my PC. Would I pay $20 a month to rent one that lives in the cloud? Starfield is the first game that’s actually making me consider the possibility. Today, Starfield arrived on Nvidia’s GeForce Now, a service that lets you tap into an RTX
Read MoreThis is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Today I will cover a controversial ad campaign that has raised questions at LAist, a pivot at Clubhouse, and a group of late night hosts who are taking their podcast to Las Vegas. Before I start with
Read MoreComputing used to run on punch cards. Great stacks of cards would run middling programs, with data output onto more punched cards in turn. [Nii] has built a machine in this vein, capable of punching binary into paper tape. The machine is run by a stepper motor, which is charged with feeding the paper tape
Read MoreKat Bailey / IGN: Unity acknowledges the “confusion and frustration” about its planned install fees but argues that “more than 90% of our customers will not be affected” — Platform holder claims “90 percent of users” won’t be affected by change. — Game developers are still furious …
Read MoreDan Primack / Axios: Arm prices its 95.5M shares at $51 a piece, raising $4.87B in 2023’s largest IPO so far and giving the company a fully diluted valuation of ~$54.5B — Arm, the British chip design giant controlled by SoftBank, has raised nearly $5 billion in its initial public offering.
Read MoreYes, you can even create a strawberry koala. | Screenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge You can now create your own emoji combinations directly in Google Search. The company has launched its Emoji Kitchen feature on the web (via 9to5Google), which lets you mash up existing emoji to create different combinations, like an angry
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Brave have each issued critical security patches, reports Stack Diary. The patches address a vulnerability that an attacker could use to gain access to or run malicious code on your computer, and the companies acknowledge it’s been actively exploited in the wild. NIST
Read MoreYes, you can even create a strawberry koala. | Screenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge You can now create your own emoji combinations directly in Google Search. The company has launched its Emoji Kitchen feature on the web (via 9to5Google), which lets you mash up existing emoji to create different combinations, like an angry
Read MoreSome 150,000 US autoworkers are poised to strike this week for better pay. Their union is pushing auto giants to ensure that green jobs won’t be worse jobs.
Read MorePhoto by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Tech leaders called for regulation that balances innovation and safety as the Senate conducted one of the many “insight forums” to inform potential rulemaking. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) invited leaders in the AI space, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya
Read MoreDevsecops company JFrog on September 13 introduced ML Model Management, a set of capabilities for the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform designed to streamline the management and security of machine learning models. Using ML Model Management and the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform, organizations can manage their proprietary models in Artifactory and proxy the Hugging
Read MoreIn recent years, the pervasive influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been transforming diverse facets of our lives at an accelerating pace. AI’s footprint is undeniable, from personalized recommendations on streaming platforms to autonomous vehicles navigating our roads. As we navigate this era of technological advancement, it becomes increasingly crucial to comprehend the profound potential
Read MoreWith a bag of new tricks, the Apple Watch Series 9 is the new smartwatch clamoring for your wrist. But does it do enough to persuade owners of recent Apple Watches to upgrade? If you own a Series 8, it’s likely a question you’re grappling with. We’re here to answer it in our Apple Watch
Read MoreThere’s just something about a pocket watch that screams class compared to the barbaric act of bending your arm, or the no-fun way of looking at your phone. But smartwatches are dumb, analog things that mostly look pretty. Or are they? [JGJMatt] proves otherwise with their stunning DIY smart pocket watch. It is essentially a
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Sony is hosting a State of Play presentation on Thursday, September 14th, the company announced on Wednesday. This State of Play will be focused on “indie and third-party titles from around the world,” Sony said, so don’t hold your breath for big new reveals from the company’s PlayStation Studios.
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