Image: Square Enix Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis, a new game in the FFVII universe, will be released on iOS and Android on September 7th. The game brings together moments from other FFVII titles, adds some new ones, and will let you “experience the journey of a young hero Sephiroth.” You can preorder it on
Read MoreLG’s 27-inch OLED monitor. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge OLED might be the future of monitors, but first, they need to finish addressing burn-in fears. In my recent review of LG’s 27-inch OLED desktop gaming monitor, I wrote how the company’s warranty explicitly excludes “burned-in images resulting from improper usage.” And when
Read MoreImage: Square Enix Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis, a new game in the FFVII universe, will be released on iOS and Android on September 7th. The game brings together moments from other FFVII titles, adds some new ones, and will let you “experience the journey of a young hero Sephiroth.” You can preorder it on
Read MoreImage: Roblox Roblox has created a virtual career center inside Roblox where people can learn more about the metaverse platform, prepare for interviews at the company, and attend events hosted by Roblox itself, according to a blog post. In the future, some initial interviews will even happen directly in the experience, Roblox says. You can
Read MoreImage: Daniela Vladimirova / Flickr Aug X released Augie, an AI-powered video creation platform incorporating a voice cloning feature to read ad copy without booking a recording studio. Partnering with ElevenLabs, Aug X lets users record their or someone else’s voice and clone it to use for other short videos. The Augie platform, aimed primarily
Read MoreIt’s less violently green in person, but what I appreciated was how it changes up the feel of the watch without me having to do anything. | Image: Nomad It’s no surprise that most fitness trackers have swappable straps these days. Watches — smart or otherwise — are a fashion statement, people have different needs
Read MoreImage: The Writers Guild of America After recently meeting to discuss the possibility of resuming talks about a new labor contract, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) are now set to return to the negotiation table this Friday — more than three months into Hollywood’s
Read MoreErnesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: Hosting provider Uberspace takes down youtube-dl’s website, which linked to YouTube ripping software, but is appealing a German court order forcing the takedown — In 2020, the RIAA infuriated many players in the open source community by targeting YouTube-ripping tool, youtube-dl.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is slashing the number of in-house brands it offers on its marketplace. The retail giant plans on cutting 27 of its 30 private-label clothing brands as it looks to cut costs and stave off antitrust scrutiny, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Over the
Read MoreImage: Wisk.aero Wisk and Archer, two leading air taxi startups, have settled their legal dispute over allegations of stolen trade secrets, avoiding a jury trial that would have cast a negative light on the emerging aviation technology sector. Wisk, a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing, sued Archer in 2021 for allegedly stealing its trade secrets
Read MoreBrian Heater / TechCrunch: Skydio shuts down its consumer drone business and plans to expand its enterprise offerings, after raising a $230M Series E at a $2.2B valuation in February 2023 — Skydio today announced that it will be shutting down its consumer drone business. — Beginning today, the firm will no longer …
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Many app homepages have gotten incredibly busy, filled with suggestions and ads, many based on your previous searches or stuff you’ve read / written / watched in the past. YouTube is certainly no exception — in fact, it’s one of the worst offenders — but recently, Google’s video
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Virtualitics, which provides data visualizations that can be viewed in VR and AR, raised a $37M Series C, bringing its total funding to $67M — Many companies grapple with data challenges. In a 2019 survey, Deloitte reports that 67% of executives aren’t comfortable accessing or using the data at their organizations.
Read MoreImage: Larian Studios Baldur’s Gate 3 just changed the game. I don’t mean the fact that it’s become the second most played game on Steam right now, catching up to Steam mainstays CS:GO and DOTA 2. I don’t mean how it’s enjoying incredible success without elements like a battle pass or microtransactions. And I don’t
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google released Android 14 beta 5 today. The release is confirmed to be the final beta before the stable launch in the coming weeks. The Google Pixel 8 series will almost certainly be the first phones with Android 14 out of the box. Since February, we’ve been seeing developer
Read MoreIn 2008, Boston’s transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides. Today, four teens picked up where they left off.
Read MoreIllustration by The Verge Substack wants to make the platform a better place for readers and will be adding features to its reading apps so that they “feel increasingly useful and fun,” co-founders Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi said in a post on Thursday. Substack is perhaps best known as a place for
Read MoreCorey Hawkins as Clemens and Aisling Franciosi as Anna in The Last Voyage of the Demeter. | Image: Universal The Last Voyage of the Demeter turns one of the most riveting chapters from Bram Stoker’s Dracula into a soggy feature-length horror that never finds its sea legs. Continue reading…
Read MoreScreenshot taken from a Kai Cenat YouTube video. On Wednesday night, streamer Kai Cenat went live on Twitch for the first time since his chaotic Union Square giveaway event in New York City on Friday. Thousands of people descended on Union Square after Cenat and another streamer promised to give away prizes like PS5s and
Read MoreImage: Bethesda Softworks Two years after the surprise announcement and release of a remastered version of the original Quake, Quake II is getting a similar glow-up to coincide with the start of QuakeCon. Its remaster, which is simply titled Quake II, is available today for $9.99 for PC, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation. It’s available
Read MorePhoto by Oscar Del Pozo / AFP via Getty Images After weeks of back and forth, the Federal Election Commission decided that it will, maybe, make rules regulating the use of AI-generated content in political ads. At an open meeting Thursday, the FEC voted to open up the petition for public comment, kicking off a
Read MoreJing Yang / The Information: Sources: ByteDance’s revenue in China grew 25% YoY in 2022 to $69B, vs. 68% in 2021; overseas revenue grew from $6.5B in 2021 to $16B in 2022, thanks to TikTok — ByteDance might be best known globally as the parent company of TikTok, but the bulk of its money comes
Read MoreIn the very competitive private equity (PE) sector, a thriving career in private equity is no easy task. Even if you have exceptional qualifications, they won’t be enough to ensure success if you falter when answering difficult private equity interview questions. The secret is to prepare well because doing so considerably improves your chances of
Read MoreSarah Fielding / Engadget: YouTube plans to deactivate links in Shorts descriptions, comments, and the vertical feed from August 31 to fight spam — The move follows other anti-spam measures. — YouTube knows that it has a spam problem, particularly when it comes to its two-year-old Shorts feature.
Read MoreImage: AP Several media organizations called for rules protecting copyright in data used to train generative AI models. The open letter urged lawmakers around the globe to consider regulations that require transparency into training datasets and consent of rights holders before using data for training. They also request allowing media companies to negotiate with AI
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