Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Singapore-based Endowus, which operates a digital wealth management platform, raised $35M from Citi Ventures, MUFG, and others, taking its total funding to $95M — Back in 2021 and early 2022, there was a flurry of VC interest in Southeast Asian investment apps.
Read MoreCatherine Perloff / Adweek: Google changes the name of one of its advertising video formats from “in-stream ads” to “skippable ads”, after a report accused YouTube of misleading buyers — What was once in-stream ads are now skippable ads — Google changed the name of one of its video formats …
Read MoreESPN Bet pitch and app mockup | Image: Penn Entertainment As ESPN’s future drifts in the direct-to-consumer wind, a deal with Penn Entertainment will let the sportsbook rename existing properties, like its Barstool Sportsbook, to ESPN Bet. In return, Penn is scheduled to pay ESPN $1.5 billion over the next ten years, as well as
Read MoreNivesh Rustgi / Decrypt: El Salvador grants Binance licenses to offer custodial services, process crypto payments, provide digital wallets, and operate a digital asset exchange — Today, El Salvador’s central bank and crypto regulator granted Binance a Bitcoin Services Provider License (BSP) and Digital Assets Services Provider license (DASP)
Read MoreKyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Verizon will shut down BlueJeans, a business-focused video conferencing app it acquired in 2020, on August 31, 2023, due to “the changing market landscape” — Did you know Verizon acquired a video conferencing app back in 2020? It’s fine if you haven’t because Verizon has announced that its …
Read MoreWells Fargo will pay the biggest fine in recent US regulatory enforcement actions. | Photo illustration by Rafael Henrique / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Several US financial firms, including multiple Wells Fargo companies, will pay a combined $549 million in fines after admitting they couldn’t produce discussions about company business from smartphone
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Netflix launches a game controller app on the App Store to let users play Netflix games on their TV; the app description says the feature is “coming soon” — After last fall signaling its intentions to expand into cloud gaming, Netflix today launched a new app that will soon allow subscribers
Read MorePreetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: Lyft reports Q2 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.02B, a net loss of $114.3M, and active riders up 8.2% YoY to 21.49M, its highest levels since the pandemic — Ride-share company projects better-than-expected outlook for current quarter — Lyft raised its revenue and trimmed its loss last quarter …
Read MoreImage: The Verge Google’s “milestone” Chrome releases in the stable channel that come every four weeks will now be accompanied by weekly security updates (previously biweekly) to help close the “patch gap” between fixes appearing in Canary / Beta releases and when they go out to most users. Bad actors could potentially see what changes
Read MoreWorking with metals can present a lot of unique challenges even for those with a fairly well-equipped shop. Metals like aluminum and some types of steel can be cut readily with grinders and saws, but for thick materials or some hardened steels, or when more complex cuts need to be made, mechanical cutting needs to
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia, already the market leader in providing high-end processors for generative AI use, will release an even more powerful chip as the demand to run large AI models continues. The company announced the availability of the GH200 super chip, which Nvidia said can handle “the most complex generative
Read MoreThe podcast cover art for Snap Judgement. | Image: Snap Judgement This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Got a very packed issue of Hot Pod for you today. To start off, I have a scoop for you about KQED’s acquisition of Snap Judgment
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google debuts Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based dev environment that uses Visual Studio Code Open Source and integrates with Google’s PaLM 2-based Codey — Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment …
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Valve might sell refurbished Steam Decks sometime soon. The creator of the SteamDB database tweeted Monday about “certified refurbished” Steam Decks in all three storage offerings, and deals maestro Wario64 tweeted screenshots of the listings soon after (via Gizmodo). Unfortunately, as I write this, Wario64’s links redirect to
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung’s foldables have reached over 1 million orders in South Korea alone. Samsung’s foldables are breaking pre-order records, but only by 30,000 units. The Galaxy Z Flip 5 makes up 70% of the pre-orders. A sluggish market doesn’t appear to be slowing down interest in the Galaxy Z Fold
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Data management company Rubrik acquires Laminar, which helps companies manage public cloud data security, sources say for around $200M to $250M — Cybersecurity startups, in particular those hatched in Israel, have been getting scooped up a rapid pace by larger tech companies looking to bolt …
Read MoreImage: Apple Apple TV Plus has revealed its first trailer for The Changeling, an eight-part series premiering on the service on September 8th. The trailer offers up a haunting glimpse at a man’s nightmarish journey to find his wife following the birth of their first child. The Changeling is based on a novel of the
Read MoreImage: The Pokémon Company After months of leaving everyone guessing just when exactly Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s two-part DLC would finally hit the Nintendo Switch, the first half of The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero finally has a release date. During today’s Pokémon Presents stream, The Pokémon Company announced that The Teal Mask, the first
Read MoreA screenshot of a video showing LK-99 partially levitating. A group of researchers who developed the material say it’s evidence that LK-99 is the world’s first room temperature superconductor. Experts are skeptical. | Image: A screenshot taken of a video uploaded to ScienceCast by Hyun-Tak Kim If LK-99 is the real deal, it could be
Read MoreYou, too, will be able to share a presentation about a 30.46 percent increase in graphs. | Image: Meta WhatsApp’s latest feature is the ability to share your screen during video calls, similar to what’s already available via video conferencing services like Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams. In a press release, the Meta-owned service
Read MoreThe Guardian: The UK Electoral Commission reports a hack by “hostile actors” starting in August 2021 and identified in October 2022; the full scope isn’t “conclusively” known — Elections watchdog says it is unable to say conclusively what information was accessed in cyber-attack
Read MoreOne of ChargePoint’s EV chargers. | Image: Getty ChargePoint, which bills itself as the world’s “largest and most open” charging network for electric vehicles, is announcing a series of new initiatives to improve the reliability of its 245,000-strong network of chargers. “We expect these multimillion dollar investments to deliver network reliability of nearly 100 percent
Read More3D printing’s complicated cousin—laser cutting—finally gets its noob-friendly entry point.
Read MoreNikkei Asia: Source: Apple, Samsung, Nvidia, and Intel plan to invest in Arm’s US IPO as soon as shares are listed in September; SoftBank owns 75% of Arm and Vision Fund 25% — SoftBank chip design unit to debut on Nasdaq, market cap seen topping $60bn — SoftBank Group plans to list shares in its
Read MoreDebby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC agrees to build a €10B plant in Germany’s Dresden, owning 70% of the facility with Infineon, NXP, and Bosch each holding 10% stake, set to open in 2027 — The planned fab will be 70% owned by TSMC, which will operate the facility in the city of Dresden, with Infineon
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