Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft and Activision Blizzard are nearing their $69B deal but aren’t likely to close it by a July 18 deadline — – UK veto will prevent closing by July 18 deadline in agreement — Companies don’t intend to walk away, will continue UK talks
Read MoreRichard Lawler / The Verge: A US appeals court stays for 90 days a ruling letting Apple App Store developers link to third-party payment options, so Apple can prepare a SCOTUS filing — On Monday, Apple was granted a motion putting a hold on the appeals court ruling that would push the company to undo
Read MoreJonathan Roumie as Jesus Christ. | Vidangel Studios While the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America’s ongoing labor strikes have brought production on most of Hollywood’s movies and shows to an indefinite stop, filming on the fourth season of The Chosen — Dallas Jenkins’ historical drama series about Jesus Christ — is reportedly
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Runway, which streamlines companies’ financial planning and integrates with accounting, data, and HR tools, raised a $27.5M Series A led by Initialized Capital — Cristóbal Valenzuela, the former president of Sandbox VR, the brick-and-mortar VR experience franchise, didn’t always have a strong grasp of finance.
Read MoreWe love to see older phones learning new tricks. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge With iOS 17, your iPhone will learn a useful new trick: StandBy mode. It’s simple — StandBy turns your iPhone screen into a little smart display while it’s charging. We’ve only been using it for a little while,
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit search is having some issues right now and has been for at least 12 hours, according to posts from some frustrated Reddit users. The problem I’m having right now is that doing any search while logged in doesn’t return any posts. For example, if I search “iPhone”
Read MoreThe US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has expressed concern about generative AI’s impact on financial markets. In a speech given to the National Press Club on Monday, SEC Chair Gary Gensler said recent advances in generative AI increase the possibility of institutions relying on the same subset of information to make decisions. Gensler said
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge The next TikTok trend is passkeys on iPhones. The social media app is announcing support for the logins that try to make password-stealing phishing attacks impossible by allowing users to sign in with either Touch ID or Face ID instead of entering passwords. The initial launch includes iOS
Read MoreMechanical displays use a variety of different methods to represent data with physical objects, and [AIRPOCKET]’s Mechanical Display aims to be a platform anyone can use. Each “pixel” in this display is a panel of some kind, and different effects can be had by moving individual panels to different angles. Not only can images be
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Wix debuts AI Site Generator, a tool that uses chat prompts to create entire websites including components for e-commerce, scheduling, event ticketing, and more — What does one expect from a website builder in 2023? That’s the question many startups — and incumbents …
Read MoreWith the purchase of Drop, a company that specializes in the production of mechanical keyboards, Corsair has sent shockwaves through the gaming industry. For an undisclosed sum, Corsair has acquired a company that it hopes will greatly increase its global peripherals business. Drop will be able to reach more people than ever before thanks to
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge On Monday, Apple was granted a motion putting a hold on the appeals court ruling that would push the company to undo its “anti-steering” rules and let outside developers link to third-party payment mechanisms. The mandate is stayed for 90 days so Apple can file its request that the Supreme Court take
Read MoreIn spite of AI’s widespread impact, preventive medicine is where it’s really making waves. Full-body AI scans are quickly becoming the gold standard in preventative healthcare. Experts predict that these scans will radically alter the way we think about and care for our health. Using MRI technology and artificial intelligence, full-body scans can detect health
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is experimenting with a way to help sickos like me watch videos as fast as humanly possible. The test, which YouTube Premium subscribers can opt in to, lets you long-press on the video player to set the playback speed to 2x, according to YouTube’s experiments page (via
Read MoreIndia’s furniture rental startup, Furlenco, is all set to sell a 35% stake to Sheela Foam, the maker of the popular mattress brand Sleepwell. The deal, proposed at $36.5 million, has valued Furlenco at about $104.3 million. The acquisition will help Sheela Foam enter the fast-growing branded furniture market and expand its presence in the
Read MoreLydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: The US SEC plans to consider, as soon as this fall, conflict of interest rules for financial advisers and brokerages using AI to steer clients toward products — – SEC on lookout for fraud, conflicts of interest, chair says — Gensler cautions companies touting AI in corporate docs
Read MoreSearch Engine Optimization (SEO) is the practice of increasing visibility and traffic to websites by improving their rank in search engine results pages. While there are multiple time-consuming strategies utilized to improve SEO, sponsored links offer a more direct route by carrying websites’ targeted messages directly into the top portions of search engine results with
Read MoreAndrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times: An interview with LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky on designing tools to keep users coming back more often, pulling back from China, “the great reshuffle”, and more — Head of networking site says building a strong team and avoiding day-to-day minutiae are key to the job
Read MoreThere are a huge number of products available in the modern world that come with network connectivity now, when perhaps they might be better off with out it. Kitchen appliances like refrigerators are the classic example, but things like lightbulbs, toys, thermostats, and door locks can all be found with some sort of Internet connectivity.
Read MoreCython, the Python library for compiling Python code to C, has at last released version 3.0 after many years of development and refinement. The main goal behind Cython is to make it easier to write C extensions for Python, whether for speed or to author convenient interfaces to C libraries. In many ways Cython 3
Read MoreAt the dawn of the Space Race, when computers were something that took up whole rooms, satellites and probes had to rely on analog electronics to read from their various sensors and transmit the resulting data to the ground. But it wasn’t long before humanity’s space ambitions outgrew these early systems, which lead to vast
Read MoreLarry Madowo / CNN: Former Twitter Africa staff, laid off after accepting a May 2023 offer of three months’ severance, say they have not been paid or even heard from Twitter since — Former employees of Twitter Africa who were laid off as part of a global cost-cutting measure after Elon Musk’s acquisition …
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro feature on our best wireless earbuds list as the best option for Samsung users, and today’s deal is your chance to pick up a pair on the cheap. Dropping to just $187.99 on Amazon, this is the lowest price we’ve tracked on the buds since the 2022 holiday season.
Read MoreCredit: Roland Quandt A recent leak provides a few new looks at the Galaxy Z Flip 5. One of the images shows the different widgets that will be available for the cover display. The renders appear to show that the Galaxy Z Flip 5 will have no gap. Samsung’s second Unpacked event of the year
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta announced a bunch of new updates to its video features on Facebook, including improved editing tools, the ability to upload videos in HDR, and a new Video tab. Let’s start first with that Video tab, the new name for the tab formerly known as Facebook Watch. Meta
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