Cloud9 player Fudge at Worlds 2022. | Photo by Colin Young-Wolff / Riot Games North American League of Legends esports players who walked out have reached an agreement with Riot Games. The League Championship Series (LCS) players, represented by the LCSPA, voted last week to walk out after Riot allowed franchises to stop fielding amateur
Read MoreUSB-C is ready to go all the way to 240 watts of power, enough for all but the beefiest gaming notebooks. But though the cables broke cover last year, actual devices have been 100 watts short — the 16-inch MacBook Pro and its compatible chargers have topped out at 140W per port. Now, Framework is
Read MoreBloomberg: A group of about 120 Google contract workers from Accenture is seeking to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union, saying Alphabet is a “joint employer” — A group of Alphabet Inc. contract workers are launching a unionization campaign, saying they need a greater voice …
Read MoreOf digital electronics, a wise man once said that “Every idiot can count to one.” Truer words have rarely been spoken, because at the end of the day, every digital circuit is really just an analog circuit with the interesting bits abstracted away. And to celebrate that way of looking at things, we’re pleased to
Read MoreBelle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Granica, which helps data-centric AI companies optimize their cloud object storage in Amazon S3 and Google Cloud, raised $45M from NEA, Bain, and others — Data management is under the spotlight again as companies seek to out-innovate competitors with large language models
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: DocuSign reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $661.4M, vs. $642M est., subscription revenue up 12% YoY, and net profit of $539K, vs. a $27.4M net loss a year ago — Shares of the e-signature company DocuSign Inc. are trending higher today after it delivered a solid first quarter earnings …
Read MoreCredit: Lily Katz / Android Authority Tech can get expensive these days. It’s always good to save some money, and you may have noticed plenty of retailers offering renewed or refurbished products. But what’s the difference between renewed vs refurbished devices? In this guide, we will tell you what both terms mean, and walk you
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Beloved apps are shutting down, and Redditors aren’t happy. Continue reading…
Read MoreJohn Perrino / Tech Policy Press: Six US senators reintroduce a bipartisan bill to boost social network transparency, requiring companies to share ad libraries, content moderation stats, more — John Perrino is a policy analyst at the Stanford Internet Observatory. — The Platform Accountability and Transparency Act …
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: EvenUp, which uses AI to generate legal documents for personal injury cases, raised a $50.5M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $325M valuation — Millions of personal injury cases are settled in the U.S. every year, as few go to trial — but the vast majority are kept
Read MoreImage: Devolver Digital Devolver Digital shared details and trailers about some projects in development during its latest showcase on Thursday. However, much of the presentation revolved around a tongue-in-cheek mascot, “Volvy,” a fictionalized history of the mascot’s impact on gaming culture, and the “return” of the character as a robot (VOLV-E). It was weird, but
Read MoreFoxes are cat software running on dog hardware, or so they say. And [Will Cogley] seems to have taken that to heart with this 3D-printed robotic fox, which borrows heavily from projects like Boston Dynamics Spot robodog. True, the analogy breaks down a bit when you include MIT’s Cheetah on the inspiration list, but you
Read MoreMaria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Blackpoint Cyber, which offers managed cybersecurity detection and response services, raised a $190M Series C led by Bain Capital with participation from Accel — Blackpoint Cyber, a startup that provides managed cybersecurity services using an internally developed software platform, has raised $190 million in fresh funding.
Read MoreRyan Weeks / The Block: Hong Kong-based Taiko Labs, which is focused on scaling Ethereum, raised a $10M seed led by Sequoia China and a $12M pre-Series A led by Generative Ventures — – Taiko Labs raised two rounds led by Sequoia China and Generative Ventures, respectively. — The startup is building a Type 1
Read MorePhoto: Blue Logitech bought gaming headset maker Astro for $85 million in 2017 and purchased mic manufacturer Blue Microphones for $177 million one year later. Now, it’s merging both into its Logitech G brand for gamers and streamers — but while Astro will largely continue, the Blue brand is getting axed. “Will the Blue Microphones
Read MoreEmily Chang / Bloomberg: Evan Williams says he was “sad” when Elon Musk bought Twitter after thinking the idea was “interesting and fun” and Musk hasn’t “dialed it in quite right yet” — Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, who watched Elon Musk’s advances on the company in 2022 with great interest …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta is bringing AI-generated stickers to Messenger as part of a slew of related features it’s working on for its social apps. During a companywide meeting today that The Verge listened to, Ahmad Al-Dahle, Meta’s vice president of AI, told employees that the company will leverage its image
Read MoreImage: Summer Game Fest With the death of E3 nearly complete, Summer Game Fest has become the go-to summer event for gamers to get hyped about. But this year’s Summer Game Fest, while it featured games that included a wide range of genres and a great diversity of characters, did not feature a single woman
Read MoreImage: Meta Meta is testing a way for users to watch Reels on its Quest headset. In a post on Meta’s broadcast channel, CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a video of how a Reel will look when viewed in VR. Much like when you open other apps on the system, it looks like you can browse
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apollo for Reddit isn’t the only Reddit app that’s shutting down due to the company’s new API pricing: on Thursday, rif is fun for Reddit (previously Reddit is Fun), ReddPlanet, and Sync also announced that they would be shutting down on June 30th, the same day Apollo will
Read MoreThe new Aqara U100 is the first Matter-compatible, Apple Home Key lock. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge You wait for ages for a Matter-compatible smart lock, and then three come along at once. Aqara’s $189.99 Smart Lock U100, which was announced at CES, is available starting today. It’s compatible with Apple
Read MoreImage: GM General Motors CEO Mary Barra joined Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a Twitter Spaces conversation Thursday to announce that the automaker is adopting Tesla’s electric vehicle charging standard, also known as the North American Charging Standard (NACS). The deal will make thousands of Tesla Superchargers available to owners of GM electric vehicles. “In
Read MoreImage: Second Dinner Marvel Snap is one of the best collectible card games this side of vanilla Hearthstone, and it’s getting a new feature players have been asking for since the release of Battle Mode. During Summer Game Fest, Marvel Snap frontman Ben Brode announced the all-new Conquest mode would be launching on June 13th.
Read MoreImage: Epic Games It looks like Epic Games is doing a little rewilding on the Fortnite island. Ahead of the battle royale game’s next season — Chapter 4: Season 3, if you’re counting — the developer gave a brief taste of what to expect through a trailer that debuted at Summer Game Fest. The new
Read MoreImage: Square Enix Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the sequel to the remake of the beloved RPG, finally has a release window. It’ll be coming to the PS5 in early 2024. The announcement was made as part of Summer Game Fest. In a trailer, we got a major new look at the upcoming game. Cloud and
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