Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk’s so-called Twitter sitter is here to stay. A federal appeals court rejected Musk’s bid to toss or modify his 2018 fraud settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, leaving in place a consent decree that requires his tweets to be approved by a lawyer before
Read MoreWhat Is FinOps? FinOps (short for Financial Operations) is a set of practices and principles that aim to optimize cloud cost management and financial accountability. It’s a relatively new concept that emerged with the rise of cloud computing as organizations realized the need for more efficient cloud cost management strategies. FinOps involves collaboration between various
Read MoreMatt Day / Bloomberg: Amazon job listings mention an “AI-first initiative to re-architect” search and “reimagining Amazon Search with an interactive conversational experience” — Amazon.com Inc. plans to bring ChatGPT-style product search to its web store, rivaling efforts by Microsoft Corp …
Read MoreCarl Pei has now added an Apple AirPods Pro 2 review to his sporadic line of YouTube tech review videos. Pei admits that he loves nearly everything about the latest Pro-level AirPods. He also says the Nothing Ear 2 offer a compelling alternative to Apple’s genre-defining products. Carl Pei is the CEO of Nothing (and
Read MoreImage: Ring Ring’s new CEO Liz Hamren announced in an email to employees today that founder Jamie Siminoff is leaving the video doorbell company and Amazon altogether. Siminoff says he founded Ring after looking for a way to answer his door from his smartphone while tinkering in his garage, and then Amazon reportedly paid more
Read MoreImage: The Verge WhatsApp is getting a new “Chat Lock” feature intended to make it easier to keep conversations more private. The new locked chats will live in a password- or biometrics-protected folder, and notifications from those conversations won’t display the sender or the actual message content. If you’re familiar with Apple’s hidden photos feature
Read MoreThe Acer Aspire 5 has gotten a design upgrade, but it’s not as fancy on the inside. Continue reading…
Read MoreSonos stopped supporting local playback from iOS several years ago. | Illustration: The Verge Most people are drawn to Sonos for its vast audio streaming options, but it’s also possible to play your own audio files via line-in, Bluetooth, AirPlay, and network-attached storage (NAS). Android users have long had another option: they can easily play
Read MoreSamuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Docs: EU regulators begin an informal probe into Azure, asking rivals and customers if Microsoft leveraged market power and partnership info to squeeze rivals — Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud business has been targeted by the European Union’s antitrust arm, amid concerns the US software firm …
Read MoreApple has reportedly booked up almost all of TSMC’s 3nm manufacturing capacity for 2023.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority There is now a Google Drive spam folder to catch unwanted, unsolicited shares. The system works just like the Gmail spam folder. This feature should be available for all users by the end of May 2023 but it is already working for many. If you use Google Drive (and
Read MoreImage: Disney Avatar: The Way of Water is landing on not one but two streaming services on June 7th. In a press release on Monday, Warner Bros. Discovery shared that the James Cameron film is coming to the company’s combined Max streaming service in addition to Disney Plus. It’s a bit of a rarity to
Read MoreJacob Bogage / Washington Post: Sources: the IRS has quietly built a prototype system to let Americans file tax returns digitally and free of charge, with a pilot slated to launch in January — The prototype program developed by the federal government could be available for a small group of taxpayers by January
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you missed your chance to score T-Mobile’s free MLB.TV benefit earlier this year, you now have a second chance to sign up. The company says that it’s bringing back the deal on Tuesday, May 23rd, and will let you claim it through July 17th. MLB.TV, which typically
Read MoreWhile we tend to think of Amazon’s e-paper Kindles as more or less single-purpose devices (which to be fair, is how they’re advertised), there’s actually a full-featured Linux computer running behind that simple interface, just waiting to be put to work. Given how cheap you can get old Kindles on the second hand market, this
Read MoreAlgorithms can exacerbate employment discrimination. It’s time for the US Federal Trade Commission to regulate them.
Read MoreThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. | Image: Amazon Amazon is taking another stab at making a massively multiplayer Lord of the Rings game. Today, the company announced that it is partnering with the Embracer Group — the media company that holds the IP rights for The Lord of the Rings and
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority T-Mobile is once again offering customers free MLB.TV. You can sign up for it through the T-Mobile Tuesdays app starting on May 23, 2023. This applies to T-Mobile phone plans and in-home internet subscribers, as well as select Metro by T-Mobile customers. For years now, one of the most
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The internet could soon become a very different place. Continue reading…
Read MoreIllustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge Before TikTok and semiconductors, the US was fighting a war against Chinese telecom. What happened? Continue reading…
Read MoreTCL is dividing this year’s TVs into the Q Class (above) and S Class. | Image: TCL TCL’s latest crop of TVs will begin shipping over the next few weeks. If you didn’t catch the news back at CES, the company is taking a new approach to its naming conventions: the lineup is now split
Read MoreWhen the Space Race kicked off in earnest in the 1950s, in some ways it was hard to pin down where sci-fi began and reality ended. As the first artificial satellites began zipping around the Earth, this was soon followed by manned spaceflight, first in low Earth orbit, then to the Moon with manned spaceflights
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard has been approved by EU regulators just weeks after UK regulators blocked the acquisition. The European Commission has concluded that the deal can pass thanks to commitments from Microsoft related to cloud gaming. The EU found that Microsoft “would have
Read MoreAdam Satariano / New York Times: EU regulators approve Microsoft’s $69B Activision Blizzard deal after the company made concessions over giving rivals access to Call of Duty and other games — The green light follows objections to the blockbuster deal by American and British regulators on the grounds that it would undercut competition.
Read MoreBlockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize how we interact and trust each other by providing a decentralized and transparent platform for secure transactions. In the next decade, the blockchain technology market is expected to skyrocket, growing at an unprecedented CAGR of 87.1% from 2022 to 2030 and reaching a staggering market size of USD
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