Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has a new CEO, and it’s NBCUniversal’s former advertising executive Linda Yaccarino. Elon Musk announced her appointment in a tweet, saying she “will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology.” “I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On April 20th, as Twitter finally lived up to its longstanding promise to abolish legacy verified accounts, many users started categorizing the last remaining “blue checks.” There were the Elon fanboys, who angrily badgered formerly verified users about their unwillingness to pay $8 a month for a new
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: Google Bard, which expanded to 180 countries, is not available in the EU and Canada; Google says it will be made available “consistent with local regulations” — Yesterday at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Google Bard would be undergoing a massive expansion, bringing the AI chatbot experiment to 180
Read MoreImage: Will Joel We found a wide range of gifts that’ll help graduates as they embark upon their next adventure, whether that’s college or a career. Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: Teenage Engineering Would you pay $1,499 for a dictaphone? What if it’s a really fancy dictaphone with a spinning “tape” reel? The folks over at Swedish electronics company Teenage Engineering certainly believe there’s a market by announcing the TP-7 field recorder — a quirky, compact recording device designed to capture audio “with zero friction
Read MoreA bizarre Facebook bug is sending friend request alerts without user input. The friend requests are sent just by viewing another profile. Meta has yet to acknowledge the issue. Yikes. If you’re in the habit of stalking profiles on Facebook you might want to respect people’s privacy for a little bit. According to many reports
Read MoreImage: Square Enix Even Naoki Yoshida cannot resist the allure of Zelda. Yoshida is a busy, busy man. Not only is he in the middle of a press tour promoting the soon-to-be-out Final Fantasy XVI, but he’s also working on the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV. Naturally, that leaves him little time for personal
Read MoreKim Woo-bin in Black Knight. | Image: Netflix Two of the most defining pieces of postapocalyptic storytelling from the last decade are Mad Max: Fury Road and Death Stranding; one imagines a future of vehicular mayhem across a desolate desert, while the other is a strange exploration of just how important home deliveries will be
Read MorePeople view a Tesla electric car in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang province, April 17th, 2023. | Photo by CFOTO / Future Publishing via Getty Images Tesla said that it would push an over-the-air software update to 1.1 million vehicles in China in response to a braking and acceleration problem, multiple outlets are reporting. China’s market
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The PlayStation VR2 may be leashed by a USB cable, but Sony is finally untethering its sales exclusivity hold on the virtual reality headset. After a low-key Twitter announcement that the PSVR 2 is coming to third-party vendors, the headset can now be purchased at Amazon, Best
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Sources: Byju’s raised $250M and is close to raising $700M at the $22B valuation that it has maintained throughout 2022, ahead of its subsidiary Aakash’s IPO — Byju’s has raised $250 million and is close to securing about $700 million more, two people familiar with the matter said …
Read MoreScreenshot taken from the Google I/O 2023 keynote replay The single most visited page on the internet is undergoing its most radical change in 25 years. On Wednesday, Google introduced a major overhaul of its search results page that infuses the screen with AI. Called the Search Generative Experience (SGE), the new interface makes it
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On April 20th, as Twitter finally lived up to its longstanding promise to abolish legacy verified accounts, many users started categorizing the last remaining “blue checks.” There were the Elon fanboys, who angrily badgered formerly verified users about their unwillingness to pay $8 a month for a new
Read MoreFinancial Times: Document: the EU plans a €45M internet cable in the Black Sea to improve connectivity to Georgia and reduce its “dependency” on lines running through Russia — Move to improve connectivity to Georgia amid global concerns over spying and sabotage
Read MoreAndrew Rummer / The Block: Local media: a Montenegro court plans to release Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon from jail after accepting a €400,000 bail, pending a trial — – Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon is set to be freed from jail pending trial after a court agreed to a €400,000 ($436,000) bail …
Read MoreNew York Times: A look at China’s plans to “de-Americanize” its domestic chip industry, seven months after US curbs started, using billions in cash from Beijing and investors — Seven months after Washington unveiled tough curbs, Chinese companies are doubling down on homegrown supply chains …
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Read MoreJust as the first iPhone reviews mostly missed the device’s huge potential, it’s folly to draw conclusions from today’s unrefined technology.
Read MoreImage: Nintendo It’s never easy to follow up a beloved device, especially when it’s one that managed to fuse ancient technology with a modern-day phablet. But the Purah Pad — a spiritual successor to the Sheikah Slate — manages to add more utility to a device that already let you control physics. It still doesn’t
Read MoreThe thing people used before they used the iPhone gets the Social Network treatment in Jay Baruchel and Glen Howerton’s new movie.
Read MoreTaking over the rest of the world is another matter.
Read MoreJack Schickler / CoinDesk: A draft bill shows the EU plans to force crypto firms to give tax authorities details of their clients’ holdings, which can be shared within the 27-nation bloc — Laws set to be agreed next week would require crypto companies to register with tax authorities, even if they’re based outside the
Read MoreJadeja (pictured) is expected to take over from current CEO Nicolo Laurent by the end of 2023. | Image: Riot Games Nicolo Laurent is stepping down from his role as CEO of Riot Games and will be succeeded by the company’s current global president, Dylan Jadeja, according to an official statement issued by Riot. Laurent
Read MoreUnreal Engine 5.2 now natively supports chips such as M1, A16 and more — and it’s interesting timing with WWDC coming up.
Read MoreAidan Ryan / The Information: Sources: Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao are exploring ways to cut Zhao’s majority stake in the company, hoping to improve Binance’s standing before US regulators — Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao, the crypto exchange’s founder, majority owner and chair, have been exploring ways to reduce …
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