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Canada’s Online Streaming Act passes final hurdle in Parliament; it requires streamers to support Canadian content and gives the CRTC regulatory power over them (Mickey Djuric/Canadian Press)

Mickey Djuric / Canadian Press: Canada’s Online Streaming Act passes final hurdle in Parliament; it requires streamers to support Canadian content and gives the CRTC regulatory power over them — OTTAWA – A federal bill that will force digital platforms like Netflix and YouTube to contribute financially to Canadian content is on the cusp of

Dril and AOC are now on Bluesky

“1337” seems appropriate. | Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Two Twitter icons joined Bluesky on Thursday. Dril was first, with AOC joining shortly after. The invite-only decentralized Twitter alternative has been gaining steam in recent days — I’ve seen a lot of people I follow on the bird-themed social network start to show

New Pixel 7a leak shows the phone in Coral for the first time

Credit: Evan Blass A new leak shows the upcoming Pixel 7a in a fourth colorway. The new color is believed to be called Coral. This is the first time a Pixel phone has been offered in four colors. Earlier today, a leak filled in some holes and gave us a full picture the Google Pixel

Now you can pay a monthly fee to un-nerf your electric Mercedes

EQE and EQS electric sedans. | Image: Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz has new finalized pricing on its vexing “Acceleration Increase” subscription revealed last year that can eke out more electric performance — without any physical modification — from the automaker’s current EQE and EQS EV models, Car and Driver reports. The updated Acceleration Increase pricing starts at

Microsoft’s Activision deal is on life support because cloud gaming still sucks

Image: Microsoft Will the UK’s decision be a self-fulfilling prophecy? Continue reading…

Toronto-based Practice Better, which makes client management software for health and wellness professionals, raised $27M led by Five Elms Capital (Meagan Simpson/BetaKit)

Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: Toronto-based Practice Better, which makes client management software for health and wellness professionals, raised $27M led by Five Elms Capital — Practice Better claims to have more than 10,000 customers in more than 70 countries. — Practice Better is the result of its founder …

Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 37% YoY to $290.2M vs. $290.8M est., a $38.1M net loss, and revenue guidance for Q2 and FY 2023 below estimates; NET drops 20%+ (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 37% YoY to $290.2M vs. $290.8M est., a $38.1M net loss, and revenue guidance for Q2 and FY 2023 below estimates; NET drops 20%+ — – Cloudflare issued muted guidance for the upcoming quarter and full-year that sent shares down as much as 25%

YouTube Music is officially rolling out podcasts

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Podcasts have finally started to arrive for YouTube Music users in the US. The change will allow you to tune into podcasts on the YouTube Music app, where you can gain access to on-demand, offline streams that support background listening without a Premium subscription. YouTube first announced that it

Pinterest announces a multi-year strategic ad partnership with Amazon, its first ads partner, to bring more brands and relevant products to the social network (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Pinterest announces a multi-year strategic ad partnership with Amazon, its first ads partner, to bring more brands and relevant products to the social network — Pinterest today announced a multiyear strategic ad partnership with Amazon aimed at bringing more brands and relevant products to its platform.

Clubhouse plans to lay off 50%+ of its employees and “reset” the company, despite claiming to have “years of runway”; Clubhouse had ~100 staff in October 2022 (Ellen Huet/Bloomberg)

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: Clubhouse plans to lay off 50%+ of its employees and “reset” the company, despite claiming to have “years of runway”; Clubhouse had ~100 staff in October 2022 — Clubhouse, the pandemic-era social media sensation, is cutting more than half of its employees, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.

Meta shares are up 170% since bottoming out in November 2022, despite virtually no revenue growth, as investors focus on dramatic cost-cutting efforts (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta shares are up 170% since bottoming out in November 2022, despite virtually no revenue growth, as investors focus on dramatic cost-cutting efforts — – Revenue at Facebook’s parent shrank for three straight quarters before increasing slightly in the latest period, but the stock is soaring.

Microsoft discontinues Microsoft-branded mice, keyboards, and webcams, to focus on its Surface brand for PC accessories; Microsoft’s first mouse debuted in 1983 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft discontinues Microsoft-branded mice, keyboards, and webcams, to focus on its Surface brand for PC accessories; Microsoft’s first mouse debuted in 1983 — Microsoft will no longer manufacture mice, keyboards, and webcams that are Microsoft-branded.

Smooth Animations, Slick Bar Graphs, but No Custom Characters on This 16×2 OLED

Sometimes, finding new ways to use old hardware requires awesome feats of reverse engineering, software sleight of hand, and a healthy dose of good fortune. Other times, though, it’s just as simple as reading the data sheet and paying attention to details. Not that we’re knocking [upir]’s accomplishment with these tricked-out 16×2 OLED displays. Far

Amazon Q1: revenue up 9% YoY to $127.4B, net income of $3.2B, up from $3.8B net loss YoY, AWS revenue up 16% YoY to $21.4B, staff down 10% to 1.5M; AMZN up 10%+ (Amazon)

Amazon: Amazon Q1: revenue up 9% YoY to $127.4B, net income of $3.2B, up from $3.8B net loss YoY, AWS revenue up 16% YoY to $21.4B, staff down 10% to 1.5M; AMZN up 10%+ — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2023.

Clubhouse is laying off more than half of its workforce

Image: Clubhouse Clubhouse, the app that sparked a wave of audio-only features, is laying off over 50 percent of its employees. The app’s co-founders, Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, shared the news in a memo to employees, where they emphasize a need to “reset” the company in a post-covid era. “As the world has opened

Amazon reports Q1 ad services sales up 21% YoY to $9.5B, vs. $9.1B est., subscription services sales up 15% YoY to $9.7B, N. America sales up 11% YoY to $76.9B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon reports Q1 ad services sales up 21% YoY to $9.5B, vs. $9.1B est., subscription services sales up 15% YoY to $9.7B, N. America sales up 11% YoY to $76.9B — – Amazon shares jumped in extended trading after the e-retailer reported first-quarter revenue that topped analysts’ estimates.

Intel reports Q1 revenue down 36% YoY to $11.7B, vs. $11.04B est., its largest ever quarterly loss, and Data Center and AI revenue down 39% YoY to $3.7B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Intel reports Q1 revenue down 36% YoY to $11.7B, vs. $11.04B est., its largest ever quarterly loss, and Data Center and AI revenue down 39% YoY to $3.7B — – Intel reported first-quarter results on Wednesday that showed a staggering 133% annual reduction in earnings per share.

Samsung’s Q1 2023 earnings report wasn’t just bad, it was really bad

Credit: Ryan McLeod / Android Authority Samsung has reported its earnings in the first quarter of 2023. The report reveals that Samsung saw a 95% profit decline. Samsung’s chip division is responsible for a majority of the loss. Times are tough for the smartphone market. Due to factors like inflation, demand is weak at the

Snap reports Q1 revenue down 7% to $989M, vs. $1.01B est., global DAUs up 15% YoY to 383M, vs. 384M est., and a $329M net loss, vs. $360M YoY; SNAP drops 20%+ (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Snap reports Q1 revenue down 7% to $989M, vs. $1.01B est., global DAUs up 15% YoY to 383M, vs. 384M est., and a $329M net loss, vs. $360M YoY; SNAP drops 20%+ — – Snap came in light on revenue and ARPU in its first-quarter earnings report. — The company said

Pinterest Q1: revenue up 5% YoY to $603M, vs. $594M est., global MAUs up 7% YoY to 463M, vs. 454.6M est., and Q2 growth forecast below estimates; PINS down 8%+ (Emily Bary/MarketWatch)

Emily Bary / MarketWatch: Pinterest Q1: revenue up 5% YoY to $603M, vs. $594M est., global MAUs up 7% YoY to 463M, vs. 454.6M est., and Q2 growth forecast below estimates; PINS down 8%+ — Pinterest’s subscriber metrics top expectations in latest quarter — Pinterest Inc. topped earnings, revenue …

Op Amp Challenge: What’s Your Monitor’s Delay?

In the days of CRT displays, the precise synchronization between source and display meant that the time between a video line appearing at the input and the dot writing it to the screen was constant, and very small. Today’s display technologies deliver unimaginable resolutions compared to the TV your family had in the 1970s, but

Washington becomes the first US state to adopt sweeping safeguards for consumer health data, including location records that could reveal abortion clinic visits (Andrea Vittorio/Bloomberg Law)

Andrea Vittorio / Bloomberg Law: Washington becomes the first US state to adopt sweeping safeguards for consumer health data, including location records that could reveal abortion clinic visits — Washington has adopted a first-of-its-kind state law with sweeping safeguards for consumer health data collected by companies …

YouTube Music adds podcasts on Android, iOS, and the web, supporting listening offline, in the background, and casting for all US users, with or without Premium (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: YouTube Music adds podcasts on Android, iOS, and the web, supporting listening offline, in the background, and casting for all US users, with or without Premium — YouTube Music is officially adding podcasts to its platform in the United States on Android, iOS and the web.

Coinbase offers a fiery response to the SEC’s Wells notice from March 2023, saying enforcement action would present “major” risks to the SEC’s regulatory model (CNBC)

CNBC: Coinbase offers a fiery response to the SEC’s Wells notice from March 2023, saying enforcement action would present “major” risks to the SEC’s regulatory model — – Crypto exchange Coinbase told the SEC that any enforcement action against the exchange would “fail on the merits” …

Microsoft is done with major Windows 10 updates

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Windows 10 22H2 will be the final version of the operating system, Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday. Moving forward, all editions of Windows 10 will be supported with monthly security updates until October 14th, 2025, when Microsoft will end support. (Some releases on the Long-Term

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