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Google launches an Ads Transparency Center, showing all the ads from verified advertisers on its platforms, in the formats, the regions, and the dates they ran (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches an Ads Transparency Center, showing all the ads from verified advertisers on its platforms, in the formats, the regions, and the dates they ran — Google is launching a new ad transparency center that will let users search for verified advertisers and their campaigns across …

Docs: investments in 4chan include $800K from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, $4.8M from his company, and $2.4M from Tokyo-based Good Smile, which makes Disney toys (Justin Ling/Wired)

Justin Ling / Wired: Docs: investments in 4chan include $800K from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, $4.8M from his company, and $2.4M from Tokyo-based Good Smile, which makes Disney toys — Documents obtained by WIRED confirm that Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investor in the controversial image board.

YES Network’s new subscription will let you watch Yankees games without cable

Image: Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Yankee Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network, a regional channel that broadcasts games from the New York Yankees, Brooklyn Nets, and the New York Liberty, is introducing a direct subscription so that you don’t need to have cable to watch the channel. The new direct subscription will be

Seattle’s new law gives gig workers paid sick time off

Image: David Becker/Getty Images for Nightclub & Bar Media Group Seattle is making sure that some gig workers will be guaranteed rights that have generally only been available to traditional employees. This week, the city’s council passed legislation that requires app-based delivery companies like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Instacart to provide paid sick time off

As Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and others cut their responsible AI teams, experts worry about potential abuses, disinformation, and hallucination (Financial Times)

Financial Times: As Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and others cut their responsible AI teams, experts worry about potential abuses, disinformation, and hallucination — Microsoft, Amazon and Google among those to cut ‘responsible AI’ teams as part of broader reductions

Adult Swim’s starting an hour earlier as Warner Bros. Discovery makes a play for older viewers

Tseng from Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. | Image: Adult Swim Though it once seemed as if Cartoon Network might end up taking quite a bit of damage as a consequence of Warner Bros.’ merger with Discovery, Adult Swim president Michael Ouweleen says that’s far from the case as the network gears up to expand its adult-oriented

Sources: Gemini is preparing to launch an international crypto derivatives exchange to offer perpetual futures, which US regulations prohibit for retail traders (Akash Pasricha/The Information)

Akash Pasricha / The Information: Sources: Gemini is preparing to launch an international crypto derivatives exchange to offer perpetual futures, which US regulations prohibit for retail traders — Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has been gearing up to launch an international cryptocurrency …

Stripped Clock Wheel Gets a New Set of Teeth, the Hard Way

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from [Chris] at Clickspring, it’s that a clockmaker will stop at nothing to make a clock not only work perfectly, but look good doing it. That includes measures as extreme as this complete re-toothing of a wheel from a clock. Is re-toothing even a word? The obsessive horologist in

EA plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce and cut its office space, incurring $170M to $200M in restructuring charges; EA had nearly 13,000 employees in mid-2022 (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)

Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: EA plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce and cut its office space, incurring $170M to $200M in restructuring charges; EA had nearly 13,000 employees in mid-2022 — Publisher of ‘Madden NFL’ and other videogame series is also making office-space reductions — White-Collar Recession: Why Job Cuts

NYC-based LeapXpert, which monitors staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, and iMessage for compliance, raised a $22M Series A+ led by Rockefeller (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: NYC-based LeapXpert, which monitors staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, and iMessage for compliance, raised a $22M Series A+ led by Rockefeller — The pandemic brought with it a spike in work-from-home and hybrid work, which increased peoples’ dependence on personal devices …

EA is laying off 6 percent of its workers

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Electronic Arts is laying off around 6 percent of its workforce, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. In a blog post published on Wednesday, EA CEO Andrew Wilson says the job cuts come as the game publisher looks to reevaluate its investment strategy and reduce office space. “As

Here’s where you can preorder Nintendo’s Zelda-inspired Switch OLED

The Nintendo Switch OLED Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Edition is available to preorder for $359.99. | Image: Nintendo After months of rumors, Nintendo has finally confirmed it’s releasing a Zelda-inspired Nintendo Switch OLED on April 28th. The special-edition console will retail for $359.99 and commemorates one of this year’s most anticipated video games, The

Paris-based Glopal, which helps e-commerce merchants sell globally through localization, marketing, logistics, and payments services, raised a €20M Series A (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Paris-based Glopal, which helps e-commerce merchants sell globally through localization, marketing, logistics, and payments services, raised a €20M Series A — The Series A funding round is aimed at helping the Parisian startup expand operations in both Europe and the US.

Finally, a Logitech name-brand headset for little school kids

When my six-year-old’s teacher told us we had to buy her a wired headset for school, I must have spent an entire hour doomscrolling Amazon reviews. Normal headsets wouldn’t fit, and every option for younger kids was from an alphabet soup brand of dubious quality — they felt like so much of a gamble that

MOSFET Heater Is Its Own Thermostat

While we might all be quick to grab a microcontroller and an appropriate sensor to solve some problem, gather data about a system, or control another piece of technology, there are some downsides with this method. Software has a lot of failure modes, and relying on it without any backups or redundancy can lead to

Disney just laid off the guy it bought Marvel from… but that’s probably a good thing

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Disney has laid off Marvel Entertainment chair Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter as part of its layoffs affecting 7,000 workers, according to a report from The New York Times. Perlmutter, who’s been a Marvel executive since 1993 and joined Disney when Marvel was acquired in 2009, is a divisive figure. Perlmutter

T-Mobile customers can now use Alexa to make hands-free calls

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority T-Mobile has made it possible for its customers to make and receive calls through Alexa. The feature arrives as a new T-Mobile Alexa Skill that links your number to your Alexa account. Hands-free calling on Alexa will be free for T-Mobile customers. Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa, has the ability

Apple’s WWDC 2023 kicks off on June 5th

Image: Apple Apple has announced that its Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, will begin on June 5th. The full event will run from June 5th through June 9th in an online format, but like last year, there will be an in-person experience at Apple Park on the first day of the show. Susan Prescott, Apple’s

vivo X Fold 2 launch could be as soon as next month

Credit: Vivo The launch of the vivo X Fold 2 was teased in a Weibo post. Based on the social post, the book-style foldable could launch in April. The device is described as being “light and thin.” Yesterday, it was discovered through a Google Play certification listing that vivo intends to launch a vivo X

Unicorn: Warriors Eternal looks like Genndy Tartakovsky’s most epic series yet

There might not have been all that much noise being made about Adult Swim’s upcoming series Unicorn: Warriors Eternal from creator Genndy Tartakovsky, but the animated series’ action-packed first trailer might just change that. Set in a world that’s been plagued by a malevolent presence since the dawn of time, Unicorn: Warriors Eternal tells the

Here’s what’s new in iOS 16.5, iPadOS 16.5, macOS 13.4, watchOS 9.5, and tvOS 16.5

Apple has released the first betas of the next round of iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV software updates.

Danganronpa’s creator wants to make detective games more approachable

Master Detective Archives: Rain Code. | Image: Spike Chunsoft While detective stories are a mainstay in the worlds of film, television, and literature, they’re comparatively niche when it comes to video games. And with a few notable exceptions, the most beloved detective games tend to be visual novels. Kazutaka Kodaka loves detective stories and is

5 Essential Benefits of Choosing an Efficient ERP System

The corporate world is changing at a fast pace, and advanced technologies such as ERP system is at the epicenter of the ongoing digital revolution. Businesses are more dependent on technological tools and enterprise software than ever before. In fact, these tools and software are enabling businesses to drive greater success by enhancing business processes.

UK-based Fetch.ai, which develops infrastructure to help “build, deploy, and connect smart agents to automate Web3 systems”, raised $40M from DWF Labs (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK-based Fetch.ai, which develops infrastructure to help “build, deploy, and connect smart agents to automate Web3 systems”, raised $40M from DWF Labs — AI is riding high on a curve of hype, which means some of the practical questions that might grow louder over time …

Apple announces WWDC 2023 will be held from June 5 to June 9 as a virtual event, with a keynote event on June 5 (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple announces WWDC 2023 will be held from June 5 to June 9 as a virtual event, with a keynote event on June 5 — Apple today announced that its 34th annual Worldwide Developers Conference will take place from Monday, June 5 to Friday, June 9. Like WWDC 2020, 2021, and

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