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Sources: some lawmakers and tech executives like Peter Thiel are mobilizing against China’s involvement in US tech, ahead of the TikTok CEO’s US House testimony (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: Sources: some lawmakers and tech executives like Peter Thiel are mobilizing against China’s involvement in US tech, ahead of the TikTok CEO’s US House testimony — Group to meet ahead of TikTok’s testimony before Congress — A group of Silicon Valley executives, including investor Peter Thiel …

Super Meat Boy is getting a Puyo Puyo-style puzzle spinoff

Image: Team Meat The next title in the ultra-hard Super Meat Boy series is going to be, of all things, a puzzle game. The new game, Dr. Fetus’ Mean Meat Machine, is a match-four puzzler that’s clearly inspired by Sega’s Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine, but it will have some Super Meat Boy-esque flair. “As

Servant’s finale was uncomfortable, confounding, and perfectly fitting

Nell Tiger Free in Servant. | Image: Apple Endings are hard. That’s particularly true for serialized mystery box TV shows, ones where plentiful juicy secrets hook viewers but the answers often fail to satisfy them. Putting a final bow on a story like that is a unique challenge. That’s part of what makes Servant, the

Wahoo! Turns out Chris Pratt can do a Mario voice

Image: Illumination When we first heard Chris Pratt’s Mario voice in the initial trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, it didn’t sound like Charles Martinet’s iconic Mario voice at all. But in a new interview to promote the film, Pratt busted out a Mario voice that actually sounds almost exactly like what you hear

Around 20 investors and founders detail how some solo investors and small VC firms helped startups during the SVB crisis while many big VC firms disappointed (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Around 20 investors and founders detail how some solo investors and small VC firms helped startups during the SVB crisis while many big VC firms disappointed — Covering venture capital, cloud and startups — When founders scrambled to make payroll after the closure of SVB …

Discord is finally adding themes — for Nitro subscribers

Some of the themes available from Discord. | Image: Discord Discord is testing out themes that let you change the app’s UI, giving you the choice of 16 (or maybe 17?) premade color schemes. It’s a long-awaited feature for the app, but the catch is that you have to pay for Discord’s $9.99 monthly Nitro

Amazon’s Swarm is so close to being brilliant

Dominique Fishback as Andrea “Dre” Greene. | Image: Amazon Amazon’s new psychological thriller series from Donald Glover and Janine Nabers is a dark sendup of stan culture, but it’s too caught up in its own obsession with Beyoncé. Continue reading…

11 ways to power up your gaming on the Xbox Series X / S

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge If you own an Xbox Series X or an Xbox Series S, and especially if you just got one, you might not spend a whole lot of time on the menu screens before diving into your games — but there are plenty of useful features and options that

You Don’t Have to Be a Jerk to Resist the Bots

The next phase of tech capitalism will demand more, not less, of your humanity.

Hackaday Podcast 210: Living in the Future, Flipper Mayhem, and Samsung Moons the World

Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams is joined this week by newly minted Development Editor (and definitely not brother) Al Williams to bring you the weekly highlights from our little corner of the Internet. Between the rapidly approaching deadline for the Low-Power Challenge to Samsung creating a fake Moon with artificial intelligence, there’s plenty in the news to

Leaked Samsung Galaxy A24 promo reveals almost everything about the phone

Credit: Gadgety Some promotional renders of the Galaxy A24 have leaked. The renders reveal almost everything about the design. The renders were accompanied by the phone’s specs. On the heels of announcing the Galaxy A54 and A34, Samsung could be getting ready to announce another Galaxy A series phone. That handset could be the budget-friendly

Sources: Twitter explored licensing music rights from three major labels, but negotiations stalled after Musk’s takeover and were abandoned due to costs (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: Twitter explored licensing music rights from three major labels, but negotiations stalled after Musk’s takeover and were abandoned due to costs — Twitter didn’t move forward with the music licensing deals because of costs, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Sources: Coinbase is exploring setting up a new crypto-trading platform overseas for global clients, amid increased US scrutiny (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Coinbase is exploring setting up a new crypto-trading platform overseas for global clients, amid increased US scrutiny — Institutional clients of Coinbase Global Inc. have been contacted by the firm about plans to potentially set up a new crypto-trading platform overseas …

The Singularity Isn’t Here… Yet

So, GPT-4 is out, and it’s all over for us meatbags. Hype has reached fever pitch, here in the latest and greatest of AI chatbots we finally have something that can surpass us. The singularity has happened, and personally I welcome our new AI overlords. Hang on a minute though, I smell a rat, and

Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 battery sizes revealed in new listing

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority A regulator in China has listed the battery capacities of the Galaxy Watch 6 and the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic. The largest variants of both models will share the same battery. The new battery is a 5% improvement over the Galaxy Watch 5. Previous leaks have suggested that the

Creating GIFs For The Channels Between Channels

In the United States, analog TV broadcasting officially ended in 2009. While the transition wasn’t without hiccups, we did lose something along the way. For [Emily Velasco], she misses the channels between channels — where an analog TV isn’t quite tuned right and the image is smeared and distorted. A recent bug in one of

Meta rolls out Verified in the US for $12/month on web or $15 on iOS/Android, with a blue badge, proactive impersonation protection, and direct customer support (Kris Holt/Engadget)

Kris Holt / Engadget: Meta rolls out Verified in the US for $12/month on web or $15 on iOS/Android, with a blue badge, proactive impersonation protection, and direct customer support — Meta’s paid verification program is available in the US starting today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Instagram channel.

Facebook and Instagram’s paid verification launches in the US

Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s paid verification system for Facebook and Instagram is now rolling out in the US, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday. First introduced in Australia and New Zealand in February, “Meta Verified” gets you benefits like a blue verification badge, proactive impersonation protections, and direct access to customer support.

How Ted Lasso could be the key to unlocking the United States’ soccer potential

Ted Lasso has become a cultural phenomenon, and it could be the key to bringing more eyes to soccer in the United States.

Siri vs ChatGPT: Where one falls down, the other excels

ChatGPT is everywhere right now, but how does it really compare with Apple’s ever-willing Siri?

Microsoft’s new Copilot will change Office documents forever

Microsoft’s new Copilot feature overhauls Microsoft 365 apps and services. | Image: Microsoft Copilot is more than just a chatbot. Microsoft is slowly building an AI assistant that it has dreamed about for years. Continue reading…

YouTube lifts restrictions, imposed after the January 6 insurrection, on Trump’s channel after evaluating the “continued risk of real-world violence” (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sara Fischer / Axios: YouTube lifts restrictions, imposed after the January 6 insurrection, on Trump’s channel after evaluating the “continued risk of real-world violence” — YouTube will lift its restrictions on former President Trump’s channel Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.

Donald Trump is no longer banned on YouTube

Photo: Getty Images YouTube has lifted restrictions on former President Donald Trump’s YouTube account. YouTube announced on Twitter that the channel is no longer restricted and can upload new material. “We carefully evaluated the continued risk of real-world violence, while balancing the chance for voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run

Xiaomi has a serious problem on its hands, according to this data

Credit: Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority The Xiaomi market share in India has dropped to a new low. Samsung is now the top player in India, with data suggesting it will hold that crown going forward. India is Xiaomi’s second-most important market (after China), and it has been the top dog there in almost every

How to Recognize and Manage Burnout Symptoms as a Startup Entrepreneur

Startup entrepreneurs get to live independently, set their own hours, and work to achieve their own goals. But that freedom also comes with an overwhelming amount of responsibility. Experiencing burnout as an entrepreneur has become relatively common, and if you’re not careful, it could affect the way you do business — and how you live

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