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At an all-hands last week, Sundar Pichai defended Google Cloud’s new desk-sharing policy; an exec says ~35% of staff are in the office at least four days a week (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: At an all-hands last week, Sundar Pichai defended Google Cloud’s new desk-sharing policy; an exec says ~35% of staff are in the office at least four days a week — – Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed employee criticism of the cloud unit’s new desk-sharing policy at an all-hands meeting last week.

Source: Twitter broke on Monday after the only site reliability engineer assigned to the project for migrating to a paid API made a “bad configuration change” (Platformer)

Platformer: Source: Twitter broke on Monday after the only site reliability engineer assigned to the project for migrating to a paid API made a “bad configuration change” — The high cost of cutting expenses — Twitter’s website is breaking in novel new ways — and while the company managed …

Sources: The White House has given feedback on a draft bipartisan bill and is considering asking Congress for more legal powers to police apps like TikTok (David McCabe/New York Times)

David McCabe / New York Times: Sources: The White House has given feedback on a draft bipartisan bill and is considering asking Congress for more legal powers to police apps like TikTok — In a strategy shift, the Biden administration is increasingly pointing to Congress to give it more legal power to deal with TikTok

Apple to Launch New iMac With M3 SoC This Year

(Credit: PCMag)Apple’s elves are reportedly working on a slew of new Macs for 2023. The company is churning out computers with its “stopgap” M2 silicon. That word is used because the M1 and M2 are manufactured on TSMC’s 5nm process. The M3, however, will likely be fittingly named as it will be a 3nm product.

Troy Baker doesn’t really think The Last of Us has villains

Troy Baker as James in The Last of Us. | HBO Even now, The Last of Us’ Troy Baker is still learning new things about the franchise’s characters, like cannibal cultist James from episode 8, When We Are in Need. Continue reading…

Samsung’s 43-inch Mini LED Neo G7 comes in at $999.99

It’s a big screen. | Image: Samsung Samsung has announced that its Odyssey Neo G7 monitor, which it revealed earlier this year, will cost $999.99 and is available today. For the money, you’ll be getting a 43-inch 4K Mini LED display that can run at 144Hz along with Samsung’s Smart Hub software that lets you

The new Google Docs and Drive UI starts rolling out today

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google has started to roll out an updated UI for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides that’s meant to fit in with its Material Design 3 language. The apps still work the same way they used to, but Google writes in an announcement post that they should now be

Evolution Came Before Life, Research on Ancient Proteins Suggests

(Credit: Alphabet/DeepMind)Today, Earth is teeming with life, but go back 4 billion years, and our planet was barren. Then, suddenly, it wasn’t. The chemical origins of life are still murky, but scientists from Johns Hopkins University and other institutions may be closer to understanding them. This international team created a simulated prebiotic Earth environment to

How a single engineer brought down Twitter

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s website is breaking in novel new ways — and while the company managed to recover from its latest outage within a couple of hours, the story behind how it broke suggests there are likely to be similar problems in the near future. On Monday morning, Twitter users logged

Sources: White House has given feedback on a draft bipartisan bill and is considering asking Congress to give it more legal powers to police apps like TikTok (David McCabe/New York Times)

David McCabe / New York Times: Sources: White House has given feedback on a draft bipartisan bill and is considering asking Congress to give it more legal powers to police apps like TikTok — In a strategy shift, the Biden administration is increasingly pointing to Congress to give it more legal power to deal with

Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free to use, no longer requiring an Office license or a Microsoft 365 subscription (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free to use, no longer requiring an Office license or a Microsoft 365 subscription — Microsoft is making Outlook for Mac free to use today. … It’s a surprise move that coincides with Microsoft’s push to make its Windows desktop Outlook email client more web-powered.

Police raid homes of alleged hackers who attacked hospital systems

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge German and Ukrainian police raided the homes of individuals linked to a prominent cybercrime group that stole millions from large companies and organizations over the course of several years. The authorities worked with Europol and the FBI last month to investigate the residences of members of the

What Does an Electron Look Like?

In school, you probably learned that an atom was like a little solar system with the nucleus as the sun and electrons as the planets. The problem is, as [The Action Lab] points out, the math tells us that if this simplistic model was accurate, matter would be volatile. According to the video you can

Why Your Professional Services Firm Shouldn’t Aspire to Be a SaaS Company

When I talk to founders of service firms, many of them express the same desire to me: They want to become software companies. They see SaaS companies taking the world by storm, and they wonder if they haven’t made a giant mistake not choosing that path. They see the valuations of SaaS firms and get

As Biden upholds a ruling, an Apple Watch ban is a step closer in the U.S.

While the ITC’s decision was upheld, it’s more likely that AliveCor is angling for a deal from Apple.

Twitter’s busted again

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s having some problems — just before noon ET on Monday, clicking links within tweets isn’t working, and for many people, the timeline is full of images that won’t load. Trying to click a link leads to an error message that says “your current API plan does not include

Some Twitter services were down, like loading images and TweetDeck; clicking a link in a tweet gave the error “your current API plan does not include access” (Kris Holt/Engadget)

Kris Holt / Engadget: Some Twitter services were down, like loading images and TweetDeck; clicking a link in a tweet gave the error “your current API plan does not include access” — Links and images were completely busted on Twitter for a spell on Monday across the company’s website and mobile apps.

Twitter down again, for the second time in two weeks

Many Twitter users are seeing no pictures, and external links aren’t working either – a second outage in a fortnight.

Nvidia 16 and 30 Series GPUs Receive Small Price Cuts

Before Nvidia launched its Ada Lovelace 40-series GPUs, it stated it would continue to sell Ampere alongside it. This was a new thing for Nvidia but also necessary because Ada launched right when crypto was drying up. That meant the market was flooded with new and used Ampere GPUs. It was also only launching its

What’s Going To Happen To Legacy Broadcast Bands When The Lights Go Out?

Our smartphones have become our constant companions over the last decade, and it’s often said that they have been such a success because they’ve absorbed the features of so many of the other devices we used to carry. PDA? Check. Pager? Check. Flashlight? Check. Camera? Check. MP3 player? Of course, and the list goes on.

The MLS 360 show is another reason to subscribe to Apple TV Plus

MLS 360 was previously locked behind Season Pass, now it’s now free for all Apple TV Plus subscribers.

Now the Florida GOP wants political bloggers to register with the government

Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images Florida has been a hotbed of government speech regulations under Governor Ron DeSantis, who has lately even taken to saying he will control Disney’s content. So it’s not surprising to see other Republican lawmakers in the state take broader shots at the First Amendment — but I was

How to Improve Your Cement Business’s Customer Service Through AI

More than almost any other industry, concrete and cement drive jobs and infrastructure. About 7.7 million people were employed in construction as of September 2022. That number is only growing: On a year-over-year basis, industry employment increased by 4.2% (or 311,000 jobs) in July 2022, according to an analysis from the Associated Builders and Contractors. The housing, transportation, and manufacturing

Apple blocks ChatGPT-powered email app from the App Store over content rules

Apple has blocked a ChatGPT-powered BlueMail app update because it says it could generate content not suitable for kids.

Huawei allegedly caught tracking MWC 2023 visitors at its exhibit

Credit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority MWC 2023 attendees who visited Huawei’s booth were required to carry a badge and lanyard given to them when entering and had to return the items when leaving. Some of the visitors left with the badges and noticed there was fine print on the back of the badge. The

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