Blocking unwanted emails in Microsoft Outlook can help you reduce clutter in your inbox and protect your privacy from spam. Whether using the Outlook app on your desktop or the web version, blocking emails from specific senders is straightforward. Here’s everything you need to know. Read more: How to forward Outlook emails to Gmail automatically
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The developer preview of Android 14 has rolled out. Android 14 DP1 has a hidden “apps installed in the background” menu. The feature lists every app installed in the background and allows you to delete them. If there’s anything we can all agree on, it’s that bloatware can be
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The latest Nintendo Direct had all the big names — well, aside from Mario. But we got a fresh trailer for the next Zelda game, a surprise launch of the original Metroid Prime, a release date for Pikmin 4, and the addition of Game Boy games to the
Read MoreManya Saini / Reuters: Robinhood reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $380M, net loss down 61% YoY to $166M, MAUs down by 0.8M QoQ to 11.4M, and full-year revenue down 25% YoY to $1.36B — Robinhood Markets Inc (HOOD.O) reported a 5% rise in fourth-quarter revenue on Wednesday, as interest income surged at the
Read MoreLauren Feiner / CNBC: Affirm reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $400M, vs. $416M est., net loss up 102% YoY to $322.4M, and lays off 19% of its workforce; AFRM drops 16%+ after hours — Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT — Affirm announced its cutting 19% of its workforce as it reported second
Read MoreAllyson Versprille / Bloomberg: Source: the SEC is investigating if crypto exchange Kraken offered unregistered securities in the US; the probe could lead to a settlement in the coming days — Kraken, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is embroiled in a probe by a top US financial regulator over whether …
Read MoreCNBC: Robinhood plans to buy up to 55M shares, or 7%+ of the company’s outstanding shares, that Sam Bankman-Fried bought in 2022 and the US DOJ seized in January 2023 — – Robinhood’s board has approved a plan to purchase Sam Bankman-Fried’s shares in the company, which amount to more than a 7% stake.
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Google releases the first Android 14 developer preview, for Pixel phones, offering multi-device experiences, customization features, security changes, and more — Google announced the Android 14 Developer Preview today. The February release was expected and matches last year, while it comes as 13 QPR2 is still in beta.
Read MoreBiden’s speech calling for better data protections got a standing ovation from both sides of the aisle. So, where’s a federal privacy law?
Read MoreElectronic arcs can be made to “sing” if you simply modulate them on and off at audible frequencies. We’ve seen it done with single Tesla coils, and even small Tesla choirs, but [Mattias Krantz] took this to extremes by building an entire “plasma piano” using this very technique. The build relies on ten transformers more
Read MorePhoto: Blizzard The sixth season of the Overwatch League will be its biggest yet, literally. With Overwatch 2 in its first full year and finally in the hands of players worldwide, the League is making sweeping changes to accompany this new state of things. To start, the Philadelphia Fusion and the Paris Eternal are no
Read MoreOver the past few years, privacy has become a hot-button topic–and it’s only accelerating, with all the recent news about Google, Meta, and even Apple allegedly gathering information on users surreptitiously. On the operating system front, Windows 10 was already seen as a somewhat invasive OS compared with its predecessors. Now that Windows 11 is
Read MoreAndrew Asmakov / Decrypt: Chiliz, the crypto startup behind fan token service Socios, launches its Layer 1 blockchain Chiliz Chain 2.0, a BNB Chain fork, shifting away from Ethereum — Marking its fifth anniversary, sports-focused crypto startup Chiliz has officially unveiled its own layer-1 EVM-compatible blockchain.
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Internal memo: Apple names Carol Surface as its first chief people officer, shifting human resources responsibilities away from SVP of Retail Deirdre O’Brien — Apple Inc. is hiring its first chief people officer and removing human resources responsibilities from its head of retail …
Read MoreCredit: Chase Bernath / Android Authority Visible is launching a new program called Visible Impacts. Connection Protection will be a part of the Visible Impacts program. Connection Protection promises to cover up to three months of phone bills for those who are laid off. In a time when various sectors are seeing layoffs left and
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: Google confirms that AI-generated content isn’t against its Search guidelines, but using AI content to manipulate search results ranking violates its policies — AI is set to change the game in some big ways in the near future, and AI-generated content is one of the more controversial elements.
Read MoreZoom was a pandemic star. It’s the latest tech company to find that status isn’t sustainable.
Read MoreImage: Ramin Talaie / Getty Images Clay Bavor, Google’s vice president of its forward-looking Labs division, is leaving the company to found an AI startup, as announced in a post on Bavor’s LinkedIn on Wednesday. Longtime Verge readers may recognize Bavor as the face of many of Google’s virtual reality and augmented reality plans, including
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Instagram expands Gifts, a monetization feature that lets fans tip Reels creators using its virtual currency Stars, to more US creators, after a test in 2022 — Instagram announced today it’s expanding access to a new monetization feature called Gifts to more creators across the U.S. The feature …
Read MoreGiving you more control over your “taste profile.” | Image: Spotify Spotify is rolling out a feature that will let you tell it to ignore music in certain playlists when it’s deciding what type of music you like. The feature is called Exclude From Your Taste Profile, and the company is pitching it as a
Read MoreI had the opportunity to speak with Chad Bockert and Carolyn Henry about WWT and Intel’s long-standing partnership. During the conversation, we talked about how their shared cultures — and the actions both organizations have taken over the years — have influenced their organization’s brand messages. Since its inception, WWT has thrived on a culture of innovation and change,
Read MoreOwen Wilson in Paint. | Image: IFC Films First, Daniel Radcliffe took on the role of Weird Al. Now, Owen Wilson is doing the same for Bob Ross — kind of. The first trailer for Paint shows Wilson playing a very Bob Ross-like character, right down to the large hair and calming asides. But the
Read MoreIn July 2022, we announced our acceptance into the prestigious Intel’s Disruptor Initiative as a Gold Status Partner. The Disruptor Initiative is concentrated on delivering best-in-class, AI, and data-centric enterprise use cases. Intel also recently joined SingleStore in the launch of our new partner marketplace: SingleStore Connect. As a launch partner of the Fourth Gen Xeon Scalable Processor, SingleStore is
Read MoreIntel® recently announced their 4th generation Xeon® processor, codenamed “Sapphire Rapids” — a powerful and diverse compute engine with more built-in accelerators than any other CPU in the market. Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with built-in accelerators boost performance and efficiency without the need for additional CPU cores or dedicated hardware. As a gold status partner in
Read MoreBrian Fung / CNN: NetBlocks: Turkish ISPs limit Twitter access two days after a major earthquake; Turkish police detain 18 people for sharing “provocative posts” on social media — Access to Twitter has been restricted in Turkey, according to reports by an internet monitoring company …
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