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YouTube Shorts has surpassed 50B daily views, up from 30B in April 2022; YouTube began sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators starting February 1 (Thomas Maxwell/Insider)

Thomas Maxwell / Insider: YouTube Shorts has surpassed 50B daily views, up from 30B in April 2022; YouTube began sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators starting February 1 — – YouTube Shorts now sees more than 50 billion daily views, up from 30 billion the year prior. — The short-form video format was launched in

TikTok’s transparency theater

One of the displays inside TikTok’s Transparency and Accountability Center in Los Angeles. | Photo by Allison Zaucha for The Verge What I observed during a recent visit to TikTok’s first transparency center. Continue reading…

Google is holding an event about search and AI on February 8th

Illustration: The Verge Google is about to share more about its work in artificial intelligence. Next week, Google will be holding an event about how it’s “using the power of AI to reimagine how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you

Sundar Pichai says Google will make LLMs like LaMDA available “in the coming weeks and months”, and users will be able to use them “as a companion to search” (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Sundar Pichai says Google will make LLMs like LaMDA available “in the coming weeks and months”, and users will be able to use them “as a companion to search” — Google parent Alphabet Inc. reported fourth-quarter results that narrowly missed analysts’ expectations …

The Xbox 360 store won’t be closing down, despite what an Xbox support page says

An Xbox 360 and a Kinect. | Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Microsoft will not be closing down the Xbox 360 Marketplace, the company tells The Verge, even though text on an official Xbox support page indicated that was the plan. Earlier this week, Microsoft said that it would be pulling many beloved

A former employee of IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti pleaded guilty to stealing gigabytes of confidential data in December 2020 and extorting the company for ransom (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: A former employee of IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti pleaded guilty to stealing gigabytes of confidential data in December 2020 and extorting the company for ransom — Nickolas Sharp, a former Ubiquiti employee who managed the networking device maker’s cloud team, pled guilty today …

Twitter ending free API access could have the unfortunate side effect of effectively killing off many useful bots like @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, and more (BuzzFeed News)

BuzzFeed News: Twitter ending free API access could have the unfortunate side effect of effectively killing off many useful bots like @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, and more — “I’m not paying a dime to Elon lol.” — Pranav Dixit — One of the most popular bots on Twitter is @MakeItAQuote, which has more than 565,000 followers.

Google is holding an event about search and AI on February 8th

Twitter ending free API access could have the unfortunate side effect of effectively killing off many useful bots like @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, and more (BuzzFeed News)

Sources: US prosecutors in the DOJ’s fraud unit are investigating California-based bank Silvergate over hosting accounts tied to FTX and Alameda Research (Tom Schoenberg/Bloomberg)

Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg: Sources: US prosecutors in the DOJ’s fraud unit are investigating California-based bank Silvergate over hosting accounts tied to FTX and Alameda Research — US prosecutors in the Justice Department’s fraud unit are looking into Silvergate Capital Corp.’s dealings with fallen crypto giants FTX …

Apple reports Q1 Services revenue up 6% YoY to $20.8B and says its install base crossed 2B active devices, up from 1.8B devices the company reported in Q1 2022 (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac)

Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: Apple reports Q1 Services revenue up 6% YoY to $20.8B and says its install base crossed 2B active devices, up from 1.8B devices the company reported in Q1 2022 — Along with reporting its quarterly performance, Apple shared the latest details on how many of its devices are currently active.

Leaked Xperia 1 V image may give us our first look at Sony’s next flagship

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority An image of what’s believed to be the Xperia 1 V has leaked online. Sony’s next flagship phone appears to lose the ToF camera and the RGB IR sensor. The Xperia 1 V could be announced at MWC Barcelona 2023. Unlike Samsung or Google, Sony has done a pretty

Go 1.20 previews profile-guided optimization

Go 1.20, an upgrade to the Google-developed open source language known for its simplicity, concurrency, and functional programming features, has arrived in a production release. The new version previews profile-guided optimization (PGO) for the compiler. Announced February 1, Go 1.20 can be downloaded from go.dev. With Go 1.20, preview support for PGO enables the compiler

It sounds like Google’s getting ready to compete with ChatGPT

Illustration: The Verge Google may be gearing up to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT by letting people “interact directly” with its “newest, most powerful language models as a companion to search,” according to CEO Sundar Pichai. It would be a big move for the company — as systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E have gone viral, Google

Apple reports Q1 revenue in Greater China fell 7.3% YoY to $23.9B, revenue in Japan fell 5% to $6.8B, and revenue in the rest of Asia-Pacific fell 2.8% to $9.5B (Yifan Yu/Nikkei Asia)

Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asia: Apple reports Q1 revenue in Greater China fell 7.3% YoY to $23.9B, revenue in Japan fell 5% to $6.8B, and revenue in the rest of Asia-Pacific fell 2.8% to $9.5B — Greater China took biggest hit with a 7.3% revenue drop — PALO ALTO, U.S. — Apple on Thursday reported

Building An All-in-One Desktop Out Of Framework Parts

The Framework laptop prides itself on having reusable parts, and hackers all around routinely challenge the claims by building projects reusing them. Yet again, [whatthefilament] puts the Framework hardware to the test, by taking all the laptop internals and building an AiO (All-in-One) desktop computer with it. Hot on the heels of his Framework tablet

Tim Cook says iPhone revenue would have grown without supply constraints, currency fluctuations were a challenge, and layoffs are a “last resort kind of thing” (Aaron Tilley/Wall Street Journal)

Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: Tim Cook says iPhone revenue would have grown without supply constraints, currency fluctuations were a challenge, and layoffs are a “last resort kind of thing” — Revenue in holiday quarter fell for the iPhone maker for the first time in nearly four years

Apple reports Q1 Services revenue up 6% YoY to $20.8B and says its install base crossed 2B active devices, up from 1.8B devices the company reported in Q1 2022 (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac)

Qualcomm predicts ‘broadening demand weakness’ for phones

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Qualcomm thinks the world won’t be buying very many Qualcomm phones in the first half of this year. On today’s Q1 2023 earnings call, the company says it sees “broadening demand weakness among handsets and IoT products” and expects its customers simply won’t bother shipping as many phones

Apple surpasses 2 billion active devices

Illustration: The Verge Apple has reached a new milestone on how many people are actively using iPhones, iPads, Macs, and its other hardware products: 2 billion. The number highlights fast growth for the company, which hit 1.5 billion active devices at the start of 2020 and only surpassed 1 billion back in 2016. Apple was

Apple reports Q1 Services revenue up 6% YoY to $20.8B and says its install base crossed 2B active devices, up from 1.8B devices the company reported in Q1 2022 (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac)

Windows 11 Gains Market Share but Windows 10 Still Leads by a Mile

Windows 11 has been out for over a year, and it continues to eat away at the market share pie like a turtle nibbling on a strawberry. That pie still consists mostly of Windows 10 users, but Windows 11 is making slow and steady progress. This glacial advancement is revealed in Statcounter’s latest figures for

The 17 best Samsung Galaxy S23 cases you can buy

The Samsung Galaxy S23 might be the cheapest out of the three 2023 Samsung flagships, but if you’re going to buy one you’ll want to keep it protected. With that in mind, we tested and selected the best Galaxy S23 cases you can buy, from thin to rugged and everything in between. Want to learn

Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro supply problems sank its holiday revenues

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple reported its Q1 2023 earnings this afternoon. During the holiday quarter, the company took in $117.2 billion of revenue, down 5 percent year over year, and earnings per share of $1.88. It was the first such YOY for Apple since before the covid pandemic. Most of

Apple Q1 revenue: iPhone down 8% YoY to $65.8B, Mac down 29% YoY to $7.7B, iPad up 30% YoY to $9.4B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 8% YoY to $13.5B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Apple Q1 revenue: iPhone down 8% YoY to $65.8B, Mac down 29% YoY to $7.7B, iPad up 30% YoY to $9.4B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 8% YoY to $13.5B — Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT — Apple missed expectations for revenue, profit, and sales for many of its

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