Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is the latest tech company to announce mass layoffs. In an email to staff on Tuesday, CEO Brain Armstrong said the company would be letting 950 employees go as it attempts to “weather downturns in the crypto market.” The email was made public on the
Read MoreNell Tiger Free, Rupert Grint, Katie Lee Hill, and Toby Kebbell in season 4 of Servant on Apple TV Plus. | Image: Apple As the Apple TV Plus thriller from M. Night Shyamalan kicks off its fourth season, the mysteries continue to pile up. Continue reading…
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Read MoreImage: Navigator Games The Avatar: The Last Airbender content machine is ramping up with a new mobile RPG. Ahead of the live-action movie and rumors of a new animated series, Paramount is launching Avatar Generations, a mobile RPG that will feature characters throughout the Avatar universe. Developed by Navigator Games, Avatar Generations will allow players
Read MoreOlga Kharif / Bloomberg: Cameron Winklevoss writes to DCG’s board, demanding CEO Barry Silbert’s removal and alleging he and Genesis publicly lied, after his resolution deadline passed — Gemini crypto exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss called for the board of Digital Currency Group to remove Barry Silbert …
Read MoreThe OnePlus Buds Pro are currently on sale in white for a mere $79.99. | Image: OnePlus If you ask me, one of the best things about new products releasing is seeing the steep discounts on older models. With the OnePlus Buds Pro 2 set to debut next month, we’re starting to see some terrific
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Chronosphere, which offers cloud-based observability tools, raised a $115M Series C extension at a $1.6B valuation, after a $200M C at a $1B+ valuation in 2021 — The market for cloud native observability tools remains hot. As with so many new technologies, containerization solved …
Read MoreImage: SkyShowtime SkyShowtime, a European streaming service jointly operated by Comcast and Paramount, has swooped in to acquire the exclusive streaming rights to 21 local HBO Max shows across the continent, the streaming service announced today. Rights to the shows became available after HBO Max halted its original programming plans in Europe last year in
Read More(Credit: Sony)Windows 7, the last operating system to have truly embodied Microsoft’s original Windows design, has seen four (if you count Windows 8.1) successors since its 2009 release. Despite its age, a few businesses still use the OS—though they might want to switch to something else now that Microsoft is dropping Windows 7’s Extended Security
Read MoreHannah Kuchler / Financial Times: German drugmaker BioNTech acquires London-based AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562M to help harness machine learning to improve drug discovery — Covid-19 vaccine maker is looking to use machine learning to help discover new treatments — BioNTech has agreed to buy UK artificial intelligence start …
Read MoreApple has been hit with a second class-action lawsuit over a privacy setting that doesn’t work as described.
Read MoreThe hottest West Coast tech 16,000 years ago was a “projectile point” for hunting game. Though tiny, the artifact tells an outsize tale.
Read MoreAre you struggling to find a signal in your home or office? Here’s how to get clearer chats.
Read MoreThe Samsung OLED 4K series of TVs are some seriously spectacular devices, and they’re now at stunning prices in this great deal at Amazon.
Read MoreApple’s M1 Max has been pitted against the latest and greatest from Intel — and it didn’t go well for Apple.
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon plans to launch Buy with Prime for all US-based merchants on January 31, letting them access Prime benefits, expanding on Fulfillment by Amazon merchants — Amazon announced this morning it’s expanding its Buy with Prime service to U.S.-based merchants by the end of the month.
Read MoreA new report says that while all iPhone 15 models will get Apple’s Dynamic Island from iPhone 14 Pro, the iPhone 16 Pro won’t have any kind of notch or island…
Read MoreFarm equipment manufacturer John Deere has been on the front lines of the fight against right-to-repair legislation, insisting that farmers who purchase its machinery go through its approved diagnostic and repair partners. Farmers have been ratcheting up pressure on the company to change its ways, and John Deere has just agreed to some major concessions.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Apple will apparently bring under-display Face ID to the iPhone 16 Pro line. This will allow for a smaller display cutout and a larger usable screen area. Under-display fingerprint sensors have been around on smartphones for a few years now, hiding the scanner under the screen. Now, it sounds
Read MoreThe LauncherOne rocket (visible under the left wing) was carried by the modified 747 Cosmic Girl to its launch destination over the Atlantic Ocean. | Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images What should have been a historic moment for the UK ended in failure last night after an undisclosed “anomaly” prevented the country’s satellite mission from
Read MoreRight-wing networks from Brazil and the US fueled calls for violence. Experts accuse tech platforms of looking the other way.
Read MoreIranian women are baring their heads to protest government controls. A top official said algorithms can identify anyone flouting dress codes.
Read MoreThere is a select group of computer games whose in-game logic is enough for them to simulate computers in themselves. We’ve seen it in Minecraft and DOOM, and now there’s a new player in town from a surprising quarter: Tetris. One might wonder how the Russian falling-blocks game could do this, as unlike the previous
Read MoreMars doesn’t have any native inhabitants (that we know of), but it is inhabited by a cadre of robots. Most of the red planet’s mechanical explorers come from the US and Europe, but China succeeded in landing the Zhurong rover last year. The robot has been in hibernation throughout the long Martian winter and was
Read MoreCecilia Kang / New York Times: Common Sense Media survey of 1,358 US teenagers: 75% report having viewed porn online by 17, including 41% seeing images of nudity or sexual acts during school — Sexually explicit content has become so prevalent online that teenagers are deluged, according to a new report by a nonprofit child
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