Twitter: Twitter says the #WC2022 tag for the FIFA World Cup generated 147B impressions, surpassing #WC2018 and over twice the impressions of the #Tokyo2020 Olympics — The #WorldCup unfolded on the pitch in Qatar, and it also played out on Twitter in a big way. Football fans across the globe came …
Read More[CoreWeaver] creates an alarm clock that includes features one might expect in such a project, including an FM radio, snooze button inputs and a display, but goes beyond the basic functionality to include temperature sensing and a PC connection, opening the way for customizable functionality. An Atmega328 is used for the main microcontroller which communicates
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Tumblr is adding support for livestreaming via the video platform Livebox. The feature is being rolled out to US users on iOS and Android now, and a release for global users and the desktop site is planned for the future. More details are outlined in a blog post, which dubs the service
Read More“Blue for Business” will let you show who is affiliated with your brand. | Image: Twitter Twitter has officially announced Blue for Business, a subscription geared toward companies that want to “verify and distinguish themselves on Twitter,” as its press release says. The service will let companies link their main accounts with those of their
Read MoreT-Mobile is paying Comcast headquarters a visit today. | Image: T-Mobile From the minds that gave us 5G gin comes T-Mobile’s latest publicity grab: a truck driving in circles around Comcast’s headquarters in Philadelphia with a message reading: “Make Xfinity your ex.” This oh-so-subtle messaging comes with an offer to Comcast customers, tempting them to
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: ImagenAI, which uses AI to help photographers edit photos and automate postproduction, raised $30M from Summit Partners, bringing its total funding to $34M — ImagenAI, a startup using AI to help professional photographers edit photos and automate post-production work …
Read MoreAdi Robertson / The Verge: Tumblr adds support for livestreaming to its iOS and Android apps in the US; the service is powered by video platform Livebox, which lets users tip streamers — Tumblr is adding support for livestreaming via the video platform Livebox. The feature is being rolled out to US users on iOS
Read MorePhoto: Carlton Beener / Blizzard Entertainment After a three-year hiatus, the Overwatch World Cup is back. The event was announced over the weekend, possibly in a cute nod to the dramatic FIFA World Cup nail-biter final and to coincide with a special Overwatch League veterans competition (which you should watch if you want to see
Read MoreImage: Eufy At this point, there’s zero chance I would buy a Eufy security camera for my own home. But if you already own some or if you’re on the fence, you might want to hear what the company has to say for itself. While Eufy just nerfed its privacy promises rather than answering our
Read MoreParcel gives you an overview of where all your packages are and can notify you when they’re moving. | Image: Parcel My inbox is always awash with different shipping notifications, especially this time of year, as I’ve got gifts in transit to family members all across the country. “See what packages are coming your way,”
Read MoreThe Verge Making sense of Apple’s messy MagSafe charging ecosystem, where the first-party options are far from the best ones. Continue reading…
Read MoreDoesn’t seem very hip to be square, in this case. | Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Twitter is adding to its increasingly complex ways of differentiating accounts with new square profile pictures with rounded corners for brands. The new type of profile pic started rolling out on the platform on Monday, and you
Read MoreMost consumer-grade audio equipment has been in stereo since at least the 1960s, allowing the listener to experience sounds with a three-dimensional perspective as if they were present when the sound was originally made. Stereo photography has lagged a little behind the stereo audio trend, though, with most of the technology existing as passing fads
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has announced that it’s working on a way to make it easier to search through YouTube videos as well as the ability to create educational courses and have multiple audio tracks that make it easy to present content in several different languages (via Android Police). The company
Read MoreMatt Levine / Bloomberg: Analysis of Elon Musk’s reported attempts to raise more money for Twitter via an equity sale at an absurd price, why his successor will be unpopular, and more — Oh Elon — Imagine taking the job! Yesterday Elon Musk tweeted a poll asking if he should step down as “head” of
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Amazon has announced that it finished the first wave of its Matter rollout. The rollout brings Matter to 17 different Echo devices, plugs, switches, and bulbs. Amazon will bring Matter support to more devices in 2023. The new smart home interoperability standard, Matter, is gradually finding its way to
Read MoreRosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano in Disney Plus’ Ahsoka. | Disney Plus Disney Plus subscribers probably still have a back catalog of shows and movies from 2022 to watch. That said, the streamer’s already gearing up to hit the ground running in the new year with a bevy of returning series like The Mandalorian and
Read MoreImage: Amazon On December 13th, Amazon’s robotics division was hit with a lawsuit seeking $280 million in damages from Gilimex Inc., a Vietnamese company responsible for manufacturing the steel and fabric storage containers that hold items as they’re moved around the company’s warehouses. The supplier says Amazon rushed it to ramp up production early in
Read MoreThe Ray-Ban Stories don’t have AR, but someday we might be wearing sunglasses with advanced AR tech. | Photo by Amanda Lopez for The Verge Meta’s Reality Labs division might be burning billions, but it’s not all going toward not-great VR headsets. The company is currently putting “about half” of Reality Labs’ operating expenses toward
Read MoreThe Fire TV’s music videos are provided by Xite. | Image: Amazon If you find yourself on the couch using one of Amazon’s Fire TV devices, you’re likely browsing through Prime Video, Netflix, HBO Max, or maybe a live TV service like YouTube TV. But like so many other entertainment platforms, Amazon has made an
Read MoreA Model Y assembly line at a Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, Texas. | Photo by Loren Grush / The Verge Tesla is planning to build a new Gigafactory in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, according to Reuters, which cited a story in the Mexican newspaper Reforma. The automaker may announce the new factory with
Read MoreImage: Nate After months of earning online shopping credits through the Nate app, Libby Rasmussen had over $500 left on her account going into December. She planned to use her remaining money on Christmas gifts for her family — until the credits abruptly disappeared from her account earlier this month. Rasmussen, who works in social
Read MoreAmazon’s latest smart speaker, the fifth-gen Echo Dot with Clock, now supports Matter. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Seventeen Amazon Echo devices now support Matter’s interoperable smart home standard after Amazon completed the first phase of its promised Matter rollout today, the company announced. These include smart speakers newer than the
Read MoreNick Barclay / The Verge Binance.US has entered an agreement to acquire the assets of the insolvent cryptocurrency brokerage Voyager, as earlier reported by CNBC. In a press release on Binance.US’s site, the California-based company says the move should free up customer funds that have been locked up in the bankrupt Voyager Digital. Binance.US, which
Read MoreOver the years as microcontrollers have become fast enough to do the heavy lifting, we have become used to 10 megabit Ethernet being bit-banged from interfaces it was never meant to emerge from. We think however that we’ve never seen one driven from an SPI interface, so this one from [Ivan] may be a first.
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