New York Times: Sources: Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and considers not paying severance packages to cut costs, as its top lawyer Alex Spiro leaves the company — Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures.
Read MoreT-Mobile is doing spectrum stuff again. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile has enjoyed an undeniable head start in 5G in the US, thanks to its lucrative Sprint deal, and it’s turning some old spectrum around to pad out its lead. The company has deployed its 1,900MHz spectrum nationwide on its mid-band
Read MoreNPR will not host its usual throngs of summer interns this year due to financial pressures. I hope you all had a great weekend. We have a lot to dive into today, so let’s get to it: NPR cuts its summer internship program, Proof leads to justice, and SiriusXM keeps a longtime podcast in the
Read MoreRohan Goswami / CNBC: Citing flight risk, a magistrate judge in the Bahamas denies bail to Sam Bankman-Fried and says he should be remanded to Bahamian custody until February 8, 2023 — A magistrate judge in the Bahamas on Tuesday denied bail to FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried and said he should be remanded …
Read MoreImage: Viz Media Netflix is making yet another live-action anime adaptation, and this time, it’s taking on My Hero Academia. In an announcement on its website, the streamer says filmmaker Shinsuke Sato (I Am a Hero, Kingdom) will serve as director, while Obi-Wan Kenobi producer Joby Harold is penning the script. My Hero Academia takes
Read MoreI contributed a fair number of those meows. | Image: Annapurna Interactive PlayStation’s new 2022 Wrap-Up is available now, giving you a look at things like your personal playtime and some accomplishments from the broader PlayStation community. The recap is broken into four main sections: total playtime, top games, trophies earned, and PlayStation Plus. Within
Read MoreToday, Apple officially launched Freeform, a brand new app from the company that looks to inspire collaboration across the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Read MoreRace Routes is now officially live in watchOS 9.2. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge watchOS 9.2 started rolling out today along with the iOS 16.2 update, and with it comes two new running features: Automatic Track Detection and Race Routes. The former uses Apple Maps and GPS to detect the exact lane
Read MoreApple has revealed that its “Ring in the New Year” Apple Watch Activity Challenge will run the entire month of January.
Read MoreThe esoteric indie title Kentucky Route Zero will be available Tuesday on iOS and Android as part of Netflix’s suite of mobile games. The narrative-focused game seems like one that will lend itself well to a mobile format, and after a more than six-month wait since publisher Annapurna Interactive said Kentucky Route Zero would be
Read MoreLet’s say you’re working on an ESP32 project to send off to your grandma; something she can just plug in and it will start automatically monitoring her plant’s water levels. But you discover a critical flaw in the firmware and need to update it. Does she send it back? Do you walk her through dropping
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge It sounded like a really nice holiday extra: you could tip your hard-working Amazon delivery driver by simply using your Alexa device (or the app on your phone) to thank your driver, and they would get a $5 tip from the company. The program started on December 7th
Read MoreIt has a few collaboration quirks and only works on Apple devices, but it’s a handy tool for putting all of your thoughts in one place.
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to allow third-party app stores and other changes on iOS and iPadOS in the EU, spurred by EU requirements coming in 2024 — Apple Inc. is preparing to allow alternative app stores on its iPhones and iPads, part of a sweeping overhaul aimed at complying with strict European
Read More(Image: Microsoft)Microsoft has quietly made the decision to discontinue its Authenticator app for the Apple Watch. According to a change made to the Authenticator FAQ section on Microsoft’s website, the company will be dropping support for the app in January 2023. Under a question about Authenticator support on Apple Watch iOS, Microsoft writes: “In the
Read MoreThe App Store may no longer be the only place to get software for your iPhone or iPad. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is planning to let users install alternative app stores on iOS, according to a report from Bloomberg. The shift would be a remarkable change from the company, which
Read MoreThe founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX was arrested the day before his scheduled hearing in the US Congress.
Read MoreAccording to a new report from Mark Gurman, Apple is preparing to support third-party App Stores and sideloading on the iPhone to comply with upcoming EU laws.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: NYC-based enterprise AI and analytics service Dataiku raised a $200M+ Series F led by Wellington Management at a $3.7B valuation, down from $4.6B in August 2021 — Dataiku is the latest well-financed startup to suffer from macroeconomic headwinds, raising new capital at a significantly reduced valuation.
Read MoreThe James Webb Space Telescope is pushing the bounds of human understanding, but access to Webb data is currently limited. That could change as NASA considers a new open-access policy that would make Webb data available to the public as soon as it’s collected. Despite similar reforms in Hubble data reporting, some scientists are apprehensive
Read MoreKalley Huang / New York Times: A profile of John Ray III, a lawyer who specializes in restructuring troubled companies, including Enron in 2001, as he leads FTX through its bankruptcy process — Mr. Ray has been involved in picking up the pieces of several prominent corporate failures — the most famous being the collapse
Read MoreBeatrice Peterson / ABC News: Meta plans to share its free, open-source Hasher Matcher Actioner moderation tool, which helps platforms identify terrorist or human trafficking content — It said it will help prevent the spread of violent images on the internet. — Meta, formerly named Facebook, said it’s opening …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Qualcomm has new Wi-Fi 7-capable chipsets that are part of its new “Immersive Home Platform” — built for home networking manufacturers that are ready to integrate the upcoming IEEE 802.11BE specification into its devices. The new Qualcomm chips are currently being sampled to companies that make home routers
Read MoreThe Switch version is particularly hard-hit. | Image: Warner Bros. Hogwarts Legacy, the upcoming Harry Potter-themed game, is being delayed yet again — the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game are being pushed back to April 4th, 2023, while the Nintendo Switch won’t be getting it until July 25th, according to a
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has proposed legislation that would ban TikTok from the US, the latest in a series of political blows to the social media platform — albeit one that seems relatively unlikely to land. The tortuously named Averting the National Threat of Internet Surveillance, Oppressive Censorship
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