Am I being dramatic? Yes. Has this change made me read on my phone less? Also yes. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple Books has been my main reading app for years for one very specific reason: its page-turning animation is far and away the best in the business. Unfortunately, that
Read MorePerhaps there was a time when fancy laser effects were beyond those without the largest of bank accounts, but today they can be created surprisingly easily. [Corebb] shows us how with a neat unit using an off the shelf RGB laser module and mirror module, driven by a ESP32 with software designed to make it
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $1.1B, Enterprise customers up 14% YoY to ~209.3K, and a FY 2023 revenue guidance below estimates; stock drops 7%+ — – Zoom made a slight downward revision to its revenue guidance, and investors responded by pushing the stock lower.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Elon Musk told Twitter employees on Monday that the company won’t relaunch its paid verification subscription, Twitter Blue, until “we’re confident about significant impersonations not happening,” according to a recording of his remarks obtained by The Verge. Musk said last week that his $8 per month Blue subscription
Read MoreAlex Heath / The Verge: Sources: Elon Musk told employees that Twitter won’t relaunch paid verification until “we’re confident about significant impersonations not happening” — Elon Musk told Twitter employees on Monday that the company won’t relaunch its paid verification subscription, Twitter Blue …
Read MoreAlex Heath / The Verge: Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales; Twitter has 2,700+ employees — After purging nearly two-thirds of Twitter’s 7,500-person workforce in three weeks, Elon Musk is hiring again.
Read MoreCheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: US DOJ says two Estonians were arrested for a $575M cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering scheme that allegedly defrauded hundreds of thousands of investors — According to the Department of Justice, the two men used shell companies to launder the proceeds of their fraudulent schemes and buy luxury cars and real
Read MoreImage: Apple The detailed analytics data Apple records about what you do in the App Store can be tied directly to your Apple account, according to app development and research team Mysk. In a Twitter thread, Mysk shows that Apple sends what’s known as a “Directory Services Identifier” along with its App Store analytics info
Read MoreRon Amadeo / Ars Technica: Report: Amazon’s hardware group may lose $10B in 2022, as many Echo devices are sold at cost and plans to monetize Alexa have failed — Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company’s biggest money loser. — Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs in the company’s history
Read MoreActivists demand “Loss and Damage” reparations at the COP27 UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on November 12th, 2022. | Photo by Dominika Zarzycka / NurPhoto via Getty Images Trying to save the planet looks less like a Marvel movie and more like tense climate negotiations that just wrapped up in Egypt over
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Connecticut-based SponsorUnited, a SaaS database of the brand sponsorship industry, raised a $35M Series A led by Spectrum Equity at a $100M+ valuation — Sponsorships are a multibillion-dollar industry. But data on sponsorships, like who’s sponsoring who, can be tough to come …
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Genesis is struggling to raise funding for its lending unit and warns potential investors that it may need to file for bankruptcy if its efforts fail — Digital-asset brokerage Genesis is struggling to raise fresh cash for its lending unit, and it’s warning potential investors …
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images After purging nearly two-thirds of Twitter’s 7,500-person workforce in three weeks, Elon Musk is hiring again. During an all-hands meeting with employees on Monday, Musk said that Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales and that employees are encouraged
Read MoreAmazon’s Black Friday discounts extend to more than just Amazon devices. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Black Friday is right around the corner, but Amazon is wasting no time by rolling out some excellent deals in the run-up to the main event on Friday. If you’re looking to knock out some of
Read MoreFor as visionary as he was, [George Carlin] vastly underestimated the situation with his classic “Seven Words You Can’t Say on TV” bit. At least judging by [Ben Eater]’s reverse engineering of the “TVGuardian Foul Language Filter” device, it seems like the actual number is at least 20 times that. To begin at the beginning,
Read MoreThomas Germain / Gizmodo: Despite Apple saying that usage data it collects does not include personally identifiable info, researchers say it contains an ID that is unique to the user — Your iPhone’s analytics data includes an ID number tied to your name, email, and phone number, say researchers who uncovered other holes in Apple’
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Buying a refurbished device rather than one that’s brand-new can save you a ton of money. However, these products don’t usually get the spotlight from retailers like Best Buy, Amazon, or B&H Photo. You also won’t find them sitting on the homepage of Apple, Google, Nintendo, Sonos,
Read MoreSony’s Vision-S concept on display at CES 2020. | Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Sony and Honda are mulling cramming a PS5 into their upcoming entertainment-focused electric vehicle as they set up to challenge Tesla (via Eurogamer). Speaking to the Financial Times, Izumi Kawanishi, the joint venture’s president, said that it’s “technologically possible”
Read MoreCredit: AMC After 11 seasons and multiple spin-offs, AMC’s The Walking Dead has finale come to an end. The series finale aired on November 20, wrapping up a truly epic run based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore. With its conclusion comes a big hole in zombie programming. So, what
Read MoreLawmakers are growing concerned about a flood of data-hungry cars from China taking over American streets.
Read MoreThis OLED monitor stands out with its adjustable stand, giving you more versatility than the legs included with OLED TVs. | Image: LG LG’s OLED panels are getting even smaller. With no fanfare, the company posted a product page for a new 27-inch OLED gaming monitor (model 27GR95QE-B). Reddit noticed first; then, it got picked
Read MoreBuying gaming gifts this holiday season doesn’t have to be super expensive. Here are the best cheap games, accessories, and deals for Nintendo Switch.
Read MoreThe Apple Pencil is hands down, the best stylus for the iPad. Here are some great Black Friday deals on the Apple Pencil.
Read MoreThe internet today is widely accessible to a large part of the developed and developing world and even many third-world countries. However, it’s the developed and developing world where it has made major strides in the last couple of decades, rising from a simple way of connectivity into a complex web of interconnected devices and
Read MoreWaymo teamed up with Geely to debut its new purpose built autonomous taxi. | Photo by Abigail Bassett for The Verge Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous taxi company that currently operates in a small handful of cities, showed off a brand-new prototype vehicle made by Geely’s luxury Zeekr brand last week at a splashy invite-only event
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