Two and a half years after unveiling Stadia on stage at GDC, the game streaming service is officially done. Subscribers will have access to the games library through January 18 of next year, after which point, it will shut down for good. Google adds in a blog post that it expects to have all refunds
Month: September 2022
Anyone who has followed global news events of late will have noticed the devastating floods that have engulfed pretty much every corner of the world, from the U.S. and Europe, to Africa, Australia and Asia, where India and Pakistan have been hit by some of their worst floods in recent memory. By pretty much all
Away from the premium smartphone feature-utility hyperbole swirling around dynamic islands, mobile devices remain much of a muchness. But ethical mobile brand Fairphone has always done innovation differently — applying attention to supply chain conditions and novel modularity to support repairability and lifespan longevity, with a dual mission to make consumer electronics more ethical and
This story is part of Recession Help Desk, CNET’s coverage of how to make smart money moves in an uncertain economy. Lisa Frink knows firsthand how quickly financial stability can turn into financial catastrophe. Frink and her husband checked all the boxes: got their education, worked hard, bought a house and started a family. But
The digital ads market is robust, with Statista predicting that worldwide spend will reach nearly $900 billion by 2026. But fake and fraudulent ad traffic remains a major problem in the space. Global losses from ad fraud totaled $35 billion in 2020 alone. And beyond the wasted spend, invalid traffic can inflate metrics, leading brands
French startup Pigment has raised a new round of funding less than a year after raising a $73 million Series B round. If you’re not familiar with Pigment, the company develops a business planning and forecasting platform. For small companies that are growing up, it can replace Microsoft Excel as it’s more secure and more
Netflix’s latest true-crime blockbuster hit is called Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, bizarrely using the murderer’s last name twice in the title. Some people wish the Milwaukee killer didn’t have quite so much exposure. As of Tuesday, Dahmer was No. 1 on Netflix, but it’s brought with it plenty of controversy. Let’s break it down.
Elden Ring – You can barely see thisEver notice that a Runebear’s eyes match the reptilian shape and hue of a specific dragon in Elden Ring exactly? This might seem like a weird thing to fixate on, but it seems intentional. After all, dragon hearts do make the player more powerful. And larger in-game creatures
CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 continues to sell, reaching a new milestone. The sci-fi RPG released in 2020 has now sold more than 20 million copies, according to a tweet from the game’s official Twitter account Wednesday. This comes a week after there were more than 1 million players jumping on the game. Over 20
Advertisement The announcement comes just a week after Logitech unveiled its $350 G Cloud gaming handheld. While the price point was underwhelming considering you can buy a Switch OLED for the same amount, and a more powerful Steam Deck is only $400, the concept was sound: play mobile games natively and stream blockbusters online. The
/ Google’s gotten the message that what we really want to read is a dozen threads about the best BIFL jeans. The company’s “been exploring new ways to make” the info you want easier to find.Illustration: The Verge Google may be trying to reinvent the way we search in the future and expanding access to
Filed under: Google will finally be sharing more about the Pixel 7 and Pixel Watch at its next Made by Google event By Verge Staff 6 updates since Aug 22, 2022, 5:23 PM UTC RSSFollow this stream Expect to learn more about the Pixel 7 and Pixel Watch at the next Made by Google event.Image:
Regie.ai, a startup using OpenAI’s GPT-3 text-generating system to create sales and marketing content for brands, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Foundation Capital, South Park Commons, Day One Ventures and prominent angel investors. The fresh investment comes as VCs see a
Having a great pair of headphones can make a huge difference, whether you want to listen to your favorite songs or want to get hyped for a workout. Whatever your reason is for getting headphones, searching for good headphones or earbuds with quality sound can be a daunting task with so many options out there.
/ Its ‘results about you’ tool will notify you and let you quickly start a takedown request starting ‘early next year’ Starting “early next year,” Google will be able to notify you if your personal info, such as your phone number, email, or home address, shows up in search results as part of its “results
Amazon Alexa will be the foundation of BMW’s next-generation voice assistant, the companies announced Wednesday at Amazon’s annual Devices and Services launch event. The German automaker and Amazon have had a business relationship for years now; BMW started offering the Alexa assistant in select cars starting in 2018 and the partnership has grown from there.
Eviation’s Alice electric aircraft took off for the first time yesterday, teasing a future in which regional flights of hundreds of miles will be done with zero emissions and a lot less noise. It’s still a ways off, but today’s demonstration shows it’s at least just a matter of time and money. The Alice is
The Nintendo Switch, Valve Steam Deck and Logitech G Cloud will have another competitor: a new gaming handheld co-developed by Razer, Verizon and Qualcomm. Announced by Verizon on Wednesday, the new device is called the Razer Edge 5G and will run Android on top of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon G3X Gen 1 Gaming Platform. As one would
Weighing in at $100, Amazon’s new the new Blink Floodlight camera brings more brightness and smarts to its camera line. The company also launched a brand new $30 Blink Mini Pan Tilt mount, giving security-conscious customers the ability to look around a bit more than before. The two new additions to the Blink family were
You already know whether you’re an Amazon Echo type person. If so, you’re probably looking at one right now, thinking “should I upgrade that thing or is it pointless?” Probably the latter — unless you also have Amazon’s Eero mesh Wi-Fi product, in which case: it’s probably still pointless, unless it’s pretty old. In which
Amazon showed its Eero Wi-Fi lineup some love this morning during a hardware event, announcing the Eero PoE 6, a Wi-Fi 6 Power over Ethernet (PoE) access point that can provide up to 2,000 square feet of coverage and support up to 100 devices. A complementary new product, the Eero PoE Gateway, delivers up to
Google is adding several new sustainability features for Search, the company announced today at its Search On event. The search giant will start showing the annual fuel cost for cars in search results to help people who are in the market for a new car. Google will also show emissions estimates for cars, so you
There’s been a standing question surrounding how seriously we should ultimately take Astro. The product was launched exactly one year ago, in limited quantities as a Day One offering for $999 a pop. My interaction with the robot was (at the time) limited to a few pre-launch demos. I came away from the experience thinking
Amazon released Wednesday the second-generation version of Echo Auto, a smaller and slicker device aimed to broaden the e-commerce giant’s reach by bringing its Alexa voice assistant into more vehicles. Echo Auto, which first came to market in 2018, connects to a vehicle’s infotainment system to bring the Alexa assistant into the vehicle. A driver
Amazon is launching two new designs for its Echo Dot Kids devices, the company announced at its virtual event today. The Echo Dot Kids devices now come in new Owl and Dragon designs. The two new designs join Amazon’s current Echo Dot Kids devices: the Tiger and the Panda. The new designs will be available
E-commerce roll-up startup Flora emerged from stealth mode with $9 million in seed funding from an investor group that included Lux Capital, Correlation Ventures, Climate Capital and Gokul Rajaram. Also known as an aggregator, the company acquires and grows brands — in Flora’s case, focused on offering sustainable products and reducing carbon emissions. Co-founders and
Paul Huelskamp and Alex Meek were hiking near Mount Tamalpais in Marin County a few years ago when the peaceful quiet of the woods began to give way to the clatter of a diesel generator. When they came upon it, they saw it “spewing black smoke” into the otherwise cool, crisp air, Huelskamp recalled. The
During my first drive of the V8-powered Bentayga EWB, I found myself wondering what’s next for the plug-in hybrid variant of Bentley’s luxury SUV. I needn’t wonder more after this morning’s announcement of new Bentayga S Hybrid and Azure Hybrid models joining the lineup. Bentayga S Hybrid A new 18-kilowatt-hour battery (slightly larger than the
SerebiiThe sadly low-res video shows the little beasties popping their heads out of the sand on the beach, implying we’ve got at least a Water-type here. Multi-lingual discussion during the video has Pokécologists (everyone start using this term) question whether it’s related to Diglett, but then conclude that no, it’s a whole new species of
Apple’s new iPhone 14 lineup isn’t proving to be as popular as the company would have hoped for. So it is readjusting its production targets by cutting down additional orders for the device. A report from Bloomberg notes that the Cupertino-based tech company produced around 90 million units in the second half of the last
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