Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training, but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta, there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring. Just yesterday, Los Angeles-based AmazeVR announced a
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French startup Stockly is raising a $12 million Series A round (€12 million) from Eurazeo, Daphni and several business angels. The company pools together the inventory of several e-commerce websites. When a retailer is out-of-stock on a popular item, they can still accept the order and process the order through a different retailer’s inventory. This
If you’ve spent any amount of time on social media over the past few days, you’ve not doubt seen tweets and posts about drama surrounding YouTube group The Try Guys and Ned Fulmer. The former BuzzFeed group has nearly 8 million subscribers on YouTube, but you may be hazy about what they are and who
GUNDAM EVOLUTION – Season 1 Sortie TrailerOne of the biggest differences is that Gundam Evolution features a “Down But Not Out” system ala Gears of War or Battlefield. So when you go down, you can request for someone to revive you, and anybody on your team can bring you back to life. However, anyone on
Now that the U.S. has finally committed to electrifying cars and trucks, there’s been a lot of handwringing over where they’ll charge. The Biden administration just approved all 50 states’ plans for where to install DC fast chargers, and while those plans will help fill massive infrastructure gaps, those chargers won’t be nearly enough to
China’s electric vehicle upstart Nio has joined Tesla in sourcing raw materials directly from mines rather than its own battery suppliers as soaring prices of lithium, a critical component of EV batteries, hurt manufacturers’ supply chain stability and bottom lines. Lithium carbonate prices in China hit a record 501,500 yuan/tonne in September, tripling the number
The White House on Tuesday released a summary of its plan to end hunger by 2030, along with increasing access to healthy foods and decreasing diet’s role in causing diseases like Type 2 diabetes and hypertension. The strategy comes ahead of Wednesday’s White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, which will be the first
Advertisement “Bro y’all have to fucking chill out. It’s a fucking game my dude. Play something else if you hate it so much bro,” T-Pain said in the tweet. “Walk away from your pc/console if you’ve become so consumed by a game that you feel the need to threaten the ppl that work hard to
Advertisement “Content is subject to change or experience delays due to Hurricane Ian,” the MUT Twitter account posted. “Any and all updates or changes will be noted here or [on] Madden NFL Direct.” In case you haven’t been following the news, Hurricane Ian has been pummeling Cuba, causing evacuations, cutting the power of millions of
The Sims 4 base game is going free starting Oct. 18. Ahead of the release, EA and Maxis announced that the life simulator’s latest game kit, Desert Luxe, will be free to download until Oct. 18 for players who already own the base game. The Desert Luxe kit includes multiple pieces of Southwestern desert-inspired furniture
/ With a simpler way to install the same app across devices Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is updating its Play Store to make it easier to discover and download apps across the full range of Android devices — whether that’s Wear OS watches, Android TVs, Android tablets, or vehicles fitted with
Cloudflare, the security, performance and reliability company that went public three years ago, said this morning that it will help connect startups that use its serverless computing platform to dozens of venture firms that have collectively offered to invest up to $1.25 billion in the companies out of their existing funds. It’s a smart, splashy
During a recent Twitter Space, M13 Partner Anna Barber and I looked back at the dot-com crash in search of lessons operators can use to avoid missteps founders have made in past downturns. In our chat, Barber spoke about how founders can better align with investors and employees while managing uncertainty, the dangers of growing
/ The update lets Samsung users change the clock placement, font, and color Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Samsung’s third One UI 5.0 beta arrived late last week, and users have started noticing that the lock screen customization options look pretty darn similar to those introduced by Apple in iOS 16 earlier this
/ Is… Nintendo getting the hang of this online, multiscreen experience stuff? Updating to the latest version of the Nintendo Switch Online app delivers some unexpected treats for Splatoon 3 players. Nintendo is continuing support for Splatoon 3 by adding new features to its Nintendo Switch Online mobile app.Image: Nintendo The words “Nintendo” and “online”
If you’re reading this, you almost certainly have a complicated relationship with screens. Every year that passes, they become larger and increasingly present in our lives. Meanwhile, we continue to embrace the technology all while complaining about the hold it has on our lives. Astrohaus’ products have long occupied the strange nexus of technologies designed
In a world of climate change-fueled food shortages, insect-based proteins are being viewed as an increasingly valuable potential alternative food service. Livin Farms has put insect larvae at the center of its own alternative protein play. The Vienna-based firm produces Hive Pro, a modular system designed to automate the process of rearing and processing black
Sep 27, 2022 Virtual Reality Gaming Speaker 1: The future of VR looks like it’s going to get a lot more immersive and more expensive. Let’s talk about Mest Pro or Project Cambria. Quest two is one of the most popular VR headsets in existence that’s been around since 2020, but there is a new
Data cleansing — prepping data for applications like predictive analytics — takes time. In fact, data scientists spend an estimated 60% of their time cleaning and organizing data, according to one recent survey. It’s not just time that’s lost. According to Experian, “dirty data” costs the average business 15% to 25% of their revenue and
This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Game consoles, gaming hardware and new games and accessories are an easy holiday win. Finding exactly what you want, however, can be harder. Yes, the PS5 from Sony is easier to buy than at any point in its two-year lifespan,
IRobot makes robots that vacuum. IRobot makes robots that mop. Other companies make robots that vacuum and mop. So, why doesn’t iRobot? If you had asked the company that question as recently as a few weeks back, you likely would have gotten a stock answer about not doing something until you can do it right.
Netflix is stacked with world-class sports documentaries. At the top of the pile is Untold, a series of immaculate features about the strangest, most incredible stories in sport over the past few decades. But there’s more where that came from. The Last Dance is on Netflix. The Oscar-winning Icarus is on Netflix. There’s Athlete A, The River
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Advertisement The chess world spent the following week abuzz in heated debate and speculation about whether Niemann was in fact a cheater and if so, how he may have accomplished it. On Twitch and Reddit, chess shitposters joked that maybe Niemann used supercomputers inside anal beads to communicate the best moves to him via vibration.
Netflix is going all-in on video game development with the establishment of an internal studio in Helsinki, the streaming giant said Monday. It will make original games with no ads and no in-app purchases, Netflix said. “This is another step in our vision to build a world-class games studio that will bring a variety of
Introducing Walmart Land on RobloxWilliam White, Walmart’s chief marketing officer, said that these new Roblox worlds are sort of a “testing ground” for the company as it considers investing in the metaverse (aka: a silly concept with no real definition beyond being a buzzword attached to hundreds of disconnected projects and ideas). White said the
/ It’s the last safe space I have from my phone, so no, I will not bring my phone into the shower Just because you can bring a waterproof phone into the shower doesn’t mean you should.Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge There’s one last place in my life where the alerts, texts, pings,
/ Substack’s RSS feed reader is now available as a web and mobile app, which could make it more widely usable. Image: Substack Substack’s the latest company trying to resurrect Google Reader from the dead — well, in spirit at least. Nearly a decade after Google’s popular RSS feed aggregator shut down, Substack has launched
With a month of hindsight, we’re getting a better picture of what the Inflation Reduction Act will mean for the American economy and the climate tech sector itself. The new law caught many by surprise, both in the climate tech space and elsewhere. Few had thought sweeping climate legislation was possible. The final bill is
Marantz has unveiled six new components in its AV line, now called the Cinema range, with more 8K-compatible inputs, a sleeker design and prices starting at $1,200. All of the models — bar the power amp — include features such as Dolby Atmos and DTS:X decoding, HDMI 2.1 inputs and HEOS streaming built-in. Unlike sister
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