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A lot of problems worth solving aren’t ones that you can solve in a year or two or even 10. For founders and investors alike, such long timelines can seem daunting. But for Gene Berdichevsky, co-founder and CEO of battery tech startup Sila, hard tech problems are also some of the most tantalizing. “It’s always
Square EnixI just rewatched the latest trailer, the one embedded above, and saw a giant winged lady throw ice shards. Apparently that’s not too over-the-top for fantasy realism, but bringing in real people from different races is a step too far. Localization director Michael-Christopher Koji Fox told IGN that the game drew inspiration from Game
erw1ce / Valve It went down yesterday, during a round-five match of the IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage on the Mirage map. CS:GO pro and Cloud9 team member Ax1Le was stalking around bombsite B as a terrorist. Suddenly, he spots two counter-terrorists and did what anyone else in that moment would do: leap out
“What’s changed in video games in the last 13 years?” gaming YouTuber Boomstick Gaming asks in the beginning of this video. “Well, let’s take a look at Modern Warfare II and Modern Warfare 2.” This two-minute case study in game evolution judges how glossy graphics in 2009 were to how glossy graphics today are, so
Stability AI, the venture-backed startup behind the text-to-image AI system Stable Diffusion, is funding a wide-ranging effort to apply AI to the frontiers of biotech. Called OpenBioML, the endeavor’s first projects will focus on machine learning-based approaches to DNA sequencing, protein folding and computational biochemistry. The company’s founders describe OpenBioML as an “open research laboratory”
You don’t get the nickname “pervy sage” from the Leaf Village’s future Hokage for no reason. Naruto’s Jiraya, a member of the legendary sanin , is the definition of perverse. The dude couldn’t even give Naruto his undivided attention while teaching him his iconic move, the rasengan, without peeping in on women in bathhouses or
God of War: Ragnarok is one of the best games of 2022. It features dazzling realms and exhilarating combat, but its greatest strength may be its story. The relationship between Kratos and his son Atreus is the foundation of this tale, which sees the pair tackle the spectre of Ragnarok — the end of days.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are just two weeks away from their launch on Nintendo Switch, but in the meantime, Pokemon fans can add a free mythical Pokemon to their collections in the Sword and Shield games. Through Nov. 12, Target stores across the US are giving away free download codes for Marshadow, a fighting/ghost-type mythical Pokemon
As a startup, when you’re trying to stay as lean as possible, outsourcing is the name of the game; if you can get someone else to do the work for you (and manage the team, deal with hiring and HR, etc.), that’s a win. The major exception is anything that creates core intellectual property and
Huawei is back with its newest flip phone intended to rival Samsung’s Galaxy Flip series. The Chinese smartphone company unveiled its new foldable, called the Huawei Pocket S in an array of colors on Wednesday. The Chinese phone-maker’s latest flip phone is a scaled down version of last year’s P50 Pocket. It makes compromises on
In their typical goliath two-step, AMD follows Nvidia’s recent GeForce RTX 4000/Ada Lovelace architecture debut with its competing series, the Radeon RX 7000 line, and its own architecture upgrade, RDNA 3. The first two cards out of the gate will be the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT, shipping on Dec. 13, for $999
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Oh heeeey! How are you doing today? We’ve had a pretty busy day on the site today, with a veritable cornucopia of news spilling all over the internet. We’ve selected some of
Try as you might, you can never really escape your past. That’s what Kratos, God of War: Ragnarok’s protagonist, tries to teach his son Atreus. But it’s a lesson that’s not just true for people — it’s true for games too. Ragnarok has the formidable task of following up one of the best games of
MegaMogwaiAnother thing the game doesn’t tell you is that Agatha is also egotistical. Not only will she prioritize herself and try to play her own card the moment she can, she seems to always pull the energy rewards that are normally awarded to a random card given at the end of a match. Downsides. But
I’ve experienced this for myself, and it’s maddening. Here’s what’s been going on: Players are eager to dive into the game’s newest story quests, just added this week, in which they’re trying to save the nation of Sumeru from evil government officials who want to create an artificial god. The story is told in a
Over the last six months, I’ve written up 25 Pitch Deck Teardowns — the popular series of articles where I review a pitch deck in detail, celebrating the wins and gently (and sometimes not-so-gently) suggesting improvements. We’ve seen 74-slide decks (yes, really), decks that are riddled with spelling mistakes and bogged down by hideous design
Kicking things off with a big funding round for AMP Robotics this week for a couple of reasons, but when push comes to shove, it comes down to something really simple: There are a lot of great reasons to be bullish on automation and there are a lot of equally great reasons to be bullish
/ The most important thing to look for is that ‘Make available to public’ checkbox. Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Recently, journalist, author of Platformer, and former Verge reporter Casey Newton tweeted something that had many readers both laughing and panicking: that entrepreneur David Sacks’ calendar at Twitter was not set to private
/ Not every game will work at first, but a surprising number probably will. You can try it for yourself if you have a compatible device. This can soon be you.Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Steam on Chromebook has entered beta with the release of Chrome OS 108. Google also announced Steam
God of War Ragnarok is swiftly approaching and to celebrate the highly anticipated release, Sony unveiled a limited-edition God of War DualSense controller to coincide with the game. Though preorders have sold out at multiple retailers, you still have a chance to buy it from Sony for $75. This limited-edition controller highlights the relationship between
It’s been around for a hot minute, but Darkroom just got a pretty major update that makes it a lot more interesting for photo enthusiasts who don’t want, or can’t afford, to use more specialist tools. The fast and intuitive photo editor gives you access to your photo library, essentially giving you a Lightroom-like experience
It isn’t a dream: The Netflix fantasy series The Sandman has been renewed for more episodes — although no one’s calling it season 2 just yet. Fans will get to see Tom Sturridge’s Dream take on Gwendoline Christie’s Lucifer after all, in a fight for Hell, the Dreaming and the world we know. It took
Benjamin Döpfner has been building companies since he was a teenager. One of his more recent ventures was based in Berlin and at the time of its founding in 2019, Germany actually had negative interest rates – meaning that the company was paying back 50 basis points, or half a percent for each Euro that
/ Of the two big-name Wear OS smartwatches, which would win in a head-to-head fight? Taking bets now. Welcome to Versus. It’s been a while, but we’re back to pitting our favorite tech and gadgets in a head-to-head battle to determine the pros and cons of each. For our first episode, we’re diving straight into
/ I reviewed almost every major smartphone that came out in 2022. None of them made as big of an impact on my day-to-day as a year-old smartwatch. The life-changing magic of adopting a decade-old technology.Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge I’ve used every new flagship phone from Apple, Samsung, and Google this
We’re still in the very early stages, but thus far Matter has proven to be a fairly peaceful collaboration between the biggest competitors in consumer electronics. Apple, Samsung and Google are among those that have detailed their plans to embrace the universal smart home standard following its recent launch. Today Amazon is offering some insight
Following last year’s $205 million acquisition of AirTag competitor Tile by family locator service Life360, the two companies today will now integrate their products and services. With an update arriving soon to Life360’s app, members will be able to see the location of the Tile Bluetooth trackers on the same in-app map where they also
New computing paradigms are never not going to be weird, but such uncomfortability dramatically intensifies when the human body enters into the picture. There’s a sense in which the smart contact lens feels like something of an inevitability (whether it’s produced by Mojo Vision or someone is another question altogether), but that doesn’t mean each
Bruvi‘s B-pods take a novel approach that (probably correctly) assumes consumers are too lazy to return their aluminium pods to the manufacturer (looking at you, Nespresso), and too clumsy to do the pre-processing needed to properly dispose of other pods. So the company instead assumes that the pods go to a landfill, and designed them