Microsoft’s blockbuster $68.7 billion purchase of game maker Activision Blizzard may face a new regulatory hurdle, with a report from Politico saying the US Federal Trade Commission is “likely” to file an antitrust suit against the deal. The story, which was published late Wednesday citing anonymous sources, said the FTC’s commissioners had not yet voted
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/ We may soon get options besides thumbs up, heart eyes, laughing, shock, crying, and anger. And just like that, Messages are now way more fun. Google has started letting some users of its Messages app react to text messages with any emoji, instead of limiting them to the standard set of seven that have
I’ve learned a lot about my sleep over the past week. For example, I tend to get around 5 hours of “light” sleep during a typical night, and an average night of sleep for me usually means 7 hours of shut-eye. I know this because I’ve been wearing two devices to monitor my slumber: the
/ Getting tired of your current earbuds? There are big savings at many retailers, making this the ideal time to make an upgrade. Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Whether you’re shopping for yourself or trying to come through with an amazing gift for someone else, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are great opportunities
Marvel / Second DinnerWhen the patch goes live, the new cards will be split into two new series, or as most players call them, pools. These newer pools will be very rare, with Pool 5 cards like Thanos and Galactus being 10 times rarer than Pool 4 (which are already much rarer to get from
Some students at the MyTechBestFriend academy have always been a little suspicious of the program and its founder, Mary Awodele. Since its founding in 2020, a whisper network murmured that many of the materials taught by the academy were plagiarized from various other online programs, such as those from Google or Salesforce. Founded by Awodele
And here’s everything in the free upgrade: 60fps performance mode or 30fps with ray tracing (except on Series S) Haptic feedback on PS5 Over-the-shoulder camera and photo mode on PC Cross-save between PS5, Series X/S, and PC Button shortcuts for Sign magic Map filter to remove flood of “?” symbols Option to have mini-map disappear
/ If you’re budget is capped at $50, here’s a list of a bunch of deals on smart speakers, gaming controllers, headphones, and more that are worth buying. Roku’s streaming stick supports 4K resolution and Dolby Vision for just $25.Image: Roku With all the deals, discounts, and promotions running around, it can be awfully tempting
Back in August, the FDA announced it was making a big change in the world of hearing aids: From October onwards, hearing aids would be available without a prescription, over the counter. In a world where getting fitted for a hearing aid could be very expensive, and the hearing aids themselves were wrapped up in
The average rate for a 15-year fixed-rate refinance advanced, while 30-year fixed refinance rates decreased. The average rate on 10-year fixed refinance didn’t fluctuate. Like mortgage rates, refinance rates fluctuate on a daily basis. With inflation at a 40-year high, the Federal Reserve has hiked the federal funds rate six times in 2022 to try
/ The metaverse. Voice assistants. AR. VR. For years, everybody promised a Next Big Thing, and the smartphone continues to crush them all. The latest iPhones may not blow minds, but they’re still taking down all comers.Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Everywhere you turned over the last few years, someone was promising
Smartphone shipments have been declining in what has been a rough year for mobile handsets, and that’s meant even more pressure on an already-precarious sliver of the mobile market: feature phones. Today, one of the players in that space, the feature phone operating system startup KaiOS, is getting a small financial injection that both speaks
Myrtle Gonzalez was a very prolific film actress a century ago. Widely regarded as Hollywood’s first Latin and Hispanic star actress, Gonzalez appeared in about 80 silent movies between 1913 and 1917. Google published a Doodle on Wednesday to celebrate Gonzalez’s contribution to cinema on the 108th anniversary of the release of one of her
CICERO: The first AI to play Diplomacy at a human level | Meta AIIf you’ve never played Diplomacy, and so are maybe wondering what the big deal is, it’s a board game first released in the 1950s that is played mostly by people just sitting around a table (or breaking off into rooms) and negotiating
Ukio, a short-term furnished apartment rental platform aimed at the “flexible workforce,” has raised €27 million ($28 million) in a Series A round of funding. The cash injection constitutes €17 million in equity and €10 million in debt, and follows some 14 months after the Spanish company announced a €9 million seed round of funding.
/ Much of Google’s device portfolio is on sale through Black Friday weekend, including the Pixel 7 phones, Pixel Watch, Pixel Buds Pro, and a variety of Nest smart home gadgets. The Pixel 7 (left) and Pixel 7 Pro (right) are some of the many big Google deals going on.Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales /
Advertisement But there are so many more examples of bizarre Overwatch shorthand that would set off alarm bells for anyone not intimately aware of its inner workings. Since D.Va is a character who fights inside of a giant mech and can only be killed if she ejects herself from that mech before it blows up,
If you’re playing Pokemon Scarlet or Violet, you know that one of your three main quests in the game is to find and defeat five Titan Pokemon. The final one most people will encounter — since they’re open-world games, you can technically find the Titan Pokemon in any order — is the False Dragon Titan.
Hitting cinemas for Memorial Day’s kickoff of summer, Top Gun: Maverick rode a wave of glowing reviews and a surge of summer moviegoing to rack up nearly $1.5 billion at the box office worldwide. It’s this year’s top-grossing movie, and it’s the only film in history to be No. 1 at the box office on Memorial Day weekend at
/ The China-only X90 Pro Plus gets Qualcomm’s brand-new SoC and a camera system that goes extremely hard. The X stands for extreme, indeed.Image: Vivo Vivo announced a trio of new flagship phones today, and sitting at the top is the X90 Pro Plus, complete with the brand-new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset announced just
Ann Lai Contributor Ann Lai joined Bullpen Capital in 2020 as a general partner and has invested in and advised more than 30 early- to late-stage companies. Among all the buzzwords startups use when pitching investors and in their marketing, “data-driven” is nearly at the top of the pile. But what does being data-driven really
Aura, a startup founded by early Twitter employees that makes digital frames and photo sharing apps that can also be used to update those frames, has pulled in some funding to expand its business as it closes in on three million users of its app and 1 million frames sold (it’s now at 997k). The
Pawmi is one of the Pokemon you’ll encounter first in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. The electric mouse, very much a Pikachu for the new generation, spawns in the very first areas you’ll explore. If you catch one, you’ll eventually evolve Pawmi into Pawmo at level 18. You might reasonably expect that training Pawmo up into
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Both 15-year fixed and 30-year fixed refinances saw their average rates trail off. The average rates for 10-year fixed refinances also went down. Like mortgage rates, refinance rates fluctuate on a daily basis. With inflation at a 40-year high, the Federal Reserve has hiked the federal funds rate six times in 2022 to try to
A new activity-tracking platform is launching out of stealth today with $1 million in pre-seed funding, with a view toward helping those suffering from Long COVID track and manage their symptoms. Visible, as the company is called, is the brainchild of Harry Leeming, a London-based engineer who says he has suffered from Long COVID for
This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Black Friday week is here and we believe you should shop smarter, not harder. From now until the close of Cyber Monday in seven days, the best TV prices of the year are hitting Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and Target. A lot of TVs are sale,
And just as quickly as the goblins themselves, players have begun responding to the videos of Euphoria members G Walking. Some find it funny, others find it scary. But many are annoyed by what Euphoria is doing, claiming that it ruins matches and makes it harder for casual players to just hop on for a
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