Somerville Release TrailerWhich may sound damning, but is also a backhanded compliment because despite all my issues with Somerville, I still really dug my time with it because the world and its story is the priority here, not your minute-to-minute actions. Its sci-fi designs are fantastic, its world-building utterly immersive and its cinematography, while occasionally
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/ The latest Android flagship chipset of choice leans into AI improvements, adds Wi-Fi 7 support, and gets smarter image processing. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 builds on its predecessor’s AI capabilities.Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm has announced all the details of its next flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, with a focus on better and
Advertisement If indeed CDPR plans to revisit this storyline in the future, we’ll at least have to wait for 2077’s upcoming DLC expansion, Phantom Liberty or, more likely, the next Cyberpunk game for that to happen. Whether it ever continues or not, though, the Peralez storyline is one you absolutely must play. It’s also one
/ The platform is testing affiliate marketing and in-app shopping features on Shorts. TikTok began testing in-app purchases last week. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge New shopping features are coming to YouTube Shorts, including affiliate marketing and the ability to purchase items through Shorts, as first reported by the Financial Times (via TechCrunch).
In the face of decreased ad spending and an economic downturn, YouTube is introducing shopping features to Shorts, its TikTok-like short-form video offering, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The Alphabet-owned streaming giant is also testing a new commission for creators on the site. YouTube’s new shopping features will allow users to purchase products as they
Are you planning to play League of Legends during your next investor pitch? (If so, reading this probably isn’t a good use of your time.) For founders who are interested in building on their own, maintaining control and staying off the fundraising treadmill for as long as possible, investor/entrepreneur Marjorie Radlo-Zandi sets out five basic
/ The Fitbit Sense 2 and Versa 4 are also finally getting Google Wallet. It doesn’t entirely fix the issues with Google’s wearable lineup, but it’s a welcome improvement. If you logged 14 nights of sleep in October, you’ll get your Sleep Profile on November 22nd.Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Pixel
Packaging is a trillion-dollar-per-year industry that, by and large, has some sustainability challenges. Impacked is a B2B company that’s bringing green tech to the forefront for everything from jars, tubes and pouches to bottles. The company raised a $2.5 million seed funding round led by TenOneTen Ventures, taking its total funding raised to $3.3 million.
Today, the electrical grid works because utilities have a time-tested playbook. They may not know exactly when you do your laundry, but they generally know washers and dryers run more in the evenings or on weekends. Air conditioners wind up when temperatures soar, and more lights click on during the dark winter months. But in
ULUU believes the solution to the plastic crisis lies in the world’s oceans. The Australian startup uses seaweed to create a plastic alternative and is planning to launch its first products in the next 12 to 24 months. Today ULUU announced it has raised $8 million AUD (about $5.3 million USD) led by Main Sequence
All electric, everywhere, all of the time; that’s one of the many climate mantras. Induction stovetops take a lot of power, however — they can pull 40 amps at 240 volts. That’s the same as an at-home Level 2 EV charger. Needless to say, a lot of older houses aren’t wired to plug in a
BasiGo will begin assembling electric buses in Kenya from next month, ramping up its production of public transport vehicles (PSVs) as it targets to deliver 100 units by the end of next year. The startup plans to deliver 15 of the 100 buses, manufactured using parts from China’s EV maker BYD Automotive, in January next
Just finished binging The English on Prime Video? Amazon’s Western brought home its moving story of Lady Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt), a mother running the gauntlet to enact revenge on the man who caused her son’s death. It also turned out to be a great love story with ex-Pawnee Scout Eli Whipp (Chaske Spencer), set
Silkhaus, a Dubai-based platform for short-term rentals coming out of stealth, has raised $7.75 million in seed funding, money it plans to use for expansion across South Asia, Southeast Asia and the MENA region. Venture capital firms that participated in the round include Nuwa Capital, Nordstar, Global Founders Capital, Yuj Ventures, Whiteboard Capital and VentureSouq.
The beloved galaxy far, far away is ever-expanding on Disney Plus. The streaming service’s latest live-action Star Wars series is Andor, an excellent prequel story that takes place half a decade before the events of 2016’s Rogue One. Ten of the 12 episodes are available now, and we’ll get one episode each Wednesday until Nov. 23. Diego Luna returns as Cassian
Advertisement And here’s another (uploaded independently by someone who had saved the footage), showing him failing to recognise either Jamie Redknapp or Louis Saha: Ishowspeed in SKY SPORTS STUDIO reacting to no RONALDOSpeed, who got famous streaming games like Fortnite, NBA 2K and FIFA, was presumably brought in by Sky to leverage his internet following
VideogamedunkeyAt the time he recorded, Sonic Frontiers had an 8.8 Metacritic user score compared to Breath of the Wild’s 8.7, Elden Ring’s 7.8, and Hades’ 8.8. Shortly after the video debuted, Dunkey shared a screenshot on Twitter showing three 0-scored user reviews from Metacritic users with “Dunkey” in their display names, alleging that “Sonic fans
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. Hello, and welcome to the beginning of another week. As mentioned last Friday, Haje is off scuba diving, leaving the rest of us to pick up the Twitter and FTX pieces. No
Filed under: Over the past few months, the economy has started to turn, and tech workers are being hit hard. Meta, Twitter, and more have fired thousands, and others are slowing or freezing hiring. By Verge Staff 64 updates since Feb 9, 2022, 10:54 PM UTC RSSFollow this stream Companies have been cutting costs. It
/ Google settled with 40 states over claims the company misled users into thinking they had location tracking turned off. Illustration: The Verge Google has agreed to pay a $391.5 million settlement to 40 states over allegations that the company tracked users’ locations without their knowledge (via The New York Times). As part of the
This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Black Friday is no longer a one-day shopping event — it’s weeks upon weeks of deals and promotions that start as early as October. Each store handles its Black Friday promotions differently, but one of the best times in the
Ahead of next month’s ninth annual Game Awards, host and creator Keighley also revealed the full list of other nominees today for categories ranging from Best Game Direction to Best Esports Event. While Sony is the publisher with the most games nominated, nearly double runners-up Nintendo and Annapurna Interactive, plenty of games with less fanfare
What goes up must come down” is a cliche that is also a bastardization of Newton’s third law. It’s also a good reminder that when it looks like the business market has changed fundamentally, we’re often really just seeing a temporary aberration. This idiom rings true when we consider the cycle of tech valuations (up
Advertisement The steelbook case, digital code combo was already annoying without this apparent manufacturing blunder. When the Ragnarök collector’s edition was announced earlier this summer, with custom items and downloadable content but no physical game to plop inside of the very expensive steelbook case, Ian Walker wrote for Kotaku that “it seems the gaming industry
/ Fitbit, Oura, and Flo are just a few of the other apps already integrated with the platform. The Health Connect platform can be used to sync data between fitness apps, simplifying app connectivity and centralizing privacy controls.Image: Google Android has released Health Connect into public beta, a new app that assimilates data from across
The complexity of streaming data technologies – not just streaming video but any kind of streaming data – has created a headache around dealing with that high speed data processing. Accordingly, companies like Spark, Flink have spring up to address this ksqlDB. Many are either either java-based solutions or SQL-based analytics solutions. However, UK startup
The 2023 Polestar 2 BST Edition 270 is finally here. After its debut as an experimental prototype at the 2021 Goodwood Festival of Speed, Swedish EV builder Polestar announced a limited run of the hotted-up Polestar 2 earlier this year. A few supply chain-related delays later — par for the course these days — and
Call of Duty Warzone 2.0 launches on Nov. 16, but players of the free-to-play battle royale game can see how well they played Warzone 1.0 in the more than two years since its release. The Warzone Legacy video is available to watch and download for all Call of Duty players. The highlight reel will include
The beloved galaxy far, far away is ever-expanding on Disney Plus. The streaming service’s latest live-action Star Wars series is Andor, an excellent prequel story that takes place five years before the events of 2016’s Rogue One. Ten of the 12 episodes are available now, and we’ll get one episode each Wednesday until Nov. 23. Diego Luna returns as Cassian Andor,
Also contentious was the way in which prominent artists had to opt out of having their style stolen (people entering prompts into AI art use a bunch of keywords like “fantasy”, but also artist names to imitate their style), but to do so had to submit a form which would take days to process: Advertisement
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