Maybe nothing ever truly dies in Apple land. The Mac Pro went on an indefinite hiatus as the hardware design team regrouped and reengineered. MagSafe appeared to be gone forever, only to be reborn in altered form on MacBooks of recent vintage. Various models and sizes across different lines have been phased out, only to
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Growing up in Mexico City, Pamela Valdes says she was a bullied child who was inspired by stories her parents told of other bullied individuals, such as Bill Gates, who went on to be very successful. “Those stories my parents told me in a way created my reality,” she said. Valdes recognized that her upbringing
Buy an electric car. Invest in a heat pump. Install an induction stove. They’re all measures that people can take to reduce their daily carbon emissions, and they’re all pretty significant cash outlays. Over the next three decades, as the world lurches toward net zero emissions, expenditures like these will be unavoidable. For many people,
This story is part of Samsung Event, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Samsung’s most popular products. Samsung’s semiannual Unpacked event was held in San Francisco on Wednesday, and a collection of new phones and laptops made their debut. Samsung launched the refresh of its flagship Galaxy S line of phones — the
The latest beta version of the PS5 system software will allow gamers to join Discord voice chats directly from the Sony console. The changes, announced in a blog post on the PlayStation website, will be offered to select customers in select countries starting today. Beta-testers will be able to access the feature by linking their
/ Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) wrote directly to Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Thursday calling on their companies to remove downloads of the app. Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) demanded that Apple and Google “immediately” remove TikTok from their app stores in a letter addressed to the companies’ chief
Editors’ note: This piece was updated on October 16, 2014, to reflect additional news following Apple’s October press event. While Apple enthusiasts may often find their wallets emptying out with each new product announcement, wallets may literally start slimming down, thanks to Apple’s recently announced iOS feature, Apple Pay. Launching in the US on Monday,
French startup Seyna is slowly building an all-in-one platform for insurance brokers so that they can create, sell and manage insurance products from scratch. And the company is launching a new product called Seyna Claims. As the name suggests, Seyna Claims empowers insurance brokers so that they can handle claims themselves. Seyna is an insurtech
The Clickers from HBO’s The Last of Us are just like us — they also wouldn’t pass up the chance to dance with Pedro Pascal. In a video posted by Saturday Night Live’s TikTok account on Wednesday, Pascal, who plays the ever-serious protagonist Joel on the hit show, and a person wearing amazing monster makeup
Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is having a decent day today after beating revenue and user activity forecasts for its final fiscal quarter of 2022. But its VR division isn’t helping the company make money. In fact, it’s costing the company billions in losses. CC Off English While it’s true that Meta’s stock is rising in
You can hear someone tell you Tom Brady’s age (45!) and it doesn’t really hit you, because the guy still looks pretty fit and healthy. To fully grasp the length of Brady’s tenure on this Earth, then, you need to realise that the man has appeared in a video game for the PlayStation. Like, the
Lex, the hookup and social app that launched in 2019 with a nod to lesbian personal ads from the 80s, is changing. Only, precisely how much will change is still an open question. Sure, the venture-backed startup behind the queer app gave it a new lick of paint last week, but in refocusing on “friends
Visiting a friend in Silicon Valley in December, I drove by a local landmark just around the corner: Steve Jobs’ boyhood home. The modest ranch-style house doesn’t stand out much from other homes on the block, but it represents technology history. In that very garage, in the ’70s, Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak put
The new MacBook Pros are a lot of things, but cheap isn’t one. Performance, it seems, comes at a price. It’s certainly a philosophy Samsung has long subscribed to with its highest-end products. Take the group of laptops it announced alongside the Galaxy S23 at today’s Unpacked event. There are, fittingly, three primary SKUs for
Samsung’s S-series phones actually look like they belong together this year. The S23 and S23 Plus have adopted the floating camera design of the Ultra, making for a much more cohesive trio this time around. They’re even all available in the same colors. Under the hood, they have all of the incremental updates we expected,
Common wisdom in digital photography says that megapixels aren’t everything. They matter to an extent, but smartphone makers have a long history of leaning too heavily on those numbers as a kind of shorthand for camera quality. In other words, they play an important role but need to work in concert with a number of
/ The Commerce Department released a new report Wednesday calling on Congress to open the mobile app store up to greater competition. Image: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The Biden administration on Wednesday urged Congress to open up app stores to increased competition as part of a sweeping government-wide plan to
Do you dream of becoming a dominant player and capturing your total addressable market (TAM)? Who can blame you? But one of the most common mistakes many early-stage startup founders make is calculating a TAM that’s not necessarily accurate or obtainable. Understanding TAM is essential for startup success — especially in a down market when
Cash-back credit cards let you earn cash rewards on your spending. Some cash-back credit cards offer flat-rate perks, like 1% to 2% cash back on all purchases, while others reward you at higher rates, between 2% and 6%, when you spend money within different categories, such as groceries, gas or even with certain retailers. The best
Today there are famous people tweeting about Call of Duty and streaming on Twitch, something you might have at one point considered to be a more niche hobby reserved for the most hardcore gamers. But the industry is booming. HBO’s biggest TV show debut in the last ten years is about a zombie game. While
Dead Space might be the best video game remake ever. But whether you’re a longtime fan of the series or brand new to it, the sci-fi survival horror game can be a little tricky. The remake of the 2008 game came out Friday, and players are stepping back into the role of Isaac, an engineer
Risilience, a SaaS-based analytics platform that helps companies assess their climate risk and plan their transition toward net-zero carbon emissions, has raised $26 million in a Series B round of funding. Spun out of the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Risk Studies (CCRS) back in 2021, Risilience says it has already amassed a number of high-profile
/ Announced last November, the new interface offers a quicker way to see when your packages might arrive. The new interface offers more at-a-glance information about where your package is.Screenshot by Jon Porter / The Verge Gmail’s iOS and Android apps have been updated with a new interface that makes it easier to see where
Battery startup Our Next Energy announced this morning that it closed a massive $300 million Series B in an effort to get its $1.6 billion gigafactory up and running. The new round values the company at $1.2 billion post-money, marking a stunning rise for the two-and-a-half-year-old company, which closed a $25 million Series A in
Remember when movie adaptations of video games were universally terrible? That’s a distant memory because, as a culture and a collective, we’ve seized upon a solution: TV shows. Ever since some bright spark decided to stop shoehorning 30-hour video games into a rigid three act structure, adaptations of classic video games have gone from strength
One of the most interesting developments in the emulation and coding scenes in recent years has been the increasing trend in taking classic old video games and completely reverse-engineering their code. CC Off English We’ve seen fans do this for everything from Mario 64 to Ocarina of Time to Grand Theft Auto, all with varying
Countries worldwide have pledged to reduce their energy usage and reach net-zero energy targets by 2050. To get there, they will need to find clever ways to decarbonize especially dirty businesses, including the buildings sector. The push to clean up the built environment has spawned a lot of policy, as well as overlapping acronyms, including