/ If you haven’t gotten any new email on Wednesday, it may be because Gmail and some of Microsoft’s servers aren’t talking right now. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you typically access your Hotmail or Outlook account using the Gmail app, there’s a reason you probably haven’t seen any new emails today:
Month: February 2023
After breaking up with California in 2021, Tesla is headed back to Palo Alto. In an announcement Wednesday alongside Gov. Gavin Newsom, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric vehicle company’s new engineering headquarters will be in Palo Alto, California. “We’re excited to announce that Tesla’s global engineering headquarters will be right here, the former
/ Realme might just be the first Android brand with a Dynamic Island clone, according to a recent leak. Meanwhile, third-party app support is starting to flow in for Apple’s original. Apple’s Dynamic Island lacked third-party support at launch. That’s starting to change.Image: Nilay Patel / The Verge Realme, a subbrand of Chinese phone maker
Startups hoping to raise a nine-figure round in the future had best temper their ambition; venture funding events worth $100 million or more are going extinct — quickly. A few years back, nine-figure venture funding events were common. So much so that during my Crunchbase News days, we started to call them “supergiant” rounds to
Your heart could be older or younger than you are. Not literally, but researchers do calculate how old your heart is to determine your cardiovascular health. Your “heart age” is a valuable metric to understand and assess your risk for heart disease, heart attack or stroke based on your risk factor profile. To determine your heart
While much of the white-collar workforce has adjusted to the new norm of videoconferencing from home, that doesn’t mean that they — or their bosses — necessarily like it. According to a poll from Showpad, 76% of employees report becoming more distracted on video calls versus in-person meetings. In a separate survey, staffers — especially
The Outbound Ghost is a charming turn-based adventure RPG that’s been garnering hype on social media thanks to its cutesy blend of The Legend of Zelda, Paper Mario, and Undertale mechanics. The paper mache game hit Steam in late 2022, but if you look for it there now, you won’t find anything because of a
OpenAI is quietly launching a new developer platform that lets customers run the company’s newer machine learning models, like GPT-3.5, on dedicated capacity. In screenshots of documentation published to Twitter by users with early access, OpenAI describes the forthcoming offering, called Foundry, as “designed for cutting-edge customers running larger workloads.” “[Foundry allows] inference at scale
Microsoft said it’s expanding the lengths of chats people can have with the test version of its Bing AI, while the company’s also begun testing different “tone” personalities for more precise or more creative responses. The company’s moves follow efforts to restrict access to the technology after media coverage of the artificial intelligence chatting app going
While they are not a hard science, and should be viewed with as much scepticism as (video) gamers would look at a site like Metacritic, it cannot be denied that the user ratings on BoardGameGeek play a huge part in helping people choose which board games to buy, play and/or argue about. CC Off English
February is a big month for PlayStation Plus. Leading the pack of new games for the month is Horizon: Forbidden West, one of the best games of 2022, and it’s available on the service starting Tuesday. Other major games heading to PS Plus this month are Resident Evil 7, horror adventure game The Quarry and Borderlands 3.
Soylent Nutrition is joining public company Starco Brands as part of an acquisition that will keep the plant-based food technology company operating as a separate unit under its current CEO Demir Vangelov. As part of the transaction, Vangelov told TechCrunch that he will join Starco’s board and is getting shares in the new company, while
/ Rovio Classics: Angry Birds is going away from Google Play on Thursday. Image: Rovio If you want to get classic Angry Birds from Google Play — the version that costs just a buck and isn’t laden with microtransactions — you’d better get it quick. Rovio Classics: Angry Birds, a rebuilt version of the original
The future of online speech is in the hands of the US Supreme Court. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of two high-profile cases involving Google-owned YouTube that could reshape how people use the internet and what they can post online. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear another case on
Nearly two years after NBA player Meyers Leonard blew up his whole career after shouting an antisemitic slur during a Call of Duty: Warzone livestream, ESPN reports he has signed a 10-day contract with the Milwaukee Bucks. CC Off English Read More: NBA Player Drops Antisemitic Slur During Call Of Duty: Warzone Stream [Update] Leonard
Microsoft’s Xbox PC games are headed to Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service. Microsoft President Brad Smith spoke at a press conference Tuesday about bringing over his company’s PC games to Nvidia’s platform. Smith was in Brussels to meet with European Union officials to convince them to approve Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
There are many Call of Duty games. Some might say too many! I wouldn’t though, because while the franchise has become popular to hate, I think it can still offer up some exciting multiplayer action and big, fun single-player campaigns. Heck, if you like zombies, some Call of Duty games even have that covered. But
/ The Alphabet Workers Union calls it the first-ever strike in Google’s history. Photo by Alex Wong / Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) threw his support behind striking YouTube Music workers in a letter addressed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai Tuesday, as first reported by the Austin Chronicle. Sanders’ support comes amid growing tensions
Pokemon Presents Coming on Series’ Anniversary – CNET Want CNET to notify you of price drops and the latest stories? We’ll get 20 minutes of news as the game series turns 27. Sean Keane Senior Writer Sean knows far too much about Marvel, DC and Star Wars, and pours this knowledge into recaps and explainers
Roman Kumar Vyas Contributor Roman Kumar Vyas, CEO and founder of Refocus, is a serial entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience in fintech, edtech, startups and digital transformation. He is also a mentor at 500 Startups and an angel investor. While some experts expect a second honeymoon period for edtech, founders in the space
Wild Hearts, developed by Koei Tecmo’s Omega Force and published by EA, tries its best to take the monster-hunting genre crown from Capcom’s long-running franchise, Monster Hunter. The problem is it copies Capcom’s homework a bit too much. Despite fast action and a stacked variety of enemies, Wild Hearts is a carbon copy so blatant
This is a story about a lot of things. First and foremost it’s a story about Duolingo. That’s obvious. That’s in the headline. But it’s really a story about doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons. It’s also a story about how gamification can rapidly transform one thing into another thing. And it’s most
Strive is an online learning platform that teaches kids to code, but it wants to do more than just that. Developed with an active learning model that lets students take the lead in classes, Strive wants to instill in them a lifelong love of STEM subjects. The Singapore-based startup announced today that it has raised
It was almost a year ago that Square Enix released Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition, a “remastered” version of the 1999 classic on the PC, Xbox One, PS4 and Switch that, as good as the original game was, was also a very bad port. CC Off English Here, among other things, are some of
The Civilization series has been with us so long that it can sometimes feel like part of the furniture. A game comes out, is played for years, another follows, repeat until the heat death of the universe. But it has actually been a very long time since the last game! CC Off English Here’s a
Diablo 4 is one of the biggest titles expected in 2023, and players will have a chance to try out the game before it comes out. The Diablo 4 Open Beta and Early Access Beta will take place next month. Those who preordered Diablo 4 on PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS4, or PS5
/ Memory Saver and Energy Saver modes pause unnecessary background tasks, and are now available on Chrome 110. Google Chrome’s Memory Saver and Energy Saver modes can extend battery when a device is low on power and reduce memory being hogged by tabs.Image: Google Google has released optimization features designed to improve battery life and
The future of online speech is in the hands of the US Supreme Court. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in two high-profile cases involving Google, Twitter and Facebook that could reshape how people use the internet and what they can post online. Both cases stem from lawsuits
Cory Siskind Contributor My company just had its best quarter ever. As its founder and CEO, I am proud to say that I wasn’t there for most of it. I had a good excuse, though: I was on parental leave raising my first child. Since starting this company, I had not taken more than one
It’s that time of the year. The French government and the government-backed initiative La French Tech gathered applications, processed the numbers and ranked the 120 top-performing startups in France right now, with a special category for the top 40 ones. The result is two rankings that are based on objective criteria — the Next40 and
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