The US Federal Trade Commission has asked Twitter to turn over internal communications related to Elon Musk, along with information about recent layoffs, with a focus on how the staff reductions at the social media company could affect its ability to protect users, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The FTC has also asked Twitter
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Google I/O 2023, the company’s midyear software show, is set to take place in person on May 10, giving developers and enthusiasts a sneak peek at what’s coming across Android, Search, Maps and plenty of other products. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, is expected to kick off the first of
Destiny 2’s newest expansion dropped its first major secret on Tuesday. Following the game’s weekly rest, players discovered clues in the European Dead Zone leading to a new exotic quest. I finished it earlier today, and can confirm it’s a certified banger. CC Off English Spoiler warning: As with all new Destiny 2 secrets, this
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/ Google is expected to have more than 20 artificial intelligence products launching this year and will show many of them off during I/O. Image: Google Google has announced its annual I/O conference will begin on May 10th. The company says it’ll be “broadcast in front of a limited live audience and is open to
Local governments in the southwestern U.S. are putting up $150,000 to back what they say is a pioneering effort to “turn air into concrete at scale.” The funds will help cover the cost of the “reference project,” a collaboration between two climate tech startups and a masonry firm in Flagstaff, Arizona. The firms expect construction
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Matt Rogers, the founder and CEO of Mill, a startup that helps its customers turn their food scraps into farm feed. The former founder of Nest talked about what compelled him to jump back into
Pharmedica USA is recalling two lots of Purely Soothing 15% MSM Drops that were sold at online retailers worldwide, including Amazon, over concerns about “non-sterility.” A notice posted last week by the US Food and Drug Administration says the eye drops may be contaminated and using them could pose a “risk of eye infections that could result
Approximately one in three restaurants will go out of business in its first year. For construction companies, that figure rises to 53%. But AI projects are the real heartbreakers: A Gartner study found that 85% are destined to fail “due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams responsible for managing them.” Unfortunately, the profound
My favorite little gaming handheld last year was the Panic Playdate, a tiny yellow crank-enabled pocket console with its own included library of weird indie games. Even though the Playdate launched last year, shipping delays and shortages have meant many people still haven’t been able to get one. But the handheld just added its own
Hogwarts Legacy, the hit open-world game that takes place in the Harry Potter universe, will move past the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S and float to last-gen systems on May 5, the game’s official Twitter account said on Monday. The game was originally scheduled to release on April 4. This means that
Pokemon Go game developer Niantic has flexed into a bunch of unusual social gaming experiments on phones: some with walking and Pikmin, some with sleep. A new AR game called Peridot, which casts a virtual pet companion into the real world using your phone, arrives May 9 promising some sort of social connectivity through virtual
When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. The money to make it happen, however? That leaves a thing or two to be desired. For one thing, the processes remain largely manual, with financing in this sector remaining reliant on emails, spreadsheets and documents in a variety of formats.
The Sonos One wasn’t broken, but that doesn’t mean the company’s is above fixing it. Over two generations and a few variants, the compact speaker has become one of the company’s most popular. Really, it’s been a big win for a firm whose portfolio can give off a whiff of inaccessibility, compared to other connected
Apple has a tendency to introduce a new iPhone color in the spring. And this time, it’s yellow. The company is adding the color option to both iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. Last spring, the company launched a new green color (Alpine green for the Pro models) for the iPhone 13 series, and in
The reMarkable 2 is a great tablet for reading long documents on, annotating them, taking notes, sketching… but not for full-on writing. At least, it wasn’t until they put out this great keyboard folio that converts this tablet into a pretty compelling minimalist writing station — if you don’t mind a slightly premium price. The
/ The sustainable smartphone manufacturer had originally hoped to offer three to five years of updates for the handset from its release in late 2015. The Fairphone 2, released in 2015.Photo by James Vincent / The Verge After over seven years and 43 software updates, Fairphone’s second-generation Android smartphone is finally reaching the end of
There’s a lot of important digital information on our devices these days and you’ll want to make sure it’s protected. That includes making sure it’s safe from hackers and prying eyes, but you’ll also want to make sure you’re storing your files somewhere that’s not at risk of getting damaged or corrupted. And that’s especially
Cash management — tracking who needs to pay an invoice and whether it’s been done — can make or break a business. Now, a startup building SaaS software to help finance departments manage this more intelligently is announcing some funding to expand after seeing strong demand. Growfin, a Singapore- and San Francisco–based fintech startup that
The Nintendo GameCube was a weird little console, one that had all kinds of wacky add-ons and peripherals released for it over the years, from LAN adapters to Game Boy Links to bongo drums. One thing I never knew about until today, however, were the company’s plans for an official LCD screen. CC Off English
Boku no Natsuyasumi is a long-running Japanese series that, with a weird and bad exception, has never been officially released in the West. That’s a shame! Where publishers have failed us, though, fans are stepping up and delivering the goods. CC Off English The series, best translated as My Summer Vacation, began all the way
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. To test or not to test — that’s still the COVID-19 question. And if you’re in the position where you’re considering it, the answer is probably “yes.” The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to recommend
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Hogwarts Legacy, the hit open-world game that takes place in the Harry Potter universe, will soon move past the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S and float to last-gen systems on May 5, the game’s official Twitter account said on Monday. This means that those that haven’t upgraded to a next-gen system will
/ Google has all kinds of AI tech in development, including this Universal Speech Model, that’s part of its attempt to build a model that can understand the world’s 1,000 most-spoken languages. Illustration: The Verge As Microsoft and Google butt heads over whose AI chatbot is better, that isn’t the only use for machine learning
/ Zoom’s new Chromebook app is as Zoom-like as its apps on Mac or PC. Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge Until last year, the way to use Zoom on a ChromeOS device was to download and use Zoom’s ChromeOS app. However, in August of 2022, that app was sunsetted and replaced by the Zoom
/ If you were wondering why things look a bit different, this is probably why. Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google has started to roll out an updated UI for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides that’s meant to fit in with its Material Design 3 language. The apps still work the same way
When Microsoft, after a decade-long hiatus, relaunched its now 40-year-old Flight Simulator series in 2020, it reignited interest in a genre that had long been a mainstay of PC gaming. It’s one thing to marvel at the graphics of the new Flight Simulator, though, and another to try to play the game with mouse and
Last week, Final Fantasy producer Yoshida Naoki objected to the label “JRPG,” stating that the term felt “discriminatory.” His comments kicked off a round of discussion about whether or not the term “JRPG” was racially problematic. Some couldn’t understand how JRPG could be pejorative, especially given the genre’s popularity. Those who took issue with the
Twitter is having a rough start to the week. On Monday, the social network experienced several issues, including outbound links in tweets not working and images not loading in timelines. Instead of going to the intended sites, links in tweets served up an error message that read: “Your current API plan does not include access