I don’t collect Pokémon cards much myself. I have a select few cards I’ve kept over the years, mostly ones of my favorite monsters or sporting characters I like such as the Professor’s Research card featuring my husband Professor Turo. But I am always captivated by the art The Pokémon Company slaps on a piece
Month: April 2023
Some guy is currently suing Tolkien and Amazon to the tune of $250 million. That alone takes serious bravery. But what’s notable about this lawsuit is the reason he’s suing: Copyright infringement over his Lord of the Rings fanfic. Specifically, he’s arguing that Amazon lifted elements of his fan-fiction for its own Tolkien adaptation TV
Recently, Spotify’s “fake artist” problem, first spotted as far back as 2017, has been a topic of conversation yet again, with a playlist of 49 virtually identical songs from different artists making the rounds on the internet. And no, this isn’t a snarky jab about how all pop music is built on the same general
When it’s not stealing or plagiarizing, generative AI is improving quickly. Images that used to look uncanny now appear more natural and humanly imperfect. But it still struggles with plenty of things. Apparently video game controllers are one of them. Someone asked Midjourney for simple pictures of a person having fun playing video games, and
Garry Newman, the creator behind the classic sandbox game Garry’s Mod, has spoken out against the game’s long-running Nazi issue. On Twitter, Newman wondered whether he should ban the roleplay servers run by “a bunch of guys that really seem to love the Nazis.” Yeah, that sounds like a good idea to me. This New
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of God of War (the new one, and yes, it’s been that long), Sony Santa Monica shared a bunch of behind-the-scenes footage of Kratos and Atreus’ final battle with Baldur. Spoilers for a five-year-old dog walk down below. God Of War Is Still The GOAT For Opening Boss Fights Off
/ Google Nest speakers and displays will soon refrain from telling you everything they’re doing for you when controlling smart home devices. But only in the room where it happens. Google Nest speakers will soon speak less.Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge It’s a truth universally acknowledged that smart speakers should just shut up.
Tapping into renewable energy like solar isn’t just for homeowners anymore. Renters can get into the game, too. If you’re interested in solar energy but don’t own a home, experts say community solar may be the answer. “Your best bet is to tap into some sort of community solar offsite generation — subscribe to an
If someone said “startup” while we were playing a word association game, I’d respond with “fundraising.” (I bet you would, too.) Asking people for money is a key aspect of every founder’s journey, but Techstars Managing Director Collin Wallace says it can also “accelerate your demise.” For example, raising a round to rev up engineering,
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week we recorded at Early Stage, TechCrunch’s event for founders who are building startups from the ground up. Sadly, our dear friend Natasha Mascarenhas took ill, and we had to lean on
/ Plus, the last-gen Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra has hit its lowest price to date, as have a number of standout indie titles for the Nintendo Switch. The Chromecast with Google TV (HD) is a good streaming device if you can get away with 1080p.Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you’re looking for
/ Bard can now generate code, debug existing code, and help explain lines of code. Illustration: The Verge Google is updating its Bard AI chatbot to help developers write and debug code. Rivals like ChatGPT and Bing AI have supported code generation, but Google says it has been “one of the top requests” it has
Photonics is proving to be a tough nut to crack Kyle Wiggers 7 hours The growing compute power necessary to train sophisticated AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT might eventually run up against a wall with mainstream chip technologies. In a 2019 analysis, OpenAI found that from 1959 to 2012, the amount of power used
If you’re looking to add modern, convenient additions to your home, lighting is a good place to start. Smart lights make it easy to customize your space, and with most smart lighting, you can easily light your entire house and control the lights from your phone or compatible smart device. Right now Woot has a lot of different
Betterdata, a Singapore-based startup that uses programmable synthetic data to keep real data secure, announced today it has raised $1.55 million. The seed round, which it says was oversubscribed, was led by Investible with participation from Franklin Templeton, Xcel Next, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Bon Auxilium, Tenity, Plug and Play and Entrepreneur First.
As a series dating back to the 1980s, you normally expect a new Street Fighter game to play it safe. Sure, every generation or two there might be a visual shift, but Street Fighter is Street Fighter, it began as a 1v1 fighting tournament and shall forever be one. Until, that is, Street Fighter 6
Saying “history will not be kind to [thing or person]” is a practice that has always fascinated me. Who are we to judge the future’s thoughts on the topics of today? That’s the future’s problem. All we can do in the present, as historians or otherwise, is evaluate what has come before us. It’s impossible
The last Twitter users who retained blue checkmarks from the company’s previous method of verification had their badges stripped away Thursday. If you want one of the blue badges, you’ll have to pay for the social media company’s Twitter Blue subscription service. Twitter announced that it would start retiring its so-called legacy verified program at
A newish leadership team is taking over at Arcimoto, a Eugene, Oregon–based startup that makes doorless, three-wheeled electric vehicles. On Thursday, the company said that board member Chris Dawson will step in as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jesse Fittipaldi. Arcimoto added that Fittipaldi will stick around as president and report to Dawson going forward. Two
Diablo 4, the latest installment of the popular dungeon crawler, comes out on June 6, but players can try out some of the game in an open beta happening in May. The third Diablo 4 open beta — which developer Blizzard Entertainment is calling a Server Slam — will give fans of the series one
Throughout the years, stoner culture and gamer culture have become enmeshed, occasionally being mistaken for each other. While it may be a somewhat tired cultural connection (stoners are lazy, gamers are lazy, blah blah), there’s no denying that the two are quite complementary. They work well together, and have for decades, offering us gamer bongs
Show more (1 item) It’s taken over two years, but the next-gen PlayStation 5 is finally readily available at major retailers like Best Buy and Amazon. And if you’ve got your hands on one of these ultrapopular Sony consoles, there are also tons of accessories out there that can help take your gaming experience to
/ Called Google DeepMind, the new group is led by DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, as former AI lead Jeff Dean steps into the role of chief scientist. Image: Google DeepMind, the artificial intelligence company acquired by Alphabet in 2014, is merging with Google’s Brain team to form Google DeepMind. In a post shared by Alphabet
/ This delightful city-building game is an armchair urbanist’s dream and the best $5 I’ve ever spent. Classic city-building with a fun, interactive twist.Image: Codebrew Games Did you play SimCity on a floppy disk? Are you uncomfortable with the “theft” part of Grand Theft Auto but you love running around and playing mini-games? Did you quit
When developer Alexandre Spindler revealed footage of a “body cam style game” he was working on last fall, it exploded across the internet as people marveled at its eerie ambiance and photorealistic look. “This is awesome,” wrote District 9 director Neill Blomkamp. Now the game has been announced for real, and it’s stirring controversy over
Honeycomb raised $50 million to make the new landscape of platforms and services more observable. Its long-term goal is to make life easier for people operating large software platforms. “What we saw in 2015 and 2016 is the world moving in a direction where that complexity was unavoidable, whether in a heightened interest in being
The Arctic is melting, while hurricanes, blizzards and heat waves leave millions of people and animals in disarray. Lisa Lambert, the head of National Grid’s CVC National Grid Partners, told TechCrunch+ that environmental and social concerns should be top of mind right now for any smart investor. “Not because it’s the right thing to do,
CoreWeave, an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. CoreWeave today announced that it raised $221 million in a Series B funding round led by Magnetar Capital with participation from Nvidia, former GitHub CEO Nat
When it comes to smart speakers, there are a lot of options available on the market right now. If you’re invested in Apple’s ecosystem, odds are you’re interested in the HomePod or HomePod Mini, as they are the most compatible with other Apple devices. The one downside to these can be the price, with the
/ Google wants to sprinkle generative AI ‘magic’ over as many of its businesses as possible. Also up for a dusting of machine learning fairy dust: Google’s advertising business. Illustration: The Verge The next target for Google’s AI rush is the company’s advertising business, according to a report from The Financial Times. Citing a presentation
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