$350 at Amazon Upstream 10,000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner: $350 Save $80 $532 at Amazon Whynter 14,000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner: $532 Save $68 Show more (1 item) With temperatures rising as we head into summer, investing in a portable air conditioner may be a smart move. In many circumstances, having a portable air conditioner
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When the SEC announced that it planned to require companies under its purview to disclose their climate-related risks and emissions, plenty of companies started publicly clutching their pearls. Tracking down the extent of their pollution would simply be either too expensive, too difficult or both, they said. No surprise there: Companies strike a similar tone
/ Companies that have verified their identity through BIMI will automatically receive a checkmark logo to go along with using their own profile image. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Gmail will start displaying a familiar-looking blue checkmark next to a sender’s name to verify their identity. In a blog post, Google says the
Databricks today announced that it has acquired Okera, a data governance platform with a focus on AI. The two companies did not disclose the purchase price. According to Crunchbase, Okera previously raised just under $30 million. Investors include Felicis, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cyber Mentor Fund, ClearSky and Emergent Ventures. Data governance was already a hot
Google is switching out Chrome’s padlock symbol for a new icon in the address bar, the company announced in a blog post on Tuesday. The lock will be replaced this fall with a “neutral indicator” designed to urge users to verify a website’s security information. Users will see the new icon in September with the
/ A new tune icon will replace it later this year to avoid misleading users about how ‘trustworthy’ websites are while browsing. Some of you likely do know what this lock icon represents, but most Chrome users apparently don’t.Image: The Verge The padlock icon indicating website security has appeared in the URL bar of web
No doubt that Rick Fox has had plenty of emotional moments in his life. There was the birth of his children, of course, and as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers in the early 2000s, he won three NBA championships. But last week, it’s clear that his third act — that of a startup
The Pokémon Company is officially migrating its online trading card ecosystem to its new app, Pokémon Trading Card Game Live, on June 8. This means if you’ve been playing the digital card game on Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, which has been the platform for official online play since 2011, you’ll have to make the
/ Dashlane’s building its own password-free solution that can unlock user vaults via device authentication — but it’s not passkeys. Dashlane’s new Passwordless Login uses device authentication, so you can log in to your vault on your computer by scanning a QR code.Image: Dashlane Password manager company Dashlane is replacing the master password with a
Our global search continues, and today, we’re urging early-stage startups across Africa to apply for the Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2023. The application window closes on May 15 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Africa: The Startup Battlefield 200 wants your startups SB 200 is the startup world’s preeminent competition, and it has a global reach.
Redfall, a vampire shooter out this week on Xbox and PC, was developed by Arkane Studios, the same team behind classics like Dishonored and Prey. It’s one of Microsoft’s first-party exclusives for 2023, a big release for the company’s Game Pass subscription service. And by most accounts, it sucks. Let’s Talk About Gotham Knights’ Predictable
Imagine if you will, a pizza. Not a normal pizza, a weird pizza. A pizza that looks misshapen in ways that make your eyes dip in and out of focus. Like an M.C. Escher drawing. Except instead of endless staircases and people walking upside down, it’s pizza. Now imagine this pizza moving toward a barely
Having a phone with reliable service is pretty necessary these days, but that doesn’t mean you have to spend over $100 per month on a service plan. With a little digging, you can find ways to sign up with a network for less, especially when you’re looking at lesser-known carriers that piggyback on larger carriers’
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While we wait for Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, a troupe of modders known as Garden of Eyes is working on an overhaul mod to FromSoftware’s latest “You Died” open-world RPG, which will introduce new weapons, additional skins for Torrent, and Bloodborne-style gun parries to The Lands Between. As it continues working on
The PlayStation 4 was the graphical shot in the arm console gaming needed after the very very lengthy PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 generation, which saw the consoles struggling to meet games’ increasing graphical demands by the early 2010s. The PS4 impressed right out of the gate, a much-needed remedy to the growing PS360 malaise.
/ Youtube still ran ads on content that rejects mainstream climate science, even after Google said it wouldn’t allow that. Photo by Sean Gallup / Getty Images Google is still turning a buck on climate disinformation on YouTube. The company pledged not to sell ads on content that rejects mainstream climate science more than a
Payments infrastructure startup Finix has slowly been taking swipes at Stripe, first becoming a facilitator, and now becoming a processor. Finix said today it now is directly connected to all major U.S. card networks — American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa. Now that Finix no longer relies on a third-party processor, it says it’s able to
Apple and Google are coming together to fight against bad actors misusing Bluetooth location-tracking devices like the AirTag. The two companies submitted a draft set of standards and best practices for the tech industry to the Internet Engineering Task Force that would prevent unwanted tracking through Bluetooth devices, Apple said in a press release on
/ Google’s new smart home API means security companies like Abode can once again integrate with Nest’s thermostats and cameras. Security system Abode now works with all Google Nest cameras and thermostats.Image: Abode Starting today, users of the smart home security system Abode can now control and automate Google Nest products natively inside the Abode
/ Apple and Google’s proposal would alert users if an unknown Bluetooth tracker is traveling with them, no matter what kind of phone they have. Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge, Shutterstock Apple and Google have teamed up on a proposed industry specification aimed at combatting the safety risks associated with AirTags and other
“Batteries are hard,” an expert once said. He wasn’t kidding. Designing and manufacturing pouches, slabs or cylinders filled with volatile chemicals that are capable of recharging ever more quickly is far from easy. Just ask LG, which had to pay GM nearly $2 billion for a costly manufacturing defect that saw every Chevy Bolt recalled.
Worldwide, about one in six people live with a disability. Whether through injury or illness, disability can manifest itself as an impediment to mobility. There have been fantastic advancements in communication and operational technologies, but there’s always room for improvement, and Augmental, an MIT Media Lab spinoff, thinks that it might be on to something
Samsung has reportedly banned employees from using popular generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Google Bard and Bing out of security concerns. The Korea-based company notified employees at one of its biggest divisions on Monday of the new policy, Bloomberg reported. The ban is out of concern that data used by AI platforms is stored
Humans are going back to the Moon! NASA’s Artemis program is going to send a bunch of astronauts to the Lunar surface in the coming years, initially for Moon business, but later to start work on the eventual journey to Mars. It’s exciting stuff, but as this art series shows, it can’t hurt to pack
As technology advances, and online communities shift to adapt, we take it as a kind of default proposition that new sites and platforms should be better than old ones. Reality, of course, has different plans. Let’s Talk About Gotham Knights’ Predictable Ending Off English Take Discord. It’s a great platform! A huge improvement over older
Ann Lai, a general partner at Bullpen Capital, has been fired from the firm, she says. The investor described the termination experience as “discriminatory and retaliatory” in a LinkedIn post published on Monday. Lai helped raise Bullpen Capital’s most recent fund, a $145 million investment vehicle, the first investment vehicle in which she was named
Ryan Breslow, the brazen founder and former CEO of Bolt, told TechCrunch in 2022 that he was leaving the one-click checkout company to start a new company in the health and wellness sector called Love. Well, today is not only Global Love Day, but Love’s launch. Love previously raised $7.5 million from investors, including Human
Some changes are coming to mortgages this month that could decrease fees for new homebuyers with low credit scores. Starting May 1, upfront fees on loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be adjusted based on a “redesigned and recalibrated” framework, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The changes are meant to
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