Month: September 2022
It sure looks like we’re getting new MacBook Pros in October
You have to admit these guys were getting old. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple plans to release new MacBook models in the fourth quarter of this year, according to a new report from DigiTimes. DigiTimes also reported last week that suppliers are “gearing up” for shipments of the upcoming products. … Read more
How Blaseball’s fantasy sports fever dream is embracing the future
A star pitcher is resurrected from the Hall of Flame. A Hellmouth swallows the state of Utah. Crows descend on Tastykake Stadium, pecking slugger Jessica Telephone out of a peanut shell. This is Blaseball, the absurdist baseball simulator that captured the most delightfully wacky corners of the internet when it launched in summer 2020. Developed … Read more
Leak suggests the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are keeping their great prices
We already know what they look like, but we don’t know for sure how much the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro will cost. | Image: Google It feels like it shouldn’t be news when the price of something doesn’t go up, but that’s where we are in the year 2022. We’re paying roughly a thousand … Read more
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T-Mobile adds domestic United flights to its free in-flight Wi-Fi roster
T-Mobile continues adding perks to its Magenta and Magenta Max plans. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile is broadening its free in-flight Wi-Fi promotion by adding domestic United Airlines flights to the offer. Subscribers to T-Mobile’s Magenta Max and Magenta post-paid plans have already had access to a similar deal on Alaska … Read more
Smaller Dreamforce still comes up big in first live meeting in three years
Marc Benioff and company certainly know how to put on a show. In fact, Benioff has been putting on Dreamforce customer spectacles since 2003 — that is, until the pandemic came along and put the whole shebang online for a couple of years. With the Salesforce event back live and in person this week, just … Read more
Web3 technologies could be a game changer for the travel industry
NFTickets could potentially allow airlines and events to increase their revenue through resales on the secondary market.
FDA makes it easier for harm reduction groups to purchase lifesaving naloxone
Photo by Scott Olson / Getty Images Harm reduction programs will soon be able to more easily bulk buy medication that can treat opioid overdoses, thanks to new guidance from the Food and Drug Administration. The guidance centers around naloxone, which reverses overdoses. Advocacy groups have been pushing for this change, which will make it … Read more
Troubled Data Center Compute North Struggled With Crypto Winter. Then Its Relationship With a Major Lender Soured
The company was financed by Generate Capital, which seized the data-center operator’s assets.
GM invests in Canadian battery recycler to fight supply shortage
General Motors is partnering with a Canadian battery recycler to produce new batteries from recovered battery materials, as it aims to scale EV production in North America amid supply shortages and rising costs. The automaker invested through its GM Ventures arm in a Series A financing round for Lithion Recycling, a developer of advanced battery … Read more
Pantera Capital’s CEO suggests blockchain growth will continue despite economic turmoil
The venture capitalist predicted blockchain would perform based on its own fundamentals, similar to Amazon and Apple.
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FTX, Uniswap and Visa talk blockchain economy and opportunity at Disrupt
Whether you’re bullish or bearish, web3-native or web3-naive, you have to admit nothing remains the same for long in the growing blockchain, crypto, NFT and web3 universe. And the entirety of the rapidly evolving space is under increasing scrutiny — both public and regulatory. This constant change, combined with plenty of controversy, are just two … Read more
The case for US venture capital outperformance
John Zic Contributor Share on Twitter John Zic is a partner and founding team member at EQUIAM. He spends most of his time wrestling with fragmented and imperfect private market data in a never-ending effort to derive market-beating investment signals. Shachi Shah Contributor Shachi Shah is director of business operations at EQUIAM. She is passionate … Read more
Is Powell 2022’s Paul Volcker? The Answer Matters to Bitcoin
Whether Bitcoin succeeds will largely hinge on whether people have confidence in the incumbent fiat system to which it poses an alternative and in the central bankers who, since the end of the dollar’s gold peg 1973, have determined the monetary policies behind that system.
Large-scale revenue forecasting at Bosch with Amazon Forecast and Amazon SageMaker custom models
This post is co-written by Goktug Cinar, Michael Binder, and Adrian Horvath from Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI). Revenue forecasting is a challenging yet crucial task for strategic business decisions and fiscal planning in most organizations. Often, revenue forecasting is manually performed by financial analysts and is both time consuming and subjective. Such manual … Read more
TechCrunch+ roundup: LatAm startup strength, global chip shortage, Visa Bulletin update
“You had one job” might be funny when a birthday cake decoration goes wrong, but if we’re talking about executives who don’t show up for board meetings, the stakes are much higher. “Disengaged or dysfunctional boards aren’t just bad for CEOs and LPs; they’re bad for everyone,” writes Matt Blumberg, co-founder and CEO of Bolster, … Read more
Crypto gaming sucks — But devs can fix it
Crypto gaming isn’t working. Developers need to focus more on fundamentals and less on cosmetics in order to fix it.
How to unpair an Apple Watch
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge If you’re lucky enough to be unboxing a new Apple Watch this week, you might be wondering how to disconnect your old one from your iPhone. Unless you plan on using two watches — it’s a thing — you’ll want to unpair it so you can hand it … Read more
Lawyers for Celsius investors file motion to have interests represented in court
The legal team requested the court appoint a committee representing certain shareholders or the case could end up “inappropriately and inequitably skewed in favor of the customers.”
Bitcoin Miner Cipher Looks to Sell Up to $250M in Stock
Investment bank H.C. Wainwright will be handling the transaction.