Month: November 2022
How to buy an iPhone 14 Pro or Pro Max for the holidays
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re hoping to buy an iPhone 14 Pro or Pro Max in time to make it a holiday gift, you probably already know that the odds are against you. The standard iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus are readily available across most Apple retail stores, but … Read more
Price analysis 11/30: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, DOGE, MATIC, DOT, LTC, UNI
BTC and many altcoins are kicking up dust after the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell discussed the possibility of smaller rate hikes in 2023, but is the momentum sustainable?
Apple’s latest iOS 16 update includes optimizations for car crash detection
The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max both have Apple’s Crash Detection feature. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has just released iOS 16.1.2, and the company is calling out two key updates in its patch notes: “improved compatibility with wireless carriers” and “Crash Detection optimizations on iPhone 14 and iPhone … Read more
The Ethereum Foundation Commences Shutdown of Ropsten Testnet
Developers should move their applications over to either the Goerli or Sepolia testnets.
FTX’s Collapse Was a Crime, Not an Accident
Sam Bankman-Fried is a con man and fraudster of historic proportions. But you might not learn that from the New York Times.
Bumble rolls out a new message-before-match feature ‘Compliments’
Bumble has experimented with many ways to help its users engage with each other beyond tapping and swiping on miscellaneous profiles. Today, Bumble launched a message-before-match feature, “Compliments,” allowing users to send a note before they decide to connect. Users can send one Compliment per day, and there’s a 150-character limit per Compliment, a spokesperson … Read more
Apple Music Replay misses the point
It’s not nothing, but it’s still not great. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The worst month of any Apple Music user’s life has been, for the past few years, December. Do not fight me on this — I’m sure you’ve all had other bad things happen to you in other months, but … Read more
Crypto’s Ugly November Draws to Close With ‘Sam Coins’ in Gutter, Bitcoin Down 18%
FTT, Serum’s SRM and Solana’s SOL tumbled following the FTX collapse in November. Bitcoin had its worst loss in five months.
Fed Likely to Raise Rates by 50 Basis Points in December; Bitcoin Jumps
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said that “it makes sense to moderate the pace of our rate hikes” as soon as December.
Frequent conflict is a new requirement for startup leaders
Tech has a homogeneity problem. Karla Monterroso — a longtime leadership coach, racial equity advocate and the founder of Brava Leaders — jumped on Equity last week to talk about how that issue was complicated by a bull cycle that saw power in visionary pitches — something now tested by a bear market in which … Read more
Senate Banking Committee chair calls for coordination with Treasury on crypto
The committee chair cited crypto exchange FTX’s “alarming fraud”, liquidity crunch, and bankruptcy as an example of financial risk Treasury and regulators should address.
Launch Amazon SageMaker Autopilot experiments directly from within Amazon SageMaker Pipelines to easily automate MLOps workflows
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, a low-code machine learning (ML) service that automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best ML models based on tabular data, is now integrated with Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose-built continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for ML. This enables the automation of an end-to-end flow of building ML models using … Read more
GM’s Cruise pursuing permit to test its custom-built ‘Origin’ robotaxi in San Francisco
Cruise, GM’s self-driving technology subsidiary, has started the long and winding regulatory process to test its next-generation ‘Origin’ robotaxi on public roads in San Francisco. The company has applied for a permit with the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test its custom-built driverless vehicle on public roads. The news first reported by the Wall … Read more
SpaceX almost doubles its current Starlink prices in Ukraine
The price of Starlink terminals in Ukraine will increase from the equivalent of $385 to about $700. | Image: Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters The price of a Starlink satellite terminal has almost doubled in Ukraine, according to a report from the Financial Times, following increased demand for the SpaceX satellite devices and targeted Russian attacks on the … Read more
Apple’s iOS update just dropped with security fixes and crash detection improvements
Apple rolled out iOS 16.1.2 on Wednesday, citing updates involving user security. Apple hasn’t yet detailed the nature of the security updates, as the company doesn’t disclose security issues until after they’ve been investigated or patched. The update also includes improved compatibility with wireless carriers, as well as crash detection optimizations for iPhone 14 and … Read more
Marvel Snap’s new way to earn cards is live
Brood? I don’t need a Brood. | Image: Second Dinner Your Marvel Snap shop might look a bit different today. As The Verge reported last week, a new way to outright buy not yet unlocked cards is now live alongside some card updates, bug fixes, a new earnable currency, and a slew of new cards. … Read more
I shouldn’t have to try so hard to make multitasking work on a Mac
This image may have been arranged for maximum overload effect. | Image: Richard Lawler There are at least half a dozen ways to multitask on macOS, and I can’t find a single one that I enjoy using. Normally, my work setup starts with a Windows PC, which can be a single laptop screen, a desktop … Read more
AI21 Jurassic-1 foundation model is now available on Amazon SageMaker
Today we are excited to announce that AI21 Jurassic-1 (J1) foundation models are available for customers using Amazon SageMaker. Jurassic-1 models are highly versatile, capable of both human-like text generation, as well as solving complex tasks such as question answering, text classification, and many others. You can easily try out this model and use it … Read more
Google Stadia hardware refunds will be issued within two weeks
The Stadia Controller. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google will be issuing refunds for Stadia hardware purchased from the Google Store within two weeks, according to an email sent to customers on Wednesday. That means the refunds should arrive well ahead of the cloud gaming service’s impending January 18th shutdown. Purchases … Read more
Here’s everything AWS announced today
AWS today announced a lot of feature updates — and little else — during its re:Invent data and machine learning focused keynote today (though there wasn’t a lot of machine learning there). Nothing here rose to the level where we felt we should write a full story, so in the interest of time, here’s everything … Read more
BeReal and A.I. art tool Dream by WOMBO top Google Play’s list of best apps in 2022
Just a couple of days after Apple announced the best apps of 2022 in its annual App Store Awards, Google Play has now shared its own “best of” list. The company published a list of winners across categories, including those selected by its own editorial team and by Android owners through the User’s Choice awards. … Read more
Telegram founder wants to build new decentralized tools to combat power abuse
The messaging platform is building a set of decentralized tools, including noncustodial wallets and decentralized exchanges.