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Month: January 2023
Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving
Photo by AAron Ontiveroz / MediaNews Group / The Denver Post via Getty Images Unsurprisingly, most Americans frown upon antisocial behavior. Stealing people’s stuff, bending food safety rules, or smoking in large crowds tend to generate a lot of stern reactions. But get behind the wheel of a car, and all that disapproval tends to … Read more
Blur Reportedly Finds Loophole in OpenSea’s Blocklist as Marketplace War Escalates
The apparent workaround allows the zero-fee marketplace to list collections that have previously been blocklisted by OpenSea, following months of debates around enforcing creator royalties.
Anker finally comes clean about its Eufy security cameras
An Anker Eufy Floodlight camera. | Image: Eufy First, Anker told us it was impossible. Then, it covered its tracks. It repeatedly deflected while utterly ignoring our emails. So shortly before Christmas, we gave the company an ultimatum: if Anker wouldn’t answer why its supposedly always-encrypted Eufy cameras were producing unencrypted streams — among other … Read more
Bitcoin mining advocate is going state-to-state to educate US lawmakers
The legislatures in Mississippi and Missouri have separately introduced bills aimed at protecting certain activities of Bitcoin miners following visits from the Satoshi Action Fund.
Twitter ends CoTweets, its collaborative posting feature
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is shutting down CoTweets, its collaborative posting feature that was one of the last big product updates introduced before Elon Musk’s takeover. A notice was posted on Twitter’s help center announcing the end of the feature. CoTweets allowed two accounts to co-author posts that appeared simultaneously on … Read more
ChatGPT’s creator made a free tool for detecting AI-generated text
Image: OpenAI OpenAI, the company behind DALL-E and ChatGPT, has released a free tool that it says is meant to “distinguish between text written by a human and text written by AIs.” It warns the classifier is “not fully reliable” in a press release and “should not be used as a primary decision-making tool.” According … Read more
Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 EV can keep it rolling with its new EPA-estimated 361 miles of range
The 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6. | Image: Hyundai Hyundai’s new Ioniq 6 has had its playdate with the EPA, and now the automaker is revealing that its electric “streamliner” sedan can travel an estimated 361 miles on a full charge. While the calculation is specific to the SE Long Range RWD trim, the AWD version … Read more
Capcom teams up with Crunchyroll to launch a new Street Fighter mobile game
Promotional art for Street Fighter: Duel. | Image: Crunchyroll Capcom and Crunchyroll are launching a new Street Fighter mobile game very soon, though it doesn’t sound like your typical Street Fighter title. Titled Street Fighter: Duel, Crunchyroll describes it as “the first ever RPG in the series,” and based on a summary on Crunchyroll’s website, … Read more
Examiner finds customer deception, ‘very Ponzi-like’ use of funds at Celsius
The court-appointed examiner found many intentional and unintentional shortcomings at the bankrupt crypto lender dating back to its founding.
PayPal lays off 7% of staff
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Meta starts testing ‘members-only worlds’ in Horizon Worlds
Meta is starting to test closed spaces called “members-only worlds” in Horizon Worlds, its social VR experience. The company has begun a limited alpha test to give creators the ability to grow and moderate their own communities. Meta has selected a small group of creators to build and obtain feedback about members-only worlds. In a … Read more
Rumor has it that Dogecoin could shift to proof-of-stake — What does that mean for miners?
Dogecoin shifting to proof-of-stake would be good for the environment, but what impact would it have on miners and ASIC manufacturers?
Wormhole Wins Vote to Be Uniswap’s Designated Bridge to BNB Chain
Uniswap aims to deploy its V3 decentralized exchange on BNB Chain before its business source license expires on April 1. LayerZero, a target of recent criticism for under-publicized security risks, finished second in the voting.
Microsoft’s post-layoffs Halo studio is smaller and switching to Unreal Engine
Halo could look a lot different. | Image: 343 Industries Halo developer 343 Industries lost at least 95 people due to Microsoft’s recent layoffs, and the studio is apparently switching from its proprietary Slipspace engine to Epic Games’ widely used Unreal Engine for future games, Bloomberg reports. The future of Halo has been somewhat up … Read more
LayerZero bridging protocol denies accusation of ‘critical vulnerabilities’
LayerZero is the protocol used by Stargate bridge, which has over $382 million locked in its smart contracts.
Battle of the botanic garden
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GM invests $650M in lithium mining to lock down EV raw materials
General Motors said Tuesday it will invest $650 million into Lithium Americas as part of an agreement to develop a mine in Nevada, the latest effort by the automaker to lock down a supply chain of key components needed to produce millions of EVs. The investment in raw materials for batteries is the biggest to … Read more
Apple Music’s Replay 2023 playlist is here to track your favorite songs
Excited for my top 10 songs this year to just be the new Boygenius album. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Music users who love having a playlist of their favorite songs rejoice: Apple has made the Replay 2023 playlist available, letting you see which songs you’ve listed to the most this … Read more
TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS spending squeeze, tax time tips, freemium frameworks
If you thought egg prices were out of control, the SaaS inflation rate is outpacing the rest of the economy. In the U.S., SaaS expenses are growing 3.5x faster than market inflation. In Australia and the UK, that rises to 5x, according to Eldar Tuvey, founder and CEO of Vertice. “If cutting SaaS costs is … Read more