YouTube says it isn’t messing with 1080p — ‘1080p Premium’ is higher-bitrate

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube has confirmed that it’s experimenting with a higher-quality 1080p option for Premium subscribers after some Reddit users noticed a new “1080p Premium” option in the quality settings menu. The option is currently available to “a small group of YouTube Premium subscribers,” according to Paul Pennington, a spokesperson … Read more

SEC comes out against Binance.US’s $1 billion deal to buy a bankrupt crypto firm’s assets

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Binance.US’s proposed deal to purchase the assets from the collapsed cryptocurrency brokerage Voyager Digital is facing scrutiny from federal and state regulators, as reported earlier by CoinDesk. In a set of court filings submitted on Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and New York’s financial regulator expressed … Read more