Month: February 2023
Building Hello Tomorrow’s playfully retrofuturistic world
Dewshane Williams in Hello Tomorrow. | Image: Apple Production designer Maya Sigel talks about creating an optimistic version of 1950s sci-fi, with cute bots and lots of superfluous gadgets. Continue reading…
Qualcomm demos fastest local AI image generation with Stable Diffusion on mobile
Qualcomm is showing off its AI chops on mobile, demonstrating what it claims is the fastest-ever deployment of AI image generator Stable Diffusion on a smartphone. In a demo video, Qualcomm shows version 1.5 of Stable Diffusion generating a 512 x 512 pixel image in under 15 seconds. Although Qualcomm doesn’t say what the phone … Read more
Samsung S23 and S23 Plus review: say ‘yes’ to the S
The Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus are the very definition of iterative updates. They’re still some of the best high-end mobile devices out there, but the competition from Google is heating up. Continue reading…
Tango Gameworks CEO Shinji Mikami to leave studio
Photo by Christian Petersen / Getty Images Shinji Mikami, the founder of Tango Gameworks and game director for The Evil Within franchise, has announced he’s leaving the company after 12 years. Bethesda confirmed the news in a tweet early this morning. pic.twitter.com/yP6WaSxOun — Bethesda (@bethesda) February 23, 2023 Mikami started his career at Capcom working … Read more
Netflix is lowering prices in dozens of countries — but not the US
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is lowering the price of its subscription in over three dozen countries, except for the US, Canada, and the majority of Europe, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. These reductions reportedly only affect specific Netflix tiers but sometimes cut the price of the subscription in … Read more
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Can Our Brains Be Taken Over?
In The Last of Us, a video game series and recent television show, fungal pathogens are to blame for a zombie-like plague. Once infected, humans lose control over their bodies and become increasingly aggressive, seeking to infect others through violence. It’s a familiar trope: The same fungus, Ophiocordyceps, torments humanity in the movie The Girl … Read more
Web3 Music Streaming Platform Audius Integrates TikTok
Audius users can sign up for the application with their TikTok profiles, as well as utilize the streaming service’s songs in their videos on the social media platform.
Affine Protocol Raises $5.1M From Industry Heavyweights to Develop DeFi Yield Offering
The round was led by Jump Crypto and Hack VC and included contributions from Circle Ventures and Coinbase Ventures.
Collab.Land to Airdrop Token to Over 2M Wallets on Optimism
Collab.Land, an automated management tool that integrates into Discord and Telegram for token-gated communities, is distributing its token (COLLAB) on Optimism Feb. 23.
Glass Onion is getting a director’s commentary on Netflix today
Janelle Monáe in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. | Image: John Wilson / Netflix Later today, Netflix will be releasing a director’s commentary for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery; subscribers will be able to check it out starting at 1PM ET. This isn’t the first time Netflix has released a commentary track, but … Read more
DWF Labs Invests $25M in Privacy Tech Startup Beldex
The funds will help promote the ecosystem of decentralized applications that protect user data.
Sam Bankman-Fried Hit With Additional Bank Fraud Charges in New Indictment
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces additional charges under a new indictment unveiled Thursday morning.
Optimism Token Surges 6.5% as Coinbase Builds Its Layer 2 on the Protocol
The optimism token (OP) has surged after Coinbase said that it is building its layer 2 blockchain on the OP Stack in collaboration with Optimism
YouTube will let many more creators dub their videos in multiple languages
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is going to let thousands more creators include multi-language audio tracks with their videos. The company was already testing the feature with a small number of creators, and beginning Thursday, many more will be able to include multi-language dubs with their videos to make them accessible to … Read more
Pantera Invests $10M in Metaverse Game Worldwide Webb
The Web3 game allows players to utilize their existing NFT collections as avatars.
A16z Leads $25M Round for Web3 Startup Building Online Towns
Here Not There also received backing from Benchmark and Framework Ventures.
Coinbase Launches Layer 2 Blockchain Base to Provide Onramp for Ethereum, Solana, and Others
Base is built on Optimism and Coinbase has no plans to issue a new network token.