Month: April 2024
With the Vision Pro’s Spatial Personas, you can be lonely with friends
I failed converting Wes to K-pop, but we agreed that Cowboy Carter slaps. | Screenshot: Victoria Song / The Verge The inside of an Apple Vision Pro is a lonely place to be. My spouse and I can’t watch movies together. It’s hard to describe what the world looks like in there to curious friends. … Read more
Shiakaku of the Day
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Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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Bitcoin Plunges to $66K, Altcoins Tumble 10-15% on Ugly Day for Risk Assets
Investors may expect market weakness due to the tax season, Ryze Labs said in a report.
Startups Weekly: So are we all working from home now?
From remote work to magnetic keyboard switches, we have your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
What Is Berachain? The Latest Ethereum, Solana Challenger to Raise Big Money
Founded by pseudonymous devs with bear-themed names, Berachain is built on Cosmos SDK and aims to be the next big layer-1 chain.
ULIDs and Primary Keys (2022)
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The Fitbit Charge 5 is a steal at 50 percent off
It wasn’t our favorite fitness tracker at $150, but the Fitbit Charge 5 is a looker at $75. | Image: Fitbit With nearly a third of 2024 behind us now, you might think it’s out of season to talk about resolutions and fitness goals. But for me, the renewal of the Earth’s vegetation and the … Read more
Ethereum ETF Approval Could Come Monday—In Hong Kong: Report
The expected regulatory nod would open one of the world’s largest financial markets to both spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds.
Why Bitcoin Halving Calculators Are Out of Sync
The famously pre-planned, programmatic event, currently predicted for April 19, is surprisingly hard to predict at minute scales.
House votes to reauthorize FISA, without the warrant requirement amendment
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images After three failed attempts and a heated floor debate, the House voted on Friday to reauthorize a controversial program that lets US intelligence agencies spy on foreign communications without a warrant. The bill ultimately passed 273–147. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is … Read more
Spotify’s lossless audio could finally arrive as part of ‘Music Pro’ add-on
Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge Could lossless streaming on Spotify actually be happening this time? We’ve been through so many twists and turns with this saga already, but there’s new cause for hope. Code snippets in recent builds of Spotify for Android yet again tease the possibility of the company’s long-delayed lossless audio coming … Read more
Avail, Blockchain Data Availability Project, Sketches Out Eligibility for Token Airdrop
A screenshot of a document describing the eligibility criteria for the airdrop was posted on the social-media platform X by the user @Bitcoineo, and Avail’s public-relations team flagged the to tweet to CoinDesk, describing it as a “leak.”
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana Sink as Over $200 Million in Crypto Longs Liquidated
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and other major cryptocurrencies are down significantly as traders’ long positions are being liquidated.
Spotify is developing tools that would let users remix songs, screenshots show
Spotify is working on mixing tools that would allow users to remix songs on the streaming service, according to screenshots captured by tech veteran and app researcher Chris Messina. While music aficionados use software like Adobe Audition or Ableton Live to create mixes of their favorite songs, the new capabilities would allow people to do … Read more
Ideogram AI Image Generator Upgrade Stands Strong Against Midjourney and Stable Diffusion
The text-to-image generator from Google alums adds new features to close the gap with other top players—for a price.
Htmx and the Rule of Least Power
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BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Continues Rise, Crossing $15 Billion in Total Gains
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has been a massive success, netting $15 billion in inflows since its January 11 launch.
Here’s 16 pages of what Epic wants after winning its Google app store lawsuit
Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Philip Pacheco, Getty Images Do you think a judge will make Google allow an Android version of the Epic Games Store to live inside its own Google Play Store, let the Epic Games Store have access to every app inside Google Play, and let … Read more
Meta is testing an AI-powered search bar in Instagram
Meta is pushing ahead with its efforts to make its generative AI-powered products available to more users. Apart from testing Meta AI chatbot with users in countries like India on WhatsApp, the company is also experimenting with putting Meta AI in the Instagram search bar for both chat with AI and content discovery. The search … Read more