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This company wants to improve your credit by gamifying financial literacy
Qualifying for a credit card is not easy when you have a poor credit score or none at all, but Los Angeles-based fintech company Arro wants to help consumers grow their credit line while also teaching them why that’s important. This type of thing is not new; just look at Kikoff, Upgrade, Self Financial, Altro, … Read more
The best Amazon Prime Early Access deals under $25
Amazon’s premium Fire Stick 4K Max and mid-range Fire Stick 4K streaming dongles look identical, though the latter is currently discounted to just $24.99. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon’s Prime Early Access sale is under way, and while all the attention may be turned towards big-ticket items like TVs, laptops, or … Read more
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Google Docs will soon let you embed other apps into your documents
Illustration: The Verge The @ symbol is about to become the most important feature in Google Docs. As Google continues to invest in making Workspace a more connected and powerful platform, it’s also opening Docs up to third-party developers in a big way. Going forward, all you’ll need to type is “@” and the name … Read more
Viam rolls out a free beta of its cloud-based robotics tools
“What a lot of people tell me is ‘hardware is hard,’” Eliot Horowitz explains. “I have a really big problem with that statement.” The Viam Robotics CEO and MongoDB co-founder describes purchasing a Universal Robotics’ UR5 robot arm and programming it to play chess. “I don’t think hardware is hard. I think hardware is not … Read more
Charli D’Amelio-endorsed fintech Step borrows $300M to bring crypto to teens
The last bull market created a new wave of investors as more and more people decided to make their first foray into the markets. Step, a digital banking service geared toward teens and young adults, is one of the many companies that set out to make money by serving those new investors. And although fates … Read more
Insite AI raises $19M to help consumer brands figure out their in-store strategies
Insite AI, a platform for consumer packaged goods companies that uses AI to provide recommendations on how to price, distribute and promote their products in physical stores, today launched out of stealth with $19 million in Series A capital from NewRoad Capital and M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm. Co-founder Shaveer Mirpuri says that the funding … Read more
OatFi secures capital to power BNPL services for SMBs
The buy now, pay later (BNPL) market was once seen as a bulletproof investment, given the meteoric rise of players like Klarna and Afterpay during the pandemic. But increased scrutiny over the business — regulatory and otherwise — has put a damper on the enthusiasm. The U.K. last year announced new policies pertaining to BNPL … Read more
Starship partners with Grubhub to bring sidewalk bots to colleges
Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company Starship Technologies is partnering with food ordering and delivery company Grubhub to provide robotic delivery services on college campuses across the U.S. Today, Starship’s bots deliver through Grubhub at the University of Kentucky, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Wayne State University, Southern Methodist University and Fairfield University, but the companies … Read more
Google introduces Chromebooks geared for cloud gaming
It’s been barely a few weeks since Google announced that it is shutting down its cloud gaming service Stadia next year. And now, the company has a new cloud gaming announcement: it is launching Chromebooks tuned for cloud gaming made by different manufacturers. The search giant has also partnered with cloud gaming services like Nvidia … Read more
Nvidia RTX 4090 review: a 4K beast
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RGB gaming Chromebooks have arrived
Game! Hurray! | Image: Acer Google and several laptop manufacturers have teamed up for an announcement this morning that will excite some and puzzle others: you can now buy a gaming Chromebook. Actually, you can buy three. Starting today, you can order Acer’s Chromebook 516 GE for $649.99, Lenovo’s IdeaPad Gaming Chromebook for $599, and … Read more
The cruel temptation of the job offer scam
Vincent Kilbride / The Verge Last month, I got the invitation of a lifetime in my inbox: Vogue wanted to purchase my freelance writing services to cover a fashion event in Canada. The email, with the subject line “Vogue Talent Recruiting Team,” arrived at a time when I was specifically looking for new assignments to … Read more
India to push Apple, Samsung to enable 5G support on their phones
India’s government is set to push handset makers including Apple and Samsung to expedite software upgrades on their phones to make them compatible with local 5G airwaves in the country — just days after kicking off the next-generation cellular network by the nation’s two leading telcos with all pomp and show. Top bureaucrats from the … Read more
Google looks to boost its security cred in the cloud
Cloud data breaches in the enterprise have skyrocketed in the last year — a worrying trend that’s led to the emergence of a host of new tools and services to help better secure that environment; as well as a major mobilization among cloud service providers to launch more specific tech to address the gap. Today … Read more
The best gaming deals from Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale
The best deals on gaming accessories you can find during Prime Day Early Access | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Amazon’s Prime Day Early Access Sale is here, so let’s scope out some sweet deals on gaming headsets, keyboards, and other cool accessories. Whether you’re gaming on a console or PC, there are … Read more
Solestial promises solar panels in space for a tenth of the cost and lines up $10M seed
The coming wave of satellite constellations all need power, but solar panels built for space are extremely expensive and difficult to manufacture. Solestial is ready to change that with space-grade panels built using inexpensive, scalable processes, and it just raised $10 million to take its tech from lab to orbit. The company, formerly known as … Read more
Google Meet gets automatic meeting transcriptions
Meetings — nobody wants them but everybody has them. So for those times when you’re in a meeting but mostly just surfing the web, it’s nice to have a transcript to make sure you didn’t miss that one important nugget of information that actually pertains to your job. Google knows this, so the company today … Read more
Google Cloud expands to six more countries
Google today announced its plans for a major expansion of its physical Google Cloud infrastructure. The company plans to launch new Google Cloud regions in six new countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Norway, South Africa and Sweden. That’s on top of the regions in Milan, Paris, Madrid, Columbus and Dallas the company already announced and … Read more
As crypto regulation looms ahead, here are the bills to look out for
Regulation around crypto is far from final in the U.S., and some would argue that the path is just being paved. As crypto-focused bills are being introduced to Congress, there are a few the industry and regulators should keep an eye on, according to a new report by Prime Trust. To date, Congress has introduced … Read more
Google opens up Workspace with new integrations and APIs
Google Workspace, the company’s set of productivity tools most recently known as G Suite, is getting a major update at the company’s Cloud Next conference this week. This includes quite a few customer-facing features, but maybe even more importantly, Google is using this occasion to open up Workspace with new integrations and developer tools that … Read more
Google unifies its BI services under the Looker brand
At its Cloud Next conference, Google Cloud today announced that it is unifying all of its business intelligence products under the Looker brand. Google’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker closed back in 2020, marking the first major acquisition for Google Cloud under the leadership of Thomas Kurian. As part of this move, Google Data Studio … Read more
Google Cloud announces Dual Run to ease mainframe migration to cloud
Believe it or not, there are still a fair number of large businesses that run on mainframe computers – yes, even in 2022. It may seem like a throwback from a time gone by, but it’s still a significant part of some enterprise computing stacks. The question becomes, how can those companies move this data … Read more