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Nvidia thinks RTX 4090 cables melted because they weren’t fully plugged in
The company says it’s heard around 50 reports of issues. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Weeks after Nvidia announced that it was investigating reports that the power cables for its RTX 4090 graphics card were melting and burning, the company says it may know why: they just weren’t plugged in all the … Read more
Elon Musk talked about laying off 75% of employees; he may have just gotten his wish
When Peter Clowes last updated his LinkedIn profile, he listed his role as “Layoff Survivor” at Twitter. Yet Clowes, a senior software engineer who joined the company in the spring of 2020, is now gone, too. He quit yesterday, dispassionately explaining last night on Twitter that he decided to leave not because to hobble Twitter … Read more
SwiftKey is unexpectedly back on iOS
It’s returned! | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft’s SwiftKey keyboard has unexpectedly returned to the App Store. The company officially discontinued support for the keyboard and removed it from the App Store in October, but now it’s available for iOS users once again. “Based on customer feedback, SwiftKey iOS has been … Read more
Epic alleges Google paid $360 million to keep Activision from launching its own app store
We could live in a world with more app stores. | Photo by Stefan Etienne / The Verge Activision Blizzard and Riot Games at one point told Google they might launch their own mobile app stores, according to new documents filed in Epic’s antitrust lawsuit against the search giant. The details came to light as … Read more
Daily Crunch: Nuro founders admit aggressive hiring ‘was a mistake’ in email to laid-off workers
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hey, folks. It’s Kyle, filling in for the Daily Crunch stalwarts Haje and Christine. I can’t match my esteemed colleagues’ pith and wit, but — unlike a certain megalomaniac billionaire who shan’t … Read more
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Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to over 11 years in prison
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to 135 months, or just over 11 years, in prison, according to journalist John Carreyrou. She will have to report to prison on April 27th, 2023, and will have an additional three years of supervised release once she’s out, according to Yahoo Finance’s … Read more
Google introduces Workspaces Spaces Chats conversations summaries
Having trouble keeping up with the conversations in your Chats in your Workspace Spaces? Google feels your pain, and is “excited to introduce conversation summaries in Google Chat for messages in Spaces.” Now your conversations in Spaces Chats will be summarized right in your Premium Workspace. The issue is, of course, that while Chats in … Read more
Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud
Ten months after she was found guilty of fraud, the former youngest self-made female billionaire Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 11.25 years in prison, plus three years of supervised release. At her trial, she was found guilty on four of 11 counts related to defrauding investors, but she was not found guilty of defrauding patients. … Read more
Taylor Swift versus Ticketmaster: the latest on the tour that may break up a giant
It’s me, hi. I’m the problem, it’s me. After Ticketmaster’s site crumbled under the load of Taylor Swift fans trying to get concert tickets, the DOJ is reportedly investigating whether it’s part of an entertainment monopoly. Continue reading…
Booz Allen says former staffer downloaded employees’ personal data
U.S. government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton has disclosed that a former staffer downloaded potentially tens of thousands of employees’ personal information from the company’s internal network. The government and defense contractor said that one of its staffers, while still employed by the company, downloaded a report containing the personal information of “active employees as of March … Read more
Nutrition labels for broadband internet are finally nearly here
Photo via Getty Images Six years after we saw the FCC formally propose “nutrition labels” for your carrier’s potentially confusing array of plans, the agency says it’s finally happening. This week, it’s ordering US internet service providers to adopt the label format you’re looking at below — or it will, as soon as some last … Read more
Cage in Search of a Bird
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Netflix’s 1899 is mysteries all the way down
Isabella Wei in Netflix’s 1899. | Image: Netflix We’re living in a good time for fans of puzzle box TV shows. Between the Yellowjackets plane crash, Severance’s creepy-ass office, and the big hole in Outer Range, there’s lots to occupy your fan theory group chats. Joining that ever-growing list is 1899 on Netflix — and … Read more
The long-awaited US broadband internet maps are here — for you to challenge
Here’s how much of the US allegedly has access to fiber internet. There’s a lot of white and gray. | Screenshot by Sean Hollister / The Verge We’ve shown you — repeatedly, both with data and anecdotally — that the internet is broken in the United States. We pay more for less and deal with … Read more
The DOJ has reportedly opened an antitrust investigation into Ticketmaster’s owner
Ticketmaster had major issues with this week’s Taylor Swift concert presale. | Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic The Department of Justice is investigating Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation Entertainment over antitrust concerns, The New York Times reported Friday. Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010 but have come under scrutiny for largely dominating the live event … Read more
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