Twitter might let users paywall video content: report

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is exploring the option to let users put video content behind a paywall, according to an internal company email obtained by The Washington Post. Mockups suggest users would be able to enable the “Paywalled Video” feature after adding video content to a tweet, and then choose from … Read more

Weird cars are becoming the new normal

The Hyundai Ioniq 5, with its pixelated lights and evocative design, is part of a trend of weird cars that are trying to make a statement in the age of electrification. | Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge It’s been a real WTF kind of year for car releases, new machines in new shapes … Read more

Google is discontinuing support for the standalone Street View app and pulling it from app stores

Did you know Google had a separate Street View Map? I didn’t. | Illustration: The Verge Google will be pulling the standalone Street View app from app stores in the “coming weeks” and discontinuing support for the app in March 2023, spokesperson Madison Gouveia confirmed in a statement to The Verge. 9to5Google first spotted evidence … Read more

Microsoft makes it easier to use pictures from your Android phone in Word or PowerPoint

Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s rolling out a feature to Office Insiders that lets you insert images from your Android smartphones directly into a web-based Word or PowerPoint file. While Microsoft already offers ways to transfer content between Windows PCs and Android devices via the Phone Link app Microsoft revamped back in March, this marks the first … Read more

Tumblr will now allow nudity but not explicit sex

Illustration: The Verge Tumblr has made an update it hinted at in September, changing its rules to allow nudity — but not sexually explicit images — on the platform. The company updated its community guidelines earlier today, laying out a set of rules that stops short of its earlier permissive attitude toward sexuality but that … Read more

Mercedes-Benz EQE electric sedan will start at $76,050

Image: Daimler AG Mercedes-Benz just announced the pricing of its all-electric luxury sedan the EQE, and unsurprisingly, it starts north of $76,000. But unlike its electrified sibling the EQS, it’s not being listed at a price lower than its gas-powered equivalent. The EQE sedan is a slightly smaller sedan built on the same technical platform … Read more

What are Apple’s audiobook rules, anyway?

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge This is the free weekly edition of Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. You can sign up here. Hello, hello, hello. I hope you’re all ready for a busy, Amazon-packed issue. Because there’s a lot of Amazon news to go around today. First: … Read more

Disenchanted’s first trailer looks like all of Disney’s evil witch stories rolled into one

Amy Adams as Giselle in Disenchanted. | Disney While Enchanted was a surprisingly inspired riff on the studio’s archetypical princess fairytales, Disenchanted, director Adam Shankman’s upcoming sequel to the movie, looks like a straightforward redux of Disney’s recent stories about witches fiddling with reality in its first trailer. Disenchanted continues the tale of Giselle Philip … Read more

Elon Musk’s $8 Twitter Blue subscription offers verification, fewer ads, and search priority

Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk has announced that a new version of Twitter Blue will include some sort of verification accessible for $8 per month in the US, with the price “adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity.” He announced the shake-up of the premium service by saying that “Twitter’s … Read more

FTC sues Chegg after the homework helper suffered four data breaches in three years

The FTC has taken action against Chegg for exposing sensitive student data | Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint on Monday against education technology provider Chegg, which has experienced four data breaches since 2017 (via The New York Times). In one 2018 incident, a former … Read more

Tilda Swinton is her own mother in the first trailer for A24’s The Eternal Daughter

Tilda Swinton as Julie in The Eternal Daughter. | A24 Director Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter, starring Tilda Swinton, mesmerized audiences at this year’s Venice Film Festival with its quiet, arresting story about a woman and her elderly mother being haunted by the mysterious presence dwelling within a hotel. After watching the movie’s first trailer, … Read more