Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Audible is testing a new section that provides audiobook recommendations based on your Prime Video viewing history. The test is rolling out to half of all users with both Audible and Amazon Prime, and there’s no way to opt out for now. If you have both services, you … Read more
WhatsApp is introducing a new way for people to organize events in Communities, the company announced on Wednesday. The feature makes it easier to plan get-togethers and events directly in WhatsApp, whether it’s setting up a PTA meeting or a birthday dinner. Anyone can create an event that others can respond to, so everyone else … Read more
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Tether’s Bitcoin investment is paying off, achieving much greater profit than the company’s immense bond portfolio.
The competition aims to encourage developers to create, launch and trade their meme coins on BNB Chain.
Meme coin fans think “serious” crypto investors are mid-curving it. Serious crypto investors think meme coin fans are idiots.
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What is a Proxy? A proxy server acts as an intermediary between a client seeking a resource and the server providing that resource. Imagine adding a detour in your journey to a destination; your request visits another server before it reaches its final point. This setup not only masks your original IP address, making it … Read more
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Startups are not shying away from big projects. That’s my takeaway from news that The Browser Company’s Arc browser is now generally available for Windows users, just as Island raised a massive grip of capital for its enterprise-focused browser tool. It’s very encouraging to see startups going after core pieces of technology and not just … Read more
While the current correction remains in line with historical price corrections, Bitcoin could briefly fall to the $50,000 mark after losing the average ETF inflow mark of $59,000.
UnitedHealth Group chief executive officer Andrew Witty told senators on Wednesday that the company has now enabled multi-factor authentication on all the company’s systems exposed to the internet in response to the recent cyberattack against its subsidiary Change Healthcare. The lack of multi-factor authentication was at the center of the ransomware attack that hit Change … Read more
Land in Indigenous territory in Costa Rica that Cabécar leaders have reclaimed and are working to reforest. | Justine Calma / The Verge The Verge takes you to Costa Rica to explore how it restored its forests and manages to get nearly 100 percent of its electricity from renewable energy. Continue reading…
Image: LastPass It’s been over a year and a half since LastPass suffered back-to-back high-profile hacks, and the company now says it has separated from its parent company, GoTo. GoTo announced that it would spin LastPass off as its own company back in December 2021, six years after buying the company. Now, the password vault … Read more
Introduction: The Challenge of Managing Blocking Processes While working on an application that required executing a command to run a blocking program, such as a TCP/HTTP server, I encountered an interesting challenge. I needed a way to stop the application and its child processes when a signal was sent to the main program, such as … Read more
Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter in the fall of 2022, the market for Twitter alternatives has been saturated with would-be competitors ranging from smaller startups to open source apps to well-funded efforts like Threads from Instagram. But there’s one overlooked Twitter/X alternative that’s been growing right under our collective noses: LinkedIn. As of March, LinkedIn’s … Read more
Anthropic, the generative AI startup backed by Amazon and Google, is launching a new paid plan aimed at business customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Many development teams turn to DynamoDB for building event-driven architectures and user-friendly, performant applications at scale. As an operational database, DynamoDB is optimized for real-time transactions even when deployed across multiple geographic locations. However, it does not provide strong performance for search and analytics access patterns. Search and Analytics on DynamoDB While NoSQL databases like … Read more
Image: The Verge Anthropic, which makes the Claude 3 family of AI models, is launching an iOS app and adding a second paid tier for groups to share access to the models. The Claude mobile app can act as a chatbot, and users can also upload photos straight to the app for “image analysis.” Previously, … Read more
The Verge For many of us, Google storage is the modern-day hard drive. It’s the place where our most important thoughts, documents, and memories reside. But just like with a traditional hard drive, the space isn’t infinite, and running out of room can be a real problem. By default, Google gives you 15GB of space … Read more