What Does It Mean to Align AI With Human Values?
Many years ago, I learned to program on an old Symbolics Lisp Machine. The operating system had a built-in command spelled “DWIM,” short for “Do What I Mean.” If I typed a command and got an error, I could type “DWIM,” and the machine would try to figure out what I meant to do. A … Read more
Bitcoin sees CPI volatility as lower inflation sends BTC price to $18K
Inflation undercuts expectations, but Bitcoin remains at risk of fallout from a risk asset “deflationary panic” in Q1 next year, one analyst warns.
The best things and stuff of 2022
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The second-gen Apple Pencil is $40 off today
Right now, you can buy the second-gen Apple Pencil for $89.99 instead of $129.99. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The holidays are quickly approaching, and if you haven’t started shopping for gifts yet, you should probably stop procrastinating ASAP. That’s not necessarily because you’re running out of time — though you … Read more
Hayao Miyazaki’s next film hits Japanese theaters in 2023
Hayao Mizayaki | Photo by Frazer Harrison / Getty Images The next release from famed animation house Studio Ghibli is due to hit Japan next year. How Do You Live (still a tentative title), the latest feature directed by Hayao Miyazaki, will be in theaters in the country on July 14th, 2023. There’s no word … Read more
Foundamental closes $85M fund for early-stage construction tech startups
The trillion-dollar construction industry is often tarred with the inefficiency brush, accused of failing to move with the times and ignoring digitization in favor of legacy tools. But there is plenty of evidence that things are changing, with countless startups raising large sums of cash to help the construction industry modernize. Venture capital (VC) funding in … Read more
Decentralized solutions for climate change are key as COP disappoints
Climate change initiatives led by politicians and sponsored by some of the biggest polluters demand a change in initiatives — Decentralized tech could play a key role.
CFTC Plans to Sue Sam Bankman-Fried for Fraud: Report
The report comes after the SEC filed charges against Bankman-Fried for defrauding FTX investors.
Poppi raises a can to fresh capital to support its functional beverage growth
Consumer tastes are always shifting, but while traditional soft drink giants continue to dominate in the beverage space, many smaller players are finding success in developing soft drink-like offerings that also have a healthier function. Some venture capitalists say most beverage companies won’t end up being big players, but Poppi, a prebiotic soda brand, is … Read more
Magazine app Flipboard adds support for original content with new notes feature
Magazine reading app Flipboard is becoming the latest contender in the battle to relocate some of the online conversations taking place on Twitter onto its own platform instead. The company today announced that Flipboard’s curators will be able to publish original content into their magazine in order to engage with their readers in a conversation. … Read more
Ngrok, a service to help devs deploy sites, services and apps, raises $50M
Ask Alan Shreve why he founded Ngrok, a service that helps developers share sites and apps running on their local machines or servers, and he’ll tell you it was to solve a tough-to-grok (pun fully intended) infrastructure problem he encountered while at Twilio. As an engineer there, Shreve was developing on webhooks — automated messages … Read more
Amazon’s Echo Show adds more accessibility features, including ‘Gestures’ and text-to-speech
Amazon today is introducing a small handful of new features for its digital assistant Alexa that aim to make the device more accessible. The company is launching two new ways to interact with Alexa without speaking including support for Gestures on Echo Show devices that will users to interact with the device by raising their … Read more
Ledger hardware wallet adds DeFi tracking feature
The Ledger Live app, which pairs with Ledger hardware wallets, integrated a new DeFi tracking feature to monitor performance analytics of over 1,000 protocols.
Gamers are more interested in earning Bitcoin than NFTs: Survey
The study found that compared to NFTs, five times more respondents are interested in earning Bitcoin while playing games.
Beni is creating an ‘easy button’ for secondhand shopping
Re-commerce, also known as circular, secondhand or resale, is becoming a big industry — projected to be a $245 billion market by 2025 — driven in large part by consumer behavior shifts to looking for deals and more sustainable options. Some companies, like Archive, are tackling this from a company perspective, while others, like Gently, … Read more
A trip through the Graphics Pipeline
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Canada bans crypto leverage and margin trading after FTX collapse
Now-bankrupt exchange FTX attempted to enter Canada in June 2022, but local regulators have managed to prevent the mess.
How to avoid being victimized by porch pirates
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge It’s the holiday shopping season, and although people are once again visiting stores in person, most of us are also (or only) shopping online. That means there are a lot of packages being sent and received — and, unfortunately, stolen. Social networks and the media are full of … Read more
Bitcoin Jumps After U.S. CPI Report Shows Slower-Than-Expected November Inflation
Crypto traders were monitoring the U.S. government’s monthly inflation report for signs of whether the Federal Reserve’s monetary-policy tightening this year is helping to slow the pace of consumer price increases.
Decentralized discourse: How open source is shaping Twitter’s future
Six weeks on from Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover, few words can fully encapsulate events as they have unfolded in the period since. “Chaotic” or “farcical” come pretty close, though, with mass layoffs, u-turns, ultimatums, resignations, crowdsourced ban-reversals, advertiser standoffs, picking fights with Apple, and a revamped verification system that has everyone and their uncle … Read more
Potato Programming
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It’s Time to Leave Twitter
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High on Life is a hilarious shooter where you fire as many bullets as jokes
High on Life | Image: Squanch Games The latest release from Squanch Games, led by Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, is an absurdist sci-fi adventure. Continue reading…
Crypto Exchange Binance Introduces Payments Service for US Customers
Binance users in the U.S. are now able to use the exchange’s payments system, Binance Pay, to send money on their mobile app.
WordPress debated taking down the New York Post Hunter Biden story
Photo by ALASTAIR PIKE / AFP via Getty Images WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg says the New York Post’s 2020 story on Hunter Biden forced parent company Automattic to weigh difficult moderation questions for the WordPress VIP hosting service — although the company concluded it shouldn’t take any action on the story. In October 2020, the … Read more
Google postpones Chrome changes that could have big impact on ad blocking extensions
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google no longer plans to begin turning off the Chrome browser’s old extensions standard in January, the company’s developer advocate for Chrome Extensions Simeon Vincent has announced (via 9to5Google). The company is currently in the process of transitioning from the Manifest V2 (MV2) extension standard to Manifest V3 … Read more