Inside the messy fight between Meta and The Wire
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge The journalists behind a controversial series of stories tell us they haven’t been hoaxed. We’re not so sure Continue reading…
Get 20 percent off the Sonos Beam and Arc at eBay
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge On Microsoft’s eBay page, you can score big price cuts on Sonos products. This sale was picked up by Slickdeals, which pointed out that the offer code COUNTDOWN22 can be applied at checkout to save 20 percent on either the Sonos Arc soundbar in white, the Sonos Beam … Read more
Sony’s new DualSense Edge controller arrives on January 26th for $199.99
Image: Sony Sony is launching its new DualSense Edge Wireless Controller in January priced at $199.99. The “high performance” controller is fully customizable, much like Microsoft’s Xbox Elite controllers, and includes removable analog thumbsticks, rear buttons, changeable stick caps, and multiple control profiles. The DualSense Edge allows owners to change out stick caps for three … Read more
UK Law Commission to review international laws on crypto to consider legal reforms
The legal review authority will work to compile law reform proposals for public consultation in the second half of 2023.
Meta Follows Blockchain Firms in Joining Cryptographic Privacy Group MPC Alliance
Facebook owner Meta has joined the MPC Alliance, a non-profit group focused on cryptographic privacy and security, according to a press release.
Will Ventures closes second fund with $150M to invest in sports technologies
Venture capital funds focusing on niche sectors are “in,” and Will Ventures is here for it. This low-flying, Boston-based venture outfit just tripled the size of its second fund to $150 million thanks to its approach of investing in sports technologies with the help of its community of athlete backers who help promote and grow … Read more
Apples and oranges? How the Ethereum Merge could affect Bitcoin
While the Ethereum Merge failed to move Bitcoin from a price standpoint, the industry believes we have yet to see the effects of its shift from PoW to PoS.
Snapcommerce grabs its cape and becomes Super
Mobile shopping experience company Snapcommerce is moving from commerce to fintech, unveiling both a new name, Super, and a new credit card product. The company, which raised $85 million last year, describes its SuperCash card as a “first-of-its-kind, debt-protecting card” that provides users with rewards and cash back in a way that enables them to … Read more
Former Valour CEO Diana Biggs Joins Crypto Investment Firm 1kx as Partner
Biggs joined the Alan Howard-backed 1kx after a two-year stint at Valour.
Landis grabs $40M to turn renters into homeowners
Uncertainty in the real estate markets and rising interest rates have delivered a blow to people eager to own their own home. But for Landis, it’s confirmation that the company is in the right place at the right time. Cyril Berdugo and Tom Petit founded the company in 2018 to provide a more accessible way … Read more
Adobe makes selecting and deleting objects and people in Photoshop and Lightroom a lot easier
Photoshop and Lightroom are incredibly powerful tools for manipulating images, but since the beginning of time, the most frustrating part of working with these tools has been selecting specific objects to cut them out of an image, move them elsewhere, etc. Over the years, the object selection tools got a lot better, but for complex … Read more
Xbox Elite 2 controllers now customizable in the Xbox Design Lab starting at $149.99
A fully customized Xbox Elite 2 controller. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is bringing its Xbox Elite 2 controllers to the company’s Xbox Design Lab today. You can now order a custom color variant of the Xbox Elite 2 starting at $149.99, with options to buy and personalize separate Elite Accessory Packs or purchase all of … Read more
RED and Fuji are building Frame.io’s Camera to Cloud right into their cameras
It’s been eighteen months since Adobe acquired Frame.io, the video collaboration service that helps anyone from freelancers to large production houses streamline their review and editing workflows. One of the core features of Frame.io is its Camera to Cloud (C2C) technology, which greatly speeds up the process of uploading and sharing video in the middle … Read more
AI content platform Jasper raises $125M at a $1.7B valuation
As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper, a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 billion valuation. The tranche is the company’s first, remarkably, and comes as Jasper is in the process of acquiring AI startup Outwrite, a grammar and style … Read more
Turo is expanding car-sharing to Australia
Turo, the peer-to-peer car-sharing platform that’s been described as the Airbnb for cars, will expand to Australia before the end of the year, the company said Tuesday. Local car owners in all major cities, including Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane, can join the waitlist on Turo’s website if interested. This is Turo’s second international expansion … Read more
The black market for blue checks
Vincent Kilbride / The Verge On August 15th, an alarming email popped up in the inbox of Diana Pearl, a New York-based news editor. Someone in Moscow had logged into her verified Twitter account, it said. Pearl was familiar with the email content’s theme as it resembled previous automated correspondence from Twitter — featuring a … Read more
Lightroom is getting new AI features to speed up image editing
New one-click functions are coming to help speed up edits for novice and veteran Lightroom users alike. | Image: Adobe Adobe is releasing new AI features for its Lightroom suite that aim to speed up some of the more tedious parts of image editing. That includes improving masking workflows and removing unwanted elements from your … Read more
Red and Fujifilm cameras will be able to back up straight to Adobe’s cloud
Image: Adobe / Frame.io Camera giants Red and Fujifilm are partnering with Adobe and Frame.io to connect cameras directly to Adobe’s Creative Cloud. Announced today at Adobe Max 2022, specific models of Red and Fujifilm cameras will be able to natively upload images or footage directly into the Adobe Creative Cloud without requiring users to … Read more
OpenSea Ventures Among Backers for $7M Round for Crypto Security Startup
Web3 Builders also launched the free TrustCheck tool to verify the safety of smart contract and NFT transactions
Blockchain Shardeum Raises $18.2M to Tackle Slow Traffic, High Fees
The EVM-based sharded layer 1 blockchain can expand transactions per second infinitely depending on traffic demand.
Ripple’s $250M fund backs Web3 projects focused on ‘entertainment and media’
A Ripple executive said the company believes that tokenization can transform the creator economy and create new business models.
Shopify partners with Novel to deliver accessible Web3 for merchants
Novel can deploy smart contracts over the NFT collections and make them available to users for purchases on the Shopify storefront.
First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Holding Up at $19.5K Despite Bearish Conditions
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Oct. 18, 2022. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
Foxconn’s CEO hopes to one day make Tesla’s cars
Foxconn founder Terry Gou introduces the prototype Model B. | Photo by SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images Foxconn’s chairman and CEO Liu Young-way hopes to one day be in a position to produce electric cars for Tesla as the iPhone assembler expands into transportation. Liu made the comments at the unveiling of two new Foxconn … Read more
Microsoft Full Circle
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