The best noise-canceling headphone deals
You can currently buy the AirPods Max for around $449 instead of $549. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge With more people working from home than they used to, owning a good pair of noise-canceling headphones has become more appealing than ever. However, they can be expensive and difficult to shop for due … Read more
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Holds Over $19K, Continues Wild Ride
Both bitcoin and ether saw wide swings in price over the past day. Market Wrap is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today’s crypto markets.
Crypto Mining Data Center Provider Compute North Files for Bankruptcy Protection
The company earlier this year raised $385 million in fresh capital.
Want a glimpse at the Apple Watch Series 9? Look no further than the Ultra
With the Ultra, Apple has taken a page from its now-familiar playbook for how to broaden the appeal of its mobile devices and applied it to its watch lineup: Step 1: Introduce a solid but still not fully realized version 1.0. Step 2: Refine, refine, refine. Step 3: Make a “pro” version. The Ultra is … Read more
Apple has picked up the next show from Breaking Bad’s creator
The Untitled Vince Gilligan Project is now in officially in the works. | Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for TNT Apple has picked up the next show from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan. The two-season Apple TV Plus show, which Apple currently calls the “Untitled Vince Gilligan Project,” will star Rhea … Read more
Cardano’s Vasil Upgrade Marks an Important Milestone in the Blockchain’s Evolution
Chief scientist at IOG Aggelos Kiayias explains why Cardano has re-thought smart contracts and how it prioritizes security over speed.
Crypto-Mixing Service Tornado Cash Code Is Back on GitHub
The move by GitHub comes as Ethereum developers have called for platforms that host the mixer service to not ban Tornado Cash code.
Apple releases fixes for iPhone 14 Pro camera shaking and constant copy / paste prompts
Image of an iPhone 14 Pro sitting in a ball pit full of colorful pastel dots. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is fixing a bunch of big iOS 16 bugs today. A new update that’s out now, iOS 16.0.2, is meant to fix the issue where the iPhone 14 and … Read more
XRP price breaks out of range with a 25% rally, but why?
XRP attracts buyers after the hope of a positive court ruling triggers a 25% rally above a key longer term resistance level.
Q1 performance data shows maturing VC fund vintages aren’t doomed
It can be hard to tell how venture capital firms are doing. Sometimes it’s easier after a big exit, like Figma’s last week, which gave us a window into the sizable returns some of its early backers, including Index Ventures and Greylock, could capitalize on. But VC firms are usually an opaque bunch when it … Read more
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UK gov’t introduces bill aimed at empowering authorities’ to ‘seize, freeze and recover’ crypto
King Charles announced the bill in May to both houses of the U.K. Parliament, saying it was aimed at tackling illicit finance, reducing economic crime and helping businesses grow.
The Dynamic Island is already available on Android devices
The DynamicSpot app gives Android users their own private island. I’ve always been on team Android, but every so often, Apple rolls out a feature that makes me just a little jealous. Thankfully, with the introduction of the divisive Dynamic Island, I didn’t have to wait very long before somebody shoehorned that sweet pill-shaped void … Read more
Amazon Fire 7 review: a budget tablet for the basics
Sure, it’s slow, and the screen is low-res and dim, but it’s the best tablet you can get for $59.99. At this price, decent is perfectly fine. Continue reading…
Helium migrates its blockchain to Solana following T-Mobile partnership
The project’s developers cites Solana’s ability to improve efficiency as scalability as reasons for the move.
Facebook users sue Meta, accusing the company of tracking on iOS through a loophole
Apple’s major privacy update to iOS last year made it much more difficult for apps to track user behavior beyond their own borders, but a new lawsuit alleges that Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta kept snooping through a workaround. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and … Read more
TikTok pulls posts for weight loss drugs that reached kids
Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok allowed content promoting prescription drugs as weight loss aids to reach teenagers, according to a report by The Pharmaceutical Journal. The journal set up a new TikTok account, indicating to the platform that the user was a 16-year-old girl and began searching for content under #dietpills, looking closely at … Read more
The Merge pregame is over, but where’s the party?
Image Credits: TechCrunch Welcome to Chain Reaction, where we unpack and explain the latest in crypto news, drama and trends, breaking things down block by block for the crypto curious. For our Thursday episode where we discuss the latest in crypto news, we talked about the recent steep decline in Ethereum prices following its major network upgrade. … Read more
Indonesia tiene planes globales para las criptomonedas locales
El país considera a los tokens como una forma de impulsar su economía.
Connect with Google Cloud for Startups, Blackstone Launchpad and more at TechCrunch Disrupt
Mark your calendars, startup fans, because TechCrunch is returning — live and in person — to the beautiful City by the Bay to host our flagship event, TechCrunch Disrupt, on October 18–20 at the Moscone West Convention Center followed by an online recap event on October 21. TC Disrupt is the grande dame of tech … Read more
How Adobe and Salesforce are fine-tuning customer experience tools
It was a big week for the customer experience market, with two major players in the marketing tool space taking swings to bring the idea to the next level. The pair of moves taken together could move customer experience closer to reality after a long period of ambition. “Customer experience” is kind of a vague … Read more
How fiber-optic cables helped researchers eavesdrop on whales
A baleen whale swimming in Alaska. Many species of baleen whales, like the one pictured above, spend time in the Arctic region. | Image: Planet One Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Scientists have been “eavesdropping” on whales in the Arctic using fiber-optic cables. In July, a group of scientists published a study that took … Read more