The new iOS 16.2 Home app architecture upgrade has disappeared
/ The change follows multiple reports of issues with the Home app. The option to upgrade to new Home architecture has been removed from iOS 16.2Image: Apple / The Verge Apple has apparently removed the option to upgrade to the new HomeKit architecture on devices running iOS 16.2. The change follows multiple reports of issues […]
Yat Siu’s Big Ideas: We’re already living in the Metaverse – Cointelegraph Magazine
Magazine: Animoca was a successful mobile gaming company, with 10 million downloads and various apps in the top 10 on Apple’s App Store. Then you were suddenly thrown off the store in 2012. How did that change your views on Big Tech? Yat Siu, Animoca co-founder: The fact that platforms could become as powerful as […]
Two men arrested for allegedly hacking JFK taxi system
/ The two Queens residents charged cab drivers a $10 fee to skip to the front of the line for pick-ups. Prosecutors allege that the pair enabled up to 1,000 taxi trips to fraudulently bypass the computer-controlled JFK taxi dispatch system a day.Image: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Two US citizens have been arrested and accused of […]
Twitter view counts start appearing prominently
/ Elon promised the feature earlier this month, and some users are starting to see it in some circumstances. Making it easier to quantify how much of a banger your tweet was.Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge View counts for tweets are starting to show up for some Twitter users — at least for […]
Sam Bankman-Fried’s former friends pleaded guilty and are cooperating in the FTX fraud case
/ Singing like birds Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang, two executives in Sam Bankman-Fried’s fallen crypto empire, have pleaded guilty to federal charges and are cooperating with prosecutors. The news was announced late Wednesday by Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Williams didn’t specify […]
Wednesday’s top tech news: 2022 in review
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Thousands of Twitter employees have left since Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media firm, but the biggest resignation is yet to come. Musk himself — under pressure from Tesla investors worried about the car company’s sinking stock price — said Tuesday night that he plans […]
Attorney says facial recognition got her kicked out of a Rockettes show
/ A legal case and a security surveillance system collided to ruin a Girl Scout troop’s trip. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Kelly Conlon, an attorney from New Jersey, says she wasn’t allowed to see a Rockettes show at Radio City Music Hall after she was identified by a facial recognition system, according […]
NASA’s InSight lander loses power, enters retirement on Mars
/ The lander’s retirement package involves sitting on the Martian surface coated in the dust that killed it. The last image sent back from Mars by the InSight lander.Image: NASA On Mars, another machine just bit the dust. The marsquake-detecting, photo-snapping InSight lander has now officially completed its mission and will now spend its retirement […]
Meta is making the Quest 2’s GPU more powerful
/ Meta is giving developers 7 percent more GPU compute power to work with more than two years after the headset first launched. It will be a little clunky to activate at first, but a boost is a boost.Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta is giving Quest 2 developers 7 percent more GPU […]
Mobvoi is the latest smartwatch maker to jump on the subscription bandwagon
/ Wearable device companies are increasingly turning to subscriptions to keep the lights on. Mobvoi is just the latest wearable company to start charging users for “premium” features.Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge One thing that’s guaranteed to rile up consumers? Tacking on a monthly fee where there was once none. Mobvoi, which is […]