LAist employees clash over Bari Weiss ad campaign
This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more.Today I will cover a controversial ad campaign that has raised...
Google and Samsung join forces to make it easier to sync fitness data between...
Google and Samsung have partnered to create Health Connect, a platform and API (application programming interface) that gives developers a toolset to...
Twitter removes the ‘X’ logo from its San Francisco HQ
Well, that was fast. Twitter, which is currently rebranding itself to X, is now removing the giant, garishly lit X logo that was placed...
How to record a phone conversation with an Android phone
There are a number of legitimate reasons that you’d want to record a phone call. For example, when you’re talking to a medical professional...
Persona 3 Reload review: close to perfect RPG remake
For such an influential game, Persona 3 has a bit of a complicated release history. It first launched on the PS2 in 2006 and...
WhatsApp’s sticker AI is adding guns to prompts for Palestinian children
In Meta’s WhatsApp, users can generate stickers using AI prompts. The Guardian reported Friday that the AI model used to create those stickers sometimes...
Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
After just a few hours of deliberation, the jury unanimously answered yes to every question put before them — that Google has monopoly power...
Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal gets preliminary approval from UK regulator
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given preliminary approval for Microsoft to proceed with its $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal. The CMA...
Shutterstock picks up Giphy for $53 million after UK blocks Meta’s acquisition
Shutterstock is buying Giphy for $53 million after Meta’s acquisition of the popular GIF platform was blocked by the UK’s competition regulator, the stock...
Looking back at the original Google Chromecast, which just turned 10
Ten years ago today — July 24th, 2013 — Google announced a $35 streaming stick called the Chromecast. I was one of the first...
