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Bluesky now has 15 million users

Bluesky now has 15 million users

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Short-form posting platform Bluesky crossed the 15 million user mark today amid a recent surge of...

South Africa Proposes Carbon Tax Changes to Increase Offsets

South Africa Proposes Carbon Tax Changes to Increase Offsets

South Africa’s National Treasury has proposed changes to the tax regime to encourage companies to utilize carbon offsets and rewar...

Meta Wins Limits to FTC Instagram, WhatsApp Antitrust Suit

Meta Wins Limits to FTC Instagram, WhatsApp Antitrust Suit

Meta Platforms Inc. will face a scaled-back antitrust trial over its alleged dominance of social networking after a federal judge ...

Belkin’s Vision Pro strap should just come with the headset

Belkin’s Vision Pro strap should just come with the headset

Photo: Wes Davis / The Verge The Vision Pro VR headset is such an Apple product — meticulously designed and packed with incredible...

Patreon introduces subscription gifting and discounts

Patreon introduces subscription gifting and discounts

Image: Patreon Subscriptions are the main way creators on Patreon make money, as they must build an audience willing to shell out ...

Charter to Buy Liberty Broadband in All-Stock Transaction

Charter to Buy Liberty Broadband in All-Stock Transaction

Charter Communications Inc. agreed to buy Liberty Broadband Corp. in an all-stock transaction.

Accel Leads $145 Million Fundraising Round for Chaos Industries

Accel Leads $145 Million Fundraising Round for Chaos Industries

Defense startup Chaos Industries landed $145 million in a Series B round led by Accel, more than doubling what it got in its initi...

Super Micro Delays Another Filing After Auditor’s Resignation

Super Micro Delays Another Filing After Auditor’s Resignation

Super Micro Computer Inc., the troubled server maker whose auditor resigned last month, delayed yet another filing as it continues...

Europe’s Tech Startups Staggered by Lilium, Northvolt ‘Disaster’

Europe’s Tech Startups Staggered by Lilium, Northvolt ‘Disaster’

Europe's deep tech companies are struggling, and potential saviors are hard to find. But first...

Microsoft’s Gaming Chief Is Still Looking for Acquisitions, Sees Future Growth

Microsoft’s Gaming Chief Is Still Looking for Acquisitions, Sees Future Growth

Phil Spencer is planning how to enter and partner in the handheld device and mobile-store markets

Amazon Makes it Harder for Disabled Employees to Work From Home

Amazon Makes it Harder for Disabled Employees to Work From Home

New ‘multilevel leader review’ can take weeks and has prompted concerns that affected corporate workers will give up and quit.

Brain Implant Startups Aim to Bring Vision Back to The Blind

Brain Implant Startups Aim to Bring Vision Back to The Blind

A growing group of companies think their technology can give some patients the ability to see.

Tesla’s Meme-Like Stock Surge Leaves Wall Street Feeling Wary

Tesla’s Meme-Like Stock Surge Leaves Wall Street Feeling Wary

Tesla Inc.’s post-election surge, powered by Elon Musk’s full-throated support for Donald Trump, has added almost $250 billion to ...

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI

Three of the leading artificial intelligence companies are seeing diminishing returns from their costly efforts to develop newer m...

Tencent’s Revenue Climbs 8% After Blockbuster Games Summer

Tencent’s Revenue Climbs 8% After Blockbuster Games Summer

Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s revenue rose 8% after the summer release of Dungeon & Fighter Mobile helped China’s most valuable comp...

Bumi Armada Is Said to Weigh Buying MISC Offshore Energy Assets

Bumi Armada Is Said to Weigh Buying MISC Offshore Energy Assets

Bumi Armada Bhd., an oil field services provider controlled by Malaysian tycoon T. Ananda Krishnan, is considering buying MISC Bhd...

SSE Chief To Retire as Five-Year Clean Spending Program Reaches Halfway Point

SSE Chief To Retire as Five-Year Clean Spending Program Reaches Halfway Point

Alistair Phillips-Davies is set to retire next year as the chief executive officer of SSE Plc after 11 years in the role.

Teraco Taps Absa for $442 Million Loan for AI-Ready Facility

Teraco Taps Absa for $442 Million Loan for AI-Ready Facility

Teraco Data Environments Ltd. hired Absa Group Ltd. to syndicate an 8 billion rand ($442 million) loan as the company gears up for...

Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Trims Nintendo Stake Again

Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Trims Nintendo Stake Again

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund further trimmed its stake in Nintendo Co., deepening a selloff that began in August.

US Startup Buys Just Eat Takeaway’s Grubhub for $650 Million

US Startup Buys Just Eat Takeaway’s Grubhub for $650 Million

Wonder Group Inc. is buying Grubhub from Just Eat Takeaway.com NV for about $650 million, acquiring the restaurant delivery servic...

Turkish VC That Earned 20-Fold Return Raises $250 Million Fund As Bek Ventures

Turkish VC That Earned 20-Fold Return Raises $250 Million Fund As Bek Ventures

A venture capital firm with notable hits in eastern Europe and Turkey has rebranded as Bek Ventures and raised a $250 million fund...

Rakuten Sells Mizuho 15% of Credit Card Arm for Over $1 Billion

Rakuten Sells Mizuho 15% of Credit Card Arm for Over $1 Billion

Rakuten Group Inc. said it’s selling about 15% of its credit card arm to Mizuho Financial Group Inc. for ¥165 billion ($1.1 billio...

‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Fights IRS Tax Evasion Case From Spanish Island

‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Fights IRS Tax Evasion Case From Spanish Island

To his followers, Roger Ver is known as Bitcoin Jesus, a charismatic advocate of the cryptocurrency that is once again captivating...

Prime Retail Vacancies in London Fall to Lowest Since Pandemic

Prime Retail Vacancies in London Fall to Lowest Since Pandemic

Vacancy rates on London’s prime shopping streets have fallen to their lowest level since 2019, in a boon for landlords after a wav...

Vietnam Tech Champion Accelerates AI Push With Japan Expansion

Vietnam Tech Champion Accelerates AI Push With Japan Expansion

Vietnam’s software and telecommunications champion FPT Corp. plans to open an AI data center in Japan next year, capitalizing on r...

Prosus Gains $2 Billion on Swiggy Investment with IPO Valuation

Prosus Gains $2 Billion on Swiggy Investment with IPO Valuation

Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s top backer Prosus NV said it has made more than $2 billion on its Swiggy investment as it continues to hig...

SoftBank to Get First New Nvidia Chips for Japan Supercomputer

SoftBank to Get First New Nvidia Chips for Japan Supercomputer

SoftBank Group Corp. will be the first Nvidia Corp. customer to build a supercomputer based on the chipmaker’s new Blackwell desig...

Monster Hunter is getting an open-world RPG spinoff for mobile

Monster Hunter is getting an open-world RPG spinoff for mobile

Image: Capcom The Monster Hunter franchise is bringing, well, monster hunting to your smartphone. Capcom has announced that it’s t...

Trump says Elon Musk will lead ‘DOGE’ office to cut ‘wasteful’ government spending

Trump says Elon Musk will lead ‘DOGE’ office to cut ‘wasteful’ government spending

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by STR / NurPhoto, Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Elon Musk and ...

Amazon is shutting down Freevee

Amazon is shutting down Freevee

Image: Freevee Amazon is going to shut down Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service. The service’s cont...

DirecTV Plans to Call Off Dish Deal Unless Debt Swap Resolved

DirecTV Plans to Call Off Dish Deal Unless Debt Swap Resolved

DirecTV intends to terminate its planned acquisition of Dish Network Corp. in 10 days if bondholders don’t agree to a debt exchang...

Here are the best Black Friday deals you can already get

Here are the best Black Friday deals you can already get

Google’s new Pixel Buds Pro 2 have already fallen to $179 ahead of the holiday. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Can’t wait unti...

Amazon to Close Its Freevee Ad-Supported Streaming TV Service

Amazon to Close Its Freevee Ad-Supported Streaming TV Service

Amazon.com Inc. is closing Freevee, the free-to-watch, advertising-supported streaming service, folding it into the subscription-b...

The hunt for the next Twitter: all the news about alternative social media platforms

The hunt for the next Twitter: all the news about alternative social media platforms

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Where will we all hang out next? Continue reading…

MKBHD got himself in trouble again

MKBHD got himself in trouble again

A screen grab of the video titled “How My Video Gear is Changing!” | Image: MKBHD Marques Brownlee is dealing with another comment...

Apple’s rumored six-inch ‘AI wall tablet’ could control your smart home by March 2025

Apple’s rumored six-inch ‘AI wall tablet’ could control your smart home by March 2025

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge For months now, there have been rumors about a smart home display Apple is supposedly working on....

SBF to get the Girls treatment in Going Infinite film adaptation

SBF to get the Girls treatment in Going Infinite film adaptation

Image: The Verge Apple and A24 are working on a new movie about imprisoned crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried based on The Big Short ...

Bitcoin Pulls Back, Other Musk Investments | Bloomberg Technology

Bitcoin Pulls Back, Other Musk Investments | Bloomberg Technology

Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde discusses Bitcoin's rally towards $90K before pulling back and investors look for other Elon Musk relate...

YouTube is testing music remixes made by AI

YouTube is testing music remixes made by AI

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is testing a new feature that will let creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs...

Eufy’s new floodlight cam will watch over your backyard in HD for $150

Eufy’s new floodlight cam will watch over your backyard in HD for $150

Eufy’s new hardwired floodlight camera can record all day long. | Image: Eufy Eufy’s new Floodlight Camera E30 attaches a 2K camer...

Volkswagen Boosts Bet on Rivian’s EV Technology by $800 Million

Volkswagen Boosts Bet on Rivian’s EV Technology by $800 Million

Volkswagen AG and Rivian Automotive Inc. named leaders for their multibillion-dollar joint venture and showcased a prototype elect...

VW and Rivian officially kick off $5.8 billion joint venture, announce leadership

VW and Rivian officially kick off $5.8 billion joint venture, announce leadership

Image: Rivian Volkswagen and Rivian have crossed all their T’s and dotted all their I’s in their new $5.8 billion joint venture, w...

Spotify Beats Subscriber, Margin Estimates Even as Ad Sales Lag

Spotify Beats Subscriber, Margin Estimates Even as Ad Sales Lag

Spotify Technology SA reported third-quarter growth in subscribers and profit margins, saying lower marketing and personnel costs ...

Apple’s Next Device Is an AI Wall Tablet for Home Control, Siri and Video Calls

Apple’s Next Device Is an AI Wall Tablet for Home Control, Siri and Video Calls

Apple Inc., aiming to catch up with rivals in the smart home market, is nearing the launch of a new product category: a wall-mount...

OpenAI Co-Founder Returns to Startup After Monthslong Leave

OpenAI Co-Founder Returns to Startup After Monthslong Leave

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has returned to the artificial intelligence startup three months after taking a leave from his rol...

Starbucks now offers delivery in its own app

Starbucks now offers delivery in its own app

Get your red cup delivered straight to your door. | Photo: Starbucks A new way to spend $10 on a 12-ounce coffee just dropped. Sta...

Nintendo’s Black Friday sale has discounts on Switch games and controllers

Nintendo’s Black Friday sale has discounts on Switch games and controllers

Image: Nintendo Nintendo games rarely see big discounts, but the holiday shopping season always proves a good opportunity to save ...

Byju’s US Units Wrongly Stripped of Education App, Judge Rules

Byju’s US Units Wrongly Stripped of Education App, Judge Rules

Two money-making education apps that are part of the troubled Byju’s software empire were wrongly transferred away from US lenders...

Turn your smartphone into a playable wind instrument with this USB-C mouthpiece

Turn your smartphone into a playable wind instrument with this USB-C mouthpiece

The Zefiro is a tiny USB-C MIDI controller that can be played like a wind instrument. | Image: Kickstarter An Italian startup call...

VMware Workstation and Fusion are now free for everyone

VMware Workstation and Fusion are now free for everyone

The “Pro” versions are no longer available for purchase. | Image: VMware VMware made its Fusion and Workstation software that crea...

Jimmy Carter becomes first president to turn 100

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Jimmy Carter becomes first president to turn 100

Georgia doctors speak out to challenge misinformation on sta...

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Georgia doctors speak out to challenge misinformation on state's abortion law, death of Amber Thurman

After Shaq, Jay-Z, Beyonce And Others, Tesla Cybertruck Join...

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After Shaq, Jay-Z, Beyonce And Others, Tesla Cybertruck Joins Joins Irvine Police Department's Fleet, Will Be Used For Community Outreach Efforts

Pentagon sending a ‘few thousand’ personnel to Middle East d...

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Pentagon sending a ‘few thousand’ personnel to Middle East day after Biden said he wouldn’t add combat troops

Scandals, failed assassinations and political rhetoric: Both...

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Scandals, failed assassinations and political rhetoric: Both sides go high and low

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