The gang’s all here. | Image: Nickelodeon The first animated movie from Avatar Studios, the team Nickelodeon set up to work on movies and shows in the Last Airbender universe, will feature Avatar Aang and his friends, according to an announcement made during San Diego Comic-Con (via Gizmodo). While there’s no word on casting or…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
You too can make a Verge-themed Lego minifigure. | Screenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge Lego is testing a new online Minifigure maker, the Minifigure Factory, that lets you create a Lego person of your very own (via Jay’s Brick Blog, which I promise has no relation to me). In the tool, you’ll be…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A worldwide shortage of fiber optic cable has driven up prices and lengthened lead times, endangering companies’ ambitious plans to roll out state-of-the-art telecommunications infrastructure. Europe, India, and China are among the regions most affected by the crunch, with prices for fiber rising by up to 70 percent from record lows…
Enlarge (credit: NFL) A report this weekend from The New York Times says that YouTube is the latest bidder for the NFL’s flagship content package, NFL Sunday Ticket. There’s still no winner in the bidding process, but Google’s video division is jumping into the fray to do battle with Apple, who, the Times says, is…
Enlarge / An example of an NFT world token that the NFT Worlds team says will be playable in their own Minecraft clone in the future. (credit: OpenSea) Last Wednesday, Microsoft-owned Mojang announced that NFTs and blockchain technology would no longer be allowed to “integrate” with Minecraft. That was bad news for NFT Worlds, which…
The Celestiq show car. Cadillac Cadillac once represented the luxury standard of the world. In the era prior to the 1973 oil crisis, Cadillac was responsible for churning out vehicles with powerful engines, luxurious interiors, and technologically advanced creature comforts. Plus, the brand wrapped all of that in a stunningly gorgeous exterior design. While some…
When Charles Onu’ cousin was both born with birth asphyxia and later developed a hearing condition, the seed for Ubenwa, an audio biometric company geared at identifying neurological disorders in infants, was also planted. Onu, CEO and co-founder, said he hopes Ubenwa will change the way physicians provide care to infants. “We’re trying to bring…
Tons of capital has been raised across the crypto industry in recent months, but there has been a noticeable pause in deployment. That might change in the coming months. As it’s taken longer to close crypto VC deals, valuations across the industry have dropped, according to David Nage, venture capital portfolio manager at Arca. Some…
Chartbeat, a website that tells publishers about their readers, is getting the private equity treatment. Launched out of Betaworks in 2009, the service offered real-time analytics back when Google Analytics made you wait 24 hours to see who was clicking around your site. Eons later, private equity firm Cuadrilla Capital has swooped in to buy…
US operator T-Mobile has promised to pay out $350 million to fund claims, legal fees, and administration costs following 2021’s gargantuan data breach. The company also said in an SEC filing that it would fork out $150 million on “data security and related technology” over the next two years. However, T-Mobile maintained that the settlement “contains…