Image: Nissan The Nissan Leaf, a pioneer electric vehicle and one of the cheapest EVs currently on the market, is nearing the end of its life span. According to a report in Automotive News, Nissan does not plan on introducing a next-generation version of the Leaf and may even discontinue the nameplate altogether. Production of…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook will allow some users to have multiple profiles as part of a test, the company announced today, signaling a major shift as Meta looks for new ways to encourage users to stay on the platform amid increased competition from rivals. As part of the test, some Facebook…
Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Twitter’s experiment in letting two people tweet together has a weird loophole. It’s now possible to accidentally make an unlisted tweet. It’s not private, but you can only see it if someone sends you a link. Or embeds it in a website. Here is my unlisted tweet: This…
Earlier this month, IP diversity advocacy group Invent Together announced that it had launched an online learning platform known as The Inventor’s Patent Academy (TIPA), an e-learning course designed in collaboration with Qualcomm to educate inventors from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds about the benefits of engaging with the U.S. patent system. This online academy is…
Enlarge / Sony has taken steps to allay hex-shaped NFT fears about its new “rewards” service. (credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment / Sam Machkovech) On Thursday, Sony Interactive Entertainment posted a surprise announcement about a new service coming to PlayStation consoles. Most of the details about the new “PlayStation Stars” initiative, which resembles other gaming services’…
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Despite a significant depression in crypto markets, plenty of top players have been hesitant to say that the good times are over for the time being, but as NFT marketplace OpenSea announces today that its laying off around 20% of the company’s employees, the top crypto startup’s CEO isn’t mincing words. ” … [T]he reality…
You might think given the chatter in the startup world that venture capitalists are short on funds — after all, we’re hearing about young tech companies finding themselves marooned between stages, hitting up investors with smaller capital pools than prior backers and turning to equity crowdfunding to keep their cash balances healthy. And yet new data…
It’s shaping up to be the summer of dueling seven-figure electrified hypercars. But perhaps it’s more of a sibling rivalry, as the Rimac Nevera and Pininfarina Battista share common DNA. Rimac said Tuesday that its $2.5 million 1,914-horsepower Nevera has begun rolling off the assembly line. Pininfarina announced the following day that its own $2.5…
TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook need to pull up their socks on making their platforms safer spaces for LGBTQ users, GLAAD says in its latest report. The organisation’s now-annual Social Media Safety Index analyses LGBTQ user safety on the five big social media platforms: TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. The first report was…