Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One day after an explosion of reports sourced from a massive “Uber Files” leak containing thousands of documents and messages between top executives, Mark MacGann, the company’s former chief of policy in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) has come forward as the source. In this video…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Floating YouTube videos, (maybe) coming to a screen near you. | Image: Google Google has announced that YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode for iOS and iPadOS, which lets you watch videos in a floating window while using other apps, is rolling out to more people. According to a community post on Monday, people running iOS 15 should…
We’ve had active noise canceling in wireless earbuds for a while, but that mostly benefits the person wearing the headphones to drown out the outside world. If you’ve been on the other end of a phone call with someone wearing ’em, you’ll notice that the microphones still pick up a lot other than the voice…
Klarna’s announcement that its long-expected funding round has come to a close brought with it one of the steepest valuation resets in memory, at least as far as operating businesses are concerned. Now worth $6.7 billion after raising $800 million, the European BNPL provider is worth a fraction of its self just last year, though…
In a letter to Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Senators Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren expressed alarm that abortion-related content is receiving strange treatment on Meta’s platforms. Just after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, Motherboard found that posts offering to provide abortion pills were being removed…
Getting excited about birthday presents is not just for kids. You can be a grown-ass adult and still lose your shit when you open up the gift that topped your wish list. But as you get older, it does become a little more difficult to come up with a list of birthday gift ideas. You…
It’s the bane of every YouTuber’s existence: False copyright claims. And one of the internet’s most beloved YouTube music channels, Lofi Girl, was just hit with one of these false strikes. Now, as a result, the channel’s livestreams have been taken down, including a stream that has subsequently been running nonstop for two years, four…
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia; Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Manchin rejected a threat from McConnell to sink a bipartisan bill to compete against China. “I’m not walking away if anybody’s gonna threaten me or hold me hostage, if I can help the country,”…
Tesla Model 3. Tesla On June 29, 2022, Tesla celebrated its 12th anniversary as a public company. Tesla closed out its first day of trading in 2010 with a market cap of $2.22 billion. It’s now worth roughly $700 billion. The company put electric cars on the map. On June 29, Tesla celebrated its 12…
When you buy through our links, Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more. Amazon/Insider If you’re heading back to school in the fall, Amazon Prime Day is a good opportunity to stock up on classroom essentials and teacher life upgrades at a discounted price. Amazon Prime Day is from July 12 to July 13…