Image: Instacart Instacart customers who know they need sustenance but don’t know what to buy will soon be able to browse suggestions from celebrities. Beginning today, the company is rolling out product collections curated by public figures, influencers, and retailers for customers to shop from. The new feature, called Carts, will display lists of grocery…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is officially getting into podcasts. The app will launch a test version of Twitter Spaces today that includes podcasts, letting you listen to full shows through curated playlists based on your interests. The redesigned Spaces tab opens with Stations, topic-based playlists combining podcast episodes pulled from RSS…
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Summer is running out, but I accidentally stumbled upon a weird hack that I might come back to for the warmer months. One day recently, before I headed to the office, I tossed some Pixel Buds A-Series wireless earbuds into my messenger bag, and they somehow settled near…
You gotta love the spin. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton’s numbers don’t look great. In its Q4 2022 earnings release this morning, the company reported a $1.2 billion operating loss, a 28 percent revenue drop, a membership decline, and a monthly subscriber churn exceeding 1 percent for the first time…
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal on August 22 issued a decision granting sua sponte Director Review and Affirming the Decision on Institution in Zynga Inc. v. IGT, IPR2022-00199, U.S. Patent No. 7,168,089 B2. Vidal determined that the interference estoppel provision of 37 C.F.R. § 41.127(a)(1) does not apply to trial and…
Enlarge / Google’s Nest Hub Max is a 10-inch smart display designed for viewing photos, making video calls, controlling smart home devices, and accessing the Google Assistant, among other tricks. The speakers aren’t the best, though, and there’s no physical shutter for the built-in camera. (credit: Google) The kingdom of Google’s third major operating system,…
Enlarge (credit: Joe Raedle / Staff | Getty Images News) Yesterday, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tweeted to sound the alarm that she had been “swatted” around 1 am. “Swatting” is a term for incidents that involve a false report of emergencies like suicide or gun violence that leads police to send a SWAT team…
Sedimentary rocks in the shadow of the Mars rover in Jezero Crater. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars nearly two years ago, has released treasure troves of data, key observations, and much-anticipated geologic findings from its first few romps across the Martian surface. Four papers, published Thursday in the journal Science and Science…
After offering them for over a decade, Heroku today announced that it will eliminate all of its free services — pushing users to paid plans. Starting November 28, the Salesforce-owned cloud platform as a service will stop providing free product plans and shut down free data services and soon (on October 26) will begin deleting…
Grab a cup of coffee and strap in, because this pitch deck teardown is pretty different from most of the ones I’ve done to date. Why? Let me count the ways. (OK, fine, there are only two ways.) But let’s take a closer look: 1. This is a blockchain pitch. The pitch deck is for…