This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we’re talking The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and Middle-earth in general – as the rights to Tolkien’s world are gobbled up by game publisher Embracer. It’s another huge get for the Swedish conglomerate, which owns an increasingly enormous share of the video games industry. It also means…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Looking At The Footage It had been a long week with the dog leaving the house in the morning and returning late at night. His owner was working on his laptop when he thought about checking the footage. He thought he’d see the neighborhood in front of his house with his dog playing with the…
The third generation Motorola Edge is here. The vanilla Edge models stick to mid-range duties and aim to be a good middle ground between the flagships and the lites of the series. But beyond that there isn’t much consistency in what makes an Edge and Edge. Here is a three-way comparison between the Edge 2020,…
Welcome to the latest edition of “My Path to Google,” where we talk to Googlers, interns, apprentices and alumni about how they got to Google, what their roles are like and even some tips on how to prepare for interviews. Today’s post is all about Johnson Jose, a Google Cloud leader based in Bangalore, India…
Many of us have experienced the frustration of visiting a web page that seems like it has what we’re looking for, but doesn’t live up to our expectations. The content might not have the insights you want, or it may not even seem like it was created for, or even by, a person. We work…
One-third of the world’s languages are spoken in Africa, but less than 1% of African languages are represented online. This is significant because the language you speak, write or sign shapes your online experience. Language is the cornerstone of your identity, the connection to your past and the key to your future. When we can’t…
Forget the mall: these days, Instagram is the place to shop til you drop. Sure, there’s no Orange Julius for a mid-spree snack sesh, but Instagram Shopping brings the retail experience to social media to reach an audience of more than 1 billion monthly users. Rather than directing customers from your Instagram account to your…
Samar Haddad / The Verge BeReal is a fun app. But one of its less fun qualities is the element of surprise. You don’t see a preview of yourself while the front-facing camera is shooting, and you don’t know exactly when it’s taking your picture. As a consequence, if you’re in a hurry or otherwise…
Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Apple Podcasts is introducing a pair of new top 100 charts today that track subscription podcasts and subscription podcast channels. And as of day one, Amazon is at the top. Amazon’s stable of shows dominates the new charts. Morbid, SmartLess, and Something Was Wrong, which release early for…
The crypto market has been hit hard by plummeting valuations and trading volume. | Image: Alex Castro / The Verge In June, cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com announced it was laying off around 260 employees, or 5 percent of its workforce, due to the widespread downturn in the crypto market. But layoffs did not end there. Sources…