Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is trying to clean up the messy state of crypto copyright. Last week, the company introduced what it dubs “Can’t Be Evil” licenses: a series of agreements that let creators grant non-fungible token owners partial or near-complete rights to NFT art. It’s…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
The MacBook Air after the teardown. [credit: iFixit ] Those who preordered the M2 MacBook Air have been receiving them over the past few days, and repair supplies vendor iFixit is among those who received a unit. If you’ve been tracking iFixit’s work after other Apple launches over the past several years, you know what…
Once upon a time, reaching a $1 billion valuation was a Big Deal. But the shine that a so-called unicorn valuation conferred on a startup eroded as more and more private companies reached the threshold — often with less and less to back it up. TechCrunch, where the term “unicorn” was born, noted the dilution…
A new report examing the impact of Apple’s privacy feature, App Tracking Transparency, indicates Apple’s ads business appears to have financially benefitted as a result of the feature’s launch. Now over a year old, App Tracking Transparency, or ATT, reached mass adoption in June 2021, allowing for a comparative year-over-year analysis of the post-ATT mobile…
There’s no denying it — when it comes to e-commerce, Marc Lore delivers. The serial entrepreneur sold Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com, Soap.com and others, to Amazon in 2011 for $550 million. He launched Jet.com in 2015 and sold it to Walmart in 2016 for a tidy $3 billion. Now, Lore delivers a new…
Research suggests that most companies want to do the right thing when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Executives certainly understand that bringing in a variety of voices, experiences, backgrounds and cultures can improve an organization in myriad ways beyond the bottom line, making their companies stronger and their products appeal to a…
Hours before a long holiday weekend in the United States, electronics giant Samsung announced its U.S. systems were breached a month earlier by malicious hackers, who broke in and made off with gobs of personal information about an unspecified number of its customers. The data breach is likely significant. Samsung is one of the largest…
If you’ve ever had a dream about Jeremy Strong calling Ronald Reagan a schmuck, you’ll enjoy the start of this trailer. But writer/director James Gray’s drama Armageddon Time is more serious than that, examining Reagan-era racism in the ’80s. Set in New York, the film sees Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway, and Strong leading the cast…
Pokémon Go Psychic Spectacular 2022 is here, bringing with it a whole bunch of mind-manipulating goodies and exclusive events. A celebration of all psychically enhanced pocket monsters, Psychic Spectacular is already live. With a new Mega Pokémon to catch, shinies to nab, and research tasks to complete, there’s a lot to keep you busy over…
The biggest iPhone 14 Plus leaks – Apple event confirmed for September 7 – 6.7-inch 60Hz display – Dual-lens 12MP camera – A big 4,325mAh battery – Similar design to the iPhone 13 – A15 Bionic chipset, like last year’s models The iPhone 14 Plus is probably about to launch, as Apple’s ‘Far Out’ event…