Ana in her first music video. | Image: Krafton Earlier this year, Krafton — the company best known for the battle royale shooter PUBG — unveiled what it described as a “hyper-realistic” virtual human. Alongside those first images and details were some big plans to turn Ana, as she’s known, into a virtual star. Now…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
TikTok Now sends a daily notification, just like BeReal. | Image: TikTok TikTok is the latest app to add a dual camera feature, hoping to tap in to the surging popularity of BeReal. In a blog post today, TikTok announced a new feature called Now, which will send users daily notifications to capture a picture…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Merge, which took place early Thursday morning ET, will cut Ethereum’s energy consumption by an even bigger margin than previously expected, a new analysis finds. It’s also expected to slash the cryptocurrency network’s greenhouse gas emissions dramatically. Ethereum’s electricity use is expected to drop by a whopping…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber is bringing its upscale electric car service to more cities, announcing the launch of its Comfort Electric feature in 14 additional cities in North America, bringing the total number of markets to 25. In May, Uber launched Comfort Electric in a handful of cities, the list of…
The Aorus FO48U has features found on OLED panels that cost twice as much. Sometimes you have to put in a little work for your deals, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It builds character… or something. If you’re willing to jump through a couple of hoops, you can currently get the 48-inch Gigabyte…
The new Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation tool is as useful as it is prophetic. Mike Newbry/Unsplash Last week, the Biden Administration announced a new, massive geospatial data project aimed at keeping Americans informed and up-to-date on the now near-constant ecological issues facing the country. Developed through an interagency collaborative effort working under the…
Snapchat is making the desktop version of its app, Snapchat for Web, available to its entire global community, the company announced on Thursday. The social network initially launched Snapchat for Web in July to Snapchat+ subscribers in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Now, the desktop version can accessed by all Snapchat…
Salesforce is the best selling CRM in the world, and Snowflake is one the top cloud data lakes. The latter lets customers store and manage massive amounts of unstructured data. When you mix the two services, it has the potential to be a powerful combination. The two companies have been working together for some time,…
Gaetano Crupi Contributor Gaetano Crupi is a partner at venture capital firm Prime Movers Lab. He serves on the boards of OCEANIX, Atom Computing, Conscious Cultures and MycoWorks. More posts by this contributor Use chronological scenario planning to help your startup get through a potential recession I have now been an investor for two years…
Rephrase.ai, a self-described synthetic media production platform, today announced that it raised $10.6 million in a Series A round co-led by Silver Lake and Red Ventures with participation from 8VC. CEO Ashray Malhotra says that the plan is to put the new cash toward expanding headcount with a particular focus on Rephrase’s engineering, data science,…