Your personal data is at risk every time you go online if you don’t protect your connection. Whether it’s your internet service provider or social media websites — they all try to obtain your sensitive information for profit. For instance, advertising companies pay huge amounts to access your online shopping preferences. You also leave your…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Search listening is going to get you ahead in the SEO game. Hear me out. Google averages 3.5 billion searches a day. Of those searches, 16 to 20% have never been seen before. Each search is like an opportunity to pick a customer’s brain. What they think about your brand, offerings, and industry—it’s all calculated…
Amy Adams as Giselle in Disenchanted. | Disney While Enchanted was a surprisingly inspired riff on the studio’s archetypical princess fairytales, Disenchanted, director Adam Shankman’s upcoming sequel to the movie, looks like a straightforward redux of Disney’s recent stories about witches fiddling with reality in its first trailer. Disenchanted continues the tale of Giselle Philip…
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge This is the free weekly edition of Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. You can sign up here. Hello, hello, hello. I hope you’re all ready for a busy, Amazon-packed issue. Because there’s a lot of Amazon news to go around today. First:…
Signage is displayed outside of Occidental Petroleum Corp. offices in Carlsbad, New Mexico, US, on Friday, September 11th, 2020. Oil giant Occidental announced an enormous escalation of its plans to take planet-heating carbon dioxide out of the air. It signed a lease agreement on 106,000 acres in Kleberg County, Texas, where it would build up…
Image: Daimler AG Mercedes-Benz just announced the pricing of its all-electric luxury sedan the EQE, and unsurprisingly, it starts north of $76,000. But unlike its electrified sibling the EQS, it’s not being listed at a price lower than its gas-powered equivalent. The EQE sedan is a slightly smaller sedan built on the same technical platform…
On October 28, Kristina Kashtanova, an artist and artificial intelligence (AI) consultant and researcher, received notice from the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) that the registration for the first issue of her partially AI-generated graphic novel, Zarya Of The Dawn, may be canceled. A month earlier, on September 15, the USCO issued a registration for Kashtanova’s…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today ruled in a precedential decision that the definition of a claim term in a patent incorporated by reference into the patents at issue does not dictate the definition of claims in the asserted patents. The CAFC thus reversed the district court’s claim construction and…
Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket) A few months ago, Twitter promised to take its role in preserving election integrity seriously, saying that “[p]eople deserve to trust the election conversations and content they encounter on Twitter.” Now, in the middle of Brazil’s presidential election and just ahead of the US midterms, the majority…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Maksym Kapliuk) Charter is raising prices on Spectrum home Internet service by $5 a month starting today, a company spokesperson confirmed to Ars. Standalone broadband prices are rising to $79.99 a month for 300Mbps download speeds, $99.99 a month for 500Mbps, and $119.99 a month for 1Gbps. 300Mbps is the…