Image: Roblox Parsons School of Design students will soon be able to take a Roblox course as part of their studies. The class will “explore the intricate relationship between digital and physical fashion set in an immersive future” and teach Parsons students how to create 3D digital fashion using Roblox tools. Though it’s led by…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Waymo is ready to tackle the chaos of airport drop-offs and pickups in Phoenix. The Alphabet company says it is the first autonomous vehicle company to include a busy metropolitan airport in its service area. The company had previously only offered airport trips to its employees with safety drivers behind the wheel. Expanding its service…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s getting rid of one of Blue’s best perks: ad-free articles. In a message sent out to publishers and forwarded to The Verge, Twitter says it “made the decision to discontinue Ad-free Articles, effective as of close of business today, October 31, 2022.” The news was first spotted…
Stack Commerce We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › It’s a tale as old as the Sidekick. Picture this: you’re half an hour in your TikTok doom scroll when your phone alerts you that you have 10 percent of battery left. You scramble…
Courtesy of Urban Sky / Mallory Heyer / Meiko Takechi Arquillos / Justin Fantl THERE’S AN EXPERIENCE only a few more than 600 human beings have ever felt. From space—soaring above the stratosphere, spinning in orbit, or slingshotting around the moon—the view of Earth from a distance has been known to shift the viewer’s perspective. Borders…
One of Urban Sky’s microballoons floats over the Colorado landscape, capturing detailed images of the surface below. Courtesy of Urban Sky ONE MORNING IN JUNE, Daniel Roa and Max McLaughlin pull over near the dusty intersection of County Road 80C and Deadman Road in northern Colorado. Their white pickup truck, which their employer got on Craigslist,…
Bringing back the iconic short video platform would take a lot of work. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Elon Musk is wasting no time ushering a dramatically new era for Twitter after assuming ownership of the social media platform last week. Although rumors continue to swirl around the future of verified accounts, free speech, content…
London-based private equity firm Cinven has announced plans to acquire online tax preparation software provider TaxAct in an all-cash deal worth around $720 million. TaxAct offers a range of online tax tools and products, targeting individuals, small businesses, and professional tax preparers. The company’s history can be dated back nearly 25 years, when it was…
Amazon today announced a new benefit for its Prime members which could lure some subscribers away from other music services, like Apple Music or Spotify. The company said it will now offer Prime subscribers a full music catalog with 100 million songs, instead of the previously more limited selection of just 2 million songs, and…
SpaceX has launched its Falcon Heavy rocket on a mission for the U.S. Space Force. This is the fourth ever launch of the company’s heavy payload launch vehicle, which first flew in 2018. Today’s launch also marks SpaceX’s 50th in 2022. The payload for today’s launch includes two U.S. space force satellites, including one used…