Nancy and Paul Pelosi, and Elon Musk Leon Neal/Getty Images and Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images A federal affidavit debunks far-right conspiracy theories about the attack on Paul Pelosi. Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk, tweeted then deleted a baseless report about a dispute with a male prostitute. Pelosi told authorities he had never seen the suspect…
Chipmaker Qualcomm has announced that its Snapdragon Automotive Platforms will power the Volvo EX90, the Swedish company’s largest EV to date. The announcement by Qualcomm comes ahead of the 9 November 2022 announcement of the Volvo EX90, but that doesn’t mean that we have to wait to learn about the technology that will power what…
EA and Marvel have signed a deal that will see three new games developed, all based on comic book heroes. The deal will kick off with a Marvel staple — a new Iron Man game has already been confirmed – but EA hasn’t gone on record about the other two titles. That means that we…
Netflix’s ongoing grasp for a chunk of the video game pie continues with the streaming service’s announcement it has now snapped up Spry Fox, the studio behind the likes of Triple Town, Alphabear, and last year’s Cozy Grove. Netflix shared the news – which comes just shy of a year since the streaming service took…
The United Arab Emirates restricts access to numerous online services. In the UAE, you can’t use the VoIP or video service in certain apps (or use the app at all), like WhatsApp calling, Skype, and Discord. Due to geoblocks, streaming international content on Netflix US, BBC iPlayer, and other popular platforms isn’t possible either. In…
Tenoch Huerta as Namor in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. | Image: Marvel Studios The way Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s Talocan bears little resemblance to the Atlantis of Marvel’s comic books is one of the most intriguing things about the movie and its central villain: the sea-dwelling antiheroic King Namor, played by Tenoch Huerta. Namor’s short…
Do it for the Vine. | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk is looking into the Twitter archives for ways to improve his newly acquired social network. His team has told engineers at the company to look at Vine’s code to figure out how much work it would take to…
A screenshot from Cozy Grove. | Image: Spry Fox Netflix is acquiring Spry Fox, the indie developer of “cozy” games like Cozy Grove and Alphabear, Netflix announced on Monday. The acquisition means that Spry Fox will become Netflix’s sixth in-house gaming studio. For Spry Fox, the acquisition won’t mean any changes for now. The studio’s…
Jason Voorhees’ iconic hockey mask. | Image: Warner Bros. Pictures It’s been 13 years since Warner Bros.’ last Friday the 13th slasher feature hit theaters, made a bunch of money, and then never led to the sequel many fans expected would follow soon after. Though we may never know what might have come from a…
Usually being a board chair is a job that involves running some meetings and pushing through routine company business, but when Bret Taylor became Twitter board chair last year, he was getting a lot more than he bargained for. Taylor was promoted to the job in November 2021, the same day Jack Dorsey resigned as…