Bird is shrinking as it seeks to right-size its finances. | Photo by Ty O’Neil / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Bird is exiting three European countries — Germany, Sweden, and Norway — as well as “several dozen” small- to mid-sized cities in the US, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The cash-strapped…
Stadia might be exiting cloud gaming, but Netflix might be jumping in. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is seriously considering its own cloud gaming platform, the company’s VP of games Mike Verdu said at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on Tuesday (via Protocol). Netflix jumped into gaming in a big way last…
Enlarge A US citizen who traveled to Saudi Arabia to visit family reportedly received a 16-year prison sentence for posting tweets critical of the Saudi government. The sentence was imposed on 72-year-old Saad Ibrahim Almadi, according to his son, Ibrahim Almadi. Ibrahim Almadi spoke to several news organizations about the sentence imposed on his father,…
The multi-decade rise in healthcare costs isn’t expected to reverse course any time soon. In search of a fix, Adun Akanni and TJ Ademiluyi co-founded Alaffia Health in 2020, one of the startups participating in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 200. The healthtech company uses machine learning to try to identify fraud, waste and abuse in…
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Netflix VP of Gaming Mike Verdu dropped two bits of news about the streaming giant’s foray into games. Verdu said that Netflix is “seriously exploring a cloud gaming offering.” The company will also open a new gaming studio in Southern California. “It’s a value add. We’re not asking you to subscribe as…
Watching an action movie shouldn’t feel like a chore, but Black Adam does. Amid a slew of publicly damned decisions, Warner Bros. has released a DC Extended Universe movie that is more exhausting than exciting, spooling out tedious exposition alongside ugly action for a muddled mess of a movie that squanders its big budget and…
Samsung has verified it has achieved an 8.5 Gigabit per second (Gbps) transfer speed via its 14-nanometer (nm) LPDDR5X DRAM on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform, a combo that’s likely to find its way in the next Samsung Galaxy S23 range expected to be unveiled in 2023. The Korean electronics giant claims this gives it the fastest…
Alex Wong/Getty Images; Rachel Mendelson/Insider Facebook claims a series of reports by an Indian news site, The Wire, were based on faked documents. The reports claimed that a member of the country’s ruling party had the ability to takedown posts on Instagram. The publication is conducting an internal review of its reporting. For more than…
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