It hasn’t been a good day for the company. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This morning’s news that Peloton is cutting 12 percent of its workforce doesn’t immediately read as a promising sign for the beleaguered smart fitness company. But in a memo sent to employees on Thursday afternoon, CEO Barry McCarthy…
Image: White House / Flickr In an official presidential statement on Thursday, President Joe Biden pardoned all federal offenses of simple marijuana possession and said that his administration plans to review whether marijuana should still be classified as a Schedule I drug like heroin, LSD, and ecstasy. More than 6,500 people in the District of…
Illustration Kristen Radtke / The Verge Spotify is canceling 11 of its original podcasts from in-house studios Gimlet and Parcast. Among the shows ending are How to Save a Planet, Crime Show, and Medical Murders, according to Spotify spokesperson Grey Munford. Other shows that will end over the next month or so include Every Little…
Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Image: Netflix Netflix’s first Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, will hit theaters from November 23rd to November 29th. That means you’ll be able to catch the movie in cinemas just about a month before it premieres on Netflix…
Image: Nintendo Few things in video games have been so hotly anticipated than the reveal of Chris Pratt’s Mario. Today, at 4:05PM ET, Nintendo finally revealed a first look at the new Mario movie. The official teaser trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie is here! ❤️ this tweet to Power-Up with exclusive updates from…
Spotify is pulling 11 original podcasts from the platform, which will impact studios Parcast and Gimlet and involve less than 5% layoffs, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to TechCrunch. Spotify will also reassign some staff to other podcasts, we understand. Reached for comment, Spotify said it does not comment publicly on staffing changes….
Nintendo shared the first trailer for the anticipated “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” an animated adventure featuring some deeply meme-worthy casting. With Chris Pratt as Mario and Jack Black as Bowser, fans were excited to see just how unhinged this film would be. Over 600,000 viewers tuned into the premiere on Nintendo of America’s YouTube…
Google is saving terrible photographers (like me) from ourselves. I got to try out the new Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, and Pixel Watch devices shortly after the Made By Google 2022 event. While there’s still a ton that I can’t judge about these new devices based on some brief testing with display units (like…
Creating fake social media accounts to trick people is hardly a new tactic, but there’s something sinister about this new campaign that makes it stand out from the crowd. An in-depth analysis posted to the KrebsOnSecurity blog claims cybercriminals have been using artificial intelligence (AI) to create profile pictures of non-existent people, and pairing that…
The first trailer for Nintendo’s animated Mario movie has finally arrived – and it comes packaged with the flick’s official title. Oh, and Chris Pratt’s poor attempt at sounding Italian. Revealed during a Mario movie-specific Nintendo Direct on October 6, the teaser gives us our best look yet at the joint Nintendo-Universal animated flick ahead of…