Google announced the shutdown of Stadia with little warning. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge News that Google would be closing down Stadia was a big surprise for everyone, including the developers making games for the platform Continue reading… Read More
Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch will begin testing a way for its users to boost their chat messages on the platform. Called “Elevated Chat,” the “experiment” is meant to let users elevate their chat messages for a specific time using a one-time fee. The fees are presented in five different tiers ranging from 30…
Enlarge / Ars originally liked the Stadia controller, describing it as “solidly built, with springy, responsive inputs.” It could still be that way without a giant USB cord if Google unlocked its full Bluetooth capabilities. (credit: Kyle Orland) Google’s Stadia game-streaming service will die a nearly inevitable death early next year. Google is refunding players…
It’s been unseasonably warm around here — check out the flip flops and dress! And the Easter Basket there…well, would you believe it’s for collecting Fall leaves? We don’t have a lot of Fall color yet, but enough leaf beauties have hit the pavement that we ventured out for some Leaf Pickin’. N picked up…
Google appears to have disabled access to Google Translate in parts of China, redirecting visitors to the Hong Kong domain — which isn’t accessible from the mainland. According to users on Reddit and site archives viewed by TechCrunch, Google swapped the Google Translate interface at translate.google.cn with a generic Google Search page at some point…
It appears that not even the iconic Windows logo is safe from malware anymore, as some cybercriminals managed to successfully hide malicious code inside it. Cybersecurity experts at Symantec claim to have spotted one such campaign using a process of hiding malicious code in otherwise harmless images, otherwise known as steganography. It is usually done…
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Experts say Musk’s teflon-like ability to evade repercussions is due to a complex interplay of exceptionalism, a fierce cult-like fandom, and a culture of “billionaire worship.” Gotham/Getty Images Hundreds of Elon Musk’s texts could work against him in his court battle with Twitter, experts say. The texts were released Thursday as a part of the…
JFK International Airport. Skyhobo/Getty Images United officially announces plans to suspend daily flights from NYC to the West Coast. The latest split should not have come as a surprise to JFK. United’s done this before. United remains eager to ‘return to JFK as soon as possible.’ United Airlines broke up with New York’s John F….
A Nike logo at a store in San Francisco. SOPA Images / Contributor A judge ordered Nike to unseal additional records in a sweeping gender-discrimination lawsuit. The ruling is a victory for news outlets that challenged the protective order in April. The lawsuit, filed in 2018, alleges that women at Nike were “devalued and demeaned.”…