A bathtub ring watermark at Hoover Dam / Lake Mead has dropped two inches every day since February (26 feet in one year) is viewed on July 12th, 2022, near Boulder City, Nevada. | Photo by George Rose/Getty Images The US’s largest water reservoir, Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam, is in very, very bad…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Canadian town of St. Marys, Ontario, has been hit by a ransomware attack that has locked staff out of internal systems and encrypted data. The small town of around 7,500 residents seems to be the latest target of the notorious LockBit ransomware group. On July 22nd, a…
Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge In a major shake-up, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess is stepping down as head of the world’s second-largest automaker and will be replaced by Porsche chief Oliver Blume, the company announced Friday. Blume will replace Diess in his role as chairman of the board of management on September…
Scroll down on a Google Play app listing and you’ll soon see this new privacy section. [credit: Google ] Last week, Google started more widely rolling out the new “Data Safety” screen in the Play Store, and it made waves in the tech world when we found out that the new section was a replacement…
Enlarge / Amazon Echo Show 15. (credit: Scharon Harding) Amazon will begin selling ads to developers to promote their Alexa skills and apps on the platform, according to a report from Bloomberg on Wednesday. According to Bloomberg, Amazon is “inviting developers to advertise their apps” on Alexa in the form of pop-up ads on the screens…
Enlarge / Screenshot from One America News Network’s press kit. (credit: One America News Network) One America News Network is about to lose its last major TV distributor. After being removed from DirecTV in early April, the right-wing network was still aired on Verizon Fios. But with a channel-carriage contract expiring at the end of…
Enlarge / Some of the reported 450 employees that walked off the job at Activision Blizzard Thursday. (credit: CWA / Twitter) Hundreds of Activision Blizzard employees walked off the job on Thursday in an effort to get company support for employees living in “locations which are passing anti-abortion, anti lgbtq+, or any other discriminatory legislation,”…
I won’t use this space to dissuade anyone from launching a startup, but founders should embrace the fact that investors are looking for reasons not to give you money these days. Perhaps you don’t have much revenue. Or maybe, too much of your cash flow depends on a single customer. Oh, and when are you…
Evan Kipperman Contributor Share on Twitter Evan Kipperman is a partner in the emerging companies and venture capital practice at Wiggin and Dana. He helps growth-stage companies, VC firms, family offices and high-net-worth individuals achieve their business goals. Paul Hughes Contributor Share on Twitter Paul Hughes is a partner in the emerging companies and venture…
Google is set to reinstate a recently-removed feature to its Android app marketplace in response to concerns voiced by the community. As per a series of tweets published to the official Android developer account, an imminent Play Store update will see the return of the app permissions section, which catalogues the level of access demanded…