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As a former director of business strategy for The Atlantic, Eric Rosato knows a few things about building a successful news business. Now he lends his strategic acumen to thousands of news organizations across the globe for the Google News Initiative’s Digital Growth Program. We talked to Eric about the value of journalism to society…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke Alice Moon couldn’t stop throwing up. She had made a name for herself as an online cannabis influencer, but after…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is only 18 but it’s slap-bang in the middle of a mid-life crisis, with user numbers declining and TikTok eating its Gen Z lunch. In response, the company is trying to push more video content from creators into users’ feeds, and is now shifting resources away from…
For most people, what comes to mind when they hear the word “patent” might be an invention like the lightbulb—Thomas Edison’s version rather than Sawyer and Man’s, probably—or the telephone—another hotly-contested invention between Alexander Graham Bell and the lesser-known Elisha Gray….What the average person might not be aware of is the type of patent intended…
Enlarge / Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Go 2. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Anyone who buys a Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 should go into it fully aware of the laptop’s shortcomings. The first and most important is that the base model, the one that gives it its attractive $600 starting price, comes with only 4GB of non-upgradeable…
When the power goes off and we haven’t saved our work, we all just freeze. Simon Hattinga Verschure / Unsplash I thought I was prepared for power outages. I had flashlights, a collection of topped-up external battery packs for my household devices, and the mental fortitude to eat all the ice cream in the freezer…
Volkswagen Group of America CEO Scott Keough is stepping down to helm the automaker’s Scout brand for battery-electric pickup trucks and SUVs. Keough, who has served as president and chief executive of Volkswagen Group of America since 2018, will become Scout’s president and CEO. He will be replaced by Pablo Di Si, executive chairman of…
Meatable, a Dutch biotech company developing cultivated “lab-grown” meat products, has revealed images of its inaugural pork sausage for the first time. Founded in 2018, Meatable is one of several companies developing cell-cultured meat products, one of several solutions touted to help combat climate change. Countless cultivated meat companies have entered the fray and attracted venture…