Photo by Noam Galai / Getty Images for Webby Awards We’ve got a lot to dig into today, from mergers and acquisitions to breakups, both amicable and acrimonious. But first, I want to give a shout-out to my friend Karishma, who alerted me to the Desus and Mero drama blowing up on Twitter when I…
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Today, a Delaware court ruled that Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk for attempting to back out of his acquisition of the company will be heard in October. This is a win for Twitter, which asked for a shorter timeframe than Musk. Musk agreed to buy Twitter…
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge “All warfare is based on deception,” Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War. Some 2,500 years later, the maxim applies to the virtual battlefield as well as the physical. As the war in Ukraine rages on, researchers from Google have discovered malware from a Russian state-backed…
Photo by Christoph Dernbach / picture alliance via Getty Images Panasonic has picked De Soto, Kansas, to build a new EV battery plant, which projects to bring up to $4 billion in investments for the state, the Kansas governor’s office said in a press release. The press release predicts the plant will create up to…
Passersby walk towards an LED sign saying “18 -19 July extreme heat only travel if essential.” | Photo by Sebastian Gollnow / picture alliance via Getty Images The UK recorded temperatures rising above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time in its 350 years of climate records. The searing heatwave is unprecedented…
Enlarge Four months ago, Netflix began its crackdown on password sharing by creating an “extra member” fee for users who share accounts with people they don’t live with. The extra member fee of about $2 to $3 per month was implemented in Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru, with Netflix saying it would evaluate the rollout…
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Leone dodging yet another account ban. When it comes to players cheating in online games, a permanent ban is usually the worst punishment a publisher will dish out (either for that specific game or the company’s whole catalog). Now, though, Bungie is going to court to stop one serial Destiny…
A SpaceX rocket speeds toward space from Florida in 2020. Deposit Photos When a Falcon 9 rocket launches on Thursday, if all goes well, SpaceX will have sent 32 vehicles to space in 2022–breaking the previous yearly record of 31 launches it set in 2021. And SpaceX has many more blast-offs planned: The California-based commercial…
Look Both Ways, starring Lili Reinhart, takes its title very literally. The upcoming Netflix film gives us a look at two possible outcomes for a young woman’s life. That young woman is Natalie (Reinhart), a college student who finds out that she’s pregnant on the night before her college graduation. She chooses to move back…
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