Uber is settling a Justice Department lawsuit accusing the company of overcharging riders with disabilities. The ridesharing company has agreed to pay at least $2.2 million to passengers who were charged wait time fees despite disabilities that required more time to enter a vehicle. The payout includes nearly $1.74 million for over 1,000 riders who…
If you found yourself impressed by Lego’s recently unveiled Mighty Bowser set but couldn’t quite shake the feeling something was missing – say, around 13ft – then Nintendo has you covered. As part of San Diego Comic-Con, the company has constructed an absolute behemoth Mighty Bowser, measuring over 14ft tall. The retail version of Mighty…
Create, erase, and create again with nuka eternal stationery. Including a a rewritable notebook & metal pencil powered by an app, this set ensures you’ll never need another notebook again. With a waterproof design made for an eternal lifecycle, the paper inside the eternal notebook is nearly impossible to tear. Furthermore, you can write with…
SPONSORED JOBS: A recent poll by analytics and advisory company Gallup, asked 13,085 U.S. employees what was most important to them when deciding whether to accept a job offered by a new employer. Some answers were those you’d likely expect, such as a significant increase in income or benefits (64% of respondents said this was…
California-based Cornerstone AI has raised $5 million seed funding to solve the data quality problem for the healthcare industry.Read MoreRead More
GUEST: According to Google, one in 20 Google searches seek health-related information. And why not? Online info is convenient, free, and occasionally provides peace of mind. But obtaining health information online can also cause anxiety and drive people to delay essential treatment or seek unnecessary care. And the emerging use of voice assist…Read MoreRead More
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is planning to slow hiring in 2023, according to Bloomberg, making it the latest big tech company to shift its hiring plans. The changes won’t affect every team, Bloomberg reports, but some groups won’t see increased staff next year and some positions won’t be backfilled. Apple is…
Now that Sony has successfully rolled Funimation into Crunchyroll in an attempt to create the one anime streaming service to rule them all, it’s leveraging that consolidation to raise prices, right? Wrong, apparently! The company just announced price cuts in 95 different territories around the world, including the UK, China, India, and many, many more….
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is testing a new way to tackle password sharing in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic (as reported first by Bloomberg). The test will prompt users to pay an additional fee if they use an account outside their household for over two weeks, costing…
Enlarge / If GameStop’s NFT business is gonna go “to the moon,” total trade volume on the platform has been bending in the wrong direction so far… Last week, when Ars analyzed the first day of NFT sales on GameStop’s heavily hyped crypto marketplace, some boosters were quick to suggest that this was just a…