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Ticketmaster had major issues with this week’s Taylor Swift concert presale. | Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic The Department of Justice is investigating Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation Entertainment over antitrust concerns, The New York Times reported Friday. Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010 but have come under scrutiny for largely dominating the live event…
Here’s how much of the US allegedly has access to fiber internet. There’s a lot of white and gray. | Screenshot by Sean Hollister / The Verge We’ve shown you — repeatedly, both with data and anecdotally — that the internet is broken in the United States. We pay more for less and deal with…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Matter is a new standard that promises to fix smart home interoperability — but can it deliver? Continue reading… Read More
The Verge A comprehensive guide to which products work with Matter — the Amazon, Google, Apple, and Samsung-backed smart home standard — and what you can buy right now. Continue reading… Read More
Enlarge After laying off half of Twitter’s employees and issuing a stay-or-leave ultimatum to the rest, Elon Musk sent an email to the remaining staff today seeking responses from “anyone who actually writes software.” “Anyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor at 2 pm today. Before doing so, please email a…
The spinoff game has a Christmas, winter setting. [credit: Sony ] Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the spinoff to the popular and critically acclaimed 2018 PlayStation game Marvel’s Spider-Man, launched on Windows PCs today, just three months after the original game did, too. The game was developed by Insomniac Games (previously best known for the Ratchet &…
With better international education data collection and reporting, the industry will have a more accurate and on-demand dataset that can bolster advocacy efforts and help organizations track trends and address emerging needs.Read More
¿Tienes tu camiseta lista? El Mundial de Qatar 2022 ya comienza. nd3000 / Deposit Photos Luego de cuatro años, la Copa del Mundo llega nuevamente a nuestras pantallas. Esta vez, el evento tendrá lugar en Qatar, donde 32 equipos de todos los rincones del mundo, incluyendo a los Estados Unidos, y a favoritos como Brasil,…
Just soaking up the rays. SolarisFloat A new solar power farm prototype bobbing atop the waters of a large lake in the southwest Netherlands is stalking the sun’s movements to make the most out of its energy capabilities. As BBC News explained yesterday, a company called SolarisFloat‘s artificial island—dubbed Proteus after the Greek sea god—is…