Apple’s seemingly abandoned ‘Magic Charger’ appears in new photos

Image: @TheBlueMister (Twitter) Apple’s first-party lineup of MagSafe charging accessories for the iPhone is fairly limited: you’ve got the standard MagSafe puck, the MagSafe Duo, the underwhelming MagSafe Battery Pack, and well… that’s it. But new images indicate that Apple at some point considered releasing a metal stand with an integrated MagSafe charger. The photos…

Microsoft’s Xbox streaming console ‘Keystone’ was pushed back because of its price

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has revealed why the company delayed its plans to introduce an Xbox streaming console, speaking to Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel on The Verge’s Decoder podcast this week. “It was more expensive than we wanted it to be when we actually built it out…

YouTube is bringing shopping features to Shorts as it chases TikTok

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge New shopping features are coming to YouTube Shorts, including affiliate marketing and the ability to purchase items through Shorts, as first reported by the Financial Times (via TechCrunch). The long-form video giant is testing shopping features with US-based creators and audiences in the US, India, Brazil, Canada, and…

Apple’s latest iOS beta gives you more control over the iPhone’s always-on display

The current version of the iPhone 14 Pro’s always-on display can be a bit… distracting. | Image: Apple iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max owners could be getting more control over their phone’s always-on display. The latest developer beta for the upcoming iOS 16.2 includes toggles that let you hide the wallpaper and notifications while…

Musk fires Twitter engineers for correcting, criticizing him on Twitter, Slack

Enlarge By all appearances, there seems to be very little trust left between Elon Musk and Twitter’s remaining employees, particularly Twitter engineers. After Musk publicly fired a Twitter engineer by tweet yesterday, it’s now being reported that more than a dozen employees have been terminated for either posting critically about Musk’s leadership or simply supporting…

Musk ignored Twitter staff’s warning that scammers would abuse paid verification

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Christopher Pike/Bloomberg ) Elon Musk ignored internal warnings from Twitter’s trust and safety team when he rolled out his failed paid verification scheme, according to an article co-published by Platformer and The Verge. About a week before the November 9 launch of Musk’s revamped Twitter Blue subscription,…

ThriveDX Announces Enterprise Solutions Partnerships to Train Cybersecurity Professionals

Cybersecurity education provider ThriveDX has announced its new partnership initiative, Enterprise Solutions, to train tech students from the “classroom to the boardroom” to fill 3.5 million high-paying and in-demand cybersecurity jobs in the global workforce and to increase diversity and inclusion across the industry.Read More