August 2, 2019 Google Play Pass or Apple Arcade: Which App Subscription Service Is Better? Subscriptions are all the rage, and it’s easy to see why. Everyone loves an a la carte model for content—see Netflix, et al—where you…
August 2, 2019 No Man’s Sky will get its next major expansion on August 14th Image: Hello Games The next major expansion for No Man’s Sky, Beyond, is launching on August 14th. In a blog post announcing the release…
August 2, 2019 CraftSynth 2.0 is portable, fun and a little bit flimsy Teenage Engineering says the Pocket Operator series is about compromising on everything except sound quality. But I think UK-based Modal Electronics may have beaten…
August 2, 2019 Why Netflix’s Derry Girls is the perfect show to stream this weekend Photo: Netflix There are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that it’s hard to see through all the…
August 2, 2019 The Next iPhone Might Have a Time-of-Flight Sensor—but What the Heck Is That? As if you didn’t have enough phone specs to consider when choosing a new phone, here comes another one: Smartphone cameras are now being…
August 2, 2019 TikTok’s a year old, when will its creators make money? Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok stars wanted to be taken seriously in 2018. Now, one year after Musical.ly became TikTok and…
August 2, 2019 The FTC is looking into the Amazon and Apple deal that crushed small resellers Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last year, Amazon cut a deal with Apple to bring direct iPhone sales to its platform for…
August 2, 2019 Clothing resale site Poshmark suffers data breach Clothing resale site Poshmark has been hacked. Data from users in the US, including full names, usernames, genders, email addresses, hashed passwords, clothing size…
August 2, 2019 New York Times Publishes Anti-Google Rant, Doesn’t Mention the Author Is a Facebook Board Member The New York Times published an anti-Google screed by billionaire Peter Thiel last night but failed to mention a fun fact that readers might…
August 2, 2019 Space startup aims to launch thousands of satellite ‘cell towers’ that connect to the average phone Ubiquitilink’s payload attached to a Cygnus cargo capsule in February | Image: NASA The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched to the International Space…