Peacock to raise its subscription prices on August 17
Peacock is delivering bad news to its subscribers tonight. Beginning at 12 a.m. EDT, the streamer is notifying existing customers that it’s raising its subscription prices on August 17. The change will affect new customers immediately. This will be the first time Peacock has experienced a price hike since its
Read moreIsometric taps $25M to build a registry and science platform focused on carbon removal
Carbon removal — technology that aims to remove carbon emissions from the environment by breaking it down and turning it into something less harmful — saw a big splash of attention last year after Stripe, Shopify, Meta, Alphabet and more collectively agreed to pump $1 billion into funding removal startups.
Read moreUK’s approach to AI safety lacks credibility, report warns
The UK government has been trying to cultivate an image of itself as an international mover-and-shaker in the nascent field of AI safety in recent weeks — dropping a flashy announcement of an upcoming summit on the topic last month, along with a pledge to spend £100M on a foundational
Read moreTikTok is now supporting passkeys on iPhone
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge The next TikTok trend is passkeys on iPhones. The social media app is announcing support for the logins that try to make password-stealing phishing attacks impossible by allowing users to sign in with either Touch ID or Face ID instead of entering passwords.
Read moreTesla directors pay $735M to settle claims they overpaid themselves
Tesla’s directors will return $735 million to the company to settle claims from shareholders that they excessively overpaid themselves, according to a Monday court filing. The settlement concludes a 2020 lawsuit from a retirement fund that holds Tesla stock. The Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit
Read moreSearching for proper nouns
Suppose you want to find all the proper nouns in a document. You could grep for every word that starts with a capital letter with something like grep 'b[A-Z]w+' but this would return the first word of each sentence in addition to the words you’re after. You could grep for
Read moreForrester assesses priority cloud trends and strategies in 2023
As U.S. hyperscalers began to build data center regions in Canada nearly 7 years ago, the scope of cloud adoption here exploded. Forrester’s State of the Cloud in Canada, 2023 report indicates that Canadian companies went from relying solely on local options, U.S. based data centers, or private cloud environments
Read moreTesla lets owners recharge with solar
Tesla’s latest move is a new feature for folks who’ve seriously bought into its ecosystem. Tesla drivers with home solar and a Powerwall charger now have an in-app option to exclusively charge up their vehicle via excess solar energy. The automaker started rolling out the setting in May, under a
Read moreThe spam bots have now found Threads, as company announces its own ‘rate limits’
It looks like Twitter isn’t the only one having to turn to rate limits — or limits on how many posts users can view. In an amusing turn of events, Twitter’s latest rival, Instagram Threads, announced this afternoon that it, too, has to tighten up on rate limits due to
Read moreSpotify adds shared volume control to its group listening feature
Spotify attempts to improve its shared-queue feature, Group Session, by launching shared volume control, a new capability that lets listeners adjust the volume of a song if they’re sharing a compatible speaker with the host, the company announced today. Group Session is a Premium-only feature that was first introduced in
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