TikTok 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 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
Read moreStratasys rejects Nano Dimension acquisition offer, agrees to talk to 3D Systems
Some of the biggest names in additive manufacturing are about to merge — we’re just not entirely sure who. One name we can say for certain is Stratasys — long one of the top names in 3D printing. As for with whom the company will eventually merge, there are three
Read moreYouTube is testing a new ‘Stable Volume’ feature across its mobile apps
Some YouTube users may soon come across a new feature that will help keep the volume of their videos at a more consistent level. After a Reddit user discovered a yet-to-be-announced setting titled “Stable volume,” YouTube has since confirmed the experiment is now in testing with global users. As the
Read moreMoments of Tukey’s g-and-h distribution
John Tukey developed his so-called g-and-h distribution to be very flexible, having a wide variety of possible values of skewness and kurtosis. Although the reason for the distribution’s existence is its range of possible skewness and values, calculating the skewness and kurtosis of the distribution is not simple. Definition Let
Read moreAre software companies good businesses?
We’re back to talking about profitability. A technology-finance podcast recently talked about software company valuations, the impact of interest rates, and just how profitable well-known tech companies can become. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Riffing
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