Here’s a reminder to make your Venmo transactions private, courtesy of Clarence Thomas
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I’m currently looking at my Venmo feed. In an ideal world, I would see only a log of private payments I’ve made and received. Instead, I see a list of my friends’ business: someone paid a friend for “drinkies,” another for “rich bitch
Read moreRust Refactoring for Beginners
Recently Neeraj Avinash posted his code on Rust Programming Language Group on LinkedIn. His goal is to learn some Rust basics, but I found his example being a good foundation for my article. The intention is to show how to improve Rust’s code in stages and demonstrate what mistakes beginners
Read moreHBO’s ‘Succession’ and ‘The Last of Us’ lead 2023 Emmy nominations
The 2023 Emmy Awards nominations were announced Wednesday, with HBO and Max earning the most nominations and Netflix trailing closely behind. HBO/Max nabbed 127 Emmy nominations, marking the 21st time that it has surpassed all networks and streaming services in a single year. Notably, HBO’s “Succession” had a record-breaking total,
Read moreLucid stock falls as sales miss expectations
Lucid’s future was already cloudy, but lately the EV startup’s name is practically a misnomer. On Wednesday, Lucid told investors that it delivered 1,404 of its Air sedans during the second quarter, missing Wall Street analysts’ expectations by nearly 600 vehicle deliveries. The startup also said it built 2,173 vehicles
Read moreGoogle Play changes policy toward blockchain-based apps, opening door to tokenized digital assets, NFTs
Google has updated its mobile software marketplace policy to allow application developers to integrate digital assets like NFTs into their games through its Play app store, the company’s group product manager Joseph Mills announced on Wednesday. As part of the policy update, Mills stated that apps must be “transparent with
Read moreGoogle is spelling out rules for blockchain-based apps on Android
Illustration: The Verge Google is introducing a new blockchain-based content policy for Android apps on the Google Play Store. The new policy, which will be effective on December 7th, covers things like cryptocurrency exchanges and software wallets, transparency requirements, and rules for NFT gamification that would cover things like loot
Read moreRoblox is coming to Meta Quest VR headsets
Meta announced today that Roblox is coming to Meta’s Quest VR headsets, starting with an open beta on that will be available on App Lab in the coming weeks. Roblox, a major player in the metaverse space, was rumored to become available on Meta Quest VR headsets sometime this year. Players
Read moreTopanga banishes single-use plastics from your Grubhub order
As a person who cares about the environment, a steel vacuum mug for coffee and matching water bottle are companions that live with me when I’m out and about. When I order food for takeaway or delivery, I’m (almost always) left with a disposable packaging problem. Containers and packaging made
Read moreGoogle Cloud infrastructure head Urs Hölzle stepping down
Urs Hölzle began working for Google in 1999 at a time when people were using Yahoo and Alta Vista to search the internet. As Google grew in popularity over the years, he moved through the ranks. Most recently he has been running infrastructure for Google Cloud, reporting directly to CEO
Read moreGoogle’s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM
Google is making its “AI notebook for everyone” available to a select few, and renaming it from Project Tailwind to NotebookLM. If you struggle to make sense of the pile of information in your Google Drive, a light coating of AI could be just the thing. The project was announced
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