The hunt for the next Twitter: all the news about alternative social media platforms
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Where will we all hang out next? Twitter hasn’t been in a great place for months, and that suddenly means that there’s a lot more competition in Twitter-like social media platforms. Mastodon might be the most well-established, but there are many other services vying
Read MoreRivian delivers first electric vans to Amazon in Europe
Amazon has begun rolling out its custom electric delivery vans from Rivian in Europe, the e-commerce giant said Monday. This will be Rivian’s first commercial shipment of vans outside the United States. The first tranche of 300 vans will be seen on streets in Munich, Berlin and Dusseldorf in the
Read MoreThreads, Instagram’s Twitter competitor, is expected July 6
Instagram’s rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the U.S. The app will be called Threads, and according to App Store data, it’s expected to launch on July 6. It’s a good time for Instagram to enter the fray — this past weekend, as Twitter fumbled
Read MoreTwitter competitors soar after yet another bad Musk move
Twitter was even messier than usual this weekend. On Saturday, owner Elon Musk tweeted that Twitter would combat “extreme levels of data scraping,” by limiting accounts that don’t subscribe to Twitter Blue so that they could see only 600 posts per day. Once you hit the quota, almost any act
Read MoreMax Q: Virgin Galactic’s triumphant first commercial flight
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: What the future holds for Virgin Galactic News from NASA, and more Virgin Galactic’s first commercial flight brings payloads and passengers to edge of space Virgin Galactic completed its first commercial flight, sending 13 scientific payloads and four humans —
Read MoreEV maker Arrival’s second SPAC is now a dead SPAC
Troubled commercial EV maker Arrival has just ended a deal to merge — for the second time in less than three years — with a special purpose acquisition company. Arrival initially went public in March 2021 via a merger with special purpose acquisition company CIIG Merger Corp. in a deal
Read MoreTwitter is going to force TweetDeck users to switch over to the ‘new’ version
Image: Twitter Twitter is going to force everyone who uses TweetDeck to switch over to the “new” version to help mitigate some of the issues TweetDeck has been experiencing lately. I used quotes around “new” because the experience has been in preview for nearly two years, but according to a
Read MoreMolly Alter leaving Index Ventures for Northzone
There’s been quite a bit of movement lately among venture capitalists moving to new firms or going out on their own, while others are getting into VC. NEA partner Pete Sonsini and Kleiner Perkins’ Wen Hsieh were reportedly leaving their respective firms to start their own firms. David Cahn left
Read MoreTech Triumph: IT Evolution Ignites Business Boom in Francophone Africa!
In recent years, Francophone Africa, a region that encompasses countries such as Senegal, Congo, and Côte d’Ivoire, has been experiencing a business boom largely due to the rapid evolution of IT. As the digital world continues to transform, it has become a catalyst for unprecedented levels of growth and innovation
Read MorePornhub blocks access in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah amid changing laws
Pornhub is blocking access from users in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah, which have recently passed laws that require age verification to access adult websites. Similar legislation went into effect in Louisiana at the start of the year. To comply, Pornhub required visitors to verify their age with the LA Wallet
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