Tag: The Verge

VoteByMail website makes it easier to request a mail-in ballot ahead of the election

VoteByMail.io is a new service created by volunteers with work experience at several prominent companies, including Google, Intel, Dropbox, and Nike, that aims to help registered voters sign up for a mail-in ballot. The site is available in nine languages, and VoteByMail has partnered with multiple state and national organizations, including Vote.org, to support the […]

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Apple fight is about more than just Money

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has issued a series of public comments on his personal Twitter account regarding the legal fight the Fortnite creator initiated with Apple last week, following the iPhone maker’s removal of the game from the App Store. In the four-part thread, Sweeney says the fight isn’t about money. Rather, he says […]

Dr Disrespect has officially returned to streaming

Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm has returned to streaming, this time on YouTube. His first stream went live on Friday, August 7th, at 3pm EDT. As reported by The Verge, the controversial streamer was permanently banned from Twitch in late June, for reasons that are still unknown. Though he’d signed an exclusive deal with Twitch back […]

Microsoft condemns Apple’s App Store policies

Microsoft is now rebuking Apple over its stringent developer restrictions and its stance on cloud gaming apps, which the iPhone maker does not allow on the App Store for apparent “violations” of its guidelines. A statement attributed to a Microsoft spokesperson said, “Apple stands alone as the only general purpose platform to deny consumers from […]

Big Tech rakes it in during the pandemic, and Apple is on top in the world

Apple Campus HQ with sun setting behind

Apple is now the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, passing Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco. According to CNBC, as of close of business Friday, Apple has a market valuation of $1.84 trillion, while Saudi Aramco’s is $1.76 trillion. Apple’s stock, which has been on a largely-steady climb since the end of March, […]

Humans left behind a record amount of e-waste in 2019

2019 set a record for the amount of e-waste ever generated worldwide: 53.6 million metric tons of discarded phones, computers, appliances, and other gadgets. That’s more than the combined weight of all the adults in Europe. It’s also a 21 percent increase since 2014, according to a new international report. Just 17 percent of that […]

UK government takes $500 million stake in space exploration firm OneWeb

The Verge reports that as part of a consortium that includes Indian telecom Bharti Global, the UK government will invest $500 million and take a “significant equity share” in space exploration firm OneWeb, it announced Friday. OneWeb, which has its headquarters in the UK, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US in March, […]

Here are the 5 biggest announcements from the EA Play Live 2020 press conference

This year, Electronic Arts, like many of the giant video game publishers, switched from what would normally have been a massive E3 press conference in Los Angeles to a virtual-only event called EA Play Live. The event kicked off at late last week and included a slew of big announcements from the company’s various gaming […]

HBO Max is here, so HBO Go trails off into the sunset…

HBO Max logo surrounded by popcorn

Just weeks after the launch of HBO Max, which added to the already confusing HBO product lineup of HBO, HBO Go, and HBO Now, WarnerMedia is making some changes in an attempt to reduce some of the confusion about which app is for which purpose. In case you haven’t heard,  HBO Max is AT&T’s new […]