Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An investigation by The Financial Times found that Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube lost around $9.85 billion in revenue following Apple’s changes to its privacy practices. Last year, Apple announced the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy that requires apps to ask permission to track users’ data. The policy […]
Month: October 2021
Roblox is back online after an outage that lasted three days
Roblox went down Thursday evening | Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images After an outage that began Thursday evening, Roblox appeared to be back online Sunday evening. The company said in a tweet at about 4PM ET Sunday that it was “incrementally bringing regions back online.” Quick update as we work to […]
Hands-on: ALOGIC’s new DX2 and DX3 docking stations for M1 MacBooks [Video]
The ALOGIC DX2 and DX3 are a pair of great universal docking stations. They were designed to not only offer a substantial port expansion for your MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, but also offer multi-display support as well. Head below to check out our hands-on with the new docks and get 10% off for a […]
Leaked images show ASUS may be releasing a Surface Pro competitor that docks to an external GPU
Photo by Evan Blass ASUS may be releasing a successor to the ROG Flow X13, the convertible laptop that doubles as a gaming PC. Evan Blass (@evleaks), a reliable leaker, tweeted out a photo of the ROG Flow Z13 — at a glance, it looks fairly similar to the new Microsoft Surface Pro 8. If […]
Leaked Lenovo Thinkbook Plus image shows a second screen next to the keyboard
A leaked image that shows a Lenovo ThinkBook Plus with a second screen next to the keyboard. | evleaks Reliable tech gadget leaker Evan Blass (@evleaks) on Sunday posted an image to Twitter that showed a 17-inch Lenovo ThinkBook Plus with a second screen to the right of the keyboard. The screen looks like it […]
New Trailers: The Wheel of Time, The Witcher, Lightyear, House of Gucci, and more
Rosamund Pike stars in The Wheel of Time | Amazon Prime Video I’m close to giving up on The Morning Show; the latest episode spends a lot of time building up to a twist that makes very little sense given the season so far. They only have three episodes left and a lot of plot […]
Google Home app gets new Photo Frame settings and possible Weather Frog display option
Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Google Home, the companion app for Google’s smart home products, is changing the way users interact with photos on the app and on Nest Hub devices. 9to5Google first noticed the changes, which include a revamped Photo Frame settings menu. Now, when you use Google Home to change the displayed album […]
Go read this story about how online orders are burning out Chipotle workers
To go bags, to go bags everywhere. Chipotle is a pioneer of the fast assembly-line restaurant format, where you get in line and guide a human worker through the process to build your meal while you watch. It’s a foolproof system, or so I thought before I checked out this investigative story by MarketWatch revealing […]
Apple quietly discontinues the 21.5-inch Intel-powered iMac
Photo by Olly Curtis/MacFormat Magazine/Future via Getty Images Apple has apparently pulled its 21.5-inch Intel-based iMac from shelves (via MacRumors). Its discontinuation doesn’t come as much of a surprise, now that Apple is transitioning from using Intel processors to its in-house M1 chip. The 21.5-inch iMac was still available after Apple’s October 18th Unleashed event […]
Gurman: Apple planning ‘pricey’ mixed reality device to launch as early as 2022
In his latest edition of the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman talks about Apple’s long-rumored mixed-reality device, which could finally launch as early as next year. This is not the first time Gurman has reported on this mixed reality device. Apple has been planning one for a few years now and it seems it’s […]