An earthquake just before noon that occurred near San Jose has alerted many phones in the Bay Area, which received warning notifications from the recently-rolled out ShakeAlert system.
It’s unclear how much detection came from Android devices, but Google CEO Sundar Pichai said his notification arrived before the actual rumbling did.
After yesterday’s uneven iPad experience, it’s time to review the new Surface hardware from Microsoft.
Then, this afternoon we’ll have quarterly earnings reports to go over from Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Spotify, and GM.
Monica Chin’s impressions of the Surface Pro 9 show that Windows on ARM still isn’t ready.
Monica also reviewed the new Surface Laptop 5 which has improved almost everywhere except on battery life.
Ash Parrish’s take on Bayonetta 3: “I thought, ‘yup, this is some Bayonetta bullshit.’ And I loved it.”
Dan Seifert has gone in-depth on the “new ideas and old compromises” that hamstring Apple’s latest base-model iPad,
Over the weekend, Mitchell Clark reviewed Belkin’s Continuity Camera mount.
Monica Chin tested Lenovo’s big-n-light Gram 17 laptop.
And don’t miss Thomas Ricker’s exclusive look at Ikea’s new Matter-ready smart home setup.
Before his very careful flag waving at the US Grand Prix this afternoon, Tim Cook popped up on the Sky / ESPN F1 broadcast talking to Ed Sheeran, Eddy Cue, and F1 boss Stefano Domenicali.
I didn’t notice it at first, but the camera also caught a notification popping up on Cook’s Apple Watch. A cleaner screen grab reveals it was from Apple News, but what if it had been something more sensitive?
Charles Pulliam-Moore reviews Black Adam, and while the latest DC movie has what some fans are looking for, Warner’s superhero universe is still a pretty messy place.
Also, this morning we’re going EV off-roading with Tim Stevens, who’s ready to leave emissions behind.
Liz Lopatto digs into Elon Musk’s Ukraine mess that (might?) get the US government to stop, reverse, or at least slow down, his purchase of Twitter.
...and I’m trying to hear both sides about crypto on the latest episode of The Vergecast.
First, the Washington Post reports Elon might fire 75 percent of Twitter’s staff, and now Bloomberg cites anonymous sources saying that — like Elon himself — US government officials may be uncomfortable with the billionaire buying Twitter.
The report says the Biden admin is considering a CFIUS review of his deals to consider national security risks.
US officials have grown uncomfortable over Musk’s recent threat to stop supplying the Starlink satellite service to Ukraine — he said it had cost him $80 million so far — and what they see as his increasingly Russia-friendly stance following a series of tweets that outlined peace proposals favorable to President Vladimir Putin. They are also concerned by his plans to buy Twitter with a group of foreign investors.
You’d think that disappointing viewers with its 2017 movie adaptation would be enough, but no, as previously reported, Netflix is working on another live-action adaptation of Death Note.
This one is planned as a TV series made by the production company of Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer, and now Deadline reports they’ve found a writer and EP, Halia Abdel-Meguid.
A longtime fan of the manga and anime series, Abdel-Meguid — who speaks fluent Japanese and has previously lived in Tokyo — is taking on Death Note having worked with the Duffers on another Upside Down Pictures development project for Netflix. She is a writing consultant on their series adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s novel The Talisman.
In recent years Instacart has pulled in a lot of talent from tech companies like Meta — including CEO Fidji Simo last year — as it was seemingly close to going public.
But tonight, the NYT reports that after cutting its internal valuation from $40 billion to $24 billion in March, it’s now shelving plans to go public in 2022. Maybe 2023 will be the year?
[The New York Times]
