After Parler cut a deal for Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) to buy the platform, its outreach team decided to give “gold-badged” members a special message assuring them nothing will change.
One thing that did change, however, is their privacy, as the email mixed up the CC and BCC fields, exposing the email address of everyone on the list, which included many right-wing writers, activists, and celebrities.
You can watch her introduction — and since this is Apex Legends, her accompanying tragic backstory — in this Stories of the Outlands trailer.
Respawn says she’s a “terraformer and defensive conjurer” who manipulates the battlefield with ferrofluid. Leaked videos from a few months ago suggested she has Fortnite-like quick-building capabilities.
Instead of sentencing Elizabeth Holmes today as previously scheduled, the judge will hear arguments from her lawyers seeking a new trial.
They claim former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff, who testified against Holmes, visited her and said he felt like he had done something wrong. Rosendorff later made a sworn declaration saying he stands by his testimony.
If you need a recap you can read Liz Lopatto’s report or watch our video series on the billion-dollar fraud.
From uncancelable to canceled, the media business has everything happening right now. Over here, we’re taking a brief break from product launch events (Adobe Maxx 2022 is scheduled for tomorrow, and October isn’t over yet, so stay tuned) and “celebrating” the start of earnings season.
Netflix (Basic, with ads) will report its results on Tuesday, while Tesla, AT&T, and Snap are all due later this week.
Not sure how to feel about Meta’s new VR headset and the motion-captured avatar legs revealed this week?
Verge senior reporter Adi Robertson spoke to Tech News Weekly about using the device and everything we learned about Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse plans.
Earlier in the episode, senior news editor Richard Lawler discussed CNN’s NFT shutdown and why people who bought its tokens might be angry about the rug disappearing from underneath their feet.
A woman tweeted to models from the old-school boxes of hair relaxers to “show yourselves,” and... they did!
There’s always been something special about how Twitter can bring people together (when it isn’t splitting them apart) and this recent thread showed why — with no tweet editing required.
Last month Google showed off its new lock screen widgets for iPhones but wasn’t ready to release them yet.
Now they’re all available, for Search, Chrome, Google Drive, Google Maps, Gmail, and Google News.
But Allison Johnson is focused on just one, and only for one reason: because now one button press can make Google Maps give you the shortest route to a cup of coffee.
When the new Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate sent its almost-finished Batgirl project into the vault forever, it also yanked other projects intended for straight-to-HBO Max debuts from the schedule.
One of those movies was House Party 3, which is now scheduled for a theatrical release in 2023. You can watch the trailer below (or with less editing on YouTube) and decide how good of an idea that is.
