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Napster joins Limewire and Winamp by jumping on the web3 bandwagon
Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images
They say you can’t keep a good brand down. More accurately, you can’t stop it being opportunistically mined by business types for lingering name-recognition and nostalgia.
Case in point: the pioneering ...
theverge.comFormer eBay executive pleads guilty to harassment campaign involving live insects
David Harville was eBay’s former director of global resiliency.
eBay’s former director of global resiliency, David Harville, pleaded guilty to taking part in a bizarre harassment campaign, which involved sending live cockroaches, spiders, a bloody pig face...
theverge.comGoogle says its new image search features are like ‘Ctrl+F for the world around you’
“Near me” lets you search for pictures of objects locally. | Image: Google
At Google I/O, Google senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan announced new enhancements for its Lens multisearch tool, which lets you conduct a search with just an image and a cou...
theverge.comBuying Wordle brought ‘tens of millions of new users’ to The New York Times
Screenshot: Wordle
Buying the hit puzzle game Wordle was apparently a good bit of business for The New York Times. The company announced its quarterly earnings on Wednesday and credited Wordle for a huge jump in new subscribers. “Wordle brought an unpreced...
theverge.comGoogle Docs’ updated tables are designed for project management
Tables can now be more nicely formatted, and easily set up with rich text. | Image: Google
Google has announced new dropdown and table tools for Google Docs, as it attempts to evolve its word processing software into more of a collaborative productivity to...
theverge.comThe Wikimedia Foundation has stopped accepting cryptocurrency donations
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the organization behind Wikipedia, has announced that it will no longer accept donations in cryptocurrency, as first reported by Web3 Is Going Just Great. In an update, the WMF says it...
theverge.comStartup Trail is Oregon Trail for tech policy wonks
Image: Startup Trail
My startup went public, and it only took me about 25 minutes to pull it off. I don’t remember what the company does, though I don’t think it really matters? I own 16 percent of the place, but after I made some rash decisions about a le...
theverge.comGoogle Docs expands warnings about dodgy files and links
An example of the banner that previously appeared when you open a dodgy file from Google Drive. | Image: Google
Google’s office collaboration tools Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings will now show a warning banner when you open potentially malicious files ...
theverge.comGoogle can now remove search results that dox you without second-guessing intent
It’ll remove links to your address, phone number, and more. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Google says it’s expanding the types of personal information that it’ll remove from search results to cover things like your physical address, phone numbe...
theverge.comTwitter is reportedly working on a vibe check feature
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Twitter is reportedly working on a feature that allows users to set a status, codenamed “Vibe.” The possible feature was first spotted by Jane Manchun Wong, a researcher and reverse engineer with a track record of sp...
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