Chinese regulators have hit Alibaba with a record fine of 18 billion yuan (about $2.75 billion) for violating anti-monopoly rules as the country seeks to rein in the power of its largest internet conglomerates. In ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A mobile carrier allowed anyone with one of its customers phone numbers to access their personal information, including name, address, phone number, and text and ... read more

Practically every film production these days needs some kind of visual effects work, but independent creators often lack the cash or expertise to get that top-shelf CG. Wonder Dynamics, founded by VFX engineer Nikola Todorovic ... read more

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Firefox will no longer support Amazon Fire TV or Echo Show devices starting April 30th, Mozilla announced on Friday (via Android Police). “You will ... read more

Sometimes you’ve just got to confirm an unannounced product to put the rumors to bed, I guess. That was Google’s strategy this afternoon, following earlier rumors from Android Central that a chip shortage had put ... read more

His panel on court-packing tilts sharply to the legal and political left. ... read more

Few companies have done better than Scale at spotting a need in the AI gold rush early on and filling that gap. The startup rightly identified that one of the tasks most important to building ... read more

The latest migrant numbers show much more than a seasonal increase. ... read more

Big Labor pulled out all the stops to organize an Alabama warehouse. ... read more

With rare exceptions, the states that shut down the longest suffered the most economic harm. ... read more

Over the last few days, we’ve published several articles recapping panels from last week’s TechCrunch Early Stage virtual conference. Each story is based on an interview with a founder or investor who addressed some of ... read more

The planet-loving folks at the Sustainable Ocean Alliance started an accelerator a couple years back focusing on very early stage companies, but this year they’re expanding the program to accept those who have already closed ... read more

Your phone may be smart when it comes to your biometrics, but being thoughtful is up to you. ... read more

Why not just hire smart people and ask them (or free them) to do honest reporting? ... read more

A Brexit dispute threatens to upend the Good Friday Agreement I worked hard to finish 23 years ago. ... read more

In post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana built a system that serves the needs of students, not adults. ... read more

The Biden administration is favoring Singapore and Vietnam over Thailand, a treaty partner since 1833. ... read more

Efforts to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama appear to have failed, Facebook takes down fake review groups and a monkey plays Pong with its brain. This is your Daily Crunch for April 9, 2021. ... read more

Image: Lil Nas X In the latest virtuoso move to promote his hit song “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” Lil Nas X posted a lo-fi remix of the track to YouTube ... read more

Transformers are some of the most iconic toys around — an action figure and a car! All in one! A true bargain! But as modern Transformers toys have gotten more complex, they ... read more

Melissa Bradley wears many hats. She’s the co-founder of a startup called Ureeka, an investor at 1863 Ventures, and a professor at Georgetown’s business school. So it’s not an understatement to say that she understands ... read more

A Wharton study says wages will fall. ... read more

A batch of job listings along with some Twitter whisperings suggests that scooter companies such as Lime and Superpedestrian are gearing up to operate in London and New York City — two of the last ... read more

Google is just starting to test its replacement for third-party cookies, but DuckDuckGo is already announcing that it wants to block that tech with its Chrome extension. Google’s FLoC, or Federated Learning ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Senate Judiciary Committee leaders are demanding that Apple provide a witness for an upcoming hearing on app stores and digital competition after the iPhone manufacturer ... read more

Shorthand, the Australian startup behind a no-code platform that allows publishers and brands to create multimedia stories, has raised $10 million Australian (just under $8 million U.S.) from Fortitude Investment Partners. CEO Ricky Robinson told ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More than 500 Alphabet employees have signed an open letter demanding Google stop protecting the subjects of harassment complaints. The move comes two days after ... read more

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The podcasting world’s been waiting and watching for Apple to debut a full-blown revenue-producing podcast business. Spotify and other tech giants have been making moves ... read more

A government commission finds the U.K. is no longer ‘deliberately rigged’ against minorities. Cue the outrage and racial attacks on its chairman, Tony Sewell. ... read more

Jorge Torres Contributor Share on Twitter Jorge Torres is CEO and co-founder of MindsDB, an open source AI layer for existing databases. ... read more

Image: Paramount Pictures Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to the ’80s classic Top Gun starring Tom Cruise, will now premiere on November 19th, according to Deadline. It was previously slated to open ... read more

Image: NASA Acting NASA administrator Steve Jurczyk said Friday that under President Biden’s budget request, the agency’s Artemis mission has a new goal: in addition to landing the first woman on the ... read more

However the outcome of today’s vote count turned out, there was one thing we knew for certain: it wasn’t going to mark the end of the battle between Amazon and the Retail, Wholesale and Department ... read more

Smoke from Southern California wildfires blankets the LA Basin, obscuring downtown skyscrapers in a view from a closed Griffith Observatory. | Photo by Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty ... read more

Security researchers say APKPure, a widely popular app for installing older or discontinued Android apps from outside of Google’s app store, contained malicious adware that flooded the victim’s device with unwanted ads. Kaspersky Lab said ... read more

Starlink satellites visible in the night sky in April 2020. | Photo by Patrick Pleul / picture alliance via Getty Images Two satellites from the fast-growing constellations of OneWeb and SpaceX’s Starlink ... read more

Given the pandemic, huge changes are being wrought in tech events, something which used to be the lifeblood of the industry. Many a startup has pitched to win funding, and many a hackathon has formed ... read more

Image: Disney To whom it may concern at The Walt Disney Company and / or Lucasfilm: Show me the damn lightsaber. I know you have a real one now. And it’s time ... read more

Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images In its first budget proposal to Congress on Friday, the White House called for new funding to fight the ongoing semiconductor shortage. Among ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google has officially announced a new Pixel phone, the Pixel 5A 5G. It’s done so in the same way it has announced a lot ... read more

Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage Phoebe Waller-Bridge is joining the as-yet-untitled fifth Indiana Jones film, co-starring as an as-yet-announced character opposite Harrison Ford (who’ll be returning as the titular adventurer, of course). Also ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google says it has blocked several terms associated with hate speech from being used as ad keywords on YouTube videos. The move follows a ... read more

From building out Facebook’s first office in Austin to putting together most of Quora’s team, Bain Capital Ventures managing director Sarah Smith has done a bit of everything when it comes to hiring. At TechCrunch ... read more

Joby Aviation founder JoeBen Bevirt has spent a more than a decade developing an all-electric, vertical take-off and landing passenger aircraft — an effort that was largely shrouded in secrecy until January 2020 when the ... read more

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it 1,000 times. Startup Alley is ground zero for entrepreneurial opportunity. It’s where hundreds of savvy, exhibiting startups increase their brand recognition, connect with investors, grow their network, ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Some Pixel 5 owners are apparently experiencing a bug with Google’s Widevine DRM platform that’s causing their phones to only play back Netflix videos ... read more

Image: Oppo Hans Zimmer, the legendary composer of The Lion King, Inception, and other iconic soundtracks, has brought his epic compositions to a new audio medium: phone sounds. Yes, Hans Zimmer created ... read more

HP HP has announced an update to its Chromebook x360 14c, its premium convertible Chromebook aimed at students and remote workers: the laptop now includes Intel’s latest 11th Gen processors. Configurations start ... read more

Image: IO Interactive Fans of Hitman’s excellent Elusive Target missions will be happy to hear that the first of these made for a Hitman 3 level is now live. The mission tasks ... read more

Facebook has removed 16,000 groups that were trading fake reviews on its platform after another intervention by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the regulator said today. The CMA has been leaning on tech ... read more

Cleo Capital, a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Sarah Kunst, is raising up to $20 million for its second fund, according to a source familiar with the matter. A recent SEC filing shows ... read more

Photo: Michele Doying / The Verge An audit by researchers at the University of Southern California found that Facebook’s ad delivery system discriminates against women, showing them different ads than it shows ... read more

Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images Boeing has recommended that airlines temporarily take the 737 Max out of service because of an issue with the plane’s electrical systems. It’s the latest ... read more

Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Amazon employees at a Bessemer, Alabama warehouse have voted against unionizing the facility’s roughly 5,800-person workforce. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has tallied ... read more

Efforts to unionize Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse were defeated by a wide margin in the second day of vote counting. More than half of the 3,215 votes cast broke in in factor of the retailer. ... read more

Digital mortgage lender Better.com has raised $500 million from Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank that values the company at $6 billion. The financing is notable for a few reasons. For one, it values Better.com at $6 ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge There is plenty that scientists don’t understand about the long-term effects of COVID-19 on society. But a year in, at least one thing seems clear: ... read more

Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images ‘It was a lot of fun to be a samurai for six months.’ Continue reading… ... read more

Media and marketing industry merger and acquisition deals crashed in terms of both deal volume and dollar value during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the second quarter of 2020, but they're beginning to ... read more

One of the world's largest CPG companies that depends on data is looking into other ways to target ads to consumers. TikTok's parent company ByteDance, Deloitte, and PricewaterhouseCoopers also are involved. ... read more

One of the world's largest CPG companies that depends on data is looking into other ways to target ads to consumers. TikTok's parent company ByteDance, Deloitte, and PricewaterhouseCoopers also are involved. ... read more

The 2022 Chevy Bolt EUV may look like a larger, slightly longer Chevrolet Bolt, but under that boxy exterior lies a whole lot of tech that’s both affordable and very advanced. With the launch of ... read more

Sony is reportedly working on another remake of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us — first released in 2013 for the PlayStation 3, followed by a PlayStation 4 remaster in 2014. The ... read more

PlayStation Plus is available for both PS4 and PS5 owners. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you managed to get your hands on a PS5 — or you own ... read more

How to manage the tradeoff between personalized advertising and privacy is a familiar debate. Whether or not personalized advertising – or advertising, full stop – works is a less common direction. But in a debate ... read more

Sun's assertions about Nielsen's local panel come as Nielsen is also facing criticism from VAB about its national panel. Nielsen says its methodologies are accurate. ... read more

TechCrunch is hosting a small virtual event on April 15 for startups in Detroit and we’re still looking for a few startups to pitch at the event. The deadline is today, Friday, April 9th. Apply ... read more

Photo by Annette Riedl/picture alliance via Getty Images Katharine Lee got her COVID-19 vaccination early on in the United States’ rollout. So did a friend of hers — they got their shots ... read more

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and  and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s rigamarole of news. Alex took some ... read more

LOCK ISLAND, RI - JUNE 13: The Block Island Wind Farm off the coast of Block Island, RI is pictured on Jun. 13, 2017. | Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via ... read more

For years now, a growing number of tech companies — large and small — have either relocated their headquarters to Austin or opened another office or campus in the Texas capital. They’ve been drawn to ... read more

Samsung’s iTest site on an iPhone 12 Pro. | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge Samsung has released a new website to give iPhone users “a little taste of Samsung” from ... read more

Twitter's platform will now include Nielsen Media Impact and Nielsen Ad Intel, and expanded access to Total Ad Ratings. ... read more

CTV ad demand continues to surge, according to an analysis published today by a leading Wall Street equities firm, based on recent calls with digital ad execs, and one of the major reasons is the ... read more

Late last year, with the end of the pandemic hopefully in sight, Luma was beginning to see investor confidence return. If anything, that cautious optimism was understated, as this Spring, Luma saw the best quarter ... read more

During a seed funding round, a founder needs to convince a venture capital investor on a vision. But during a Series A fundraise, napkin-stage ideas don’t make the cut — a founder needs product progress, ... read more

It's not just the virus. It's also the issue of human rights in China for 2022. ... read more

While visual ‘no code‘ tools are helping businesses get more out of computing without the need for armies of in-house techies to configure software on behalf of other staff, access to the most powerful tech ... read more

Remember the Oprah Winfrey interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle? You can be forgiven if the whole thing has slipped your mind. ... read more

The Folio Society has released a limited-edition, four-volume set of Philip K. Dick’s collected short stories and I am seriously considering selling my plasma to buy a copy. Each volume is ... read more

French startup Vybe has raised a $2.9 million funding round (€2.4 million) to build a challenger bank for teens. The company is currently testing its product with a soft launch. Users get a Mastercard payment ... read more

The office shut-down at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic last year spurred huge investment in digital transformation and a wave of tech companies helping with that, but there were some distinct losers in the ... read more

Image: LG Samsung Electronics is close to ordering millions of OLED TV panels from LG Display, according to new reports from MTN, ETNews, and Seoul Economic Daily. Officials reportedly met recently to ... read more

Little by little, the advertising world is picking up the pieces left by the deprecation of third-party cookies, creating alternative mechanisms to reach digital audiences. In the latest, Publicis Groupe is partnering with The Trade ... read more

Corporate catering company Elior has acquired French startup Nestor for an undisclosed amount. Nestor originally started with a simple idea to differentiate itself from food delivery giants, such as Deliveroo, Uber Eats and others. Every ... read more

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Carolina Abenante, co-founder of NYIAX. The advertising industry is undergoing ... read more

Photo by Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images A flight from the UK to Spain took off with more than a tonne of unexpected weight after a software error classified female passengers ... read more

Iyuno-SDI Group, a provider of translated subtitles and other media localization services, announced today it has raised $160 million in funding from SoftBank Vision 2. The company said this makes the fund one of its ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple knows that iMessage’s blue bubbles are a big barrier to people switching to Android, which is why the service has never appeared on ... read more

China’s tech giants have had a rough time in Western markets over the last few years. Huawei and DJI have been hit by trade restrictions, while TikTok and WeChat are threatened with their apps being ... read more

"The Sell Sider" is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today's column is written by Sara Badler, SVP of advertising and partnerships at Dotdash. Fries or crisps? Elevator or lift? ... read more

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem... The post Comic: The Fine Print appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Raising CAID  Procter & Gamble took part in early tests by Chinese trade groups and tech companies to bypass Apple’s upcoming privacy changes, according ... read more

The video is part of the Digiday Privacy Preview, a digital issue of stories examining what the coming changes to Chrome and iOS will do to the worlds of media and marketing. Read the rest ... read more

With vaccinations ramping up and theaters in major markets like Los Angeles and New York City slowly opening, a true return of movie-going in the United States may soon be upon us.  This past weekend, ... read more

What started as two college students helping startups understand branding has morphed into a full-blown digital advertising agency with Gen Zers at the helm. Since launching four years ago, CarsonDoyle has grown to become an ... read more

The race to replace the third-party cookie risks leaving publishers with sluggish sites if an overload of alternate identifiers offsets any speed gained from sites shedding the cookie. As identity tech firms scramble to get ... read more

As field agents servicing Nielsen's TV panel stopped entering homes, the VAB says this led to sharp "under-counting of overall TV use." ... read more

Elon Musk’s Neuralink, one of his many companies and the only one currently focused on mind control (that we’re aware of), has released a new blog post and video detailing some of its recent ... read more

You may ask yourself, say the Talking Heads. What is this thing working from anywhere? Or as Google says, work from right here in the office. As the vaccines roll on out, some of ... read more