Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it supported waiving patent protections on COVID-19 vaccines, calling the pandemic a “global health crisis.” “This is a ... read more

GM CEO Mary Barra sees the automaker selling personal autonomous vehicles by the end of the decade by leveraging technology from its self-driving subsidiary Cruise, according to comments made during the company’s Wednesday earnings call. ... read more

Early stage startups – now is your time to shine at the TechCrunch Early Stage event on July 8 and 9. This is part two of the highly successful event from April where top experts train ... read more

Image: Twitter Twitter is finally rolling out a long-awaited feature: bigger images that don’t crop in so darn much. Now, image previews should show way more of the image, giving you a ... read more

Metacore, a Finnish mobile games company, seems to have an amazing ‘relationship’ with Supercell, another (quite successful) Finnish mobile games company. Back in September 2020, Metacore raised $17.7 million in equity from Supercell and another ... read more

Zynga is buying in-app growth and mobile monetization platform Chartboost for $250 million. It’s an excellent exit for a company that’s only raised $21 million since its $2 million Series A in 2011. The deal, ... read more

A regional bank president puts his institution behind a controversial plan for schools. ... read more

Matt Johnson Contributor Share on Twitter Matt Johnson is CEO and co-founder of QC Ware, a quantum computing software company. Matt was a managing ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge An old version of Peloton’s API, the software that allows the company’s bikes and recalled treadmills to communicate with its servers, may have exposed ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is infamous for tightly controlling its workers and contractors, but a report from Bloomberg shows that it also tries to control the employees of ... read more

GM might be best known for the millions of Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC-branded vehicles it designs, produces, finances and sells each year. But it also has a burgeoning incubator, where a team of 600 ... read more

Tim Parilla Contributor Share on Twitter Tim Parilla is LinkSquares’ chief legal officer. While mergers and acquisitions may be the right strategic ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In 2020, Microsoft was battling to bring xCloud or Xbox Game Streaming to the iPhone and iPad, and the conversations had an unlikely victim: Shadow ... read more

Biden has fully embraced the mad goal of giving 98% of the population lavish benefits at no cost. ... read more

University scientists insisted nobody profit, and now AstraZeneca can’t meet its commitment. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After months of waiting, today Facebook’s Oversight Board finally handed down the biggest ruling of its short existence — the question of whether to uphold ... read more

Facebook is launching a new section of its app designed to connect neighbors and curate neighborhood-level news. The new feature, predictably called Neighborhoods, is available now in Canada and will be rolling out soon for ... read more

A year ago, Twitter began testing a feature that would prompt users to pause and reconsider before they replied to a tweet using “harmful” language — meaning language that was abusive, trolling, or otherwise offensive ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is updating its “be nice, think twice” system that prompts users to reconsider when they’re about to tweet a “potentially harmful or offensive” reply. ... read more

Netflix is taking a different route for its new Zack Snyder-directed zombie heist movie, Army of the Dead. Rather than skip theaters and drop the new thriller directly in subscribers’ laps and ... read more

A excavator operates next to a dump truck on a mine floor at the Bald Hill lithium mine site, co-owned by Tawana Resources Ltd. and Alliance Mineral Assets Ltd., outside of Widgiemooltha, Australia, ... read more

Each of the big cloud platforms has its own methodology for passing on security information to logging and security platforms, leaving it to the vendors to find proprietary ways to translate that into a format ... read more

People have been discussing the importance of expanding opportunities for women in venture capital and startup entrepreneurship for decades. And for some time it appeared that progress was being made in building a more diverse ... read more

Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Clubhouse is funding the creation of 50 audio shows made by creators on its platform. The concepts include everything from an interview series with ... read more

Text Blaze, which was a part of the recent Winter 2021 Y Combinator accelerator batch, announced that it has closed a $3.3 million seed round. The company’s investment was led by Two Sigma Ventures’s Villi ... read more

Daniel Incandela Contributor Share on Twitter Daniel Incandela is the chief marketing officer of Terminus, an ABM platform that powers high-performing go-to-market teams. ... read more

On the heels of strong first quarter earnings, dating app giant Match announced its plan to introduce a new live event experience to its flagship app, Tinder. Dubbed “Vibes,” the new feature combines aspects from ... read more

Image: Disney Loki, the upcoming Disney Plus show about the trickster god and brother of Thor, will be coming out slightly earlier than originally planned: the premiere date has moved to June ... read more

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump’s Facebook ban is sticking around for now, following the decision from Facebook’s Oversight Board to uphold its original ban from earlier this year. ... read more

We’re looking for motivated early-stage founders who want to take advantage of every possible opportunity to launch their startups to new levels of success. Historically, one of the most effective ways to do that is ... read more

Image: Apple The new 11-inch iPad Pro with the M1 processor costs $799 to preorder at most retailers, but not at Walmart. You can reserve an 11-inch model with 128GB of storage ... read more

Blue Origin is aiming to launch its first crew of humans to the edge of space on July 20th aboard its suborbital New Shepard rocket, the company announced on Wednesday. One seat ... read more

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is offering up one seat on the inaugural flight of its sub-orbital rocket New Shepard, set to take place July 20 – but instead of a fixed price ticket sale, the ... read more

In just slightly more than a month, the mobility industry’s visionary movers, makers, shakers, innovators and investors from around the world will gather on June 9 for the virtual mind meld that is TC Sessions: ... read more

Shares of home-exercise giant Peloton are falling today, off some 13.6% as of the time of writing. This comes after the company announced a recall of its treadmill product, and TechCrunch reported that the company ... read more

Emergence, the 18-year-old, San Mateo, Ca.-based venture firm focused on enterprise tech startups, has rounded up nearly a billion dollars in capital commitments across two funds. It closed its sixth early-stage fund with $575 million; ... read more

EngineEars today announced a $1 million raise. The company’s first round of funding features investments from Kendrick Lamar, DJ Mustard, Roddy Rich and Slauson and Co. “Quality of sound is still important in music,” Lamar ... read more

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Ned Myer will oversee media products, while Susan Lauinger will oversee advertiser products for North America. ... read more

Google is today announcing a new feature on Android tablets that plays to one of their greatest strengths: media consumption. The simply named “Entertainment Space” will be a new section to the ... read more

Once the design, manufacturing and certification of electric aircraft is complete, urban air mobility companies face a cascade of logistical issues, including building an app that connect customers to rides and finding dedicated take-off and ... read more

As the oldest of 12 children, Bunim Laskin spent much of his teen years looking for ways to help keep his siblings entertained. Noticing that a neighbor’s pool was often empty, Laskin reached out to ... read more

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Facebook was right to suspend Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts after the Jan. 6 insurrection, but wrong to implement an indefinite suspension -- and needs to review its rules and the situation and make a ... read more

Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images The US Department of Labor withdrew a Trump-era rule that would have made it easier for “gig economy” companies like Uber and Lyft to classify ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton is issuing a voluntary recall for all of its treadmill products — including both the Peloton Tread and Tread Plus — following a ... read more

At the same time as it’s cracking down on the advertising businesses run by rivals, Apple is introducing a new way for developers to advertise on the App Store. Previously, developers could promote their apps ... read more

Peloton today announced that it will be cooperating with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), agreeing to two voluntary treadmill recalls for the Tread+ and Tread versions of its home treadmill system. Those who ... read more

BIll Taranto Contributor GHI Fund President Bill Taranto has spent more than two decades in the healthcare industry and has 15 years of experience in healthcare investing. In ... read more

The founders of AdGear – a Canadian DSP and ad server acquired by Samsung Ads in 2016 – raised $3.6 million in seed funding to build a SaaS data connectivity platform called Optable. Optable uses ... read more

Addressable advertising that lets marketers reach different households with different ads on linear TV is set to grow as technical hurdles are overcome. Video ad management platform Beachfront is at the forefront of testing addressability ... read more

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this week’s deep dive Natasha and Alex and Chris dug into the world of the IPO. Not just the numbers ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap can be sued over a Snapchat speed filter that allegedly encouraged reckless driving, despite the generally broad legal protections for social networks. The Ninth ... read more

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ ... read more

Timescale, makers of the open source TimescaleDB time series database, announced a $40 million Series B financing round today. The investment comes just over two years after it got a $15 million Series A. Redpoint ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Whether you own a PS4 or PS5, you probably want to have PS Plus service to be able to play games online and to get ... read more

Facebook’s content decision review body, a quasi-external panel that’s been likened to a ‘Supreme Court of Facebook’ but isn’t staffed by sitting judges, can’t be truly independent of the tech giant which funds it, has ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s Oversight Board has upheld Facebook’s ban on former President Donald Trump, as announced by the organization on Wednesday. Trump was suspended from Facebook platforms ... read more

Radio giant iHeartMedia launched a private marketplace on Wednesday specifically for podcasts in a bid to woo more advertisers to the medium with multiple targeting options and familiar buying tools. The PMP was built using ... read more

Lynk announced today that its “knowledge-as-a-service” platform will be integrated into UBS’ investment process. The collaboration means the banking giant’s research analysts and institutional clients, including hedge funds, private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds, ... read more

About 180 million people globally suffer from infertility. In the United States, one in eight families have trouble conceiving. The statistics are only getting worse, as male infertility and miscarriages continue to increase. Alife Health, ... read more

Photo illustration by William Joel If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Finding a good gift for Father’s Day can be ... read more

The emerging world of connected TV (CTV) advertising often seems to create as many challenges as it does opportunities. Case in point – the ability to target ads in CTV also creates new management tasks ... read more

QR must have had one of the longest gestation periods of any technology. Started in Japan in the mid-nineties, they were initially popular with the countries NTT DoCoMo mobile carrier, but then never quite took ... read more

Scroll will become part of a broader, still-mysterious Twitter subscription service. ... read more

On the eve of Facebook's board's decision on whether to permanently ban twice-impeached former President Donald Trump's account, Americans appear to be split on whether it would be right or wrong to do so. ... read more

Bitso, a regulated crypto exchange in Latin America, announced today it has raised $250 million in a Series C round of funding that values the company at $2.2 billion. Tiger Global and Coatue co-led the ... read more

This article is sponsored by Eyeota. There’s little doubt that “cohorts” will be topping the list of 2021 marketing buzzwords, and that’s largely because of the ongoing developments around Google’s plans to phase out third-party ... read more

The producers of "Girls5eva" succeeded in corralling an incredible foursome to play the members of a former late-'90s girl group. ... read more

The site is not the yet-to-emerge Trump-branded social media platform that began to be promoted in March, but instead a one-way platform for featuring Trump's statements and videos. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new report from The Intercept has shed light on a worrying new technology that lets law enforcement agencies extract personal data from people’s cars. ... read more

Halfway through my Monday afternoon workout last week, I got a message from a security researcher with a screenshot of my Peloton account data. My Peloton profile is set to private and my friend’s list ... read more

Disqus, a commenting plugin that’s used by a number of news websites and which can share user data for ad targeting purposes, has got into hot water in Norway for tracking users without their consent. ... read more

With cybercrime on course to be a $6 trillion problem this year, organizations are throwing ever more resources at the issue to avoid being a target. Now, a startup that’s built a platform to help ... read more

The online gambling on local TV advertising totaled $154 million in the first quarter of 2021. ... read more

It was way back in 2018 that Omni:us appeared to disrupt the insurance market by applying AI to this most legacy of all industries. It has now gone on to raise $44.1 million. In a ... read more

Facebook, which never saw a social network it couldn’t copy, says its Nextdoor-clone Neighborhoods is now available across Canada and is coming soon to four US cities. According to CNET, the US ... read more

Lucid Motors is beefing up its executive and technical leadership team, hiring people from Waymo, Intel and Xperi as it prepares to become a publicly listed company. The automaker said Wednesday that Sherry House, who ... read more

Image: PlayStation Nike, Sony, and basketball player Paul George have collaborated on another pair of sneakers, the PG 5, with help from PS5 designer Yujin Morsawa. According to Sony, “the colors of ... read more

Flextock, one of the 10 African startups from the recent Y Combinator winter batch, has bagged an impressive pre-seed round just two months after graduation.  The five-month-old company, which helps consumers and businesses manage e-commerce ... read more

More money for the edtech boom: Munich-based StudySmarter, which makes digital tools to help learners of all ages swat up — styling itself as a ‘lifelong learning platform’ — has closed a $15 million Series ... read more

Africa’s insurance market stands at a 3% penetration rate, per a McKinsey study in 2018 comparing six insurance regions on the continent. If the South African market is excluded, this number drops to a measly ... read more

"The Sell Sider" is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today's column is written by Aly Nurmohamed, General Manager at Permutive. With every Google, Apple and Firefox announcement, the status quo ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CTV On Top People love to talk about streaming surpassing linear TV viewership, and that trend shows no sign of slowing down. Digital video ... read more

Hearst is anchoring its new educational franchise, Design U, to four of its luxury and design titles — Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Town & Country and Veranda — as a way to quadruple audiences and ... read more

Pet adoption has exploded during the pandemic. But now, new cat and dog parents are concerned about separating from their furry loved ones when they return to the office.  Last October, Rover reported that one-third ... read more

After connected TV platform owners and ad-supported streamers dominated the opening day of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s four-day NewFronts, digital video platforms, publishers and programmers took the virtual stage on May 4. Shoppable video ... read more

The Future of TV Briefing this week looks at how this year’s NewFronts presentations highlight the role of TV programming and distribution in advertisers’ streaming consideration sets. Streaming’s TV dividing lineHollywood’s return to workPay-TV providers’ ... read more

After a year of protests and calls for radical change in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a collective of Atlanta marketing and advertising professionals is calling on the industry to put its money where ... read more

The closer you get to a point of change, the more uncertainty there is.  Just ask mobile ad execs scrambling to make sense of Apple’s monumental privacy update.  It’s been a week since iOS ... read more

  Fewcents co-founders Dushyant Khare and Abhishek Dadoo Many publishers are focused on converting visitors to subscribers, but there’s another important ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the Epic v. Apple trial’s big keywords is “cross-wallet play.” In Epic’s Fortnite, “cross-wallet” means you can buy in-game currency (known as V-Bucks) ... read more

Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge WhatsApp is again rolling out its payments service in Brazil, after the service was suspended by Brazil’s Central Bank in June of 2020 a few ... read more

Throughout the pandemic, some retail categories have been inherently successful. Home furnishings and décor are among them; with consumers spending so much more time at home, updates and renovations flourished.  Criteo data from the first ... read more

Image: Boost Mobile In what looks to be a first in terms of subscriber perks, Boost Mobile has announced that its $60 per month Unlimited Plus cellphone plan will come with access ... read more

Basecamp’s CEO published a blog post about policy changes — it may have broken the company Continue reading… ... read more

Image: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum May Fourth is informally the Star Wars Day holiday, which random brands typically use to hawk their wares. Although it’s not as bad as the ... read more

Students discuss the president’s most noteworthy actions in office. ... read more

American Federalion of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten gets the CDC to change its school opening guidance. ... read more

The Treasure State will refuse extra federal jobless payments. ... read more