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- The IRS Makes a Strange House CallAn agent shows up at the home of Twitter files journalist Matt Taibbi. ... read more
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- Philips Hue is delaying its Matter updatePhilips Hue’s lighting bridge will not get updated to Matter this month, as previously announced. | Image: Philips Hue Delays have been a major part of the Matter narrative, so it shouldn’t ... read more
- Arc is coming to iPhone, but it won’t replace Safari yet, says CEOArc, a browser that my colleague David Pierce described as an attempt to be “the web’s operating system,” is getting a companion app for iPhones on March 30th. Josh Miller, the CEO ... read more
- The race for more battery materials could cause ‘irreversible’ damage under the seaA deep-water fish, called a Rattail, brought up as part of research into the effects of mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean. | Image: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times ... read more
- House Speaker Endorses TikTok Ban"It's very concerning that the CEO of TikTok can't be honest and admit what we already know to be true -- China has access to TikTok user data," House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tweeted. ... read more
- Uber Eats is shutting down thousands of virtual restaurants to make the app less spammyIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Uber Eats is delisting some of the delivery-only restaurants on its app to help weed out low-quality listings, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. ... read more
- In Generative AI We Trust?Do humans really trust AI -- specifically generative AI technology? Not so much. Trust is pretty low across every consumer group participating in a DISQO survey. ... read more
- How Will Biden Judges Rule?The Senate Judiciary Committee holds another disturbing hearing. ... read more
- Microsoft Audience Network's Manual CPCs Will Transition To EnhancedMicrosoft will automatically adjust campaign bids in real-time to increase the chances of a conversion. As of April 24, 2023, manual bidding will no longer be an option for new campaigns on the Microsoft Audience ... read more
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — all the latest on Nintendo’s huge sequelLink in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. | Image: Nintendo Nintendo’s sequel to Breath of the Wild launches on May 12th. Continue reading… ... read more
- Apple is bringing Martin Scorsese’s next movie to theaters before streamingLily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon. | Image: Apple Apple is the latest streamer to discover that theaters are actually kind of useful. Following a Bloomberg report ... read more
- President Joe Biden says US can’t buy spyware that other countries have used against itIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge The Biden administration is trying to clamp down on the government’s use of any commercial spyware that could also be used by other countries to harm ... read more
- How advertisers are fostering more effective publisher partnershipsMichael Weaver, senior vice president, business development and growth, Al Jazeera Media Network An everyday conversation between publishers and advertisers goes like this: The publisher invites the advertiser to a meal to talk about their ... read more
- Snap Partners With Kargo To Develop Offerings For Ecommerce, Retail AdvertisersThe partnership will provide a product catalog, enhanced formats, activation and optimization solutions for ecommerce and retail advertisers, building on existing Snap Dynamic Ads while expanding the use of Kargo's Creative Science platform and retail ... read more
- Ubisoft bails on E3 in favor of its own show in Los Angeles
- Major Creators Co-Found New Roblox Game Studio, Pixel PlaygroundMisfits Gaming Group has announced the formation of a new Roblox media and game studio called Pixel Playground, bringing on the world's leading Roblox streamer, Kreekcraft (or Forrest Waldron), as creative director and MrBeast creator ... read more
- MultiVersus’ open beta is shutting down, but the game is set to return in 2024MultiVersus. | Image: Warner Bros. Games Warner Bros. Games is shutting down MultiVersus’ open beta ahead of a full release targeted for early 2024. The open beta for the WB-themed free-to-play Super ... read more
- Tech Industry Backs Twitter In Battle Over Trump SuspensionSiding with Twitter, NetChoice says Donald Trump has no grounds to revive claims that his First Amendment rights were violated by his account suspension. ... read more
- Agencies Weigh In On What To Do If A TikTok Ban Goes ThroughWe asked agency experts: With TikTok under the microscope and a potential US ban looming, what are you advising brands do? The post Agencies Weigh In On What To Do If A TikTok Ban Goes ... read more
- Mapping The Future Of The Media UniverseMaking sense of "this free-form system of asymmetrical consumption and unlimited supply of content on many different devices," according to Evan Shapiro. ... read more
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- The worst Final Fantasy XIV expansion is now free for a limited timeImage: Square Enix Stormblood, arguably the worst of Final Fantasy XIV’s expansions, is now free for owners or new purchasers of the FFXIV Starter Edition until May 8th. You can get all ... read more
- How U.S. Regulators Are Choking CryptoThe effort would stifle American innovation and competition—and that seems to be the objective. ... read more
- Employers Need to Put the Squeeze on Woke IntoleranceYoung people like the Stanford students who heckled Kyle Duncan should be unemployable. ... read more
- Levi’s will test AI-generated clothing models to ‘increase diversity’Levi’s will experiment with Lalaland’s realistic AI-generated models later this year. | Image: Levi Strauss & Co. / Lalaland.ai Levi’s will begin testing AI-generated clothing models later this year in a bid ... read more
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- Aqara Video Doorbell G4 review: this battery-powered buzzer needs to go back to basicsThe G4 is the first and only wireless smart doorbell to work with Apple Home. Its features are impressive, but it lacks some essentials. Continue reading… ... read more
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- WPP Joins Media Freedom CohortThe Cohort was formed two years ago during the first Summit For Democracy, convened by the Biden administration. WPP's announcement is timed to the second gathering of the Summit later this week. ... read more
- Feds sue crypto giant Binance and founder Changpeng ZhaoImage: Nick Barclay / The Verge Changpeng Zhao, along with his Binance cryptocurrency empire, is getting sued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for allegedly violating US trading and derivatives laws. ... read more
- How to charge your non-Tesla EV at a Tesla SuperchargerI never expected to see a non-Tesla EV charging at a Tesla Supercharger. The electric vehicle market is growing by leaps and bounds every month in the US, but most of these ... read more
- My Past Is PrologueNow's your chance to predict the future. Or at the very least, some future futurists. ... read more
- Hisense’s bright yet affordable U8H Mini LED TV is $100 offMarble pedestal at the edge of the world sold separately. | Image: Hisense The Hisense U8H Mini LED TV is a great value if you can’t justify breaking your budget on an ... read more
- Microsoft Teams now lets you transform into a 3D avatar during meetingsThe new avatars inside Microsoft Teams. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is now allowing Teams users to create a 3D avatar to use in meetings instead of being on camera or even needing ... read more
- The new Microsoft Teams is here with big performance improvements and UI changesThe new and updated Microsoft Teams client. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is overhauling its Teams app today to make it faster and easier to use. Microsoft Teams has been rebuilt from the ... read more
- The Nintendo Switch OLED is on sale at WootThe Nintendo Switch OLED rarely ever is $30 off. | Image: Nintendo If you’ve been eyeing the Nintendo Switch OLED but stayed away because of its price, good news: you can now ... read more
- The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internetImage: Becca Farsace / The Verge There’s cause for alarm with TikTok — but is it enough to justify building America’s own Great Firewall? Continue reading… ... read more
- WPP Continues Influencer Shopping Spree With Purchase Of ObviouslyWPP is on a shopping spree for influencer agencies. Just a week after announcing a deal to acquire global influencer shop Goat, the holding company has disclosed another acquisition in the space—for a firm called ... read more
- Nintendo is showing off ‘roughly 10 minutes’ of Tears of the Kingdom gameplay on March 28thImage: Nintendo Quite possibly the biggest game of the year is getting an appropriately large gameplay reveal. Nintendo announced that will be releasing a presentation featuring “roughly 10 minutes of gameplay” from ... read more
- Lucid Motors recalls Lucid Air sedan for a defect that could cause a loss of powerImage: Tim Stevens for The Verge Lucid Motors issued a recall for 637 of its luxury Air sedans over a faulty switch in its electrical motor that could lead to a loss ... read more
- Zoom’s new AI features help you catch up on meetings you’re late toIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom has become the latest productivity app to expand its use of artificial intelligence. In a blog post published on Monday, the company announced a partnership ... read more
- FTC bans scammy companies from ‘calling about your car’s extended warranty’The proposed court order follows a lawsuit opened by the FTC last year that sought to charge operators of an “extended vehicle warranty” telemarketing scam. | Image: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge ... read more
- In 2023, the retail media story is bigger than just CPG brandsSponsored by Best Buy Ads Retail media networks have surged in recent years as retailers leverage first-party data to establish robust media and advertising businesses for brands. While RMNs are most broadly adopted among ... read more
- ARF Calls On Industry To Scrap 'TV Households,' Replace Them With 'TV-Accessible' OnesA controversial consequence of the move will likely mean lower average TV ratings based on a bigger TV universe denominator. ... read more
- It's The End Of The TV Rating As We Know ItThe ARF is calling on the TV industry to change the definition of the TV universe from "TV households" to "TV-accessible households." Here's why that makes sense. ... read more
- The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new realityThe original viral image (left) and another AI-generated fake from the same batch (right). | Image: via Reddit / u/trippy_art_special AI-generated images have gone viral before, but none have spread so ... read more
- Magna Revises 2022 For Sixth And Final Time, Calls It 'Decent Year' That Stalled HalfwayCiting "recent financial turbulence," Magna's Vincent Letang lowered his outlook for this year for the third time -- to +3.4% -- since first benchmarking it at +10.2% three quarters ago. ... read more
- Magna 2023 forecast paints a resilient U.S. market, thanks to retail media and streamingIn its latest 2023 advertising forecast, IPG’s Magna unit is expecting a resilient U.S. market this year — boosted by retail, streaming and the auto industry’s bounceback. This year’s outlook comes with “mixed economic signals,” but ... read more
- Magna’s US Ad Forecast Offers A Glimmer Of Ad Spend HopeDespite a sluggish macroeconomic environment and jittery consumers and businesses, US media ad spend is expected to increase by 3.4% in 2023, according to a Magna forecast released Monday. The post Magna’s US Ad Forecast ... read more
- Sonos Era 300 review: too ahead of its timeWhen you find a good spatial audio song, Sonos’ new speaker can blow your mind and sounds like nothing else. But it trails the Sonos Five at stereo playback and suffers from the wildly inconsistent ... read more
- Sonos Era 100 review: the new default smart speakerThe more affordable Era speaker improves upon the Sonos One by nearly every measure and will likely find the same success and popularity among Sonos customers. Continue reading… ... read more
- Havas Launching Attention Metric In Time For UpfrontsHavas Media Group is launching a new attention-tracking metrics in a bid to give its clients a new spin on measurement, going into this year’s TV upfront ad sales season. Mike Bregman, Chief Data Officer, ... read more
- Anzu: Advertising in Games is Easier Than You ThinkLast year, the in-game ad tech company Anzu helped American Eagle launch a virtual store in Roblox. The Israeli-startup also announced a partnership with NBCUniversal. The message seemed clear – Anzu and in-game advertising gaming ... read more
- Incrementality Drives Uber’s Advertising JourneySAN JUAN, PR — Uber is known for getting you from A to B, and for bringing you a KFC – but now it could also deliver ROI. The company’s riding app offers ad inventory, ... read more
- Agencies Should Join In To Redefine Measurement: Samba TV’s MagelSAN JUAN, PR — Little by little, media measurement is evolving from from single-channel panel data gathering to census-based viewing data sets and identity graphs, with real-time capability. And, with the emergence of a US ... read more
- Twitter says source code was leaked on GitHub, now it’s trying to find the culpritIllustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Parts of Twitter’s source code were recently leaked online via GitHub, the New York Times reports, but were taken down after the social media platform ... read more
- Simply Saying That A Solution Is ‘Privacy Safe’ Doesn’t Cut It AnymoreSharing enough detail without being overwhelming is a difficult balance to strike, and there’s no perfect answer. But one thing is for certain: Privacy platitudes are for hacks or for The post Simply Saying That ... read more
- Forget ChatGPT. There Are Practical Ways To Apply AI To MarketingIf we set ChatGPT aside, AI has the potential to transform how marketing and ad tech handles data transfer between platforms. The post Forget ChatGPT. There Are Practical Ways To Apply AI To Marketing appeared ... read more
- So You Want To Be A Snap Star; Brands Play To Win March Madness MessagingHere’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snapped For Cash Snap is beta testing an ad revenue-sharing program with creators, Insider reports. Since competing creator The post So You Want ... read more
- How agencies are shaping the future of DEI beyond their own wallsThis is part 2 in our series about diversity at agencies. You can read part 1 here, which discusses organizational progress, strategic leadership and challenges in DEI. Amidst a slew of post-pandemic epiphanies, agencies are ... read more
- How gaming organization OTK strikes a balance between creator-ownership and more traditional executive experienceThe boardroom power wielded by esports organizations’ creator–executives has come under increasing scrutiny over the past year — but many of these organizations would never have attained their sky-high valuations if not for the hype generated ... read more
- Media Buying Briefing: How Traction evolved into a marketing accelerator, and what that meansWhen cultivating bonsai trees and growing massive tomatoes, one of the most important elements of success is knowing when to prune and trim. Adam Kleinberg, founder and CEO of Traction, applied this knowledge to both ... read more
- What to watch for in TV advertising’s 2023 upfront marketTV advertising’s traditional upfront model withstood the pandemic, but it’s not immune to the recent economic downturn — which has TV networks eying options to update the upfront model. The video below outlines how the ... read more
- When it comes to TikTok, some marketers proceed with cautionFor some marketers, the bloom is coming off TikTok. This isn’t necessarily the case when it comes to ad spending — marketers remain invested in that regard. This is more so about the sentiment. That ... read more
- Microsoft says it has stopped its Xbox Game Pass $1 trial offerIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has stopped its $1 trial offer for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. The trial has been available for years, with brief ... read more
- 'John Wick: Chapter 4': Best Start For Franchise, Modest TV MarketingEarning a franchise-best start and exceeding all pre-release estimates, "John Wick: Chapter 4" rocketed to a $73.5 million U.S./Canada box office, according to Comscore. It is the third movie released in March to break a ... read more
- Apple staff reportedly express doubts about mixed-reality headset months ahead of launchImage: The Verge Although the expected launch of Apple’s mixed-reality headset is just months away, some employees don’t seem to think the device is ready yet, according to a report from The ... read more
- Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS eShops shut down tomorrowPhoto by Sam Byford / The Verge The Wii U and Nintendo 3DS digital storefronts are shutting down tomorrow, March 27th, 2023. While you’ll no longer be able to purchase games or ... read more
- CeraVe's Social Media Strategy Goes IRL In Big EasyA float featuring a very large bottle of CeraVe Facial Moisturizing Lotion rode in a French Quarter parade during a dermatology conference. ... read more
- A Climate for Failed Bank RegulationDid the San Francisco Fed put political causes above financial risks? ... read more
- Gordon E. Moore, 1929-2023The Intel co-founder was a leader in a golden age of American innovation. ... read more
- Washington Judges Redefine IncomeTo dodge a state constitutional ban, the state Supreme Court says a tax on capital gains is really an excise tax. ... read more
- The House GOP Moves on EnergyWill Democrats in swing districts and states oppose a bill to expand production? ... read more
- White House Disorder: Do Voters Care?DeSantis attempts an unusual line of attack against Trump. ... read more
- For the First Time, the Fed Is Losing MoneyThanks to interest-rate risk exposure, the central bank will soon have negative equity capital. ... read more
- Amgen Seeks to Monopolize NatureThe Supreme Court takes up an overbroad patent that seeks to pre-empt a competitor’s pharmaceutical product. ... read more
- The Economy Gets Wrung OutA steady drip of bad news, including missed earnings and layoffs, is under way. ... read more
- What’s John Kerry Doing in Mexico?He certainly hasn’t been representing the interest of green energy investors. ... read more
- Notable & Quotable: Andrew Cuomo on Trump Indictments‘I don’t believe a Democratic prosecutor just happens to be attacking a Republican.’ ... read more
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- When Big Business Married Big GovernmentFrom banking and chips to broadband and pharma, Biden has ushered in a new era of corporate dependency on D.C. ... read more
- What Really Caused the Banking Crisis?Who’s to blame for SVB’s collapse and the fallout that ensued? WSJ Opinion staff and contributors analyze the root causes of the failure. ... read more
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- Succession’s final season doubles down on its core conceit — to a faultBrian Cox as Logan Roy. | HBO While Succession’s fourth and final season makes good on the series’ name, it does so while feeling comfortably stuck in a familiar holding pattern of ... read more
- Internet Archive's E-Book Loans Infringe Copyright, Judge RulesSiding with book publishers, a federal judge ruled late Friday that the a digital library run by the nonprofit Internet Archive is not protected by fair-use principles. ... read more
- ChatGPT started a new kind of AI race — and made text boxes cool againTired: the metaverse. Wired: the message-verse? | Image: OpenAI / David Pierce It’s pretty obvious that nobody saw ChatGPT coming. Not even OpenAI. Before it became by some measures the fastest growing ... read more
- Microsoft fixes reversible screenshot vulnerability on WindowsIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has pushed an update to fix a screenshot editing vulnerability in Windows 10 and 11, as spotted earlier by Bleeping Computer. The security flaw, dubbed ... read more
- Microsoft reportedly orders AI chatbot rivals to stop using Bing’s search dataIllustration: The Verge Microsoft doesn’t want its rivals to use Bing’s search index to power their AI chatbots, according to a report from Bloomberg. The company reportedly told two unnamed Bing-powered search ... read more
- It turns out Arrested Development is staying on Netflix after allImage: Netflix Arrested Development isn’t leaving Netflix anymore. The streamer announced on Twitter that the show will remain on the platform after licensing issues nearly resulted in its removal. While Netflix initially ... read more
- 9 cool new games from GDC 2023Naiad. | Image: Hiwarp The Game Developers Conference was a chance to check out some fascinating new indie games, ranging from a charming family story told through cooking to a strategy game ... read more
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is great — you just have to roll with itImage: Paramount Pictures and eOne Engaging, comical, and unapologetically dorky, Honor Among Thieves occasionally stumbles under its own ambition but ultimately proves that high fantasy doesn’t always have to be highbrow. ... read more