UPDATE: Nov. 8, 2022, 5:30 p.m. EST This story has been updated with the best smartwatch and fitness tracker deals at major retailers ahead of Black Friday 2022. Here’s a quick overview: BEST FITBIT DEAL: The all-new Fitbit Sense 2 is on sale everywhere, but it comes with a free Sport Band when you … Read more
Image: Playground Games Forza Horizon 5 players now have access to in-game ray tracing and DLSS or FSR upscaling support on PC. The latest series 14 “Donut Media” update arrived yesterday, and it now allows Forza Horizon 5 players to enable ray tracing in free roam areas and races at ultra or extreme settings. … Read more
We’ve already had our first glimpse of Wednesday, Tim Burton’s coming-of-age crime/horror/mystery spinoff of The Addams Family franchise, and now we have a title sequence too. Filled with eerie music and ominous imagery of bugs being swallowed by Venus flytraps and crows flying past a full moon, the opening theme is also packed with … Read more
LumaFusion, a well-regarded video editing app for iPhones, iPads and Macs, is finally making its way to Android and Chrome OS devices. Shortly after it won best iPad app of the year in 2021, thanks to its ability to make complex video editing easy to do using just one’s fingers, LumaFusion made its Android … Read more
“A third of the projected world population could face un-livable conditions by 2070, if the current rate of global warming persists.”* Today, humanity has access to sustainable energy technology that is fairly mature. It is cheaper to generate electricity by solar or wind power than fossil fuels, which begs the question – why isn’t … Read more
We knew it was happening, but U.K.-based online furniture and home accessories retailer Made.com has officially entered administration, confirming previous reports with the appointment yesterday of PricewaterhouseCoopers as administrators. While Made.com had revealed that it was in discussions with potential buyers, nothing materialized in time and the company ceased taking new orders in late … Read more
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta has announced it will lay off 11,000 employees or around 13 percent of the company’s total staff. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news in a blog post, saying he was at fault for being overoptimistic about the company’s future growth based on a pandemic surge. “At … Read more
Meta is reducing the size of its workforce by about 13 percent and letting more than 11,000 of its employees go in the first mass layoffs in the company’s history. Mark Zuckerberg has announced the move in a message to employees, which Meta shared on its Newsroom. The job cuts will affect every organization … Read more
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp’s parent company Meta has confirmed a huge round of layoffs, amounting to 13% of its workforce. “I want to take accountability for these decisions and for how we got here,” CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a statement. “I know this is tough for everyone, and I’m especially sorry … Read more
Apple announced its so-called Figma Whiteboard competitor called Freeform at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June. The company hasn’t rolled out the idea board app to everyone yet but if you are using public or developer beta, you will get to play with the app with the iOS 16.2 update, and on Mac … Read more