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Verizon’s not-cable bundle offers Netflix and NFL Plus streaming for $25
/ A new combo deal includes Netflix Premium and NFL Plus Premium for $25 per month if you get them through Verizon Wireless’ Plus Play portal. a]:text-gray-13″>If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement.
X has to pay $1.1 million in legal fees for ex-Twitter execs
/ Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and former chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde sued X after the court forced Elon Musk to buy Twitter for $44 billion last year. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Illustration: The Verge A judge has ruled that X, the platform previously known as Twitter, must pay $1.1 million in legal fees associated with the investigations of the platform that unfolded during Elon Musk’s buyout of the platform last year, according to a report from Bloomberg. As noted by Bloomberg, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Kathaleen St. J. McCormick ruled in favor of former ...
The wholesome, feel-good true crime of Hit Man
Film/ Entertainment / In Richard Linklater’s wholesome comedy, Glen Powell goes undercover to trick people into thinking he’s a gun for hire. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Film at Lincoln Center Gary Johnson has a particular set of skills. He talks to strangers about offing loved ones: family members, business partners, or anybody close to them that they want dead. In imaginative detail, he tells them how he’ll murder them. There’s a contract, money is exchanged, an agreement is made. But the thing about Gary is that he isn’t actually a killer; he’s working with the cops....
Streaming services keep getting more expensive: all the latest price increases
Death. Taxes. All your streaming services getting a little more expensive all the time. These are the new certainties in life, it seems. In recent years, as the streaming TV and movie business has gotten more competitive and companies around Hollywood have thrown billions into building their own platforms and libraries in order to compete with Netflix, participating in the streaming era has gotten steadily more expensive. Netflix has raised the cost of its subscription multiple times since its launch. Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN Plus have all gotten more expensive as Disney has invested more in streaming. Paramount Plus, Peacock, Shudder, Starz — practically any service you can name — charges more per month than it did a few years ago. Even as many of these services add ads to their platfo...
UPDATE: Microsoft’s New Surface Laptops Are Available Now
Update: Microsoft has just released its new Surface devices. The Surface Laptop Studio 2 and Surface Laptop Go 3 are both available now via Microsoft's website.Original Story: Microsoft has just announced the latest devices in its popular Surface line at a media event in New York City. The brand also unveiled that Copilot, its latest venture into AI that was announced earlier this year, will be woven into the fabric of its Windows 11 operating system and will be available natively across a variety of tasks and applications.The updated Surface Laptop Studio 2 is the clear standout and happens to also be the most powerful Surface the brand has ever released. It builds on its predecessor's success by introducing speed and power the brand claims will rival the best laptops out now, going so fa...
Sotheby’s and Ledger Collaborate on Limited-Edition Nano X
Sotheby's, known globally as a prestigious auction house for art and other luxury items has announced a collaboration with digital asset security provider Ledger.The collaboration includes a limited edition piece of hardware, a co-branded Ledger Nano X, which will be presented exclusively to buyers of premier digital art auction lots starting in 2024.This Nano X features a brushed metal casing in the auction house's signature blue with "Sotheby's EST. 1744" etched across the top. It is also accompanied by a silver chain, in the event the collector would like to wear their device. There are also plans to introduce an exclusive Sotheby's x Ledger Stax wallet in the future, Ledger's most advanced cold storage device to date.Technically speaking, these wallets are designed to simplify digital...
Spotify Is Testing AI Playlists Generated Using Text Prompts
Spotify is certainly no stranger to personalized playlists, from its vast array of genre-specific offerings to the “daylist,” which automatically updates based on a user’s listening habits throughout the day.The streaming platform is reportedly considering using AI to create personalized soundtracks for its users. Product designer Chris Messina shared screenshots to social media that show a reverse engineered preview of the feature.The code for the reported feature shows a line of text that would presumably be shown within the app, reading, “Get playlists based on your prompts.” It seems the tool would allow users to input text in order to churn out a curated list of songs.“Looks like you may be able to generate "AI Playlists" on Spotify using custom prompts,” Messina wrote. “It seems like...
X Plans to Offer Game Streaming and Live Shopping
Elon Musk's X app is looking to integrate game streaming and live shopping features as it continues to chart a path toward becoming an "everything app."While the features are still largely in testing, Premium subscribers do have early access to streaming and can begin to experiment with the new feature -- as Musk showcased himself in a recent post under the X handle @cyb3rgam3r420.The post featured a 54-minute long stream of Musk playing Diablo IV, with the layout resembling that of a Twitch stream, as Musk appeared in the bottom right corner, seated in a gaming chair with a headset on. Musk playfully replied to the dedicated gaming account with his own X profile, stating "Am in the Diablo PvP arena for ~10 mins if anyone wants to kill me lol."Streaming via X is achieved by Premium users c...
X Social Media is suing X, a social media company
/ An ad agency called X Social Media alleges that the company formerly known as Twitter has caused marketplace confusion and lost revenue. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Illustration: The Verge It was bound to happen eventually: a company has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Elon Musk’s X Corp. over its renaming of Twitter (via Reuters). The company in question is X Social Media LLC, an ad agency from Florida that alleges X Corp. is guilty of violating Florida common law because of “unfair competition and trademark and service mark infringement,” as well as the state’s De...
Apple will no longer fix the $17,000 gold Apple Watch
/ Apple’s original watch models, including the ridiculously expensive Edition versions, are now ‘obsolete’ — something that doesn’t happen to real luxury watches. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>Queen B with that exclusive all-gold link band and original Apple Watch Edition.
Why New York and other cities still aren’t prepared for floods
/ New York declared a state of emergency as heavy rain led to flash floods in the city and other parts of the Northeast Friday. The Verge spoke with an expert about why cities shouldn’t be caught off guard but often are with floods. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>A general view of a flooded street in Williamsburg, New York, United States on September 29th, 2023.
The co-founder of a collapsed crypto hedge fund was arrested in Singapore
/ Three Arrows Capital co-founder Su Zhu was arrested in Singapore while trying to leave the country. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Su Zhu, the co-founder of the collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), was arrested in Singapore on Friday. Zhu was taken into custody while attempting to leave the country from Singapore’s Changi Airport, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Teneo, the liquidation firm in charge of liquidating 3AC’s assets, says it received a committal order against Zhu after he failed to comply with a court order...
