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Soulja Boy, Lil Yachty, Akon, Ne-Yo & Other Celebs Charged By The SEC For Illegally Promoting Cryptocurrency
It was fun, but the SEC is not playing anymore. The post Soulja Boy, Lil Yachty, Akon, Ne-Yo & Other Celebs Charged By The SEC For Illegally Promoting Cryptocurrency appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
PayPal’s bringing its passkey logins to Android
/ The company is expanding the number of customers who can use the tech that’s supposed to replace passwords.
US charges fugitive crypto exec Do Kwon with eight counts of fraud
/ Authorities accuse Do Kwon of running a $40 billion fraud scheme with his Terra / Luna crypto tokens. Montenegro police believe they have arrested Kwon, but authorities haven’t confirmed the identification yet. Do Kwon, the founder of Terraform Labs and creator of the collapsed stablecoin Terra, has been charged with eight counts of fraud by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, including “wire fraud, commodities fraud, securities fraud, and conspiracy to defraud and engage in market manipulation,” according to The New York Times. Prosecutors have told the media that they will seek Kwon’s extradition. The charges follow his apparent arrest in Montenegro on Thursday, which was first reported through social media posts by Montenegro Minister of the Interior Filip Adzic ...
Congress seems more determined to ban TikTok than ever
/ “Why would we wait until President Xi and China says, ‘I’m ready to pull the trigger and invade Taiwan’?” 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”>Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, seemed to arrive at the Capitol well-prepared. Taking his seat before dozens of House Energy and Commerce Committee members Thursday, he opened a packet of notes, diligently indexed with sticky notes. In the packet, there appeared to be a sheet matching the names and faces of the lawmakers preparing to question him — many of whom had already made up their minds over whether the app...
Apple’s Tetris movie has no idea what it wants to be
Movie Review Director Jon S. Baird’s Apple TV Plus Tetris movie is a textbook example of a biopic that has no idea how to make its story pop. Share this story 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: Apple The story of how Tetris made its way from Russia to the West and became a worldwide phenomenon just as the Soviet Union was collapsing is a fascinating tale of capitalistic greed, technological innovation, and political revolution — things you’d think might lead to an interesting film adaptation. All of those narrative building blocks are present and accounted for in Tetris, Apple...
How to play the long game, with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien
Can Wordle, The Athletic, and NYT Cooking bring the Times bundle to all of America? Share this story *:last-child>*:last-child]:mb-0″> Listen to Decoder, a show hosted by The Verge’s Nilay Patel about big ideas — and other problems. Subscribe here! It’s good to have a legacy and good to be unique. Listen, I’ll give you two levels of structure. The one I think you’re poking at, I’ll proudly say, is there are 5,800 people at The New York Times. There’s somewhere along the lines of a couple thousand people in the newsroom for the core report, and they don’t work for me. They work for an executive editor, who works for a chairman and publisher, and I also work for that chairman and publisher. That structure has been around for a very, very long time, and it is there to protect ...
Canva’s got a massive update that should have Adobe worried
/ The popular all-in-one design platform has announced a host of new AI tools and branded workspace features.
HHW Gaming Review: ‘WWE 2K23’ Maintains Its Championship Form
WWE 2K23 delivers the goods. The post HHW Gaming Review: ‘WWE 2K23’ Maintains Its Championship Form appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
Samsung’s photo “remaster” knows what this baby pic is missing: teeth
/ A reader wrote in to tell us about their experience with Samsung Gallery’s “Remaster” feature. It did not go well. 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 Samsung’s recently caught some flak after widespread reports that its camera software fakes zoom pictures of the moon, but things may be about to get way more unsettling. A Verge reader wrote in on Wednesday to tell us that the company’s software is adding teeth to pictures of their seven-month old daughter. This reader says they recently got an S23 Ultra, and decided to try out the Remaster fea...
Fabio Verdelli Design Studio Introduces Minimalist DUNE Mouse Concept
Fabio Verdelli Design Studio has introduced a new wireless mouse concept that has caught the attention of the internet. Its distinct buttonless design echoes that of the Apple Magic Mouse. However, its form echoes more of a sci-fi craft with reflections meant to "mislead you through a multiple play of refractions."Shaped like a pebble, the ergonomic design incorporates vertical sand-colored grooves and a transparent outer casing that's sliced along the gentle undulations. The position where the scroll wheel is located is slightly raised for tactile feedback and the front and rear edges cut sharply inwards evoking the form of an SUV.The DUNE mouse is currently still in its prototype stage. Other projects by Verdelli currently available include a Jellyfish pushpin on Kickstarter which allows...
Nothing Launches its Latest Wireless Earphones — Ear (2)
London-based tech company Nothing has just launched its latest product, Ear (2), a pair of wireless earbuds certified for high-resolution audio streaming.Today’s release marks the brand’s “first-ever second-generation product” and is an update to its popular predecessor — Ear (1) — that launched in 2021 and sold over 600,000 units, according to a press release issued by the brand.Cosmetically speaking, this is an iterative update and the earbuds will be familiar to those who have seen or used the first ones. Internally, however, the new Ear (2) packs a bunch of upgrades that have improved everything from audio performance to sound personalization, battery life, and even an upgraded water-resistance rating.Improving how the earbuds performed in terms sound wise was a priority for the brand ...
