Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 67, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy Switch week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This […]
New year, new Switch, new Severance Read More »
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Gaussian splatting, a new way of capturing 3D content, is taking the AR / VR industry by storm — and could one day allow anyone to create photorealistic 3D worlds. Read the
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge With TikTok, CapCut, and Marvel Snap shut down in the US, Apple has taken the unusual step of articulating why it’s following the law banning ByteDance apps and removing them from the App Stores
Apple says it’s following the law by removing TikTok from the App Store Read More »
Marvel Snap is unavailable due to the ban on ByteDance apps. | Screenshot: Marvel Snap The divest-or-ban law aimed at TikTok is also taking down other ByteDance-linked apps, including the popular card game Marvel Snap. The app suddenly cut off
Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok Read More »
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTok and CapCut are going dark in the US now that the ban-or-divest law passed last year has taken effect. This is despite the Biden administration saying it had already passed enforcement
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTok is officially going dark in the United States now that a federal ban on the app is set to go into effect on January 19th. Around 6PM PT, the app began
TikTok will be ‘temporarily unavailable’ in the US starting tonight Read More »
Genshin Impact developer Cognosphere has to change the way it does loot boxes. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission announced on Friday that Genshin Impact developer Cognosphere has agreed to a $20 million settlement
Genshin Impact’s developer to pay $20 million fine to settle FTC charges Read More »
Image: The Verge Microsoft is testing AI-powered Windows search in a new dev channel build for Windows 11 Insider testers. Announced in October, it uses semantic indexing to let users search for local files using more casual language. Like other
Microsoft opens testing for Windows AI search Read More »
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called TikTok’s threat to “go dark” tomorrow a “stunt,” and said there is no reason that TikTok or any other companies should take any actions under
The Biden White House says TikTok’s threat to go dark is a ‘stunt’ Read More »
Photo by NASA / Isaac Watson Canoo announced yesterday it is ceasing operations “immediately” and that it has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Delaware. The EV startup estimates in its filing that its assets are worth $126 million and
EV startup Canoo has filed for bankruptcy Read More »
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