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Substack still isn’t profitable despite attracting big names in the independent writer world, whose newsletters and blogs rake in a massive digital subscriber base for the platform. Hamish McKenzie, one of Substack’s founders, told The New York Times that it could choose to be profitable but is focusing instead on “investing in and continuing to grow the business.”
According to the Times, X owner Elon Musk offered to acquire Substack during a phone call with its CEO, Chris.
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The panel has voted and this year's Game Awards nominations have been announced - with Astro Bot, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Silent Hill 2, and Balatro all looking like they could be in for a very merry Geoffmas come 12th December. Read more Read more ›
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Starting next month, making a device backup over iCloud will require iOS 9 or later, Apple has informed some customers via email. New backups for iPhones and iPads running iOS 8 or earlier will no longer be supported, and Apple will delete all existing iCloud backups of those devices as well. Apps and data stored on an iPhone or iPad running iOS 8 or earlier will not be affected, and... Read more ›
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Sleep trackers, earbuds, and smart beds. | Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Sleep tech is more than tracking. Here are the best gadgets I’ve tested that help you fall asleep, stay asleep, or wake up earlier. Continue reading… Read more ›
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No, you don't need "blinker fluid" -- your car's turn signals will work fine without this imaginary stuff. But where did the idea of blinker fluid come from? Read more ›
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Two Apple execs told The Indian Express that the company has a "tremendous strategic advantage" in designing chips it doesn't sell to anyone else. Read more ›
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President-elect Donald Trump and some of his allies have suggested, to varying degrees, that Trump should be allowed to meddle with the Federal Reserve’s decisions about US monetary policy. “I think I have the right to say, ‘I think you should go up or down a little bit,’” Trump said, referring to interest rates, which […] Read more ›
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Part two of the sixth and final season of Netflix's Karate Kid spinoff series is out now. Read more ›
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I tried offerings from four brands, Bob Evans, Kroger, Target, and Lamb Weston, to see which has the best preprepared version of mashed potatoes. Read more ›
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"I have always given it my 110%. I did everything to make it work, and sometimes even that is not enough," Michelle Yeoh told The Times. Read more ›
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The 2024 Game Awards nominees have just been announced and a broad mix of 96 different games, teams and individuals picked up nods across a range of categories. As ever, though, many folks are sure to be riled up about what did and did not make the cut. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth — the second installment of the Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy — and the utterly wonderful Astro Bot... Read more ›
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A sequel to Turtle Rock's bloody good Back 4 Blood is seemingly in development under the codename "Gobi 2". Read more Read more ›
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AWS hires former SAP and Microsoft executive Julia White as new CMO, marking another leadership change amid recent executive turnovers. Read more ›
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is starring the new holiday film "Red One." Here's how it stacks up to the rest of his career. Read more ›
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If you're running out of space on your Mac's internal drive, macOS Sequoia 15.1 includes a handy new feature that lets you install large apps directly to external storage. Here's how to use it to preserve space on your boot drive. Apple is known for charging customers a very high markup for additional storage when buying a new Mac. Given that internal storage usually can't be upgraded after purchase, it's... Read more ›
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Rolls-Royce has been working on the micronuclear reactor technology for over three years, first collaborating with the UK Space Agency in 2021. Read more ›
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Tesla is offering three months of free Supercharging and FSD to customers taking deliveries of a new vehicle by the end of the year. Read more ›
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Aftershock II reached further into space than any other independently built rocket. Read more ›
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The cast and crew chat about the video game adaptation—coming spring 2025—in a new featurette. Read more ›
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Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, Marc Rowan and Kevin Warsh are in the running for Treasury Secretary. Here is some of the best analysis of who Trump might pick. Read more ›
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Alex Jones in 2022. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images The satirical news outlet The Onion has acquired Infowars, the conspiracy theory-riddled site run by Alex Jones, in a bankruptcy auction. In a press release posted to X Thursday, The Onion announced that it plans to “end Infowars’ relentless barrage of disinformation for the sake of selling supplements and replace it with The Onion’s relentless barrage of humor for good”... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Short-form posting platform Bluesky crossed the 15 million user mark today amid a recent surge of user signups in the wake of the US presidential election. That’s according to a stat-tracking site put together by Bluesky developer Jaz, using the Bluesky API. The platform, which rests on the decentralized AT Protocol, added about a million new users in the last week. Bluesky COO Rose... Read more ›
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Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge So, you’ve finally decided to give Bluesky a shot. The social network has come a long way since the early bare-bones days of invite-only signups and recently grew past the 15 million user mark. Along the way, it’s gathered a lot of familiar posting platform features, like direct messages, pinned posts, and the ability to post videos up to 60 seconds in length. But... Read more ›
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Image: Freevee Amazon is going to shut down Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service. The service’s content has already been migrated over to Prime Video and new episodes of Freevee shows will be available to people who don’t pay for Prime, Deadline reports. The brand will be phased out “over the coming weeks,” Deadline says. Freevee originally launched out of Amazon-owned IMDb in 2019 as IMDb Freedive and... Read more ›
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Apple Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 with Quantec Room Simulator | Image: Apple Apple today announced some minor updates to Logic Pro for both the Mac and the iPad, including the ability to search for plug-ins and sources and the addition of more analog-simulating sounds. In Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 and Logic Pro for iPad 2.1, you can now reorder channel strips and plug-ins in the mixer and plug-in... Read more ›
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Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk has updated his fraud, breach of contract, and racketeering lawsuit against OpenAI to make antitrust claims against Microsoft, accusing the two companies of attempting to “monopolize the generative AI market.” The amended complaint filed on Thursday names Microsoft as a new defendant, as well as LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton, a former OpenAI board member. Microsoft... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images If you want to preserve the existing version of Lil Jon’s “Get Low” in your brain, maybe don’t listen to this cover T-Pain made with Mark Zuckerberg — excuse me, Z-Pain. Their version transforms the “Get Low” I got down to at all my school dances into a song with a much slower tempo complete with an acoustic guitar. Trust me, I... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Social network Bluesky, in a post on Friday, says that it has “no intention” of taking user content to train generative AI tools. It made the statement shortly ahead of competitor X implementing its new terms of service that spell out how it can analyze user text and other information to train its generative AI tools. “A number of artists and creators have made... Read more ›
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The Zefiro is a tiny USB-C MIDI controller that can be played like a wind instrument. | Image: Kickstarter An Italian startup called Artinoise has created an unusual USB-C accessory for mobile devices that turns them into playable musical instruments. The Zefiro looks like a flash drive or a tiny vape, but by gently blowing into one end, it can be used to play simulated instruments with even less skill... Read more ›
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Image: Tesla Robin Zeng, the founder of the world’s largest EV battery company, says Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s big bet on 4680 cylindrical cell technology “is going to fail and never be successful.” Zeng, the chairman of China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), tells Reuters that when Musk visited China in April, “We had a very big debate, and I showed him. He was silent. He doesn’t know how to make... Read more ›
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