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Apple Pay is coming to New York City’s MTA transit system this summer
Game of Thrones cinematographer: it’s not me, it’s your TV settings
The court has approved Elon Musk’s new agreement to let lawyers oversee his Tesla tweets
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will leave Alphabet’s board after 18 years
Border officials have ‘near-unfettered’ access to electronic devices, ACLU says
Slack vocab game that gave away money for no real reason is getting shut down
Apple, Luminary, Spotify, and the podcast wars to come
YouTube CEO addresses top creator issues including copyright claims and trending section
The 5 biggest announcements from Facebook’s F8 developer conference keynote
Apple’s Q2 earnings: iPhone sales continue to drop as services keep growing

Apple Pay is coming to New York City’s MTA transit system this summer

Posted: 30 Apr 2019 06:13 PM PDT

It's been nearly two years since we wrote that New York City would finally be upgrading its transit system to take "tap-to-pay" contactless payments, but Apple's Tim Cook says it's finally coming true — on the company's Q2 earnings call today, the CEO told investors that Apple Pay will begin rolling out to New York City's MTA transit system starting in "early summer" of this year, letting you tap a phone or watch to pay instantly.

But it probably won't just be Apple Pay, because a few quick web searches show that NYC has actually already announced a specific date for a contactless payment system that should support other phone-based wallets (perhaps rival Android Pay?) and even contactless credit cards.

It's called OMNY (you know, like...

Game of Thrones cinematographer: it’s not me, it’s your TV settings

Posted: 30 Apr 2019 05:19 PM PDT

Spoiler alert: Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones season 8, episode 3, "The Long Night."

Perhaps you, like countless other that have sounded off on social media in the past few days, had trouble viewing the most recent episode of Game of Thrones, in which the living faced off against the dead in the dark of night. There was plenty of fire to go around, but for the most part, the episode was a flurry of hard-to-see action taking place in poorly lit environments. Even diehard fans were complaining en masse.

Know that the decision to film the episode in such a fashion was a purposeful one, according to cinematographer Fabian Wagner, and that he blames your TV settings or the quality of your screen if you had trouble making out what was...

The court has approved Elon Musk’s new agreement to let lawyers oversee his Tesla tweets

Posted: 30 Apr 2019 04:30 PM PDT

Elon Musk has agreed to more specific oversight on his tweets about Tesla, and a court has now approved the deal. After weeks of negotiation, Musk and the Securities and Exchange Commission decided last Friday that Musk must have a company lawyer pre-approve tweets about Tesla's financial health, sales, or delivery numbers — estimated or otherwise — as well as other specific subjects, according to a court filing.

The two sides filed late last Friday to amend the settlement agreement reached last year over the "funding secured" debacle, which originally prompted the SEC to attempt to install oversight over Musk's tweets. US District Court Judge Alison Nathan, who presided over the case, has approved Friday's amendment as of today, April...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will leave Alphabet’s board after 18 years

Posted: 30 Apr 2019 02:24 PM PDT

Eric Schmidt will depart Alphabet's board this June, after holding a seat for 18 years. His departure comes just over a year after Schmidt stepped down from his role as Alphabet's executive chairman — it also comes as Google struggles with internal turmoil over its involvement with US military contracts, potential business in China, and reported cover-ups of sexual misconduct.

Schmidt has been a key presence at Google during his time with the company. He initially took a board seat in 2001, when he was made CEO of Google — a role he was given essentially to lend business expertise to what company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin had been building. In 2011, he left the CEO position and become Google's executive chairman. At the...

Border officials have ‘near-unfettered’ access to electronic devices, ACLU says

Posted: 30 Apr 2019 02:22 PM PDT

United States officials have largely unchecked power to search electronic devices at the border, and can share the resulting data widely, the American Civil Liberties Union said today.

The organization, which is suing both Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agencies had released new information on how they conduct border searches. Civil liberties advocates have argued that officials are exercising unconstitutional powers to search devices, and the ACLU and Electronic Frontier foundation today asked a federal court to rule without trial that those searches violate the First and Fourth Amendments.

"The information we uncovered...

Slack vocab game that gave away money for no real reason is getting shut down

Posted: 30 Apr 2019 02:21 PM PDT

Workplace communication platform Slack says it will be deactivating a public channel dedicated to giving away $1,000 per day to anyone that can guess that day's selected vocabulary word, citing company policies. The game, called The Word of the Day Is, was started by Gabriel Whaley last week as an experiment. It used a Slack bot to monitor entries, which were any one-word messages entered into the public channel. Winners were then sent the money via Venmo.

Whaley, the founder and CEO of a New York City-based creative agency called MSCHF Internet Studios, told The Verge at the time that he was "just trying to keep the internet a fun place and an escape." In quick order, the game gained popularity and write-ups from major news...

Apple, Luminary, Spotify, and the podcast wars to come

Posted: 30 Apr 2019 02:12 PM PDT

The podcast wars are coming. After Luminary's troubled launch, The Verge's Nilay Patel and Ashley Carman sit down with podcast expert Nick Quah of Hot Pod to discuss if Luminary or anyone could be "the Netflix of podcasts" and where the industry is headed.

You can listen to the discussion in its entirety on The Vergecast right now. Below is a lightly edited excerpt from the interview.

Nilay Patel: I think the podcast war is coming. I think the question of "why isn't the podcast industry more like TV" is because all of those TV companies have their own distribution. NBC owns antennas in the world, and they control a massive distribution point: cable companies they sell to other cable companies, and that's a massive distribution point....

YouTube CEO addresses top creator issues including copyright claims and trending section

Posted: 30 Apr 2019 02:00 PM PDT

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki published a blog post today addressing some of creators' biggest concerns and frustrations, including copyright claims removing ads from their videos, the site's trending section not showing some of the most popular uploads, and comments being removed for family vloggers.

It's clear from Wojcicki's blog that addressing the community's most consistent complaints was a top priority — and chief among those is copyright claims. Copyright claims on videos, which lead to YouTubers not earning ad revenue, are a constant source of aggravation. Many of the situations that Wojcicki indirectly refers to in the blog post are from top creators, like Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson, who has spoken about losing out on ad revenue...

The 5 biggest announcements from Facebook’s F8 developer conference keynote

Posted: 30 Apr 2019 01:50 PM PDT

Facebook's F8 developer conference kicked off today, and the company just finished its opening keynote. Its overwhelming theme, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is that "the future is private." After a year plagued by controversy over whether Facebook is invading its users' privacy and encouraging social division, it's pushing hard on helping people connect with close family and friends.

During the keynote, Facebook announced updates to Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and Facebook's core service. We also got more news about the Oculus Quest and Rift S virtual reality headsets — and about a new dating feature that could spark some very intense interactions between you and your friends.

Facebook is being redesigned around groups and events

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Apple’s Q2 earnings: iPhone sales continue to drop as services keep growing

Posted: 30 Apr 2019 01:41 PM PDT

Apple just reported its second quarter financial results, posting quarterly revenue of $58 billion (down 5 percent from the same quarter a year ago) earnings per share of $2.46. The company said its crucially important services division hit an all-time high of $11.5 billion in revenue. iPhone revenue came in at $31.05 billion, still down year over year but enough to make up over 53 percent of Apple's entire revenue. Mac sales were down, but the iPad, wearables/home/accessories, and services units of Apple's business all saw gains.

"We delivered our strongest iPad growth in six years, and we are as excited as ever about our pipeline of innovative hardware, software and services," CEO Tim Cook said in the accompanying press release....

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