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- How The Verge is coping with election anxiety
- Valve’s Gabe Newell is sending a gnome to space
- UK contact tracing app failed to flag people exposed to COVID-19
- Twitch announces a virtual TwitchCon next week
- Apple will reportedly launch Arm-based MacBook Air and Pro laptops at ‘One More Thing’ event
- AMC’s revenue plummets by more than 90 percent as theaters remain empty
- Amazon reportedly planning new service for its rural deliveries
- Baby Shark is the most-viewed YouTube video of all time, and there’s no end in sight
- TikTok and Sony Music reach a long-awaited licensing deal
- The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season keeps raging with Hurricane Eta
| How The Verge is coping with election anxiety Posted: 02 Nov 2020 05:00 PM PST |
| Valve’s Gabe Newell is sending a gnome to space Posted: 02 Nov 2020 03:29 PM PST  Image: Valve Gabe Newell, president of Valve, the video game company behind the Half-Life series and game marketplace Steam, is thanking the country of New Zealand for its hospitality by launching a gnome into space with aerospace company Rocket Lab in mid-November. Newell decided to stay in New Zealand at the start of the pandemic and is donating a dollar to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Starship Children's Hospital for every viewer who watches the satellite launch livestream or the online recording within 24 hours of launch. This soon-to-be astronaut gnome is actually a 150mm tall model of "Garden Gnome" or "Gnome Chompski," an item that first appeared in Half-Life 2: Episode Two but achieved meme status following the speedruns and... |
| UK contact tracing app failed to flag people exposed to COVID-19 Posted: 02 Nov 2020 02:32 PM PST  Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images The COVID-19 exposure notification app used in England and Wales failed to warn users if they were in close contact with potentially infectious COVID-19 patients. Because of the error, thousands of people were not told to quarantine even when they should have been, according to the Sunday Times, which first reported the flaw. The app was launched on September 24th, and there have been 19 million downloads since. It's built using Google and Apple's Bluetooth Low Energy-based system, which monitors nearby phones. If someone tests positive for COVID-19, their app can alert the phones that they were in contact with. The UK originally planned to use its own app, sidestepping the Google and Apple system, but reversed course in June. Since its... |
| Twitch announces a virtual TwitchCon next week Posted: 02 Nov 2020 02:09 PM PST  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The pandemic has taken many things from the world — but mostly it's stolen events. Every hang is a potential death sentence. Thankfully, Twitch, at least, has gone virtual: it announced today that its flagship conference, TwitchCon, will be happening online this year. Oh, and it's not called TwitchCon. It's now GlitchCon, and it's happening on November 14th.
"Important announcement from Twitch," the ad begins, "Numerous glitches have been observed on Twitch." In this particular universe, those glitches were caused by — yes — "a portal to another dimension." ... |
| Apple will reportedly launch Arm-based MacBook Air and Pro laptops at ‘One More Thing’ event Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:34 PM PST  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple's upcoming "One More Thing" event, announced this morning and scheduled for November 10th, will be a major break with tradition in more ways than one: it will be the first time the company unveils an Apple laptop featuring its own custom Arm-based CPUs. Apple plans to debut three new laptops next week, one 13-inch MacBook Air and two different-sized MacBook Pro models (13-inches and 16-inches) that ditch Intel processors, according to a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. We had a strong inkling that this event — coming on the heels of an iPhone-specific one last month and one dedicated to the latest Apple Watch and iPads back in September — would be when Apple debuts its Arm-based Macs, which the company confirmed after... |
| AMC’s revenue plummets by more than 90 percent as theaters remain empty Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:33 PM PST  Roy Rochlin/Getty Images AMC Entertainment didn't try to hide the immense financial duress the company has faced the last several months and the increasingly uncertain future that lies ahead if AMC can't find new ways to make cash. The company posted a revenue of $119.5 million in its third quarter, down 91 percent year over year. The same quarter last year brought in more than $1 billion. AMC noted in its earnings that it's "operating approximately 539 of its 600 domestic locations," as of October 2020, but cities like New York City and Los Angeles remain big obstacles. The issue is getting people into those theaters on a consistent basis without any big movies to encourage attendance. On Monday, the company also filed new documents stating it was trying to... |
| Amazon reportedly planning new service for its rural deliveries Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:25 PM PST  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon may be looking to handle its own deliveries to rural areas rather than relying on the US Postal Service, according to several job postings, The Information reported on Monday. The e-commerce behemoth would rely on shipping hubs in rural areas under a plan called "wagon wheel," a reference to Amazon's hub-and-spoke supply chain. In Amazon's terminology, a wagon wheel station provides support for smaller shipping facilities, according to The Information. Several since-deleted job postings The Information discovered described "a new delivery business ... that will support Amazon's rural communities." When or where the program would be launched is not clear. But... |
| Baby Shark is the most-viewed YouTube video of all time, and there’s no end in sight Posted: 02 Nov 2020 12:32 PM PST  "Baby Shark" has now crossed 7.043 billion views — which officially makes the kid-friendly, adult-terrorizing earworm the most-watched YouTube video ever. It's been over three years since Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito" took that crown, but parents won't be surprised to see the music industry's greatest hit laid low by the Pinkfong empire: we've been taking 2020 one day and one video at a time. "This is news?" says my wife. "Please don't play it. Please don't play it." Of course, it's too late. "Baby Shark" is practically a core memory at this point; even with my speakers muted, it's already playing in our brains. What might surprise you is just how dramatically "Baby Shark" flew up the charts. When I checked in on YouTube's... |
| TikTok and Sony Music reach a long-awaited licensing deal Posted: 02 Nov 2020 12:18 PM PST  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok and Sony Music Entertainment have reached a licensing deal that will keep bringing songs from the record group's roster of hit artists to the shortform video app. Neither company would tell The Verge any real details about what this means for TikTok users. For the most part, it seems like things will largely stay the same. But that's still an important development: TikTok has been working toward cutting new details with the major record groups since it exploded in popularity to ensure that it doesn't lose some of the world's top songs, and this appears to be the first deal locked in. TikTok is paying "a significant increase" over its previous licensing deal, according to Bloomberg. The... |
| The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season keeps raging with Hurricane Eta Posted: 02 Nov 2020 10:55 AM PST  The GOES-East satellite watched Tropical Storm Eta strengthen into a hurricane over the Caribbean Sea on November 2nd, 2020. | Image: NOAA The 28th named storm of an epic Atlantic hurricane season formed yesterday and is barreling toward Central America as Hurricane Eta today. That ties the record with 2005 for the most storms strong enough to earn a name in a single season. This is also the 12th hurricane to form this season, which has only happened three times before, according to Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. The World Meteorological Organization ran out of names on its alphabetical list in mid-September, with more than two months left in the 2020 season. That forced the agency to turn to Greek letters for storm names for just the second time in its history.... |
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