The best of 2022 lists and year-end recaps are just around the corner, including Spotify Wrapped, the streaming platform’s flashy interactive feature that’s become an annual tradition that overtakes social media by a few days. Its main competitor, Apple Music, also made some chart hits for listeners, and this time comes with some changes. Apple … Read more
Oh Elon. It was pretty clear something was up when Twitter’s new CEO tweeted out of the blue that “Apple has largely stopped advertising on Twitter,” and asked if “Do they hate free speech in America?” After a question from my colleague Jake Kastrenakes, Musk confirmed that the iPhone maker was threatening Twitter’s presence in … Read more
Twitter could be in big trouble when it comes to generating ad revenue: GroupM, part of WPP, the world’s largest advertising company – and Twitter’s largest publisher – reportedly tells its customers that buying ads on the platform is “high risk” is, according to Platform game and Digiday. That makes it the third advertising juggernaut … Read more
Our first deal of the week is a good one. You can get $400 off the 42-inch LG C2 OLED TV, which is currently discounted to $899.99 at Best Buy – its lowest price yet. While the features of the C2 are largely identical to the older C1, including a 120 Hz refresh rate, Dolby … Read more
The Schlage Encode Plus, the popular smart lock with Home Key functionality, will not be upgraded to support Matter. Schlage told The edge that this is due to several factors, including changes in specifications since the product was manufactured. It also confirmed that none of its current smart locks will support Matter. Instead, Schlage plans … Read more
Crypto.com has just admitted to making another very big and worrisome writing error: it accidentally sent 320,000 in Ethereum (~$416 million USD) to another cryptocurrency exchange called Gate.io about three weeks ago (via Web3 is just going great). In a message on TwitterCrypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek Says the Company Was supposed to send the crypto … Read more
The Space Force’s mysterious X-37B spaceplane landed back on Earth after spending a record two and a half years (908 days) in orbit. It landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 5:22 a.m. ET, marking its sixth successful mission to date. While the agency is fairly brief about what … Read more
Google says it will roll out a software update for the new Nest Wifi Pro early next week to address the slow internet speeds some users are experiencing. In a statement to The edgeSanjay Noronha, product leader of Google Nest Wifi, says the company is “currently investigating reports of a small number of users experiencing … Read more
Tumblr is enjoying a resurgence thanks to some recent policy changes and ongoing chaos on Twitter, and that has drawn some real-life celebrities like Ryan Reynolds and Lynda Carter to the platform. However, unlike most major social networks, Tumblr does not verify the authenticity of high-profile accounts. That has caused some confusion, because without a … Read more