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You can escape this Royal Caribbean cruise aboard a virtual train ride
Need a boat break? You can take a virtual train experience on the Utopia of the Seas.
Mercedes-Benz’s 400kW EV chargers are coming to Starbucks
The German automaker says it will install charging hubs at 100 Starbucks locations along Interstate 5.
The popular iOS podcast app has been rewritten from the ground up by developer Marco Arment in time for Overcast’s tenth anniversary.
Overcast is now much faster and has a new interface, but it keeps the same audio engine, Arment says in a blog post. Streaming, however, was removed, because of bugs and problems caused by dynamic ad insertion.
Bailey Hikawa is best known for her handmade smartphone cases, but this unique creation — just two exist — features much older tech.
It’s a bespoke toilet seat embedded with a myriad of iconic 2G and 3G cellphones including the original Motorola Razr, Samsung sliders, and an assortment of BlackBerrys. One person’s e-waste is another person’s treasure.
That’s less than the $20 billion Adobe offered for the design platform company nearly two years ago, but investors buying in the secondary share sale included Coatue Management, General Catalyst Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and Eddy Cue.
Figma left the Adobe deal with a $1 billion breakup fee, which, along with a big redesign, is part of why CEO Dylan Field remains optimistic.
The Verge’s guide to Amazon Prime Day 2024
We’re here to bring you the best deals and discounts from Amazon’s exclusive two-day sales event.
Google is celebrating July 17th by revealing its take on the new Unicode 16.0 emoji.
Google says the emoji will appear on Android phones “by March 2025” and in “your favorite Google products in early 2025.” Hopefully, Apple will add support at around the same time.
If you’ve wondered how emoji are made, I wrote about submitting proposals for the yawning face and waffle emoji.
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The Anthology Fund (a play on the Anthropic name) is a new AI fund aimed at supporting the next generation of AI startups— and it’s accepting applications. It will invest in seed and Series A startups with check sizes starting at $100K.
If accepted, startups will also get access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI models with $25,000 in free credits.
There will be plenty of traditional television series like Shōgun and The Bear in the running at the 76th Emmys in September. But given how many Netflix, HBO, Apple TV Plus, Disney Plus, and Amazon projects were just nominated for awards, this year’s competition seems like it could easily go to the streamers.
[The Hollywood Reporter]
The police department in Anaheim, California, apparently wants to “be the first” with a Cybertruck, according to an email sent to Tesla modification company Up.Fit and obtained by 404 Media.
Up.Fit has already shown what a Cybertruck for police use may look like. The Anaheim PD later confirmed to 404 Media that the email was “a joke” but that it would still like a Cybertruck for “community engagement.”
[404 Media]