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Casting is dead. Long live casting!
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Last month, Netflix made the surprising decision to kill off a key feature: With no prior warning, the company removed the ability to cast videos from its mobile apps to…
Opinion: Antagonism to mRNA Technology Is Killing Our Best Shot At a Cure For Cancer
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it was terminating around $500 million in BARDA contracts associated with mRNA vaccine development. It was far from the first cut to public funding of mRNA research made on unscientific grounds. Despite consensus on mRNA’s merits, non-experts have sown doubts about the technology’s safety, leading…
TikTok can continue its operations in Canada after agreeing to enhanced security measures
TikTok doesn’t have to close its offices in Canada after all. The country will allow TikTok to keep its business operational after a national security review, Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly has announced. This is a complete 180 of the country’s decision back in 2024 to order TikTok to shut down its operations, citing unspecified…
Oeuf is a punishing platformer in a cozy shell
The funny shape of eggs is the curious lifeblood of Oeuf, the new physics platformer by prolific developer Increpare Games. In a gaming landscape saturated with complex systems dropped into simple games, that grapples with metaphor within straightforward narratives, and that is desperate to bring cinematic sensibilities into gaming, Oeuf only asks that you briefly…
ASUS has stopped producing the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB, saying theyve reached end of life
YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed is reporting that ASUS has stopped producing the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB due to the ongoing memory crunch. In its most recent video, the channel states ASUS “explicitly” told it the RTX 5070 Ti is “currently facing a supply shortage.” As a result, the company has “placed the…
