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GameStop stock just jumped 100 percent, and WallStreetBets is ecstatic

GameStop is up… again, by a lot. Before market close on Wednesday, the video game retailer’s shares started to soar, and GME just closed at $91.71 — up nearly 104 percent for the day. It’s the highest the stock has been since it fell back down to Earth at the beginning of the month following… Read more

Android 12 developer preview feature roundup: improved emergency calls, bigger notifications, and more

The Android 12 developer preview is out, and the internet is busy poring over it to find any new features or hints at the OS’s future. So far, there have been a few interesting things discovered, such as an Emergency SOS feature, some redesigns, and other useful, if minor, finds: The ability to prevent specific… Read more

Google rebrands G Suite for Education to Google Workspace for Education

Google is announcing a swath of new features for its education-focused products today, including that G Suite for Education is being rebranded to Google Workspace for Education. The company first unveiled the Workspace branding for its office apps suite in October, but the education-focused suite had retained the G Suite branding until now. Among other… Read more

Apple’s adjusting emoji in iOS 14.5 to promote helmet use and sell headphones

As part of iOS 14.5, Apple is updating its emoji with new variations from the Unicode Consortium’s 13.1 release, including new skin tone options for popular emoji, several new smiley faces and hearts, and some deliberate Apple redesigns. The changes to skin tone and gender presentation are probably the most important to note. Popular emoji… Read more

PSA: eBay might not let you sell items without a bank account starting Valentine’s Day

In 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion, turning it into the way you’d buy and get paid for items you sell on the ginormous auction site. But the once-happy couple has been breaking up for years — and on Valentine’s Day, some sellers may no longer be able to sell items on eBay at… Read more

Amazon’s next headquarters is a glass poop emoji covered in trees

Amazon has unveiled the design for the next portion of its Arlington, Virginia headquarters, and one building stands out far from the rest: a swirling glass tower covered in trees that rises to a point above the rest of the city’s skyline. Amazon calls the building “the Helix” because its corkscrew shape is supposed to… Read more

Discord is no longer banning r/WallStreetBets — it’s helping them

Discord is now helping the r/WallStreetBets team moderate its new server. The company originally banned the group yesterday due to “hateful and discriminatory content” and revealed it had sent repeated warnings to the team managing the community. Those warnings, for whatever reason, were ignored, but now the r/WallStreetBets team and Discord are working together. Discord… Read more

Discord has turned into a virtual trade floor with memes, stonks, and chaos

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A real-life trading floor is noisy. You can find traders shouting at each other, especially when the markets are volatile and stock is moving fast. That same environment has been replicated online this week, thanks to Discord. Getting inside offers a surreal look at an emerging virtual trade… Read more

Reddit’s GameStop traders turn their attention to AMC stock

Reddit traders who have successfully profited off GameStop (GME) stock are now turning their attention to struggling movie theater chain AMC. Reddit board r/wallstreetbets has helped push GameStop stock to record levels in recent days, with the stock closing up 92 percent yesterday alone. It’s part of a chaotic, meme-fueled effort to create an organized… Read more

GitHub still won’t explain if it fired someone for saying ‘Nazi,’ and employees are pissed

GitHub employees are protesting the firing of a Jewish colleague who was let go two days after he warned co-workers in Washington, DC to stay safe from Nazis. The employee was chastised for using divisive language, according to news first reported by Business Insider. Now, GitHub workers are saying “Nazi” repeatedly in Slack, in regards… Read more

Brief information: car production, Facebook, DisplayPort 2.0, file sharing

Bottleneck in chip production slows down car production The shortage of electronic chips for cars causes manufacturers and Suppliers for growing problems. Now Audi will also send approximately 10 in the coming week. 000 Employees in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm on short-time work. In December, Volkswagen reported bottlenecks in semiconductors and applied for short-time work for… Read more

Facebook is suing Portuguese developers for stolen user data

Facebook has filed a lawsuit in Portugal against two developers based there who are said to have stolen user data from Facebook users. This violates Portuguese data protection regulations and Facebook’s usage guidelines. The developers are said to have used self-programmed browser extensions offered by the company “Oink and Stuff”. These extensions are intended to… Read more

Microsoft releases Windows 10 Insider Preview 21286

Microsoft now has the Windows – 10 – Insider Preview Build 21286 released. Among other things, the taskbar has been revised here. With the update, the current weather data can now be called up in addition to the latest news. It is also possible to further personalize the feed. But Microsoft has also worked hard… Read more

Machine learning: KI GPT-3 creates images under the artist name DALL-E

OpenAI has introduced a special version of GPT-3 that can create images based on descriptions. DALL-E uses a data set of text-image pairs and should be able to correctly interpret more or a few arbitrary combinations. The system can create images from scratch or modify existing images. The project name is a suitcase word from… Read more

“Sun Valley” project: Microsoft is planning a major UI refresh for Windows 10

A job advertisement placed by Microsoft at the beginning of the year 2021 in which a Senior Software Engineer for the Windows Core User Experiences team is sought , has given new nourishment to rumors about upcoming modifications to the Windows user interface. In the original version of the job advertisement, which has since been… Read more