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Image: Matt Kennedy / Lucasfilm Ltd. There’s a lot of big shared universes that should be easier to binge Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/Zv6K7xH

Image: Aspyr Media Plenty of games have launched in an unfinished state, but it's rare to see a port of a game first released in 2004 be so buggy that people who buy it can’t actually finish it. On Twitter game developer Aspyr admitted it was aware that Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II was currently impossible to finish when played on the Switch. Aspyr’s bread and butter is porting beloved games so you would think it would know better than to ship something so busted. KOTOR II launched on the Nintendo Switch June 8, 2022 , and as fans have picked it up and begun to play they noted a bug made it impossible to get past a cut scene about midway through the game. As first seen by Kotaku , one fan replied to Aspyr’s official Twitter account asking if... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/FfTn38y

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge There’s good news for people who find bad news about crypto to be good. Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to buy an exchange-traded fund based on shorting Bitcoin. The financial firm ProShares will debut the first ETF to let you bet against Bitcoin, and it’s set to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange when the bell opens tomorrow, June 21, under the ticker BITI. The SEC previously approved a futures Bitcoin ETF, also from ProShares, in October. It debuted alongside some of the biggest growth Bitcoin has seen. Now, cryptocurrencies have been severely struggling , with Bitcoin , Ethereum, and even stablecoins all suffering major losses. What’s funny about the SEC’s approval of an ETF that can be used to short Bitcoin is that it has not... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/GQg0irE

The Chromecast with Google TV is one of the first devices to access this new feature. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge One of the big features that shipped with the Chromecast with Google TV in late-2020 was its namesake Google TV software and dashboard. Google’s latest attempt at putting its services in front of your eyeballs while watching TV was a launcher that put personalization and smart recommendations at the forefront, as long as you’re a one-person household, of course. Google TV only supported one user profile, and after later adding kid profiles so you don’t have to subject yourself to endless Baby Shark-adjacent recommendations, Google promised to support more profiles . After some long delays and a slow rollout , that feature is finally here. Google TV users should now be able to add multiple user profiles to their devices thanks to a... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/2XbkB6P

Last week, NASA revealed that one of JWST’s primary mirror segments, shown here, was damaged by a larger than expected micrometeoroid. | Image: NASA On June 8th, NASA revealed that its new powerful space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is now sporting a small dimple in one of its primary mirrors after getting pelted by a larger-than-expected micrometeoroid out in deep space. The news came as a bit of a shock since the impact happened just five months into the telescope’s space tenure — but such strikes are simply an inevitable aspect of space travel, and more thwacks are certainly on their way. Despite what its name implies, space isn’t exactly empty. Within our Solar System, tiny bits of space dust are zooming through the regions between our planets at whopping speeds that can reach up to tens of thousands of miles per hour. These micrometeoroids, no larger than a grain... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/XaYsgv7

Photo by Amanda Stronza/Getty Images for SXSW Frances Haugen, the whistleblower who released a trove of internal documents and data from Facebook and testified in front of lawmakers about the social network’s behavior, is now looking to start a non-profit focused on holding companies like Meta accountable, according to a report from Politico . The organization, which Haugen wants to call Beyond the Screen, plans to focus on three main goals: educating lawyers who could potentially be going up against social media companies, incentivizing investors to look into how socially responsible a tech company is before giving it money, and giving regulators and researchers an inside look into how platforms work. Politico reports that Haugen is currently working with two other people on the... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/1YFQj24

Mark Zuckerberg tries on the Holocake 2 prototype. | Meta Reality Labs And none of them are shipping Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/KDS34ET