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Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Faraday Future is going to become a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq stock exchange and is raising around $1 billion in the process. The troubled EV startup announced Thursday that it is indeed merging with special purpose acquisition corporation (or SPAC) Property Solutions, as first reported by Bloomberg earlier this month . About $230 million will come from the money that Property Solutions raised in its SPAC. The other $775 million will come from a new funding round happening concurrently with the merger. Geely, China’s biggest privately owned automaker, is contributing “less than 10 percent” of that new investment, and $175 million is coming from an unnamed “Tier 1 Chinese City,” meaning that the Chinese government is involved... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/2MsO5wC

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new web standard is playing off of California’s powerful privacy law Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/3chMS62

Photo by Alexander Sayganov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Cyberpunk 2077 ’s big new 1.1 patch introduced a game-breaking bug earlier this week , and now Developer CD Projekt Red is fixing it. A new 1.11 hotfix is available across PC, Stadia, and Xbox / PlayStation consoles today. While it also restores item randomization to a previous state, the primary purpose is to fix the game-breaking part of the “Down on the Street” quest. The quest includes a holocall that’s supposed to trigger progress through the main part of Cyberpunk 2077 ’s storyline, but some players found the call was silent and blocked progress of the game. CD Projekt Red published a workaround after a few hours, and has now followed up with a hotfix after the problem was spotted earlier this week. Hotfix 1.11 is available on PC,... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/2NE89MZ

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram has added the ability to import your chat history from WhatsApp, meaning you won’t loose past conversations if you want to switch messaging services. On iOS the feature arrived with version 7.4 , released yesterday and spotted by 9to5Mac , but the update doesn’t appear to be live yet on Android. Alongside WhatsApp, chat histories from Line and KakaoTalk can also be imported, according to Telegram’s changelog. We’ve verified that you can import chats from WhatsApp into the latest version (7.4.1) of Telegram and continue the conversation, so long as each WhatsApp user has a Telegram account. The addition of the feature comes as Telegram is reporting huge increases in user numbers, with the service now boasting over 500 million... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/39qWYju

Pac-Man celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, and to commemorate the occasion, Cook and Becker is releasing a history book later this year — and it looks incredible. While there’s a standard hardcover version of the book for $39, which is called Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon , you can also buy a $99 special edition that comes with an ingenious Pac-Man-shaped slipcase. There’s even a vinyl pressing of the single “Pac-Man Fever” included. The book is described as “the first-ever official history book” for the iconic video games series, and it’s written by Arjan Terpstra and Tim Lapetino. Here’s the official description: This new non-fiction narrative volume will journey from creator Toru Iwatani’s “pizza slice” inspiration to the game’s... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/2KWM37F

The Pixel 5 and 4A 5G (pictured) can enable Night Sight mode automatically. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Thanks to its latest update, the Google Camera app now lets you permanently turn off its Auto Night Sight feature on devices that automatically enable the low-light photography mode, 9to5Google reports . The feature is available with version 8.1.200 of the app, which started rolling out on Monday. Additionally, the update lets you disable the mode from the app’s flash settings. When Google released the Pixel 4A 5G and Pixel 5 last year, it tweaked their camera apps to enable Night Sight mode automatically in low-light conditions. But using the feature means photos take longer to capture, so there’ll inevitably be occasions when you don’t want it to automatically come on. Annoyingly, as 9to5Google notes, the toggle to turn this feature... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/36mVR2i

Image: Vivaldi Vivaldi is releasing version 3.6 of the Vivaldi browser with a great and terrible power today: you can now create two-level tab stacks , so that grouped tabs can become pseudo-workspaces for whatever you get up to in your browser. Vivaldi first introduced the feature as an experiment in December 2020, but now you can officially indulge in two levels of too many tabs. Creating two-level stacked tabs is as easy as holding down the Command or Windows key, selecting whatever tabs you want to be in the stack, and then right-clicking and selecting “New Tab stack” from the drop down menu. You can also achieve the same effect by dragging and holding one tab over another. Clicking on the newly formed tab stack (signified with a white outline)... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/2NICtpX