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Square Enix has made the soundtrack albums for just about every mainline Final Fantasy game available for streaming. You can listen to music from the original Final Fantasy through to 2016’s XV, including direct sequels like X-2 and Lightning Returns and even individual albums for each XIV expansion. The soundtracks are up now on Apple Music and Spotify worldwide. The Final Fantasy series has had its divisive moments, but one thing pretty much everyone agrees on is that the music has been consistently fantastic. Nobuo Uematsu’s soaring compositions for the earlier games in the series are rightly iconic, of course, but there’s some incredible music to be found from other composers that succeeded him, like Final Fantasy XV ’s Yoko Shimomura... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2WoT3hW via IFTTT

YouTube will reconsider its harassment policies and may update them, the company said in a new blog post . The statement was apparently prompted by public pressure on the company after a conflict between two YouTubers: Carlos Maza, who hosts for Vox , and Stephen Crowder, a conservative media personality. In response to backlash, YouTube has convened a blue-ribbon commission and appears to be hoping everyone will stop screaming. ( Vox shares a parent company with The Verge , Vox Media.) YouTube has promised to consult journalists, experts, creators, and those who have experienced harassment as the company tries to figure out how to update its policies. “We are determined to evolve our policies, and continue to hold our creators and... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2K2v7un via IFTTT

When Pennsylvania-based aerospace company Astrobotic launches its lander to the Moon within the next couple of years, a four-wheeled robot no bigger than a toaster will be along for the ride. The robotic rover, built by Carnegie Mellon University, will help test just how small rovers can get and still survive on the Moon’s surface. Last week, NASA awarded Astrobotic a contract of $79.5 million to carry up to 14 NASA-sponsored payloads on its lander, named Peregrine. Along with those, the lander will carry another 14 from other commercial companies, research organizations, and space agencies. That’s a total of 28 payloads meant to fit on a lander that’s just a little over 6 feet tall and 8 feet wide. There’s not a lot of room on the... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2WgVYEL via IFTTT

YouTube is changing its community guidelines to ban videos promoting the superiority of any group as a justification for discrimination against others based on their age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status, the company said today. The move, which will result in the removal of all videos promoting Nazism and other discriminatory ideologies, is expected to result in the removal of thousands of channels across YouTube. “The openness of YouTube’s platform has helped creativity and access to information thrive,” the company said in a blog post . “It’s our responsibility to protect that, and prevent our platform from being used to incite hatred, harassment, discrimination and violence.” The changes announced on... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2HWxtIQ via IFTTT

The first iOS 13 developer beta is now available, and users are discovering that Apple’s 3D Touch functionality seems to have been all but replaced. 9to5Mac reports that many of the feature’s key pieces of functionality, like the context menu that appears when you press down hard on an app’s icon on the home screen, can now be accessed via a long press. The new gesture is available on all iPhones and iPads, regardless of whether they previously supported 3D Touch. It’s not entirely unexpected that 3D Touch might be on its way out. Last year, Apple omitted the feature on the iPhone XR , and its replacement Haptic Touch feature was so capable that it made 3D Touch feel a little unnecessary in comparison . The ability to swipe on an iPhone’s... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2JZ1VV6 via IFTTT

General Motors is expanding the number of highways where its hands-free driver assistance feature, Super Cruise, can be used. The automaker announced on Wednesday that Super Cruise will work on an additional 70,000 miles of highways in the US and Canada by the end of 2019, building on the 130,000 compatible highways where it’s already available. The expansion comes as GM is looking to spread Super Cruise to all new Cadillac models starting next year and to other models outside the luxury brand after that. Launched in 2017, the Super Cruise driver assistance feature is currently only available on the Cadillac CT6. It uses information from cameras and radar sensors embedded on the car, GPS data, and 3D mapping data collected by the company... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2WEkXpN via IFTTT

Peloton Interactive, the on-demand fitness company best known for its connected indoor cycling bike, has officially announced plans to go public after months of CEO John Foley teasing that an IPO in 2019 would “make a lot of sense.” The company had reportedly been interviewing banks in preparation for its IPO. Today, it announced that it has elected to submit a confidential filing, which is the same method other tech startups have used recently, including Lyft, Uber, and Slack. In a press release , Peloton did not clarify how many shares it intends to sell or what the price range would be. Its latest round of funding in August 2018 valued the fitness company at $4.15 billion. Foley remarked last year that Peloton has a “beautiful business... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2Kv2h5d via IFTTT