The race is on to find out: TechCrunch reports that TikTok is testing 15-minute video uploads, an increase of 5 minutes from the current max time. YouTube, meanwhile, is all in with Shorts as its answer to TikTok’s vertical, mobile-first format.

If it weren’t for his 2021 Netflix deal, Tyler Perry might not still be making Madea movies, and because their last partnership worked out so well, the streamer is bringing Perry back with a new multi-year, writing / directing / producing contract.

If soundtrack of the games is suddenly running through your head, check out our 10-year anniversary feature about the series from last year.

Crusoe Energy, a former crypto miner turned AI server landlord, reportedly raised $200 million to buy Nvidia’s H100 chips and will use the hot commodity as collateral. Bill Libby, CEO of Upper90, which provided the loan to Crusoe Energy, said Nvidia chips are a “new asset class.�?

The Verge’s Elizabeth Lopatto reported in August on another company doing the same thing: CoreWeave, which also uses H100 chips as collateral to get debt to buy more H100 chips. An Ouroboros of AI chips, if you will.

In case you missed it last year, Hayao Miyazaki’s delightful Spirited Away will be in theaters from October 28th to November 1st. You can check here for local screenings.

It’s the last in a series of short theatrical runs as part of Studio Ghibli Fest 2023 that also included Howl’s Moving Castle last month.

The red light / green light doll, marbles, the glass stepping stones... all of Squid Game’s greatest hits are in Netflix’s new trailer for Squid Game: The Challenge, which debuts on November 22nd.

Microsoft is holding an Xbox Partner Preview stream on Wednesday October 25th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM UK. “This new show format will deliver a fresh mix of indie games and familiar favorites from our third-party partners... with more than 20 minutes of trailers and new gameplay footage,�? says Microsoft. A launch trailer for Alan Wake 2 and the first gameplay for Ark: Survival Ascended are both on the menu.

Lots of you sent over this new TikTok of the Cybertruck after I asked for closeup photos of the wiper on the Vergecast last week — you can see a little bit of evidence for a theory that I’ve heard about it, but not quite enough. Bring me photos of Spider-Man — er, the Cybertruck wiper! Top to bottom! We all know it’s a triangle, people. Show us the blade.

Lately, the Republican candidates for president have seized upon electric vehicles as potential wedge issue. And national media publications have noticed, writing trend pieces about the politicalization of EVs. But what all these pieces forget is that car shopping has always been political. Conservatives have been bashing progressives for driving Volvos or Toyota Priuses since the beginning of time. Trump supporting truck drivers tried to run the Biden campaign bus off the road. The vehicles we own say a lot about our political leanings. EVs are no different.

In my initial hands-on time with Forza Motorsport, I didn’t run into many problems, but now I have seen some issues, even after installing its first significant patch.

An inconsistent penalty system is one thing, but I’ve also had crashes while trying to join races, and trying to view saved replays of multiplayer races turns into... this. You can see it in video form here, complete with cheering crowd audio, as cars are alternatively raptured to heaven or banished to the depths below. It’s listed as a “known issue�? on the game’s bug tracker list.

The Elon Musk-owned company could launch up to four of the ESA’s Galileo navigation satellites into space next year, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal reportedly involves two US-based launches, each with two Galileo satellites aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets.

This comes as Europe’s Ariane rocket program faces its own setbacks. The European Commission and EU member states will still need to approve the deal with SpaceX, the WSJ notes, which could happen by the end of this year.

It’s unclear what Steel Perlot does, as a company (it is “an AI and analytics company of companies�?) — or even what “Steel Perlot�? means (there is a sailboat that shares its name?) — but whatever it is, it’s not going well. “Just over a year after it launched, the company was asking Schmidt’s family office, Hillspire LLC, to pay its bills,�? writes Forbes.

SFB Games is best-known for charming adventures like Tangle Tower and Snipperclips, but the studio’s latest goes in a very different direction. Crow Country is lo-fi horror that looks like a cross between Silent Hill and FF7, complete with blocky characters and hazy levels to explore. It’s not coming out until 2024 on Steam and PlayStation, but you can check out a free demo on both platforms starting today.

ABC News in Australia reported that Dr. Janice Duffy settled with Google after winning two lawsuits alleging defamation — one in 2015 and one earlier this year.

The judge found Google liable for publishing snippets from the site Ripoff Reports, which profits by allowing people to post unvetted “complaints�? about others on the site and surfacing them in Google Search. As the judge in Duffy’s last lawsuit noted, would change URLs to keep pages visible.

A 2021 New York Times report about the site noted that Google began downranking Ripoff Reports and similar sites.

A retail listing spotted by WinFuture’s Roland Quandt has given us an early look at an upcoming model in DJI’s lineup of Osmo Pocket handheld cameras. If accurate, the listing suggests it’s slightly bigger and heavier, with a higher capacity battery. But most interesting is its larger 2-inch screen, which can apparently rotate between portrait and landscape.

UploadVR spotted a “coming soon�? listing for VRChat, the virtual reality social platform, in the app store for the ByteDance-owned Pico 4 headset.

I wonder if that Four Seasons Total Landscaping hangout is still around.

Spotted by Engadget, Meta’s newest sticker feature is a lot like the one built into the iPhone Messages app in iOS 17 — Instagram detects and cuts out an object from a photo so you can place it over another.

According to Instagram head Adam Mosseri, who shared the test on his IG Updates broadcast channel, when the feature rolls out, you can make stickers from your own images or “eligible images�? from others. Sounds like a fun new way for me to annoy The Verge’s Alex Cranz.

When Google Keep got the ability to format notes, it only applied to new notes — you couldn’t format pre-update notes. 9to5Google reported today that Google is rolling out the ability to format your older notes as well.

I’m not seeing the feature on my Pixel 6, but the Google Workplace blog says the feature will be dispensed over potentially more than 15 days this month.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to format my old notes.

Ben Davis wrote a review of artist Devon Rodriguez’s solo show called “Underground,�? a nod to how Rodriguez rose to fame: doing portraits of fellow subway riders, giving them the portraits, and posting the whole thing to TikTok.

I tend to view the existence of a review as someone taking art seriously — even if the reviewer doesn’t like the art, it was worth considering thoughtfully. Rodriguez didn’t see it that way, and now Davis is writing about what happens when social media and the art world interact.

In a series of posts on X, the Screen Actors Guild announced yesterday evening that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers invited it back to negotiations.

AMPTP walked away from talks earlier this month over its demand for two percent of streaming revenue. According to Variety, the union has amended that to 57 cents per year, per subscriber.

Yesterday marked the 100th day of the strike.

Michigan State is “deeply sorry�? for the 40-foot-tall (my quick estimate) picture of a certain WWII-era genocidal dictator on the gigantic digital scoreboard at Spartan Stadium during Saturday night’s football game against Michigan University.

The picture showed up during a pre-game pop quiz the school may have been streaming from a YouTube channel. The channel’s owner commented today that they weren’t aware the school was using their content, calling it “unsolicited and unauthorized use.�?

According to The Washington Post, associate athletic director Matt Larson said it was “inappropriate content by a third-party source,�? and the school promises to better vet content for the screen going forward.

Update October 22nd, 3:12PM ET: Added comment from TheQuizChannel owner.