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Imagine this. You wake up, roll over, take your smart ring off its charger, and slip it onto your finger. After eating breakfast and getting ready for work, you kiss your lover goodbye and head out. Everything's hunky-dory - until you look down at your finger. The LED light on your smart ring is flashing [...]

Content moderators who comb through harmful material uploaded to online platforms have formed a global trade union alliance in a bid to improve working conditions. The Global Trade Union Alliance of Content Moderators (GTUACM) announced today in Nairobi, Kenya, says it aims to hold Big Tech responsible" for failing to address workers' issues like low [...]

Raycast users have been asking the app's developers for an iOS app for a long time. It took a while, though, for the developers to figure out exactly what that app was supposed to do. See, on a Mac (and soon a Windows PC), Raycast is a hugely powerful tool for navigating your computer. You [...]

Since Neuromancer took the sci-fi world by storm in 1984, computing nerds have pined for a "cyberdeck" - the ultimate in personal, portable PCs for surfing and hacking the world. Usually, they're DIY affairs. But the 10-inch GPD Win Max 2 is the closest I've seen to an off-the-shelf cyberdeck worth buying. It's far from [...]

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it's exploring the use of AI systems for predictive prevention" of crime and dangerous behavior on the city's subway platforms. MTA chief security officer Michael Kemper said that the agency is studying and piloting technology like AI to sense potential trouble or problematic behavior on our subway platforms." If [...]

With just over a month to go before the Nintendo Switch 2 release date on June 5th, Nintendo has released a Switch 1 update that will help prepare things for the new console's arrival. The V20.0.0 update for the original Switch adds a bunch of new features that go along with the Switch 2, like [...]

The Metals Company, which has been trying for years to exploit battery materials strewn across the ocean floor, announced today that it has applied for a permit from the Trump administration to start commercially mining in international waters. Together, the company and President Trump are circumventing a multilateral process to develop rules for deep sea [...]

In an unprecedented display of diplomatic aggression, French authorities publicly accused Russia of sponsoring several high-profile cyber attacks on French entities for over a decade to gather intelligence and destabilize the country. The incidents include everything from a faked Islamic State takeover of a French television broadcast signal in 2015 to the leak of President [...]

Electronic Arts is reportedly eliminating between 300 and 400 positions" and scrapping a game set in the Titanfall universe, codenamed R7, that was in the works at Respawn Entertainment, according to Bloomberg. As part of our continued focus on our long-term strategic priorities, we've made select changes within our organization that more effectively aligns teams [...]

Lyft has launched Earnings Assistant," an AI chatbot tool for drivers seeking to optimize their time on the road." With it, drivers can create plans based on information about things like airport arrivals or local events, announced Jeremy Bird, EVP of driver experience at Lyft in an email to The Verge. The Earnings Assistant feature [...]

It's always a good time to lock in for a marathon watch of Alfred Hitchcock films, and Netflix is getting ready to make a bunch of the legendary director's features a lot easier to watch in one place. Today, Netflix announced that it plans to stream a number of Hitchcock's films next month as part [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a new plan to address forever chemicals" once widely used in non-stick and water-proof products that have since been linked to cancer, reproductive health issues, and liver damage. The vague details the EPA has shared so far, however, have health and environmental advocates wondering whether the EPA's plan helps [...]

OpenAI is rolling back its latest GPT-4o update after CEO Sam Altman said the company would be making fixes to address the chatbot's sycophant-y and annoying" personality introduced with recent updates. The rollback, which started Monday night, is now 100%" rolled back for free ChatGPT users and will be rolled back for paid users hopefully [...]

Snap is backing away from plans to simplify the design of Snapchat as it reports losing 1 million users in North America. As part of its Q1 2025 earnings report on Tuesday, Snap revealed that it's instead going to start testing a refined" layout that keeps the app's five existing tabs. The company first started [...]

Apple has quietly launched a new website called Snapshot on Apple" that presents viewers with a carousel of celebrities and information on where you can find their work across the company's services. The website, spotted by 9to5Mac reports, presents two slowly moving rows of celebrity images, with no way to manually scroll or search them. [...]

Since Slate Auto came out of stealth mode last week, the internet has been abuzz with speculation about the finer details of the ultra-barebones electric Truck, which is set to cost just $20,000 when it enters production next year - assuming our federal EV incentives are still in place by then. One of those questions [...]

Poker Face's Natasha Lyonne has a new project in the works that seemed poised to become a case study in the debate about how and whether Hollywood should be using generative AI. Lyonne is teaming up with technologist and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier to produce a new sci-fi film that will feature elements generated [...]

Last week, the US Department of Transportation announced a major change to the Biden-era rule that requires automakers and tech companies to report crashes that involve fully or partially autonomous vehicles. Under the revised rules, companies will no longer have to report certain crashes, such as those involving a vehicle equipped with a Level 2 [...]

Amazon's annual Gaming Week sale might be the big focus this week as far as deals are concerned, but gaming peripherals and games aren't the only discounts we're seeing. Right now, for instance, Apple's latest AirPods Pro with USB-C are on sale for $169 ($80 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy, which is just [...]

Isuzu has started mass production of an all-electric version of its midsized D-Max pickup truck in Thailand, featuring a dual-motor four-wheel-drive system with 140kW of power that can match the performance of existing diesel models," according to the automaker. As reported by Electrek, the new D-Max EV matches the towing capacity of Isuzu's current diesel [...]

If you were hoping to get your hands on the compact" phone OnePlus launched in China last week, you're going to have your work cut out for you. OnePlus spokespeople have confirmed to The Verge that the 13T will not be sold in Europe or North America. That leaves our OnePlus options limited to big [...]

Cybersecurity firm Oligo has detailed a set of vulnerabilities its researchers found in Apple's AirPlay protocol and software development kit that could serve as a point of entry to infect other devices on your network, Wired reports. Oligo's researchers refer to the vulnerabilities and attacks they enable as AirBorne." According to Oligo, two of the [...]

Commenters on the popular subreddit r/changemymind found out last weekend that they've been majorly duped for months. University of Zurich researchers set out to "investigate the persuasiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) in natural online environments" by unleashing bots pretending to be a trauma counselor, a "Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter," and a [...]

President Donald Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to complain after a Punchbowl News report suggested the online marketplace planned on displaying the cost of tariffs next to product prices. White House officials told CNN that Trump called Bezos shortly after" receiving information about the report. Before Amazon publicly commented on the report, White House [...]

Audio Overviews, the AI tool that turns your research into podcast-like conversations in Google's NotebookLM app, is expanding beyond English. Now you can generate and listen to Audio Overviews in more than 50 languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hindi, Turkish, Korean, and Chinese. You switch to a different language by heading to NotebookLM, selecting your [...]

Here's some dumb stuff that just happened: Okay - a couple things. First, there was no "act" by Amazon, just a single-sourced story that everyone wanted to believe. So Leavitt (and, if you believe her, Trump) reacted with nuclear fury to the mere idea that a major American retailer might add price transparency to its [...]

The release date for Borderlands 4 has been moved up by two weeks, shifting from September 23rd to September 12th. This is according to a video posted by Randy Pitchford, CEO of Borderlands developer Gearbox Interactive, that was ironically deleted and reposted because it went up too early. I wanted to be the one to [...]

Meta's standalone ChatGPT competitor is mostly what you'd expect from an AI assistant. You can type or talk with it, generate images, and get real-time web results. The biggest new idea in the Meta AI app is its Discover feed, which adds an AI twist to social media. Here, you'll see a feed of interactions [...]

The first teaser for New Line Cinema's upcoming horror Weapons was already unsettling enough, but the movie's latest trailer makes it seem like writer / director Zach Cregger is about to leave us all terrified once again. Though Weapons' new trailer doesn't explain why an entire classroom of young children suddenly go missing one night, [...]

A former Disney employee will serve three years in federal prison for logging into the company's servers to make changes to its restaurant menus' allergen information, as well as carrying out denial-of-service attacks" aimed at locking other employees out of their accounts. The court also ordered the man, Michael Scheuer, to pay nearly $690,000 in [...]

The generally accepted way to launch your new car company is by building something fancy and expensive. Call it Founder's Edition or name it after a precious metal, hope people pay for the privilege of exclusivity, and go from there. Slate Auto is doing... the opposite. The three-year-old company just announced its first vehicle, and [...]

The death knell for American TikTok should have been on March 13th, 2024, when Congress voted on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis to force its parent company to sell the app or face an outright ban. Rarely do you ever see Republicans and Democrats in agreement over anything, but both sides saw the app as a [...]

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called Amazon hostile" based on a rumor that its site will adjust to show how tariffs affect the total cost of a product. The statement comes just hours after a report from Punchbowl News suggested that the e-commerce giant will display the added fees right next to a product's [...]

Bird Buddy's camera-equipped smart feeders helped make bird-watching more accessible and easier by autonomously documenting all the wildlife that stopped by to eat. The company's new Petal camera is designed to do the same for plants and insects, while its reconfigurable Wonder Blocks will help attract more nature to your yard. They were first announced [...]

2024 was shaping up to be the year Congress regulated how kids engage with social media, particularly through one bill, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). A debate about its risks to free expression still raged, but the voices of the bill's advocates seemed to ring loudest in senators' ears. The momentum was there. The [...]

On Tuesday morning, the social media platform Bluesky experienced back-to-back outages that prevented feeds from loading for many users around the world. An initial outage started at about 6AM ET, as tracked by Downdetector, lasting about 40 minutes, and then things crashed again at about 8AM. Bluesky experienced another major outage on April 24th that [...]

Time is running out for people who are still using LG phones to download any remaining Android updates before their devices are fully retired. After closing its Android phone business back in 2021, Android Authority has spotted that LG is now preparing to shut down its update servers for good on June 30th, 2025, advising [...]

On the evening of April 28th, Amazon embarked on its latest venture to rival SpaceX Starlink: the first launch of its Project Kuiper satellites. With 27 satellites now in orbit around the Earth, Amazon joins a growing number of companies working to put more than 1,000 satellites each into space to create their own mega [...]

Amazon's Kuiper broadband internet constellation is starting to take shape, with its first batch of satellites shipped and deployed into space on Monday. The launch is just the first of 80 that Amazon has lined up to take all 3,236 Project Kuiper satellites into low-Earth orbit as part of the retail giant's effort to compete [...]

Nvidia has released another hotfix driver that primarily addresses bugs and crashes with its RTX 50-series GPUs. The 576.26 hotfix driver is based on the 576.02 driver release earlier this month, which itself included a large amount of fixes for bugs and crashes. This latest hotfix driver includes all the fixes in the 576.15 hotfix [...]

SpaceX is now offering 12-month residential service plans that bring the price of the dish and router - normally $349 in the US - down to $0 in select markets, without increasing the monthly fee. You have 30 days to test or return the kit for a full refund, but after that there's some fine [...]

The Take It Down Act is heading to President Donald Trump's desk after the House voted 409-2 to pass the bill, which will require social media companies to take down content flagged as nonconsensual (including AI-generated) sexual images. Trump has pledged to sign it. The bill is among the only pieces of online safety legislation [...]

Duolingo will gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle," according to an all-hands email sent by co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn announcing that the company will be AI-first." The email was posted on Duolingo's LinkedIn account. According to von Ahn, being AI-first" means the company will need to rethink much [...]

Playasia, a popular retailer for buying video games, toys, and more from Asia, says that it does not expect" the Trump administration's planned import rule changes on Chinese-made goods to apply to game-related orders" because those orders will not include Chinese-manufactured goods." On May 2nd, the Trump administration is planning to end the de minimis [...]

The PC gaming platform GOG is adding a bunch of classic Star Wars games to its preservation program, which aims to keep older games playable on modern systems. The games joining the program include: First announced last November, GOG's game preservation program includes 162 DRM-free games, such as Breath of Fire IV, Diablo, System Shock [...]

DHL Express is resuming shipments of packages valued over $800 that are bound for consumers in the US, Reuters reports. The international shipping company had suspended the shipments last week due to a surge in formal customs clearances" amidst the Trump administration's sweeping tariffs on international goods. Effective today, business-to-consumer shipments valued between $800 and [...]

In 2019, DJI insisted to me that it wasn't killing off the Phantom, its iconic line of oft-imitated drones that turned the Chinese company into the powerhouse it is today. And yet, DJI has just announced the end of life for its final two Phantom drones - the Phantom 4 Pro and Phantom 4 Advanced [...]

Less than 48 hours after announcing an update to GPT-4o that promised improvements in "both intelligence and personality," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the chatbot had become "too sycophant-y and annoying." In an April 27th post on X, Altman said fixes to GPT-4o's personality would be coming "asap." After the update rolled out, users began [...]

The power elites have a Signal group chat, too - and the ones that seem to be reshaping the government, according to a recent report, are the ones Marc Andreessen created to bring the American right wing and the technocracy together. Semafor's Ben Smith published a massive article on Monday detailing an ecosystem of private, [...]

Apple's App Store review yet again let at least one unofficial mobile port of a hot new game slip through - this time, for Blue Prince. But shortly after we published this article, the port that we found disappeared from the App Store. In a joint post on Monday, Blue Prince's developer, Dogubomb, and its [...]