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Image: Ford Ford announced a new Flash" trim of the model year 2024 F-150 Lighting, with a bigger screen, longer range, and a heat pump to help improve battery conditioning on those colder days. The company said it is also expecting to make more F-150 Lightning deliveries to customers later this year after a factory shutdown restricted Ford's supply of the electric truck.Ford says it is targeting an EPA-estimated range for Flash of 320 miles, which would fit neatly in between the automaker's Standard Range and Long Range models. The F-150 Lightning Standard Range typically gets less than 300 miles of EPA-estimated range, while Extended Range variants can travel as far as 350 miles on a single charge.Ford says it is targeting an EPA-estimated... Continue reading...

Illustration: The Verge It was bound to happen eventually: a company has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Elon Musk's X Corp. over its renaming of Twitter (via Reuters). The company in question is X Social Media LLC, an ad agency from Florida that alleges X Corp. is guilty of violating Florida common law because of unfair competition and trademark and service mark infringement," as well as the state's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.X Social Media (hereafter referred to as XSM to make this article easier to write) writes in the complaint that it has used its registered trademark, X SOCIALMEDIA," continuously since 2016. XSM claims it has already suffered loss in revenue that correlates with X Corp.'s rebrand and use of the mark X.'"It's... Continue reading...

The Pixel Buds Pro may not be getting a replacement this year, but new software tricks are always welcome. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Google Pixel Buds Pro may be getting some nifty new software features that should sound a bit familiar if you were paying attention to the latest tweaks for Apple's AirPods Pro. According to notable leaker Kamila Wojciechowska (@Za_Raczke), Google plans a software update for its flagship earbuds that includes conversation detection, a hearing wellness monitor, and clearer call quality going both ways.The first feature sounds similar to Apple's Conversation Awareness that just came to all second-gen AirPods Pro earbuds, with Google's implementation automatically pausing your media playback and activating transparency mode once the Pixel Buds Pro detect the wearer is talking. Though, before Apple, Sony had already implemented this... Continue reading...

Satya Nadella appears in DC for US v. Google. | Image: Getty Images On the stand in US v. Google, the Microsoft CEO said he'd do just about anything to make Bing better. Google's lawyers said he should have been doing that for decades. Continue reading...

Image: Sebastien Martin-Schultz / Blizzard Hours after the Florida Mayhem were crowned the 2023 Overwatch League Grand Champions, the Overwatch League itself has likely come to its end. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) this morning, Blizzard said that it's working on building our vision of a revitalized esports program."

Image: Charlotte Hornets YouTuber MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, has struck a new partnership with the Charlotte Hornets that will plaster his snack company's logo on the NBA team's jerseys. The Charlotte Hornets announced that Feastables has become the team's official jersey patch partner for the 2023-2024 season.Not only will the Feastables logo appear on the jerseys belonging to the Charlotte Hornets, but it will also be stitched on jerseys for the Greensboro Swarm, the NBA G League team affiliated with the Hornets, along with the Hornets Venom GT, an NBA 2K League esports team. The Charlotte Hornets will even include Feastables branding in the backdrops it uses for press conferences and interviews. Image: Charlotte Hornets Here's... Continue reading...

Photo by Rick Kern / Getty Images for The Sandbox X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has made a special revenue sharing deal with Paris Hilton and her media company, 11:11. It even includes a custom hashtag for a word that Hilton has been trying to popularize since at least 2019: sliving."A combination of the words slaying" and living," sliving is supposed to be Hilton's new that's hot," her catchphrase that was inescapable in the early 2000s. Now the year is 2023, and Linda Yaccarino, fresh from her interview on the Code stage, is posting #sliving" to a site called X.

Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Samsung is reportedly set to formally launch cloud gaming inside the Samsung Game Launcher on Galaxy phones at its developer conference this week on October 5th, according to the Korea Economic Daily.The new cloud service, which has been in slowly expanding beta for a few months now, is targeted at mobile games, unlike most other cloud gaming plays, which generally offer PC and console games. It seems like Samsung's approach is more or less designed to recover the game-install-ad revenue lost as various ad targeting restrictions have gone into place over the past few years.That's not just cynicism - take it from Samsung's Jong Hyuk Woo, who told VentureBeat in August that 90% of the people who have expressed interest in a game... Continue reading...

An image of the new folding phone. | Image: OnePlus / Oppo OnePlus and Oppo are releasing the same foldable phone under different names, OnePlus confirmed in an announcement emailed to The Verge today. The company says that Oppo chief product officer Peter Lau, who co-founded OnePlus, directed teams at both companies to develop the phone in tandem to be released under both brands in different markets, though the email did not say which phone will go where.OnePlus didn't name the phones in the announcement, but they're the phones rumored to be called the OnePlus Open and the Oppo Find N3. Image: OnePlus / Oppo The alert slider lives on. GSMArena recently reported a rumor that the Oppo Find N3 will be a Chinese exclusive, while the OnePlus Open will get an international... Continue reading...

Image: The Verge Apple will no longer provide customer support on X (formerly Twitter), as spotted earlier by MacRumors. When you try to send a direct message to the Apple Support account, it now instructs you to visit the general support page on Apple's website.The account will similarly respond with an automated reply for any message you send it. After asking the account about an issue with an iPhone 15, Apple support replied saying: It sounds like you have an issue with your iPhone. We can help, but to provide the best support we'd like to continue this conversation in another support channel." The message also included a link to Apple's iPhone support page. Screenshot: Emma Roth / The Verge The Apple Support account now... Continue reading...

Artwork for Beyonce's Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce. | Image: Beyonce Beyonce is bringing her Renaissance tour to theaters, making her the second pop superstar this season to turn a blockbuster concert into a moviegoing experience. Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce will hit theaters across the US, Canada, and Mexico on December 1st - AMC, Cinemark, and Regal are all selling tickets already. AMC says it'll be going global at some point, too.The announcement comes a month after tickets for Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour concert film broke preorder records, doing $26 million in ticket sales in just one day. Swift's film was only available at AMC during that preorder window, which likely means a wider availability for Renaissance.While concert films hitting theaters isn't a new phenomenon, Swift's immense success... Continue reading...

The Pixel 8 Pro unboxing video shows off a matte black backing and a black camera bar. | Image: PBKreviews via YouTube The Pixel 8 launch event is just days away, but someone has already gotten their hands on Google's upcoming smartphones. In a pair of unboxing videos posted to YouTube by PBKreviews (via 9to5Google), you can see the packaging for the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro, along with a brief glimpse at how they look.The videos don't really add much to the flood of leaks we've already seen leading up to the event, but they show how both phones come neatly packaged with a USB-C cable, a manual, and a Quick Switch adapter, which you can use to transfer the contents of your old device to the Pixel 8.We also get a good look at a couple of color variations for the new devices. While the Pixel 8 unboxing video shows off a shiny gray color and a silver camera... Continue reading...

AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 test satellite is 693 square feet in size. | Image: AST Mobile via Business Wire The enormous, next-generation communications satellite BlueWalker 3 has become one of the brightest objects visible in the night sky, according to new research published today in the journal Nature.While BlueWalker 3 is groundbreaking for its ability to essentially turn ordinary smartphones into satellite phones, it might also usher in a new generation of satellites that create way more light pollution than their older, smaller predecessors. Rapidly growing mega-constellations of internet satellites are already mucking up researchers' observations of worlds beyond Earth. BlueWalker 3 is the brightest satellite in low Earth orbit yet, and astronomers fear it's just the tip of the iceberg.If it does become an issue, then it's going to... Continue reading...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The most recent crop of Beats headphones and earbuds just can't stop going on sale. Once again, since their release in July, the Beats Studio Pro noise-canceling headphones are on sale for $249.95 ($100 off) at Woot.Beats' latest wireless cans may look a lot like many of the company's prior ones, but the Studio Pro are outfitted with modern features like noise cancellation, a transparency mode, lossless audio via USB-C, spatial audio, up to 40 hours of battery life, and flexible support for both iPhones and Android phones. They may look a little ho-hum compared to more dramatic designs in the top class of current headphones or Apple's own AirPods Max, but if you still dig the typical Beats stylings, they're more than serviceable... Continue reading...

Photo by Costfoto / NurPhoto via Getty Images Tesla produced 430,488 vehicles in the third quarter of 2023, a 10 percent drop from the previous quarter but a 25 percent year-over-year increase for the company.Tesla attributed the sequential drop in production to planned downtimes for factory upgrades." During a recent earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk explained that the summer shutdowns" were necessary for recent product upgrades, like the refreshed Model 3 and Model Y that were recently revealed for the Chinese market.Summer shutdowns"The company said it delivered 435,059 vehicles in Q3, a 6.6 percent decrease over the previous quarter but a 26.5 percent increase year over year.Tesla missed the target on production and deliveries set by Wall Street investors, leading... Continue reading...

Image: Google Google is gearing up to launch a new lineup of Pixel products during its upcoming Made by Google event. Even though Google has already said that it will reveal the Pixel 8 alongside the updated Pixel Watch 2, it may have some other surprises in store.If you're interested in watching the event, here's when and where you can tune in as well as what exactly you can expect.How to watch the Made by Google eventThe Google Pixel event will take place on October 4th, 2023, starting at 10AM ET / 7AM PT. Google will host an in-person audience at the event's New York City venue, but you can follow along by watching the livestream on Google's website, YouTube channel, or via the video embedded at the top of this article.All-around upgrades for... Continue reading...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk alongside the Cybertruck at its 2019 launch event. | Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP via Getty Images Tesla didn't end up holding a delivery event for its Cybertruck in the third quarter of 2023 as CEO Elon Musk had hoped. We're anticipating having [a] delivery event, a great delivery event probably in Q3," Musk said in the company's April earnings call. The Cybertruck handover... will hopefully be around the end of Q3 this year," he added later in the call.Although Musk's comments read more as a target than an explicit promise, this is just the latest delay in its introduction of the Cybertruck, which was originally due to start rolling off the assembly line in 2021 when it was announced in 2019. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have paid a roughly $100 refundable deposit to reserve the vehicle. The Wall Street Journal notes... Continue reading...

Image: Netflix The latest end-of-the-world movie coming to Netflix has some serious star power. Leave the World Behind - based on the book of the same name by Rumaan Alam - is helmed by Mr. Robot's Sam Esmail and stars Mahershala Ali, Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, and Kevin Bacon. It's a post-apocalyptic thriller with a decidedly intense vibe, which you can check out in the trailer above.As for what it's actually about, here's the official synopsis:

Katalin Kariko (left) and Drew Weissman's (right) research into mRNA was used to develop covid-19 vaccinations. | Image: Nobel Prize American scientists Katalin Kariko (a Hungarian-born biochemist) and Drew Weissman (an immunologist and professor of vaccine research) have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), which contributed towards the development of effective covid-19 vaccines (seen via The New York Times). mRNA vaccines have an advantage over traditional vaccines in that they can be quickly designed and safely manufactured at scale with fewer errors.Seven years after they first met at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998, Kariko and Weissman published their findings on mRNA. The scientists found that they could add altered mRNA to cells, prompting them to create any protein they desired.... Continue reading...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft's task management app, Microsoft Lists, is now available for everyone to use. Launched in 2020, Microsoft Lists was originally limited to just business and enterprise users, before a limited preview for consumers last year. Microsoft is now letting anyone with a Microsoft Account access this free version of Microsoft Lists through iOS and Android apps and on the web.Microsoft Lists allows you to create, manage, and share lists across devices, complete with ready-made templates for tasks like expense tracking, recipe making, gift ideas, and much more. You can easily share lists with colleagues, friends, and family so multiple people can contribute to a list. Image: Microsoft Microsoft Lists on mobile. ... Continue reading...

Illustration: The Verge Apple will soon bring its powerful internal search engine to the App Store and other apps, as Mark Gurman reports in this week's Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. Apple debuted upgrades to its Spotlight search feature in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, letting users search there for web results, details from apps, documents, and much more.According to the newsletter, former Google executive John Giannandrea's search team is working to bake the internally-named Pegasus" search engine more deeply into iOS and macOS and could even use generative AI tools to enhance it further. Last year Apple also launched Business Connect, a tool that helped strengthen its information database with details about businesses' hours and locations in a way that could... Continue reading...

Courtesy of Cinema Guild Recently, we've been gifted two new works by Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo each year. He loves a small movie, usually comfortably under the 90-minute mark, and a scope that might encompass a novella or even a short story. I personally find them kind of hit or miss. Not to say Hong is inconsistent. In fact, it is remarkable how he can keep making the same kind of movie over and over. Even within the self-imposed constraints of Hong's manner, there is wild variance in what he puts out. In that sense, his new movies are fitting - though unessential - additions to his prolific filmography.One of this year's, In Our Day, is fairly standard Hong: low stakes, talky, and cast with familiar actors (if you think Wes Anderson likes recurring players,... Continue reading...

Image: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 8, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, first of all, hi, hello, welcome, and second of all, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)This week, I've spent an alarming amount of my free time playing EA Sports FC 24, the new soccer game that just released in full on Friday. I've also been reading about Apple's plans to change the sports TV world, the truly unhinged Survivor casting process, and Sam Altman's plan to either save the world or end it. I've been watching Special Ops: Lioness, listening to NSYNC's new song on repeat, and taking copious notes on Kashmir Hill's excellent Longform interview.I also have for you a new VR / AR / MR... Continue reading...

A picture of two LG TVs at CES 2022. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge LG told the FCC it's pulling support for the ATSC 3.0 standard in its TVs next year because of a challenging and uncertain patent landscape," according to LightReading (via ZatzNotFunny). ATSC 3.0, aka Nextgen TV, is the next-generation broadcast format that would bring 4K TV and advanced video and audio formats like HDR and Dolby Atmos, as well as interactive apps, for free.As we wrote about the standard in 2017:

The outside of The Sphere during the U2:UV Achtung Baby Live concert on September 29th, 2023. | Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images U2 played the first-ever show at the Las Vegas Sphere, a massive, dome-shaped venue wrapped in over a million LEDs. The concert, a live performance centered on the band's Achtung, Baby album, was also the band's first in a series of performances it will put on at the venue through the end of December. The cheapest tickets for the shows that haven't sold out yet start at about $400, as of this writing.From videos being posted to social media, it looks like shows at The Sphere can be breathtaking, probably more than a little nauseating, and undoubtedly expensive to produce.A review in The New York Times says the concert alternated between gigantic, trippy visual effects sweeping across the domed display and the more standard concert... Continue reading...

The Humane Ai Pin, up-close on a model at coperni's Ready to Wear show during Paris Fashion Week, September 29th, 2023. | Photo by Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images It's Paris Fashion Week, and Humane was designer Coperni's latest buzzy tech name to be included. Humane's Ai Pin - a device we've so far only seen in silhouette on the company's website or peeking out of Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri's breast pocket in a TED demo earlier this year - was pinned on the clothes of multiple Coperni models during its presentation. And it's a rounded-corner square thing that makes me think just a little of a Star Trek: TNG-style communicator.The Coperni showcase doesn't answer our many questions about the device since nobody seems to have used it on the runway as far as we can tell, but at least we know basically what it will look like now. We still have no real idea how self-contained it is, whether it... Continue reading...

Photo illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge Monarch Tractor's Praveen Penmetsa has a grand vision for agriculture, and it includes autonomous electric smart tractors powered by AI. Continue reading...

Google Assistant, but make it Bard. | Illustration: The Verge If there's one job I'd like AI to take from me, it's my daily email deleting ritual.Every morning at 8:30AM, Google Calendar pings me with a reminder containing just one word: EMAILS. Thus, my formal workday begins as I speed-delete nearly every email that landed in my inbox overnight. They are largely useless and clog up the space between legitimate emails that I need to read and respond to.Imagine for a minute, though, if you could just tell an AI assistant to show you your most important emails and delete all the rest. I asked Google Assistant on a Pixel 7 Pro to do this, and it just wordlessly escorted me to my inbox so I could deal with it myself. Thanks a bunch.Google, like almost every other tech company in the world, is all... Continue reading...

Image: TIFF Fingernails, a sci-fi romcom coming to Apple TV Plus from director Christos Nikou, imagines a future where one very specific technology has changed the world. In this timeline, scientists have figured out how to conclusively determine if two people are in love. This upends relationships as we know them, with couples sticking steadfastly to the results of the test; if they get a negative result, they end up splitting up. It's a cute conceit for exploring the ways relationships can grow stale or change over time, and Fingernails builds on that with its darkly comedic vibe. It also has a surprising amount of body horror - the nature of which you might be able to glean from the title.The film centers on Anna (Jessie Buckley), a teacher who... Continue reading...

A general view of a flooded street in Williamsburg, New York, United States on September 29th, 2023. | Photo by Fatih Aktas / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images New York City came to a grinding halt Friday as floods shut down roads and subways and inundated schools in one of the biggest storm-related emergencies since the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit in 2021.It isn't a problem that's unique to New York. Flood risk is rising across the US with worsening weather disasters and growing strain on outdated infrastructure.The water has nowhere to go"What should a flood-proof city look like? The Verge asked Samuel Brody, Director of the Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas and a professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science at Texas A&M University at Galveston.This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.Are cities uniquely vulnerable to flooding?... Continue reading...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Su Zhu, the co-founder of the collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), was arrested in Singapore on Friday. Zhu was taken into custody while attempting to leave the country from Singapore's Changi Airport, as reported earlier by Bloomberg.Teneo, the liquidation firm in charge of liquidating 3AC's assets, says it received a committal order against Zhu after he failed to comply with a court order that compelled him to cooperate with the liquidation process. That committal order directs Singaporean police to arrest Zhu and hold him in prison for four months. Teneo says it obtained a similar" committal order for 3AC's other co-founder, Kyle Davies.During his time in prison, Teneo says the liquidators will engage with Zhu... Continue reading...

Onewheel at CES in 2015. | Image: The Verge Future Motion, the maker of the Onewheel electric skateboard, is recalling every one of them, including 300,000 Onewheel self-balancing vehicles in the US. Alongside the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the company now seeks to remedy the products after four known death cases - three without a helmet - between 2019 and 2021.The recall comes a year after Future Motion took issue with the CPSC's calls for recall and claimed that it tested and found nothing wrong with the Onewheels. At the time, the company issued a press release in objection to the CPSC and called the agency's statements unjustified and alarmist."Now Future Motion is moving forward with a voluntary recall it chose not to do almost a year earlier. The... Continue reading...

Image: Nintendo / Insomniac Games / Sega October is a lousy month for games. It's just stuffed full of some of the biggest releases of the year. Remember back in the summer when Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, and Final Fantasy XVI all released in the span of five weeks? October is that on steroids - a greater number of high-profile games concentrated in a much shorter stretch of time. Here's what we're looking at.

Image: Letterboxd Letterboxd, a beloved film reviews and social media platform that took off during the pandemic, has been acquired. Its new owner is a Canadian holding company called Tiny, which promises a fast, friendly, and simple" process for founders looking for quick, straightforward exits."The deal, as reported by The New York Times, values Letterboxd at $50 million. Tiny also owns companies like AeroPress, according to its website.Letterboxd has been around since 2011, founded by Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow, and has grown its user base to around 10 million people - a drop in the bucket compared to bigger, noisier sites, but home to film buffs, critics, and even a few celebrities.The app is part social media and part personal log -... Continue reading...