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A federal judge has struck down an Ohio law that would've required children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media platforms. In a decision on Wednesday, US District Court Judge Algenon Marbley ruled that the law is unconstitutional, saying it violates the First Amendment. Signed in 2023, Ohio's Social Media Parental Notification [...]

After 24 hours with Huaweias Mate XT a a.k.a. the worldas first trifold smartphone aAI have this to say for it: the novelty hasnat worn off. Iave tried the Mate XT twice before, first shortly after it launched last September, and then again in February after it was released outside of China. But now Huawei [...]

The Trump administration dealt a major blow to the fledgling US offshore wind industry yesterday by ordering a major wind project off the coast of New York to stop construction. US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the move on X yesterday, which ordered a stop on all construction on the Empire Wind project pending further [...]

RetroTINK, a company that sells hardware for playing retro consoles on modern screens, says it will be temporarily suspending US shipments - even though the company wants to pre-pay President Donald Trump's tariffs, as reported by Time Extension. The company is suspending shipments due to lack of guidance on how tariffs will be collected starting [...]

Playdate is about to get a big batch of new games. Today, Panic confirmed the first details of the handheld's upcoming season 2, which will include 12 new games and run from May 29th to July 3rd, with two titles releasing each week. The full season will cost $39. When the Playdate first launched back [...]

After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress to try to explain what had happened. The focus on how much data Facebook had on everyone, including shadow profiles" for non-Facebook users, was enough to shake financial markets and, eventually, [...]

The state of New Jersey has filed suit against Discord claiming the company engaged in deceptive and unconscionable business practices" that put children at risk. The suit was filed Thursday and alleges the popular messaging app of not doing enough to keep its youngest users safe from predators and violent content. Here's a link to [...]

Smartphones with folding OLED screens have been around for over six years, but China's Readmoo is the first company to announce a consumer-ready e-reader with a folding E Ink display. Details on when its mooInk V will ship, or how much it will cost, haven't been announced. Yet the company says it has spent nine [...]

Google is the latest AI service provider to court users in higher education. Starting today, college students in the US can sign up for Google's One AI Premium plan for free, shirking the usual $20 monthly subscription fee until June 30th, 2026. Applicants will need to sign up before the deal expires on June 30th, [...]

Whether you're traveling or working from home, the noise-canceling Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones can help you find calm and focus amid the everyday hustle and bustle. Normally priced at $429, sadly that peace and quiet doesn't come cheap - but luckily today, you can grab a refurbished pair from Bose's official eBay storefront for just [...]

Instagram is launching a new feature called Blend that's a custom Reels feed shared between you and members of a DM group. If you've invited members of a DM chat to a Blend, then when you tap the Blend icon in a chat, Instagram will show you Reels that are suggested for people in the [...]

On the outside, Framework's new Laptop 13 looks about the same as it has for the past four years. But the modular, upgradable, easily-repairable laptop has changed plenty where it counts: on the inside. Itas getting a chip bump for 2025, which would normally be pretty boring for any other laptop. But for the Framework, [...]

Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr has accused Comcast of news distortion" over its networks' coverage of Kilmar Armando Abrego, a Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador due to what the government said was an administrative error." Comcast outlets spent days misleading the American public," Carr wrote in a reply to a post [...]

In Marvel's Fantastic Four: First Steps, everyone sees Reed Richards and his family as heroes capable of protecting the planet from any threat. But the film's latest trailer makes it seem like the team's first big villain might be a little more than they can handle. Everyone in the world of First Steps knows the [...]

The US Department of Justice has won its antitrust case against Google, which accused the company of operating a monopoly in the advertising technology industry. The ruling, which marks Google's most recent antitrust loss following its Search case, says the tech giant's anticompetitive practices in two key markets substantially harmed" publishers and users on the [...]

All of the best lessons from Google's Chromecast lineup through the years were filtered into the TV Streamer 4K, its fastest and smartest set-top box currently available. While the last-gen Chromecast 4K with Google TV nailed the software aspect, this gadget brings the hardware to make it sing. And, presumably for a limited time, you [...]

Making its debut at Milan Design Week, where function often takes a back seat to form, Audio-Technica's new Hotaru turntable manages to balance both. The upper section not only floats above the base using a series of magnets that help dampen vibrations, it also glows from within with a color-changing light show that responds to [...]

Horror movies centering Black characters are not a new phenomenon, but the genreas resurgence in recent years has ushered in a fresh wave of ambitious and occasionally phenomenal features that spin the United Statesa legacy of racism into captivating, supernatural tales. Sinners, writer / director Ryan Coogleras latest project, feels very much like a product [...]

On today's episode of Decoder, we're talking tariffs and trade wars. One of the ways I've been trying to sort out the chaos of this moment is by talking to the people behind the software that actually runs our global trade systems. We got a lot of notes from listeners who really appreciated our episode [...]

Perplexity's AI voice assistant will reportedly play a significant role in the upcoming Motorola Razr expected to be announced April 24th, Bloomberg reports. The news comes after Motorola posted a teaser video of the Razr on social media last week, showing the foldable device animate into the word AI. Perplexity is also working with T-Mobile's [...]

Shein and Temu are preparing to raise their prices in the US. In almost the same notice to customers, the ultra-cheap retailers warn that they will start adjusting their prices on April 25th due to changes to global trade rules and tariffs." President Donald Trump has raised tariffs on goods imported from China to up [...]

Archer says it will launch an air taxi service in New York City with United Airlines, which will include routes between Manhattan and major airports like JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark. The aviation company aims to replace hourlong taxi rides along congested roads with breezy flights lasting between 5-15 minutes. Archer and United would utilize preexisting [...]

Discord is preventing some users from accessing sensitive content unless they allow the platform to verify their age by scanning their face or ID. The new age verification process is described as an experiment" by Discord, and is being trialed in the United Kingdom and Australia in response to local laws that require online platforms [...]

Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that's specifically optimized for training AI models. The Wikimedia Foundation announced on Wednesday that it had partnered with Kaggle - a Google-owned data science community platform that hosts machine learning data - to publish a beta dataset of structured [...]

Go to any run club in the world and thereas a good chance that everyone there has two things: a Garmin smartwatch to track their run and a Strava account to brag about it. Given the global running boom, it makes Stravaas lack of any modern, in-app training plans a curious and glaring omission. Or, [...]

Towards the end of Mark Zuckerbergas testimony in a Washington, DC courthouse, a smile flashed across his face. Metaas lead attorney, Mark Hansen, had asked the CEO if he was ahappya about paying $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014. Zuckerberg flashed a grin, took a brief pause, and responded, aIad do it again.a Over the [...]

Gemini Live's feature that lets it see and respond to what's on your camera and your screen will now be free for all Android users via the Gemini app, Google announced today. The AI-powered feature officially launched earlier this month for everyone on Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 using the Gemini app. At the [...]

Copilot Vision, Microsoft's AI assistant feature that can interpret what's on your screen and help you use apps, is now available for free use within the Edge browser, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, announced on Bluesky today. Vision is a talk-based experience," as Microsoft calls it, meaning you use it by speaking into the [...]

Zoom suffered a major outage this afternoon that prevented people from connecting to video calls and accessing its website. As shown by Cisco's ThousandEyes platform, site connectivity dropped off at around 2:40PM ET before coming back online nearly two hours later. Users across X posted about the outage, with some getting an Unable to Connect" [...]

Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets people earn crypto for reporting sightings of undocumented immigrants. ICERAID, a aGovFi protocol that delegates intelligence gathering tasks to citizens,a has recently been promoted by the likes of conspiracy theorist and Trump confidante Laura Loomer, Proud Boy-turned-media personality Jacob Engels, and disgraced former Rep. Matt Gaetz. [...]

Apple's making steady progress toward its climate goals, the company's latest environmental progress report shows. Its planet-heating pollution shrank by 800,000 metric tons last year compared to 2023, about a 5 percent drop. Looking back over the past decade, Apple says its global greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by more than 60 percent. That's no [...]

During Meta's antitrust trial today, lawyers representing Apple, Google, and Snap each expressed irritation with Meta over the slides it presented on Monday that The Verge found to contain easy-to-remove redactions. Attorneys for both Apple and Snap called the errors egregious," with Apple's representative indicating that it may not be able to trust Meta with [...]

Xbox is finally rolling out the ability to purchase games and DLC, as well as sign up for Game Pass directly from its mobile app. But there's a catch: you'll no longer be able to access remote play within the Xbox app. The update is arriving for beta testers on iOS and Android, but Xbox [...]

In recent years, Do Not Disturb has evolved on both iPhones and Android phones: it's no longer just a simple block on notifications and distractions, but rather a selection of modes you can customize to suit all the different scenarios in your life (like driving, sleeping, working, or exercising at the gym). This means you [...]

OpenAI is releasing two new AI reasoning models today: o3, which the company calls its most powerful reasoning model," and o4-mini, which is a smaller and faster model that achieves remarkable performance for its size and cost," according to a blog post. The company also says that o3 and o4-mini will be able to think" [...]

As a part of its ongoing Book Sale, Amazon isn't just cutting prices on its budget-friendly Fire HD tablets - it's also offering a great deal on the latest Kindle Scribe. Right now, you can buy it with 16GB of storage for an all-time low of $324.99 ($75 off). If you need more storage, you [...]

Lyft said it is acquiring mobility platform FreeNow, giving the ridehailing company its first major presence in Europe after years of operating exclusively in the US and Canada. FreeNow aggregates taxis alongside private vehicles, including luxury rides. The acquisition of FreeNow nearly doubles Lyft's potential market and will aide the company as it seeks to [...]

Falling somewhere between a 3D printer and the inkjet you use to churn out color photos, Anker's eufyMake brand has announced what it's calling the industry's first 3D-texture UV Printer designed for personal use." The UV Printer E1 is closer in size to a 3D printer than an inkjet, but is designed to produce 2D [...]

Figma slapped Swedish AI coding startup Loveable with a cease-and-desist warning for naming one of its new product features Dev Mode." It turns out Figma successfully trademarked the term Dev Mode in November last year, according to the US Patent and Trademark office, having introduced its own Dev Mode feature in 2023. We're flattered that [...]

DJI's new drone accessory is designed to ensure public safety and emergency officials are heard loud and clear - and I mean really loud. Its enterprise-focused Zenmuse V1 speaker can broadcast the sound of someone's voice at up to 127 decibels at 1 meter, a number DJI says is on par with the sound level [...]

TikTok has announced Footnotes," its own take on the community notes features that started on Twitter and have been spreading to other social networks. As elsewhere, it's a crowd-sourced approach to moderation - TikTok says contributors will be able to add relevant information to content on our platform." US users can apply to become Footnotes [...]

The government will continue funding the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program. In a statement to The Verge, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) spokesperson Jared Auchey said it executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services" last night. On Tuesday, MITRE, the government-funded organization [...]

Spotify is down according to widespread user reports across the US and Europe, with issues preventing the platform from loading or streaming music. At 8:45AM ET on Wednesday morning, the Spotify Status account on X said it was aware of some issues" affecting the service right now, and is currently checking them out." It's unclear [...]

Microsoft has started testing an early version of its Copilot for Gaming experience. Sources familiar with Microsoftas Xbox plans tell me that employees can now access Copilot within the Xbox mobile app, and that while it looks similar to the existing Copilot chatbot, itas designed to tap into your Xbox account. Announced last month, Copilot [...]

Patreon is taking on Twitch with a new feature that lets creators offer live video streams directly on the platform. The feature will be available starting this week" to select creators" in an early access test, and the company plans to roll it out more widely this summer, according to a press release. In the [...]

Digital picture frame company Auraas newest product, the Aspen, displays your digital photos in analog style. With a 12-inch antiglare display, a 4:3 aspect ratio, and a super slim bezel, the $229 frame improves on the companyas 10-inch Carver frame ($149) while retaining Auraas core photo-sharing feature. It also brings two new features to the [...]

Nvidia is releasing a new GPU driver today that includes a massive amount of fixes for bugs and crashes that have plagued its Game Ready drivers recently. After widespread reports of black screens, game crashes, and general stability issues, today's 576.02 driver release (.exe download) not only bumps the version number significantly from last month's [...]

Iave been trying to buy a Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III for two weeks, and I no longer believe this camera exists. It definitely existed at one point. The camera was released in 2019, and Iam sure I used one at least for a little bit because I was working at a camera website [...]