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Nanoleaf’s blacked-out Triangle panels that light up with RGB color are $55 off
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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
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The Ultra Black version of the Nanoleaf Triangles leaves a bit of negative space on your walls when turned off as opposed to the usual bright white. | Image: Nanoleaf Nanoleaf is offering a sizable savings on its slick, blacked-out light panels. The Nanoleaf Shapes Ultra Black Triangles Smarter Kit with nine panels is selling for $165 ($54.99 off) when you use code NANO25FB at checkout on Nanoleaf's site. The limited-edition panels were first released a little over a year ago to commemorate Nanoleaf's 10th birthday. I don't know if they're still really limited," as they remain easy to buy even after Nanoleaf has turned 11, but either way, the black triangles are especially cool-looking since they show their all-black base when turned off. Most other Nanoleaf panels are entirely white when switched off, so the black offers a sleek contrast with brighter walls or can blend into darker rooms.Of... Continue reading...
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Sony WF-1000XM5 noise-canceling earbuds review: better in every way — for now
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Chris Welch
on (#6D80T)
Sony's latest flagship earbuds are excellent on multiple fronts, but the lack of an ecosystem will hold them back in the not-too-distant future. Continue reading...
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Tencent set to acquire Dying Light studio Techland
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Ash Parrish
on (#6D7XC)
Image: Techland Tencent, the billion-dollar Chinese holding company that owns either wholly or in part game studios like Riot Games, Epic Games, and many others, is in the process of adding another studio to its long list of subsidiaries - Techland.CEO Pawel Marchewka announced the news, saying, Teaming up with Tencent will allow us to move full speed ahead with the execution of the vision for our games."Techland is a Polish studio known for its zombie survival games, including the Dying Light and Dead Island series. Last year, after a lengthy delay, the studio released the highly anticipated sequel to Dying Light, Dying Light 2: Stay Human, to decent reviews.Also last year, The Gamer reported on internal struggles at Techland, reporting that 20... Continue reading...
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Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max models could be more expensive
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Jess Weatherbed
on (#6D7XD)
Apple is expecting to produce around 85 million units of the iPhone 15 this year, roughly in line with iPhone 14 (pictured) production last year. | Image: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge According to a new report by Bloomberg, Apple is allegedly planning to hike the price of its upcoming iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max models in a bid to increase revenue during a projected slump in smartphone sales.The publication claims that Apple has a target to produce around 85 million iPhone 15 units this year, which isn't far off the 90 million iPhone 14 units the company is said to have requested from its suppliers last year. Essentially, Apple is hoping it can produce a similar number of devices but keep its revenue high (in spite of things like ongoing inflation and lower demand for consumer tech) by increasing the price of its more expensive iPhone models, according to people familiar with the matter."Falling demand in the... Continue reading...
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TikTok is adding text posts
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Mia Sato
on (#6D7XE)
Image: TikTok TikTok users can now post text-based updates in addition to videos and series of photos - just as platforms like Meta's Threads are vying to take on Twitter's microblogging dominance.Text posts appear similar to Instagram Stories visually: users can add a background color, edit how text appears, and add music and stickers to the post. Posts have a 1,000-character limit (yes, I tested it to find out). Other users can also engage with the post similar to how they interact with video - by stitching, dueting, and commenting.Seeing the company responsible for the tidal wave of shortform video add text features is interesting on its own, but the timing is worth noting. Platforms like Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and a litany of others are... Continue reading...
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Bing Chat is now available in Google Chrome and Safari
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Emma Roth
on (#6D7XF)
Illustration: The Verge Watch out Bard - Bing's AI chatbot is now available in Google Chrome and Safari. As first spotted by Windows Latest (via 9to5Google), you can now access the chatbot from Bing.com in both browsers.There are some limitations to using Bing Chat on Chrome and Safari, though. For one, you can only type 2,000-word prompts, as opposed to the 4,000-word limit that you get when using Bing Chat on Edge. Your conversation with the chatbot will also reset after five turns instead of 30, and you'll see some annoying pop-ups that prompt you to download Edge. Screenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge You'll still get prompted to download Edge. In addition to a wider rollout across different browsers, Microsoft has introduced dark... Continue reading...
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Microsoft has created a pizza-scented Xbox controller
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Tom Warren
on (#6D7T2)
Image: Microsoft I'm fairly sure most Xbox controllers give off a bit of a sweaty pong after hours of gaming, but Microsoft has now created one that's supposed to smell like pizza from the get-go. The world's first ever pizza-scented controller" is part of a marketing effort for the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem movie.Microsoft has designed custom TMNT Xbox controllers that have a scent diffuser strapped to the back in the shape of a slice of pizza. There are four variations in total, and thankfully, they're just part of a sweepstakes giveaway, so we won't be seeing or sniffing these controllers everywhere. If you want to try and win a pizza-scented controller, you'll need to enter by retweeting a post on the Xbox Game Pass... Continue reading...
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RIP Twitter’s iconic bird logo
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Jon Porter
on (#6D7T3)
Image: Alex Castro and Jess Weatherbed / The Verge Early Monday morning, Twitter began replacing its blue bird logo with a fan-made " logo. The same X also appears on Twitter's homepage, as a profile picture for its official @twitter account, and on a splash screen displayed while the website loads. The blue bird logo hasn't been expunged from the service entirely - it still serves as the website's favicon and remains prominent throughout the mobile apps - but we're now knee-deep in a haphazard rebranding that was announced by Elon Musk yesterday.Soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds," Musk wrote.The modern Twitter bird was actually the company's second logo and replaced the company's earlier Larry the Bird" logo it used between 2010 and 2012.... Continue reading...
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Flip phones are having a moment — and all eyes are on Samsung now
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Allison Johnson
on (#6D7T4)
It's your time to shine, little guys. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge What's old is hot again, and flip phones are so very hot right now.These phones are a far cry from the phone that you mastered T9 texting on in college. Today's flip phones are garden-variety 2023 smartphones that happen to fold in half - plus a screen on the front cover.They've been making a kind of comeback over the past few years, but until now, they've existed in the shadows of their bigger, pricier fold-style counterparts. That's understandable, considering that their small cover screens haven't been good for much more than checking the weather and pressing pause on a podcast. But that's all changing this year: in a round of updates from Motorola, Oppo, and very likely Samsung next, cover screens are getting much larger and way... Continue reading...
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The Flipper Zero has an app store now
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Nathan Edwards
on (#6D7T5)
This press image sums up the Flipper's appeal pretty well. | Image: Flipper The Flipper Zero - a dolphin-themed digital multitool - now has a mobile app store, which makes it much easier to browse and install third-party tools and plug-ins right from your phone. The marketplace is built into the latest version of Flipper's official app, which is out today.Quick recap: the Flipper Zero is cool as hell. It has sub-GHz wireless, RFID, NFC, and Bluetooth radios. It can receive and transmit infrared signals. It has a USB-C port and a row of GPIO ports on the top that let it interface with other hardware, including an add-on Wi-Fi board. Chris Person, writing for The Verge, called it a Swiss Army knife of antennas. You can use it to emulate Amiibos. You can use it as a universal remote or a USB Rubber Ducky. You can... Continue reading...
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It’s Spotify’s turn to increase prices
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Jon Porter
on (#6D7QF)
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge After 12 years, the price of Spotify Premium is increasing in the US. The subscription will now cost $10.99 a month, the company announced today. Spotify has charged $9.99 for its Premium subscription ever since its launch in the US in 2011. So that we can keep innovating, we are changing our Premium prices across a number of markets around the world," the company wrote in a post announcing the increase. These updates will help us continue to deliver value to fans and artists on our platform."As well as increasing the price of a single Premium subscription, the cost of Duo will increase from $12.99 to $14.99, Family will increase from $15.99 to $16.99, and Student will increase from $4.99 to $5.99. According to an FAQ, existing... Continue reading...
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Greta Gerwig’s Barbie blasts into the blockbuster record books with $155 million US opening
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Jess Weatherbed
on (#6D7MX)
Yep, $155 million seems Kenough to me. | Image: Warner Bros. Pictures Legions of Barbie-core and biopic fans descended onto theaters this weekend for the Barbenheimer" box office phenomenon, but one pink-plastered performance, in particular, came out on top. Greta Gerwig's Barbie has already smashed several records, raking in $155 million domestically over the weekend - the highest US opening ever for a film directed by a woman - beating the previous $153 million achieved by Anna Boden's Captain Marvel.The massive, overwhelming response we've seen out there proves what we've known from the beginning: that Barbie' is not only an incredibly special film, but clearly the theatrical event of the summer, if not the year," said Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros. Pictures president of domestic distribution in a... Continue reading...
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Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears
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Wes Davis
on (#6D7MY)
Image: Twitter Twitter is transforming into X, as the site's former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds."Now X has replaced the Twitter logo on the web version, signaling a change to Musk's everything app" that he originally envisioned shortly after purchasing Twitter for $44 billion in November. The X logo will presumably replace the bird logo in mobile versions of the apps once they're updated. References to Twitter still remain on the main web login prompt, though. S... Continue reading...
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Twitter is being rebranded as X
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Wes Davis
on (#6D73C)
The new user-submitted Twitter logo that Musk says he'll probably refine later. | Image: Twitter X.com now redirects to Twitter.com, following a tweet from Twitter owner Elon Musk today, and an interim X logo" will soon replace the Twitter bird logo. Leading up to the change, Musk spent a lot of time tweeting about it.Around 12AM ET last night, he started tweeting - and did so for hours - about the Twitter rebrand to X, the one-letter name he's used repeatedly in company and product names forever. It started with a tweet saying soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds," followed by a second tweet adding that if a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we'll make go live worldwide tomorrow."Musk then, over the next several hours, gestured at the change in between other posts and replies, tweeting... Continue reading...
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Apple is already using its chatbot for internal work
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Wes Davis
on (#6D77D)
Illustration: The Verge Apple is using an internal chatbot to help its employees prototype future features, summarize text and answer questions based on data it has been trained with," says Bloomberg's Mark Gurman in Power On today.Apple hasn't been sure what it wants to do with its Apple GPT chatbot project on the customer-facing side yet, but Gurman's report shed some light on at least its internal chatbot uses. According to the newsletter, Apple is looking at ways to expand the use of generative AI within its organization, with one possibility being giving the tool to its AppleCare support staff to better help customers dealing with issues.That won't necessarily happen soon, as the chatbot tendency to get things wrong is well-known to Apple and its CEO,... Continue reading...
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Netflix isn’t planning to make a native Vision Pro app yet
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Wes Davis
on (#6D75E)
Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Netflix isn't planning to make a native version of its app for the Vision Pro, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman in today's Power On newsletter. Instead, he says, the company will allow its existing iPad app to run, unmodified, on Apple's forthcoming mixed reality headset.As Gurman's piece points out, developers who don't want to build Vision Pro software from the ground up have two choices: let their iPad apps run as is on the device or tweak them for the Vision Pro. Netflix has chosen the former, though whether pointedly or not, we don't know.Of course, very few companies have actually pledged dedicated software for the Vision Pro at this point, but Netflix's reticence carries some baggage. The streaming giant was one of the most... Continue reading...
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Ghost Trick is a summer beach read in video game form
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Ash Parrish
on (#6D71K)
Capcom Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is 2023's perfect summer video game.Now, you might be wondering how I could call a Switch port of a Nintendo DS game from 2010 perfect" (the game's also available on PS4, Xbox One, and Steam) over any of the games actually released this year, like Diablo IV or Final Fantasy XVI. But while I enjoyed both of those games, I actually don't think either are ideal summer games for two reasons.
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How my smart home almost saved my vacation
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
on (#6D71J)
This Ecobee smart thermostat alerted me to a potentially catastrophic scenario in my home while I was on vacation. But there was little I could do about it from afar. When my HVAC unit failed while I was out of town, my smart thermostat warned me, and the rest of my connected home helped me figure out what was going on. Continue reading...
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The Nothing Phone 2 is mostly fine on Verizon — if you’ve got good 5G coverage
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Chris Welch
on (#6D71M)
Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Sometimes you've just gotta break the rules and go for it. I attended Nothing's New York City product drop last week and got my hands on the Nothing Ear 2s and the Nothing Phone 2. Now, I'm a longtime Verizon customer, which seemed like a major hurdle for actually testing out this phone and its flashing glyphs. At one point, Nothing had mentioned limited" support for Verizon on its website, but the company has since removed the carrier from its tech specs altogether - never a good sign.But as I've come to find out, as long as you've got an active SIM that was already in another Verizon-certified phone, you can toss that into the Nothing Phone 2 and get going without any immediate headaches. When I tried doing so, the phone's mobile... Continue reading...
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Paramount Plus dropped its big Star Trek crossover episode early, and it’s a delight
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Alex Cranz
on (#6D6RX)
This photo is technically a spoiler, but it was released months ago by the studio, so is it actually a spoiler? | Photo by Michael Gibson / Paramount Plus There might not be any actors or big casting announcements at San Diego Comic-Con this year, but Paramount Plus did find one way to surprise fans. It's dropping the next episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds five days early. The episode also happens to be the very anticipated crossover episode featuring the live-action version of some of the cast of Star Trek: Lower Decks. Having already seen this episode, I can confirm this is all exactly as delightful as it sounds.With the actors on strike, SDCC has been much more muted than in previous years. There aren't as many star-studded panels and zero major casting announcements. This has meant studios need to rely on something besides the labor of actors to promote their shows, and... Continue reading...
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is getting a musical episode
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Wes Davis
on (#6D6RY)
Image: Paramount Star Trek: Strange New Worlds had a pair of surprise announcements at San Diego Comic-Con today. First, the show is stepping out of its weekly release schedule with a new episode tonight - a crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks will debut on Paramount Plus in a few minutes, at 7PM ET, Deadline reports. And that's not all - the series is also getting a musical episode in early August called Subspace Rhapsody."Deadline points out that this is the first musical episode in Star Trek history, and the publication isn't wrong, but the franchise has boldly gone there before... sort of. There was a Deep Space Nine episode, called Chrysalis," where a group of eccentric, genetically-engineered people break out into an a capella song after one... Continue reading...
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A Google Workspace update makes alt text easier to add
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Wes Davis
on (#6D6QG)
Image: Google Adding alt text to an image in a Google Workspace project is getting much easier after an update included the accessibility improvement. Until recently, adding alt text to images was hidden behind a right-click menu. Now, the option will show up in the Image options" sidebar - not only that, but the option now comes with an explanation for the feature, telling users what the purpose of alt text is.Alt text is used in media and beyond to describe to people who have difficulty seeing what an image is showing, giving them access to important contextual information sighted people may take for granted. But where alt text is available in software, it's sometimes not explained, and when people who can clearly see and read their screen are... Continue reading...
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Blizzard devs know their Diablo IV patch was bad
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Wes Davis
on (#6D6QH)
A Campfire Chat about Diablo IV's 1.1.0 update. | Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge Three directors working on Diablo IV held a campfire chat livestream yesterday saying they will change how they roll out patches, after an incremental verison 1.1.0 patch for the game abruptly nerfed players' builds (via IGN). And they promise updates like that won't happen in the future - at least, not the way it went down this week.In the livestream, associate director Joe Piepiora, game director Joe Shely, and community chief Adam Fletcher acknowledged complaints about the patch, which massively reduced player power for some builds. Fletcher said of the reduction that, we know it is bad, we know it is not fun," and added, we don't plan on doing a patch like this ever again."In the short term, there is at least one quick fix... Continue reading...
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The Sony Project Q handheld is running Android in a leaked video
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Wes Davis
on (#6D6M9)
Leaked image of the PlayStation Q. | Leaked image via Imgur At least one of our questions about the Sony Project Q handheld game-streaming device has seemingly been answered by a new leaked video posted by Zuby_Tech on Twitter (via Reddit / Imgur). In it, a basic version of Android OS running on a plastic-wrapped device shows a simple menu system and a QR code. It's very doubtful this is what the final version of the handheld's menu will look like, but it gives us an idea what's running under the hood, at least.The person making the video quickly taps through the menu, then starts rolling the handheld over to show the top, back, and bottom of it. The low resolution makes it hard to tell much. You can make out what look like a set of four buttons behind the tablet portion of the device on the... Continue reading...
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Netflix’s They Cloned Tyrone is an instant classic, no cult required
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Charles Pulliam-Moore
on (#6D6JT)
John Boyega, Teyonah Parris, and Jamie Foxx in They Cloned Tyrone. | Image: Parrish Lewis / Netflix Director Juel Taylor's debut feature is a slick and stylish celebration of the Blaxploitation genre and the Black culture that gave birth to it. Continue reading...
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Reddit expanded the r/Place canvas, and users immediately wrote messages cursing the CEO
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Jay Peters
on (#6D5WH)
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Reddit added more space to the r/Place collaborative canvas on Friday, giving users additional room to collaboratively draw pixelated art. Almost immediately after the space was added, users started to write in their protests against the site and CEO Steve Huffman.The expanded canvas now stretches further in both directions. When I first wrote this, there was a massive land grab taking place, including a spot memorializing the YouTuber Technoblade, the continuation of the German flag at the top of the canvas, a vertical French flag on the right side, and many iterations of the phrase fuck spez," a reference to Huffman's username.More than three hours later, those fuck spez" messages were covered up. Outside of a a message from a... Continue reading...
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One of the best puzzle RPGs gets another chance
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Andrew Webster
on (#6D6GH)
Image: Dotemu The team over at Capy Games has a real knack for inventive takes on seemingly simple puzzle games. I first realized this when playing the colorful Critter Crunch way back in 2009, and nowadays, I'm reminded of it whenever I squeeze in a few rounds of Grindstone on my phone. Tucked away in between those two releases was Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes - which originally debuted on the Nintendo DS - an often overlooked game that might just be the most engrossing puzzle RPG I've ever played. Now it has a new lease on life with a rerelease for modern platforms.Clash of Heroes is a match-three game, but in practice, it's quite different from something like Candy Crush or even Puzzle Quest. Basically, the things you are matching are soldiers... Continue reading...
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My first MP3 player had everything I needed
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Nathan Edwards
on (#6D6GG)
The iRiver iHP-120 multi-codec jukebox. Nineteen years old and still going. The iRiver iHP-120 was a gadget nerd's MP3 player. It had a wired remote, a radio, a voice recorder, two optical ports, and loads of physical buttons. I've had it for half my life. Continue reading...
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SDCC 2023: all the biggest announcements from the convention
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Wes Davis
on (#6D6GJ)
San Diego Comic-Con 2023 | Image: San Diego Comic Convention San Diego Comic-Con is one of the biggest comics conventions of the year, though it's quieter than usual as Hollywood strikes continue. Continue reading...
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What would the internet of people look like now?
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Elizabeth Lopatto
on (#6D6GM)
Do you ever wonder what the internet would be like if we let Big Tech burn? | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Get in, loser, we're going back to Web 1.0. We have the opportunity to get out from under the algorithms. So maybe it's time to think about what a web of people looks like now.I've been thinking about this for a while now - the decay of Google Search and, with it, the findability of archive material; the destruction of Twitter by the coward Elon Musk; the AI glurge polluting the open web; the needless login prompts. The era of Web 2.0 is ending.One of the key markers of Web 2.0, in retrospect, was not the adoption of mobile, though that is certainly part of it. It was, instead, the intermediation of most interactions by algorithm. Before social media, going viral was much harder; actual people had to pass your site or video along, via... Continue reading...
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How to use external storage on your PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X / S
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David Nield
on (#6D6GK)
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge As your console game collection grows, you're going to need more space to store it - and the internal storage inside your PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X / S isn't going to last forever. That may leave you in a situation where you're regularly uninstalling and reinstalling games, juggling them around to fit the available space.You have options. The PlayStation 5 has an internal slot for expanding the onboard storage that's pretty easy to access by popping off a couple of panels and turning a single screw. On the Xbox side, you can buy storage expansion cards that plug into a designated slot on the back of the console for a quick and easy (if often expensive) upgrade.Adding external storage drives can help ease the pressure, too, giving... Continue reading...
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Save $50 on the wireless earbuds with the hands-down best noise cancellation
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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
on (#6D6EV)
The Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II have yet to be beat in the ANC department. | Image: Chris Welch / The Verge The Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II, the noise-canceling champs of the wireless earbud world, are once again on sale for $249 ($50 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. Alternatively, you can pick up a refurbished pair from Bose for an additional $50 off, complete with a one-year warranty.If you really value peace and quiet while listening to music or podcasts, Bose's latest pair of wireless earbuds are for you. The QC Earbuds II do an impressive job of blocking out the outside world, whether you're walking on the street or nodding off on a plane. Because of this, they make for a terrific pair of travel earbuds - even if they do lack of wireless charging.Read our Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II review.Amazon's Fire TV Omni QLED TVs are on sale in... Continue reading...
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Time is running out on the Climate Clock
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Justine Calma
on (#6D6EW)
The Climate Clock in New York City's Union Square in early July 2023. | Image: Climate Clock An ominous, 62-foot-long clock looms over New York City's iconic Union Square, and it's about to tick past a worrying milestone. It's called the Climate Clock, and it counts down how much time the world has left to stop climate change from becoming exponentially worse.As anyone who's experienced the weather lately knows, the situation is already bad. The world had its hottest week on record at the start of the month, according to preliminary data, with heatwaves still smashing local records across the Northern Hemisphere. And that's just one way climate change is bringing on dangerous new extremes.Today, the planet is about 1.1 degrees Celsius hotter than it was before the Industrial Revolution, thanks to carbon dioxide emissions from... Continue reading...
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Elon Musk's best idea for stopping spambots is making you pay for extra Twitter DMs
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Jay Peters
on (#6D64C)
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Twitter will soon" implement daily limits on the number of direct messages unverified accounts will be able to send in an effort to reduce spam," the company announced on Friday via its Twitter Support account. In other words, to send unlimited DMs, you'll need to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription.In its tweet, Twitter didn't specify what the daily DM limit may be. On a support page, the company said the changes would be implemented beginning Friday.When reached for comment, Twitter's press email didn't auto-reply with a poop emoji; instead, it sent an automated message promising that we'll get back to you soon," a change Twitter owner Elon Musk announced on Thursday. Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge T... Continue reading...
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Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next week
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Jay Peters
on (#6D62H)
Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify is going to raise the price of its Premium subscription plan in the US, according to The Wall Street Journal. The price is likely" to go up by $1, meaning it would cost $10.99 per month, and the change is expected" to be revealed next week, the publication says. The price of Premium has remained $9.99 per month since it launched in the US 12 years ago.While perhaps not the most welcome news, it's not entirely a surprise. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has been signaling that prices would go up in 2023 and reiterated in April that a price hike would be happening this year. Spotify didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.Other music services have also increased prices to that $10.99 amount over the past several months. Apple... Continue reading...
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ChatGPT for Android launches next week
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Richard Lawler
on (#6D62J)
Illustration: The Verge Since launching in November, OpenAI's ChatGPT tool has reached a number of users at a rate that's astounding for anything outside of Threads - now the company says it's ready to release an app for Android.The ChatGPT for Android app is launching a few months after the free iOS app brought the chatbot to iPhones and iPads.
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Tesla is starting to offer one-time Full Self-Driving transfers to new vehicles
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Umar Shakir
on (#6D62K)
Tesla Full Self-Driving in action. | Image: Owen Grove / The Verge Tesla is starting to offer customers a one-time transfer of their purchased Full Self-Driving (FSD) software to a new vehicle, Not A Tesla App reports. Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed the company would be offering it as a one-time amnesty" during an earnings call on Wednesday, though he did not provide full details at the time.Now, official terms on Tesla's FSD transfer offer are in the wild thanks to Twitter user @Kdahlenburg, who shared the details sent to them by the automaker yesterday. Those who would like to take advantage of shifting their FSD will need to purchase a new Tesla and take delivery between now and September 30th, 2023.Tesla says it does not guarantee delivery within the program end date and will not apply this offer... Continue reading...
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Analogue will start shipping more Pocket preorders in August
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Jay Peters
on (#6D5ZN)
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Analogue Pocket is a fantastic way to play Game Boy games, but preorders have taken a long time to ship out. If you're still waiting for your device, Analogue shared a promising update on Friday: any preorders made before July 20th, 2023, will begin shipping in August," according to an announcement from the company.Note that the quote says the handhelds will begin shipping in August; that language doesn't necessarily guarantee that you'll get your Pocket in August. Still, the announcement likely comes as good news for people who have been eagerly waiting for any sort of information on their order. (Based on a thread on Reddit, some people have been in limbo for more than a year.)The Analogue Pocket launched in December 2021, but... Continue reading...
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Disney’s new vision for ESPN might include part ownership by the NBA, NFL
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Emma Roth
on (#6D5ZP)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Disney wants to transition ESPN from linear TV to streaming - and the NBA and NFL might be the partners that help the company do that. According to CNBC, Disney CEO Bob Iger and ESPN leader Jimmy Pitaro held talks with both leagues about bringing them on as minority investors in the sports network.Sources tell CNBC that ESPN spoke with the NFL and NBA about a variety of new partnerships and investment structures." That could involve either sports league owning a stake in ESPN, which could help bolster the package of exclusive content on Disney's vision of a streaming-only version of the sports network.In an interview with CNBC last week, Iger hinted at selling some of Disney's linear TV assets like ABC but noted sports content on ESPN... Continue reading...
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T-Mobile’s charging an extra $5 plus tax for paying your phone bill in-store
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Sheena Vasani
on (#6D5ZQ)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile has started charging customers who pay phone bills in-store a new $5 Payment Support Charge," plus tax. According to The Mobile Report, the new fee went into effect on July 19th, though prepaid customers will be charged the fee later on.In a flier shared with The Mobile Report announcing the change to its employees, T-Mobile implies the reason behind the fee is to help enable a digital-enabled future." Yet, as Droid Life points out, employee time spent processing payments may mean less time for more profitable endeavors - like selling phones or add-ons to plans.Plus, it's a sneaky way to encourage more customers to sign up for AutoPay, which conveniently also offers a $5 per line discount if you pay your bill online - and... Continue reading...
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Meta, Google, and OpenAI reveal their safety plans following White House summit
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Makena Kelly
on (#6D5ZR)
Photo by Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Seven of AI's top companies attended a White House summit Friday, reaching a deal with the Biden administration to roll out new guardrails to enhance the safety and security of their systems and users, like watermarking AI-generated content.These commitments are real, and they are concrete," President Joe Biden said in remarks at the White House Friday following the meeting. Artificial intelligence is going to change the lives of people around the world. The people here will be critical for shepherding that innovation with responsibility and safety by design."Earlier in the day, the seven companies - including Amazon, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Inflection, and OpenAI - made voluntary, sometimes vague, commitments to invest in research... Continue reading...
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Those weird mobile games are now on the Switch (sorta)
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Ash Parrish
on (#6D5WG)
Image: Metacore Have you ever been doomscrolling on a weeknight and see a weird ad for a mobile game that has you match three to fight off zombies or move sticks so a guy can reach treasure? Then, with your judgment impaired by late-night social media brain-poison, you download the game only to find it barely features that kind of gameplay at all?Well apparently, the developers at Monkeycraft (the developers behind the Katamari Damacy and Klonoa remasters) know this feeling intimately and have decided to do something about it. Yeah! You Want Those Games," Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let's See You Clear Them! (yes, that is the full legal title) is a collection of those mobile ad games all in one place. Help a guy get to treasure by moving sticks, fill... Continue reading...
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OpenAI loses its trust and safety leader
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Emilia David
on (#6D5WJ)
Image: The Verge OpenAI's head of trust and safety, Dave Willner, is stepping down from the company as the AI industry faces more scrutiny around privacy and security from policymakers.Willner has been working in trust and safety for nearly a decade. Before joining OpenAI, Willner was head of trust and safety at childcare startup Otter and led trust and community policy at Airbnb.The FTC launched an investigation into OpenAI last week to determine if its training data collection methods violated consumer rights. The Securities and Exchange Commission also expressed concern that large AI models could centralize data and decision-making in finance, leading to a sort of groupthink akin to the events preceding the 2008 financial crisis. OpenAI, Meta,... Continue reading...
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Telegram adds Stories for Premium subscribers
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Umar Shakir
on (#6D5WK)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram's new Stories feature that lets users share time-limited videos and photos is now live after CEO Pavel Durov shared last month that the feature was in testing (via 9to5Mac). For now, the company is only allowing its paid Premium subscribers to post Telegram Stories.The Telegram Stories launch comes after rival messaging apps WhatsApp (with statuses) and even Signal have launched their own versions. Durov admitted there was some internal skepticism on whether Stories is a good idea - but shared that the team now can no longer imagine Telegram without it."Snapchat popularized the Stories format before Meta swiped the idea, building them into Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. The NBA, TikTok, and, for a while, T... Continue reading...
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Amazon is spending $120 million on a building for its internet satellites
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Emma Roth
on (#6D5SC)
Image: Amazon Amazon is spending $120 million to build a new facility for its Project Kuiper satellites in Florida. On Thursday, the company announced it will use the 100,000-square-foot building to prepare its internet satellites for their launch into space.The building will be located at Space Florida's Launch and Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, where NASA once landed its Space Shuttle missions. In addition to its large square footage, the facility will also feature a 100-foot-tall bay, giving Amazon plenty of room to integrate its satellites with rockets from Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and the United Launch Alliance (ULA).Steve Metayer, Amazon's vice president of Kuiper production operations, tells CNBC that he expects to finish... Continue reading...
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Pokémon Sleep is a snooze
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Andrew Webster
on (#6D5SD)
Image: The Pokemon Company It makes a lot of sense that Pokemon Sleep is a simple game - it's something that you play in part by sleeping, after all. There's only so much complexity you can embed in an experience where players aren't conscious much of the time. Even still, after spending most of the past week with the gamified sleep tracking app tucked under my pillow, I can't help but wish there were something more beyond looking at dozing Eevees and feeding berries to a Snorlax. It's neither encouraging me to sleep more nor giving me much to do. It's a bit of a snooze.The premise in Pokemon Sleep, as with pretty much every other game in the series, is centered on research. Early on, you'll meet a charmingly rumpled professor named Neroli who is researching... Continue reading...
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The NYC subway is using automated scanning software to spot fare evaders
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Jess Weatherbed
on (#6D5SE)
The MTA is cracking down on subway fare evasions after revealing the issue cost the authority $285 million last year. | Photo by Gary Hershorn / Getty Images The persistence of fare evasion on the New York City subway system has prompted the Metropolitan Transit Authority to install AI-powered surveillance software at several subway stations to track riders who avoid paying for a ticket. As reported by NBC News, the MTA disclosed in a fare evasion report that the tracking software was being used at seven undisclosed subway stations and eight physical fare barriers in May 2023, with plans for approximately two dozen more stations" by year's end and more to follow."The MTA estimates it lost $285 million to subway fare evasion in 2022, according to the report, which didn't contain the name of the third-party tracking software being utilized by the authority. MTA spokesperson Joana Flores... Continue reading...
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An influencer’s guide to the writers and actors strikes
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Mia Sato
on (#6D5SF)
Photo by John Lamparski / Getty Images For the first time in over 60 years, the unions representing actors and Hollywood writers are staging a strike at the same time, protesting low pay and studios' proposals for using artificial intelligence tools in production. More than 175,000 union members are out of work until a deal is made.But the ripple effects of the strikes are also reaching another group: influencers and digital content creators who are far from a household name but work in an industry that is, at times, synonymous with fast-track fame. Most of them are non-union influencers, leading to confusion. How can creators keep making money while their peers in Hollywood strike? What rules are they required to follow? What's their role in all of this?This guide will... Continue reading...
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Hisense’s ultra-bright U8H TV is beating its Prime Day price at Amazon
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Brandon Widder
on (#6D5P8)
It's no OLED, but Hisense's midrange TV still offers phenomenal picture quality for the price. | Image: Hisense Things are looking up if you were thinking about picking up a new 4K TV. The price of an OLED has fallen dramatically in recent years, with newer standouts like LG's last-gen C2 and A2 having recently sold for as little as $800 and $600, respectively. However, if you're looking for a larger model in that price range that still manages to impress, Hisense's 65-inch U8H QLED is on sale at Amazon for just $799 ($101 off) - $40 less than the price we saw during Prime Day just over a week ago.On the hardware front, Hisense's Mini LED TV brings together Google TV and a host of great specs. The midtier option offers terrific color and peak brightness levels, making it a great option for brighter homes, along with several gamer-friendly... Continue reading...
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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2023: all the latest news and rumors
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Emma Roth
on (#6D5P9)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Here's all the news from Samsung's second Unpacked event of the year. Continue reading...
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