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by Andrew J. Hawkins on (#6QVX3)
Photo: Getty Images Almost a year since the horrifying crash in which one of its driverless vehicles ran over and dragged a woman 20 feet, Cruise is planning its return to the Bay Area. The company said in a post on X that it is deploying several" manually driven mapping vehicles in Sunnyvale and Mountain View, with the goal of progressing to supervised testing" with five autonomous vehicles later this fall.Resuming testing in the Bay Area is an important step forward as we continue to work closely with California regulators and local stakeholders," the post reads. This will allow our local employees to engage directly with our product as they refine and improve our tech through R&D."
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by Sheena Vasani on (#6QVX4)
You can save well over $1,000 on LG's vibrant 65-inch C4 OLED TV. | Image: LG Amazon's October Prime Day event is just a few weeks away, but if you can't wait until then, eBay's taking 20 percent off select new and refurbished items as part of its fall sale when you apply code FALL20OFF at checkout. The promotion will last through 11:59PM PT on September 30th, offering you an excellent chance to save on a wide range of gadgets if you can't wait until October.The sale includes deals on a lot of products we're fans of, including Eufy's 11S Max robot vacuum, which you can buy refurbished for just $87.99 instead of $249.99 - about a third of the price it sells for new. Anker's Soundcore Sleep A20 Earbuds are also down to just $95.99, saving you $54 over buying them new. And if you're in the market for a pair of... Continue reading...
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by Tom Warren on (#6QVX5)
Image: Microsoft Microsoft is launching a Windows app today for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, web browsers, Android devices, and even Windows PCs. The Windows app is essentially a hub for streaming a copy of Windows from a variety of sources, including Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Remote Desktop, and more.This new unified app has been in testing for nearly a year and includes a customizable homescreen, multi-monitor support, and USB redirection so you can use local devices like webcams, storage devices, and printers as if they were plugged directly in to a cloud PC. Image: Microsoft The Windows app interface. This Windows app is limited to Microsoft work and school accounts, as it's primarily designed for existing users of Remote... Continue reading...
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by Antonio G. Di Benedetto on (#6QVS3)
Oooo, pretty! | Image: Microsoft Before Sony went all in with a pricey mid-cycle console refresh by announcing its upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro, Microsoft laid out plans for a premium console with aesthetics at the forefront. The 2TB Galaxy Black" special-edition Xbox Series X is mostly the same as the standard Series X, but it features a double-capacity SSD and a slick paint job. We're inching toward its October 15th release, and interested parties willing to pony up the $599.99 asking price can already preorder one at Best Buy and directly from Microsoft.Those who crave the pricier Xbox are primarily getting three unique things for their money:
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by Jess Weatherbed on (#6QVS4)
Amazon is using generative AI to create tailored product recommendations based on user's shopping history. | Image: Amazon Amazon has introduced a batch of new generative AI tools that aim to improve the retail experience for both customers and sellers on the platform. One of the more notable features announced at the Amazon Accelerate event on Thursday will use customers' preferences, search, browsing, and purchase history to create personalized product recommendations on Amazon's homepage.Instead of the more like this" feature that suggests similar, specific items, the new recommendations will be offered as larger categories based on a customer's shopping habits - such as those catering to holiday events or sporting activities. The company says it's leveraging a large language model to recommend products with specific features, but it's not clear how... Continue reading...
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by Justine Calma on (#6QVS5)
The United States Environmental Protection Agency building is seen on August 21st in Washington, DC. | Photo by Tierney L. Cross / Getty Images Implementing Project 2025, the conservative manifesto written by ex-Trump officials, could have serious repercussions on public health, former Environmental Protection Agency employees warn.Air quality protections issued over the past four years are supposed to cut down pollution and associated health risks, preventing premature deaths and hospital visits for years to come. A group called the Environmental Protection Network (EPN), created by hundreds of former EPA employees during an exodus of scientists from the agency under the Trump administration, counted up the benefits in a recent report.But that outcome isn't guaranteed. Many of the policies recently enacted under the Biden administration could be in jeopardy if Donald Trump... Continue reading...
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by Lauren Feiner on (#6QVS6)
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Top policy executives from Meta, Microsoft, and Google testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday about what they're doing to protect US voters from foreign election threats in 2024. But the elephant in the room was the pressure campaign social media companies have faced from the right to take a more hands-off approach when it comes to labeling or demoting misinformation.With 48 days until the US presidential election, Committee Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) called in tech companies to discuss the threats they're seeing so far and how they're responding. Warner took pains to emphasize that his chief concern was with foreign malicious activity, not domestic - seemingly in an effort to find common ground with his... Continue reading...
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by Jess Weatherbed on (#6QVS7)
Chrome users will need to either unlock their Android screen or use the Password Manager PINfeature to use passkeys on new devices. | Illustration: The Verge Google is improving passkey support in Chrome by making it easier to use the passwordless sign-in credentials across different devices. The search giant is introducing a Google Password Manager PIN that allows users to securely save and synchronize passkeys for use across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android devices. These updates are available in beta on ChromeOS as well, with iOS support coming soon."Passkeys needed to be saved to Google Password Manager on Android prior to this update and required users to scan a QR code on their Android device to access them on other platforms. The new PIN replaces the need to scan the QR code while ensuring that your saved passkeys remain protected by end-to-end encryption, so not even Google can... Continue reading...
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#6QVS8)
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will officially launch on November 19th, 2024. | Image: Microsoft Preorders are now open for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 through the Microsoft Store. The next installment of the franchise will launch on Xbox and PC on November 19th, with updates that include new aircraft like hot air balloons and a more realistic-looking simulated earth. But the most welcome upgrade could be a much smaller installation size.The current version of Microsoft Flight Simulator needs over 130GB of storage, but that's just for the base version of the game. Players can enhance their experience by downloading additional aircraft or installing world updates that bring more details to local scenery and airports, but that can gobble up even more storage. Those playing on the Xbox Series S, which only offers players 364GB of... Continue reading...
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by Andrew J. Hawkins on (#6QVS9)
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A few months ago, I was driving my 2023 Volkswagen ID.4 when, seemingly out of nowhere, my driver-side door made several unusual clicking noises and then popped open.That's not good," I thought, as I quickly shut the door while also attempting to keep my hands on the wheel. And apparently, I wasn't the only one experiencing this problem. Hundreds of other VW owners were also struggling to keep their doors closed while driving.The issue culminated this week with VW halting production of the all-electric ID.4 at its factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as it scrambles to find a fix for the faulty electronic door mechanism. According to the recall, water was seeping into the door and shorting out the electronics, causing the circuitry... Continue reading...
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by Andrew Webster on (#6QVSA)
Issa Rae. | Photo by Rodin Eckenroth / WireImage We still don't know much about the seventh season of Black Mirror, but at least the show's return will have a stacked cast. Netflix announced a big list of actors who will appear in the next installment of the anthology when it premieres in 2025, and it includes Doctor Who alum Peter Capaldi, Barbie star Issa Rae, Sunny's Rashida Jones, and the always delightful Paul Giamatti.Here's the full list:
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by Ash Parrish on (#6QVNZ)
Image: Pocketpair Pocketpair has responded to the lawsuit filed against it by Nintendo and The Pokemon Company. The studio that developed Palworld, the game at the heart of the suit, issued a statement early this morning saying it doesn't know what patents it violated. At this moment, we are unaware of the specific patents we are accused of infringing upon, and we have not been notified of such details," the statement read.According to Nintendo's press release, the reason for the lawsuit has to do with Pocketpair allegedly infringing on multiple as yet undisclosed patents. The details of the lawsuit have not yet been made public, so we do not yet know which patents and according to Pocketpair's statement, it doesn't know either.The news broke last... Continue reading...
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by Nilay Patel on (#6QVP0)
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Today on Decoder, we're talking about the big Google antitrust trial that's currently taking place in a federal courthouse. No, not the one you're thinking of - it's the second Google antitrust case in just as many months. The company lost a landmark case in August in which a court ruled that it had an illegal monopoly in search.This time around, the Department of Justice is claiming Google has another illegal monopoly in the online advertising market.Unlike the search case, the ads case is both extremely complicated and somewhat harder to see. We all use search all day, and we're surrounded by online ads all day, but while it's easy to talk about search, no one really wants to think about how the ads get there or how much they really... Continue reading...
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by Lauren Feiner on (#6QVP1)
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Google employees liberally labeled their emails as privileged and confidential" and spoke off the record" over chat messages, even after being told to preserve their communications for investigators, lawyers for the Justice Department have told a Virginia court over the past couple of weeks.That strategy could backfire if the judge in Google's second antitrust trial believes the company intentionally destroyed evidence that would have looked bad for it. The judge could go as far as giving an adverse inference about Google's missing documents, which would mean assuming they would have been bad for Google's case.Documents shown in court regularly display the words privileged and confidential" as business executives discuss their... Continue reading...
by Charles Pulliam-Moore on (#6QVJZ)
The Pokemon Company When Pokemon TCG Pocket was first teased a few months back, it looked like yet another mobile app meant to capitalize on the physical card game's recent wave of unexpected popularity. With Pokemon TCG Live already on the market, it was hard to suss out how The Pokemon Company envisioned Pocket fitting into the larger franchise. And while titles like Marvel Snap and Hearthstone have proven to be big hits, it wasn't clear that Pocket would be able to appeal to newcomers and hardcore Pokemon fans alike.We're still a few weeks out from Pokemon TCG Pocket's general release. But during the hands-on time I recently spent testing the game out, it felt like a promising - if slightly daunting - attempt at reinventing the classic card collecting... Continue reading...
by Thomas Ricker on (#6QVK0)
DJI's Osmo Action 5 Pro. | Image: DJI DJI's response to GoPro's new Hero 13 lineup is the Osmo Action 5 Pro. It justifies that professional moniker with a new image sensor that promises to improve image quality and low-light performance. It also features a built-in pressure sensor, the ability to capture super slow motion at an unbelievable 1080p/960fps, and a new power-sipping 4nm chip that enables up to four hours of continuous recording off a single charge.The camera is fitted with DJI's next-gen 1/1.3-inch sensor that can capture 40-megapixel stills and an industry-first 13.5-stop dynamic range to capture high-dynamic, low-light video at 4K/60fps. And while 960fps slow-mo is impressive, DJI gets there by capturing 240fps and then making an intelligent guess as to how to... Continue reading...
by Jess Weatherbed on (#6QVK1)
Integrating IVAS with Anduril's Lattice software aims to keep soldiers informed of battlespace threats. | Image: Anduril Anduril Industries, the military tech company started by Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey, is teaming up with Microsoft to improve the mixed-reality headsets used by the United States Army. The project announced by Anduril will embed the company's Lattice software into the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), allowing the HoloLens-based goggles to update soldiers with live information pulled from drones, ground vehicles, and aerial defense systems.The partnership marks a return to the VR headset space for Luckey, having sold Oculus to Meta for $2 billion in 2014. Luckey started Anduril in 2017 with support from venture capitalist Peter Thiel.The Lattice integration with IVAS could alert wearers to incoming threats picked up by... Continue reading...
by Andrew J. Hawkins on (#6QVG7)
Photo by Abigail Bassett for The Verge BMW of North America struck a deal to recycle lithium-ion batteries from all of its electrified vehicles with Redwood Materials, the companies announced today.The German automaker said it would instruct its dealers to send old batteries from all of its electrified models, including battery-electric, hybrid, mild hybrid, and plug-in hybrid vehicles from brands like BMW, Mini, and Rolls-Royce, to Redwood for recycling.Redwood, which was founded by Tesla cofounder and ex-chief technology officer JB Straubel, will handle the end-of-life batteries at its two facilities. One facility is in Reno, Nevada, and the other, which is still under construction, will be in Charleston, South Carolina - somewhat near BMW's Spartanburg and Woodruff... Continue reading...
by Victoria Song on (#6QVG8)
Black and custom blasted, like my soul. It makes no sense to upgrade based on color alone. Or does it? Continue reading...
by Jay Peters on (#6QV6K)
A screenshot from Palworld. | Image: Pocketpair Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, which makes the game Palworld.From Nintendo's press release:
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by Charles Pulliam-Moore on (#6QV7Y)
Image: Disney Disney Plus' new WandaVision spinoff series steers clear of the franchise's multiversal messiness to do its own thing. Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6J3FB)
Image: Pocketpair The multiplayer survival game Palworld was 2024's biggest surprise, and now it's being sued by Nintendo. Continue reading...
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by Sean Hollister on (#6QV6J)
Image: Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto V was one of the top ten most played games on Valve's Steam Deck handheld this past week. It's been in the top twenty for at least two years. But as of today, Valve now lists the game as unsupported" - because developer Rockstar mysteriously broke compatibility with Valve's handheld for its online modes. As you can see in the image above, this is the latest fight around Linux anti-cheat: like the developers of Fortnite and Roblox, Rockstar has decided not to support the Steam Deck with its new anti-cheat software for GTA Online - a game that, by all accounts, badly needed to deal with cheaters. (Outside the Steam Deck, better anti-cheat was probably a good move.)But unlike Fortnite and Roblox, Rockstar is... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QV6M)
Image: The Verge If you're on LinkedIn, then you should know that the social network has, without asking, opted accounts into training generative AI models. 404Media reports that LinkedIn introduced the new privacy setting and opt-out form before rolling out an updated privacy policy saying that data from the platform is being used to train AI models. As TechCrunch notes, it has since updated the policy.
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by Umar Shakir on (#6QV56)
Google Calendar on a new tab sounds kinda useful, actually. | Image: Google Google is adding a new daily calendar overview in newly opened Chrome tabs for Workspace users with easy access to schedules and video calls. That way, when you're signed in with your organization's account, the first thing you'll see is your appointments and meetings, in addition to files stored in Google Drive.The new feature comes alongside several other Google Workspace updates, including new enterprise-managed site shortcuts, which let IT set up quick links to frequently used sites on the URL dropdown.Regular Chrome users could already set up site shortcuts for themselves - for instance, you could program it to bring up a site search for Reddit just by typing red." Now, a group policy can be applied to departments and... Continue reading...
by Adi Robertson on (#6QV34)
Image: The Verge The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has advanced two high-profile child safety bills that could remake large parts of the internet: the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0). The proposed laws passed on a voice vote despite discontent over last-minute changes to KOSA, in particular, that were aimed at quelling persistent criticism.KOSA and COPPA 2.0 would give government agencies more regulatory power over tech companies with users under 18 years of age. The former imposes a duty of care" on major social media companies, making them potentially liable for harm to underage users. The latter raises the age of enforcement for the 1998 COPPA law and adds new rules around... Continue reading...
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by Richard Lawler on (#6QV35)
A radio device exploded in the city of Baalbek is seen as wireless communications device explosions continued for a second day across Lebanon. | Photo by Suleiman Amhaz / Anadolu via Getty Images A day after exploding pagers targeting Hezbollah members killed 12 people, including two children, and injured nearly 3,000 people in Lebanon and Syria, the attacks started again. The New York Times reports 14 people have died, along with hundreds injured in the second wave of explosions. Lebanese state media agency NNA reports they resulted from wireless devices like walkie-talkies and fingerprint analysis devices that also damaged cars and motorcycles and started fires, including one at a lithium battery store.At least one of the exploding devices on Wednesday went off in the middle of a funeral procession for several of the people killed in the previous attack, causing additional panic as people ran for safety and were asked to... Continue reading...
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#6QV36)
It can't be used as a speakerphone, but at $24.99, Soundcore's new Select 4 Go Bluetooth speaker is claimed to have 20 hours of battery and can be paired for stereo sound. | Image: Soundcore Soundcore has launched another ultralight wireless speaker called the Select 4 Go. It's priced at $24.99, making it the most affordable option in Soundcore's current lineup of Bluetooth speakers and much cheaper than similarly sized options such as Ultimate Ears' recently launched $79.99 Miniroll. Image: Soundcore A cutaway illustration of the Select 4 Go revealing a 1.75-inch speaker with a passive radiator next to it. The Select 4 Go pairs a 1.75-inch 5W full-range speaker driver with a passive radiator to help bolster the intensity of lower frequencies. That's only a slightly smaller speaker than you'll find inside the pricier Miniroll, which has a claimed 12 hours of battery life. Soundcore says the Select 4... Continue reading...
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by Sean Hollister on (#6QV37)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It's been nearly six years since we warned you that ads were coming for your pause button and 18 months since Google revealed that YouTube would serve them up, too.Now, YouTube confirms advertisers can broadly target your paused screentime: As we've seen both strong advertiser and strong viewer response, we've since widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers," YouTube comms manager Oluwa Falodun confirms to The Verge.Technically, YouTube started piloting pause ads in 2023 with a limited selection of advertisers, but Google chief business officer Philipp Schindler revealed this April that they were unsurprisingly a big hit with ad firms and lucrative for Google.Last week, Redditors started posting that the pause ads seemed to be... Continue reading...
by Sheena Vasani on (#6QV38)
Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge Google is rolling out an update that'll let you adjust the brightness levels of its newest Nest Learning Thermostat, fixing a key issue that made it difficult to read, according to Android Authority.The Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen) is Google's biggest redesign of the smart thermostat since it launched in 2011. Released in August, one of the thermostat's major new features was the 2.7-inch display, which was double the size of its predecessor and more customizable. For example, you can have the main display be a clock or show the weather or indoor temperature. As you get closer, it can then transition to display the humidity, outdoor temperature, or even the outdoor air quality index score.There was one huge drawback, though: o... Continue reading...
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by Sean Hollister on (#6QV0D)
Image: PayPal Roughly 25 years after it launched payment processing, PayPal is ushering in a new era for customers" with some generic black text. The company has a new logo, designed by Pentagram, that looks incredibly plain - especially compared to previous iterations of the logo that featured a rakish slant, two shades of blue, and prominent PayPal P's. Image: PayPal The evolution of PayPal's logo. The company justifies the change by saying that the new black standalone wordmark won't be confused with the rest of the payments processing world - especially the blue that has become synonymous with fintech."And yet: Image: PayPal That is a very blue word. Image: PayPal Also... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6QV0E)
Image: Substack Substack is now letting creators stream live videos as another way to connect with their audiences.Substack has increasingly been expanding from its roots as a newsletter platform, including by adding Twitter-like Notes posts and the ability to publish video podcasts and even letting people follow other users without subscribing to them. As of last month, you don't even need to set up a publication to share content. With live video, creators will be able to interact with their fans in real time without having to rely on another platform like Twitch.When you go live, your subscribers will be notified immediately, and you can make your streams available to everyone, to all subscribers, or only to paid subscribers, according to a blog... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QV0F)
The Focus Vision looks like it's a bit of a chonker! | Image: HTC HTC has announced the Vive Focus Vision, a new VR headset that builds on the Vive Focus 3 with features like color passthrough and better PC tethering support. The $999 Focus Vision is available for preorder from now until October 17th on HTC's website.The Focus Vision can be used either as a standalone device or tethered to your PC using USB-C. It's essentially a beefed-up version of the Focus 3, which the company released in 2021 - it has the same 2448 x 2448 per-eye resolution and 120-degree field of view and also uses a Snapdragon XR2 chip. But it gains features like dual 16MP cameras with color passthrough, and it can now automatically adjust the lenses to compensate for the distance between your eyes.HTC is going for gamers... Continue reading...
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by Umar Shakir on (#6QTXR)
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube creators can now break their videos up into different seasons and episodes to make them easier for viewers to navigate - and binge-watch - on TV. The upcoming feature comes as YouTube has increasingly been pushing into the living room, with YouTuber revenue on TVs up 30 percent year over year, according to the company.Content creators can soon tailor their uploads for viewers in a format that looks very similar to Netflix and other streaming services when viewed on the TV, with full-screen episode descriptions and a hierarchy of seasons and episodes to navigate. GIF: Google YouTube has not described how the new formatting will translate to desktop and mobile UI, but expect to see it in some form on all... Continue reading...
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by Charles Pulliam-Moore on (#6QTXS)
A scene from Megalopolis, one of Lionsgate's upcoming releases. | Image: Lionsgate AI startup Runway has made a name for itself building generative models seemingly trained on unlicensed content from around the internet. Now, the company has signed a deal with Lionsgate that will give it access to the studio's massive portfolio of films and TV shows.Today, Lionsgate - the studio behind films like the John Wick and Hunger Games franchises - announced that it is partnering with Runway to create a new customized video generation model intended to help filmmakers, directors and other creative talent augment their work."In a statement about the deal, Lionsgate vice chair Michael Burns described it as a path toward creating capital-efficient content creation opportunities" for the studio, which sees the technology as a... Continue reading...
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#6QTXT)
As long as there's a breeze, the Shine 2.0 wind turbine can generate power all night long. | Image: Aurea Technologies Unlike solar panels that can only generate power while the sun's shining, Aurea Technologies' new Shine 2.0 portable wind turbine can potentially work all day long. That is, as long as the weather cooperates and provides an 8mph breeze needed to keep the turbine's blades spinning.Now available for preorder through a Kickstarter campaign offering discounts on its full $571 retail pricing for early backers, the Shine 2.0 is an improved version of the company's first portable wind turbine that arrives with several welcome upgrades. Image: Aurea Technologies The Shine 2.0 folds down into a portable package that looks like an elongated football. The Shine 2.0, and an included three-foot-tall support with stability... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6QTXW)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon's warehouse workers and delivery drivers, the people critical to the company's ability to get you things fast via Amazon Prime, will soon get Prime subscriptions as part of their employment. The new perk was revealed along with other benefit updates, including an average pay raise, announced by the company on Wednesday.The free Prime subscription will be part of the benefits package for front-line" workers starting early next year," according to a blog post. They'll have free Prime for as long as they are a part of the Amazon team." Amazon Prime typically costs $14.99 per month or $139 per year.As for pay, Amazon says that the frontline workers will be getting at least" $1.50 more per hour beginning next month, which the... Continue reading...
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by Andrew J. Hawkins on (#6QTTM)
Photo by Sjoerd van der Wal / Getty Images The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a bill Wednesday requiring new cars to have AM radio, which was introduced in response to an increasing number of vehicles coming out without the first-generation radio broadcast technology. The bill passed the committee on a roll-call vote of 45-2 and now heads to the full House for final approval.The bill, titled the AM for Every Vehicle Act, would direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to issue a rule that requires automakers to maintain AM broadcast radio in their vehicles without a separate or additional payment, fee, or surcharge."Supporters say they are pushing the bill out of a concern that the slow demise of AM radio could make it more difficult to... Continue reading...
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by Antonio G. Di Benedetto on (#6QTTN)
Photo by Sheena Vasani / The Verge OnePlus typically offered competitive specs and features in its devices at aggressive prices, but that's softened a bit in recent years. The fairly recent OnePlus Pad 2 has some nice qualities, like a 3000 x 2120 resolution / 144Hz display that looks great, but its $550 price, plus add-ons, isn't exactly cheap. Right now, though, there's a sweet deal that helps.You can get the OnePlus Pad 2 for $449.99 ($100 off) directly from OnePlus when you use the checkout code SEP50, and it's accompanied by a free pair of OnePlus Buds 3 wireless noise-canceling earbuds ($99.99 value). As a whole, the package deal saves $200 on the total value of about $650.The OnePlus Pad 2 comes with a fairly spacious 256GB of storage and 12GB of RAM for a... Continue reading...
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by Richard Lawler on (#6QTTP)
Adrian Wojnarowski looks on during the 2024 NBA Draft | Photo by Michelle Farsi / NBAE via Getty Images Adrian Wojnarowski has been reporting insider NBA news for ESPN since 2017, but he's best known for his news-breaking tweets about trades, free agency signings, and other deals. Now Wojnarowski says he's retiring from the NBA beat.For basketball fans, Woj bombs" became a reason to have your phone on and Twitter notifications set, both to get instant updates about player movement and to avoid getting sucked in by fake accounts and rumors. In a 2015 GQ interview, Wojnarowski said his Twitter stardom got started with the 2009 NBA draft:
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by Wes Davis on (#6QTTQ)
Photo: Nilay Patel Apple rolled out updates to all of its major operating systems this week, and the Vision Pro was no exception. With visionOS 2, the company has a chance to show the relative few who bought its spendy headset - and those who might yet - that it's still committed to the new platform.After a few months of using it in beta, visionOS 2 isn't a dramatic change - it's more like a smoothed-out version of the software the headset launched with. The addition of things like new gestures, better device support, and a couple of splashy features has removed a lot of the friction of using the Vision Pro and should give people who own it a reason to dust it off and take it for another spin.Improving the basicsLet's start with updates that really... Continue reading...
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by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy on (#6QTPS)
Eve's smart light switch now works with Matter and the Thread device can be controlled directly with an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, no hub required. | Image: Eve Systems With this week's release of iOS 18, adding smart home devices to Apple Home just got a lot easier. The update brings direct local control of Matter devices to newer iPhones, meaning all you need to set up and control them is an iPhone that can run iOS 18 - no hub or border router required. This is good news for anyone interested in dabbling in smart home gadgets who isn't ready to go all in.Matter is a new standard designed to simplify the smart home. Compatible devices work over Wi-Fi or Thread, a protocol specifically designed for IoT gadgets. With iOS 18, you can now add any Wi-Fi device to Apple Home with just an iPhone. For Thread devices, you'll need an iPhone with a Thread radio (iPhone 15 Pro or newer).This doesn't mean you s... Continue reading...
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by David Pierce on (#6QTPT)
Communities are for creators to talk to their fans - and for fans to talk to each other. | Image: YouTube Many creators post videos on YouTube but take to other platforms to actually interact with their fans and viewers. With a new feature called Communities, YouTube is hoping to offer those types of interactive options right on the platform, so creators might not need to take to Discord, WhatsApp, or maybe Instagram or Reddit anymore.The Communities feature, which YouTube launched today at the Made on YouTube event in New York City, is sort of a mix of old-school forum, subreddit, and Facebook group. Once a creator turns on their community, anyone who joins can post, and people can reply to each other. The idea is presumably that you'll all talk about things related to the creator whose community you're in, but if you've ever been in a... Continue reading...
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by David Pierce on (#6QTPW)
The Hype leaderboard is supposed to be all great videos all the time. | Image: YouTube It's a new way for viewers to share the stuff they really like - and for creators to grow on an increasingly busy platform. Continue reading...
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by David Pierce on (#6QTPV)
YouTube's Inspiration tab will happily tell you exactly what to make next. | Image: YouTube Artificial intelligence is running rampant across Google's entire product portfolio, and YouTube is adopting some of the company's newest tech in service of helping creators create. On Wednesday, at its Made on YouTube event in New York City, the company announced a series of AI-related features on the platform, including a couple that might change how creators make videos - and the videos they make.The first feature is the new Inspiration tab in the YouTube Studio app, which YouTube has been testing in a limited way over the last few months. The tab's job is, essentially, to tell you what to make: the AI-powered tool will suggest a concept for a video, provide a title and a thumbnail, and even write an outline and the first few lines... Continue reading...
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by Umar Shakir on (#6QTPX)
Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge The Tesla Cybertruck gets a lot of hate for its polarizing design and even more polarizing creator. However, the Cybertruck also appears to be extremely popular, more popular than all the other electric trucks on the market, and Elon Musk may end up laughing all the way to the bank.Tesla's Cybertruck registrations in July almost match overall EV truck registrations in July, suggesting strong demand for the stainless steel low-poly truck, according to data from S&P Global Mobility (via Automotive News). Tesla's overall vehicle sales also rose in July thanks to a boost from the Cybertruck.Tesla delivered 5,175 Cybertrucks in July, compared to a combined 5,546 registrations of every non-Tesla electric truck, which includes the Ford F-150... Continue reading...
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#6QTPY)
Garmin's upgraded inReachMessenger Plus lets adventurers stay connected and share memories. | Image: Garmin Garmin's new inReach Messenger Plus is an upgraded version of the company's satellite communicator that expands the original's text messaging capabilities with the ability to now send photos and audio clips through the Iridium satellite network.The original Garmin inReach Messenger debuted in 2022 and is still available for $299.99 for those content with relying on just text messages. The new multimedia capabilities of the inReach Messenger Plus come with a significant price bump to $499.99, which doesn't include service. inReach subscriptions range in price from $11.95 to $49.95 per month for consumers (with a 12-month commitment), with even pricier plans available for pros (search and rescue teams, for example) and larger groups.S... Continue reading...
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by Tom Warren on (#6QTPZ)
The 80HE takes the 60HE formula and makes it bigger and better, with a new light bar and 8kHz polling. Continue reading...
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by Nathan Edwards on (#6QTQ0)
Classic for a reason. | Photo: Nathan Edwards / The Verge A charming $89 DIY mechanical keyboard kit with thoroughly modern features. Continue reading...
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by David Pierce on (#6QTM0)
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge You've spent the last couple of days tweaking the icons on your iOS 18 homescreen and luxuriating in your rest days with WatchOS 11. Now Apple's hoping you'll upgrade even further. The company is getting ready to start selling the new iPhone 16 lineup, the new Apple Watch Series 10, and the new AirPods 4 headphones.We've been using all the devices since they were announced last week, and we're here to answer the question that matters most: is any of this new stuff worth the money?On this episode of The Vergecast, it's wall-to-wall Apple reviews. First, we start with the iPhones, which The Verge's Allison Johnson and Nilay Patel have been reviewing. We talk mostly about the camera, because, well, the camera's most of what there is to... Continue reading...
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