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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kickstarter is launching a new Tariff Manager" tool that will allow creators to apply a surcharge to projects after their campaign has ended, as spotted earlier by 404 Media. The tool is supposed to help creators deal with rising costs" and import fees as a result of President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs. If a creator's [...]

OpenAI is improving ChatGPT's web search capabilities to make the AI chatbot a more useful tool for shopping. People already use ChatGPT to do research around products, but before these updates, ChatGPT didn't make it easy to understand up-to-date prices or see visual images of the results, Adam Fry, OpenAI's ChatGPT search product lead, told [...]

WhatsApp's web-based client may soon get voice and video call functionality built in, reports WABetaInfo. Currently, WhatsApp users who would like to make calls to others have to either rely on the mobile app or the PC or Mac app on desktop. However, WABetaInfo discovered new call buttons appearing on the web client, which means [...]

It's clay court season in tennis, and instead of questioning the judgments of chair umpires, some players are now questioning the decisions of complex software - specifically electronic line-calling (ELS) systems, which are increasingly tasked with determining whether a ball is in or out. German tennis star Alexander Zverev became the latest to dispute the [...]

The GitHub repository for The Homebrew Channel (HBC), a popular piece of software used on hacked Nintendo Wiis, has been archived. Its maintainers are accusing the creators of libogc," a software toolkit HBC relies on, of stealing both Nintendo-made and open-source code and presenting it as their own, according to a ReadMe posted to the [...]

Three Democratic senators are sounding the alarm over brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies' ability to collect - and potentially sell - our neural data. In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Maria Cantwell (D-IN), and Ed Markey (D-MA) called for an investigation into neurotechnology companies' handling of user data, and [...]

If all you need is a reliable tablet for everyday tasks like streaming, checking email, or browsing the web, Apple's latest entry-level iPad delivers good value - and right now, it's more affordable than ever starting at just $299 ($50 off) with Wi-Fi at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. This is its lowest price to [...]

If you're an Android user who has been staring longingly at the wrists of people with smartwatches, but haven't had the impetus (or the cash) to buy one yourself, this may be your chance. The last-gen Google Pixel Watch 2 is currently on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Google for about $149, a savings [...]

Headphones had existed for well over 50 years by the time Sony's Walkman debuted in 1979, but the portable cassette player helped popularize the technology by miniaturizing it. km5's new Lightwear Headphones Hp1 feature a minimal design similar to the one shipped with the Walkman over 40 years ago, but upgraded with wireless capabilities and [...]

Google just announced that it will host a separate event ahead of I/O to discuss updates coming to Android. The Android Show: I/O Edition will land on YouTube and the Android website on May 13th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET and will feature Android ecosystem president Sameer Samat. That's a full week ahead of [...]

Power went down Monday afternoon in vast areas of Spain, crossing over into Portugal and France, causing widespread outages in homes and businesses and bringing transportation infrastructure to a halt. Lisbon, Madrid, Seville, Barcelona, and Valencia are reportedly affected. The outage began at around 12:30PM CET. Play has been suspended at the Madrid Open tennis [...]

Google is quietly building key features of its Play Games app, which lets you track achievements on Android games, directly into the Play Store, Android Police reports - signaling plans that the former may be headed for the infamous Google Graveyard. Coder and self-proclaimed APK teardown specialist AssembleDebug posted on X that Google hasn't made [...]

For millions of people, any one of the many unprecedented actions in the first 100 days of the second Trump presidency was enough to show that the US is barreling toward - or has already arrived at - billionaire-helmed fascism. Sure, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has indiscriminately fired thousands of federal employees [...]

OnePlus has reversed a big price hike for the Watch 3 and will sell the smartwatch for $349.99, OnePlus spokesperson Spencer Blank tells The Verge via email. That's $20 more than the price it was initially announced at, but a big drop from the unexplained $499.99 cost it debuted at on April 10th. Blank attributes [...]

Today, we have something special for you: A few days ago, I hosted a panel with FTC commissioners Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, DC. We recorded the discussion, and we're bringing it to you today. That's all pretty normal Decoder stuff, you might say - except these [...]

Nothing has announced the second phone under its colorful subbrand CMF: the Phone 2 Pro. Just like the first CMF phone, this is a modular handset with extra accessories you can screw into place. And also just like the first CMF phone, it's not getting an official US release. Buy the Phone 2 Pro by [...]

In less than 100 days the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been converted from a media and telecom watchdog into a bizarre, rights-trampling grievance machine built for one purpose: to coddle and protect the ego of President Donald J. Trump. Gone is the agency that used to occasionally care about whether broadband maps were accurate [...]

Tudum, Netflix's annual fan event showcasing all of its upcoming projects, is almost upon us once again. Today, Netflix dropped a trailer teasing some of what's going to be at this year's Tudum, which will stream live from the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on May 31st. On the film side of things, we can [...]

Squidge, splodge, splat: Skin Deep doesn't sound like most immersive sims. It doesn't sound like most video games. Close your eyes and what it aurally resembles is a slapstick cartoon with a healthy dollop of toilet humor. These sounds, though, bookend chains of effects that are pure video game magic. Take the splodge, produced when [...]

Ever wanted a mouse that could easily stick to your laptop as you carry it around? I can't say so myself - but one's launching on Kickstarter today that seems to do the job! I've been testing the $36 ESR MagMouse for roughly a week now, and I'm genuinely surprised we haven't seen anything like [...]

Elon Musk's expansive portfolio of companies could avoid more than $2.37 billion in potential legal liability due to his unprecedented influence over the US government, a new Senate report finds. The figure comes from a report assembled by Democratic staff for the Senate Homeland Security permanent subcommittee on investigations (PSI) probing the impact of Musk's [...]

A group of people sued Nike this week over its decision to wind down its virtual show project RTFKT last year. The buyers of the digital assets accuse Nike of causing the rug to be pulled out from under them," and say they wouldn't have bought its NFTs if they'd known they were unregistered securities," [...]

The OnePlus 13R is a particular kind of midrange phone for a particular kind of person. It's a pared-down version of the OnePlus 13 - which is a full-on flagship and a good one at that. And even though it shares a lot of the flagship DNA, the 13R lacks peace-of-mind features present on the [...]