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Covid.gov, the government website where you could previously find information about covid, now redirects to a page that pushes the conspiracy theory that the virus originated from a lab. Navigating to the website reveals a prominent banner with the words Lab Leak" and a photo of Donald Trump, as spotted earlier by Wired's Andrew Couts. [...]

Subaru's first and only EV, the Solterra, is getting a facelift for 2026 with many upgrades that include a better AWD system, longer range, and improved performance. Subaru gave the new model a standard symmetrical all-wheel drive system that allows front and rear motors to work independently and offer better control in various weather conditions. [...]

I have been reporting in Washington for nearly six years, and on politics for over a decade, and Iave attended more corporate-sponsored policy events (and tend to nod off during them) than I can remember. Iave also reported on the gradual disintegration of reality caused by the rise of MAGA, so I thought my tolerance [...]

If you want to make the most out of a world increasingly filled with AI tools, hereas a habit to develop: start taking screenshots. Lots of screenshots. Of anything and everything. Because for all the talk of voice modes, omnipresent cameras, and the multimodal future of everything, there might be no more valuable digital behavior [...]

SpaceX is in the lead to help President Donald Trump create the Golden Dome" missile defense system, according to Reuters. The Elon Musk-owned company is reportedly working with the data analysis firm Palantir and the defense company Anduril to build key parts" of the Golden Dome that, like Israel's Iron Dome, would intercept and destroy [...]

Nintendo has announced a new date for when Switch 2 preorders will kick off in the US; April 24th. As a part of the announcement, Nintendo said that the price of the Switch 2 will remain at $449.99 despite fears that the Trump administration's new tariff policy would lead to increased pricing for the console. [...]

EcoFlow just announced improved versions of itsGlacier refrigerator-freezer comboandWave air conditioner-heater combo, two battery-powered off-grid appliances that can be recharged with the sun. The Wave 3 is more powerful than its predecessor, which means it can cool and heat larger spaces than theWave 2 I reviewed last summer. But that 6100BTU (1800W) of cooling and [...]

Our plan for this episode was to spend some time talking about antitrust regulation, because one of the biggest companies on the planet is currently in the midst of a trial that could fundamentally reshape the internet economy. And that was before Google lost its adtech trial! Twoas definitely a trend, in this case: Metaas [...]

If there's one thing the auto industry hates, it's uncertainty. When it takes upward of five or six years to bring a new car model to market, a certain administration throwing caution and global goodwill to the wind with a raft of unpredictable tariffs is decidedly bad news. Right now, the US tariff situation is [...]

You know, I was simply going to ignore the bizarre Blue Origin stunt flight from earlier this week. But then it flopped beyond my wildest imagination, and so here we all are. Doubtless you know the contours already: Jeff Bezosa fiancee Lauren SAnchez, pop star Katy Perry, and four other women did a big space [...]

A new theatrical Star Wars movie is on the way - and this time, it actually has a premiere date. At Star Wars Celebration in Japan, Lucasfilm announced Star Wars: Starfighter, a standalone feature that is set five years after The Rise of Skywalker. It's being directed by Shawn Levy, who most recently directed Deadpool [...]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is sending out mass layoff notices that appear to be in defiance of a court order blocking further layoffs following DOGE-induced cuts. I regret to inform you that you are affected by a reduction in force (RIF) action," says a notice reviewed by The Verge that was sent by [...]

Tesla's vehicles may be in a sales slump, but that's not stopping the company from regularly introducing fresh features for owners. Tesla's spring software update includes several useful new functions in its EVs, including adaptive high beams on compatible cars and better trip planning. The update will allow some Tesla owners to use high beams [...]

Netflix said in its first quarter earnings report on Thursday that revenue reached $10.5 billion in the months since it raised prices. Thatas a 13 percent increase over the same time last year. The streaming serviceas net income also grew to $2.9 billion, and the company says it expects more growth in the coming months [...]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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