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Here are our favorite deals from Amazon’s annual gaming sale
Sheena Vasani
Amazon’s annual Gaming Week celebration kicked off on Monday, April 28th, and will run through Sunday, May 4th. Whether you’re looking for a new headset, an internal SSD, or other gaming essentials, there are plenty of deals to explore. That being said, not e…
Microsoft reports strong cloud growth in Q3 earnings
- Tom Warren
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2025 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $70.1 billion in revenue and a net income of $25.8 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 13 percent, and net income has increased by 18 percent. Microsoft was exp…
The TikTok ban is back in court — in Meta’s antitrust trial
- Lauren Feiner
TikTok is back in a Washington, DC courthouse discussing the US law that - at least on paper - effectively banned the app. But this time, it's serving as a witness for the government, not fighting against it. On Wednesday, TikTok's head of operations and trus…
Nintendo limits a game-sharing loophole as it introduces Virtual Game Cards
- Jay Peters
The Nintendo Switch just got a new update that adds Virtual Game Cards as a way to share digital games with other people. But the update also closes a loophole that would let you play shared games online at the same time as somebody you were sharing the game …
YouTube is testing blurred thumbnails for ‘mature content’
- Andrew Liszewski
YouTube has announced a new experimental feature that’s “aimed at providing safer search experiences for all users.” The service will begin blurring the thumbnails in search results for some queries “that frequently include sexual themes.” According to a rece…
Duolingo said it just doubled its language courses thanks to AI
- Jay Peters
Duolingo is “more than doubling” the number of courses it has available, a feat it says was only possible because it used generative AI to help create them in “less than a year.” The company said today that it’s launching 148 new language courses. “This launc…
Kia reveals pricing for its first electric PV5 van with UK preorders
- Umar Shakir
Kia is opening up preorders in the UK for its PV5 Passenger electric van at a starting price of £32,995, or about $44,000 with a standard range battery. Kia says preorders will open up tomorrow, May 1st, with initial deliveries in the UK planned for “late 202…
Google’s Play Store lost nearly half its apps
- Emma Roth
The Google Play Store shed 1.8 million apps since the beginning of last year, according to an analysis from Appfigures and reported earlier by TechCrunch. That makes up around 47 percent of the 3.4 million apps it started 2024 with — a decline that Google spo…
Automakers can’t figure out what the hell is going on with Trump’s tariffs
- Andrew J. Hawkins
It started last week with Tesla, followed quickly by General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo. Automakers across the spectrum are pulling their guidance for the year because they can’t figure out how to accurately plan for the future thanks to President Donal…
Sundar Pichai says the DOJ’s antitrust plan could kill Google Search
- David Pierce
Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, took the stand on Wednesday during the remedies phase of the company's search antitrust trial, and offered a simple message. The US government's plan to rectify Google's search monopoly, he said, would be so crushing to Google Sea…
OpenAI says its GPT-4o update could be ‘uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress’
- Jay Peters
OpenAI rolled back a GPT-4o update for ChatGPT that caused the chatbot’s default personality to be “overly flattering or agreeable – often described as sycophantic” and that “sycophantic interactions can be uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress,” the …
Elizabeth Warren asks Jeff Bezos if he got any favors for his ‘subservience’ to Trump
- Emma Roth
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wants to know whether Amazon founder Jeff Bezos received any “promises or favors” from President Donald Trump in exchange for his “subservience” after dropping all plans to show customers the cost of tariffs. In a letter sent o…
Google confirms it’s close to getting Gemini support on iPhones
- Emma Roth, David Pierce
Google is close to striking a deal with Apple to integrate Gemini into the iPhone. During the search monopoly trial on Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed the company expects to strike a Gemini deal with Apple by the middle of this year and suggeste…
WhatsApp is working on private AI chats in the cloud
- Wes Davis
Meta announced a new WhatsApp feature it says is a private way to interact with Meta AI. Called “Private Processing,” the feature is totally optional, launches in the “coming weeks,” and neither Meta, WhatsApp, nor third-party companies will be able to see in…
Warning systems for floods, hurricanes, and famine are suffering from Donald Trump’s data purge
- Justine Calma
Within weeks of President Trump stepping into office, key health and environmental resources that doctors and farmers rely on started disappearing from federal websites. Trump was also quick to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID), cu…
Donald Trump might actually believe these Calibri labels are real MS-13 tattoos
- Adi Robertson
For several weeks, President Donald Trump and his administration have been grasping for evidence that a man his administration deported and imprisoned in error is a dangerous gang member, and the effort has now reached what may be an untoppable peak: the Pres…
Boox launches its first color E Ink monitor
- Andrew Liszewski
Boox is debuting its first desktop monitor featuring a color E Ink screen. The new version of the Boox Mira Pro carries over the same functionality as the black-and-white version that launched in 2023, but using the same E Ink color display technology found i…
Yale’s new smart lock can disarm your ADT security system with your fingerprint
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
One of the best features of the now-discontinued Nest Secure security system was that if you also had the Nest X Yale Lock, you could unlock your door and disarm your security system just by entering a single code. With both those products now discontinued, Y…
Meta tightens privacy policy around Ray-Ban glasses to boost AI training
- Chris Welch
Meta is making a few notable adjustments to the privacy policy for its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. In an email sent out on April 29th to owners of the glasses, the company outlined two key changes. First, it’s giving Meta AI a more frequent view of the world.…
Nvidia’s new tool can turn 3D scenes into AI images
- Jess Weatherbed
Nvidia launched a new tool that lets developers generate AI images by first creating them in 3D. The awkwardly named Nvidia AI Blueprint for 3D-guided generative AI is available to download today for computers equipped with an Nvidia RTX 4080 GPU or higher, a…
The DOGE days have just begun
- Elizabeth Lopatto
I once wondered whether law enforcement might stop Elon Musk's power grab. About a month ago, I got my answer: no. On March 17th, the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency broke into the nonprofit, congressionally funded US Institute for Peace, accordi…
Raycast brings its super-powerful Mac launcher to iOS, sort of
- David Pierce
Raycast users have been asking the app's developers for an iOS app for a long time. It took a while, though, for the developers to figure out exactly what that app was supposed to do. See, on a Mac (and soon a Windows PC), Raycast is a hugely powerful tool fo…
Content moderators are organizing against Big Tech
- Jess Weatherbed
Content moderators who comb through harmful material uploaded to online platforms have formed a global trade union alliance in a bid to improve working conditions. The Global Trade Union Alliance of Content Moderators (GTUACM) announced today in Nairobi, Keny…
Rad Power Bikes’ bestselling RadRunner is getting a Class 3 upgrade
- Andrew J. Hawkins
Rad Power Bikes may be going through some turmoil in its upper ranks, but the e-bike company’s product team is still working hard to churn out new bikes. Today, Rad Power revealed its refreshed RadRunner lineup, with a slew of cool new features, including a n…
New York City wants subway cameras to predict ‘trouble’ before it happens
- Dominic Preston
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it’s exploring the use of AI systems for “predictive prevention” of crime and dangerous behavior on the city’s subway platforms. MTA chief security officer Michael Kemper said that the agency is “studying …
Nintendo’s new Switch 1 update is getting things ready for Switch 2
- Richard Lawler
With just over a month to go before the Nintendo Switch 2 release date on June 5th, Nintendo has released a Switch 1 update that will help prepare things for the new console’s arrival. The V20.0.0 update for the original Switch adds a bunch of new features th…
A Canadian mining company wants Trump’s permission to mine the deep sea
- Justine Calma
The Metals Company, which has been trying for years to exploit battery materials strewn across the ocean floor, announced today that it has applied for a permit from the Trump administration to start commercially mining in international waters. Together, the …
France accuses Russia of a decade’s worth of high-profile cyberattacks
- Tina Nguyen
In an unprecedented display of diplomatic aggression, French authorities publicly accused Russia of sponsoring several high-profile cyber attacks on French entities for over a decade to gather intelligence and destabilize the country. The incidents include ev…
EA lays off staff and cancels a Titanfall game
- Umar Shakir
Electronic Arts is reportedly eliminating “between 300 and 400 positions” and scrapping a game set in the Titanfall universe, codenamed R7, that was in the works at Respawn Entertainment, according to Bloomberg. “As part of our continued focus on our long-ter…
Lyft’s AI ‘Earnings Assistant’ offers ideas about how drivers can make more money
- Wes Davis
Lyft has launched “Earnings Assistant,” an AI chatbot tool for drivers seeking to “optimize their time on the road.” With it, drivers can create plans based on information about things like airport arrivals or local events, announced Jeremy Bird, EVP of drive…
GPD Win Max 2 review: a surprisingly competent tiny laptop that doubles as a gaming handheld
- Sean Hollister
Since Neuromancer took the sci-fi world by storm in 1984, computing nerds have pined for a "cyberdeck" - the ultimate in personal, portable PCs for surfing and hacking the world. Usually, they're DIY affairs. But the 10-inch GPD Win Max 2 is the closest I've …
Netflix is streaming a showcase of Hitchcock’s greatest films this June
- Charles Pulliam-Moore
It’s always a good time to lock in for a marathon watch of Alfred Hitchcock films, and Netflix is getting ready to make a bunch of the legendary director’s features a lot easier to watch in one place. Today, Netflix announced that it plans to stream a number …
The EPA says it still cares about forever chemicals, but health advocates are wary
- Justine Calma
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a new plan to address “forever chemicals” once widely used in non-stick and water-proof products that have since been linked to cancer, reproductive health issues, and liver damage. The vague details the EPA has s…
OpenAI undoes its glaze-heavy ChatGPT update
- Jay Peters
OpenAI is rolling back its latest GPT-4o update after CEO Sam Altman said the company would be making fixes to address the chatbot’s “sycophant-y and annoying” personality introduced with recent updates. The rollback, which started Monday night, is “now 100%”…
Snapchat scraps ‘simple’ redesign as it loses users in North America
- Emma Roth
Snap is backing away from plans to simplify the design of Snapchat as it reports losing 1 million users in North America. As part of its Q1 2025 earnings report on Tuesday, Snap revealed that it’s instead going to start testing a “refined” layout that keeps t…
Apple launches a new celebrity hub that’s all about Apple
- Umar Shakir
Apple has quietly launched a new website called “Snapshot on Apple” that presents viewers with a carousel of celebrities and information on where you can find their work across the company’s services. The website, spotted by 9to5Mac reports, presents two slo…
Natasha Lyonne to direct and star in a new sci-fi film created with generative AI
- Charles Pulliam-Moore
Poker Face’s Natasha Lyonne has a new project in the works that seemed poised to become a case study in the debate about how and whether Hollywood should be using generative AI. Lyonne is teaming up with technologist and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier t…
Slate Auto confirms where it’ll build its $20,000 Truck
- Tim Stevens
Since Slate Auto came out of stealth mode last week, the internet has been abuzz with speculation about the finer details of the ultra-barebones electric Truck, which is set to cost just $20,000 when it enters production next year — assuming our federal EV in…
Tesla won’t have to report as many Level 2 crashes after Trump’s rule change
- Andrew J. Hawkins
Last week, the US Department of Transportation announced a major change to the Biden-era rule that requires automakers and tech companies to report crashes that involve fully or partially autonomous vehicles. Under the revised rules, companies will no longer …
Apple’s latest AirPods Pro are down to their best price of the year
- Sheena Vasani
Amazon’s annual Gaming Week sale might be the big focus this week as far as deals are concerned, but gaming peripherals and games aren’t the only discounts we’re seeing. Right now, for instance, Apple’s latest AirPods Pro with USB-C are on sale for $169 ($80 …
Isuzu starts mass producing its first all-electric pickup truck
- Umar Shakir
Isuzu has started mass production of an all-electric version of its mid-sized D-Max pickup truck in Thailand, featuring a dual-motor four-wheel-drive system with 140kW of power that can “match the performance of existing diesel models,” according to the autom…
OnePlus won’t sell the 13T in the US or Europe
- Allison Johnson
If you were hoping to get your hands on the “compact” phone OnePlus launched in China last week, you’re going to have your work cut out for you. OnePlus spokespeople have confirmed to The Verge that the 13T will not be sold in Europe or North America. That le…
AirPlay security flaws could help hackers spread malware on your network
- Wes Davis
Cybersecurity firm Oligo has detailed a set of vulnerabilities its researchers found in Apple’s AirPlay protocol and software development kit that could serve as a point of entry to infect other devices on your network, Wired reports. Oligo’s researchers refe…
Reddit bans researchers who used AI bots to manipulate commenters
- Marina Galperina
Commenters on the popular subreddit r/changemymind found out last weekend that they've been majorly duped for months. University of Zurich researchers set out to "investigate the persuasiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) in natural online environments" b…
Trump reportedly complained to Bezos about Amazon’s tariff plan
- Emma Roth
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 “shortl…
Would you wear a smart ring that proves you’re not a cheater?
- Victoria Song
Imagine this. You wake up, roll over, take your smart ring off its charger, and slip it onto your finger. After eating breakfast and getting ready for work, you kiss your lover goodbye and head out. Everything's hunky-dory - until you look down at your finger…
Google’s AI podcast maker is now available in over 50 languages
- Emma Roth
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,…
Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now
- Nilay Patel
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 …
Borderlands 4 release date moved up two weeks
- Ash Parrish
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 repost…
Weapons’ new trailer makes PTA meetings look like a nightmare
- Charles Pulliam-Moore
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 e…
Former Disney employee sentenced to three years for menu hacking
- Wes Davis
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…
The Slate Truck is a whole new kind of car
- David Pierce
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 …
White House calls Amazon ‘hostile’ after report says it will label tariff price hikes
- Emma Roth
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 ecomme…
MAGA’s next wave of influencers saved TikTok
- Tina Nguyen
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 agreem…
Meta’s ChatGPT competitor shows how your friends use AI
- Alex Heath
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…
Bluesky is having an up and down Tuesday morning
- Jess Weatherbed
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…
Starlink’s got company — and orbital overcrowding is a disaster waiting to happen
- Georgina Torbet
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 t…
You have two months left to update your old LG phone
- Jess Weatherbed
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 shu…
Whatever happened to the Kids Online Safety Act?
- Lauren Feiner
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 t…
Amazon launches its first satellites to rival Starlink
- Jess Weatherbed
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 i…
Nvidia issues yet another GPU hotfix driver to address crashes and bugs
- Tom Warren
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 cras…
New Starlink subscription drops hardware price to $0
- Thomas Ricker
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, b…
Take It Down Act heads to Trump’s desk
- Lauren Feiner
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…
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
- Jay Peters
Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that Al 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. Accord…
‘Video games are not manufactured in China,’ Playasia reassures tariff-wary customers
- Jay Peters
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…
GOG is adding some classic Star Wars games to its preservation program
- Emma Roth
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 prog…
DHL restarts deliveries of international packages worth more than $800
- Umar Shakir
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 adm…
The DJI Phantom is no more
- Sean Hollister
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 …
New ChatGPT ‘glazes too much,’ says Sam Altman
- Gaby Del Valle
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-4…
How Marc Andreessen’s Signal group chats helped spawn the tech right
- Tina Nguyen
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 publi…
ChatGPT is getting better for shopping
- Jay Peters
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 s…
The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump’s tariffs
- Emma Roth
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…
A pirated iOS port of Blue Prince is climbing the App Store charts
- Jay Peters
Apple’s App Store review has yet again let at least one unofficial mobile port of a hot new game show up on the store – this time, it’s Blue Prince. In a joint post on Monday, Blue Prince’s developer, Dogubomb, and its publisher, Raw Fury, said that they have…
WhatsApp is working on video and voice calls on the web
- Umar Shakir
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, WABetaIn…
Tennis star Alexander Zverev calls out automated line judging system
- Emma Roth
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 determinin…
Wii Homebrew Channel development shuts down over ‘stolen’ code
- Wes Davis
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…
Apple’s most affordable iPad is now the cheapest it’s ever been
- Sheena Vasani
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 Amaz…
The Pixel Watch 2 is now on sale for $100 off
- Barbara Krasnoff
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 …
These wireless headphones have ‘80s Sony Walkman vibes
- Andrew Liszewski
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 shi…
Bird Buddy’s new nature camera attracts and records more than just birds
- Andrew Liszewski
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 re…
Neurotech companies are selling your brain data, senators warn
- Gaby Del Valle
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…
Google Play Games might be headed to the graveyard
- Umar Shakir
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 an…
OnePlus backs off its Watch 3’s huge price hike
- Wes Davis
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 $49…
Fired FTC commissioners on fighting for their jobs back
- Nilay Patel
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 a…
Nothing’s second modular phone reinvents the rules
- Dominic Preston
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 offi…
America is living in tariff limbo
- Mia Sato
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…
Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine
- Karl Bode
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 i…
Netflix’s Tudum 2025 event will stream live next month
- Charles Pulliam-Moore
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 …
Elon Musk’s DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability
- Lauren Feiner
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 fo…
Widespread power outage hits Spain and neighboring countries France and Portugal
- Jess Weatherbed
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. The cause of the outage is currently unknown. Lisbon, Madr…
I tried the magnetic mouse with its own folding USB-C charge cable
- Sean Hollister
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 surp…
Nike is facing a lawsuit from people who bought its NFTs
- Wes Davis
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 th…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s battles are best when you break them
- Jay Peters
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has flashy, thrilling battles, but the best thing about them is how you can twist the game's many systems to your advantage. The turn-based RPG combat might feel familiar, but it offers a lot of ways to customize your approach to b…
The lost secrets of Palm webOS (2014)
- michalpleban
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/2/5264580/the-lost-secrets-of-webos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43807245 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
A new Alien: Earth teaser includes the miracle of alien birth
- Wes Davis
It's been a busy week for Alien: Earth's marketing team, having released three new teasers over the last few days. The longest of them - titled "Gestation Complete" - spends two whole minutes on the gestation and birth of an alien creature. Another, "Crate," …
Digital photo frame company Nixplay cut its free cloud storage to almost nothing
- Wes Davis
One of the most frustrating realities about modern technology products is that while so many of them can get exciting new features via the internet, they can lose them just as easily. That happened to owners of Nixplay smart digital photo frames this week whe…
Kuxiu’s ‘world first’ solid-state power bank costs a little more but lasts much longer
- Thomas Ricker
Solid-state batteries are the future. They're more powerful, compact, safe, and sustainable than Lithium-ion alternatives, but true all-solid state batteries can't be mass-produced cost-effectively. That's why Kuxiu has gone semi-solid state for what it calls…
GPU prices are out of control again
- Sean Hollister
Every so often, Central Computers - one of the last remaining dedicated Silicon Valley computer stores - lets subscribers know it's managed to obtain a small shipment of AMD graphics cards. Today, it informed me that I could now purchase a $600 Radeon RX 9070…
Bending to industry, Donald Trump issues executive order to “expedite” deep sea mining
- Justine Calma
Donald Trump wants to mine the depths of the ocean for critical minerals ubiquitous in rechargeable batteries, signing an executive order on Thursday to try to expedite mining within US and international waters. It’s a brash move that critics say could creat…
Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia
- Emma Roth
Interim DC attorney Ed Martin has written a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation — the organization behind Wikipedia — that calls into question its status as a nonprofit entity. In the letter, which was obtained by The Free Press, Martin claims he found that Wi…