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Amazon Prime Day is right around the corner, but the deals have already started to roll in. The Fire TV Stick 4K Max is currently available for $35, which is a new record low price. This is a discount of more than 40 percent, as the typical cost is $60. The Fire TV Stick 4K…
Flooding in Boone, North Carolina, about an hour northeast of Spruce Pine. | Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits / Getty Images Hurricane Helene brought historic rainfall and flooding to western North Carolina last week, leaving dozens dead and catastrophic damage stretching across the state’s mountain towns. The devastation also reached the small town of Spruce…
Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Amid the hullabaloo around California Gavin Newsom vetoing a closely watched artificial intelligence bill, three other bills that would regulate a different type of AI — autonomous vehicles — landed on his desk with less fanfare. The governor signed one and vetoed two others. For the…
Ford is looking to take some of the sting out of EV charging by offering a free home charger. The automaker will even send out a technician to install it at no cost to you if you buy or lease a retail Mustang Mach-E, F-150 Lightning or E-Transit between October 1 and January 2. However,…
Illustration: The Verge Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform. Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able to change if their subreddit is public or private without first submitting a request to a Reddit admin. The policy applies to adjusting all community types, meaning moderators will…
Best iPad deals ahead of October Prime Day Best deal for most people Apple iPad (10th generation, WiFi, 64GB) $299 at Amazon (Save $50) Get Deal Best upgraded pick Apple iPad Air (11-inch, WiFi, 128GB) $549 at Amazon (Save $50) Get Deal Best for portability Apple iPad Mini (WiFi, 64GB) $389 at Amazon (Save $110)…
As first reported by Reuters, ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, is planning to train and develop an AI model using chips from fellow Chinese company Huawei. Three anonymous sources approached Reuters with this information; a fourth source couldn’t confirm that ByteDance was using Huawei chips but did say that a new AI model…
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Screenshot: YouTube Amazon Prime has released a trailer for its spin on the Shark Tank concept: Buy It Now, a JB Smoove-hosted show where people put their product ideas before a panel of investors. The twist is that they’ll also be judged by “The 100,” which Amazon says is an audience of “potential customers” (otherwise…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Verizon is experiencing a huge outage affecting its mobile services across the country. “During the incident we received reports from Clermont, Naples, Ocala, St. Petersburg, Decatur, Carmel, Cloverdale, Indianapolis, Caldwell, Ottawa, Shawnee, Lexington, Louisville, Wentzville, Elizabeth, Dallas, Houston, McGaheysville, Keyser, Chillicothe and 53 other cities,” according to a website…
It’s always beautiful when two lonely corporations find one another. DirecTV has reached an agreement to acquire Dish Network, according to reporting by The New York Times. This would create a global behemoth in the satellite TV space. It would also provide some financial armor for the struggling Dish Network. The company’s in debt to…
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On the far-right, some have developed an obsessive fixation on two things: interracial relationships and pornography. If you’ve ventured into the conspiracy-laden world of X (formerly Twitter), you’ll find disturbingly prevalent discussions of the Great Replacement Theory. This white supremacist conspiracy theory — pushed on the site by owner Elon Musk himself — suggests that…
There are bargains aplenty to be had in the lead up to the October edition of Prime Day. Many are even bringing the prices of certain products down to record lows. Case in point: the USB-C Apple Pencil is cheaper than it’s ever been right now. You can snap one up for $69, which is…
Some users may know that Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, has had its own app store for a while now, the Epic Games Store. The company also won an antitrust lawsuit against Google last December that found Google held an illegal monopoly on app distribution and in-app billing services for Android devices. Despite that…
Image: Parker Ortolani / The Verge Some Tesla Cybertruck owners are starting to get Full Self-Driving (FSD) access on their vehicles. The company’s polarizing electric pickup truck has lacked the driver-assistance software feature since its launch in November 2023. Now, members of the Cybertruck Owners Club (as reported by Electrek) are reporting that the update…
Photo: Getty Images Oasis announced the North America leg of its 2025 reunion tour this morning, and the band’s management also shared a decision that will be welcome news to fans: they won’t have to worry about inflated “dynamic pricing” rates when ticket sales kick off on October 4th. Dynamic pricing allows for ticket costs…
Football Manager 25 is finally on its way, with Sports Interactive confirming the news and announcing a release date. The game will arrive for PC, Mac, Xbox and PS5 on November 26, just in time for some Thanksgiving gameplay. At the same time, FM25 Mobile is launching exclusively on Netflix, while FM25 Touch should come…
Image: Kojima Productions The 2024 edition of the Tokyo Game Show took place over the weekend, and one of the highlights was a presentation from Death Stranding 2 studio Kojima Productions. It included a few interesting details about the weird-as-hell sequel, which the developer has helpfully split up into a series of clips in lieu…
After arriving two weeks late, AMD’s Ryzen 9000-series desktop processors disappointed some buyers and reviewers due to lackluster performance. Now, the company has addressed those issues with several new updates. The biggest speed brake for Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs was the lack of Windows 11 branch prediction optimizations. For relief, you needed to either wait…
Image: AMD AMD is releasing new BIOS updates that will boost performance for its Ryzen 9600X / 9700X processors and address some latency issues. The performance improvements and latency reductions arrive around a month after disappointing Zen 5 desktop CPU reviews and appear alongside updates to Windows 11 that include optimized AMD-specific branch prediction for…
Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge Autumn is here, and once again, warnings are going up about the spread of the covid-19 virus — along with the flu and RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus. To try to minimize the upsurge, the US government is once again offering free home rapid antigen tests to each US…
If successful, the merger would create a combined satellite streaming business with around 20 million US subscribers. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge DirecTV has reached an agreement to acquire Dish, alongside its parent company EchoStar’s wider satellite TV business, for a single dollar — and assume $9.75 billion of Dish’s debt. Private…
Buyers that paid at least $93,990 to be among the first to own (and beta test) Tesla’s Cybertruck are finally getting a key, promised feature: Full Self-Driving (FSD). Several people on the Cybertruck Owners Club forum — including an Angeleno who posted a video — say that it has finally arrived in early access to…
Image: Ford For customers still unsure whether they’re ready to make the switch to an all-electric vehicle, Ford is sweetening the pot. Today, the company launched a new initiative called the “Ford Power Promise,” in which it will provide a suite of benefits to customers who buy or lease a new EV. And chief among…
The UK’s last coal plant will sigh out its final pollutants Monday before shutting down for good and officially ending the country’s century and a half of coal production. Nottinghamshire’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant was the last of its kind following Britain’s 2015 commitment to close all coal power plants by 2025. Ratcliffe was originally scheduled to…
Remember those rumors of an Apple smart display suspended on a robot arm? According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to debut the first device as soon as 2025, alongside a new operating system called homeOS. It could be a device with a robotic arm or a simpler HomePod-with-screen affair. Gurman elaborated on this,…
Kuru Games Genshin Impact gacha challenger Wuthering Waves continues to perform strongly and has now, already reached its version 1.3 update, just a few months after its initial launch. The update entitled ‘To the Shores’ brings with it the new Black Shores region and a lot of new content alongside it as you may expect….
Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Philip Pacheco, Getty Images Four years after Epic sued Google for running an illegal app store monopoly — a case it won this past December — Epic is suing again. The Fortnite game developer has filed a second antitrust lawsuit against Google, and now…
Indian authorities, in collaboration with Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, have reportedly dismantled a gaming app scam that defrauded users of over $47 million. The country’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested four people who allegedly assisted Chinese nationals in running a scam gaming app called Fiewin, in which victims lost over Rs 400 crore. The…