New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD Vance dossier that was allegedly nabbed in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. The company has apparently removed posts containing the link and is seemingly blocking links to…
“So full. So filled.” | Image: Disney This week, I’ve been slowly catching up on Dark Matter; I’m about 20 hours into Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the Switch; and I’m still trying to work a trip to the movie theater into my schedule to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. I’m behind, in other words! And…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple, the most valuable company in the world, will have to work this weekend to meet a legal deadline on Monday. That’s after Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixson on Friday denied the company’s request for more time to produce 1.3 million documents related to App Store changes it made…
As the cryptocurrency market heats up, fueled by the upcoming U.S. elections, declining interest rates, and Bitcoin’s approach to all-time highs, meme coins are poised for a resurgence. Bitcoin is currently trading near $65,000, while the Fear and Greed Index stands at 57, indicating neutral market sentiment. With meme coins experiencing average gains of 15%…
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In a short-lived will-they-won’t-they love story to rival the likes of Heathcliff and Catherine, Apple is reportedly no longer in talks with ChatGPT creator OpenAI for investing in its latest fundraising round. The Washington Post reported on Friday that a “knowledgeable person” reported that Apple fell out of talks to join this round. It’s a…
The Xbox 360 era of gaming is one of the most iconic in recent times with a library of fantastic titles that may even rival that of the legendary PS2. From gripping action to expansive RPGs, the best Xbox 360 games offer a variety of experiences that certainly stand the test of time. Below, we’ll…
Shiba Inu has defied expectations, doubling its price in September despite predictions of a challenging month. The token is currently trading in the range of $0.000019 to $0.000020, having increased by 34% over the past week. With a market cap of approximately $11.5 billion and a daily trading volume of $1.3 billion, Shiba Inu remains…
Samsung’s Galaxy Book4 Edge offer a vibrant OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. | Photo: Joanna Nelius / The Verge The portability of a laptop is nice and all, but oftentimes, the tradeoff is a smaller screen that can feel cramped if you’ve got a lot of tabs open. Thankfully, there are laptops like…
Playstack Now that Balatro is out on mobile, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. And while it’s a great game, its tutorial doesn’t do the best job of setting you up for the kind of success necessary to hook you. In my first few hours, though I was completing the objectives…
As crypto market turns bullish, investors should watch for a significant surge in meme coins, with the top three meme coin ICOs likely leading the rally. Cryptocurrency sentiment is on the rise. Recent data shows growing optimism in the market, with a shift from fear to greed. This positive trend aligns with historical patterns, suggesting…
I don’t know how many more times I can say what an intense two weeks it’s been since the last time I posted an Engadget review recap without sounding repetitive. Ever since we launched the first of these roundups last month, companies have relentlessly launched new hardware each week, contributing to a growing pile of…
See that little circle? That’s a camera. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge All around Meta’s Menlo Park campus, cameras stared at me. I’m not talking about security cameras or my fellow reporters’ DSLRs. I’m not even talking about smartphones. I mean Ray-Ban and Meta’s smart glasses, which Meta hopes we’ll all —…
X only has to pay one last fine in Brazil to get its services reinstated, according to Bloomberg and CNBC. Supreme Court R has ordered the company to pay 10 million Reais, or around $1.9 million, for its non-compliance with Brazil’s court order for two days. Moraes added that the company’s return “depends solely on…
Lennon Torres was 13 when she received her first iPhone. She raced to download the apps all her friends used: Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, eager to experience social media alongside her peers. But Torres, now 25, wasn’t the average 13-year-old. She was also a reality show contestant who later regularly guest starred on the show…
The M87 galaxy is monstrous. It contains several trillions of stars, compared to our Milky Way’s hundreds of billions. And the supermassive black hole at its center is shooting an outstretched beam of energy into space. The Hubble Space Telescope, operated by NASA and the European Space Agency, has captured a new image of this…
Our descendants will — at some time in the future — almost certainly need to deflect an asteroid. Though there is no known threat for at least the next century, planetary defense experts are investigating how to divert such a large space rock, and one proposal involves detonating a nuclear device near the menacing object….
Hamster Kombat, a popular Tap-to-Earn cryptocurrency project, has recently launched one of the largest airdrops in crypto history. With the potential to reach over 100 million people, this event has sparked significant interest and speculation within the crypto community. In this article, a technical analysis of the asset’s price action is presented, along with predictions…
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To understand the range of Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo, you only need to look at his two most popular feature films: Timecrimes and Colossal. The first, his feature-length directorial debut, is a 2007 sci-fi horror thriller that follows an average man plagued by a scissor-wielding masked stranger. The second is the blistering 2016 Anne Hathaway…
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The brains of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft are stored in a metal vault. It’s where the large exploration vehicle — the length of a basketball court — safeguards its computers, software, and many electronics. The craft is about to launch to Jupiter’s moon Europa, a world planetary scientists suspect harbors an ocean twice the volume…
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Shot over a decade ago, guerilla-style in Estonia, the low-budget horror musical Chainsaws Were Singing is a pastiche of genre tropes that its filmmaker spent years completing nearly by himself. Sander Maran stretches the definition of multi-hyphenate in Neil Breen fashion; as the movie’s writer, director, composer, cinematographer, sound designer, colorist, and VFX artist, Maran…
Coming to theaters amid the fervor of the U.S. presidential election season, Rumours might seem to be targeting the absurdity within American politics. However, its aim is much broader, skewering global politics as a whole. More remarkable, this scorching satire from co-directors Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, and Guy Maddin plays like the unholy and hilarious…
We are finally heading towards the airlock that will release us into the world of Starfield’s first major DLC update, Shattered Space. In many ways, it doesn’t seem like it has been a year since Starfied first came out as Bethesda has been busy constantly improving the game and adding new stuff, but now it…
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