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11:30 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Sen. Warren calls for meticulous review of Amazons MGM acquisition
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks with reporters on her way to a lunch with Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on June 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. | Photo: Drew Angerer/Get...
10:58 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Uniteds latest jets will offer Bluetooth for in-flight entertainment
Image: United
United Airlines is adding a long-awaited feature to the in-flight entertainment seatback screens of its new Boeing 737 Max 8 jets — support for Bluetoot...
10:36 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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A Twitter bug temporarily removed the option to switch to the chronological feed on the web
Our friend, for whom we feared the worst today.
Twitter has fixed a bug that left some of us horrified when we opened the site (as is often the case, but for different ...
09:37 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Hasan Piker on the problem with YouTube debate culture
Last week, a pair of YouTube’s most popular creators was set to spar in the marketplace of ideas in a debate over the government’s simple, common sense advice to wear masks...
09:32 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Elon Musk counts on 500,000Starlinkusers within the next year
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SpaceX’s satellite internet network, Starlink, should have roughly 500,000 users within the next 12 months, Elon Musk sai...
09:13 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Federal agencies use facial recognition from private companies, but almost nobody is keeping track
Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has revealed near-total lack of accountability from federal agenc...
08:55 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Juul and the business of addiction
Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge
Bloomberg’s Lauren Etter on the rise and decline of an e-cigarette upstart
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08:39 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Here are the best Amazon Echo deals right now
The Echo Show 5 (left), Echo Show 8 (middle), and the Echo Show (right). | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
When it comes to the Echo smart speakers, Amazon has a slew ...
08:29 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Nacon RIG Pro Compact review: compact with caveats
There’s a crowd for a mini Xbox controller, but this one doesn’t get everything right
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08:26 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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A second exploit has emerged in the sad WD My Book Live data deletion saga
The WD My Book Live and My Book Live Duo | Image: WD
It looks like there may have been more than one exploit used to cause the mass deletion of data from WD My Book Liv...
07:53 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Tesla Model 3 gets safety recommendation back after ditching radar
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Consumer Reports is restoring its “Top Pick” recommendation to the Tesla Model 3 after the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety...
07:22 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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HBO Max launches outside the US in 39 new territories
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
HBO Max is launching in 39 territories in Latin America and the Caribbean today, expanding the service outside the US and US ter...
07:07 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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How to block and report text spam
Spam texts can be incredibly irritating — you get a notification and stop what you’re doing to check your phone, only to find somebody is trying to sell you something you d...
06:49 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Remedys Project Condor is a multiplayer spinoff of Control
Developer Remedy Entertainment announced that it’s making a new game, codenamed “Condor,” a multiplayer spinoff of Control. No release date, price, or story beats have be...
06:21 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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T-Mobile is offering iPhone owners no-hassle network test drives
If you own a compatible iPhone, you can try out T-Mobile just by downloading an app. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
T-Mobile is offering a new, low-stakes wa...
06:15 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Facebook announces Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor
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Facebook is getting into the subscription newsletter game. It’s launching a new service today, called Bulletin, that allows wr...
05:47 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Exposure notification apps could be more effective if theyre better at assessing risk
Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Joanna Masel is quick to recognize that the contact tracing apps built to track cases of COVID-19 aren’t as goo...
05:46 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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GitHub and OpenAI launch a new AI tool that generates its own code
Photo: GitHub
GitHub and OpenAI have launched a technical preview of a new AI tool called Copilot, which lives inside the Visual Studio Code editor and autocompletes co...
04:21 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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With xCloud on PC and iOS, cloud gamings next big moment has arrived
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
On Monday, Microsoft finally delivered two long-in-the-works updates for its Xbox Cloud Gaming Service (xCloud) that could mark ...
04:16 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Good Omens is returning for a second season on Amazon Prime Video
Good Omens is returning for a second season on Amazon Prime Video, the company announced today, with stars Michael Sheen and David Tennant returning to reprise their roles as t...
04:00 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Black Widow injects a little James Bond into the MCU
Photo: Marvel Studios
Natasha Romanoff finally gets her standalone film
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03:55 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Windows 11 will leave millions of PCs behind, and Microsoft is struggling to explain why
Microsoft’s big security push is complicated
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03:54 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Car companies will have to report automated vehicle crashes under new rules
Photo by Matt Doughtery / KPRC2 Houston
Car companies will be required to report crashes involving advanced driver assistance systems under new rules proposed by the US...
03:52 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Asus ZenFone 8 review: an Android iPhone mini
The ZenFone 8 delivers flagship-level build quality and performance in a small package
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03:35 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Logitechs $70 G335 is a colorful wired gaming headset
Logitech announced its new G335 wired gaming headset that’s available for preorder now at $69.99. It’s expected to ship in July. The G335 borrows several design elements fr...
03:30 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Mario Golf: Super Rush isnt weird enough
At their best, Super Mario sports titles move beyond the game they’re trying to mimic. You don’t have to care about cars or racing to enjoy Mario Kart, just as you don’t ...
02:41 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Boston Dynamics Spot robot challenges BTS to a boy band dance-off in latest video
Hyundai has officially completed its acquisition of Boston Dynamics, the creator of the internet’s favorite dancing Spot and Atlas robots (which only occasionally look like d...
02:21 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Asus pocket-sized Zenfone 8 arrives in the US for $629
The Asus ZenFone 8. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge
The Zenfone 8, Asus’ well-specced and compact competitor to the iPhone 12 mini, has launched in the US. The...
02:00 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Instagram tests letting anyone share a link in stories
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Instagram has always limited who can post swipe-up links to their stories, but today, the company is starting a new test that could widen that ability. In thi...
02:00 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Amazons latest Alexa trick is helping kids read
An Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
Amazon has announced a new feature for its Kids Plus service on Fire tablets and Echo smart speakers ...
01:37 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Razers Basilisk Ultimate includes a $50 Steam gift card at Best Buy
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Best Buy is offering an attractive deal on Razer’s Basilisk Ultimate wireless gaming mouse that includes a charging dock. ...
01:30 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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The Palm Pre home button was the first to be the last
The original Palm Pre.
Physical home buttons are all but extinct on modern smartphones, and the Palm Pre ended them.
It’s not hard to notice that smartphones have st...
01:05 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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The Verge is turning 10, and youre invited!
The Verge, in real life, for two days in New York City.
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01:00 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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The Pavilion Aero 13 is HPs lightest consumer laptop ever
Here’s the HP Pavilion Aero 13. | HP
HP has announced the Pavilion Aero 13, the lightest consumer laptop yet. It has a maximum weight of 2.18 pounds (0.987 kg), makin...
12:25 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Sony acquires Returnal developer Housemarque, hints Bluepoint is next
Sony has acquired Housemarque, the Finnish studio behind recent PS5 exclusive Returnal, the company announced today. It was announced with a tweet which suggests Sony might als...
12:14 pm - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Dells versatile UltraSharp 4K webcam uses AI to keep you in the frame
The UltraSharp shown on its two included mounts. | Image: Dell
Dell has launched the high-end UltraSharp webcam that costs $199.99 and is available now worldwide. Its c...
11:14 am - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Nothings debut wireless earbuds will be announced on July 27
Image: Nothing
Tech startup Nothing will announce its debut pair of true wireless earbuds, the Nothing Ear (1), at 9AM ET on July 27th, the company’s founder Carl Pei...
10:51 am - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Google Messages will auto-delete OTPs and sort like Gmail, but only in India
OTPs can be set to delete automatically after 24 hours. | Image: Google
Google is updating its Messages app in India to allow it to delete one-time passwords (OTPs) aut...
10:00 am - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Google launches new search tool to help combat food insecurity
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Google announced a new website designed to be a “one-stop shop” for people with food insecurity. The “Find Food Support”...
09:45 am - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Windows 11 includes new Dynamic Refresh Rate feature to save laptop battery life
Microsoft is introducing a new Dynamic Refresh Rate (DRR) feature in Windows 11 that’s designed to save laptop battery life and boost refresh rates when they’re really need...
09:07 am - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Google beefs up Play Store developer verification in response to scams
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Google is working to enhance the integrity of the Play Store by adding new restrictions and safeguards to developer accounts.
Go...
04:01 am - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Nikons Z FC is a film camera revival in mirrorless form
Nikon is going all-in on the retro aesthetic with its latest Z-series mirrorless camera. The company says the new Z FC, officially styled “Z fc,” is designed specifically t...
01:05 am - Tue, June 29, 2021
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LGs C1 and G1 OLEDs get even better at gaming with 120Hz Dolby Vision
With Dolby Vision gaming HDR technology available on Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, some TV owners have noticed that suddenly there’s a new setting to worry over. While...
12:43 am - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Parler reportedly refused to ban Trumps critics as part of discussions to bring him onboard
Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
The alternative social network Parler and representatives of former president Donald Tr...
12:02 am - Tue, June 29, 2021
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Juul settles with North Carolina in first teen vaping lawsuit
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Juul has agreed to settle its first state lawsuit over deceptive business practices with North Carolina, a move that will limit ...
11:00 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Snapchats new update fixes its crashing problem
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
If you’ve been experiencing the bug where the iOS version of Snapchat crashes at launch, it seems that there’s now an update...
10:52 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Microsoft Office is getting a new design and a native 64-bit Arm version for Windows 11
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows 11. | Image: Microsoft
Microsoft is announcing that the next version of Office for Windows 11 will have a native 64-bit Arm versi...
10:16 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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SoftBank has reportedly halted production of its Pepper robot
SoftBank is reportedly restructuring its robotics business and has already halted production of its Pepper robot, according to Reuters. Robotics is just one of many businesses ...
08:55 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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YouTube wins naming rights for 6,000-seat event venue at Hollywood Park
YouTube Theater | YouTube
Google-owned YouTube will have its name on a new live event venue in Inglewood, California, part of the new Hollywood Park mixed-use developme...
08:49 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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AdBlock glitch blanks out content on Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon, and other sites
If the internet has looked a little empty to you over the last day or so, check to see if your browser is using AdBlock or Adblock Plus. According to several users, ad blockers...
08:32 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Amazon Music Unlimited offers six months of Disney Plus for free
Image: Amazon
Amazon Music Unlimited customers can now score several months of Disney Plus for free, and the offer extends to new subscribers as well as existing users....
08:12 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Facebook has become a $1 trillion company
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Facebook has joined the ranks of companies valued over a trillion dollars as of today’s market close. The company’s market c...
07:35 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Say farewell to the BMW i3, the kooky electric hatchback that couldnt quite make it
BMW will stop selling the i3 electric hatchback in the US starting next month. It’s the latest pint-sized vehicle to fall victim to American car buyers’ insatiable appetite...
07:22 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Federal court dismisses FTCs bid to unwind Instagram from Facebook
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
On Monday, a US District Court dealt a huge blow to the federal government’s antitrust case against Facebook by dismissing a c...
07:19 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley stepping down from full-time role
Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare, is stepping down from his full-time role with the company | Getty
Foursquare founder and former CEO Dennis Crowley is stepping...
07:12 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Microsofts xCloud game streaming is now widely available on iOS and PC
Microsoft’s xCloud, the cloud game streaming component of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate that doesn’t require a console to use, is rolling out fully to iOS devices, including iPho...
07:04 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Hold off on updating Snapchat for iOS the latest version is crashing on launch
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
If you haven’t updated to the latest version of Snapchat on iOS, dubbed version 11.34.0.35 and released late Sunday, don’t �...
06:45 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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The best free apps for video calling
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Things are starting to open up, but for now, the COVID-19 pandemic is still with us and many are still relying on video calls to kee...
06:22 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Microsoft wont confirm exactly which CPUs work with Windows 11 yet
In a blog post today, Microsoft is making another attempt at clarifying the minimum requirements for Windows 11, which have confused many, especially regarding what generation ...
05:15 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Samsungs new Google-based smartwatch software addresses a lot of old annoyances
Samsung has taken the wraps off it and Google’s new unified smartwatch platform at MWC 2021 — sort of. The company isn’t announcing a new Galaxy Watch today, or even what...
05:00 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Microsoft releases Windows 11 preview, available to download now
Microsoft is releasing its first Windows 11 preview build today. Windows Insiders can download the Windows 11 preview (build 22000.51) right now, which includes access to the n...
04:27 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Leaked OnePlus Nord 2 renders reveal OnePlus 9-like design
Image: 91mobiles and OnLeaks
In 2020, OnePlus expanded its product lineup with the midrange OnePlus Nord, and new leaked renders from 91mobiles and OnLeaks have given u...
04:00 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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YouTube TV launches 4K and offline downloads today, but they dont come cheap
YouTube TV is today revealing more details about two anticipated new features: 4K playback and offline downloads. As it turns out, the service will be bundling them together in...
03:40 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Australian regulator says Apples AirTag batteries are too easy for kids to access
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Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has warned buyers to keep Apple AirTags away from young children, saying it�...
02:58 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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All the announcements from Samsungs virtual MWC event
Smartwatches and security
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02:33 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Loki is coming to Fortnite in July
In a completely expected turn of events, Loki — star of the latest MCU show on Disney Plus — is coming to Fortnite as a playable character. But there is a twist for those l...
01:47 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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New Foundation trailer teases Apple TV Plus ambitious sci-fi epic
Last week Apple revealed that Foundation, the upcoming sc-fi show based on a series of books by Isaac Asimov, would debut on Apple TV Plus in September. Now we have something e...
01:47 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Samsungs Galaxy Book Flex2 Alpha laptop is $250 off at Best Buy
You’re getting a solid laptop for $800
Samsung released its latest wave of Windows 10 laptops in late April, and one of them is already seeing a significant discount....
01:16 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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The 12.9 Max Plus is Brydges best iPad keyboard yet
The biggest trackpad you can get, if not necessarily the best
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01:12 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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How to watch Samsungs Galaxy MWC 2021 virtual event
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Samsung is hosting a virtual event for Mobile World Congress 2021 on Monday, June 28th, where it promises to share how it’s �...
01:00 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Netflix users on Android can now stream partially downloaded content
Netflix’s partial downloads feature displayed on a mobile device. | Image: Netflix
Netflix is launching a new feature for Android users that allows them to view parti...
01:00 pm - Mon, June 28, 2021
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TCLs 20 Pro 5G will offer a big screen and wireless charging for $499
TCL’s 20 Pro 5G is priced to compete with established midrangers like the Galaxy A52 5G. | Photo: TCL
TCL is bringing three of its 20-series phones to the US today, w...
10:51 am - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Microsoft keeps hinting at an October release for Windows 11
Microsoft keeps hinting at an October release date for Windows 11. The software giant teased an October date several times during its Windows event last week, including one ins...
10:15 am - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Qualcomms Snapdragon 888 Plus ups the CPU and AI performance
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Qualcomm’s best mobile processor, the Snapdragon 888, is getting even more powerful at MWC 2021 with the announcement of the Snapdragon 888 P...
10:00 am - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Hondas first electric SUV in the US will be called Prologue
Honda revealed the name of the first of two electric SUVs it plans to sell in North America, and it’s one that many have already guessed, thanks to a recent trademark applica...
09:20 am - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Security researcher sounds alarm over ATM NFC reader vulnerabilities
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IOActive security researcher Josep Rodriquez has warned that the NFC readers used in many modern ATMs and point-of-sale systems ...
06:00 am - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Velorettis first electric bikes are automatic and gorgeous
GIF: Veloretti
Vintage cool and high tech as hell
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04:43 am - Mon, June 28, 2021
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The best deals on true wireless earbuds right now
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When it comes to true wireless earbuds, there are a ton of brands and products to choose from. Whether you enjoy the unconventional d...
04:17 am - Mon, June 28, 2021
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Lenovo announces $679 13-inch Android tablet that works as a portable monitor
Image: Lenovo
Lenovo has announced the new $679 Yoga Tab 13, a global version of the Yoga Pad Pro that launched in China earlier this year. The tablet can function as a...
04:00 am - Mon, June 28, 2021
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The Lenovo Smart Clock 2 gives Google Assistant a new look
Here’s the Smart Clock 2 in “heather grey.” | Image: Lenovo
The Lenovo Smart Clock and Smart Clock Essential are both functional, attractive alarm clocks with som...
01:12 am - Mon, June 28, 2021
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The best deals on 4K TVs
The 55-inch Samsung Crystal TU-7000 is on sale at Best Buy for $450. | Image: Samsung
There are a lot of 4K TVs available to choose from, complete with a wide variety o...
08:50 pm - Sun, June 27, 2021
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Listen to the sounds of Chinas Zhurong rover on the surface of Mars
Image: CNSA
In March, NASA released audio of its Perseverance rover firing lasers on the surface of Mars. Now China has released audio of what it says is its Zhurong ro...
07:51 pm - Sun, June 27, 2021
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New trailers: The Harder They Fall, Ted Lasso, The Suicide Squad, and more
Regina King and Idris Elba in The Harder They Fall | Netflix
Since it was one of the top picks on Netflix and everyone’s talking about it, I started watching Manifest...
03:55 pm - Sun, June 27, 2021
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Leaked renders of Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 show four color options
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Leaked renders of the Galaxy Buds 2 obtained by gadget site 91Mobiles suggest the next iteration of Samsung’s earbuds will look pretty similar to Google’s...
01:55 pm - Sun, June 27, 2021
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YouTube reportedly took down videos by group documenting human rights abuses in China
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YouTube took down several videos from a human rights organization’s channel, which was attempting to document human rights abu...
09:55 pm - Sat, June 26, 2021
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FCC filing shows Verizon has built a smart display powered by Amazons Alexa
An image of a smart display device from a patent application Verizon filed with the FCC | FCC
According to a Friday filing with the Federal Communications Commission (f...
07:57 pm - Sat, June 26, 2021
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Volkswagen plans to stop selling combustion engine vehicles in Europe by 2035
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Volkswagen plans to stop selling combustion engines in Europe by 2035, a board member told German newspaper Muenchner Merkur (v...
05:38 pm - Sat, June 26, 2021
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Johnson & Johnson settles opioid case with New York for $230 million
Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson will pay $230 million to settle an opioid law...
03:42 pm - Sat, June 26, 2021
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Dune release date has been delayed yet again
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Denis Villeneuve’s Dune was among the big 2020 movies that saw its release date delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. After being moved to October 1st, ...
03:22 pm - Sat, June 26, 2021
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Start your weekend off right with eBays early Independence Day deals
The Bose 700 offer some of the best noise cancellation you can get, especially for shy of $250. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Prime Day is officially be...
02:00 pm - Sat, June 26, 2021
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Telegram adds group video calling at last
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Messaging chat app Telegram has added group video chat to its mobile and desktop apps at last, something it promised was coming ...
01:02 pm - Sat, June 26, 2021
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Tesla recalls more than 285,000 vehicles in China over cruise control safety concerns
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Tesla has had a run of bad publicity in China so far this year, with officials raising concerns over security risks, and protest...
01:37 am - Sat, June 26, 2021
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Apple reportedly sends warning letter to Chinese leaker
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Despite Apple’s efforts to keep anyone from finding out what it’s working on, leaks have continued to give the world early preview...
01:03 am - Sat, June 26, 2021
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Microsoft says its own customer support tools were compromised by the SolarWinds hackers
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Microsoft says some of its customer support tools were accessed by the hacking group Nobelium, which was also connected to the S...
01:03 am - Sat, June 26, 2021
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Microsoft says its customer support tools were compromised by the SolarWinds hackers
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Microsoft says some of its customer support tools were accessed by the hacking group Nobelium, which was also connected to the s...
10:11 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Everything you need to know about the Pentagons UFO report
Department of Defense/US Navy
For those who feel abducted by the recent UFO hype, this one’s for you
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09:49 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Now Microsofts app will say why your PC isnt ready for Windows 11
Image: Microsoft
Microsoft has updated its PC Health Check App to show more information about why your computer won’t be able to run Windows 11, to help deal with som...
08:43 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Read the Pentagons UFO Report to Congress
Image: Department of Defense / US Navy
An unclassified version of the Pentagon’s report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs, aka UFOs) was sent to Congress on Frid...
07:18 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Windows 11 will be able to sideload Android apps
Image: Microsoft
According to an engineer at Microsoft, Windows 11 users will have the ability to sideload Android apps onto the operating system, which looks like an a...
07:11 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Go read this report on an app that turns intelligence gathering into gig work
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Smartphones helped popularize the modern gig economy, and a new report from The Wall Street Journal suggests some companies like...
07:08 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Windows 11 is deleting Internet Explorer
internet explorer 9 logo
At one point in Windows 10’s lifetime, you could have had Internet Explorer, the legacy version of Microsoft Edge, and the new Chromium-power...
06:41 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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The Verge Guide to Windows
Microsoft’s Windows operating system has been a major presence in the computer industry for decades. Currently, PCs loaded with Windows 10 are being manufactured and sold by ...
05:10 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Why Windows 11 is forcing everyone to use TPM chips
Microsoft announced yesterday that Windows 11 will require TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chips on existing and new devices. It’s a significant hardware change that has been y...
04:10 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Google is warning users when its search results might be unreliable
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Google will now tell users when search results are rapidly changing around a breaking story. Some searches will now bring up a w...
03:55 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Everything you need to know about the Pentagons big UFO report... for now
Department of Defense/US Navy
A highly anticipated report on the Pentagon’s research into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), aka UFOs, will be released as early as ...
03:33 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Here are two podcasts from our Windows 11 coverage
On Thursday, we saw the official reveal of Windows 11 at Microsoft’s event, which showed off a redesign of the Microsoft operating system — including a replaced Start menu,...
03:22 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Amazon acquires encrypted messaging app Wickr
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Wickr, the encrypted messaging app founded in 2012, has been purchased by Amazon, the company announced today. T...
03:02 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Fortnites new virtual concert might be its trippiest yet
Ever since Marshmello first took the virtual stage in Fortnite, developer Epic Games has experimented with different ways to bring music into the game. That could mean a gigant...
02:22 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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UK antitrust watchdog investigating Amazon and Google over fake reviews
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is probing whether Amazon and Google broke consumer laws by failing to take a...
02:12 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Microsofts Panos Panay on building Windows 11 during a pandemic, Android, and the leak
The big Windows 11 leak earlier this month was never part of Microsoft’s plan. Developers at the company have spent the majority of the pandemic working from home and secretl...
02:00 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Hybrid work is coming to big tech. Its contractors might not be so lucky
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In fits and starts, the US is reopening — in many cases to the chagrin of office workers who have settled into wo...
01:27 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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eBay coupon takes 15 percent off certified refurbished gear
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If you’re in the market for a set of headphones, a security camera, phone charger, o...
01:02 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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OMG, BuzzFeed is worth 1.5 billion?? WIN
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From surfing Facebook’s wake to trying to get big enough for a better deal
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01:00 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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OnePlus Nord N200 5G review: T-Mobiles best phone under $250
If you’re on the Un-carrier, the N200 offers 5G and a high-quality screen for the right price.
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01:00 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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The Lucid Air is nearing the finish line
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The Lucid Air has been in the works for a very long time, nearly a decade by some accounts. The first time I rode in the 1,000-horse...
12:50 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Xgimi Horizon Pro 4K all-in-one projector review: more for less
Android TV on the go
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12:00 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the business of Windows
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Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 more flexible and open
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12:00 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Who needs COVID-19 boosters?
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The first COVID-19 vaccines were barely in the arms of doctors and nurses in the United States before people started wondering w...
12:00 pm - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Microsofts Satya Nadella wants to snatch competition from the jaws of antitrust
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The world is waiting to see whether the United States Congress, and a US judge, crack down on Big Tech’s monopoly power and decide t...
11:32 am - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Microsoft wants Steam to be part of its new Windows 11 app store
Microsoft’s new app store on Windows 11.
Microsoft’s surprise change to Windows 11 is a much more open approach to its Windows store, and it could mean we see Steam...
09:35 am - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Windows 11 is free, but your CPU might not be supported
Windows 11 is arriving later this year as a free upgrade for Windows 10 users, but many are discovering that their hardware isn’t compatible. Microsoft has altered its minimu...
09:35 am - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Windows 11 is free, but your CPU might not be officially supported
Windows 11 is arriving later this year as a free upgrade for Windows 10 users, but many are discovering that their hardware isn’t compatible. Microsoft has altered its minimu...
09:08 am - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Google Fis built-in VPN starts iPhone rollout
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Google Fi’s VPN service has started rolling out to subscribers on iPhone, the company has a...
06:06 am - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Instagram is testing a desktop posting feature
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Instagram is testing the ability to create posts using the web browser on a desktop computer. The feature was spotted by social ...
04:09 am - Fri, June 25, 2021
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This Google Contacts redesign is starting to look a bit like Google Plus
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While Microsoft previews its next OS, Google is displaying a new look for Contacts. According to the company this Circles-style extra information is “a new exp...
12:49 am - Fri, June 25, 2021
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Unplug your WD My Book Live, or you might find your drives data wiped
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If you own a WD My Book Live NAS, you should immediately disconnect it from your network — users have discovered that their data has seemin...
11:44 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsoft is now a $2 trillion company
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Microsoft can add ending the day as a $2 trillion company to the list of things it’s accomplished today, alongside announcing Window...
11:41 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Reddit recovers from major outage
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Reddit was down for many on Thursday, but the company has implemented a fix and the site seems to be working normally. While the ...
11:20 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsoft is supporting AMDs answer to DLSS on Xbox consoles
Microsoft is enabling Xbox developers to utilize AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s DLSS on console games. FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) appeared recently on Windows PCs with the...
10:01 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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The Thermapen One promises to make the best meat thermometer even better
The ThermoWorks Thermapen is legendary among chefs as the gold standard in kitchen thermometers, affording the fastest and most reliable temperature readings around. And today,...
09:39 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Baltimore spy plane program was invasion of citizens privacy, court rules
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The city of Baltimore’s spy plane program was unconstitutional, violating the Fourth Amendment protection against illegal sear...
08:59 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Amazon is acquiring a podcast hosting and monetization platform
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Amazon Music is getting more serious about its podcast endeavors. Today, the company announced that it’s acquiring Art19, a major podcast hosting and mon...
08:53 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsoft will let devs keep every penny their Windows app makes unless its a game
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As part of its Windows 11 announcements on Thursday, Microsoft revealed a major policy change to incentivize developers to make ...
08:41 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsoft didnt kill Skype, but Windows 11 is shoving it out of sight
Today’s Windows 11 news is all about where Microsoft sees computing going over the next few years, but it’s just as much the story of how Skype has flourished and ebbed sin...
08:39 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Windows 11s Intel-powered Android apps will run on AMD and Arm processors, too
One of the biggest announcements at today’s Windows 11 reveal was that Microsoft would offer the option to run Android apps on its new operating system, powered by a new “I...
08:30 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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ViacomCBS again restructures its leadership in its bid to win the streaming wars
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ViacomCBS is once again changing up leadership to emphasize its focus on streaming and ensure the success of its streaming services, particularly its l...
08:21 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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ADT and Ring reach settlement in trademark dispute over octagonal blue signs
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ADT has settled its trademark dispute lawsuit against Ring, which it brought against the Amazon-owned company because of what it called a “striking simila...
08:13 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Steams summer sale is here to relieve you of your money
Deals. Bargains. Sales. Discounts. I don’t know how else to tell you that Steam is selling games for less money, but it’s currently happening. The Steam summer sale will co...
07:51 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Here are the visual changes Microsoft showed off in Windows 11
Microsoft announced Windows 11 today, and one of the headline features of the “next generation” operating system is its visual overhaul. It’s released an entire video abo...
07:15 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Optimum is dramatically reducing cable internet speeds to be better aligned with the industry
Internet service provider Optimum, owned by Altice USA, is dramatically reducing cable internet speeds for new subscribers starting on July 12th. For some Optimum Online plans,...
07:01 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Big Tech edges closer to break up after deeply unhinged markup
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After nearly two years of investigations, the House Judiciary Committee met Wednesday to push forward on a package of bills ta...
06:56 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Razer Blade 14 review: pint-size power
Razer puts the Blade 15’s power in a smaller package
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06:29 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Satya Nadellas closing Windows 11 remarks were a direct shot across Apples bow
At the end of a surprisingly eventful, exciting presentation of Windows 11, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella came on the video feed to deliver some closing remarks. He laid out his ...
06:27 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Teamsters pass nationwide Amazon unionization campaign
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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is launching a nationwide campaign to unionize Amazon workers. On Thursday, the union...
06:07 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Heres everything Microsoft is removing from Windows 11
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Microsoft just announced Windows 11, which brings a new design, a centered Start menu, the ability to run...
06:04 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsoft teases new File Explorer for Windows 11
Microsoft made Windows 11 official today, but one part of the operating system the company didn’t show during its event was File Explorer. Just like the rest of Windows 11, i...
06:00 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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The little handheld that could: examining the Vitas impact a decade later
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The story of Sony’s beloved handheld
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05:42 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Samsungs Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 revealed in new leak
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Samsung’s 2021 foldable phones have been revealed in a new leak that shows off the design of the both the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Fli...
05:22 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Internet sex trafficking law FOSTA-SESTA is almost never used, says government report
It’s been over three years since former President Donald Trump signed FOSTA-SESTA, a major carveout to internet speech law Section 230. Proponents called the law — which ad...
05:00 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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The Sims is getting an in-game music festival with Simlish songs
The Sims is the latest game to feature a virtual concert, but this one comes with a twist: some of the songs will be performed in the fictional Simlish language. Today EA annou...
04:48 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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How to download a preview of Windows 11
Windows 11 was announced today with a load of new features, and if you’re a Windows enthusiast, you are no doubt eager to give it a try. If you want to install a real version...
04:30 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsoft kicks Cortana out of the boot experience for Windows 11
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My job requires me to set up several Windows PCs per week. That means several times per week, I have to hear the following:
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04:28 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsoft is changing the Windows 11 minimum requirements
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Now that Microsoft has announced Windows 11, you may be wondering what you’ll need to install it. Confi...
04:11 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Windows 11 Home will require a Microsoft account and an internet connection at setup
Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 on Thursday, and its least expensive version Windows 11 Home will now require an internet connection at setup — and a Microsoft account. Previou...
03:53 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Windows 11s news feed has built-in tipping to support local content creators
Supporting local news sources is suddenly something the tech industry worries about, and with Windows 11, Microsoft is adding integration with local news “content creators an...
03:48 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Windows 11 is a free upgrade
Microsoft officially unveiled Windows 11 today, and the software maker is committing to make it a free upgrade for Windows 10 users. Much like how Windows 10 was free for Windo...
03:41 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsofts own Windows 11 livestream runs into technical difficulties
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Anyone trying to watch Microsoft’s Windows 11 reveal over on its official website may have noticed the stream ran into a numbe...
03:37 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 with Amazons Appstore
Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11. The software giant revealed its surprise Windows 11 addition during its special Windows event today. Android apps will run nat...
03:34 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsoft reveals the new Microsoft Store for Windows 11, and it has Android apps, too
Windows 11 is real, and Microsoft has just revealed the brand-new app store that will go along with it — which could be a big deal, seeing how previous versions of the idea n...
03:25 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Snap inks deal with Universal Music Group to bring major artists to the platform
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Snap wants people to discover and make content with music on Snapchat, and today, it secured a major deal to help it achieve that goal.
The company has signed...
03:23 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsoft Teams will be directly integrated as part of Windows 11
Microsoft Teams will be deeply woven into the upcoming Windows 11 update. During its preview of the new version of Windows, Microsoft’s Panos Panay detailed how it’ll be ea...
03:06 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsoft announces Windows 11, with a new design, Start menu, and more
Microsoft is officially confirming the name for the next release of Windows today: Windows 11. After months of teases, hints of the number 11, and a giant Windows 11 leak, Micr...
02:43 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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UK carrier EE introduces EU roaming charges following Brexit
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UK carrier EE is introducing roaming charges for customers traveling to almost all EU countries from Janu...
02:30 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Live blog: Microsofts Windows 11 event
It’s time for a new Windows
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02:00 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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TCLs wearable display glasses will go on sale in July starting in Australia
TCL’s wearable display plugs directly into your phone or laptop. | Photo: TCL
TCL says its wearable display will go on sale in July starting in Australia for $899 AUD...
01:21 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Google delays blocking third-party cookies in Chrome until 2023
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Google is announcing today that it is delaying its plans to phase out third-party cookies in the Chrome browser until 2023, a ye...
01:07 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsofts Xbox Series S is available for $10 off at Costco right now
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Amazon Prime Day is officially behind ...
01:00 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Volvo wont charge extra for its upcoming electric vehicles with lidar sensors
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Volvo plans on offering the lidar — and artificial intelligence-powered safety features — of its upcoming electric vehicle as st...
12:43 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Tony Hawks Pro Skater 12 is surprisingly solid on the Switch
We’re more than four years into the life of the Nintendo Switch, and yet in some ways the handheld device remains an enigma. Namely: when there’s a port of a big game, you ...
12:00 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Beeple and the founder of Pitchfork are launching an NFT site where you can buy moments in time
Some sales include a digital display showcasing the moment being purchased. | Image: Wenew
After selling an NFT for $69 million in March, Beeple is making his next big ...
12:00 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Ransom notes
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Ransomware funds more ransomware, so how do we stop it?
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12:00 pm - Thu, June 24, 2021
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How to watch Microsofts Windows 11 event
Microsoft is hosting a special Windows event later today where we’re expecting the company to unveil Windows 11. Microsoft has been teasing a “next generation” of Windows...
11:47 am - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Google and Jio collaborate on ultra-affordable JioPhone Next
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Indian tech giant Jio Platforms has collaborated with Google on a new affordable smartphone called the JioPhone Next, Jio’s ...
11:00 am - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Microsoft needs to show Windows 11 is more than just Windows 10.5
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A new version of Windows is coming today
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10:43 am - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Rembrandts Night Watch uncropped by AI 300 years after it was trimmed
Margins from all four sides were removed decades after the painting was completed. | Video: Rijksmuseum
A mixture of artificial intelligence and painstaking research h...
08:34 am - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Listen to Spotify on this nostalgic iPod-style web music player
A classic iPod interface for your Spotify or Apple Music library. | Screenshot: tannerv.com/ipod
In an era before multitouch displays, the iPod’s click wheel was the ...
07:03 am - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Google will now consider letting your video, music or book app evade its 30 percent cut
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Google is opening up applications to a new program for developers of media apps that lets them keep more of what they earn — p...
07:00 am - Thu, June 24, 2021
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OnePlus Nord CE 5G review: stripped down, stripped back
Gain a headphone jack, lose some unnecessary cameras
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06:23 am - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Lenovo made a wireless charger for your laptop
Lenovo has announced a new product called the Go Wireless Charging Kit, which lets you retrofit wireless charging functionality to a wide variety of laptops. It makes use of �...
06:00 am - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Why the tech antitrust reform bills are struggling to move forward
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Republicans and Democrats are having very different conversations
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02:08 am - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Googles security changes will break old Drive and YouTube links
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Soon, public links to an untold number of items stored on Google Drive and YouTube will stop working. In the name of enhanced se...
12:24 am - Thu, June 24, 2021
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Apple may be looking to make a less expensive big phone in 2022
According to noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple will sell an iPhone with a 6.7-inch screen for less than $900 in 2022 (via 9to5Mac). If this turns out to be the case, iPhone 14 ...
11:51 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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EA confirms Battlefield 2042 will use bots to help fill its 128-player servers
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Battlefield 2042, coming this fall, will offer the series’ largest skirmishes yet; its “All-Out Warfare” modes can fit 128 simultaneous players in a sin...
11:32 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Logitechs improved Combo Touch keyboard will be available for the fourth-gen iPad Air in July
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Logitech is releasing a version of its Combo Touch keyboard case, which has a Microsoft Surface-style kickstand and a detachable...
10:35 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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The chip shortage will likely get worse before it gets better
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One of tech’s biggest problems in the past few months has been due to one of its smallest components: chips. Months into the s...
09:37 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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John McAfee found dead in Barcelona prison, authorities say
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John McAfee, founder of the company behind McAfee Antivirus, has been found dead according to reports fro...
08:21 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Peacock is finally coming to Fire TV on June 24th
The Peacock app displayed on a TV.
Nearly a year after Peacock’s launch, NBCUniversal’s marquee streaming app is finally coming to Fire TV and Fire tablets.
The str...
08:06 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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John McAfee found dead in Barcelona prison, authorities say
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John McAfee, founder of the company behind McAfee Antivirus, has been found dead according to a report fr...
07:57 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Jerry Seinfelds Pop-Tarts obsession is turning into a Netflix movie
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Jerry Seinfeld is perhaps best known for co-writing and starring in Bee Movie (fine, also for co-creating one of the mos...
07:34 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Why 2021s heat waves are so brutal
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JUNE 17: A digital sign displays a temperature of 115 degrees Fahrenheit as a heat wave continues to bake the Southwest United States on June 17, 2021 in La...
07:02 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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We regret to inform you that T-Mobile is selling a 5G-branded gin
T-Mobile’s 5G-branded gin and ginger beer go on sale tomorrow. | Photo: T-Mobile
Whatever the reason, 5G-themed gin is now something that exists in the world, courtes...
07:00 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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EA continues to spend big on mobile games with $1.4 billion Playdemic acquisition
EA is adding to its roster of mobile game developers by purchasing Playdemic, known for Golf Clash, from WarnerMedia for $1.4 billion. The company says it plans on using Playde...
06:56 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Alien planets have had front-row view of Earth for ages, astronomers say
An illustration showing the seven Earth-like planets of Trappist-1, a nearby star system astronomers say will be able to view Earth in transit roughly 1,600 years from now. | I...
06:43 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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To succeed, cloud gaming needs to disappear
The problem with cloud gaming is you have to think about it
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06:22 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Hospitals are selling treasure troves of medical data what could go wrong?
Illustration by Ana Kova
Healthcare organizations and hospitals in the United States all sit on treasure troves: a stockpile of patient health data stored as electronic...
06:11 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Brave Search is a new alternative to Google built on its own index
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Brave, makers of the privacy-focused Brave browser, launched a new search engine in public global beta on Tuesday (via TechCrunc...
05:00 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Instagram tests putting suggested posts ahead of your friends
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Instagram says reception to its “suggested posts” feature has been so positive that it’s launching a new test: this time, suggested posts will be mixed ...
04:55 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Foundation will debut on Apple TV Plus in September
Foundation — Apple’s big-budget adaptation of the classic Isaac Asimov books — finally has a release date: it’ll debut on Apple TV Plus sometime this September, accordi...
04:53 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Marvels Avengers bug that showed IP addresses on-screen for PS5 players now fixed
Black Widow in Marvel’s Avengers. | Image: Square Enix
The developers of Marvel’s Avengers have released a new patch that fixes a bad bug for PS5 players that showe...
04:11 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Supreme Court says a school cant punish a cheerleader for swearing on Snapchat
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The Supreme Court says a Pennsylvania school can’t punish a cheerleader for swearing on Snapchat. The 8-1 ruling determined th...
03:00 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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New York City votes to block new licenses for electric taxis, snubbing Revels Tesla plans
New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) voted to block the issuance of new for-hire vehicle licenses for electric vehicles. The move was widely perceived as a snu...
02:31 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Samsungs Watch Active 4 leaks in new renders
The watch will reportedly be available in four colors. | Image: OnLeaks / GizNext
Renders of an unannounced smartwatch from Samsung called the Galaxy Watch Active 4 hav...
02:15 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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The airwaves of Navajo Nation
KYAT DJ Sammy Boyd reads off PSAs in English and Diné Bizaad. | Photo by Ash Ponders for The Verge
During the pandemic, two radio stations broadcast vital informat...
01:58 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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How to update your PS5 controller
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If you’re one of the blessed 8 million-ish people who’s been able to get their hands on a PlayStation 5, you’ve probably run int...
01:33 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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These are the few Prime Day deals you can still get
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Prime Day 2021 is over. Most of the deals that we covered over the past two days are no longer available. You’ll certainly have anot...
01:30 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Sony Alpha 1 review: everything nice at an expensive price
Sony’s highest-end camera is a combination of everything that came before it
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01:07 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Sea of Thieves Jack Sparrow crossover is a Rare treat
Captain Jack Sparrow in Sea of Thieves.
I could almost smell the gloomy caverns of Sea of Thieves this week. Moments before meeting Captain Jack Sparrow in a surprise D...
01:00 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Arcade1Ups new digital board game table will be available for preorder in July
Arcade1up’s Infinity Game Table. | Image: Arcade1up
Last October, Arcade1Up, known for its officially licensed arcade cabinets, launched a wildly successful Kickstart...
12:38 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Apple argues against sideloading iPhone apps as regulatory pressure mounts
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In a new 16-page report, Apple has laid out its arguments against allowing sideloading iPhone apps, claiming the practice would ...
12:00 pm - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Bird and Spin release new electric vehicles amid pressure to catch up to Lime
Two of the top shared electric scooter companies in the US, Bird and Spin, are releasing new vehicles today. Spin is revealing a new, more rugged electric scooter, which it is ...
11:03 am - Wed, June 23, 2021
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What we know about Chinas cryptocurrency crackdown
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This week, Bitcoin dipped below $30,000 for the first time since January. That’s half what it was worth just three months ago,...
10:10 am - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Stranger Things Starcourt Mall comes to Roblox
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Starcourt Mall, the central location from season three of Stranger Things, is now a playable location in Roblox, the company announced today. The level in...
10:02 am - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Twitter now lets iOS users easily share tweets as Instagram Stories
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Twitter’s iOS app has been updated to let anyone quickly and easily share tweets to their Instagram Story, Twitter has announced. The feature works usi...
10:00 am - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Lenovos new ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 launches in August for $2,149
Here’s the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4. | Lenovo
ThinkPad power users have a new option in Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4. The new 16-inch workstation will be ava...
04:47 am - Wed, June 23, 2021
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The best Amazon Prime Day deals still available
Many of the best Amazon Prime Day deals may have already sold out or expired, but Prime Day is a two-day shopping affair, and many discounts will continue until 12AM PT / 3AM E...
03:54 am - Wed, June 23, 2021
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The best Prime Day deals on headphones and earbuds
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If you’ve been thinking about buying some new earbuds or headphones, Amazon rime Day 2021 is a great opportunity to snag something at...
02:16 am - Wed, June 23, 2021
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The best Amazon Prime Day deals still available
Many of the best Amazon Prime Day deals may have already sold out or expired, but Prime Day is a two-day shopping affair, and many discounts will continue until 12AM PT / 3AM E...
01:35 am - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Best Prime Day 2021 gaming deals
Demon’s Souls is one of the numerous PS5 titles currently on sale for Amazon Prime Day. | Image: Sony
There are usually good gaming deals happening all the time, but ...
01:12 am - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Tim Cook called Nancy Pelosi to warn her against disrupting the iPhone with impending antitrust bills
Tech giants have repeatedly said they would welcome government regulation — if it’s the right regulation, of course. But faced with five antitrust bills that could unwind w...
12:28 am - Wed, June 23, 2021
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xCloud games are finally getting an Xbox Series X-powered upgrade
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Microsoft promised on June 10th that it was in the “final stages” of upgrading its Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) datacenters wi...
12:16 am - Wed, June 23, 2021
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Fuse Media launches new streaming service Fuse Plus
Fuse Studios in New York City, New York, United States in 2004. | Photo by David Pomponio/FilmMagic
Fuse Media has announced the beta launch of Fuse Plus, a new streami...
12:10 am - Wed, June 23, 2021
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The FTC is reportedly poised to probe Amazons MGM acquisition
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Following Amazo...
12:01 am - Wed, June 23, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 deals on TVs
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Amazon Prime Day 2021 isn’t over yet, and there are still member-only deals for Prime subscribers to get in on. We have a gigantic post that includes all ...
11:39 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 Apple deals
Amazon Prime Day is an event — understandably — dedicated to all things Amazon, with substantial discounts on a range of Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle devices, as well as a tim...
11:24 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best laptop deals for Amazon Prime Day 2021
The Acer Travelmate P6 is discounted for Amazon Prime Day. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Amazon Prime Day 2021 is finally here, and it’s a good time t...
11:15 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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These are the best Prime Day 2021 phone deals
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If you’ve been holding off purchasing a Samsung Galaxy phone in search of a deal, then today’s your day. Amazon’s Prime Day 2021...
10:56 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Amazon Prime Day deals still available
Many of the best Amazon Prime Day deals may have already sold out or expired, but Prime Day is a two-day shopping affair, and many discounts will continue until 12AM PT / 3AM E...
10:40 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Microsoft will let you edit your photos as part of a new OneDrive update
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Microsoft is updating OneDrive on the web and Android with basic photo editing features, the company announced Tuesday (via XDA Developers). The new fe...
09:59 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best last-minute Prime Day deals for the Nintendo Switch
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If you weren’t already cued in, Amazon Prime Day 2021 is drawing to a close, with most of the remaining deals set to expir...
09:26 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Microsofts expanded refund policy for Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox ends in July
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Just over a week after Cyberpunk 2077’s disastrous December launch, Microsoft began offering full refunds for people who bough...
09:08 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best anti-Prime Day tech deals
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To take part in Amazon’s two-day Prime Day 2021 sales event, you need a Prime membership. That’s easy enough to sign up for, and t...
08:26 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Peloton may be working on a heart rate monitoring armband
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Peloton, connected exercise equipment company and all-around fitness media powerhouse, appears to be working on a new wearab...
08:22 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Peloton forced its subscription plan on Tread owners, but claims a fix is coming
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Peloton says that it’s working on an update to make its Tread Plus treadmill usable without a subscription, after news bro...
08:05 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Prime Day deals for working from home
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Although the pandemic crisis seems (hopefully!) to be slowly receding, it looks like our work habits may be permanently changed. Many people who have been e...
08:02 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best laptop deals for Amazon Prime Day 2021
The Acer Travelmate P6 is discounted for Amazon Prime Day. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Amazon Prime Day 2021 is finally here, and it’s a good time t...
07:47 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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South Asian streaming service Zee5 launches in the US
Zee5 officially launched in the U.S. on June 22nd. | Zee5
Zee5, a streaming service for South Asian content, is now widely available to all users in the US.
The servi...
06:53 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Prime Day deals for working from home
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Although the pandemic crisis seems (hopefully!) to be slowly receding, it looks like our work habits may be permanently changed. Many people who have been e...
06:00 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Overwatchs cross-play beta is now available for console and PC players
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Overwatch’s first foray into cross-play is now live — starting today, players across PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch devices will be able to group...
06:00 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Twitter is opening applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows
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Twitter is opening applications for a limited test of its Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces features. US-based users can app...
05:40 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Marvels Avengers has a weird bug on PS5 that puts your IP address on display
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Marvel’s Avengers got a big new patch on Tuesday, but alongside a number of updates, it has added a pretty bad b...
05:11 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Amazon Prime Day deals still available
Many of the best Amazon Prime Day deals may have already sold out or expired, but Prime Day is a two-day shopping affair, and many discounts will continue until 12AM PT / 3AM E...
04:50 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The VR Myst remake is also coming to the Mac and PC this fall
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Last fall, Cyan Worlds, the original developer of Myst, released a built-for-VR remake of its game exclusively for Facebook’s Oculus Quest platform...
04:42 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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AMDs answer to Nvidias DLSS is a promising early start
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AMD’s new FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) has started rolling out today, available initially in a handful of titles. Much li...
04:31 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Prime Day deals for working from home
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Although the pandemic crisis seems (hopefully!) to be slowly receding, it looks like our work habits may be permanently changed. Many people who have been e...
04:22 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Dota 2s The International might not take place in Sweden after all
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Dota 2’s The International tournament, one of the biggest esports competitions in the world, may no longer take plac...
04:10 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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These are the best Prime Day 2021 phone deals
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If you’ve been holding off purchasing a Samsung Galaxy phone in search of a deal, then today’s your day. Amazon’s Prime Day 2021...
04:00 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Takashi Murakami designed an esports jersey for Faze Clan
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The ongoing confluence of fashion and games continues with a collaboration between Takashi Murakami and Faze Clan. The celebrated pop artist has design...
03:48 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Best Prime Day 2021 deals for upgrading your PC
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Prime Day 2021 has proven itself to be a great time to buy a new set of headphones, a new TV, a phone, and lots of other things. It’s also a stellar oppor...
03:31 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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A hospital algorithm designed to predict a deadly condition misses most cases
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The biggest electronic health record company in the United States, Epic Systems, claims it can solve a major problem ...
03:16 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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An electric popemobile is Fiskers latest leap of faith
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On May 21st, vehicle designer Henrik Fisker said he had a “private audience” with Pope Francis and that his company, Fisker Inc., would make a cu...
03:10 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 deals on TVs
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Amazon Prime Day 2021 isn’t over yet, and there are still member-only deals for Prime subscribers to get in on. We have a gigantic post that includes all ...
03:08 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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How to build a driverless vehicle that doesnt make you barf
Zoox released the second version of its safety report today, containing new details about the vehicle that the Amazon-owned company is building from the ground up to be complet...
03:01 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Satellite images show just how bad Californias drought is
LAKE ISABELLA, CA - JUNE 14: In an aerial view, cattle graze on June 14, 2021 near Lake Isabella, California. Authorities are bracing for a predicted driest year on record for ...
02:55 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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New Designed for Xbox displays include the best Xbox Series X support
Microsoft is expanding its Designed for Xbox program to include monitors and displays. Some gaming monitors will now include a new “Gaming Features for Xbox” badge that wil...
02:52 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 smart home deals
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Amazon Prime Day is always a good opportunity to smarten up your abode, whether it’s an apartment or a multi-room, multi...
02:50 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Go watch this amazing montage of 100 3D animations reimagining the same moment
Animation by Caleb Worcester
A man carries a heavy backpack through a war-ravaged city. A medic pushes a zombified corpse on a stretcher toward an ambulance, as an omin...
02:06 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best laptop deals for Amazon Prime Day 2021
The Acer Travelmate P6 is discounted for Amazon Prime Day. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Amazon Prime Day 2021 is finally here, and it’s a good time t...
02:00 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Prime Day deals on headphones and earbuds
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If you’ve been thinking about buying some new earbuds or headphones, Amazon Prime Day 2021 is a great opportunity to snag something a...
01:15 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Patreon doesnt have special contract with Apple to avoid App Store tax
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When you open Patreon’s iPhone app and subscribe to a creator, Apple doesn’t step in the way and take a cut. It turns out, that’s not because of some...
01:00 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Epic Games releases free anti-cheat and voice chat services for developers
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Epic Games is launching free voice chat and anti-cheat services that developers can implement in their games, the company announced on Tuesday. They�...
01:00 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Zoom is adding new options for sharing your pronouns
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Zoom is adding a new field for pronouns today, along with options to manage when they’re displayed. Pronouns will a...
01:00 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Tinder wants you to actually talk to people before you match
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Tinder’s making some big updates to its app this week, mostly in the name of giving people more context about a person they might want to date. The app�...
12:54 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Amazon Prime Day deals still available
Many of the best Amazon Prime Day deals may have already sold out or expired, but Prime Day is a two-day shopping affair, and many discounts will continue until 12AM PT / 3AM E...
12:52 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Prime Day deals on Amazon devices
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Amazon Prime Day 2021 features a lot of great deals — and many of them on Amazon’s own products. If you’ve been thinking about pi...
12:52 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best anti-Prime Day tech deals
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To take part in Amazon’s two-day Prime Day 2021 sales event, you need a Prime membership. That’s easy enough to sign up for, and t...
12:45 pm - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Patreon CEO Jack Conte on why creators cant depend on platforms
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Who really owns your audience?
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11:47 am - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 smart home deals
Blink Outdoor security camera | Image: Amazon
Amazon Prime Day is always a good opportunity to smarten up your abode, whether it’s an apartment or a multi-room, multi...
11:31 am - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Amazon Prime Day deals still available
Many of the best Amazon Prime Day deals may have already sold out or expired, but Prime Day is a two-day shopping affair, and many discounts will continue until 12AM PT / 3AM E...
10:41 am - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Googles ad tech services hit by formal EU antitrust investigation
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The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google over whether the search giant unfairly favors its own online...
08:12 am - Tue, June 22, 2021
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Entire London Underground to receive mobile coverage by end of 2024
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By the end of 2024, passengers on the London Underground will have mobile reception across the entire network of stations and tunnels, London’s mayor Sadiq...
03:39 am - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Amazon Prime Day deals happening now
After months of speculation and rumors, Amazon Prime Day 2021 has finally arrived, kicking off the summer season with a great batch of tech deals. The retail behemoth’s two-d...
12:38 am - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The one developer that publicly agreed to try Facebooks VR ads is already backing away
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Last Wednesday, Facebook announced that it would begin testing ads inside of Oculus Quest apps and said that the paid title ...
12:17 am - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Prime Day deals on Amazon devices
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Amazon Prime Day 2021 features a lot of great deals — and many of them on Amazon’s own products. If you’ve been thinking about pi...
12:02 am - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 smart home deals
Blink Outdoor security camera | Image: Amazon
Amazon Prime Day is always a good opportunity to smarten up your abode, whether it’s an apartment or a multi-room, multi...
12:00 am - Tue, June 22, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 Apple deals
Amazon Prime Day is an event — understandably — dedicated to all things Amazon, with substantial discounts on a range of Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle devices, as well as a tim...
11:55 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 deals on monitors
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If you’ve had a monitor upgrade on your wishlist, Prime Day has a few contributions when it comes to stellar deals that you might want to know about. G...
11:51 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Best Prime Day 2021 gaming deals
Demon’s Souls is one of the numerous PS5 titles currently on sale for Amazon Prime Day. | Image: Sony
There are usually good gaming deals happening all the time, but ...
11:40 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best laptop deals for Amazon Prime Day 2021
The Acer Travelmate P6 is discounted for Amazon Prime Day. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Amazon Prime Day 2021 is finally here, and it’s a good time t...
11:39 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Prime Day deals on headphones and earbuds
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If you’ve been thinking about buying some new earbuds or headphones, Amazon Prime Day 2021 is a great opportunity to snag something a...
11:35 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Amazon Prime Day deals happening now
After months of speculation and rumors, Amazon Prime Day 2021 has finally arrived, kicking off the summer season with a great batch of tech deals. The retail behemoth’s two-d...
11:31 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best anti-Prime Day tech deals
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To take part in Amazon’s two-day Prime Day 2021 sales event, you need a Prime membership. That’s easy enough to sign up for, and t...
11:23 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Apple is shortening new free TV Plus trials from a year to three months starting July 1st
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In the push to be as well-known for services as it is for hardware and software, Apple has been generous with free trials, offering a y...
10:19 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Samsung is reimagining smartwatches at its MWC event on June 28th
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Samsung and Google’s new upcoming smartwatch platform — which will merge Wear OS and Tizen together — might get its first preview...
09:36 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Amazon eyes robot truck startup as it continues to hedge its bets on AV technology
Amazon owns a robotaxi company, is experimenting with delivery robots that drive on the sidewalk, and now is considering acquiring a big stake in a robot trucking startup.
Acc...
09:28 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Windows 11: the latest on Microsofts next-generation OS
All the Windows 11 news
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09:01 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Univision is launching a new streaming service with a free tier
A sign is posted in front of the Univision building. | Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images
Univision will launch a Spanish-language streaming service next year that sounds...
08:32 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Amazon Prime Day deals happening now
After months of speculation and rumors, Amazon Prime Day 2021 has finally arrived, kicking off the summer season with a great batch of tech deals. The retail behemoth’s two-d...
08:11 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Microsoft will build native Xbox games for the cloud, and the woman behind Portal will lead
On February 1st, I shed a tear for the future of gaming, when Google decided it would no longer fulfill its promise to build games specifically for the cloud. But Microsoft is ...
08:06 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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TikTok will let creators add mini apps to videos
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TikTok is announcing a new feature that will let users embed mini apps, called Jumps, into their videos. For example, if someone is making a cooking video...
07:26 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Twitch bans two top creators in struggle with sexually suggestive streams
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Twitch is once again struggling with how to handle sexually suggestive streams from some of the most popular women on its platfo...
07:11 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 Apple deals
Amazon Prime Day is an event — understandably — dedicated to all things Amazon, with substantial discounts on a range of Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle devices, as well as a tim...
07:10 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Amazon Prime Day deals happening now
After months of speculation and rumors, Amazon Prime Day 2021 has finally arrived, kicking off the summer season with a great batch of tech deals. The retail behemoth’s two-d...
07:04 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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How to activate and use Google Chat
Real-time collaborative chat, as exemplified by apps such as Slack, has become a common way to communicate between colleagues and friends, especially since last year when so ma...
06:55 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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An NFT of Jay-Zs first album has sparked a record label lawsuit
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Roc-A-Fella Records (RAF), co-founded by hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, has sued fellow co-founder Damon Dash for allegedly hawking a non-fung...
06:43 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Netflix could get some sweet Steven Spielberg action via a new Amblin Partners deal
Netflix announced a new feature film deal with Amblin Partners on Monday, the film studio started by acclaimed director Steven Spielberg. Amblin Partners will produce multiple ...
06:29 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Microsoft should face the same antitrust scrutiny as Facebook, Republican says
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is calling on Microsoft to face the same antitrust scrutiny as other large tech platforms in a letter to the company Monday.
In the letter, Jordan asks M...
06:19 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 deals on TVs
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Amazon Prime Day 2021 is here, and there are deals aplenty for Prime subscribers to get in on. We have a gigantic post that includes all of the best Prime D...
06:13 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Clubhouse accidentally leaked its own private messaging function
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Clubhouse — which inadvertently sent every other tech platform from Spotify to Facebook scrambling to b...
05:38 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Amazon Prime Day deals happening now
After months of speculation and rumors, Amazon Prime Day 2021 has finally arrived, kicking off the summer season with a great batch of tech deals. The retail behemoth’s two-d...
05:24 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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How to share your Google One storage with your family
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A colleague here at The Verge tells this story: “This weekend my wife was like, ‘Google says I’m almost out of storage!’ and I was like ‘We have...
04:31 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Amazon labels millions of unsold products for destruction, new investigation finds
Staff make their way around the aisles collecting items before sending them to the on-site dispatch hall to be packaged inside one of Britain’s largest Amazon warehouses in D...
04:15 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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A very brief history of every Google messaging app
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Over the past 15 years, Google has introduced more than a dozen messaging services spanning text, voice, and video calling. This...
04:10 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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These Amazon devices come with three free months of the Disney Plus bundle for Prime Day
The trio of Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN Plus is one of the better deals you can get in streaming today, and it’s even nicer when you can watch for free. For a special Prime D...
03:57 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Massachusetts COVID-19 exposure notification app auto-installed on Android phones
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Google appears to have automatically inst...
03:10 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Prime Day deals on Amazon devices
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Amazon Prime Day 2021 features a lot of great deals — and many of them on Amazon’s own products. If you’ve been thinking about pi...
01:27 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The Verges 18 favorite kitchen gadgets
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When you’re stuck at home because of pandemics, bad weather, or just because you don’t feel like going ...
01:22 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 smart home deals
Blink Outdoor security camera | Image: Amazon
Amazon Prime Day is always a good opportunity to smarten up your abode, whether it’s an apartment or a multi-room, multi...
01:00 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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What to expect from Microsofts Windows 11 event
A new version of Windows is on the way
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12:49 pm - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Our 14 favorite gadgets and hacks for working at home
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From mesh networks to lap desks, here’s how The Verge�...
11:54 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Best Prime Day 2021 gaming deals
Demon’s Souls is one of the numerous PS5 titles currently on sale for Amazon Prime Day. | Image: Sony
There are usually good gaming deals happening all the time, but ...
11:36 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Prime Day deals on headphones and earbuds
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If you’ve been thinking about buying some new earbuds or headphones, Amazon Prime Day 2021 is a great opportunity to snag something a...
11:29 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best anti-Prime Day tech deals
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To take part in Amazon’s two-day Prime Day 2021 sales event, you need a Prime membership. That’s easy enough to sign up for, and t...
11:21 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The Verges Guide to Amazon Prime Day 2021
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Amazon Prime Day 2021 is here. It’s the annual two-day mega sale when Prime members get exclusive access to some of the year�...
11:11 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Super Mario World receives the widescreen emulation mod it deserves
The classic title running in 16:9 without stretching. | Screenshot: Super Mario World
Some purists might sneer at the idea of playing retro games in anything other than...
11:00 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Facebooks Clubhouse competitor starts rolling out in the US today
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Facebook’s Clubhouse competitor, Live Audio Rooms, is making its way stateside. The company announced today that some US-based public figures, as well as cer...
10:56 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Cyberpunk 2077 returns to PlayStation Store with a big PS4 warning
As expected, Cyberpunk 2077 has returned to Sony’s PlayStation Store today, more than six months after it was removed. The game has returned with a big warning for PS4 owners...
10:00 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Prime Day deals on Amazon devices
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Amazon Prime Day 2021 features a lot of great deals — and many of them on Amazon’s own products. If you’ve been thinking about pi...
07:00 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 deals on TVs
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Amazon Prime Day 2021 is here, and there are deals aplenty for Prime subscribers to get in on. We have a gigantic post that includes all of the best Prime D...
07:00 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 smart home deals
Blink Outdoor security camera | Image: Amazon
Amazon Prime Day is always a good opportunity to smarten up your abode, whether it’s an apartment or a multi-room, multi...
07:00 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Prime Day 2021 deals on monitors
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If you’ve had a monitor upgrade on your wishlist, Prime Day has a few contributions when it comes to stellar deals that you might want to know about. G...
07:00 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best laptop deals for Amazon Prime Day 2021
The Acer Travelmate P6 is discounted for Amazon Prime Day. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Amazon Prime Day 2021 is finally here, and it’s a good time t...
07:00 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Amazon Prime Day deals happening now
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
After months of speculation and rumors, Amazon Prime Day 2021 has finally arrived, kicking off the summer season with a great ba...
07:00 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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These are the best Prime Day 2021 phone deals
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If you’ve been holding off purchasing a Samsung Galaxy phone in search of a deal, then today’s your day. Amazon’s Prime Day 2021...
07:00 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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The best Prime Day deals on headphones and earbuds
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If you’ve been thinking about buying some new earbuds or headphones, Amazon Prime Day 2021 is a great opportunity to snag something a...
06:22 am - Mon, June 21, 2021
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Leaked memo confirms OnePlus will become an Oppo sub-brand
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Last week OnePlus CEO Pete Lau said in a forum post that the company will “further integrate” with Oppo, but didn’t elaborate o...
11:05 pm - Sun, June 20, 2021
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The best early Prime Day deals available now
Right now, you can pick up the 1st-gen Echo Show 5 for nearly half the initial list price. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
Amazon Prime Day, the retail giant’s two...
08:53 pm - Sun, June 20, 2021
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New Trailers: LFG, Summer of Soul, Titans, The Morning Show, and more
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So I completely devoured Hacks (fant...
05:07 pm - Sun, June 20, 2021
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FCC updates how some emergency alerts will look on phones
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it has combined two categories of text message alerts into one: the “Presidential Alerts” and alerts fr...
04:00 pm - Sun, June 20, 2021
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Airspeeder says it had the first successful test flight for its electric flying racecar
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Airspeeder says its electric “flying” race car, the Alauda Mk3, has had its first unpiloted test flights in southern Australia. The craft, an electric ve...
01:13 pm - Sun, June 20, 2021
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PSA: If you enrolled in an energy saver program, your smart thermostat may adjust itself
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Texas’ energy grid, which failed spectacularly over the winter during a stretch of historically cold weather, w...
01:00 pm - Sun, June 20, 2021
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The Motorola Moto G Stylus 5G is a good phone with a too-short shelf life
For $399, it doesn’t do enough to stand apart from the less expensive 4G-only version
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07:30 pm - Sat, June 19, 2021
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Facial recognition software used to verify unemployment recipients reportedly doesnt work well
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The facial recognition program used by nearly two dozen US states to to verify people seeking unemployment benefits is working i...
02:47 pm - Sat, June 19, 2021
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Facebook to update its community standards to clarify what it considers satire
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Following a recommendation from its Oversight Board, Facebook says it will update its community standards to be clearer about ho...
02:00 pm - Sat, June 19, 2021
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The slow transitions of a lingering pandemic
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With COVID-19 restrictions liftin...
02:00 pm - Sat, June 19, 2021
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The best pre-Prime Day deals for Fathers Day weekend
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Next week is when Prime Day 2021 begins. We’ll be here early on Monday and continue scouring deals through Tuesday night, bringing y...
01:35 pm - Sat, June 19, 2021
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PayPal raising merchant fees on some of its transactions
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PayPal said Friday it is raising fees for some of its newer products “to better align our pricing with the value that our prod...
01:00 pm - Sat, June 19, 2021
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Mark Mothersbaugh on composing music you wont tire of in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
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If you’ve spent some time playing Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, you might feel like you’re playing a blockbuster ...
08:44 pm - Fri, June 18, 2021
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Google may be working on an answer to Apples device-locating network
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Google may be working on turning Android phones into a hivemind capable of finding lost devices, similar to Apple’s Find My ne...
07:27 pm - Fri, June 18, 2021
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YouTube will bring picture-in-picture to iPhones and iPads
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The YouTube app on iOS will be getting picture-in-picture support, allowing all users to watch videos while doing other things o...
06:01 pm - Fri, June 18, 2021
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We may have our first look at Rings Car Cam
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We may have gotten our first look at Ring’s dashcam, courtesy of The Tape Drive, which posted an image of a Ring-branded camera that looks like it...
04:04 pm - Fri, June 18, 2021
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How to get a Tesla Model S Plaid to go from 0 to 60 in under 2 seconds
Tesla’s been talking up its Model S Plaid as “the quickest production car ever” claiming it can go from 0-60 in a blistering 1.99 seconds. It’s a claim that’s drawn a...
02:52 pm - Fri, June 18, 2021
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PSA: If you enrolled in an energy saver program, your smart thermostat may adjust itself
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Texas’ energy grid, which failed spectacularly over the winter during a stretch of historically cold weather, w...
02:32 pm - Fri, June 18, 2021
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Earth has been trapping heat at an alarming new rate, study finds
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The amount of heat trapped by Earth’s land, ocean, and ...
02:00 pm - Fri, June 18, 2021
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This alien-like metal may one day power your electronics
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Bismuth is a heavy, brittle metal that forms colorful geometric crystals when melted and then slowly cooled. It’s most commonly known as a main ingredient i...
01:32 pm - Fri, June 18, 2021
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Elon Musks Boring Company reportedly pitching wider tunnels that could transport freight
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The Boring Company has been pitching potential clients on a much wider tunnel than any it has built so far, Bloomberg reported, which could be used to ...
01:27 pm - Fri, June 18, 2021
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The latest Apple TV 4K and Sonys XM3 headphones are discounted ahead of Prime Day
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Prime Day 2021 is kicking off in just a few days. Prime members will get to enjoy exclusive tech and gaming discounts on Amazon. In add...
01:03 pm - Fri, June 18, 2021
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Vergecast: Windows 11 leaks, RCS encryption, and this week in antitrust policy
Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors c...
01:00 pm - Fri, June 18, 2021
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Asus ZenBook 13 OLED review: dazzling, to a point
AMD helps bring OLED to the mainstream
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11:34 am - Fri, June 18, 2021
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Bungie is actually releasing a Destiny-themed toaster
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A year after Bungie said it would explore making an official Destiny Toaster during a charity livestream, our bre...
10:00 am - Fri, June 18, 2021
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Tamagotchis new smartwatch lets you strap a needy digital pet to your wrist
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Everyone’s favorite digital pet, the Tamagotchi, is being reinvented for its 25th anniversary. The new Tamagotchi Smart puts the creature into a colorfu...
09:29 am - Fri, June 18, 2021
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Taiwans government is letting its tech giants TSMC and Foxconn buy COVID-19 vaccines on its behalf
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Last year, Taiwan was held up as a model example of how to control the pandemic. Now, with a rising cas...
08:33 am - Fri, June 18, 2021
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Spotify acquires podcast discovery specialists Podz
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Spotify has acquired Podz, a startup whose technology generates preview clips of podcasts, the streaming service has announced. ...
06:34 am - Fri, June 18, 2021
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New Oculus Quest update adds multitasking and wireless streaming for original headset
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Facebook is rolling out its v30 update to the Oculus Quest and Quest 2 VR headsets. As previewed earlier this week by Mark Z...
10:22 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Microsoft Flight Simulator adds beautiful Nordic views in its latest update
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Just in time for the launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator on Xbox Series consoles next month, developer Asobo Studios has added s...
10:14 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Google Meets hand-raising feature is getting a more visible animation
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Google Meet, Google’s answer to video calling services like Zoom, is getting a collection of helpful tweaks to its hand-raising feature as part of ongoi...
09:14 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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PUBG Mobile returns to India after ban with green blood and a new name
Massively popular battle royale game PUBG Mobile is returning to India after being banned in September 2020, TechCrunch writes. The app is available in early access on Google�...
09:04 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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The PlayStation 5 is available through Sonys store
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More than six months after its initial debut, the PlayStation 5 remains as elusive as ever. Sony also expects console shortages ...
08:55 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Nielsen takes another crack at gauging our streaming habits
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Nielsen, the nearly century-old research firm which produces the eponymous gold standard for television r...
08:15 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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The Xbox Series X is available at Walmart (Update: Sold out)
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Update June 17th, 4:15PM ET: Walmart appears to have sold out of Series X consoles for today. I hope that you got one!
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08:10 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Apple cuts AppleCare Plus prices for M1 MacBook Air and Pro
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Apple is cutting the prices for its AppleCare Plus extended warranty for both its M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops. AppleCare fo...
08:10 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Here are the best iPad deals right now
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Deals on Apple’s iPad are more common than you might think, especially since Amazon Prime Day 2021 is here. Whether you’re after t...
08:04 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Here are the best Amazon Echo deals right now
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When it comes to the Echo smart speakers, Amazon has a slew ...
07:08 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Snap removes speed filter linked to reckless driving lawsuits
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Snap is removing its controversial “speed filter” from Snapchat this week, NPR reports. The in-app effect displays your curr...
07:01 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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The Xbox Series X is available at Walmart
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Microsoft’s next-gen console may have arrived, but getting your hands on an Xbox Series X isn’t exactly easy. Much like the ...
07:00 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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The Nvidia Shields Android TV interface is getting a Google TV-inspired revamp
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Starting today, Nvidia’s Shield devices are getting a revamped user interface, similar to ...
06:42 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Not just RavPower Amazon has yanked Vava and TaoTronics, too
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In 2017, The New York Times profiled Sunvalley, a Chinese electronics manufacturer that obsessively monitored Amazon to buil...
06:35 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Canoo will build its electric vehicles at a new Oklahoma factory
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California EV startup Canoo announced Thursday that it plans to build its electric vehicles at a new factory to be built outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The st...
06:04 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Juiced HyperScrambler 2 review: speed demon
Is it an e-bike or an e-moped? Who cares, it’s fast
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05:57 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Three big questions about Facebooks new VR ads
Yesterday, Facebook took a leap many people have been predicting for years: it started putting ads inside virtual reality. The company launched a limited test of advertisements...
05:30 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Microsofts Xbox Design Lab returns for Xbox Series X custom controllers
Microsoft is bringing its Xbox Design Lab back for Xbox Series X controllers. Originally launched in 2016, Xbox Design Lab allows Xbox owners to create personalized Xbox contro...
05:17 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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What to expect from the 2021 fire season in the West
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05:02 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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The PlayStation 5 will be available through Sonys store later today
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More than six months after its initial debut, the PlayStation 5 remains as elusive as ever. Sony also expects console shortages ...
04:47 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Inside the IRL Clubhouse dinner party
Party guests included Axel Mansoor, formerly the Clubhouse app icon.
The app enters the real world
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04:32 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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A Peter Jackson-directed documentary about The Beatles will debut on Disney Plus in November
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The Beatles: Get Back, a documentary about the iconic band directed by Peter Jackson, will debut as a three-part series on Disney Plus over th...
04:19 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Amazons Halo body fat percentage calculator outperforms lab devices
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Amazon’s body fat percentage scanner performs better than other, more cumbersome methods of calculating body fat, a new study showed. A body scan is one...
03:00 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Instagram Reels now has ads
Get ready to start seeing ads in Instagram Reels. The app’s video feed / TikTok clone will start including ads today across the globe. They’ll look just like any other Reel...
03:00 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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The smart home gym that analyzes your moves will soon have Olympian trainers
Tempo, the company behind the piece of exercise equipment that uses Microsoft Kinect to check your form, is announcing that it’ll have Olympians teach classes on its connecte...
02:38 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Pokmon Unite will launch first on Nintendo Switch in July
Pokémon Unite, the team-based, five vs. five strategy game co-developed with Tencent’s TiMi Studio Group, now has a release window — and it’s soon. It’s coming first t...
02:30 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Performing Hamlet in GTA Online is simply the best theater experience lockdown can offer
Plenty of actors can, I’m sure, cite plays they were in where the audience was bored, listless, or simply nonexistent. But few have had to contend with the challenges present...
02:06 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Ring reportedly used LA cops as influencers to market its cameras
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Amazon-owned Ring used Los Angeles police officers as brand ambassadors for its security camer...
02:00 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Nintendo thinks the Switch is well-placed for post-pandemic life
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The Switch is nearly five years old and facing increased competition from new and powerful consoles from Sony and Microsoft....
02:00 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Super73 RX review: more dirt bike than e-bike
Instant hype-beast status included
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01:54 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Sony opens PS5 beta program ahead of next major system update
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The PS5 has received a few feature updates since it launched in late 2020, but Sony shared today that it’s prepping to roll out a ma...
01:46 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Amazons fourth-gen Echo and Anker battery packs are onsaleahead of Prime Day
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Just ahead of Prime Day, Apple has begun its annual back-to-school promotion, including free AirPods when you purchase an eligible Mac ...
01:00 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Snapchat will let developers put their apps inside its TikTok copycat Spotlight
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Snapchat is making it easier for developers to use viral content to directly promote their apps. Today, it’s launching Creative Kit for Spotlight, which will...
01:00 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Indias healthcare workers are busting misinformation on WhatsApp
Bharti Kamble putting up a WhatsApp status on the temperature range of the human body.
The backbone of India’s rural healthcare system is now tasked with beating ...
01:00 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Why it took Nintendo 15 years to make Metroid Dread
Around 15 years ago, Yoshio Sakamoto had an idea for the next mainline Metroid game. Called Dread, the game would feature longtime protagonist Samus Aran constantly pursued by ...
01:00 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Microsofts new Fluid Office documents are coming to life in Teams, OneNote, and more
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The biggest change to Microsoft’s Office documents in decades is coming to life soon, as the company’s Fluid framework arriv...
01:00 pm - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Microsoft Teams new front row layout arrives later this year
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Microsoft has been teasing its vision for the future of Teams meetings recently, and it’s now committing t...
11:57 am - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Disney Plus original series will now release on Wednesdays, not Fridays
Loki was Disney’s first show to make the switch. | Photo: Marvel Studios
From July, all of Disney Plus’ global original series will be released on Wednesdays rather...
11:09 am - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Canon put AI cameras in its Chinese offices that only let smiling workers inside
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Tech company Canon has come up with a downright dystopic way to tackle the problem of workpl...
08:23 am - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Zens latest battery pack can create a wireless charging sandwich
The battery pack can wirelessly charge two devices at once. | Image: Zens
Zens’ new battery pack has a wireless charger on both sides, allowing you to charge two Qi-c...
08:21 am - Thu, June 17, 2021
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OnePlus integrates further with Oppo, if thats even possible
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OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has announced a “new journey” for the company including a plan to “further integrate ...
06:02 am - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Leica phone announced by SoftBank in Japan
SoftBank has announced a Leica-branded phone for the Japanese market. Leica has lent its name to phone camera systems before, but this Leitz Phone 1 is the first time the Leica...
01:48 am - Thu, June 17, 2021
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China successfully launches three astronauts to new space station
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A Long March rocket blasted off from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center today, carrying three astronauts to China’s new space station. The launch marks Ch...
01:12 am - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Is Facebook cornering the VR market?
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Imagine that, over the past year, Facebook had managed to acquire the battle royale game Fortnite, the kid-focused game crea...
12:28 am - Thu, June 17, 2021
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Amazon pulls an Apple by reducing its app store cut for some smaller developers
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Amazon has decided it would really like to attract more developers to its Android and Fire OS app store, so it’s following in ...
11:44 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella now doubles as the companys chairman
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On February 4th, 2014, Microsoft found its new CEO in the cloud — Satya Nadella took the top job, Steve Ballmer retired, and Bill Ga...
11:07 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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The best deals on 4K TVs
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There are a lot of 4K TVs available to choose from, complete with a wide variety of prices and performance. An...
10:09 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Workhorse starts federal court fight over lost USPS contract
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EV startup Workhorse has filed an official protest after losing the bid to make the United States Postal Service’s next-generation mail vehicle in Februar...
10:07 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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How to find the best deals during Prime Day 2021
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Outside of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Prime Day has become one of the biggest shopping events of the year. It’s a two-day ...
09:45 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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The best early Prime Day deals
Right now, you can pick up the 1st-gen Echo Show 5 for nearly half the initial list price. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
Amazon Prime Day, the retail giant’s two...
09:37 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Watch Windows 11s Cortana insist that Windows 11 isnt real
Hey, the AI is doing the best it can!
hey Cortana, is Windows 11 real? pic.twitter.com/GcbBdNL0NZ— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 16, 2021
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08:27 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Senate bill would make it easier to cancel a subscription online after a free trial
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill Wednesday that would make it easier for people to cancel online subscriptions ...
08:25 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Amazon confirms it removed RavPower, a popular phone battery and charger brand
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One month ago, Amazon-first gadget brands Aukey and Mpow suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the giant online retaile...
08:08 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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The latest teaser for Star Trek: Picard season 2 is noticeably missing some robots
The latest teaser for Star Trek: Picard’s second season has arrived, giving an actual look at the upcoming series (instead of some long shots inside Picard’s house as Patri...
07:45 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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How to activate and use Google Chat
Real-time collaborative chat, as exemplified by apps such as Slack, has become a common way to communicate between colleagues and friends, especially since last year when so ma...
07:44 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Steam Next Fest lets you try hundreds of games
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E3 2021 is technically over, and without a show floor to demo things, plenty of developers lost an opportunity to spread the wor...
07:29 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Even the Xbox app has stories now
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Microsoft is now adding a row of stories to its Xbox app on iOS and Android. It’s the same interface that origi...
07:11 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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The best smartphone you can buy for under $500
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You can get a great smartphone at this price, whether you want an iPhone, a big screen, or a great camera
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07:00 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps
Facebook will soon begin testing ads inside its Oculus Quest virtual reality system. In the coming weeks, ads will start appearing inside the Resolution Games title Blaston as ...
06:49 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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How Republicans and Democrats are gearing up to fight tech monopolies
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In a surprise decision Tuesday, President Joe Biden tapped Lina Khan, one of the most prominent critics of Big Tech, ...
06:45 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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The best cheap wireless earbuds to buy in 2021
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Spending a little on any of these picks will get you a lot
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06:38 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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The best phone to buy right now
iPhone 12, Galaxy S21 Ultra, Galaxy S21, iPhone 12 Mini, Galaxy Z Fold 2, and Pixel 4A 5G
Buying a new phone can be a chore, but we’ve done the work for you
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06:06 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Podcasts start coming to Facebook next week
Facebook is planning to start rolling out its podcast product next week, on June 22nd, and, eventually, add a feature that’ll allow listeners to create clips from their favor...
05:32 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Amazon appears to have removed RavPower, a popular phone battery and charger brand
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One month ago, Amazon-first gadget brands Aukey and Mpow suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the giant online retaile...
05:32 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Amazon confirms it removed RavPower, a popular phone battery and charger brand
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One month ago, Amazon-first gadget brands Aukey and Mpow suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the giant online retaile...
05:15 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Jaguar Land Rover says its developing a hydrogen-powered prototype vehicle
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Jaguar Land Rover is working on a prototype hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), which it plans to start testing later this year, the co...
05:00 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Slack is rolling out a new scheduled send feature
Slack has announced a new Scheduled Send feature that the company is starting to roll out today, which — as the name implies — will let users schedule messages to send at a...
04:59 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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China, Russia aim for first joint astronaut Moon landings in next decade
China and Russia expect to put their first crews of astronauts on the Moon sometime in the next decade, representatives said on Wednesday. Already established plans for their I...
04:30 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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The best smart displays for every home
The Amazon Echo Show family of smart displays. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
From Alexa to Google, the best smart displays to buy right now
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04:30 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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The Twitch streamers fighting to keep minority languages alive
Entertainment meets activism
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04:00 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Facebook develops new method to reverse-engineer deepfakes and track their source
Deepfakes aren’t a big problem on Facebook right now, but the company continues to fund research into the technology to guard against future threats. Its latest work is a col...
04:00 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Pixars Luca is the perfect summer movie
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The best way to watch Luca, the latest feature from Pixar, is when you’re that very particular kind of tired that comes from a long day...
03:43 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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The Verges Fathers Day Gift Guide 2021
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03:30 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Oppos rollable concept phone is pure potential lacking polish
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But no sign of a commercial release
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03:26 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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AMD launches Radeon RX 6900 XT Liquid Edition with a performance bump
AMD’s new Radeon RX 6900 XT Liquid Edition. | Image: Maingear
AMD is launching a new variant of its Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card that is liquid cooled. This extra ...
03:20 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Apple reportedly trialed plans for a primary care service on its own employees
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Apple took over a health clinic to test plans for a primary care service with its own employees, The Wall Street Journal reporte...
03:18 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Waymo raises $2.5 billion in second external funding round
Waymo just announced a second external funding round, raising $2.5 billion for the continued advancement of its autonomous driving technology.
According to investor website Pi...
03:00 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Facebooks AI moderator will tell group admins when users are beefing in the comments
Facebook is launching a suite of new tools to help group admins get a grip on their communities. Some simply offer a clearer overview of posts and members, while others are des...
02:54 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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GTA Online is shutting down for PS3 and Xbox 360 later this year
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Rockstar Games announced that the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of GTA Online, the online multiplayer component of Grand Theft Auto V, will no longer be accessi...
02:19 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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General Motors electric vehicle plan just got even more expensive
General Motors announced that it would increase its investment in electric and autonomous vehicles to $35 billion through 2025. The new figure represents a 30 percent increase ...
02:00 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Googles first retail store opens this week
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After years of pop-up experiments, Google is finally dipping its toes in the physical retail waters with its...
01:15 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Honor confirms Googles apps will return to its phones with new 50 series
The Honor 50 in silver, copper, green, and black. | Image: Honor
The Honor 50 series will be able to ship with Google’s apps and services, Honor officially announced ...
01:00 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Spotifys Clubhouse competitor Greenroom launches today
Greenroom is Spotify’s take on live audio rooms. | Image: Spotify
Spotify’s live audio app, Greenroom, formally launches today on iOS and Android, marking the compa...
12:42 pm - Wed, June 16, 2021
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The best wired or wireless gaming mouse you can buy
Whatever your budget or grip style is, we’ve found the best gaming mouse for you. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Multiple picks for all budgets
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10:50 am - Wed, June 16, 2021
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The Atari VCS retro console gets its long-awaited retail release
The “Black Walnut” version of the console, which comes with a joystick and controller. | Image: Atari
The Atari VCS — a part-desktop PC, part-retro console modele...
10:04 am - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Microsoft is bringing next-gen Xbox games to the Xbox One with xCloud
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Microsoft will let Xbox One owners play next-gen Xbox games through its xCloud service. The news was buried in a blog post recap...
10:00 am - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Lincoln vehicles getting hands-free driving feature and native Android
Lincoln, Ford’s luxury brand, has announced plans to make its entire lineup either hybrid or all-electric by 2030 as part of its parent company’s new business plan. The bra...
09:08 am - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Windows 11s default wallpapers are Microsofts best yet
Windows 11 leaked yesterday, offering a closer look at some of the UI changes Microsoft is planning for its next version of Windows. The leak has also revealed what will likely...
09:00 am - Wed, June 16, 2021
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New website tracks which colleges will use eproctoring software this fall
Privacy-focused nonprofit Fight for the Future has launched a new website that tracks whether certain colleges and universities plan to use virtual proctoring software during t...
04:50 am - Wed, June 16, 2021
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Sony reportedly plans PSVR successor for next holiday season
Sony’s next-gen VR controllers. | Image: Sony
Sony’s next-gen PlayStation VR headset is likely to come out in late 2022, according to a new report. Bloomberg’s so...
11:20 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Disney Plus has no plans for a lower cost ad-supported option for now, CEO says
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Many major streamers support advertising in some form or another — think Hulu, HBO Max, or Sling TV as just a few examples — but Disney’s chief says...
10:41 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Zuckerberg says original Oculus Quest will get Air Link wireless streaming
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Owners of the original Oculus Quest will get the ability to stream from their PCs to their headsets wirelessly, using the Ai...
10:36 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Noctuas long-awaited passive CPU cooler is here
Noctua is known for making mighty quiet PC fans, and now it has a CPU cooler that doesn’t need a fan at all. Two years after announcing a passive heatsink potent enough to ke...
10:12 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Amazon Prime Day 2021: the latest news, deals, and coverage
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The best anti-Prime Day deals included
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09:23 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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You can sign up to learn when Dishs under-construction 5G network will launch near you
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With the clock ticking down toward it...
09:09 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announces Series C investment in ordinary human beings
MacKenzie Scott, whose estimated fortune stands somewhere around $60 billion, announced via a Medium post today that she would be parting with a $2.7 billion portion of that we...
08:46 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee is selling the first web browsers code as an NFT
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, one of the architects of the World Wide Web, is selling the source code to the original web browser as an NFT (via the BBC). The auction, being run by Soth...
08:16 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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SpaceX ignored last-minute warnings from the FAA before December Starship launch
Elon Musk’s company was told SN8’s launch would violate its FAA license, but SpaceX launched anyway
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08:06 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Lordstown Motors stops work on electric van to focus on pickup truck
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Lordstown Motors has stopped working on an electric van and other future projects in order to aim all resources at putting its first vehicle, a ...
07:07 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Amazons COVID-19 test is now available to consumers
Amazon is selling its own COVID-19 test kit directly to customers. Results from the test will appear on an Amazon diagnostics website that was originally designed for use by Am...
06:28 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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The best early Prime Day deals
Right now, you can pick up the 1st-gen Echo Show 5 for nearly half the initial list price. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
Amazon Prime Day, the retail giant’s two...
06:20 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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The best trailers of E3 2021
Guardians, vampires, rabbids, and lots of chaos
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06:09 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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The next step for wearables could be illness warning lights
Harpreet Rai, the CEO of smart ring company Oura, often tells a story about a March 2020 Facebook post. An Oura ring user posted that the device said that his overall health sc...
06:05 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android
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Google has announced seven new features for Android that it says will help improve accessibility and make Assistant Shortcuts more useful, among other thi...
05:32 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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The Switch is getting new Mario Party and WarioWare games
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During its E3 Direct, Nintendo announced new entries in the Mario Party and WarioWare series, both coming to the Switch.
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05:29 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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eBays sex ban wipes out an important storefront for queer collectors
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Carta Monir, an author, publisher, and pornographer, maintains an amateur archive of vintage queer erotic...
05:03 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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CD Projekt says Cyberpunk 2077 will return to Sonys PlayStation Store on June 21st
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CD Projekt says Cyberpunk 2077 will return to Sony’s PlayStation Store on June 21st, slightly more than six months after being removed. As Polyg...
04:57 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Nintendo is releasing a Zelda-themed Game & Watch handheld
For the 35th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo is releasing a Zelda-themed green and gold Game & Watch handheld console with four playable built-in games. You’...
04:52 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Go read this harrowing story about the team cleaning up Airbnbs biggest disasters
When Airbnb works smoothly, the platform can feel like simply an eclectic hotel chain. But the app is a huge, high-stakes experiment in trusting strangers, and that can come wi...
04:51 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Nintendo is remastering the first two Advance Wars games for the Switch
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Nintendo announced that it’s remastering the first two games in the Advance Wars series for Nintendo Switch in one package under the banner Advance Wa...
04:44 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Breath of the Wild 2 heads to the skies in stunning E3 trailer
After years of anticipation, Nintendo has revealed a new trailer for the still-untitled upcoming sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at E3 2021, along with a 2022...
04:26 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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The first three Super Monkey Ball games are getting remastered
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Sega on Tuesday announced Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania, a “modern HD remaster” of Super Mon...
04:22 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Tech antitrust pioneer Lina Khan confirmed as FTC commissioner
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The Senate confirmed Lina Khan as commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission Tuesday, by a vote of 69-28. First nominated in Marc...
04:04 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Tekkens Kazuya is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Nintendo has announced that Kayuza from the Tekken fighting games will be the latest character to join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at its E3 2021 Nintendo Direct presentation. A...
04:03 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Windows 11 screenshots leak, show new Start menu and more
Screenshots of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 operating system have appeared online today. Originally published at Chinese site Baidu, the screenshots show off the new Windo...
04:00 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Google announces starred messages, emoji mashup suggestions, and more for Android
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Google has announced six new features for Android that it says will help improve accessibility and make Assistant Shortcuts more useful, among other thing...
03:59 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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The latest tool in fighting wildfires is homes that wont burn
A home Homebound Inc. is rebuilding stands under construction after it was destroyed in the Tubbs Fire in the Fountain Grove neighborhood of Santa Rosa, California, on Septembe...
03:56 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Apple Podcasts in-app subscriptions are now live
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Apple Podcasts now offers in-app subscriptions in more than 170 countries, about a month after the feature was first scheduled to launch. With this feature live, ...
03:54 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Apple says you can build apps on an iPad now, but devs say the reality is trickier
With Swift Playgrounds, the iPad can finally submit iOS apps. | Image: Apple
Apple’s latest iPad Pro is its most powerful tablet yet. And going into WWDC 2021, many v...
03:51 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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The best wired or wireless gaming headsets to buy
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A few options for each platform
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03:33 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Cruise starts pre-production of its autonomous shuttle thanks to $5 billion from GM
Cruise is getting a $5 billion line of credit from General Motors’ financial division as it begins pre-production on its Origin autonomous shuttle. It’s another big infusio...
03:26 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Another podcast goes exclusive to Spotify: Call Her Daddy
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Spotify continues its run on signing podcasts to exclusive deals, and this time, it’s locked down Call Her Daddy, the popular show that covers topics like sex...
03:15 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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How to keep some of your Twitter data away from advertisers
In April 2020, Twitter began sharing more of our information with advertisers. Notice came via a rather weird notification that said “your ability to control mobile app adver...
01:55 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Ikea and Sonos announce picture frame speaker, coming July 15th for $199
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Ikea and Sonos have today officially introduced the latest product in their Symfonisk line. It’s the $199 picture frame / wall art speaker that The Verge ...
01:20 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Smart Battery cases for the iPhone are over half off at Best Buy
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Editor’s Note: On May 28th and 29th, 2021, we published two articles promoting a deal from Daily Steals for an Apple charger and ca...
01:00 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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How to watch Nintendos E3 2021 Direct showcase
Nintendo’s Direct presentation is one of the last big happenings of E3 2021. It’s a 40-minute show that Nintendo says is focused exclusively on Switch games (and not new ha...
01:00 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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IRL is a new social network taking on Facebook groups
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Do people want an app specifically for discovering events and messaging as a group? That�...
01:00 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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The Realme GT lays claim to OnePlus flagship killer mantle
Realme is launching its highest-end phone yet in several European countries today, describing it as a “flagship killer.” The Realme GT is a high-end device with a fast Qual...
01:00 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Affordable OnePlus N200 5G will go on sale on June 25th
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OnePlus has confirmed that the inexpensive Nord N200 5G will be avail...
12:21 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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John Deere turned tractors into computers whats next?
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CTO Jahmy Hindman on farming, data, and right to repair
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12:00 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Digit is now offering a bank account with its automatic savings features built in
Digit is building on its automated savings know-how with a new $9.99 per month banking feature called Direct that will launch later this year. With the new service, you’ll ha...
12:00 pm - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Levels new smart door lock is a little simpler and a little less expensive
The Level Lock looks like a standard deadbolt from the outside | Image: Level
Smart lock company Level is announcing a new model in its lineup today, simply named th...
11:35 am - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Nvidia wont explain the mysterious absence of its RTX 3070 Ti GPU
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Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition card went on sale last week, but buyers looking for the $599 GPU have found it impossibl...
10:43 am - Tue, June 15, 2021
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This simple dock turns your Apple Watch into a bedside orb
Slot in your Apple Watch, and the NightWatch magnifies its screen. | Image: NightWatch
Have you ever tried using your Apple Watch as a bedside clock, but given up becau...
09:01 am - Tue, June 15, 2021
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Amazon brings its cashierless tech to a full-size grocery store for the first time
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Amazon’s cashierless Just Walk Out technology is coming to a full-size grocery store for the first time, the company has announced. The new 25,000 squar...
11:35 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Netflix is producing a fictionalized series about Spotify
Netflix has tapped the original story of one of the music industry’s biggest startup successes for a forthcoming untitled original series. The series will tell a “fictional...
11:31 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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How to watch E3 2021
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E3 2021 is nearly over — there’s just one more full day left. The show has delivered some big announcements so far, includin...
10:57 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Razer is releasing its Project Hazel mask in limited drops in the fourth quarter of this year
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Razer had a few announcements timed for E3 2021, including its new Razer Blade 14 with AMD’s Ryzen 9 processors, and an updated Raptor 27 gaming monitor ...
10:30 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Razers Blade 14 is the first Blade laptop with AMD Ryzen processors
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After months of rumors and speculation, many gamers’ dreams have finally come true. Today, Razer has announced the new Razer Blad...
10:30 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Razers updated Raptor 27 is a faster 165Hz monitor, now with optional VESA
The new Raptor 27 looks the same as the previous model
Razer has refreshed its minimalist Raptor 27 gaming monitor with FreeSync Premium support with low frame rate com...
10:27 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Resident Evil Village DLC is in the works after popular demand
Capcom has announced that Resident Evil Village will be getting downloadable content. The news was revealed during an E3 2021 Showcase that was short of new announcements. A qu...
10:11 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Doom now runs on an Ikea smart light bulb
“Can it run Doom?” is a question nearly as old as Doom itself, as creative hardware hackers and software savants across the internet work to try and get the 1993 classic sh...
09:44 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Acer Chromebook Spin 713 (2021) review: victory lap
The newest Chromebook Spin 713 is just as good as last year’s model
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08:05 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Turtle Beach is making dedicated flight sim hardware for PC and Xbox consoles
Sure, it costs nearly as much as a Series X, but look at it! | Turtle Beach
Gaming peripheral company Turtle Beach announced at E3 2021 that it’s getting into a new p...
07:53 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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After saving Tuca & Bertie, Adult Swim has posted the first episode of season 2 on YouTube
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Tuca & Bertie is back on the air thanks to Adult Swim, and you can watch the entire first episode of season 2 for free on Adult Swim’s YouTube c...
07:14 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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YouTube is banning alcohol, gambling, and politics from its most prominent ad slot
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YouTube will no longer be accepting ads relating to alcohol, gambling, politics, or “prescription drug terms” for its masthea...
06:21 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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At $299, DJIs leaked Mini SE might be its most affordable drone yet
We called the DJI Mini 2 the best drone you can buy under $500, but what if you don’t have $449 to spend? Walmart has leaked a new entry in DJI’s Mavic Mini line that might...
05:01 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Heres everything we know about Halo Infinites free multiplayer
343 Industries gave us a first glimpse at Halo Infinite’s free multiplayer mode yesterday, and now we’re getting even more information on how the weapons, armor, and sandbo...
04:53 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Reality Winner has been released from prison
Reality Winner, a former intelligence contractor jailed for leaking classified information, has been released from prison to serve her remaining sentence in a halfway house pro...
04:32 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Asus launches $499.99 Chromebook Flip CM5 with AMD Ryzen 5 processors
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Asus has released its latest Ryzen-powered Chromebook, the Chromebook Flip CM5. The CM5 has a 15.6-inch screen, and Asus is pushing it as a device for cloud-based ...
03:03 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Dell XPS 13 OLED review: more pixels, more money
Here’s the Dell XPS 13 OLED.
If you’ve been waiting for a 13-inch laptop with the best display technology out there, Dell now has an option for you. Dell has finall...
03:00 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Beats Studio Buds review: big ambition, imperfect execution
Beats tried to do a lot at once — probably too much — with its new earbuds
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03:00 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Beats announces $149.99 Studio Buds earbuds with active noise cancellation
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Beats today announced its second pair of true wireless earbuds, the new Beats Studio Buds. Priced at $149.99 and available in red, black, or white, the St...
02:44 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Amazons latest Echo Buds are $40 off for Prime members
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Father’s Day is coming up this weekend. Not to nag, but time is running out to buy a gift and have it delivered on time. We’ve put ...
02:30 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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The Legion 5 Pro is Lenovos best gaming laptop yet
Packed with power and stellar features for a great price
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01:19 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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01:06 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Microsoft to end Windows 10 support on October 14th, 2025
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Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025. It will mark just over 10 years since the operating system was f...
01:00 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Verizon wants you vaccinated, so heres $180 AirPods Pro and otheraccessory discounts
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Verizon is joining several states in offering a financial incentive to get the COVID vaccine: its customers who have gotten at least on...
12:49 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Lordstown Motors CEO resigns after investigation into preorders
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Steve Burns, the CEO of General Motors-backed startup Lordstown Motors, has resigned following an investigation into allegations that he and other executiv...
12:34 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Novavax says its COVID-19 vaccine is 90 percent effective
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The two-shot COVID-19 vaccine made by Novavax is 90 percent effective against the disease, the company said today.
The ...
12:00 pm - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Pokmon Go creator Niantic is making a Transformers game
Niantic is expanding from cute critters to giant robots. Today, the game developer announced its next project: a location-based augmented reality game called Transformers: Heav...
11:25 am - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Future Apple Watches could feature blood glucose and body temperature sensors
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This year’s Apple Watch could feature an improved screen and updated ultra-wideband ...
10:36 am - Mon, June 14, 2021
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LGs premium G1 OLED now comes with a 5-year warranty in the US and UK
LG is now offering a 5-year warranty for its G1 OLED. | Image: LG
LG is offering an extended 5-year warranty on its 4K G1 OLED in the US, covering any problems that dev...
10:00 am - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody
Google is announcing some changes to its Workspace suite of apps and services today, including availability for anybody who has a Google account. Google says that there are ove...
09:16 am - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Amazons game streaming service Luna is opening access to all Prime members June 21 and 22
Amazon is opening up access to its game streaming service Luna to all Amazon Prime members on June 21 and 22 (Amazon Prime Day). Previously, to test out Luna you had to request...
08:50 am - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Google to work with UK regulators on its big ad-tracking shakeup
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The UK’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), will collaborate with Google as it attempts to rewo...
06:29 am - Mon, June 14, 2021
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Samsung says it hasnt decided whether to halt Galaxy S21 FE production
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Samsung has downplayed a report that claimed the company has suspended production of an upcoming phone called the Gala...
12:24 am - Mon, June 14, 2021
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How to watch E3 2021
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E3 2021 is finally here. After being canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, E3 is back for 2021 in an all-digital form...
11:50 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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The six coolest games from the PC Gaming Show at E3 2021
They Always Run.
The second day of E3 2021 has been busy with Xbox and Bethesda’s joint conference followed by Square Enix’s showcase, but plenty more game announce...
08:32 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Black Panther is coming to Marvels Avengers this August
Previously announced for Marvel’s Avengers, today’s Square Enix E3 Showcase gave a first proper look at Black Panther who joins the superhero roster in a brand new expansio...
08:25 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Co-op action game Babylons Fall finally gets gameplay trailer
Babylon’s Fall finally has a substantial gameplay trailer, which was revealed at Square Enix’s E3 2021 Showcase. The new trailer is the first time it’s been seen since th...
08:14 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Square Enix announces action-heavy spinoff Final Fantasy Origin
The next Final Fantasy spinoff is heavy on the action, and certainly doesn’t skimp when it comes to giant swords. At its E3 2021 keynote, Square Enix revealed Stranger of Par...
07:57 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Final Fantasy 1-6 are being rereleased for new pixel remaster series
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Square Enix announced that the first six mainline Final Fantasy games are getting remasters for Steam, Android, and iOS. The games will each be relea...
07:24 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Eidos Montreal is making a Guardians of the Galaxy game
The team behind the Deus Ex games is tackling one of Marvel’s most famous superhero groups next. At its E3 2021 keynote, publisher Square Enix revealed that Eidos Montreal, t...
07:10 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Among Us expands to 15 player lobbies on June 15th
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Among Us lobbies will be expanding from a maximum of 10 to 15 players as part of a new update coming out on June 15th (a date that happens to be the game’...
06:44 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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The Xbox Series X mini fridge will be available this holiday season
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Microsoft’s concluded its E3 2021 showcase with a rather cool announcement: the Xbox Series X-shaped mini fridge, which the company promised to make ...
06:38 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Microsoft just launched a bunch of new games on Xbox Game Pass at E3 2021
Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
Microsoft has announced a whole slate of games that will be joining Xbox Game Pass today, with 11 new titles available on the subscription servic...
06:37 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Microsoft announces Redfall, a vampire shooter from the team behind Dishonored
Microsoft ended its E3 2021 presentation with a brand-new title: Redfall, the latest release from Dishonored developer Arkane Studios. It’s a co-op shooter that looks a bit l...
06:32 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Forza Horizon 5 looks incredible in first trailer
Forza Horizon 5 is the next title in the Forza franchise, and it’s coming to Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC on November 9th, and will also be available from day one on Xbo...
06:26 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Microsoft announces The Outer Worlds 2 at its E3 2021 showcase
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Microsoft announced The Outer Worlds 2, a sequel to Obsidian’s 2019 role-playing shooter, at its E3 2021 showcase on Sunday. The trailer provided very...
06:08 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Diablo II: Resurrected is launching in September
The remastered take on arguably the best Diablo game is launching this fall. At E3 Blizzard announced that Diablo II: Resurrected will be available on September 23rd. It’s co...
06:07 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Microsoft Flight Simulator is landing on Xbox Series X / S consoles on July 27th
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Microsoft Flight Simulator is landing on Xbox Series X / S consoles on July 27th. Available on Xbox Game Pass, it’s the first next-gen-exclusive Xbox...
05:55 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Hades, one of 2020s best games, is coming to Xbox and PlayStation on August 13th
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Supergiant Games’ excellent roguelike Hades, which was one of the best games of 2020, is coming to Xbox and PlayStation consoles on August 13t...
05:51 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Heres a first look at Halo Infinites multiplayer mode
343 Industries is back and ready to demo more Halo Infinite. Today at Microsoft’s Xbox + Bethesda showcase, we got a new look at the multiplayer side of Halo Infinite. The ga...
05:43 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Back 4 Blood coming to Xbox Game Pass at launch on October 12th
Back 4 Blood has been confirmed as an Xbox Game Pass title available to play from day one when it launches on October 12th. It’ll be available on PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox On...
05:35 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Jack Sparrow is coming to Sea of Thieves on June 22nd
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Captain Jack Sparrow, the sometimes unhinged pirate famously portrayed by Johnny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, is coming to Rare’s Sea ...
04:44 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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Bethesdas Starfield is launching exclusively on Xbox and PC on November 11th, 2022
We’re finally getting a look at Starfield today, Bethesda’s first new unique universe in more than 25 years. Starfield, as the name implies, is set in space, and a new teas...
04:00 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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How to tune into Square Enixs E3 2021 games showcase
Square Enix will be taking part in the E3 2021 festivities with its own games showcase on Sunday, June 13th. It’ll feature a brand-new game announcement from the Eidos-Montr�...
02:00 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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How to watch the Xbox and Bethesda E3 conference
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Team Xbox will take to the stage alongside Bethesda to showcase a 90-minute presentation of games for E3 2021. It’ll last 90 m...
01:00 pm - Sun, June 13, 2021
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How tocustomize your iPhones app icons
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Have you ever wanted to make your iPhone your own, with your individualized style and flair? Sure, you can change your home screen wa...
11:32 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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The five coolest games from Upload VRs E3 2021 showcase
Song in the Smoke.
Upload VR returned to E3 with its third annual showcase of the most inventive and intriguing games coming to VR. As the medium continues to mature ye...
11:03 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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How to watch E3 2021
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E3 2021 is finally here. After being canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, E3 is back for 2021 in an all-digital form...
10:49 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Unplugged lets you play air guitar in VR this fall
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The studio behind the upcoming virtual reality air guitar game Unplugged gave an update at the Upload VR Showcase on Saturday and revealed one big ban...
09:47 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Heres everything announced at the outrageous Devolver MaxPass Plus event
Devolver Digital made its return to E3 with another no-holds-barred satirical swipe at the games industry, taking shots at subscriptions, games as a service, and even NFTs. Dub...
08:46 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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E3 2021: all the news and announcements
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Follow the updates from some of gaming’s biggest shows
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08:26 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Far Cry 6s new trailer is an intense introduction to a terrifying Giancarlo Esposito
After introducing the guerrilla freedom fighter protagonist for Far Cry 6, Ubisoft’s new trailer pivots back to the highlight of any new installment: its villain, Antón Cast...
08:15 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Watch the first trailer for Ubisofts gorgeous Avatar game
Ubisoft capped off its E3 keynote with a big surprise: a first look at Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The next-gen take on James Cameron’s world looks gorgeous, and Ubisoft sa...
08:11 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Ubisoft announces Mario Rabbids sequel for 2022
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Ubisoft’s Mario and Rabbids crossover turn-based strategy game is getting a sequel for the Nintendo Switch: Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope. Ubisoft re...
07:44 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Ubisofts extreme sports MMO Riders Republic is launching in September
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Ubisoft’s upcoming extreme sports MMO, Riders Republic, will launch on September 2nd, the company announced at its Ubisoft Forward show on Saturday.
I...
07:37 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Rainbow Six Extraction is full of creepy aliens in new trailers
Previously known as Rainbow Six Quarantine, Ubisoft finally revealed Rainbow Six Extraction during its Ubisoft Forward conference on Saturday. The presentation started with a c...
06:15 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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New iPad Pro ad features classic song from The Little Mermaid
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Apple’s YouTube page currently has an unlisted video for a very clever iPad Pro ad featuring the song “Part of Your World” from Disney’s iconic ani...
05:18 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Like Google Chrome, Chrome OS will be moving to a four-week release schedule
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Google will be adjusting the release cycle for Chrome OS later this year, moving to a schedule where it launches a new release every fo...
05:12 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Blue Origin auctions New Shepard ride with Jeff Bezos for $28 million
Blue Origin’s month-long auction for a trip to the edge of space with its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos ended on Saturday with a closing price of $28 million. The flight abo...
04:51 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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New COVID-19 outbreaks in Asia could exacerbate the global chip shortage
New outbreaks of COVID-19 in Asia could create delays in the global supply chain and exacerbate the global semiconductor shortage, according to a new report from The Wall Stree...
04:00 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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How to watch Ubisoft Forward
Ubisoft Forward is the publisher / developer’s livestreamed event where we’ll see updates to preexisting Ubisoft titles, as well as announcements of brand-new games. For E3...
03:00 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Nows your chance to get a month of Paramount Plus for free
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If you’ve been weighing whether to take the plunge on Paramount Plus, now’s your chance to take the streaming service for a test drive for a full 3...
03:00 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Samsung Galaxy A32 5G review: 5G on a budget
A sub-$300 phone that’s ready for the future
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02:00 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Normal Password System
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A secure password is important for online account integrity.
On the following pages, you will be asked to generate a secure password. ...
02:00 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Pharma is winning the big business popularity contest
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It used to be easy to hate pharmaceutical companies. Between soaring drug costs and the opioid crisis, the industr...
01:00 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Amazon Echo Show 5 (second gen) review: small screen, small updates
Amazon’s smallest smart display has gotten the tiniest of refreshes
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01:00 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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You can get some great tech and game deals ahead of Prime Day
Prime Day 2021 is happening in just a little over a week, kicking off on Monday, June 21st, and lasting through Tuesday, June 22nd. In addition to keeping up with our regular d...
12:21 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Nintendo leaks new Mario Rabbids game on its own website
Ubisoft’s Mario and Rabbids crossover turn-based strategy game is getting a sequel, according to Nintendo’s website. The unannounced game is currently listed on its own pag...
12:13 pm - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Nvidia to drop Windows 7 and Windows 8 driver support in October
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Nvidia is planning to drop support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 later this year. Nvidia drivers will be exclusively availab...
12:18 am - Sat, June 12, 2021
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Apple rubberstamped Trumps request to secretly scoop up data on two members of Congress
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The New York Times is reporting on a new wrinkle in the story of how the Trump ad...
11:30 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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How to watch E3 2021
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E3 2021 is finally here. After being canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, E3 is back for 2021 in an all-digital form...
09:16 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Facebook just bought the Fortnite of VR
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Facebook has acquired yet another developer of a popular virtual reality game, announcing on Friday that BigBox VR, m...
09:14 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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New Yorkers needing affordable internet will have to wait
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Internet access is, according to New York’s Eastern District Judge Dennis R. Hurley, a “modern necessity.” Unfortu...
08:42 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Larry Pages air taxi startup is buying former DJI rival 3D Robotics
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Kitty Hawk, the air taxi company backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, is buying what’s left of one-time DJI competitor 3D Robotics. As part of t...
07:30 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Darnella Frazier, who documented George Floyds murder, receives Pulitzer Prize citation
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Darnella Frazier — the teen who used her smartphone to film the video of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020 that sparke...
07:30 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Apple added beautiful 3D details to Maps, but it still cant get me out of this forest
This is impressive, but it won’t help me get around town.
During the iOS portion of Apple’s WWDC keynote, it showed some amazing demos of 3D cities and AR transit d...
06:34 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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House lawmakers introduce five bipartisan bills to unwind tech monopolies
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On Friday, House Democrats introduced five new bills meant to chip away at the power of big tech companies, targeting a variety ...
05:43 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Chinas Zhurong rover sends a selfie from Mars
China’s Zhurong rover with its landing platform. | Image: CNSA
China has released new images from its Zhurong rover, which began wheeling its way around Mars in late ...
05:21 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Razers $100 Opus X headphones bring noise cancellation and a low-latency gaming mode
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Razer announced the Opus X, a new set of over-ear wireless headphones that offer active noise cancellation f...
05:08 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Two Far Cry animated shows are coming to Netflix
A look at Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix. | Image: Adi Shankar on Twitter
Ubisoft and Netflix on Friday shared a first look at a new series based on Far Cry an...
05:00 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Apple admits why its own Files app was ranked first when users searched for competitor Dropbox
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In 2019, facing down extensive investigations by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times that showed Apple’s App Store clearly and consistently ranking i...
04:57 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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McDonalds suffers data breach in the US, South Korea, and Taiwan
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The fast food mega chain McDonald’s is the latest company to have private data stolen by a third party, The Wall Street Journ...
04:45 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Heres an incredibly brief first tease of The Witcher season 2 on Netflix
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Geralt of Rivia is coming back, and you can get the first look at The Witcher’s second season in the incredibly brief clip below. It’s focused primar...
04:26 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Watch the first teaser for Netflixs gorgeous Cuphead show
King Dice, voiced by Wayne Brady, in The Cuphead Show. | Image: Netflix
Netflix showed off a brief teaser of its upcoming show based on the game Cuphead at its Geeked W...
04:23 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Arcane, Netflixs animated League of Legends show, is full of grit and rage in new clip
The sprawling fantasy realm of League of Legends is expanding in a big way. At its Netflix Geeked Week, the streaming service showed off a new two-minute clip for Arcane, the f...
04:20 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Jedi: Fallen Orders next-gen update will let you go from disc to digital
Cal from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. | Image: EA
EA released a free next-gen update for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order on Friday, and the announcement comes with good n...
04:12 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Air taxi startup Archer shows off small electric aircraft but no flight test
Archer Aviation, a Santa Clara-based aviation startup, unveiled a new electric aircraft Thursday that it says will serve as the basis for a future fleet of air taxis that will ...
04:01 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Apple is trying to dominate watch parties, but it needs more help
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Apple is bringing one of streaming’s trendiest features to iPhone users with the debut of SharePlay in iOS 15 later t...
02:43 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Vergecast WWDC: iOS 15, spatial audio, macOS Monterey, and more
Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors c...
02:16 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Apple finally supports Windows Precision Touchpad gestures in new Boot Camp update
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Apple is finally adding support for Windows Precision Touchpad drivers in its latest Boot Camp update. The new 6.1.15 update includes s...
02:00 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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When does sharing become oversharing?
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I’m a chronic oversharer on social media — and usually an intentional one. Mostly, I write about my severe mental health struggles...
01:21 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Razers Kiyo webcam is 25 percent off at multiple retailers
Finding a webcam during the early stages of the pandemic was borderline impossible. That’s not the case anymore. Most models are in stock, and sometimes, they’re even cheap...
01:00 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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The race is on for quantum-safe cryptography
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In 2016, Lily Chen started a competition to rewrite the building blocks of encryption.
With her team of mathematicians at the US Natio...
01:00 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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The ultimate hotel room coffee-making guide
A great travel coffee kit.
A thousand times better than whatever’s in the room
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12:03 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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How to stop your emails from being tracked
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All of those obnoxious marketing emails that crowd your inbox aren’t just pushing a product. They’re also tracking whether you’v...
12:00 pm - Fri, June 11, 2021
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iOS 15 gives you better tools to fight the firehose of notifications with a catch
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Apple’s iOS 15 preview earlier this week gave us a look at an important new feature coming to your iPhone’s notifications: help. A...
11:32 am - Fri, June 11, 2021
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iOS 15 and macOS 12 take a small but significant step towards a password-less future
In the future you’ll be able to sign up for a service without needing to create a password at all. | Image: Apple
Apple’s upcoming iOS 15 and macOS Monterey will pr...
11:00 am - Fri, June 11, 2021
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The podcasting hype house from hell
How China’s biggest audio platform funded one man’s frat boy dreams
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10:01 am - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Elon Musk demos Cyberpunk 2077 on new Tesla infotainment system with PS5-level performance
Elon Musk teased that Tesla’s new Model S Plaid would be capable of running Cyberpunk 2077 earlier this year, and he’s now demonstrated the car’s “PS5-level performance...
09:42 am - Fri, June 11, 2021
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The red PS5 controller is a different red to the red Xbox Series X controller
While the PS5’s divisive two-tone design has led some to swap out large pieces of plastic for a more unified look, this month did at least see Sony release some official new ...
08:34 am - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Cyberpunk 2077 developer says its hacked data is circulating online
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Hacked data stolen from CD Projekt is circulating online, the company says. The studio behind Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 says it can not con...
05:05 am - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Tesla delivers the first 25 Model S Plaid sedans
A lucky 25 customers received Tesla’s redesigned Model S “Plaid” at an event hosted by CEO Elon Musk in Fremont, California on Thursday night.
The Silicon Valley automake...
01:06 am - Fri, June 11, 2021
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Frontier Communications is getting sued by record labels for not disconnecting pirates
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Frontier Communications, an ISP that serves around 3 million subscribers, has been sued by Warner, Sony, and Universal’s ...
12:49 am - Fri, June 11, 2021
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The Trump administration forced Apple to secretly reveal at least two Democrats data
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By now, you may have heard that Trump’s Department of Justice secretly seized the phone records of journalists working for The...
11:44 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Here are the best Kindle deals right now
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When it comes to finding a device to use to read your ebooks, you have a few options to choose from. You can always buy a ta...
11:43 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Disney and Starz are in a slap fight over the launch of Star
Disney is set to launch its standalone Star+ streaming service in Latin America in August, but Starz has filed complaints in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina alleging Disney is in...
11:22 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Xboxs Summer Game Fest event featuring more than 40 demos starts June 15th
A screenshot from Sable, launching September 23rd. | Image: Shedworks
Microsoft is hosting another Summer Game Fest event to give you a chance to play demos of some unr...
10:30 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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The best deals on true wireless earbuds right now
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When it comes to true wireless earbuds, there are a ton of brands and products to choose from. Whether you enjoy the unconventional d...
10:19 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Japanese Breakfast did a Simlish cover for The Sims 4 because nonsense never gets old
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Have you even made it as an artist if you’re not singing in a made up language for a Sims game? There’s a proud tradition of popu...
09:01 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Apple hires former Canoo CEO as it ramps up electric car project
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Ulrich Kranz, a former BMW executive and the recently departed CEO and co-founder of EV startup Canoo, has been hired by Apple, ...
08:52 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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How Joe Bidens order could be bad news for TikTok
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Last summer, former President Trump cast TikTok as the mascot for the US’s growing concerns over China when he signed a series...
08:39 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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A Lord of the Rings anime movie is headed to theaters
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New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers Animation are working on a new Lord of the Rings movie that’s bound for theaters, with an anime twist (via ...
07:45 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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A new Elden Ring gameplay trailer debuted at Summer Game Fest
Elden Ring, the long-awaited action RPG made in collaboration between FromSoftware and writer George R.R. Martin, has finally shown new signs of life. We got a surprise trailer...
07:45 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Watch the first gameplay trailer for Elden Ring, coming January 21st 2022
Elden Ring, the long-awaited action RPG made in collaboration between FromSoftware and writer George R.R. Martin, has finally shown new signs of life. We got a surprise trailer...
07:22 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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The best laptop you can buy in 2021
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The best laptops for you, from ultraportables to high-powered editing machines
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06:58 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Among Us is getting a hide and seek mode, visor cosmetics, and a fifth map
New crewmate colors are coming to Among Us. | Image: Innersloth
Among Us is getting a new hide and seek mode, visor cosmetics, achievements, and a fifth map, developer ...
06:37 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Uber offers to pay for drivers health insurance, and then yanks it away
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Uber mistakenly sent out an email to some of its drivers and delivery workers last ...
06:23 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Tiny Tinas Wonderlands is a fantasy game starring Andy Samberg and Wanda Sykes
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands hits early next year. | Image: Gearbox
Borderlands developer Gearbox and 2K Games announced a new fantasy shooter called Tiny Tina’s Wonderl...
06:22 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Death Stranding is getting a directors cut on PS5
Hideo Kojima stopped by this year’s Summer Game Fest to announce a surprise: Death Stranding is not only coming to the PS5, but it’ll be an enhanced director’s cut of the...
06:00 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Microsoft teases new Windows 11 startup sound with 11-minute video
Microsoft is back teasing Windows 11 again. In a new video on YouTube, the software giant has published an 11-minute (ahem) collection of startup sounds from various versions o...
05:47 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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EA got hit by a data breach, and hackers are selling source code
The upcoming Battlefield 2042 is powered by the Frostbite engine. | Image: EA
Motherboard is reporting that EA has fallen victim to hackers, who made away with the sour...
05:17 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Netflix just announced a huge slate of anime series and films
Netflix’s expansion into anime continues. Today, the streaming service announced details for a number of exciting shows, ranging from a horror series with characters designed...
04:34 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Dark Skys iOS app and website will shut down at the end of 2022
Dark Sky on the web.
Following Apple’s acquisition of popular weather app Dark Sky in March 2020, Dark Sky’s iOS app and website will be available until the end of ...
04:20 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Watch the first trailer for Netflixs Masters of the Universe: Revelation
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Our first look at Kevin Smith’s revival of He-Man is here: today, Netflix debuted the first trailer for Masters of the Universe: Revelation, which will...
04:00 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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How to watch the debut of Tesla Model S Plaid, the quickest production car ever made
Tesla will hold a delivery event for its new, high-performance “Plaid” version of the Model S on Thursday. It’s an effort by Elon Musk’s company to reignite interest in...
03:55 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Apples new health features bring new focus to elder care technology
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Apple’s new health features will be available for anyone with an iPhone. But two of the tools announced at WWDC 2021, walking steadiness and the ability to shar...
03:44 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Record labels sue Roblox for letting users upload pirated songs
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The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) has sued Roblox for letting users upload music from Ariana Grande, Imagine Dragons, deadmau5, and othe...
03:34 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Control is free on the Epic Games Store for one week
Remedy’s excellent supernatural thriller Control is available for free on the Epic Games Store from now until June 17th at 11AM ET. All you need is an Epic Games account — ...
03:25 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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The Hoover Dam reservoir is at an all-time low
A general view of Lake Mead, a human-made lake that lies on the Colorado River, about 24 miles southeast of the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the states of Nevada and Arizona, ...
02:29 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now
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Apple’s AirPods are among the most popular headphones on the market. Both the AirPods and Ai...
02:20 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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OnePlus updates its midrange Nord with new processor and a headphone jack
The OnePlus Nord CE 5G will be available in black, blue, and silver. | Image: OnePlus
OnePlus has announced a new addition to its lineup of midrange phones, the Nord CE...
02:05 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Inside the cryptocurrency scam vortex
Illustration by Maria Chimishkyan
On May 22nd, a crypto finance project called DeFi100 posted a message to its website: “We scammed you guys and you can’t do shit a...
02:00 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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How to watch the Summer Game Fests Kickoff Live event
Summer Game Fest
Summer Game Fest 2021, hosted by Geoff Keighley, is getting started with new game announcements two days ahead of E3 2021 with its “Kickoff Live” e...
01:24 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Rokus 4K HDR-ready Ultra is $69 at multiple retailers
The Roku Ultra 4K HDR streaming device is $30 off at Walmart, Best Buy, and Amazon today, which drops the price to $69. This is currently Roku’s high-end model, and it appare...
01:13 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can
The algorithms were used to design an upcoming version of Google’s TPU chips. Pictured above is TPUv2, announced in 2017. | Image: Google
Google is using machine lea...
01:10 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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How to set up a VPN
Illustration by Maria Chimishkyan
Virtual private networks (VPNs) can offer an additional layer of security and privacy for your online activity. Whether you’re worki...
01:05 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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The best features of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that Apple didnt announce onstage
He didn’t tell you everything.
Apple had its WWDC keynote on Monday, where it showed off the big new features coming to its platforms, but it didn’t have time to sh...
01:00 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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The best wireless earbuds to buy right now
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Whether you’re looking for an everyday pair or something for fitness, these are the best picks
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01:00 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Microsoft announces Xbox TV app and its own xCloud streaming stick
Microsoft is working with TV manufacturers to make an Xbox app available on devices soon. The software giant is planning to bring its Xbox Game Pass service to TVs through its ...
01:00 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Waymo teams up with trucker JB Hunt on autonomous freight hauling in Texas
Waymo’s autonomous trucking unit got a boost with the announcement that it would be teaming up with JB Hunt Transport Services, a 56-year-old company based in Arkansas. The t...
01:00 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Microsofts Xbox Series X is about to make xCloud gaming much faster
Microsoft is making some significant upgrades to its Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) service in the next few weeks. The Xbox cloud streaming service will be moving to Xbox Series X ...
12:00 pm - Thu, June 10, 2021
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With iCloud Plus, Apples privacy promise is paired with an upsell
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Some privacy may be paywalled
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11:31 am - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Google is fighting back against exploitative, slanderous websites
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Google is updating its search algorithms to prevent sites from filling search results with unproven slanderous claims about indi...
10:11 am - Thu, June 10, 2021
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This $2,700 robot dog will carry a single bottle of water for you
Boston Dynamics isn’t the only company that makes futuristic quadrupedal robots. Chinese firm Unitree Robotics has also been at it for years, and this week revealed its lates...
09:22 am - Thu, June 10, 2021
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iOS 4 has been lovingly recreated as an iPhone app
OldOS app on an iPhone. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge.
iOS 4 originally appeared nearly 10 years ago as Apple’s first mobile operating system to drop the iPhone O...
05:22 am - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Samsung pushes pixel size even further with new camera sensor
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Samsung has announced a new image sensor for smartphone cameras that it says has the smallest pixels in the industry. The ISOCELL J...
01:00 am - Thu, June 10, 2021
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Sony announces the $9,000 professional drone it teased at CES
Sony is now fully revealing its Airpeak S1 drone, which it teased at CES 2021 in January. The announcement contains a lot more detail on the drone’s capabilities, features, a...
11:21 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Bitcoin will soon be an official currency in El Salvador
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El Salvador has passed a resolution to make Bitcoin a legal currency, which makes it the first country to do so (via The Guardia...
10:43 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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SpaceXs Starlink is in talks with several airlines for in-flight Wi-Fi
Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
The team behind SpaceX’s growing satellite internet network Starlink is in talks with “...
10:09 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Say goodbye to the Keystone XL pipeline, for real this time
Crews work on a right of way for the Keystone XL pipeline near Oyen, Alberta, Canada, on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. U.S. President Joe Biden revoked the permit for TC Energy Cor...
09:38 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Watch the first five minutes of Netflixs Philippine folklore anime Trese
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Netflix has released the first five minutes of its upcoming anime series Trese, which is based on the Philippine horror comic of the same name. In the cl...
08:01 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Apple may have accidentally confirmed the existence of an M1X MacBook Pro
Not the new MacBook Pro, but it does have ports that are tipped to return!
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote came and went this year without a new MacBo...
07:50 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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How to sign up for Amazon Prime
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Amazon has announced that its annual Prime Day sales are scheduled for Monday, June 21st and Tuesday, June 22nd; and if you feel...
07:40 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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The best deals on MacBooks right now
MacBook Air (late-2020).
With multiple configurations and various models to choose from, including some equipped with Apple’s new M1 processor, finding a deal on a Ma...
07:00 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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The creator economy is running into the Apple Tax this startup is fighting back
The logo for Fanhouse, a platform that lets creators charge for access to a private social feed. | Image: Fanhouse
Apple is clashing with the platform Fanhouse over whe...
06:38 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Former VW, Audi bosses to pay Volkswagen millions over Dieselgate
Volkswagen will receive around $350 million as part of a settlement with executives who ran the company during the Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal, after claiming they br...
06:18 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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The Senate just advanced the beef between SpaceX and Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos, left, and Elon Musk. | Philip Pacheco and Jim Watson/Getty Images
A controversial amendment pushed by Jeff Bezos’ space firm Blue Origin passed the Senate...
05:30 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Overwatch is getting cross-platform play on PC and console
Overwatch launched in 2016, but it’s getting a significant feature soon. Blizzard Entertainment is releasing a cross-play beta that will let PC and console gamers play in mat...
05:26 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras, heart rate monitor
Facebook is working on its first smartwatch (note: this is not a mockup). | Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge
Facebook is taking a novel approach to its firs...
05:06 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Some of macOS Montereys best features arent coming to Intel Macs
You won’t be able to see Apple Maps’ new globe view on an Intel-based Mac. | Image: Apple
Apple’s next big macOS update, macOS Monterey, adds a bunch of good-look...
05:02 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Stranger Things is getting a companion podcast and Magic: The Gathering cards
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We still don’t know when Stranger Things 4 is coming, but today, Netflix revealed a few interesting projects to help fans deal with the wait. For start...
05:00 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Android 12 Beta 2 has a new way of managing Wi-Fi connections
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Google has announced that it is rolling out the second beta for Android 12 to Pixel phones today....
04:55 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Apple Podcasts says itll launch in-app subscriptions globally on June 15th
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After some major hiccups and a delay, Apple Podcasts says it’s launching in-app subscriptions next week. The global launch of ...
04:37 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Three Magic Leap executives are reportedly leaving the company
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Three top Magic Leap executives — chief technology officer Paul Greco, chief operating officer Henk Vlietstra, and chief patent off...
03:15 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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New iPhone Health app feature gives doctors easier access to data
iPhone users will be able to share their Health app data directly with doctors. | Image: Apple
People with smartphones and wearable devices regularly show up to the doc...
03:10 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Battlefield 2042 features giant 128-player battles and devastating tornadoes
The next Battlefield is coming this fall — and it appears to be bringing plenty of mayhem. At an event today, EA revealed Battlefield 2042, the latest entry in Dice’s long-...
03:00 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Apple Musics spatial audio is sometimes amazing but mostly inconsistent
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At launch, it’s a very hit or miss experience
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02:30 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Garmin Venu 2 review: sports and style
The Venu 2 straddles the line between a lifestyle accessory and dedicated sport watch
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02:30 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Is there any way out of Clearviews facial recognition database?
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In March 2020, two months after The New York Times exposed that Clearview AI had scraped billions of images from the internet to creat...
02:00 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Biden revokes Trump bans on TikTok and WeChat
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President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday revoking the Trump-era bans on TikTok and WeChat. In place of the Trum...
01:37 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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The Apple Watch Series 6 is $70 off
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The latest Apple Watch model is $70 off at Best Buy, Walmart, and Amazon. You can buy the Apple Watch Series 6 in the color of your ch...
01:30 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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How to use a two-factor security key
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Two-factor authentication is a good way to add an extra layer of security to online accounts. It requires the use of your smartphone, ...
01:21 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Fastly claims single customer responsible for widespread internet outage
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The Fastly content delivery network (CDN) — a major middleman in internet traffic — took a nap for around an hour early Tuesday morn...
01:00 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti review: a loss to AMD
A solid 1440p card, but only entry-level 4K
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01:00 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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The classic Simpsons arcade cabinet is getting rereleased thanks to Arcade1Up
Arcade1Up’s The Simpsons arcade machine. | Image: Arcade1Up
The Simpsons arcade game, a classic four-player brawler that I personally spent an untold amount of quarte...
01:00 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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The Moto G Stylus 5G is a step-up version of our favorite budget stylus phone
The Moto G Stylus 5G features a 6.8-inch screen and a large 5,000mAh battery. | Image: Motorola
Motorola has announced the Moto G Stylus 5G, a new version of its very g...
12:48 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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How to install the developer beta of iOS 15
In its much-anticipated WWDC session on Monday, June 7th, Apple introduced a load of new features for its upcoming update of its iOS mobile operating system: iOS 15. The develo...
12:30 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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We spoke to Tom Hiddleston about Loki, PowerPoint presentations, and the nature of free will
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A brief chat with the star of Marvel’s latest streaming series
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12:00 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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The pandemic might cut down e-waste but widen the digital divide
Scrap dealers retrieve copper from discarded electric and computer cables to sell at a roadside stall in Mumbai on March 21, 2021. | Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP via Getty I...
12:00 pm - Wed, June 9, 2021
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TikTok hired some of its best animators for an anti-bullying campaign
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Starting today, you might see some beautiful...
11:12 am - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Kabutos giant smart suitcase announced for Hot Vax Summer
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Smart luggage maker Kabuto is now selling a 95L Trunk with magnetically attachable Backpack that itself ...
09:52 am - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Google will stop charging search providers for chance to be Android default in Europe
The screen will now show up to 12 providers. | Image: Google
Google is changing how its Android search engine choice screen works in Europe, following complaints from r...
07:49 am - Wed, June 9, 2021
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HBO Max update fixes the worst of its Apple TV woes
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HBO Max has updated its Apple TV app as it attempts to fix the myriad issues that have been plaguing the software since last we...
07:00 am - Wed, June 9, 2021
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The Vivaldi browser now has mail, calendar, and an RSS reader built-in
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Vivaldi users will now be able to check their email, calendar, and RSS feeds all through the browser’s built-in tools: the 4.0 release is launching tod...
06:08 am - Wed, June 9, 2021
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OnePlus to launch stripped-down Nord CE 5G this week
The OnePlus Nord CE 5G. | OnePlus via TechRadar
OnePlus is planning to announce a new budget smartphone called the Nord CE 5G this week. TechRadar has a render of the d...
01:09 am - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Googles first folding Pixel is apparently still on track for a 2021 reveal
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Google may have shied away from a Pixel Watch, but a Pixel Fold still very much seems to be on the way — fol...
12:44 am - Wed, June 9, 2021
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HBO Max has been busted for days
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If you’ve attempted to stream something on HBO Max from an Apple TV sometime during the last several days, you may have notice...
12:00 am - Wed, June 9, 2021
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Will Apple end the newsletter boom?
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Today, let’s talk about one of Apple’s many announcements this week at its Worldwide Developer Conference, which some see as...
10:35 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Senate approves billions for US semiconductor manufacturing
After months of political jockeying and procedural hurdles, the Senate approved a massive science and technology bill Tuesday to boost US competitiveness with China. The bill i...
08:52 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Apple brought back the beloved magnifying glass for selecting text in iOS 15
Apple’s text selection magnifying glass has reappeared in the iOS 15 beta, and Apple’s own site confirms its return by listing it as a feature. Bringing the feature back is...
08:46 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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The IRS wants more authority to collect data on cryptocurrencies
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The Internal Revenue Service asked Congress for more authority to request reporting on the transactions of cryptocurrency exchan...
08:22 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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The US wants to fix its broken lithium battery supply chain
This photo taken on March 12, 2021 shows workers at a factory for Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery Co. Ltd, which makes lithium batteries for electric cars and other uses, in...
07:45 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Google TV just got a much cheaperstreamingoption for its live TV guide
An image of the Google Chromecast, the best streaming stick of 2021 for most people, resting on a soundbar. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
Google TV, which offers o...
07:26 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Googles password-protected photos feature is arriving on newer Pixels
Put in the Locked Folder for puppy crimes (being too cute). | Image: Google
Google’s Locked Folder feature, which allows you to password-protect specific images or vi...
07:12 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15, and that rules
The iPhone 6S and 6S Plus arrived in September 2015 running iOS 9.
The iPhone 6S will turn six years old this September, an eternity in phone years. If you’ve managed...
07:04 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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How to use Screen Time to keep your iPhone use within healthy limits
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We all spend a lot of time on our phones, and it’s possible — just possible — that some of us spend too much time. In 2018, we ...
05:19 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Microsoft is getting back into physical retail sort of
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Microsoft is returning to selling products at brick-and-mortar stores, kind of. The software giant will start selling products at its �...
05:00 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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The FBI secretly launched an encrypted messaging system for criminals
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An encrypted phone service called Anom was secretly run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a yearslong internation...
05:00 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Clubhouse and its clones have anaccessibilityproblem
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Clubhouse took off last year and spurred competitors to add their own voice chat rooms that can host hundreds if not thousands o...
04:57 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Netflixs live-action take on Cowboy Bebop is coming this fall
Netflix has announced that the long-awaited live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop will premiere this fall. The science fiction, noir, and Western-infused bounty hunting series...
04:47 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Instagram chief explains how the service decides what you see
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Instagram chief Adam Mosseri shed some light on how the social network decides what you see in a new blog post published on Tues...
04:22 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Aqara M2 ecosystem review: a smart home for less
Why spend more?
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04:20 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Playdate preorders begin next month, and here are the first games
Panic has announced that the Playdate, its $179 handheld console with a crank and a black-and-white screen, will be available to preorder in July with shipping starting later i...
04:18 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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macOS and tvOS are getting spatial audio support with the AirPods Pro and Max
Apple is extending support for spatial audio to macOS and tvOS. The feature will work with the company’s high-end AirPods Pro and AirPods Max, using the devices’ built-in a...
04:00 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Sony WF-1000XM4 review: a sonic triumph
Sony’s new earbuds deliver on sound, battery life, and beat all comers at noise cancellation
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04:00 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Lokis first two episodes are a blast
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A promising start for the trickster’s debut on Disney Plus
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04:00 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Sony announces WF-1000XM4 noise-canceling earbuds with LDAC and IPX4 water resistance
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After a few weeks of leaks, Sony has today formally announced its latest flagship true wireless earbuds. The new WF-1000XM4 earbuds cost $279.99, and the pr...
03:00 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Azio Izo wireless mechanical keyboard review: form over function
Azio’s latest keyboard looks the part but struggles with the basics
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03:00 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Lock it down
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There are a lot of ways things can go wrong online. Password databases get breached, personal data gets leaked, and trackers pop up wh...
03:00 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Microsoft Outlook for iOS now lets you use your voice to write emails and more
Microsoft is adding voice capabilities to its Outlook mobile app that will let people write emails, schedule meetings, and search using their voice. The new Cortana-powered voi...
03:00 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Samsung has given its smart home app SmartThings a fresh interface
Samsung has updated the user interface for its smart home app SmartThings, replacing the slightly muted color scheme of the old app — full of grays and earth tones — with a...
02:42 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Apple came this close to bringing back the away message
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Apple has a habit of, if not innovating outright, then at least presenting the most polished version of existing ideas. Its Universal Control, ...
02:30 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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How to make your offline self harder to find online
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You can’t wipe all your info off the internet — but you can make it less available
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02:00 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is next-gen Uncharted by way of Pixar
The PS5 gets a family-friendly blockbuster
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01:30 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Ten years of breaches in one image
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Nearly 8 billion usernames have leaked since June 2011
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01:29 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Razers Kishi for Android is cheaper than ever
It can fit almost any Android phone, aside from the Galaxy S20 Ultra. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge
The Razer Kishi is one of the best mobile controllers out ...
01:01 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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The next generation of startups is remote
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Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel on startups after the pandemic
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01:00 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Adobe launches M1 Mac-native versions of Lightroom Classic and more
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Adobe is now shipping new versions of more Creative Cloud apps that run natively on Apple silicon Macs. Lightroom Classic, Illus...
01:00 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Amazons new Echo Show 8 is a little faster and has a better camera
Still the best Alexa smart display
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12:05 pm - Tue, June 8, 2021
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How Universal Control on macOS Monterey works
The best moment of this year’s WWDC keynote was a straightforward demo of a macOS feature, Universal Control. The idea is simple enough: it allows you to use the keyboard and...
10:57 am - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Huge web outage takes Reddit, Twitch, and other big sites offline for an hour
A huge global web outage swept across the internet this morning, taking out popular sites including Amazon, Twitch, and Reddit. The outages started at around 5:30AM ET, with a ...
10:00 am - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Waabi, the rare autonomous vehicle startup with a woman CEO, raises $83.5 million
Waabi is a new autonomous vehicle startup with a few things going for it to help it rise above the fray.
For one, it’s founded by Raquel Urtasun, a renowned expert in comput...
08:43 am - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Fortnite season 7 has Superman, flying saucers, and a virtual influencer
As expected, aliens have invaded Fortnite’s battle royale island. The game’s latest season — Chapter 2: Season 7 — is called “Invasion,” and it’s just kicked off ...
08:34 am - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Apples privacy-focused Private Relay feature isnt coming to China
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Apple’s new Private Relay feature, which is designed to obscure users’ browsing data and protect their privacy, won’t be a...
02:26 am - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Apple Music begins rolling out lossless streaming and Dolby Atmos spatial audio
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Apple Music has flipped the switch on its previously announced lossless-quality streaming and spatial audio features. Starting n...
01:16 am - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Watch Apples Siri blaze through requests with on-device processing
During the privacy segment of WWDC, Apple talked about moving Siri’s processing from the cloud onto your device, using the “Neural Engine” built into Apple silicon. While...
12:30 am - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Amazon Prime employees allege gender inequality and workplace harassment
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A new report citing an internal letter to Amazon’s human resources department alleges mistreatment of women within Amazon’s Prime...
12:25 am - Tue, June 8, 2021
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Apple may have done the coolest drag and drop demo ever
At today’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple showed off its new version of macOS, and with it a feature called Universal Control, which lets you use your Mac’s mouse o...
11:46 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apples new App Store guidelines put scammers and bounty hunters on notice
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Apple has just updated its App Store Guidelinesd, the document that tells iPhone and iPa that tell iPhone and iPad developers w...
10:04 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Here are the best Apple Watch deals right now
The Series 6 is one of many Apple Watches currently on sale ahead of Prime Day. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
Thinking about picking up a new Apple Watch? It’s ...
08:33 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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FuboTVs fantastic live TV streaming service finally arrives on LG TVs
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FuboTV, one of the best over-the-top services for sports enthusiasts, is finally arriving on newer LG Smart TVs.
While the app was already available on many s...
08:11 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Here are the devices that can run iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey, and watchOS 8
You’ll get some fancy, new features, if you have the right devices.
Apple announced iOS 15, macOS Monterey, watchOS 8, and iPadOS 15 software at WWDC 2021. The public...
07:45 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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MoviePass settles with FTC over fraud and data security failures
On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission charged the executives of the long-defunct MoviePass app over allegations that they fraudulently blocked customers from using the servic...
07:01 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements
Apple just wrapped up its WWDC 2021 keynote, and it was jam-packed with news and announcements, including our first looks at iOS 15, the new macOS Monterey, big improvements to...
06:39 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apple introduces Siri for third-party devices
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Siri is finally coming to third-party devices. Apple announced at its WWDC keynote that HomeKit accessory makers will be able to integrate Siri voice control into...
06:33 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apple lets users see family members Health data
Apple will let people share the data from their Health app with family members or others, the company announced. It’s one of a new slate of health features for iPhone.
With ...
06:26 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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macOS Monterey lets you run Shortcuts and share input and files between Macs and iPads
Apple has announced the next version of macOS at its WWDC keynote, after showing off iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS.
The company is promising even more interoperability with iOS, inc...
06:26 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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macOS Monterey lets you run Shortcuts and share files between Macs and iPads
Apple has announced the next version of macOS at its WWDC keynote, after showing off iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS. It’s calling it Monterey, in keeping the California location-ba...
06:11 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apple announces watchOS 8 with new health features
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Apple has just announced watchOS 8, the latest version of the company’s smartwatch platform for the Apple Watch. The new software succeeds last year’s ...
06:07 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apple adds welcome privacy features to Mail, Safari
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Apple has always stressed user privacy as part of its core mission. At its WWDC 2021 event, it announced it would be adding a spate of powerful new functions to M...
06:07 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apples iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and HomeKit camera storage
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Apple is amping up iCloud with a new set of features called iCloud Plus. The cloud storage service will now come with access to a VPN, burner email address...
06:07 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apples Siri will finally work without an internet connection with on-device speech recognition
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Apple’s digital assistant Siri will process audio on-device by default in iOS 15, meaning you will be able to use the feature ...
05:52 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apple is making AirPods easier to hear with and find
Apple has announced that AirPods will be getting some quality-of-life improvements with iOS 15, including the ability to boost the sound of people talking to you, better Find M...
05:46 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Youll soon be able to use your iPhone as ID at the airport
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Apple has announced a forthcoming update to its Wallet app that will allow you to use your iPhone as digital identification in US airports. The company sho...
05:40 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apple announces iPadOS 15 with homescreen and multitasking improvements
Widgets can be placed anywhere on the home screen in iPadOS 15. | Image: Apple
Weeks after introducing its most powerful iPad Pro devices ever, Apple is today announcin...
05:38 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apple previews iOS 15 at WWDC 2021
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As expected, Apple offered a preview of iOS 15 at today’s WWDC 2021 keynote, highlighting some changes coming to FaceTime and ...
05:35 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apples Live Text is going to read all the text in all your photos with AI
Apple has announced a new feature called Live Text, which will digitize the text in all your photos. This unlocks a slew of handy functions, from turning handwritten notes into...
05:26 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apple is building video and music sharing into FaceTime
Apple is bringing video and music sharing to FaceTime through a feature it’s calling SharePlay. Using SharePlay, people will be able to watch or listen to content in sync wit...
05:15 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
FaceTime on the web on the oldest-looking Android device Apple could reasonably use. | Image: Apple
Android and Windows users will finally be able to join FaceTime call...
05:13 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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CO2 levels are at an all-time high again
06 June 2021, Schleswig-Holstein, Travemünde: A ferry emits exhaust fumes from a smokestack. | Photo by Daniel Reinhardt/picture alliance via Getty Images
Not even a ...
04:57 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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OnePlus confirms N200 5G details including 90Hz screen and sub-$250 price
OnePlus has confirmed the N200 5G for North America, and has revealed a few key specs like a 90Hz screen to PCMag. | Image: OnePlus
OnePlus recently confirmed that it w...
04:29 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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WWDC 2021: the latest news from Apples annual developer conference
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What’s new in the Apple ecosystem?
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04:00 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Google Stadia is coming to Chromecast with Google TV and Android TV on June 23rd
Google is expanding the availability of its Stadia game streaming service to more TVs and streaming devices later this month. The first version of Stadia on Chromecast with Goo...
03:00 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Loki is a chance for Disney Plus to escape the shadow of Marvel blockbusters
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Loki, the one-time Marvel villain played for over a decade now by Tom Hiddleston, is on the verge of starring in his own series. Instead of p...
02:22 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Eero 6 mesh Wi-Fi routers are cheaper than ever for Prime members
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Amazon is gearing up for Prime Day 2021 — which is happening on Monday, June 21st, and Tuesday, June 22nd — by releasing some teaser deals for Prime mem...
02:07 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Samsung shows off stretchable OLED screen in prototype heart rate monitor
Samsung’s prototype heart rate monitor with stretchable OLED display. | Image Samsung / SAIT
We’ve had curved displays for a while now, but what about stretchy one...
12:33 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Realmes Snapdragon 888 flagship is coming to Europe for 549
The Realme GT, Realme’s Snapdragon 888-equipped flagship phone, is coming to Europe and will sell for €549 (about $670) for a model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, a...
12:00 pm - Mon, June 7, 2021
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How to watch Apples WWDC 2021 keynote
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Apple’s hosting its second all-virtual Worldwide Developers Conference this year, and it seems like the company plans to squeeze in even more hardware an...
11:13 am - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Jeff Bezos will fly to the edge of space with his brother next month
Jeff Bezos is headed into space, and he’s taking his brother with him.
The Amazon CEO announced the news via a video on Instagram (below). In it, he says he and his brother ...
11:00 am - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apple isnt just a walled garden, its a carrier
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The return of the Angry God of ARPU
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10:43 am - Mon, June 7, 2021
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YouTubes TikTok competitor Shorts will soon let users sample audio from any YouTube video
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Being able to sample audio from other users’ videos is one of TikTok’s greatest strengths. It allows memes to percolate across the platform and lets ...
10:13 am - Mon, June 7, 2021
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First official images of Honor 50 look weirdly like Huaweis P50
Honor has released a couple of official images for its upcoming 50 series smartphone via its Weibo page and Twitter. The images focus on the rear of the phone, showing an eye-c...
09:15 am - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Dell sued over Alienware laptops unprecedented upgradeability claims
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Dell is being sued in California over its claims that its Alienware Area-51m R1 laptop would offer “unprecedented upgradeability,”...
07:49 am - Mon, June 7, 2021
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Apple apparently has a spatial audio event right after todays WWDC keynote
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Apple appears to have planned a dedicated event on Apple Music’s upcoming spatial audio feature for later today. According to a video...
10:13 pm - Sun, June 6, 2021
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Elon Musk tweets that Teslas Plaid Plus is canceled because Plaid is just so good
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that the automaker’s Model S Plaid Plus is “canceled,” since the basic Plaid is “just so good.”
Tesla has been teasing its Model S...
09:43 pm - Sun, June 6, 2021
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NASAs Juno probe will get close to Jupiters moon Ganymede on Monday
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07:13 pm - Sun, June 6, 2021
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Twitter may be close to launching Super Follows, as new research shows what it could look like
A mockup of what Twitter Super Follows could look like | Twitter
Twitter announced earlier this year it was working on a Super Follows feature that would allow some use...
04:39 pm - Sun, June 6, 2021
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Apple heads into developer conference under more scrutiny than ever
Apple needs a distraction, and it needs one fast.
On Monday, the company will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2021) during one of the most fraught moment...
04:39 pm - Sun, June 6, 2021
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New trailers: Roadrunner, Black Widow, Reminiscence
A trailer for the new documentary about the late Anthony Bourdain, Roadrunner, is among this week’s titles. | Photo by Mike Pont/WireImage
It hit me this morning that...
01:00 pm - Sun, June 6, 2021
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Fossil doesnt plan to upgrade its existing watches to the new Wear OS
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Fossil executives Greg McKelvey and Steve Prokup said in an interview with CNET that the company’s existing Wear OS watches won’t get upgraded to the new com...
08:44 pm - Sat, June 5, 2021
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Twitter blocked in Nigeria after deleting a tweet by its president
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Twitter is suspended “indefinitely” in Nigeria, “for the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining...
08:25 pm - Sat, June 5, 2021
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Justice Department has charged a Latvian woman it says helped develop Trickbot malware
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The US Department of Justice has charged a Latvian woman for her role in allegedly developing the Trickbot malware, which was re...
06:55 pm - Sat, June 5, 2021
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Square will invest $5 million to build solar-powered bitcoin mining facility
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Financial services firm Square Inc. will partner with blockchain technolo...
05:20 pm - Sat, June 5, 2021
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India reportedly warns Twitter of unintended consequences if it fails to follow new rules
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India’s government has told Twitter it could face “unintended consequences” if it fails to comply with the country’s new...
04:18 pm - Sat, June 5, 2021
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Hackers reportedly used a compromised password in Colonial Pipeline cyberattack
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An analysis of the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline found that the hackers were able to access the company’s network using a compromised VPN password, Bl...
03:16 pm - Sat, June 5, 2021
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Cruise gets permit from California to provide passenger test rides in driverless vehicles
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The California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) said Friday (pdf) it has authorized General Motors-owned self-...
03:00 pm - Sat, June 5, 2021
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The FBI is trying to get IP addresses and phone numbers of people who read a USA Today article
The FBI is trying to get a list of IP addresses, phone numbers, and other information on people who read a USA Today article about the deaths of two of its agents (via Politico...
02:00 pm - Sat, June 5, 2021
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Memorials to honor COVID-19 dead begin to take shape
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How can we possibly memorialize the brutal toll of...
01:58 pm - Sat, June 5, 2021
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Twitter blocked in Nigeria after deleting a tweet by its president
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Twitter is suspended “indefinitely” in Nigeria, “for the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining...
01:00 pm - Sat, June 5, 2021
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The Supreme Court pared down a controversial anti-hacking law
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The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a controversial anti-hacking law which bans “exceeding authorized access” on a comput...
01:00 pm - Sat, June 5, 2021
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This useful GorillaPod tripod is $30 off
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This week’s best deals are all over the place, but in a good w...
10:00 am - Sat, June 5, 2021
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Where did the microchip vaccine conspiracy theory come from anyway?
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How an innocuous Reddit thread mutated into a dangerous, viral lie
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01:16 am - Sat, June 5, 2021
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Microsoft says Bings Tank Man censorship was a human error
On Microsoft’s search engine Bing, searching for “Tank Man,” the iconic figure from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in China, turned up no image results in the United ...
12:41 am - Sat, June 5, 2021
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Apple employees push back against returning to the office in internal letter
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Apple employees are pushing back against a new policy that would require them to return to the office three days a week starting...
09:40 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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TikTok says the repeat removal of the intersex hashtag was a mistake
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Pidgeon Pagonis, an intersex activist, noticed last week that the #intersex hashtag wasn’t working on TikTok. They couldn’t ...
08:42 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Nvidia and Valve are bringing DLSS to Linux
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Linux gamers using Valve’s Proton compatibility tool to run Windows games will be getting a performance upgrade in the future: Nvidia ...
08:16 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Heres why you cant use the Siri Remotes best feature on Disney Plus and other apps
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Apple’s new Siri Remote introduced a gesture that makes it easy to scrub through content b...
07:50 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Jack Dorsey would rather give you a bitcoin wallet than Twitter features worth paying for
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Twitter Blue — the social network’s first subscription product that adds an undo button to tweets among other minor addition...
05:47 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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T-Mobile employee files suit after HR asked invasive questions about her OnlyFans account
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A sales rep at a T-Mobile store in Fort Worth, Texas has filed a gender discrimination suit against the company after a member o...
05:10 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Alienware M15 R5 Ryzen Edition review: the right parts at a high price
Long battery life, fast performance, questionable value
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04:57 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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The pandemic was the bloodiest year for driving in over a decade
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Road deaths jumped 7.2 percent in 2020 from the year before, hitting a 13-year high, even though people weren’t...
04:57 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Go read this story about why its time to scrap racist bird names
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Some 150 birds named for people t...
04:49 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Facebook gives Trump a 2-year suspension, changes rules for politicians
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Facebook has extended former President Donald Trump’s indefinite ban into a two-year suspension that will end January 7th, 202...
04:41 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Tinder will start letting you block people by their phone number
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Tinder is finally letting you avoid all your exes, friends, colleagues, relatives, and anyone else you might not want to run into on a dating app. The com...
04:00 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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The tiny Playdate handheld gets a price bump but double the games
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Panic is finally sharing some more information about its delayed Playdate, the tiny yellow handheld with a crank. The quirky little gadg...
04:00 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Twitch chats are about to get more chaotic with animated emotes
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Twitch is announcing some big updates to emotes on Friday, including that animated emotes will soon be available on the live-str...
03:13 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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COVID-19 hospitalization rates in adolescents went up during March and April
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In March and April, when COVID-19 vaccinations were starting to keep older adults out of the hospital,...
03:13 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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iOS 14 basics: how to quit an app on your iPhone
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Even iOS apps occasionally misbehave — they can crash, or freeze, or otherwise stop working. If you’re new to iOS, or just haven�...
02:54 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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TikTok updates US privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (but wont explain what they are)
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TikTok has updated its privacy policy in the US to notify users that the app might, in future, collect new types of biometric in...
02:32 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Vergecast: This week in operating systems
Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors c...
02:30 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Netflixs Sweet Tooth makes the end of the world a little cozier
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Gus may have antlers like a deer, but he’s a puppy dog at heart. The main character of Netflix’s new series Sweet Tooth, based on ...
01:33 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Apples AirPods Max are $30 off at Amazon
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Apple’s over-ear AirPods Max are $30 less than usual at Amazon and Best Buy today. Normally $549, every color option is $520 (Best Buy has most, but not ...
01:00 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Apple WWDC 2021: iOS 15, new MacBook Pros, and what else to expect
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Apple’s annual developer extravaganza, the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), is coming up fast, kicking off wi...
12:58 pm - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Bidens proposed budget keeps a block on recreational weed sales in Washington, DC
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A rider that has effectively blocked recreational cannabis for years in Washington, DC appears in President Joe Biden’s proposed...
10:32 am - Fri, June 4, 2021
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EU and UK open antitrust investigations into Facebook Marketplace
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The European Commission and UK regulators have opened antitrust investigations into Facebook over concerns its Marketplace servi...
08:28 am - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Apples new TV remote is great, but only when apps properly support it
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Users are complaining that the Disney Plus and HBO Max Apple TV apps aren’t properly supporting the excellent new Siri Remote. Disney...
07:11 am - Fri, June 4, 2021
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A very sus chicken nugget shaped like an Among Us crewmate sells for $99,997 on eBay
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After an intense, dayslong bidding war, a single McDonald’s chicken nugget shaped like one of the Among Us crewmates has just sold f...
06:31 am - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Taito announces mini arcade cabinet with rotating screen and trackball controller
Taito is the latest Japanese video game publisher to resurrect old hardware in mini form. The company behind Space Invaders, Bubble Bobble, and many more arcade classics has ju...
04:33 am - Fri, June 4, 2021
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Apples next iPad Pro has wireless charging and a glass back: report
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Apple is working on a new version of the iPad Pro with wireless charging, according to a new report in Bloomberg. To accommodate the t...
10:02 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Climate tech is about to fly commercial
Hiring private contractors to sample greenhouse gases from the air is an important aspect of NOAA’s climate research. Here, Paolo Wilczak pilots a sampling flight over southe...
08:29 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Google confirms diversity exec no longer in role after problematic post
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One of Google’s top executives in diversity strategy and research has left his post after a 2007 blog post slamming the state ...
08:23 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban
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Facebook plans to end its controversial policy that mostly shields politicians from the content moderation rules that apply to o...
08:01 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Apple is updating AirTags to make them less creepy
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Apple is distributing an AirTags software update that makes it harder for people to use them for surreptitious tracking, CNET reports....
07:52 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Joe Biden signs order banning US investment in Chinese surveillance companies
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President Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday expanding a Trump-era ban on Americans investing in Chinese companies with pur...
07:12 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Paramount Plus will launch its cheaper $5 plan next week
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Paramount Plus is set to introduce a new ad-supported plan on Monday that will cost just $5 per month — half the price of it...
06:35 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Biden administration makes $1 billion in grants available for broadband on tribal lands
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The Biden administration will make $1 billion in grants available to expand broadband access and adoption on tribal lands, ...
06:11 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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The pandemic showed that Big Tech isnt a public health savior
Public health takes a village, not a tech campus
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06:08 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Ford delays Mustang Mach-E deliveries in the UK due to safety risk
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Deliveries of Ford’s first long-range electric vehicle, the Mustang Mach-E, in the United Kingdom are on hold after a “safety ris...
05:30 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Nanoleafs light-up wall panels now look like wood accent pieces
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Nanoleaf, the company best known for illuminated panels that you stick to your wall, has announced the new Nanoleaf El...
05:00 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Chrome will soon warn you when you might not want to trust an extension
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Google is rolling out new safety features for Chrome which are designed to make i...
04:57 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Steam now lets developers team up on game bundles
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Valve has started letting developers team up to create bundles on the Steam gaming storefront. It outlined the new “DIY collab...
04:00 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Google Pixel Buds A-Series review: price is everything
The $99 Pixel Buds are a better buy than their pricier predecessors
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04:00 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Google announces $99 Pixel Buds A-Series
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As usual for Google hardware, the new Pixel Buds A-Series have already been extensively leaked, and the company even tweeted about them prematurely. But t...
03:35 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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United Airlines is buying 15 supersonic aircraft from Boom Supersonic
United Airlines has agreed to purchase 15 supersonic aircraft from Boom Supersonic, with an option to increase that order to 35 jets, the companies announced Thursday. That agr...
03:35 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Have autonomous robots started killing in war? The reality is messier than it appears
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It’s the sort of thing that can almo...
03:05 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Satechis iPad Pro hub will let you pretend its a real desktop
Complete your minimalist desk setup with this gadget
The latest gadget from Satechi is both a stand and a USB-C hub made for the 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models t...
03:00 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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How to watch E3 2021
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After being canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, E3 is back for 2021 in an all-digital format, kicking off on June 1...
02:30 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition review: an AMD powerhouse
The Strix G15 punches above its price
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02:26 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Nintendo Switch console bundles are discounted at eBay
At eBay, the highly rated seller Antonline is listing two Switch bundles that are a little more affordable than it’d be to purchase each of the included items separately. Sta...
02:00 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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How to turn Zooms audio notifications on or off
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When somebody comes to your door — not a virtual door, your real door — and wants to get your attention, they usually ring the do...
02:00 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Fortnite is getting updated visuals on PC alongside season 7 launch
Fortnite is getting a visual boost on PC very soon. As part of the upcoming Chapter 2: Season 7, which will launch on June 8th, the PC version of the game is getting a new “e...
01:54 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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The Twitter Blue subscription service starts rolling out Thursday
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Twitter has officially announced Twitter Blue, a paid subscription service that offers access to new features like undoing tweet...
01:04 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Nvidias RTX 3080 Ti is available online right now
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The Nvidia TX 3080 Ti is here, at least for those lucky enough to find one. Announced earlier this week alongside the forthcoming RTX 30...
01:00 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Amazon Halo will use your smartphone camera to assess your Movement Health
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Soon, Amazon’s Halo fitness service will offer to use your smartphone’s camera and some cloud-based AI to cr...
12:42 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Google is making it harder for Android apps to track you once youve opted out
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It’s going to get harder for Android apps to track users who’ve opted out of receiving personalized ads, the Financial Times...
12:00 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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How to watch Netflixs Geeked Week
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Netflix is holding its first-ever “Geeked” virtual event starting on June 7th, an entire week dedicated to genre stories a...
12:00 pm - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Microsoft looks ready to launch Windows 11
Microsoft has been teasing a “next generation” of Windows for months now, but new hints suggest the company isn’t just preparing an update to its existing Windows 10 soft...
10:02 am - Thu, June 3, 2021
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WhatsApp says accounts will soon be usable across up to four devices
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WhatsApp has confirmed that its long-rumored multi-device support will be entering public beta in the coming months, allowing us...
10:00 am - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Ring adds new public way for agencies to request video clips in Neighbors app
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Ring is adjusting how public agencies such as police and fire departments are able to request video clips f...
10:00 am - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Ring will require video requests to be public in Neighbors app starting next week
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Ring is adjusting how public agencies such as police and fire departments are able to request video clips f...
07:30 am - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Philips Hue gets a sleeker new app rebuilt from the ground up
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The Philips Hue app is getting a big update on Thursday. The team at Signify, which makes Hue lights, has rebui...
04:06 am - Thu, June 3, 2021
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FBI names REvil as the group behind meat supplier cyberattack
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The FBI has said that cybercriminal group REvil (also known as Sodinokibi) was behind the recent attack on meat supplier JBS (vi...
03:47 am - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Samsung announces Snapdragon-powered Galaxy Book Go laptops from $349
Samsung has announced two new Windows laptops running Arm-based processors. The Galaxy Book Go and Galaxy Book Go 5G both use Snapdragon chips from Qualcomm rather than Samsung...
01:10 am - Thu, June 3, 2021
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For Apple TV Plus to succeed, it has to be everywhere even Android TV
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This week, Apple brought its Apple TV app to many new Android TV devices — not just the Nvidia Shield. And Apple was smart to w...
12:40 am - Thu, June 3, 2021
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Your next laptop may come with a cryptominer, courtesy of Norton
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Ethereum mining is coming to perhaps an unexpected place: Norton 360, the antivirus software that many readers will know from setting up new computers for...
12:13 am - Thu, June 3, 2021
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NASA will send two missions to Venus for the first time in over 30 years
The agency has picked two new robotic missions to explore the hot hell-world of Venus, Earth’s neighbor and the second planet from the Sun, administrator Bill Nelson announce...
10:46 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Apple asks staff to return to office three days a week starting in early September
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Apple employees are being asked to return to the office three days a week starting in early September. Tim Cook sent out an emai...
09:16 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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You probably shouldnt eat cicadas if youre allergic to shellfish
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08:53 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Amazons newest euphemism for overworked employees is industrial athlete
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Amazon tells its warehouse employees to think of themselves not as overworked cogs in an enormous, soul-crushing machine, but as...
08:42 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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If you play Fortnite right now, you might get abducted by aliens
A promotional image for Fortnite’s next season.
If you hop into a game of Fortnite right now, you might get teleported across the map by a mysterious laser beam that ...
08:34 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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The Apple Card outage has been resolved after five hours
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The Apple Card experienced an outage on Wednesday that reportedly affected users’ ability to make payments, manage their cards, and see recent transactio...
07:59 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Amazon will stop testing most employees for weed
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Amazon is relaxing its policy around employees using weed, according to a new blog post, and will no longer enforce marijuana dr...
06:51 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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AMC is giving free popcorn away to meme stonk investors
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Look, when the internet learns a new trick — like it did in January, with GameStop — it’s a pretty safe bet that people wi...
06:25 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Apple Cards are still having issues more than 5 hours later
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The Apple Card is experiencing an outage today that may affect your ability to make payments, manage your card, and see recent transactions, according to A...
06:07 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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SpaceX signs bulk deal for three private Crew Dragon missions
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05:55 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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HBO Maxs cheaper $10 ad-supported plan is finally here
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HBO Max’s ad-supported streaming option has officially launched on the platform. The new tier will be pric...
05:28 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Next God of War delayed until 2022 but will come to PS4 too
The next God of War game has been pushed to 2022. The game, intended for PS5, was originally planned to launch sometime in 2021. Head of PlayStation Studios Hermen Hulst confir...
05:18 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Go read this story about the rise and fall of a $77 million game cheating empire
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Free-to-play games are hugely successful (in 2020, PUBG Mobile reportedly made $2.8 billion in China alone), but that success attracts unscrupulous dev...
05:09 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Nvidias RTX 3080 Ti will be available at 81 Best Buy stores on Thursday
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Nvidia just announced its new $1,199 RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, and it’s set to release tomorrow, June 3rd. It hasn’t exactly been e...
04:11 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Microsoft to reveal its next generation of Windows on June 24th
Microsoft is planning to detail its “next generation of Windows” at an event later this month. The software giant has started sending invites to media for a Windows event o...
04:00 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Eufys new battery-powered security cameras have local storage and dont require a hub
Eufy, the Anker-owned smart home brand, is announcing a new SoloCam line of battery-powered security cameras that have local storage and are designed to operate without connect...
03:50 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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PS4 and PS5 gaming subscriptions are up to 27 percent off today
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Deals from the last week or so have been especially kind to gamers who have a PS4 or PS5. Sony’s Days of Play sale event has discoun...
03:50 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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The Olympics vision of gaming looks very different from the biggest esports
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The Olympics is currently hosting its first-ever virtual sporting event series, the Olympic Virtual Series, where co...
03:40 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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An ongoing Apple Card outage may keep you from making payments or managing your card
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The Apple Card is experiencing an outage today that may affect your ability to make payments, manage your card, and see recent transactions, according to A...
03:14 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Donald Trump has shut down his blog
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Former President Donald Trump’s blogging days are officially over. On Wednesday, CNBC reported that Trump’s blog has shut down less...
02:53 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Huawei teases its upcoming P50 flagship phone
Behold, the P50’s mammoth-sized camera array
During Huawei’s HarmonyOS livestream, the company provided a first look at its upcoming P50 series phone. Few specs wer...
02:42 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Huawei announces HarmonyOS update for its smartphones
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Huawei has announced that its HarmonyOS operating system is coming to its smartphones via a forthcoming update. Huawei’s consumer business CEO Richard Y...
02:23 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Nintendos E3 event will be focused exclusively on Switch games
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Nintendo is holding an E3 event on June 15th, and the company promises it will be “focused exclusively on Nintendo Switch games mai...
02:03 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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This scientist shoots trees to study how they migrate
In Black Rock Forest, just north of New York City, Angie Patterson aims a shotgun at a northern red oak tree. Patterson is a plant ecophysiologist, and the leaves that she’s ...
02:00 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Spotify wants to make the yearly Wrapped experience more than a once a year thing
Spotify’s Only You feature will visualize listeners’ data. | Spotify
Spotify loves when people share its annual Wrapped music breakdown on social media, so it’s m...
01:23 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Invasive snails on the run leave behind DNA evidence
Mark Abramson, of Heal the Bay, displays a New Zealand mud snail on the tip of his little finger at in Medea Creek at Natural Park in Oak Park on Friday March 3 2010. | Photo b...
01:00 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Valorant is the latest big shooter to get a mobile spinoff
Riot is bringing its tactical shooter Valorant to mobile devices. There aren’t a lot of details yet — such as when it will launch, on what hardware, or how it will differ f...
01:00 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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I broke off a tiny piece of the world with a self-flying drone
With photogrammetry, hundreds of still photos can be transformed into an incredibly realistic 3D model of a real place on Earth — assuming you capture them all.
This Memoria...
01:00 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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No Mans Sky is getting a visual overhaul and flying pets
No Man’s Sky is getting yet another big update, this time focused on the way the sci-fi adventure looks. The update is called “Prisms,” and developer Hello Games describe...
01:00 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti review: more 4K for more of your wallet
Nvidia goes back to 4K for more than $1K
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12:49 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Apple Watch, Fitbit users with heart conditions get more medical procedures
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People with irregular heartbeats who use wearable devices like Apple Watches and Fitbits aren’t overwhelming...
12:00 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Huaweis Watch 3 is its first HarmonyOS smartwatch
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Huawei has announced its first smartwatches running its own HarmonyOS operating system, the Huawei Watch 3 and Huawei Watch 3 Pro. I...
12:00 pm - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Huaweis HarmonyOS arrives on tablets with the new MatePad Pro
Huawei’s new 12.6-inch MatePad Pro with stylus and keyboard cover.
Huawei has announced a trio of new MatePad tablets; a new 12.6-inch MatePad Pro, a smaller 10.8-inc...
10:56 am - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Judge dismisses charges against Apple chief accused of bribing police officers with iPads
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A Californian court has dismissed bribery charges against Apple’s Chief Security Officer Thomas Moyer, Reuters reports, who wa...
10:26 am - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Etsy targets Gen Z shoppers with $1.6 billion Depop acquisition
Clothes hangers with Depop’s logo appear in a pop-up shop in Selfridges, London. | Photo by David M. Benett/Getty Images for Depop
E-commerce site Etsy, best known f...
09:15 am - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Elon Musk blames supply chain price pressure for Teslas increasing prices
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has blamed supply chain price pressure for incremental price increases the company has made to its Model 3 a...
05:01 am - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Amazon Prime Day kicks off on June 21st
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Amazon Prime Day, the company’s annual shopping holiday, will take place on Monday, June 21st through June 22nd, the company o...
01:54 am - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Nintendo is turning a factory into a gallery
Nintendo has announced that its Uji Ogura plant will be turned into a public gallery to “showcase the many products Nintendo has launched over its history.” The factory, lo...
01:12 am - Wed, June 2, 2021
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The governments been worried about DJI drones the Pentagon now says theyre safe
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After months of government bans on DJI drones, with lawmakers questioning whether the company was sending information to the Chinese g...
12:51 am - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Dell has discontinued the Alienware Graphics Amplifier, its external GPU
We recently noticed that Alienware’s just-announced X15 and X17 thin and vaguely light gaming laptops are conspicuously missing a port — and it’s not because they’re t...
12:40 am - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Ikeas Sonos-powered picture frame speaker is on its website right now
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Confirming what The Verge reported back in April, Ikea tonight listed a new Symonisk “picture frame with Wi-Fi speaker” product on its website. The devi...
12:18 am - Wed, June 2, 2021
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As Disney Plus celebrates Pride, its parent is hit with sexual orientation discrimination suit
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Even as Disney’s marquee ...
12:17 am - Wed, June 2, 2021
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Twitter is once again taking your requests for a blue verification badge
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Twitter has reopened verification applications after pausing them last week, Twitter announced on Tuesday. The pause, which went...
11:27 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Facebook employees call for company to address concerns of Palestinian censorship
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Facebook employees are circulating an internal petition calling for the company to investigate content moderation systems that l...
11:08 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Yes, the SEC has noticedElon Musks Tesla stock price tweet
The Securities and Exchange Commission believes Elon Musk has violated his 2018 settlement agreement twice, according to correspondence obtained by The Wall Street Journal betw...
10:10 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Oil and gas leases suspended in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
A polar bear seen with cubs at Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 2014, in North Slope, Alaska. | Photo credit should read Steven Kazlowski / Barcroft Medi via Getty Images
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10:01 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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BMWs i4 sedan is the electric 4 Series youve been waiting for
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The latest EV from Bavaria is a $55,400 luxury sedan with 300 miles of range
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10:01 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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BMWs iX electric SUV with 300 miles of range will start at $82,300
When BMW first revealed its flagship iX electric SUV in November, we speculated that it would cost $70,000 or more, based on its luxury styling and upgraded battery. Well, we w...
09:08 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Firefox gets a redesign with bigger, floatier tabs
A screenshot of Firefox’s new floating tab design. | Image: Firefox
Mozilla launched a redesign for Firefox on Tuesday, and one of the changes you might notice first ...
09:05 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Get a refurbished set of Apple AirPods Pro for $155 at Woot
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If you’re hunting for a set of truly wireless earbuds that offer great sound quality, noise cancellation, water resistance, a comfy f...
08:42 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Amazon did the math and would actually prefer getting sued
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Amazon has recently changed its terms of service to allow its customers to bring lawsuits against the company instead of having ...
07:57 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Rimac reveals the Nevera, a 1,900-horsepower electric hypercar
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The Rimac C_Two concept has evolved into a production-ready electric hypercar called the Nevera, and it’s still just as absurd as it was three years when...
07:42 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Worlds largest meat supplier grinds to a halt after cyberattack
JBS, a Brazilian company which supplies a fifth of the world’s meat, was the victim of a coordinated cyberattack, Bloomberg reports.
Details are still emerging about the ext...
07:35 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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How to opt out of (or into) Amazons Sidewalk network
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Do you own an Echo Studio, an Echo Dot, or a Ring Floodlight Cam? If so, Amazon is about to introduce your device to a new type ...
07:17 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Microsoft mistake suggestsPS5or Nintendo Switch may support more Dolby tech
On Monday, Microsoft published a now-deleted blog post on Xbox Wire France that claimed Dolby Vision and Atmos will be Xbox console exclusives for two years. (You can read a ca...
05:49 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Amazons serious injury rate at warehouses was still nearly double the rest of the industry in 2020
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Amazon’s serious injury rate at its warehouses was nearly twice as high as the rest of the industry in 2020, newly released Oc...
05:28 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Google union pushes company to drop deadnames from ID badges
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The Alphabet Workers Union launched a campaign Tuesday to push Google to allow employees to use their chosen names on ID badges....
05:16 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Discovery announces new name of WarnerMedia merger: Warner Bros. Discovery
The new logo and slogan for Warner Bros. Discovery | Image: Discovery
Discovery is merging with WarnerMedia, and it’s now announced a new name for the combined compan...
04:59 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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AMDs new Radeon RX 6800M delivers respectable performance at a respectable price
This chip right here. | AMD
AMD has announced its Radeon RX 6000 series of mobile GPUs. The company claimed that the new chips, built on its RDNA 2 architecture, delive...
04:41 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Instacarts reported plan to automate its workforce seems a lot like bluster
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Instacart has big plans to automate parts of its grocery delivery business, reports Bloomberg, but the company’s schemes look ...
04:00 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Twitters Fleets are getting Stories-like ads
Twitter is adding ads to its disappearing Fleets beginning June 1st. | Twitter
Twitter said Tuesday it will start adding full-screen ads to Fleets, its disappearing twe...
03:11 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Whats on your desk, Brandon Widder?
Some great tech, along with a mood light and a bobcat skull
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03:00 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Apple TV app comes to Nvidia Shield
The Apple TV app on Shield. | Image: Nvidia
Apple’s streaming TV app is coming to another platform today: Nvidia’s Shield. Shield owners will now be able to access ...
02:53 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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How to choose an alternative to Google Photos if you want one
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Last November, Google — which had offered unlimited storage for what it called “high quality” (read: compressed) photos — announ...
02:48 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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States pass laws limiting use of DNA searches for criminal investigations
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Maryland and Montana recently became the first states in the nation to pass laws limiting law enforcement's use of DNA databases to solve crime...
02:00 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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The Great Wings Rush
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It was March 2020, and restaurants across the country were shutting down, setti...
01:23 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Samsungs Galaxy Buds Pro are $50 off at Amazon
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If you’re hunting for a set of truly wireless earbuds that offer great sound quality, active noise cancellation, IPX7 water resista...
01:04 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Why Spotifys Horacio Gutierrez thinks Apple behaves like a monopolist
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Spotify’s chief legal officer on tech’s ‘ruthless bully’
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01:00 pm - Tue, June 1, 2021
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A new collective will share a podcast feed to make money off Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces
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A new collective is trying to solve the live audio monetization problem. A group of primarily tech-focused hosts are launching a...
11:31 am - Tue, June 1, 2021
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COVID-19 variants get new names based on Greek alphabet
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a new naming system for notable variants of virus that causes COVID-19 based o...
10:19 am - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Samsung and AMD are working on an Exynos mobile chip with ray tracing
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AMD is partnering with Samsung to provide RDNA 2 graphics technology for an Exynos mobile system-on-chip, potentially giving a b...
09:50 am - Tue, June 1, 2021
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The original Dune movie is also getting a 4K release this year
The steelbook edition comes with an extra copy of the film on Blu-ray. | Image: Arrow Films
Dennis Villeneuve’s Dune isn’t the only film adaptation of Frank Herbert...
06:53 am - Tue, June 1, 2021
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AMD confirms its powering the gaming rig inside Teslas Model S and Model X
Remember when Elon Musk claimed you’d be able to play The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 on a 10 teraflop gaming rig he’s stuffing into the new Tesla Model S and X? AMD is of...
06:33 am - Tue, June 1, 2021
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AMDs answer to Nvidias DLSS is coming this month
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AMD has announced that FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), its super sampling technique that should boost performance and image q...
05:21 am - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 Ti, priced at $1,199 and launching June 3rd
Nvidia is unveiling its latest flagship gaming GPU today, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. Based on Nvidia’s latest Ampere architecture, the RTX 3080 Ti will succeed the RTX 3080 and...
05:00 am - Tue, June 1, 2021
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Alienwares X15 is its thinnest and coolest gaming laptop yet
The X15 comes in lunar light, Alienware’s colorway that is white on the outside and black on the inside of the clamshell.
Alienware is keen on giving Razer a run for ...
03:00 am - Tue, June 1, 2021
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AMD announces the Radeon RX 6000M series with RDNA 2 architecture
The new Radeon RX 6800M. | AMD
AMD has announced its long-awaited Radeon RX 6000M series of mobile GPUs, featuring its RDNA 2 architecture.
Today’s release consists ...
10:15 pm - Mon, May 31, 2021
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Fall Guys beans are the perfect height to pat Among Us beans on the head
It’s a perfect match. | Image: Among Us on Twitter
Turns out that the bean-like Fall Guys characters would be the perfect height to pat the bean-like Among Us crewmat...
07:00 pm - Mon, May 31, 2021
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EAs new multiplayer dodgeball game is now free to play until you reach level 25
A screenshot from Knockout City. | Image: EA
EA just released its chaotic and fun new multiplayer dodgeball game, Knockout City, on May 21st, and for the launch, had pu...
06:27 pm - Mon, May 31, 2021
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How bad is Google Photos compression anyway?
My cat, Pretzel. The original photo is on the left, the compressed version is on the right.
Google Photos has long offered one of the best deals in all of photo storage...
04:55 pm - Mon, May 31, 2021
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Climate change responsible for about a third of heat deaths, study says
People try to keep cool in Lisbon, Portugal during a heatwave in 2018. | Photo credit should read PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images
Heat is a killer — and...
02:18 pm - Mon, May 31, 2021
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Bacteria get a fresh gig as art restorers in Italy
An image of Michalangelo’s The Day, part of the tomb of Giuliano de’ Medici. This image was taken in 2002, long before bacteria got a chance to feast on its grime. | Photo...
03:53 am - Mon, May 31, 2021
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Xiaomi says it can now fully charge a phone in eight minutes at 200W
Xiaomi has shown off its latest fast charging tech demo, and consequently is claiming the new world records for both wired and wireless charging speeds. Using a modified Mi 11 ...
02:30 am - Mon, May 31, 2021
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Intels latest 11th Gen processor brings 5.0GHz speeds to thin and light laptops
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Intel made a splash earlier in May with the launch of its first 11th Gen Tiger Lake H-series processors for more powerful laptop...