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TikTok’s fallout with Universal Music Group is ruining viral trends and thirsty fancams

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Remember TikTok’s thirsty Pedro Pascal fan edits? For several months beginning in January 2023, many of...
Remember TikTok’s thirsty Pedro Pascal fan edits? For several months beginning in January 2023, many of us couldn’t open the video platform without being blasted by the familiar sound of Shaggy’s “Hey Sexy Lady” hit, to which many of the biggest videos were set. If you dive back into any of those videos now, you’ll ...
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Amazon’s kitchen-friendly Echo Show 15 is going for $80 off right now

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A smart display can amalgamate the various smart home and virtual assistant tools at your disposal,...
A smart display can amalgamate the various smart home and virtual assistant tools at your disposal, whether you prefer voice-activated assistants or smartphone-like interfaces for direct control. That’s exactly what Amazon’s Echo Show 15 provides, and right now, the wall-mountable panel is down to $199.99 ($80 off) ...
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Semafor reporters are going to curate the news with AI

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Suddenly, building news products on the web is back in fashion.As social traffic collapses and Google...
Suddenly, building news products on the web is back in fashion.As social traffic collapses and Google makes ominous AI-powered sounds about search, publishers across the board have started to reemphasize their websites as destinations, and that means there are a lot of new ideas about what makes websites valuable ag...
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1Password was down for about an hour, preventing some users from logging in

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Roblox releases real-time AI chat translator

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Roblox built an AI model that it says translates text chats so quickly users may not...
Roblox built an AI model that it says translates text chats so quickly users may not even notice it’s translating the messages of other players at first. It works with 16 languages, including English, French, Japanese, Thai, Polish, and Vietnamese. Dan Sturman, Roblox CTO, said in an interview with The Verge that th...
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Threads is a gripping, miserable experience

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Sometimes you have to put yourself through something painful just to recognize how good you have...
Sometimes you have to put yourself through something painful just to recognize how good you have it. There’s a lot to be gained from enduring the most disheartening shit possible: Want to hear depressing news? Want to feel anxious and unsettled? Want to walk away feeling hopeless and cynical about the world?That’s t...
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How we all get news now

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 24, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 24, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading Kyle Chayka’s great book about algorithms, Filterworld, getti...
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iFixit pulls the Vision Pro apart, exposing its connectors, screens, and fans

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We’ve already found out a few hidden tidbits of Apple’s Vision Pro over the last week,...
We’ve already found out a few hidden tidbits of Apple’s Vision Pro over the last week, like the revelation that it has not one, but two different kinds of Lightning-esque connectors. But now you can see so much more in iFixit’s first teardown video, offering some answers to questions like what contributes to its wei...
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The first Reddit reviews of the Vision Pro are in

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AI afterlife, robot romance, and slow-burn slashers: the best of Sundance 2024

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AI is the buzzword of the moment, and nowhere seems to be safe — even film...
AI is the buzzword of the moment, and nowhere seems to be safe — even film festivals. This year’s edition of Sundance was a prime example. Multiple documentaries about the past and present of artificial intelligence made an appearance, and at least one film — the dark comedy Little Death — utilized generative AI as ...
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The Surface Pro 9 is more than $500 off, matching its all-time low

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Once upon a time, I bought a Surface Pro only to return it less than a...
Once upon a time, I bought a Surface Pro only to return it less than a month later. At the time, I felt it was a niche device lacking the foundational integrity of an iPad or a MacBook. I’ve grown a newfound respect for the Surface Pro line with the maturing of Windows, however, and now find the 2-in-1 nicely occupi...
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How to use the new Circle to Search tool

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Seeing something on my phone screen that I want to know more about is a regular...
Seeing something on my phone screen that I want to know more about is a regular occurrence, and Google always wants to make it easier to get to, well, Google. And so we have Circle to Search, a new way of looking up information on mobile devices.The idea is pretty simple — and in fact, simplicity is its main selling...
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How bad is Tesla’s hazardous waste problem in California?

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Neck lamps are a bookworm’s best friend

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As convenient as e-readers are, I can’t quit actual books. Maybe it’s their reassuring weight, the...
As convenient as e-readers are, I can’t quit actual books. Maybe it’s their reassuring weight, the satisfying crinkle of their pages, their beguiling musk; but there’s something addictive about that combination of paper, ink, and glue.Despite this — and as much as it pains me to say it — physical books aren’t perfec...
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Apple’s $3,499 Vision Pro lacks Find My location tracking, so don’t lose it

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Apple’s newly released Vision Pro may be packed with new technology, but it lacks a pretty...
Apple’s newly released Vision Pro may be packed with new technology, but it lacks a pretty basic feature we associate with recent Apple products: Find My location tracking. According to Apple’s support page for the $3,500 headset, turning on the “Find My” feature on the Vision Pro will activate a feature called Acti...
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Podcasting’s all-stars are here to stay

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Let me tell you about this very excellent USB-C wall charger

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Finding the one true “perfect” wall charger seems like an impossible task. We’re all carrying different...
Finding the one true “perfect” wall charger seems like an impossible task. We’re all carrying different gadgets around. Our laptops have power needs that can vary widely from one to the next. Some people make an effort to lighten the load of tech in their bag when possible; others don’t mind lugging an arsenal of ac...
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Indie labels cry foul over Apple Music’s enhanced spatial audio royalties

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As first reported by the Financial Times, independent labels Beggars Group, Secretly Group, and Partisan Records...
As first reported by the Financial Times, independent labels Beggars Group, Secretly Group, and Partisan Records are pushing back against Apple’s preferential payouts for spatial audio. They say independent artists who can’t afford to record in spatial audio would make less because of how streaming music payouts wor...
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Google’s Pixel Tablet and first-gen Pixel Watch are both on sale for Verge readers

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Apple may not have released new iPads last year, but you know who didn’t rest on...
Apple may not have released new iPads last year, but you know who didn’t rest on its laurels in 2023? Every other company, including OnePlus, Samsung, and Amazon. For the first time in what feels like ages, there are several solid Android tablets to choose from — including the Google Pixel Tablet, which is on sale f...
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Vision Pro launch: all the news about Apple’s pricey new headset

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Apple’s Vision Pro is finally here. Tim Cook arrived at Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New...
Apple’s Vision Pro is finally here. Tim Cook arrived at Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New York City to greet the crowd of customers at the doors who were waiting to try out the headset or buy one for themselves. The Vision Pro is Apple’s take on a mixed-reality headset, which, according to our review, ”feels like ma...
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Joe Rogan renews deal with Spotify

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Samsung Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus review: smart choices

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The Galaxy S24 Plus and S24 borrow some of the best ideas from Apple and Google,...
The Galaxy S24 Plus and S24 borrow some of the best ideas from Apple and Google, taking a running jump with them into the AI era.The flat-edge design is undeniably iPhone, and the AI tech is largely Google. The software, for better and worse, is all Samsung. But I wouldn’t call either phone the best of all worlds. A...
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There’s no perfect version of Persona 3 — but Reload is close

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For such an influential game, Persona 3 has a bit of a complicated release history. It...
For such an influential game, Persona 3 has a bit of a complicated release history. It first launched on the PS2 in 2006 and ushered in a whole new era for the franchise, mashing together an RPG with a life sim, tasking players with balancing dungeon crawling with the day to day of a normal high school student. That...
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Tesla’s latest screwup involves making the font size of its braking system too small

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Tesla’s latest massive recall is a weird one. It’s not about reported problems with sudden braking...
Tesla’s latest massive recall is a weird one. It’s not about reported problems with sudden braking or driver monitoring alerts or seat belts. Nope, this one is all about font size. It turns out that the font size for Tesla’s brake warning system is a bit too small. How small? Smaller than 3.2 millimeters, or one-eig...
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