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The best instant cameras you can buy right now

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Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across...
Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, you can capture a moment in a photo that you can see and touch almost immediately. Images captured by an instant came...
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iRobot’s budget-friendly Roombas add a self-emptying option

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The new Roomba Combo 2 Essential and Roomba Vac 2 Essential include a dock for self-emptying...
The new Roomba Combo 2 Essential and Roomba Vac 2 Essential include a dock for self-emptying their dirt bins — a feature missing from the budget-friendly Essential robovacs that iRobot introduced six months ago. The 2-in-1 Combo 2 features both vacuuming and mopping capabilities for $424.99 and is slightly more expe...
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Amazon says it ditched plastic air pillows

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Amazon says that it has gotten rid of plastic air pillows at its warehouses.“As of October...
Amazon says that it has gotten rid of plastic air pillows at its warehouses.“As of October 2024, we’ve removed all plastic air pillows from our delivery packaging used at our global fulfillment centers,” the e-commerce giant said in an October 9th blog post. It’s a welcome change following years of pressure from env...
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One-third of DHS’s border surveillance cameras don’t even work

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The House Committee on Homeland Security is looking into Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) surveillance network...
The House Committee on Homeland Security is looking into Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) surveillance network in the wake of a report that nearly one-third of the agency’s cameras along the US-Mexico border don’t work. Privacy advocates say this is just the latest instance of expensive border surveillance infr...
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Streamer’s apology for racist rant exposes the rot in streaming culture

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Last week, top Twitch streamer Zach Hoyt, better known as Asmongold, went on a racist rant...
Last week, top Twitch streamer Zach Hoyt, better known as Asmongold, went on a racist rant against Palestinians, expressing apathy for the relentless military campaign against them that has claimed over 40,000 lives, many of them children. “I don’t give a fuck,” he said. “They’re terrible people.”Hoyt is known for h...
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Qualcomm’s new mobile chip is the 8 Elite

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Just a few years after changing its mobile chipset naming conventions, Qualcomm has gone and done...
Just a few years after changing its mobile chipset naming conventions, Qualcomm has gone and done it again. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the company’s newest high-end smartphone SoC, and like the laptop chips it borrows its “Elite” name from, it comes with a new Oryon CPU. The company says that this shift enables faste...
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Tesla’s Cybertruck range extender just became an even worse deal

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News Corp sues Perplexity for ripping off WSJ and New York Post

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News Corp, the parent company of media outlets like The Wall Street Journal and the New...
News Corp, the parent company of media outlets like The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, is suing the AI search engine Perplexity for infringing copyrighted content. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, News Corp alleges Perplexity copies news articles, analyses, and opinions “on a massive scale.”Perplexity is an...
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Elon Musk is offering people $1 million to vote

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk gave a $1 million check to an audience member at a rally...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk gave a $1 million check to an audience member at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he’s been Trump-stumping, on Saturday. And he said he will continue to give that prize to one random voter per day until the Presidential election on November 5th. The move could very well break US ...
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Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release

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The tech YouTuber who opened a coffee shop

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For the last eight months, David Cogen has been living a double life. By day: a...
For the last eight months, David Cogen has been living a double life. By day: a YouTuber and creator, the face of TheUnlockr, reviewing phones and testing ebikes and explaining how food smokers really work. By night and morning and every single other available moment in between: a coffee shop entrepreneur, working t...
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Apple’s macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position — here’s how

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The Internet Archive hackers still have access to its internal emailing tools

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Early this morning, I received an email from “The Internet Archive Team,” replying to a message...
Early this morning, I received an email from “The Internet Archive Team,” replying to a message I’d sent on October 9th. Except its author doesn’t seem to have been the digital archivists’ support team — it was apparently written by the hackers who breached the site earlier this month and who evidently maintain some...
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Time to upgrade your reading gadgets

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 57, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 57, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy Kindle Season to all who celebrate, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about sports betting and designer proteins an...
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Why are Instagram searches for ‘Adam Driver Megalopolis’ blocked for CSAM?

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Ford tells some EV customers to stop using its Tesla Supercharger adapter

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iFixit’s Meta Quest 3S teardown reveals a Quest 2 ‘hiding inside’

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Ember’s temperature-controlled smart mugs are 20 percent off today

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Fall has arrived, bringing cooler temperatures with it. Thankfully, Ember is running a sale through October...
Fall has arrived, bringing cooler temperatures with it. Thankfully, Ember is running a sale through October 21st that takes 20 percent off many of its self-heating vessels — including the Ember Mug 2, a guilty pleasure of ours. The 10-ounce mug is available for about $104 ($27 off) with promo code SEASON20, while th...
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At 21 years old, the iMac G4 is still down to party

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It’s been 20 years since Apple discontinued the iMac G4, a unique computer with a funky...
It’s been 20 years since Apple discontinued the iMac G4, a unique computer with a funky half-globe base and a flatscreen LCD on a fancy hinge and adjustable arm. In its unaltered state, it’s a nice-to-look-at, nostalgic relic that’s unusable in modern contexts. I coveted it and never got to own one at the time, but ...
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Anora’s Sean Baker writes the ending first

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Sean Baker’s film Anora won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — the...
Sean Baker’s film Anora won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — the latest in the director’s acclaimed narratives about sex workers that include Tangerine, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket. But Anora might be his most inviting, accessible work yet.Anora — or Ani, as she prefers — is a lap dancer ...
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DJI sues the US Department of Defense for labeling it a ‘Chinese Military Company’

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DJI, the world’s largest drone company, is suing to avoid being seen as a tool of...
DJI, the world’s largest drone company, is suing to avoid being seen as a tool of the Chinese government. On Friday, it sued the US Department of Defense to delete its name from a list of “Chinese Military Companies,” claiming it has no such relationship to Chinese authorities and has suffered unfairly as a result o...
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Stoke Voltaics’ portable electric cookware review

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Sometimes you just need a portable electric cookset. Maybe it’s during a major power outage when...
Sometimes you just need a portable electric cookset. Maybe it’s during a major power outage when everyone’s huddled together over the warm glow of the family power station. Or maybe it’s at a tailgate party or picnic. In my case, it’s anywhere I decided to park my van over the last few months while testing two cooki...
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Here are the best smart locks you can buy right now

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A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to...
A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to let a friend in to water the plants? Your latchkey kid lost their key? Hands are full, and it’s raining cats and dogs? A smart lock solves all of these problems and more. One of the best smart home upgrades you can make, a smart l...
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Penguin Random House books now explicitly say ‘no’ to AI training

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Book publisher Penguin Random House is putting its stance on AI training in print. The standard...
Book publisher Penguin Random House is putting its stance on AI training in print. The standard copyright page on both new and reprinted books will now say, “No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems,” according to a repor...
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