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The best TV deals to upgrade your setup ahead of the Super Bowl

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Missed out on all the terrific TV deals we saw during Black Friday and Cyber Monday?...
Missed out on all the terrific TV deals we saw during Black Friday and Cyber Monday? That’s okay, because the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl have historically been one of the better times of the year to snag a discounted set. In fact, Amazon, Best Buy, Woot, and a number of retailers are […]

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Is Tesla still a car company?

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On an earnings call last night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent a lot of time talking...
On an earnings call last night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent a lot of time talking up his companyâs plans to âgo ballisticâ on artificial intelligence, and very little time on Teslaâs core business, which is making and selling electric cars. There was so little attention paid to Teslaâs automotive business, that even a bunch […]

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Elon Musk admits Teslas will need new hardware for FSD

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In 2016, Tesla published a blog that said all EVs it produces have the hardware necessary...
In 2016, Tesla published a blog that said all EVs it produces have the hardware necessary to achieve “Full Self-Driving,” meaning owners of those Teslas could look forward to autonomous rides and could eventually send their cars out as money-making robotaxis when not in use. Tesla later deleted that post, and now we can see […]

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Sundance 2025: all the latest movie reviews and updates from the festival

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A new year means a new Sundance Film Festival, and a fresh crop of promising original...
A new year means a new Sundance Film Festival, and a fresh crop of promising original features that could go on to become awards season darlings in a few months. It might be hard to top last year’s festival where Dìdi, A Different Man, and I Saw the TV Glow all made strong showings. But […]

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Nvidia’s latest AI trick made our mediocre webcam mic sound practically professional

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Nvidia mildly blew our minds in 2020 when its graphics cards gained the ability to delete...
Nvidia mildly blew our minds in 2020 when its graphics cards gained the ability to delete practically all the background noise from our audio calls with a free app, and now the company’s doing it again. My colleague and Verge senior news editor Richard Lawler just fired up Nvidia’s just-announced “Studio Voice” feature on his […]

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Trump’s first 100 days: all the news impacting the tech industry

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President Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of...
President Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administration’s artificial intelligence order. Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already […]

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Boom’s supersonic test plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time

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Ten months after its long-delayed first subsonic flight took place last March, Boom Supersonic’s prototype test...
Ten months after its long-delayed first subsonic flight took place last March, Boom Supersonic’s prototype test plane, the XB-1, broke the sound barrier today three times during its 12th flight. The XB-1 is a smaller-scale demonstration version of the larger Overture airliner Boom wants to eventually build that will carry 64 passengers on supersonic international […]

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Ryan Coogler’s Sinners bares its fangs in latest trailer

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It initially seemed like Warner Bros. wanted to keep some of Ryan Coogler’s new gothic horror...
It initially seemed like Warner Bros. wanted to keep some of Ryan Coogler’s new gothic horror Sinners shrouded in mystery, but the movie’s latest trailer spells out exactly what’s going on. Though nobody says “vampire,” in Sinners’ new trailer, twin brothers Elijah and Elias (Michael B. Jordan) know that there’s something demonic going on as […]

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PowerSchool starts sending breach notifications, but there are still questions left to answer

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Education software platform PowerSchool has started sending breach notifications to victims of a December 2024 cyberattack,...
Education software platform PowerSchool has started sending breach notifications to victims of a December 2024 cyberattack, but has yet to share how many people were affected or what exactly happened, reports BleepingComputer. PowerSchool, which has has more than 18,000 customers worldwide and serves over 60 million students, suffered a breach on December 28th that may […]

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Google Play will now verify VPNs that prioritize privacy and safety

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Google Play will now display verification badges on approved VPNs as a way to “highlight apps...
Google Play will now display verification badges on approved VPNs as a way to “highlight apps that prioritize user privacy and safety,” the company announced on Tuesday. The new badge will appear on a VPN app’s details page and within search results, proving that it meets specific standards outlined by Google. To qualify for the […]

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Waymo is letting you tip — but there’s a catch

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A security researcher who lives in San Francisco discovered an unreleased feature in Waymo’s app that...
A security researcher who lives in San Francisco discovered an unreleased feature in Waymo’s app that allows customers to tip for their robotaxi rides. Jane Manchun Wong, a security researcher who also successfully hacked the display dome on top of a Waymo vehicle to display her name, posted a screenshot of the new tipping feature […]

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DeepSeek: all the news about the startup that’s shaking up AI stocks

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DeepSeek is shaking up the AI industry with cost-efficient large language models it claims can perform...
DeepSeek is shaking up the AI industry with cost-efficient large language models it claims can perform just as well as rivals from giants like OpenAI and Meta. The Chinese startup says its flagship R1 reasoning model is capable of achieving “performance comparable” to OpenAI’s o1 equivalent, while the newly released Janus Pro multimodal AI model […]

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Why everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek

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It took about a month for the finance world to start freaking out about DeepSeek, but...
It took about a month for the finance world to start freaking out about DeepSeek, but when it did, it took more than half a trillion dollars â or one entire Stargate â off Nvidiaâs market cap. It wasnât just Nvidia, either: Tesla, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft tanked. DeepSeekâs two AI models, released in quick […]

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All the news about EV charging in the US

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The state of electric vehicle charging in North America is shaping up like the smartphone charging...
The state of electric vehicle charging in North America is shaping up like the smartphone charging wars — but focused on much more expensive hardware. Right now, like USB-C and Android phones, the Combined Charging System (CCS, Type 1) plug is on a greater variety of cars. Meanwhile, Tesla’s plug was long compared to Apple […]

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Retro Remake opens preorders for its PS One FPGA clone

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Retro Remake’s Taki Udon announced last night that preorders had opened for the SuperStation One, a...
Retro Remake’s Taki Udon announced last night that preorders had opened for the SuperStation One, a clone of the PS One variant of the original PlayStation. The $149.99 Founders Edition preorders are sold out already, but you can still preorder the standard $225 SuperStation One for $179.99 right now, with shipping ...
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Netflix won the streaming wars, and we’re all about to pay for it

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Whenever Netflix raises its prices — which seems to happen roughly as often as Ben Affleck...
Whenever Netflix raises its prices — which seems to happen roughly as often as Ben Affleck falls in love with an A-list celebrity — the company always gives the same reason. It needs the extra money, you see, in order to keep investing in the kind of programming and product its 302 million subscribers demand. That’s...
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The 2025 Android upgrade cycle has begun

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 68, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 68, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you’re staying warm and sane, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Kieran Culkin and insomnia and the eBay for fa...
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Live AI on Meta’s smart glasses is a solution looking for a problem

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Here’s the scene: I’m wearing Meta’s latest Ray-Ban glasses with a new feature called Live AI,...
Here’s the scene: I’m wearing Meta’s latest Ray-Ban glasses with a new feature called Live AI, which can answer questions about the world around you. I’m preparing for a four-hour road trip to my in-laws for the Christmas holiday. I’m preplanning the next day’s breakfast because I’m 99.9 percent certain I will have ...
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What handheld PCs should do to fight the Nintendo Switch 2

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I stopped buying most games for my Nintendo Switch the day I bought a Steam Deck....
I stopped buying most games for my Nintendo Switch the day I bought a Steam Deck. My Switch has been a Mario and Zelda machine ever since. It’s simple: the Steam Deck took the Switch’s best trick — pick-up-and-play portability — while offering more games that run better. I can easily resume the ones I started on my ...
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Oracle and Microsoft are reportedly in talks to take over TikTok

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Oracle and a group of investors that includes Microsoft are in talks to take over TikTok’s...
Oracle and a group of investors that includes Microsoft are in talks to take over TikTok’s global operations, reports NPR. The deal would reportedly see ByteDance keeping a minority stake in TikTok while “the app’s algorithm, data collection and software updates will be overseen by Oracle.” The outlet reports the Wh...
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Fubo’s cheapest streaming plan is now $85 per month

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All the news about Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs

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Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX...
Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will follow that with their own releases in February, but some are already getting a sneak peek at the GPUs’ software benefits through DLSS 4.Tom Warren...
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The best indie games we’re playing right now

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Splashy blockbuster games are great, but there are there are a huge number of indie and...
Splashy blockbuster games are great, but there are there are a huge number of indie and smaller video games worth playing, too. Whether they’re pushing the boundaries of the medium and or offering a creative spin on classic ideas, indie games can be just as interesting as big-budget epics.Sometimes, though, indie ga...
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Marvel Snap is coming back to app stores soon, says developer

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Mobile card game Marvel Snap is coming back to app stores, starting with Google Play. That’s...
Mobile card game Marvel Snap is coming back to app stores, starting with Google Play. That’s according to Developer Second Dinner, which announced yesterday it was starting the process of restoring the game to Google’s Android app store at 6PM PT / 3PM ET that day. The developer said in another post it expects the g...
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