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Apple officially released iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2 today, bringing a variety of new features — but the most important might be the dozens of new emoji that are now available to use. They include a ninja, a transgender pride flag, a coin, bubble tea, a dodo, a piñata, a tamale, and more.
It also brings the new “pinched finger” emoji (pictured below), which has already been memed to death as the “frustrated Italian hand gesture” emoji. See the list at Emojipedia for the full catalog of n
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Tesla's Cybertruck doesn't appear as "apocalypse-proof" as suggested, with the $80,000+ vehicle getting stuck in rough terrain and facing recalls. Read more ›
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In between posts on X, Jack Dorsey revealed he is no longer overseeing Bluesky — the social network he cofounded. Read more ›
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Qantas Airways agreed to pay approximately 20 million Australian dollars to more than 86,000 customers who were sold tickets to canceled flights. Read more ›
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Apple will be holding its first event of the year this Tuesday, May 7 at 7 a.m. Pacific Time, with a live stream to be available on Apple.com and on YouTube. How long will the event be? In his newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the video will have a runtime of "around 35 minutes." Apple is expected to announce new iPad Pro and iPad Air models, along with updated... Read more ›
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Helldivers 2 has been pulled from sale in 177 countries as its PSN linking requirement rolls out in countries where PSN is not available.Developer Arrowhead said this linking requirement was made optional when the game released at the beginning of February due to technical issues. However, that initial "grace period" for Helldivers 2 players on Steam is now over, and on Friday, Helldivers 2's publisher Sony announced that players on... Read more ›
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Steam is refunding players with hundreds of in-game hours in Helldivers 2 after publisher Sony and developer Arrowhead told PC players that in order to keep playing after next month, they would have to link to a PSN account.One player managed to secure a Steam refund despite having played Helldivers 2 for 90+ hours by simply submitting a refund request with the message: "Sony has retroactively changed how the game... Read more ›
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Hazel keeps over 7,000 open Firefox tabs for nostalgia but lost them all after the browser encountered an issue. Read more ›
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Bernard Hill, the actor that brought Lord of the Rings’ Théoden to life memorably in Peter Jackson’s movie adaptation trilogy, has died at the age of 79.Read more... Read more ›
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A Bitcoin trader lost nearly $70 million after criminals tricked them into sending crypto to a fake address that looked like their own. Read more ›
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Meet the Zhidou Rainbow—it costs less than an ebike and is capable of completing the average US daily commute with charge to spare. Read more ›
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A product manager who worked for both Meta and Google reveals the companies' biggest cultural differences — and which is best for work-life balance. Read more ›
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Unless you've had panels installed for decades you probably won't have to figure out a game plan for recycling them, but if you want to, here's how. Read more ›
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NASA and Boeing Space are a short time away from conducting the first crewed launch of the Starliner spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Read more ›
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Image: Tesla Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on Friday that the Standard Range rear-wheel drive Model Y the company has been building and selling “over the last several months” actually has more range than the 260 miles they were sold with. Pending “regulatory approval,” he wrote that the company will unlock another 40–60 miles of total range, depending on which battery Model Y owners have, “for $1,500 to $2,000.” Tesla... Read more ›
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Winning more than once is remarkable, but Christine Wilson's back-to-back wins aren't a first in lottery history. Read more ›
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Apple will hold its first media event of 2024 on Tuesday, May 7, at 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time through a live stream. Titled "Let Loose," the event is expected to see the unveiling of new iPad Air and iPad Pro models, along with updated Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard accessories. There are several ways to watch the May 7 event, with details listed below. We've also included a useful guide... Read more ›
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A Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 art book has leaked online, confirming the delayed game by Saber Interactive will include a PvP mode.YouTuber prdalien0 shared a full flick through the book, giving us a detailed dive into the game's various modes and customisations months ahead of Space Marine 2's scheduled release in September 2024.As well as confirming that the PvP mode will be Marine x Marine "only" and showing off... Read more ›
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Buck lamented the influence of money in politics, telling The New York Times he was told he needed to fundraise to get a coveted committee seat. Read more ›
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The high homicide rate in 2023 by Russian soldiers is related to mental health issues and thousands of former convicts-soldiers, said the UK MoD. Read more ›
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Musk said he wants Tesla to be “absolutely hard core” about the headcount reduction. | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Barely two weeks after initiating layoffs for at least 14,000 staffers, Tesla is now reportedly laying off hundreds more — including senior executives and the majority of its Supercharging team. According to an email first reported by The Information and then Electrek, the automaker’s senior director... Read more ›
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I mean, at least it’s just $200? | Image: David Pierce / The Verge Since it launched last week, Rabbit’s R1 AI gadget has inspired a lot of questions, starting with “Why isn’t this just an app?” Well, friends, that’s because it is just an app. Over at Android Authority, Mishaal Rahman managed to download Rabbit’s launcher APK on a Google Pixel 6A. With a little tweaking, he was able... Read more ›
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Image: Posche (via Car & Driver) Mercedes-Benz doesn’t have any plans to adopt Apple’s immersive, next-generation version of CarPlay, the German automaker’s CEO said in an episode of Decoder. “The short answer is no,” Ola Källenius told The Verge’s Nilay Patel in response to a question about whether Mercedes-Benz will enable Apple CarPlay to take over all the screens inside its vehicles. Instead, he touts the need for a “holistic... Read more ›
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We’ve been teased for long enough, Spotify. Just drop the HiFi update already. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge After years of waiting for Spotify to release the lossless audio tier it promised, some leaked UI elements suggest the project is alive and kicking, if not (dare I say) possibly close to release. Spotify’s current bitrate tops out at 320kbps, but that could soon change if screenshots taken from... Read more ›
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Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Instagram is making significant changes to how its system recommends content, with a focus on original content and increased distribution for smaller accounts. The slew of changes were announced by the company in a blog post today. The biggest change deals with aggregators — accounts that download or screenshot other users’ videos and photos and repost them. Sometimes aggregators will credit the original poster... Read more ›
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Photo by Joseph Weiser / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Automatic emergency braking is now the law of the land. The US Department of Transportation finalized a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard requiring all vehicle manufacturers to include automatic emergency braking in their light-duty vehicles (basically all passenger vehicles, including SUVs and pickup trucks) by 2029. The new rule aims to prevent hundreds of deaths and tens of thousands... Read more ›
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Photo by Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission is fining the largest US mobile carriers a combined nearly $200 million for allegedly illegally sharing customers’ location data without their consent. The FCC says it found the carriers “sold access to its customers’ location information to ‘aggregators,’ who then resold access to such information to third-party location-based service providers.” The agency says the carriers... Read more ›
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Image: The Verge Microsoft is making security its number one priority for every employee, following years of security issues and mounting criticisms. After a scathing report from the US Cyber Safety Review Board recently concluded that “Microsoft’s security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul,” it’s doing just that by outlining a set of security principles and goals that are tied to compensation packages for Microsoft’s senior leadership team. Last... Read more ›
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Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019 because it was “very worried” that Google was years ahead in scaling up its AI efforts. An internal email, titled “Thoughts on OpenAI,” between Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, CEO Satya Nadella, and co-founder Bill Gates reveals some of the high-level discussions around an investment opportunity in the months before Microsoft revealed the partnership. The email... Read more ›
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Photo: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Tesla was on the cusp of taking over electric vehicle charging in the US — then, the layoffs came. Today, multiple outlets reported that the company has laid off hundreds of employees, just weeks after cutting 10 percent (approximately 14,000 people) of its global workforce. Tesla’s Supercharger division was said to be particularly hard hit, with several soon-to-be-former employees saying... Read more ›
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