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It should be less of a farce to unlock the next generation of Google Pixel phones. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Google’s upcoming Pixel 9 lineup will reportedly feature a faster, more reliable ultrasonic fingerprint scanner, according to Android Authority. It would replace the optical under-display fingerprint sensor that Google introduced on the Pixel 6 with the newer technology that’s capable of reading even wet or oily fingerprints.
The switch could also address some of the wide
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Robert Rivani, 34, believes in intermittent fasting and takes calls from the backseat of his car while he's being driven around. Read more ›
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Dennis Dabney, 57, feels valued at his executive job in Phoenix. But being a supercommuter can take its toll financially and socially, he said. Read more ›
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Qatar Executive received the $81 million Gulfstream G700 days before a private jet conference in Geneva. Elon Musk has also reportedly ordered one. Read more ›
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I'm a journalist and consultant, and my partner is a carpenter. He showed me that my career isn't my identity, and changed how I think about layoffs. Read more ›
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The crew on Silversea's new luxury cruise ship, Silver Ray, have sumptuous amenities like a small spa and a gym with Technogym equipment. Read more ›
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From Mark Zuckerberg's simple approach to Bernard Arnault's luxurious taste, see how top CEOs have decorated their offices over the years. Read more ›
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Young people are living at home and relying on their parents for money well into their 20s. Their parents aren't happy about it. Read more ›
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The heavy, truck-mounted EuroPULS launcher can carry twice as many rockets as Lockheed Martin's HIMARS. Read more ›
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A starry night evokes magic, a sense of wonder or romance. But what about a starry sea? There are almost 2,000 species of sea stars or “starfish” worldwide, found across a range of habitats from tide pools to thousands of meters underwater. About a decade ago, the still-mysterious sea star wasting disease (SSW) had devastating […] Read more ›
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Hilton has experimented with different portion sizes of fruit and smoked salmon at its breakfast buffets based on insights from AI cameras. Read more ›
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Starting this summer, Pomona, California will give 250 families with children with children under the age of 4 years $500 a month for 18 months. Read more ›
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From “delves” to “showcasing,” certain words boomed in usage after LLMs became mainstream. Read more ›
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Former LA Noire developers are reportedly working on a new psychological thriller set in 1940s Los Angeles, "Sowden House".Two separate posts have popped up on Instagram from performer, composer, and producer Freyja Garbett, who says they've been working on a "HUGE" project "writing for a video game [...] from the creators of LA Noire"."From the creators of LA Noire comes Sowden House, a psychological thriller also set in the 1940’s... Read more ›
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EV hype on Wall Street is changing shape as companies use software to set themselves apart. Read more ›
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President Joe Biden remains the Democrat's best shot for the White House in 2024, Professor Allan Lichtman told WSJ, based on his election model. Read more ›
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A couple in Astoria, Queens, rented out their basement on Airbnb for years. New city regulations have made that illegal. Read more ›
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Joe Biden took some hits during the debate, but he's come back swinging with $38 million in donations, his campaign said. Read more ›
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Through July 21, you can get a grade-A refurbished iPad and Beats Flex headphones bundle for only $199.97. Read more ›
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The success of Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty DLC was only possible due to the base game's "negative reception".That's according to senior quest designer Paweł Sasko, who acknowledged that if the original game's 2020 release hadn't been "as negative as it was", "it couldn't have been possible" for expansion Phantom Liberty to have "worked significantly better at launch"."Phantom Liberty worked significantly better at its launch because we completely changed the production... Read more ›
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Illustration: The Verge A widespread Xbox outage is preventing players from connecting to Xbox Live and playing online games, downloading games, or using other services, with many seeing the message “Error 0x87DD0033.” In a post at around 3PM ET, Xbox says it’s “aware that some users have been disconnected from Xbox Live” and that the company is “investigating.” Bethesda, which is now owned by Microsoft, published a similar message, saying... Read more ›
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Buzz buzz. | Image: Bananbin I don’t think I’m going out on a limb when I say that not everyone agrees on the best way to handle their computer’s trash directory. Some folks like to let it go until their computer yells at them about storage, while others empty it every single day. I’m somewhere in the middle, but I do try not to let it go too far. And... Read more ›
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Photo by Sheena Vasani / The Verge An ongoing outage is preventing Amazon Kindle users from downloading both new and previously purchased books to their e-readers. According to moderators responding to users reporting the issue on Amazon’s support forums, the company is aware of the issue and is “currently working to resolve it.” Attempting other troubleshooting steps, like resetting the device, has not fixed the problems, so users may need... Read more ›
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Photo: Getty Images The Supreme Court ruled that presidents are “absolutely” immune from criminal prosecution when their actions involve allegedly official acts while they were in office. Former presidents also have a “presumption of immunity” for their official acts while in office — but, the court ruled, there is no immunity for “unofficial acts.” The decision in Trump v. United States means that the special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution against... Read more ›
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Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In March, Microsoft notified the US Department of Veterans Affairs that it was impacted by the security breach that enabled the Russian hacking group known as “Midnight Blizzard” to steal some of the company’s source code, reports Bloomberg. Already assigned blame for the earlier SolarWinds attack, the group has been accused of spying on email accounts of Microsoft’s senior leadership team and... Read more ›
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Image: The Verge Until Friday, OpenAI’s recently launched ChatGPT macOS app had a potentially worrying security issue: it wasn’t hard to find your chats stored on your computer and read them in plain text. That meant that if a bad actor or malicious app had access to your machine, they could easily read your conversations with ChatGPT and the data contained within them. As demonstrated by Pedro José Pereira Vieito... Read more ›
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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Twilio says someone has obtained phone numbers associated with its two-factor authentication service (2FA), Authy, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In a security alert on Monday, Twilio warns that the “threat actors” may try to use the stolen phone numbers to carry out phishing attacks and other scams. The incident follows a 2022 data breach that occurred after a phishing campaign tricked... Read more ›
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Image: Marvel Studios The premise of Disney Plus’ What If…? made it seem like the animated Marvel series might run indefinitely as the studio keeps putting out live-action projects, but it looks like this chapter of the big multiverse story is just about over. Though What If…? season 3 doesn’t have a premiere date, Entertainment Weekly reports that it will be the final installment in the series that gave us... Read more ›
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The Astro for Business robot is no more. | Image: Amazon For a moment there, it seemed like Amazon might pivot its Astro home robot to enterprise after giving it a better job as a camera-equipped patrol dog. But today, it’s discontinuing the Astro for Business robot for good. On September 25th, every one of the 20-pound wheeled robots will stop working, and Amazon will automatically issue full refunds for... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Figma’s new tool Make Designs lets users quickly mock up apps using generative AI. Now, it’s getting delayed after the tool drafted designs that looked strikingly similar to Apple’s iOS weather app. Figma CEO Dylan Field posted a thread on X early Tuesday morning detailing the delay, putting the blame on himself for pushing the team to meet a deadline, and defending the company’s... Read more ›
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