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This week, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stunned safety advocates by proposing new vehicle rules that it says will help reduce pedestrian deaths in America. The new rules appear aimed directly at the trend of increasingly massive SUVs and trucks, which have been shown to be more deadly to pedestrians than smaller and midsize vehicles.
Never in its 50-plus years in existence has the regulator issued new rules for automakers requir
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A PS5 firmware update has rendered several major titles unplayable with crashing or graphics glitches...the same week as two major AAA PS5-to-PC ports. Read more âș
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Sen. J.D. Vance has fashioned himself as a different kind of Republican. He is an âanti-regime,â âanti-elitistâ populist who believes that Americaâs social order is âtilted toward the few.â He has decried traditional economic conservatism as an ideology that âsubordinates human life and community to a false ideal of the market somehow existing independent of [âŠ] Read more âș
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In a second attack on Hezbollah members, two-way radios detonated around Lebanon on Wednesday, causing injuries and multiple deaths. Read more âș
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Apple's A16 chips are now being manufactured on American soil at TSMC's Arizona plant, according to Taiwan-based independent journalist Tim Culpan. The A16 chip, which debuted in the iPhone 14 Pro two years ago, is reportedly being produced in small but meaningful quantities at TSMC's Fab 21 facility in Arizona. The chips are said to be manufactured using the same 4nm N4P process employed in TSMC's Taiwan factories to ensure... Read more âș
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For those looking to procure a case for their new Pixel 9 device (including the Pixel 9 Pro Fold), might we recommend the Pitaka ultra-slim case? Seriously, itâs so good. Obviously, if youâre one of the people that puts an armor case on your phone, this probably wonât be sufficient, but if you want an ⊠Continued Read the original post: Pitaka Makes the Best Pixel 9 Case, Hands Down Read more âș
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International police forces have taken down an encrypted communication platform and arrested 51 people, marking a success for co-ordinated efforts to crack down on anonymous messaging services used by criminal groups. FT: Europol and law enforcement agencies from nine countries dismantled Ghost [non-paywalled source], an online platform which used three different encryption standards and allowed users to destroy all messages by sending a specific code, Europol announced on Wednesday. The... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge Microsoft is laying off around 650 employees in its gaming division today. The latest cuts come months after Microsoft laid off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees, and after the closure of several game studios, including Redfall developer Arkane Austin. Xbox chief Phil Spencer announced the layoffs to employees in an internal memo this morning, seen by The Verge. The cuts are related to the Activision Blizzard... Read more âș
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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Just days after Apple announced a new hearing aid feature for the second-generation AirPods Pro, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the software that powers this functionality. In a press release, the FDA describes Appleâs solution as âthe first over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aid software device.â The feature âwas evaluated in a clinical study with 118 subjects with perceived mild to... Read more âș
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Stray, a game where you play a cat. | Image: Annapurna Annapurna Interactive, the game company famous for publishing indie hits like Stray, Outer Wilds, Gorogoa, Neon White, What Remains of Edith Finch, and many more, may not be the same company anymore. Bloombergâs reports that the entire staff of Annapurna Interactive, the gaming division of Megan Ellisonâs Annapurna, has resigned after failing to convince Ellison to let them spin... Read more âș
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Image: Nilay Patel Apple has hiked the price of its battery repair service for the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. Now, it will cost $119 to get your battery replaced in either phone â a $20 jump over its older fee. The price remains the same for the standard and âPlusâ models, as do those for last yearâs phones, as MacRumors notes. The company doesnât seem to have started... Read more âș
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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Appleâs new sleep apnea detection feature has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration â and Watch Series 9 or Watch Ultra 2 owners can use it starting today. Sleep apnea is a disorder that causes people to suddenly stop breathing during sleep. The new feature, which is rolling out as part of the watchOS 11 update, will use the Apple... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge OpenAI is releasing a new model called o1, the first in a planned series of âreasoningâ models that have been trained to answer more complex questions, faster than a human can. Itâs being released alongside o1-mini, a smaller, cheaper version. And yes, if youâre steeped in AI rumors: this is, in fact, the extremely hyped Strawberry model. For OpenAI, o1 represents a step toward its broader goal... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge The iPhone 16 lineup has 8GB of RAM, from the base model to the 16 Pro Max, and itâs all thanks to Apple Intelligence. Apple VP of hardware tech Johny Srouji confirmed as much in an interview with Geekerwan, published yesterday, that 9to5Mac spotted. Srouji explained in the interview that âDRAM is one aspectâ when it comes to deciding hardware characteristics needed for Apple Intelligence, saying that... Read more âș
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Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta has acknowledged that all text and photos that adult Facebook and Instagram users have publicly published since 2007 have been fed into its artificial intelligence models. Australiaâs ABC News reports that Metaâs global privacy director, Melinda Claybaugh, initially rejected claims about user data from 2007 being leveraged for AI training during a local government inquiry about AI adoption before relenting after additional... Read more âș
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A crop of Spider-Man 2 from Sonyâs PS5 Pro video. | Image: Sony Weâve got lossless screenshots â but youâll have to download them. Continue reading⊠Read more âș
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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Between flashy shots of a sleek new Apple Watch and a colorful array of iPhones, Apple made a major announcement for a two-year-old product: the AirPods Pro 2. The earbuds will soon gain a hearing aid function that anyone can access, a move that will provide a cheaper alternative to traditional hearing aids and an all-in-one solution that could change the way people... Read more âș
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