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California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that his office had launched an investigation into the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries alleged role in causing a plastic pollution crisis on April 28th, 2022, in Playa Del Rey, California. | Photo: Getty Images
California is going after ExxonMobil over what it calls a ācampaign of deceptionā about plastic recycling.
The Golden State filed suit against the oil giant this week, alleging that it has misled consumers for years by marketing recycl
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PayPay and Alipay+ announced an extended partnership at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2024, to increasing merchant coverage across Japan. PayPay, Japanās leading QR payment operator, and AliPay+, Ant Internationalās mobile payment method that helps merchants reach shoppers in Asia, will now connect over three million local merchants to the global payment ecosystem. The extended partnership... Read more Ā» Read more āŗ
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Adams added that the storyline for his character, Michael Ross, had played out by the end of season 7. Read more āŗ
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"You don't have to keep a human being alive, which means you can be a lot faster and you can move a lot more quickly," Andreessen told Joe Rogan. Read more āŗ
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"He has a good meal program there at San Diego State, but he says it just doesn't taste the same as it does at home," Guy Fieri said. Read more āŗ
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Nintendo's Switch might be nipping at its heels, but PlayStation 2 continues to hold the record as the best-selling console of all time - with Sony now confirming the machine has shifted a whopping 160m units since launching all the way back in March 2000. Read more Read more āŗ
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The Tesla CEO went after the F-35, calling crewed fighter jets "obsolete in the age of drones," but uncrewed technology isn't there yet. Read more āŗ
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Five of the top business schools enrolled fewer underrepresented minority students in the year since the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action. Read more āŗ
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Nandan Nilekani says small language models trained on specific data are āquite effectiveā Read more āŗ
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Photo by Sean OāKane / The Verge Porsche is not ready to turn in its gas caps for charging ports just yet. The company reportedly plans to launch more internal combustion engine models due to a slowdown in EV sales, according to Automotive News Europe. The automakerās CFO, Lutz Meschke, told the outlet, āWhat is clear is that we are sticking with the combustion engine for much longer.ā As Car... Read more āŗ
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TV brands are taking prices down a notch ahead of Black Friday for some of the best deals of the year. Read more āŗ
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Eric Schmidt said the emotionally and physically "perfect" AI girlfriend may lead young male users to become obsessed with the chatbot. Read more āŗ
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Musk's X is trying to stop The Onion from buying Alex Jones' social media accounts. Read more āŗ
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge These days, Black Friday isnāt so much a single-day shopping holiday as it is an ever-expanding, monthslong event that often begins as early as October. The 24-hour deal blitz that once was the focus of newspaper headlines and mobs outside of stores is no more, which makes knowing when and where you should be spending your cash all the more confusing. Luckily, weāre here... Read more āŗ
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Another legal complication may have surfaced in The Onionās bid to buy the Infowars empire from bankrupt conspiracy media mogul Alex Jones. X filed a limited objection to the transfer of Infowarsā X accounts to the satirical media empire in a federal Bankruptcy Court on Monday. The objection claims that X Corporationās terms of service states āthe Trustee cannot sell, assign or otherwise transfer such license absent X Corp.ās consent,ā... Read more āŗ
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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge If youāre looking to catch up on recent shows and movies ā including Shogun, The Penguin, and Dune: Part Two ā the upcoming holiday weekend is the perfect time to do so. Thankfully, multiple streaming services are slashing subscription prices ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, including Max, Hulu, and others. Right now, for example, you can sign up for a year... Read more āŗ
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Drake and Kendrick Lamar's ongoing feud has mostly been a war of words, fought online. With several court filings this week, Drake aimed to take it to a different venue. Read more āŗ
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A recent neo-Nazi rally in Columbus, Ohio drew national attentionābut it was just one of dozens that increasingly emboldened white power groups have held this year. Read more āŗ
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The Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar beef took over the hip-hop world in 2024, but the rappers had been trading barbs for years before "Not Like Us." Read more āŗ
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Kristen Radtke / The Verge Bluesky feels like the big winner right now. Iāve been covering Bluesky ever since I got my invite in April 2023. Iāve felt the platform has always had promise, especially with features like feeds with custom algorithms and the ability to let users pick their own moderation filters. But for a long while, it didnāt have the critical mass of users that I could follow... Read more āŗ
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Illustration by Lille Allen / The Verge Elon Musk is, in addition to many other things, now the co-lead of the currently nonexistent Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) advisory group. Now, before it even gets rolling, he has begun singling out individual government employees he says are emblematic of the governmentās bloat and posting about them to his hundreds of millions of followers on X. Earlier this week, as first... Read more āŗ
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Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage Musically speaking, Iād say Drake lost the tit-for-tat feud this year between himself and Kendrick Lamar, which culminated in Lamarās hit song āNot Like Us.ā But Drake (real name: Aubrey Graham) doesnāt seem to want to accept defeat that easily. In a petition filed in New Yorkās state Supreme Court on Monday, Drake is accusing Universal Music Group ā the label thatās represented him for his... Read more āŗ
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Image: Universal Jon M. Chuās Wicked adaptation gets at the heart of what makes musicals such a spectacular form of storytelling. Continue readingā¦ Read more āŗ
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Image: Elen Winata for The Verge From noise-canceling earbuds to robot vacuums and 4K OLED TVs, there is already plenty on offer. Continue readingā¦ Read more āŗ
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Image: The Verge A New York judge has determined that SiriusXMās ālong and burdensomeā cancellation process is illegal. In a ruling on Thursday, Judge Lyle Frank found SiriusXM violates a federal law that requires companies to make it easy to cancel a subscription. The decision comes nearly one year after New York Attorney General Leticia James sued SiriusXM over claims the company makes subscriptions difficult to cancel. Following an investigation,... Read more āŗ
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has been trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 for months now, ahead of the end of support date for Windows 10 in October, 2025. Earlier this year, Microsoft started using fullscreen prompts to warn Windows 10 users about the support cutoff, and now itās using similar prompts to try and tempt people to buy a new Windows... Read more āŗ
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge After its foray into headphones, the next major new product category from Sonos is rumored to be a video streaming box similar to a Roku, Amazon Fire TV, or Apple TV. Such a device has been rumored for ages now, with Bloomberg previously reporting that its price is expected to fall between $150 and $200. And today we got confirmation (or at least something... Read more āŗ
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Some Apple Home users have shoehorned iPads into wall-mounted home controllers. However, reports indicate Apple is developing a dedicated home control device. | Photo By Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images The smart home has an interface problem. Searching for an app on your phone, fighting with a confused voice assistant, and fiddling with a āsmartā display to turn off a light is enough to... Read more āŗ
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Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were officially appointed the co-leads of President-elect Donald Trumpās āDepartment of Government Efficiencyā (DOGE) last week, and on Wednesday, the two men spelled out their plans for the advisory group in a long article in The Wall Street Journal. Musk and Ramaswamy say they will āserve as outside volunteersā making recommendations that allow the Trump administration to ācut... Read more āŗ
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