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MKBHD’s new wallpaper app has received its first big update after users criticized the app over pricing and the advertising setup for free accounts. On Friday, the Panels account announced on X that people using the app for free can now download high-resolution images — not just standard-definition ones — by watching a single ad.
The app previously required users to sign up for a $11.99 per month (or $49.99 per year) subscription to access images in full resolution. It also.
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Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Intel may have one less worry on its very full plate: it believes it has now fully addressed its desktop CPU instability woes with 13th and 14th Gen “Raptor Lake” chips. While the company says there’s still no fix for processors that are already damaged, it confirms to me that the “Vmin Shift Instability” is the root cause of the unusual instability and... Read more ›
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Some police are getting plugged into Google Maps data — and that's actually a good thing. Read more ›
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Sesame Workshop's chief marketer, Samantha Maltin, is leaving. Her exit follows a CEO change and arrives ahead of an upcoming "Sesame Street" revamp. Read more ›
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IEEE predicts a steady rise in HDD capacity in the next 13 years, and the number of drives sold is also set to increase. Read more ›
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Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg appear to be mending their frayed relationship, with the Oculus founder recently visiting Meta for a private demo. Read more ›
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Square Enix’s multiplayer shooter Foamstars is moving to a free-to-play model. The four-player team multiplayer melee officially turned into a free game today on Sony’s PlayStation 4 and 5 meaning you also won’t need a PlayStation Plus subscription to play it, according to a posting on the studio’s support page. If you purchased the game before Square Enix’s price change, the studio will send you a free “Legacy Gift” that... Read more ›
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Ryan Reynolds discusses his desire to bring Captain America back as Johnny Storm in the new Marvel movie. Read more ›
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X has lost a legal fight in Australia in which the company tried to avoid a $400,000 fine by claiming that Twitter no longer exists. The creative legal argument, first spotted by ArsTechnica, came amid a more than year-long dispute with Australia’s eSafety Commission. The commission had asked the company, then known as Twitter, to provide details about its handling of child sexual exploitation on the platform last February. In... Read more ›
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Taiwanese company Novatek has announced plans to begin mass production of OLED displays with TDDI (touch and display driver integration) technology as early as the second quarter of 2025, supply chain publication DigiTimes reported today. The report states that Apple is "expected" to be one of Novatek's first customers, although this claim appears to be speculative. "While industry insiders remain tight-lipped about potential end customers, speculation suggests that Novatek's proposed... Read more ›
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Apple today shared a video ad that highlights the new Camera Control on the latest iPhone 16 models, offering a quick look at the button in action. While the ad is for the iPhone 16 Pro, the Camera Control is available on all four iPhone 16 models. The button provides quick access to the iPhone's camera, and you can press or swipe on it to adjust functions like zoom, exposure,... Read more ›
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Costco has added platinum to its precious metals offering, but experts caution that the coins and bars are not considered a safe-haven investment. Read more ›
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Hurricane Helene's heavy rains devastated western North Carolina, and few properties had flood insurance. Read more ›
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Western North Carolina, and parts of South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee have been devastated by Hurricane Helene. Here's how you can help. Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Gamers hoping to spend an evening in front of their PlayStation 5 or PlayStation 4 may be out of luck, as Sony’s gaming network is suffering a massive outage on Monday night. The official PSN Service Status page confirms problems affecting everything “Other, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PS5, Web.” If it’s PlayStation — it’s not working. On my end, attempting to launch a... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Verizon is experiencing a huge outage affecting its mobile services across the country. “During the incident we received reports from Clermont, Naples, Ocala, St. Petersburg, Decatur, Carmel, Cloverdale, Indianapolis, Caldwell, Ottawa, Shawnee, Lexington, Louisville, Wentzville, Elizabeth, Dallas, Houston, McGaheysville, Keyser, Chillicothe and 53 other cities,” according to a website tracking the outage. There are also more than 90,000 user reports of problems on D Read more ›
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Flooding in Boone, NC, about an hour northeast of Spruce Pine. | Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images Hurricane Helene brought historic rainfall and flooding to western North Carolina last week, leaving dozens dead and catastrophic damage stretching across the state’s mountain towns. The devastation also reached the small town of Spruce Pine, which is home to the purest quartz on Earth. Spruce Pine’s high-quality quartz is an essential ingredient... Read more ›
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Image: Microsoft Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don’t want to subscribe to Microsoft 365. The standalone Microsoft Office 2024 release is now available for both consumers and small businesses, and includes locked-in-time versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook across both Mac and PC. Office 2024 includes a lot of the updates that Microsoft has been delivering to Microsoft 365... Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nintendo may have just won its battle to put the most popular Nintendo Switch emulators out of business. In March, it sued Yuzu out of existence — and now it may have convinced Yuzu’s primary competitor, Ryujinx, to go away too. Ryujinx’s download page is now empty. Its GitHub is gone. And the emulator’s X social media page and official Discord now contains... Read more ›
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Fasetto’s Audio Cu sends audio signals to surround sound speakers over a home’s existing power lines. | Image: Fasetto Fasetto has announced that its Audio Cu system, which connects TVs and other audio devices to speakers and subwoofers using the existing power line wiring in a home, has received Dolby Atmos Product Certification from Dolby Laboratories. Similar to powerline networking solutions that can leverage existing electrical wiring to share internet... Read more ›
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The ring will come in six colors. | Image: Oura Oura is giving its popular smart ring and app a substantial makeover. The company just announced the $349 Oura Ring 4, which will feature a slimmer design, improved accuracy, and more sizes. Starting today, the Oura app will also be getting a complete redesign to better organize the swath of new features introduced over the past few months. At a... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The Sonos app debacle will go down as an all-time tech industry blunder, but now the company is taking steps to turn the page. Continue reading… Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Spotify appears to be down at the moment, with users across social media having started reporting that the app and website aren’t working over the last hour or so. It’s not working for those of us at The Verge who have tried, either. Downdetector shows a spike in the number of reports about problems with the music streaming service that started at about 10:40AM... Read more ›
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