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Cities represent the future of humanity — and that means we must figure out how to make them more livable. The share of people who live in urbanized areas more than doubled in the US and across the world from 1900 to 2000. More than eight in 10 Americans live in cities today, as do […]
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Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge The US Federal Trade Commission is taking action against subscriptions that are difficult to get rid of. On Wednesday, it adopted a final “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up. Under the rule, businesses can’t force customers to cancel a subscription using a method different from how they signed up. For example, if you signed up... Read more ›
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Elon Musk is giving a series of events in Pennsylvania this week. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has donated more than $75 million to a pro-Trump super PAC. Read more ›
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Both the Yamaha HS7 and HS8 are solid studio speakers for people serious about music production, but they do differ in a few important ways. Read more ›
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Subscription providers will be required to inform customers what they're signing up for, obtain customer consent, and provide clear mechanisms to cancel. Read more ›
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Amazon’s new Kindle family. | Image: Amazon Amazon just announced four new Kindle e-readers. The Colorsoft Signature Edition is the first color Kindle, there’s a new Kindle Scribe note taker, a faster version of its most popular Paperwhite, and a new entry-level Kindle. The Spanish-language announcement with US pricing seems accidental as none of the links to the Amazon store currently work. Nevertheless, here’s what we know. The Kindle Colorsoft... Read more ›
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"October theory' is the idea that fall is a more productive time to accomplish goals than New Year's because there are 3 months left of the year. Read more ›
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The feature will likely appear in the Android 15 QPR 1 release which is expected to arrive in December. Read more ›
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Sandfall Games just announced the voice cast for its forthcoming turn-based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and it’s absolutely stacked. The actors include Andy Serkis and Charlie Cox, as a start. For the uninitiated, Serkis played a weird little guy named Gollum in some unknown movies about a magical ring. He also gave the iconic “one way out” monologue in Andor. Cox is best known for playing a masked vigilante... Read more ›
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The man, whose body was donated to science, is only the second ever known case of triphallia in the world. Read more ›
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The Samsung Art Store adds beautiful new artworks including 27 classics from the MoMA collection. Read more ›
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Europe’s on-demand food ordering and grocery delivery space has taken massive hits after the pandemic. Many of the on-demand companies—especially the flash delivery companies—are now struggling, and the ones that remain are seeking new avenues of revenue or profit. Glovo, the 2015-launched “multicategory app” as they like to call it, is taking a whole new ... Read more Read more ›
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What’s a color screen for? Color book previews! | Image: David Pierce / The Verge For years, Kindle users have asked Amazon to make a color version of its e-reader. Now, the company is finally delivering: it’s launching the new Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, a device that has a lot in common with the new Paperwhite except instead of black and white it’s color all over. The Colorsoft costs $279.99... Read more ›
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It’s been less than 24 hours since Google began rolling out Android 15 to Pixel devices, but already we’re pretty curious how it’s been treating owners. We’re looking for the hot takes, people. I’ve come across a couple of very minor hiccups so far, but honestly, if I hadn’t known I updated my phone to … Continued Read the original post: Wednesday Question: Pixel Owners, How’s Android 15 Treating You? Read more ›
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The Tesla CEO called his PAC "centrist" because you can just say whatever you want on the internet. Read more ›
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The troubled startup has records of millions of Americans' DNA and personal information. Read more ›
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Purveyor of chipmaking equipment warns of cooling demand, but it’s not just customers spoiling the feast Read more ›
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Image: Square Enix A look at the first two chapters in the return of Max Caulfield. Continue reading… Read more ›
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We asked an expert about the best ways to store all your open wine so it lasts longer. Read more ›
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Investors scooped up only a small number of the Trump family's new World Liberty Financial crypto tokens after website reliability issues interfered with a launch event. Read more ›
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Uber and Lyft driver Tristan Thomas said he's worried Tesla's robotaxis will threaten driver jobs, but thinks Elon Musk's 2027 timeline is unlikely. Read more ›
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Cities represent the future of humanity — and that means we must figure out how to make them more livable. The share of people who live in urbanized areas more than doubled in the US and across the world from 1900 to 2000. More than eight in 10 Americans live in cities today, as do […] Read more ›
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AI companies are on a mission to radically change our world. They’re working on building machines that could outstrip human intelligence and unleash a dramatic economic transformation on us all. Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, has basically told us he’s trying to build a god — or “magic intelligence in the sky,” as he […] Read more ›
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Voters in 10 states will weigh in on abortion-rights ballot measures this November, but only Nebraskans will cast ballots on two competing initiatives. Initiative 439 would establish a state constitutional right to abortion up to fetal viability or when necessary to protect the “health or life” of the pregnant patient. Initiative 434, however, would ban […] Read more ›
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“Social Security reform” is one of those soundbites you might hear every election cycle without anything ever changing. Politicians have been sounding the alarm for decades, saying that the program — which helps retirees, people with disabilities, and their families stay afloat — is quickly running out of money. So what’s actually at stake? Social […] Read more ›
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Most people know Sonoma County, the Northern California region sometimes called America’s Provence, for its lush vineyards, Mediterranean-style villas, and farm-to-table restaurants. But when I traveled to wine country last year, it was to observe a side of Sonoma that few outsiders know about: a dead-of-night animal rights protest at an industrial chicken slaughterhouse, located […] Read more ›
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What is the relationship between creativity and intelligence? That’s a fundamental, perhaps unanswerable, question. Is it also an obsolete one? The question today seems to be: What is the relationship between creativity and artificial intelligence? We tend to think of artistic creativity as a uniquely human endeavor, but what if it can be much more? […] Read more ›
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Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day, and in many ways, it seems like the world has made great strides in mental health care. In 2023 alone, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) poured $1.25 billion into research studying how mental illness manifests in the brain. People are prescribed more psychiatric drugs now than ever, […] Read more ›
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The term “climate haven” never made much sense. After Hurricane Helene dumped two feet of rain on western North Carolina, many major media outlets marveled at how Asheville, which had been celebrated as a climate haven, had been devastated by a climate-related disaster. Some in the media later reported accurately that climate havens don’t actually […] Read more ›
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Hi, I’m Paige Vega, Vox’s climate editor. Over the past few months, I’ve been working with Joseph Lee, a New York City-based journalist and member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe, on a series exploring Indigenous solutions that address extreme weather and climate change. And today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we’ve published the project’s latest feature, […] Read more ›
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