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Microsoft has pulled its $1 Xbox Game Pass trial, just days before Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 releases on October 25th. The 14-day Game Pass trial was removed on October 8th, preventing people from signing up for a trial and playing through the Black Ops 6 campaign without paying for a full month of Game Pass.
Microsoft first stopped its $1 trial for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass in March last year, before bringing it back and nerfing it down to just
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expresses confidence in the resilience of global collaboration. President-elect Trumpâs potential tariffs on Taiwanese semiconductors could disrupt supply chain. Nvidiaâs CEO Jensen Huang believes that global tech collaboration will remain strong, even as the US considers stricter policies on advanced computing products. During a recent visit to Hong Kong, Huang addressed... Read more » Read more âș
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Appleâs latest AirPods Pro are some of our favorite wireless earbuds â and theyâre currently on sale for just $154. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Since the beginning of November, Amazon and other retailers have been releasing a steady drip of early Black Friday deals. However, now that weâre officially just a few days out from the main event, it feels like there are more deals than... Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom is changing its name from Zoom Video Communications Inc. to just Zoom Communications Inc. In a post on the company blog, Zoom Communications CEO Eric Yuan writes that Zoom is now an âAI-first work platform for human connectionâ that delivers âmodern, hybrid work solutions.â Itâs a muddy, if vague, change compared to its 2020 rise when the classic Zoom Meetings product became... Read more âș
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Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage Musically speaking, Iâd say Drake lost the tit-for-tat feud this year between himself and Kendrick Lamar, which culminated in Lamarâs hit song âNot Like Us.â But Drake (real name: Aubrey Graham) doesnât seem to want to accept defeat that easily. In a petition filed in New Yorkâs state Supreme Court on Monday, Drake is accusing Universal Music Group â the label thatâs represented him for his... Read more âș
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Elon Musk is calling F-35 makers "idiots" for building manned jets while drone technology soars. Here's what experts say on the subject. Read more âș
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The ransomware attack at Blue Yonder, which makes the software, also disrupted grocery stores and Fortune 500 firms. Read more âș
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Moisturizing the bag and keeping it in a humidity-controlled environment is essential for retaining its value, a vintage luxury expert says. Read more âș
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NowThis laid off about half its unionized newsroom, the second deep round of cuts this year at the digital news outlet. Read more âș
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In 2028, a NASA mission called Dragonfly will launch using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on a trip to Saturn's moon Titan. Read more âș
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The billionaire investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO suggested that parents read their wills to children before signing it. Read more âș
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A price slash means you can stream Jack Black's new movie, NFL games, Star Trek, Landman and more for less. Read more âș
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The court will seek to determine whether qualifying rural communities should receive federally funded internet access. Read more âș
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Elon Musk says a lot of us are doing it wrong when it comes to posting links on X. He calls it "lazy linking" â a term I've never heard of. Read more âș
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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 reading⊠Read more âș
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Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says job candidates come prepared to answer "gotcha questions," so he likes to put them to work on a real problem instead. Read more âș
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What does a screaming saxophone sound like? The Fugatto model has an answer... Read more âș
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Country music stars are having a standout fashion year. From BeyoncĂ© to Shania Twain, here are the best and worst outfits of 2024 so far. Read more âș
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An ongoing furnace issue at Tesla's Texas factory raised the temperature and created a "constant haze," The Wall Street Journal reported. Read more âș
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The Chinese technology giant is set to release its new Mate 70 smartphones with software and hardware developed locally. Read more âș
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Kristen Radtke / The Verge Bluesky feels like the big winner right now. Iâve been covering Bluesky ever since I got my invite in April 2023. Iâve 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 didnât have the critical mass of users that I could follow... Read more âș
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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 governmentâs bloat and posting about them to his hundreds of millions of followers on X. Earlier this week, as first... Read more âș
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Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming. When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi. But as part of a new system update thatâs rolling out starting later today, youâll be able to stream select PS5 games from the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog to your PlayStation... Read more âș
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Control. | Image: Remedy Entertainment We already knew that the supernatural thriller Control was getting a sequel, but now Remedy has provided some more details on the game. Well, one major detail: Control 2 will be an action RPG, seemingly deviating from the action-adventure template set by the original. The news came during an investors presentation, in which the studio revealed a few other tidbits about the franchise: the original... Read more âș
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Image: Universal Jon M. Chuâs Wicked adaptation gets at the heart of what makes musicals such a spectacular form of storytelling. Continue reading⊠Read more âș
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Image: The Verge A New York judge has determined that SiriusXMâs âlong and burdensomeâ 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 âș
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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 itâs using similar prompts to try and tempt people to buy a new Windows... Read more âș
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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 âș
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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 âsmartâ display to turn off a light is enough to... Read more âș
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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 Trumpâs âDepartment of Government Efficiencyâ (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 âserve as outside volunteersâ making recommendations that allow the Trump administration to âcut... Read more âș
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