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Hosting a property on Airbnb is no longer a simple process. Customers can be finicky, ideal pricing can change on a dime, markets can become flooded and earnings can be difficult to track. The platform’s trying to simplify matters by introducing the Co-Host Network, which allows hosts to hire other hosts to manage properties.
Here’s how it works. Property owners can peruse the network for other hosts and scoop them up into a loving embrace of hospitality. The hired hosts can help with just about anything, i
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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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Steam appears to have started posting a notice in its shopping cart that purchases on its storefront are only for a license and not a game, according to a notice spotted by Engadget. It looks like an attempt by the company to get ahead of a new California law coming next year that forces companies to admit that buyers don't actually own digital content. When you open your shopping cart... Read more ›
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Tesla has introduced a robotaxi called Cybercab during its "We, Robot" event at Warner Bros. Discovery's studio in California, six months after Elon Musk revealed that the company was going to launch one. Musk made his way to the stage on a Cybercab, which has no steering wheels or pedals, announcing that "there's 20 more" where it came from. He talked about how our current modes of transportation "suck" and... Read more ›
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In a message to employees, Boeing President and CEO Kelly Ortberg has announced that the company is reducing the size of its total workforce by 10 percent. That means Boeing is cutting roughly 17,000 jobs, including executives and managers, over the coming months. Ortberg, who only took the helm back in August, explained that the company has to "make structural changes" to ensure it can "stay competitive" and deliver for... Read more ›
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Google is turning to nuclear energy to help power its AI drive. On Monday, the company said it will partner with the startup Kairos Power to build seven small nuclear reactors in the US. The deal targets adding 500 megawatts of nuclear power from the small modular reactors (SMRs) by the decade’s end. The first is expected to be up and running by 2030, with the remainder arriving through 2035.... Read more ›
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SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster successfully returned to the pad after liftoff to be caught by the launch tower’s mechanical arms in an incredible feat Sunday morning. The milestone came during the fifth flight of the company’s Starship, and is a huge step for the rocket’s planned reusability. Starship launched at about 8:25AM ET from SpaceX’s Texas Starbase. Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster! pic.twitter.com/6R5YatSVJX— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 13, 2024... Read more ›
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At Tesla’s We, Robot event at Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio in California, the company finally unveiled its robotaxi. The car is expected to go into production before 2027, but even Musk caveated that, saying he was “highly optimistic with timeframes.” The Cybercab doesn’t have a steering wheel and, according to Elon Musk (so pinch of salt!), could be very cheap to run. The Tesla boss said the operating cost of... Read more ›
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The Internet Archive has been hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week that have taken the service offline. The Verge noticed a popup on the site today when the online database went down. The popup has since disappeared, but the site is not currently available. 🚨🚨🚨The Wayback Machine looks like it has been compromised.web[.]archive[.]org pic.twitter.com/MvPshUrs7i— Dark Web Informer (@DarkWebInformer) October 9, 2024 Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle has... Read more ›
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Two former leaders from video game publisher Humble Games, Alan Patmore and Mark Nash, have launched a new outfit called Good Games Group. And ironically, the first deal this indie publisher has landed is with its team's old parent company. According to the statement from Good Games Group, the business will work with Humble Games to provide support for previously released titles. "Good Games Group’s mission is to bring exceptional... Read more ›
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Despite all the inroads AMD has made in recent years with its Zen desktop CPUs, Intel has broadly managed to maintain one critical edge against its longtime rival: gaming performance. For those looking to eke every possible frame out of the latest AAA games, the company’s recent Core 5/7/9 often outperformed their AMD counterparts. Historically, however, that performance has come at the cost of power efficiency and thermals. Intel’s best... Read more ›
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Another breach of a huge financial institution has leaked the personal information of thousands of customers to the public. TechCrunch reported that an unidentified hacker obtained 77,009 customers’ personal data from the asset management firm Fidelity Investments. A filing by Maine’s attorney general posted yesterday revealed that the unidentified third party obtained the information in mid-August using two phony customer accounts. It’s not yet known how these accounts were used... Read more ›
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