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An investigation conducted by a data privacy group has revealed a vast tracking network that can follow the movements of a person’s phone, according to reports from 404 Media and Krebs on Security. The people-tracking service, called Locate X, reportedly lets users follow a device using its mobile advertising identifier, a unique number assigned to phones.
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Sony is developing a portable version of the PlayStation 5, according to a new report. Read more Read more ›
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President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk have become an inseparable duo. Since Trump’s reelection, the richest man in the world — and one of Trump’s top campaign donors — has been a shadow trailing him at his Florida residence. The tech billionaire has taken center stage in the incoming administration, promising to slash $2 trillion […] Read more ›
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Vice President Sara Duterte said she had talked to a hitman to kill her boss if she herself were to be killed, saying she was making "no joke." Read more ›
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The West focused for decades on advanced and complex systems over a sheer volume of weaponry. Russia's invasion of Ukraine shows that needs a rethink. Read more ›
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Kurt Campbell, the US deputy secretary of state, said China is being kept in the dark about the friendship between Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin Read more ›
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Since launch, Tesla's polarizing electric pickup has been beset by quality issues, and is now heading to be one of the most unreliable EVs made yet. Strangely, Cybertruck owners may not care one bit. Read more ›
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Google has announced that Google Tasks is now part of Google Calendar on Android, so we're fearing for its future. Read more ›
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The new console will build on the Playstation Portal (pictured) which was reportedly originally intended to work as a standalone device. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Sony is currently making a new handheld gaming console that allows users to play PlayStation 5 games anywhere. According to Bloomberg, the console is being developed to compete against Nintendo and Microsoft in the portable gaming market, and is... Read more ›
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In the Western world, some automated driving features seem to have fallen out of favor. Not true in China—and the reasons why offer a preview of auto industry changes to come. Read more ›
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Realme has decided to separate the Neo series from the GT lineupRealme VP and Global Marketing President Xu Qi Chase made the announcement on Weibo. The GT will be the high-end "performance flagship series", while Neo will be the "midrange e-sports flagship". The first phone in the newly standalone series will be the Realme Neo7 in December. Xu Qi Chase highlighted previous achievements of the GT Neo phones' - the... Read more ›
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Musk, who is set to advise President-elect Donald Trump on government efficiency, has said before that the F-35 program would lose to a drone fighter. Read more ›
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An American Airlines Boeing 777 turned back to São Paulo after encountering turbulence. The airline said the seatbelt sign was on at the time. Read more ›
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Kristen Radtke / The Verge Bluesky feels like the big winner right now. I’ve been covering Bluesky ever since I got my invite in April 2023. I’ve 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 didn’t have the critical mass of users that I could follow... Read more ›
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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 government’s bloat and posting about them to his hundreds of millions of followers on X. Earlier this week, as first... Read more ›
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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 that’s rolling out starting later today, you’ll be able to stream select PS5 games from the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog to your PlayStation... Read more ›
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Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge HarperCollins has agreed with an unnamed AI tech company to let the company use some nonfiction titles to train its models, 404 Media reports, but only if authors opt-in to having their books be used for training. Some authors are currently suing companies like OpenAI, accusing them of copyright infringement for training AI models on their works without permission. According to a statement HarperCollins... Read more ›
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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 ›
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Image: Universal Jon M. Chu’s Wicked adaptation gets at the heart of what makes musicals such a spectacular form of storytelling. Continue reading… Read more ›
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The US Department of Energy headquarters building on February 9th, 2024, in Washington, DC. | Photo by J. David Ake / Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy is fossil fuel executive Chris Wright — who has misleadingly claimed on LinkedIn that “there is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.” Hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, and other disasters exacerbated... Read more ›
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Image: The Verge A New York judge has determined that SiriusXM’s “long and burdensome” 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 ›
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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 it’s using similar prompts to try and tempt people to buy a new Windows... Read more ›
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New V4 cabinet and Supercharger stalls. | Image: Tesla Tesla will launch fully realized V4 Supercharger stations that support up to 500kW charging for EVs and 1.2MW for Tesla’s commercial Semi trucks next year. Sites with new V4 cabinets are going into permitting now. When they open next year, they’ll connect the charging stalls EVs plug into with upgraded electronics that support faster charging on Cybertruck and other manufacturers’ EVs.... Read more ›
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