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The New York Times Tech Guild went on strike at 12:01AM ET today, reports The Washington Post. The guild represents over 600 software engineers, product managers, data analysts, and designers for the media company. Its strike leaves the company bereft of crucial technical expertise just one day before Election Day, when the Timesâ crucial backend systems will be under very heavy stress.
The guild has been bargaining since 2022 for its first union con
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy denied that the company's return-to-office policy is a 'backdoor layoff,' amidst rumors of quiet firing strategies. Read more âș
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Donald Trump is the Republican nominee once again in the 2024 presidential election, but a few things are different this time around. Read more âș
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Illustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images Elon Musk is a busy man right now. Heâs supposedly running X, SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink, all while actively campaigning for Trump. But despite those myriad concerns, Musk still finds the time to play Diablo 4. Heâs even said heâs pretty good at it, claiming in a recent interview with Joe Rogan that heâs in the top 20 of Diablo 4... Read more âș
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Review aggregation site Metacritic has spoken out in response to the ongoing review bombing of Dragon Age: The Veilguard by online commenters upset at the game's inclusive characters and themes. Read more Read more âș
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Chelsey Nelson moved from the US to Australia to be with her boyfriend. They get taxed 39% of their income and they could still afford to buy a house. Read more âș
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The FBI warned on Tuesday that polling stations across multiple U.S. states received fake bomb threats sent from Russian email domains, forcing brief evacuations at two voting sites in Georgia's Fulton County. The threats, which targeted locations in Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, have not been deemed credible, the FBI said in a statement. The evacuated Fulton County sites reopened after 30 minutes, prompting local officials to seek extended voting hours... Read more âș
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Apple's new Mac mini with the M4 Pro chip and MacBook Pro models with M4 Pro and M4 Max chips feature support for the faster Thunderbolt 5 specification, and reputable accessory maker OWC is ready with a new external SSD. Announced in September, OWC's Envoy Ultra external SSD is compatible with Apple's latest Macs, and it has Thunderbolt 5 support for advertised data transfer speeds of more than 6GB per... Read more âș
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Luce is the storm that is approaching anime fans' tier list of the most powerful heroes. Read more âș
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Apple and Masimo are back in a California court this week for a bench trial that will see Masimo arguing that Apple illegally poached its employees and stole trade secrets when developing the Apple Watch. Masimo first filed the trade secret lawsuit against Apple in 2020, and there was a jury trial in April 2023. During that trial, the court threw out more than half of Masimo's trade secret claims,... Read more âș
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The Marvel Disney+ show will enter the awards race as a comedy series, rather than a standalone miniseries. Read more âș
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We are wrapping up the first creator-centric U.S. presidential election, where both candidates tapped social media influencers and appeared on podcasts to reach younger voters. Those efforts have extended to the final 24-hour stretch of the campaign. On Monday, Kamala Harrisâ campaign launched a public broadcast channel on Instagram called âCFK: The Final Push,â referring to the acronym for the campaignâs âCreators for Kamalaâ effort. Itâs since sent a steady... Read more âș
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a "relentless onslaught of change." When reached by TechCrunch, Mozilla Foundation's communications chief Brandon Borrman confirmed the layoffs in an email. "The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility and impact as we accelerate our work... Read more âș
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The Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 and Galaxy Watch Ultra are amazing wearables, and they are seldom priced this low. Read more âș
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Image: Pixelmator Apple has agreed to acquire Pixelmator, a popular image editing app available on Mac and iOS. Pixelmator announced the news in a post on its blog, saying it will now âhave the ability to reach an even wider audience and make an even bigger impact on the lives of creative people around the world.â No details about the deal were revealed except that it is still pending, subject... Read more âș
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Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Appleâs second iOS 18.2 developer beta includes a new feature for updateâs integration with ChatGPT: users will be able to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus from the Settings menu, 9to5Mac reports. ChatGPT Plus is OpenAIâs paid version of ChatGPT, offering features like more messages with its GPT-4o model, for $19.99 per month. If you end up using ChatGPT a lot within iOS â youâll be... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge ChatGPT is officially an AI-powered web search engine. The company is enabling real-time information in conversations for paid subscribers today, with free, enterprise, and education users gaining access in the coming weeks. Rather than launching as a separate product, web search will be integrated into ChatGPTâs existing interface. The feature determines when to tap into web results based on queries, though users can also manually trigger web... Read more âș
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Illustration: The Verge This weekâs new Macs all had one thing in common: a minimum of 16GB of RAM. That was true of the new Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, and iMac, which were all refreshed with M4 processors this week. The MacBook Air was refreshed to start at 16GB of RAM, too, even though it didnât get a bump up to the M4 chip. The change brings an end to... Read more âș
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Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo: GM GMâs Baris Cetinok is committed to building a custom experience to rival that of Apple and Google. Continue reading⊠Read more âș
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Cath Virginia / The Verge Microsoft has been testing a new AI-powered Xbox chatbot, and now Xbox Insiders can try it out for the first time. I exclusively revealed the existence of this new âXbox Support Virtual Agentâ earlier this year, and Microsoft now says itâs designed âto help Xbox players more efficiently solve their support-related gaming issues.â Xbox Insiders in the US can start trying out this new Xbox... Read more âș
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Canonâs budget-friendly VR lens will be available in November with an estimated retail price of $449.99. | Image: Canon Canon has officially announced its new RF-S7.8mm F4 STM Dual lens, which features stereoscopic elements that have been squeezed into a body no larger than a traditional 2D camera lens. It was originally teased during the Apple WWDC 2024 keynote last June and is designed to work with a Canon EOS... Read more âș
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Image: Nintendo While we all wait for the reveal of Nintendoâs next console, the company has once again announced something very different. This time, itâs a mobile app called Nintendo Music, which lets users listen to classic gaming tunes from Nintendo games spanning the last few decades, including Splatoon, Animal Crossing, and The Legend of Zelda. Itâs only available to Switch Online subscribers, and itâs launching later today. The app... Read more âș
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Image: Intel Intel is rolling back one of the biggest changes to its laptop chips in years. Remember how this fallâs Lunar Lake laptops ditched the idea of memory sticks, putting a fixed amount of RAM on the processor package instead? Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger now says that turned out to be a financial mistake, and Intel wonât do it again. Oh, and he may be axing desktop GPUs, too.... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Former President Donald Trump has made immigration a centerpiece of his campaign: heâs promised mass deportations, a crackdown on asylum at the border, and a ban on mortgages for undocumented immigrants. But while Trump rails against illegal immigration, his allies and advisors are also preparing to sharply reduce legal immigration, the Wall Street Journal reports. Groups including the America First Policy Institute,... Read more âș
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