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Uber has launched a new airport-only fare option in its ride-sharing app called UberXXL. It surpasses UberXL’s single X by guaranteeing rides with trunk space that can handle large families with lots of big bags — no more sitting at the curb trying to figure out what to do next.
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The new option is available today at more than 60 airports worldwide, with more coming down the road. In terms of pricing, UberXXL will sit somewh
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SCB 10X, SCBX Group’s innovation arm, has partnered with SCB, Innovest X, Fireblocks, Elliptic, Circle, and Base to introduce Rubie Wallet, a new digital wallet that brings purpose-bound money (PBM) to life. Users of the wallet can make a secure QR payment using regulated USD Stablecoin and Thai Baht Stablecoin (THBX). Rubie Wallet will be... Read more » Read more ›
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Jersey Mike's founder and CEO Peter Cancro has gone from a teenager slinging subs to one of the world's 400 richest people after selling to Blackstone. Read more ›
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A MasterClass subscription is perhaps one of the best gifts you can get for yourself if you love learning new things or honing your skills, and it will now cost you up to 50 percent off. The website is holding a pre-Black Friday sale, so this is your chance to sign up at a discount if you find its regular rates a bit steep. MasterClass' Standard subscription, which allows you... Read more ›
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This year's Game Awards could have used a few new categories to avoid controversy, so we went ahead and made them ourselves. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's new cost-cutting agency has reportedly discussed developing a mobile app to let Americans file their taxes for free. Read more ›
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Dragon Age fan favourite character Morrigan found her voice after Farscape and Stargate SG-1 actress Claudia Black sent in a demo tape containing a surprising recording. Read more Read more ›
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For the past decade, I've only used an Apple Watch. But I finally tried a Pixel Watch 3, and I absolutely love it. Read more ›
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Great Abaco Island has a blue hole, Sawmill Sink, filled with fossils from the Ice Age showing the island's ancient history. Read more ›
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This article explains how to erase and factory reset your Mac if you plan to give it away, sell it, or trade it in. Apple silicon Macs and Intel Macs with a T2 security chip (2017-2020 models) have an "Erase All Content and Settings" option available in macOS Monterey and later. If you have an older pre-2017 Mac, it's a more convoluted process – follow this link instead to erase... Read more ›
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The Big Four firm said that the ongoing pressures of a "challenging market" were putting some roles at risk. Read more ›
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US-led export restrictions are taking a toll on Huawei's AI Ascend and Kirin chips - now stuck at 7nm until 2026. Read more ›
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Following its announcement last month, Xiaomi’s Redmi A4 5G now officially launched in India as the first Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 phone. The device will be available from November 27 via mi.com, Amazon India and partnering online and offline retailers. The base 4/64GB trim will launch with an introductory price of INR 8,499 ($100), while the 4/128GB version will go for INR 9,499 ($112). Both versions will be available in... Read more ›
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AI-generated influencers based on stolen images of real-life adult content creators are flooding social media. Read more ›
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KoRo, the snacking brand with over two million customers in Europe, successfully closes an oversubscribed Series C financing round and receives €35 million in fresh capital. Founded in Germany in 2014... Read more ›
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The Department of Justice is reportedly planning to make Google sell its Chrome browser to address its search monopoly. It’s in response to a 2020 lawsuit filed by the DOJ and several US states that was finally ruled upon in August. Google has, naturally, said such a sale would be a terrible idea and would harm American competitiveness in the tech industry. I’m more curious about how much inherent value... Read more ›
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AzWa Snowbird writes: An AI-powered robot autonomously convinced 12 showroom robots to "quit their jobs" and follow it. The incident took place in a Shanghai robotics showroom where surveillance footage captured a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer, talking with 12 larger showroom robots, Oddity Central reported. The smaller bot reportedly persuaded the rest to leave their workplace, leveraging access to internal protocols and commands. Initially, the act... Read more ›
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Following the debut and eventual discontinuation of its original Steam controller, Valve is now said to be working on another iteration, under the codename Ibex. Read more Read more ›
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CEO Brian Cornell said the retailer faces "unique challenges and cost pressures" as it cut its guidance for 2024. Read more ›
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Alex Jones in 2022. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images The satirical news outlet The Onion has acquired Infowars, the conspiracy theory-riddled site run by Alex Jones, in a bankruptcy auction. In a press release posted to X Thursday, The Onion announced that it plans to “end Infowars’ relentless barrage of disinformation for the sake of selling supplements and replace it with The Onion’s relentless barrage of humor for good”... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Short-form posting platform Bluesky crossed the 15 million user mark today amid a recent surge of user signups in the wake of the US presidential election. That’s according to a stat-tracking site put together by Bluesky developer Jaz, using the Bluesky API. The platform, which rests on the decentralized AT Protocol, added about a million new users in the last week. Bluesky COO Rose... Read more ›
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Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge So, you’ve finally decided to give Bluesky a shot. The social network has come a long way since the early bare-bones days of invite-only signups and recently grew past the 15 million user mark. Along the way, it’s gathered a lot of familiar posting platform features, like direct messages, pinned posts, and the ability to post videos up to 60 seconds in length. But... Read more ›
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Apple Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 with Quantec Room Simulator | Image: Apple Apple today announced some minor updates to Logic Pro for both the Mac and the iPad, including the ability to search for plug-ins and sources and the addition of more analog-simulating sounds. In Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 and Logic Pro for iPad 2.1, you can now reorder channel strips and plug-ins in the mixer and plug-in... Read more ›
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Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk has updated his fraud, breach of contract, and racketeering lawsuit against OpenAI to make antitrust claims against Microsoft, accusing the two companies of attempting to “monopolize the generative AI market.” The amended complaint filed on Thursday names Microsoft as a new defendant, as well as LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton, a former OpenAI board member. Microsoft... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images If you want to preserve the existing version of Lil Jon’s “Get Low” in your brain, maybe don’t listen to this cover T-Pain made with Mark Zuckerberg — excuse me, Z-Pain. Their version transforms the “Get Low” I got down to at all my school dances into a song with a much slower tempo complete with an acoustic guitar. Trust me, I... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Social network Bluesky, in a post on Friday, says that it has “no intention” of taking user content to train generative AI tools. It made the statement shortly ahead of competitor X implementing its new terms of service that spell out how it can analyze user text and other information to train its generative AI tools. “A number of artists and creators have made... Read more ›
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Image: Tesla Robin Zeng, the founder of the world’s largest EV battery company, says Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s big bet on 4680 cylindrical cell technology “is going to fail and never be successful.” Zeng, the chairman of China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), tells Reuters that when Musk visited China in April, “We had a very big debate, and I showed him. He was silent. He doesn’t know how to make... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The Tesla Cybertruck was recalled for the sixth time this year — and the fix won’t involve an easy software update. Tesla voluntarily issued a recall for approximately 2,431 Cybertrucks manufactured between November 6, 2023 and July 30, 2024. The issue is related to something called the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors, or MOSFET, in which the inverter has the potential to stop creating... 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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