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Removable Bosch batteries like the ones on this Gazelle Eclipse would be rendered useless if stolen. | Image: Gazelle
Electric bikes built around Bosch’s smart drive systems will be getting a new digital Battery Lock function this summer that would make stolen batteries worthless to thieves looking to make a quick buck. Great idea — if only Bosch wasn’t being so greedy with the rollout.
Battery theft is a major issue. I’ve personally had to replace two stolen e-bike batteries here in the Netherlands
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China EV sales projected to reach 12 million units in 2025, overtaking conventional vehicle sales. Government incentives and fierce domestic competition drive EV adoption. Sales of Chinese electric vehicles are on track to achieve a milestone in 2025, with EVs expected to outsell traditional combustion engine cars in the country for the first time. The... Read more » Read more ›
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Wellness brand Moonbird launched a kids’ version of its stress-relief breathwork device at CES 2025 and it is so cute. Moonbuddy is like a little calming companion — the roughly egg-shaped device is outfitted in a silicone animal costume and offers tactile guidance for breathing exercises. It’s designed to help kids slow things down for a few minutes so they can feel grounded and ultimately more relaxed. Unlike the adult... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are off to a flying start in 2025 as excitement about AI sent their companies' stocks even higher. Read more ›
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Meta says it’s seen the shift to Community Notes ‘work on X.’ | Image: The Verge Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program inspired by X, according to an announcement penned by Meta’s new Trump-friendly policy chief Joe Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas. “We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they... Read more ›
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Image: Sony You can finally make your PS5 gaming set up all black everything. Sony has announced that it will soon release the rest of the PS5 suite of accessories in the midnight black colorway. Sony’s offering the Dual Sense Edge Controller, the Pulse wireless headphones and earbuds, and the PlayStation Portal in sleek and sexy midnight black to match the PS5 cover and Dual Sense controller it released back... Read more ›
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Meta announced on Tuesday that it will no longer employ fact checkers to moderate content, and instead rely on an army of volunteer users. Read more ›
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Small portable Bluetooth speakers are a great way to take the party on the road, and this 2nd-gen Bose SoundLink Flex speaker is the best you can get. Read more ›
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Microsoft has announced its first wave of Game Pass titles for January. Read more Read more ›
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It’s been a while since I’ve tried a pair of personal cinema-style AR glasses given their propensity to be rubbish. The field of view is often too restrictive, they’re often too low-res and they’re often prone to giving me eyestrain headaches. But after I tried on Xreal’s new One Pro glasses at CES 2025, I was suitably impressed as the company's latest addresses all of those gripes and plenty more.... Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg announcea Meta's shift to community notes, replacing fact-checkers and easing content restrictions. Read more ›
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Black Friday is more than a month behind us, but it seems Beats isn’t done with its deals. The 2024 Beats Pill is now $100, down from $150. The last time we saw the speaker on sale for $100 was during Black Friday, and we’re glad to see this discount again. The 2024 Beats Pill is a portable powerhouse with several upgrades compared to its predecessor. It has improved sound... Read more ›
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A brand new Guitar Hero controller will be released for the Wii in the year 2025. Read more Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said moving teams from California to Texas and other states would help address concerns of overcensorship on its platforms. Read more ›
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Donald Trump Jr. is set to travel to Greenland this week. The move comes shortly after his father revisited the idea of the US taking over the island. Read more ›
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To paraphrase an old TV commercial, Chevrolet is as all-American as baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie. But when did the car brand start, and who owns it now? Read more ›
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Bethesda designer Will Shen, who worked on several high profile titles such as Starfield and Skyrim, has said he believes players are becoming "fatigued" with games that take hours upon hours upon hours to complete. Read more Read more ›
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My Neos premium-economy upgrade got me perks like lounge access, a delicious in-flight meal, and a spacious seat for my eight-hour flight to Italy. Read more ›
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LG has shown off a new Ultrafine 6K monitor at CES 2025. The 32-inch display is the first of its kind to support Thunderbolt 5, which Apple introduced late last year with the launch of new Mac mini and MacBook Pro models powered by M4 Pro chips. Details are scant, but we do know that the LG UltraFine 6K monitor (model 32U990A) features a Nano IPS Black panel, delivering a... Read more ›
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Razer brought a fancypants monitor stand to CES 2025 in Las Vegas, and this one features RGB lights. The Chroma stand is an ergonomic unit built from anodized aluminum, with a sleek black matte finish. It can support up to 44 pounds, which should easily accommodate most monitors. The integrated RGB lighting supports up to 16.8 million colors and can run a series of lighting effects. Users create custom lighting... Read more ›
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A Tesla Cybertruck appeared to explode outside of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday morning. A video shared on X shows the truck engulfed in flames just outside the hotel’s lobby, with the person who captured it saying the Cybertruck “blew up.” It’s still not clear what caused the fire, or if there were any injuries. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said they are “investigating” and that... Read more ›
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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Federal net neutrality rules, which briefly came back from the dead under the Biden administration, have been struck down by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The three-judge panel ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not have the authority to impose net neutrality rules on internet service providers (ISPs). The FCC sought to reclassify ISPs as... Read more ›
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The Verge / Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images A few months before the first Cybertrucks were delivered to customers, Tesla CEO Elon Musk got on a call with investors and said he wanted to “temper expectations” about the polarizing vehicle. “It’s a great product, but financially, it will take, I don’t know, a year to 18 months before it is a significant positive cash flow contributor,” Musk said in the... Read more ›
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Image: The Verge Microsoft is pulling yet another trick to get people to use its Bing search engine. If you use Bing right now without signing into a Microsoft account and search for Google, you’ll get a page that looks an awful lot like... Google. It’s a clear attempt from Microsoft to make Bing look like Google for this specific search query, and other searches just list the usual Bing... Read more ›
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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has agreed to a $95 million settlement with users whose conversations were inadvertently captured by its Siri voice assistant and potentially overheard by human employees. The proposed settlement, reported by Bloomberg, could pay many US-based Apple product owners up to $20 per device for up to five Siri-enabled devices. It still requires approval by a judge. If approved, the settlement would... Read more ›
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Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Apple CEO Tim Cook is the next tech exec to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, according to Axios. Cook’s donation follows similar commitments from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos through Amazon, and Meta as Big Tech companies and executives work to curry favor with the incoming administration. Cook famously built a personal relationship with Trump during his... Read more ›
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Popeye’s first appearance in E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theatre comic strip. | Image: King Features It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic book character Tintin, are now free to reuse and repurpose in the US. Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of Public... Read more ›
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Two cooling towers being rehabilitated for nuclear power generation under Microsoft at Crane Clean Energy Center, previously known as Three Mile Island, stand tall over the residential and farm lands to the east across the Susquehanna River, on Wednesday, October 30th, 2024, in Middletown, Pennsylvania. | Photos by Wesley Lapointe for The Washington Post via Getty Images The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages government buildings, just announced a major... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company is confident that it knows “how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it,” referring to the tech industry’s long-sought benchmark of artificial general intelligence. And he predicts that AI agents capable of autonomously performing certain tasks may start to “materially change the output of companies” this year. Altman made the announcement in... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge It’s time for the biggest tech show of the year. CES 2025 officially kicks off next week, with most of the industry’s biggest names gathering in Las Vegas to announce new products and demonstrate some of the most exciting tech they have coming throughout the year. CES is traditionally a show about TVs, laptops, and smart home tech. But it’s increasingly become a big... Read more ›
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