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Google Home hubs get a big upgrade. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
One of the key changes Matter is bringing to the smart home is a standardized way to enable local control of smart devices. This means your light bulb doesn't have to talk to the cloud when you ask your voice assistant to turn it off. While some smart home ecosystems already offer local control, Matter should make implementing it easier for every smart home platform.
This week, Google announced it has added full local control of
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With the decorations packed away for another 12 months and the new year now well and truly begun, developer Mojang has roused from its festive slumber to launch six new features from Minecraft's first planned update of 2025 into testing. Read more Read more âș
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Splash Damage has announced it's cancelling the development of Transformers: Reactivate, and that it'll be "scaling down" the studio as result, leaving roles "at risk of redundancy". Read more Read more âș
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Meta's about-face on fact checking shows how Musk has remade the world in his image. Read more âș
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After nine of public beta access, hugely influential colony sim Dwarf Fortress' roguelike Adventure Mode is getting its full Steam release on 23rd January. Read more Read more âș
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"This is likely to end up being one of the most expensive wildfires in modern California history," said AccuWeather's chief meteorologist. Read more âș
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In the UK today, McDonalds is finally launching its Sonic the Hedgehog 3 themed Happy Meals. Read more Read more âș
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The Palisades and Eaton fires are still raging through Los Angeles. Emerging photos offer a glimpse of how devastating their toll will be. Read more âș
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BI has learned that Meta's contract with US fact-checkers will conclude in March. Read more âș
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10 years after he was first attached to the project, It and The Flash director AndrĂ©s Muschietti says he still has plans for Sony's Shadow of the Colossus film adaptation. Read more Read more âș
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Classic FM is launching a new video game music radio series presented by Minecraft YouTuber DanTDM. Read more Read more âș
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Content moderation has always been a nightmare for Meta. But Mark Zuckerberg's "apology tour" from the past few years seems to be officially over. Read more âș
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Only after his hush-money sentencing can NJ officials move to revoke his liquor licenses. A revocation hearing is still pending, they told BI. Read more âș
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The latest crop of AI-enabled wearables like Bee AI and Omi listen to your conversations to help organize your life. They are also normalizing embedded microphones that are always on. Read more âș
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The PokĂ©mon Company will once again hold a PokĂ©mon Presents livestream next month, according to leak of data from PokĂ©mon Go. Read more Read more âș
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Microsoft Azure offers a suite of cloud computing services with a competitive pay-as-you-go pricing model. Some services can even be used for free. Read more âș
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Meta's shocking decision to get rid of its fact-checkers shows how Mark Zuckerberg is reshaping his company in some impactful ways. Read more âș
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Companies have continued to cut jobs in 2025 after a wave of layoffs last year. Microsoft, Blackrock, and Ally are among those shedding staff. Read more âș
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Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge As I write this, there are a lot of social network users who are wondering if they should look for a new home. Over at X, Elon Musk has essentially become part of the incoming Trump administration, while various changes have made the formerly popular social network a dark and forbidding forest for many of its former inhabitants. Meanwhile, Metaâs announcement that it was... Read more âș
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Apple has expanded its production footprint in the United States, with its S9 chip for the Apple Watch now reportedly being manufactured at TSMC's facility in Arizona. According to technology columnist Tim Culpan, TSMC has now started producing Apple's S9 System-in-Package (SiP) chip near Phoenix, Arizona at its Fab 21 plant. The company commenced production of the A16 Bionic chip for the iPhone 15 and âiPhone 15â Plus at the... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images As part of Metaâs sweeping changes to content moderation announced today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company will also be moving its content moderation teams from California to Texas to âhelp remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content,â he wrote on Threads. âWeâre going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and... Read more âș
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Meta says itâs seen the shift to Community Notes âwork on X.â | 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 Metaâs new Trump-friendly policy chief Joe Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas. âWeâve seen this approach work on X â where they... Read more âș
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holding the Project Digits computer on stage at Nvidiaâs CES 2025 press conference. | Image: Nvidia If you were looking for your own personal AI supercomputer, Nvidia has you covered. The chipmaker announced at CES itâs launching a personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits in May. The heart of Project Digits is the new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which packs enough processing power to run sophisticated... Read more âș
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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 âș
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Image: The Verge Xbox chief Phil Spencer has been dropping hints about an Xbox handheld for months, but what about Windows handheld gaming PCs? Jason Ronald, Microsoftâs VP of âNext Generation,â tells The Verge that we should expect to see the Windows handheld gaming experience change within this calendar year. Ronald was a roundtable panelist this evening at an AMD and Lenovo event titled âThe Future of Gaming Handhelds,â which... Read more âș
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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 âtemper expectationsâ about the polarizing vehicle. âItâs a great product, but financially, it will take, I donât know, a year to 18 months before it is a significant positive cash flow contributor,â Musk said in the... Read more âș
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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, youâll get a page that looks an awful lot like... Google. Itâs 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 âș
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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 âș
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Image: Chris Welch / The Verge Afeela is starting to become a little bit more than just a feeling. The electric vehicle thatâs a joint venture between Sony and Honda is finally available for preorder. And it only took five years to get here. At its press conference at CES today, Sony Honda Mobility announced pricing and preorder details for Afeela. The vehicle will come in two trims: the $89,900... Read more âș
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Image: HDMI Forum The HDMI Forum is using CES â the annual showcase of all things home theater â to announce the new HDMI 2.2 specification. In a press release this morning, the trade association confirmed that the new spec will up total bandwidth significantly to a new high of 96Gbps. And yes, that means the introduction of an âUltra96â HDMI cable that âenables all the HDMI 2.2 specification features.â... Read more âș
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