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Amazon will be winding down its Prime Try Before You Buy program, which let Prime members try on clothes before paying for them, reports The Information. It will shutter on January 31st, according to a banner at the top of the service’s landing page.
Amazon spokesperson Maxine Tagay said in a statement emailed to The Verge that the company is discontinuing the service because it only worked for a “limited number of items” and customers have been “increasingly.
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Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Games confirmed it would not "embed social or political agendas" in its games due to the "high risk it can present". Read more Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that Meta will eventually reach a point where all coding for its apps is done by AI. Read more ›
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In an interview with "Pod Save America," Newsom said Trump has been "pretty straightforward" about potentially denying federal aid to California. Read more ›
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After not coming to DIsney+ at all last year, most of Macross is making its way to a single streaming platform in the West. Read more ›
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We already knew that Marvel Rivals has proven incredibly popular since its launch last month - 10 million players joined online at launch - but now it's smashed another milestone, topping 600K concurrent players this weekend on Steam. Read more Read more ›
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So far Meta has only abandoned fact-checking in the US. If and when it expands, the move will be a major blow to the Latin American news ecosystem. Read more ›
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CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show) is the biggest tech convention of the year. It helps set the stage for all the wonderful gadgets we're going to see over the next 12 months. However, among all the quadcopters, questionably benevolent robots and devices with fancy flexible screens, there's a lot of small things that go into making CES a one-of-a-kind event. To highlight some of the silly, stupid and occasionally... Read more ›
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With a film and several game projects in the works, will the world let Horizon get as big as PlayStation wants? Read more ›
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The first season of Marvel Rivals may have started, but it's brought an end to mods that let players be third-party characters. Read more ›
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Yesterday's Marvel Rivals update has seemingly wiped the ability to use mods on PC. Read more Read more ›
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Devil May Cry is coming to Fortnite. Read more Read more ›
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Boring Company is constructing a planned 68-mile tunnel system beneath Las Vegas. Because it’s privately funded, it has not gone through the vetting typical of public transit systems. Read more ›
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About 38,000 acres have burned so far, and at least 11 deaths have been reported, in what could be the most costly fire in California history. Read more ›
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Google Trips' demise is still felt many, many years later. So why hasn't Google addressed the gap? Read more ›
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The Great Salt Lake is rapidly losing water, and new research indicates agriculture is to blame. Read more ›
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Shields detailed the experience in her new book, "Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old." Read more ›
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Friday America's consumer watchdog agency "proposed a rule to give virtual video game currencies protections similar to those of real-world bank accounts..." reports the Washington Post, "so players can receive refunds or compensation for unauthorized transactions, similar to how banks are required to respond to claims of fraudulent activity." The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking public input on a rule interpretation to clarify which rights are protected and available... Read more ›
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Shrek's cinematic return is still coming, but he'll have to wait for the Minions to get done taking over summer 2026. Read more ›
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U.S. Commerce Secretary confirms that TSMC's fab near Phoenix, Arizona, is already producing chips. Read more ›
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Reddit user acquires an Intel Arc B570 GPU four days before its official release. Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images As part of Meta’s 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 “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content,” he wrote on Threads. “We’re going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and... 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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A Super Scooper drops ocean water on the Palisades fire. | Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images An aircraft helping to fight wildfires that are raging across Los Angeles was struck by a civilian drone on Thursday. The collision damaged the wing of the aircraft — a CL-415 “Super Scooper” capable of scooping up 1,600 gallons of ocean water to drop onto nearby blazes —... Read more ›
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Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge You may be wondering how to delete your Facebook account now that fact-checking is no longer considered important, and Meta’s changing its definition of what constitutes Hateful Conduct. It’s easy to do, and we’ll show you how. But, you should download all your stuff first. The following instructions are for the web version of Facebook, but you can follow pretty much the same... Read more ›
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Image: VideoLAN The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real-time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages. “At the same time we have automatic translation working to translate... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holding the Project Digits computer on stage at Nvidia’s 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 it’s 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 ›
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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, Meta’s announcement that it was... Read more ›
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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, Microsoft’s VP of “Next Generation,” 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 “The Future of Gaming Handhelds,” which... 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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Image: Chris Welch / The Verge Afeela is starting to become a little bit more than just a feeling. The electric vehicle that’s 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 ›
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