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Jay Peters @ The Verge 1 place · today 11:00 EDT

Yelp is creating its own AI videos about restaurants

Yelp is going to use AI to stitch together user-posted content about restaurants, food, and nightlife businesses to make short videos about those businesses. The company initially started testing the AI-stitched videos last year, but they’re now available nationwide on the iOS app’s TikTok-like vertically scrolling home feed. Business operators can’t currently see the videos [
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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge 2 place · today 07:00 EDT

Home Depot now has an app-controlled version of its viral Halloween skeleton

The summer isn’t halfway over, and Home Depot already wants you to start thinking about Halloween. After introducing a limited-edition animated version of its 12-foot-tall skeleton decoration last year, the hardware company is hoping for more viral fame this year with a new Ultra Skelly. At 6.5 feet tall, it’s much smaller than the original [
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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge 3 place · today 09:39 EDT

One of Nintendo’s most creative Super Nintendo games is now on the Switch

Last night, Nintendo quietly added Mario Paint to the Nintendo Switch Online’s catalog of Super Nintendo games. Originally released back in 1992, Mario Paint was a unique SNES title, because although it included a handful of mini games, it was first and foremost a creative tool letting players draw, paint, animate, and even compose music [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · today 10:00 EDT

Google Workspace is rolling out a security update to stop token stealing attacks

Google Workspace is launching a new security measure to help prevent the same type of account takeover attack that impacted Linus Tech Tips. The feature, which is rolling out in beta for Chrome users on Windows, is designed to block bad actors from remotely stealing the cookies that keep you logged into your Workspace account. [
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Victoria Song @ The Verge · today 10:54 EDT

The dangerously blurry line between wellness and medical tech

Few things scratch my brain like a good beef. Kendrick vs. Drake. Justin Baldoni vs. Blake Lively. On my beat, it's usually two companies fighting over health tech patents. So-and-so copied a feature from so-and-so. The latest dispute on my radar is all about semantics. More specifically, the exact meaning of wellness. Let me catch [
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Cameron Faulkner @ The Verge · today 10:00 EDT

What’s on your desk, Cameron Faulkner?

Cameron Faulkner describes himself as “a New York City transplant who’s lived in Brooklyn since 2012.” He continues, “When I’m not at work, I try to get as far away from my computer as I can (I don’t always succeed), spending time with my wife, 15-month-old son, and two cats. I enjoy walking around, playing [
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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · today 10:49 EDT

You can get two long-range Tile Pro trackers for the price of one

The Tile Pro is a helpful gadget that lets you more easily find your stuff, whether you’re gearing up for summer vacation or heading back to school. Attach it to anything from dorm keys to luggage, and its 500-feet Bluetooth range (combined with Tile Network and Amazon Sidewalk) boosts your chances of finding things you [
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Justine Calma @ The Verge · today 08:00 EDT

Trump’s AI plan is a massive handout to gas and chemical companies

The Trump administration put out its vision for AI infrastructure in the US last week. It's a dream for the fossil fuel and chemical industries - and a nightmare for wind and solar energy and the environment. An "AI Action Plan" and flurry of executive orders Donald Trump signed last week read like manifestos on [
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Tanya Tianyi Chen @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 16:22 EDT

Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is privacy nightmare

An app designed to help women spot the "red flags" of men they date has incidentally put its users at risk. 404 Media reported that Tea was hacked by 4chan users last week, resulting in the selfies and driver's licenses of its mostly women users being posted to 4chan. An independent researcher for 404 Media [
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 17:06 EDT

Warner Bros. Discovery will be Warner Bros. and Discovery after they break up

This time next year, the corporate entity known as Warner Bros. Discovery will be no more, and the two companies it’s splitting into have some very inspired names. Today, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that “Warner Bros.” and “Discovery Global” are the names of the two new businesses that will exist after it completes its restructuring [
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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 12:26 EDT

Sony details its ‘FlexStrike’ wireless PS5 fight stick

Sony has shared more details about its arcade-style controller for the PlayStation that was first teased during the State of Play event in early June. Originally codenamed Project Defiant, the fight stick is now called the FlexStrike and features a rechargeable battery, mechanical switch buttons, restrictor gates that limit the joystick’s movements, and the ability [
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 11:57 EDT

Avatar: Fire and Ash brings war to Pandora in first trailer

The first trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash is finally here, and it looks like James Cameron might have made another banger. Though Avatar: The Way of Water ended on hopeful note with Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their family finding a new home with a different group of Na’vi, Fire and [
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Cameron Faulkner @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 10:19 EDT

Mario Kart World and other Switch 2 games are 10 percent off

I wasn’t expecting to see any deals on Switch 2 games for a while. Even though the console is currently much easier to find in stock, game discounts — especially ones on first-party Nintendo launch games — aren’t the norm. However, you can get 10 percent off on the likes of Mario Kart World, and [
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Jon Fortt @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 10:00 EDT

ChatGPT can be a disaster for lawyers — Robin AI says it can fix that

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Jon Fortt — CNBC journalist, cohost of Closing Bell: Overtime, and creator of the Fortt Knox streaming series on LinkedIn. This is the last episode I’ll be guest-hosting for Nilay while he’s out on parental leave. We have an exciting crew who will take over for me after that, [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 09:30 EDT

Temu users face a ‘high risk’ of finding illegal products, EU says

Temu users in the European Union are at “high risk” of coming across illegal products while shopping on the platform, as reported earlier by The Financial Times. Preliminary findings from the European Commission’s investigation into the platform uncovered baby toys, small electronics, and other items on Temu considered counterfeit, unsafe, or “non-compliant.” Last year, the [
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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 09:29 EDT

Xbox will let you play Silksong at Gamescom in August

Microsoft will let Gamescom attendees play a demo of the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong on the new ROG Xbox Ally handhelds. It’s part of more than 20 titles that will be available at the Xbox booth at Gamescom, including a new theater experience to demonstrate The Outer Worlds 2. Silksong will be available to play on the new [
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Darryl Campbell @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 08:00 EDT

How Trump let Boeing off the hook for the 737 MAX crashes

On July 18th, a federal judge in Texas scheduled what will likely be the final hearing in the case of United States v. The Boeing Company. After five years of litigation, the end result can only be described as a victory for Boeing - and a permanent setback for those who hoped that the company [
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Tom Warren @ The Verge 1 place · 07/28/2025 05:59 EDT

Reddit and Discord’s UK age verification can be defeated by Death Stranding’s photo mode

Enforcement of the UK's new online safety rules started on Friday, forcing a variety of platforms to roll out mandatory age verification tools for Brits. We already know that the age-gating checks are easy to bypass with a VPN, but what we didn't know is that the face scanning tools used by platforms like Reddit [
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Vjeran Pavic @ The Verge · 07/27/2025 13:47 EDT

The Fujifilm X-E5 proves familiar isn’t always a bad thing 

The X-E5 is Fujifilm's tiny powerhouse. It's part of a line of cameras that has often been described as similar to the X100, except with an interchangeable lens. But the X-E line has evolved this year and is taking on a new shape. It used to be seen as a budget option, but at $1,699, [
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Brandt Ranj @ The Verge · 07/27/2025 10:00 EDT

The Verge’s 2025 back-to-school shopping guide

Back-to-school season is closer than you might realize, especially for college students, many of whom are set to return to campus in a matter of a few short weeks. And while school can be a challenging time on many fronts, regardless of the grade, there are tools that can help you better prepare for life [
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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 07/27/2025 08:00 EDT

Apple beta season is here

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 91, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, how is summer more than a month over already, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I'm pondering the leaked Pixel 10 lineup, marveling [
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Antonio G. Di Benedetto @ The Verge 1 place · 07/26/2025 10:00 EDT

Here are the laptops I’d tell any parent to consider for their back-to-school student

We’re in the heart of summer fun, but it’s already time for back-to-school planning, especially if that involves buying a new laptop. The dizzying number of different laptops and configurations can feel overwhelming, especially if you want something that doesn’t cost too much but will still last a long time. My general guidelines are to [
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Tina Nguyen @ The Verge 1 place · 07/26/2025 09:30 EDT

Online MAGA cope is now Congressional strategy

When it comes to defending Donald Trump from the worst accusations, the MAGA influencer-industrial complex, whether out of loyalty or self-preservation, often defaults to whataboutism, arguing that the Democrats are just as guilty as Trump, or (ideally) worse. This principle has held true with the current Jeffrey Epstein saga, and as their audience's anger against [
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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 07/26/2025 09:00 EDT

The Drifter is a good old-fashioned thriller

Point-and-click adventure games often tell silly, lighthearted stories. For me, the mishaps of the pirate Guybrush Threepwood in the Monkey Island series come to mind. The nature of the genre - wandering around, talking to people, and trying to solve puzzles - lends itself well to humor, as every interaction with a person or object [
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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 07/26/2025 08:30 EDT

OnePlus Nord 5 review: selfie-centric midranger

The OnePlus Nord 5 does exactly what the company's Nord phones have always done: deliver strong specs at a relatively low price. It's one of the more powerful phones at this price point and should easily outstrip Samsung and Google's more expensive alternatives. This is a function-over-form phone, one where the key selling points are [
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Jackson Ryan @ The Verge 2 place · 07/26/2025 08:00 EDT

Inside the struggle to create a cozy Lord of the Rings game

When new employees start at Weta Workshop, they're herded into a meeting room with a long, unassuming conference table. On the walls, behind panes of glass and in between statues, swords, and masks, are five Oscars. Four of them were awarded to the studio for its efforts on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings [
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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 07/25/2025 19:19 EDT

GPD’s monster Strix Halo handheld requires a battery ‘backpack’ or a 180W charger

Yesterday, I mentioned how GPD is teasing the most potent handheld yet made — a GPD Win 5 that will house the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip, with AMD’s most powerful integrated graphics yet, inside a PlayStation Vita-shaped machine. If you’ve been wondering how that huge chip could even fit, handheld expert Cary “The Phawx” [
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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 07/25/2025 16:43 EDT

DJI couldn’t confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban

DJI barely sells drones in the United States anymore. The shelves are bare; resellers are jacking up prices. It appears an unofficial ban at US customs is to blame. But on Amazon, you can now buy a drone that's a a dead ringer for the DJI Mini 4 Pro - the SkyRover X1 - for [
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Alex Heath @ The Verge · 07/25/2025 15:52 EDT

Google gets its swag back

This week, I take a look at the surprisingly strong state of Google, Meta gets a new chief AI researcher, and more. If you haven't already, be sure to check out this week's Decoder episode about deepfakes and where they are headed. Also, do you use an AI coding tool like Cursor or GitHub Copilot? [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 07/25/2025 15:16 EDT

Comcast’s fix for streaming service overload is in your cable box

Streaming has become a tangled web of subscriptions, and now Comcast says it can help by putting all your services into one hub. Comcast is launching a new hub on its set-top boxes, called the StreamStore, where you can buy and manage subscriptions for more than 450 streaming apps and channels. The StreamStore lives within [
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