Kristen Radtke / The Verge Bluesky feels like the big winner right now. Iâve been covering Bluesky ever since I got my invite in April 2023. Iâve felt the platform has always had promise, especially with features like feeds with custom algorithms and the ability to let users pick their own moderation filters. But for a long while, it didnât have the critical mass of users that I could follow... Read more âș
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The Chrysler Pacifica could come as a fully-electric minivan in a few years. | Image: Chrysler Chrysler is working on a fully electric version of the Chrysler Pacifica minivan, according to Green Car Reports. The EV version reportedly would âlikelyâ come a year after the company debuts a Pacifica design refresh that features elements of the Halcyon concept that Stellantis showed off earlier this year. At the moment, the Pacifica... Read more âș
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Microsoftâs new Game Assist browser overlay can automatically surface tips and tricks for you. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Edge Game Assist, a new Edge-powered in-game browser overlay, is available for beta testing in Windows 11. The âgame-awareâ overlay lives in the Microsoft Game Bar and is designed to automatically find and show you links to tips and guides for the game youâre playing, using the Edge... Read more âș
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Illustration by Lille Allen / The Verge Elon Musk is, in addition to many other things, now the co-lead of the currently nonexistent Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) advisory group. Now, before it even gets rolling, he has begun singling out individual government employees he says are emblematic of the governmentâs bloat and posting about them to his hundreds of millions of followers on X. Earlier this week, as first... Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge DirecTV has dropped its plans to acquire Dish, the company announced Thursday. The deal wouldâve created a TV service megamerger, but it fell through after Dish bondholders rejected the takeover. In September, DirecTV reached an agreement to acquire Dish, Sling TV, and EchoStarâs TV business for just one dollar, while also taking on Dishâs $9.75 billion in debt. However, Dish bondholders â or... Read more âș
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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos via Getty Images The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on a case involving funding for a major broadband subsidy program, the Universal Service Fund (USF). SCOTUS granted cert in a pair of cases called Federal Communications Commission v. Consumersâ Research, and Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition v. Consumersâ Research, which were consolidated for oral arguments. They center around whether... Read more âș
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Yes, the dongle dangles from your TVâs HDMI port. No, itâs not that big of a deal. | Image: The Verge Itâs clear the world is ready to go all in on streaming for premier live events. Thatâs evidenced most recently by massive deals brokered by the likes of Netflix, which will exclusively broadcast two NFL games on Christmas Day and weekly episodes of WWEâs Monday Night Raw. If you... Read more âș
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The Spectra smartwatch is now available for preorder through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. | Image: Pocuter The Spectra is a new smartwatch designed from the ground up to be hackable and easy to repair. It was created by Pocuter, a company that has spent the last few years honing an expertise in building small electronics like its tiny Pocuter One computer. What makes the Spectra unique is that itâs repairable,... Read more âș
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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sling TV is increasing its monthly subscription prices by $5.99 for all of its plans starting in December. The streaming TV provider said ârising costsâ are to blame for the price hikes without specifying why â presumably, not all six of those bucks are intended to pay for its âarcadeâ library of interactive games that just added Pac-Man and Trivia Crack. There are... Read more âș
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Strava is the de facto fitness data middleman. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge A few days ago, Strava upset its users over some restrictive API changes. It might seem odd for one appâs users to fume over an API, but at the heart of the matter is the inherent messiness of fitness data. Hereâs a typical scenario. Say youâre all in on Garminâs platform. You use their... Read more âș
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Gemini could spring into action soon. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google released the first Android 16 developer preview earlier this week and keen-eyed observers are already uncovering interesting tidbits, including one that hints about a much more useful future for Googleâs AI assistant. In Android Authority, Mishaal Rahman writes about a mysterious new API in Android 16 called âapp functions,â which appears to give Gemini Assistant... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge A New York judge has determined that SiriusXMâs âlong and burdensomeâ cancellation process is illegal. In a ruling on Thursday, Judge Lyle Frank found SiriusXM violates a federal law that requires companies to make it easy to cancel a subscription. The decision comes nearly one year after New York Attorney General Leticia James sued SiriusXM over claims the company makes subscriptions difficult to cancel. Following an investigation,... Read more âș
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Photo by Patrick George for The Verge Hyundai is recalling over 145,000 Ioniq and Genesis vehicles due to a 12-volt battery charging issue that could cause the EVs to lose drive power and increase the risk of a crash. NHTSA says the cause is the vehicles' Integrated Charging Control Unit (ICCU), which is likely to get damaged due to an internal electrical fault. Upon failure of the ICCU, a series... Read more âș
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Image: Getty Baiduâs robotaxi division, Apollo Go, just rolled out its latest robotaxi across multiple cities in China, and if stakeholders in the US arenât nervous yet, they should be. The RT6 is the sixth generation of Apollo Goâs driverless vehicle, which made its official debut in May 2024. Itâs a purpose-built, Level 4 autonomous vehicle, meaning itâs built without the need for a human driver. And hereâs the thing... Read more âș
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Image: Microsoft Microsoft is releasing the first preview of its Recall AI feature for Copilot Plus PCs today. After a series of delays, Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel can now install a new build of Windows 11 that includes Recall and Click to Do â a feature thatâs very similar to Googleâs Circle to Search. Recall takes screenshots of almost everything you do on a Copilot Plus PC to... Read more âș
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Image: Plex Plex is beginning to test its ânewly reimagined Plex experience,â which will be available first on mobile and is coming to TV platforms âvery soon.â Plex says the new experience has been in development for almost two years and is âdesigned to bring everything you love into one seamless interface.â But donât worry â while the new version of the app is currently missing some features, Plex says... Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The young streamer behind a viral meme coin called Quant was doxxed by the crypto community after he ripped off investors, as reported by Decrypt and The Crypto Times. During a livestream earlier this week, the kid giddily watched the price of his meme coin go up before selling his stake for $30,000 and flipping off viewers, causing its price to plummet. The... Read more âș
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The SonarPen 2 includes upgraded features like USB-C and finer pen tips. | Image: Greenbulb In 2018, the SonarPen debuted as a cheaper alternative to the Apple Pencil by using audio signals transmitted to the iPad over a cable instead of Bluetooth. Its creators are back with an upgraded USB-C version that introduces additional functionality, including tilt detection and an improved tip that now closely resembles the Apple Pencilâs. The... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have laid out their plans for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a currently nonexistent entity they say will âcut the federal government down to size.â Though DOGE isnât a real department â and may in fact just be President-elect Donald Trumpâs way of placating Musk by giving him the appearance of a real job â it... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge Meta is promising âlong-overdue improvementsâ to its X competitor, Threads, including more precise search features and expanded trending topics. First, users will be able to search for posts within a specific date range or from a single account â similar to what Xâs search allows. Threads is also testing a new trending page in the US that includes additional topics to follow as well as AI-generated summaries... Read more âș
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Audi RS E-tron GT Performance starts at $167,000 before destination charges. | Image: Audi Audi is giving its all-electric E-tron GT sports sedan higher performance, more battery range, and faster charging speeds for the 2025 model year. Itâs also increasing its starting price. The lineup now includes a new entry S E-tron GT model that starts at $125,500 before destination charges, a far cry from the already expensive $100,000 base... Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon announced today that itâs pumping another $4 billion into Claude AI maker Anthropic, bringing its total funding amount to $8 billion. This latest round follows $1.25 billion last September and another $2.75 billion in March. Along with the money, Amazon wrote in its blog post that Amazon Web Services (AWS) would be named Anthropicâs âprimary training partnerâ and that the OpenAI rival... Read more âș
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The new Paperwhite is bigger, and the base Kindle comes in a new color. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge Itâs about that time of the year to turn on the heat, warm up some cocoa, and curl up in your reading nook. If youâre running out of space for physical books to enjoy, Amazonâs newest Kindle ebook readers can hold thousands of digital ones, and some are on... Read more âș
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Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge A tentative proposal to tax cryptocurrency mining to raise funds for climate action took off during a United Nations climate conference thatâs set to come to a close today. A levy on energy-hungry crypto mining, at $0.045 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity used, could generate $5.2 billion in revenue annually, according to a report released last week by the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force,... Read more âș
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Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge For two decades, Google Search has been unstoppable. Invincible. So thoroughly dominant that would-be competitors often couldnât even get funding, because investors didnât see the point in trying. But earlier this year, a judge declared that Googleâs power, and the way the company wields it, was an illegal monopoly. And so now the US Department of Justice has to figure out how to undo... Read more âș
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Some Apple Home users have shoehorned iPads into wall-mounted home controllers. However, reports indicate Apple is developing a dedicated home control device. | Photo By Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images The smart home has an interface problem. Searching for an app on your phone, fighting with a confused voice assistant, and fiddling with a âsmartâ display to turn off a light is enough to... Read more âș
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