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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 08:18 EDT

You have two months left to update your old LG phone

Time is running out for people who are still using LG phones to download any remaining Android updates before their devices are fully retired. After closing its Android phone business back in 2021, Android Authority has spotted that LG is now preparing to shut down its update servers for good on June 30th, 2025, advising […] Read more

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Georgina Torbet @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 08:14 EDT

Starlink’s got company — and orbital overcrowding is a disaster waiting to happen 

On the evening of April 28th, Amazon embarked on its latest venture to rival SpaceX Starlink: the first launch of its Project Kuiper satellites. With 27 satellites now in orbit around the Earth, Amazon joins a growing number of companies working to put more than 1,000 satellites each into space to create a mega constellation. […] Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 06:11 EDT

Amazon launches its first satellites to rival Starlink

Amazon’s Kuiper broadband internet constellation is starting to take shape, with its first batch of satellites shipped and deployed into space on Monday. The launch is just the first of 80 that Amazon has lined up to take all 3,236 Project Kuiper satellites into low-Earth orbit as part of the retail giant’s effort to compete […] Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 06:03 EDT

Nvidia issues yet another GPU hotfix driver to address crashes and bugs

Nvidia has released another hotfix driver that primarily addresses bugs and crashes with its RTX 50-series GPUs. The 576.26 hotfix driver is based on the 576.02 driver release earlier this month, which itself included a large amount of fixes for bugs and crashes. This latest hotfix driver includes all the fixes in the 576.15 hotfix […] Read more

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Thomas Ricker @ The Verge · 04/29/2025 02:56 EDT

New Starlink subscription drops hardware price to $0

SpaceX is now offering 12-month residential service plans that bring the price of the dish and router — normally $349 in the US — down to $0 in select markets, without increasing the monthly fee. You have 30 days to test or return the kit for a full refund, but after that there’s some fine […] Read more

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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 21:03 EDT

Take It Down Act heads to Trump’s desk

The Take It Down Act is heading to President Donald Trump’s desk after the House voted 409-2 to pass the bill, which will require social media companies to take down content flagged as nonconsensual (including AI-generated) sexual images. Trump has pledged to sign it. The bill is among the only pieces of online safety legislation […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 19:47 EDT

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that Al can handle,” according to an all-hands email sent by co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn announcing that the company will be “AI-first.” The email was posted on Duolingo’s LinkedIn account. According to van Ahn, being “Al-first” means the company will “need to rethink much […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 18:05 EDT

‘Video games are not manufactured in China,’ Playasia reassures tariff-wary customers

Playasia, a popular retailer for buying video games, toys, and more from Asia, says that it “does not expect” the Trump administration’s planned import rule changes on Chinese-made goods to apply to “game-related orders” because “those orders will not include Chinese-manufactured goods.” On May 2nd, the Trump administration is planning to end the de minimis […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 17:42 EDT

GOG is adding some classic Star Wars games to its preservation program

The PC gaming platform GOG is adding a bunch of classic Star Wars games to its preservation program, which aims to keep older games playable on modern systems. The games joining the program include:  First announced last November, GOG’s game preservation program includes 162 DRM-free games, such as Breath of Fire IV, Diablo, System Shock […] Read more

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 16:50 EDT

DHL restarts deliveries of international packages worth more than $800

DHL Express is resuming shipments of packages valued over $800 that are bound for consumers in the US, Reuters reports. The international shipping company had suspended the shipments last week due to “a surge in formal customs clearances” amidst the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs on international goods. Effective today, business-to-consumer shipments valued between $800 and […] Read more

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 16:39 EDT

The DJI Phantom is no more

In 2019, DJI insisted to me that it wasn’t killing off the Phantom, its iconic line of oft-imitated drones that turned the Chinese company into the powerhouse it is today. And yet, DJI has just announced the end of life for its final two Phantom drones — the Phantom 4 Pro and Phantom 4 Advanced […] Read more

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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 15:56 EDT

The Verge’s 2025 Mother’s Day gift guide

Chances are, your mom changed your diaper, packed your lunch, and helped guide you through your teenage years - all without expecting anything in return. She deserves a standing ovation, but since that's tough to wrap, a thoughtful Mother's Day gift is a fine alternative. This year, we rounded up a collection of gifts that […] Read more

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Gaby Del Valle @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 15:48 EDT

New ChatGPT ‘glazes too much,’ says Sam Altman

Less than 48 hours after announcing an update to GPT-4o that promised improvements in "both intelligence and personality," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the chatbot had become "too sycophant-y and annoying." In an April 27th post on X, Altman said fixes to GPT-4o's personality would be coming "asap." After the update rolled out, users began […] Read more

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Tina Nguyen @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 15:28 EDT

How Marc Andreesen’s Signal group chats helped spawn the tech right

The power elites have a Signal group chat, too - and the ones that seem to be reshaping the government, according to a recent report, are the ones Marc Andreesen created to bring the American right wing and the technocracy together. Semafor's Ben Smith published a massive article on Monday detailing an ecosystem of private, […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 15:07 EDT

The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump’s tariffs

Kickstarter is launching a new “Tariff Manager” tool that will allow creators to apply a surcharge to projects after their campaign has ended, as spotted earlier by 404 Media. The tool is supposed to help creators deal with “rising costs” and import fees as a result of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. If a creator’s […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 15:00 EDT

ChatGPT is getting better for shopping

OpenAI is improving ChatGPT’s web search capabilities to make the AI chatbot a more useful tool for shopping. People already use ChatGPT to do research around products, but before these updates, ChatGPT didn’t make it easy to understand up-to-date prices or see visual images of the results, Adam Fry, OpenAI’s ChatGPT search product lead, told […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 14:36 EDT

A pirated iOS port of Blue Prince is climbing the App Store charts

Apple’s App Store review has yet again let at least one unofficial mobile port of a hot new game show up on the store – this time, it’s Blue Prince. In a joint post on Monday, Blue Prince’s developer, Dogubomb, and its publisher, Raw Fury, said that they have “received reports of games claiming to […] Read more

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 14:24 EDT

WhatsApp is working on video and voice calls on the web

WhatsApp’s web-based client may soon get voice and video call functionality built in, reports WABetaInfo. Currently, WhatsApp users who would like to make calls to others have to either rely on the mobile app or the PC or Mac app on desktop. However, WABetaInfo discovered new call buttons appearing on the web client, which means […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 13:22 EDT

Tennis star Alexander Zverev calls out automated line judging system

It’s clay court season in tennis, and instead of questioning the judgments of chair umpires, some players are now questioning the decisions of complex software — specifically electronic line-calling (ELS) systems, which are increasingly tasked with determining whether a ball is in or out. German tennis star Alexander Zverev became the latest to dispute the […] Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 04/28/2025 13:20 EDT

Wii Homebrew Channel development shuts down over ‘stolen’ code

The GitHub repository for The Homebrew Channel (HBC), a popular piece of software used on hacked Nintendo Wiis, has been archived. Its maintainers are accusing the creators of “libogc,” a software toolkit HBC relies on, of stealing both Nintendo-made and open-source code and presenting it as their own, according to a ReadMe posted to the […] Read more

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