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Tauriq Moosa @ The Verge · 08/31/2024 11:00 EDT

Star Wars Outlaws is the solution to Ubisoft’s open-world woes

Image: Ubisoft There was a moment in Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws when I was scouring the depths of a creepy cave, just after finishing a dogfight in space and winning a card game in a boozy cantina, that the game clicked for me. The usual Ubisoft drudgery, where icons on maps become weights on the brain, was gone. Instead, there was an organic, self-determined flow as to... Read more ›

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 08/31/2024 09:45 EDT

With AI food recognition Samsung Food could be the ultimate meal-planning app

Samsung Food Plus can create tailored meal plans based on your nutritional needs and the food in your fridge and pantry. | Image: Samsung New features on Samsung’s AI-powered food and recipe app could make your meal planning and food management chores much easier. With Samsung Food, you can now add items to a Food List just by taking a picture. The app can then suggest recipes based on the... Read more ›

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Ash Parrish @ The Verge · 08/31/2024 09:00 EDT

It’s been a great summer for indie games — here are some of the best

Thank Goodness You’re Here! | Image: Panic Outside of some notable exceptions, there haven’t been many blockbuster games this summer — but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been much to play. In fact, at times, it has felt like a never-ending flood of fascinating indie releases, thanks to games like Arranger, Animal Well, Crow Country, and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes. It’s been nearly impossible to keep up, but we’ve... Read more ›

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge 1 place · 08/31/2024 08:00 EDT

How Star Wars walked away from the world’s first self-retracting lightsaber toy

Goliath’s Power Saber, in red and green. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge It would have been a Star Wars product — but Hasbro whiffed. Continue reading… Read more ›

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Chris Welch @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 19:45 EDT

The best wireless earbuds to buy right now

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The best from Apple, Bose, Samsung, Sony, Beats, Google, and more. Continue reading… Read more ›

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Mia Sato @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 18:38 EDT

Brazil bans X: all the latest news

Image: The Verge Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a shutdown for X after Elon Musk didn’t appoint a new Brazilian legal representative. Continue reading… Read more ›

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 17:28 EDT

Brazil’s X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

Image: Bluesky X is currently banned in Brazil following an order from a Supreme Court justice, and Brazilian users seem to be turning to Bluesky, an alternate social network, in droves. “Brazil, you’re setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky!” the official Bluesky account says in a post. “There will almost certainly be some outages and performance issues,” Bluesky developer Paul Frazee says. “We’ve never seen traffic like this. Hang... Read more ›

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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 16:40 EDT

The best ebook reader to buy right now

Image: Will Joel / The Verge From reading in the bath to scribbling notes in the margins, from diving into the Amazon ecosystem to avoiding it outright, there’s an e-reader for everyone. Continue reading… Read more ›

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 16:16 EDT

Judge orders X ban in Brazil

The Verge A judge in Brazil has ordered the suspension of X after owner Elon Musk failed to designate a new legal representative for the country, according to a report from Bloomberg. Earlier this month, Musk closed X’s offices in Brazil, saying Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest the company’s legal representative for not complying with “censorship orders.” Brazil’s Supreme Court notified X on Wednesday that... Read more ›

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 13:44 EDT

NASA shuffles Crew-9 astronauts that will bring Starliner crew home

Image: NASA SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission will launch to the International Space Station with only NASA’s Nick Hague and Roscosmos’ Aleksandr Gorbunov on board, according to an update on Friday. Crew-9 will launch “no earlier” than September 24th, with plans to bring delayed Starliner astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams back to Earth next February. Wilmore and Williams arrived at the ISS in June and were only supposed to stay for... Read more ›

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Adi Robertson @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 13:39 EDT

Judge who owns Tesla stock greenlights X lawsuit against critics

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Grzegorz Wajda, Getty Images A lawsuit aimed at punishing critics of Elon Musk’s X will go forward, thanks to a ruling from a judge with a financial interest in Musk’s success. On Thursday, Judge Reed O’Connor denied a motion to dismiss X’s lawsuit against Media Matters For America. The suit was filed in Texas last year and alleges that MMFA... Read more ›

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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 13:02 EDT

The best Labor Day deals you can already get

Apple’s ninth-gen iPad is certainly showing its age at this point, but it remains a bargain at just $199. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge It’s always sad when summer comes to a close. However, on the bright side, Labor Day represents yet another long weekend — not to mention an opportunity to save on a slew of goods before the holiday shopping season kicks off in earnest.... Read more ›

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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 12:46 EDT

CrowdStrike exec will testify to Congress about July’s global IT meltdown

Image: The Verge A senior CrowdStrike executive will testify before the House Homeland Security Committee next month about the IT outage that ground planes and workplaces to a halt globally on July 19th. Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior vice president of counter adversary operations, has agreed to appear before the panel on September 24th at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, the committee announced. Committee leaders had previously called on CEO George Kurtz... Read more ›

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 11:37 EDT

Intel definitively claims its laptop chips aren’t crashing because of that voltage thing

Image: Intel It’s been a burning question for months — are Intel’s laptop chips susceptible to the same permanent damage that can potentially lay 24 different flagship desktop chips low? Today, Intel has finally confirmed: its 13th and 14th Gen laptop chips do not seem to have an instability issue. And the company claims they are definitely not affected by the too-high voltage issue, which it’s now calling “Vmin Shift... Read more ›

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David Pierce @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 11:27 EDT

The problem with Telegram

Image: The Verge Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France last weekend, and a few days later was charged with a number of offenses connected to criminal activity on Telegram. There’s a lot about this story we don’t yet know, but this week’s events seem to signal a shift in how countries and governments plan to hold executives accountable for what happens on their platforms. On this episode of... Read more ›

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Victoria Song @ The Verge 2 place · 08/30/2024 10:39 EDT

AnandTech shuts down after 27 years

It’s the end of an era. | Image: AnandTech, Future Hardware enthusiast site AnandTech is shutting down after nearly three decades of covering computers. AnandTech’s final Editor-in-Chief, Ryan Smith, announced the news in a farewell post this morning, writing, “...Few things last forever, and the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was — nor will it ever be again. So, the time has come for AnandTech... Read more ›

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 10:19 EDT

Google’s Play Store can finally install or update multiple Android apps at once

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Play Store can now download, install, and update multiple Android apps simultaneously. Previously, if you attempted to run all your updates manually, Play Store would only process a single app at a time. Now, as we’ve tested, it can do up to three. As reported by Android Police, Google has tested concurrent app updates for Play Store before, starting as far back... Read more ›

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Mia Sato @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 10:03 EDT

TikTok is adding new ways to fine tune your For You page algorithm

The Verge TikTok is giving users a way to more precisely shape what kind of content they see on their feeds — or at least to signal to the algorithm what they’re interested in. Under Content preferences > Manage topics (which can be found in “Settings and Privacy”), users can adjust sliders to signal they want more or less of certain topics in their For You page. Topics include “creative... Read more ›

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Barbara Krasnoff @ The Verge · 08/30/2024 09:24 EDT

How to use iOS’s Live Text feature

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge I’m something of a hoarder when it comes to interesting facts — I’ll see something online or in a photo, and a small voice in my brain says, “You’ll be able to use that reference somewhere, somehow. Save it so you can find it later!” Which is fine if it’s just a line or two of text, but what if that info is within... Read more ›

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