Rivian’s factory in 2022. | Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images A fire broke out in a parking lot at Rivian’s Normal, Illinois factory over the weekend, damaging several electric vehicles, local media is reporting. No injuries are being reported at this time. A spokesperson for the Normal Fire Department told The Verge that a report of a fire was called in at 9:43PM CT Sunday at the... Read more ›
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Image: Sony Sony has announced the $59.99 WF-C510 wireless earbuds, the latest budget offering in its “Truly Wireless” line. They’re fairly bare-bones but improve on their predecessor with voice isolation and slightly longer battery life while costing $30 less. The earbuds come in four colors — black, blue, white, and yellow — and are available for preorder now on Sony’s website or at Amazon. The WF-C510 earbuds, besides having a... Read more ›
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Newspaper giant Gannett is shutting down Reviewed, its product reviews site, effective November 1st, according to sources familiar with the decision. The site offers recommendations for products ranging from shoes to home appliances and employs journalists to test and review items — but has also been at the center of questions around whether its work is actually produced by humans. “After careful consideration and evaluation of our Reviewed business, we... Read more ›
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Wizards of the Coast has walked back some of its planned updates to D&D Beyond. All your current Dungeons and Dragons characters sheets are once again safe with the publisher no longer forcing updates to newer versions of spells, weapons, and magic items. Last week, as a part of the updates to Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition — collectively known as the 2024 revision — the publisher announced that it... Read more ›
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A visualization of PM2.5 air pollution concentrations in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 1850 to 2021. | Image: Air Quality Stripes A new tool shows how much air quality has changed since the Industrial Revolution in cities across the world. It generates a single image made up of different colored stripes representing pollution each year in each major city. You can see stark contrasts from place to place, showing how much work... Read more ›
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Image: Ikea Ikea is now testing an online platform in Madrid and Oslo where people can sell their used Ikea furniture to others. The platform, Ikea Preowned, lets users list their furniture with photos and a price, and the actual listings (like this example) look a lot like what you might see on Ikea’s main website. However, buyers and sellers have to agree on a place and time to meet... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images “We’ve had Photoshop for 35 years” is a common response to rebut concerns about generative AI, and you’ve landed here because you’ve made that argument in a comment thread or social media. There are countless reasons to be concerned about how AI image editing and generation tools will impact the trust we place in photographs and how that trust (or lack thereof)... Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung has announced new AI capabilities for its smart appliances, including new AI-generated wallpapers for certain refrigerators, as well as an AI upgrade for its Bixby voice assistant. The updated Bixby will hit five Samsung Bespoke appliances starting on August 27th. AI-generated wallpapers are coming to Samsung Family Hub refrigerators released in the US and Korea after 2022, the company says. To create... Read more ›
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Image: Indiegogo Indiegogo is taking a renewed swing at holding crowdfunding campaigns accountable for shipping products with a new program. The company’s “Shipping Guarantee” initiative promises that anytime you support an eligible campaign, you’ll get your order on time or your money back. The guarantee will apply to campaigns that meet eligibility requirements, which include launching with a product that’s in the “final manufacturing stages” and having “a proven track... Read more ›
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Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple has announced the date of its next big event: September 9th, 2024, at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. The event will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park. During the show, the company is expected to launch the iPhone 16 lineup. The big change to the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus is expected to be a switch to a... Read more ›
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The HoverAir X1 Promax. | Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge The HoverAir X1 wasn’t your traditional drone. People who have little interest in piloting, like my colleague Thomas Ricker, use the highly crash-resistant self-flying $350 camera to easily get aerial video just by pressing two buttons. But it’s not particularly high-quality video, it’s not particularly fast, and you can’t fly it far away even if you wanted to.... Read more ›
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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Frontier is bringing its new 7-gig fiber internet option to customers across the country. The 7-gig plan costs $309.99 / month and is the fastest widely available fiber plan so far. Frontier currently offers fiber internet in most of the 25 states it serves, including California, Texas, Florida, New York, Minnesota, and others. The company only offered 2-gig... Read more ›
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Apple Though Ted Lasso’s season 3 finale felt like a solid place for the series to end, it might not be long before AFC Richmond’s back on our screens. Deadline reports that Warner Bros. Television — which co-produces Ted Lasso with Universal Television for Apple — has tapped a number of the show’s core cast members to return for a not-yet-greenlit fourth season. Actors Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, and Jeremy... Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nintendo has added one final event to the summer game-a-palooza calendar with not one but two game showcases. Tomorrow at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET, Nintendo will host an indie world showcase, then a partner direct will immediately follow. Altogether, Nintendo says the two back-to-back events will be 40-minutes long. Join us tomorrow, August 27 at 7am PT, for an #IndieWorld... Read more ›
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The Lenovo Legion Go from its most distinctive angle. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge It’s not clear if Lenovo’s Legion Go handheld gaming PC was a success after its initial rough start last fall and its middling experience by the time I reviewed it this spring — but Lenovo is pushing forward. Not only is it planning a successor, possibly a smaller seven-inch one, but it’s also... Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber is facing a fine of 290 million euros ($347 million) after improperly transferring driver data from the EU to the US, in one of the largest penalties levied under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) since its inception. The fine was imposed by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), which accused Uber of failing to “properly safeguard” European drivers’ personal... Read more ›
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Dexcom first announced the Stelo earlier this year at CES 2024. The Dexcom Stelo aims to help people with Type 2 diabetes access CGMs more affordably. Continue reading… Read more ›
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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. | Getty Images Telegram says its CEO and founder Pavel Durov has “nothing to hide” after he was arrested by French authorities outside of Paris. “It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform,” the company says in an unnamed statement posted to its official channel in the Telegram app on Sunday. French officials have confirmed to... Read more ›
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Formula 1 racer Lando Norris in Bahrain in 2022. | Photo: Hasan Bratic / Picture Alliance via Getty Images Formula 1 broadcast footage from the Dutch Grand Prix qualifiers at Circuit Zandvoort this weekend that was captured by a gyro camera system mounted above the helmet of the weekend’s race winner, Lando Norris. The camera, which F1 has been testing since 2022, was conceived with an eye particularly toward accentuating... Read more ›
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Photo: Drew Angerer / Getty Images Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli must turn over his copies of The Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album to comply with a preliminary injunction issued by federal Judge Pamela Chen in an ongoing lawsuit, ArtNet reported on Friday. PleasrDAO, NFT collective and current owner of Shaolin claims in its lawsuit that he “improperly retained copies of data and files” from the... Read more ›
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