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Brandon Russell @ The Verge · 12/04/2025 10:00 EDT

The 25 best gifts for travelers who are always on the move

I'm convinced that whoever said it's about the journey, not the destination, has never traveled. Try sitting on a plane for 16 hours - plus delays, airport security, and a snoring seat neighbor - and then get back to me. While getting from point A to point B can feel like a test of endurance, [
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Nilay Patel @ The Verge · 12/04/2025 10:00 EDT

Anthropic’s quest to study the negative effects of AI is under pressure

Today, I’m talking with Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some of the people responsible for studying AI and deciding in what ways it might
 well, ruin the world. Those folks work at Anthropic as part of a group called the societal impacts team, which Hayden just spent time with for a profile she [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 12/04/2025 09:41 EDT

Russia bans Roblox over ‘LGBT propaganda’ and ‘extremist’ content

Russia is restricting access to Roblox after the country’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor accused it of promoting extremism and “LGBT propaganda,” according to reports from Reuters and Meduza. As reported by Meduza, Russian lawmakers began raising concerns about Roblox days after The Guardian published a report about the platform last month, detailing how the author was [
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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 12/04/2025 09:11 EDT

Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series GPU driver restores PhysX support for popular games

Nvidia launched its first RTX 50-series graphics cards earlier this year without support for PhysX, the GPU-accelerated technology that let games realistically simulate shattering glass, moving liquids, smoke, fog, and more. Now, Nvidia is bringing back PhysX support for the RTX 50-series GPUs for top-played games like Borderlands 2, Mirror’s Edge, and Batman: Arkham City. [
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David Pierce @ The Verge · 12/04/2025 09:05 EDT

Yahoo is using AI to recap football games in real time

It's about to be week 14 of the NFL season, and stakes and storylines abound across the league. In a new section of the Yahoo Sports app, Yahoo is hoping it can use AI to capture them all automatically. The company is launching a new feature called Game Breakdowns, which attempt to generate a snapshot [
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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 12/04/2025 07:39 EDT

The EU is probing Meta over WhatsApp’s AI chatbot restrictions

The European Union has launched a formal investigation into Meta over antitrust concerns with AI restrictions in WhatsApp. The probe aims to “prevent any possible irreparable harm to competition in the AI space” according to the EU, and follows Meta announcing changes to WhatsApp’s terms for businesses in October that will prohibit companies from using [
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Charlie Harding @ The Verge · 12/04/2025 07:00 EDT

Get ready for an AI country music explosion

When songwriter Patrick Irwin moved to Nashville last year, he was entering a lottery. Each day hundreds of sessions take place where writers create a song demo to pitch to a publisher. Publishers then share those songs with labels and managers, who may share those songs with the artists. Even if a major country star [
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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 12/04/2025 06:29 EDT

Apple removed a Night mode photo feature from the iPhone 17 Pro

iPhone 17 Pro users have fewer ways to take photographs in low-light conditions compared to those using older iPhone models. Specifically, the option to select Night mode when taking snaps in Portrait mode — which gives the camera app an artsy depth-of-field effect — isn’t supported on iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max devices, per [
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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 12/03/2025 19:59 EDT

Antigravity’s 360-degree drone is here to help you forget DJI

With DJI facing an imminent import ban in the US and its flagship drones disappearing from shelves, the new Antigravity A1 didn’t need to be a groundbreaking gadget to make headlines. It just needed to be a competent alternative that you can actually buy in the United States. In August, the Chinese brand couldn’t promise [
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Tim Stevens @ The Verge · 12/03/2025 18:01 EDT

BMW iX3 first drive: a ‘New Class’ is in session

BMW has been peppering us with teasers and bits and pieces about its next-gen EV platform, Neue Klasse, for so long - fully two years now - that I confess I've become a bit numb to the hype. I'd seen the dashboard-filling displays, talked to engineers endlessly about the completely retooled active safety suite, and [
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Justine Calma @ The Verge · 12/03/2025 17:05 EDT

Satellites keep photobombing the Hubble telescope, and it’s getting worse

It’s getting harder and harder for the Hubble and other telescopes orbiting Earth to capture pristine images thanks to the sudden surge in satellite launches. Satellite trails could mess up nearly 40 percent of images the Hubble takes and up to 96 percent of those taken by three other telescopes over the next decade, according [
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Alex Heath @ The Verge · 12/03/2025 16:45 EDT

Anthropic’s AI bubble ‘YOLO’ warning

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Dario Amodei took the stage at the DealBook Summit on Wednesday to throw punches without naming names. The Anthropic CEO spent a good chunk of the interview with Andrew [
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 12/03/2025 16:42 EDT

I tested 30 smart locks, and these are the best

A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to let a friend in to water the plants? Your latchkey kid lost their key? Hands are full, and it’s raining cats and dogs? A smart lock solves all of these problems and more. One of the best smart home [
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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 12/03/2025 16:20 EDT

Reddit’s CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it’s going away

Reddit is “moving away” from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and plans to replace it with “better, more relevant and personalized feeds,” according to CEO Steve Huffman (aka Spez). Huffman also notes that r/popular “sucks.” “For a long while, we were known as the ‘front page of the internet,’ but we’ve outgrown a [
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Justine Calma @ The Verge · 12/03/2025 16:19 EDT

Trump embraces gas guzzlers and air pollution by weakening fuel economy standards

President Donald Trump announced a new plan that lets carmakers pollute more by making less fuel efficient vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said today that it’ll roll back fuel economy rules finalized last year by the Biden administration for model year 2022-2031 vehicles. The Trump administration has eliminated incentives for EV purchases, [
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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 12/03/2025 15:13 EDT

Apple’s head of UI design is leaving for Meta

Alan Dye, who has led Apple’s UI design team since 2015, is leaving to join Meta as its chief design officer, Bloomberg reports. He’ll join Meta on December 31st, and Meta is opening a design studio and giving Dye oversight of design for “hardware, software and AI integration for its interfaces,” according to Bloomberg. Dye [
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Brandon Russell @ The Verge · 12/03/2025 14:49 EDT

Here are my 25 favorite deals from REI’s Cyber Week sale

REI took a hike during Black Friday, but the retailer is back with a full week of deals. Now through December 8th, REI is hosting a Cyber Week sale that offers big discounts on gadgets and gear designed for the outdoors. If you’re planning to hit the slopes this winter, now’s a good time to [
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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 12/03/2025 14:19 EDT

PlayStation is making an MLB The Show mobile game

MLB The Show is coming to iOS and Android. Sony has revealed MLB The Show Mobile, which it says is “a new standalone experience built from the ground up to deliver realistic baseball gameplay on mobile devices.”  The game is live now only in the Philippines (here’s a Google Play link for the game), and [
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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 12/03/2025 14:15 EDT

This haptic mattress topper lets you feel a movie while you fall asleep during it

Woojer is best known for its vibrating vests and belt straps that let you feel the sounds from games, movies, and music. Now the company has taken that same haptic technology and incorporated it into a new mattress topper called the Woojer Mat that will let you feel those same vibrations across your entire body [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 12/03/2025 14:01 EDT

Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

Micron is retiring the Crucial brand, marking the end of its line of budget-friendly solid-state drives (SSDs) and RAM kits, as reported earlier by VideoCardz. In an announcement on Wednesday, Micron says winding down its consumer-focused business will “improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments” — a.k.a. AI companies. The [
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