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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 17:13 EDT

Microsoft launches its first in-house AI models

Microsoft announced its first homegrown AI models on Thursday: MAI-Voice-1 AI and MAI-1-preview. The company says its new MAI-Voice-1 speech model can generate a minute’s worth of audio in under one second on just one GPU, while MAI-1-preview “offers a glimpse of future offerings inside Copilot.” Microsoft already uses MA1-Voice-1 to power a couple of […] Read more ›

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Terrence O’Brien @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 14:24 EDT

Google’s Pixel Care Plus includes free screen and battery repair

Google is phasing out its Preferred Care extended warranty plan for the Pixel Care Plus program. Pricing between the two is pretty similar. You’ll still pay $8 per-month, or $159 for a two-year plan on a Pixel 9. For a Pixel 10 Pro Fold, that jumps up to $339 for two years, or $18 per-month, […] Read more ›

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Brandt Ranj @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 14:19 EDT

The best Labor Day TV sales

Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer, which is a bit sad, but it’s a great time to get a deal on a fancy, new TV. The US holiday is happening just before the start of the 2025-2026 NFL season, the World Cup qualifiers, and the lead-up to the MLB post-season games. This […] Read more ›

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 14:09 EDT

Xbox’s cross-device play history is bringing your recently played games to any screen

On Thursday, Xbox announced that it’s widely rolling out cross-device play history, so that even if you’re on a different Xbox console, Ally handheld, or PC, your recently played game list will remain the same, so you can jump right back in where you left off. The change, which first started testing with Insiders last […] Read more ›

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Cameron Faulkner @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 14:09 EDT

I tested 15 cases for the Switch 2 and these are the best

You might find it kind of sad to put your hard-earned Switch 2 into a protective case. To me, it’s freeing. Using a case relieves me of the worry that it will accumulate tons of little scratches, or worse. I’ve tested several types of cases on the Nintendo Switch 2 since its June 2025 debut, […] Read more ›

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 13:25 EDT

GM’s new adapters reflect the increasingly confused reality of EV charging

Look, I sympathize. When General Motors said it would adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) for its electric vehicles back in 2023, we knew this meant adapters. But we never could have imagined how many adapters we would get. Today, GM announced three additional adapters to help EV owners charge at home or in […] Read more ›

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 13:04 EDT

Star Wars: Starfighter is going to be star-studded

Production on Star Wars: Starfighter officially began today, and Lucasfilm has finally confirmed the other actors who will be bringing the film to life alongside Ryan Gosling. Lucasfilm announced today that Star Wars: Starfighters has added Flynn Gray, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams to its […] Read more ›

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 12:48 EDT

Battlefield 6 PC requirements are pretty chill — if you don’t mind 30fps

EA is promising Battlefield 6 will offer “the best PC experience in the history of the franchise,” including 4K resolution, 21:9 and 32:9 ultrawide monitors, HDR, uncapped framerates, both PS5 and Xbox gamepad support, the ability to create and browse servers, streamer and incognito modes, and more — but it won’t require powerful hardware or […] Read more ›

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 12:19 EDT

Fubo Sports is a $55.99 / month streaming bundle made for watching football

Fubo is launching a new Sports plan on September 2nd that costs $55.99 per month and comes with over 20 live sports and news-focused channels, including the ESPN and Fox Sports channels, as well as local stations owned by ABC, CBS, and Fox. Where available, this package includes coverage for network TV-broadcast pro and college […] Read more ›

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Terrence O’Brien @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 12:16 EDT

Kobo replaces Pocket with Instapaper on its e-readers in a free update

A big draw of Kobo e-readers has always been Pocket integration. But, when Mozilla announced in late May that it was shutting down the read-it-later app in July, the Kobo community was left in a bit of a lurch. To the company’s credit, in late July, it announced that it would be replacing Pocket with […] Read more ›

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Hayden Field @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 12:00 EDT

Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts

Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless users choose to opt out. It's also extending its data retention policy to five years - again, for users that don't choose to opt out. All users will have to make a decision by September 28th. For […] Read more ›

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Autumn Wright @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 12:00 EDT

Kirby’s new Switch 2 expansion adds just the right amount of challenge

So I heard you want to play Kirby on hard mode: tough bosses, tricky platforming, complicated puzzles, hidden collectibles, and maybe even punishments for failing. The Star-Crossed World expansion in Kirby and the Forgotten Land's Switch 2 edition certainly introduces new challenges. There's pressure from time constraints and consecutive platforming sequences, multistep puzzles, and bosses […] Read more ›

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 11:40 EDT

Microsoft Word now automatically saves new documents to the cloud

Microsoft is making a big change to how Word for Windows saves documents. The word processing app will soon automatically save new documents to the cloud, instead of Word users having to enable AutoSave and cloud storage options. “We are modernizing the way files are created and stored in Word for Windows,” says Raul Munoz, […] Read more ›

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Janko Roettgers @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 11:30 EDT

How to supercharge Netflix’s shopping mall plans

This week, Netflix shared a few more details about its budding location business: The company will open its very first Netflix House in Philadelphia on November 11th, with a second location set to open in Dallas on December 11th. Both locations will span across 100,000 square feet, and offer ticketed experiences related to Netflix franchises […] Read more ›

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Andrew Webster @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 11:05 EDT

Elden Ring Nightreign is getting even harder in September

If FromSoftware’s multiplayer take on Elden Ring was just a little too easy for you, the developer has just the thing coming up. The studio announced “Deep of Night,” a new mode for Nightreign that is focused specifically on difficulty. Namely, it sounds like it’ll make things much harder. From describes it as “a high-difficulty […] Read more ›

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Cameron Faulkner @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 11:00 EDT

MSI’s Katana gaming laptop is $400 off and includes Battlefield 6

If you’re considering a gaming laptop, but you understandably don’t want to spend anywhere near $2,000, MSI’s Katana gaming laptop with the midrange RTX 5070 GPU is $1,099 (was $1,499.99) at Walmart. This machine has a lot to offer aside from a solid graphics chip for gaming. It includes a 15.6-inch QHD screen with a […] Read more ›

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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 10:30 EDT

Honor launches the world’s thinnest foldable in Europe

Honor is bringing the Magic V5 — the world’s thinnest foldable phone, though only just — to Europe, where it’s available to order now following its Chinese launch last month. It’s joined by a new MagicPad 3 tablet and MagicBook Art 14 laptop. I’ve just reviewed the Magic V5, which is a whole 0.1mm thinner […] Read more ›

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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 10:30 EDT

Honor’s Magic V5 is the thinnest foldable yet, but that’s not why it matters

Honor's Magic V5 is the thinnest book-style foldable in the world, but you probably couldn't tell. It's just 0.1mm thinner - that's four-thousandths of an inch - than the Oppo Find N5 or Samsung's recent Galaxy Z Fold 7. If that's a difference you claim to perceive, then I'm afraid I simply don't believe you. […] Read more ›

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 10:16 EDT

Taco Bell’s AI drive-thru plan gets caught up on trolls and glitches

Taco Bell’s plan to outfit hundreds of drive-thrus with an AI voice assistant isn’t going exactly as the chain expected. Dane Mathews, Taco Bell’s chief digital and technology officer, admitted to The Wall Street Journal that the company is re-evaluating where to deploy the tech as customers air their frustrations on social media, and others […] Read more ›

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Andrew Webster @ The Verge · 08/28/2025 10:00 EDT

My gaming buddy

One of the most devastating parts of grief is how it can strike out of nowhere. There you are, doing a perfectly normal, everyday thing, and then that perfectly normal, everyday thing reminds you of something or someone who is no longer there. And when that presence you lost was intimately connected with your life, […] Read more ›

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