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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 13:53 EDT

The viral video of a ‘deactivated’ Tesla Cybertruck is most likely fake

Did Tesla remotely deactivate a Cybertruck in the middle of a highway because the owner featured it in an unauthorized music video? It’s highly unlikely. On Sunday, Instagram user @bighuey313 posted a video of his supposed deactivated Cybertruck, complete with a flashing red warning message on the truck’s main touchscreen. “Dog wtf my cybertruck just [
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 13:48 EDT

iRobot’s future isn’t looking up

iRobot, maker of the iconic Roomba robot vacuum, announced its second-quarter earnings late last week, and the numbers keep going down. Despite launching an entirely new product line, its revenue declined 23 percent to $127.6 million from the previous quarter, with the lucrative US and European markets being hit hardest. The company has struggled in [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 13:04 EDT

Meta makes conservative activist an AI bias advisor following lawsuit

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck will serve as an advisor at Meta to address “ideological and political bias” within the company’s AI chatbot, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The move comes as part of a settlement Meta reached with Starbuck, who filed a lawsuit claiming Meta AI wrongly stated he was involved [
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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 13:00 EDT

Reddit will block the Internet Archive

Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or profiles; instead, it will only be able [
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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 12:15 EDT

Ford is betting the future on smaller EV batteries

Ford just announced its new universal EV platform that is expected to rein in costs for the company's money losing EV business. Chief among those cost savings will be a much, much smaller battery. Ford said the new battery will be 15 percent smaller than that of a BYD Atto electric crossover. BYD uses the [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 11:44 EDT

ESPN will offer a $39.99 bundle with Fox’s live sports streaming service

ESPN and Fox both launch their live sports streaming services later this month, and now the two companies have announced that you can bundle them at a discount. Starting October 2nd, you can purchase a subscription to ESPN’s standalone streaming service and Fox One for $39.99 per month, offering savings of about $10. Fox One, [
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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 11:43 EDT

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

Microsoft is moving GitHub into its CoreAI team, following the resignation of GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke today. After nearly four years as CEO, Dohmke is leaving GitHub to “become a startup founder again,” and pursue opportunities outside of Microsoft and GitHub. GitHub has operated as a separate company ever since Microsoft acquired it in 2018 [
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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 11:27 EDT

This magnetic charger brings the conveniences of wireless charging to the iPad

Apple still hasn’t brought wireless charging to the iPad, but Kuxiu’s new charger brings similar functionality and convenience to the iPad Pro and iPad Air. Like wireless chargers for the iPhone, the M30 magnetically attaches to the back of supported iPad models, but instead of transferring power through wire coils and induction, it uses the [
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Victoria Song @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 11:17 EDT

The best smart rings for tracking sleep and health

So, you’re thinking of buying a smart ring. Well, some good news. Picking the best of the lot is incredibly easy right now. The “bad” news is that, as far as trustworthiness and reliability, your choices are somewhat limited, as this is still a niche and emerging gadget category. Smart rings are in the middle [
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Cameron Faulkner @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 11:08 EDT

This 16-inch Razer Blade look-a-like laptop is $1,300 at Best Buy

Let’s be honest, Gigabyte. Your marketing for the Aero X16 is giving Razer Blade, from the colors and font of the spec slides to the thin design of the space gray laptop itself. While we haven’t tested out this model to see how it stacks up to Razer’s gaming machine, its price is certainly a [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 10:54 EDT

US demands cut of Nvidia sales in order to ship AI chips to China

The Trump administration has ordered Nvidia and AMD to pay the federal government a 15 percent cut of their AI chip sales revenue to China, according to reports from The New York Times and The Financial Times. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly reached an agreement with President Donald Trump just days before the Commerce Department [
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Brandt Ranj @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 10:45 EDT

Ninja’s latest ice cream maker has never been cheaper

Ninja’s Swirl ups the ante for ice cream machines by also allowing you to make soft serve or frozen yogurt at home. It normally costs $349.99, but now you can pick one up for $299.99 at Amazon, its lowest price to date. It’s the first time the ice cream maker has gone on sale since [
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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge 3 place · 08/11/2025 10:30 EDT

Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs

Ford says its finally cracked the code on cheap EVs. The automaker announced plans to build “a family” of low-cost electric vehicles at its Kentucky assembly planrt, starting with a four-door, midsized $30,000 pickup truck in 2027. Ford touted the announcement as its “Model T moment” that will be more streamlined to help bring down [
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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 10:14 EDT

This collaborative doodling website is like Google Maps plus MS Paint

A new website that lets you paint over a world map with other users in real-time has taken the digital illustration community by storm.  Wplace is a collaborative pixel art platform that serves as a spiritual successor to Reddit’s r/Place April Fools’ Day experiments, placing time restrictions on drawing tools that motivate users to team [
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Casey Newton @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 10:00 EDT

Notion CEO Ivan Zhao wants you to demand better from your tools

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. This is the second episode of my productivity-focused Decoder series that I’m doing while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, I’m talking with Notion cofounder and CEO Ivan Zhao. I’ve followed Notion for [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 09:25 EDT

Paramount Plus will soon become the exclusive home to the UFC

Paramount has just snapped up the rights to the UFC, joining an industry-wide race to buy up remaining sports streaming rights. The $7.7 billion deal will bring 30 of the UFC’s “Fight Nights” and 13 marquee events to Paramount Plus subscribers for seven years starting in 2026 — no pay-per-view required. Paramount, which merged with [
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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 09:17 EDT

Fairphone’s new cables and chargers are both faster and tougher

Repairable phone manufacturer Fairphone has announced a new range of USB cables and chargers. While they’re not user-repairable, the company says that they’re more durable and sustainably manufactured than its previous peripherals. And even for people without a Fairphone device, they should make for a more affordable entry point to its more ethical take on [
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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 09:14 EDT

A modder created the iPadBook that Apple won’t

Apple has little interest in merging iPadOS and macOS, or bringing its desktop operating system to its touchscreen tablet. So a Chinese modder took it upon themselves to create a hybrid laptop they’re calling the iPadBook featuring both operating systems in a single device that lets you switch from macOS to iPadOS by simply detaching [
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 08:00 EDT

Matter’s latest update doubles down on stability and pushes the platforms to play better together

For Matter, this year was never going to be about flashy new features. Other than support for security cameras, which I hear should finally arrive this fall, 2025 is all about fixing problems. And with Matter 1.4.2, announced today, the smart home standard is taking an encouraging step forward. Back in January, Tobin Richardson, president [
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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 08/11/2025 07:52 EDT

Hyundai wants Ioniq 5 owners to pay to fix a keyless entry security hole

Hyundai is now offering an “optional” security upgrade for the Ioniq 5 in the UK that prevents the car being stolen with a Game Boy-like device. Hyundai wants some Ioniq 5 owners to pay a ÂŁ49 ($65) to upgrade hardware and software components to prevent thieves using handheld devices to unlock and start cars without [
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