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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 15:42 EDT

Your Whistle pet tracker will stop working next month

Tractive, an Austrian company that makes smart location and activity trackers for dogs and cats, is expanding its presence in the US by acquiring a competitor, Whistle, from Mars Petcare. As a result of the acquisition, the Whistle platform is being shut down and its pet tracking devices will stop working on August 31st, 2025. […] Read more

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Andrew Webster @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 14:00 EDT

Star Trek, superheroes, and lots of Stephen King: the best of SDCC 2025

Another San Diego Comic-Con has come and gone, and while there were no explosive reveals like last year's surprise appearance of Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, there were quite a few interesting developments. That includes several Star Trek spinoffs, a new sci-fi show on Apple TV Plus, trailers for everything from Peacemaker to Gen […] Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 13:29 EDT

Microsoft starts rolling out Xbox age verification in the UK

Microsoft is starting to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act by prompting Xbox players to verify their age today. The prompts will be shown to Xbox players who indicate they’re over the age of 18 and will be shown when you sign into an Xbox account in the UK. Microsoft says it’s also exploring […] Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 13:05 EDT

The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse

People across the United Kingdom have been faced with a censored and partially inaccessible online landscape since the country introduced its latest digital safety rules on Friday. The Online Safety Act mandates that web service operators must use "highly effective" age verification measures to stop kids from accessing a wide range of material, on penalty […] Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 13:00 EDT

Microsoft Edge transforms into an AI browser with new Copilot Mode

Microsoft is starting to test a new experimental Copilot Mode inside its Edge browser today. The AI-powered mode allows Copilot to search across all your open tabs and handle tasks like booking a restaurant, and it brings the Copilot chatbot to your new tab page. Copilot Mode is somewhere between the limited Gemini integration that […] Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 12:26 EDT

Sony details its ‘FlexStrike’ wireless PS5 fight stick

Sony has shared more details about its arcade-style controller for the PlayStation that was first teased during the State of Play event in early June. Originally codenamed Project Defiant, the fight stick is now called the FlexStrike and features a rechargeable battery, mechanical switch buttons, restrictor gates that limit the joystick’s movements, and the ability […] Read more

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 11:57 EDT

Avatar: Fire and Ash brings war to Pandora in first trailer

The first trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash is finally here, and it looks like James Cameron might have made another banger. Though Avatar: The Way of Water ended on hopeful note with Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their family finding a new home with a different group of Na’vi, Fire and […] Read more

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Cameron Faulkner @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 10:19 EDT

Mario Kart World and other Switch 2 games are 10 percent off

I wasn’t expecting to see any deals on Switch 2 games for a while. Even though the console is currently much easier to find in stock, game discounts — especially ones on first-party Nintendo launch games — aren’t the norm. However, you can get 10 percent off on the likes of Mario Kart World, and […] Read more

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Jon Fortt @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 10:00 EDT

ChatGPT can be a disaster for lawyers — Robin AI says it can fix that

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Jon Fortt — CNBC journalist, cohost of Closing Bell: Overtime, and creator of the Fortt Knox streaming series on LinkedIn. This is the last episode I’ll be guest-hosting for Nilay while he’s out on parental leave. We have an exciting crew who will take over for me after that, […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 09:30 EDT

Temu users face a ‘high risk’ of finding illegal products, EU says

Temu users in the European Union are at “high risk” of coming across illegal products while shopping on the platform, as reported earlier by The Financial Times. Preliminary findings from the European Commission’s investigation into the platform uncovered baby toys, small electronics, and other items on Temu considered counterfeit, unsafe, or “non-compliant.” Last year, the […] Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 09:29 EDT

Xbox will let you play Silksong at Gamescom in August

Microsoft will let Gamescom attendees play a demo of the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong on the new ROG Xbox Ally handhelds. It’s part of more than 20 titles that will be available at the Xbox booth at Gamescom, including a new theater experience to demonstrate The Outer Worlds 2. Silksong will be available to play on the new […] Read more

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Darryl Campbell @ The Verge · 07/28/2025 08:00 EDT

How Trump let Boeing off the hook for the 737 MAX crashes

On July 18th, a federal judge in Texas scheduled what will likely be the final hearing in the case of United States v. The Boeing Company. After five years of litigation, the end result can only be described as a victory for Boeing - and a permanent setback for those who hoped that the company […] Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge 1 place · 07/28/2025 05:59 EDT

Reddit and Discord’s UK age verification can be defeated by Death Stranding’s photo mode

Enforcement of the UK's new online safety rules started on Friday, forcing a variety of platforms to roll out mandatory age verification tools for Brits. We already know that the age-gating checks are easy to bypass with a VPN, but what we didn't know is that the face scanning tools used by platforms like Reddit […] Read more

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Vjeran Pavic @ The Verge · 07/27/2025 13:47 EDT

The Fujifilm X-E5 proves familiar isn’t always a bad thing 

The X-E5 is Fujifilm's tiny powerhouse. It's part of a line of cameras that has often been described as similar to the X100, except with an interchangeable lens. But the X-E line has evolved this year and is taking on a new shape. It used to be seen as a budget option, but at $1,699, […] Read more

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Brandt Ranj @ The Verge · 07/27/2025 10:00 EDT

The Verge’s 2025 back-to-school shopping guide

Back-to-school season is closer than you might realize, especially for college students, many of whom are set to return to campus in a matter of a few short weeks. And while school can be a challenging time on many fronts, regardless of the grade, there are tools that can help you better prepare for life […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 07/27/2025 08:00 EDT

Apple beta season is here

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 91, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, how is summer more than a month over already, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I'm pondering the leaked Pixel 10 lineup, marveling […] Read more

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto @ The Verge 1 place · 07/26/2025 10:00 EDT

Here are the laptops I’d tell any parent to consider for their back-to-school student

We’re in the heart of summer fun, but it’s already time for back-to-school planning, especially if that involves buying a new laptop. The dizzying number of different laptops and configurations can feel overwhelming, especially if you want something that doesn’t cost too much but will still last a long time. My general guidelines are to […] Read more

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Tina Nguyen @ The Verge 1 place · 07/26/2025 09:30 EDT

Online MAGA cope is now Congressional strategy

When it comes to defending Donald Trump from the worst accusations, the MAGA influencer-industrial complex, whether out of loyalty or self-preservation, often defaults to whataboutism, arguing that the Democrats are just as guilty as Trump, or (ideally) worse. This principle has held true with the current Jeffrey Epstein saga, and as their audience's anger against […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 07/26/2025 09:00 EDT

The Drifter is a good old-fashioned thriller

Point-and-click adventure games often tell silly, lighthearted stories. For me, the mishaps of the pirate Guybrush Threepwood in the Monkey Island series come to mind. The nature of the genre - wandering around, talking to people, and trying to solve puzzles - lends itself well to humor, as every interaction with a person or object […] Read more

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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 07/26/2025 08:30 EDT

OnePlus Nord 5 review: selfie-centric midranger

The OnePlus Nord 5 does exactly what the company's Nord phones have always done: deliver strong specs at a relatively low price. It's one of the more powerful phones at this price point and should easily outstrip Samsung and Google's more expensive alternatives. This is a function-over-form phone, one where the key selling points are […] Read more

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