Android 16 is officially here, and it includes Googleâs take on the iPhoneâs Live Activities. On Tuesday, Google announced that Live Updates are rolling out first with ride-share and food delivery apps, allowing you to track the progress of your ride or delivery with persistent, real-time notifications. Google first started working on Live Updates last [âŠ] Read more âș
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Google is rolling out a new feature to Pixel devices that makes it easier to connect with people youâre close to. Pixel VIPs is a new widget that builds on the favorite contacts already saved to Pixel phones, allowing users to add personal notes about them, see real-time location information when shared, and quickly check [âŠ] Read more âș
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Fatherâs Day is on Sunday, June 15th, and if youâre after a last-minute gift that wonât blow your budget, weâve got you covered. Several retailers are currently offering fantastic Fatherâs Day discounts on an array of gadgets we can personally vouch for at The Verge, from the Roomba Combo 10 Max to budget-friendly options like [âŠ] Read more âș
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Appleâs next major software updates are getting a huge new feature for playback speed sickos like me: youâll be able to listen to shows on the Podcasts app at as much as 3x speed, Apple notes in a press release about new services features. Previously, the maximum was 2x. You can move to super speed [âŠ] Read more âș
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The new $84.99 Pro Controller for the Switch 2 may not be your idea of a pro-grade controller - perhaps not by a long shot. But it's certainly more of one than Nintendo's $69.99 last-gen controller. It has two extra buttons embedded into its grips (one on each side), which can be programmed on a [âŠ] Read more âș
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Sonos has released a major software update for its Ace wireless headphones bringing performance improvements and a feature that was supposed to originally be available late last year. TrueCinema mode, which adapts the headphoneâs spatial audio to your space and makes the virtual surround sound effect more convincing, is finally available, as spotted by What [âŠ] Read more âș
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Snap plans to start selling its first pair of augmented reality glasses to the public in 2026. The coming release is part of CEO Evan Spiegel's decade-plus bet on what comes after the smartphone. He teased it Tuesday onstage at the Augmented World Expo, an augmented and virtual reality developer conference in Long Beach, California. [âŠ] Read more âș
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All sequels have to live up to their predecessors in some form, but few have as daunting a task as Mario Kart World. It's a follow-up to the best-selling game across Nintendo's last two console generations, and a game that eventually doubled in size thanks to an ambitious array of downloadable add-ons. So instead of [âŠ] Read more âș
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The Trump administration is working on an âAI.govâ website and API to âaccelerate government innovation with AI,â 404 Media found based on code posted to Github and an early version of the site. The project appears to be run by the General Services Administrationâs Technology Transformation Services, led by former Tesla engineer Thomas Shedd. Shedd, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Meta is close to finalizing an almost $15 billion investment in Scale AI, the tech giantâs largest-ever external investment, which would give Meta a 49% stake in the company, according to The Information. As part of the deal, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally assembling a team of about 50 people to help Meta supercharge [âŠ] Read more âș
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Threads users will soon be able to send direct messages to each other without having to leave the platform. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on June 10th that Threads will start testing its own DM system this week, starting in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Argentina, with plans to expand to more locations âsoon.â The experiment [âŠ] Read more âș
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Things are getting nutty in the world of vehicle fuel economy standards. Last week, Transportation Secretary (and ex-reality TV contestant) Sean Duffy declared that he was resetting the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that govern vehicle fuel efficiency in the US. Duffy confidently declared that the current CAFE standards, in which fuel economy would [âŠ] Read more âș
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American Screen Actors Guild members have reached a âtentativeâ contract agreement with major gaming companies that could potentially end the 11-month-long video game actorsâ strike. SAG-AFTRA announced the tentative contract on Monday without specifying terms or protections for performers. The strike began on July 26th, 2024, after the union and a bargaining committee of video [âŠ] Read more âș
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Xbox has revealed its new handheld line, the ROG Xbox Ally and the Ally X, made in partnership with Asus. And I got the chance to play it during Summer Game Fest. My colleague Tom Warren has already broken down how the handheld works with its operating system, UI, and integration with the Xbox app [âŠ] Read more âș
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Microsoft isnât planning to host its Build developer conference in its home city of Seattle next year. The conference is being relocated, and Microsoft has reportedly canceled all its holds for Build at the Seattle convention center âfor all future years.â âOur plans for Build 2026 have changed, but our vision to empower builders and [âŠ] Read more âș
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VanMoof, the poster child of bikeaggedon, just launched the first e-bikes developed under new leadership following its 2023 bankruptcy sale to McLaren Applied. The bikes were supposed to be revealed tomorrow, but a link provided to an early access program has resulted in the details leaking early. The new S6 Series - which I briefly [âŠ] Read more âș
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I genuinely never expected to say this: it appears Apple finally figured out multitasking on the iPad. With iPadOS 26, the company hasn't completely taken off the guardrails for how you can use and place apps on your tablet, but it came awfully close. With a couple of clever iPad-specific tricks, and better support for [âŠ] Read more âș
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The squid kids are coming to the Switch 2. In its mobile news app today, Nintendo made some surprise announcements about its ink-shooting franchise. First up, a spinoff game called Splatoon Raiders is in the works for the Switch 2, though there arenât a lot of details. The new game will take players to an [âŠ] Read more âș
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The New York Times' games team is trying something new: it's about to start testing a Scrabble-like game it calls Crossplay, but instead of folding the game into the main NYT Games app, Crossplay will be a standalone app. The game is soft launching in New Zealand on iOS on Tuesday. I was recently shown [âŠ] Read more âș
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Microsoft has started testing a new feature for its Edge browser that adds an AI-powered search to browsing history. This new âenhanced searchâ feature lets you find websites in your browser history even if you use a phrase, synonym, or even a typo thatâs similar to the site you actually want to find. The AI-powered [âŠ] Read more âș
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