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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 05/16/2025 09:00 EDT

I let lasers power my smart home — and I don’t want to go back

One morning last month, I walked into my kitchen to get a glass of water, but my smart faucet was out of battery. I went to sit down in my front room, and the shade was still shut - it was out of battery. I walked down the hall and found a beached robot vacuum [
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Antonio G. Di Benedetto @ The Verge · 05/16/2025 09:00 EDT

Acer’s Swift Edge laptop is gunning for the MacBook Air

Acer is announcing a whole slew of new laptops at the Computex 2025 computer show in Taiwan, including the Swift Edge 14 AI that weighs half a pound less than the MacBook Air, and the Predator Triton 14 AI for a mix of both gaming and content creation. There are over a dozen new models [
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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 05/16/2025 08:18 EDT

Anthropic blames Claude AI for ‘embarrassing and unintentional mistake’ in legal filing

Anthropic has responded to allegations that it used an AI-fabricated source in its legal battle against music publishers, saying its Claude chatbot made an “honest citation mistake.” An erroneous citation was included in a filing submitted by Anthropic data scientist Olivia Chen on April 30th, as part of the AI company’s defense against claims that [
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Ash Parrish @ The Verge · 05/16/2025 08:00 EDT

Doom: The Dark Ages is for lovers and slayers

If you've spent any time on the internet, you may have seen the "what I expected vs. what I got" memes. If I could make one for Doom: The Dark Ages, in my expected column I'd reference the earlier Doom games - Eternal and the 2016 soft reboot of the franchise. But for the "what [
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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 05/16/2025 07:36 EDT

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey will be the first movie shot entirely on IMAX film

When it launches next summer, Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Greek epic The Odyssey will be historic in more ways than one: it will be the first feature film ever shot entirely on IMAX film. The Odyssey isn’t the first film to be shot entirely using IMAX hardware — that honor belongs to Avengers: Infinity War [
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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 05/16/2025 07:29 EDT

Wooting’s 60HE v2 upgrades the best gaming keyboard with improved speed and sound

Wooting set the standard for gaming keyboards with the original 60HE three years ago, and now it’s ready to launch a successor with an upgraded design. The 60HE v2 will be available later this year with true 8K polling, a new closed-bottom switch, and an aluminum case that should all add up to a faster [
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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 05/16/2025 05:46 EDT

Fortnite for iOS is unavailable worldwide

Fortnite maker Epic Games has announced that Apple has blocked the game’s return to iOS. Following the rejection, Fortnite is no longer available on iPhones and iPads even in the European Union, where it had previously been available to download through the Epic Games Store. “Apple has blocked our Fortnite submission so we cannot release [
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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 05/16/2025 04:52 EDT

Grok’s white genocide fixation caused by ‘unauthorized modification’

After xAI’s chatbot Grok spent a few hours on Wednesday telling every X user that would listen that the claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly contentious, the company has blamed the behavior on an “unauthorized modification” to Grok’s code. Wednesday’s hours-long outburst saw Grok insert discussion of alleged white genocide in South [
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Adi Robertson @ The Verge · 05/15/2025 19:50 EDT

Meta asks judge to throw out antitrust case mid-trial

Meta has filed a motion for judgment on the antitrust case it’s currently fighting in court. The motion argues that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has failed to produce any evidence that Meta unlawfully monopolized part of the social networking market, something the government argues it did through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The [
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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 05/15/2025 19:20 EDT

Here are the best Kindle deals right now

When it comes to finding a device to read ebooks, you have a few options to choose from. You can always buy a tablet or use your phone, but those devices are multipurpose and can be used for a ton of things, like surfing the web or doom-scrolling on X. If you are looking for [
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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 05/15/2025 18:53 EDT

Tim Sweeney is mocking Apple for letting Fortnite fakes into the App Store

Epic Games has been waiting for Apple to approve Fortnite for the US iOS App Store for nearly a week, and now Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is using X to try and put pressure on Apple. On Thursday, he highlighted examples of Fortnite lookalikes that are currently on the App Store and made a direct [
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Brandon Widder @ The Verge · 05/15/2025 18:29 EDT

Here are the best Apple Watch deals right now

In September, Apple launched its latest smartwatch, introducing the Apple Watch Series 10 alongside a black rendition of the Apple Watch Ultra 2. Each wearable has its own pros and cons, as does the second-gen Apple Watch SE, but the recent introduction of the new wearables also means there are now more Apple Watch models [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 05/15/2025 17:54 EDT

TikTok will show teens guided meditation after 10PM

TikTok will interrupt teens’ feeds with guided meditation after 10PM. The platform has been testing the feature with a “wind down” prompt, but now it’ll show the notification with guided meditation by default to all users under 18. TikTok’s wind-down prompt initially only played calming music to remind teens to take a break from the [
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Elizabeth Lopatto @ The Verge · 05/15/2025 17:00 EDT

Jeff Bezos makes his most ghoulish deal yet

Watching the behavior of our tech overlords has answered questions I'd never thought to ask. How do you NDA an army of baby mamas? Is there anything more embarrassing than impersonating Benson Boone? (Also, who is Benson Boone?) And now, the latest: how long after a sovereign ruler of a repressive state murders one of [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 05/15/2025 16:25 EDT

Coinbase says ‘rogue’ support agents helped steal customer data

Coinbase says cyber criminals “bribed and recruited” support workers to help steal customer data and trick victims into sending money to attackers. As a result of the attack, bad actors obtained the names, addresses, phone numbers, government IDs images, account data, and partial social security numbers of a “small subset of users,” according to a [
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Elizabeth Lopatto @ The Verge · 05/15/2025 15:55 EDT

Thanks, Trump tariffs, now I gotta replace my phone battery

After five years, I was still happy with my phone, even though its battery had started the inevitable process of slowing to a stop. But Donald Trump's tariff nonsense pushed me to make a decision: buy a new phone or fix the old one now, before the prices go up. The answer was clearer than [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 05/15/2025 14:39 EDT

YouTube now has a podcast chart, and Joe Rogan is on top

YouTube now has a chart that tracks the top 100 podcasts in the US. The Joe Rogan Experience took the number one spot during the week of May 5th to the 11th, followed by Kill Tony, Rotten Mango, and 48 Hours. YouTube will update the chart every Wednesday and rank each show by watchtime, according [
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Chris Welch @ The Verge · 05/15/2025 14:00 EDT

The best AirPods to buy

Whether you’re buying your first pair of AirPods or replacing a well-used older pair, it’s easy to understand why so many iPhone owners prefer Apple’s earbuds and headphones over other options. Apple has spent years gradually adding new features that work best — and sometimes only work at all — within the company’s walled garden. [
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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 05/15/2025 13:33 EDT

Pinterest says mass account bans were caused by an ‘internal error’

Pinterest has apologized for a recent wave of “over-enforcement” that erroneously deactivated many accounts. The platform has experienced some weird moderation issues in recent weeks, and outraged users reported their accounts had been suspended without warning or explanation. In response to many appeals, the platform cited unspecified community guideline violations. The company initially addressed ban [
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Brandon Widder @ The Verge · 05/15/2025 13:27 EDT

You can snag a year of Peacock Premium for just $24.99 right now

May and June are rarely considered the best time of year to land a streaming deal, though that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to save if you can forgo big-name services like Netflix and Hulu. Now through May 30th, for instance, both new and returning subscribers can sign up for a year of ad-supported Peacock [
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