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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 05/12/2025 11:10 EDT

Peacock’s NBA coverage will add an overlay with live shot stats

The NBA is headed to Peacock this October, and with it a range of new features making the viewing experience distinct from watching basketball on cable and a flood of other sports-focused packages. For starters, Peacock is adding an optional “performance view” overlay that will show you player names and a live shot chart that [
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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 05/12/2025 10:56 EDT

Don’t delete that ‘Lopez Voice Assistant’ email — it’s about Apple’s Siri settlement

If you’ve been wary after getting an email with the subject line “Lopez Voice Assistant Class Action Settlement,” that’s understandable — but it’s likely a notification that you’re owed part of a $95 million payout over allegations of Siri-enabled spying on private conversations. The settlement is related to Lopez v. Apple Inc, a 2019 class [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 05/12/2025 10:22 EDT

Fox’s new streaming service will arrive just in time for football season

Fox expects to launch its upcoming streaming service before this year’s NFL season, the company announced on Monday. The new service, which it will call Fox One, will allow viewers to access livestreams and on-demand content from several channels, including Fox News, Fox Sports, FS1, FS2, Fox Business, and local stations. During an earnings call [
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Nilay Patel @ The Verge · 05/12/2025 10:00 EDT

Did Apple get too big for its own good? With Daring Fireball’s John Gruber

We’re doing something a little different on today’s episode of Decoder. I asked my friend John Gruber, of the website Daring Fireball, to come on the show and talk about the future of Apple — and, importantly, the App Store. Gruber and I have been friends for over a decade now. Daring Fireball was one [
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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 05/12/2025 09:20 EDT

The Overwatch developer team has unionized

The team of nearly 200 Activision Blizzard developers behind the Overwatch franchise has unionized. Formed under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the Overwatch Gamemakers Guild is the latest wall-to-wall Blizzard union to be recognized by parent company Microsoft since the World of Warcraft development team announced its own union last July. The CWA announced [
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Andrew Webster @ The Verge · 05/12/2025 09:00 EDT

Apple’s Murderbot series is goofy sci-fi with a side of existential crisis

I did not expect a TV show called Murderbot to be quite so relatable. On the surface, the Apple TV Plus sci-fi comedy is a somewhat generic futuristic story about a group of humans exploring a dangerous planet with the help of a security bot that's designed to protect them. The key is the perspective: [
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Yessenia Funes @ The Verge · 05/12/2025 08:00 EDT

Indigenous scientists are fighting to protect their data — and their culture

Every month, a group of Indigenous scientists from around the world gathers on Zoom. They never have an agenda. They meet as colleagues to catch up and commiserate about the challenges of being Indigenous in Western academia. Their February meeting, however, quickly struck a different tone. "There was this cascade that started happening," recalled Max [
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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 05/12/2025 06:32 EDT

Google Keep brings text formatting to the web

Google Keep has finally expanded the text formatting options to its web app, almost two years after making them available for Android users. The update for Google’s web-based note-taking service is now rolling out to Google Workspace, Workspace Individual, and personal Google account users and provides new options for customizing text and heading styles. It [
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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 05/12/2025 04:45 EDT

Google’s AI image-to-video generator launches on Honor’s new phones

Chinese phone manufacturer Honor has launched an image-to-video AI generator powered by Google, before it’s available to Gemini users. It will be available first for anyone who buys the Honor 400 or 400 Pro phones, which launch next week on May 22nd. The new AI tool, powered by Google’s Veo 2 model, creates five-second videos [
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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 05/12/2025 03:58 EDT

US and China slash tariffs

The United States and China have mutually agreed to a 90 day reduction on tariffs implemented in April, marking a significant attempt to de-escalate the trade war between the world’s two largest economies. The deal was hashed out by US and Chinese officials in Geneva over the weekend, and will see the US reducing duties [
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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 05/11/2025 18:26 EDT

Mexico is suing Google over how it’s labeling the Gulf of Mexico

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday that her government is suing Google for relabeling the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” for US users, CBS News reports. The company had done so in Google Maps after President Trump ordered the name change at the beginning of his Presidential term. The lawsuit makes good on [
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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 05/11/2025 16:03 EDT

Apple may release a ‘mostly glass, curved iPhone’ in 2027

This morning, while summarizing an Apple “product blitz” he expects for 2027, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter that Apple is planning a “mostly glass, curved iPhone” with no display cutouts for that year, which happens to be the iPhone’s 20th anniversary. That follows a report last weekend from The Information, which [
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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 05/11/2025 12:15 EDT

Trump fires head of Copyright Office two days following report that AI training may not be fair use

The Trump administration has reportedly fired Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, who leads the US Copyright Office, following the office’s choice to release a pre-publication version of its opinion on the fair use status of AI training data that’s made up of copyrighted information.  Representative Joe Morelle, the ranking Democrat of the Committee on House [
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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 05/11/2025 10:14 EDT

Giant Bomb goes independent

At the beginning of the month, things weren’t looking good for gaming site Giant Bomb after its content was put on hold amid reports of editorial interference from its parent company, Fandom. Today, some feel-good news: Giant Bomb announced it is now an independent, employee-owned entity. “Giant Bomb lives! Fandom has sold the site to [
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Cath Virginia @ The Verge · 05/11/2025 10:00 EDT

What lies beneath: filming gators in Florida springs

If you're like me, you've been anxiously searching for any relief from the Bad Newsℱ and endless stream of AI slop plaguing your feed. Joseph Ricketts' breathtaking wildlife videos could be the antidote. An alligator taking a nap on the floor of a crystal clear spring. Schools of fish glittering in the darkness. A cosmic [
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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 05/11/2025 09:00 EDT

Expedition 33’s big twist was designed to ‘inflict the pain on the player’

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is my favorite game of the year so far, with an exhilarating battle system, excellent exploration, and a haunting soundtrack. But I'm not the only one who loves it: the game has become a huge hit, with more than 2 million copies sold just 12 days after its late April release. [
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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 05/11/2025 08:18 EDT

Whoop backpedals on its paid upgrade whoops

Whoop is in damage control mode. After debuting its Whoop 5.0 fitness tracker, users were angered to find it had reneged on a promise of free hardware upgrades. In a new Reddit post, the company now says users who have more than 12 months left on their subscription can get the Whoop 5.0 for free. [
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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 05/11/2025 08:11 EDT

United’s Starlink-powered Wi-Fi signals the end of airplane mode

Last Thursday, I boarded one of the first United Airlines planes to be equipped with Starlink's satellite Wi-Fi. As expected, the Wi-Fi was very fast and left me wondering whether this will herald the end of spotty in-flight Wi-Fi, expensive connectivity fees, or even the quaint notion that we can avoid work altogether while cruising [
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David Pierce @ The Verge · 05/11/2025 08:00 EDT

The one controller to (almost) rule them all

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 82, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you're caught up on Andor, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about AI prophets and ChatGPT cheaters and the [
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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 05/10/2025 18:14 EDT

The FTC puts off enforcing its ‘click-to-cancel’ rule

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was set to start enforcing the remaining provisions of its “click-to-cancel” rule on May 14th, requiring that subscriptions be as easy to cancel as to start. Now, the agency says it won’t enforce the rule until July 14th, as TechCrunch reports. Also known as the Negative Option Rule, the big [
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