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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 17:38 EDT

Perplexity wants to buy Chrome if Google has to sell it

Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko said he didn't want to testify in a trial about how to resolve Google's search monopoly because he feared retribution from Google. But after being subpoenaed to appear in court, he seized the moment to pitch a business opportunity for his AI company: buying Chrome. If Judge Amit Mehta […] Read more

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Ash Parrish @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 16:34 EDT

Playing Oblivion for the first time is like opening an RPG time capsule

It was really great seeing all the excitement from fans when Oblivion shadow dropped earlier this week. For a lot of people, the fourth installment in the Elder Scrolls series is the game, the experience that either was the impetus for their career in video games, instilled in them an everlasting love for the format, […] Read more

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 16:29 EDT

Lexus’ redesigned ES sedan can be electric or hybrid

Lexus’s mid-sized ES luxury sedan is getting a redesign for its eighth generation that includes some edgier styling and a significant platform change that accommodates both an all-electric drivetrain and a regular hybrid one. Revealed at the Shanghai Auto Show today, the 2026 ES is Lexus’ second electric vehicle after the RZ, which was just […] Read more

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 16:17 EDT

iRobot’s latest Roomba robot vacuum is great news for pet owners

iRobot just launched its ninth new robot vacuum of the year. That’s a record number for the company, which is struggling to dig itself out of the giant financial hole it was left in after Amazon’s bid to buy it fell through. The new Roomba Max 705 has the same design and lidar navigation as […] Read more

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Barbara Krasnoff @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 14:06 EDT

Sharge’s transparent Shargeek 170 power bank is now only $99

I find something weirdly captivating about tech products that come with transparent cases that let you see the works inside. We all know that there are all sorts of chips and wires in there that make the product do what it does, but unless we plan to break the thing open (and void the warranty), […] Read more

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Tina Nguyen @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 13:56 EDT

Pete Buttigieg makes his first foray into the podcast manosphere

A Democrat has entered the manosphere. Pete Buttigieg, the former Secretary of Transportation in the Biden Administration and a presidential candidate in 2020, sat for a three-hour appearance on Andrew Schultz’s Flagrant on Wednesday to discuss current events, the state of politics, and the culture wars — his latest foray into breaking outside of the […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 13:39 EDT

WhatsApp now lets you block people from exporting your entire chat history

WhatsApp is launching a new “Advanced Chat Privacy” feature that aims to prevent people from taking conversations outside the app. When the setting is turned on, you can block others from exporting your chat history and automatically downloading photos and videos sent in the app. The feature will prevent people from using messages for Meta […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 13:30 EDT

Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down

Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down and will be replaced by former Activision Blizzard and King exec Humam Sakhnini, according to a press release. Sakhnini takes over on April 28th. Citron will stay on the board of directors and serve as an advisor to the CEO. “As we enter our next phase, […] Read more

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Chris Welch @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 13:21 EDT

Roku says its ads aren’t meant to be ‘interruptive’ after controversial test

Last month, Roku ensnared itself in controversy after customers quickly complained about a limited test where an advertisement for Moana 2 started playing as soon as the company’s products were powered on. Across Reddit and other social media channels, people threatened to ditch their devices if Roku repeated such an experiment. The message, at least […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 13:00 EDT

Adobe and Figma tools are getting ChatGPT’s upgraded image generation model

OpenAI’s upgraded image generator in ChatGPT brought a surge of users to the AI service thanks to its ability to create Studio Ghibli-style images and really dull dolls, and now it’s coming to other apps. The company says the same “natively multimodal model” powering the image generator will be accessible in its API via “gpt-image-1,” […] Read more

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 12:57 EDT

The Old Guard sequel is coming to Netflix this July

It only took five years, but Netflix has finally locked in its plan to premiere The Old Guard’s long awaited sequel. Today, Netflix announced that director Victoria Mahoney’s (You, Lovecraft Country) The Old Guard 2 is slated to debut on July 2nd. Rather than dropping a trailer, Netflix released a handful of new stills from […] Read more

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Andrew Webster @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 12:41 EDT

Predator: Badlands turns the tables in new trailer

We’re used to seeing Predators do the hunting — it’s in the name, after all. But it looks like the roles will be reversed somewhat in Predator: Badlands, at least according to this new teaser trailer. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg — who also helmed the excellent Predator spinoff Prey — Badlands follows a young Predator […] Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 12:00 EDT

Microsoft’s Xbox app is now available on LG smart TVs

Microsoft revealed earlier this year that LG TVs would get access to Xbox Cloud Gaming, and now the Xbox TV app is rolling out to select LG smart TV models starting today. The Xbox app will let LG TV owners stream Xbox games directly to their TVs, and use a wireless controller to play them. […] Read more

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 11:59 EDT

Elon Musk’s robotaxi fantasy is starting to unravel

Last night, Elon Musk did what he does best: promise “millions” of autonomous Tesla vehicles would be on the road by the end of next year. It’s become a familiar refrain. Every year since at least 2020, Musk has promised Tesla vehicles will finally achieve their full self-driving capabilities. And every year, those promises fail […] Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 11:47 EDT

Intel is boosting the performance of its Arrow Lake CPUs for free

Intel continues to work on getting better results from its Arrow Lake CPUs, now with a free update that it says will boost gaming performance. The company announced that the update, an overclocking profile called “Intel 200S Boost,” is available for unlocked Intel Core Ultra 200S-series processors “paired with compatible Intel Z890 motherboards and appropriate […] Read more

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Tom Regan @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 11:30 EDT

How 2025’s surprise RPG hit lured some big-name stars

Nestled between the crowd-pleasing guns and gore of Xbox’s 2024 summer showcase, was an eyebrow-raising, painterly role playing game. As its party of grimacing adults urgently sprints across a shimmering, surrealist landscape, a voiceover depicts a world terrorized by an omnipotent being called the Paintress. Each year, she daubs a new descending number on a […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 11:29 EDT

Sony’s new PS5 update brings back its classic console themes

Sony has brought back its classic PlayStation console themes to PS5 as part of a new update, the company announced on Wednesday. The classic themes, originally introduced to celebrate PlayStation’s 30th anniversary, were supposed to be a limited time promotion. But shortly before the themes were set to go away, Sony promised that it would […] Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 11:10 EDT

Meta rolls out live translations to all Ray-Ban smart glasses users

Meta announced new color lens combinations for its Ray-Ban smart glasses as well as wider availability for some features that were previously only accessible to members of Meta’s Early Access Program. These include live translation, the ability to send messages and make calls through Instagram, and conversations with Meta AI based on what you’re currently […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 11:05 EDT

Threads adds more ads

Meta is opening up ads on Threads to “all eligible advertisers globally” and plans to show them to users in “select markets at launch,” according to an update to the company’s January blog post about ads on the platform. The company plans to test ads in more than 30 countries globally, including the US, spokesperson […] Read more

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Chris Welch @ The Verge · 04/23/2025 10:02 EDT

The best Sonos speakers to buy in 2025

After the year of self-induced tumult that Sonos has been through, I can understand why some people are reluctant to spend money on the company’s products. But interim CEO Tom Conrad has shown that he’s determined to get back on track and revitalize Sonos as the leading whole-home audio brand. The contentious mobile app is […] Read more

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