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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 11:03 EDT

Galactus hungers in Fantastic Four: First Steps’ new trailer

In Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps, everyone sees Reed Richards and his family as heroes capable of protecting the planet from any threat. But the film’s latest trailer makes it seem like the team’s first big villain might be a little more than they can handle. Everyone in the world of First Steps knows the […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 10:51 EDT

Google loses adtech monopoly case

The US Department of Justice has won its antitrust case against Google, which accused the company of operating a monopoly in the advertising technology industry. “Plaintiffs have proven that Google has willfully engaged in a series of anticompetitiveacts to acquire and maintain monopoly power in the publisher ad server and ad exchange marketsfor open-web display […] Read more

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Cameron Faulkner @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 10:16 EDT

At $79, Google’s TV Streamer 4K has never been cheaper

All of the best lessons from Google’s Chromecast lineup through the years were filtered into the TV Streamer 4K, its fastest and smartest set-top box currently available. While the last-gen Chromecast 4K with Google TV nailed the software aspect, this gadget brings the hardware to make it sing. And, presumably for a limited time, you […] Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 10:09 EDT

Audio-Technica’s new $9,999 turntable levitates and glows

Making its debut at Milan Design Week, where function often takes a back seat to form, Audio-Technica’s new Hotaru turntable manages to balance both. The upper section not only floats above the base using a series of magnets that help dampen vibrations, it also glows from within with a color-changing light show that responds to […] Read more

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 10:00 EDT

Sinners is a breathtakingly horrific ode to Black mythology

Horror movies centering Black characters are not a new phenomenon, but the genre’s resurgence in recent years has ushered in a fresh wave of ambitious and occasionally phenomenal features that spin the United States’ legacy of racism into captivating, supernatural tales. Sinners, writer / director Ryan Coogler’s latest project, feels very much like a product […] Read more

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Nilay Patel @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 10:00 EDT

How shippers are trying to keep up with Trump’s trade war

On today’s episode of Decoder, we’re talking tariffs and trade wars. One of the ways I’ve been trying to sort out the chaos of this moment is by talking to the people behind the software that actually runs our global trade systems. We got a lot of notes from listeners who really appreciated our episode […] Read more

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David Pierce @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 09:59 EDT

The best iPad to buy

There are no bad iPads. That’s the best news about Apple’s tablet lineup: 15 years after Steve Jobs first debuted the device, the iPad is the best tablet on the market, and it’s not particularly close. Apple’s App Store is enormous and filled with great apps, Apple’s performance and battery life are consistently excellent, and […] Read more

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 09:38 EDT

Perplexity is reportedly key to Motorola’s next Razr

Perplexity’s AI voice assistant will reportedly play a significant role in the upcoming Motorola Razr device expected to be announced this week, Bloomberg reports. The news comes after Motorola posted a teaser video of the Razr on social media last week, showing the foldable device animate into the word AI. Sources speaking to Bloomberg’s Mark […] Read more

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Ash Parrish @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 09:38 EDT

Nintendo shows off Mario Kart World’s new courses, items, and open world features

Nintendo is possibly hoping to steer the narrative regarding the Switch 2 back in a positive direction by showing off its most exciting game, Mario Kart World. The publisher held a Mario Kart World direct presentation on April 17th debuting 15 minutes of gameplay which showcased many of the game’s new features. Mario Kart World […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 09:18 EDT

Temu and Shein are raising their US prices next week

Shein and Temu are preparing to raise their prices in the US. In almost the same notice to customers, the ultra-cheap retailers warn that they will start adjusting their prices on April 25th due to changes to “global trade rules and tariffs.” President Donald Trump has raised tariffs on goods imported from China to up […] Read more

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 08:30 EDT

Archer and United plan NYC air taxi service for airport trips

Archer says it will launch an air taxi service in New York City with United Airlines, which will include routes between Manhattan and major airports like JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark. The aviation company aims to replace hourlong taxi rides along congested roads with breezy flights lasting between 5-15 minutes. Archer and United would utilize preexisting […] Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 08:12 EDT

Discord is verifying some users’ age with ID and facial scans

Discord is preventing some users from accessing sensitive content unless they allow the platform to verify their age by scanning their face or ID. The new age verification process is described as an “experiment” by Discord, and is being trialed in the United Kingdom and Australia in response to local laws that require online platforms […] Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 06:07 EDT

Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers

Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that’s specifically optimized for training AI models. The Wikimedia Foundation announced on Wednesday that it had partnered with Kaggle — a Google-owned data science community platform that hosts machine learning data — to publish a beta dataset of “structured […] Read more

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Victoria Song @ The Verge · 04/17/2025 01:00 EDT

Strava acquires massively popular Runna app

Go to any run club in the world and there’s a good chance that everyone there has two things: a Garmin smartwatch to track their run and a Strava account to brag about it. Given the global running boom, it makes Strava’s lack of any modern, in-app training plans a curious and glaring omission. Or, […] Read more

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Alex Heath @ The Verge · 04/16/2025 20:50 EDT

Zuckerberg tells court he made WhatsApp, Instagram better

Towards the end of Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in a Washington, DC courthouse, a smile flashed across his face.  Meta’s lead attorney, Mark Hansen, had asked the CEO if he was “happy” about paying $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014. Zuckerberg flashed a grin, took a brief pause, and responded, “I’d do it again.” Over the […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 04/16/2025 18:40 EDT

Gemini Live’s screensharing feature is now free for Android users

Gemini Live’s feature that lets it see and respond to what’s on your camera and your screen will now be free for all Android users via the Gemini app, Google announced today. The AI-powered feature officially launched earlier this month for everyone on Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 using the Gemini app. At the […] Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 04/16/2025 17:54 EDT

Microsoft Copilot can now ‘see’ what’s on your screen in Edge

Copilot Vision, Microsoft’s AI assistant feature that can interpret what’s on your screen and help you use apps, is now available for free use within the Edge browser, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, announced on Bluesky today. Vision is a “talk-based experience,” as Microsoft calls it, meaning you use it by speaking into the […] Read more

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Gaby Del Valle @ The Verge · 04/16/2025 16:25 EDT

This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin

Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets people earn crypto for reporting sightings of undocumented immigrants. ICERAID, a “GovFi protocol that delegates intelligence gathering tasks to citizens,” has recently been promoted by the likes of conspiracy theorist and Trump confidante Laura Loomer, Proud Boy-turned-media personality Jacob Engels, and disgraced former Rep. Matt Gaetz. […] Read more

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Justine Calma @ The Verge · 04/16/2025 15:50 EDT

Apple’s carbon footprint is shrinking  

Apple’s making steady progress toward its climate goals, the company’s latest environmental progress report shows. Its planet-heating pollution shrank by 800,000 metric tons last year compared to 2023, about a 5 percent drop. Looking back over the past decade, Apple says its global greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by more than 60 percent. That’s no […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 04/16/2025 15:43 EDT

Zoom is down

Zoom is suffering from a major outage, preventing people from connecting to video calls or even accessing its website. As shown by data on Downdetector, the outage appeared to have started around 3PM ET. Users across X are posting about the outage, with some getting an “Unable to Connect” error message when entering meetings, and […] Read more

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