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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 16:15 EDT

Cricut’s new crafting machines are more accurate, faster, and cheaper

Cricut has announced new versions of its crafting machines designed to print, cut, and emboss various materials using a collection of swappable tools. The new Cricut Maker 4 and Cricut Explore 4 are the first updates to both machines in nearly four years and offer faster cutting speeds for some materials, improved accuracy, and cheaper […] Read more ›

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 16:11 EDT

Apple will let parents share their kids’ ages to limit app access

Apple announced in a whitepaper that it plans to introduce a bunch of new child safety features, including letting parents share their kids’ age ranges with apps, refreshing the App Store’s age ratings system, and making it easier for parents to set up Child Accounts for their kids. The company says it will introduce the […] Read more ›

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Allison Johnson @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 16:05 EDT

The best iPhones

The wait is over — kind of. Apple’s iPhone 16 series is out, including the kinda affordable 16E, and its much-hyped Apple Intelligence has arrived courtesy of iOS 18.1. But if you’re expecting an entirely new kind of iPhone experience, well, I have some bad news for you. The AI features in iOS 18.1, including the writing […] Read more ›

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Allison Johnson @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 15:50 EDT

The best Android phones

The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a wider range of choices on Android. Some Android phones even fold in half! Imagine. On the flip side, all that choice can make for some hard decisions. Here’s […] Read more ›

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 15:32 EDT

Microsoft releases a Copilot app for Mac

Microsoft is releasing a native Copilot app for macOS today. Much like the Windows app, the Copilot version for Mac will provide access to the web-based version of Microsoft’s AI assistant, where you can upload images and generate images or text. The macOS version of Copilot also includes a dark mode and a shortcut command […] Read more ›

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 14:59 EDT

Hands-on with Alexa Plus in the smart home

Oh, Alexa, how you’ve changed. The long-awaited new Alexa, Alexa Plus, is set to bring a more conversational, context-aware, and capable assistant to your smart home. With a new voice (eight of them, in fact) and a new attitude, this is the biggest change to the voice assistant since it debuted in 2014. And it […] Read more ›

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 14:39 EDT

OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, warns it’s not a frontier AI model

OpenAI is launching GPT-4.5 today, its newest and largest model. GPT-4.5 will be available as a research preview, and OpenAI is calling it the company’s “largest and most knowledgeable model yet,” but warning that it’s not a frontier model and might not perform as well as o1 or o3-mini. GPT-4.5 will have better writing capabilities, […] Read more ›

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 14:19 EDT

Sesame is the first voice assistant I’ve ever wanted to talk to more than once

I tell Amazon’s Alexa to shut up on a near daily basis. I have almost zero interest in speaking to Gemini after our first awkward chat. The hitches, misunderstandings, and lag in any given AI “conversation” mean I’m always wasting time speaking when I could be texting instead.  But speaking to “Maya,” one of two […] Read more ›

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Alex Heath @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 14:02 EDT

Meta is firing about 20 employees for leaking

Meta has fired “roughly 20” employees who leaked “confidential information outside the company,” according to a spokesperson. “We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against our policies to leak internal information, no matter the intent,” Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold tells The Verge exclusively. “We recently conducted […] Read more ›

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 14:02 EDT

The fallout of Meta’s content moderation overhaul

Meta is making sweeping changes to its content moderation policies, including abandoning third-party fact-checks in favor of X’s crowd-sourced “Community Notes” approach and loosening restrictions on topics like immigration and gender identity. Under the updated Hateful Conduct policy, for example, calling gay and trans people “mentally ill” is now allowed, while an explicit ban on […] Read more ›

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 14:00 EDT

Here’s a new trailer for the ambitious survival game from PUBG’s creator

PlayerUnknown Productions, the studio from PUBG creator Brendan Greene (aka PlayerUnknown), has shared a gameplay trailer for Prologue: Go Wayback!, a single-player survival game that’s launching in early access on Steam this year. The studio previously shared that the game would be built with “machine-learning-driven terrain generation technology,” and in this new trailer, you can […] Read more ›

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 13:15 EDT

Jeff Bezos is sending Katy Perry to space

Katy Perry will fly to space during Blue Origin’s next crewed mission, the Jeff Bezos-owned space company has announced. The pop star will join CBS host Gayle King and Bezos’s fiancé Lauren Sánchez aboard the New Shepard rocket this spring, marking its 11th human flight. Along with Perry and Sánchez, who is known for her […] Read more ›

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 13:00 EDT

Microsoft pushes ahead with AI in gaming

Microsoft might say its top priority right now is security, but it’s been clear for months that AI is just as important. The odd division out has been Xbox, which hasn’t discussed its use of AI much in public. But that changed last week when Microsoft ripped the band-aid off and waded, somewhat clumsily, into […] Read more ›

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Victoria Song @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 12:53 EDT

Powerbeats Pro 2 review: the workout buds to beat

After an epic wait, the Powerbeats Pro 2 are finally here. No, seriously. The original Powerbeats Pro released nearly six years ago, roughly an ice age as far as gadgets go. Turns out, it was worth it thanks to new active noise canceling, a transparency mode, and heart rate monitoring. None of these features are […] Read more ›

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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 12:47 EDT

WD’s Xbox expansion cards are nearly matching their Black Friday low

From Monster Hunt Wilds to Ninja Gaiden 4, there are a ton of great Xbox Series X / S games coming out this year. Luckily, if you need more storage to play them all, Western Digital’s officially licensed WD_Black C50 Storage Expansion Card for Xbox is down to its best price since Black Friday, with […] Read more ›

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 12:18 EDT

Shinichirō Watanabe’s Lazarus hits Adult Swim in April

Lazarus, Shinichirō Watanabe’s upcoming anime about  a world plunged into chaos by a mysterious miracle drug, finally has a premiere date. Today, Adult Swim announced today that Lazarus will debut on April 5th with encores hitting Max on Thursdays beginning April 10th. Along with the announcement, Adult Swim also dropped a new Lazarus trailer teasing […] Read more ›

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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 12:15 EDT

Trump’s tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico will take effect March 4th

President Donald Trump says his 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, and additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports will go into effect as scheduled on March 4th, unless imports of drugs including fentanyl are stopped or “seriously limited.” “Drugs are still pouring into our Country from Mexico and Canada at very […] Read more ›

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 12:08 EDT

Starlink poised to takeover $2.4 billion contract to overhaul air traffic control communication

While Elon Musk hacks away at the federal bureaucracy in the name of “efficiency,” his company Starlink appears poised to steal a multi-billion dollar government contract away from Verizon. The Federal Aviation Administration is on the cusp of canceling a $2.4 billion contract to overhaul the communication system for the nation’s air traffic control system, […] Read more ›

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 12:00 EDT

Roblox is getting faster on Chromebooks

If you play Roblox on a Chromebook, things could feel faster soon. Roblox is rolling out an x86 version of the game “built specifically for Chromebooks,” where players can expect “up to 2x faster performance on x86 devices across all your favorite games and experiences,” according to a ChromeOS blog post. This will translate to […] Read more ›

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 02/27/2025 11:48 EDT

US tariffs: how Trump’s tax is hitting Big Tech and beyond

President Donald Trump has announced that he’s imposing a tariff on goods from some of the US’s biggest trade partners: Canada, Mexico, and China. Under the executive orders signed on February 1st, Canada and Mexico will face a 25 percent tariff, while goods from China will be subject to a 10 percent tax. Energy resources […] Read more ›

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