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Justine Calma @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 13:51 EDT

Electricity demand surges for the world’s two biggest polluters

China and the US, the world’s two top greenhouse gas polluters, could burn through a lot more electricity over the next couple of years, according to the latest forecast from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The steepest rise in global electricity demand in a while is expected over the next few years, with much of that coming from new data […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 13:33 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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Kylie Robison @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 13:32 EDT

Mira Murati is launching her OpenAI rival: Thinking Machines Lab

After her sudden departure from OpenAI last fall, ex-CTO Mira Murati vanished from public view to start something new. Now, she is ready to share some details about what she’s working on. Her new AI startup is called Thinking Machines Lab, and while the specifics of what it plans to release are still under wraps, […] Read more

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Lewis Gordon @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 13:30 EDT

Three months later, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is the glorious pain in the ass its makers intended

When S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl was released in November, it was clearly not yet the game its developers, GSC Game World, wanted it to be. Sure, this imagining of the Zone was fabulously moody, a desolate and bleak expanse of bog, scrubland, abandoned warehouses, and pallid vistas. For all the ways it was transportive […] Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 13:16 EDT

WhatsApp is now a Very Large platform in the EU, and will face tougher regulation

Meta’s WhatsApp has now gathered enough users to be designated a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), opening it up to stricter regulations in the region, reports Bloomberg. The DSA assigns VLOP status to any online service with more than 45 million users, a threshold WhatsApp crossed last […] Read more

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Ash Parrish @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 12:39 EDT

Magic: The Gathering’s Final Fantasy sets will tell the stories of the games

Magic: The Gathering has revealed a look at its forthcoming Final Fantasy-themed set. In an interview with IGN, senior game designer Daniel Holt talked about the collaboration and this initial look, which focuses on four major character cards and their associated pre-constructed Commander decks. The revealed cards include Terra from Final Fantasy VI, Tidus from […] Read more

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Quentyn Kennemer @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 12:11 EDT

All of Chipolo’s Bluetooth trackers are discounted in sitewide sale

Did you know Apple’s AirTags weren’t the first Find My Bluetooth trackers for iPhones? Chipolo actually beat Apple to its own game in 2021 with the Chipolo One Spot. It’s easy to pass them up given that AirTags are often discounted, but Chipolo’s ongoing sale is tempting. All of Chipolo’s trackers are discounted right now, […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 11:53 EDT

Meta’s new ‘LlamaCon’ event will focus on AI

Meta is holding a new “LlamaCon” conference where it will share updates on “open source AI developments” to help developers create apps and products, the company said on Tuesday. LlamaCon will take place on April 29th, 2025 — months ahead of its Meta Connect conference, which it just announced will run from September 17th to […] Read more

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Quentyn Kennemer @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 11:48 EDT

The best Presidents Day deals you can still get

Thanks to the one-two punch that is Valentine’s Day and Presidents Day, there are plenty of sales to take advantage of throughout the month of February. And while both holidays are officially behind us, Amazon, Walmart, and plenty of other retailers are still discounting a range of tech, including some of the gadgets and gizmos […] Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 11:47 EDT

The hunt for the next Twitter: all the news about alternative social media platforms

It’s been more than two years since Elon Musk officially took over as the owner of Twitter — now X — and while a lot of platforms rushed in to try and be the next big microblogging service, many haven’t survived. Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky have all proven to be viable alternatives, but places like […] Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 11:47 EDT

Insta360’s new gimbal add-on brings subject tracking to any camera app

Insta360 has announced a new accessory for its Flow 2 Pro smartphone gimbal that allows any camera app to take advantage of the company’s AI-powered tracking technology. Previously, subject tracking required the use of the company’s own Android or iOS camera app, or iOS apps that supported Apple’s DockKit framework. The new Insta360 Flow 2 Pro […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 11:08 EDT

Chase will start blocking Zelle payments over social media

Chase Bank is going to make it harder to use Zelle for transactions stemming from social media. In an update to its policy on Zelle, Chase says it may “decline or block” payments related to purchases from social media marketplaces or messaging apps, as spotted earlier by Bleeping Computer. The new policy, which goes into […] Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 10:52 EDT

Nothing’s new video pits the Phone 3A’s camera against the iPhone 16 Pro Max

Nothing is comparing its coming budget Phone 3A’s camera against that of the iPhone 16 Pro Max in a new YouTube video released today. Specifically, it’s showing off the performance of the Phone 3A’s 50MP periscope camera, which appears in the bottom right of the triangular three-camera array in the photo (emailed to the The […] Read more

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David Pierce @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 09:37 EDT

Can Meta still make the metaverse?

Meta is clearly all in on AI, and for good reason. With models like Llama, products like the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, and a monetization plan like Facebook ads, it’s one of the companies best positioned to make AI really work. But it wasn’t that long ago that Meta was making a different, just as […] Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 09:16 EDT

Nanoleaf is permanently cutting prices for its signature LED light panels

Nanoleaf has announced that the company’s “most popular products” are getting a permanent price cut as part of its new SmarterLife Pricing Initiative. “For the past two years, Nanoleaf has been working closely with their manufacturing and supply chain teams to completely reexamine, rework and reoptimize processes, materials, and structures to reduce costs,” the company […] Read more

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Victoria Song @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 09:11 EDT

The best smartwatches for Android

After a long stretch of slim pickings, the last couple of years have been huge for Android smartwatches. Now there are more good options than ever. But the market is fragmented. Wear OS 5 is here for Samsung’s Galaxy Watches, Google’s Pixel Watch 3, and soon, the OnePlus Watch 3 when it ships later this […] Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 08:33 EDT

Elon Musk doesn’t work for DOGE

Elon Musk is — according to a new legal filing from the US government — not running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), despite his leadership appointment by President Donald Trump. In fact, claims the new White House declaration, he isn’t technically even a DOGE employee despite representing himself as the key decision maker behind its activity. […] Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 08:25 EDT

Everything we know about Apple’s Vision Pro

People have been speculating about Apple’s entry into the world of virtual and augmented reality headsets for the better part of a decade. At WWDC 2023, it finally revealed the Vision Pro, which will launch as the first visionOS device on February 2nd. The Vision Pro starts at $3,499 with 256GB of internal storage, while […] Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 08:25 EDT

Vision Pro apps: the good, the bad, and the ridiculous

The Vision Pro is Apple’s newest computing platform, and that means we’re going to see a whole bunch of new apps. Apple pitches apps built for the Vision Pro as “spatial” experiences, and even after our initial review experience, we’ll have to see how those differ from or improve upon the virtual reality and mixed […] Read more

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Victoria Song @ The Verge · 02/18/2025 08:00 EDT

The OnePlus Watch 3 finally adds a proper rotating crown

I’ve had the $329.99 OnePlus Watch 3 for a few days, and so far, this isn’t an Android watch that flips the script. Instead, it’s a story about refinement (and playing a bit of catch-up), rather than pushing boundaries. And you know what? If it means a strong Google / Samsung alternative with a rotating […] Read more

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