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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 18:01 EDT

Gemini AI can automatically turn your spreadsheets into charts

Gemini has some new abilities that could make it more helpful in Sheets, Google announced in a post on the Workspace blog. Now, Gemini can respond to questions about your data with details about trends or by creating static charts that you can insert into your spreadsheet as images. The new capability is rolling out […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 17:05 EDT

Microsoft’s AI business is booming — Xbox, not so much

Microsoft’s cloud and AI businesses are doing pretty well — and their impact is being felt across the company. In its Q2 2025 earnings, Microsoft announced revenue of $69.6 billion for the quarter, up 12 percent year-over-year, and net income of $24.1 billion, which is up 10 percent year-over-year. As for the AI business, CEO Satya […] Read more

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 17:03 EDT

Tesla’s profits slide over 70 percent in the fourth quarter

It’s one week into Elon Musk’s new role as chief cost-cutter for the Trump administration, but today, his side hustle as CEO of Tesla takes center stage with the release of the company’s latest earnings report.  During the fourth quarter of 2024, Tesla said it earned $2.3 billion in net income on $25.7 billion in […] Read more

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 17:00 EDT

Pokémon TCG Pocket’s trading mechanic is kind of terrible

When Pokémon TCG Pocket’s trading functionality was first teased last year, it sounded like it could become a solid way to keep players coming back to the game. Trading seemed like the logical next step toward making Pocket’s Social Hub feel more robust and exciting for players looking to complete their collections. But now that […] Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 16:43 EDT

From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet

Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that […] Read more

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 16:37 EDT

Destiny 2 is getting Star Wars-themed armor next month

Bungie and LucasFilms are bringing Star Wars armor sets and other items into the Destiny universe, so you can dress your Guardian like a stormtrooper. As part of Destiny 2: Heresy, Act I, which launches next week, you’ll be able to access outfits, accessories, and emotes that come straight out of the Star Wars universe […] Read more

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Quentyn Kennemer @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 16:29 EDT

Here’s where you can try to buy an Nvidia RTX 5080 or 5090

While Nvidia’s RTX 50-series graphics cards weren’t the zaniest devices at CES 2025, they stole the show with their promised groundbreaking performance breakthroughs. The RTX 5070, in particular, made headlines as a card that can supposedly rival an RTX 4090 for just $549. We later learned it uses DLSS 4’s AI-powered multi frame generation to […] Read more

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Mia Sato @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 16:08 EDT

Federal workers’ union tells members: Don’t resign via that email

American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the union representing 750,000 federal employees, told members Wednesday to not resign via an email sent to them by the US Office of Personnel Management. The email sent on Tuesday prompted employees to resign from service by accepting a “deferred resignation” offer in which they would be exempted from […] Read more

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 15:59 EDT

JetBlue is the first airline to take Venmo payments

This month, JetBlue announced it has added Venmo as a payment option for booking a flight on jetblue.com. The company says the feature will come to the JetBlue mobile app later this year. Now, instead of entering your card details or using PayPal, you can choose to pay for your ticket with your Venmo balance or with the bank […] Read more

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David Nield @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 15:57 EDT

How to set default apps on your iPhone

Little by little, Apple has been lessening the restrictions it previously put on iPhone customizations. For example, you can now change all of your homescreen icons to the same color and stick widgets on the lockscreen. Until recently, though, you didn’t have a lot of choice when it came to default apps. Every operating system […] Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 15:46 EDT

NASA finds building blocks for life in the Bennu asteroid sample

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last September found molecules, including amino acids, which are essential ingredients of life as we know it. The sample also included “evidence of an ancient environment well-suited to kickstart the chemistry of life,” according to a NASA […] Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 15:38 EDT

Watch as NASA reveals asteroid samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and seven years later, its capsule landed in the Utah desert for NASA to collect and analyze its first-ever samples collected from an asteroid. Now, NASA scientists are ready to show off what it collected and share what they found out during their first tests. NASA administrator […] Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 15:37 EDT

Microsoft makes DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub

Microsoft is bringing Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s R1 model to its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub today. The R1 model, which has rocked US financial markets this week because it can be trained at a fraction of the cost of leading models from OpenAI, is now part of a model catalog on Azure AI […] Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 15:31 EDT

DeepSeek: all the news about the startup that’s shaking up AI stocks

DeepSeek is shaking up the AI industry with cost-efficient large language models it claims can perform just as well as rivals from giants like OpenAI and Meta. The Chinese startup says its flagship R1 reasoning model is capable of achieving “performance comparable” to OpenAI’s o1 equivalent, while the newly released Janus Pro multimodal AI model […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 14:49 EDT

Elliot Page’s production company is making Beyond: Two Souls into a TV show

Beyond: Two Souls, the Quantic Dream-made interactive thriller starring Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, is being adapted for TV by Page’s Pageboy Productions, Deadline reports. The series is in early development and it’s “expected to explore the game’s non-linear narrative,” according to Deadline. In the game, you play as Jodie (portrayed by Page), and sometimes […] Read more

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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 14:13 EDT

White House walks back funding freeze after a day of confusion

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is walking back the federal funding freeze memo that set off a day of chaos and confusion on Tuesday up until a judge paused the order right before it was set to take effect. “In light of the injunction, OMB has rescinded the memo to end […] Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 13:38 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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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 13:29 EDT

Prime Video locks down Lionsgate streaming in time for the next Hunger Games

Amazon’s Prime Video is about to get a lot more Lionsgate films as part of a multi-year deal that will put the studio’s entire 2026 slate of films on the service. Under the agreement, Prime Video will exclusively stream Lionsgate’s upcoming films in the US after they first appear on Starz. The lineup includes titles […] Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 13:06 EDT

Garmin has new solutions for watches stuck on the ‘blue triangle of death’

Garmin has shared new ways to fix its smartwatches that are stuck on the “blue triangle of death,” a boot-up error that’s been stopping owners from using their watches. The steps could get more watches working again — but some models will lose data in the process. There’s still no explanation as to what is causing […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 01/29/2025 13:00 EDT

Google will now automatically revoke permissions from harmful Android apps

Google’s malware scanning Play Protect service will now automatically turn off an Android app’s permissions if it’s potentially harmful. The feature is designed to prevent malicious apps from having access to your phone’s storage, photos, camera, and more. Though you can still restore the permissions for these apps, Google will ask you to confirm your […] Read more

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