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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 12/21/2024 10:49 EDT

The Verge’s 2024 holiday gift guide

Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A collection of fun, affordable, and unique gifts fit for everyone on your list. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more â€ș

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 12/21/2024 10:00 EDT

TCL’s new AI short films range from bad comedy to existential horror

A screenshot from TCL’s The Audition. | Screenshot: TCLtv Plus Earlier this year, TCL released a trailer for Next Stop Paris — an AI-animated short film that seems like a Lifetime movie on steroids. The trailer had all the hallmarks of AI: characters that don’t move their mouths when they talk, lifeless expressions, and weird animation that makes it look like scenes are constantly vibrating. I thought this might be... Read more â€ș

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Brandon Widder @ The Verge · 12/21/2024 09:54 EDT

LG’s brilliant B4 OLED TV is on sale with a $50 gift card for its best price ever

You’d be hard-pressed to find an OLED TV for less right now. | Image: LG One of the best Black Friday deals has returned — and this time, it’s done so with an added perk. Right now, LG’s B4 Series OLED TV is matching its all-time low at Best Buy, where you can pick it up in the 48-inch configuration for $599.99 ($200 off) with a $50 digital gift card.... Read more â€ș

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 12/21/2024 09:00 EDT

10 excellent shows and movies from 2024 to stream on Max

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Between The Penguin, Dune: Prophecy, and I Saw the TV Glow, Max has you covered when it comes to last-minute streaming options to get you through the holidays. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more â€ș

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Richard Lawler @ The Verge · 12/21/2024 00:05 EDT

Google’s counteroffer to the government trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge The Department of Justice’s list of solutions for fixing Google’s illegal antitrust behavior and restoring competition in the search engine market started with forcing the company to sell Chrome, and late Friday night, Google responded with a list of its own (included below). Instead of breaking off Chrome, Android, or Google Play as the DOJ’s filing considers, Google’s proposed fixes aim at the... Read more â€ș

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 20:57 EDT

Josh King’s viral slide-out MagSafe gamepad found a home at OhSnap and looks amazing

Image: Josh King / OhSnap When 19-year-old Josh King suggested he would single-handedly redefine mobile gaming with his 3D-printed gamepad, drawing a direct line from himself to Steve Jobs, I have to admit I thought it was a bit much! But it’s no longer just a 3D-printed controller. OhSnap, the company behind the excellent magnetic PopSocket alternatives I showed you in October, is now officially turning his design into the... Read more â€ș

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 20:50 EDT

Pegasus spyware maker NSO Group is liable for attacks on 1,400 WhatsApp users

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge NSO Group, the organization behind the Pegasus spyware, has been found liable in a lawsuit brought by Meta’s WhatsApp over attacks on about 1,400 devices, as reported by The Record. WhatsApp originally filed the suit in 2019, and investigations have found that Pegasus has been used to hack phones belonging to groups like activists, journalists, and government officials. NSO Group is liable... Read more â€ș

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 18:33 EDT

Qualcomm wins a legal battle over Arm chip licensing

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A federal jury in Delaware determined on Friday that Qualcomm didn’t breach its agreement with Arm through its 2021 acquisition of Nuvia, a startup founded by three former Apple engineers. As reported earlier by Bloomberg and Reuters, the decision stems from a two-year-long legal battle that accused Qualcomm of misusing the chip designs Arm licensed to Nuvia before its acquisition. Despite delivering a... Read more â€ș

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 17:58 EDT

The best Xbox controller to buy right now

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge From basic and affordable to premium and ultra-customizable, these are the best controllers we’ve tested for Xbox. And they work with PCs, too. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more â€ș

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 17:22 EDT

US reveals charges against alleged LockBit ransomware developer

Illustration: Beatrice Sala The US government has charged a dual Russian and Israeli national with allegedly building and maintaining LockBit’s malware code, while receiving over $230,000 in cryptocurrency for his work. The 51-year-old Rostislav Panev was arrested in Israel pending extradition to the US, making him the third member of the LockBit ransomware group in custody. Authorities previously arrested other alleged members of the LockBit group, including Mikhail Vasiliev and... Read more â€ș

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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 17:06 EDT

Here are 40 last-minute gifts you can still grab in time for the holidays

The Echo Pop is a tiny speaker with Alexa-enabled smarts, and is currently down to its best price. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Believe it or not, we’re now just a few days away from Christmas. Don’t panic if you’ve yet to start your holiday shopping, though! While it might be too late to order some of the gifts on your holiday wish list, plenty of... Read more â€ș

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Quentyn Kennemer @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 16:10 EDT

Here are the shipping and return policies for all the big-name retailers

Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images As people scramble for last-minute gifts and late-year bargains, everyone is double-checking their lists and figuring out the fastest way to get their purchases. Thankfully, many retailers are offering generous shipping policies for their products, with some offering free two-day shipping or even same-day delivery if you pay extra. And just in case the gift you choose isn’t quite right, many retailers are also... Read more â€ș

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Alex Heath @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 15:26 EDT

The AI talent wars are just getting started

Naveen Rao, VP of AI at Databricks. | Naveen Rao / The Verge For my last issue of the year, I’m focusing on the AI talent war, which is a theme I’ve been covering since this newsletter launched almost two years ago. And keep reading for the latest from inside Google and Meta this week. But first, I need your questions for a mailbag issue I’m planning for my first... Read more â€ș

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 14:05 EDT

Reduce strain on your ports with this 240 USB-C cable that rotates and bends

Sanwa Supply’s new USB-C cable’s design solves a common point of cable failure. | Image: Sanwa Supply Japanese accessory maker Sanwa Supply has released a new 240W USB-C cable with a flexible design that could help prevent damage, as spotted by Tom’s Hardware. The USB-C connectors on either end of the cable can rotate 360 degrees and bend from side-to-side up to 180 degrees, reducing strain on ports and minimizing... Read more â€ș

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 14:03 EDT

YouTube is cracking down on clickbait

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is taking a tougher stance on clickbait, saying it will remove content with titles or thumbnails that promise viewers “something that the video doesn’t deliver,” as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. This change will “slowly” roll out in India first, according to YouTube’s blog post, but will “expand to more countries” in the “coming months,” YouTube spokesperson Jack Malon says in a statement... Read more â€ș

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Kylie Robison @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 13:55 EDT

OpenAI teases new reasoning model—but don’t expect to try it soon

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge For the last day of ship-mas, OpenAI previewed a new set of frontier “reasoning” models dubbed o3 and o3-mini. The Verge first reported that a new reasoning model would be coming during this event. The company isn’t releasing these models today (and admits final results may evolve with more post-training). However, OpenAI is accepting applications from the research community to test these systems ahead... Read more â€ș

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 13:35 EDT

NHTSA finally releases new rules for self-driving cars — but there’s a twist

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a new “voluntary national framework for the evaluation and oversight” of autonomous vehicles, a bureaucratic first step that could eventually open the floodgates for fully driverless cars. But there’s a twist: the agency wants self-driving car companies to cough up more data. The proposed rules were first announced last year as the ADS-Equipped... Read more â€ș

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 13:21 EDT

Three of the biggest US banks are facing a lawsuit for ‘widespread fraud’ on Zelle

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed a lawsuit against Zelle and three banks that own it — Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase — claiming they failed “to protect consumers from widespread fraud.” Zelle is a payment network designed to compete with payment platforms like Venmo and Cash App, but the CFPB says the banks “rushed” it to... Read more â€ș

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Justine Calma @ The Verge · 12/20/2024 13:15 EDT

The proposed climate fix tech companies just spent millions on? Rocks.

Terradot’s pilot program in Brazil involves spreading crushed basalt over farmland. | Image: Terradot To try to counteract the impact their pollution has on the climate, Google and other big companies have bought into a plan to trap carbon dioxide using rocks. They recently announced multimillion dollar deals with a Sheryl Sandberg-backed startup called Terradot. Google, H&M Group, and Salesforce are among a gaggle of companies that collectively agreed to... Read more â€ș

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