Photo by Jeff Gritchen/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images Donald Trumpâs transition team is taking aim at a Biden-era rule requiring automakers and tech companies to report crashes that involve fully or partially autonomous vehicles, according to Reuters. Scrapping the crash reporting rule would greatly benefit Tesla, which to date, has reported the most number of crashes. In 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a standing... Read more âș
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Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The US Department of Energy announced a $1.25 billion loan to electric vehicle charging company EVgo as the Biden administration races to finalize its spending on EVs before Donald Trump takes office. The money will fund EVgoâs plans to install approximately 7,500 chargers at roughly 1,100 charging stations across the US over the next five years, with a particular focus on fast-charging 350kW stalls that... Read more âș
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Ankerâs slim MagSafe power bank now supports Qi2 wireless charging speeds. | Image: Anker Anker has released its thinnest MagSafe-compatible power bank, measuring about a third of an inch thick. Itâs only got a 5,000mAh battery inside, so you probably wonât get two full iPhone charges with it, but Anker has updated it with 15W Qi2 wireless charging speeds so your phone can charge faster. Itâs currently available exclusively through... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning Americans about âgame-like online job scamsâ that get people to perform tasks with the promise of a continuous income stream â only to be duped into giving money to the scammer. The FTC says in the first six months of this year, these âtask scamsâ have raked in over $220 million from victims, often in... Read more âș
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Image: Evan Blass (X) Valve revealed earlier this year that it will support the ROG Ally handheld with its Steam Deck operating system, and now it looks like Lenovo will soon have its own SteamOS handheld, too. Evan Blass has posted images of an unannounced Lenovo Legion Go S on X today, revealing black and white variants of a handheld gaming PC. The interesting part? The black one has a... Read more âș
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Illustration: The Verge Googleâs NotebookLM and its podcast-like Audio Overviews have been a surprise hit this year, and today Google company is starting to roll out a big new feature: the ability to actually talk with the AI âhostsâ of the overviews. When the feature is available to you, you can try it out with new Audio Overviews. (It wonât work with old ones.) Hereâs how, according to a blog... Read more âș
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Sony Sony has made bad Spider-Man spinoff movies before, but Kraven the Hunter is another level of terrible. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more âș
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Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Waymoâs driverless vehicles can detect emergency vehicles, know how to respond to hand signals for traffic cops, and can be disabled manually when something goes wrong, according to an independent review of the companyâs first responder protocols. As such, the Alphabet companyâs first responder protocols passed an independent review conducted by TĂŒv SĂŒd, a German tech inspection company. The firmâs assessment found that Waymoâs First... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge / Photos: Getty Media critic Matt Pearce on âLessons on media policy at the slaughter-bench of historyâ Read the full story at The Verge. Read more âș
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A color image taken by Perseveranceâs Mastcam-Z instrument of NASAâs Ingenuity Mars helicopter in April 2023. | Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Ahead of a full technical report thatâs expected to be released in the next few weeks, engineers from NASAâs Jet Propulsion Laboratory and AeroVironment have revealed whatâs believed to be the cause of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopterâs crash on January 18th, 2024. The craftâs vision navigation system, which was designed to... Read more âș
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Airbnb would prefer if you have your rowdy New Yearâs Eve bash elsewhere. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you were thinking of booking an Airbnb to host a rowdy New Yearâs Eve shindig, the company is already one step ahead of you. Airbnb says itâs rolling out anti-party technology worldwide to help prevent âunauthorized and disruptiveâ get togethers over the holiday. Airbnb describes its anti-party technology... Read more âș
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The USB-C Backbone One (second-gen) offers the same experience as the Lightning version pictured. As good as the Backbone One is (read our review of the original version), it can be hard to justify earmarking $100 for a mobile gaming controller. Even at its common $70 sale price, youâre entering pro controller territory. That said, a 50 percent discount for the second-gen Backbone One (USB-C) seems worth jumping over the... Read more âș
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Illustration: The Verge Tumblr is introducing a new Community feature â in-app groups organized by topic or interest. Communities are similar to subreddits or Facebook groups and had previously been in beta. Topics include things like film photography, marine biology, LGBTQ, and video games, and each topic has its own landing page where posts shared with the community populate. Many of the features mirror Reddit, like a count of how... Read more âș
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The 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros are still the best laptops for creative professionals. This year theyâre a little faster, with better webcams, new anti-glare screen options, and thatâs mostly it. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more âș
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Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge ChatGPT launched roughly two years and two weeks ago. Now, as we near the end of 2024, the AI race is... well, where is it, exactly? Itâs more competitive than ever, thereâs more money being poured into new models and products than ever, and itâs not at all clear when or even whether weâre going to get products that make it all worthwhile. On... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The shooter had a message, and the internet was happy to spread it. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more âș
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Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Microsoft has quietly ended the sale of new credits and phone number features for Skype this week. Skype Credit and Skype Number are both being discontinued in favor of Microsoft pushing subscriptions instead. Skype Credit was a pay-as-you-go plan for making calls both locally and internationally, and Skype Number allowed you to have a phone number that people could call and get through... Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After the surprise ousting of former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger last week, the chip maker is facing an uncertain future that could involve splitting the company up. The temporary co-CEOs of Intel both appeared at Barclays investment banking conference on Thursday, hinting at a potential manufacturing spinoff. Intelâs manufacturing business finances and operations are already being separated into a standalone subsidiary, according to... Read more âș
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The Game Awardsâ final world premiere was Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. Developed by Naughty Dog, Intergalactic is a futuristic space opera with the kind of retropunk vibes that remind me of Cowboy Bebop. Indeed, the trailer even featured an anime playing in the background reminiscent of Dirty Pair. Hereâs Naughty Dogâs description of the game, from the YouTube trailer: Set thousands of years in the future, Intergalactic puts players into... Read more âș
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Image: Capcom Capcom had quite the surprise in store at The Game Awards. The developer announced a sequel to Okami, a beautiful and beloved action-adventure game that originally launched back in 2006. The sequel â which doesnât currently have a name â was revealed in dramatic fashion with a musical performance. Original director Hideki Kamiya is returning for the game, which will be developed by his new studio Clovers. Itâs... Read more âș
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