Illustration: The Verge Valve is testing an option in the new Steam client beta that will force games by default to only download updates when you launch them. Currently, Steam by default decides what game updates to download based on a few different things. As explained by Valve: For games you recently played, Steam will download game updates shortly after they are released. For games that you haven’t played in... Read more ›
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Deals on Apple’s latest slates are finally worth springing for. | Screenshot: Apple While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day, many great iPad deals are attainable outside those times. The day-to-day discounts may come and go like changing winds, but there’s often something to be saved, particularly on the more affordable iPads. The most recent iPad Pro and iPad... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Thanks to Qi2, there are way more great chargers for your MagSafe phone than ever before. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more ›
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Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whether you’re assembling a PC, planning an epic Etsy crafts store, or just fixing a squeaky old chair, we found some handy tools that anyone can appreciate. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Sonos will soon encourage employees on its various product teams who live near its US office locations to come in for at least two days per week, The Verge has learned. That’s a notable break from the company’s history, throughout which Sonos has enthusiastically supported fully remote and hybrid work. Job listings at Sonos routinely state that “it’s about impact, not location.” Glassdoor reviews... Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is rolling out two new updates to its unknown tracker alerts feature that should make it easier for Android device owners to detect unfamiliar trackers, the company announced on Wednesday. Introduced in July 2023, the safety feature automatically sends notifications if an unwanted Bluetooth tracker is traveling with you. The first update lets Android phone owners temporarily stop sending location updates to... Read more ›
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Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images The NewsGuild of New York announced Wednesday that it has reached a tentative deal with The New York Times on behalf of the Times Tech Guild. The tentative three-year contract would be the first for the guild, which was initially formed in 2021. The tentative deal follows a strike that kicked off the day before the US presidential election in November and lasted... Read more ›
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Graphic by James Bareham / The Verge While we’re always being told how to simplify our cramped living spaces and get rid of all the stuff we’re no longer using or wearing, it’s often hard to figure out just how to do it responsibly without adding to the world’s excess trash. Because just dumping them isn’t an option, reusing and recycling old and unneeded stuff has become an important aspect... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge We picked the best video doorbell cameras for keeping an eye on people, packages, and anything else that comes across your front porch. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more ›
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Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Eight years and $10 billion later, GM has decided to pull the plug on its grand robotaxi experiment. The automaker’s CEO, Mary Barra, made the surprise announcement late on Tuesday, arguing that a shared autonomous mobility service was never really in its “core business.” It was too expensive and had too many regulatory hurdles to overcome to make it a... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The Department of Justice during the Trump administration defied agency policy in an attempt to identify journalists’ sources, the agency’s inspector general alleges in a new report. The IG alleges the agency sought “non-content communications records” — information like email logs, rather than the content of those conversations — on eight journalists across The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN. The Times... Read more ›
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Image: Apple Apple is bringing layered recordings to the Voice Memos app on the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. With the new feature, you can record vocals while listening to an instrumental track out loud in iOS 18.2. Even though the microphone will technically pick up the instrumentals, Apple says the iPhone 16’s A18 Pro chip allows it to isolate vocals with “advanced processing and machine learning,” letting Voice... Read more ›
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Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge For millennia, the Arctic tundra has helped stabilize global temperatures by storing carbon in the frozen ground. Wildfires have changed that, according to the latest Arctic Report Card released yesterday at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference. Fires, intensified by climate change, release carbon trapped in soil and plants. More frequent infernos have now transformed the tundra into a net source of carbon... Read more ›
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Image: Roku Roku City, the purple-tinted cityscape screensaver that debuted in 2018, might look a little sharper and more detailed the next time you see it scrolling by. This week, Roku is increasing the screensaver’s resolution to 1080p; it was still stuck at 720p until now — despite running on millions of 4K Roku TVs and 4K-capable streaming players. That’s blasphemous, if you ask me, so it’s nice to see... Read more ›
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Image: Krispy Kreme Krispy Kreme is currently dealing with a cybersecurity breach that has brought down parts of its online donut ordering service in the US. The company has been working to resolve the issue for over a week now after detecting unauthorized access to its systems on November 29th. In a filing issued to the SEC on Wednesday, Krispy Kreme says it was “notified regarding unauthorized activity on a... Read more ›
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My favorite dynamic wallpaper floating in the desert. | Screenshot: Mac Virtual Display Since its release, I’ve mostly used Apple’s Vision Pro like a movie theater. The VR headset is an amazing way to watch Dune — but beyond that, it hasn’t really lived up to its potential as a general-purpose computing device. Today, that’s finally starting to change. With the update to visionOS 2.2, Apple is seriously upgrading the... Read more ›
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Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge From smart ovens and calendars to color-changing nail polish, here are some of our favorite gadgets and goods to gift mom this year. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more ›
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Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge A bunch of Meta apps are down right now. For many staffers at The Verge, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads aren’t loading right now and are showing error messages when you try to load them. Reports across Bluesky, X, and Reddit show that many people see the same thing. On Facebook, it simply says “We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we... Read more ›
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The Homey smart home platform, which works with the Homey Pro or Homey Bridge hubs, has launched a Home Energy Dongle and energy management tab for its app. Smart home company Homey has added a new energy management tab to its app to track and monitor energy use from compatible smart devices such as plugs, appliances, thermostats, and EV chargers. This week, the company also announced the Homey Energy Dongle... Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has started testing some improvements to its Phone Link app for iPhone users. Windows Insiders can now try out a new way to share a file from an iPhone to a PC and vice versa, making the experience a little more like file sharing with an Android device. Windows Insiders can download the latest Phone Link app update, version 1.24112.89.0 or higher,... Read more ›
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