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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 13:00 EDT

Homey adds new energy management features and a dongle

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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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 12:59 EDT

Microsoft starts testing iPhone file sharing for Windows PCs

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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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 12:59 EDT

Xbox tests streaming your Xbox games to your Xbox

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is going to let Xbox Insiders who also subscribe to Game Pass Ultimate test the ability to stream some Xbox games they already own to their Xbox starting today. The feature could be useful if you want to jump into a game without having to install the whole thing; given how big game file sizes can be nowadays, streaming a game via... Read more

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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 12:45 EDT

Nvidia must face lawsuit alleging it downplayed crypto’s impact on its success

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Nvidia must face an investor lawsuit claiming it misled shareholders about the impact of the cryptocurrency market on its sales after the Supreme Court dismissed the company’s appeal. The court said it had “improvidently granted” Nvidia’s petition, meaning it decided it shouldn’t have taken it up in the first place. That means the case will have to continue on in the lower courts.... Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 12:44 EDT

Microsoft wants to make the Xbox app the home of PC gaming

Image: The Verge Microsoft is updating the Xbox app on Windows today with hundreds of PC games that weren’t previously available and a new home experience. It’s part of a broader effort to make the Xbox app the place to find PC games, regardless of whether they’re part of PC Game Pass or not. “Earlier this summer, we began working with partners to bring all PC games with Xbox features... Read more

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Quentyn Kennemer @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 12:30 EDT

The PS5 disc drive is back in stock, but only for GameStop Pro members

We never thought such a simple attachment would be so difficult to come by. | Image: Sony Sony’s detachable disc drive for the PlayStation 5 has been hard to come by as of late, and it’s disappointing that the $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t include one. However, GameStop is now offering a rare window for GameStop Pro members to pick one up for its original MSRP of $79.99. GameStop’s loyalty program... Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 12:30 EDT

Watching sports: a special series from The Verge

It should be simple to stream live TV at home. But depending on the sport, you might be signing up (and paying handsomely) for a lot of different services just to keep up. There are the rare leagues, like Major League Soccer, that can be watched on a single channel. (In the US, every match can be viewed live on Apple TV Plus.) But keeping up with most sports resembles,... Read more

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 12:00 EDT

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is a soulless return to Middle-earth

Image: Warner Bros. Animation Director Kenji Kamiyama’s new Lord of the Rings anime film feels like what happens when you try to turn a footnote into a feature-length story. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 11:34 EDT

The Onion’s acquisition of Infowars was blocked by a judge

Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images The Onion’s acquisition of InfoWars isn’t happening — at least for now. In a ruling on Tuesday, a Texas bankruptcy judge rejected The Onion’s purchase of the conspiracy-ridden website founded by Alex Jones, according to a report from The New York Times. Last month, The Onion announced that it had purchased InfoWars during a bankruptcy auction of Jones’ assets. It had the support of the... Read more

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Quentyn Kennemer @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 11:00 EDT

Apple Watch Series 10’s record low price from Black Friday is back

The Series 10 has the biggest display of any non-Ultra Apple Watch. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you happened to miss out on the Apple Watch Series 10’s all-time low Black Friday price, now is a good chance for redemption. The 42mm GPS model of Apple’s latest smartwatch has dropped to $329.99 (about $70 off) at Amazon when you click a coupon. The 46mm GPS... Read more

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Kylie Robison @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 10:33 EDT

Google’s AI enters its ‘agentic era’

Image: Google I stepped into a room lined with bookshelves, stacked with ordinary programming and architecture texts. One shelf stood slightly askew, and behind it was a hidden room that had three TVs displaying famous artworks: Edvard Munch’s The Scream, Georges Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon, and Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa. “There’s some interesting pieces of art here,” said Bibo Xu, Google DeepMind’s lead product manager for Project Astra. “Is... Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 10:30 EDT

Google’s new Jules AI agent will help developers fix buggy code

Illustration: The Verge Google has announced an experimental AI-powered code agent called “Jules” that can automatically fix coding errors for developers. Jules was introduced today alongside Gemini 2.0, and uses the updated Google AI model to create multi-step plans to address issues, modify multiple files, and prepare pull requests for Python and Javascript coding tasks in GitHub workflows. Microsoft introduced a similar experience for GitHub Copilot last year that can... Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 10:30 EDT

Google built an AI tool that can do research for you

Illustration: The Verge Google has just revealed a new AI tool called Deep Research that lets you call upon its Gemini bot to scour the web for you and write a detailed report based on its findings. Deep Research is currently only available in English to Gemini Advanced subscribers. If you have access, you can ask Gemini to research a particular topic on your behalf, and the chatbot will create... Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 10:30 EDT

Google is testing Gemini AI agents that help you in video games

Clash of Clans. | Image: Supercell Google just announced Gemini 2.0, and as part of its suite of news today, the company is revealing that it’s been exploring how AI agents built with Gemini 2.0 can understand rules in video games to help you out. The agents can “reason about the game based solely on the action on the screen, and offer up suggestions for what to do next in... Read more

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David Pierce @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 10:30 EDT

Google launched Gemini 2.0, its new AI model for practically everything

Illustration: The Verge Google’s latest AI model has a lot of work to do. Like every other company in the AI race, Google is frantically building AI into practically every product it owns, trying to build products other developers want to use, and racing to set up all the infrastructure to make those things possible without being so expensive it runs the company out of business. Meanwhile, Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic,... Read more

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David Pierce @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 10:30 EDT

It sure sounds like Google is planning to actually launch some smart glasses

Here’s what Google’s latest smart glasses prototype looks like. | Image: Google Google is working on a lot of AI stuff — like, a lot of AI stuff — but if you want to really understand the company’s vision for virtual assistants, take a look at Project Astra. Google first showed a demo of its all-encompassing, multimodal virtual assistant at Google I/O this spring and clearly imagines Astra as an... Read more

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 10:11 EDT

Wallace & Gromit studio Aardman is working on a Pokémon project

TCPi / Aardman Aardman Animation, the studio behind the Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, and Shaun the Sheep, and Chicken Run franchises, is working with The Pokémon Company International on a mysterious new project. In a surprising turn of events, TCPi and Aardman announced today that they’re teaming up for “a special project” that’s set to be released some time in 2027. In a press release about the collaboration, TCP... Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 10:00 EDT

We asked our staff for their 2025 predictions

2024 had some stand-out moments in tech: from AI-generated images to TikTok’s near ban, to beigecore, Windows BSOD, the best smart ring of them all, and the list goes on. If you want to see the technology that we just couldn’t ignore, check out our video here. But now, we’re looking toward 2025, and it’s gearing up to be another eventful year. Will we have an actual fulfilling X replacement?... Read more

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David Pierce @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 10:00 EDT

Why every company wants a podcast now

Image: The Verge. Photos: Getty Hello, and welcome to Decoder! I’m David Pierce, editor-at-large of The Verge. As you may have noticed, we’re dropping some extra episodes in the feed this week. You’ll have Nilay back on Friday and for next week, as we run toward the end of the year. But I’m really excited to be here with you all today because I’m getting to talk about one of... Read more

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David Pierce @ The Verge · 12/11/2024 09:05 EDT

YouTube is a hit on TVs — and is starting to act like it

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube just released some new stats that show how the service is being consumed on televisions, and the numbers are enormous. Watch time on TV for sports content was up 30 percent year over year; viewers watched more than 400 million hours of podcasts on their TVs every month. This is YouTube we’re talking about, though, so of course the numbers are huge.... Read more

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