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Justine Calma @ The Verge · 10/02/2024 11:21 EDT

The hidden toll taken by tropical storms

Workers, community members, and business owners clean up debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Marshall, North Carolina, on September 30th, 2024. | Photo: Getty Images Tropical storms take many more lives than officially recorded, according to a sobering study published today in the journal Nature. It comes as people across the Southeastern US scramble to find loved ones in the wreckage of Hurricane Helene. The average tropical storm... Read more â€ș

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 10/02/2024 11:13 EDT

Microsoft wants to know why some game developers aren’t on Xbox

Image: Microsoft Microsoft wants to hear from game developers that might be skipping Xbox, or those already building games using the company’s developer tools. The software maker is expanding its Xbox Research team to include the community of game developers, seeking feedback directly from developers about tools, support, and the overall pain points of the Xbox platform. A new program, much like Microsoft’s Xbox Insider one, is now open to... Read more â€ș

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 10/02/2024 10:37 EDT

AMD’s next-gen frame generation tech rolls out to boost FPS in more games

AFMF 2 is now widely available after rolling out to beta testers earlier this year. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AMD has officially launched the latest version of its Fluid Motion Frames tech that can boost gaming framerates on RDNA 2- and RDNA 3-based graphics hardware. Following its technical preview in July, Fluid Motion Frames 2 (AFMF 2) is now widely available after being released on Tuesday... Read more â€ș

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 10/02/2024 10:30 EDT

Automattic demanded a cut of WP Engine’s revenue before starting WordPress battle

Image: WordPress.com Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, asked rival hosting service WP Engine to hand over 8 percent of its revenue each month before igniting a very public battle over what you can and can’t do with an open-source project. On Wednesday, Automattic published the proposed deal that it sent to WP Engine on September 20th. The proposal lays out a seven-year agreement that gives WP Engine the right... Read more â€ș

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 10/02/2024 10:30 EDT

Echoes of Wisdom’s best trick is turning Zelda into a dungeon master

Image: Nintendo The latest top-down Zelda game turns your knowledge about dungeons into the ultimate superpower. Continue reading
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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 10/02/2024 10:28 EDT

Toyota puts another $500 million into an air taxi startup Joby

Toyota is betting big on air taxis. | Image: Toyota Toyota is investing another $500 million into Joby Aviation to support the air taxi startup’s certification and commercial production of electric VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircrafts for use in a ride-hailing service. The automaker has now invested a total of $894 million since 2018. Toyota’s investment will come in the form of two $250 million tranches, the first of... Read more â€ș

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 10/02/2024 10:09 EDT

Target’s new sneakers expand to fit growing feet

The adult version of the Ünos by Sz shoes can expand a full size to accommodate growing feet. | Image: Target Target is introducing a new line of sneakers with a clever design that allows them to grow alongside the wearer, extending how long they can be worn before they’re too small. The ÜNOS by Sz shoes (which is short for (“U Need One Size”) are available in kids sizes... Read more â€ș

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 10/02/2024 09:56 EDT

DC Studios’ next big project is an animated movie about the Robins

Though we’ve yet to see just what kinds of features DC Studios has been cooking up under James Gunn and Peter Safran’s co-leadership, the company has already announced yet another big movie built around a (pair) of Gotham’s heroes. Last night, Gunn — who recently wrapped filming on his upcoming Superman reboot starring David Corenswet — took to his X account to announce that DC Studios is partnering with newly-founded,... Read more â€ș

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 10/02/2024 09:18 EDT

Tesla’s sales are finally picking up

Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images After two straight quarters of declines, Tesla’s vehicle sales are finally on the upswing. Tesla reported producing 469,796 vehicles over the three-month period that ended in September, a 9.1 percent increase compared to the third quarter of 2023. Tesla reported delivering 462,890 vehicles to customers during Q3 of 2024, a 6.3 percent jump from Q2 2023. It was also a measured improvement over the previous... Read more â€ș

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 10/02/2024 09:00 EDT

Ring is finally adding 24/7 recording to its security cameras

Ring is bringing the much-requested feature to its smart security platform starting on November 5th. | Image: Ring Smart home security company Ring announced today that it’s bringing 24/7 continuous video recording (CVR) to its smart security cameras. This will allow a camera to record continuously rather than just when it detects motion, which is how Ring’s cameras and video doorbells currently operate. The new 24/7 recording capability is part... Read more â€ș

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 10/02/2024 09:00 EDT

Venmo is getting payment scheduling

Users can also schedule one-time or recurring payment requests to each other. | Illustration by Hugo Herrera / The Verge Venmo is making it easier to send repeat payments to friends and family or schedule specific payments and payment requests ahead of time. The new P2P feature allows Venmo users to schedule these as one-offs or on a monthly, weekly, or biweekly basis. It will be widely available in the... Read more â€ș

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 10/02/2024 05:12 EDT

Microsoft Office 2024 is now available for Macs and PCs

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don’t want to subscribe to Microsoft 365. The standalone Microsoft Office 2024 release is now available for both consumers and small businesses, and includes locked-in-time versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook across both Mac and PC. Office 2024 includes a lot of the updates that Microsoft has been delivering to Microsoft 365... Read more â€ș

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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 10/02/2024 00:00 EDT

JD Vance avoids January 6th questions by pivoting to Facebook ‘censorship’

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A question about whether Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) would challenge the 2024 election results quickly devolved into a fight about censorship and Big Tech during the debate with Democratic candidate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). “You have said you would not have certified the last presidential election, and would have asked the states to submit alternative electors. That has... Read more â€ș

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Gaby Del Valle @ The Verge · 10/01/2024 23:57 EDT

The Springfield pet-eating hoax was not the only immigration lie Vance spouted tonight

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The racist rumors about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio came up once again at tonight’s vice presidential debate between Governor Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH). “Governor Walz brought up the community of Springfield, and he’s very worried about the things that I’ve said,” Vance said after his opponent criticized him for saying he’s willing to “create stories” about migrants to... Read more â€ș

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Chris Welch @ The Verge · 10/01/2024 19:13 EDT

The best noise-canceling headphones to buy right now

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Get some peace and quiet with any of our top picks for noise-canceling headphones. Sony’s still the best overall, but there are reasons to go elsewhere, too. Continue reading
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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 10/01/2024 18:43 EDT

Snap employees were well aware of the app’s child safety issues, newly unsealed complaint says

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge “By November 2022, Snap employees were discussing 10,000 user reports of sextortion each month, while acknowledging that these reports ‘likely represent a small fraction of this abuse’ given the shame and other barriers to reporting,” says a newly unsealed version of the lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s Attorney General against Snap. This less-redacted version of the filing we first saw a month ago... Read more â€ș

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 10/01/2024 18:22 EDT

Christian Selig’s unofficial YouTube app for the Vision Pro just got taken down

Image: Christian Selig Juno, the third-party YouTube app created for the Apple Vision Pro, has been removed from the App Store. In a post on Tuesday, developer Christian Selig said the app was taken down months after Google warned that it violates YouTube’s guidelines. Like Netflix, Google doesn’t make a YouTube app for the Vision Pro. That means you can only watch YouTube in Safari, which breaks out videos into... Read more â€ș

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 10/01/2024 18:12 EDT

Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nintendo may have just won its battle to put the most popular Nintendo Switch emulators out of business. In March, it sued Yuzu out of existence — and now it may have convinced Yuzu’s primary competitor, Ryujinx, to go away too. Ryujinx’s download page is now empty. Its GitHub is gone. And the emulator’s X social media page and official Discord now contains... Read more â€ș

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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 10/01/2024 18:10 EDT

The best instant cameras you can buy right now

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge We found the best cameras for your budget and needs. Continue reading
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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 10/01/2024 17:01 EDT

The next iPhone SE may lose the home button, add Face ID and Apple Intelligence

An iPhone 14, which the next iPhone SE may look a lot like. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge An iPhone SE that feels very much like any other modern, non-budget iPhone is apparently coming early next year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The phone will use Face ID and will be capable of running Apple Intelligence, he reiterated today. That the new iPhone SE models may... Read more â€ș

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