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Sarah Jeong @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 22:03 EDT

If the Electoral College has invaded your phone screen, here’s how to get rid of it

Some iOS users with the Washington Post app installed may have looked down at their device tonight only to find an undismissable black toggle hovering on their screen, with electoral vote counts in the 2024 presidential race slowly ticking upwards. (On my own iPhone it appears as the dynamic island.) If you tap on it it merely expands to give you more information about the race, along with little drawn... Read more

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Ash Parrish @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 20:42 EDT

Nintendo says its Switch successor will be backward compatible with Switch games

Image: The Verge Nintendo hasn’t announced its Switch successor yet, but we do know one thing for sure: it will be able to play current Switch games, with carryover for your Nintendo Switch Online services and account. The news was announced during Nintendo’s Corporate Management Policy Briefing, with further information promised “at a later date.” All three of the major console manufacturers have had spotty records with backward compatibility. Both... Read more

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 19:37 EDT

Suzuki teams up with Toyota on its first EV: the E Vitara

Suzuki is finally making an EV. | Image: Suzuki Suzuki and Toyota have been working together on a new 4WD-capable electric SUV, and in Italy yesterday, Suzuki revealed the fruits of the collaboration: a new compact called the E Vitara. It’s the automaker’s first EV, and it’s scheduled for production at Suzuki Motor Gujarat in India starting next spring. The E Vitara will launch in Europe, India, and Japan “around”... Read more

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Gaby Del Valle @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 18:55 EDT

Elon Musk is being sued over his $1 million giveaway to voters — again

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Arizona resident Jacqueline McAferty is suing Elon Musk and his pro-Trump America PAC in a Texas federal court, alleging that the PAC’s $1 million-a-day lottery to registered voters in swing states was fraud. The proposed class-action lawsuit was filed a day after a Philadelphia judge denied the city’s request to order Musk to end the lottery — and seems to have been... Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 18:27 EDT

Steam’s built-in game recording is now available to all

Image: The Verge Steam Game Recording is officially out of beta and available to all users, giving PC, Mac, and Steam Deck players a built-in way to record and share audio and video from their gaming sessions. It joins many other ways PC gamers have been able to record their highlights, including as a feature of tools like the Xbox Game Bar, Nvidia GeForce, and AMD’s Adrenalin. This version of... Read more

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Alex Heath @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 18:19 EDT

Google CEO says the company should be a ‘trusted source’ in the election

Sundar Pichai. | Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees ahead of Election Day to “remember the role we play” and make sure “the products we build” are “a trusted source of information to people of every background and belief.” “As with other elections, the outcome will be a major topic of conversation in living rooms and other places around the world,” Pichai said in... Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 18:15 EDT

Amazon’s CEO defends return-to-office policy

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is pushing back on claims that his return-to-office mandate was a “backdoor layoff.” In a transcript of an all-hands staff meeting seen by Reuters and CNBC, Jassy said the move “is very much about our culture and strengthening our culture.” In September, Amazon announced that it would start making employees return to the office five days per week starting... Read more

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Gaby Del Valle @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 17:19 EDT

Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Mozilla Foundation laid off 30 percent of its workforce and completely eliminated its advocacy and global programs divisions, TechCrunch reports. While Mozilla is best known for its Firefox web browser, the Mozilla Foundation — the parent of the Mozilla Corporation — describes itself as standing up “for the health of the internet.” With its advocacy and global programs divisions gone, its impact... Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 17:01 EDT

Apple reportedly facing first-ever EU fine over App Store rules

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple will soon become the first company to incur a fine for violating the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), reports Bloomberg. Sources tell the outlet that the Commission is getting ready to levy the penalty after it found that Apple’s “anti-steering” practices harmed competition on the App Store. This follows the EU’s €1.84 billion (around $2 billion) fine imposed on Apple in March.... Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 16:37 EDT

Sony is discontinuing its $9,000 Airpeak S1 pro photography drone 

Sony will stop selling its Airpeak S1 drone on March 31st, 2025. | Image: Sony Almost four years after teasing it at CES 2021, Sony is discontinuing the Airpeak S1 drone that was designed to work with Sony’s mirrorless cameras. According to a notice posted to Sony Japan’s website on November 1st, sales of the $9,000 drone will end on March 31st, 2025, while all support will end five years... Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 16:23 EDT

iOS 18.2 could finally estimate your iPhone’s charging time

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The iPhone could finally show you how long it’ll take to finish charging. Code spotted in the second iOS 18.2 beta by 9to5Mac shows a new “BatteryIntelligence” feature that will let you receive a notification with the iPhone’s estimated charging time. Some Android phones already show how long it takes to charge — a feature that has become increasingly helpful considering the... Read more

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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 15:53 EDT

Voting tech isn’t perfect, but so far it’s holding up

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Stephen Morton, Getty Images The technology that powers Election Day has hit some expected hiccups, but as of early afternoon on Tuesday, nonpartisan groups say that the voting system is mostly holding up. Where it has faltered, they stress, there are robust backup plans that will ensure voters can still cast their ballots and that their votes will be counted. Members of... Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 15:43 EDT

This Google election conspiracy theory doesn’t hold up

Illustration: The Verge There’s no evidence Google is hiding a map of polling places from Trump voters, despite the suggestions of a video reposted by Elon Musk. In the video, originally shared by X user DogeDesigner, a user searches Google for “where can I vote for Harris” and “where can I vote for Trump.” The Harris search shows Google’s 2024 US elections panel, which includes a map you can use... Read more

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Mia Sato @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 15:42 EDT

The fever dream of TikTok Live election results

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge It takes me a minute to figure out what’s going on in this TikTok livestream happening on the morning of the US presidential election. The screen is split in two. On the top, a man is streaming himself from the chest up, shouting at viewers. On the bottom is an electoral map of the US, with each state colored red (Republican), blue (Democrat),... Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 15:14 EDT

The FBI says Russian emails are sending fake bomb threats to polling stations

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning that fake bomb threats are being emailed to US polling locations in multiple states that “appear to originate from Russian email domains.” “None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far,” the FBI says. The agency says it is working closely with state and local law enforcement to respond to any... Read more

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 14:55 EDT

The hyperloop lives on as a 1/12th scale model in Switzerland

Image: Swisspod About a year ago, I wrote a story with the headline “The hyperloop is dead for real this time,” based on the news that Hyperloop One, one of the biggest companies pursuing Elon Musk’s dream of tube-based, 700mph travel, had shut down. Well, I stand corrected. The hyperloop, in fact, lives on — as a 1/12th scale model in Switzerland. Sure, this isn’t exactly the full realization of... Read more

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 14:51 EDT

Toyota mounted five big-screen TVs to this Tundra truck

Watch the game, set up a Halo 2 LAN party, or look at footage of other trucks. | Image: Toyota Toyota revealed a custom Tundra pickup truck that can pop out five big-screen TVs from its bed for a wild tailgating experience designed to let you watch football from “any angle.” The one-off vehicle is a prototype built for the 2024 SEMA show in Las Vegas, where it’s on display... Read more

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Ash Parrish @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 14:28 EDT

Elon Musk’s ‘top 20’ Diablo IV claim is as real as his self-driving cars

Illustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images Elon Musk is a busy man right now. He’s supposedly running X, SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink, all while actively campaigning for Trump. But despite those myriad concerns, Musk still finds the time to play Diablo 4. He’s even said he’s pretty good at it, claiming in a recent interview with Joe Rogan that he’s in the top 20 of Diablo 4... Read more

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Gaby Del Valle @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 13:39 EDT

Misleading ‘pro-Harris’ texts are bombarding swing state voters

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Swing state voters are being inundated with text messages seemingly designed to look like they’re coming from supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris or even from her campaign itself. Some of the messages imply that Harris is misleading the public about her efforts to secure a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, while others say she has “pledged to support Israel... Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 11/05/2024 13:23 EDT

Amazon says it’s fixing the Kindle Colorsoft’s yellow screen

A mild yellow band appears on The Verge’s Colorsoft review unit. | Image: Andrew Liszewski / The Verge Amazon says it’s working to fix issues with the Kindle Colorsoft, its first color e-reader, following complaints from early buyers that a yellow band of discoloration appears on the bottom of the display. The company is making “adjustments” so that “new devices” will not have the yellow band; people who already own... Read more

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