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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 18:07 EDT

The best budget robot vacuums

Illustration: The Verge You don’t have to spend a fortune to have a robot clean your floors. Here’s our pick of the most cost-effective bots you can buy right now. Continue reading… Read more

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 17:49 EDT

In Shinichirō Watanabe’s Lazarus, parkour is the only way to go

Adult Swim Though Shinichirō Watanabe’s new animated series Lazarus still doesn’t have a solid release date, Adult Swim has just dropped a wild new clip from the project showcasing its parkour-friendly vision of the future. Along with giving New York Comic Con attendees a chance to see Lazarus’ first episode, Adult Swim revealed today that Koichi Yamadera and Megumi Hayashibara — the Japanese actors who voiced Cowboy Bebop’s Spike Spiegel... Read more

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Andrew Webster @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 17:45 EDT

Spider-Man 2 is latest PlayStation exclusive coming to PC

Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment Yet another PlayStation blockbuster is making its way to PC. Sony announced that Spider-Man 2, one of the PS5’s biggest exclusives, will hit PC on January 30th. It’ll be available via both Steam and the Epic Game Store. The PC port will include the base game and all of its subsequent DLC, like New Game Plus mode and extra spider suits, along with PC-specific features like... Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 15:30 EDT

Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project has a new Orb and a new name

Image: World Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency / human identity network / UBI project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is now known as World. Along with the name change, World introduced an updated version of its eyeball-scanning Orb device which is designed to solve a problem that does not currently exist: authenticating that someone is human “in the age of AI.” People registered to the system get a World ID that... Read more

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 15:25 EDT

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is just $40 for first-time Woot buyers

Save me some money, Ultrahand. | Image: Nintendo If you’ve been waiting to pick up one of the all-time great games for the Nintendo Switch, you can do so now for as cheap as it gets. Woot is offering first-time customers the chance to buy a physical version The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for $39.99 ($30 off) when you use code ZELDAWELCOME at checkout. If you’ve purchased... Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 14:56 EDT

Epic judge lets Google keep its Android app store closed to competitors — for now

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Google just netted a small but key victory in its Epic legal battle. Last week, the company asked Judge James Donato to press pause on his November 1st deadline to drastically alter its Android app store rules. Today he did just that, Epic and Google confirm to The Verge, granting Google a temporary administrative stay. That means Google may not have to change... Read more

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Allison Johnson @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 14:49 EDT

OnePlus might be ditching curved edges too

The future of phones is flat. | Image: Digital Chat Station on Weibo The next OnePlus flagship looks a little flat — and that’s a good thing. The alleged image of the unreleased OnePlus 13 was posted to Weibo and has been since removed, but not before it was spotted by 9to5Google. It shows the phone with flat sides rather than the curved edges featured by recent OnePlus phones. It’s... Read more

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Ash Parrish @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 14:04 EDT

Fans come to the rescue of popular Mario content creator

Image: Nintendo Fans of the popular Mario blog, Supper Mario Broth, have come together to remind us that the internet can still be a place where good things happen. Supper Mario Broth is one of the most wholesome Mario blogs on the internet. Since 2017, its owner has posted a regular stream of Mario-flavored tidbits he could dig up including interesting glitches, old advertisements and merchandise, screenshots, gifs, artwork, and... Read more

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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 13:52 EDT

The FTC is trying to find out if John Deere’s repair policies broke the law

Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is probing whether John Deere used unfair practices related to the repair of its agricultural equipment that might violate the FTC Act. The investigation into John Deere’s restrictions on customers’ right to repair agricultural equipment was revealed by data analytics company Hargrove & Associates, Inc. (HAI), as it fights a subpoena-like civil investigative demand (CID) from the FTC... Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 11:36 EDT

Google’s NotebookLM now lets you guide the hosts of your AI podcast

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images Google’s NotebookLM now lets you customize its podcast-like Audio Overviews. Before you generate a discussion using the note-taking app, you can give your AI hosts instructions about what topic you’d like them to focus on, or even tailor their discussions for different audiences. Google launched NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews last month, with two AI hosts that offer a “lively”... Read more

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Victoria Song @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 11:15 EDT

FCC says all smartphones must be hearing aid compatible

The AirPods Pro 2 recently received FDA authorization as OTC hearing aids. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Federal Communications Commission announced that going forward, all mobile handsets, including smartphones, in the US will have to be compatible with hearing aids. It’s also established new rules around volume control and improved product labeling so people with hearing aids can make informed buying decisions. The gist is the... Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 10:46 EDT

Ploopy’s 3D-printed, open-source trackpad is thoroughly customizable

Ploopy’s trackpad can be purchased preassembled or in a DIY kit. | Image: Ploopy Ploopy is expanding its collection of mod-friendly peripherals with a new seven-inch trackpad that supports multi-finger gestures and features like palm rejection. Like Ploopy’s mouse and trackballs, its new trackpad runs on the QMK open-source firmware, further expanding how its functionality can be customized. The trackpad is powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040, while finger tracking... Read more

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Mia Sato @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 10:24 EDT

People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes

Image: Bluesky A handful of changes coming to X may be pushing users to its competitor. Bluesky, the decentralized social platform, says it added 500,000 new users in a day this week. The new wave of signups could be related to several controversial changes on X in the last few days. This week, X users got a popup notifying them that their posts will be visible even to users they’ve... Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 10:04 EDT

WP Engine asks court to stop Matt Mullenweg from blocking access to WordPress resources

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge WP Engine is asking a court to put a stop to Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s public campaign against the company. In a motion for a preliminary injunction filed against Automattic and Mullenweg on Friday, the third-party hosting platform requests that the court restore its access to WordPress resources and allow it to regain control of its plugin that had been taken over. In the... Read more

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Andrew Webster @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 10:00 EDT

Nintendo’s Alarmo is cute and cozy — but it’s still just an alarm clock

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge I have always had an adversarial relationship with alarm clocks. They are gadgets designed to ruin my most precious time, and in order to work effectively, they must be as annoying as possible. Which is why I was intrigued by Nintendo’s surprise reveal of Alarmo. (Once I got over my surprise of it not being the long-awaited Switch 2 announcement.) What if getting... Read more

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 09:57 EDT

Feds are investigating Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ crashes in reduced visibility

Image: Owen Grove / The Verge NHTSA is opening a preliminary evaluation into Tesla’s Full Self-Driving mode (FSD) over the possibility of crashes in reduced roadway visibility conditions. The agency is opening the investigation after noting four reports of incidents like that, including one last November in Rimrock, AZ, where a Model Y struck and killed a pedestrian, as reported by TechCrunch. The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) has identified... Read more

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David Pierce @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 08:41 EDT

The future of the Kindle with Panos Panay

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Amazon launched four new Kindles this week, maybe the biggest single launch day in the 17-year history of the company’s wildly successful e-reader. One of them even comes in color! It is very much not a coincidence that the launch happened roughly a year after Panos Panay joined the company. Panay, a longtime Microsoft executive who was for years in charge of all things... Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 06:01 EDT

Google will once again ban election ads after the polls close

Illustration: The Verge Google is planning to ban advertisers from running ads related to the US presidential election after polls close on November 5th. Axios reports that this is the second time Google has decided to ban election ads once polls close, after first implementing the policy during the 2020 election. Google says it’s reenacting the policy again this year “out of an abundance of caution and to limit the... Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 05:26 EDT

Google is making it easier to use a password manager inside Chrome on Android

Image: The Verge Google is updating Chrome on Android next month to greatly improve how password mangers operate inside the mobile browser. Chrome on Android will allow third-party password managers to natively autofill forms on websites, improving the experience of apps like 1Password, Dashlane, and others. Google offers its own password manager in Chrome, alongside passkeys and autofill support for information like your address and payment card data. While you... Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 10/18/2024 05:04 EDT

Qualcomm cancels its miniature Windows on Arm PC

Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm has canceled its Snapdragon Dev Kit, the miniature Windows on Arm PC that was originally supposed to ship in June. In an email to customers, Qualcomm said the mini PC “has not met our usual standards of excellence” and orders will now be refunded. Qualcomm has been struggling to ship the mini PC for months now, after originally planning to release it in June alongside the chips... Read more

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