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

Metaphor: ReFantazio is the rare fantasy game that goes beyond racism 101

Image: Atlus Atlus’ game tackles tough subjects with refreshing nuance, catapulting it beyond simply being ‘Persona with swords.’ Continue reading
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Brandon Widder @ The Verge · 10/12/2024 10:09 EDT

Apple’s cheapest iPads are still steeply discounted following Prime Day

Stepping up to the 10th-gen iPad nets you a modern design, a faster processor, and — yes — support for USB-C. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge There have been plenty of rumors swirling regarding a new iPad Mini for more than a year now, but most indicators point toward a processor bump and little else. We haven’t heard much about a new entry-level iPad, though, which makes... Read more â€ș

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 10/12/2024 10:00 EDT

Halloween 2024 storyscream: the best spooky things to watch and play

Image: A24 A curated selection of the best new horror games, movies, and TV shows to check out. Continue reading
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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 18:58 EDT

Leak: AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D chips aren’t looking like a leap forward

Image: AMD Somebody goofed — and now AMD’s unannounced Ryzen 9000X3D desktop processors have been partially revealed. But like Intel’s new Arrow Lake desktop CPUs, it doesn’t look like they’ll be a huge performance improvement on their predecessors. If so, that’s a shame given how poorly received AMD’s Ryzen 9000 was, to begin with. According to slides from an MSI presentation published by HardwareLuxx today, the new chips may have... Read more â€ș

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 18:47 EDT

Boeing is cutting 10 percent of its workforce

Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images Boeing will be laying off “roughly” 10 percent of its workforce, president and CEO Kelly Ortberg announced in an email to staff on Friday. That number equates to 17,000 jobs, Reuters reports. The layoffs will take place “over the coming months” and will include “executives, managers and employees,” Ortberg says. Leadership teams plan to share more information about how the layoffs will affect specific organizations... Read more â€ș

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 18:28 EDT

Google pulled its Wear OS update for old Pixel Watches to fix a big problem

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is working on a fix for a buggy Wear OS 5 update. The company says it paused the OTA update rollout on September 26th after people, including my colleague Richard Lawler, reported their Pixel Watch 1 and 2 devices were stuck on a blank screen due to the update. Google plans to resume the Wear OS 5 rollout for older Pixel... Read more â€ș

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 17:17 EDT

Casio made a furry robot designed to cuddle and calm you down

Unlike Sony’s robotic dog, Aibo, Casio’s Moflin can’t run away on its own. | Image: Casio Casio has opened preorders for its robotic pet called Moflin that looks like a cross between a hamster and Star Trek’s Tribbles. Unlike Sony’s robot dog Aibo that can follow you around, Moflin is designed to be held and cuddled, and over time Casio says it will learn who you are, and attempt to... Read more â€ș

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 16:10 EDT

The Internet Archive is still down, but will return in ‘days, not weeks’

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Internet Archive will come back within “days” following a data breach that brought down the organization’s vast digital library and the Wayback Machine, according to an update from founder Brewster Kahle. It’s been struggling due to a data breach and DDoS attack earlier this week that revealed the email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, and other information associated with more... Read more â€ș

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 15:58 EDT

Steam now says the ‘game’ you’re buying is really just a license

Image: The Verge Valve is now explicitly disclosing that you don’t own the games you buy from its Steam online store. The company has added a note on the payment checkout screen stating that “a purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam,” as reported earlier by Engadget. We confirmed the message appears in the Steam desktop app, but we haven’t seen it in the... Read more â€ș

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 15:12 EDT

Xbox Cloud Gaming will let you stream your own games next month

Illustration: The Verge Microsoft is planning to support the streaming of Xbox game libraries next month. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the company is getting ready to test the ability to stream games that you own that aren’t part of the existing Xbox Game Pass library. As part of a long-running project known as Project Lapland inside Microsoft, the software giant has been readying its Xbox... Read more â€ș

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 14:44 EDT

You must watch this amazing presentation about a bespoke McDonald’s mural

Panic’s Cabel Sasser at XOXO 2024. | Image: XOXO Fest I know there’s a lot to do on the internet, but you really should stop what you’re doing and watch this 19-minute talk about a bespoke mural that once lived inside a McDonald’s. The talk, given by Cabel Sasser of Panic at XOXO Fest 2024, was filled with silliness and deep dives down unexpected rabbit holes. (I’d expect nothing less... Read more â€ș

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 14:02 EDT

Here’s where you can still preorder the PS5 Pro ahead of its November launch

The standard PS5 Pro may not look as cool as the anniversary edition, but it’s far easier to get your hands on. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge We’re inching ever closer to a mid-cycle refresh for the PlayStation 5, as preorders for Sony’s forthcoming console are now available to the masses. Although the $699.99 machine was originally exclusive to the PlayStation Direct storefront, it’s now up for... Read more â€ș

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 13:38 EDT

Imgur is going to be less strict about memes with adult humor

Image: Imgur Memes on the image-hosting service Imgur “containing references to adult humor” will no longer be considered mature, the company announced in a post addressing changes to its content moderation policies. Imgur has been an important part of meme history, with its creator making the service in 2009 as a “gift to Reddit.” At that time, most platforms didn’t host their own images, so you had to upload them... Read more â€ș

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Umar Shakir @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 13:36 EDT

Mosseri acknowledges ‘mistakes’ in Threads and Instagram’s broken moderation

Illustration: The Verge Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri is acknowledging recent mistakes in Meta’s moderation processes on Threads and Instagram. For example, Meta unexpectedly deleted my account this week because it thought I was underage, the company locked my colleague’s account because she joked about dying in a heatwave, and others have seen their posts disappear with no clear reason why. “Threads Moderation Failures” has been trending this week —... Read more â€ș

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 13:14 EDT

Thrustmaster brings direct drive steering wheels to console racing sims

The Thrustmaster T598 features a Direct Axial Drive powered by an axial flux electric motor. | Image: Thrustmaster Thrustmaster has announced a new steering wheel base that makes the company’s direct drive technology available on consoles for the first time. It also introduces a new electric motor design — already in use on high-end hybrid sports cars like the Ferrari SF90 — to the world of sim racing, improving realism... Read more â€ș

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 13:11 EDT

Marques Brownlee says ‘we failed on the price’ with Panels

Image: MKBHD Marques Brownlee published a video on Friday addressing the criticisms around Panels, his new wallpaper app, saying that he and the team “failed on the price front” at launch. The app received an outpour of criticism from fans, both on the MKBHD YouTube channel and across social platforms. Discussing the app, Brownlee admitted it needed work. “If I was reviewing this app, I would not have been very... Read more â€ș

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Mia Sato @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 12:45 EDT

X drops Unilever from its ‘advertiser boycott’ lawsuit

The Verge X is dropping claims against Unilever in its lawsuit that accuses advertisers and brands of participating in an “illegal boycott” of the company. The claims against Unilever, which owns household names like Dove and Hellmann’s, were dismissed today. Last fall, X also sued the nonprofit Media Matters for America in an effort to silence the group after it reported that ads for major brands like Apple and IBM... Read more â€ș

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 12:26 EDT

Apple’s USB SuperDrive might be gone for good

Image: Apple Apple’s USB SuperDrive is showing up in Apple’s online stores as “sold out or unavailable in all countries,” MacRumors reports, which could indicate that Apple has discontinued the CD / DVD player. It’s not a huge surprise that Apple might be done with the SuperDrive. The product first launched with the original MacBook Air, which didn’t have an optical drive, in 2008, so it’s quite old. The SuperDrive... Read more â€ș

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge 3 place · 10/11/2024 11:08 EDT

The Tesla Cybercab is a cool-looking prototype that needed to be much more than that

Image: Tesla Elon Musk promised a brighter future, but believing him requires an enormous leap of faith. Continue reading
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Quentyn Kennemer @ The Verge · 10/11/2024 11:03 EDT

The Beats Pill speaker is even cheaper than it was during Prime Day

Of course, it looks like a pill. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge We’re well past the Prime Day Redux now, but several standout deals from the sale are still hanging on. In fact, some are even better than they were during the two-day sale — even if only a smidge. The Beats Pill portable Bluetooth speaker in red is down to $97.99 ($52 off) at Amazon, for... Read more â€ș

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