Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Complaints about unwanted telemarketing calls have dropped for the third straight year, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday. Reports of such calls have fallen by over 50 percent versus 2021, according to the FTC â a decline that could be thanks in no small part to stepped-up government efforts to fight irritating telemarketing and phone scams. There were about 33,000 fewer unwanted... Read more âș
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Photo illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge From simple fitness bands and rugged sports watches to rings, these are the best trackers you can get. Continue reading⊠Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Thanks to Qi2, there are way more great chargers for your MagSafe phone than ever before. Continue reading⊠Read more âș
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The Freo X Ultra packs a lot of features for the price, including the ability to automatically remop your floors when necessary. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Hosting Thanksgiving dinner is fun and all, but the amount of cleaning you have to do afterward can be exhausting. The Narwal Freo X Ultra robot vacuum / mop hybrid can help speed things up, though, and itâs currently... Read more âș
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Concept art for Half-Life 2: Episode 3, from the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Documentary. | Screenshot: YouTube Unsurprisingly, yesterdayâs big Half-Life release wasnât the sequel to Half-Life 2 or even the third Half-Life 2: Episode entry, but a 20th-anniversary update to Valveâs legendary 2004 game. And given what studio co-founder Gabe Newell has to say on the subject in a 2-hour documentary that the company released in tandem with the... Read more âș
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Getty Images for Netflix © 2024 Netflixâs livestream of the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul boxing match was a mess. Iâm not talking about the bout itself â although people had their qualms with that, too â itâs the livestream, which people across the internet complained was plagued by buffering, unstable, and unwatchable muddiness. That doesnât bode well for Netflixâs live sports ambitions, especially its upcoming Christmas Day NFL games.... Read more âș
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Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge So, youâve finally decided to give Bluesky a shot. The social network has come a long way since the early bare-bones days of invite-only signups and recently grew past the 15 million user mark. Along the way, itâs gathered a lot of familiar posting platform features, like direct messages, pinned posts, and the ability to post videos up to 60 seconds in length. But... Read more âș
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Image: Playstack / Color Gray Games The Case of the Golden Idol was a rewarding series of point-and-click murder mysteries that became one of my favorite games of 2022. And while I felt there was more story to explore about the titular golden idol, I wasnât sure if a potential sequel could live up to its clever puzzles and fascinating, slowly unfolding story. Turns out, I had nothing to fear:... Read more âș
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In which various government bodies fight over âpermissionlessâ assets | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Securities and Exchange Commission wants to âunilaterally wrest regulatory authority away from the Statesâ when it comes to crypto, according to a lawsuit from 18 states. These states want to halt the SECâs enforcement actions, so they can manage crypto regulation instead. Also named as a plaintiff on the suit is... Read more âș
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Illustration: The Verge WhatsApp dropped the most âI canât believe this wasnât already thereâ feature this week: message drafts. Now, WhatsApp lets you know if you have unsent messages typed up in chats so you know to get back to them later. To let you know about a draft, messages youâve started writing will show a green and bold âDraftâ word followed by what youâve typed up. That way, you... Read more âș
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Image: Valve Half-Life 2 is getting a major update in celebration of the classic titleâs 20th anniversary. In addition to Steam Workshop support directly within the game, Valve has fixed bugs and restored some content, added new graphics settings, updated gamepad controls, and a whole lot more. Youâll also be able to get the game for free on Steam for free through November 18th at 1PM ET. After that, it... Read more âș
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Image: ESPN ESPN is testing an AI-generated avatar with the Saturday college football show SEC Nation. Dubbed FACTS, itâs going to be â...promoting education and fun around sports analyticsâ with information drawn from ESPN Analytics, which includes data like the Football Power Index (FPI), player and team statistics, and game schedules. We havenât seen the avatar in action, but it sounds like a bot-ified version of stats encyclopedia Howie Schwab,... Read more âș
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Illustration: The Verge Google Workspace is rolling out a Gemini-powered AI image generator directly in Google Docs that lets you quickly whip up visuals for your writeups. Essentially, it's a clip art maker that follows in the footsteps of Microsoftâs AI-generated art feature in its Office products. Googleâs image generator in Docs is available to paid Workspace accounts that include the Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education, Education Premium, or Google One... Read more âș
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Disney Though the remainder of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaurâs final season is set to hit the Disney Channel and Disney Plus some time next year, the studio is reportedly keeping one episode from airing because of its focus on a transgender character. Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur has often touched on ideas about race, class, and issues like gentrification as it followed the adventures of genius 13-year-old Lunella Lafatette... Read more âș
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The Pixel Watch 3 is receiving its first notable discount to date, dropping it to $279.99 for a limited time. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Canât wait until Black Friday to start your holiday shop or score a killer deal on a gadget youâve been eyeing? You may not have to. Although Black Friday isnât until November 29th, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target have begun rolling... Read more âș
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Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The new M4 MacBook Pros that launched last month have an unadvertised change with new quantum dot displays, according to display industry analyst Ross Young and reported by 9to5Mac. Young posted on X that Apple is adopting quantum dot displays for the first time and that it's using a version of the film that is free of cadmium, which is toxic... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Social network Bluesky, in a post on Friday, says that it has âno intentionâ of taking user content to train generative AI tools. It made the statement shortly ahead of competitor X implementing its new terms of service that spell out how it can analyze user text and other information to train its generative AI tools. âA number of artists and creators have made... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge US Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has sent a letter to Valve CEO Gabe Newell asking if the company intends to take measures to curtail extremist content on Steam. The letter references a report by the Anti-Defamation League that identified a large number of user accounts and user-created groups âthat glorified antisemitic, Nazi, white supremacist, gender- and sexuality-based hate, and other extremist ideologiesâ on the PC gaming platform.... Read more âș
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The new AirPods 4 deliver better sound and voice call quality than prior models. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Appleâs ever-popular AirPods. Although weâve yet to see major deals on the new AirPods 4 and the updated AirPods Max, both the second- and third-gen AirPods can still often be found at a steep discount. The... Read more âș
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This could be so much better. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge We could argue all day about the merits of iOS versus Android, but thereâs one thing the Android ecosystem offers that you definitely wonât find from Apple right now: a decent midrange phone. By âdecent,â I mean something I can enthusiastically recommend. Not âEh, if itâs literally your only option, then itâs fine,â which is how... Read more âș
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