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Teenage Engineering’s unique music machines are 30 percent off
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Teenage Engineering’s unique music machines are 30 percent off

With elements from synthesizers, loopers, and effects pedals, Teenage Engineering’s devices lie somewhere between musical instrument and modern art. These grooveboxes, as they’re often called, are capable of helping you produce songs in real time from a single unit, with an eye-catching design langu...

Brad Bourque
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Warner Bros. is suing Amazon for poaching employees
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Warner Bros. is suing Amazon for poaching employees

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed suit against Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching employees, including Pia Barlow, former senior VP for originals marketing. In the complaint, Warner says that "Amazon has chosen to ride on the coattails of other well-established Hollywood mainstays," and that i...

Terrence O’Brien
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Is this e-reader case a gun?
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Is this e-reader case a gun?

Is an e-reader case as dangerous as a Glock 19? Last month, Louisville, Kentucky-based creator Luke The Maker showed off a bizarre, 3D-printed, pistol-shaped case design for the popular minimalist Xteink X4 e-reader. The X4 lies vertically atop the plastic gun's slide, with a cutout on the side to a...

Mack DeGeurin
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What Surrounds Us will make you think a lot about circles
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What Surrounds Us will make you think a lot about circles

What Surrounds Us takes its title literally. You play as a circle surrounding a hole in its middle - it looks like a donut with frosting. You work together with other sentient moving circles, sometimes helping them joyfully meet with others. And you traverse a large map that's composed entirely of,...

Jay Peters
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Folding and flipping phones are getting seriously good
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Folding and flipping phones are getting seriously good

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 137, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy phone season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Google Zero and armored cars for rich peopl...

David Pierce
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Forget expensive sleepbuds. Buy this pillow instead
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Forget expensive sleepbuds. Buy this pillow instead

Tech companies love to sell us expensive gadgets to solve all of life's little problems. Sleepbuds sold by the likes of Anker and Ozlo are a good example. These miniature marvels of engineering sit flush in the ear, and allow side-sleepers to doze off listening to podcasts, audiobooks, music, or whi...

Thomas Ricker
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After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses
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After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses

Remember when Meta was planning to charge a $20 monthly subscription fee for the smart glasses feature that lets people hear each other more clearly - even though that feature runs locally on your glasses and doesn't require the cloud? Meta has paused those plans, spokesperson Tyler Yee confirms to...

Sean Hollister
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Meta just created a moderation nightmare for its smart glasses
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Meta just created a moderation nightmare for its smart glasses

Meta's smart glasses have been a PR headache for the company. Public backlash has been swift, and fierce; people are concerned about the erosion of privacy and expansion of surveillance. Some especially bad actors are using the glasses to film themselves "pranking" random strangers. Women have becom...

Mia Sato
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Qualcomm is about to raise prices and that’s bad news for everyone
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Qualcomm is about to raise prices and that’s bad news for everyone

Qualcomm sent a letter to customers on Friday warning of plans to increase its prices by "a percentage in the double digits," Bloomberg reports. The price hikes will go into effect starting with products shipped after September 1st. Qualcomm claims it has "exhausted its ability to absorb higher cost...

Stevie Bonifield
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Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star
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Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star

Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Co-Star is a free app that offers daily...

Emma Roth
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DJI camera clone company Xtra is halting and refunding all preorders
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DJI camera clone company Xtra is halting and refunding all preorders

After selling a barely disguised version of the hit DJI Osmo Pocket 3 in the United States last year, Xtra Technology seemed ready to sneak in its version of the new dual-lens Osmo Pocket 4 Pro, too. But today, Xtra has abruptly removed the new Xtra Muse 2 Pro from its website landing page, is [&#82...

Sean Hollister
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Nothing confirms layoffs, but calls market exit rumors ‘fake news’
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Nothing confirms layoffs, but calls market exit rumors ‘fake news’

In response to a report that Nothing is planning to "exit 12 markets as global shipments decline," Nothing cofounder Akis Evangelidis said the company is "reorganizing" and laying off some of its staff, but that "the reported numbers are way overblown." Evangelidis disputed a claim about underwhelmi...

Stevie Bonifield
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Roku raises streaming hardware prices by up to $50
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Roku raises streaming hardware prices by up to $50

Roku has increased prices across its streaming hardware, with the cheapest HD Streaming Stick now priced at $39.99 instead of $29.99, as first reported by The Desk. The price hike affects all of Roku's other devices as well, with some increasing by as much as $50. Here's a rundown of the changes: Ro...

Emma Roth
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Blade Runner 2099’s moody dystopia streams on Amazon in November
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Blade Runner 2099’s moody dystopia streams on Amazon in November

After teasing the series with some first-look images yesterday, Amazon is finally properly unveiling its Blade Runner streaming series. Called Blade Runner 2099, the show hits Prime Video on November 25th with all eight episodes dropping at once. We also got the first trailer for the series, which i...

Andrew Webster
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You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore
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You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore

The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn't perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, the deal seems to be dead. And the [...

David Pierce
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Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant
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Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant

Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as i...

Emma Roth
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Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities
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Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities

Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude...

Hayden Field
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Tesla’s car door defect could lead to tougher rules for everyone
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Tesla’s car door defect could lead to tougher rules for everyone

Tesla's electronic door handles that have been linked to several deaths could lead to tougher safety rules for the entire auto industry. In a notice published today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that complaints about Tesla's mechanical door release don't warrant a defect i...

Andrew J. Hawkins
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One of the best 2-in-1 Chromebooks is almost $200 off for today only
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One of the best 2-in-1 Chromebooks is almost $200 off for today only

Most Chromebooks ship with only 8GB of RAM, which is enough for some people, but certainly not enough for me. Multitaskers who want more memory in their next Chromebook should check out Best Buy, which is discounting Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 514 for the remainder of the day. Originally $749 for t...

Cameron Faulkner
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Boox is taking on Xteink with its own tiny e-reader
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Boox is taking on Xteink with its own tiny e-reader

Boox's new Tile lineup will take on Xteink's popular e-readers that are small enough to stick on the back of an iPhone with MagSafe. As spotted by Good E-Reader, the first one is the Picco, which will feature a 3.97-inch front-lit, black-and-white e-paper display and expandable storage with an SD ca...

Stevie Bonifield
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The tech-broification of American science has officially begun
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The tech-broification of American science has officially begun

The Trump administration unveiled the first "Genesis Mission" grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House has described as "comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project." At roughly the same time, Trump's science...

Robert Hart
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What I track in a day
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What I track in a day

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Optimizer will be taking a two-week break and will be moving to Wednesdays starting August 12th. Opt in for Opt...

Victoria Song
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Whack-a-drone
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Whack-a-drone

In Pasadena, California, there's a cute red brick courtyard where one storefront isn't like the rest. The glass doors open onto a sparse industrial hallway, which leads to a sunlit foyer with a large spiral staircase. Go up, and you'll see a typical coworking space: open tables, healthy snacks, a co...

Sean Hollister
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TikTok’s protection of minors should not be opt-in, warns EU
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TikTok’s protection of minors should not be opt-in, warns EU

TikTok has attracted the ire of the European Union over its protection of children who use the video sharing platform. The European Commission announced preliminary findings today under the Digital Services Act (DSA) that offer specific issues to address. The Commission suggests that TikTok should a...

Jess Weatherbed
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