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If you hate emoji, there’s an interesting way to safely take out your rage on them, thanks to Google.
Twitter user Brooke Watson uncovered something very funny while working in Google Slides.just learned with horror that deleting any of the "family" emojis in google slides does not remove the emoji, but rather kills off each individual family member one by one, starting with the children pic.twitter.com/0v2s8Bx91n
— Brooke Watson (@brookLYNevery1) August 29, 2019“Just learned w

Microsoft is planning to redesign the tablet experience for Windows 10. The software giant has started testing a new design for 2-in-1 convertible PCs that will keep the user interface more similar to the existing desktop design. Currently, Windows 10 throws you into a more tablet-optimized UI that removes task bar icons and puts the Start menu full-screen when a device automatically switches into “tablet mode.” Microsoft is now walking back some of those changes, while keeping some

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know there's been so much hype over the Popeyes chicken sandwich that the restaurant actually sold out of the new menu item. Unfortunately, if you haven't gotten to feast on the crispy delicacy, we don't yet know when your chance will come again.
People on eBay have taken to listing the Popeyes sandwich for sale with starting bids at stupidly high prices, because who wouldn't want to pay $2,000 for a sketchy secondhand fast food sandwich? While the foo

The new flag for US Space Command is unveiled during a ceremony with President Trump | Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images Today, the Trump administration stood up a new unified combatant command within the military that will be entirely focused on space. Aptly named the US Space Command, the organization will be run by a four-star general, and it will be responsible for setting the US’s military agenda and doctrine for space in the years to come.
“As the newest combatant command SPA

Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond had an affair with former Google lawyer Jennifer Blakely that resulted in a baby born in 2007, Blakely writes in a post on Medium. The relationship violated Google’s policies which ban relationships between managers and their subordinates. After that, Blakely says Drummond abandoned the relationship, put her through a legal wringer for child support, and engaged in treatment that Blakely describes as “nothing short of abuse.”
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When Netflix started Beyoncéing its TV shows (releasing entire seasons at once, often with little or no warning), the streaming service reinvented how people consume TV. As Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos explained it in 2016, TV viewers were already moving away from an “appointment TV” model and toward saving up DVR’d episodes for binge viewing, so the service tried to keep up with the ways its customers wanted to cons

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An ongoing Food and Drug Administration investigation into a possible link between seizures and e-cigarette use was kicked off by three cases allegedly involving Juul use, Bloomberg reported today.“No proof of causality, but at a minimum, an association with Juul.”
Bloomberg obtained communications between FDA officials in mid-October 2018, which detailed the three cases. The FDA found “no proof of causality, but at a minimum, an associa

Epic posted a video today announcing that eight indie games are coming to the Epic Games Store, including beloved mobile games Alto’s Adventure and Alto’s Odyssey as The Alto Collection. This will be the first time the Alto games, which we love for their beautiful art style and polished snowboarding gameplay, are available on PC.Also announced:Ooblets, a Pokémon / Harvest Moon / Animal Crossing-inspired gameWattam, the next game from the maker of Katamari Damacy
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Apple is running a new AirPods advertisement in Korea that shows off a fun side of the popular wireless headphones that the company hasn’t really focused on before: the potential to customize your AirPods by adding a fun, colorful case. There’s a wide variety of cases on display that are modeled after BTS’s BT21 Line characters, Kakao Friends mascots, and more.It’s not clear whether Apple is using the ad to showcase a bunch of cases that third parties in Asia offer or if

Cameras affixed to the International Space Station filmed Hurricane Dorian brewing over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday afternoon.
National Hurricane Center forecasters expect the cyclone to hit Florida as a powerful Category 4 storm around Labor Day, ultimately packing some 130 mph winds. Over the next few days the storm will increasingly strengthen as it travels over some exceptionally warm waters (warm oceans fuel hurricanes). 
"No matter where you live along the U.S. southeast coast, and

Imagine this: You're traveling, and after a day of sightseeing you just want to relax in your hotel room and chill with Netflix. You fire it up and search frantically for your favorite show, but it just isn't there. What gives?
The problem is this: Netflix shows different content for different geolocations, no matter where your account is based (though this is starting to change). So if you signed up in the U.S. but are traveling in Italy, you'll likely see a very different (read: poorer) select

TL;DR: Buy a spacious WD Elements desktop hard drive for $158.99 from Amazon. This is a $45.41 discount for a ton of storage capacity and the lowest price available right now. Content creators have the common existential dread of losing their most precious creations. What will they do if they run out of storage space on their hard drive for important video projects? Or what if you went a little overboard and you're about to run out of space for your cat's glamour shots? It's a hassle for mo

Every single day, 1.5 billion people around the world open their devices, fire up Gmail, and begin tackling correspondences, setting meetings, scheduling appointments, exchanging documents, and a whole lot more. As the preferred client of 20% of the world's population, Gmail has set the bar for what an email platform should be, but that doesn't mean that it's anywhere near perfect — especially for businesses. 
There’s a ton of different management tools out there for wrangling y

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly investigating Juul Labs, the e-cigarette startup, over its marketing practices, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The government agency is particularly interested in whether Juul used deceptive marketing that targeted minors. It’s also looking into Juul’s hiring of influencers to sell its products. The FTC might seek monetary damages.
In a statement to the Journal, Juul said it used in

Photo by Adi Robertson / The Verge A co-founder of the Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus has been accused of groping a woman during a VR session years ago. Autumn Rose Taylor, a marketing director at game studio Owlchemy Labs, tweeted the allegations yesterday against Michael Antonov. Facebook VR VP Andrew Bosworth responded to her tweets, calling the story “sickening.” A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that Antonov left Facebook earlier this year.
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Back-to-school time means back to lugging your laptop everywhere (except maybe the shower — don't make it weird). If you're a student, you are already saddled with a metric ton of textbooks to haul around, no sense adding to the burden of an already bursting backpack. What you need is an affordable laptop that is both compact and lightweight, but still has all the tech you need to get your stuff done. 
SEE ALSO: Best back-to-school sales this week: Chromebook, AirPods, JanSport
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The Verge YouTube has banned an Infowars account just one day after the channel The War Room popped up on the platform.
The account was terminated for violating the company’s terms of service, but a YouTube representative didn’t offer any information on what those terms were. Instead, the representative told The Verge that YouTube is committed to “preserving openness and balancing it with our responsibility to protect our community.”
The War Room’s first video on t

Astrology apps are having a moment. 
Whether it's Co-Star's strange (and meme-worthy) push notifications, or dating apps asking about your astrological sign, horoscopes suddenly seem to be everywhere.
Investors have noticed, funneling venture funds into buzzy startups in the hopes of cashing in on the craze. If the industry continues to grow, it could one day be a $2 billion market, according to one particularly optimistic venture capitalist recently quoted by The New York Times. 
But

TL;DR: You can save up to $600 on a new mattress from Tempur-Pedic, Sealy, or Stearns & Foster as part of Tempur-Sealy's Labor Day sale.While everyone wastes away in traffic over Labor Day weekend, you could be spending your three-day mini-vacation doing something much more worthwhile: catching up on sleep.If you need a new mattresses, your timing is perfect — there are always tons of them on sale for Labor Day. (Don't ask why; it's just a thing.)
We've already covered Serta, Casper, a

TL;DR: Alienware's 25-inch gaming monitor is just $279.99 from Dell. During this sale, you save $220 and get free shipping for a monitor that's perfect for amateur and professional gamers alike. If you've built your own gaming PC, you might not have much of a budget to work with. The costs can pile up quickly, and you haven't even considered other accessories like headsets and a gaming mouse. 
Most importantly, you need a quality monitor, or else your PC can't handle the graphical rigo

Sitting next to Jack Ma, executive chairman of Alibaba, Elon Musk talked about SpaceX's plans to visit Mars. And then he went into full stoner mode. 
"I think it’s important for us to take the set of actions that are most likely to continue consciousness into the future," he said. "I think we should not take it for granted that consciousness will continue because we have not encountered any aliens."
It got better:
"Where are the aliens? This is the Fermi Paradox. This is one of the mo

Argentinian travel influencer Tupi Saravia is catching some heat this week for Photoshopping what appears to be the same cloud formation into quite a few of her Instagram photos. She shouldn't be catching heat, though. She deserves our respect.
In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Saravia admitted that she used an app called Quickshot to edit clouds "into images where the sky was burned or overexposed." She also explained that she tended to use the same cloud formation in all the photos she edite

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Knight First Amendment Institute, which has led a legal fight against Trump for blocking critics on Twitter, has officially asked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to stop similar practices. The institute sent a letter to Ocasio-Cortez’s office late yesterday, urging her to unblock anybody who was targeted “because of the viewpoints they have expressed,” while also acknowledging that some blocks might be “both reasonable and

Netflix is set to release a three-part documentary special on Microsoft co-founder, billionaire, and philanthropist Bill Gates.A new trailer for the docuseries, which is called Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates, explores the past, present, and future of Gates’ life. The trailer includes commentary on Gates’ ambitious push to being a titan in Silicon Valley, the personal sacrifices he made to ensure that Microsoft could compete with competitors like Apple, and his leap in

Labor Day weekend is almost here. And before you dust off the grill for one last cookout, you should probably clean your damn house. Luckily for you, Dyson is having a site wide sale including stick vacuums, upright vacuums, and air treatment. Here are some of the best deals.
Stick Vacuums
All Dyson stick vacuums are equipped with a point and shoot bin emptying for easy hands off cleaning and drop-in docking for fast charging. The vacuums featured below also detach to include an additional handh

Nike has announced the new Adapt Huaraches, a modern redesign of its Huarache line featuring a self-lacing motor that can be controlled through Siri. Users (wearers?) can say, “Siri, release my shoes” on their Apple Watch or iPhone through the Nike Adapt app to unlace their shoes.The Adapt Huaraches feature the same neoprene bootie and supportive exoskeleton as the original 1991 Air Huaraches, but they add two LED lights that can change colors via the app. The app will offer preset m