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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Deep Fusion, Apple’s anticipated computational photography system, is live in the latest iOS 13 public beta. If you’re enrolled, iOS 13.2 should be downloadable now after it arrived earlier today for developers. It’s available both for the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro.Deep Fusion is designed to use artificial intelligence and other software tricks to improve the sharpness of images by capturing frames of differing exposures and merging them

Image: Nextrift Some of Google’s internal Pixel 4 marketing videos appear to have leaked, showcasing demos for two neat features for the company’s flagship Android handset: a revamped Google Assistance experience and the new Motion Sense gesture control system.Google previously confirmed both features publicly, but it stopped short of showing detailed demonstrations working on the Pixel 4. Thankfully, like virtually everything else about the upcoming phone, detailed videos have surf

Tesla said Wednesday it delivered a record 97,000 electric vehicles in the third quarter, a nearly 2% increase from the previous period, but still short of analysts’ expectations.
Tesla shares fell nearly 6% in after market trading on the news.
The company reported Wednesday that it produced 96,155 vehicles in the third quarter, a 10% increase from the previous period. Tesla has shown steady improvement in its production numbers over the past several quarters. Tesla produced 86,555 vehicle

Photo: Sean O’Kane/The Verge Tesla delivered “approximately 97,000” cars around the world in the third quarter of 2019, slightly edging out the previous record of 95,356 the company set in the second quarter, according to a press release issued on Wednesday. That brings Tesla’s delivery total for the year up to around 255,000 vehicles, meaning the company has already shipped more cars in 2019 than it did all of last year.But it also means Tesla needs to set another recor

Mutiny, a personalized marketing startup for businesses that sell to other businesses, is taking the stage today at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, where it’s announcing new funding and new features.
CEO Jaleh Rezaei told me that she and co-founder Nikhil Mathew created Mutinyto solve a problem they saw as early employees at HR services company Gusto — trying to personalize their messages to different sales prospects.
With Mutiny, they’ve built easy-to-use tools allowin

Render, a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield, has a big idea. It wants to take on the world’s biggest cloud vendors by offering developers a cheaper alternative that also removes a lot of the complexity around managing cloud infrastructure.
Render’sgoal is to help developers, especially those in smaller companies, who don’t have large DevOps teams, to still take advantage of modern development approaches in the cloud. “We are focused on being the

The biggest players in online stock trading all just copied Robinhoodby removing their fees for stock and ETF trading. Charles Schwab announced yesterday it would drop its $4.95 fee, leading to plummeting share prices for it as well as competitors. By the end of yesterday, Ameritrade announced it too would axe its $6.95 fees, and then E*Trade followed suit this morning killing off its own $6.95 fee. However, none of their share price recovered.
From yesterday before Schwab’s announcement t

Meet Sendmi, a fintech startup that is launching today in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Sendmi works pretty much like a 401k or a Flexible Spending Account. But instead of saving money for later, you set it aside to send it to your family abroad.
And this mix of payroll and remittance is what sets Sendmi apart from the countless foreign exchange services out there. It could be particularly valuable for people living paycheck to paycheck as you don’t have to take money o

If your home is in a wildfire area, insurance companies tend to not want to go anywhere near it.
But “wildfire areas” tend to be pretty broad. What if companies could evaluate the risk on a more granular level — tapping things like satellite imagery and machine learning combined with wind, weather and topology data, to better define the riskiest zones? Could more home owners be offered policies, and at more affordable rates?
That’s the idea behind Delos, a company present

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Online privacy — or the lack thereof — has become a prominent issue. As a result, more and more services are adding features that speak to their users’ privacy concerns. If you’re a YouTube viewer (and who isn’t these days?), one of these concerns is probably your viewing history, which can tell marketers and other third parties more about you than you probably want them to know.
One way to prevent that type of intrusion is t

At some unspecified time, somewhere down the road, Traptic would love to expand its robots to pick a wide variety of crops. For now, however, the South Bay-based team is focused solely on strawberries.With roughly 88 percent of the fruit’s total U.S. yield occurring in California, the berries represent ample opportunity for disruption. A manual labor shortage exacerbated by tightening immigration policies has contributed to a good deal of waste. Farmers apparently lose around one-fifth of

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: there’s a new tablet powered by a souped-up mobile processor, with a detachable keyboard and a magnetic stylus. It promises way better battery life than a laptop and runs most of the same apps, with LTE support to always keep you connected, although the size and weight come at the expense of things like a headphone jack. In short, it promises to be that mythical holy grail that can bridge the gap be

Noted philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, who — through her foundation, Emerson Collective — owns The Atlantic and California Sunday, appears to have engaged in a new act of charity: taking Ben Affleck to dinner. The Daily Mail reports that Affleck and Powell Jobs arrived and departed separately to a three-hour dinner at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, California.
The 47-year-old actor, who has had such career turns as the worst incarnation of Batman, has been going through a rough pa

Photo: Kimberley French / The CW Batwoman, the latest entry in The CW’s Arrowverse slate of TV shows based on DC Comics, is set in a version of Gotham City where Batman has been missing for three years. To combat the crime and despair that’s spread through her town, Bruce Wayne’s cousin Kate Kane (Ruby Rose of Orange Is the New Black and John Wick: Chapter 2) borrows his equipment and mantle and takes to the streets.
In the first two episodes of Batwoman, which premieres on Su

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s next version of AirPods are expected to have noise-cancellation capabilities, and the new iOS 13.2 beta offers an early preview of what they’ll look like. As discovered by 9to5Mac, the beta build contains a glyph image of the upcoming AirPods. It’s just a 2D gray-and-white icon, but even that is enough to show that design changes are on the way.The noise-canceling AirPods seem to have traditional ear tips that extend out from

Asked for comment on Microsoft’s upcoming dual-screen, Android-powered Surface Duo smartphone, here’s what we got from a Google spokesperson: “We are excited to welcome Microsoft to the Android ecosystem. We look forward to working together to bring the best of both companies to users.”
Translation: “We won.”
Ever since Microsoft slunk out of the smartphone market, we’ve been waiting to see what the company’s mobile strategy under CEO Satya Nadella

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft unveiled a bunch of new hardware at its event today. The dual-screened Surface Neo and Surface Duo were the biggest surprises, but those won’t be releasing until holiday 2020, which is over a year away. Frankly, there was a lot to keep up with, and you can easily catch up by watching our quick recap of the event above, or check out the major headlines right here.
Most of the other Surface products that Microsoft announced onstage are a

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is rolling out a new mode called “Restrict” that will let account owners effectively shadow ban a user who comments on photos with offensive or abusive language. The feature first went into public testing in July.The mode can be activated for specific accounts by swiping left on a comment, heading to your privacy settings, or doing so on the person’s account. Restrict makes it so that “comments on your posts from a person

Photo by Ingo Wagner / Getty Images In the summer of 2016, a flood of abuse allegations came out against celebrity Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum, a shocking blow to one of the cryptography world’s most outspoken figures. In a string of testimonials, accusers shared allegations ranging from professional aggression to outright sexual assault. Within days, Appelbaum left the Tor Project. Appelbaum maintained his innocence and was never charged with a crime, but he became persona non grata in

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s Deep Fusion photography system has arrived as part of Apple’s newest developer beta of iOS 13, version 13.2 beta 1, hopefully hinting that it will ship for the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro some time soon.Update October 2nd, 1:32PM ET: This article originally said the next iOS 13 developer beta would be released on October 1st, before Apple clarified an uncertain ship date for that beta. The software has since been released as part of today

Researchers are keeping an eye out for the Cuban treefrog to see if it spread to new areas thanks to Hurricane Dorian Hurricane Dorian has passed, but people and ecosystems are still dealing with its fallout. In the wake of a major storm, it’s not just people who migrate. Plants and animals can hitch a ride on floodwaters, leading to the spread of invasive species. To track — and potentially stem — these sudden migrations in the wake of disasters, researchers build maps to pre

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Owners of Samsung’s Galaxy S8, S9, and S10 phones — Note versions included — will now be able to use Android Auto without plugging anything in. According to an updated Google support page first spotted by Android Police, wireless Android Auto support for newer Samsung phones has been added, broadening the pool of compatibility beyond Pixel and Nexus phones.The catch, of course, is that wireless Android Auto is still only available on

Photo by Bryan Bedder / Getty Images for THR On Wednesday, Melinda Gates announced a $1 billion commitment over the next decade to promote gender equality in the United States. Gates, who is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and founder of the investment firm Pivotal Ventures, penned an op-ed in Time magazine outlining her reasons for making the investment.“I want to see more women in the position to make decisions, control resources, and shape policies and perspectives,

Think Jack Dorsey’s jobs are tough? Well, Tom Chavez is running six startups. He thinks building businesses can be boiled down to science, so today he’s unveiling his laboratory for founding, funding and operating companies. He and his team have already proven they can do it themselves after selling their startups Raptto Microsoft and Krux to Salesforce for a combined $1.2 billion. Now they’ve raised a $65 million fund for “super{set}”, an enterprise startup studio

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s annual Surface event is underway, and so far it has announced the new Surface Neo, Pro X, Surface Earbuds, the Surface Pro 7 and the Surface Laptop 3, the latter of which is now available in two sizes. We expect the rest of this event to be jam-packed with other new products and news of software updates, so stay tuned.
Check out our live blog to see photos and insights live from the event. If you’re catching up, we’re adding

More than 10 years after reports that Microsoft was working on a dual-screen device, the company has made it official. At its fall hardware keynote, the company unveiled the Surface Neo. It runs a new version of Windows called Windows 10X, and it won’t be available until “next holiday,” it’s real and it’s happening — unlike the 2008 Courier concept.
It’s definitely still just a prototype of some sort. Onstage, Panos Panay led the unveiling by saying &ldq

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Adobe’s Fresco sketching app will be available on the ARM-powered Microsoft Surface Pro X, the company announced at its Surface hardware event today. Announcing the arrival of Adobe’s apps on the ARM-powered Surface Pro X, Adobe’s Scott Belsky said that creativity “must not be constrained to the desktop,” and added that the company is “working hard to bring other parts of Creative Cloud to the Surface Pro X as soon as possible

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lyft is setting up a rewards program for its drivers, offering perks like cash bonuses, discounts on gas, phone bills, and tax services, and free roadside assistance. The announcement comes as both Uber and Lyft are feuding with the state of California over whether to classify drivers as employees rather than contractors.Both full-time and part-time drivers can participate in Lyft’s rewards program, which is based on earnings and not trips during pe