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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube’s homepage will feature ads in support of Donald Trump’s reelection campaign on election day 2020, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.Trump’s reelection campaign bought out YouTube’s masthead ad space for “early November” including election day, November 3, according to Bloomberg. By purchasing this highly trafficked ad space, the Trump campaign is betting that the visibility could aid his candidacy in some of the m

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter announced Friday that it would suspend 70 accounts that posted content in support of Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign, first reported by the Los Angeles Times.“We have taken enforcement action on a group of accounts for violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam,” a Twitter spokesperson told The Verge.The dozens of accounts suspensions handed down by Twitter Friday focus on pro-Bloomberg posts pushing out

Biscoff cookies are the perfect plane snack. They're sweet but not too sweet, they're crumbly but not too crumbly, and they're the ideal accompaniment to a bad cup of plane coffee. Luckily, they won't be missing from United Airlines flights for long. 
The airline announced Friday that it would replace Biscoff cookies with the fine-I-guess quasi-cookie known as the Oreo Thin. Oreo Thins, while acceptable in a pinch, do not provide the same decadent dunking experience that Biscoffs do. How co

On Feb. 6, the ongoing impacts of climate change delivered a record-setting 65-degree day in the icy continent of Antarctica. Now you can see what that warming actually looks like.
The first image below is from Feb. 4, just a couple days before the arrival of the warm temperatures that lingered in the region through Feb. 13. The second photo shows us what that same region looks like after a week of higher-than-average temperatures.
In case it's not clear, a lot of that ice and snow started to re

You can't buy friends, but man oh man Michael Bloomberg sure is trying. 
The recent Republican and current candidate for the Democratic party's presidential nomination has made waves with a shady social media marketing campaign that veered hard into sponcon. But that, it seems, was just the tip of the iceberg. The latest example of suspicious online activity in support of the billionaire comes in the form of a number of now-suspended Twitter accounts singing their identical pro-Bloomberg pr

Not all fruits are safe for dogs, but blueberries are perfectly fine. In fact, they're a healthy, antioxidant-rich treat. 
Unfortunately, this particular blueberry is on a glass table, and this dog is under it. She doesn't seem to have quite grasped the concept of "glass," though, and keeps swiping at the berry as if to scoop it out of the air.
It's a tragedy, ultimately, but it's still really cute. Read more...
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Samsung has temporarily closed one of the factories that makes the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip after one of its employees was confirmed to have the coronavirus.
The factory, which is in Gumi City, South Korea, will reopen the morning on Feb. 25 at the earliestAccording to SamMobile, other employees who came into contact with the infected employee are now under quarantine. 
Per CNN, there were over 430 coronavirus patients in South Korea at the time of writing. Over 220 new cases were reported in

Each year, Crisis Text Line exchanges millions of messages with people looking for help from the free mental health support service. 
Nearly a quarter of its conversations with youth involve texters 13 years old or younger who've been hurting themselves. In other words, almost one in four middle-schoolers or elementary school children who reach out to Crisis Text Line are talking about self-harm. Those children likely feel like they can't get support elsewhere, because self-harm is a v

Just when everyone got "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" out of their heads, Netflix announced the casting for seven new characters who will appear in the second season of The Witcher. Three of those characters should be familiar to anyone who has read Andrzej Sapkowski's books or played CD Projekt Red games‚ because they are...wait for it...also witchers. 
Season 1 ended with Geralt finally meeting his Child Surprise Ciri and leads directly into the plot of Blood of Elves, the first full

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TL;DR: As of Feb. 22, you can control your blinds without even getting up with the AXIS Gear Smart Blinds Controller for $224.99, a 9% savings. Blackout shades are a dream for anyone who's looking to sleep like a baby every single night. They help facilitate melatonin production and regulate your sleep cycle. But come morning, when it's time to wake up your entire body and soul to kickstart the day, opening those blinds can prove to be a pain. You already struggled with keeping your fingers

TL;DR: As of Feb. 22, you can get pro tips to get through the job search process with the 2020 Job Seekers Playbook guide for $29.99, a 98% savings. Job hunting in the digital age poses a serious catch-22: While digital recruitment through LinkedIn and other online job boards makes discovering relevant positions easier than ever, it also means there are more people duking it out for the same roles. 
To land your dream job, you'll not only have to work harder, but also smarter. What doe

TL;DR: As of Feb. 22, you can get a blowout at home with the Adagio Blower Brush  for $49.99, a 74% savings. There are but a few magical people among us who are capable of using a brush and a blow dryer simultaneously to blow out their hair like a professional stylist. So, naturally, we all end up blow-drying and straightening in two separate steps, which is a. time consuming, and b. damaging to our hair. In other words, it's a lose-lose situation.
But let me present to my fellow inade

TL;DR: Believe it or not, the Omega Series pens write without any ink, and as of Feb. 22, you can get them for up to 40% off — making their Series 5 pen just $29.99.Most of us spend our time communicating through texts, emails, and other digital means. But nothing feels quite as authentic or wholesome as writing on paper with a really great pen. Whether you're bullet journaling, handing out autographs, or just signing your rent checks, it's always a little better with a pen that doesn't sm

TL;DR: As of Feb. 22, this LG OLED 4K TV is at the lowest price we've ever seen it, and it's in the PCMag Shop — get one for $2,100.99 off with the code SAVE300. If "fancy 4K TV" is patiently waiting to be crossed out at the top of your wishlist, now is the time to finally check off that box.
This beautiful LG OLED 4K TV is discounted to its lowest price ever in the PCMag Shop (Mashable and PCMag are both owned by Ziff Davis). Right now, you can get one for $2,100.99 off with the code

Whether you’re planning to travel across the continent in a motorhome or you prefer an old-fashioned tent in the great outdoors, we can all agree that there are some camping essentials you need to get through an adventure in the wilderness.
You could spend hours intricately planning out the most magnificent camping itinerary, but without the right gear, a great trip into the wild can go south pretty quickly. However, that doesn’t mean you necessarily have to go out and buy everything

TL;DR: One year of Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2020 is on sale for £19.99, saving you 50% on list price.Security is something to take seriously, and that's why it pays to invest in the best. You might need to spend a little more, but it's totally worth the peace of mind that effective security provides.
Bitdefender is one of the biggest names in online security, and uses advanced artificial intelligence as well as a global network of more than 500 million computers to anticipate, detect, an

San Francisco e-bike riders' penchant for locking their Bay Wheels wherever they damn well please is about to cost them some serious dough. 
A host of pricing changes are coming to the Lyft-operated platform as of March 2. Perhaps the most notable of which includes a brand new $2 locking fee for riders who choose to ignore available dock spaces in favor of using built-in cables to lock the e-bikes to racks or street signs. In other words, use a docking station or pay up. 
Pretty simple

Photo by MAKSYM MYKHAILYK/AFP via Getty Images An email that appeared to come from Ukraine’s ministry of health containing false information about coronavirus cases in the country led to a number of violent protests and standoffs with police, reports BuzzFeed News.
The email originated from outside Ukraine, according to a government statement, and it falsely claimed there were five cases of coronavirus in the country. In reality, there have been zero reported cases of the virus in Ukraine

A horrifying video shows just how impressive VFX can be. 
An uncredited video of a backflip gone wrong went viral on Twitter this week, garnering more than 170,000 likes. In it, a man in stilettos tries to backflip, but when his heels make contact with the ground again, his body crumbles into gooey, fleshy chunks. 
It's unsettling, disgusting, and absolutely mesmerizing to watch. 
The original video is a collaboration between Shutter Authority, an Instagram account run by VFX arti

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Google on Friday evening published a support article meant to clarify the ongoing situation with Huawei. Last year, the United States government barred companies in the US from working with the Chinese hardware maker. “Google is prohibited from working with Huawei on new device models or providing Google’s apps including Gmail, Maps, YouTube, the Play Store and others for preload or download on these devices,” Tristan Ostrowski, legal director f

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Friday morning, Jeff Sites, a challenger to Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, didn’t have a blue verification badge on his official Twitter page. Sites had announced his campaign months earlier, so he should have been verified months ago. It caught the eye of one volunteer named Nancy Levine, who has been monitoring Twitter’s plan to verify all 2020 candidates, and has been lobbying Twitter on Sites’ behalf specifically.
After speaking with Levin

NBCUniversal is in advanced talks to acquire Vudu, the Walmart-owned video service, according to The Wall Street Journal. Though the talks “may not result in a deal,” it sounds like NBCUniversal — part of Comcast, an investor in The Verge’s parent company Vox Media — has a number of ideas for what it would do with Vudu.“Vudu’s ad-supported service would serve as a complement to Peacock,” which is NBCUniversal’s upcoming, standalone streaming

Rumors have floated for months that Apple might jettison the iPhone's Lightning Port come 2021 and a newly discovered patent shows us what that could look like. 
The patent was first discovered by Apple Insider and is labeled as "Electronic device with glass enclosure." If that's too vague for you, it's described further as "An electronic device includes a six-sided glass enclosure defining an interior volume and comprising a first glass member and a second glass member."
Apple filed the pa