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Takeru Kobayashi (L) and Joey Chestnut (R) competed during the 92nd Annual Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest in 2007. | Photo by Bobby Bank / WireImage Netflix has scheduled Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef on September 2nd as another one of its live events, along with Christmas Day NFL games, WWE Monday Night Raw, and the delayed Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight.
A press release from Netflix takes the whole thing very seriously, quoting Kobayashi saying, “Ret

Now that’s a compact camera. | Image: MiNT
The analog film resurgence continues marching forward, as MiNT’s Rollei 35AF camera seems poised to release this year. The Hong Kong-based camera manufacturer first carved its niche making boutique instant film cameras that remixed classics like the Polaroid SX-70. Now, it’s launched a website with a waitlist for potential customers interested in this diminutive 35mm camera.
The Rollei 35AF is a reincarnation of the original Rollei 35

Image: The Verge OpenAI and Microsoft are teaming up with Oracle to get more compute capacity to run ChatGPT. As part of a partnership announced this week, the three companies are working together so that OpenAI can use the Microsoft Azure Al platform on Oracle’s infrastructure.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hasn’t shied away from the fact that his company needs substantially more infrastructure to power its services. He has even been in discussions to raise billions of dollars for an AI chi

Video doorbells can make for great gifts — just be prepared to provide personal tech support. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge We’re closing in fast on June 16th, which means Father’s Day is right around the corner. If you haven’t already nabbed a gift for your pops or any other dads in your life, well, you’re starting to cut it close. But don’t fret; we’ve got some excellent last-minute gift ideas to consider.The annual celebration of all

Illustration: The Verge Somebody, call Tom Cruise — several Roku TV owners say that motion smoothing is suddenly enabled on their TVs with no way to turn it off.
Contributors on Reddit and in Roku’s community forum reported seeing the change on TCL TVs running on Roku OS 13, as did a few staffers on The Verge. However, for others who have access to “Expert” picture settings, the same update is in place without a change, and the settings to control it are still available.

Photo by Walid Berrazeg / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and Qualcomm are the household names in chips — but in 2025, the popular but lesser known MediaTek might make a play to join them. Reuters reports that the Taiwanese chip company is now preparing an AI PC chipset to launch in late 2025 specifically for Windows PCs. Currently, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite is the alleged MacBook Air-beating talk of the town, and MediaTek wants a piece of that action.Accordin

An Alamo Drafthouse theater. | Image: Sony and Alamo Drafthouse Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the popular movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the two companies announced on Wednesday.
Sony, which will oversee the theaters under a new Sony Pictures Experiences division, says it “will preserve Alamo Drafthouse’s distinctive movie-dining experience,” according to a press release. Alamo will continue to operate “all 35 of its cinemas across 25 metro areas

Illustration: Lille Allen / The Verge On Thursday, Tesla shareholders will face a stark choice: approve Elon Musk’s enormous pay package, the largest ever awarded to a chief executive, or risk him picking up his ball and going home.The shareholder meeting on Thursday is a referendum on Musk’s tumultuous leadership, in which he took a relatively niche startup, wrested it away from its founders, and turned it into what is arguably one of the most consequential car companies in modern h

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by STR / NurPhoto, Getty Images Eight former SpaceX engineers filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk on Wednesday alleging sexual harassment and retaliation.
Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002, “knowingly and purposefully created an unwelcome hostile work environment based upon his conduct of interjecting into the workplace vile sexual photographs, memes, and commentary that demeaned women and/or the LGBTQ+ community,” says the employees’ compl

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge As TikTok becomes a more popular news source for Americans, young adults increasingly believe the platform exposes them to information they’re unlikely to see elsewhere, according to a new survey of Americans’ news habits.The survey, released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, looks at the role major social media platforms — Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X — play in Americans’ news diets. According to the survey, TikTok

Image: Xbox Microsoft is rolling out an Xbox update that lets you view game art with any Xbox Home background. That means you’ll continue to see your dynamic or regular background when you’re not scrolling through different games.
Previously, Microsoft only let you view game art with the default Xbox Home background. Now, you can keep your background and view game art without having to decide between the two. Microsoft first started testing this feature in April, and you can see how

Image: Netflix It’s going to be a busy few weeks for Zack Snyder on Netflix. Just a day after Netflix announced the director’s cut of Rebel Moon would start streaming on August 2nd comes the news that another Snyder project will hit the service soon after. Twilight of the Gods, an animated series based on Norse mythology, will start streaming on September 19th. You can get a first glimpse at the show in action in the brief new teaser trailer above.
The animation is being handled by S

If you’re looking for an e-reader you take notes with, the Scribe is a good option for those embedded in Amazon’s ecosystem. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge With the ability to solve math equations and convert typed text into your own handwriting, Apple’s iPads are going to become a lot more student-friendly when iPadOS 18 launches in the fall. However, if you want something dedicated to studying or reading, I personally think an e-reader with note-taking capabili

Last month, a self-driving Waymo taxi collided with a telephone pole in Phoenix, Arizona. Luckily, the driverless car was on the way to pick up a passenger and the vehicle was unoccupied at the time of the accident. The robotaxi was damaged but no humans were injured.However, this incident from May led to Waymo issuing a voluntary recall of its entire fleet of 672 autonomous vehicles. The Verge says that Waymo is filing the recall with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) a

As usual, Apple left plenty of things out while presenting its next big software updates. | Image: Apple Apple left out a lot of small updates at its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote this year. It makes sense: the company had a lot to talk about, with a third of its presentation entirely devoted to new AI features. But that doesn’t make the features that didn’t get airtime any less worth talking about.
From new bezel animations to better ways to manage widgets, there is plenty

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Prepare yourself for not-so-shocking news: Apple is worth a lot of freaking money. The tech giant surged to a record high on Wednesday, trading at about $218 per share by midday. That brought its market cap to around $3.34 trillion, making it the highest-valued company in the world and surging past Microsoft, which boasts a market cap of approximately $3.26 trillion. So, yes, Apple is back on top. The surge in share price follows the company's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC), in which it

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An unofficial site tracking titles in the Epic Games library may have just leaked a ton of upcoming games, as reported earlier by Wccftech. The site, called EpicDB, was taken offline shortly after it posted information scraped from the Epic Games Store catalog on Monday, but that didn’t stop people from scanning the list and posting their findings.
You can see the list of games from publishers like Bethesda, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, and others in a s

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Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge A hacker breached the systems behind Tile device trackers and stole customer data, including names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers. According to reporting from 404 Media, which was contacted by the hacker, the collected information came from a database that indicated it was intended for law enforcement to identify owners of specific Tile trackers. The stolen information did not include precise Tile location data.
Life360, which owns Tile, published a st

Image: Cartoon Network As part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s big plan to double down on previously established IP, the studio has ordered a slate of new projects spun off from the worlds of Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.
Timed to Warner Bros.’ presentation at this year’s Annecy Festival, Cartoon Network Studios announced today that it has greenlit a number of new projects including an Adventure Time film as well as series spun off fro

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Father's Day — which falls on Sunday, June 16 this year — is only four days away. If you still haven't found the right gift for the father figure in your life, you don't need to worry: we've rounded up some of the best last-minute Father's Day gift deals that will arrive on or before Sunday when you place your order today, June 12. Check out our favorite picks for every kind of dad below:Best last-minute Father's Day deals as of June 12:Best deal for the music-loving dadBeats Studio

Apple Pay users will soon be able to use buy now pay later (BNPL) loans on their iPhones and iPads thanks to a deal between Apple and the fintech company Affirm.Per CNBC, the partnership with Affirm will be part of a collection of features coming to Apple iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 this fall. This was confirmed by Apple in a post-WWDC roundup of features, and in a Security and Exchange Commission filing from Affirm on June 11. SEE ALSO:Bitcoin ETFs have actually been granted SEC approval now
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Image: Epic Games It’s sad but true: Metallica is coming to Fortnite. Epic just announced that the group will be featured in the game’s next concert. The news is part of a larger musical collaboration between Fortnite and the heavy metal band.
First up, the concert itself. It’s called “Metallica: Fuel Fire Fury,” and players can check it out during a few windows later this month: June 22nd at 2PM, 5PM, and 11PM ET and June 23rd at 10AM, 2PM, and 5PM ET. There aren&r

Image: The Verge Artificial intelligence has become this year’s wonder technology. But because it comes in a lot of different flavors from a lot of different companies, it can be really confusing. You’ve not only got the ChatGPT bot created by OpenAI, but you’ve got the big three — Google, Apple, and Microsoft — cooking up their own versions.Google’s latest attempt is called Gemini, and it’s no less confusing than the others.
When I first started researc

 Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Ioanna and Andrii talk about some of the latest developments in the Dutch and European chips industry, Danish media and OpenAI, our spatial navigation skills, Chinese internet disappearing, and much more. The guest of the show is Zach Butler,

This ones for you, retro Apple enthusiasts. | Image: Basic Apple Guy Apple is introducing a new dynamic screensaver and wallpaper combo in macOS Sequoia that respectfully eulogizes retro Macintosh iconography. Simply dubbed “Macintosh,” MacRumors reports that the animated wallpaper shifts through graphics designed by Susan Kare, the artist and early Apple employee responsible for many of the typefaces and interface elements on the first Macintosh personal computer.
Users can’t

BYD is just one of the Chinese automakers facing increased tariffs in the EU. | Image: Getty The European Union will place an additional tariff on vehicles imported from China starting next month, the commission announced on Wednesday. The extra tariffs go as high as 38 percent, adding to the existing 10 percent duty the EU imposes on foreign vehicles.
The move comes after a monthslong investigation concluded that Chinese EV makers benefit from unfair state-backed subsidization, allowing them to

All of those totally disposable BeReal photos you took at work over the last few years were apparently worth a lot of money to someone. The self-titled "Gen Z social network" was acquired for €500 million (or roughly in the neighborhood of $541 million), per a Monday press release from its new parent company Voodoo. While Voodoo is primarily a publisher of mobile games, it also has a portfolio of apps like Wemoms, a social network for mothers. After this acquisition, BeReal is the most note

X, formerly Twitter, will officially start hiding public "likes" on posts, as soon as today.The news comes from a source at the company, as reported by the Verge. A few weeks ago, reports emerged that the change (that no one asked for) would be implemented soon.X's director of engineering Haofei Wang confirmed the news on X back then, saying in a post, "Public likes are incentivizing the wrong behavior. For example, many people feel discouraged from liking content that might be 'edgy' in fear of

It’s happy hour in Las Vegas, and the MGM Grand casino is crawling with people. The National Finals Rodeo is in town, the NBA’s inaugural in-season tournament is underway, the Raiders play on Sunday, and the U2 residency is going strong at the giant Sphere, so it seems everyone in every bar and at every slot machine is looking forward to something. (And wearing a cowboy hat.) Even for a town built on nonstop buzz, this qualifies as a uniquely eventful weekend.
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