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Tesla shareholders approved Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package on Thursday during its annual shareholders meeting.Tweet may have been deletedThe results were met by cheers from the shareholders who were in attendance.In 2018, Tesla agreed to pay Musk the multi-billion dollar performance-based payout provided that the company was worth $56 billion in a 10-year period. However, a Tesla shareholder filed a lawsuit against the company over the enormous payout and a Delaware court ruled against Musk

Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images LinkedIn is rolling out new AI-powered features to help users find jobs, tailor their resumes, and even get advice from AI chatbots. But these new features come at a cost, as they’ll be available to Premium subscribers beginning in English worldwide.
One tool lets you search for jobs on LinkedIn by typing a prompt in natural language. In a blog post, LinkedIn chief product officer Tomer Cohen gives the example of “find me a remote marketing job

Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Google has announced on its Pixel Help Community portal that it’s extending the Pixel 8’s repair program for phones displaying vertical lines and exhibiting flickering. This policy update allows Pixel 8 owners to get this problem fixed under warranty, for up to three years after purchase, if their phone “Exhibits a vertical line running from the bottom of the display to the the top or a display flicker.”Google isn’t promising tha

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Tesla shareholders voted today to reapprove Elon Musk’s gigantic pay package, after a Delaware court judge voided it earlier this year, according to preliminary results. Investors also approved a proposal to move the company’s legal home from Delaware to Texas and to reappoint two board members: James Murdoch and Kimbal Musk, Elon’s brother.The vote was widely seen as a referendum on Musk’s leadership during a time of great u

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Tesla shareholders voted today to reapprove Elon Musk’s gigantic pay package, after a Delaware court judge voided it earlier this year, according to preliminary results. Investors also approved a proposal to move the company’s legal home from Delaware to Texas and to reappoint two board members: James Murdoch and Kimbal Musk, Elon’s brother.The vote was widely seen as a referendum on Musk’s leadership during a time of great u

Illustration: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Image: Getty Images Several Tesla shareholders are accusing Elon Musk and the company’s board of knowingly diverting talent and resources away from the company and directing it toward Musk’s rival artificial intelligence company, xAI.In a lawsuit, the shareholders allege that Musk and the board breached their fiduciary duty to Tesla by launching xAI, which was founded in 2023 on the premise of understanding “the true nature of the unive

Illustration by Hugo Herrera / The Verge New technologies and changes in consumer habits could limit the use of controversial carbon capture to fight climate change, new research shows.Efforts to capture carbon from polluting sources or to filter CO2 out of the air have picked up steam as a way for companies to meet their climate goals. But those strategies are still unproven at a large scale and could come with other unintended consequences. Some environmental advocates also worry that focusing

I suspect GuliKit’s gamepad sticks will require soldering, though... this DualSense, for example, has sticks soldered to the board. | Image: iFixit The Nintendo Switch’s infamous “Joy-Con drift” showed us that we deserve more from joysticks and that one company is only too happy to help. Now, GuliKit is officially bringing its drift-resistant magnetic Hall effect joysticks to a PS5, PS4, Xbox, or Nintendo Switch Pro gamepad near you in the form of upcoming upgrade kits.Th

Image: Apple Apple is introducing a way to use Apple Pay on non-Safari desktop web browsers, as reported by MacRumors, meaning that you’ll soon be able to use Apple’s payment service to buy things on desktop Chrome, Firefox, and even on Windows PCs.
Apple showed how it works in a WWDC 2024 video for developers. If you’re using a desktop browser that isn’t Safari and you see an Apple Pay button, you’ll be able to click that button to bring up a special code you can s

iOS 18's new Send Later feature now lets you schedule texts. The ability to schedule texts on iPhone isn't necessarily new. For example, you can use the Shortcuts app to program the device to schedule texts. However, with the new Send Later feature, sending texts at a later date is now easier than ever.iOS 18 isn't officially out yet, but you can test the feature via the iOS 18 developer beta version that is currently available as of this writing.SEE ALSO:Everything announced at WWDC 2024, from

The next big update, iOS 18, is set to deliver a new eye-tracking feature, allowing users to select contents on the screen without using their fingers. Apple announced this new accessibility perk shortly before WWDC 2024. Now that the iOS 18 developer beta is out for users to test, we know how to launch the Apple Vision Pro-like feature.SEE ALSO:I used the Apple Vision Pro on a flight to Costa Rica — and it was chaotic
iOS 18 eye tracking feature: How to use itTo use the new eye tracking f

You won’t have to force a smile with the Qudi Mask 2 strapped to your face. | Screenshot: YouTube The Qudi Mask 2 could let privacy seekers who still want to be social have their cake and eat it, too. It’s a wearable digital avatar that hides a user’s real face behind an LED display and can automatically trigger a handful of emotive — but somehow also emotionally empty — expressions using head tracking and a mic.
LED face masks aren’t a new idea — you&rs

Breaking streaks no longer has to be something you worry about. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge When I had covid, I was miserable, hacking up my lungs and confined to bed for several days with horrible brain fog. I don’t remember much from that time. I do, however, remember waking up bleary-eyed and feverish to an Apple Watch notification. It said I hadn’t made much progress on my rings. I should take a brisk 27-minute walk. “You can still do it,” it said. No, I coul

Now any dealership can sell Ford EVs. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge Ford’s Model E dealership certification program is getting stripped down to allow all locations access to EV inventory. As reported by CNBC, Ford is revising its strategy of requiring dealerships to invest up to $1.2 million for certification that includes mandatory on-site EV chargers, upgrades, and advanced staff training.
In an email to The Verge, Ford Model E COO Marin Gjaja wrote that starting July 1st, the company

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos via Getty Images The Supreme Court maintained access to the abortion pill mifepristone, unanimously refusing to hear a case brought by a number of anti-abortion organizations and doctors over the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the pill.
“The plaintiffs have sincere legal, moral, ideological, and policy objections to elective abortion and to FDA’s relaxed regulation of mifepristone,” Justice Brett Kavanau

Google seemingly just made the Fitbit user experience a lot worse.The fitness-focused wearable brand, which Google bought in 2021, announced in a post on its community forums that the web browser interface for looking at a user's individual health metrics will shut down on July 8. From now on, the only way to access any Fitbit stats will be through the mobile app.SEE ALSO:Google and Fitbit are building an AI personal trainer
"Combined with Google’s decades of being the best at making sense

YouTube is once again ramping up its battle against ad blocker extensions.According to SponsorBlock, a "crowdsourced extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos," YouTube is now testing out server-side ad injection in order to curtail extensions that allow users to block advertisements on the website.Tweet may have been deletedIn order to combat YouTube's move, SponsorBlock has implemented a block on all user submissions from browsers that are experiencing this YouTube experiment. Howev

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Illustration: The Verge Meta is making some improvements to WhatsApp video calls that should make them more useful for conversations with large groups of people.
One feature is a speaker spotlight, which automatically highlights the speaker and makes them appear first on-screen, according to a Meta blog post. The company is also improving screen sharing to make it easier to watch videos as a group: if you’re screen sharing and showing a video with audio, the audio is now shared as well.Ima

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House of the Dragon has been renewed for Season 3, HBO announced June 13.The news comes just three days before the show's Season 2 premiere, a sign of the network's confidence in House of the Dragon's surefire status as a hit. Based on George R.R. Martin's Fire & Blood, the series tells the story of the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. SEE ALSO:'House of the Dragon' Season 2 review: A tragedy written in fire and blood
"George, [showrunner] Ryan [Condal], and the rest of

Image: HBO Ahead of the premiere of House of the Dragon’s second season, HBO has confirmed that the Game of Thrones spinoff will be getting a third season. Naturally, there are no real details on what the new season will entail or when it will start airing on HBO or Max. We’ll need to get through season 2 for that kind of info.
House of the Dragon premiered in 2022 and is set 200 years before the original Game of Thrones series. It’s focused primarily on House Targaryen and sta

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NETFLIX Between Blumhouse’s Imaginary, Paramount’s IF, and Cartoon Network’s recently announced Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends revival, the concept of dreaming up buddies to pal around with is having something of a moment. But everything about Netflix’s new trailer for The Imaginary makes it seem like the riff that could capture everyone’s hearts.
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Dave Burke presenting at Google I/O 2024. | Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Android’s leadership team at Google is losing another key leader. Dave Burke, VP of engineering for Android, is “stepping away” from heading up Android engineering and is “shifting into an advisory position while exploring AI / bio projects,” he said in an email he posted to LinkedIn.“AI has the potential to play a pivotal role in accelerating drug discovery, with wide applicabili

The OnePlus Watch 2 is an excellent upgrade over its predecessor and is one of our favorite Android smartwatches. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re looking for an Android smartwatch but aren’t keen on Google’s and Samsung’s selections, the OnePlus Watch 2 is our favorite alternative. And right now, not only is it on sale for $269.99 ($30 off) directly from the site, but OnePlus is throwing in a free pair of OnePlus Buds 3. While we’ve seen the

Image: The Verge Microsoft delivered the best Xbox showcase I’ve seen in years over the weekend. Layoffs, studio closures, and Xbox exclusives coming to PS5 had fans worried about the future of the platform, but Sunday’s showcase put many of those fears to rest.
Xbox chief Phil Spencer kicked off the show with Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 — cementing that Xbox is now the home of Call of Duty — before moving on to new reveals and gameplay. Three titles stood out for me person

We’re hoping for a big overhaul on this iconic pair, but they’re still the best Beats headphones you can buy. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you’re not an audiophile and can’t otherwise afford to splurge on a substantial pair of headphones like the AirPods Max or the new Sonos Ace headphones, a pair of Beats can do the job just fine. The brand’s headphones consistently sound pretty good and have kept up well with the times under Apple’s stewardship. You

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How much money was exchanged between Apple and OpenAI in its new partnership? Zero dollars. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple isn't paying OpenAI anything for bringing ChatGPT to Siri and other apps. Nor is OpenAI paying Apple for unprecedented access to iPhone, iPad, and Mac users. Instead, mass distribution is the valued commodity, not cash. Tweet may have been deleted"Apple believes pushing OpenAI’s brand and technology to hundreds of millions of its devices is of equal or gre

Apple's WWDC 2024 event on June 10 finally focused on the operating system glow-ups that'll sit behind the screens of most Macs released in the past few years.MacOS 15, officially dubbed MacOS Sequoia, doesn't have an official release date yet, but typical timelines from the developer conference in years past point to beta availability across the summer leading up to official release in September or October 2024. Apple did, however, release the official list of the devices that will be compatibl