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President Donald Trump. | Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump will no longer be subject to extra severe penalties for content rule violations on his Facebook and Instagram accounts, Meta said on Friday.Previously, Trump’s account could be fully suspended for even a relatively small infraction that wouldn’t lead to the same penalty for any other account. Now, with the Republican National Convention taking place next week, he’ll be treated more like eve

How are you feeling after seeing Longlegs? Unsettled? Spooked? Like you've got the teeth of the hydra upon you?SEE ALSO:'Longlegs' review: Nicolas Cage may be brilliant, but this horror-thriller is bizarre in the wrong way
That's more than understandable. The latest film from writer/director Osgood Perkins is packed with eerie atmosphere, Silence of the Lambs–style serial killer investigations, Satan worship, and a surprising number of references to the glam rock band T. Rex. All this lead

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge OpenAI is a leader in the race to develop AI as intelligent as a human. Yet, employees continue to show up in the press and on podcasts to voice their grave concerns about safety at the $80 billion nonprofit research lab. The latest comes from The Washington Post, where an anonymous source claimed OpenAI rushed through safety tests and celebrated their product before ensuring its safety.
“They planned the launch after-party prior to knowing if it was s

And on the other side of the iPhone, there’s a Notes app. | Image: Moft Moft is launching a new MagSafe accessory that adds a literal notepad and pen to the back of your iPhone. The company’s new “Snap Flow” looks like a slim magnetic origami kickstand (like the one Moft is known for) but opens up like a book to reveal a paper pad and a really nifty ballpoint pen that magically folds into a prism shape.
It’s hard to believe there’s a product in 2024 that lets

Serena Williams doesn’t just hit her target on the tennis courts — she hits them on stage, too.The 23-time Grand Slam winner let her distaste for Harrison Butker, an NFL kicker from the Kansas City Chiefs, be known and took a few other shots at controversial men in sports while hosting this year’s ESPYs.   While presenting alongside her sister and fellow athlete Venus Williams, and producer and actress Quinta Brunson during a segment dedicated to applauding the r

GET $74 OFF: As of July 12, the Margaritaville Tahiti Margarita Machine is available at Amazon for $450.23, down from $525. That's a 32% discount of $74.77.Opens in a new windowCredit: Margaritaville StoreOur pick: Margaritaville Tahiti Margarita Machine$450.23 at Amazon $525.00 Save $74.77Get DealThe Margaritaville Tahiti Margarita Machine is back in stock and on sale at Amazon, so you can embrace your inner vacationer and whip up frozen margaritas at home. It is summer, after all, and if you c

Image: SpaceX SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket experienced an engine failure after it launched late Thursday night from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission, Starlink Group 9-3, was carrying Starlink satellites and failed to reignite its upper second stage after developing a leak. “Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown,” Elon Musk said overnight, confirming that the engine experienced a “rapid unschedule

Newport News Shipbuilding, a defense contractor whose shipyard is alleged to have been photographed by drone. | Getty Images A foreign graduate student has pleaded guilty to crimes under the Espionage Act for photographing classified US Navy ships with a drone. The case appears to be a first-of-its kind prosecution by the Department of Justice.Fengyun Shi, a Chinese citizen and graduate student at the University of Minnesota, was arrested in January after a drone he was flying got stuck in a tre

UPDATE: Jul. 12, 2024, 1:45 p.m. EDT This post has been updated with the latest pricing and availability on Apple products ahead of Prime Day.We rounded up the best early Prime Day Apple deals from iPads to MacBooks to AirPods. Check them out below:Early Prime Day Apple deals to watch:Best MacBook dealApple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M2, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD)$799 at Amazon(Save $200)Get DealBest iPad dealApple iPad Air, 10.9-inch (M1, WiFi, 64GB)$399 at Walmart(Save $200)Get DealBest Apple Watch dealA

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A few days ago, I misplaced my wallet. I remember having it on Sunday, the night of my friend’s birthday dinner, because I was the one to put my card down. Maybe I had it on Monday. I didn’t spend any money then aside from a Lyft ride home, which famously doesn’t require you to swipe a card, so there’s no way to know for sure. And even when I did spend money — a case of La Croix at the bodega, an iced latte as a reward

TL;DR: Back up all your important files with 1TB of cloud storage from Koofr, on sale for $119.97 with promo code KOOFR40 through July 21.Opens in a new windowCredit: koofrKoofr Cloud Storage: Lifetime Subscription (1TB)$119.97 at The Mashable Shop $810.00 Save $690.03with promo code KOOFR40Get DealMost of us know that stomach-dropping notification that pops up when we're running low on storage. Now you have to decide between keeping all 10,000 photos of your dog sleeping in the exact same posit

It's been a bumpy road for the Cybertruck so far.Tesla's newest electric vehicle was just released in November, but it has already faced numerous recalls. To top it off, the Cybertruck has become somewhat of a laughing stock on the internet, with social media users mocking owners of the truck who post videos of the vehicle performing unimpressive tasks that pretty much every other truck can already do.However, it does seem like there is something that Tesla's Cybertruck can do better than other

PRE-ORDER, GET A FREE 12-MONTH NINTENDO SWITCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION: As of July 12, pre-order the Nintendo Switch Lite: Hyrule Edition at Best Buy for $209.99 and get a free 12-month Nintendo Switch Online subscription (a $39.99 value).Opens in a new windowCredit: Best Buy Nintendo Switch Lite: Hyrule Edition$209.99 at Best Buy Free Nintendo Switch Online 12-Month Subscription ($39.99 value)Get DealThere's another new Nintendo Switch Lite on the horizon. Yes, there's an entirely new Switch consol

The U.S. presidential election has reached new heights of absurdity, reminding us all of Darren Rovell's viral 2016 post: "I feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous content."Vice President Kamala Harris has been a meme the entire presidency, moving from "We did it, Joe," to her obsession with venn diagrams to her being "unburdened by what has been." But the meme intensity reached its boiling point in the aftermath of President Joe Biden's worrisomely poor performance at the first presid

Image: EA / Respawn Entertainment Apex Legends can’t seem to catch a break. The game has been plagued with a pair of high-profile issues for the last few weeks.
First up, earlier this week, the hero shooter’s developer, Respawn Entertainment, announced it was retooling the game’s battle pass. For season 22 and beyond, the battle pass will now be split into two halves, with 60 levels for each half. Additionally, players will no longer be able to purchase a battle pass with AC or

When Ariane 6 suffered a glitch on its first flight, the mishap felt strangely inevitable. Nearly half of all rockets fail on their first launches. After a troubled development and four years of delays, Ariane 6 looked like a prime candidate to join the list.  The launcher was commissioned to create a European pathway into the cosmos. Since the retirement of Ariane 5 last July, the continent has had no independent access to space. Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner for the in

The TCL Q6 is solid TV for watching the 2024 Olympics, House of the Dragon, and a wild season of election coverage. | Image: TCL TCL’s Q6 QLED TV was one of the standout deals from Walmart’s recent “Walmart Deals” event, and the post-event discounts have only gotten steeper. The 65-inch model, for example, has dropped even further at Walmart, where you can currently pick it up for an all-time low of $388 ($312 off). You can also grab it at Best Buy right now for $399.99 (

UPDATE: Jul. 12, 2024, 9:54 a.m. EDT This article has been updated with the latest Kindle deals ahead of Prime Day 2024.Best Prime Day Kindle deals at a glance:BEST KINDLE DEALKindle Scribe (16GB, Premium Pen)$259.99(save $110)Get DealBEST KINDLE DEAL FOR KIDSKindle Paperwhite Kids$319.98(Save $20 when you purchase two)Get DealBEST KINDLE BUNDLE DEALKindle Paperwhite Essentials Bundle$174.97 at Amazon(save $20)Get Deal
Amazon Prime Day is still a few days away, but the deals started rolling in

Image: Amazon Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, is rolling out to all users in the US on Amazon’s mobile app. You can pull up the shopping assistant by tapping the orange and blue icon in the right corner of the app’s navigation bar, where Rufus can answer questions, draw comparisons between items, and give you updates on your order.
Amazon first introduced Rufus in February but only made it available to a small group of users. Rufus uses Amazon’s product listing det

Buy 2 Get 1: Today, July 12, Target Circle members can get a free item when they buy two movies, books, board games, toys, or video games. The sale will last until tomorrow, July 13 at 11:59 PST. Opens in a new windowCredit: MattelBuy 2 Get 1: Books, movies, games, and toysShop NowWith summer comes more time for enjoying lazy afternoons spent playing cards, taking part in family movie nights, and burning through the latest page-turning beach read. As Target's Circle Week sale nears its end, ther

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Despite a $100 price tag, these 8BitDo gamepads don’t include any wireless functionality. | Image: 8BitDo 8BitDo’s shiny silver- and gold-finished 11th anniversary SN30 Pro gamepads feature housings and controls made of so much metal that they weigh in at 381 grams — almost an entire pound.
As spotted by Polygon, the company went nearly all in on the metal facelift for its SN30 Pro gamepad, with the D-pad, action buttons, shoulder triggers, and even joysticks all made of a meta

Image: HoYoverse I’ve given up on trying to understand Zenless Zone Zero. In every other cutscene, I’m bombarded with in-game jargon about inter-knots, proxies, hollows, and w-engines that I just cannot keep straight. Meanwhile, my patience withers to dust as my eyes flit about the screen trying to make sense of the literal deluge of resources — dennies, polychromes, investigator logs, master tapes, and so, so much more — the game requires you to accumulate in order to pr

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Image: Archer Today, Southwest Airlines became the latest major carrier to join forces with a so-called urban air mobility startup. The Dallas-based airline signed a memorandum of understanding with Archer Aviation to draw up plans for an air taxi service.
The service will operate using Archer’s battery-powered, four-passenger, tilt-rotor Midnight aircraft, which are designed to take off and land vertically from a landing strip like a helicopter. As part of the deal, the aircraft will get

UPDATE: Jul. 9, 2024, 3:15 p.m. EDT This list has been updated with the latest pricing and availability on the best headphone and speaker deals ahead of Prime Day.Best headphone and speaker deals ahead of Prime DayBest noise-canceling headphones dealSony WH-CH720N$99.99 at Amazon(Save $50)Get DealBest AirPods dealApple AirPods Max$399 at Amazon(Save $250)Get DealBest wireless earbuds dealBose QuietComfort Earbuds II$169.95 at Amazon(Save $109.05)Get DealBest Bluetooth speaker dealUltimate Ears

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Image: Analogue The Analogue Pocket is getting yet another iteration — but this time, it’s a little more than a refreshed color scheme. An aluminum edition is coming out this month, and the company says that the new handhelds “are
precision CNC’d entirely in aluminum.” They come in four colors — natural, noir, black, and indigo — and will be available to preorder on July 15th at 8AM PT / 11AM ET, with units expected to ship on July 17th.
That metal

There wasn’t a Factory Reset option, previously. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge Since the launch of the Rabbit R1, the AI assistant device has been storing users’ chat logs on-device with no way to erase them, according to a company security bulletin. Rabbit is now addressing the issue with a software update that includes a new Factory Reset option in settings to wipe the device. Previously, you could only unlink your account from an R1, which did not erase all user data.
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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images The AI Act is a sweeping set of rules for technology companies operating in the EU, which bans certain uses of AI tools and puts transparency requirements on developers. The law officially passed in March after two years of back and forth and includes several phases for compliance that will happen in waves.
Now that the full text has been published, it officially starts the clock for compliance deadlines that companies must meet.

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images The AI Act is a sweeping set of rules for technology companies operating in the EU, which bans certain uses of AI tools and puts transparency requirements on developers. The law officially passed in March after two years of back and forth and includes several phases for compliance that will happen in waves.
Now that the full text has been published, it officially starts the clock for compliance deadlines that companies must meet.

Image: Tesla Tesla is bringing back its longest-range Model 3, which will also be the second cheapest version of the popular electric sedan available. The new trim will be available for $42,490, according to the website.The rear-wheel-drive (RWD) version of the Long Range Model 3 will get an EPA-estimated range of 363 miles. That could be a significant addition to Tesla’s lineup at a time when production and sales are both drooping.Tesla originally introduced the Long Range RWD Model 3 in

A pedestrian stands in the shade of a small tree during a heatwave in New York on Wednesday, June 30th, 2021. | Photo: Getty Images Nearly 34 million people across 65 US cities — roughly one in 10 Americans — live in a place where the built environment makes temperatures feel at least 8 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than it would without that urban sprawl. That’s according to a new study by the nonprofit Climate Central, which mapped the impact of a phenomenon called the urban heat

Courtesy of Marvel Studios Marvel’s movies don’t always tie directly into the series that came before them, but the new trailer for Captain America: Brave New World definitely makes it seem like something you’ll need to revisit The Falcon and The Winter Soldier for.
After years of providing air support to his predecessor, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) is the Captain in Brave New World’s first trailer, which opens up at a time when Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford) has become pr

Remember TUAW, or The Unofficial Apple Weblog? It was once a popular Apple blog which was shut down in 2015, but it was recently brought back from the dead -- in the worst possible way. TUAW is now, it appears, an AI-generated content factory bringing Apple-related "news." According to the site's "About Us" section, the site was acquired by a company called "Web Orange Limited" from Yahoo "without its original content." Its mission? "To continue providing Apple enthusiasts and tech professionals