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The Ember Mug 2 comes in a variety of colors, including simple options like white and black. | Image: Ember Ember’s fancy-schmancy smart mugs are all discounted on its site through August 13th as part of the company’s back-to-school sale, so you can prepare for the cooler months ahead well ahead of time. While the current promo takes 20 percent off the Ember Tumbler, Cup, and Travel Mug 2 (with code B2S20), our collective favorite here at The Verge is the Ember Mug 2 — which is

Microsoft and Delta aren't happy with each other in the aftermath of July's massive CrowdStrike outage. Legal representation for Microsoft sent a letter to Delta's lawyers pushing some of the blame for Delta's flight issues that weekend onto Delta itself, per The Verge. The letter, which was sent in response to comments by Delta CEO Ed Bastian that questioned Microsoft's competence, called Bastian's remarks "incomplete, false, misleading, and damaging to Microsoft and its reputation."SEE ALSO:Mi

Fresh off relaunching his own lawsuit against OpenAI just yesterday, Elon Musk's X announced it was taking on a major coalition of some of the biggest advertisers on the planet.On Tuesday, X, formerly known as Twitter, filed a lawsuit in Texas federal court against Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), a coalition made up of major advertisers. GARM is an initiative of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) and represents companies like Disney and Walmart. The suit names WFA, alon

Google may have lost the antitrust case that deemed it a monopolist, but the search engine giant continues to dominate the market with Google Search. According to Impression Digital, Google's share of the global search market is 83% compared to Microsoft Bing's 9.19%.The aforementioned antitrust ruling, however, outlined in a 286-page document written by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, appears to convey that Apple shares the same sentiment as the average user: Google Search is the preferred tool

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit’s “ask me anything” posts, or AMAs, could feel more like special events than standard posts with a twist, thanks to changes that go sitewide on Thursday. While none of the updates reflect a total overhaul, they do put a new kind of emphasis on the popular Q&A sessions.
Starting on Thursday, a new AMA tab will offer special options like the ability to schedule and promote an AMA in a single post. Creators of the posts can also a

Image: Netflix Netflix is bringing its Stranger Things play to Broadway’s Marquis Theatre next March. The play, called Stranger Things: The First Shadow, takes place years before the events in the streaming series unfold. It made its debut in London’s West End last year.
The play takes place in Hawkins, Indiana in 1959 and follows a young Jim Hopper, Joyce Maldonado, and Bob Newby’s sister as they contend with the arrival of the new kid in town: Henry Creel. The production cred

Illustration: The Verge Amazon Music on Tuesday introduced Topics, a new AI-powered feature that should let you easily discover other related podcasts based on topics discussed in a particular episode.
After analyzing podcast transcriptions and descriptions to identify key topics, AI, with the aid of human reviewers, generates a Topics tag button. Located beneath each episode description, clicking on any tag will produce a list of related podcast episodes to that subject.
As an example, Amazon s

A small scale model of a carbon removal facility during a groundbreaking ceremony at the Occidental Petroleum and 1PointFive Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant in Ector County, Texas, US, on Friday, April 28, 2023.  | Photo: Getty Images Companies are increasingly turning to new-fangled ways to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as a way to hit their sustainability goals. But who’s watching to make sure these tactics are working?
A new project called the Carbon Removal Standards In

Razer’s wireless V3 Pro packs a 30K DPI sensor, 11 programmable inputs, and all the lighting effects you could want. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Logitech’s new G309 might be one of the most versatile gaming mice in existence, but before that, there was our No. 1 pick for the best gaming mouse: the Razer Basilisk V3 Pro. And now, thanks to a $30 discount, Razer’s claw-shaped peripheral is available at Amazon and Best Buy in black or white for $129.99, its lowes

More watchfaces, Garmin Pay, and GoPro are now in the Garmin Connect IQ store. | Image: Garmin Garmin doesn’t have the best third-party app store, but it’s at least getting a bit better starting today. You’ll now be able to make purchases in the Connect IQ store using Garmin Pay, plus there’s a handful of new watchfaces and a GoPro app.
Previously, downloading apps from the Garmin Connect IQ store could be a real pain, as there wasn’t an easy way to pay for apps tha

Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, is once again planning a controversial design change to the platform.X is currently testing the removal of like, comment, and repost buttons, along with their counts, from replies to posts. The view count would be removed from reply posts as well. Tweet may have been deletedThis change to X has not yet been released, but was discovered in code of the most recent X app, X for iOS v10.53, by X user @aaronp613. New features and platform changes discove

A changing of the guard is underway as more OpenAI leaders leave the company. On Monday, co-founder and ChatGPT lead John Schulman announced that he was leaving OpenAI for rival AI company Anthropic. Tweet may have been deletedHours later, co-founder and president Greg Brockman shared that he was taking a sabbatical until the end of the year. According to The Information, VP of product Peter Deng has also left OpenAI. Tweet may have been deletedThe alleged staffing triple-whammy comes not long a

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Cal Kestis returns to his last-gen roots soon. | Image: EA Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is officially available for preorder for the Xbox One and PS4 ahead of a September 17th launch, EA announced today. The game, which arrived on PC and current-gen consoles in April 2023, costs $49.99 on Xbox One and PS4, standard edition only — the deluxe version is still reserved for newer consoles and PCs.
Owners of last-gen consoles may want to hold off on the Jedi: Fallen Order sequel for now, though. Al

Someone on Reddit found some of the safety guardrails Apple has put in place to keep Apple Intelligence from straying too far off course.Reddit user devanxd2000 posted some of the underlying code behind Apple Intelligence, Apple's upcoming suite of AI features that will be available on devices such as the iPhone 15 Pro and the upcoming iPhone 16. Interestingly, much of the code contains written clauses that act as instructions for the AI, and humorously, they're written almost in the form of dig

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge A federal judge has ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly in the US. “The market reality is that Google is the only real choice” as the default search engine, Judge Amit Mehta said in his decision, and he determined it had gotten that way unfairly. It’s a ruling that could portend big changes for the company, but we yet don’t know how big, and we might not for years.
Mehta declared on Monday that Google was liable for violatin

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge A federal judge has ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly in the US. “The market reality is that Google is the only real choice” as the default search engine, Judge Amit Mehta said in his decision, and he determined it had gotten that way unfairly. It’s a ruling that could portend big changes for the company, but we yet don’t know how big, and we might not for years.
Mehta declared on Monday that Google was liable for violatin

Photo by Andrej Sokolow / picture alliance via Getty Images Waymo is spreading out a little more in the two major cities in which it operates.The robotaxi company announced today that it was growing its service areas in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, as the company seeks to attract more customers to its burgeoning business.In San Francisco, Waymo’s service area is extending south of the city into the San Francisco Peninsula to cover Daly City, Broadmoor, and Colma — a total of 1

Image: Disney The next phase of Disney’s plan to make its streaming services profitable is another round of price hikes served up with more news and new playlist features.
Disney is rolling out a new wave of price hikes that its subscribers will probably be none too pleased to be hit with. Beginning October 17th, individual monthly and annual plans for Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN are all going up.Monthly subscriptions to Disney Plus with ads will jump from $8 a month to $10. The monthly Di

Image: Disney The next phase of Disney’s plan to make its streaming services profitable is another round of price hikes served up with more news and new playlist features.
Disney is rolling out a new wave of price hikes that its subscribers will probably be none too pleased to be hit with. Beginning October 17th, individual monthly and annual plans for Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN are all going up.Monthly subscriptions to Disney Plus with ads will jump from $8 a month to $10. The monthly Di

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Image: The Verge X is suing a group of major advertisers over accusations that they held an “illegal boycott” against the platform formerly known as Twitter. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, X claims Unilever, Mars, CVS, Ørsted, and dozens of other brands conspired to “collectively withhold billions of dollars in advertising revenue” through a World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) industry initiative.
To join the WFA’s initiative, called the Global Alliance for

The office software market has been widened a little further with the official release of Zoom's AI-powered word processor, Zoom Docs.SEE ALSO:Reddit wants Microsoft to pay up if its search engine wants to crawl the platform
If your company uses Zoom, expect to use it soonFully unveiled in March of this year, Zoom Docs is powered by the company's Zoom AI Companion, allowing users — specifically, businesses — to work more collaboratively within Zoom's video conference ecosystem. Thus,

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Image: The Verge Microsoft has responded to Delta Air Lines’ criticism of Windows and CrowdStrike after the giant IT outage last month. Delta CEO Ed Bastian wants compensation from both CrowdStrike and Microsoft for the estimated $500 million Delta lost due to the outage. Now, Microsoft says Delta refused its free help on multiple occasions and even ignored an email from CEO Satya Nadella to Bastian.
“Microsoft empathizes with Delta and its customers regarding the impact of the Crowd

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Sonos Ace headphones launched with a very convenient trick called TV Audio Swap, which lets you send audio that would normally come out of the Sonos Arc soundbar to the headphones instead. Two months later, the company is enabling TV Audio Swap on its more affordable soundbars — and it’s no longer limited to customers with Apple devices.
The feature now works on both generations of the Sonos Beam as well as the entry-level Sonos Ray. Until now, an

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You're nice and comfortable on the couch. You've got your snacks, you've got your ice cold drink. Maybe y

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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google is done making Chromecasts. In a post on Tuesday, Google says it’s “ending production of Chromecast” after over a decade of selling the streaming dongles.
Even though Chromecast devices will now be available “while supplies last,” Google says it will continue to push software and security updates to its newer devices without specifying which ones. The most recent update to the lineup was the Chromecast with Google TV released

Sweden remains the leading startup ecosystem in the EU, second only to the UK in Europe as a whole. That’s according to this year’s Global Startup Ecosystem Index Report by StartupBlink. In the past decade, the Nordic nation has emerged as one of the world’s top tier startup hubs. Home to over 7,000 startups and scaleups, Sweden has also minted 41 unicorns to date. This includes high-profile companies such as Spotify, Klarna, and NorthVolt. In addition, the country is the Euro

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate in the 2024 presidential election, as reported earlier by multiple news outlets including The New York Times. The news follows weeks of speculation during an accelerated campaign since President Joe Biden ended his candidacy and endorsed his VP for the role.
The choice comes weeks before the Democratic National Convention and just ahead of a virtual roll call vot

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge The Quibi story is both short and epic. In January 2020, company founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman were onstage at CES delivering an hour-long presentation on how they were about to upend the entertainment business. They’d developed new tech, signed up seemingly half the stars in Hollywood, and had raised more than a billion dollars to pull it off. By October, it was all over. Quibi was shutting down.On this episode of The Vergecast, we’re

Swiss startup Terra Quantum announced today it has landed a contract to embark on a study with the US Air Force for a network utilising post-quantum cryptography, quantum key distribution, and quantum random number generators.  Terra Quantum is the recipient of a grant from the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) fund for technologies with applications for the defence industry. The aim of the specific project is to create a long-range, ultra-secure communication network that will be

Hand required to add cream. | Image: Keurig I just used Keurig’s new hybrid K-Brew and Chill machine that can quickly cool down freshly brewed pod coffee (and fruity “refreshers”) to a temperature “as cold as, if not colder,” than an iced coffee and sweet drinks you could order at a local coffee shop. For me, there was something unexpectedly satisfying about making an instantly cold drink from a standalone and solidly built machine — even if the cup of La Colo

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate in the 2024 presidential election, according to multiple news outlets including The New York Times. The news follows weeks of speculation during an accelerated campaign since President Joe Biden ended his candidacy and endorsed his VP for the role.
The choice comes weeks before the Democratic National Convention and just ahead of a virtual roll call vote where Ha

The Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen) is a complete redesign of the iconic smart thermostat that first launched in 2011. | Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge This week, almost a decade after Google last updated its flagship thermostat, the company has announced the Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen). The thermostat has an all-new design, several new features, and support for the smart home standard Matter. So, yes, it now works natively with Apple Home.At $279.99, the fourth generation of the Nest

Image: Google Google isn’t waiting for its upcoming hardware event to announce the Chromecast’s successor. Alongside the new, sleeker Nest Thermostat, today the company is introducing the Google TV Streamer, a $99.99 set-top box that improves upon the Chromecast with Google TV with substantially better performance, Thread and Matter integration, and useful new features like a remote finder.Yes, there are some Gemini AI tricks thrown in, and with other hardware upgrades like a built-i