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Brian Williams during a Meet the Press taping in 2008. | Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images for Meet the Press Former news anchor Brian Williams is in talks to host an Amazon Prime election night special, reports Variety. The show would apparently be a “non-partisan discussion” as election night news comes in and could include multiple guests.
Williams has been out of the news game for a while. He lost his role as anchor of NBC’s Nightly News after some of his reporting was found

If you thought the fight between Brazil and X (and its owner Elon Musk) was coming to a close without one last obstacle, you'd be sorely mistaken.It started a few weeks ago, when Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered X to take down what Moraes considered misinformation and fake news on the site. Musk refused the Court's demands, and Brazil responded by barring the social media platform across the country. Then, just last week, Musk quietly decided to do what was asked of hi

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD Vance dossier that was allegedly nabbed in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. The company has apparently removed posts containing the link and is seemingly blocking links to PDFs of the dossier being hosted elsewhere.Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold emailed Meta’s statement to The Verge:
“Our policies do not all

UPDATE: Sep. 28, 2024, 1:00 p.m. EDT This article has been updated to include details of how to contact Amazon customer service ahead of October Prime Day 2024.Preparing for the impending chaos of October Prime Day? Prime Big Deal Days is happening on Oct. 8 and 9, 2024, and we know all too well that it's easy to get caught up in the sales, indulge in some impulse purchasing, and experience a bit of buyer's remorse.As in years past, there are already plenty of live deals to shop ahead of the of

The second Amazon Prime Day, Prime Big Deal Days, is coming up on Oct. 8 and 9, 2024. Exciting deals await on electronics, clothes, makeup, and more — but there's a catch. To access exclusive October Prime Day deals, shoppers must first sign up for Amazon Prime and opt for a free 30-day trial or a full subscription. Prime members can save plenty on big-ticket items from brands like Apple and Samsung, and Amazon usually offers steep discounts on its own line of Kindles and Echos. Plus, memb

“So full. So filled.” | Image: Disney This week, I’ve been slowly catching up on Dark Matter; I’m about 20 hours into Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the Switch; and I’m still trying to work a trip to the movie theater into my schedule to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.I’m behind, in other words! And this week’s trailers shoveled so much more onto my need-to-watch pile, from the next Marvel MCU film, Thunderbolts, to the amusingly bizarre black comed

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple, the most valuable company in the world, will have to work this weekend to meet a legal deadline on Monday. That’s after Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixson on Friday denied the company’s request for more time to produce 1.3 million documents related to App Store changes it made in January to comply with a 2021 court order.Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who presided over the Epic lawsuit that resulted in those changes, told Apple’s legal team

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In a short-lived will-they-won't-they love story to rival the likes of Heathcliff and Catherine, Apple is reportedly no longer in talks with ChatGPT creator OpenAI for investing in its latest fundraising round.The Washington Post reported on Friday that a "knowledgeable person" reported that Apple fell out of talks to join this round. It's a surprise because the news came at such a late hour — the talks are scheduled to wrap up this upcoming week — but shouldn't shock anyone too inte

Samsung’s Galaxy Book4 Edge offer a vibrant OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. | Photo: Joanna Nelius / The Verge The portability of a laptop is nice and all, but oftentimes, the tradeoff is a smaller screen that can feel cramped if you’ve got a lot of tabs open. Thankfully, there are laptops like Samsung’s Galaxy Book4 Edge, which offers a 16-inch display in a thin and lightweight package. It typically starts at $1,499.99, but right now, Best Buy is selling it with 16GB o

Playstack Now that Balatro is out on mobile, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. And while it’s a great game, its tutorial doesn’t do the best job of setting you up for the kind of success necessary to hook you. In my first few hours, though I was completing the objectives laid out, it felt like I was stumbling my way to success instead of achieving it through strategy. Onboarding was a bit too abrupt, focused on the barebones of how to play instead of blending that with tip

See that little circle? That’s a camera. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge All around Meta’s Menlo Park campus, cameras stared at me. I’m not talking about security cameras or my fellow reporters’ DSLRs. I’m not even talking about smartphones. I mean Ray-Ban and Meta’s smart glasses, which Meta hopes we’ll all — one day, in some form — wear.
I visited Meta for this year’s Connect conference, where just about every hardware product inv

Lennon Torres was 13 when she received her first iPhone. She raced to download the apps all her friends used: Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, eager to experience social media alongside her peers. But Torres, now 25, wasn't the average 13-year-old. She was also a reality show contestant who later regularly guest starred on the show Dance Moms. As she built her social media profile, fans of the show began showing up. Torres, who is transgender and was out as an openly gay teen prior to her

The M87 galaxy is monstrous. It contains several trillions of stars, compared to our Milky Way's hundreds of billions. And the supermassive black hole at its center is shooting an outstretched beam of energy into space. The Hubble Space Telescope, operated by NASA and the European Space Agency, has captured a new image of this energetic cosmic event, which produces a beam of superheated gas 3,000 light-years long (a single light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles). NASA calls this jet "blowtorch-li

Our descendants will — at some time in the future — almost certainly need to deflect an asteroid.Though there is no known threat for at least the next century, planetary defense experts are investigating how to divert such a large space rock, and one proposal involves detonating a nuclear device near the menacing object. The ensuing blast of energy would vaporize part of the asteroid's surface, shooting out a plume of material that acts like a temporary rocket engine. While testing t

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Coming to theaters amid the fervor of the U.S. presidential election season, Rumours might seem to be targeting the absurdity within American politics. However, its aim is much broader, skewering global politics as a whole. More remarkable, this scorching satire from co-directors Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, and Guy Maddin plays like the unholy and hilarious spawn of Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie meets Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2. Penned by Evan Johnson, Rumours wie

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To understand the range of Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo, you only need to look at his two most popular feature films: Timecrimes and Colossal. The first, his feature-length directorial debut, is a 2007 sci-fi horror thriller that follows an average man plagued by a scissor-wielding masked stranger. The second is the blistering 2016 Anne Hathaway comedy that had the Oscar–winning movie star playing a human trainwreck who accidentally manifests a dangerous kaiju over Seoul. At first gla

Shot over a decade ago, guerilla-style in Estonia, the low-budget horror musical Chainsaws Were Singing is a pastiche of genre tropes that its filmmaker spent years completing nearly by himself. Sander Maran stretches the definition of multi-hyphenate in Neil Breen fashion; as the movie's writer, director, composer, cinematographer, sound designer, colorist, and VFX artist, Maran turns in a work that, while often repetitive in its humor, has a fair amount of charm.While the movie echoes cheap gr

The brains of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft are stored in a metal vault.It's where the large exploration vehicle — the length of a basketball court — safeguards its computers, software, and many electronics. The craft is about to launch to Jupiter's moon Europa, a world planetary scientists suspect harbors an ocean twice the volume of Earth's. With around 50 close swoops by Europa, NASA will be able to confidently answer the question of whether this ocean realm also hosts the ingr

Kids aren't the only ones who get excited about birthday gifts. You can be a full-grown adult and still lose your shit when you open up the gift that topped your wish list. But as you get older, it does become a little more difficult to come up with a list of birthday gift ideas. You can't just ask for all the coolest new toys anymore. Well, you can if you want — we're not going to stop you.SEE ALSO:Try Gift Lab: Our interactive gift guide
If your birthday is coming up and you're strugglin

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The Ole Miss and Kentucky Wildcats football teams are scheduled to meet in a Southeastern Conference contest on Saturday, Sept. 28 at Vaught Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi. The game is scheduled to start at noon ET / 11 a.m

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The Oklahoma Sooners and Auburn football teams are scheduled to meet in a Southeastern Conference contest on Saturday, Sept. 28 at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Alabama. The game is scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m. CT. Oklahoma,

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The Oklahoma State and Kansas State football teams are scheduled to meet in a Big 12 Conference contest on Saturday, Sept. 28, at Bill Snyder Family Stadium in Manhattan, Kansas. The game is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. CT. Okl

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The Ohio State and Michigan State football teams are scheduled to meet in a Big Ten Conference contest at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan, on Saturday, Sept. 28. The game is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. ET. Ohio State, ranked No. 3 in The Associated Press poll, enters the matchup 3-0 overall. Most recently, the OSU Bu

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The Notre Dame and Louisville football teams are scheduled to meet in a non-conference contest at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana, on Saturday, Sept. 28. The game is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET. Notre Dame, ranked No. 16 in The Associated Press poll, enters the matchup 3-1 overall. Most recently, Notre Dame defeated M

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The Georgia Bulldogs and Alabama football teams are scheduled to meet in a Southeastern Conference contest on Saturday, Sept. 28 at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The game is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. ET / 6:30 p.

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The Colorado Buffs and UCF football teams are scheduled to meet in a Big 12 Conference contest on Saturday, Sept. 28 at FBC Mortgage Stadium in Orlando, Florida. The game is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m.

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The Clemson and Stanford football teams are scheduled to meet in an Atlantic Coast Conference contest on Saturday, Sept. 28 at Frank Howard Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina. The game is scheduled to start at 7 p.m

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The BYU and Baylor football teams are scheduled to meet in a Big 12 Conference contest on Saturday, Sept. 28 at McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas. The game is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. CT. BYU, ranked No. 22 in The Associated Pre

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The Texas A&M Aggies and Arkansas Razorbacks football teams are scheduled to meet in a Southeastern Conference contest on Saturday, Sept. 28 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The game is scheduled to start at 2:30

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The Utah Utes and Arizona Wildcats football teams are scheduled to meet in a Big 12 Conference contest at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah. The game is scheduled to start at 8:15 p.m. MT / 7:15 p.m. PT on Saturday