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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission is officially looking into broadband data caps and their impact on consumers. On Tuesday, the FCC approved a notice of inquiry to examine whether data caps harm consumers and competition, as well as why data caps persist “despite increased broadband needs” and the “technical ability to offer unlimited data plans,” as spotted earlier by Engadget.
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is rolling out new labels that tell if uploaded videos come from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound. The new “captured with a camera” label can be seen in action courtesy of digital content authentication service Trupic, which uploaded a video to its channel, triggering the disclosure in the video description panel. Trupic says it has the “first authentic video with C2PA Content Credentials on YouTube.”
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UK retailer John Lewis is already selling the new Amazon Kindles. | Image: John Lewis Amazon hasn’t officially announced the next generation of its Kindle e-readers yet, but following leaks of several models, the UK retailer John Lewis was already selling the 12th-gen entry-level Kindle and the new Kindle Kids Edition through its website earlier today, as spotted by Good e-Reader. Both listings have since been taken down.
The 12th-gen Kindle Paperwhite recently popped up in an eBay listing

Image: AeroGarden AeroGarden, which produces smart indoor planters with built-in grow lamps that work with a connected app, recently announced that it will shutter its business starting on January 1st next year, Ars Technica reported.
The company, which was acquired by Scott’s Miracle-Gro in 2020, says it will update users later on the “longer-term status” of its app, which lets users monitor water levels and set lighting schedules. For now, AeroGarden only says the app will wo

An enthusiastic Gelsinger introduced the partnership at today’s conference, hosted by Lenovo. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Nothing brings rivals together like a common enemy, and in this case it’s the rise of ARM pulling Intel and AMD closer together than ever. The two chip makers — not exactly the friendliest frenemies — are the headlining members of a new x86 Advisory Group to try and defend the platform’s interests against ARM, which finally appears poise

Project “Clean Machine” easily removes distracting flashes and corrects overexposed footage. | Image: Adobe Adobe is previewing some experimental AI tools for animation, image generation, and cleaning up video and photographs that could eventually be added to its Creative Cloud apps.
While the tools apply to vastly different mediums, all three have a similar aim — to automate most of the boring, complex tasks required for content creation, and provide creatives more control ove

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"It's day one. This is your fourth quarter. Everything that happened prior to this? Throw that shit out the window. Three months. That's all it takes. And bro it's going to get cold out. Trust me. You gonna fold? Or are you gonna weather the storm? Lock in, cancel out the noise, and go dark. It's your time. It's always been your time."This is the exact text from a very real TikTok video with 1.7 million views describing a trend: the winter arc. Winter arc is locking in for three full months. Win

Image: The Verge Google Chrome has begun to phase out uBlock Origin. The developer of the free ad blocker, Raymond Hill, recently reposted a screenshot that shows Chrome automatically turning off uBlock Origin because it is “no longer supported.”
The change comes as Google Chrome migrates to Manifest V3, a new extension specification that could impact the effectiveness of some ad blockers. uBlock Origin has launched uBlock Origin Lite, which uses Manifest V3, in response to the trans

If you find yourself needing an expert witness in a courtroom case, make sure they're not using an AI chatbot for their supposed expertise.Last week, a New York judge reprimanded an expert witness in a real estate dispute case for using Microsoft's AI chatbot Copilot. SEE ALSO:Microsoft Copilot can talk now: 3 new features that make it more like ChatGPT and Google Gemini
The expert witness, Charles Ranson, used Copilot in order to generate an assessment for damages that should be awarded to

JLab’s Go Pop ANC wireless earbuds include active noise cancellation and a pair of microphones on each bud. | Image: JLab JLab already sells a budget-friendly pair of noise canceling wireless earbuds with its $59.99 ANC 3, but at $29.99, the company’s new Go Pop ANC are half the price while still offering features like an ambient sound boosting mode and up to 21 hours of battery life with ANC active.
Although we haven’t tested them, at $29.99, we’re not necessarily expect

There’s a new one out, but the last-gen wearable is still stylish and capable. | Image: Oura The third-generation Oura Ring Horizon — the one that’s more round — is down to $299 ($50 off) at Amazon and Best Buy in silver and black, which is only a few dollars more than the lowest price to date. That brings its price in line with the MSRP of the squared-off “Heritage” version and $50 cheaper than the Oura Ring 4 we just reviewed.
Besides ditching the flat-top d

The Pixel Tablet displaying the new Home Controls screensaver. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge A new Home Controls screensaver in Android 15 turns your tablet or phone into a smart home dashboard, where you can control devices with a single tap. The interactive screensaver does away with the need to unlock your device or tap a shortcut button, making controlling your connected lights or cameras much quicker.The feature is live now on the Google Pixel Tablet and Pixel phones runnin

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images The FIDO Alliance, the organization that’s helping shepherd passkey adoption, announced a draft of new specifications that would let users securely move their passkeys across different password managers.
Passkeys are great — it’s nice to be able to log in to apps and websites without entering a password. But there hasn't been a standard protocol for transferring your passkeys across password managers. The new s

Oura's got a new smart ring out. Let's talk about it.The release of the Oura Ring 4 brings the next generation of Oura's popular wearable to the market. Many tech reviewers, such as Mashable's Kim Gedeon, got some time with it and came away with plenty of thoughts. With competitors like the Samsung Galaxy Ring on sale now, Oura has to work to keep up with more recognizable brands. Instead of wasting any more time, here's what reviewers are saying about the Oura Ring 4.SEE ALSO:Oura Ring 4 review

Illustration: The Verge Meta is adding an “activity status” to Threads so that you can see who’s actively online as you’re scrolling your feed. In a post, Threads boss Adam Mosseri pitches it as a “way to help you find others to engage with in real-time.” The activity status will show up next to your profile picture in the feed and on your profile, based on screenshots Mosseri shared. Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
A screenshot of Adam Mosseri’s po

Photo: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images The New York Times has demanded that AI search engine startup Perplexity stop using content from its site in a cease and desist letter sent to the company, reports The Wall Street Journal. The Times, which is currently suing OpenAI and Microsoft over allegedly illegally training models on its content, says the startup has been using its content without permission, a claim made earlier this year by Forbes and Condé Nast.
The WSJ included th

Google is going nuclear — literally. The search engine giant is set to buy a fleet of mini nuclear reactors in a "world's first" corporate energy deal.SEE ALSO:Apple study reveals major AI flaw in OpenAI, Google, and Meta LLMs SEE ALSO:How much is AI hurting the planet? Big tech won't tell us.
The deal, in partnership with California-based Kairos Power, Google aims to build six to seven of these compact reactors by 2035, with the first expected to go live as soon as 2030. The power demands

Amazon It was actually kind of great to see the creative team behind Amazon’s Invincible series be very frank about how laborious the animation process is and take their time to get season 2 properly wrapped up. But when the show returns for its third season next year, you won’t have to worry about a big lull in the middle of Mark Grayson’s adventures.
Along with dropping a new trailer, Amazon announced today that Invincible’s third season is slated to premiere on Februar

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OpenAI has lost a lot of top leadership lately, but they're gaining a big one: a top AI researcher from Microsoft. In the wake of several high-profile exits, Microsoft's Sebastien Bubeck is joining the OpenAI team, according to a report from The Information. Bubeck told his staff on Monday that he's leaving for OpenAI. The new role at OpenAI is currently unknown, but the researcher is leaving Microsoft to "to further his work toward developing AGI," said a Microsoft spokesperson to the outlet. S

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The video game voice actor strike could be over soon. SAG-AFTRA, which negotiates the interactive media agreement that governs video game performances, has announced that negotiations on the agreement will resume on Wednesday, October 23rd.
SAG-AFTRA and members of the interactive media bargaining group — which includes video game companies like Activision, Insomniac Games, Take Two, Electronic Arts, and more — had been negotiating a new inter

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We expect to see discounts across an entire brand's line-up around big sales like Prime Day or Black Friday. Last

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The Nuio Flow keyboard features a “split design form factor for optimal hand positioning.” | Image: Nuio A new company called Nuio, founded by two brothers with backgrounds in design and manufacturing, is rethinking desk accessories with the goal of making our computers more comfortable to use. It’s debuting today with a collection of magnetic peripherals called Flow that’s centered around a wireless split keyboard, all designed to make it easier to find your perfect ergo

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Android 15 is now rolling out to Pixel devices, bringing them new privacy features, security tools, and improvements for foldables and tablets. The operating system first launched last month through the Android Open Source Project, but at the time, it wasn’t yet available on Pixel phones and tablets — or other major Android devices. Google announced today that it’s finally coming to Pixels alongside a series of Pixel feature drops.
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The Anbernic RG P01 is the company’s first wireless controller includes a six-axis gyroscope for playing Switch games that support motion controls. | Screenshot: YouTube Anbernic is expanding its extensive lineup of handheld consoles to include wireless controllers with the reveal of its new RG P01, which features Hall effect triggers and joysticks “with minimal drift,” according to the company.
The Anbernic RG P01 features an Xbox-style Y, B, A, and X button layout that can be

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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Spotify is rolling out the beta test of music videos to 85 additional markets globally, allowing Premium subscribers to watch a “limited catalog” of videos from artists like Charlie XCX, Doja Cat, Ed Sheeran, Fontaines D.C., LISA, and more.However, that list of available areas doesn’t include the US yet, and it’s unclear when it will reach us here. “As with all of our features, availability can vary across markets and tiers,” S

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Spotify is rolling out the beta test of music videos to 85 additional markets globally, allowing Premium subscribers to watch a “limited catalog” of videos from artists like Charlie XCX, Doja Cat, Ed Sheeran, Fontaines D.C., LISA, and more.However, that list of available areas doesn’t include the US yet, and it’s unclear when it will reach us here. “As with all of our features, availability can vary across markets and tiers,” S

Image: Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft’s discless Xbox Series X goes on sale today, and while it looks slightly different on the outside thanks to a white paint job and the lack of a disc drive, inside, it has been redesigned. Microsoft has redesigned the motherboard on the white Xbox Series X and new 2TB models, shrunk the chip down to 6nm, and switched to a new cooling solution.
YouTuber Austin Evans spotted the changes in a teardown of the new models and reported that the shrunken chip

From the outside, it looks like a clean, modern social housing block. You can tell it’s new — there are 84 shiny solar panels on the roof and the fresh paint has barely dried on the walls. But it’s how this 56-dwelling building in Barcelona, complete with ground floor nursery, was designed and built that really matters.  “Our software is our superpower,” says Lucas Carné, co-founder of 011h, a construction tech firm, as he describes how his company has

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Frosty winter days will be here shortly. Now's a great time to find those wool socks and make sure you still have a decent pair of gloves. It's also time to start thinking about heating costs

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We're still coming down from Amazon's October sale, Prime Big Deal Days. Last week, the retailer dropped prices on headphones, laptops, and far more. If you missed out on the sale frenzy, no worries because the deals never stop rolling in.

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Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Instagram will now let you share your account using a digital profile card. The two-sided “card” displays a QR code with your Instagram handle, along with other information visible on your profile, including your picture and bio.
You can add some extra flavor to your profile card by adding your own links and a song of your choice. As shown in the image below, you can also change the background image of your profile card (which sort of makes