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Adult Swim Though Shinichirō Watanabe’s new animated series Lazarus still doesn’t have a solid release date, Adult Swim has just dropped a wild new clip from the project showcasing its parkour-friendly vision of the future.
Along with giving New York Comic Con attendees a chance to see Lazarus’ first episode, Adult Swim revealed today that Koichi Yamadera and Megumi Hayashibara — the Japanese actors who voiced Cowboy Bebop’s Spike Spiegel and Faye Valentine &md

Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment Yet another PlayStation blockbuster is making its way to PC. Sony announced that Spider-Man 2, one of the PS5’s biggest exclusives, will hit PC on January 30th. It’ll be available via both Steam and the Epic Game Store.
The PC port will include the base game and all of its subsequent DLC, like New Game Plus mode and extra spider suits, along with PC-specific features like “keyboard and mouse controls, ultra widescreen support, and numerous

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Image: World Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency / human identity network / UBI project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is now known as World. Along with the name change, World introduced an updated version of its eyeball-scanning Orb device which is designed to solve a problem that does not currently exist: authenticating that someone is human “in the age of AI.”People registered to the system get a World ID that they can use to “securely and anonymously” prove their huma

Save me some money, Ultrahand. | Image: Nintendo If you’ve been waiting to pick up one of the all-time great games for the Nintendo Switch, you can do so now for as cheap as it gets. Woot is offering first-time customers the chance to buy a physical version The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for $39.99 ($30 off) when you use code ZELDAWELCOME at checkout. If you’ve purchased from Woot before you can still buy the game for a solid $49.99 ($20 off) — or just make a new Woo

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Google just netted a small but key victory in its Epic legal battle. Last week, the company asked Judge James Donato to press pause on his November 1st deadline to drastically alter its Android app store rules. Today he did just that, Epic and Google confirm to The Verge, granting Google a temporary administrative stay. That means Google may not have to change its Play Store practices for years, if at all, while it appeals the verdict.In December, a jury

The future of phones is flat. | Image: Digital Chat Station on Weibo The next OnePlus flagship looks a little flat — and that’s a good thing. The alleged image of the unreleased OnePlus 13 was posted to Weibo and has been since removed, but not before it was spotted by 9to5Google. It shows the phone with flat sides rather than the curved edges featured by recent OnePlus phones. It’s a small shift, but it would make OnePlus the latest in a long list of phone makers to adopt the

Image: Nintendo Fans of the popular Mario blog, Supper Mario Broth, have come together to remind us that the internet can still be a place where good things happen.
Supper Mario Broth is one of the most wholesome Mario blogs on the internet. Since 2017, its owner has posted a regular stream of Mario-flavored tidbits he could dig up including interesting glitches, old advertisements and merchandise, screenshots, gifs, artwork, and more. If it’s obscure and has to do with Mario, Supper Mario

Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is probing whether John Deere used unfair practices related to the repair of its agricultural equipment that might violate the FTC Act.The investigation into John Deere’s restrictions on customers’ right to repair agricultural equipment was revealed by data analytics company Hargrove & Associates, Inc. (HAI), as it fights a subpoena-like civil investigative demand (CID) from the FTC to hand over sal

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The Oregon Ducks and Purdue Boilermakers football teams go head-to-head this weekend at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. The match will take place on Friday, Oct. 18, and is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. ET/5

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Your kids may not need a full-fledged smartwatch, but an activity tracker can be a fun addition to encourage movement for people of any age. And the best part is, they're typically much more affordable than the latest and greatest smartwatches like a new A

Addressing the disparities in assistive device access among the 48 million Americans with hearing loss, the FCC has ruled that all "mobile handsets" (read: smartphones) must be compatible with hearing aids. "Americans with hearing loss will no longer be limited in their choice of technologies, features, and prices available in the mobile handset marketplace," wrote the FCC. The rule was announced on Oct. 17 following years of deliberation by the organization's Hearing Aid Compatibility Task Forc

U.S. regulators are investigating Tesla over its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software.On Friday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Office of Defects announced that it was investigating Elon Musk's EV car company over "failure of the system engineering controls to react appropriately to reduced roadway visibility conditions."According to the NHTSA, there have been four reported and identified incidents where a Tesla vehicle crashed when it was "entering an area of red

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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images Google’s NotebookLM now lets you customize its podcast-like Audio Overviews. Before you generate a discussion using the note-taking app, you can give your AI hosts instructions about what topic you’d like them to focus on, or even tailor their discussions for different audiences.
Google launched NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews last month, with two AI hosts that offer a “lively” discussion of your resear

If you've gotten used to where Google Maps displays weather information, I have bad news for you.Google is planning on slightly tweaking the Google Maps mobile app by putting weather somewhere else, per 9to5Google. Weather has only been part of the Maps experience for less than a year and, until this change, it has sat in the upper left hand corner of the map display as you scroll around looking for a place to get lunch. Once the change goes through (it's only visible in beta versions of the app

The AirPods Pro 2 recently received FDA authorization as OTC hearing aids. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Federal Communications Commission announced that going forward, all mobile handsets, including smartphones, in the US will have to be compatible with hearing aids. It’s also established new rules around volume control and improved product labeling so people with hearing aids can make informed buying decisions.
The gist is the FCC is establishing a Bluetooth pairing requirement,

It looks like even more AI is going to be trained on your shitposts on X.X announced back in July that it would use users posts to train X's AI chatbot Grok, but on Wednesday, the social network updated its Privacy Policy to allow third parties to train their AI models on X data, too. In the third section of the Privacy Policy, X writes that "depending on your settings, or if you decide to share your data, we may share or disclose your information with third parties."SEE ALSO:Meta is using your

Christmas stocking stuffers have long been the afterthoughts of gift-giving, mere "Let's just get this out of the way" or "Oh no, I forgot again" presents like oven mitts, bulk chocolate candy, and anything bacon-scented. (Do not get us started on wh*skey st*nes.) Most of these last-minute gift ideas are just begging to be tossed in a junk drawer or the donation pile, never to see the light of day again. Granted, it's a fate they probably deserve.But let's be clear on something: You don't have t

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Ploopy’s trackpad can be purchased preassembled or in a DIY kit. | Image: Ploopy Ploopy is expanding its collection of mod-friendly peripherals with a new seven-inch trackpad that supports multi-finger gestures and features like palm rejection. Like Ploopy’s mouse and trackballs, its new trackpad runs on the QMK open-source firmware, further expanding how its functionality can be customized.
The trackpad is powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040, while finger tracking is handled by a Micro

Image: Bluesky A handful of changes coming to X may be pushing users to its competitor. Bluesky, the decentralized social platform, says it added 500,000 new users in a day this week. The new wave of signups could be related to several controversial changes on X in the last few days.
This week, X users got a pop-up message notifying them that their posts will be visible even to users they’ve previously blocked. Those accounts still won’t be able to interact with their posts, but it&r

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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge WP Engine is asking a court to put a stop to Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s public campaign against the company. In a motion for a preliminary injunction filed against Automattic and Mullenweg on Friday, the third-party hosting platform requests that the court restore its access to WordPress resources and allow it to regain control of its plugin that had been taken over.
In the filing, WP Engine claims it’s facing “multiple forms of immediate i

German startup Marvel Fusion and Colorado State University have broken ground on a $150M laser facility in a bid to commercialise fusion energy. Dubbed ATLAS, the facility will use three ultra-high intensity lasers to fire 7 petawatts of power — over 5,000 times the electrical generation capacity of the US — at a target roughly the width of a human hair.   The blast will last approximately 100 quadrillionths of a second. However, it will produce enough heat and pressure to fuse

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge I have always had an adversarial relationship with alarm clocks. They are gadgets designed to ruin my most precious time, and in order to work effectively, they must be as annoying as possible. Which is why I was intrigued by Nintendo’s surprise reveal of Alarmo. (Once I got over my surprise of it not being the long-awaited Switch 2 announcement.) What if getting up in the morning could be a little more playful? Maybe what I really needed all along was Prin

Image: Owen Grove / The Verge NHTSA is opening a preliminary evaluation into Tesla’s Full Self-Driving mode (FSD) over the possibility of crashes in reduced roadway visibility conditions. The agency is opening the investigation after noting four reports of incidents like that, including one last November in Rimrock, AZ, where a Model Y struck and killed a pedestrian, as reported by TechCrunch.The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) has identified four Standing General Order (SGO) reports

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Amazon launched four new Kindles this week, maybe the biggest single launch day in the 17-year history of the company’s wildly successful e-reader. One of them even comes in color! It is very much not a coincidence that the launch happened roughly a year after Panos Panay joined the company. Panay, a longtime Microsoft executive who was for years in charge of all things Windows and Surface, is now leading the devices and services team at Amazon. His big task

Dutch startup Skytree has opened a new HQ in Toronto, Canada and a new office in Nashville, Tennessee, as it looks to cash-in on attractive government incentives for direct carbon capture (DAC) technologies.  Engineer-turned-entrepreneur Max Beaumont founded Skytree in 2014, following his work on DAC for the European Space Agency. Skytree’s technology is based on the carbon scrubbers used aboard the International Space Station, which remove the excess CO2 produced from the breath of