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A Lyft sign taken in January 2023 at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. | Photo: Mat Hayward / Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Friday that rideshare company Lyft has agreed to pay $2.1 million as part of a proposed settlement that requires it to change how it advertises driver pay.The company routinely advertised that drivers could make “specific hourly amounts” — in one instance, claiming earnings of “up to $33” per hour for dr

Keeping your Snapchat streak going on iPhone is easier than ever before. With iOS 18 you can now switch out the Flashlight and Camera shortcuts on your lock screen for any of over 50 options, including Snapchat's camera. With the shortcut, you can quickly take photos and videos for Snapchat with the tap of a button. But you need to unlock your phone to edit or send Snapchats. Here's how to add the shortcut. Total Time1minWhat You NeediPhoneSnapchatiOS 18Step 1:Hold down on your lock screenStep 2

Apple's newest update, iOS 18, brought with it a long list of AI features, dubbed Apple Intelligence. Gemini Live is now available on Android phones, Lenovo created an AI-powered laptop, and Google can't get enough AI in its search results, or its phones.If you've looked around at phone updates recently and thought, "huh, that's a lot of AI features — too bad I don't care about that at all," you wouldn't be alone. According to a survey of 2,484 adults including 2,387 smartphone owners from

Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Governor Tim Walz is returning to Twitch and this time, he’ll actually be playing a game. Earlier this month, Kamala Harris’ campaign teamed up with a Twitch streamer to live-stream a Walz rally as part of a World of Warcraft stream. But on Sunday afternoon, Walz will be playing Madden NFL on Twitch with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY).
Like with live-streaming the Walz rally alongside WoW, the idea with this Madden livestream is to try

OpenAI has once again trimmed its safety-focused operations, dissolving its AGI Readiness team — a group dedicated to preparing for so-called artificial general intelligence. Miles Brundage, a senior advisor on the team, broke the news in a post on his Substack Wednesday, which also confirmed his departure from the company.SEE ALSO:OpenAI funding round values company at $157 billion
In the post, Brundage hinted at a growing need for independence in his work, suggesting that his exit reflec

Google may be working on persistent notifications similar to its phone call status pictured here. | Photo: Wes Davis / The Verge Android 16 may come with a new “Rich Ongoing Notifications” feature that lets developers keep persistent notifications in the Android status bar, according to Android 15 beta code discovered by Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman, who frequently dives into code to surface coming features.
Right now, the code enables adding a pill-shaped icon with custo

On Oct. 3, former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for tampering with voting technology used in the 2020 election. She wasn't trying to finesse the count, though, she was trying to prove someone else had. Spoiler: They hadn't. Peters' actions turned her into the celebrity face of a movement, one casting doubt on the deeply complex mechanics of how one's vote is counted and vetted, all with the goal of reinstating former president Donald Trump as comman

Fear the Spotlight. | Image: Blumhouse Games More than most genres, survival horror feels rooted in time. It started with the methodical Resident Evil on the original PlayStation and is defined in part by limitation — a slow pace, grimy visuals, and scant resources to help amplify the scares. Many of those elements stemmed from the early, awkward days of 3D gaming, whether it was Resident Evil’s clunky controls, which made zombie chases more terrifying, or Silent Hill’s fog, wh

Image: Loops The fediverse answer to TikTok is on its way. Signups opened this week for Loops, a short-form looping video app from the creator of Instagram alternative Pixelfed, reports TechCrunch.Users who’ve signed up can post up to 60 seconds of video, according to details shared by developer Daniel Supernault on Mastodon. He added that using sounds and remixing others’ videos is coming, as are pinned profile videos, and that users will be able to “curate” their commen

The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times' revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player's flow, it can be frustrating! If you find yourself stumped playing The Mini — much like with Wordle and Connections &mdas

Chaos once reigned on Earth. Huge asteroids or chunks of ancient objects once pummeled planets in the unsettled solar system, and scientists previously found evidence that a particularly monstrous object struck our planet some 3.26 billion years ago. It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans, drove global darkness for years to decades, and stoked unimaginable tsunamis (thousands of meters deep) that shredded coastal seafloors.But even so, new research

As I wrote in my review of Venom: The Last Dance, this is a movie at war with itself. It is both a sci-fi drama about alien invasion and a buck-wild road trip movie about buddies on a mission. There's plenty to like about writer/director Kelly Marcel's spin in the Spider-Verse, including the comic mayhem her dual anti-heroes get up to. But my absolute favorite bit of business between interstellar BFFs Eddie Brock and Venom (both played by Tom Hardy) is the movie references they drop. Some might

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A deep sea robot is exploring remote underwater canyons. And the biodiverse sights are astonishing. On a 55-day expedition off the Chilean coast, scientists aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's 272-foot exploration vessel, Falkor (too), are dropping a high-tech remotely operated vehicle into the dark depths. It's here, in a region where tectonic plates collide, earthquakes rumble, and methane and chemicals seep from vents, that isolated ecosystems can flourish."Along this Chilean margin, unexplo

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The Texas Longhorns and the Vanderbilt Commodores football teams go head-to-head this weekend at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, Tennesse. The match will take place on Saturday, Oct. 12, and is scheduled to start at 10:

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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Navy Midshipmen football teams go head-to-head this weekend at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The match will take place on Saturday, Oct. 26, and is scheduled to start at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT. SEE ALSO:How to watch college football without cableNotre Dame vs.

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The Nebraska Corn Ohio State Buckeyes football teams go head-to-head this weekend at the Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. The match will take place on Saturday, Oct. 26, and is scheduled to start at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT.

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The Missouri Tigers and Alabama Crimson Tide football teams go head-to-head this weekend at the Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The match will take place on Saturday, Oct. 26, and is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT. SEE ALSO:How to watch college football without cableMissouri vs. Ala

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The LSU Tigers and Texas A&M Aggies football teams go head-to-head this weekend at Kyle Field Stadium in College Station, Texas. The match will take place on Saturday, Oct. 26, and is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT. SEE ALSO:How to watch college football without cableLSU vs. Texas A&M foo

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The Florida State Seminoles and the Miami Hurricanes football teams go head-to-head this weekend at Folsom Field Stadium Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The match will take place on Saturday, Oct. 26, and i

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The Cincinnati Bearcats and Colorado Buffaloes football teams go head-to-head this weekend at Folsom Field Stadium in Boulder, Colorado. The match will take place on Saturday, Oct. 26, and is scheduled to start at 10:15

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The Penn State Nittany Lions and Wisconsin Badgers football teams are scheduled to go head-to-head at Camp Randall Stadium in LA, Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday, Oct. 26. The game is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT. SEE ALSO:How to watch college football without cablePenn State vs. Wisconsin footb

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The Illinois Fighting Illini and the Oregon Ducks football teams are scheduled to go head-to-head at the Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday, Oct. 26. The game is scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT. SEE ALSO:How to watch college football without cableIllinois vs. Oregon football kickoff ti

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If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, w

Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for

Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for October 26's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.SEE ALSO:Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable SEE ALSO:NYT Connections today: Hints and ans

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for October 26's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself,

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple got a mixed victory in a patent infringement lawsuit against medical device maker Masimo. On Friday, a federal jury determined that Masimo had infringed on some Apple patents, and as part of the verdict, Apple was awarded $250 — yes, just $250 — as a statutory remedy for Masimo’s infringement.
$250 is the statutory minimum damages for the alleged infringement and Apple had sought that figure, Bloomberg Law reports. “We’re not h