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Samsung’s screen and camera-enabled smart fridges can now add items you're running low on to your Instacart cart. | Image: Samsung Samsung’s smart fridges will soon be able to identify when you’re running low on something and add items to your Instacart app so you can order what you need from the grocery delivery service right from your fridge.Today, Samsung announced a multiyear partnership with Instacart that will let you shop for groceries from the screen on your Samsung Bes

Apple has agreed to pay $95 million in a class-action settlement alleging that private Siri conversations were inadvertently recorded and listened to by third-party contractors.If U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White approves the proposed settlement, filed on Tuesday in Oakland, CA, federal court, users impacted will receive up to $20 per Apple device with Siri, such as the iPhone and Apple Watch. SEE ALSO:New evidence claims Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon could be listening to you on your dev

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta is shaking up its policy team ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, with global policy head Nick Clegg stepping down after seven years at the company. He’ll be replaced by Joel Kaplan, a prominent Republican and Meta’s current vice president of policy.
In a post on Facebook, Clegg says it’s the “right time” for him to leave Meta, adding that he’ll spend the next few months “handing

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Federal net neutrality rules, which briefly came back from the dead under the Biden administration, have been struck down by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.The three-judge panel ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not have the authority to impose net neutrality rules on internet service providers (ISPs). The FCC sought to reclassify ISPs as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act in o

Two cooling towers being rehabilitated for nuclear power generation under Microsoft at Crane Clean Energy Center, previously known as Three Mile Island, stand tall over the residential and farm lands to the east across the Susquehanna River, on Wednesday, October 30th, 2024, in Middletown, Pennsylvania. | Photos by Wesley Lapointe for The Washington Post via Getty Images The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages government buildings, just announced a major nuclear energy contract.

If you're interested in the latest gaming, monitors, or gaming monitors, you probably have your eyes peeled for the releases we'll see at CES, the nations biggest spectacle of gadgets.Every year we get a whole host of sleek, sometimes translucent, sometimes curved, always new gaming monitors in January. This year, we're on the lookout for a few futuristic gaming monitors from LG and Samsung — and more previews are sure to drop soon.LG's bendable gaming monitorsLG Electronics is set to pres

We geeks are a passionate bunch. We'll happily spend hours dissecting the latest superhero movie or Star Wars series, but ask us to decode dating signals, and we're lost. Our love language might be quoting obscure anime, and our idea of a perfect date might involve tabletop games and cosplay, but finding someone who gets that? That's a challenge. For nerdy women, dating means sifting through profiles of guys who think "gamer girl" is a personality (or creeps chasing their Manic Pixie Dream Elf-g

The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle embraces her inner Martha Stewart in the trailer for her upcoming Netflix lifestyle series With Love, Meghan. It's the latest project to come from her and Prince Harry's streaming deal with Netflix; other releases include 2022 docuseries Harry and Meghan and 2024 docuseries Polo.SEE ALSO:2025 TV preview: All the TV shows you need to know, and where to stream them
With Love, Meghan's trailer sees the Duchess of Sussex sharing her "little tips and tricks" about

Image: Incase Incase, the brand that took over Microsoft’s accessories line, has revealed a compact ergonomic keyboard designed by the company. With a price of $119.99, the wireless keyboard features a split, contoured design, a cushioned palm rest, and a dedicated Copilot button.
The keyboard also comes with “ultra-responsive” scissor keys with 1.3mm travel, meaning you won’t have to press down very far when typing. You can connect up to three devices to the keyboard via

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has agreed to a $95 million settlement with users whose conversations were inadvertently captured by its Siri voice assistant and potentially overheard by human employees. The proposed settlement, reported by Bloomberg, could pay many US-based Apple product owners up to $20 per device for up to five Siri-enabled devices. It still requires approval by a judge.
If approved, the settlement would apply to a subset of US-based people who owned or boug

Image: Sergey Kisselev (Behance) Microsoft has been working on dynamic animated wallpapers for Windows 11 for a few years, and now a former designer has revealed exactly what they look like. Sergey Kisselev, a former motion designer and 3D artist at Microsoft, has detailed his work on the dynamic animations for Windows 11 that were originally supposed to ship in 2023 but have likely been canceled now.
Kisselev worked on Windows design elements and Microsoft’s Fluent design system for more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple has added warning labels to AirTags and their boxes to comply with a law requiring the labels on products with button cell or coin batteries that could be ingested by children, according to a US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) press release.
AirTags imported to the US after March 19th, 2024, which was when the law, known as “Reese’s Law,” went into effect, did not “have the required on-product and on-box warnings concernin

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Nvidia is kicking off CES with a big keynote next week, and everyone is pretty sure they know at least one thing that's going to be announced.SEE ALSO:CES 2025: 5 car trends we expect to see
When the PC hardware company takes the stage on Jan. 6, it's widely expected that Nvidia will lift the veil on the GeForce RTX 5000 series of graphics cards. There are multiple reasons to believe this. One is that Nvidia's graphics card business has contributed to an explosion in market value over the past y

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New Year's Day has come and gone, which means Pornhub is now blocked in 16 U.S. states.The site blocked itself from almost all of the American South, as 404 Media put it, as a response to age-verification laws. These are state requirements to submit ID to access websites where over a third of the content hosted is explicit. Louisiana started the trend of passing age-verification bills two years ago; others have followed suit. As of January 1, such laws in Florida and South Carolina have gone int

The U.S. government has put the final touches on a sweeping rule that bans foreign access to Americans' bulk sensitive data, carrying out a Feb. 2024 Executive Order from President Joe Biden. The order creates a new regulatory national security program, overseen by the U.S. Department of Justice, designated with preventing the transfer and exploitation of bulk personal data and certain U.S. government-related data abroad. It targets known "countries of concern," including China (Hong Kong and Ma

Asus’ upcoming mini PC has a Copilot button. | Image: Asus Ever since Microsoft first introduced its Arm-based Copilot Plus laptops in June, I’ve been wondering when we might see Copilot Plus features appear on desktop PCs. Six months on, it’s clear we’re about to see mini PCs that deliver the AI performance required for features like Recall, Click To Do, and AI-powered image generation and editing in Windows 11. These mini PCs might even help Microsoft compete with Apple

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Proving you're human with a CAPTCHA test has never been more fun. Frontend development company Vercel used created Doom-themed CAPTCHA to show off its AI site builder, per TechCrunch. In order to pass the CAPTCHA, you need to kill three monsters in the popular first-person shooter game. According to the app site, the Doom CAPTCHA is meant for "for educational and entertainment purposes," so don't expect to have to prove your gaming skills every time you want to check your bank account. For that,

The Echo Show 8 can be a smart home controller by day and a digital clock and photo frame by night. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge If you have a New Year’s resolution to enhance your smart home, buying a smart display isn’t a bad way to kick things off. The Echo Show 5 is one of the most cost-effective ways to add a visual interface to control your devices, especially since it’s receiving a 50 percent discount that brings it down to $44.99 ($45 off) at Amazon, B

Image: Samsung Samsung is bringing the Galaxy Fit 3 to the US. The budget-friendly fitness tracker will cost $59.99 when it launches on January 9th, 2025.
Samsung first released the Galaxy Fit 3 in several countries outside the US last February. The device comes equipped with a 1.6-inch display surrounded by an aluminum body and lasts up to 13 days on a single charge.
The Galaxy Fit 3 has some of the same fitness-tracking features as the pricier Galaxy Watch 7, including the ability to monitor y

Dutch startup Legato is leading an effort to bring support for streaming speakers to Matter. | Image: Legato Matter, the smart home standard designed to connect and control all your smart home devices, could soon support speakers. Chris LaPré, CTO of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), which runs Matter, confirmed to The Verge that “a new streaming speaker device type and related controls” is under development.As part of Matter, speakers could leverage the device-to-dev

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Now that we're over holiday chaos, you might be thinking about what 2025 will have

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram is trying to crack down on scams with a new feature that lets official third-party services assign verification icons to users and chats, the messaging service announced on Wednesday.
This is separate from the verification process Telegram has for public figures and organizations. Instead of displaying a blue checkmark, accounts and chats verified by third-party services will have a unique icon appear to the left of their name. If you click on the

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Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla’s production and delivery numbers for 2024 are out, and the numbers are pretty sobering.The premiere EV company in the US produced 1.77 million cars this year, a drop of about 4 percent compared to the previous year, and delivered 1.79 million vehicles this year, or about 1 percent less than 2023. Tesla also deployed 31.4 GWh in energy storage.
That said, the company said it had a “record” fourth quarter for deliveries, with 495,570 v

TL;DR: Live stream Thompson vs. Dimitrov in the 2025 Brisbane International for free on 9Now. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.The Australian Open is fast approaching, which means the best players in the world will be looking to build some momentum before the first round of Grand Slam games. The Brisbane International provides the perfect opportunity to do just that, with the likes of Djokovic and Dimitrov competing.Dimitrov won this competition last

Image: Samsung Just a few days after LG announced its CES 2025 lineup of monitors, Samsung is doing the same. The company just introduced several new models, and perhaps the most impressive among them is the Odyssey OLED G81SF. It’s a 27-inch 4K monitor with a maximum refresh rate of 240Hz, 0.03ms response time, a glare-free display, and rear-core lighting with 52 color options. Samsung is also including a number of burn-in protection measures to ensure that the Odyssey G81SF’s scree

MSI’s new 27-inch 4K OLED monitor. | Image: MSI 27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitors seem to be like buses: you wait ages for one and then three turn up at once. Asus, Samsung, and MSI are all announcing the industry’s next-generation QD-OLED gaming monitors that offer the benefits of 4K OLED 240Hz panels at the smaller 27-inch size instead of 32 inches.
All three appear to be using the same fourth generation QD-OLED panel from Samsung Display, which Asus says offers “a longer lifesp

2024 was a huge year for tech, with artificial intelligence fast becoming the most promising tech advancement since, well, perhaps the internet itself. We also saw a ton of incredible new gadgets, laptops, phones, tablets, electric vehicles, and yes, even a few cool new robots.What we didn't see, however, is a couple of services and products that were promised for 2024, but simply never saw the light of day, or were postponed into 2025 and beyond. We waited and waited, and now that the year is d

TL;DR: Live stream Carolina Panthers vs. Atlanta Falcons on YouTube TV or Sling TV.The final week of NFL regular season is here. The Carolina Panthers and Atlanta Falcons will face off at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The Panthers are 4-12 and have long been eliminated from playoff contention. The Falcons are 8-8 and on the bubble in the NFC. In order for the Falcons to make the playoffs, they will have to beat the Panthers. But, they would also need the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (9-7) to lose th

From best pals to colleagues you barely tolerate, it can feel like you're surrounded by people who met their partners on a dating app.But all that anecdotal evidence we've been collecting over the years since the apps launched, all the friends, acquaintances, and distant cousins who've met the loves of their lives with a swipe — their digital meet cutes might make it feel like the only way to meet your soulmate is online. But, that feeling isn't a fact. Don't rely on dating app anecdo

TL;DR: Live stream Portland Trail Blazers vs. Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.The Portland Trail Blazers head to crypto.com Arena to face the Los Angeles in a Western conference matchup. The Trail Blazers are 11-21, which lands them in 13th place in the west. The Lakers are faring a bit better, with an 18-14 record, which lands them in seventh place. The Trail Blazers have lost three of their last five games and are coming off a loss to the Philadelphia 76ers.

TL;DR: Live stream Philadelphia 76ers vs. Golden State Warriors in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.The Philadelphia 76ers head to the Chase Center to face the Golden State Warriors in a non-conference matchup. The 76ers are 13-17, which puts them in 11th place in the Eastern Conference. The Warriors are 16-16, which puts them in 10th place in the Western Conference. The 76ers have won four straight games, including a win over the Boston Celtics, one of the best teams in the NBA. The

TL;DR: Live stream Los Angeles Clippers vs. Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.The Los Angeles Clippers head to the Paycom Center to face the Oklahoma City Thunder in a Western Conference matchup. The Clippers are 19-14, which puts them in sixth place in conference standings. The Thunder are 27-5, in first place in the west, but the team also has the second best record in all of the NBA.The Clippers have won three of their last five games, but are coming off a

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

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games 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 today's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve