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Asus won’t say if the ROG Ally’s SD card reader will ever be truly fixed

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The Asus ROG Ally. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

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Snapchat will soon let you edit your messages after sending

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Edit messages, AI Bitmoji fashion, and reminders round out the new Snapchat update. | Image: Snap

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UnitedHealth CEO admits it paid $22 million ransom to BlackCat

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

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Crunchyroll is about to get a little more expensive, just like all the other streamers

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While Crunchyroll’s monthly prices haven’t jumped in five years, Sony is getting ready to change that for subscribers in a handful of countries.

How to play Netflix’s cloud games without waiting for an invitation

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Want to try the nine games that Netflix now streams from cloud servers directly to your laptop, desktop, or TV? Officially, you’re supposed to wait until the beta rolls out more broadly, but for now, there may be an easier way.

Walmart is about to launch a 4K Chromecast that’s also a smart speaker

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An ethernet port! | Screenshot: Superdell-TV

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AI security bill aims to prevent safety breaches of AI models

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Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images

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T-Mobile owns Mint Mobile

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T-Mobile has completed its acquisition of Mint Mobile, the carrier partially owned by Ryan Reynolds. In an update on Wednesday, T-Mobile says Mint Mobile will continue to offer its $15 per month / 5GB of data plan (that requires paying for…

WhatsApp’s new feature lets you plan your next event

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WhatsApp is adding a new way to plan and organize events in group messages, making it easier for friends and organizations like schools and neighborhoods to set up virtual and in-person meetings.

Tesla reportedly shrinks its gigacasting manufacturing ambitions

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Tesla’s ambitious plans to manufacture the underbody of its vehicles into a single piece, a process known as gigacasting, has been put on hold, according to Reuters, citing two sources with knowledge of the move. It was another sign that…

It’s getting way easier to join PS5 multiplayer games with a friend

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Inviting friends to your PS5 multiplayer sessions is getting much easier. | Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment

Republicans release tech executives’ internal communications

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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images

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This Qi2 3-in-1 charger has the best price we’ve seen from any brand

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It was already the cheapest Qi2 multi-charger, and now the price is even better. | Image: ESR

Starfield is finally getting a 60fps mode on Xbox

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Starfield players on Xbox will no longer have to deal with the game’s 30-frames-per-second (fps) cap. As part of an update arriving on May 15th, Bethesda will let Xbox Series X players run the game at 60fps.

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Microsoft’s billion-dollar OpenAI investment was trigged by Google fears, emails reveal

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Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019 because it was “very worried” that Google was years ahead in scaling up its AI efforts. An internal email, titled “Thoughts on OpenAI,” between Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, CEO Satya Nadella,…

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Audible tries book recommendations based on your streaming history

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Audible is testing a new section that provides audiobook recommendations based on your Prime Video viewing history. The test is rolling out to half of all users with both Audible and Amazon Prime, and there’s no way to opt out for now.

Costa Rica restored its forests and switched to renewable energy — what can the world learn from it?

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Land in Indigenous territory in Costa Rica that Cabécar leaders have reclaimed and are working to reforest. | Justine Calma / The Verge

LastPass goes independent over a year after serious breaches

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It’s been over a year and a half since LastPass suffered back-to-back high-profile hacks, and the company now says it has separated from its parent company, GoTo.

Anthropic finally releases a Claude mobile app

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Anthropic, which makes the Claude 3 family of AI models, is launching an iOS app and adding a second paid tier for groups to share access to the models.

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The next Batman: Arkham game is a Meta Quest exclusive

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Today, Meta has announced that the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham series will be Batman: Arkham Shadow, a VR game that’s exclusive to the Meta Quest 3.

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It’s getting harder to get Google Search to show AR animals

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The shark still looks fake. | Image: Wes Davis / The Verge

LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming

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LinkedIn is now in the gaming business. Starting today, users on the LinkedIn mobile app or on desktop can play one of three different games — Pinpoint, Queens, and Crossclimb. You’ll be able to play each game once per day, and after your…

Nvidia’s AI chatbot now supports Google’s Gemma model, voice queries, and more

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Nvidia is updating its experimental ChatRTX chatbot with more AI models for RTX GPU owners. The chatbot, which runs locally on a Windows PC, can already use Mistral or Llama 2 to query personal documents that you feed into it, but now the…

Google urges US to update immigration rules to attract more AI talent

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The US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized, Google says in a letter sent to the Department of Labor.

Ring’s first integrated pan and tilt camera comes in pink

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Ring’s Indoor Cam now comes in a pan and tilt version and three new colors. | Image: Ring

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I have some questions about what Changpeng Zhao gave to the feds

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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images

Silicon Valley is enamored with a company that pumps poop underground

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Wastewater pipes at a reclamation plant in California on Wednesday, August 4, 2021. | Getty Images

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TikTok seems to be dodging App Store commissions in Epic fashion

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It’s unclear how many TikTok users are being prompted in-app to visit its website for cheaper TikTok Coins. | The Verge

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Turns out the Rabbit R1 was just an Android app all along

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I mean, at least it’s just $200? | Image: David Pierce / The Verge

iOS 17.5 beta lets you keep Find My on during iPhone repairs

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Pretty soon, Apple might let you send your iPhone in for repair without disabling Find My and Activation Lock. In the fourth iOS 17.5 beta, 9to5Mac and MacRumors found that Apple is planning to introduce a new “Repair State” mode that…