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Netflix is all about the money, not the members

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Netflix is moving beyond subscriber numbers. In its first quarter earnings results released on Thursday, Netflix announced that it will stop reporting quarterly membership numbers in 2025 because subscribers are “just one component” of its…

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Senate advances vote on reauthorizing warrantless surveillance program

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Your Happy Hacking Keyboard deserves some fresh caps

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Ursa is a new keycap profile for Topre keyboards. I want it. | Render: FKCaps

All the news on Qi2 wireless charging

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Anker is amongst the first accessory makers to rerelease MagSafe-compatible accessories that now support the Qi2 standard. | Image: Nathan Edwards / The Verge

Meta says Llama 3 beats most other models, including Gemini

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The next generation of Meta’s large language model Llama, which releases today to cloud providers like AWS and to model libraries like Hugging Face soon, performs better than most current AI models, the company said in a blog post.

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The podcast industry keeps reinventing itself

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This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry.

The Humane AI Pin is lost in translation

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As funny as it was when the AI Pin utterly failed at translating Korean and Japanese, it also broke my heart. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

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You should be playing Music League

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When was the last time your friends made you a playlist? | Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images

Meta is adding real-time AI image generation to WhatsApp

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Meta is rolling out real-time AI image generation in beta for WhatsApp users in the US. As soon as you start typing a text-to-image prompt in a chat with Meta AI, you’ll see how the image changes as you add more detail about what you want…

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The future of the Xbox looks a lot like a PC

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When I reviewed the Xbox Series X nearly four years ago, I called the console a “next-gen PC.” Not only did the Xbox look like a PC with its boxy, rectangular, tower-like case but it also felt like one thanks to hardware upgrades that…

Netflix’s The Witcher will end with season 5

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We still don’t know what Liam Hemsworth will look (or sound) like when he takes up the role of Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher. But we do know how long he’ll be wearing the white wig: Netflix has confirmed that the show’s fifth season will…

Everything you need to know about Disney, ESPN, and Bob Iger’s return as CEO

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Image: The Verge; Disney has big decisions to make about streaming, sports, Marvel, and more.

TikTok divest-or-ban legislation could suddenly be fast-tracked in the Senate

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Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images

At Kernel, your veggie burger will be served by a robot

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Its robotic arm heats vegan burgers and crispy potatoes while relegating humans to assembly line jobs.

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Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now

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Mark Zuckerberg announcing Meta’s AI assistant at Connect 2023. | Image: Meta

How to tame notifications on your Android phone

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Quiet, please. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge

Stability AI lays off roughly 10 percent of its workforce

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

Google is combining its Android and hardware teams — and it’s all about AI

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AI is taking over at Google, and the company is changing in big ways to try to make it happen even faster. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced substantial internal reorganizations on Thursday, including the creation of a new team called…

8BitDo’s NES-inspired mechanical keyboard hits all-time low price

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It’s not an official Nintendo accessory, but everything about 8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard screams NES regardless. | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge

Apple is making progress cleaning up its dirty supply chain

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Photo by Christian Charisius / picture alliance via Getty Images

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Transformers One turns Cybertron’s greatest warriors into bumbling youths in first trailer

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Paramount’s live-action Transformers movies have always made its alien robots seem like they were born ready for battle and knowing how to navigate the world, but the first trailer for director Josh Cooley’s Transformers One animated…

Make robots hairy

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A less creepy iteration. | Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos courtesy of Boston Dynamics and Getty Images

Apple is finally rolling out AirPlay in hotel rooms

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After some delay, Apple is finally bringing AirPlay to hotel room TVs — but you can only use it if you’re staying in one of the “more than” 60 IHG hotels it’s available in starting today.

Apple’s new series Sunny pairs Rashida Jones with a mystery-solving robot

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Apple TV Plus has been killing it on the sci-fi front lately, but this summer, the streamer’s taking another stab at the murder mystery genre with Sunny, a new A24-produced series from showrunner Katie Robbins, director Lucy Tcherniak, and…

US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight

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The US Air Force is putting AI in the pilot’s seat. In an update on Thursday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed that an AI-controlled jet successfully faced a human pilot during an in-air dogfight test carried…

Richard Linklater’s Hit Man looks like a goofy roleplaying romcom in new trailer

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A woman standing behind a man close enough to lean her head over his shouler as he stretches his arm outward. | Image: Netflix

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Chevy Silverado EV turns into a mobile generator with GM’s new home energy bundle

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General Motors’ initial new home energy products are now available to purchase, including the equipment necessary to turn your GM-made electric vehicle into a mobile power generator for your home.

Elgato won over creators — its new Neo line is for everyone else

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The Neo family of devices. | Image: Elgato

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Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to ‘inject a sense of crisis’

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The Korean tech giant is now expanding the previously voluntary policy to executives across its entire workforce. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Playdate has sold 150,000 games in the last year

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Last March, Panic launched a curated game shop called Catalog for its Playdate handheld. And one year later, the company says it has sold more than 150,000 games through the store. “We want to let everyone who enjoys games know that there…