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Apple’s new feature lets brands put their stamp on emails and calls to your iPhone
Image: Apple Soon, Apple will let businesses customize how they appear in emails and phone calls on the iPhone. Apple announced on Wednesday how companies using its Business Connect tool can add their brand name and logo in ways that will pop up in iPhone apps used for email, phone calls, and payments. Apple first…
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Amazon discontinues the last Kindle with physical buttons
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon has discontinued the Kindle Oasis, which was the only Kindle still available with physical page-turn buttons. The company announced a new Kindle lineup earlier today, but Amazon confirmed to The Verge that it’s moving on from the Oasis. “Once current inventory of Kindle Oasis sells out…
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Discord says piracy subpoena would violate users’ First Amendment rights
Image: The Verge Discord is fighting to keep its users anonymous in a court battle over piracy on the platform, claiming it would violate users’ First Amendment rights to hand over too much of their information. Nexon, which publishes games including MapleStory, alleges that Discord has refused to comply with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act…
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Prada helped make a spacesuit
High fashion for zero gravity. | Image: Axiom Space travel, it must be said, does not seem glamorous. You have to pee your pants and eat reconstituted roast beef for dinner. But future space flights might get a little fancier when the next moon-bound astronauts put on Axiom Space’s new spacesuit, designed in partnership with…
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My very brief stint as a race car driver at the F1 Arcade
The F1 Arcade is a simulator. Just… a simpler one. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge Confidence was my first mistake. As I plopped down in one of the 83 racing simulators in the new F1 Arcade location in Washington, DC, I told the company’s CEO, Adam Breeden, that I’d raced plenty of times…
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Hades II gets a new location and new pets
Image: Supergiant Games The first major update for Hades II, which is still in early access, is out now, adding things like a new region, the game’s sixth and final weapon, new pets, native support for Macs with M1 chips, and more. The big feature looks to be the new region. You might be able…
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Amazon looks to advanced nuclear reactors to meet climate goals
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Two days after Google cut a “world’s first” deal to purchase electricity from advanced nuclear reactors, Amazon announced three new agreements of its own today. Each deal supports the development of small modular reactors (SMRs), which can be one-tenth to one-quarter the size of a traditional nuclear power…
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Airbnb can now help you find somebody to manage your listing
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Airbnb is making it easier for hosts to find someone to manage their Airbnb. The new “Co-Host Network,” which is available starting today, lets you compare co-hosts and work with the co-hosts that you hire right inside the app. Third-party Airbnb management companies are quite common already, but…
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Google Flights makes it easier to find the cheapest airfare
Illustration: The Verge If you’re not familiar with Google Flights, you may not realize that you’re not always seeing the cheapest flights in your search results. The default algorithm considers numerous other factors, such as trip length, stops, and travel times. It was, admittedly, easy enough to expand the results and view the full flight…
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Anthropic’s CEO thinks AI will lead to a utopia — he just needs a few billion dollars first
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images If you want to raise ungodly amounts of money, you better have some godly reasons. That’s what Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei laid out for us on Friday in more than 14,000 words: otherworldly ways in which artificial general intelligence (AGI, though he prefers to call it “powerful…