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  • Adobe’s experimental tool can identify an artist’s work online or on a tote bag

    Project Know How builds on Adobe’s work with Content Credentials. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of Adobe’s most notable experiments this year could help combat misinformation and ensure artists are credited for their work, no matter where it appears online or offline. Announced during the Sneaks segment at Adobe Max, Project…

  • Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe takes another step toward pen and paper

    The Scribe is as much a writing device as a reading one. | Image: Amazon Ever since Amazon launched the Kindle Scribe in 2022, the company has been noticing some unusual ways people are using the device. Scribe users read more nonfiction than normal Kindle owners; a full 60 percent of Scribe buyers use the…

  • Trump’s crypto website crashed after its token went on sale

    Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Former President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency project, World Liberty Financial, launched its token sale on Tuesday — and its website crashed shortly afterward. The white list for the much hyped but still largely unexplained decentralized finance project opened on September 30th for accredited investors and non-US persons. World Liberty Financial…

  • Microsoft’s prototype Surface Laptop leaks with Intel’s Lunar Lake chips inside

    Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft launched its Surface Laptop 7 earlier this year without Intel chips, in a bid to promote Windows on Arm and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips. Now, it looks like a Surface Laptop might arrive next year with Intel’s latest Lunar Lake chips. A Surface Laptop prototype has…

  • Amazon’s new Kindle family includes the first color Kindle

    Amazon’s new Kindle family: The Colorsoft Signature Edition, Kindle Scribe, Paperwhite, and entry-level Kindle. | Image: Amazon Amazon just announced four new Kindle e-readers. The Colorsoft Signature Edition is the first color Kindle, there’s a new Kindle Scribe note-taker, a faster version of its most popular Paperwhite, and a new entry-level Kindle. The Spanish-language announcement…

  • Here’s a bunch of bananas shit Trump said today about breaking up Google

    Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Former president Donald Trump threatened in an interview today that, if elected president, he would “do something” about Google but stopped short of specifically saying he would break up the company. In the interview, Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait mentioned the US Justice Department’s proposal to possibly break up Google and…

  • Facebook put us out there

    Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge In February 2004, a 19-year-old, flip-flop-wearing Mark Zuckerberg released an online directory of Harvard students. In those days, the internet still felt small. It was mostly about finding webpages, not people. It turned out that the internet was very good for connecting people. More than 1,000 Harvard students signed…

  • Microsoft pulls $1 Xbox Game Pass trial just before new Call of Duty release

    Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has pulled its $1 Xbox Game Pass trial, just days before Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 releases on October 25th. The 14-day Game Pass trial was removed on October 8th, preventing people from signing up for a trial and playing through the Black Ops 6 campaign…

  • YouTube takes a baby step towards labeling authentic video

    Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is rolling out new labels that tell if uploaded videos come from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound. The new “captured with a camera” label can be seen in action courtesy of digital content authentication service Trupic, which uploaded a video to its channel, triggering…

  • The FCC is looking into the impact of broadband data caps and why they still exist

    Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission is officially looking into broadband data caps and their impact on consumers. On Tuesday, the FCC approved a notice of inquiry to examine whether data caps harm consumers and competition, as well as why data caps persist “despite increased…