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Groyper war, dark elves, bugmen: how the GOP ticket is reviving far-right beef
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Antisemitic streamer, Holocaust denier, Charlottesville rally attendee, and January 6th instigator Nick Fuentes disavowed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign last week, claiming the America First movement had been “hijacked” by “consultants, lobbyists, & donors.” The news that Fuentes had declared a “groyper war” on his preferred presidential candidate has sparked…
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The HoverAir X1 selfie drone is getting big resolution upgrades in two new versions
Zero Zero Robotics hasn’t yet revealed pricing or a ship date for the HoverAir X1 Pro and X1 Pro Max selfie drones. | Image: Zero Zero Robotics One of the shortcomings of the recently reviewed HoverAir X1 selfie drone was that its camera could only capture video at 2.7K/30fps resolutions. Zero Zero Robotics will soon…
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Suggestions for how the stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts can entertain themselves
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Probably you have already heard that astronauts Barry ”Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams may not be able to leave on the Boeing Starliner that brought them to the International Space Station. I have been thinking about it in quiet moments — when I…
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Tapo’s new flagship doorbell camera does more for less
TP-Link’s Tapo D225 is a good $100 doorbell camera with 24/7 recording and smart alerts for people, packages, and pets — all without a subscription. Continue reading…
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What’s next for KOSA, the controversial ‘child safety’ bill that could change online speech
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images We’ve talked a lot on Decoder about various attempts to regulate the internet in the United States and how they all run into the very simple fact that almost everything on the internet is speech, and the First Amendment prohibits most speech regulations in this country. Literally,…
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Google’s AI-generated search summaries change how they show their sources
Illustration: The Verge As Google brings AI Overviews to six new countries, it’s also changing the way the generated summaries display citations. Instead of putting relevant webpages directly in the AI-generated summary, Google is adding a new display to the right of the response that shows cited webpages more prominently. This new format is rolling…
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HP’s OmniBook X 14 is a barely disguised business laptop with great battery life
This Snapdragon-powered laptop is a productivity machine, but unless work foots the bill, you can do better. Continue reading…
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Kim Dotcom is being Megauploaded to the US for trial
Dotcom has been fighting US extradition for 12 years. | Photo by MICHAEL BRADLEY/AFP via Getty Images Kim Dotcom is being extradited to the United States to face long-standing criminal charges relating to his defunct file-sharing service Megaupload. The order was signed by New Zealand Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith according to Reuters, who said that…
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Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’
Eric Schmidt. | Photo By Lukas Schulze/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images Former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt has made headlines for saying that Google was blindsided by the early the rise of ChatGPT because its employees decided that “working from home was more important than winning.” The comment was made in front of…
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GitHub had a major outage, but now says its services are ‘fully operational’
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge GitHub, the popular code repository and developer platform, has recovered after dealing with some major issues on Wednesday that affected its website and many GitHub services. The company has rolled back changes to its database infrastructure that apparently caused the issues and says that services are now “fully…