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Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images The Biden administration released new priorities today for safeguarding clean energy infrastructure from possible cyberattacks. Smart grids and EVs can have big benefits when it comes to saving energy and cutting down pollution. But as more pieces of our lives become electric and digital, new…

Samsung handed out nearly 17,000 smartphones to athletes and “Olympic family.” | Image: Samsung For the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, Samsung created almost 17,000 exclusive Galaxy Z Flip 6 Olympic Edition phones to be given away to athletes and “Olympic family.” As the Olympic Games now draw to a close, many of those…

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Apple Maps will finally let you manually refresh your search as you pan around to find similar destinations in adjacent (or distant) areas. In the iOS 18 beta, Apple Maps displays a new “search here” button after you search for things like coffee shops or restaurants and then…

AMD stands up to Qualcomm with its new Ryzen AI chips, showing it’s nowhere near out of this race. Continue reading…

AT&T learns the importance of distinguishing between “is” and “will be” regarding service availability. | Image: AT&T AT&T has updated its satellite calling advertisement after T-Mobile challenged its rival’s use of the verb “is.” When the “Epic Bad Golf Day” video starring Ben Stiller was initially released in April, the ad closed with “the future…

Collections is replacing the Library tab, but keeping its bookshelf symbol. | Image: Google You can say goodbye to your library tab in Google Photos, because Google is introducing a new destination called Collections that’s supposed to make “finding content easier than ever.” Collections house all of your albums in one place, such as your…

Image: Bethesda If you haven’t played Doom or Doom II for a while — or ever — a new rerelease that Bethesda surprise-dropped (sorta) on Thursday might be the perfect excuse to jump into the classic games. The rerelease, which combines both games into one package called Doom + Doom II and is a free…

Illustration: The Verge The Turkish government has blocked access to Roblox following a government investigation that found content that could lead to child exploitation. “According to our Constitution, our State is obliged to take the necessary measures to ensure the protection of our children,” Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç says in a machine-translated post on X.…

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge It’s a mess, but Intel and partners are working to clean it up. Continue reading…

The Thumby Color shrinks the Game Boy Advance to a handheld just two inches in size. | Image: TinyCircuits How small can you shrink the Nintendo Game Boy Advance? That’s a question TinyCircuits is answering with the Thumby Color, a GBA clone measuring just two inches in size that still manages to fit a directional…