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This hand-crampingly tiny GBA clone has a 0.85-inch screen
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…
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This new EV plug automatically delivers the right connection for your car
Tesla owners won’t need to use their own adapter at Omni Port-capable stations. | Image: ChargePoint ChargePoint has a new plug system for its charging stations that will make it easier for EV drivers to select the correct connecter for their electric vehicle. The new plug, called Omni Port, works by automatically installing an adapter…
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Now anybody with a Substack account can publish content
Illustration by The Verge Anybody with a Substack account can now publish posts on Substack’s web and mobile app, the company announced on Thursday, turning the newsletter platform into even more of a social network. (Currently, users publishing posts on their profile from mobile can only do so via the Substack iOS app, though support…
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OpenAI says its latest GPT-4o model is ‘medium’ risk
Image: OpenAI OpenAI has released its GPT-4o System Card, a research document that outlines the safety measures and risk evaluations the startup conducted before releasing its latest model. GPT-4o was launched publicly in May of this year. Before its debut, OpenAI used an external group of red teamers, or security experts trying to find weaknesses…
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Ad group sued by Elon Musk reportedly disbands
Musk has chosen lawfare over free speech. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A group of advertisers, called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), have “discontinued” activities, Business Insider reports, citing an email sent to members. The group said it had limited money, and was focused on fighting the antitrust lawsuit…
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Adaptive Lighting is coming to Matter smart lights in Apple Home
Nanoleaf’s Essentials Matter line, which includes an A19 bulb and light strip, will be one of the first Matter products to work with Apple Home’s Adaptive Lighting feature. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge A major feature of Apple Home will soon work with Matter devices. With iOS 18, Apple is enabling…
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Meta closes Ready at Dawn, the studio behind Echo VR
Image: Oculus Studios Meta is closing Ready at Dawn, the first-party studio behind VR games like Echo VR and Lone Echo, Android Central reported on Wednesday. The shutdown is effective immediately. Meta acquired the studio in 2020. As for why Meta is shutting down the studio, here’s what Android Central said: One report in mid-July…
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There’s a cheap LED camera light hidden inside this fake film roll
250 lumens of illumination isn’t super bright, but the light is cheap enough to group several of them together. | Image: TTArtisan Even if you switched to a digital camera decades ago, TTArtisan’s Mini LED Light is a fun reason to carry around a film cartridge. Instead of a roll of 35-millimeter film inside, there’s…
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Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government
One of the classic problems of looking into a palantir was correctly interpreting what the viewer saw… | Image: The Verge Palantir, the company named for the dangerous seeing-stones that tended to mislead their users, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver services for classified networks in US defense and intelligence agencies. “This is…
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ADT admits security breach after hackers advertise stolen data on the dark web
Image: ADT Security company ADT disclosed in an SEC filing that hackers obtained “some limited customer information, including email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses.” TechCrunch reports that ADT’s disclosure follows a seller on a cybercrime forum claiming last week that they had obtained more than 30,000 stolen ADT customer records. The hackers obtained the…