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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to last-gen consoles
Cal Kestis returns to his last-gen roots soon. | Image: EA Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is officially available for preorder for the Xbox One and PS4 ahead of a September 17th launch, EA announced today. The game, which arrived on PC and current-gen consoles in April 2023, costs $49.99 on Xbox One and PS4, standard…
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Now that Google is a monopolist, what’s next?
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge A federal judge has ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly in the US. “The market reality is that Google is the only real choice” as the default search engine, Judge Amit Mehta said in his decision, and he determined it had gotten that way unfairly. It’s a…
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X files antitrust lawsuit against advertisers over ‘illegal boycott’
Image: The Verge X is suing a group of major advertisers over accusations that they held an “illegal boycott” against the platform formerly known as Twitter. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, X claims Unilever, Mars, CVS, Ørsted, and dozens of other brands conspired to “collectively withhold billions of dollars in advertising revenue” through a…
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Microsoft says Delta ignored Satya Nadella’s offer of CrowdStrike help
Image: The Verge Microsoft has responded to Delta Air Lines’ criticism of Windows and CrowdStrike after the giant IT outage last month. Delta CEO Ed Bastian wants compensation from both CrowdStrike and Microsoft for the estimated $500 million Delta lost due to the outage. Now, Microsoft says Delta refused its free help on multiple occasions…
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Disney Plus, ESPN, and Hulu are all getting more expensive this October
Image: Disney The next phase of Disney’s plan to make its streaming services profitable is another round of price hikes served up with more news and new playlist features. Disney is rolling out a new wave of price hikes that its subscribers will probably be none too pleased to be hit with. Beginning October 17th,…
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Waymo is expanding its robotaxi service areas in San Francisco and Los Angeles
Photo by Andrej Sokolow / picture alliance via Getty Images Waymo is spreading out a little more in the two major cities in which it operates. The robotaxi company announced today that it was growing its service areas in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, as the company seeks to attract more customers to its…
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Zelda’s big adventure gets a new trailer
Image: Nintendo When The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is released on September 26th, it will be the first Zelda game in decades with the titular princess as the hero. Nintendo has released a new trailer highlighting some of the new powers she’ll have and all the places she’ll get to use them. Princess…
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Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google is done making Chromecasts. In a post on Tuesday, Google says it’s “ending production of Chromecast” after over a decade of selling the streaming dongles. Even though Chromecast devices will now be available “while supplies last,” Google says it will continue to push software and security updates…
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A new Bill Gates-backed project wants to make carbon removal more legit
A small scale model of a carbon removal facility during a groundbreaking ceremony at the Occidental Petroleum and 1PointFive Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant in Ector County, Texas, US, on Friday, April 28, 2023. | Photo: Getty Images Companies are increasingly turning to new-fangled ways to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as a…
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Sonos brings TV Audio Swap to its more affordable soundbars — and Android
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Sonos Ace headphones launched with a very convenient trick called TV Audio Swap, which lets you send audio that would normally come out of the Sonos Arc soundbar to the headphones instead. Two months later, the company is enabling TV Audio Swap on its more affordable soundbars…