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Amazon must recall dangerous products properly — even ones sold by third-parties
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon, not third-party sellers, is responsible for properly recalling hazardous items that were sold on its marketplace, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) decided on Tuesday. The CPSC says Amazon failed to adequately notify the public about more than 400,000 recalled products. Even though Amazon stopped selling…
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Samsung hypes the Galaxy Z Flip as a great police bodycam
There’s a custom case for this and everything. | Image: Samsung Samsung’s advertising for its Galaxy Z Flip series typically revolves around Gen Z photo shoots and showing off specific features like interpreter mode. But today, the company has taken quite a turn by highlighting the foldable phone’s use as… a policing tool. In a…
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Meta moves on from its celebrity lookalike AI chatbots
Image: Meta Meta has shut down its AI chatbots that let you have conversations with alter-ego versions of celebrities, as reported by The Information. The celebrity chatbots were a big part of Meta’s announcements at its Connect event last September, now, you can’t talk with them anymore. View this post on Instagram A post shared…
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AMD is becoming an AI chip company, just like Nvidia
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AMD just announced its second quarter 2024 earnings today, and the highlight was this: nearly half the company’s sales are now data center products — not chips for personal computers, not game consoles, not embedded chips for industry or vehicles. The company’s data center business has doubled in…
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Activision’s big contribution to AI is Call of Duty: Warzone data
Player data from a single match on Call of Duty: Warzone’s Caldera map. | Image: Activision Activision is sharing an open-source dataset pulled from Call of Duty: Warzone’s Caldera map for researchers to study and to help support AI model training. “This first-of-its-kind data set release for Call of Duty, now available in OpenUSD, contains…
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Minecraft and Tetris combine for some very blocky dungeon crawling
Image: Mojang Studios Two of the bestselling games of all time are joining forces for some very strange downloadable content in Minecraft. It involves visiting the “Tetris universe” inside of the game… which has taught me that there is something called the Tetris universe. Notably, the new Minecraft DLC is a form of dungeon crawler…
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Microsoft’s cloud revenues rule again in Q4, as Surface continues to dip
The Verge Microsoft just posted the fourth and final quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $64.7 billion in revenue and a net income of $22 billion during Q4. Revenue is up 15 percent, and net income has increased by 10 percent. Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud revenues, which include the company’s server…
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Intel will officially ‘launch’ its Lunar Lake laptop chips on September 3rd
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon laptops had the summer all to themselves, but that’s coming to an end. AMD is now shipping its Ryzen AI chips — and Intel has just announced it’ll “launch” its next generation of Core Ultra laptop chips, codename Lunar Lake, on a September 3rd livestream.…
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Pixel Watch 3 leak shows thinner bezels and new 45mm model
Image: Android Headlines The Pixel Watch 3 looks like it will have a larger screen than the Watch 2, thanks to thinner bezels. Leaked marketing materials shared by Android Headlines suggest that the 41mm Pixel Watch 3 will offer 10 percent more screen than the Watch 2 in the same amount of space. The Pixel…
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The Olympics has moved on from Mario and Sonic
Image: Sega For almost 20 years, Nintendo and Sega have released Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games to coincide with the international sporting event. But now, according to a report in Eurogamer, that tradition is at an end. In 2020, the IOC made the decision to not renew the game’s licensing deal, ending a…