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Every morning, Federal Communications Commissioner Anna Gomez says she checks her email "to see if I'm going into work."
At a time when the federal workforce has been slashed by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Gomez's job appears to be one of the most precarious in the US government. She's the last remaining Democrat at the now two-person FCC and has been touring the...
Back in June 2020, when this article was first written, people were taking to the streets to organize for justice and protest against systemic racism and police brutality. There have been several other flashpoints for protests since then (for example, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade), but the recent activities of ICE, especially in Los Angeles, have now resulted in huge,...
Reddit's first-ever chief product officer, Pali Bhat, is leaving the company in "the coming months," spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt confirmed to The Verge. Bhat, a former Google executive, joined Reddit in October 2021.
"His tenure was about as clear pre / post test as we could run," CEO Steve Huffman said in an internal message about the change provided by Rathschmidt. "He developed a culture...
This is apparently what it would look like if my parents’ dogs were digging a hole in the desert. | Screenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge
Meta is launching new video editing tools that will let you transform videos using AI. The tool, which is only free for a “limited time,” gives you more than 50 preset prompts you can use to edit your video, allowing you to set a theme, change the background,...
Apple is introducing a suite of updated child safety features, including one that will give parents more control over who their kids can communicate with. The features are set to arrive with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26, which will launch this fall.
Children will now be required to get parental approval when they want to communicate with a new phone...
They’re $750 each, but you can connect multiple versions of these Balloon Dog lamps and speakers together if you’ve got deep pockets. | Image: Lexon Design
Jeff Koons, best known for his Balloon Dog sculptures that have sold for as much as $58 million, has collaborated with Lexon Design and The Broad museum in Los Angeles to make his iconic artworks more functional and accessible.
Available...
Disney and Universal sued Midjourney on Wednesday for generating Shrek, Darth Vader, Buzz Lightyear, and a host of other copyrighted characters in the first major legal showdown between Hollywood and generative AI.
The complaint, filed in a US District Court in central California, calls Midjourney’s AI image generator a “virtual vending machine, generating endless unauthorized copies of...
DeeperDive will appear at the top of USA Today’s homepage.
Taboola, the company best known for serving up those weird, clickbaity advertisements you often find beneath online articles, has created an AI chatbot. The tool, called “DeeperDive,” is launching in beta on USA Today and The Independent, and will answer readers’ questions using information “sourced from trusted journalists.”
A demo...
If you’re dealing with what appears to be poor battery life on the Nintendo Switch 2, the company has a support document with steps you can try to fix it.
The document spells out what you can try if “the battery amount displayed and the actual remaining battery use don’t match,” according to Nintendo. “For example, you are able to continue using your Nintendo Switch 2 console for a few hours...
The most recent presentation of Apple's WWDC event has come and gone, during which Apple introduced the developer beta of the newly renamed iOS 26 - which is accessible to everyone, non-developers included, for free. If you want to try out an early version of the new OS, we've got directions on how to install it on your iPhone or iPad.
Before we get started, a word of warning: beta software...