Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission and more than a dozen state attorneys general have filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the e-commerce giant has unlawfully leveraged its market dominance to stamp out would-be competitors. “Our complaint lays out how Amazon has used a set of punitive
Read MoreSpigen launched its new range of iPhone 15 cases today, with hot new covers available for both the 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max. To celebrate, you’re getting the chance to save 20% on the already affordable retail price by using the promo code helloagain20. You won’t see the promo code on the Amazon landing
Read MoreWall Street Journal: FTC Sues Amazon, Alleging Illegal Online-Marketplace Monopoly — High-stakes case puts e-commerce giant in sights of agency chair Lina Khan’s aggressive antitrust stance — WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission and 17 states on Tuesday sued — , alleging the online retailer illegally …
Read MoreBloomberg: The CIA is planning to roll out a ChatGPT-style tool across the 18-agency US intelligence community to give analysts better access to intelligence — – Intelligence agency looking for ‘needles in the needle field’ — Program will help sift through huge amounts of available data
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple just made its biggest push in decades to boost original content on its podcast app, which has been refreshed with the recent update to iOS 17. It’s also casting a wider net for its audience by allowing users to connect through third-party apps. Following up on Apple’s
Read MoreEveryone likes to play with high voltages, right?. Even though the danger of death goes up with every volt, it’s likely that a few readers will have at some time or other made fancy long sparks. You’re reading this so you lived to tell the tale, and we’d only ever counsel only doing so safely,
Read MoreThe Xiaomi Watch 2 Pro makes the leap from a proprietary OS to Wear OS. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi announced it’s making the jump to Wear OS for its new Watch 2 Pro. And in true Xiaomi fashion, it’s offering a surprisingly stacked set of features, including body composition analysis and dual-frequency GPS, for an
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google Podcasts is going away. Starting next year, Google will focus on offering podcast access within YouTube Music instead. This change doesn’t come as a complete surprise. In April, Google launched the ability for users in the US to listen to podcasts in YouTube Music without a paid membership.
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google plans to shut down Google Podcasts later in 2024 as part of its broader transition to move its streaming listeners over to YouTube Music — Google announced this morning it will be shutting down its Google Podcasts app later in 2024 as part of its broader transition to move its
Read MoreImage: Sony As one of the twin Hollywood strikes appears to be winding down, SAG-AFTRA has voted to approve strike authorization for video game performers covered under the union’s interactive media agreement. Earlier this week, the writers’ half of the Hollywood strikes reached a tentative agreement that may bring that standoff to an end, but
Read MoreSatya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaks during an interview in Redmond, Washington, on Wednesday, March 15th, 2023. | Image: Chona Kasinger / Bloomberg via Getty Images Microsoft thinks next-generation nuclear reactors can power its data centers and AI ambitions, according to a job listing for a principal program manager who’ll lead the company’s nuclear energy
Read MoreBowers & Wilkins’ PX7 S2 offer phenomenal sound and are among our favorite noise-canceling headphones. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sony’s WH-1000XM5 and Apple’s AirPods Max have attracted so much attention that it’s easy to forget other noise-canceling headphones exist. But they do, and a few are actually better in some respects
Read MoreImage: The Verge Threads, Instagram’s X (formerly Twitter) competitor, is struggling to keep users around following its blockbuster launch, according to data from Insider Intelligence. The data, which was first reported on by CNBC, suggests that Threads will have far fewer monthly active users than Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok by the end of this year,
Read MoreGarmin Venu 3 review: At a glance What is it? The Garmin Venu 3 usurps its predecessor, the Garmin Venu 2 Plus, as the best smartwatch available from Garmin. It brings back key features like phone call and voice assistant support and adds in a fair amount of hardware and software upgrades. The lineup also
Read MoreAaron Holmes / The Information: Sources detail how Microsoft aims to cut costs behind running AI features like Bing Chat by developing efficient AI models that mimic OpenAI’s more capable ones — Microsoft’s push to put artificial intelligence into its software has hinged almost entirely on OpenAI, the startup Microsoft funded …
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Read MoreAngular 17, an upgrade to Google’s popular TypeScript-based web development framework, is due in November with template features including a new built-in syntax for control flow and deferrable loading. A September 25 blog post from Alex Rickabaugh of the Angular team covered the planned capabilities, with declarative control flow set to add the functionality of
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Spotify is introducing a new feature for all users called Jam. Jam lets you invite friends on the same Wi-Fi network to contribute to a playlist you can all listen to. Premium subscribers will be able to be invited and contribute from wherever they are. Spotify has introduced
Read MoreJohn David Washington as Joshua in The Creator. | Image: Oren Soffer Gareth Edwards’ new dystopian sci-fi epic is a gorgeous morass of AI doomerism that’s lacking in the way of novel ideas. Continue reading…
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Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The iPhone 15 series has only just hit store shelves and reports are already coming in about hot handsets, and not in the way Apple hoped. The high-temperature reports from users (as well as members of the Android Authority team) center on more powerful iPhone 15 Pro and Pro
Read MoreThe Xiaomi 13T Pro in blue. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi is launching the 13T and 13T Pro today, two smartphones that will benefit from more Android upgrades than what it’s offered previously. Both are due to receive four major Android updates as well as five years of security patches, Xiaomi’s communications director, Daniel Desjarlais, announced
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Did you know that instead of watching a YouTube video, you can read it? That sounds extremely counter-productive in the age of video-everything, but there’s a semi-hidden transcript function on YouTube that lets you read the video’s entire captions. And it’s incredibly useful if you know how to
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Series, which offers ERP-like tools, including for contract lifecycle management and orchestrating payroll, raised $25M across a Series A and seed — As companies grow, they create legal entities and organizational structures to support their lines of business — each with their respective governance and compliance needs.
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