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Read MorePhoto by Win McNamee/Getty Images On the heels of the Labor Day weekend, United Airlines briefly issued a nationwide ground stop order, citing a “systemwide technology issue.” The order was lifted around 10 minutes later. “We are experiencing a systemwide technology issue and are holding all aircraft at their departure airports. Flights that are already
Read MoreAllison Johnson / The Verge: Google releases a refreshed Android logo and grab bag of updates for its mobile app and services, including the At a Glance widget and Lookout app — Google is releasing a grab bag of updates to its mobile apps and services, including an At a Glance Google Assistant widget …
Read MoreThere’s more than one way to scare people on Halloween. Sure, there’s always the low-brow jump scare, but that will generally just annoy the person and possibly cause a heart attack. No, what you need is a sustained soundscape of hellish audio. And where does one find hellish audio? Well, you make your own with
Read MoreLarian Studios The companions in Baldur’s Gate 3 have redefined the term “player-sexual,” or the idea that a character’s romantic and sexual orientation are firmly and solely fixed on the player. Usually, in a game that allows you to romance other characters, it takes a moment for the sparks to really start flying. There’s a
Read MoreImage by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit’s moderator purge could have real impacts on reliability and information safety as it rushes to replace mods with inexperienced, poorly vetted volunteers, according to Ars Technica. With testimony by both expelled former moderators and some of those who replaced them, Ars Technica’s report shows the trouble with
Read MoreOne of the more exciting prospects upon receiving one of the earliest Raspberry Pi boards back in 2012 was that it was a fully-functional desktop computer in the palm of your hand. In those far-off days, the Debian OS distro for the board wasn’t even yet called Raspbian, but it would run a full-on desktop
Read MoreNot our finest moment. | Screenshot by Sean Hollister / The Verge Baldur’s Gate 3 sounds like a fantastic single-player experience. I wish I’d tried that instead of playing with my closest friends! This isn’t about difficulty: I fully expected to be beaten, shot, stabbed, and otherwise destroyed for taking on enemies too fast. I
Read MoreImage: VW How do you tweak a classic hot hatch for the electric era? If you’re Volkswagen, you simply announce that the “I” in GTI now stands for “intelligence” instead of “injection” and call it a day. Just kidding. Obviously, VW went much further in unveiling the new GTI concept, or ID.GTI, which had its
Read MoreClive, much like this deal, is on fire. | Image: Square Enix With so many major game releases happening this year — and even this week — you could almost forget that a new mainline Final Fantasy dropped just a couple of months back. Well now, it’s already on a sizable sale. Final Fantasy XVI
Read MoreThat’s Android with a capital A, sir. | Image: Google Google is releasing a grab bag of updates to its mobile apps and services, including an At a Glance Google Assistant widget, enhancements to its Lookout visual accessibility app, and Zoom calls in Android Auto. This comes with a side of branding updates designed to
Read MoreThe world’s most popular mobile operating system just got a light makeover, and Google announced a handful of AI features for Android ahead of Android 14.
Read MoreCredit: Supplied by Google Google has announced the first Android Feature Drop. This brings several improvements and features to Android devices. Google has long offered quarterly Feature Drops for Pixel phones, bringing a clutch of features and tweaks to Pixel handsets four times a year. Now, the company has announced the first Android Feature Drop,
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp is working on a redesign of the UI. The redesign changes the top bar and gives the app logo a new font. WhatsApp could also introduce filters for the chats list. If there’s one thing that’s remained a constant with WhatsApp, it’s the design. The UI has hardly
Read MoreNew Discord update for Xbox. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is rolling out a new Xbox dashboard for September that includes the ability to stream your Xbox gameplay to Discord friends and variable refresh rate (VRR) improvements for the Xbox Series S / X consoles. The dashboard update also includes the new Xbox voice reporting feature
Read MoreKate Park / TechCrunch: Tokyo- and Atlanta-based Mujin, which sells AI tools for industrial automation, raised an $85M Series C led by SBI Investment, taking its total funding to $150M — An increasing number of companies are looking to automate as a shortage of skilled workers is expected to take a toll on manufacturers through
Read MoreOh, hey, a strawberry. | Photo by Wes Davis / The Verge Niantic has a new Pikmin AR experiment for your mobile browser, called Pikmin Finder, that lets you pluck pikmin from any old place and send them off to collect treasure for you (via Nintendo Life). It’s basically a cute, distilled version of 2021’s
Read MorePosts praising the Wagner Group boss following his death in a mysterious plane crash last month indicate he was still in control of his “troll farm,” researchers claim.
Read MoreI, too, charge my devices in a blank void of solitude. | Image: Nomad After toying with lower-cost magnetic Qi wireless charging for a minute, Nomad is back on its proper MagSafe charger kick. The premium accessory maker is announcing a new multi-charger that’s meant to charge your iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch all at
Read MoreIf there’s more to life than just a workshop full of tools, it’s probably a workshop full of tools that you’ve built yourself. At least that was the thinking behind the recently concluded “Gearing Up” challenge of the 2023 Hackaday Prize, which unsurprisingly generated quite a list of entries for our judges to review and
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft rolls out a new Xbox dashboard that lets users stream Xbox gameplay to anyone on Discord one-way, a new way to report Xbox audio clips, and more — Microsoft is rolling out a new Xbox dashboard for September that includes the ability to stream your Xbox gameplay to Discord
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: TikTok opens its first European data center, in Ireland, after announcing the project in August 2020, and plans to finish the migration of user data by Q4 2024 — It has been a long time coming, but TikTok says that its first European data center is finally operational — partially …
Read MoreThe two top foldable Samsung phones just got a huge price drop for the first time since launching earlier in the summer. Amazon has a massive $300 markdown on the Galaxy Z Fold 5, while the Galaxy Z Flip 5 deal sees it drop by $200 to a new all-time low price. Galaxy Z Fold
Read MoreApple has bought itself a new music label and plans to roll it into Apple Music Classical and Platoon.
Read MoreImage: Annapurna Interactive Stray, the hit Annapurna Interactive game starring a cat, is getting a “feature adaptation” from Annapurna Animation, according to a press release. Annapurna didn’t share much else about the movie — we still don’t know when it might come out or what it might look like — but if you were a
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