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GOP House Financial Services Committee lawmakers demand that SEC Chair Gary Gensler explain how Prometheum won its unique approval as a broker-dealer for crypto (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: GOP House Financial Services Committee lawmakers demand that SEC Chair Gary Gensler explain how Prometheum won its unique approval as a broker-dealer for crypto — Patrick McHenry, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, rounded up all of his panel’s Republicans to question …

It’s official, people aren’t watching TV as much as they used to

Some kids watching TV, back when that was a thing kids regularly did. | Photo by Michel BARET/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images It finally happened, at least according to a new metric Nielsen began using two years ago: linear TV now accounts for less than 50 percent of all TV usage. This probably isn’t a surprise

An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban

Illustration: The Verge Iowa’s Mason City Community School District is pulling 19 books from school libraries that administrators found to contain “a description or depiction of a sex act” in order to comply with Republican-backed state laws. A key arbiter of whether the books should be banned: ChatGPT. The news that the district had used

How to watch Inter Miami vs Philadelphia Union — Will Messi take Miami to the final?

Inter Miami vs Philadelphia Union in the Leagues Cup semi-final. Here’s how to watch some more Messi magic.

At a White House roundtable, the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau touts Fair Credit Reporting Act rules to crack down on harmful data broker practices (Chelsey Cox/CNBC)

Chelsey Cox / CNBC: At a White House roundtable, the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau touts Fair Credit Reporting Act rules to crack down on harmful data broker practices — – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau touted a slated of proposed new rules at a White House roundtable on data brokerage practices.

Helium Mobile’s suspiciously cheap phone plan is only for the bravest among us

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hey, remember Helium Network, the project that was praised by The New York Times for its cryptocurrency-powered approach to public internet before it was revealed that it had been misleading people about its partner companies and that insiders had disproportionately profited from the token? Well, Helium now says

OpenAI wants GPT-4 to solve the content moderation dilemma

Illustration: The Verge OpenAI is convinced that its technology can help solve one of tech’s hardest problems: content moderation at scale. GPT-4 could replace tens of thousands of human moderators while being nearly as accurate and more consistent, claims OpenAI. If that’s true, the most toxic and mentally taxing tasks in tech could be outsourced

Apple’s third-gen AirPods are matching their best price to date right now

The third-gen AirPods feature shorter stems than the prior model, making them a little more discrete. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The AirPods Pro are an excellent pair of wireless earbuds, but they’re not for everybody. In fact, if you don’t need noise cancellation or superior sound quality, they might actually be

Drones, cameras, apps, robots, and ML are helping speed up huge construction projects; one company expects to cut up to 5% off a UK railroad project’s $11B cost (Patrick Sisson/New York Times)

Patrick Sisson / New York Times: Drones, cameras, apps, robots, and ML are helping speed up huge construction projects; one company expects to cut up to 5% off a UK railroad project’s $11B cost — Developers are embracing artificial intelligence tools like drones, cameras, apps and robots, which can reduce the timelines …

Hackaday Prize 2023: PAROL6 – A GPL Desktop Robotic Arm

Parol 6 is a 3D-printed six-axis robot arm created by [Petar Crnjak] as a combination of the principles from a few previous projects. Aside from a pneumatic gripper, each axis is driven by a stepper motor, with at least a few of these axes being driven through a metal planetary gearbox for extra precision and

WhatsApp beta for Android now lets a limited group of testers use generative AI to create custom stickers; inappropriate stickers can be reported to Meta (WABetaInfo)

WABetaInfo: WhatsApp beta for Android now lets a limited group of testers use generative AI to create custom stickers; inappropriate stickers can be reported to Meta — WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.17.14. — What’s new in this update?

X seemed to throttle some competitors and news sites for more than a week

Illustration: The Verge If you recently clicked a link shared by The New York Times on X (formerly Twitter), you might have noticed that the page took a little longer to load than you would have expected. It wasn’t just the Times; according to an analysis by The Washington Post, links posted to X that

Leveraging Google Trends and AI to Create Viral Content

By definition, viral trends are fleeting. But hopping on them at just the right time can yield massive, long-lasting success in marketing a product, brand, or service. With an estimated 328.77 million terabytes of data created each day, it can be difficult for brands to find unique ways to reach and be remembered by potential

What is a DisplayPort?

If you’re relatively new to PCs, or you’ve just been in a world of DVI or HDMI connectors for years, you’re probably not too familiar with the DisplayPort connectors on monitors and video cards. So what is a DisplayPort, exactly, and what’s its role next to technologies like HDMI? JUMP TO KEY SECTIONS

Blizzard is previewing a Diablo III single-player mode — 11 years after the game launched

Image: Blizzard Blizzard started testing the first dedicated single-player mode for Diablo III — that’s right, a game released 11 years ago. The new mode, Solo Self Found, gets its own leaderboards, along with a hardcore version the developer team recommends for players who want to be challenged. It’s available as part of Patch 2.7.6

NFC Puts a Stake in the Ground

Sometimes we have a new part or piece of tech that we want to use, and it feels like a solution looking for a problem. Upon first encountering NFC Tags, [nalanj] was looking for an application and thought they might make a great update to old-fashioned plant markers in a garden. Those are usually small

Lamborghini teases first fully electric supercar ahead of official reveal August 18th

Image: Lamborghini Lamborghini will reveal an electric supercar concept on August 18th for Monterey Car Week. Ahead of the event, the Italian automaker posted a teaser image on social media that, while not revealing much, still retains that classic Lamborghini shape. While it’s just a concept, the vehicle will give us our first impressions of

It’s time to rethink our relationships with streaming services

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff and Paul Bettany as Vision in WandaVision. | Image: Marvel Studios / Disney Plus With streaming services across the board raising their prices, you owe it to yourself to have a good deep think about what you want out of all these subscriptions and what you’re actually getting for your

Binance plans to shut down its fiat-to-crypto service Binance Connect, formerly known as Bifinity, that supported payment methods including Visa and Mastercard (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Helene Braun / CoinDesk: Binance plans to shut down its fiat-to-crypto service Binance Connect, formerly known as Bifinity, that supported payment methods including Visa and Mastercard — The service was rolled out in March last year, in an effort to make traditional financial companies “crypto-ready.”

Analysis: X adds a five-second delay on t.co links to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Substack, the NYT, Reuters, and other sites Elon Musk often attacks (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Analysis: X adds a five-second delay on t.co links to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Substack, the NYT, Reuters, and other sites Elon Musk often attacks — The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times …

Google’s AI will now summarize lengthy articles into key points

Credit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Google is upgrading its generative AI-powered Search experience. Google’s AI will now be able to summarize some articles and provide definitions to words you hover over. Google’s AI will also make it easier to understand and debug AI-generated code. About three months ago, Google launched its experimental Search Generative

AMD CEO Lisa Su is coming to the Code Conference

AMD CEO Lisa Su | Photo: AMD AMD CEO Lisa Su is coming to the Code Conference next month to talk AI, supply chains, the PC market, and more with The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel. Su has already transformed AMD once. When Su was named CEO of the chipmaker in 2014, AMD was struggling. The

Zenhub previews AI for software project management

Zenhub is offering an early access preview of Zenhub AI, a cloud-hosted service that incorporates AI into Zenhub’s software project management platform, with the intent to simplify day-to-day processes and enable faster shipping of code. Zenhub AI assists in ancillary activities to writing code such as managing tasks and projects, categorizing and prioritizing work, and

Setapp will launch its own third-party iPhone App Store in Europe next year

Apple could be forced to allow third-party app stores in Europe and Setapp is already ready for it.

Your 13-inch M2 MacBook Air just got its first ultra-slim Otterbox case

Otterbox has announced the Lumen series of thin and light case for Apple’s thin and light MacBook Air.

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