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The Verge’s guide to the 2024 presidential election

A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles

Google Maps’ enhanced navigation will make sure you’re in the right lane

‘It’s the First Amendment, stupid’: the bizarre fight between Trump and broadcast TV

A first look at Apple’s redesigned Mac Mini and its other new Macs

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How to shop like a pro during Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Forbes reports that advertisers have paid Meta more than $1 million to place hundreds of ads promoting lies about the upcoming presidential election. The ads are running despite Meta’s own rules against election misinformation, including posts that “call into question the legitimacy of an upcoming or ongoing election.”

Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux

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Starlink Mini review: space internet goes ultraportable

Impossibly small, incredibly convenient.

OpenAI’s search engine is now live in ChatGPT

Researchers at Meta have revealed the Meta Digit 360 , an artificial fingertip with “human-level” touch capabilities. Meta says it uses on-device AI to respond to different inputs, like the prick of a needle or the flex of a tennis ball.

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The MacBook Air gets a surprise upgrade to 16GB of RAM

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Apple updates the MacBook Pro with M4 Pro and M4 Max chips

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Jay Parikh, who built Meta’s engineering culture when it was Facebook, is joining Microsoft. Parikh will report directly to CEO Satya Nadella and join Microsoft’s senior leadership team. In a memo to staff , Nadella says Parikh’s expertise will “bring valuable perspective to Microsoft.” It’s not clear what Parikh’s official title will be, nor what he’s directly working on. I’m sure it’ll have something to do with AI, though.

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Shinichirō Watanabe is ready to tell humanity something about itself with Lazarus

The visionary behind Cowboy Bebop opens up about his return to sci-fi and collaborating with Chad Stahelski.

HBO is heading back into the world of Stephen King’s It next year with the prequel Welcome to Derry . And while we wait for a proper trailer , the network has released a handful of Pennywise-free first-look images.

WordPress cofounder asks court to dismiss WP Engine’s lawsuit

Some stats from the company’s third-quarter earnings :

Revenue was $919.0 million, up 29% year-over-year. Average Daily Active Users (“DAUs”) were 88.9 million, up 27% year-over-year. Average monthly unique payers were 19.1 million, up 30% year-over-year

And Matthew Ball has a good post about Roblox’s growth.

But there are some child-safety concerns about the platform right now , though the company is making some changes for pre-teen users .

He asked the Commerce Department to strengthen rules designed to prevent repressive regimes from using US-made surveillance technology to spy on dissidents, journalists, and Americans.

The proposed export controls will make it harder for regimes to engage in human rights abuses ranging from mass surveillance of their citizens to hacking into the phones of dissidents and independent journalists. However, I am concerned that the draft rules contain gaps that would allow autocratic governments to continue buying technologies and services from American companies to commit human rights abuses.

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Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year

I missed this last week , but it’s really interesting. Genmoji technically aren’t emoji, apparently:

Genmojis are not based on any standardized text-based encoding or font system. Instead, they are images with an emoji-like aesthetic generated based on users’ descriptions being fed into an AI art model managed by Apple.  As such, they aren’t emojis but stickers - just like Apple’s previously released Animoji and Memoji features.

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Apple’s Mac week: everything announced

Our friends Casey Newton and Kevin Roose at Hard Fork make the obvious point.

Nintendo made a music streaming app for Switch Online subscribers

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Google’s AI-powered weather app is rolling out to older Pixels

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Nothing is making a glow-in-the-dark phone

The newest ring battery doorbell is $40 off and matching its lowest price.

The OnePlus 13 has a bigger battery and an upgraded fingerprint reader

Elon Musk didn’t show up to a Philadelphia court hearing over his $1 million giveaways to swing state voters, which the city’s DA has called an illegal lottery .

By not showing up, Musk risks being held in contempt of court and could face a fine — which probably won’t hurt him much.

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You know, when I wrote “ A vote for Trump is a vote for measles, ” I was not expecting the campaign to follow up by putting Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnick on CNN to falsely claim vaccines cause autism, a thing he says he learned by spending a couple hours with RFK Jr. Vaccines do not cause autism , but childhood diseases cause death. Don’t get it twisted.

Court documents from the MrBeast Burger lawsuit revealed pitch decks prepared by his team for potential brand partners, and Business Insider went through them .

You get the sense that his team didn’t try very hard when putting decks together: slides have weird layouts, overlapping text, and are borderline unreadable. And maybe that’s the biggest takeaway here — the MrBeast brand sells itself.

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Two possible futures for AI

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on the gospel of Steve Jobs and what founder mode really means

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The confusing state of Apple Intelligence

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Why AI companies are dropping the doomerism

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The pragmatist’s guide to the 2024 presidential election

Your vote matters. Here’s how it will change the future.

During an earnings call on Thursday, Comcast president Mike Cavanagh said the company is weighing the possibility of spinning off its cable business:

We are now exploring whether creating a new well-capitalized company owned by our shareholders and comprised of our strong portfolio of cable networks would position them to take advantage of opportunities in the changing media landscape and create value for our shareholders

Cavanagh also said the company “would consider partnerships in streaming” to help grow Peacock.

Disclosure: Comcast is an investor in Vox Media,  The Verge ’s parent company.

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Ford is offering its own Tesla Supercharger adapter to EV customers after rocky rollout

Waze will soon let you report incidents with your voice

Google Maps will use AI to answer questions about the new restaurant you want to try

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPU arrives on November 7th for $479

How to take the Apple hearing test

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How the US could sabotage global climate goals

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Alexa, where’s my Star Trek Computer?

When Amazon launched its Alexa voice assistant, it envisioned a computer platform that could do anything for you. A decade later, the company is still trying to build it.

Peloton appoints Apple Fitness Plus cofounder as new CEO

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not in 2024 if you were holding out hope. The apparent delay of the AI-infused eXtended Reality (XR) headsets manufactured by Samsung comes courtesy of  a slide from Sammy’s official earnings release. Qualcomm’s CEO is particularly excited by mixed reality smart glasses being developed by the partnership, and Google is getting the Play Store ready for whatever does arrive.

Miniot’s split-flap clock is what nostalgia sounds like

All the news from Apple’s ‘week’ of Mac announcements

Instagram saves the best video quality for the most popular content

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Meta signs its first big AI deal for news

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Adobe execs say artists need to embrace AI or get left behind

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Here are the price-matching policies for Best Buy, Walmart, and others

Meta is pushing for the government to use its AI

It’s for the DA’s lawsuit over his probably illegal $1 million daily voter giveaway — I wonder if he’ll show up.

Seriously, the company just keeps announcing and launching things that aren’t its next major console . A museum , an alarm clock , an experimental MMO , and now, a music streaming app . This is why I stopped predicting what Nintendo will do.

I’ve given up on trying to predict what Nintendo will do — especially when it comes to the Switch 2

Activision says Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 set new day one and opening weekend records, making it the biggest Call of Duty three-day opening weekend ever. It also had the highest total PC players during opening weekend in franchise history. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says “unit sales on PlayStation and Steam were also up over 60 percent year-over-year.”

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard starts slow but strong

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