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Girts Ragelis/Getty Images/CNET If you've been worried or confused about how much you'll soon be spending on goods -- particularly tech -- you're not alone. In the wake of the Trump administration's tariffs (first a "reciprocal tariff" pause, then exemptions for certain tech, then walking back said exemptions), you're not the only one with whiplash from trying to keep up. But if you're a gamer, an unfortunate truth emerges from the cacophony of news: Regardless of what the situation with tari
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Nintendo announced today that Switch 2 preorders will begin on April 24th, and now Target and GameStop have shared when you can try to buy one. Target’s Nintendo Switch 2 preorders in the US will kick off on April 24th at 12AM ET, according to Target’s website. The preorder time applies to consoles, games, and accessories, the website says. Image: Target GameStop said on X
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SEAN GLADWELL/Getty Images The message from experts is clear: artificial intelligence (AI) can help professionals spend less time on repetitive, time-consuming tasks and more on value-adding activities. Also: 5 ways to manage your team more effectively in the AI-enabled enterprise However, there's just one issue: what are these value-adding activities? Senior executives may like the sound of highly paid staff spending less time on mundane activities, but only if these professionals use their
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It turns out that Silicon Valley’s tech bros can’t take a joke. Comedian Seth Rogen found this out the hard way this month, when he presented at an awards ceremony for scientific innovation, the Breakthrough Prize, which annually doles out awards of dubious merit to various members of the field’s gilded class. Rogan’s attempt at a light roast directed at the well-heeled audience, which included the likes of Google co-founder Sergei Brin and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, did not go over well. Rogen
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All across the country, a group of connectivity experts teaches locals, old and young, about the benefits of getting online. These workers, called Digital Navigators, link people in the community with the resources and opportunities they don't know exist, like arranging online health appointments, applying for jobs, doing homework and making their businesses visible on the internet. But the grant funding the Digital Navigators is one of many programs currently at risk. Under the Biden administ
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Inside a secretive set of buildings in Santa Barbara, California, scientists at Alphabet are working on one of the company's most ambitious bets yet. They're attempting to develop the world's most advanced quantum computers. "In the future, quantum and AI, they could really complement each other back and forth," said Julian Kelly, director of hardware at Google Quantum AI. Google has been viewed by many as late to the generative AI boom, because OpenAI broke into the mainstream first with Chat
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It turns out that Silicon Valley’s tech bros can’t take a joke. Comedian Seth Rogen found this out the hard way this month, when he presented at an awards ceremony for scientific innovation, the Breakthrough Prize, which annually doles out awards of dubious merit to various members of the field’s gilded class. Rogan’s attempt at a light roast directed at the well-heeled audience, which included the likes of Google co-founder Sergei Brin and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, did not go over well. Rogen
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If there’s one thing the auto industry hates, it’s uncertainty. When it takes upward of five or six years to bring a new car model to market, a certain administration throwing caution and global goodwill to the wind with a raft of unpredictable tariffs is decidedly bad news. Right now, the US tariff situation is constantly shifting, with limited exceptions being granted for certain manufacturers whose leaders are willing to bend the knee. While there is talk of some potential relief, global aut
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Netflix is building a new search experience aimed at improving the discovery experience, and it’s going to use AI to do it, the company’s CEO Greg Peters said during its first-quarter results conference call. Peters said Netflix is working on “interactive search that’s based on generative technologies” to help people find different titles. Answering an analyst’s question, Peters said the company’s most popular titles that dominate popular conversation draw 1% of traffic, and because of this tr
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In brief: Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder long known for his focus on global health and education, has predicted that artificial intelligence could soon resolve some of the world's most persistent workforce shortages. Speaking on the "People by WTF" podcast, Gates argued that AI's rapid progress will make it possible to overcome the chronic lack of doctors and teachers – a problem that has plagued both developed and developing countries for decades. "AI will come in and provide medical IQ,
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Once banned by rulers dispatched from Moscow, Poland’s stately polonaise dance that nurtured the country’s spirit even through the dark years of its partition is now honored by UNESCO. This 18th century dance has been performed from aristocratic balls to village celebrations, inspiring composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Frederic Chopin. It still figures prominently in big national occasions, pre-graduation balls and weddings. On Dec. 5, this living tradition was
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An employee walks past a quilt displaying Etsy Inc. signage at the company's headquarters in the Brooklyn. Etsy is trying to make it easier for shoppers to purchase products from local merchants and avoid the extra cost of imports as President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs raise concerns about soaring prices. In a post to Etsy's website on Thursday, CEO Josh Silverman said the company is "surfacing new ways for buyers to discover businesses in their countries" via shopping pages and by featu
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It is tough to remove bias, and in some cases, outright censorship, in large language models (LLMs). One such model, DeepSeek from China, alarmed politicians and some business leaders about its potential danger to national security. A select committee at the United States Congress recently released a report called DeepSeek, “a profound threat to our nation’s security,”
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In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images Google's antitrust woes are continuing to mount, just as the company tries to brace for a future dominated by artificial intelligence. On Thursday, a federal judge ruled that Google held illegal monopolies in online advertising markets due to its positio
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President Donald Trump’s tariffs have underscored the increasing geopolitical risk that almost all businesses now face. As the situation continues to shift with Trump’s unpredictable deal-making, it’s also becoming clear how challenging it is for companies, nonprofits, consultants, and lawyers to keep up with the rapid day-to-day changes. “We are drowning in trade updates every hour of every day,” Matthew Oresman, London managing partner of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, a global law firm, to
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Scientists have found the most compelling evidence to date of extraterrestrial life — and apparently the discovery was a lot to process, even for the researchers behind the finding. As NPR reports, Cambridge University astronomer Nikku Madhusudhan described the human impact of finding, along with his fellow researchers, strong biosignatures — possible signs of life, basically — when pointing the James Webb Space Telescope at the exoplanet K2-18b. "This is a question humanity has been asking fo
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UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare and Optum Health, saw its stock price plummet over 20% Thursday morning after the healthcare giant downgraded expected performance for the year. The company’s executives explained on a call with analysts Thursday that they had been surprised by increased use of physician and outpatient services within UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage business. UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty called the company’s performance “unusual and unacceptable,
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When we last checked in with Eleventh Hour Games and its debut title, the PC time-traveling action-RPG Last Epoch, it was an experiment built on the idea that a collection of Redditors could build a game. That was back during Gamescom in 2023, when I interviewed Judd “Moxjet” Cobler, the CEO of Eleventh Hour Games. Fast forward to now and the game has crossed more than 2.5 million copies sold to date. Now the team is launching Season 2 for the game in a 1.2 update dubbed Tombs of the Erased. A
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Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules Just now Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images A US judge has ruled tech giant Google has a monopoly in online advertising technology. The US Department of Justice, along with 17 US states, sued Google, arguing the tech giant was illegally dominating the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online and where. This is the second antitrust case Google has lost in a year, after it was ru
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Toothpaste can be widely contaminated with lead and other dangerous heavy metals, new research shows. Most of 51 brands of toothpaste tested for lead contained the dangerous heavy metal, including those for children, or marketed as green. The testing, conducted by Lead Safe Mama, also found concerning levels of highly toxic arsenic, mercury and cadmium in many brands. About 90% of toothpastes contained lead, 65% contained arsenic, just under half contained mercury, and one-third had cadmium. M
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When Matija Šošić started working in web development, he was surprised by how hard it was to build a full-stack production-ready web application. One of the biggest hurdles Šošić faced was navigating the fragmented dev tooling landscape. Coding a web application required utilizing different tools for developing the front-end versus the back-end, and so on. “The whole ecosystem is very modular and granulated,” Šošić told TechCrunch. “There’s a lot of these separate sub-systems, which you have t
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Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 47 minutes ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones & Chris Vallance Technology reporters Share Save Getty Images Discord is testing face scanning to verify some users' ages in the UK and Australia. The social platform, which says it has over 200 million monthly users around the world, was initially used by gamers but now has communities on a wide range of topics including pornography. The UK's online safety laws mean platforms with adult
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Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 46 minutes ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones & Chris Vallance Technology reporters Share Save Getty Images Discord is testing face scanning to verify some users' ages in the UK and Australia. The social platform, which says it has over 200 million monthly users around the world, was initially used by gamers but now has communities on a wide range of topics including pornography. The UK's online safety laws mean platforms with adult
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'Scammers used fake app to steal from me in person' 7 hours ago Share Save Nathan Heath BBC West Investigations Share Save BBC Anthony Rudd had power tools stolen in a fake banking app scam A man who lost £1,000 worth of tools after being scammed by a fake banking app has said it makes you "lose faith in humanity". The apps mimic legitimate mobile banking platforms and allow fraudsters to fake bank transfers in person, show the seller a "successful payment" message and then walk away, leaving
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When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good. Two of her online classes were completely full, boasting 32 students each. Even the classes’ waitlists, which fit 20 students, were maxed out. That had never happened before. “Teachers get excited when there’s a lot of interest in their class. I felt like, ‘Great, I’m going to have a whole bunch of students who are invested and learning,’’ Smith said. “But it quickly became clear that was not the case.” B
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Higher prices have come for your internet bill -- at least it feels that way for many. That’s according to a new CNET survey that found 63% of US adults paying for home internet saw their prices increase last year. On average, they paid $195 more last year than they did the year before. Price hikes didn’t necessarily translate to better service, either. More than half of people who saw their bills increase said they still experienced unreliable connectivity. The survey results come at a fraugh
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The search for life beyond Earth has led scientists to explore many suggestive mysteries, from plumes of methane on Mars to clouds of phosphine gas on Venus. But as far as we can tell, Earth’s inhabitants remain alone in the cosmos. Now a team of researchers is offering what it contends is the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, that orbits a star 120 light-years from Earth. A repeated analysis of the exoplanet’s
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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during the opening ceremony of the Siliconware Precision Industries Co. (SPIL) Tan Ke Plant in Taichung, Taiwan, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. A day after Nvidia revealed it would incur $5.5 billion in costs related to canceled orders for the H20 chip, which the government said this week requires a license to export to China, the company said it abides by rules on where it can sell its artificial intelligence processors. "The
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SAN FRANCISCO — How does a start-up founder hire a software engineer or a tech worker find a date in 2025? They could share a job posting on LinkedIn, log on to a dating app — or leave a handwritten note in a Waymo. That’s what Influur CEO Alessandra Angelini was thinking when she and Jennifer Lo Chan, Influur’s head of marketing, tucked a piece of paper into a self-driving taxi’s center console on a recent trip to San Francisco. “Looking to hire senior software engineers to work on AI/music pr
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Under the contract terms, Mauch will provide 100Mbps symmetrical Internet with unlimited data for $55 a month and 1Gbps with unlimited data for $79 a month. Mauch said his installation fees are typically $199. Unlike many larger ISPs, Mauch provides simple bills that contain a single line item for Internet service and no extra fees. Mauch also committed to participate in the Federal Communications Commission's Affordable Connectivity Program, which provides subsidies of $30 a month for househol
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