Published on: 2025-05-07 00:00:00
writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. Google is opening up its Google Maps Platform data so that cities, developers, and other business decision makers can more easily access information about things like infrastructure and traffic, the company announced on Wednesday. Google is integrating new datasets for Google Maps Platform directly into BigQuery, the tech giant’s fully managed data analytics se
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Character.AI, the controversial chatbot startup embroiled in two separate lawsuits concerning the welfare of minor users, just rolled out a new "Parental Insights" feature that the company claims will give parents a deeper glimpse into how their kids are using the chatbot platform. In a blog post on Tuesday, the youth-beloved Character.AI characterized the feature as an "initial step" towards developing robust safety and parental control tools. Let's hope so: this tool appears to be absurdly ea
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Starbreeze today confirmed that Out of Sight, the upcoming horror puzzle title from The Gang, is officially launching on May 22 for PC and consoles. According to the publisher, the game itself launches on Steam, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch. Alongside this launch, Flat2VR Studios is launching a VR version, Out of Sight VR, on Meta Quest and PSVR2 on the same day. The studio describes Out of Sight as “[blending] first and second-person perspectives,” w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-27 01:26:00
Garmin is jumping into the fitness subscription game with a new AI-powered service designed to deliver smarter, more personalized insights to people who own its devices. The new service, called Garmin Connect Plus, is designed to give you more tailored, actionable insights using AI, plus extras like expert training tips and expanded LiveTrack features. Existing features and data in its Garmin Connect app will remain free, the company announced Thursday. Throughout the day, Garmin Connect Plus
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 09:08:11
Consumer advocates and the families of Tesla crash victims both called on Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy this week not to weaken oversight of the automotive industry. As with other government agencies, since the change of administrations in January, much of the messaging from the Department of Transportation has been on overturning regulations on industry and weakening oversight and consumer protection to create a "level... playing field." On Tuesday, seven family members of people kill
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More “Data is the new oil,” an adage coined by British data scientist Clive Humby back in the distant year 2006, has only gained in popularity in the last few years thanks to the generative AI boom. But if that’s true, why can’t you buy and sell data as easily as you could barrels of crude, as the commodity, as so many companies and people conceive of it? Instead, we’re und
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Researchers have found new evidence for a massive subsurface ocean on Mars, again raising the possibility of microbial life lurking deep below the Martian surface. As detailed in a paper in the journal Geology, Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics scientist Yuya Akamatsu and Hiroshima University associate professor Ikuo Katayama examined data collected by NASA's InSight Mars lander, which touched down on the Red Planet in 2018. "Many studies suggest the presence of water on ancient Mars b
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 16:53:53
In Brief Meta’s Oversight Board, the company’s independent group created to help with sensitive policy decisions, is preparing to weigh in on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent changes to how Facebook, Instagram, and Threads handle hate speech, Engadget reported. Zuckerberg announced an overhaul of its content moderation policies in January, shortly before the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, as part of an effort to allow “more speech” on its platforms. That effort included Meta rolling
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In Brief Meta’s Oversight Board, the company’s independent group created to help with sensitive policy decisions, is preparing to weigh in on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent changes to how Facebook, Instagram, and Threads handle hate speech, Engadget reported. Zuckerberg announced an overhaul of its content moderation policies in January, shortly before the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, as part of an effort to allow “more speech” on its platforms. That effort included Meta rolling
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Less than two weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Meta announced sweeping changes to its content moderation procedures, reportedly at the behest of Mark Zuckerberg and a small group of advisors. Among those caught off guard was the company’s own Oversight Board, the independent organization created by Meta to help shape its most sensitive policy decisions. The group is now looking to examine those changes, and in doing so, will test the enforceability of its own powers. The changes Meta h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 21:00:00
The modern internet is nearly three decades old, and it’s starting to show its age. Think back to the ’90s: some of what we built back then, though groundbreaking, now feels outdated. The Verge recently created a special issue on what we were doing online in 2004, highlighting how Web 2.0 was born. Take a step back and think about how we interact, transact, and spend our time online. Are we clinging to old structures that no longer serve us? Is it time to remodel our digital lives and rethink ho
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You might suspect that a one-line bill about Bigfoot that bears the number "666" is a joke, but AB-666 is apparently a serious offering from California Assemblymember Chris Rogers. Rogers represents a California district known for its Bigfoot sightings (or "sightings," depending on your persuasion—many of these have been faked), and he wants to make Bigfoot the "official cryptid" of the state. His bill notes that California already has many official symbols, including the golden poppy (official
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