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Leak: Valve is making a Steam Controller 2 and a ‘Roy’ for its Deckard

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Two years ago, Valve told The Verge it wanted a successor to its cult classic Steam...
Two years ago, Valve told The Verge it wanted a successor to its cult classic Steam Controller, whose incredibly customizable buttons and touchpads paved the way for the Steam Deck handheld PC. Now, Valve watcher Brad Lynch claims a Steam Controller 2 — codename “Ibex” — is actually getting made.His sources tell him...
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Google Gemini can remember things now

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Minecraft to follow live-action movie with theme parks

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Minecraft could soon be coming to a theme park near you. UK theme park company Merlin...
Minecraft could soon be coming to a theme park near you. UK theme park company Merlin Entertainments has announced the completion of a $110 million deal with developer Mojang to open Minecraft-themed attractions in the US and the UK. The attractions are planned to open in 2026 and 2027 and will either be new additio...
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Bose acquires premium audio brand McIntosh

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Bose has acquired the high-end audio brand McIntosh — a move that Bose says will “significantly”...
Bose has acquired the high-end audio brand McIntosh — a move that Bose says will “significantly” expand its product lineup. The acquisition, which also includes McIntosh subsidiary Sonus faber, also “opens new opportunities in the automotive sector,” as both companies plan to work together to expand their in-car aud...
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Netflix has a perfectly timed Razzlekhan doc coming out in December

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HarperCollins is asking authors to license their books for AI training

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Toyota shows off its latest big idea for cold hydrogen vehicles

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Toyota is pushing hydrogen-powered vehicle technology forward with a liquid hydrogen system design that includes a...
Toyota is pushing hydrogen-powered vehicle technology forward with a liquid hydrogen system design that includes a self-pressurizer to save escaping gas and reuse it as fuel to increase engine efficiency.Toyota introduced a liquid system in the GR Corolla H2 Concept in 2023, which keeps hydrogen at -253 degrees Cels...
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Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary says ‘there is no climate crisis’

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President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy is fossil fuel executive Chris Wright...
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy is fossil fuel executive Chris Wright — who has misleadingly claimed on LinkedIn that “there is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.” Hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, and other disasters exacerbated by clima...
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Inside Elon Musk’s messy breakup with OpenAI

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As OpenAI was ironing out a new deal with Microsoft in 2016 — one that would...
As OpenAI was ironing out a new deal with Microsoft in 2016 — one that would nab the young startup critical compute to build what would become ChatGPT — Sam Altman needed the blessing of his biggest investor, Elon Musk.“$60MM of compute for $10MM, and input from us on what they deploy in the cloud,” Altman messaged ...
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Dbrand’s new glow-in-the-dark skins have a circuit board texture you can feel

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Dbrand’s latest gadget skins capitalize on our curiosity to peek inside our electronics. Its new Circuit...
Dbrand’s latest gadget skins capitalize on our curiosity to peek inside our electronics. Its new Circuit Board collection, created in collaboration with LinusTechTips, features a complex pattern that looks like a functional PCB because the pattern was created with the assistance of engineers that design actual circu...
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Google may be about to reboot its laptop and tablet hardware again

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Google might be preparing to make big changes to its laptop and tablet hardware by making...
Google might be preparing to make big changes to its laptop and tablet hardware by making the software on its Chromebooks resemble what you’d find on a tablet. One report from Android Authority suggests that Google has a “multi-year project” in the works for migrating ChromeOS to Android, while a second one from the...
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The best sleep gadgets to help you catch those Zzzs

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Sleep tech runs the gamut from trackers and apps to expensive smart beds, but it doesn’t...
Sleep tech runs the gamut from trackers and apps to expensive smart beds, but it doesn’t all address the same issues. Are you trying to see how your sleep impacts your athletic performance? Hoping to mask the sound of a snoring partner? I’ve tested all sorts of sleep tech and can point you toward the right gadget fo...
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DoorDash will let you import your grocery list from Apple’s Reminders app

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Netflix’s Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight was a big moment for Bluesky

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It was morbid curiosity that made me tune in to Netflix’s live boxing match between Jake...
It was morbid curiosity that made me tune in to Netflix’s live boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson on Friday night. The stream ran into technical issues, and the fight itself was slow and ponderous. But there was something else that kept me watching: all of the jokes flying on Bluesky.That kind of real-tim...
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Substack says it could be profitable — but it still isn’t

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Substack still isn’t profitable despite attracting big names in the independent writer world, whose newsletters and...
Substack still isn’t profitable despite attracting big names in the independent writer world, whose newsletters and blogs rake in a massive digital subscriber base for the platform. Hamish McKenzie, one of Substack’s founders, told The New York Times that it could choose to be profitable but is focusing instead on “...
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A study found that X’s algorithm now loves two things: Republicans and Elon Musk

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Elon Musk’s X may have tweaked its algorithm to boost his account, along with those of...
Elon Musk’s X may have tweaked its algorithm to boost his account, along with those of other conservative-leaning users, starting around the time he announced his support of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. That’s according to a new study published by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), which found t...
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Making human music in an AI world

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Ge Wang doesn’t use computers to make music the way most people use computers make music....
Ge Wang doesn’t use computers to make music the way most people use computers make music. He uses computers to make... computer music. Wang works at Stanford, as an associate professor in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He also conducts the school’s famed Laptop Orchestra, was a co-founder o...
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Sometimes you just need a straightforward, old-school RPG

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We’re in a pretty good moment for sprawling, complex role-playing games. New releases like Metaphor: ReFantazio...
We’re in a pretty good moment for sprawling, complex role-playing games. New releases like Metaphor: ReFantazio and Dragon Age Absolution, along with older titles like Elden Ring (including this year’s expansion), Cyberpunk 2077, and Baldur’s Gate 3 have sucked millions of people into their expansive worlds. They ca...
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Netflix served the Tyson vs. Paul fight to 60 million households

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Netflix peaked at “65 million concurrent streams” during the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake...
Netflix peaked at “65 million concurrent streams” during the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul last night, according to Most Valuable Promotions, the promoter for the fight. Those streams went out to 60 million households globally, the group said in a press release shared with The Verge via email. That’s...
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The FTC says spam call complaints are way down since 2021

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Complaints about unwanted telemarketing calls have dropped for the third straight year, the Federal Trade Commission...
Complaints about unwanted telemarketing calls have dropped for the third straight year, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday. Reports of such calls have fallen by over 50 percent versus 2021, according to the FTC — a decline that could be thanks in no small part to stepped-up government efforts to fight ...
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Which MagSafe and Qi2 chargers are the best for your iPhone?

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Wireless charging is less efficient than plugging in a wire, but it’s certainly convenient — especially...
Wireless charging is less efficient than plugging in a wire, but it’s certainly convenient — especially when you add magnets. Most people who have an iPhone 12 or later and want a magnetic charger should get a Qi2 charger. Any Qi2-certified charger will charge a MagSafe iPhone at up to 15W — just as fast as MagSafe ...
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Narwal’s Freo X Ultra, the best mopping robot available, is on sale for a new low price

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Hosting Thanksgiving dinner is fun and all, but the amount of cleaning you have to do...
Hosting Thanksgiving dinner is fun and all, but the amount of cleaning you have to do afterward can be exhausting. The Narwal Freo X Ultra robot vacuum / mop hybrid can help speed things up, though, and it’s currently down to an all-time low of $849.99 (about $690 off) at Best Buy and Amazon (when you apply the on-p...
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Gabe Newell says Half-Life 2: Episode 3 didn’t happen because he was ‘stumped’

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Unsurprisingly, yesterday’s big Half-Life release wasn’t the sequel to Half-Life 2 or even the third Half-Life...
Unsurprisingly, yesterday’s big Half-Life release wasn’t the sequel to Half-Life 2 or even the third Half-Life 2: Episode entry, but a 20th-anniversary update to Valve’s legendary 2004 game. And given what studio co-founder Gabe Newell has to say on the subject in a 2-hour documentary that the company released in ta...
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NFL fans worry Netflix’s bad Tyson vs. Paul stream means it can’t handle football

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Netflix’s livestream of the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul boxing match was a mess. I’m not...
Netflix’s livestream of the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul boxing match was a mess. I’m not talking about the bout itself — although people had their qualms with that, too — it’s the livestream, which people across the internet complained was plagued by buffering, unstable, and unwatchable muddiness. That doesn’t bode wel...
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