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Walmart sued over illegally opening bank accounts for delivery drivers

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is suing Walmart and payroll service provider Branch Messenger for...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is suing Walmart and payroll service provider Branch Messenger for alleged illegal payment practices for gig workers. The bureau says Walmart was opening direct deposit accounts using Spark delivery drivers’ social security numbers without their consent. The accounts a...
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How Netflix took on live TV — and got ready to take on the NFL

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Brandon Riegg has spent the better part of a decade trying to make live TV happen...
Brandon Riegg has spent the better part of a decade trying to make live TV happen at Netflix. He joined the company in 2016, after stints at NBC, ABC, and VH1, where he’d worked on shows like Dancing with the Stars, The Voice, and America’s Got Talent. All those shows were the kind of unscripted reality fare he’d be...
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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2024) review: slightly larger, slightly faster, slightly better

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Three years have passed since Amazon last updated its flagship e-reader, and while this year’s Kindle...
Three years have passed since Amazon last updated its flagship e-reader, and while this year’s Kindle lineup seemed focused on Amazon’s first color offering, the Paperwhite still got some welcome improvements. With a higher-contrast screen and snappier performance, the 12th-generation Kindle Paperwhite remains the b...
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Trump announces new tech policy picks for his second term

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Nosferatu is the stuff of exquisitely erotic nightmares

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Even if you haven’t seen F.W. Murnau’s original Nosferatu or read Bram Stoker’s Dracula, those stories...
Even if you haven’t seen F.W. Murnau’s original Nosferatu or read Bram Stoker’s Dracula, those stories have undoubtedly shaped your ideas about vampires. They weren’t the first tales about undead ghouls rising from the grave to suck the blood out of the living. But by presenting their monsters in such wildly innovat...
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All of Canoo’s employees are reportedly on a ‘mandatory unpaid break’

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10 great shows to stream on Amazon Prime Video from 2024

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Amazon’s Prime Video had a bunch of strong releases in 2024, ranging from a surprisingly great...
Amazon’s Prime Video had a bunch of strong releases in 2024, ranging from a surprisingly great video game adaptation to a visually pleasing fantasy spinoff. There’s even an update to the raunchiest superhero show in streaming. It had plenty of other series worth watching, too — even with the pesky commercial breaks ...
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Apple is working on a doorbell camera with Face ID

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An iPhone owner’s guide to living off the app grid

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The grid is a comfortable place to live.The app grid, I mean: the rows and rows...
The grid is a comfortable place to live.The app grid, I mean: the rows and rows of app icons on your iPhone’s homescreen. It’s familiar. Safe. It’s how I’ve lived with my various phones over the past decade. But at some point, it started to feel oppressive. All those icons staring at me in the face, vying for my att...
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The Verge’s favorite books from 2024

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When it comes to entertainment and education, we can choose from podcasts, videos, games, live performances,...
When it comes to entertainment and education, we can choose from podcasts, videos, games, live performances, or books, one of the oldest and still most popular ways to learn something new or escape (at least temporarily) from today’s troubled world. We asked the staff of The Verge what their favorite reads were in 2...
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A new and better way to control your smart home

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 65, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 65, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, get ready to take up all your phone’s storage space, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This is the last Installer of the year! I’m taking a couple of ...
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Gemini can now tell when a PDF is on your phone screen

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The US finalizes CHIPS Act funding for Samsung and Texas Instruments

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The US Commerce Department has awarded Samsung and Texas Instruments with a combined over $6 billion...
The US Commerce Department has awarded Samsung and Texas Instruments with a combined over $6 billion in “direct funding under the CHIPS Incentives Program’s Funding Opportunity for Commercial Fabrication,” according to a pair of announcements published on Friday.Samsung will get the larger of the two awards at $4.74...
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Here’s the first CoPilot plus mini PC with Intel’s new Core Ultra 9 processors

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Asus has announced the Asus NUC 14 Pro AI, the first Copilot Plus-capable AI mini PC...
Asus has announced the Asus NUC 14 Pro AI, the first Copilot Plus-capable AI mini PC that crams an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor into a form factor resembling a black M4 Mac Mini. First introduced at IFA in September, Asus is providing a little more detail about the mini PC’s specs than it did before, but still isn’t...
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ModRetro Chromatic review: an arms dealer’s Game Boy is among the best ever made

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If Lockheed Martin made a Game Boy, would you buy one?In the 1990s, I was among...
If Lockheed Martin made a Game Boy, would you buy one?In the 1990s, I was among the kids who thought military aircraft were devastatingly cool. By then, Tom Cruise and Top Gun had long established the F-14 Tomcat and a pair of aviator shades as a fantasy for young men; I personally preferred the Lockheed F-117A, the...
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Here are the shipping and return policies for all the big-name retailers

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As people scramble for last-minute gifts and late-year bargains, everyone is double-checking their lists and figuring...
As people scramble for last-minute gifts and late-year bargains, everyone is double-checking their lists and figuring out the fastest way to get their purchases. Thankfully, many retailers are offering generous shipping policies for their products, with some offering free two-day shipping or even same-day delivery i...
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The AI talent wars are just getting started

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For my last issue of the year, I’m focusing on the AI talent war, which is...
For my last issue of the year, I’m focusing on the AI talent war, which is a theme I’ve been covering since this newsletter launched almost two years ago. And keep reading for the latest from inside Google and Meta this week.But first, I need your questions for a mailbag issue I’m planning for my first issue of 2025...
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This 240W USB-C cable’s connector both rotates and bends

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YouTube is cracking down on clickbait

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OpenAI teases new reasoning model—but don’t expect to try it soon

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For the last day of ship-mas, OpenAI previewed a new set of frontier “reasoning” models dubbed...
For the last day of ship-mas, OpenAI previewed a new set of frontier “reasoning” models dubbed o3 and o3-mini. The Verge first reported that a new reasoning model would be coming during this event.The company isn’t releasing these models today (and admits final results may evolve with more post-training). However, O...
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NHTSA finally releases new rules for self-driving cars — but there’s a twist

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a new “voluntary national framework for the evaluation and...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a new “voluntary national framework for the evaluation and oversight” of autonomous vehicles, a bureaucratic first step that could eventually open the floodgates for fully driverless cars. But there’s a twist: the agency wants self-driving car companies to...
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Three of the biggest US banks are facing a lawsuit for ‘widespread fraud’ on Zelle

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed a lawsuit against Zelle and three banks that...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed a lawsuit against Zelle and three banks that own it — Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase — claiming they failed “to protect consumers from widespread fraud.” Zelle is a payment network designed to compete with payment platforms like Venmo and Ca...
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The proposed climate fix tech companies just spent millions on? Rocks.

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To try to counteract the impact their pollution has on the climate, Google and other big...
To try to counteract the impact their pollution has on the climate, Google and other big companies have bought into a plan to trap carbon dioxide using rocks. They recently announced multimillion dollar deals with a Sheryl Sandberg-backed startup called Terradot.Google, H&M Group, and Salesforce are among a gaggle o...
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Squid Game: Unleashed is a fun game and a terrible adaptation

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In Squid Game, schoolyard games are turned into nightmares, as players compete to survive and —...
In Squid Game, schoolyard games are turned into nightmares, as players compete to survive and — if they’re lucky — earn a massive cash prize. But in Unleashed, a new mobile spinoff that’s part of the streamer’s fledgling gaming efforts, those games are fun. It’s a strange experience that sands off much of the appeal...
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