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Panic says the Playdate Catalog won't accept games made with generative AI

Panic, the company behind the tiny and excellent Playdate console, is taking a stand on generative AI. The company has published an AI disclosure that says as of this month, the Playdate Catalog “will no longer accept titles that use ‘Generative AI’ for art, audio, music, text, o

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Our new favorite budget phones

Over the last few months, every phone maker under the sun has refreshed its lineups, especially at the affordable end, with no major budget phone launches now expected until next year. That made it the perfect time to go back and reassess The Verge's recommendations for the best

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The best budget smartphones you can buy

Some of us take a kind of “eat to live” rather than a “live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that help you get things done, not something you want to invest a lot of time or money in. If that’s you — and there’s no judgment here from a certifiable gadget nerd — […]

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Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus

Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus across the US and Canada. It aims to help speed up drive-thru service and "encourage customers to add more food to their orders, " according to The Wall Str

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Exit 8 is cinema for the livestreaming era

The rules of Exit 8, both the cult indie game and the recent film adaptation, are simple: You're stuck in a subway station that loops around endlessly. If you notice any anomalies on your current loop, you turn around. If everything is the same, you keep going forward. Each succe

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The AirPods Pro 3 are $50 off right now, nearly matching their best-ever price

From OLED TVs to smartphones, Best Buy’s Upgrade Sale has slashed prices on all kinds of tech, including a wide range of Apple devices. We’ve rounded up the best deals from the sale here, but one of the most notable is the AirPods Pro 3, which are down to $199. 99 ($50 off) at Be

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Uber will now pick up your returns from your doorstep

The new returns feature is the company's latest effort to become an everything app.

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Anthropic now has a design assistant too

In hindsight, I suppose it was only a matter of time after Anthropic made Claude capable of generating charts and diagrams that the company would then begin offering a more robust image editor. Now, a little more than a month after that release, Anthropic has announced Claude Des

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Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.

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Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada

Amidst ongoing legal trouble with several states and more than 100 pending lawsuits, this week Roblox announced a $12 million settlement with Nevada, allowing the company to avoid going to trial in this case. Following the agreement, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford said "this

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Donut Lab's battery claims reportedly subject of whistleblower complaint

Startup Donut Lab made a splash at the start of the year with some astonishing — and suspicious — claims about its solid state batteries. Now Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reports an individual has filed a criminal whistleblower complaint against the company over those clai

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Google’s AI Mode can now help you find products in stock nearby

Although you can already track hotel prices at the city level, the new update lets you do so for a specific hotel that you're interested in.

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The South Korean president is doing quote-post diplomacy

"This is no different from Comfort Women or the Holocaust, " wrote South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on X last week, quoting a post with a video of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers throwing a body off a rooftop in Gaza. The president's post kicked off an internet firestorm for

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With US spy laws set to expire, lawmakers are split over protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance

Some lawmakers are calling for widespread reforms following years of surveillance scandals and abuses across successive U. S. administrations. But even if the spy law known as Section 702 expires in April, the government's spy powers will not automatically lapse.

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Peloton, stay in your lane

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. The camera zooms in on two well-formed cheeks clad

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Ghost orchid in the machine

Vacuum cleaners, personal massagers, electronic baby rockers, and walking pads: These are the secondhand machines Rachel Youn sources to create their kinetic sculptures. Made with artificial flowers, metal hardware, and these used electronic components, each one possesses a human

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The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap

In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one of a bunch of things this week that made us wonder: have we reached the peak of AI

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Bluesky confirms DDoS attack is cause of continued app outages

Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a. m. ET. on April 15.

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Netflix plans to add a vertical video feed, use AI for recommendations

Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation and recommendations.

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SaySo is a new short-form video app that aims to restore users’ trust in news

Users are fed up with misinformation and AI slop cluttering their feeds. SaySo is a new short-form video app that delivers news from vetted creators and journalists.

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