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Angela Bassett as Queen Ramonda. | Image: Marvel Studios Marvel’s Black Panther sequel is a moving farewell to Chadwick Boseman and a heady rumination on the many different forms grief can take in the wake of death. Continue reading…

Walmart is selling the first-gen AirPods Pro for just $159, which is a $90 discount. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Just like Best Buy and Target, Walmart’s already starting to release some of its Black Friday deals so you can get a head start. The retailer started rolling out discounts online as … Read more

The key question in the lawsuit is whether open-source code can be reproduced by AI without attached licenses. | Credit: Getty Images Microsoft, its subsidiary GitHub, and its business partner OpenAI have been targeted in a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the companies’ creation of AI-powered coding assistant GitHub Copilot relies on “software piracy … Read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nintendo could be planning a deeper dive into the mobile gaming industry to make up for a slowdown in Switch sales. Along with its earnings report released on Tuesday (PDF), the company announced a joint venture with DeNA, the Japanese mobile gaming giant that co-developed several Nintendo titles … Read more

PhotoRoom’s new feature has a few issues to work on, but it’s a great example of how AI-powered image generation could be practically applied for small businesses. | Image: PhotoRoom / The Verge Photo editing app PhotoRoom has launched a new feature named Magic Studio that uses AI to personalize product shots for e-commerce vendors … Read more

The Apple Watch Series 8 is at a new low price today. | Image: Apple With Black Friday just a few weeks away now, the deals seem to be just getting better and better. If you were waiting until the big day to score a stellar deal on the new Apple Watch Series 8, Amazon … Read more

Monster Hunter: World. | Image: Capcom The Monster Hunter series is coming to your smartphone. Capcom has announced a partnership with TiMi Studio Group for a new Monster Hunter title developed specifically for mobile. There aren’t many details on the actual game — including when it might be available — but the companies say that … Read more

Photo by Loren Grush / The Verge A vocal Tesla critic is alleging that Twitter rejected an anti-Tesla ad from his safety advocacy group, claiming that the ad violates the company’s policy against “political” advertising. The Dawn Project, an anti-Tesla advocacy group fronted by software developer Dan O’Dowd, claims that Twitter rejected its attempts to … Read more

Amazon emphasizes that the new navigation options are all “within a thumb’s reach.” | Image: Amazon Amazon Photos on Android has been redesigned to make app navigation and sharing photos and videos easier for its users, bringing the service in line with a similar update that rolled out to iOS devices almost a year ago. … Read more

These glowing eyes will be your host. | Image: Netflix Netflix’s Triviaverse is a new a “quick-hit trivia experience” that will begin rolling out on the streaming service on Tuesday. Games are fast, typically under five minutes, and you can play by yourself or head-to-head with another person. I got to check it out ahead … Read more

Image: Nvidia Nvidia paused the launch of its 12GB RTX 4080 graphics card last month, after a backlash over the naming and pricing. Now a well-known leaker says the “unlaunched” GPU will return as the RTX 4070 Ti in January, as Nvidia attempts to fix the confusing naming around two RTX 4080 cards that had … Read more

Photo by Eric Piermont / AFP via Getty Images Google and the Renault Group are expanding their four-year-old partnership to include the development of an advanced software platform for future vehicles. This “software-defined vehicle” will be built on Google’s Android Automotive operating system and send data to the company’s cloud servers for processing, the companies … Read more

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge If Friday brought massive layoffs to Twitter, Monday brought fresh evidence that the company will never be the same. Musk has discussed putting the entire site behind a paywall, Platformer has learned. Meanwhile, the company is scrambling to lure back employees who it laid off mere hours ago, … Read more

For when your boss really wants to be on the big screen. | Image: The Verge File this one under collaborations we didn’t see coming: AMC is working with Zoom to turn some of its movie theaters into massive videoconferencing spaces for 75 to 150 people for when you really need your meeting to leave … Read more

Vjeran Pavic / The Verge I can’t change my screen name on Twitter. I can change my bio. But not my screen name. So although I was helpfully trying to describe myself as “Elizabeth Lopatto (parody)” that simply wasn’t possible. TFW Twitter is broken Now I hear Elon Musk fired about 50 percent of Twitter … Read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile is reportedly considering building a multibillion-dollar fiber network that it would use to provide home internet service, according to Bloomberg. While the company started testing fiber internet last year, its main home-focused offering connects with 5G instead of other wired infrastructure like DSL or cable. Bloomberg reports … Read more

A screenshot from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. | Image: Activision Blizzard Activision Blizzard’s 2023 plans for Call of Duty include the “next full premium release in the blockbuster annual series,” according to the company’s third-quarter earnings published Monday (pdf). While that wouldn’t be particularly notable most years given the regular fall release cycle … Read more

Nanoleaf’s new Lines Squared were released this week. | Image: Nanoleaf Nanoleaf’s flexible smart LED light bars have a new angle. The $99.99 Nanoleaf Lines Squared is a new take on the Nanoleaf Lines, adding the option of a 90-degree angle to the backlit modular smart lighting product. Using new square mounting connectors, Nanoleaf Lines … Read more

Nick Barclay / The Verge The Department of Justice announced it’s seized around 50,676 Bitcoin that a 32-year-old from Georgia fraudulently obtained from The Silk Road — a site on the dark web once called “the Amazon of drugs” — in 2012. After seemingly tipping authorities off to his large cache of Bitcoin a few … Read more

Lille Allen / The Verge Twitter’s daily user growth hit “all-time highs” during the first full week of Elon Musk owning the platform, according to a company document obtained by The Verge. Since Musk’s dramatic takeover, Twitter’s monetizable daily user (mDAU) growth has accelerated to more than 20 percent, while “Twitter’s largest market, the US, … Read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google has released its monthly security update for the Pixel lineup, and as far as bug fixes go, the list for November’s patch is pretty small. The main improvements aim to improve battery life for the Pixel 7 and Pixel 6 devices. The 2022 flagships get “optimizations … Read more

Photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images Wordle will now have its own dedicated editor to help make the hit guessing game word puzzles, The New York Times announced on Monday. Tracy Bennett will be the editor, and the game will have a word list curated by the NYT and “be programmed and tested” … Read more

Insert chainsaw noise here. | Image: Netflix Netflix is planning a slate of Gears of War adaptations, the streaming service announced on Monday. First up is a “live action feature film,” then “an adult animated series,” and after that, there’s the “potential for more stories to follow,” Netflix said. Netflix will be working with The … Read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge You have an opportunity to buy a PlayStation 5 console ahead of the holidays if you jump into the queue at Sony’s online hardware shop. At the time of publication, it’s offering the $499.99 disc-based PS5 console (the more elusive $399.99 digital edition that lacks a disc drive … Read more

iFixit now stocks genuine parts for all sixth-gen Pixel phones | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Thanks to a partnership with Google, the right-to-repair champions at iFixit have begun stocking parts for Google’s midrange phone, the Pixel 6A. While iFixit has stocked genuine parts for just about all of Google’s Pixel phones since … Read more

Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer. | Image: Netflix Spooky season 2022’s firmly behind us at this point, but Netflix’s choice to renew The Watcher and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story makes it seem like the streamer’s already looking forward to next year’s. Netflix announced today that it’s ordered more seasons of both The … Read more

A flooded house following Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida, on Thursday, September 29th, 2022. | Image: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images Two new tools debuted today that allow US residents to see what hazards climate change might bring to their doorsteps in the future. Each online tool assesses harsh conditions that could potentially … Read more

Vertical video is coming to a TV near you. (Vertical TVs next?) | Image: YouTube YouTube Shorts is working. That much Todd Sherman knows for sure. Sherman, the product manager behind YouTube’s endless-scrolling short-form TikTok competitor, is quick to quote the numbers: 1.5 billion users a month are watching Shorts, and they’re watching 30 billion … Read more

Signal is rolling out its new Stories feature to iOS and Android users today, with desktop “coming soon.” | Image: Signal Stories are now available to everyone on Signal, allowing users of the encrypted instant messaging service to create and share images, videos, and texts that automatically expire after 24 hours. The feature was first … Read more