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On day three of the two-week remedies trial in the Justice Department’s ad tech case against Google, Judge Leonie Brinkema boiled down the argument to one key issue: trust. Brinkema interrupted testimony from a DOJ expert with a hypothetical: should she issue a strict order modifying Google’s behavior, could it resolve the issues at hand if “you had confidence that Google would actually act in complete good faith?”The question felt particularly pointed, given how the Google trial Brinkema presided over last year unfolded. Over three weeks, the DOJ repeatedly presented examples of Google employees allegedly using chat messages to avoid…

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Amazon is hosting its 2025 fall hardware event on Tuesday, September 30th, and it could be a packed show. The company’s invite has a few not-so-subtle hints about new Echos and a new Kindle. It will also be Amazon’s next big product event for Panos Panay, who joined Amazon in 2023 to head up its devices and services teams after a long career at Microsoft helping launch products like the Surface lineup.Amazon has taken some big swings under Panay’s leadership, launching a suite of new Kindle products last year — including the first color Kindle — and announcing its AI-powered…

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You can tell tech hardware design teams are getting bored. With the entire smartphone industry having unanimously decided that every device should become a featureless rounded rectangle, designers must be going out of their minds. Which perhaps explains what’s going on over at Xiaomi, because its latest creation is unhinged. Much like Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro, Xiaomi’s latest blower, the suspiciously similarly named Xiaomi 17 Pro, has a camera bar (sorry, plateau). Very much unlike Apple, Xiaomi’s decided its equivalent should double as a Game Boy. Inexplicably, m’colleague Tom Morgan-Freelander neglected to mention this in his write-up. He sensibly focused on how the screen on…

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Introduction How do you go about improving one of the world’s best pairs of noise-cancelling headphones? If you’re Bose, you give your fans exactly what they’ve been asking for. The Quietcomfort Ultra Headphones Gen 2 add in a bunch of new features, boost battery life, and aim to make the firm’s already excellent ANC even more nuanced. There’s plenty of the original Quietcomfort Ultra Headphones‘ DNA here too, though – including materials choices that don’t entirely align with the $450/£450 asking price. Are the changes enough to keep Bose in the fight against the likes of Sony’s WH-1000XM6 and the…

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Two good things have come from the 2023 bankruptcy of VanMoof. The first is the all-new VanMoof S6 e-bike that recently launched under new ownership. The second is a new commuter e-bike developed for Raleigh by VanMoof’s departed founders, Ties and Taco Carlier.Like a VanMoof, the Raleigh One e-bike comes with anti-theft features like GPS tracking and an alarm, cables routed through the aluminum frame, wide tires, mudguards, integrated lighting, and hauling options needed for daily commutes across a city. It also comes packed with lessons learned about reduced complexity and serviceability, including a bevy of off-the-shelf parts and a…

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Luxury tech Loewe recently teamed up with high-end jeweller Jacob & Co. to produce what it called “the world’s best over ear headphones”. The trouble was that at €100,000 a diamond-encrusted pair they were rather beyond the wallet of most people. As the German brand said at the time, there would be a version at a more palatable price point – and those headphones are now here costing £1299/€1299. Called Loewe Leo, these headphones are designed for top audio quality in mind, with 50mm drivers using an OCE (Olefin Composite Elastomer) diaphragm. They’re still costly compared to rivals such as…

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Editor’s note: Amazon’s fall Prime Day event kicks off on October 7th; however, if you want to shop ahead of the two-day sale, we’ve rounded up the best early Prime Day deals you can already get.After a long stretch of slim pickings, the last couple of years have been huge for Android smartwatches. Now there are more good options than ever — with more on the way soon.Much like Android phones, this market is fragmented. Wear OS 5 is still what most watches are running, including older Samsung Galaxy Watches, Google’s Pixel Watch 3, and the OnePlus Watch 3. However,…

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Following months of delays, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that’s supposed to “save” TikTok. Trump claims the deal will make the app “American-operated,” fulfilling the divest-or-ban law that threatened the China-owned app’s presence in the US. But the Trump administration didn’t reveal any information about who will own TikTok’s US operations, or how much they’ll own. And questions remain about whether the new agreement — and the steps taken to get there — is even legal.“The TikTok saga has been the single clearest articulation, the single most vivid example of the lawlessness of this administration, of its…

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The app for Amazon’s Blink security cameras experienced an issue for a few hours Friday night prevented users from accessing their cameras, but Amazon has rolled out a fix, spokesperson Emma Daniels tells The Verge. Users on Amazon’s general Blink support forum and on the Blink Cameras subreddit reported issues accessing the app, with many running into a vague error with a 503 status code.In a thread on Reddit with more than 150 comments, users from all over the US, including California, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, and Washington, reported seeing the 503 error. That thread was first posted at 4:54PM…

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Trump writes that he’s already stripped Monaco of security clearances, but suggests that her role at Microsoft now lets her access “Highly Sensitive Information.”Image: Truth SocialIt’s not clear why Trump took this moment to go after Monaco, but it’s possible he’s just now becoming aware of her Microsoft role. CNBC notes that Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo posted about Monaco’s new job just last night.Microsoft declined to comment on this story to The Verge. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Sean HollisterCloseSean HollisterPosts from this…

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Microsoft is testing a way that will make it easier to sift through all the clutter in your photo library. An update coming to all Windows 11 Insiders on Copilot Plus PCs introduces a new AI-powered feature on the Photos app that will place images of receipts, screenshots, identity documents, and handwritten notes in their own folders.Microsoft says the Photos app will automatically categorize these images based on their visual contents, even if the text in the image is in a language other than English. That means a photo of a Hungarian passport, for example, will still be sorted into…

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This is Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.Building humanoid robots is Meta’s next “AR size bet,” a top executive told me recently. That suggests the company plans to spend billions of dollars on the effort.During a recent conversation at Meta’s headquarters, CTO Andrew Bosworth said he stood up a robotics “research effort” earlier this year at the direction of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The team’s existence has been reported on before, but Bosworth hadn’t discussed its strategy in-depth until our interview.“I don’t think the hardware is…

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