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Despite recent signs of life, another week has come and gone without the Trump T1 Phone. We’re now over nine months since its announcement in June of last year, and it just keeps missing ship dates. That’s enough time to gestate and birth a whole human baby! It’s also like, three (RIP) Samsung Galaxy Z TriFolds long. Which got me to thinking, what other products and services arrived — and maybe even departed — in the time that we’ve been waiting for the T1? Here is an incomplete list:This is clearly not an exhaustive list of happenings, but you know,…
While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday, many great iPad deals are available outside of those moments. The day-to-day discounts come and go like the changing winds, so there’s often some amount to be saved somewhere, particularly on Apple’s most affordable iPad and the latest iPad Mini. Hell, you can even often find discounts on the latest M5 iPad Pro, which is already on sale at multiple retailers.All that being said, it’s difficult to know where exactly you can find the most notable iPad deals unless you’re scouring the major retailers on a…
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.You can trace the state of health tech today to a single gadget: the Apple Watch Series 4.Back in 2018, smartwatches and fitness bands focused on a handful of things: step count, heart rate, some light sleep monitoring, and activity logging. As a result, they were much more focused on fitness rather than overall health. Handy if you were trying to increase activity levels…
Few things kill the vibe of your relaxing spring break abroad faster than realizing you forgot a way to keep things charged. Anker’s Nano Travel Adapter makes it easy to charge your phone, camera, e-readers, and other devices anywhere you travel. Right now, you can buy it at its all-time low of $19.99 ($6 off) at Amazon and directly from Anker (with code WS7DV2S3TD3T).The wall adapter features four plug types (A, C, G, and I), allowing it to work in over 200 countries spanning Europe, the UK, Australia, Asia, and South America. Weighing just 3.77 ounces and at less than…
Two weeks ago I set aside my M4 MacBook Air and picked up a nine-year-old ThinkPad. It’s one of an estimated 200 to 400 million Windows 10 PCs that don’t meet Microsoft’s requirements for Windows 11. When Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 10 in October, it became “obsolete.” The solution, according to Microsoft, is to get rid of it and buy a computer that can run Windows 11.But that’s not good enough. This ThinkPad — like millions of other PCs in the same boat — is still perfectly functional. Its hardware is more than capable of everyday tasks. I’ve…
All week, we’ve been asking you to help us rank the 50 best products Apple ever made, as we mark the company’s 50th anniversary. Thanks to everyone who pitched in – we ended up with more than 1.6 million votes! We also have lots of other coverage of Apple’s first half century, and you should check it all out. All those votes later, we have some answers. And some thoughts. Verge subscribers, don’t forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast wherever you get your podcasts. Head here. Not a subscriber? You can sign up here. On this episode of…
Utah is allowing an AI system to prescribe psychiatric drugs without a doctor. It’s only the second time the state — and the country — has delegated this kind of clinical authority to AI. State officials say it could bring costs down and ease care shortages, but physicians warn the system is opaque, risky, and unlikely to expand mental health care to those who need it.The one-year pilot, announced last week, will allow Legion Health’s AI chatbot to renew certain prescriptions for psychiatric medications, in some cases. The San Francisco startup promises Utah-based patients “fast, simple refills” through a $19-a-month…
Reddit is deprecating r/all, one of its feeds that shows popular posts on the platform, as part of “ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization.”Reddit has offered both r/popular and r/all as ways to see trending posts, with r/all being a “less filtered feed” where “sexually explicit posts are filtered out but other popular Not Safe for Work (NSFW) posts are included.” But in January, Reddit said it had removed r/all from its apps as part of an “experiment” and that, as part of a separate experiment, some desktop users wouldn’t see r/all in their sidebar. (The…
If you use the AI-powered note-taking app Granola, you might want to double-check your privacy settings. Though Granola says your notes are “private by default,” it makes them viewable to anyone with a link, and also uses them for internal AI training unless you opt out.Granola describes itself as an “AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings.” It integrates with your calendar to capture audio from your meetings, and then uses AI to generate a bulleted list of what you’ve heard, which it calls a “note.” You can edit the AI-generated notes, invite other collaborators to view them, and use…
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is officially exiting beta. The Organization for Transformative Works — the nonprofit behind the fanfiction site — announced the update on Thursday, which comes 17 years after AO3’s launch in 2009.“Since 2009, AO3 has grown and changed a lot,” the announcement says. “We’ve introduced many features over the years through the efforts of our volunteers and coding contributors, as well as the contractors we’ve been able to hire thanks to generous donations from our users.”The post highlights some of the features that AO3 has since its launch, including a tagging system, fanworks downloads, privacy settings…
Governor Kathy Hochul and other New York state lawmakers want 3D-printer companies to block the printing of components used to create “ghost guns” — firearms without serial numbers that can be printed privately, easily avoiding a background check.At a press event on Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said two 3D-printing companies had voluntarily agreed to adopt technology that would block the creation of guns using their printers; another digital design company agreed to remove some firearm CAD files (the printing blueprints) from their services, Bragg said. Lawmakers have proposed legislation that would make it illegal to sell or possess…
During Wednesday’s game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Milwaukee Brewers, umpire CB Bucknor took a foul ball to the mask and had to be helped off the field. It was the cap to what has been a particularly bad week for one of the most controversial umpires in baseball.It started with perhaps the best example of how MLB’s Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System can inject drama in baseball. This is the first year for the new robot umpire, which allows hitters, catchers, and pitchers to challenge balls and strikes for the first time. Each team starts a game…