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Google has announced it will reverse a major content moderation decision: YouTube will offer channels that were banned for spreading covid and election misinformation in 2020 a pathway back onto the platform.In a letter sent to the House Judiciary Committee, Alphabet’s lawyers claimed that the Biden administration had previously “pressed the Company” to remove user-generated Covid-19 content that had not violated Alphabet’s policies, and that the “political atmosphere” had forced their hand. “It is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden Administration, attempts to dictate how the Company moderates content,” they wrote.Stating that YouTube’s Community Guidelines around election…
Amazon recently announced that its fall Prime Day sale — once again dubbed Prime Big Deal Days — will kick off on Tuesday, October 7th, and run through October 8th. While you have a few weeks to get your wishlist in order, the retailer isn’t waiting for the main event to roll out the savings. Amazon has already started dropping early deals and discounts on a range of gadgets, from phones to charging stations. You can even get three months of Kindle Unlimited for free.We saw some great deals during Amazon’s four-day Prime Day event in July — hell, Apple’s…
Major League Baseball will use so-called robot umpires at home plate beginning in 2026, the league announced today. The system has been tested in minor league games (as explained in this video, included below), spring training, and events like the 2025 All-Star Game.The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) is seen as a fairer, more accurate way to call when a pitch is a ball or a strike, which currently is done by the home plate human umpire. A pitch is a ball when it’s thrown outside the strike zone and a strike when it’s within the zone, but home plate umps…
You’ll never believe this, but TikTok has gotten ahold of an idea that’s not quite right and taken off running with it.I know. I was shocked too. But the TikTok algorithm giveth, and over the past week it hath given us a whole bunch of videos promoting the idea that Apple is offering screaming trade-in offers for the iPhone 13 Pro Max — that model specifically — leading people to believe that it was the greatest iPhone of all time and Apple desperately wants them all back. The video below has been viewed almost 7 million times. And honestly? The…
Established 100 years ago, Bang & Olufsen has always been known for its high-end but sparse design aesthetic, but until now hasn’t really been able to impress this on the wireless earbuds it has developed over the last few years. That’s all changed with the compact Beo Grace earbuds called ‘wearable sculpture’ – they have a slim aluminium form inspired by jewellery and echoing the company’s A8 wired earphones, with design details such as a metal speaker grille. Indeed, the Danish company has even created a bespoke leather pouch with shoulder strap as an extra accessory in black, red and…
The Savant, the upcoming Apple TV Plus show about law enforcement working to prevent domestic terrorism, was slated to premiere this Friday. But the streamer has quietly pulled the series from its release slate and it’s not clear if or when it will now debut.Based on Andrea Stanley’s 2019 Cosmopolitan article “Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?”, The Savant follows as investigator Jodi Goodwin (Jessica Chastain) infiltrates an online group of US extremists who are planning a deadly terror attack. In a trailer for the series released last month, Chastain’s character specializes in hunting down…
The experimental tool is available through public beta in the US. The format is visually similar to platforms like FigJam or Adobe’s Firefly Boards, so this isn’t a unique concept, but it’s interesting to see Google developing more design-based apps.Mixboard users can add their own images, or generate visuals with descriptions like “show me cups, bowls, and plates in Memphis style,” or “plan an autumn party in my living room.” The tool can be used to explore ideas for decorating your home, planning events, or just creating an ensemble of amusing images for entertainment — similar to Pinterest boards. Google…
President Donald Trump was the final speaker at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, capping off six hours of an intensely evangelical, borderline nationalist Christian revival. He entered with the biggest pyrotechnics of the day while Lee Greenwood himself serenaded him live with “God Bless the USA.” And the moment he began to speak, I noticed something odd: people were already streaming toward the exits.It was curious, for up until that point, the crowd of 70,000, packed to the gills of the State Farm Stadium in Arizona, had been completely enraptured. Trump had followed pastors who’d spoken about Kirk’s faith, influencers who’d…
If you’re a frequent traveler with kids, trying to connect everybody’s devices to the hotel or airport Wi-Fi can be stressful. TP-Link’s BE3600 Wi-Fi 7 Travel Router makes the process much easier, and it’s currently on sale for $99.99 ($40 off) at Amazon when you apply the code 20WR36029 at checkout, which marks a new low price.Small enough to slip into your backpack, the Wi-Fi 7 router makes it quick and easy to get online wherever there’s internet service. Rather than connecting each device into public Wi-Fi individually, all you need to do is just connect it to the router.…
Figma is launching some new updates that allow AI models to directly communicate with its app-building tool and access designs remotely. Figma’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) server — a bridge that enables AI models to tap directly into the code behind prototypes and designs created using Figma’s tools — has now been expanded to support the design platform’s AI prompt-to-app coding tool, Figma Make.“By using a Figma Make file via an MCP client, AI models can see the underlying code instead of a rendered prototype or image,” Figma’s technology chief, Kris Rasmussen, said in the announcement blog. “The Figma MCP…
The last year has brought some of the biggest changes to Google’s search results pages that I have ever seen in my near-decade of experience working in digital media. And not all of those changes are welcome.Thankfully, there’s now a way to customize what you see in search — and to prioritize seeing The Verge. You can do this by selecting The Verge as a preferred source in Google. This tells Google that you want to see us in the “Top stories” carousel on its search results page whenever our coverage is relevant to your search.The easiest way to do…
On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Mia Sato takes us through all the news from last week’s Made On YouTube event, and explains why live content is so important — and so hard to cultivate. YouTube’s other big focus this year appears to be AI, again, and Mia helps us figure out whether all this AI is going to make YouTube better or make it utterly unwatchable. Maybe both.After that, it’s time for the second and final round of Summer Takes, in which David subjects The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes and Hayden Field to his spicy feelings about podcast…