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22 Oct 2024

Tesla’s Cybertruck range extender just became an even worse deal

Tesla has delayed the release of its range extender for the Cybertruck and downgraded the amount of mileage it will add for the dual-motor version of the truck, as noticed by Electrek. The reduced range and delay are just more ways that the Cybertruck, which saw some big changes from when it was first announced, has had trouble living up to its hype. Previously, Tesla said the range extender, which will take up a good chunk of the Cybertruck’s bed space, would give the dual-motor Cybertruck an estimated total of 470 miles of range. But the company has since downgraded that estimate by 25 miles to say that the extender gives you an estimated range of 445 miles. (Without the extender, Tesla says to expect an estimated range of 325 miles

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by theverge
22 Oct 2024

Streamer’s apology for racist rant exposes the rot in streaming culture

Asmongold apologized for his racist comments regarding Palestinians, revealing that streaming culture has made him a ‘psychopathic version’ of himself.

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by theverge
22 Oct 2024

Amazon says it ditched plastic air pillows

Amazon says that it has gotten rid of plastic air pillows at its warehouses.“As of October 2024, we’ve removed all plastic air pillows from our delivery packaging used at our global fulfillment centers,” the e-commerce giant said in an October 9th blog post. It’s a welcome change following years of pressure from environmental groups to stop plastic pollution flooding into oceans. The company is still working to reduce the use of single-use plastics more broadly in its packaging.“The fact that the world’s largest e-commerce company has made plastic air pillows history globally is fantastic news for the world’s oceans,” Matt Littlejohn, senior vice president of strategic initiatives at the

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by theverge
21 Oct 2024

Time to upgrade your reading gadgets

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 57, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy Kindle Season to all who celebrate, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about sports betting and designer proteins and the Ford Bronco, listening to Bon Iver’s new Sable and Brian Eno’s old Music for Airports on repeat, watching Archer and Unstable, desperately trying to find a better controller for the Nintendo Switch, and finally seriously making plans to build a whole seltzer system into my kitchen counter. It’s just time.I also have for you an unusually gadget-heavy week: new Kindles, new iPads, new retro game consoles, and much more.

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by theverge
22 Oct 2024

News Corp sues Perplexity for ripping off WSJ and New York Post

News Corp, the parent company of media outlets like The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, is suing the AI search engine Perplexity for infringing copyrighted content. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, News Corp alleges Perplexity copies news articles, analyses, and opinions “on a massive scale.”Perplexity is an AI startup that trains its AI search models using content from around the web, allowing it to respond to user queries with a summary of its sources. As outlined in the lawsuit, Perplexity bills itself as a platform that lets users “skip the links” to online articles, which News Corp alleges drives “customers and critical revenues away from those copyright holders.”In addition to accusing Perplexity of reproducing some

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by theverge
22 Oct 2024

Qualcomm’s new mobile chip is the 8 Elite

Just a few years after changing its mobile chipset naming conventions, Qualcomm has gone and done it again. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the company’s newest high-end smartphone SoC, and like the laptop chips it borrows its “Elite” name from, it comes with a new Oryon CPU. The company says that this shift enables faster performance and lest we forget about AI offers on-device support for multimodal intelligence.The Oryon CPU inside the 8 Elite hasn’t been borrowed directly from the laptop chips; Qualcomm is calling it a second-gen chipset. It replaces the Kryo CPUs Qualcomm has used in previous mobile chipsets and comprises two prime cores with six performance cores. There’s an X80 5G modem-RF chip and an Adreno GPU with a new sliced

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by theverge
22 Oct 2024

One-third of DHS’s border surveillance cameras don’t even work

The House Committee on Homeland Security is looking into Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) surveillance network in the wake of a report that nearly one-third of the agency’s cameras along the US-Mexico border don’t work. Privacy advocates say this is just the latest instance of expensive border surveillance infrastructure not working as advertised.An internal Border Patrol memo obtained by NBC News said that “several technical problems” had contributed to a large-scale outage of the Remote Video Surveillance Systems, a series of surveillance towers and cameras that have been used to remotely surveil the border since 2011. According to the memo, approximately 150 of the 500 cameras are non-operational. The memo says that the Federal

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by theverge
21 Oct 2024

Why are Instagram searches for ‘Adam Driver Megalopolis’ blocked for CSAM?

Update, October 20th: Meta representative Sophie Vogel tells The Verge via email that this issue has been fixed, which The Verge can confirm. Searches for “mega drive” still appear to be blocked. Our original story follows.When people search for “Adam driver Megalopolis” on Instagram or Facebook right now, instead of seeing posts about Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film, they’re shown a warning, titled, “Child sexual abuse is illegal.” That bizarre fact was pointed out in a post on X yesterday, and as of today, I’m still seeing it when I search for the phrase. But why? Well, it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with recent Threads moderation failures. Nor are there bombshell revelations about Megalopolis or its main star that I’m

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