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Uber announces ride-hailing and delivery updates: an EV-only Uber Green in 40 cities, a GPT-4o-powered chatbot to answer drivers' EV questions, and more (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-8 Uber chatbot

A US federal judge has given the FTC the green light to pursue antitrust claims against Amazon but ruled that some claims under state laws won't move forward (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-8 Amazon

In a final Epic v. Google ruling, US judge orders Google to open up Google Play to rivals for three years, distribute 3rd-party stores in Google Play, and more (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-8 Google

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eyeing nuclear reactors, which provide steady “baseload” power, as their carbon emissions climb due to AI tools (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-7 Google Amazon Microsoft AI

Google rolls out Android theft protection features: Theft Detection Lock, which uses AI to detect motion indicating theft, Offline Device Lock, and Remote Lock (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-6 Android Google AI

An interview with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney about how the company became “financially sound”, Unreal Engine 6, building a “persistent universe” with Disney, and more (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-6 Interview

Mullenweg says “WordPress.org just belongs to me personally”, as his WP Engine feud blurs the lines between WordPress.org, WordPress Foundation, and Automattic (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-5 WordPress

Google is “running a small experiment” showing blue verified checkmarks beside business links in its search results that indicate the company is genuine (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-4 Google

Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews when a user's question has a “commercial angle”, and identifies the ads with a “sponsored” header, on mobile in the US (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-4 Google Mobile AI

Google updates Lens to let users take a video or use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-4 Google Mobile AI

Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini Live's language support to French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, and Spanish, after launching in English (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-3 Germany France Google AI Spain

Uber partners with Avride to use its sidewalk robots, first in Austin, then Dallas and Jersey City in 2024, and its autonomous cars, starting in Dallas in 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-3 Uber Robot Autonomous Car

Oura unveils the $349+ Oura Ring 4, with a slimmer design, improved accuracy, and more sizes, shipping October 15, and completely redesigns the Oura app (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-3

Automattic demanded a cut of 8% of WP Engine's monthly revenue to use the WordPress trademark in a seven-year deal in a September 20 letter; WP Engine declined (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-3 WordPress

Microsoft releases a $150 standalone version of Office 2024 for consumers and SMBs, with core app updates and UI changes; the last standalone was Office 2021 (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-2 Microsoft

Developer Christian Selig says third-party YouTube app Juno for the Vision Pro was “removed from the App Store”, after YouTube said it violated its ToS in April (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-2 YouTube

Epic debuts a program to reduce the royalty rate for games built with Unreal Engine from 5% to 3.5% if they launch on the Epic Game Store, starting in 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-2

Microsoft will start rolling out Click to Do, similar to Google's Circle to Search, and AI-enhanced search features for Windows on Copilot+ PCs next month (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-2 Google Microsoft AI

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand its software and corporate culture missteps and rebuild trust with customers, after the app debacle (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-1

Sony reports a massive outage of its online gaming network PSN, affecting the PS3, PS4, PS5, PS Vita, web, and more, ongoing for over eight hours (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-1 Sony

YouTube reaches a deal with SESAC that will bring back songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, and others that were removed over the weekend in the US (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-1 YouTube

Reddit moderators must now submit a request to Reddit staff before changing a subreddit's public/private status, making sitewide mod-led protests much harder (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-1 Reddit

AMD releases BIOS updates to boost the performance of its Ryzen 9600X and 9700X processors, around a month after disappointing Zen 5 desktop CPU reviews (www.theverge.com)
2024-9-30 AMD

Epic is suing Google and Samsung for colluding to keep new app stores off Samsung phones (www.theverge.com)
2024-9-30 Google Samsung

Steam changes its subscriber agreement, removing its forced arbitration policy and allowing gamers to take legal action against its parent company Valve (www.theverge.com)
2024-9-28

Microsoft details how it has overhauled its controversial AI-powered Recall feature, including making it opt-in and giving users an option to uninstall (www.theverge.com)
2024-9-28 Microsoft AI

X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked JD Vance dossier; X suspended the newsletter author Ken Klippenstein's account (www.theverge.com)
2024-9-27

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2426, which forces digital stores to tell customers they are getting a revocable license when “buying” digital media (www.theverge.com)
2024-9-27 California

Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 review: lighter and comfortable with improved ANC and transparency, but underwhelming Gemini Live and no high-quality Bluetooth codecs (www.theverge.com)
2024-9-26 Google

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will likely strike “certain partnerships” for AI training content, but some publishers may be overestimating their content's value (www.theverge.com)
2024-9-26 AI Zuckerberg

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