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Panasonic makes vacuum gadget to rescue wireless earbuds from train tracks

Photo by Manabu Takahashi/Getty Images Panasonic is working with one of Japan’s biggest railway companies to solve a new problem that has sprung up in recent years: a rise in people dropping wireless...

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The iPhone’s ultrawide camera could get a big boost in 2021, says Kuo

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The iPhone 12 has just barely launched, but we already have some idea what next year’s lineup could look like — according to TFI Securities analyst Ming-Chi...

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Facebook says it will put groups on probation for violating its content rules

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In yet another attempt to slow the spread of misinformation on its platform, Facebook plans to put groups on its platform with too many posts that violate its...

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Apple puts major supplier Pegatron on probation for labor violations

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has cut off major supplier Pegatron from new contracts following the reveal of student labor violations at some of the Taiwanese manufacturer’s...

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PSA: Epic will honor V-Bucks trapped on Apple platforms

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge With everything else going on, you may have momentarily forgotten Epic Games and Apple’s on-going legal battle over the Fortnite creator’s alternative payment...

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Sony addresses PS5’s lack of web browser and 1440p support

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge As is often the case with newly launched game consoles, the PlayStation 5 doesn’t support every feature you might have hoped for out of the box. In an interview with...

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YouTube went down around the world, but it’s now fixed

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge YouTube has recovered from a seemingly worldwide outage that prevented videos from loading for roughly an hour. During the outage, many Verge staffers were...

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Elon Musk says he’s tested positive (and negative) for COVID-19

Elon Musk in Berlin on September 3rd, 2020. | Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images Elon Musk took to Twitter Thursday night to say that he has received mixed results after being...

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Hasan Minhaj joins The Morning Show following Netflix’s cancellation of...

Photo by Dominik Bindl/Getty Images Hasan Minhaj, formerly the host of the now-canceled Netflix talk show Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, will have a major recurring role in the second season of Apple...

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Social app Parler apparently receives funding from the conservative Mercer...

Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Social media app Parler receives financial backing from conservative hedge-fund investor Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, The Wall Street Journal...

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Google’s Pixel 5 camera app comes to older Pixel phones

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google has started to push out version 8.1 of its Google Camera app to Pixel phones, meaning owners of older devices will be getting some of the...

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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon docks crew of four to the International Space Station

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station this evening, more than a day after launching to space from Florida. The vehicle’s arrival marks the beginning...

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Logitech’s G Pro X Superlight is its lightest wireless gaming mouse yet

Not to be outdone by manufacturers gunning to make the lightest gaming mouse out there (like the recent 66-gram SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless), Logitech’s new G Pro X Superlight weighs less than 63...

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T-Mobile’s TVision Home IPTV service is shutting down at the end of December

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile is shutting down TVision Home, its IPTV cable service that utilized technology from its 2017 acquisition of Layer3. The service will officially shut...

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iFixit teardown shows just how similar the new M1 MacBooks are

iFixit iFixit has gotten its hands on Apple’s new M1-powered MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, which of course is to say that its team has torn the laptops apart to find out what’s inside. And, while the...

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Twitter will transfer presidential accounts to Joe Biden on Inauguration Day

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter will transfer the @POTUS account to President-elect Joe Biden when he’s sworn in on Inauguration Day, the company told Politico. Twitter will transfer...

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Nintendo’s Switch with better battery life includes Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Ahead of Black Friday 2020, one of the best Nintendo deals is available early. If you are looking to buy a Nintendo Switch, Best Buy has a bundle that includes the...

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New trailers: One Night in Miami, Chaos Walking, Justice League, and more

One Night in Miami | Amazon Prime Video I am currently suffering from The Crown withdrawal after finishing Season 4, and (like pretty much everyone) predicting we’ll see Emmy nominations for Gillian...

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Nintendo’s Game & Watch can run Doom, barely

Image: stacksmashing Intrepid developers have done the expected and necessary: Doom now runs on Nintendo’s recently released Game & Watch portable. The Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. was...

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Monster Hunter: The Movie content is coming to Monster Hunter: The Game

The upcoming Monster Hunter movie doesn’t exactly look like the most faithful adaptation of the games, centering as it does around a gun-toting US Army soldier played by Milla Jovovich, but that’s not...

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