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Nintendo to acquire Luigi’s Mansion developer Next Level Games

Nintendo has announced plans to acquire Canadian developer Next Level Games, a studio that has worked on some of the company’s major franchises. Next Level is already a second-party partner, meaning...

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Google confirms plans for new Nest Cam lineup this year

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Nest Cam IQ Outdoor is no longer available to buy, Google has confirmed to 9to5Google, after the site noticed that the camera was out of stock in most countries...

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Here are the 146 members of Congress who just voted to support a...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images On January 6th, 2021, President Donald Trump, the former reality television star of NBC’s The Apprentice, escalated his assault on 244 years of democratic rule by...

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Google’s next Nest Hub could use radar to track your sleep, and I have questions

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Earlier this week, we reported that Google could be working on an updated Nest Hub that had Soli technology, and a report from 9to5Google now suggests that it could be...

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Twitter is deleting Trump’s attempts to circumvent ban

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Twitter permanently banned Donald Trump today. For a brief moment, he managed to tweet anyhow — not from @realDonaldTrump, his suspended account, but rather the...

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John Legere is considering becoming the Un-Candidate

Image: John Legere John Legere, former T-Mobile CEO and aspiring Batman, has reacted to the mob that attacked the Capitol like many other political and business leaders by calling for President Donald...

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Parler is gone for now as Amazon terminates hosting

Parler has been taken offline | Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images After Parler was banned on both the Apple and Google app stores for failing to curb violent and threatening content on...

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Ubiquiti, maker of prosumer routers and access points, has had a data breach

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ubiquiti, the company I bought networking gear from because I wanted Wi-Fi that’s totally under my control, now tells me something may not have been under my...

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YouTube deletes Trump video and suspends new uploads

Joshua Roberts/Getty Images YouTube has removed a new video uploaded to President Trump’s account for violating the company’s content policies on inciting violence. The account has also been issued a...

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Super Nintendo World opening delayed due to Osaka state of emergency

Universal Studios Japan has announced that Super Nintendo World will not be opening next month as planned. The Nintendo-themed zone of the Osaka park was supposed to open on February 4th after its...

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2021 MacBook Pro will ditch the Touch Bar and bring back MagSafe, say reports

Photo by Alexander Kramer for The Verge Apple is planning a major MacBook Pro redesign for the third quarter of 2021, according to a research note written by TF International Securities analyst...

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I want to float in the void of this car’s paint job

Driving around a car that looks like it’s made from the fabric of space is now slightly more possible, as demonstrated in this modified black paint job that DipYourCar applied to a Mitsubishi Lancer....

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Critical NASA rocket test ends early with a shutdown

A critical NASA rocket test ended with a shutdown on Saturday, a little over a minute into what was planned to be an eight-minute test. This trial run was a vital checkpoint for NASA’s much-delayed...

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Samsung heir ordered back to prison on bribery charge

Jay Y. Lee arrives at the Seoul High Court on November 09, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea | Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images Lee Jae-yong — known as Jay Y. Lee in the West — the de facto leader and...

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VLC now runs natively on M1 Macs

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The latest update to ubiquitous open-source media player VLC is here, and it comes with native support for Apple silicon Mac computers — the new versions of the...

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Trump pardons convicted ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images One of President Trump’s final acts in office is to pardon a former Google engineer who was convicted of stealing trade secrets. Anthony Levandowski worked for...

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Samsung Display is mass-producing 90Hz OLED screens for laptops

Samsung’s 2020 Galaxy Chromebook. | Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Samsung Display has announced plans to mass-produce the world’s first 90Hz OLED screens designed for laptops and says that “several...

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Honor announces its first post-Huawei phone

Honor has announced the new V40 5G flagship phone, its first since Huawei sold the company off to a Shenzhen-based consortium of Chinese partners. The phone is exclusive to China for now, but Honor’s...

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Microsoft backtracks on Xbox Live Gold price hike

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has reversed its controversial Xbox Live price increase. The company announced a price hike on Friday that would have doubled the cost of a yearly...

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Italian watchdog tells TikTok to block users whose ages can’t be verified

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Italy’s data privacy authority has ordered video sharing app TikTok to temporarily block the accounts of any users whose ages can’t be confirmed, Reuters...

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