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Applying the mathematical principles of Pareto to Mario Kart 8

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If you’re the kind of Mario Kart 8 player who cares about winning and not just...
If you’re the kind of Mario Kart 8 player who cares about winning and not just playing their favorite characters (Daisy and Peach supremacy), choosing the best combination of driver, vehicle, and wheels gets tricky. Luckily, thanks to data science and 19th-century Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, there’s a way to ...
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Kia’s more affordable EV2 is getting ready to undercut Tesla

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The Kia EV2, the automaker’s small, affordable electric crossover, has been spotted on the street in...
The Kia EV2, the automaker’s small, affordable electric crossover, has been spotted on the street in camouflage. It’s the first time the model has been seen in the wild, although the EV2 is not currently confirmed for the US.The timing of the sighting is particularly significant given recent news that Tesla may have...
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Target confirms it’s all but completely ditching DVDs in physical stores

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Target is scaling back the presence of physical media in its stores. A spokesperson for Target...
Target is scaling back the presence of physical media in its stores. A spokesperson for Target tells IGN that the company is “transitioning the limited assortment of DVDs” it sells in stores to its website.“Moving forward, we’ll offer select DVDs in stores when they are newly released or during key times throughout ...
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How Phish turned Las Vegas’ Sphere into the ultimate music visualizer

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Phish at the Sphere was always going to be wildly different compared to U2’s opening residency...
Phish at the Sphere was always going to be wildly different compared to U2’s opening residency at Las Vegas’ immersive venue. Both bands are known to push the boundaries of live performances. But they’ve rarely approached it the same way. U2’s 40-show Sphere run was a polished, extravagant rock show with (nearly) id...
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The Hades 2 technical test is a trial in self-control

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Imagine the most perfect barbecue — a prolific spread of smoked meats, all the right sides,...
Imagine the most perfect barbecue — a prolific spread of smoked meats, all the right sides, every pie, type of cookie or cake, and even your grandmother’s famous dinner rolls. But there’s a catch: most of the food is kept behind glass to be unlocked at a later date, and you are starving. That’s what it’s like playin...
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You may not need Apple Pay to tap and pay with your EU iPhone soon

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Google’s HD Chromecast is going for just $20

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Almost any TV you can buy these days supports streaming in some form or fashion, but...
Almost any TV you can buy these days supports streaming in some form or fashion, but what if you don’t like its user interface or it doesn’t have all of the apps you need? That’s where a streaming device like the Chromecast with Google TV (HD) comes in. We usually recommend jumping for the 4K version if you have the...
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Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down

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Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting...
Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”The Andreessen Horowitz-backed platform launched in a...
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Maybe I don’t want a Rosey the Robot after all

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As a child of the 1980s, my perception of the smart home has been dominated by...
As a child of the 1980s, my perception of the smart home has been dominated by the idea that one day, we will all have Rosey the Robot-style robots roaming our homes — dusting the mantelpiece, preparing dinner, and unloading the dishwasher. (That last one is a must; we were smart enough to come up with a robot to wa...
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Netflix is all about the money, not the members

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Netflix is moving beyond subscriber numbers. In its first quarter earnings results released on Thursday, Netflix...
Netflix is moving beyond subscriber numbers. In its first quarter earnings results released on Thursday, Netflix announced that it will stop reporting quarterly membership numbers in 2025 because subscribers are “just one component” of its growth. The change comes after a quarter where it added 9.3 million subscribe...
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Senate advances vote on reauthorizing warrantless surveillance program

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The Senate is moving forward on a vote to reauthorize a controversial program that allows warrantless...
The Senate is moving forward on a vote to reauthorize a controversial program that allows warrantless surveillance of foreign “targets.” Before voting on the reauthorization bill, senators had to vote on a cloture motion to begin voting. The cloture motion passed 67–32, just one day ahead of the program’s expiration...
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Your Happy Hacking Keyboard deserves some fresh caps

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Listen, I don’t want to be the guy who always posts about weird keyboard stuff. I...
Listen, I don’t want to be the guy who always posts about weird keyboard stuff. I have other interests. But I need to tell the dozens of Verge readers with Topre keyboards about these keycaps. Ursa is a new spherical doubleshot keycap profile for Topre that is available for group buy until May 15th. Reactions to the...
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All the news on Qi2 wireless charging

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The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) has (finally) released the new Qi2 standard that will help new...
The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) has (finally) released the new Qi2 standard that will help new devices and chargers line up perfectly, thanks to the magic of magnets. Version 2.0 of the Qi wireless charging standard supports up to 15W charging so that iPhone owners don’t have to get expensive MagSafe-certified a...
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Meta says Llama 3 beats most other models, including Gemini

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The next generation of Meta’s large language model Llama, which releases today to cloud providers like...
The next generation of Meta’s large language model Llama, which releases today to cloud providers like AWS and to model libraries like Hugging Face soon, performs better than most current AI models, the company said in a blog post.Llama 3 currently features two model weights, with 8B and 70B parameters. (The B is fo...
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The podcast industry keeps reinventing itself

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This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry.Today is my last...
This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry.Today is my last day at The Verge, and this will be my final issue of Hot Pod. I’ll have one more story coming out in the next week or two. But until then, I wanted to offer some parting thoughts on the industry I have covered so closely...
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The Humane AI Pin is lost in translation

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Of all the things the Humane AI Pin promised, I was most intrigued by translation. In...
Of all the things the Humane AI Pin promised, I was most intrigued by translation. In a demo, a man speaks to Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri in Spanish. The AI Pin automatically translates it to English. Chaudhri replies in English. Again, the AI Pin translates his words back into Spanish. There are notable pauses...
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You should be playing Music League

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Writing about the decline of Pitchfork made me sad about the music industry — and also...
Writing about the decline of Pitchfork made me sad about the music industry — and also about the state of music discovery. Besides the fact that TikTok doesn’t prioritize music as anything other than background noise, it means that artists have to win the viral lottery in order to make a hit. And that’s entirely out...
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Meta is adding real-time AI image generation to WhatsApp

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The future of the Xbox looks a lot like a PC

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When I reviewed the Xbox Series X nearly four years ago, I called the console a...
When I reviewed the Xbox Series X nearly four years ago, I called the console a “next-gen PC.” Not only did the Xbox look like a PC with its boxy, rectangular, tower-like case but it also felt like one thanks to hardware upgrades that allowed it to run games with a variety of PC-like graphical modes. Now, as we appr...
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A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store

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Just two days after Apple removed the iGBA emulator from the iOS App Store, an NES...
Just two days after Apple removed the iGBA emulator from the iOS App Store, an NES emulator called Bimmy briefly appeared before being taken down. MacRumors reported that the app was described as being for homebrew games but also supported ROMs provided by players. Unfortunately, when we attempted to download Bimmy,...
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Report: TikTok’s efforts to silo US data are ‘largely cosmetic’

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Since 2022, TikTok has undertaken a massive, expensive effort to silo off its US operations —...
Since 2022, TikTok has undertaken a massive, expensive effort to silo off its US operations — and American users’ data — from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. TikTok has described the corporate restructuring, which it dubbed Project Texas, as “an unprecedented initiative dedicated to making every American on T...
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Motorola’s new $130 earbuds are a Bose collab

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A new wooden Edge phone isn’t all that Motorola announced today. The company also introduced two...
A new wooden Edge phone isn’t all that Motorola announced today. The company also introduced two pairs of earbuds: the higher-end set is called the Moto Buds Plus and costs $129.99, while the more basic Moto Buds will only be available in select markets. But the Plus standout as the more interesting product, and tha...
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People are afraid of self-driving cars — can the industry change that?

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Forget the fact that most autonomous vehicles operate each day safely, anonymously, and without fanfare. There...
Forget the fact that most autonomous vehicles operate each day safely, anonymously, and without fanfare. There are hundreds in operation today in California, Arizona, Texas, and elsewhere, and the numbers are only going to increase. But when they do make mistakes, people tend to notice. Numerous public opinion polls...
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Take it slow in this stop-motion sci-fi adventure

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Harold Halibut moves at its own pace. A point-and-click adventure built with real-world materials and then...
Harold Halibut moves at its own pace. A point-and-click adventure built with real-world materials and then animated with stop-motion, Harold Halibut tells a story that’s at times slow and ponderous and, at others, cozy and heartwarming. It’s sort of like what would happen if Wes Anderson teamed up with Aardman Anima...
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