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Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell revive argumentative 'Daily Show' segment

Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell reunited on Colbert's 60th birthday to revive their "Even Stepvhens" segment from "The Daily Show".

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Kylie Robison

Amazon Web Services CEO to step down

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AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, effective June 3rd, according to a leaked email from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy viewed by The Verge. Matt Garman, the SVP of AWS sales, marketing, and global services at Amazon, will replace Selipsky as CEO. Amazon confirmed The Verge’s reporting in a blog post published this morning.

Garman is a nearly 18-year veteran of Amazon, spending the entire time working on AWS.

Amazon reported that revenue from its...

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Andrew Webster

Dune: Part Two starts streaming on Max next week

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The second chapter of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune saga is streaming very soon: Max announced that Dune: Part Two will be hitting the service on May 21st.

The film originally premiered in March and — as the title implies — follows the first movie in telling the complete story of Frank Herbert’s original Dune novel. Villeneuve directed both films, and the sequel introduced a number of notable new characters including Feyd-Rautha (Austin Butler), Princess...

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Jess Weatherbed

SteelSeries’ new headset provides over 100 game-specific audio presets

The Arctis Nova 5 headset’s mic can retract into the earcup when not in use. | Image: SteelSeries

If you hate (or simply can’t be bothered) to adjust your audio profiles when setting up a new gaming headset, then you might be the target demographic for SteelSeries’ latest offering. Introduced on Tuesday, the new Arctis Nova 5 headset is supported by a dedicated companion app that features over 100 game-specific audio presets for Xbox and PlayStation 5 titles like Fortnite, Apex...

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A&M-ND to cap off Week 1 tripleheader on ABC

The 2024 college football season will open with a tripleheader on Aug. 31, capped by Texas A&M hosting Notre Dame in prime time on ABC.

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Alexa Philippou

Golden State's WNBA team to be called Valkyries

The WNBA expansion team in Golden State announced Tuesday that it will be called the Valkyries, which originates from Norse mythology and refers to a "host of warrior women who are fearless and unwavering."

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Marc Raimondi

Cousins: Hard feelings on Penix pick not 'helpful'

Falcons QB Kirk Cousins said it's not constructive to have hard feelings over his new team drafting Michael Penix Jr. in the first round.

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Adrienne So

Movano Evie Ring Review: Running Out of Time

For tracking women’s health, the Evie ring is still underbaked. Competitors like Samsung, Oura, and Apple may already have you covered.

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Everything happening at Google’s I/O developer conference 2024

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Google’s most AI-focused developer conference yet is kicking off on May 14th.

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Andrew J. Hawkins

Waymo’s robotaxis are under investigation for crashes and traffic law violations

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Federal safety investigators have opened a preliminary investigation into dozens of incidents involving Waymo’s driverless vehicles, including several “single-party” crashes and possible traffic law violations.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation is looking into 22 incidents in which Waymo’s robotaxis were “the sole vehicle operated during a collision” or “exhibited driving...

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Sean Hollister

Lego Barad-dûr revealed: Sauron’s dark tower from The Lord of the Rings is $460

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5,471 pieces and nearly three feet tall.

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Callum Booth

Setapp Mobile brings a promising new iPhone app experience to the EU

Setapp Mobile makes every app available for one subscription.

A subscription-based alternative to the Apple App Store with nag-free software.

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Ash Parrish

XCOM developers start new studio to take on The Sims

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Midsummer Studios is a new game studio founded by two former Firaxis developers, Jake Solomon and Will Miller. Before founding Midsummer, the two worked on XCOM, Civilization: Beyond Earth, and Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Today, the new studio has announced its first game: a next-gen life sim game with former The Sims director Grant Rodiek leading the project as executive producer.

According to the studio’s press release, this debut project...

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Wes Davis

T-Mobile’s new ‘Flex’ plans bring phone upgrades to prepaid subscribers

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T-Mobile is bringing more of the perks of postpaid phone plans to its prepaid lineup. The company announced new plans for its prepaid business, Metro by T-Mobile, that come with a free phone for signups and ongoing access to the same trade-in deals that it offers new customers for some devices.

There are three plans in the new Metro Flex lineup: Flex Start ($50 per month); Flex Up ($60 per month); and Flex Plus ($70 per month). The company...

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Charles Pulliam-Moore

Megalopolis’ first teaser makes it look like everything Coppola dreamt it would be

After gestating in the mind of writer / director Francis Ford Coppola for the better part of the last century, Megalopolis is finally making its way to the big screen at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. And from the looks of the sci-fi epic’s first teaser trailer, it might be just about everything Coppola always dreamt it would be.

Set in a sprawling metropolis that’s been devastated by a cataclysmic natural disaster, Megalopolis tells the story of how architect Cesar Catilina...

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David Pierce

On The Vergecast: iPad wins, Sonos misses, and right-to-repair tales

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The new iPads are out, and they’re terrific. They’re also expensive, and they’re a lot of iPad. Do you really need an OLED screen, an M4 processor, all that engineering to make it so thin and light, and the increasingly great but also increasingly expensive new controllers?

On this episode of The Vergecast, we explore that very question with The Verge’s Chris Welch, who uses the iPad in as varied and powerful a way as you’ll find. We talk...

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Andrew Webster

Nicolas Cage is back as Spider-Man in live-action Amazon series

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Nicolas Cage is ready to don the Spider-Man Noir suit again — only this time, in live-action. Amazon has confirmed that Cage will be reprising the role that he previously voiced in the animated film Into the Spider-Verse.

The new series, which was first reported last year, is simply called Noir and, according to Amazon, “tells the story of an aging and down on his luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple...

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Rich Cimini

Rodgers, Jets to visit Niners on MNF in Week 1

Aaron Rodgers' comeback season will open in prime time, as the New York Jets will travel to the San Francisco 49ers to face the defending NFC champions Sept. 9 on ESPN's "Monday Night Football."

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'National Anthem' trailer teases a queer love story in rural America

The trailer for "National Anthem", Luke Gilford's queer love story about a cowboy meeting a polyamorous couple, has dropped.

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