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I'll Show You 15 Disney Movie Sidekicks, Let's See If You Know Where They're From

Don't get too comfortable, some of these are tricky.

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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.

The Verge

Thomas Ricker Wes Davis Allison Johnson Emilia David Richard Lawler

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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The Verge

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...

The Verge

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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The Verge

Ash Parrish

XCOM developers start new studio to take on The Sims

The Sims 4. | Image: Electronic Arts

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...

The Verge

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...

The Verge

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...

The Verge

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...

The Verge

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."

Mashable

'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.

Mashable

Hinge tests unanswered message limit to 'reduce burnout'

Off the heels of Hinge's new Hidden Words feature, the dating app is testing another: Your Turn Limits.

The feature will limit the number of unanswered messages users have in their queue. Those with eight or more matches waiting for them to respond won't be able to match with anyone new until they answer one or more of those messages — or end the conversation (presumably, unmatch). Hinge will test Your Turn Limits in the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia starting this month, with the goal to...

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The women getting guys to rate their nudes on Reddit

I don’t need to explain to you that nudes are a generally private affair. I sometimes think of my collection built up over the years, just sitting up there in The Cloud, waiting to get hacked and ruin my life. Or the ones potentially still on phones of people I really wish they weren’t, you know, people who might sell them to The Sun if I ever become a celeb or, like, Prime Minister. Perhaps, this has got you thinking about all of yours up there too. Well, now imagine posting them online...

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"The Amount Of Compliments I Got Was Wild": 44 Fashion Pieces That'll Have Everyone Asking Where You Got Them

Just have the links ready when you go out cuz this Skims bodysuit swap that's under $30 will have everyone ready to *add to cart*.

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Warm Weather Means Sweat, Sweat, Sweat, So Check Out These 35 Products To Keep You Cool If You Hate Being Hot

These cooling pillows and mattress topper are *so* gonna come in clutch when it's blazing hot outside. Swimming is a blast but swimming in a pool of your own sweat, when you're trying to just fall asleep, ick.

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Paul Ford

Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It

The best thing about brain-melting software like ChatGPT? It doesn’t feel remorse.

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Joel Khalili

Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering $1.2 Billion of Crypto

Alexey Pertsev, cofounder of the crypto-anonymizing tool, has been sentenced to over five years behind bars.

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

Tom Brady gets his first game assignment as a FOX Sports analyst

We now know what Tom Brady’s first game behind the microphone will be

This fall, Tom Brady will return to the NFL.

And the legendary quarterback now has his first assignment.

Brady begins his first season as an analyst for FOX Sports this fall and the former quarterback — and recent Netflix roastee — now knows where he will be for Week 1. Brady will be on the call for the network as the Cleveland Browns host the Dallas Cowboys to kick off their regular-season schedule.

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