Nicola Coughlan Said That She Found Her “Bridgerton” Nude Scenes “Amazingly Empowering,” And She Already Can’t Wait To Look Back At How “Hot” She Was When She’s 80

Nicola said that the scene in question was her idea and her choice, adding that she found it “amazingly empowering.”

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Benny Blanco Said Having Kids Is His “Next Goal” Nearly A Year Into His Relationship With Selena Gomez

“When I look at her, I do say, ‘I don’t know a world where it could be better than this.’”

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32 Things That'll Make Adulthood At Least A *Little* Less Overwhelming

If you're over the amount of whelm in the air right now, this is the post for you.

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27 Shoes That Reviewers Say Keep Their Feet Blister Free

Sandals, sneakers, boots, and other cute footwear that won't leave your heels raw and irritated.

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39 Backyard Investments That Turn Every Weekend Into A Staycation

The hottest and most exclusive vacation destination is about to be your own backyard.

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People Who “Hate” Cleaning Swear By These 30 Products, And You Will Too

"When I had to vacuum as a teen, I’d lie on the floor and cry. While I’ve grown less dramatic as an adult, my loath of vacuuming has not decreased." When this reviewer tells you to buy a vacuum...you buy that vacuum.

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Unwanted Hair, Pesky Zits, And Sweaty Pits — 36 Things That'll Help Solve These Semi-Embarrassing Body Issues And More

Human bodies — we all have 'em. Here are some things to help solve those issues that annoy you on a daily basis.

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17 Wild "Body Changes" People Experienced When They Entered Their 40s

Age might be "but a number," but this back pain feels very real.

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19 "I Wish I Knew That Sooner" Cruise Travel Tips That Saved Me So Much Time, Money, And Patience

Booking a cruise is just like buying a car, meaning you can negotiate the price and get bonus perks, so ~never~ pay the price you see online.

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"We Were Always Called The Wives, And I Hated That": Sophie Turner Just Opened Up About Her Split From Joe Jonas

"It felt like I was watching a movie of my life that I hadn't written, hadn't produced, or starred in."

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15 Times Actors Were Secretly Miserable On Set (And Why)

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These Electric School Buses Are on Their Way to Save the Grid

Loaded with ever more renewables, the grid will need to store a whole lot of energy. Enter: a new kind of magic school bus—one that can both charge and give power back.

'NBA teams have been tracking this kind of stuff for years': Why load management is MLB's next big thing

Front offices are measuring what players do on the field like never before. Here's how it could rock baseball.

10 players to watch for in the 2024 NCAA softball championship

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From pitching to hitting, we highlight the must-watch players in this year’s college softball postseason.

The NCAA softball tournament gets underway on May 17 at 16 different sites around the country. There will be great players at each regional location, but which ones should fans make a special point of watching? Here’s a player (or two) at each of the 10 positions fans should seek out during this year’s NCAA softball championship.

The Verge Launches “Notepad,” a Newsletter About Microsoft’s Era-defining Bets on AI and the Future of Computing, by Tom Warren

Every Thursday, The Verge’s veteran Microsoft reporter will uncover the secrets and strategy behind the world’s biggest software company for paid subscribers

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Netflix’s Terminator Zero anime starts streaming in August

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Netflix has finally named and dated its new anime series Terminator Zero, releasing worldwide on August 29th. If you recall your convoluted time-traveling, skin-wearing cyborg apocalypse history, you’ll realize that’s the 27th anniversary of the series’ Judgment Day, when the machines begin their conquest of humanity. Well, one of them, anyway.

The show is mainly set in 1997 Tokyo, and according to its writer, it won’t be ignoring the movies — any of them....

A newsletter on Microsoft’s era-defining bets

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I’m excited to announce Notepad, a new weekly newsletter I’ll be writing at The Verge.

Notepad is an inside look at my notes on Microsoft, a company I’ve spent the past 20 years trying to make sense of through my reporting, scoops, and analyses. This newsletter is designed to uncover the secrets and strategy behind Microsoft’s era-defining bets on AI, gaming, and the future of computing.

Whether it’s Windows, a new AI Copilot, the next Xbox,...

Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer

Mike Krieger has a long history in tech and AI. | Photo by Jerod Harris / Getty Images for Vox Media

As Anthropic tries to take on the AI giants, it has a new big-name executive on board: the company announced this morning that Mike Krieger is its new chief product officer. Krieger, of course, was one of the co-founders of Instagram and spent the last few years working on Artifact, an AI news-reading app that was recently acquired by Yahoo.

Krieger will oversee all of Anthropic’s...

Meme stocks are back as legendary trader returns, leaving shorters in disbelief

Remember meme stocks?

In early 2021, the stock price of video game retailer GameStop pumped immensely after a Reddit community of traders, led by a trader known as Roaring Kitty (or DeepFuckingValue on Reddit), started buying en masse. This in turn caused the demise of hedge fund Melvin Capital that was shorting GameStop stock (shorting, in the simplest of terms, is betting on the stock price declining). It also marked the beginning of a trend in which communities of smaller traders were...

OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever announces exit

The company’s new chief scientist will be Jakub Pachocki.

OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the startup at the center of today’s artificial intelligence boom.