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Marah Eakin

I Spent an Hour in Marvel’s Apple Vision Pro 'What If...?' Experience. I’m Still Not Sure Why

The new What If…? experience for Vision Pro is a win-win for Marvel and Apple. But it’s not built for—or accessible to—everyone.

The Verge

Umar Shakir

Halide developers launch Kino, a pro video app for the iPhone

Kino app’s custom recording settings. | Image: Lux

Lux’s Halide app is popular among photographers for its approachable pro-level features, and now it’s launching Kino, a dedicated video capture app for iPhones with a similar focus on supporting the features professionals look for.

Where Halide was designed to take advantage of Apple’s RAW photography support on newer iPhones, Kino is targeting the iPhone 15 Pro’s support for ProRes videos encoded in the Log format. If you...

The Verge

Mia Sato

Meta says it removed six influence campaigns including those from Israel and China

Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge

Meta says it cracked down on propaganda campaigns on its platforms, including one that used AI to influence political discourse and create the illusion of wider support for certain viewpoints, according to its quarterly threat report published today. Some campaigns pushed political narratives about current events, including campaigns coming from Israel and Iran that posted in support of the Israeli government.

The networks used Facebook and...

The Verge

Wes Davis

Marvel’s What If…? Vision Pro app is an awkward mix of video game and movie

The Watcher is quite large. | Image: Disney

Besides watching movies, there’s not all that much to do with Apple’s Vision Pro once you get over the novelty. That’s why I was eager to try Disney and Marvel’s new What If…? An Immersive Story experience / TV show / video game… thing that’s available on May 30th. The companies promised a mixed reality show that would “push the boundaries of technology.” But what I experienced, while very pretty to look at, ended up...

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

Oscar Piastri on the Monaco Grand Prix, McLaren’s turnaround, and chasing Red Bull

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After finishing second in the Monaco Grand Prix, Oscar Piastri sat down with SB Nation to talk McLaren’s turnaround, his strengths as a driver, and if there will truly be an F1 title fight

To say the last calendar year has seen a stunning turnaround for McLaren in the Formula 1 world would be an understatement.

After eight races in 2023 McLaren sat near the bottom of the Constructors’ Championship with just 17 points, their best...

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Sean Golden

MLS has solid representation in U.S.’ Olympic roster pool. Is it good enough to medal?

American Cade Cowell is the only player in the U.S.’ current Olympic player pool that does play professionally in either Europe or the United States. | Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports

It might be way too early to tell, but talent playing domestically is definitely where collective heads are at

It’s been nearly two decades since the United States men’s national team fielded an Olympic roster.

The drought of missing four straight was quenched on Wednesday upon the release of...

SBNation.com

Jack Milko

Tommy Fleetwood reflects on RBC Canadian Open loss: ‘like the Ryder Cup’

Tommy Fleetwood meets with the media ahead of the 2024 RBC Canadian Open. | Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images

On the other side of Nick Taylor’s Canadian Open win last year was Tommy Fleetwood, who reflected on that ‘Ryder Cup-like’ experience.

Tommy Fleetwood had a front-row seat for Nick Taylor’s epic 72-foot eagle putt that etched his name into Canadian glory.

When that now-famous putt dropped, Taylor became the first Canadian to win his country’s national open in 69...

Mashable

PlayStation's Days of Play starts now — here's where to find the most epic deals

The best Days of Play deals at a glance: Best console deal PS5 Digital Edition (slim model) $399.99 at PlayStation (save $50) ...

Mashable

Apple's brand-new iPad Pro keeps getting cheaper on Amazon

SAVE $55: As of May 29, the new 11-inch, space black Apple iPad Pro (M4, 256GB, WiFi) is on sale on Amazon for just $944 — its lowest price since launch.

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Mashable

Former OpenAI exec that quit for ‘safety concerns’ joins rival company

Former OpenAI executive Jan Leike announced on Tuesday that he has joined Anthropic, OpenAI's Amazon-backed rival. Leike resigned from OpenAI less than two weeks ago, publicly criticizing the company for prioritizing "shiny products" over essential "safety culture and processes."

SEE ALSO: OpenAI's Altman and Brock address high-profile resignation

Leike posted on X, expressing his enthusiasm for his new role at Anthropic. Interestingly, he also...

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Steven Lee Myers

Once a Sheriff’s Deputy in Florida, Now a Source of Disinformation From Russia

In 2016, Russia used an army of trolls to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. This year, an American given asylum in Moscow may be accomplishing much the same thing all by himself.

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John Ismay and Desiree Rios

Pentagon Opens Ammunition Factory to Keep Arms Flowing to Ukraine

A plant still under construction in Mesquite, Texas, will soon turn out 30,000 artillery shells each month, roughly doubling current U.S. output.

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Paresh Dave

A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

Two ex-Facebook employees founded the nonprofit Integrity Institute to clean up tech platforms. Now it’s reeling amid fights on Slack and one founder’s resignation after an external HR investigation.

The Verge

Lauren Feiner

US arrests man allegedly behind enormous botnet that enabled cyberattacks and fraud

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images

It’s a scheme that “reads like it’s ripped from a screenplay,” according to one Commerce Department official. Thirty-five-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang allegedly helped run an international botnet that deployed VPN programs to infect more than 19 million IP addresses around the world.

After distributing malware through programs such as MaskVPN and DewVPN, Wang allegedly operated the botnet and sold...

The Verge

Emma Roth

Discord’s turning the focus back to games with a new redesign

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Discord wants to steer its app back to gaming, and it’s rolling out an app redesign to help make that happen. The new look features reworked group messages, voice chats, video calls, and more.

In a message to users, Discord CEO Jason Citron says the company realized it needs to narrow its focus from “broadly being a community-centric chat app” to a service that “helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests.”...

The Verge

Wes Davis

Two Samsung workers were exposed to radiation, nuclear commission says

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Samsung is under investigation after two employees were hospitalized following exposure to X-rays on May 27th, South Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) announced. The exposure took place at Samsung’s Giheung chip plant, about 25 miles south of Seoul, writes CNBC.

The two employees were exposed while using a machine that blasts materials with X-rays in order to analyze them. Both showed “abnormal symptoms” due to...

The Verge

Ash Parrish

Sony pulls interview with Neil Druckmann, citing ‘significant errors and inaccuracies’

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Sony Interactive Entertainment has pulled a controversial interview with Neil Druckmann, head of The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog.

Last week, Sony published a (now archived) Q&A with the Last of Us creator about the “Evolution of Storytelling.” In the interview, Druckmann spoke about the role of AI in game development, the impact of new technologies on storytelling, advice for new creators, and his hopes for a dream...

SBNation.com

Savannah Leigh Richardson

RBC Canadian Open: How to watch, preview, tee times, more

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How can fans tune into the RBC Canadian Open? Here is everything you need to know about the biggest golf event in Canada.

The PGA Tour is in the Great White North for this week’s RBC Canadian Open at Hamilton Golf & Country Club in Ontario. As one of the longest-running tournaments in golf, fans have an exciting week ahead of them for Canada’s National Open.

Last year, Canada’s own Nick Taylor beat Tommy Fleetwood in a dramatic playoff....

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