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Nvidia claims a new AI audio generator can make sounds never heard before

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Nvidia says its new AI music editor can create “sounds never heard before” — like a...
Nvidia says its new AI music editor can create “sounds never heard before” — like a trumpet that meows. The tool, called Fugatto, is capable of generating music, sounds, and speech using text and audio inputs it’s never been trained on.As shown in this video embedded below, this allows Fugatto to put together songs ...
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Tech CEOs want to replicate Tim Cook’s Donald Trump playbook

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Apple CEO Tim Cook managed to forge a personal relationship with Donald Trump during his first...
Apple CEO Tim Cook managed to forge a personal relationship with Donald Trump during his first Presidential term that other tech firms struggled to replicate. Now, others are trying to follow his template, says a Wall Street Journal report today.Cook used direct appeals to influence Trump’s 2017 tax policy and to ge...
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The Verge’s guide to Black Friday 2024

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Apple’s movie theater beef with Hollywood is getting worse

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Wolfs director Jon Watts told Collider on Friday that he didn’t think a sequel to the...
Wolfs director Jon Watts told Collider on Friday that he didn’t think a sequel to the George Clooney and Brad Pitt movie, which Apple had already greenlit, would be happening. Yesterday, he revealed to Deadline that he had backed out of the project because he “no longer trusted [Apple] as a creative partner” after t...
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Nintendo’s terrific Switch Pro Controller is $20 off through Black Friday

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Nintendo recently announced a batch of Black Friday deals, all of which run through November 30th....
Nintendo recently announced a batch of Black Friday deals, all of which run through November 30th. This includes a steep discount on the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, which drops it to an all-time low of $49.99 ($20 off) at Best Buy, GameStop, and Target. This is one of the more notable Black Friday discounts from...
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Boox Palma 2 review: ain’t broke, not fixed

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The Boox Palma 2 remains a Boox Palma. That is the best and worst thing about...
The Boox Palma 2 remains a Boox Palma. That is the best and worst thing about it. A little over a year after Onyx shipped its first $279.99 smartphone-sized e-reader — a device I love and use just about every day — the company has released its successor. And it is, in every meaningful way, the same exact thing.p]:mb...
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Two new tech documentaries you really need to see

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 61, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 61, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy Hallmark season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I missed you all last week — thanks to everyone who told me you missed Installer, too! Warms ...
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Microsoft pauses Windows 11 updates for PCs with some Ubisoft games installed

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A fully electric Chrysler Pacifica is in the works

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You can save $10 on Google’s 4K-ready Chromecast before it’s gone for good

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It’s clear the world is ready to go all in on streaming for premier live events....
It’s clear the world is ready to go all in on streaming for premier live events. That’s evidenced most recently by massive deals brokered by the likes of Netflix, which will exclusively broadcast two NFL games on Christmas Day and weekly episodes of WWE’s Monday Night Raw.If you aren’t already set up with a capable ...
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Microsoft is testing a new in-game browser

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Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Edge Game Assist, a new Edge-powered in-game browser overlay, is available...
Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Edge Game Assist, a new Edge-powered in-game browser overlay, is available for beta testing in Windows 11. The “game-aware” overlay lives in the Microsoft Game Bar and is designed to automatically find and show you links to tips and guides for the game you’re playing, using the...
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The iMac M4 wasn’t built for this world

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The M4 iMac is a beautiful computer that feels more and more like it fell out...
The M4 iMac is a beautiful computer that feels more and more like it fell out of a universe where laptops never took off. You can see it, can’t you? In a world without laptops, the iMac would be the ultimate computer. Instead of a box and a screen with a tangle of wires leading everywhere, everything you need is rig...
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What’s on your desk, Kylie Robison?

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Kylie Robison is The Verge’s senior reporter covering artificial intelligence. Previously, she worked at Fortune, where...
Kylie Robison is The Verge’s senior reporter covering artificial intelligence. Previously, she worked at Fortune, where she covered Twitter; before that, she covered software developer culture (“a beat,” she says, “I made up and loved”) for Business Insider. “I’ve always been obsessed with technology in an extremely...
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Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky

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Elon Musk is directing harassment toward individual federal workers

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The Supreme Court will decide the fate of America’s low-income broadband fund

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The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on a case involving funding for a major broadband...
The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on a case involving funding for a major broadband subsidy program, the Universal Service Fund (USF). SCOTUS granted cert in a pair of cases called Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research, and Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition v. Consumers’ Res...
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DirecTV and Dish’s on-and-off merger saga switches back to off

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You can easily disassemble this repairable smartwatch using just a Phillips screwdriver

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The Spectra is a new smartwatch designed from the ground up to be hackable and easy...
The Spectra is a new smartwatch designed from the ground up to be hackable and easy to repair. It was created by Pocuter, a company that has spent the last few years honing an expertise in building small electronics like its tiny Pocuter One computer. What makes the Spectra unique is that it’s repairable, yet with a...
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Automakers plead with Trump: don’t kill the EV tax credit

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The auto industry is sending an urgent message to President-elect Donald Trump: spare the $7,500 electric...
The auto industry is sending an urgent message to President-elect Donald Trump: spare the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit. In a November 14th letter to Trump and his transition team, the auto industry’s main lobbying group urges the new administration to preserve incentives for EV buyers and manufacturers that we...
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It will soon be easier than ever for Android apps to stay signed in on a new phone

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The company that sold cameras with ‘terrible’ security flaw has a new problem

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing more than $700,000 in fines against Eken, a Hong...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing more than $700,000 in fines against Eken, a Hong Kong-based video doorbell manufacturer whose products were found to be susceptible to hackers, for an unrelated rules violation discovered during the commission’s ongoing investigation. The commission began inve...
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The best budget robot vacuums

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Today’s robot vacuums are becoming a bit like cars: with all the features, upgrades, and fancy...
Today’s robot vacuums are becoming a bit like cars: with all the features, upgrades, and fancy trimmings available these days, it’s easy to forget that they can just be simple machines that get us from point A to point B. Yes, some bots blow hot air on their bums (mop pads) and deftly navigate dog poop, but there ar...
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Google’s Black Friday sale features record low prices on Pixel, Nest, and more

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Google’s Black Friday sale has kicked off with sizable discounts on Pixel phones, wearables, earbuds, tablets,...
Google’s Black Friday sale has kicked off with sizable discounts on Pixel phones, wearables, earbuds, tablets, smart home gear, and more. You’ll notice the base 128GB Pixel 9 is down to $649 ($150 off) at Google and Best Buy, for example. But some colors of the flagship Tensor G4 smartphone are actually even cheaper...
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Steam is adding support, and more rules, for ‘season pass’ content

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Steam is building support for season passes into its platform and setting up rules to help...
Steam is building support for season passes into its platform and setting up rules to help protect buyers from buying ones with unclear promises. Steam published new guidelines urging developers to “think about whether there’s a customer benefit” for purchasing season passes, as reported by SteamDB creator Pavel Dju...
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