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The Endless AI guitar pedal has potential
- Terrence O’Brien
- May 21, 2026
I'm not sure anyone was really asking for an AI guitar pedal. But it was inevitable that someone would build one. One of the first to take the plunge...
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Uber is deploying its own self-driving cars again, just not as robotaxis
- Andrew J. Hawkins
- May 21, 2026
Uber is putting its own autonomous vehicles back on the road as part of its new AV Lab project to collect data for its dozens of robotaxi partners. Th...
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This mechanical bird drops dead when your home’s air quality worsens
- Andrew Liszewski
- May 21, 2026
The original Birdie debuted in 2022 with a morbid-but-fun design - an air-quality monitor with a literal canary in a coal mine. When the CO2 in your h...
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The cost of the smart home is going up
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
- May 21, 2026
Selling the smart home has been hard. Even Amazon has lost money in the space, despite putting hundreds of millions of Echo devices in people's homes....
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Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you
- Lauren Feiner
- May 21, 2026
Hundreds of thousands of workplaces use software to monitor employees. Now, a new study has found that many of these tools share data not just with em...
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GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
- Tom Warren
- May 21, 2026
When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal in 2018, developers were nervous. Some were concerned about Microsoft controll...
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Spotify is launching AI-generated remixes
- Terrence O’Brien
- May 21, 2026
Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced a licensing deal that will allow users to prompt the creation of AI-generated remixes and covers for...
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Spotify is going to reserve concert tickets for ‘real fans’
- Jay Peters
- May 21, 2026
As part of a new "Reserved" program, Spotify is going to start offering concert tickets for "real fans" of participating bands that are going on tour....
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Spotify Studio’s AI agent creates a daily podcast just for you
- Stevie Bonifield
- May 21, 2026
Studio by Spotify Labs is a new standalone AI app that generates a daily briefing, podcasts, and playlists on your PC using chatbot prompts. The AI-ge...
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AI video is moving beyond clip slop
- Janko Roettgers
- May 21, 2026
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscriber...
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Viture’s refurb Luma Pro smart glasses are more than half off at eBay
- Cameron Faulkner
- May 21, 2026
Price is a big barrier for most people who’d like to try out smart glasses for gaming, watching movies, or using their computers. Many models are at $...
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Musk v. Altman: Much ado about nothing
- Nilay Patel
- May 21, 2026
Today I’m talking with Liz Lopatto, who spent the last month covering the Musk v. Altman trial in all its chaos. You’ll hear her describe the courthou...