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Asus’ new open earbuds are a wonderful companion for handheld gaming
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Asus’ new open earbuds are a wonderful companion for handheld gaming

The Cetra Open Wireless aren’t like most other gaming earbuds. They’re large, with an open-style design that rests just outside of your ears, letting game audio...

Wordle’s creator made a fun new puzzle game
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Wordle’s creator made a fun new puzzle game

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 119, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your agents are well, an...

5 great indie games from GDC 2026
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5 great indie games from GDC 2026

I just got back from the GDC Festival of Gaming, a big industry-focused event in San Francisco that was formerly known as the Game Developers Conference. While...

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: show off
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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: show off

"Someone might be watching everything I'm doing on my screen," I tell myself in public. Even when I'm doing nothing of consequence - just making my little Wordl...

European retailers yank popular headphones after study reports trace amounts of hormone-disrupting chemicals
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European retailers yank popular headphones after study reports trace amounts of hormone-disrupting chemicals

Some European retailers have stopped selling certain headphones after an EU-funded study found that they contained hormone-disrupting chemicals. The study inclu...

Ball x Pit on mobile, Piece by Piece x2 and other new indie games worth checking out
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Ball x Pit on mobile, Piece by Piece x2 and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. A bunch of intriguing games arrived this week, including a mobile port of one of the m...

OpenAI reportedly plans to add Sora video generation to ChatGPT
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OpenAI reportedly plans to add Sora video generation to ChatGPT

OpenAI plans to add its Sora video generation model directly into ChatGPT, The Information reports . The standalone Sora app was seen as a smash hit when it lau...

States’ anti-monopoly case against Live Nation continues Monday
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States’ anti-monopoly case against Live Nation continues Monday

The Live Nation-Ticketmaster trial is back on. Dozens of states are expected to move forward with their claims against the company's alleged concert industry mo...

Spotify tests letting users directly customize their Taste Profile
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Spotify tests letting users directly customize their Taste Profile

Spotify Premium users in New Zealand will be the first to experience the service's latest personalization feature. The company is letting users view and make ch...

Meta is bringing more international news to its AI
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Meta is bringing more international news to its AI

Meta AI should soon be better at surfacing international news content thanks to a set of new deals with publishers. The company announced new agreements with in...

Adobe agrees to pay settlement for making its subscriptions hard to cancel
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Adobe agrees to pay settlement for making its subscriptions hard to cancel

Adobe has agreed to pay the US government $75 million to settle its lawsuit over the company's allegedly harmful approach to subscriptions. The suit started in...

Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is coming to current-gen Xbox consoles this year
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Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is coming to current-gen Xbox consoles this year

Xbox is getting ready to launch its Gaming Copilot AI assistant on "current-generation consoles" this year, according to a report from GamesRadar. Sonali Yadav,...

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