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While HBO has yet to officially lock in a Hal Jordan for its upcoming Lanterns series based on DC’s comics, the network has found its John Stewart.
Today, HBO announced that Rebel Ridge and Old star Aaron Pierre will play Lanterns’ John Stewart, a new recruit to the Green Lantern Corps. who partners up with veteran Lantern Hal Jordan to solve a “dark, earth-based” murder mystery that requires their expertise. As Deadline notes, Kyle...
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Some YouTube users have observed the platform making it harder to skip ads in recent days. On Reddit, a user reported seeing black rectangles over the skip button on desktop instead of the expected countdown timer, and a few days later, Android Police reported not seeing a countdown to skip on mobile.
But in statements to The Verge, YouTube says it isn’t removing the skip button — it’s just changing some elements of how ads are...
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After winning a fight to get Google’s search business declared an unlawful monopoly, the Department of Justice has released its initial proposal for how it’s thinking about limiting Google’s dominance — including breaking up the company.
The government is asking Judge Amit Mehta for four different types of remedies to Google’s anticompetitive power in search engines. They include behavioral remedies, or changes to business practices, as well as...
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If your Game Pass Ultimate subscription is in danger of expiring, Woot’s latest deal is a great opportunity to reset the clock. Now through 12:59AM ET on October 10th, you can save an extra 20 percent on top of Woot’s already-discounted codes when you use promo code SAVE20 at checkout. That drops the price of a three-month subscription to $29.19...
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Amazon has a new shopping tool that uses AI to help customers quickly find products based on the specific features they need. AI-powered “Shopping Guides” are now rolling out in the US on Amazon’s mobile website and apps for iOS and Android, presenting users with more tailored product information and recommendations when they’re browsing.
Amazon said in its...
For Lego, making ‘Piece by Piece’ was its biggest gamble since stepping into feature films with 2014’s ‘The Lego Movie.’
When Pharrell Williams and Morgan Neville decided to embark on a movie about Williams’ life but animated in Lego pieces, they knew there would be culture shocks. But making “Piece by Piece” still led to some places that neither Williams, Neville or Lego could foresee.
“We did have extensive conversations about how wide a back of a bikini bottom would be...
The electronics giant’s stock has split 5-for-1, meaning investors will see shares drop to a fifth of their price, but they’ll own five times as many.
The stock market may be hovering around all-time highs, but some companies are finding ways to lower their share prices to make them more accessible to a bigger pool of investors. That includes electronics giant Sony Group.
The implosion cleared land for a $1.5 billion baseball stadium for the relocating Oakland Athletics, part of the city’s latest rebrand into a sports hub.
Sin City blew a kiss goodbye to the Tropicana before first light Wednesday in an elaborate implosion that reduced to rubble the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip.
About 70.6 million Social Security recipients are expected to receive a smaller cost of living increase for 2025 than in recent years, as inflation has moderated.
Sherri Myers, an 82-year-old resident of Pensacola City, Florida, says the Social Security cost-of-living increase she’ll receive in January “won’t make a dent” in helping her meet her day-to-day expenses.
This could be the new staple in your skincare you've been looking for, so you might as well give it a try while it's on sale.
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Nintendo’s new alarm clock lets you choose from a variety of characters from Mario to Zelda and reacts to your movements, so you can snooze with gestures or end it by jumping out of bed.
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Should Cameron and Cayden Boozer pick Duke or Miami in recruiting? Let’s break it down.
The next set of elite basketball twins are about announce their college decision. Cameron and Cayden Boozer are five-star prospects out of Columbus High School in Miami who have won at the highest level everywhere they’ve played. Now they’re choosing between the Duke Blue Devils and the Miami Hurricanes for where they will continue...
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The Lions are just different.
On most NFL teams and inside the majority of lockers rooms it’s generally frowned upon to punch your head coach. Hell, it might even get you cut immediately — but on the Detroit Lions its a part of their culture, and Dan Campbell was over the moon that he got cornered and beat up by Frank Ragnow.
Dan Campbell said he was walking thru facility last wk when out of nowhere "someone punches me against the...
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Nintendo just announced its new Alarmo clock with a motion sensor, and even though we’re still soaking in the $100 device, the company also shared a look at some interesting early prototypes that reveal how the project changed during its development.
While the Alarmo is round and an eye-catching red, one “early” prototype Nintendo showed in an “Ask the Developer” interview had a more boxy shape and came in gray. This prototype did have an interesting feature...
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The Wimbledon Championships, the most prestigious of professional tennis events, declared it would no longer use human line judges at next year’s tournament. In 2025, the London event will use an electronic line-calling system (ELC) instead.
First reported in The Times of London, the announcement marks a radical change to a 147-year-old tradition, albeit one that’s on trend with the sport’s broad shift toward technology-assisted officiating. In...
The excellent Roomba j7 is down to $400 this Prime Day. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
Robot vacuums are some of the most useful smart home gadgets you can buy. Small, circular home helpers that clean areas you can’t reach and work hard so you don’t have to, these little suckers are life-changing.
As The Verge’s resident robot vacuum expert, I’ve tested dozens of different models over the last five years and have always highly recommended only buying robot...
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Amazon is continuing many of its best headphone and earbud discounts on the second day of its October Prime Day sale. If you want to get a jump on your holiday shopping — or just treat yourself to a new upgrade — this is a great opportunity to do so.
Apple’s AirPods Pro, which are about to receive significant hearing health features, can be had at a great price, but there are also excellent options from Sony, Bose, Samsung (like the Buds 3 Pro I...
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Zoom is getting one step closer to letting AI avatars attend meetings for you. As part of a broader AI expansion, Zoom announced it will soon let you create an AI avatar of yourself that you can use to send brief messages to your team.
To create a digital avatar, you’ll need to record an initial video of yourself that Zoom’s AI will use to make an avatar that looks — and even sounds — like you. From there, you can write the message you want your AI avatar to say...
The merger of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald J. Trump campaigns puts the so-called medical freedom movement on the cusp of real power in Washington, with a new slogan: “Make America Healthy Again.”