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Month: November 2024
How Funko Fusion crosses over all its different IPs
10:10 Games this year launched a debut title, Funko Fusion, a mishmash of different intellectual properties — how did it all come together?
New report details ‘vast spying’ by China-linked telecom hackers
New details are continuing to surface about the hacking of US telecom companies by a China-linked group that targeted US officials and campaign staffers. Now, The Wall Street Journal reports that the hackers’ access was even greater than what’s been previously reported, and that the […]
Waymo’s latest funding round boosts it to a $45B valuation
Waymo recently closed a $5.6 billion Series C funding round led by parent company Alphabet and joined by a who’s who of Silicon Valley venture firms. The investment boosts Waymo’s overall valuation to more than $45 billion, according to Bloomberg News. Alphabet had previously announced […]
Scenes From a Battleground Philadelphia Suburb on Election Day
Photos from the nation’s most critical swing state paint a picture of two Americas at odds with one another.
iOS 18.2 could finally estimate your iPhone’s charging time
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The iPhone could finally show you how long it’ll take to finish charging. Code spotted in the second iOS 18.2 beta by 9to5Mac shows a new “BatteryIntelligence” feature that will let you receive a notification with the […]
Elon Musk is being sued over his $1 million giveaway to voters — again
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Arizona resident Jacqueline McAferty is suing Elon Musk and his pro-Trump America PAC in a Texas federal court, alleging that the PAC’s $1 million-a-day lottery to registered voters in swing states was fraud. The proposed class-action lawsuit […]
You’ll be able to play your Nintendo Switch games on its successor
You don’t have to take great pains to preserve your Switch to ensure that you can still play your favorite games on it years and years from now. Nintendo has revealed in its earnings report that the upcoming successor to the Switch will have backwards […]
This Google election conspiracy theory doesn’t add up
Illustration: The Verge There’s no evidence Google is hiding a map of polling places from Trump voters, despite the suggestions of a video reposted by Elon Musk. In the video, originally shared by X user DogeDesigner, a user searches Google for “where can I vote […]
Take This clinical director resigns from mental health for game devs nonprofit
Raffael “Dr. B” Boccamazzo, the clinical director of Take This, will leave the nonprofit for gaming mental health at the end of this year.