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Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images President-Elect Donald Trump has nominated billionaire Jared Isaacman to head up NASA, he announced on Wednesday. Isaacman funded and partook in the Polaris Dawn mission, in which he and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis performed the first commercial spacewalk. Isaacman is set to replace former Florida Senator Bill…
A new Nothing Community Widgets app has launched with a Snake game as its first offering. | Image: Nothing Nothing has released a new Android app called Nothing Community Widgets that will highlight home screen tools and games co-created by its users. The first widget it includes is a recreation of Snake which was the…
Former Vice President Mike Pence came out in support of the “hawkish” tariffs President-elect Trump has vowed to hit China with, though warned in a Tuesday night address that the U.S. needs to balance its challenging relationship with Beijing. “The threats of additional tariffs on China and on other nations are not a bluff,” he…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a high-profile case involving whether states can ban minors from receiving gender transition medical care under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment—a closely watched case that could impact the care and treatment for young people in at least half of U.S. states. The case,…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon quietly carved out two Washington, DC zip codes from being serviced by its fastest Prime delivery service with its own branded trucks, outsourcing deliveries to slower services like UPS and the Postal Service, DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb alleges in a new lawsuit. The alleged decision led…
President-elect Trump on Wednesday invited Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley to continue steering the GOP’s national party committee. And Whatley quickly accepted, saying he is “honored for the opportunity to continue as Chairman of the RNC and work nonstop to help President Trump Make America Great Again!” The former and future Republican president, pointing…
Top Democratic lawmakers and activists alike are calling on the Biden administration to ignore a federal injunction and continue wiping out student loan debt before the president leaves office. Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Ed Markey, D-Mass, held a press conference alongside a cohort of activist groups on Wednesday from the nation’s capital, calling on…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images In 2024, you couldn’t escape hearing about AI. From smartphones to wearables to the smart home, it seemed every tech company wanted to pitch their next great AI innovation. The year was filled with impressive technological leaps and useful new tools, endless hype and frequent misfires, and…
Image: The Verge A misinformation expert accused of using AI to generate a legal document admitted he used ChatGPT to help him organize his citations, leading to “hallucinations” that critics said called the entire filing into question. Jeff Hancock, the founder of the Stanford Social Media Lab who wrote the document, says the errors don’t…
Image: The Verge ChatGPT now has over 300 million people using the AI chatbot each week. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed the milestone during The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, which comes just months after ChatGPT hit 200 million weekly users in August. “Our product has scaled … now we have more than…