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The FBI has released surveillance video of an unknown suspect setting a ballot drop box on fire with an incendiary device in Portland, one of several incidents that occurred in Oregon and Washington state ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Investigators described the suspect as a White male between 30 and 40, who is balding…
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was fact-checked on Wednesday by the Washington Post for claiming that fewer migrants came into the U.S. under President Biden than under President-elect Trump’s first term. “I don’t think we were clear enough by saying fewer people came in under President Joe Biden than came under Donald Trump,” Pelosi told…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple is facing a £3 billion (about $3.75 billion) lawsuit from a consumer group that alleges the iPhone maker violated UK competition law by “forcing” customers to use its iCloud service. In its press release, UK consumer watchdog Which? says that Apple gave its iCloud storage service preferential treatment…
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Wordle’s success has caused an explosion in newspaper-style puzzle games, and now Words With Friends is getting in on the action. The long-running word game is adding four solo modes that can be played daily, and they’ll sound familiar to those who use The New York Times’…
Image: Amazon Amazon is today introducing its latest Fire TV Omni TV series, and it’s the first to feature Mini LED backlighting for improved contrast, less blooming, and greater brightness than past models. The “Fire TV Omni Mini-LED Series” features up to 1,344 dimming zones (depending on screen size) and delivers up to 1,400 nits…
Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge Disney made money off its streaming business for the second time in a row. During Q4 2024, profit from Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN Plus soared to $321 million, up from $47 million last quarter. During an earnings call on Thursday, Disney CEO Bob Iger said around 60 percent…
Business tycoon Elon Musk, who staunchly supported President-elect Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential election, has described himself as the “‘George Soros’ of the middle.” Soros, a wealthy liberal political donor, is known for supporting left-wing politicians and causes. A video circulating online shows Musk raising his hand after a speaker asked where there is…
Though he’s previously made a name for himself on Wall Street working for billionaire Democrat megadonor George Soros, Key Square Capital Management CEO and founder Scott Bessent is ready to help President-elect Donald Trump guide the U.S. economy into “a golden age.” “Everyone asks me, what do you tell President Trump he should do? I…
In the AI chatbot world, ubiquity is everything. Companies have raced to build desktop and mobile apps for their bots, in order to both give them new capabilities but also to make sure they’re right in front of your face as often as possible. There’s no better example of that than Google’s new Gemini app…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Once known only for its self-destructing pics, in recent years Snapchat has sneakily evolved into a location-oriented social media app. It’s now leaning further than ever into that identity with a new real-time location sharing feature that allows family members to share their live locations with each other….