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Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Apple is taking a 20 percent stake in its iPhone satellite connectivity partner GlobalStar — a stake worth $400 million — as part of an expansion of its deal with the company. GlobalStar will also receive a prepayment of $1.1 billion from Apple that is intended to improve…
Image: Pixelmator Apple has agreed to acquire Pixelmator, a popular image editing app available on Mac and iOS. Pixelmator announced the news in a post on its blog, saying it will now “have the ability to reach an even wider audience and make an even bigger impact on the lives of creative people around the…
Turns out, taking things apart is still just as much fun as when you were a kid. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge My first DIY smartphone repair project was off to an inauspicious start. I’d successfully removed the back of the HMD Skyline, but the next instruction called for a T3 screwdriver bit….
Republicans are running an intensive, “all-hands on deck” operation to get out the vote in North Carolina, targeting low-propensity voters in the battleground state recently impacted by a disastrous hurricane, says the chair of the Republican campaign arm. Rep. Richard Hudson chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and represents North Carolina’s 8th congressional district….
Puerto Rico is a stark example of the damage caused by decades of failed Democratic policies, neglect, and hollow promises. Electing Vice President Kamala Harris would only extend this legacy of mismanagement, further entrenching the island’s challenges under the weight of political apathy and systemic corruption. For years, Democrats, from Presidents Bill Clinton to Barack…
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge You just left your house. As you peel out of the driveway and tear down the street in the coolest way possible, your garage door… well, what does it do? The answer’s probably nothing, and that feels like the wrong answer. The smart home was supposed to have fixed…
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are neck and neck in the vital battleground states of Georgia and North Carolina, according to two new CNN polls conducted by SSRS. In Georgia, Trump edges Harris among likely voters, 48% to 47%, while in North Carolina the results are reversed, with Harris leading 48%…
FIRST ON FOX: With just four days to go until Election Day, Republican lawmakers are demanding answers from the Pentagon after receiving complaints about inadequate resources to help military service members vote. Active duty service members claim the Pentagon has not allocated enough resources to let them cast their ballot on time and that the…
The $1,300 ‘Aura Edition’ laptop doesn’t quite live up to its fancy new Lunar Lake processor. Intel is back, baby. At least for now. The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is a fine-looking 15-inch thin-and-light productivity laptop with an AI coprocessor — another entry in an increasingly crowded field. It has most of what…
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Social networking has become more disconnected, to say the least. Two years ago, Elon Musk began transforming Twitter into what is now X, and the ensuing chaos drove a lot of former users elsewhere — elsewhere being several places, including Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and even Facebook or Instagram. We…