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A Texas board has rejected a clemency request for a man facing execution over a case of “shaken baby syndrome” despite doubts over the evidence in the case. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted against Robert Roberson’s death sentence being commuted to life in prison or that his execution, set for Thursday, be…
After a tumultuous year, “Dancing with the Stars” judge Derek Hough and his wife Hayley Erbert have returned to the dance floor. During the “Dedication” themed night, the dancing duo performed an emotional dance, nearly one year after Erbert was hospitalized for emergency brain surgery. “It’s been a long year of just ups and downs,”…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images If you want to raise ungodly amounts of money, you better have some godly reasons. That’s what Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei laid out for us on Friday in more than 14,000 words: otherworldly ways in which artificial general intelligence (AGI, though he prefers to call it “powerful…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Airbnb is making it easier for hosts to find someone to manage their Airbnb. The new “Co-Host Network,” which is available starting today, lets you compare co-hosts and work with the co-hosts that you hire right inside the app. Third-party Airbnb management companies are quite common already, but…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Two days after Google cut a “world’s first” deal to purchase electricity from advanced nuclear reactors, Amazon announced three new agreements of its own today. Each deal supports the development of small modular reactors (SMRs), which can be one-tenth to one-quarter the size of a traditional nuclear power…
Image: Supergiant Games The first major update for Hades II, which is still in early access, is out now, adding things like a new region, the game’s sixth and final weapon, new pets, native support for Macs with M1 chips, and more. The big feature looks to be the new region. You might be able…
An award-winning British photojournalist, who covered world events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nelson Mandela’s release, and the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, was fatally stabbed near Los Angeles on Saturday, the Associated Press reported. His 19-year-old son was charged in the killing. Paul Lowe, 60, a war journalist and professor at…
A former Las Vegas-area Democratic politician convicted of killing an investigative journalist who had written critical stories about him was told by a judge Wednesday that he must spend at least 28 years behind bars before he is eligible for parole. The judge invoked sentencing enhancements to add eight years to the minimum 20 years…
Illustration: The Verge If you’re not familiar with Google Flights, you may not realize that you’re not always seeing the cheapest flights in your search results. The default algorithm considers numerous other factors, such as trip length, stops, and travel times. It was, admittedly, easy enough to expand the results and view the full flight…
Victoria’s Secret angels took flight Tuesday night as the famous fashion show came back from a long hiatus. New and familiar faces graced the runway in New York City as supermodels, including Kate Moss, Adriana Lima, the Hadid sisters, Irina Shayk, Alessandra Ambrosio and others, stunned at the star-studded event. Moss, 50, stole the show…