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Today is World Emoji Day, and the Unicode Consortium is sharing a preview of some of the new emoji that should hit your devices early next year as part of Unicode 17.0. If you ask me, it’s a promising batch, especially the Bigfoot emoji — sorry, “hairy creature.” The list includes these emoji, according to…
Zohran Mamdani’s past comments are once again coming back to haunt his New York City mayoral campaign, as a resurfaced video reveals the socialist candidate floated the “abolition of private property.” “My platform is that every single person should have housing, and I think faced with these two options, the system has hundreds of thousands…
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday sanctioned Tren de Aragua head Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as “Niño Guerrero”, and five other top Tren de Aragua leaders and affiliates. Tren de Aragua, designated by the State Department on Feb. 20 as a foreign terrorist organization, originated in…
Wacom has announced the MovinkPad 11, an all-in-one Android-powered tablet for digital illustrators who want to draw on the go. Unlike other display drawing tablets in Wacom’s lineup, the $449 MovinkPad doesn’t need to be connected to a laptop or PC, placing it in direct competition with the Apple Pencil and iPad combo that’s proved…
Earlier this week, Elon Musk posted an image of Tesla’s robotaxi service area in Austin, Texas, that was in the shape of a penis. Hilarious, I know, but more importantly: it appeared that Tesla’s map was slightly larger than Waymo’s service area, which covers just 37 square miles in Austin. Today, Waymo announced its own…
SteamOS rescues the Lenovo Legion Go S from utter failure. But is that enough? | Photo: Sean Hollister / The Verge Valve’s Steam Deck has dominated the handheld gaming PC space since its 2022 debut. But even as more powerful Windows handhelds arrived to keep up with more demanding games, none have beaten the Steam…
AMD’s latest Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series of CPUs go on sale later this month, and the top option will be priced at $11,699. The 9000 WX-Series chips are designed for workstations, with the $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX shipping on July 23rd with 96 cores and 192 threads. Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Supermicro…
The federal immigration operations in Los Angeles have created a sense of “political irony” in the Golden State, according to Los Angeles County Republican Party Chair Roxanne Hoge. The region continues to make waves after anti-ICE riots in June, as well as authorities recently conducting a massive operation on a cannabis farm in Southern California…
New York Liberty head coach Sandy Brondello is looking forward to the opportunity of coaching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday, but the Indiana Fever star’s latest injury could threaten that. Speaking to the media before Wednesday night’s dominant win over the Fever, Brondello lamented that Clark was ruled out of the game…
Hello, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge and author of the Command Line newsletter. I’m hosting our Thursday episodes while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, we’re talking about how AI is changing the way we use the web. If you’re like me, you’re probably already using apps…