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The judge in former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference case on Friday made public more documents from special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the former president just weeks before the 2024 election. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered on Thursday night that additional documents be made public. The documents pertain to the appendix of…
Image: Bluesky A handful of changes coming to X may be pushing users to its competitor. Bluesky, the decentralized social platform, says it added 500,000 new users in a day this week. The new wave of signups could be related to several controversial changes on X in the last few days. This week, X users…
Ploopy’s trackpad can be purchased preassembled or in a DIY kit. | Image: Ploopy Ploopy is expanding its collection of mod-friendly peripherals with a new seven-inch trackpad that supports multi-finger gestures and features like palm rejection. Like Ploopy’s mouse and trackballs, its new trackpad runs on the QMK open-source firmware, further expanding how its functionality…
The AirPods Pro 2 recently received FDA authorization as OTC hearing aids. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Federal Communications Commission announced that going forward, all mobile handsets, including smartphones, in the US will have to be compatible with hearing aids. It’s also established new rules around volume control and improved product…
Legendary guitarist Jake E. Lee is sharing a health update two days after he was shot multiple times in Las Vegas. “To clarify, I was shot three times,” Lee wrote on Facebook. “I was on my way back home from walking my dog Coco… Don’t want to go into details now, I’m tired, but I…
Former NFL star quarterback Jay Cutler was arrested on Thursday evening on DUI and other charges in Tennessee following a traffic collision, police said. Cutler was charged with DUI, first offense, failure to exercise due care to avoid collision, implied consent and possession of a handgun, under the influence, in the incident, the Franklin Police…
Image: Owen Grove / The Verge NHTSA is opening a preliminary evaluation into Tesla’s Full Self-Driving mode (FSD) over the possibility of crashes in reduced roadway visibility conditions. The agency is opening the investigation after noting four reports of incidents like that, including one last November in Rimrock, AZ, where a Model Y struck and…
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge I have always had an adversarial relationship with alarm clocks. They are gadgets designed to ruin my most precious time, and in order to work effectively, they must be as annoying as possible. Which is why I was intrigued by Nintendo’s surprise reveal of Alarmo. (Once I got…
A Dallas doctor faces legal action from Texas over accusations of unlawfully providing cross-sex hormones to transgender youths. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit against Dr. May Lau on Thursday, alleging that the physician provided prohibited “gender transition” hormones to over 20 adolescents in violation of a Republican-backed ban that took effect in…
For over a decade now, the issue of trangenderism has gained increasing prominence in American politics, which is natural when personal choices begin to intersect with public policy, and for Kamala Harris it has risen above the surface at the worst possible time. There have always been policy concerns around the idea that men can…