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Bumble now lets men make the first move
Bumble backtracks on “women make the first move.” | Image: The Verge Bumble was famously built around exclusively giving women the power to initiate messages in heterosexual matches when it first...
GuliKit’s new Switch controller features next-generation anti-drift thumbsticks
GuliKit announced its first wireless controller to use an improved version of the anti-drift tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) thumbsticks featured in its budget-friendly ES Pro that debuted nearly...
Bumble now lets either person send the first message after matching
The company previously teased it would change messaging in May.
Spotify says it won’t recommend music from ‘AI Personas’
Spotify will soon label AI artists and remove their music from your recommendations. The change, which will start rolling out in mid-September, means you'll see an "AI Persona" badge on an artist's...
Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images
Anthropic has pledged to start marking Claude-generated text and images with machine-readable data, in an effort to comply with European rules for AI transparency. "Generated text will carry...
Joby flexes military muscle with $500 million defense acquisition
Joby flight at JFK airport. | Image: The Verge Joby Aviation announced it was acquiring Dayton, Ohio-based defense firm Resonant Sciences in a $500 million deal, in a bid by the electric aircraft...
Why progressives are backing off “Woke 1”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) during a rally on April 12, 2025, in Los Angeles. | Mario Tama/Getty Images Welcome to The Midterms, Actually. Every week I’ll be...
Joby flexes military muscle with $500 million defense acquisition
Joby flight at JFK airport. | Image: The Verge Joby Aviation announced it was acquiring Dayton, Ohio-based defense firm Resonant Sciences in a $500 million deal, in a bid by the electric aircraft...
NASA updates Voyager 2 to extend the 1977 probe’s lifespan yet again
NASA successfully executed a plan to extend the life of Voyager 2's scientific instruments.
Trump is searching for the Supreme Court’s breaking point on birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump walks by Chief Justice John Roberts. | ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images Last week, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order that purports to strip...