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Google fixes Chrome issue that broke text highlighting on some sites
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The latest version of Chrome (Version 131.0.6778.86) has addressed an issue in the browser that broke the ability to highlight text on some websites over the weekend, Google’s Scott Westover confirmed to The Verge in an email.
We tested t...
theverge.comThis website unearths YouTube’s lost and forgotten iPhone clips
People loved uploading videos from their iPhone Camera Roll directly to YouTube. | Image: The Verge
The “IMG_0001” website features a frame with an old TV static effect and a floating retro Panasonic remote that you can click to start watching random YouTu...
theverge.comA recent Chrome update broke text highlighting on a bunch of sites
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Right now, text highlighting is broken for anyone using recent Chromium-based browsers on some websites. The cause appears to be a change to selection styling that doesn’t play nicely with Tailwind CSS. We’ve noticed it on our site,...
theverge.comSubstack says it could be profitable — but it still isn’t
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Substack still isn’t profitable despite attracting big names in the independent writer world, whose newsletters and blogs rake in a massive digital subscriber base for the platform. Hamish McKenzie, one of Substack’s founders, tol...
theverge.comA study found that X’s algorithm now loves two things: Republicans and Elon Musk
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Elon Musk’s X may have tweaked its algorithm to boost his account, along with those of other conservative-leaning users, starting around the time he announced his support of Donald Trump’s presidenti...
theverge.comThe Onion just bought Infowars
Alex Jones in 2022. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images
The satirical news outlet The Onion has acquired Infowars, the conspiracy theory-riddled site run by Alex Jones, in a bankruptcy auction. In a press release posted to X Thursday, The Onion announced...
theverge.comGoogle rolls out its Gemini AI-powered video presentation app
Google Vids’ “Help me create” screen powered by Gemini AI. | Image: Google
Google is generally rolling out its Gemini AI-powered Vids app that lets you create video presentations using a prompt. Some of Vids’ key features include letting Gemini auto-insert...
theverge.comAOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail’ voice, Elwood Edwards, dies at age 74
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Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL’s “You’ve Got Mail” greeting, has died at age 74 after a long illness, according to local Ohio news station WKYC, where he was employed for many years.
During a 2016 interview, Edwards recounted how h...
theverge.comThe FTC orders Sitejabber to stop faking product reviews
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged Sitejabber, an online review platform, with violating its new fake reviews rules by using point-of-sale reviews to misrepresent what customers think about products. In one of it...
theverge.comPerplexity debuts an AI-powered election information hub
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AI search company Perplexity is putting to the test whether it’s a good idea to use AI to serve crucial voting information with a new Election Information Hub it announced on Friday. The hub offers things like AI-generated answers to voting quest...
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