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Whose lavish wedding is sparking protests this week? Find out in the quiz

From British royalty and billionaire antics to the latest in U.S. news, this week's quiz will make you feel smart and savvy at the dinner table.

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The Latest: Israel threatens Iran's supreme leader as Iranian strikes wound over 200

Iranian missiles hit a major hospital in southern Israel and struck residential buildings in Tel Aviv on Thursday, wounding 240 people and causing extensive ...

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Horse stable and residential buildings hit in latest Russian drone strike on Ukraine city of Odesa

Russia hit the Ukrainian city of Odesa with a daytime drone strike on Friday. At least 11 people were injured, according to authorities. They added that a...

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Carrier becomes latest global firm to sue India over electronic waste rules

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The Indian unit of U.S. air conditioning giant Carrier has become the latest major firm to sue Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government...

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Foldables are in and suddenly really thin

Hi! Welcome to Installer No. 89, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. My name is Jay Peters, and I will be taking care of Installer while David is on parental leave. All of us here at The Verge are very excited for him and his family, and he'll be back […]

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Why GM’s CEO is still betting on electric vehicles (and racing)

GM was the first major US automaker to make the promise to go all-electric by 2035, just four years ago. Those promises have since turned into rough estimates under the second Donald Trump presidency, with the company softening language about its electrification goals. But GM is riding high on EV sales, and as CEO Mary […]

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xAI explains the Grok Nazi meltdown, as Tesla puts Elon’s bot in its cars

Several days after temporarily shutting down the Grok AI bot that was producing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler in response to user prompts, Elon Musk’s AI company tried to explain why that happened. In a series of posts on X, it said that “…we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path […]

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The best Amazon Prime Day deals you can still shop

Amazon’s first four-day Prime Day technically ended yesterday, but a few deals have stuck around a little longer. You won’t see a bright red “Prime Day Deal” tag anymore, which can make these stragglers a little hard to find, so we’ve collected them for you. These deals could end at any time, and we wouldn’t […]

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24 hours with Alexa Plus: we cooked, we chatted, and it kinda lied to me

I've waited two years to try out the new Alexa, which was first announced way back in 2023, and this week I finally got access to Alexa Plus. I've now spent 24 hours with Amazon's generative AI-powered voice assistant, and it's not just an improvement on the original; it's an entirely new assistant. Alexa Plus […]

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Playdate’s second season sucked me back into the little yellow handheld

The Playdate is easy to forget about. It's colorful and weird, but it's also tiny. Like the Game Boy Micro before it, sometimes I toss it in a bag and then can't remember where I put it. But over the past few weeks, the yellow handheld has been in constant rotation in my house, despite […]

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