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DJI is getting into e-bikes.

That’s what the drone company’s official Instagram account seems to be teasing under a new Amflow Bikes brand, built around a DJI Avinox mid-drive motor. The announcement is teased for Wednesday, July 3rd at 3AM ET — that’s 9AM CET in Germany just as the Eurobike show kicks off tomorrow.


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How a smart RGB cube fixed my shared home office.

My wife takes work calls that I can’t hear or see. She wears earbuds and doesn’t always speak. I’d often ask her questions without realizing she was busy!

But now, we have a red light that means “NO TALKING,” yellow for “LISTEN-ONLY CALL” and green for “CLEAR” — thanks to a $16 cube that took mere minutes to set up with WLED!


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The new hot gadget is... the Kindle?

E-book borrowing is the new hot trend, and to use their local libraries, people are buying Kindles. Though paper books are still more popular than digital ones, “Kindle sales have grown in double-digit percentages for each of the past two years and are on track for similar gains this year.”


The portable speakers you need this summer

Plus, in this week’s Installer: an AI app for reading anything, The Bear is back, an easy way to make websites, and much more.

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“A willingness to kiss without paperwork is now a form of chivalry.”

A look at the era of the non-disclosure agreement, subject of pop songs and nearly as common as water in Silicon Valley. Paradoxically, though, being as loud as possible makes it harder for the likes of Jeff Bezos to come after you.


The Verge’s summer ‘in’ / ‘out’ list

Just having fun while we make this website.

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This is the worst way to shop for video games.

Amazon has a new 3D “Gaming Zone” online showroom, which feels like it was designed to fit a marketing executive’s idea of “gamer aesthetic.” Also, the showroom is a chore to navigate. And you can’t even play the arcade cabinets!

Note: If you buy something from the links in the store, we might get affiliate revenue.


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Florida man arrested for shooting Walmart delivery drone.

Dennis Winn, the suspect, admits he fired what he characterized as a single warning shot.

Lake County Sheriff’s Office: “A bullet hole was discovered in the payload the drone was carrying.”

Shooting at aircraft is illegal, period; in addition to that, he’s also charged with “Criminal mischief damage over $1,000” and “Discharging a firearm in public or residential property.”


What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more

From net neutrality to H-1B tech workers to cellphone unlocking, much of tech policy revolves around the administrative state.

Syniverse blames global roaming outage on a “signaling storm.”

Last week, an outage disconnected wireless customers trying to use international roaming, and now we know why,

Syniverse says the problem was not a cyberattack but a “misconfiguration” that flooded its network with a near-infinite loop of error messages. Things are finally back online, and AT&T says it will credit customers for the days — but we haven’t heard more from T-Mobile or Verizon.


As a result of this root cause, the global network became flooded with error messages causing a near infinite loop called a “signaling storm.” This necessitated a blocking of a very limited number of peering partners who were producing excessive error loops and an upgrade of network capacity. We have now ensured safe performance and brought all peering partners back onto the network with full service restored.
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Framework Laptop 16, six months later

Preorders are fulfilled, it’s now on sale — is it better?

The best robot vacuums

Floor-sweeping robots are only getting better, with new mopping skills, better navigation chops, and more automation, meaning less work for you. We picked the best bots you can buy right now.

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It’s a Neo Noir summer.

Criterion Channel’s new film series spans four decades, featuring ‘70s conspiracy thrillers, (Night Moves and Blow Out), both Bad Lieutenant movies (Keitel and Cage), ‘90s favorites L.A. Confidential and Out of Sight, as well as the deeply underrated Coen brothers’ The Man Who Wasn’t There. There are plenty of others, too — perfect viewing if your summer is feeling a little too sunny.


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Kite Man is becoming a small business owner this July.

Kite Man — a man whose power is having a kite — isn’t really the kind of DC character you’d expect to see starring in their own animated series. But you can kind of see the appeal to Kite Man: Hell Yeah! (out July 18th) when you hear Stephanie Hsu as an explosive ice skiter and Keith David as a drunken Darkseid.


Windows on Arm puts Intel on notice

Microsoft and Qualcomm have delivered some real Intel competition.

Well, that’s one delicious use of a 3D printer.

The ability to 3D print using edible mediums like chocolate isn’t new, but consider this: a NES cartridge-shaped reverse s’more.


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DOJ prepares a plea deal for Boeing.

Days before Boeing’s deferred prosecution agreement over 737 Max crashes would’ve expired, a door plug blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight, and the case was reopened. Now, attorneys for family members of the crash victims have been told federal prosecutors will seek a guilty plea from Boeing to resolve a criminal fraud charge, which one lawyer called “another sweetheart deal.”

Seattle Times:

The plea deal would include a $244 million fine, a three-year probation and an independent monitor appointed to oversee the company’s progress on safety and quality improvements.


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Fortnite is getting closer to a return on iOS in the EU.

Epic Games has submitted the Epic Games Store and Fortnite to Apple for notarization. The company aims to launch them both in the EU on iOS in “the next couple months.”

In January, Epic said it planned to bring both to iOS “this year.”


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George R.R. Martin on a potential Elden Ring adaptation:

Oh, and about those rumors you may have heard about a feature film or television series based on ELDEN RING… I have nothing to say.  Not a word, nope, not a thing, I know nothing, you never heard a peep from me, mum mum mum.  What rumor?


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Look how they massacred my Hellboy.

Director Brian Taylor’s Hellboy: The Crooked Man could wind up being a surprise delight, but the movie’s first trailer does...not exactly inspire all that much confidence.


Android tablets and foldables get a new Google Keep trick.

Google Keep is one of a long list of note-taking apps we like, and if you’re using it on a “large screen Android device,” it has a new feature for you.

Expanding on the ability to open two instances of the app at once, now the platform will let you sign into separate accounts at the same time — no hacks required.


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Donald Glover is going to save the new world or die trying.

Donald Glover has been Earnest, and Lando, a very suave John Smith, but Bando Stone & The New World — his latest directing gig — will transform him into an aging singer desperately trying to survive an apocalyptic world that makes little sense. There’s no word yet on when the film debuts.