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Jess Weatherbed

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Jess Weatherbed is a news writer, and part of The Verge UK-based team. While passionate about the future of technology, she originally trained as a prosthetics makeup and wig-making technician, fuelled by a love of animatronics and practical movie effects.

Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews across computing, PC gaming and streaming. Additional bylines can be found at GamesRadar, PCGamer, Creative Bloq and Space.com.

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Arcane teases a sibling showdown in its punchy new teaser.

With its second (and final) season set to be released sometime this November, the new trailer dives deeper into the escalating conflict between the cities of Piltover and Zaun, and the sisters Vi and Jinx fighting on either side.

It also introduces Ashnikko’s new single “Paint The Town Blue,” which will feature on the show’s soundtrack.


UK regulator closes Microsoft / Inflection antitrust probe.

Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) executive director Joel Bamford said that while Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection AI staff “does qualify as a merger under UK law,” the transaction was unlikely to significantly reduce competition in the consumer chatbot market.

Additional details about the shuttered investigation are available here.


When any image could be AI, how will we know what isn’t?

Our latest video runs through the issues involved in resolving that conundrum, and the problems we may encounter if we can’t. Stick around till the end for a bonus “find the AI image” challenge!