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‘Wellness’ feels like it’s losing all meaning in health tech

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Oura has taken to Washington to lobby for relaxed wearable regulation. This is Optimizer , a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life . Opt in for Optimizer here . For the past week, I've been thinking about the fact that Oura has gone to Washington. The Oura Ring has always had an influential clientele , but it's apparently now a popular accessory in Capitol Hill. Earlier this week, Politico ran a story about how the smart ring maker is lobbying legislators for less wearable regulation. Specifically, the article notes that Oura has floated the idea of creating a "digital heal … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/column/878337/optimizer-oura-wearables-fda-regulation-digital-health-screeners
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Waymo’s next-gen robotaxi is ready for passengers — and also ‘high-volume production’

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After years of testing and validation, Waymo announced today that it's sixth-generation robotaxi technology is finally ready for passenger trips. The updated autonomous driving system will first be rolled out for employees and their friends in San Francisco and Los Angeles, with public customers to follow. Waymo's current fleet of Jaguar I-Pace vehicles runs on the company's fifth generation technology , first rolled out in March 2020. But that vehicle has reached the end of its shelf life, after Jaguar discontinued the model at the end of 2024. The updated system is designed to work seamlessly across multiple vehicle types , starting with t … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/transportation/877902/waymo-sixth-generation-robotaxi-ojai-hyundai-sensors-cost
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Reanimal wants to devour you

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The woods in Reanimal are full of surprises. You will encounter human cadavers that slither like snakes, gigantic talking pigs, and, at one point, a forlorn, supersized whale who seems resigned to an agonizingly slow death. These variously monstrous beings inhabit a realm that, though it looks like our own, seems to defy spatial logic: the forest leads to an oceanic expanse, which segues into a decrepit, towering city. It's like Aesop's Fables meets the nightmare visions of both Lars von Trier and J.G. Ballard. Playing as a boy and girl (either solo or via local / online co-op), Reanimal evolves the premise Tarsier Studios explored with its … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/games/876355/reanimal-review-ps5-xbox-switch-steam
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Microsoft wants to rewire data centers to save space

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A Microsoft data center in Aldie, Virginia, on Tuesday, October 28th, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images Microsoft wants to design more efficient data centers using materials that allow electricity to flow with zero resistance. If these new materials, called high-temperature superconductors, can make it to market, Microsoft thinks it could be a game changer for how data centers and the energy infrastructure they connect to are built. Tech companies are facing backlash over how much power generative AI demands, delays connecting to power grids that lack the infrastructure to meet those demands, and the impact construction of new data centers has on local residents. High-temperature superconductors (HTS) could potentially shrink the amount of s … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/science/876083/microsoft-ai-data-center-superconductor
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Ferrari’s first EV will have an interior designed by Jony Ive

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Ferrari released the first interior images of the company's first all-electric supercar, called the Ferrari Luce ("light" in Italian). This is the second time the Italian automaker has teased the Luce (formerly Elettrica) without showing us the actual car , or even a silhouette. But the interior images should suffice given the bold-faced name of the designer: Jony Ive. Ferrari decided to outsource the work of designing the Luce's interior to Ive and his partner Marc Newson, who together run the design shop LoveFrom. Ive, obviously, is well known for his work as Apple's former chief designer, overseeing such iconic products as the iMac, iPhon … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/transportation/875799/ferrari-luce-jony-ive-interior-design-photos
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Linux 6.19 arrives with a teaser for Linux 7.0

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Fedora systems like this one running Linux kernel 6.17 could soon get an update. | Image: Stevie Bonifield / The Verge On Sunday, Linux developer Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 6.19 , which will be the last update in this kernel cycle, as previously reported by Phoronix . It adds support for the modern AMDGPU driver for older AMD GCN 1.0 and 1.1 graphics cards, like Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs, along with Vulkan support through the RADV driver, and improved power management. Linux 6.19 also includes improved HDR support with the addition of the DRM Color Pipeline, an updated Asus Armoury driver, expanded support for newer Intel Wildcat Lake and Nova Lake chips, PCIe link encryption and device authentication, and more. Along with the launch of … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/tech/875784/linux-kernel-7-0-announced
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OpenAI’s supposedly ‘leaked’ Super Bowl ad with ear buds and a shiny orb was a hoax

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As if OpenAI didn't have enough drama around the Super Bowl and advertising , as the game wound down, word spread of a "leaked" ad that actually wasn't leaked at all; it was just a fake. Screenshots of a now-deleted Reddit thread told the tale of a frustrated employee who, while posting about how upset they were because the ad they'd worked on didn't run, accidentally leaked the entire advertisement video , seemingly showing Murderbot star Alexander Skarsgård with what could have been OpenAI's first hardware device , portrayed as a shiny orb that went with some wraparound earbuds. OpenAI president Greg Brockman commented on X with a tweet cal … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/875615/openai-super-bowl-ai-hardware-leak-hoax-fake
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