Dashlane to support new third-party passkey sync feature in Android 14

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Password manager app Dashlane is releasing a new feature that lets you create, store, and sync passkeys on smartphones running the upcoming Android 14 OS. A developer preview released last month adds new abilities to Android that let third-party password managers use the logins with compatible apps on the platform.

A passkey, of course, is a passwordless login built on the FIDO standard, designed to make it hard for malicious parties to phish access from users since there’s no password to steal. Once authenticated, a computer, smartphone, or specialized secure hardware device like a YubiKey completes the passkey login using biometrics like Face ID, fingerprint readers, or a PIN.

Apple, Google, and Microsoft have adopted passkeys and are...

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Here are the best Amazon Echo deals right now

Like Amazon’s Echo speakers, its various smart displays come in a range of sizes. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge

Amazon’s current Echo lineup offers a broad selection of smart speakers and displays that can fit just about anywhere in your home. Whether you want to place a voice assistant in your living room, replace the bulletin board in your office, or pick up a touchscreen-enabled device to showcase recipes in the kitchen, there's an Echo device for just about every occasion and use case.

Regardless of why you might want one, there’s always a way to save on Echo devices, from the last-gen Dot to the wall-mounted Echo Show 15. Even when they’re selling at full price, for instance, Amazon offers a 25 percent discount when you trade in select devices, meaning there are still other ways to save money when none of the models are on sale.

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Elon Musk’s sustainability dreams for Tesla need to start in his own backyard

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the unveiling of the new Tesla Model Y in Hawthorne, California, on March 14th, 2019. | Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images

Last night, as he presented Tesla’s latest “Master Plan” to investors, Elon Musk attempted to cast his company as one that would usher in “a sustainable energy Earth.” But that’s going to be really hard to do if Musk doesn’t get his own house in order first.

Tesla makes electric vehicles, solar panels, and batteries to store renewable electricity. A transition to clean energy will need those things. But making those things also needs to be done sustainably and humanely. That requires transparency and accountability, the kind of thing we’re not used to seeing from Musk and his companies.

Let’s start with some basics. For any company that says it cares about the planet, divulging how much pollution it produces is one of the first steps...

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Tesla’s Investor Day was kind of a dud — that’s okay

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Elon Musk isn’t ready to pull back the curtain quite yet.

During the Q&A portion of Tesla’s Investor Day event in Austin, Texas, last night, Musk was repeatedly asked about the company’s next-generation low-cost electric vehicles. For years, Musk has been promising smaller, cheaper vehicles made possible by a more efficient, less expensive manufacturing process. But the closest we got were images of two vehicles covered in white sheets, one shaped like a small car and the other seemingly like a van.

Investors begged Musk for more details. A name! Some specs! A timeline! More importantly, a price! But Musk dodged each question like it was a liability lawsuit. “We will have a proper product event, but we’ll be jumping the gun if we’re to...

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Picard has resurrected one of Star Trek’s best villains

Worf interrogates a new friend (enemy). | Photo by Trae Patton / Paramount Plus

We’re three episodes into the final season of Star Trek: Picard, and it’s now much, much clearer exactly what kind of enemy Picard and company are facing.

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CNET is doing big layoffs just weeks after AI-generated stories came to light

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Just weeks after news broke that tech site CNET was quietly using artificial intelligence to produce articles, the company is doing extensive layoffs that include several longtime employees, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. The layoffs total around a dozen people, a CNET staffer says, or about 10 percent of the public masthead.

The layoffs began Thursday morning and were announced internally via email by Red Ventures, the private equity-backed marketing-turned-media company that bought CNET in 2020. In the email, a Red Ventures executive suggested the cuts were made to focus CNET on areas where the site can succeed at bringing in traffic on Google search — a top priority for the company.

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President Joe Biden’s new cybersecurity plan would crack down on ‘insecure’ software

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The White House has issued a new cybersecurity strategy that addresses, among other things, the role of large tech companies in preventing cyberattacks. The strategy document calls to “rebalance the responsibility to defend cyberspace,” shifting responsibility for things like ransomware attacks off of individuals, small businesses, and local governments. It also singles out China as “the broadest, most active, and most persistent threat to both government and private sector networks.”

President Joe Biden’s plan outlines goals rather than immediately implemented rules. But if passed into laws and regulations, it would expand cybersecurity requirements for companies that run digital infrastructure the White House deems critical. That could...

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Disney’s Haunted Mansion remake lives up to its name in new teaser trailer

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Pirates of the Caribbeanaside, Disney’s movies based on its theme park attractions have never really popped the way it hoped for. But if there’s one takeaway from the first trailer for director Justin Simien’s Haunted Mansion, it’s that the studio is hell-bent on figuring out how to make these things work, no matter how long it takes.

The new Haunted Mansion tells the story of single mom Gabbie (Rosario Dawson) and her son Travis (Chase Dillon) as the duo moves into a sprawling, old mansion in Louisiana’s French Quarter and quickly realize that the place is downright infested with ghosts. Rather than doing the sensible thing — moving — or trying to deal with the haunting themselves, Gabbie enlists a ragtag group of spiritualists like...

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Dead by Daylight’s getting a movie

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The video game film adaptation machine keeps merrily chugging along with Blumhouse Productions and Atomic Monster teaming up with Behaviour Interactive to produce a feature-length film adaptation of Dead By Daylight.

The announcement of the new venture comes days after Blumhouse shared that it’s starting its own gaming division. Atomic Monster founder and CEO James Wan said in the announcement, “In Dead by Daylight the Behaviour team has created a love letter to the world of horror, building an incredible environment teeming with atmosphere and terrifying villains — perfect for a scary cinematic adaptation.”

A Dead by Daylight adaptation makes more sense than whatever Pixels was or whatever the live-action Pac-Man movie might be. If...

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Movies Anywhere is ending its movie sharing and Watch Together features

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Movies Anywhere has proven to be one of the most pro-consumer things to emerge from the entertainment world in ages. You buy a movie on one digital service, and then you get to watch it across numerous other services and hardware platforms. It’s one of those cases where “it just works” actually rings true — though Paramount Pictures, MGM, and Lionsgate deserve to be shamed in perpetuity for never getting behind the cross-studio effort.

But occasionally there’s news that makes me at least a little worried about the future of Movies Anywhere. Take today, for example: as noted by Cord Cutters News, Disney-owned Movies Anywhere has announced that it will end its Screen Pass feature as of May 1st. Screen Pass allowed Movies Anywhere users to...

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Ford is creating a new division to lead its partial autonomy and hands-free driving tech

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Ford announced the creation of a new wholly owned subsidiary called Latitude AI to lead its efforts to develop a hands-free, eye-off, unsupervised driving system. The company has rehired about 550 employees from Argo AI, the autonomous vehicle operator that shut down last year after Ford pulled its funding.

Latitude AI will be based in Pittsburgh, which is where Argo AI was previously headquartered and has emerged in recent years as a hub of AV research and startups. Additional engineering hubs will be set up in Dearborn, Michigan, and Palo Alto, California. The company also will operate a highway-speed test track facility in Greenville, South Carolina.

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Playdate’s next showcase will focus on new games and its upcoming storefront

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Panic, the company behind the adorable Playdate handheld, is holding an event next week to share some updates on new games and the device’s upcoming storefront. The update — called Playdate Update — will be 13 minutes long and take place on March 7th at 12PM ET. The company says that it “will be focusing on some new games coming very soon to the handheld,” along with Catalog, an upcoming storefront for new releases.

Playdate first started shipping handhelds last April (though not everywhere), and Panic says that more than 25,000 units have been shipped to date. At launch, the device came bundled with a season of games from notable developers like Zach Gage and Keita Takahashi, but Playdate owners could also sideload games released...

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Why won’t TikTok confirm the Bold Glamour filter is AI?

You may not look like yourself, but TikTok’s Bold Glamour face filter appears far more advanced than previous beauty effects we’ve seen. | Image: The Verge / Jess Weatherbed

TikTok rolled out new AI tools for filters last month. But the company won’t say if its new Bold Glamour effect uses them — and the reaction to the filter isn’t entirely positive.

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Dan Harmon’s NFT animated series has already been renewed for a third season

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Krapopolis, Fox’s animated series from Dan Harmon about a family of deities, monsters, and humans trying to keep an ancient city running smoothly, seemed like it might not ever see the light of day judging from the way Fox kept bumping its release date back. But according to a new report, Fox is still committed to the project and its accompanying NFT marketplace — so much so that it’s already given Krapopolis an order for another season.

Deadline reports that Fox has ordered a third season of Krapopolis ahead of its new planned premiere date sometime in the fall / winter television season bridging the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024. Originally, a small preview of Krapopolis was intended to air in November of last year, but those...

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NASA and SpaceX launch the delayed Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station

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NASA has successfully launched four astronauts on a journey to the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew-6 astronauts launched in a SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle carried by a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:34AM ET on Thursday, March 2nd.

The crew will travel throughout the day and arrive at the ISS at around 1AM ET on Friday, where they will join the four members of Crew-5 plus three more crew members, for a total of 11 people on board the station. This won’t last for long, however, as the Crew-5 astronauts are scheduled to return to Earth in another Crew Dragon in a few days’ time.

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Microsoft’s Activision deal likely to be approved by EU regulators, says Reuters

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Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard is likely to be approved by EU regulators, Reuters reports. The software giant struck licensing deals with Nintendo and Nvidia recently, and Reuters says these deals are likely to satisfy lawmakers in Europe to help Microsoft clear its $68.7 billion deal.

The European Commission is reportedly unlikely to demand that Microsoft sell any Activision Blizzard assets as a condition of regulatory approval. That’s a contrast to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which offered up possible remedies last month that include Microsoft being forced to sell off Activision Blizzard’s business associated with Call of Duty.

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MWC 2023 was a preview of what future phones could (and should) look like

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Hands-on with HMD’s repairable Nokia and three more phone trends from MWC we hope are here to stay.

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s fourth wave of DLC tracks adds Birdo next week

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s fourth wave of DLC tracks will be released on March 9th, Nintendo has announced. As with previous updates, the wave will include eight tracks that are mostly returning from previous entries in the series. However, it’ll also include an additional playable character, Birdo. This fourth wave was initially teased during a Nintendo Direct last month with a vague “Spring 2023” release date.

The fourth wave includes a brand-new course called Yoshi’s Island. This will sit alongside Riverside Park from the Game Boy Advance game, DK Summit from the Wii version, Mario Circuit from the DS, Waluigi Stadium from the GameCube, and three tracks from the Mario Kart Tour smartphone game — Amsterdam Drift, Bangkok Rush, and Singapore...

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Belkin’s 3-in-1 charger with MagSafe is down to its lowest price in months

Belkin’s MagSafe-equipped BoostCharge Pro can handle everything from AirPods to Android devices. | Image: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

Why buy three different chargers to juice up your gadgets when you can buy one? That’s the beauty of Belkin’s BoostCharge Pro 3-in-1 Wireless Charger with MagSafe, which is on sale for $127.49 ($22 off) when you buy it direct from Belkin with offer code CHARGEF23.

The BoostCharge Pro — which is currently one of our favorite magnetic chargers — is a tree-like stand that can simultaneously charge MagSafe-compatible iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods that sport a wireless charging case. The convenient, durable device delivers 15W MagSafe charging speeds along with the faster charging speeds afforded by the newer Apple Watch Series 7, Series 8, and Ultra. Plus, it offers enough space underneath the phone and watch chargers that you can use...

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Dead Cells composer says reinterpreting Castlevania’s music wasn’t an easy task

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Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania is a meaty Dead Cells DLC update that adds things like bosses, stages, and even characters from Konami’s vampire-hunting series. But behind it all are more than 60 _Dead Cells-_themed Castlevania songs, including 51 remixes of classic tracks and 12 original compositions. I got to speak with composer Yoann Laulan about bringing Castlevania’s music to Dead Cells.

“I was really excited to be able to add a little bit of something to these amazing, very important tracks in video game history,” Laulan said. “But at the same time, [it wasn’t] that easy, because it’s something that’s kind of sacred. I wouldn’t say it was an easy task to do.”

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RPG publisher Paizo bans AI-generated content to support ‘human professionals’

The FAQs for Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite are being updated to ban AI-generated content from the community marketplaces. | Image: Paizo

Paizo, publisher of popular tabletop roleplay games (TTRPG) like Pathfinder and Starfinder_,_ has made its position clear: AI-generated art and text isn’t welcome across its games, be it official or fan-made. In a Twitter post, Paizo said it would update its contracts in the coming days to mandate that any work submitted must be created by a human. This ban on AI-generated content also extends to the community content marketplaces for Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite, which allow creators to sell third-party content based on Paizo’s IP.

“Since we launched the company in 2002, Paizo has made its reputation with the assistance of countless traditional artists and writers, who are just as integral to the success of our games as our...

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Microsoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining

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Microsoft has added a new feature to its Bing chatbot that lets you toggle between different tones for responses. There are three options for the AI-powered chatbot’s responses: creative, balanced, and precise. The creative mode includes responses that are “original and imaginative,” whereas the precise mode favors accuracy and relevancy for more factual and concise answers.

Microsoft has set the default for the Bing chatbot to the balanced mode, which it hopes will strike a balance between accuracy and creativity. These new chat modes are rolling out to all Bing AI users right now, and around 90 percent of users should be seeing them already.

The new modes should help counter the wild outbursts we originally saw with the Bing AI...

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Garmin brings OLED displays to its latest Forerunner watches

The Garmin Forerunner 265, 265S, and 965 will all sport always-on OLED displays. | Image: Garmin

Garmin’s Forerunner 265 and Forerunner 965 watches have just landed. And in a first for the line, both sport shiny always-on OLED touchscreens. The Forerunner series comprises Garmin’s midrange, lightweight GPS watches for runners (and triathletes), making the shift to OLED an interesting choice. That crowd tends to favor outdoor readability and long battery life — two things that smartwatches with OLED displays aren’t always the best at.

The Forerunner 265 will cost $449.99 and measures 46mm. Like last year’s model, it’ll also come in a smaller “S” size that measures 42mm. The Forerunner 965 is the next step up at $599.99, with a 47mm case and a titanium bezel. Feature-wise, not a whole lot has changed since last year. All three watches...

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Snapchat’s Snapstreaks are about to get more flexible — for a fee

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Snapstreaks, a Snapchat feature that tracks how long you’ve been trading daily snaps with a friend, are about to get a little more forgiving. In a short blog post, the company says it’s testing the option to let users restore broken streaks. “Starting today, we’re making it easier to take a break with a new feature we’re testing to let you reignite the spark and restore one Streak for free with just one tap,” it writes.

The keen eyed may have spotted a key qualifier in Snap’s sentence, which is that the company is saying you’ll currently only be able to restore a single streak for free. After the first restore, TechCrunch reports that users will have to pay $0.99 per streak. And if you want to be able to freely pause streaks when you...

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Fujifilm announces the new Instax Mini 12 instant camera

The Fujifilm Instax Mini 12 comes in a variety of colors. | Image: Fujifilm

Fujifilm has announced the newest instant camera in its Instax Mini lineup: the Fujifilm Instax Mini 12. The Instax Mini 12 is a new iteration of the Instax Mini 11 — our current top instant camera pick — and will be available around mid-March for $79.95.

Save for a few minor feature and design updates, the Instax Mini 11 and Instax Mini 12 look identical. However, the lens structure is the most notable change. You can now, for instance, twist the lens to enter the Close-Up Mode instead of pushing a button, much as you would a traditional point-and-shoot. I’ve only just started testing the camera, but based on my first impression, this makes zooming in just a little more fun and intuitive as a result.

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Tesla confirms its next Gigafactory will be in Mexico

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that the company will build its next Gigafactory in Mexico. The news came during the live Q and A sessions after Tesla’s Investor Day event, where it has announced its Master Plan part three.

During the event, Musk revealed that the facility will be built in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, which shares a small border with Texas — home of Tesla’s Austin Gigafactory. Yesterday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed the project will be built in the city of Monterrey, which is about 387 miles away from Tesla’s headquarters in Austin.

The announcement confirms earlier reporting that Tesla was planning its sixth Gigafactory in Mexico. Musk had reportedly toured three Mexican states...

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Elon Musk unveils a new Master Plan, a path to sustainable energy future, but no new cars

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Elon Musk revealed the third part of Tesla’s “Master Plan,” in which the company will lead the global effort to eliminate fossil fuels and convert the world to sustainable energy. The plan was outlined during an investor event Wednesday held at the company’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas.

Master Plan 3 includes adding renewable power to the existing grid, producing more electric vehicles, installing heat pumps in homes and buildings, using high-temperature heat delivery and hydrogen for industrial applications, and building sustainably fueled planes and boats. Musk’s plan is to create “a sustainable energy civilization.”

Tesla projects it will take $10 trillion in investments to bring about this sustainable future powered by renewable...

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The best deals on MacBooks right now

The 2020 MacBook Air, one of the best laptops you can get, is frequently on sale. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

With multiple configurations and various models to choose from, finding a deal on a Mac equipped with an M-series chip is not all that difficult. It’s sometimes a slightly different story for the MacBook Pros with beefier M1 Pro and M1 Max CPUs, but with a little luck, you can score those excellent laptops for as much as $500 off. As for the most recent batch of M2-powered 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, they, too, get their fair share of modest savings with some regularity. And with the recent introduction of M2 Pro and M2 Max 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros, it’s probably just a matter of time until you can save some money on those refreshed models, too.

Here, we’ll run through the discounts that are currently available for Apple’s...

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The Mandalorian’s season 3 premiere was a return to simpler, safer Star Wars storytelling

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The Mandalorian’s Chapter 17: The Apostate is a big, breezy, and action-packed reminder that Star Wars has always been a magical space adventure for new fans first and everyone else second.

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Humble Bundle’s latest bundle benefits earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria

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Humble Bundle has put together a game bundle that benefits relief efforts in Turkey and Syria after a devastating earthquake struck both countries last month. The proceeds from the game bundle will go to three nonprofits working to provide aid to the region, including Direct Relief, International Medical Corps, and Save the Children.

“Hundreds of thousands of people are in immediate need of medical supplies, food, water, and shelter, and the road to recovery will continue to be extremely challenging for the people of the region,” Humble Bundle writes. “To lend a hand how we can, we’ve joined forces with game makers & book publishers for a bundle 100% dedicated to supporting Türkiye-Syria quake relief efforts.”

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