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The best smartphone photos of the year

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 49, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you like podcasts, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)This week, I’ve been reading about upstart baseball teams and canceled comics and Francis Ford Coppola, watching Logan Lucky, binging Teo Crawford’s camera videos,listening to The Mess Around and thus rewatching New Girl for t

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The Quantum Mechanics of the Greenhouse Effect

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14 Best Outdoor Security Cameras (2024): Battery-Powered, LTE, No Subscription

These weatherproof outdoor security cams keep a watchful eye on your property while you get on with life. Our list includes battery-powered and LTE devices and options that need no subscription.

European iPhones are more fun now

We got game emulators in the app store, as a treat. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Whining about stuff is a treasured American pastime, so allow me to indulge: the iPhone is more fun in Europe now, and it’s not fair.
They’re getting all kinds of stuff because they have cool regulators, not like, regular regulators. Third-party app stores, the ability for browsers to run their own engines, Fortnite, and now the ability to replace lots of default apps? I want it, too! Imagine i

French authorities reportedly arrest Telegram’s CEO

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is reportedly in custody after being arrested near Paris Saturday evening as he was departing his private jet. The billionaire was apprehended on a warrant related to a preliminary investigation, writes Reuters.
French authorities reportedly believe that the platform’s lack of moderation has “allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.” Durov will go before a judge tonight and could be indi

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French authorities arrest Telegram’s CEO

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is reportedly in custody after being arrested near Paris Saturday evening as he was departing his private jet. The billionaire was apprehended on a warrant related to a preliminary investigation, writes Reuters.
French authorities believe that the platform’s lack of moderation has “allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.” Durov will go before a judge tonight and could be indicted as ear

Canoo is down to one co-founder as its CTO reportedly leaves

Image: Canoo EV startup Canoo has lost co-founder and chief technology officer Sohel Merchant and is moving its operations out of Los Angeles, according to two reports from TechCrunch this week, citing unnamed sources.
Merchant took over the CTO position in 2021, when the company’s CTO left, along with two other co-founders. One of those who remained, chief designer Richard Kim, departed last year. With Merchant now reportedly gone, chief engineer Christoph Kuttner is the last founder stan

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Living with trust issues: The human side of zero trust architecture

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7 Best Handheld Gaming Consoles (2024): Switch, Steam Deck, and More

The second golden age of portable gaming is here! Mostly. These are the top gadgets for taking your video games on the go.

NASA will bring the Starliner astronauts home next year on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission

Image: NASA NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced today that US astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore will return next February with the SpaceX Crew-9 mission after spending more than 80 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
According to NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich, “As we got more and more data over the summer and understood the uncertainty of that data, it became very clear to us that the best course of action was to return Starliner uncrewed.&

The Boeing Starliner Astronauts Will Come Home on SpaceX's Dragon Next Year

The decision will leave the crew on the ISS until February. The mission was initially supposed to last about a week.

The Boeing Starliner Astronauts Will Come Home on SpaceX's Dragon

The decision will leave the crew on the ISS until February. The mission was initially supposed to last about a week.

Pokémon’s first 22 seasons are getting their own FAST channel

Image: Pokémon A new all-Pokémon FAST channel is bringing the first 22 seasons of the original Pokémon anime, courtesy of Canadian distributor WildBrain. The channel will kick off its availability in the US, with Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand to follow, according to WildBrain’s announcement this week.
Melissa Pearce, senior director of media licensing at The Pokémon Company International, called FAST TV is “an ideal platform” to connect

Gamescom’s clues about a game industry recovery | The DeanBeat

After big layoffs in games, it was good to see signs of life at Gamescom 2024, the big expo for video games in Cologne, Germany.Read More

Google Wallet now works for California driver’s licenses

Illustration: The Verge Android users participating in a pilot program can now add their California driver’s licenses to Google Wallet. The “mobile driver’s license” program is currently open to 1.5 million Californians, and previously only allowed digital IDs in the state’s “CA DMV Wallet” app for iOS and Android.
“It’s never been easier to keep a digital driver’s license and identification card in California,” said Governor Gavi

How to Switch From iPhone to Android (2024)

If you’re leaving Apple behind to try Google’s Pixel, a Samsung Galaxy, or another Android phone, this guide covers all your bases.

The Sonos Era 100 speaker is 20 percent off in the run-up to Labor Day

The Era 100 might resemble a roll of paper towels, but it remains our default smart speaker. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sonos’ Labor Day sale is bringing discounts to a variety of smart speakers and soundbars until September 2nd, many of which are on sale elsewhere for the same price. Both the Sonos Era 100 and portable Move 2 are 20 percent off, which means you can get the Era 100 from Amazon, Best Buy, and Sonos for $199 ($50 off) or the Move 2 for $359 ($90 off) via the same ret

The Shokz OpenFit Air would’ve been perfect if not for my glasses

The Shokz OpenFit Air are a lightweight pair of open-ear buds that use air conduction. The bass is pretty good for open-ear fitness buds, but alas, my glasses foiled the ear hook design.Continue reading…

12 Best Tablets (2024): iPads, Androids, and More Tested and Compared

We’ve tested all the top slates, from Apple’s iPads to Android and Windows devices, and rounded up our favorites.

Will the ‘Car-Free’ Los Angeles Olympics Work?

Organizers of the 2028 Summer Games will attempt to re-create the city’s public transport heyday of the early 20th century, but ousting the car—even for just a few weeks—will be costly.

How Google’s Satellite eSOS Works During Emergencies on the Pixel 9

Like recent iPhones, Google’s latest Android phones support satellite messaging when you don’t have cellular connectivity.

Your Guide to Surviving Extreme Weather

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The US Navy Has Run Out of Pants

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TikTok revives Sinéad O'Connor's 'Famine' to address colonial wounds

Sinéad O'Connor's life was marred with controversy over her steadfast, clear-eyed rejection of the status quo. She shaved her head in response to her beauty becoming a marketing tool, ripped apart a photograph of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live to protest child abuse in the Catholic church, and sang illuminating protest songs ranging in topics from Black liberation to Ireland's history of oppression.SEE ALSO:'Kneecap' takes the Irish language revolution to the big screen
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Our galaxy might crash into Andromeda. What would happen to us?

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal.It has grown by consuming other galaxies. Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda. Though galaxy collisions are normal events and NASA suspects this collision is inevitable (in billions of years), new research argues that with our current knowledge about Andromeda, such a future impact is still not certain — and has about 50-50 odds.You might wonder what would happen if our disk-shaped spiral galaxy were to

Let's talk 'Blink Twice's WTF ending

Blink Twice is a thriller so rich with twists and clues you ought to see it twice. Sure, it begins like a dream: A co*cktail waitress named Frida (I Wanna Dance With Somebody's Naomi Ackie) gets swept away to the private island of a debonair tech billionaire named Slater King (Channing Tatum). But beyond bountiful brunches and endless streams of champagne and plumes of pot smoke, something sinister slinks in the shadows of this seeming paradise.If you've seen Blink Twice and found your head