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Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’

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It might be World War III, but at least I won $20. | Image: Polymarket / The Verge Polymarket has been allowing people to bet on when the US would strike Iran next . Obviously, now that it's actually happened and people have died, the prediction betting market is feeling some pressure. The site has been at the center of controversy before, including suspicions of insider trading on the Super Bowl halftime show and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro . In a statement posted on its site, Polymarket defended its decision to allow betting on the potential start of a war, saying that it was an "invaluable" source of news and answers, before taking shots at traditional media and Elon Musk's X. The statement reads: … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/d1cDLTC
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The Rubin Observatory’s alert system sent 800,000 pings on its first night

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That’s coming on a little strong, maybe. | Image: Vera C. Rubin Observatory The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's automated alert system is online and already bombarding astronomers with things to look at in the night sky. The system went live publicly on Tuesday, February 24th, and on the first night dropped some 800,000 alerts about asteroids , supernovas, and feasting black holes. And that number is only expected to climb to the multiple millions per night. The observatory released the first images taken with its car-sized Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera in June of last year. But researchers and stargazers have been eagerly anticipating the launch of this system. Every night, the camera captures about 1,0 … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/v1UZQwT
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Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Plus gets a better interface and a 40 percent discount

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Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Plus is on sale for $29.99, which is $5 shy of its best price. | Image: Amazon When Amazon first showed off its redesigned Fire TV OS at CES, we were impressed. It’s faster, better organized, and feels similar to Google’s top-notch TV interface. The update is now finally rolling out to the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus , making it an even better buy now that it’s on sale for $29.99 ($20 off) at Amazon , Best Buy , and Target — $5 shy of its best price to date. If you want something cheaper and don’t mind waiting for the update to arrive, the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Select is also on sale at Amazon , Best Buy , and Target , for $19.99 ($20 off), which is $2 more than its all-time low price. Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus Where to Buy: $49.99 $29.99 at Target $49.99 $29.99 at Amazon $49.99 $29.99 at Best Buy The new Fire TV OS update makes navigating content even easier, adding tabs across the top for search, home, movies, TV shows, sports, news...
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Qualcomm won’t be announcing Windows gaming handhelds at GDC after all

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In January, Qualcomm hinted to The Verge that it might finally bring its powerful Arm-based Snapdragon processors to Windows gaming handhelds at the 2026 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco - just in time to challenge Nvidia's own first Arm gaming CPU and Intel's first dedicated handheld gaming chips . But plans have shifted, Qualcomm now tells me. It won't announce any updates to its Snapdragon G Series gaming chips there, nor offer the recently announced updates to the Snapdragon X line for journalists to try or benchmark. "Snapdragon X Series and Snapdragon G Series processors are pushing the PC, desktop, and handheld gaming dev … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/Wjq7iEy
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Netflix’s F1 series Drive to Survive will stream on Apple TV, too

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Netflix's sports docuseries obsession started a few years ago with F1: Drive to Survive , but when the eighth season premieres after midnight tonight, it will also be available on Apple TV . Now that Apple TV has a five-year deal to be the US streaming home for F1 races , subscribers in the US will be able to catch every episode of the new Drive to Survive season without having to jump over to another streaming service. Apple TV and Netflix will both stream the eighth season of F1: Drive to Survive . The hit F1 documentary series that has so far been exclusive to Netflix, but the new season will debut on both streaming services on Friday. What … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/xGzrPw4
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NATO says iPhones are secure enough to handle classified data

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The iPhone and iPad have been approved to hold NATO-restricted information, according to an announcement on Thursday . That means off-the-shelf devices running iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 can handle classified information "without requiring special software or settings," Apple says. The NATO-restricted designation is the lowest level of classified information, and it applies to information that would be "disadvantageous to the interests of NATO" if disclosed, according to a security document posted by the Marines. BlackBerry 10 phones similarly received approval to hold this level of classified information in 2013. Following an "extensive evaluati … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/JLsTXOI
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Google and Samsung just launched the AI features Apple couldn’t with Siri

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Google just announced that Gemini will soon be able to take care of some multi-step tasks on your phone, like ordering food or hailing a car, starting first with the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S26 phones. It all sounds a bit like features Apple announced for Siri way back at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference - before Apple delayed those planned features in March 2025 and which still aren't released . Onstage, Sameer Samat, Google's president of Android, showed off a demo of how Gemini's new agentic features would work to help wrangle a pizza dinner order from his busy family group chat. Samat asks Ge … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/mIVvPje
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