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Products on a conveyor belt are scanned at an Amazon fulfillment center, where they are being sorted and shipped out during Cyber Monday on November 27th, 2023, in Tampa, Florida. | Photo by Octavio Jones / Getty Images Despite making pledges to cut down on plastic packaging, a new report from the nonprofit conservation organization Oceana estimates that Amazon’s plastic waste has continued to grow in the US. The company created 208 million pounds of plastic waste from its packaging in the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Just as Elon Musk said, X is doling out free Premium and Premium memberships to accounts with a high number of verified followers. Multiple X users on Wednesday reported seeing the familiar blue “Verified” checkmark next to their handles despite not paying for either paid X subscription tier. Musk last week announced that X accounts with over 2,500 “verified subscriber followers” would receive a free Premium membership; while accounts with over 5,000...

Dark and Darker Mobile is slated to launch before the end of year, and we now have the first official details on some of the major ways it will differentiate itself from the original. First, some context. For those not in the know, Dark and Darker is a first-person, fantasy-themed extraction game where players choose a class and venture into dungeons in search of treasure, all the while avoiding traps, battling monsters, and attempting to kill (or avoid) other players. To bring the loot...

An exploit that hackers used to get the PlayStation Portal to run PSP games has been fixed, and it's due to the hackers reporting the exploit to PlayStation itself. The issue was fixed in the latest 2.06 patch that was released to all PlayStation Portal users. Back in February, engineers Andy Nguyen and Calle Svensson got the device to run PPSSPP, an emulator that let it run PSP games, and natively played Grand Theft Auto: Liberty Stories. At the time, Nguyen said on Twitter that there...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s online services appear to be having some problems, with an outage cutting many of us off from the App Store, Apple TV, and Apple Music. The system status page for Apple’s online service has noted an outage beginning at 6:31PM ET affecting those services, as well as Arcade, Audiobooks, Books, Podcasts, Fitness Plus, and its new Apple Sports app. Others have noted problems accessing services like TestFlight and Apple Business Manager. Apple...

The Lunar Dawn LTV from Lunar Outpost, Lockheed Martin, General Motors (GM), Goodyear, and MDA Space. | Image: Lunar Outpost NASA has selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab to develop the lunar terrain rover for its Artemis lunar explorations. All three companies are in the running for task orders with a potential value of $4.6 billion over the next 13 years. The trio will develop their team’s ideas for a Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) to help astronauts explore the...

Season 3 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is live, adding a new battle pass, more maps, modes, and bundles. The update also includes five new perks to multiplayer, but first you'll need to unlock them. Here we'll explain how all the new perks work and how to acquire them. Gunslinger Vest The new Gunslinger vest is a new vest option that takes away the primary weapon slot but gives you a boost to stamina, sprinting, and reloading with the following bonuses: Secondary weapons only...

Call of Duty's big new Season 3 update has arrived, and that means people are poking around and finding out everything there is to know. This includes the discovery of the game's newest finishing move for the just-added characters Cheech and Chong. As you can see in the incredible video below, the "Secondhand Smoke" finisher involves Cheech or Chong smoking a fat doobie and exhaling the smoke through their weapon and into their enemy's face. The foe coughs from the smoke cloud and passes...

Nothing but respect for MY president. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI’s DALL-E is getting a couple of upgrades today that help you shape your AI-generated masterpieces. First, you’ll now find image editing tools when using DALL-E within ChatGPT, both on the web and on mobile. Second, DALL-E now offers preset style suggestions to help inspire image creation — not unlike Android’s AI-generated wallpaper prompts. Because how else could you dream up a sci-fi polar bear on vacation? DALL-E is on its...

Image: Roblox Roblox asked a federal judge in California to dismiss a suit from two mothers who allege the platform allowed an illegal gambling ring to prey on their children. Instead, the judge has allowed the case to proceed — though some of the claims, including RICO allegations, have been dismissed. The company argued that the plaintiffs’ claims were barred by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which prevents any “interactive computer service” — in this case, Roblox — from...