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Jony Ive ‘dispirited’ by Tim Cook’s lack of interest in product design: WSJ

Netflix is reportedly adapting Neil Gaiman’s Sandman

Iran seized nearly a thousand computers used to illegally mine Bitcoin

Apple will repair 2018 MacBook Airs with faulty logic board for free

Amazon is adding a new tab to highlight live television to its Fire TVs

Apple says that it’s focused on quality over quantity when it comes to its TV shows

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will go on trial next summer

US troops in Afghanistan will soon test a tiny, pocket-sized drone in the field

An Amazon engineer made an AI-powered cat flap to stop his cat from bringing home dead animals

Gato Roboto is a streamlined Metroid starring a cat in a mech

Play with synths in your browser with Ableton’s fun, interactive tool

Former Equifax executive sentenced to prison for insider trading prior to data breach

Slo-mo shoot ‘em up My Friend Pedro will make you obsess over high scores

Jony Ive made the entire tech world care about design

7 new trailers you should watch this week

Hans Zimmer designed the sound for BMW’s futuristic concept car

This week’s best deals include the 2017 iPad Pro and Steam’s summer sale

Trump says he could lift Huawei sanctions after Xi meeting

Twitch is closing in on its Christchurch trolls

How to move from Chrome to another browser

Grubhub is using thousands of fake websites to upcharge commission fees from real businesses

Bumble becomes one of the first major dating platforms to introduce in-app video and voice calls

The technology, sweat, and anxiety that goes into shooting a Falcon Heavy rocket launch

Valve Index review: high-powered VR at a high-end price

Apple’s new Mac Pro will be assembled in China, not the US

EA Access will launch for the PlayStation 4 next month

Bloodstained is the Castlevania game you’ve been waiting for

Trump tariffs are, once again, threatening the last TV assembly plant in America

This app gives you Android Q’s new Digital Wellbeing features right now

Tetris Royale, a 100-player battle royale, is coming to mobile devices

Vergecast: Jony Ive leaving and public betas arriving

It’s 2019 — where are our smart glasses?

Experience Beatlemania this weekend with Yesterday and Yellow Submarine

Sega’s Virtua Racing for Switch is a stunning update of a technical landmark

Tau Day is here: celebrate tau, not pi, as the true circle constant

One year after Trump’s Foxconn groundbreaking, there is almost nothing to show for it

Cambridge Audio’s Melomania buds have epic battery life, good sound, and a unique design

One of Nintendo’s top designers says he always wanted a tool like Super Mario Maker

Apple and the end of the genius

Microsoft is moving Cortana into a separate app in the Windows store

Facebook’s Supreme Court for content moderation is coming into focus

Biden pushes smart guns as solution for gun violence during primary debate

Here are Jony Ive’s most important — and indulgent — Apple product videos

Google will now tell you how crowded your bus or train is likely to be

Twitter will now hide — but not remove — harmful tweets from public figures

Beats Solo 3 headphones are $129.99 for readers of The Verge

The producers behind Arrival are adapting another hard-hitting sci-fi story

YouTuber Etika’s death spurs conversation about how viewers react to creators’ mental health struggles

Axon (formerly Taser) says facial recognition on police body cams is unethical

Project Veritas’ YouTube sting was deeply misleading — and successful

Hulu’s live TV customers are livid about an outage during first 2020 Democratic debate

NIO recalls nearly 5,000 electric SUVs after battery fires in China

Facebook’s new terms of service explains how ads get targeted

Verizon’s 5G network is coming to Denver today and Providence on July 1st

Joe Hill is returning to comics with a new ‘pop-up’ imprint at DC

Pokémon Masters will bring real-time pokémon battles to mobile this summer

Spider-Man: Far From Home is a full-on heroic triumph

Philips Hue bulbs now come with Bluetooth, so you don’t need a hub

Facebook’s Libra probably won’t help people without bank accounts

Amazon expands in-store Counter pickup service to the US, starting with Rite Aid

I welcomed our new robot overlords at Amazon’s first AI conference