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T-Mobile wants to be more than just your network. | Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile wants you to see it as more than a wireless company‚ so it’s flattering its customers with status. The company is launching a new program called Magenta Status‚ which includes a set of new perks for subscribers as well as the benefits already offered by T-Mobile Tuesdays. The company is partnering with Hilton‚ Hertz‚ and Live Nation to offer discounts‚ which can all be managed by the rebranded T-Mobile Tuesdays app‚ now called T Life. Only T-Mobile’s own subscribers will be eligible for Magenta Status — Metro by T-Mobile customers aren’t. The new program adds discounts on top of the existing T-Mobile Tuesday promotions‚ including a $5 ticket to a different movie every month‚ 25 percent off some Live Nation tickets‚ discounts on... Continue reading…

Photo by JASON HENRY/AFP via Getty Images A driverless Waymo vehicle struck a cyclist in San Francisco‚ causing minor injuries. It was the latest incident in the city at a time when tensions around autonomous vehicles are particularly high after a driverless Cruise vehicle injured a pedestrian. The incident‚ which was first reported by Reuters‚ occurred at 3:02PM on February 6th at the intersection of 17th and Mississippi streets in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. A Google Maps Street View of the intersection shows a flat‚ well-lit area surrounded by warehouses with unprotected bike lanes on both streets. Police officers arriving at the scene found an autonomous vehicle had struck a cyclist‚ who only reported “non-life threatening injuries‚” according to Eve... Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge X hit the number one slot among free apps on Apple’s App Store Wednesday‚ just as another celebrity image scandal was going viral on its platform. The hashtag “drakevideo” was trending as of Wednesday in the US‚ after a video that users speculated to be the rapper Drake half nude and engaged in a sexual act spread across the service. The incident comes less than two weeks after X struggled to stop the spread of another salacious celebrity image. In late January‚ fake‚ AI-generated explicit images of Taylor Swift circulated on the platform‚ leading the company to at one point block all searches for the artist’s name. But the scandals hardly seemed to hurt X in terms of downloads. X owner Elon Musk bragged about the app’s ascension to the... Continue reading…

Here’s how to opt-out where you can‚ and fight back where you can’t. | Samar Haddad / The Verge AI-generated imagery feels inescapable. It’s in the video games you play‚ in the movies you watch‚ and has flooded social media platforms. It’s even been used to promote the physical hardware that real‚ human artists use to create digital paintings and illustrations‚ to the immense frustration of those who already feel displaced by the technology. The pervasive nature of it seems especially egregious to creators who are fighting to stop their works from being used‚ without consent or compensation‚ to improve the very thing that threatens to disrupt their careers and livelihoods. The data pools that go into training generative AI models often contain images that are indiscriminately scraped from the internet‚ and some AI image generator... Continue reading…

The Galaxy S24 is out in stores‚ with the Galaxy S24 Ultra easily being the best choice of the three devices‚ despite a few drawbacks. But if you're buying a Galaxy S24 model in the US‚ you'll be happy to know all three models rock the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip from Qualcomm. International buyers will have to pick the Ultra if they want to avoid the Exynos 2400 chip from Samsung.  Either chip should offer a great Galaxy S24 performance‚ and there's no indication that the Exynos 2400 is plagued by the same issues as its predecessors. We would likely have heard about any major problems by now.  The best way to test the Galaxy S24's performance in the wild is to run the usual speed test that involves a comparison between the latest Android flagship and the latest iPhone. In this case‚ we have a speed test showing the Galaxy S24 Ultra losing to the iPhone 15 Pro Max. But the top Galaxy S phone and Apple's best iPhone are closer than ever when it comes to this common race. Continue reading... The post Galaxy S24 Ultra vs iPhone 15 Pro Max speed test: It’s closer than you think appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals This $16 clip-on lens kit fits the iPhone or any Android phone‚ and it’s awesome Amazon deal offers a 7-inch Android tablet for under $43 Save 61% on a 6-port USB rapid charger on Amazon Save 75% on a Canon black and white multifunction laser printer on Amazon

A dazzling Bronze Age hoard‚ discovered 60 years ago in Spain‚ referred to as the Treasure of Villena‚ and dating back to the period between 2200 and 750 BC Read moreSection: ArtifactsOther ArtifactsNewsHistory &; ArchaeologyRead Later 

Depression and a rise in body temperature appear linked‚ although researchers say it's not yet clear which causes which. Still‚ the findings offer a hint that manipulating body temperature might be a new form of therapy against depression. "To our knowledge‚ this is the...

Meta says it will begin flagging AI-generated images on several company platforms ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

A new Gallup survey revealed that the Democratic Party is losing some support among Black and Hispanic voters and young people‚ but is gaining support from college-educated people and women.