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Some of Nintendo’s amiibo figures are up to 70 percent off

You might have already spent a ton of money building up a modest collection of amiibo, Nintendo’s NFC-equipped figures for Switch and Switch 2. But whether you’re looking to add extras, or you’re just starting out, GameStop has several amiibo…

T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert is stepping down

T-Mobile is replacing Mike Sievert as CEO more than five years after he took on the role. The mobile carrier’s chief operating officer, Srini Gopalan, will become CEO on November 1st, while Sievert will become vice chairman. Sievert took over…

US v. Google redux: all the news from the ad tech trial

On April 17th, 2025, Judge Brinkema ruled that Google did act illegally to acquire and maintain monopoly power in online advertising. Now, DOJ and Google lawyers are returning to the courtroom to argue over whether this should lead to a…

Will We Know Artificial General Intelligence When We See It?

Buzzwords in the field of artificial intelligence can be technical: perceptron, convolution, transformer. These refer to specific computing approaches. A recent term sounds more mundane but has revolutionary implications: timeline. Ask someone in AI for their timeline, and they’ll tell…

Are You Smarter Than an AI?

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Books that changed our lives

Here at The Verge, we try to help our readers by offering news, reviews, and analyses about tech and its relationship to how we live. But one of the things that can most affect our lives is books. Whether they’re…