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Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Adobe’s ‘computational photography’ camera app is now available for the iPad.

After adding support for the iPhone 17 and its square sensor selfie camera last November, Adobe has updated its Project Indigo camera app to support the iPhone 17e and iPads with at least 6GB of RAM. But Adobe warns that “Project Indigo is not yet tuned for iPad operation” and suggests sticking with an iPhone for an “optimal experience.”

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Professor Layton is coming to PC and PlayStation for the first time.

Arriving later this year, Professor Layton and the New World of Steam will be available on PlayStation 5 and Steam in addition to the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. There’s still no firm release date for this puzzle-filled title just yet, but you can check out the latest trailer below.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
France’s government is switching to Linux.

France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) has announced its “exit from Windows in favor of workstations running on the Linux operating system,” as XDA reports. It’s part of a broader shift away from non-European tech — in January, France’s government also launched its own videoconferencing platform to replace Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet.

Why your Whoop might tell you to up your testosterone

Whoop and Oura are health tech trendsetters. But hurtling toward innovation can have some unintended ripple effects.

Victoria Song
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Prime Video’s pricier “Ultra” plan goes live today.

Going ad-free on Prime Video now costs $4.99 per month, instead of $2.99. It also comes with “exclusive” access to 4K streams.

Interior design at 25,000 mph

How the Artemis II spacecraft was designed with (relative) comfort in mind.

Georgina Torbet
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Gmail’s end-to-end encryption is now available on its mobile app.

Starting this week, enterprise users will be able to send encrypted messages from Gmail’s Android and iOS apps if their organization has the feature enabled. Gmail’s version of E2EE, which uses client-side encryption, has been available since last year, but is still limited to users with enterprise accounts.

Fear and loathing at OpenAIFear and loathing at OpenAI
David Pierce
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Huawei’s next flagship phones are going big on gradients.

The Pura 90 series will launch in China on April 20th, and the phones will be decked out in a series of colorful gradient finishes. GizmoChina has images of the full line of Pura 90 Pro and Pro Max colors, but I’m a fan of this sunset Pro Max Huawei has teased on Weibo.

Screenshot showing Huawei Pura 90 Pro Max in the colors of a sunset on water
Gradients aren’t new for Huawei — its P20 and P30 phones had similar finishes.
Screenshot: Huawei Weibo account
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
I see what you did there.

Digital privacy non-profit the Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced it’s leaving X, citing a sharp decline in views for its posts. With EFF off the platform, some commenters agree with the organization’s thinking.

Krankor:

eff x, I agree

Get the day’s best comment and more in my free newsletter, The Verge Daily.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Android’s “tap to share” looks a little different to Apple’s.

Last month Android Authority reported Google is developing an NFC-based way to share contact info, files, links, and more, and now it’s got the interface running. Unlike Apple’s NameDrop, users have to hold the two phones above one another, perhaps to account for how varied NFC chip placement can be on Android devices.

<em>While iPhone users hold their phones edge to edge, on Android the phones must overlap.</em>
<em>Sharing options include photos, videos, and contact info.</em>
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While iPhone users hold their phones edge to edge, on Android the phones must overlap.
Image: Android Authority
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Lame loses his sparkle.

TikTok star Khaby Lame sold his personal brand to a small, relatively unknown company called “Rich Sparkle Holdings.” Instead of handing him $975 million in cash, they paid him in stock. Fans piled in, causing the price to skyrocket, briefly making Lame a paper billionaire (several times over) before the price plummeted. It’s now looking suspiciously like a “pump-and-dump” scheme, causing trading apps to freeze the stock. 🤷‍♂️

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Claude Cowork is ready to take over your company.

Anthropic’s shared, agentic AI workspace for macOS and Windows is getting much-needed tools for IT admins to do company-wide deployments, letting anyone build and deploy autonomous workflows so long as their organization is on a paid plan. It now adds the ability to turn Zoom meeting transcripts into action items.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Apple to close three retail stores, including the first to unionize.

The stores are all located in struggling shopping malls. Employees at the non-union shops can transfer to nearby stores, but union workers from Towson, Maryland can apply for open roles. Apple says this is due to their collective bargain agreement, which the union disputes, threatening legal action.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Meta removes ads from lawyers seeking plaintiffs for social media addiction cases.

Now that a jury has ruled against Meta and YouTube in a landmark trial, the sharks are circling, and what better place to find potential clients than on those social media platforms? The only problem is that Axios reports Meta pulled “more than a dozen” such ads from firms like Morgan & Morgan and Sokolove Law on Thursday.

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Brandon Widder and Sheena Vasani
The EFF is quitting XThe EFF is quitting X
Stevie Bonifield
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
You can now play Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 with your voice or by moving your head.

As part of an accessibility pilot program, you can link an app from a platform called Cephable with your game to control it with alternative input methods. Check out how it works in this video.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
How can you help NASA astronauts land on the Moon?

You might not be able to fly on an Artemis mission, but you could help them navigate transitions across the gravity on Earth, in transit, and on the Moon. Navy researchers are seeking volunteers to help find out “how the brain and inner ear respond to motion and to space motion sickness mitigation techniques” using an Air Force centrifuge:

Participants will complete up to eight hours of testing across two days, including exposure to three times the force of Earth’s gravity acceleration profile inside the centrifuge, and a series of balance and vision assessments.

Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
StubHub agrees to pay to $10 million to refund customers and settle deceptive pricing claims.

As Ticketmaster wraps up its antitrust defense, a different ticketing company is in the government’s crosshairs. The Federal Trade Commission accused StubHub of failing to show customers the full cost of tickets upfront, and the settlement would require clearer disclosure. StubHub spokesperson Jack Sterne said the settlement “covers a limited number of transactions” across three days, and though they disagree with the FTC’s view, “we are addressing their concerns by refunding a portion of those buyers’ fees.”

Update: Added comment from StubHub.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
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Sony is working on a Metal Gear Solid movie directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, the directors behind Final Destination: Bloodlines, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

A few years ago, Oscar Isaac had been attached to play Solid Snake in an MGS film, but this news makes me think that now isn’t happening.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
Volkswagen ends ID.4 production in the US.

VW is swapping the electric compact SUV with the gas guzzling Atlas at its Chattanooga factory, right in the midst of a global oil crisis. The automaker says it will continue to sell ID.4s in the US while it still has inventory, and promises future version of the EV for the US market — with no timeline attached. The ID.4 is the latest casualty of the Trump administration’s knee-capping of the EV market in the US.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
The European Service Module is guiding Artemis II back to Earth.

On its way to and from visiting the Moon, the 33 engines of the ESA’s European Service Module are keeping Orion on track, as explained in this video. The crew has also tested manual piloting and plans another demonstration tonight at about 10:55PM.

The module’s last correction burn will happen before it separates from the crew capsule ahead of a scheduled splashdown Friday night at 8:07PM ET off the coast of San Diego.