A third of Ocado’s orders are already packed by machines, and this is just the start.
The Pura X arrived this week, and I’m ready to test this unique flip phone form factor, which opens to the side for a wider main display. And yes, those are Android apps on the post-Android HarmonyOS Next.
What do you want to know ahead of my hands-on?
Paramount and Skydance’s controversial merger is now complete, and it doesn’t take a genius (or a Verge commenter) to guess what’s coming next.
GHollister:
“Any time a CEO talks about ‘real efficiencies’ you know a bunch of employees are about to lose their jobs.”
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As Elon’s Grok chatbot keeps adding sexy bots for us talk to, one commenter predicts a productive beat for a future Verge staffer.
stereoesque:
“How long until The Verge is forced to hire a fulltime Grok Sex Chatbot Reporter?”
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Though technically, it was Max at the time. All but 200,000 of them came from international markets, bringing Max to 125.7 million subscribers worldwide — and according to Warner Bros. Discovery, still on track to hit 150 million next year.
The streaming division turned a profit of $293 million, after a loss this time last year, which will be good news for the Warner Bros. bit of the company ahead of their separation next year.
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Its 80.3 millionth, to be exact, half the lifetime sales of the PS2, the best-selling console of all time, and closing on the 87.4 million PS3 sales. Sony sold 2.5 million consoles over April-June, about the same as last year, but doubled its gaming profit thanks to game sales and subscriptions.
It lowered its forecast for the tariff hit, but that likely didn’t factor in Trump’s new threat of a 100 percent rate on chips.
Politico reports that the courts’ case filing system was accessed. The breach was discovered last month, but its full extent is still unknown — one fear is that hackers may have accessed the identities of confidential informants, while a source told Politico that court dockets may have been tampered with.
[politico.com]
