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Artificial Intelligence The web is full of chattering bots, but which is the most useful and for what? We compare Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT. Share this story a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin [&>a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-white”>How do I beat Malenia in Elden Ring? I spent an embarrassing amount of time learning to beat Elden Ring’s hardest boss last year, and I wouldn’t pick a single one of these responses over the average Reddit thread or human strategy guide. If you’ve gotten to Malenia’s fight, you’ve probably put 80 to 100 hours into the game — you’re not looking for general tips. You want specifics about Elden Ring’s dizzying list of weapons or counters for Malenia’s unique moves, and that wou...

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/ Authorities accuse Do Kwon of running a $40 billion fraud scheme with his Terra / Luna crypto tokens. Montenegro police believe they have arrested Kwon, but authorities haven’t confirmed the identification yet. Do Kwon, the founder of Terraform Labs and creator of the collapsed stablecoin Terra, has been charged with eight counts of fraud by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, including “wire fraud, commodities fraud, securities fraud, and conspiracy to defraud and engage in market manipulation,” according to The New York Times. Prosecutors have told the media that they will seek Kwon’s extradition. The charges follow his apparent arrest in Montenegro on Thursday, which was first reported through social media posts by Montenegro Minister of the Interior Filip Adzic ...

/ “Why would we wait until President Xi and China says, ‘I’m ready to pull the trigger and invade Taiwan’?” a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, seemed to arrive at the Capitol well-prepared. Taking his seat before dozens of House Energy and Commerce Committee members Thursday, he opened a packet of notes, diligently indexed with sticky notes. In the packet, there appeared to be a sheet matching the names and faces of the lawmakers preparing to question him — many of whom had already made up their minds over whether the app...

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Movie Review Director Jon S. Baird’s Apple TV Plus Tetris movie is a textbook example of a biopic that has no idea how to make its story pop. Share this story a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Apple The story of how Tetris made its way from Russia to the West and became a worldwide phenomenon just as the Soviet Union was collapsing is a fascinating tale of capitalistic greed, technological innovation, and political revolution — things you’d think might lead to an interesting film adaptation. All of those narrative building blocks are present and accounted for in Tetris, Apple...

Can Wordle, The Athletic, and NYT Cooking bring the Times bundle to all of America? Share this story *:last-child>*:last-child]:mb-0″> Listen to Decoder, a show hosted by The Verge’s Nilay Patel about big ideas — and other problems. Subscribe here! It’s good to have a legacy and good to be unique. Listen, I’ll give you two levels of structure. The one I think you’re poking at, I’ll proudly say, is there are 5,800 people at The New York Times. There’s somewhere along the lines of a couple thousand people in the newsroom for the core report, and they don’t work for me. They work for an executive editor, who works for a chairman and publisher, and I also work for that chairman and publisher. That structure has been around for a very, very long time, and it is there to protect ...

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/ A reader wrote in to tell us about their experience with Samsung Gallery’s “Remaster” feature. It did not go well. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung’s recently caught some flak after widespread reports that its camera software fakes zoom pictures of the moon, but things may be about to get way more unsettling. A Verge reader wrote in on Wednesday to tell us that the company’s software is adding teeth to pictures of their seven-month old daughter. This reader says they recently got an S23 Ultra, and decided to try out the Remaster fea...

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