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Influencers are pushing suspicious peptides. How much are you willing to risk?

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This vial has haunted me since the day it arrived. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 10AM ET. Opt in for Optimizer […]

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Blue Origin’s Starlink rival TeraWave promises 6 terabit satellite internet

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The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off at Launch Complex 36 in its second launch attempt at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on November 13, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images SpaceX has the most internet-beaming satellites in its constellation, but the competition is coming, and now Jeff Bezos’

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Trump is steamrolling global calls for a moratorium on deep sea mining

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A sample of a polymetallic nodule at the Viridian Biometals lab in Pasadena, California. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea mining this week, announcing a “consolidated” permitting process for both searching for and commercially extracting minerals that have so far remained relatively untouched. These minerals are

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OpenAI says its data centers will pay for own energy and limit water usage

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OpenAI says it will minimize water use and pay for energy infrastructure upgrades needed to power its data centers. “We’re being good neighbors,” the company said, directly addressing the growing opposition to AI projects amid rising utility bills. “We commit to paying our own way on energy, so that our operations don’t increase your electricity

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Trump and Mid-Atlantic governors want tech companies to pay for new power plants

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An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electricity market in the US, to hold a power auction meant to spur a massive buildout of new power plants.

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Natural Cycles launches wristband to replace thermometers for its FDA-cleared birth control app

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Natural Cycles, the company behind a controversial FDA-cleared birth control app, is replacing its thermometer with a wristband that measures skin temperature, heart rate, and movement during sleep. The newly-launched wristband costs $129.99 and syncs with the Natural Cycles app, which uses an algorithm to determine a person’s “daily fertility status.” Users can already track

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RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid could be a disaster for the environment — if Americans actually pay any attention to it

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The Trump administration announced last week that it wants Americans to consume more protein, churning out a colorful illustration of an inverted food pyramid that prominently features a big, red steak, a wedge of cheese, and a carton of whole milk at the top and claiming it’s “ending the war on protein.” It may seem

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Microsoft scrambles to quell fury around its new AI data centers

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It looks like the wave of campaigns against data centers are getting under big tech companies’ skin – and Microsoft is the latest giant to promise to address frustrations on the ground in communities around their data centers. The company announced a five-point plan today that it calls “Community-First AI Infrastructure.” That includes paying more

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