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What do you do when the Pentagon invites you to a press conference, but you've never reported on a war before? Tina Nguyen took the excuse to turn it around into a great piece on the Pentagon press room itself, from a front row filled with friendly faces to Pete Hegseth's efforts to accuse almost every established reporter of lies and fake news. Like everything in Trumpland, it's all one big performance.</p></div></td></tr></table><table class="divider_block block-2" width="100%" border="0"
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style="margin:0;color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:1.2;text-align:left;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:31px"><strong><a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44761652.25213/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3BvbGljeS84OTYzMTIvcGVudGFnb24tYnJpZWZpbmctaXJhbi13YXItcGV0ZS1oZWdzZXRoP3VlaWQ9YmM2MjA3MmM3OWFjN2JlOTkwNDIwZTMzMzVkMGM5NTImYnhpZD02OTI3ODMwZDUyZjk3MTM3MjMwNmMxOGU/6927830d52f971372306c18eCe17bb816" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">I went to the Pentagon to watch Pete Hegseth scold war reporters</a></strong></h1></td></tr></table><table class="paragraph_block block-3"
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By <a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44761652.25213/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3BvbGljeS84OTYzMTIvcGVudGFnb24tYnJpZWZpbmctaXJhbi13YXItcGV0ZS1oZWdzZXRoP3VlaWQ9YmM2MjA3MmM3OWFjN2JlOTkwNDIwZTMzMzVkMGM5NTImYnhpZD02OTI3ODMwZDUyZjk3MTM3MjMwNmMxOGU/6927830d52f971372306c18eDe17bb816" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Tina Nguyen</a></p></div></td></tr></table><table class="paragraph_block block-4" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div
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It is day 13 of America’s surprise war with Iran — by sheer coincidence, it’s Friday the 13th — and I am delirious. I haven’t had a coffee since I woke up at 5AM, because I’m not allowed to bring outside beverages into the Pentagon (the security screening cutoff was at 7AM for the 8AM), and ever since Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth changed the rules last year, journalists are not allowed to go anywhere in the building without an escort, especially to wherever coffee is available.</p><p
style="margin:0">Also, I am struggling to comprehend why I, a reporter who has never covered a war, was assigned to sit in one of the good seats in the briefing room, watching Hegseth take the podium and immediately start berating the veteran journalists assigned to the bad seats.</p></div></td></tr></table><table class="button_block block-5" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="pad"><div
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Ikea’s new Matter-over-Thread products were supposed to prove that the smart home could be cheap, accessible, and reliable. The highly anticipated line — which includes sensors, remotes, smart plugs, air-quality monitors, and smart bulbs — has most everything you need to build a smart home, with prices starting at $6. It’s an exciting idea, but it’s still not ready for primetime.<br><br>
When I first got the Ikea devices in January, I had a lot of problems connecting them to my main platform, Apple Home. And it turned out I was not alone. Reddit forums and user reviews were full of reports of onboarding and connectivity issues. Many people were struggling to get devices connected to every smart home platform — from Apple Home to Google Home, and even Ikea’s own Dirigera hub. </p></div></td></tr></table><table class="button_block block-5" width="100%" border="0"
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According to Nvidia, the tech “infuses pixels with photoreal lighting and materials,” but all anyone seemed to notice was that it turned recognizable faces into something resembling AI slop. <em>Resident Evil Requiem</em> protagonist Grace got a makeover that would make her look at home in a Tilly Norwood video. The <em>Hogwarts Legacy</em> kids looked like they’d been wrung through an Instagram filter. Even Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk, a very real and famous person, had his features warped and became just some other dude with DLSS 5.
<br><br>It’s sort of like motion smoothing, if motion smoothing went a step further and changed people’s faces — and it’s making everything look the same.</p></div></td></tr></table><table class="button_block block-5" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="pad"><div class="alignment" align="center">
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<em>Project Hail Mary</em> is a natural follow-up to <em>The Martian</em>. Both movies are based on sci-fi novels by Andy Weir, and both have bankable stars in the lead role (Matt Damon for <em>The Martian</em>, Ryan Gosling for <em>Project Hail Mary</em>) and accomplished directors at the helm (Ridley Scott for the former, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller for the latter). Even still, Drew Goddard, the screenwriter on both movies, went into <em>Project Hail Mary</em> with a lot of trepidation.
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