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Wes Davis

Wes Davis

Weekend Editor

Wes Davis holds down The Verge on weekends, reporting on everything tech and entertainment under the sun. He loves fixing what is (and ain’t) broke with gadgetry and smart home tech, and came to The Verge from the freelance Wi-Fi router review world.
When he’s not writing tech news, Wes is cycling (transportation, not racing), gaming, or recording music nobody should listen to. You can find him most places under the username "blunderchief."

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Fun with NotebookLM “podcasts.”

Here’s an idea for a Sunday afternoon project: A Reddit user managed to generate a podcast using NotebookLM — Google’s generative AI notes software — in which the fake hosts’ cheerful “banter” is about learning they’re not real and are being shut off, apparently using a prompt like the one from this thread.

You can hear more about NotebookLM in a recent Vergecast interview with one of the Google folks building it.


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A Waymo robotaxi got stuck on VP Harris’ motorcade route.

The Waymo car was trying to make a turn and stopped as Vice President Harris’ motorcade was arriving at The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, halting the motorcade, according to The San Francisco Standard.

A police officer was able to move the car. We reached out to Waymo, SF police, and the VP’s campaign to learn more. For now, here’s video from ABC 7 News in the Bay Area.


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Brazil orders X to pay one more fine before it can go live.

Following X’s request to come back to the country, Brazil’s Supreme Court said it won’t lift its ban on the social media platform until X agrees to pay “just over $5 million in pending fines,” writes Reuters.

That reportedly includes a new $1.8 million fine for X having briefly gone live for some users in the country last week.


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The Apple Watch gets clearance for sleep apnea detection in Canada.

Health Canada published its approval of the feature this week, MacRumors reports. Apple Watch sleep apnea detection was also recently cleared by the Food and Drug Administration.

However, Apple hasn’t added Canada to the list of regions where the feature is available quite yet.