The company has added five sneakers to its Minecraft collection that launched alongside the movie, earlier this year. The new additions include Minecraft themed versions of the Adidas Samba XLG, Campus 00s, Superstar II, Handball Spezial, and Adilette slides which are all available now in youth sizes for $40 to $95.

As Framework announces its second price hike tied to rising RAM costs, it’s worth taking a moment to give Apple its dues — it was hiking up memory prices long before it was cool.

We love a good robot-kicking video here at The Verge. One example from EngineAI had so many people convinced of CGI fakery that the Chinese robotics company released “BTS footage” and a video of its CEO being kicked by the robot to prove it’s real. I’m entertained, but unconvinced.

When Microsoft was first developing the Surface Duo, it was originally intended to run a Windows 10-based OS code-named Andromeda that looked a lot like Windows Phone. Of course, the company ended up canning those plans, opting to make the Duo Android-based instead.

James Moylan passed away on December 11th at the age of 80. Moylan spent 34 years at Ford, where, according to Jalopnik, he came up with the “Moylan Arrow” in April 1986. The tiny arrow that helps you avoid pulling up on the wrong side of the fuel pump is so simple that it seems like it could have been there from the start, but it actually made its debut on the 1989 Ford Escort and Mercury Tracer.

The robot. His groin. It works on so many levels. Roll it again.

In June, the New York state legislature passed a bill requiring social media companies to display warnings about the potential mental health harms of using their products. Now the governor has officially signed the bill into law. The announcement of the signing says that:

There’s a proposal making the rounds in California to levy a 5 percent wealth tax on anyone worth more than $1 billion. The proposal isn’t guaranteed to make it to the ballot next year. Just like when Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York, lots of the ultra-wealthy are having a hissy fit. But it seems highly unlikely that Larry Page is going to take his $258 billion (more than the GDP of most countries) and leave his longtime home for the corn fields of Nebraska. The New York Times points out that:

Just like writing cursive, it seems that reading an old-school analog clock is the sort of skill that has fallen by the wayside in our smartphone age. That lapse was revealed when NYC public schools instituted a smartphone ban. The education department says students are taught to read a clock in first and second grade, but if it’s not a skill they’re using regularly, it could atrophy. According to Gothamist:

Samsung’s three-panel foldable phone won’t be officially available in the US until next year, but it’s already hit the YouTuber’s durability test table. Its thin frame (that’s different sizes across all three sections) doesn’t deal well with being bent the wrong way, even if Samsung’s hinge technology is pretty resilient, but... it didn’t explode.

John Madden, that is, filling the shoes of the legendary NFL coach and commentator, in David O. Russell’s upcoming biopic for Prime Video. There’s only the briefest still of a video game shown in this short teaser trailer, and a quick glimpse of John Mulaney as EA exec Trip Hawkins.

On Thursday, Trust Wallet announced a “security incident” affecting version 2.68 of its Chrome extension. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao confirmed that Trust Wallet “will cover” the losses and that the team is investigating the hack.

Most of us have been rolling our eyes at the (likely illegally) renamed The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. But Toby Morton, a comedian who has written for Mad TV and South Park, saw the move coming and snatched up trumpkennedycenter.org and trumpkennedycenter.com a while back. Morton told the Washington Post:

A report from The Washington Post reveals Meta’s recent push to attract more teens to Instagram, which reportedly involved setting up a “living museum” inside its offices “to help employees internalize the lifestyles of their teenage targets:”