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Genre fiction is recognized with this year’s alternative Nobel prize for literature
GoPro’s Hero 7 camera has leaked via a store display
Texas and New York City are slashing inmate phone call rates
UE’s Boom app on Android stopped supporting Amazon Alexa in its latest update
Huawei adds new colors to the P20 Pro plus leather back options for China
10 new trailers you should watch this week
9 science fiction and fantasy books coming out this September you should add to your reading list
California is leading the state-by-state fight for net neutrality
The viral ‘Johny, Johny’ kids’ videos are a godforsaken nightmare
The best Labor Day deals include 4K HDR TVs, laptops, and smart home tech

Genre fiction is recognized with this year’s alternative Nobel prize for literature

Posted: 01 Sep 2018 12:39 PM PDT

Earlier this year, the Swedish academy announced that it would not issue a prize for literature. The announcement prompted a flurry of handwringing within the literary community, and the creation of an alternative award to ensure that a literary prize would still be issued in 2018. Today, the organization behind the alternative award announced that authors Maryse Condé, Haruki Murakami, Kim Thúy, and Neil Gaiman have been selected as the four finalists for the 2018 New Prize in Literature.

This year has been a difficult one for the Swedish Academy. The organization behind the literary prize was rocked by a sexual assault scandal involving the husband of one of its members, and in May, it announced that it would not issue a Nobel for...

GoPro’s Hero 7 camera has leaked via a store display

Posted: 01 Sep 2018 11:53 AM PDT

GoPro's next camera appears to have leaked via a store display. Imgur user Austin Mittelstadt posted a series of images (via Reddit) that show off the company's Hero 7 camera, which is expected to be announced later this month.

The camera appears to come in three colors: white, silver, and black. The display also shows off some of the usual features that we've seen with prior models, like image stabilization and that it's waterproof up to a depth of 33 feet. A couple of the models appear to come without a front screen, echoing what we saw with the Hero 4 line, where the silver model came without the screen, while the black version did.

Image: AustinMittelstadt

GoPro has had a rough couple of years. It slashed its...

Texas and New York City are slashing inmate phone call rates

Posted: 01 Sep 2018 10:00 AM PDT

For years, inmate advocates have argued that the cost of a phone call from a prison or jail is onerously high, and inmates' families are footing the bill. While the FCC, under the Obama administration, moved to broadly cap rates, the Trump-era agency declined to defend the caps in court, where they were struck down. The result has been a demoralizing setback for those pressing for regulation of the billion-dollar-plus industry.

August, though, has brought some isolated signs of change. Earlier in the month, New York City moved to make all calls from jails free, becoming the first major city to do so. The city council speaker explained in a statement that "the city has been profiting from some of...

UE’s Boom app on Android stopped supporting Amazon Alexa in its latest update

Posted: 01 Sep 2018 10:00 AM PDT

UE Boom's latest app update removes its compatibility with Amazon Alexa. They put out a joint statement to The Verge explaining they're focusing on their core product.

The new version no longer supports alarms or Amazon Alexa, according to the update notes on Google Play. The company explained that they introduced the update to the app to focus "on enhancing the core functionality of the speakers." The company noted that Alexa will continue to be available on its Blast and Megablast speakers.

Many users have left one-star reviews complaining the new update slows down the app. Users have noted that the ability to remotely power up UE devices has disappeared as well.

Huawei adds new colors to the P20 Pro plus leather back options for China

Posted: 01 Sep 2018 09:12 AM PDT

Remember how I told you Huawei's excellent P20 Pro was a phone that would frustrate Americans with its absence from their market? Well, this week at IFA, that device became even more aggravating, as Huawei introduced four new variants: two new color options and two real-leather backs that look and feel lovely.

Firstly, the colors: one of them flips the gradient of the original Twilight P20 Pro, with the darker side now being at the bottom and the radiant blue topping the phone like the glow of a distant flame. Huawei calls this Morpho Aurora, because the gradient does indeed morph and change depending on the angle you look at the phone from. I like the original P20 Pro's gradient finish, and I like this new one even better. The white P20...

10 new trailers you should watch this week

Posted: 01 Sep 2018 09:00 AM PDT

I'd wanted to watch The Beatles' movie Help! for some time after having seen clips of its slapstick and absurdist humor in, I think, a film class years ago. I finally got around to it the other weekend, and the film's comedy really is quite often surprisingly timeless and fun in its silliness.

But there's also a lot about the movie that stands out very poorly five decades later: namely, the film's villains are an odd, offensive mashup of cultures, that seems to conflate Hinduism with Aztec sacrifices. The film doesn't ascribe this religion to any one country or group, but it broadly references "Eastern" culture even while casting all white actors and using what is frequently Indian or Middle Eastern imagery.

There's a very good chance...

9 science fiction and fantasy books coming out this September you should add to your reading list

Posted: 01 Sep 2018 08:00 AM PDT

We're going to start doing something a little different with our monthly book list here on The Verge: we're shifting this column from a monthly schedule to a bi-weekly one. Each list will be a bit shorter and hopefully, a bit less daunting than a longer list.

Speaking of shorter and less daunting, I packed two books when I went on a trip out of state recently: The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark and War Cry by Brian McClellan. The two are fantasy novellas from Tor's Tor.com imprint, and each are tiny adventures set in a much larger world.

The Black God's Drums is set in an alternate 19th century where the American Civil War persisted long past 1865. In New Orleans, a young girl named Creeper overhears a group of Confederate...

California is leading the state-by-state fight for net neutrality

Posted: 01 Sep 2018 07:13 AM PDT

Last year's FCC decision to repeal net neutrality was arguably the most unpopular tech policy decision in the history of the modern internet. The repeal not only resulted in an unprecedented public backlash, but prompted numerous states to immediately begin exploring new state-level alternatives in the wake of the FCC's retreat. Now, instead of one fight on the federal level, telecom giants like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast face countless state-level efforts to keep their monopoly power in check.

On the federal level, the FCC's "Restoring Internet Freedom" order not only obliterated popular net neutrality rules, but crippled the agency's ability to protect consumers from a seemingly endless parade of bad ISP behavior, from historically...

The viral ‘Johny, Johny’ kids’ videos are a godforsaken nightmare

Posted: 01 Sep 2018 07:00 AM PDT

Over the years, the sector of YouTube dedicated to children's entertainment has become notorious for its deep well of barely filtered trash. The lack of sufficient algorithmic moderation has been shown to be actually harmful in recent years: in 2017, The New York Times published a lengthy piece exploring the dark side of children's YouTube, one that shed light on a growing trove of graphic videos that had been slipping past YouTube's Kids app filter.

Unbeknownst to some parents, their kids had been watching videos of Spider-Man peeing on Frozen's Elsa, or the Paw Patrol team visiting a strip club, or Mickey Mouse getting run over and bleeding out in the street. While YouTube claims these videos rarely beat their algorithm and have since...

The best Labor Day deals include 4K HDR TVs, laptops, and smart home tech

Posted: 01 Sep 2018 06:06 AM PDT

Labor Day is Monday, September 3rd, but you don't have to wait until then to score some good deals. Major retailers have already started marking down prices on a variety of tech products, and the sales are set to pick up even more this weekend.

We've listed the best promotions below, and we'll add more as they surface.