It’s Election Day in the United States, and data centers have become a core issue in some of the country’s most important midterm races. The Verge’s Adi Robertson explains why people are uniting against data centers, why they’ve become a proxy for all kinds of other fights, and how this year’s results might change the AI industry going forward.

Ubisoft and “at least two other gaming companies” have made bids for Arkane, which Xbox is working to divest as part of its “reset,” Bloomberg reports. Xbox has “also weighed selling the studio to its management.”

After receiving clearance from the FDA in July, Samsung announced that its more advanced sleep apnea detection feature is now rolling out to its smart ring. The upgraded feature uses an “enhanced algorithm” to analyze vitals during sleep, and was previously only available on the Galaxy Watch 9.

Ahead of the game’s release on Wednesday, 404 Media reports the influx of vibe-coded AI slop add-ons pushed one developer to make their Github repositories private after finding AI ripoffs of their code. The CEO of the popular Warcraft Logs site also said it’s struggling to keep up with surging requests to use its API.

The first developer beta launched today, and it adds some Siri AI updates, vertical tabs in Safari, an updated StandBy mode for slab iPhones that works similarly to the iPhone Duo, Reachability for the iPhone Duo, an updated Health app, and more. Check out 9to5Mac for a comprehensive list.

The tool, introduced in the US earlier this year, lets creators swap out songs in videos with audio copyright claims with unique, instrumental, YouTube-generated, royalty-free tracks. It’s now coming to more countries and is available for “creators in most countries outside of the European Economic Area,” YouTube says.

Following the G-Shock version that debuted nearly a year ago with an adjustable strap, Casio’s latest iteration of its functional ring watch is based on its A168 digital watch that originally launched in 1995. The new CRW-002 will be available with a silver finish for $135, or gold for $155, and will be available sometime this month.

The series will return to Netflix with six new episodes following a more than three-year-long wait. Blue Eye Samurai’s second season picks up where things left off, with Mizu’s vengeful search for her father bringing her to London.

For the Ocarina of Time remake, Nintendo developers said in a new interview that they wanted to “preserve the experience of spamming the Roll Attack to forward roll your way across Hyrule Field.” I have very fond memories of rolling around the world in the original.

Federal election monitors are a standard procedure, but this year the Trump administration has expanded it to the “largest monitoring effort in history.” States have prepared to make sure they don’t interfere, as the administration has taken several steps this year to assert more oversight of state-run elections.

It took automotive engineer Matt Brown seven years to finally finish building this super-sized Razor scooter featuring an 8-foot long deck and a pair of beefy tires powered by electric motors inside each one. The scooter is completely rideable thanks to an extra set of handlebars at human height, but turning it around is a long process.

Originally announced earlier this year during IFA 2026, the Narwal V50 Cube, the company’s first cordless vacuum for the US market, is now available for $649.99 with a temporary discount to $499.99 until November 30th. The V50 pairs a lay flat stick vac with 180 minutes of cleaning time with an auto-empty charging dock that’s reminiscent of the Cybertruck.

The latest Google Home update fixes an issue where Gemini “could occasionally say ‘Sorry, I didn’t understand’ unprompted when no one had spoken to the device.” It also improves Gemini’s ability to distinguish between sleep alarms and regular timers, as well as understand requests to transfer music to a device in another room.

It may look like a frozen turkey-shaped Game Boy, but the Butterball Buddy is played more like a game of hot potato. You pass it around and when it stops making noise the person holding it is randomly assigned a Thanksgiving Day task like helping the chef or washing dishes. You can win one through Butterball’s website, and the rest of the year it functions as a kitchen timer.