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Jay Peters

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Jay Peters is a News Editor at The Verge. He covers breaking news in consumer technology, social media, video games, virtual worlds, streaming, and more. He’s appeared on CNBC, NPR, BBC News, WNYC, and other broadcast outlets to discuss technology news.

Before joining The Verge as a News Writer in 2019, Jay worked for Techmeme, where he helped curate the most important technology news of the moment. He actually started his career in technology public relations, working in the field for more than five years. He graduated from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication.

When he’s not writing, Jay really likes running. But he prefers to run far, not fast.

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Intel is pushing back its Innovation conference until next year.

The announcement follows Intel’s rough Q2 2024 earnings and its decision to make massive job cuts.

The company gave a statement about the delay to PCMag:

Given our financial results and outlook for the second half of 2024, which is tougher than previously expected, we are having to make some tough decisions as we continue to align our cost structure and look to assess how we rebuild a sustainable engine of process technology leadership.


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That’s a lot of space junk.

The breakup of a Chinese Long March 6A rocket resulted in “over 300 pieces of trackable debris in low-Earth orbit,” according to US Space Command. The agency has “observed no immediate threats” as a result of the breakup.

Space.com has a good story about the situation.


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The NYT’s Connections will now track your winning streak. Or, for me, lack thereof.

I already find Connections, which I look forward to every day, incredibly stressful. But now there’s the added pressure of keeping up a streak, thanks to the new statistics tracked by the game. I already fret enough about my Wordle streak!


A pop-up describing Connections’ new stats.
This is the pop-up about Connections’ new stats.
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
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Vampire Survivors launches on PlayStation on later this month.

The game is finally being released for Sony consoles on August 29th. It’s already available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and mobile.