The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Richard Lawler discuss Apple pulling the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 from its website, the potential Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount merger, and what the biggest stories were on The Verge Dot Com.

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Apple loses attempt to halt Apple Watch sales ban
Why the Apple Watch is being banned — and how Apple can avoid it
Masimo CEO thinks Apple can’t code its way out of the Watch ban.
Apple Watch ban: everything you need to know
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Apple reportedly plans Vision Pro launch by February
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Adobe explains why it abandoned the Figma deal
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Elon Musk predicts X will replace banks in 2024
Mark Zuckerberg agrees to Elon Musk cage match challenge
Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s new $3,499 AR headset
I wore the Apple Vision Pro. It’s the best headset demo ever.
Sam Bankman-Fried gambled on a trial and his parents lost
Amazon has just opened up its Sidewalk network to give any gadget free low speed data
Sony’s portable PlayStation Portal launches on November 15th for $199.99
Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
FTC v. Microsoft: all the news from the big Xbox courtroom battle
Buckle up because El Niño is almost here, and it’s going to get hot
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This is Microsoft’s new disc-less Xbox Series X design with a lift-to-wake controller
Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon
The Steam Deck wasn’t born ready, but it’s ready now
Inside the AI Factory: the humans that make tech seem human
SodaStream is a bad deal, and modding your own is better
Did SEO experts ruin the internet or did Google?

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