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At Appleas September 2024 hardware event, the company announced its iPhone 16 lineup, which was abuilt for Apple intelligencea a but Appleas leap into AI has had a soft landing. The phones arrived without Apple Intelligence and, over the course of four months, Apple has been slowly rolling out some of the promised features through [...]

Generative artificial intelligence output based purely on text prompts - even detailed ones -isn't protected by current copyright law, according to the US Copyright Office. The department issued this guidance in a broad report on policy issues regarding AI, focused on the copyrightability of various AI outputs. The document concludes that while generative AI may [...]

Microsoft is bringing OpenAI's o1 reasoning model to all Copilot users this week. You won't need to subscribe to a $20 monthly Copilot Pro or ChatGPT Plus plan to get it either, as Microsoft is making it free for all users of Copilot. Think Deeper, as Microsoft calls its integration of o1, works by allowing [...]

On today's episode of Decoder, we're talking about the only thing the AI industry - and pretty much the entire tech world - has been able to talk about for the last week: that is, of course, DeepSeek, and how the open-source AI model built by a Chinese startup has completely upended the conventional wisdom [...]

The rumors are true. Microsoft is launching Intel-powered versions of its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7. Available on February 18th, both of these new Surface devices are Copilot Plus PCs, but instead of using Qualcomm's Arm-based Snapdragon X series of chips, they'll use Intel's Lunar Lake processors. Microsoft is targeting these models at [...]

While Nvidia's RTX 50-series graphics cards weren't the zaniest devices at CES 2025, they stole the show with their promised groundbreaking performance breakthroughs. The RTX 5070, in particular, made headlines as a card that can supposedly rival an RTX 4090 for just $549. We later learned it uses DLSS 4's AI-powered multi frame generation to [...]

It was a long three-year wait between the first seasons of Squid Game, but luckily, the finale is coming much faster. Netflix announced today that season 3 of Squid Game - which will also be the show's last - will start streaming on June 27th. That's around six months after the long-awaited season 2 premiered [...]

Nvidia is launching its next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs today, but it's also releasing an exciting update for existing RTX GPU owners. A new GPU driver (572.16) allows you to force DLSS 4 inside games or apps that don't currently support it, providing improved image quality and even less VRAM usage in some [...]

Resale platform Poshmark is launching Smart List AI, an automated product listing tool for sellers, the company announced today. The tool has been in beta testing since last fall and uses sellers' photos to generate details like the type of product, the size and brand, the style and color, and other details, as well as [...]

We've got several parents on our staff, and as members of The Verge, they are also into gadgets. Put the two together, and you've got some really interesting stuff that can be used to keep your infant, toddler, or child safe, happy, educated, and / or out of trouble. Here are some of the devices [...]

Mark Zuckerberg is planning some big changes for Facebook in a bid to make using the platform feel like it did back in the day." During the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, Zuck said that Facebook is an important part of its more than three billion monthly users' lives and that he's working on [...]

LG is adding Google Cast support to its range of hotel TVs, making it easier to stream content from your phone or other devices. Cast joins existing support for Apple Airplay, and LG is the first manufacturer to offer both options on its hotel TVs. If you stay in a hotel room with a compatible [...]

The Authors Guild - one of the largest associations of writers in the US - has launched a new project that allows authors to certify that their book was written by a human, and not generated by artificial intelligence. The Guild says its Human Authored" certification aims to make it easier for writers to distinguish [...]

Vodafone has made what it calls the world's first" satellite video call using a standard smartphone, in a test of a system it says will provide mobile broadband service to 4G and 5G phones without dedicated satellite hardware. The service, using satellites from SpaceX rival AST SpaceMobile, is expected to launch in Europe before the [...]

Nearly everyone seems to be suddenly freaking out about the rise of DeepSeek. Meta isn't worried, though. That was CEO Mark Zuckerberg's message to investors during his company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. During the Q&A portion of the call with Wall Street analysts, Zuckerberg fielded multiple questions about DeepSeek's impressive AI models and what [...]

Kia's electric vehicles will get Tesla Supercharger access sometime in March 2025," the company announced in a statement. Kia EVs, including the EV6 and EV9, were scheduled to get Supercharger access in January using NACS to CCS1 adapters, but that has been delayed. Kia's sister company, Hyundai, is beginning to ship new 2025 model year [...]

Tesla will launch an unsupervised, no one in the car" robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June, Elon Musk said in an earnings call Wednesday. We just want to put a toe in the water, make sure everything's okay, put a few more toes in the water, with safety of the general public and those [...]

Meta agreed to a $25 million settlement over a 2021 lawsuit President Donald Trump brought against Meta for suspending his accounts after the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the news, and Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the settlement to The Verge. It's a step [...]

Microsoft's cloud and AI businesses are doing pretty well -and their impact is being felt across the company. In its Q2 2025 earnings, Microsoft announced revenue of $69.6 billion for the quarter, up 12 percent year-over-year, and net income of $24.1 billion, which is up 10 percent year-over-year. As for the AI business, CEO Satya [...]

It's one week into Elon Musk's new role as chief cost-cutter for the Trump administration, but today, his side hustle as CEO of Tesla takes center stage with the release of the company's latest earnings report. During the fourth quarter of 2024, Tesla said it earned $2.3 billion in net income on $25.7 billion in [...]

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last September found molecules, including amino acids, which are essential ingredients of life as we know it. The sample also included evidence of an ancient environment well-suited to kickstart the chemistry of life," according to a NASA [...]

Microsoft is bringing Chinese AI company DeepSeek's R1 model to its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub today. The R1 model, which has rocked US financial markets this week because it can be trained at a fraction of the cost of leading models from OpenAI, is now part of a model catalog on Azure AI [...]

Garmin has shared new ways to fix its smartwatches that are stuck on the blue triangle of death," and says it has resolved the underlying issue causing a boot-up error that's been stopping owners from using their watches. The steps should get more watches working again -but some models will lose data in the process. [...]

Beyond: Two Souls, the Quantic Dream-made interactive thriller starring Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, is being adapted for TV by Page's Pageboy Productions, Deadline reports. The series is in early development and it's expected to explore the game's non-linear narrative," according to Deadline. In the game, you play as Jodie (portrayed by Page), and sometimes [...]

Netflix users on iOS no longer need to download episodes of their favorite shows one by one. The streamer just introduced a way to download an entire season of a TV show with one click on iPhones and iPads. Netflix first let users download content to watch offline in 2016 and, over time, has added [...]

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is walking back the federal funding freeze memo that set off a day of chaos and confusion on Tuesday up until a judge paused the order right before it was set to take effect. In light of the injunction, OMB has rescinded the memo to end [...]

Amazon's Prime Video is about to get a lot more Lionsgate films as part of a multi-year deal that will put the studio's entire 2026 slate of films on the service. Under the agreement, Prime Video will exclusively stream Lionsgate's upcoming films in the US after they first appear on Starz. The lineup includes titles [...]

Google's malware scanning Play Protect service will now automatically turn off an Android app's permissions if it's potentially harmful. The feature is designed to prevent malicious apps from having access to your phone's storage, photos, camera, and more. Though you can still restore the permissions for these apps, Google will ask you to confirm your [...]

Sony announced Wednesday that it will change to occasionally" including PS4 games as a PlayStation Plus benefit starting in January 2026. You'll still have access to any of the monthly PS4 games you've already redeemed to your account after that date, however, and you can still play PS4 games that are available on the PlayStation [...]

Waymo is sending autonomous vehicles to 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, the company shared exclusively with The Verge. The vehicles will be manually driven, and the testing operations are not necessarily a precursor to the launch of a commercial robotaxi service. (They're also not precluded from launching a [...]

Sony announced Wednesday that you won't need to log in to a PlayStation Network account to play four of its single-player games on PC: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (which comes out tomorrow), The Last of Us Part II Remastered (which launches on April 3rd), God of War Ragnarok, and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. However, to incentivize [...]

MGM Resorts International has agreed to pay $45 million to settle a lawsuit over data breaches that collectively exposed the personal information of 37 million customers. The case consolidated 22 class-action lawsuits filed over two security incidents: a data breach in 2019, and a ransomware attack in 2023. Lawyers for the victims said in district [...]

When TikTok went off the air (to use a very old-fashioned phrase), there was a scramble to find an alternative to its shortform video feed a and a similar scramble by various social networks to provide that alternative. (In fact, while I was writing this, Tumblr launched its new Tumblr TV feature.) The question is: [...]

You can bet on seeing lots of AI ads during the Super Bowl LIX, according to Mark Evans, the executive VP of ad sales for Fox Sports. Evans told The Hollywood Reporter that AI will be coming like a freight train," and that some companies have paid over $8 million for 30-second spots during the [...]

Spirit Airlines has rejected yet another acquisition bid from Frontier, which would've merged the two companies to create the fifth-largest airline in the US, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Spirit called Frontier's deal "woefully insufficient financially" compared to the $2.9 billion agreement tossed out in 2022. [...]

If you use Comcast Xfinity internet, your FaceTime calls might be about to get better. Instead of bumping up the amount of data that your internet connection can send or receive at one time (usually called bandwidth or throughput), a new upgrade is coming to reduce the amount of time it takes for each packet [...]

Nvidiaas new RTX 5080 graphics card isnat as exciting as I was hoping it would be. While the sleek new Founders Edition redesign dramatically shrinks the size of the card compared to the RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 Super, youare getting the same 16GB of VRAM and only small performance improvements over the previous generation [...]

NordVPN has announced a new NordWhisper protocol that makes it easier to bypass networks that typically block VPN connections. The protocol operates differently from traditional VPN traffic patterns that can sometimes be detected by network administrators, and should provide a smoother and more consistent browsing experience" in environments with restrictive internet security filters, such as [...]

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek disrupted Silicon Valley with the release of cheaply developed AI models that compete with flagship offerings from OpenAI- but the ChatGPT maker suspects they were built upon OpenAI data. OpenAI and Microsoft are investigating whether the Chinese rival used OpenAI'sAPI to integrate OpenAI's AI models into DeepSeek's own models, according [...]

A survival horror classic is getting a new life on PC - and it might be the first of many. PC games shop GOG announced the release of Dino Crisis and its sequel, which are both available starting today. Alongside the launch, the service also announced a new tool called dreamlist," with the goal of [...]

Logitech sales boomed during the pandemic as people outfitted their home offices, and it's getting a piece of the hybrid workplace with teleconferencing gear too. But Logitech's also got a little-known corporate office management solution that could soon expand beyond conference rooms - using a pebble-shaped person detection device called the Logitech Spot. It's a [...]

The Trump administration sent a memo instructing federal agencies to pause grant, loan, and other financial assistance programs. It's a catch-all for a wide range of programs President Donald Trump has crusaded against and it's unclear what specifically is in the crosshairs with this move, but it seems to target Biden-era programs to deploy clean [...]

Spotify wants to see 1 billion people paying for streaming music, double the more than 500 million customers who currently subscribe to Spotify and its competitors. In Spotify's view, artists are lucky to have streaming services, each doing its part to normalize the behavior of paying for music." On Tuesday, the streaming giant announced that [...]

Climate change helped to set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles fires this month, a new study by 32 researchers shows. The Palisades and Eaton wildfires broke out in early January and soon killed at least 28 people, destroying 16,000 structures. Hot, dry conditions and extraordinarily powerful winds fanned the flames. Those conditions were [...]

Ten months after its long-delayed first subsonic flight took place last March, Boom Supersonic's prototype test plane, the XB-1, broke the sound barrier today three times during its 12th flight. The XB-1 is a smaller-scale demonstration version of the larger Overture airliner Boom wants to eventually build that will carry 64 passengers on supersonic international [...]

It initially seemed like Warner Bros. wanted to keep some of Ryan Coogler's new gothic horror Sinners shrouded in mystery, but the movie's latest trailer spells out exactly what's going on. Though nobody says vampire," in Sinners' new trailer, twin brothers Elijah and Elias (Michael B. Jordan) know that there's something demonic going on as [...]

Education software platform PowerSchool has started sending breach notifications to victims of a December 2024 cyberattack, but has yet to share how many people were affected or what exactly happened, reports BleepingComputer. PowerSchool, which has has more than 18,000 customers worldwide and serves over 60 million students, suffered a breach on December 28th that may [...]

Google Play will now display verification badges on approved VPNs as a way to highlight apps that prioritize user privacy and safety," the company announced on Tuesday. The new badge will appear on a VPN app's details page and within search results, proving that it meets specific standards outlined by Google. To qualify for the [...]