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by Andrew Liszewski on (#6P8BZ)
The OnePlus Pad 2's optional Stylo 2 stylus vibrates to simulate the feeling of pen on paper. | Image: OnePlus With a larger 12.1-inch screen now powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile platform, the new OnePlus Pad 2 brings several performance upgrades to the company's original tablet. But the most interesting is an optional new stylus accessory that simulates the pen on paper experience using vibrations.The new Stylo 2 stylus is now made with a leather-like material, offering improved grip, a jump from 4,096 to 16,000 levels of pressure sensitivity, swipe controls, and a linear motor inside that makes the tip vibrate to give you that feeling of a pen writing on paper.There are other improvements as well. The OnePlus Pad 2's larger screen, up from 11.6 inches on the original, also gets a resolution bump from 2800 x 2000 pixels to 3000 x 2120... Continue reading...
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#6P8C1)
The Bird Buddy smart bird feeder is getting an AI-powered update allowing users to name specific birds who frequently visit. | Image: Bird Buddy The Bird Buddy smart bird feeder is getting a collection of new features as part of a recently announced Nature Intelligence update. The feeder's ability to identify the species of a visiting bird is being expanded, and users will now get notifications when individual birds stop by.The company describes the Bird Buddy's new Name That Bird feature as being a noninvasive form of bird tagging - a practice that usually keeps tabs on the movements of birds using trackers or tags physically attached to their legs. The Bird Buddy instead relies on images captured by the smart feeder's camera and AI image recognition that can spot the differences between individual birds.The detail made available by the 5MP high-resolution Bird Buddy sensor... Continue reading...
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by Antonio G. Di Benedetto on (#6NV02)
Image: Shira Inbar for The Verge Amazon's annual Prime Day sale is here through July 17th, offering you a chance to save big on all kinds of gadgets and endless amounts of other junk you probably don't need. And we're here to help you separate the wheat from the chaff.We're surfacing discounts that are actually worth the time and attention of a voracious tech enthusiast - or just someone looking to at least save something on a nice little upgrade of an aging device.Below, we've compiled our most comprehensive and wide-ranging roundup of Prime Day deals, which includes noise-canceling headphones, tablets, TVs, smart home accessories, and much more. Many of these deals require an Amazon Prime membership, though you can sign up for a free 30-day trial to access them... Continue reading...
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by David Pierce on (#6P899)
Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The photos aren't blurry! As a longtime iPhone user married to a longtime Android user, I've spent years sending and receiving photos that come through both postage-stamp small and about as sharp as a pointillist painting. But a few minutes after I installed the iOS 18 beta on my iPhone 15 Pro, I asked Anna to send me a photo, and what came through was the blissfully high-res photo I'd hoped for. That, right there, is what I call an upgrade.RCS support is just one of the new things coming in iOS 18, of course. At WWDC a few weeks ago, Apple talked a lot about homescreen customization, improvements to Siri, a revamped Photos app, and more. The company seems to have added support for RCS, a more modern and powerful messaging protocol that... Continue reading...
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by Andrew J. Hawkins on (#6P89B)
Image: Porsche Porsche announced two new rear-wheel drive versions of the forthcoming Macan electric SUV, including a higher-powered, lighter-weight 4S model. Porsche said deliveries are expected to begin later this year.When it was announced earlier this year, Porsche said the Macan EV would come in two trims: the Macan 4 and the Macan Turbo, both of which sport dual motors for all-wheel drive. Now, the company is adding two more versions in the hopes of widening its appeal. Image: Porsche The RWD Macan will only have one motor located in the rear axle. It's the same motor as the one used in the Macan 4, with an output of 250kW, or 335 horsepower. Porsche says it will use a 480-amp pulse inverter with silicon carbide... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6P89C)
Image: Apple For years, I've kept a pretty spare iOS homescreen. Two or three rows of icons on the top of the screen, sometimes arranged in such a way that the app icon colors complement each other, and three apps in the dock. Because of Apple's resistance to letting its users muck with the homescreen's look and feel, I haven't been able to make things quite as simple as I would like.I've looked at more customizable Android homescreens with jealousy. I've had an iPhone since the day the first one came out, and while Apple's smartphones have since become wildly more powerful, capable, and larger, the company has forced me to organize my apps starting from the top of the screen for 17 years.Sure, my homescreen usually looked nice. But I've wanted... Continue reading...
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by Jess Weatherbed on (#6P86Q)
The hackers say they accessed Disney's internal systems via an employee's compromised computer. | Image: The Verge Over a terabyte of data supposedly obtained from Disney's internal messaging channels has been leaked online by a self-proclaimed hacktivist group," including login credentials, code, images, and information about unreleased projects.The anonymous group calling itself Nullbulge has claimed responsibility for the leak, alleging to have gained access to the company's Slack messaging data via the compromised computer of a Disney employee. Anything we could get our hands on, we downloaded and packaged up," the group said on X, claiming to have obtained 1.1TiB of files and chat messages" from almost 10,000 corporate Disney Slack channels. Disney has since confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that it's investigating this matter."N... Continue reading...
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by Andrew J. Hawkins on (#6P86R)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber rolled out a new update that lets users search average fares and wait times for planned trips in other cities. The company said it wants to give people who are planning trips or vacations more visibility into how much it will cost to book Uber rides when they get there.The update will give people access to fare and wait time details in approximately 10,000 cities globally, Uber says. The change rolls out starting on Tuesday, July 16th. To find these insights, you select the destination" box in the plan your trip" tab and scroll down to search in a different city." There, it will autofill some popular choices or allow you to type in your own destination.With the Summer Olympics set to begin later this month,... Continue reading...
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by Antonio G. Di Benedetto on (#6P86S)
Image: Elgato Amazon Prime Day is just beginning, and Elgato is already dropping a sweet deal. Prime subscribers can get the limited-edition atomic purple version of Elgato's Stream Deck MK. 2 for $124.99 ($35 off) at Amazon.Normally, the standard Stream Deck MK. 2 comes in black or white and sells for $149.99 (or discounted as low as $109.99 during its biggest sales promos), so there is a bit of a premium on the limited-edition model and its aesthetics. But this is the first (and possibly only) time the atomic purple model has been discounted. Elgato only sells this variant on Amazon, and it claims the individually numbered run will no longer be available once it sells out. So you may want to consider jumping on this if you love the recent r... Continue reading...
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by David Pierce on (#6P836)
Image: Xreal There are two possible paths for augmented reality devices. One path is the all-in-one approach, which you might call the smartphone path or the Vision Pro Path: you buy a full-fledged single device with everything you need, and when you need an upgrade, you buy a new one. The other path is the unbundled one: your AR system might be lots of devices rather than just one, and you'll upgrade and swap things in as you need them. That path is more like building a home theater system than buying a new iPhone.The Xreal Beam Pro, which I've been testing for the last couple of weeks, is a big bet on unbundling. It's a $199 Android device that looks and works like a smartphone but is intended to be used mostly as a companion to Xreal's AR... Continue reading...
by Jay Peters on (#6P7Y7)
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple's next major iOS, iPadOS, and macOS updates will add a new Recovered" album in the Photos app to help you find photos and videos on your device that may have been lost or damaged, according to 9to5Mac.When you update to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, your device will scan for potential photos or videos that could appear in the Recovered album, 9to5Mac reports. If there are, the Recovered album will show up in the Utilities section of the app.Note that the Recovered album is separate from the Recently Deleted album, where photos you delete are accessible for 30 days before they're deleted permanently. I've asked Apple if photos or videos in the Recovered album will eventually auto-delete as well and will update this story... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6P7Y8)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Powerful record labels, including UMG Recordings, Warner Music, and Sony Music, filed a lawsuit Friday accusing Verizon of intentionally ignoring its customers' copyright violations for profit, reports Music Business Worldwide.The plaintiffs say they are entitled to as much as $150,000 per violation under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which could add up to as much as $2.6 billion.The lawsuit includes a list of 17,335 tracks from artists or bands, including Elvis Presley, Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls, and Brandy. (Here's the list if you'd like to dive further in - it starts with Sam Cooke and ends with Wiz Khalifa.) The labels say they've sent nearly 350,000 infringement notices" to Verizon since 2020, alleging that... Continue reading...
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by Gaby Del Valle on (#6P7Y9)
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge The FBI said it gained access' to the Trump rally shooter's phone just two days after the attempted assassination. Continue reading...
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by Mia Sato on (#6P7WP)
Image: The Verge News moves fast following shocking events. But the hustlers trying to make a quick buck might move even faster.Within hours of a shooter attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally on Saturday, countless products emblazoned with an image of Trump, bloodied and fist raised, were for sale on e-commerce platforms. A shirt on Temu with an image from the rally and the words TRUMP BULLETPROOF" is for sale for $9.59. (One person died at the rally and two were critically injured.) On Amazon, many of the top-selling men's novelty T-shirts are nearly identical: some version of an image of Trump at the rally, alongside phrases like FIGHT!" and NEVER SURRENDER." Screenshot: Temu With the Republican National Convention... Continue reading...
by Jay Peters on (#6P7SX)
Image: Lattice Today Lattice is making AI history," CEO Sarah Franklin wrote in a July 9th blog post. We will be the first to give digital workers official employee records in Lattice. Digital workers will be securely onboarded, trained, and assigned goals, performance metrics, appropriate systems access, and even a manager. Just as any person would be."On July 12th, after a very predictable backlash, Lattice posted an update saying it will not further pursue digital workers in the product."Here's a sample of the responses to Lattice's original announcement:
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by Victoria Song on (#6P7SY)
The Modular Ultra face now allows you to have bezels for your training load and vitals. One thing always irked me about the Apple Watch. Rain or shine, in sickness and in health, it pushed me to close my rings. Never mind if I had covid-19, shin splints, or was mentally in a dark place. It nudged me to be a better" version of myself, so long as better didn't involve a day off. But with watchOS 11 - the public beta of which arrives today - it feels like my Apple Watch is finally cutting me some slack.This is largely due to a trio of new features: the new Vitals app, Training Load feature, and the ability to pause your Activity Rings. I waxed lyrical about the latter right after WWDC, but after spending some time with the developer beta, I'm convinced these are the smartest fitness updates Apple's rolled out in years.T... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6P7SZ)
Illustration: The Verge Apple lets the public in on beta testing, but Apple Intelligence is likely still months away. Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6P7T0)
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge You can now download the public betas for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and watchOS 11. Apple's updated operating systems will eventually include Apple Intelligence AI features and a better Siri - if you have the right device, that is. For now, the betas will bring less exciting but still useful features to the various Apple devices.The public iOS 18 beta will bring with it key updates to the way the iPhone software works, including support for RCS messaging and new customization options that let users put apps wherever they want to on the homescreen (finally) or apply a tint to the icons and widgets. It also comes with a new layout for the Photos app, a redesigned, more customizable Control Center, and dark mode icons. Similar... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6P7T1)
Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge People with Apple developer accounts have had all the fun with the iOS 18 betas so far, but now that the public betas are out, anyone can try the new features. Setting up the public beta is slightly less involved than setting up the developer beta but just as free. And if you're looking for help with the iPadOS 18 beta, you're in the right place: the setup process is the same.You should understand what you're getting when you try a beta, though. For one, you won't get all of the new features at once; many of them will come down the road. Also, the fun of trying features early comes with the potential thrill of stability issues and excessive battery drain. And it's rare these days, but Apple's betas can break things or potentially brick... Continue reading...
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by Gaby Del Valle on (#6P7T2)
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge The FBI has successfully broken into the phone of the man who shot at former President Donald Trump at Saturday's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.FBI technical specialists successfully gained access to Thomas Matthew Crooks' phone, and they continue to analyze his electronic devices," the agency said in a statement on Monday.
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by Emma Roth on (#6P7T3)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube Music is testing a new feature that lets you use AI to generate a playlist. In a statement to The Verge, YouTube spokesperson Jessica Gibby said that Premium users in the US will be able to create a custom playlist by describing exactly what they want to hear."As shown in screenshots obtained by 9to5Google, the feature could surface a chat UI that you can use to enter a description or choose from prompts like catchy pop choruses" or upbeat pop anthems." It will then generate a playlist based on your description. Spotify has a similar feature that lets Premium users generate playlists using AI. GIF: YouTube Here's how YouTube's new sound search" will work. Gibby says YouTube Music is also rolling... Continue reading...
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by Lauren Feiner on (#6P7T4)
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images A federal appeals court has agreed to halt the reinstatement of net neutrality rules until August 5th, while the court considers whether more permanent action is justified.It's the latest setback in a long back and forth on net neutrality - the principle that internet service providers (ISPs) should not be able to block or throttle internet traffic in a discriminatory manner. The Federal Communications Commission has sought to achieve this by reclassifying ISPs under Title II of the Communications Act, which gives the agency greater regulatory oversight. The Democratic-led agency enacted net neutrality rules under the Obama administration, only for those rules to be repealed under former President Donald Trump's FCC. The current FCC,... Continue reading...
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by Emma Roth on (#6P7QK)
The purported Pixel 9 Pro XL (left) and the Pixel 9 (right). | Image: pixo_unpacking via TikTok We might not have to wait until August to get a full-on look at the Google Pixel 9 lineup. A new set of videos posted to the TikTok account pixo_unpacking shows what appears to be the Pixel 9 and 9 Pro XL, as spotted earlier by GSMArena.The videos track with the leaks we've seen so far, with the Pixel 9 and 9 Pro XL swapping out the Pixel 8's camera visor for an oval-shaped housing that protrudes from the back of the device. As shown in the video embedded below, the Pixel 9 Pro XL looks much larger than the base Pixel 9 and nearly as large as the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. The Pixel 9 Pro XL also seems to come with a three-camera setup when compared to the Pixel 9's two cameras.
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by Mia Sato on (#6P7QM)
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images After the assassination attempt on the former president, tech platforms scrambled to curb false information in what will be one of the largest content moderation problems in years. Continue reading...
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by Mia Sato on (#6P7MN)
Image: The Verge The person who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump during a rally on Saturday had a Discord account - though it was rarely used - according to the company.Discord removed the account according to our off-platform behavior policy and we are assisting law enforcement in their investigation," Clint Smith, chief legal officer of Discord, said in an emailed statement. The suspect's account was rarely utilized, has not been used in months, and we have found no evidence that it was used to plan this incident, promote violence, or discuss his political views, but with the investigation ongoing, we are not able to share any additional information at this time." Discord didn't respond to The Verge's questions about how it... Continue reading...
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by Lauren Feiner on (#6P7MP)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Investigators are working to break into the phone of the man who shot at former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. The shooting is being probed as an assassination attempt.The FBI said in a statement that it had obtained the shooter's phone for examination." Officials told reporters in a conference call on Sunday, as reported by The New York Times, that agents in Pennsylvania were unable to break into the phone. It's been shipped to the FBI's lab in Quantico, Virginia, where the FBI hopes to get past the phone's password protection, the Times reported.Investigators are still looking for insight into the motives of Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, who they identified as the... Continue reading...
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#6P7MQ)
The HP OmniBook Ultra features an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series processor and integrated AMD Radeon 800M graphics. | Image: HP HP's resurrected OmniBook line will soon be getting a performance boost with the new HP OmniBook Ultra, featuring an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series processor with integrated AMD Radeon 800M graphics, up to 32GB of RAM, and a pair of 40Gbps Thunderbolt 4 USB-C ports. Available starting in August for $1,449.99, the new HP OmniBook Ultra will eventually receive a free software update to make it one of the first Copilot Plus PCs not powered by an ARM-based processor.The OmniBook branding was originally revived back in May with the HP OmniBook X AI laptop, which, as with most of the Copilot Plus PCs announced at that time, is powered by an ARM-based Snapdragon X Elite processor. Its neural processing unit was rated at 45 trillion operations per... Continue reading...
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by Nilay Patel on (#6P7H1)
Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo by OSTP Arati Prabhakar, a former DARPA chief and now director of the White House's OSTP, says the time to regulate AI is now. Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6P7EQ)
Image: Apple Apple just launched a version of its HomePod Mini smart speaker in a new midnight" color. The dark color looks very similar to the original space gray that the Mini launched in, but the new naming brings it in line with the midnight HomePod second-gen that was released early last year. It goes up for sale on July 17th in the US (still for $99) and 31 other countries.The HomePod Mini only launched with two colors - space gray and white - initially, but Apple later added yellow, orange, and blue. Apple says the new Mini is made with 100 percent recycled mesh. Until now, the smart speaker's mesh has used 90 percent recycled material. Image: Apple The midnight HomePod Mini is black, but it's a different black than... Continue reading...
by Andrew Webster on (#6P7ER)
Image: Netflix The first animated take on Terminator is looking pretty slick in its debut teaser trailer. Netflix just released the first proper look at Terminator Zero, which is helmed by anime powerhouse Production I.G and starts streaming on August 29th.The show follows a resistance fighter sent to the distant past of 1997, where she's tasked with protecting a scientist who is developing an AI that can compete with Skynet, which would potentially be good news for humanity. It's hard to get much of a sense of the story from the teaser, but Zero looks very intense, with lots of explosions and robotic skulls. The voice cast includes Andre Holland, Rosario Dawson, Ann Dowd, and Sonoya Mizuno, along with Timothy Olyphant as the Terminator.The show is... Continue reading...
by Lauren Feiner on (#6P7ES)
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images When the Department of Justice released its more than 70-page lawsuit against Apple, its narrative read more like a docudrama than a stodgy legal document. It dropped the reader right into a 2010 exchange between an Apple executive and then-CEO Steve Jobs, who were just beginning to recognize how easy it was for customers to switch to their rivals' products - unless they did something to stop it. This kind of writing, sometimes called a speaking complaint, is a far cry from the rote retelling you often find in lawsuits.That's not a surprise once you know that Hetal Doshi, lead of the nascent litigation program within the Antitrust Division, sees her job, in part, as that of a storyteller.Storytelling matters a lot in litigation,... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6P76F)
Illustration: The Verge Google is considering spending $23 billion to buy Wiz, a cloud cybersecurity startup with partners that include Amazon and Oracle, reports The Wall Street Journal. At close to twice what it spent for Motorola Mobility in 2012, it would be the most Google has ever paid for another company.The New York City-based Wiz offers siloed security tools and scanners" for the enterprise space, according to the company. Wiz writes that it secures corporate cloud infrastructure by creating a normalizing layer between cloud environments," letting businesses rapidly identify and remove critical risks." Buying such a company feels particularly targeted at an increasingly vulnerable-looking Microsoft that's recently weathered multiple high-profile... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6P75K)
This probably isn't Paramount's new logo. | Image: Paramount If you didn't know Paramount Global is set to merge with Skydance, then the logo included in their recent investor presentation would like to share an important update. Under its traditional mountain and stars, it shouts PARAMOUNT, using the all-caps styling and arched text of the Skydance logo instead of a more gently whispered Paramount.It's... not good. But, like the very bad Warner Bros. Discovery logo that appeared in 2021 when their merger was announced but disappeared by the time the deal closed a year later, it's unlikely this is the final version of whatever redesign Paramount might cook up. If and when the deal gets done, the logo at that time probably won't look like some poor shmoe had to jam out a quick synergistic symbol... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6P731)
Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge AT&T paid a hacker about $370,000 to delete customer data that was stolen from it as part of a hacking spree earlier this year. The hacker then provided a video to prove they had deleted the data, according to a Wired report today.AT&T reportedly negotiated through an intermediary, called Reddington, acting on behalf of a member of the ShinyHunters hacking group. The hacker originally asked for $1 million before AT&T talked them down to the amount, which it paid on May 17th in bitcoin, Wired writes.The outlet reports that Reddington, whom AT&T paid for his part in negotiations, said he believes the only complete copy of the data had been deleted after AT&T paid the ransom, but that it's possible excerpts are still in the wild.... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6P71X)
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Alderon Games, the maker of dinosaur MMO Path of Titans, says it's swapping out its Intel 13th and 14th Gen-based servers for AMD and urges others hosting the game's servers to do the same. The developer has had significant" instability issues that none of the fixes so far have reversed, wrote Alderon founder Matthew Cassells in a blog post last week.Cassells wrote that Alderon has recorded thousands of crashes" on gamers' CPUs using its crash reporting tools and says the processors can also corrupt SSDs and memory. He added that in his team's experience, 100 percent of the affected CPUs deteriorate over time, eventually failing." On the contrary, Unreal Engine decompression tool maker RAD Game Tools, which Cassells cites in the... Continue reading...
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by David Pierce on (#6P6WY)
Image: Samar Haddad for The Verge Humans are terrible at remembering things. We forget things over time; we fail to remember them in the first place because we're also not great at paying attention; we misremember things because of our inherent biases and the way we perceive the world. There's a lot going on, and we don't keep much of it for long.Maybe AI can fix that. It sure looks like we're about to find out. Microsoft, for instance, is making a big bet on Recall, an app that promises to use AI to collect, store, organize, and resurface everything you do and see on your computer. (Imagine just being able to ask your computer, What was that article about bees I read the other day? What was the timeline it mentioned?") At this year's Google I/O, the most impressive AI... Continue reading...
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by David Pierce on (#6P6VV)
Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 45, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, sorry I love productivity apps so much, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)I'm back from a few days off, feeling rested and sunburned and ready to rumble. Thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes! This week, I've been reading Made for Love and stories about AI gamers and AI musicians and Ferrari EVs, watching Turning Point, replacing my weather app with Lazy Weather, raging at Ira Glass for listening to podcasts at 2x speed, and spilling all my feelings to the Dot AI bot.I also have for you a new phone, a new smart ring, a new / old podcast reunion, a sci-fi show... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6P6P1)
Images of UTM SE from its App Store listing. | Screenshots: UTM SE Apple has approved UTM SE, an app for emulating a computer to run classic software and games, weeks after the company rejected it and barred it from being notarized for third-party app stores in the European Union. The app is now available for free for iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS.After Apple rejected the app in June, the developer said it wasn't going to keep trying because the app was a subpar experience." Today, UTM thanked the AltStore team for helping it and credited another developer whose QEMU TCTI implementation was pivotal for this JIT-less build." Screenshot: UTM SE UTM SE doesn't include any virtual machines, but does help you find them. As with other emulators on the App Store, you can't do much... Continue reading...
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by Jacob Kastrenakes on (#6P6N9)
Illustration: The Verge Conspiracy theories about the shooting at a rally for Donald Trump began surfacing on X shortly after the news broke this afternoon, with the platform promoting topics including #falseflag" and staged" to users. X owner Elon Musk has staunchly advocated for free speech" on social media platforms - which can include misinformation like the above.After the shooting, Musk posted that he would fully endorse" the former president. Bloomberg reported yesterday that Musk donated to a super PAC supporting Trump, giving a sizable amount" to reelection efforts. Musk has taken on increasingly conservative views in recent years, promoting the great replacement" conspiracy theory and endorsing support for white pride. His support adds to a... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6P6KA)
There's a bit of a theme of payoff in this week's trailers. Anthony Mackie finally takes the lead on the big screen after 10 years in the MCU; Ridley Scott's two-decade-plus plan for a Gladiator sequel is coming to fruition; and we finally get to find out what happens next to the macrodata refinement team in Severance.There's a lot to go through this week, from big-budget tentpole movies to whimsical TV, so let's get down to it, starting, naturally, with the MCU.Captain America: Brave New WorldIn the trailer for Captain America: Brave New World, Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford) wants to make Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) part of the US military once more. He's clearly put off by the idea, but is forced to jump into the fray after super... Continue reading...
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by Sheena Vasani on (#6P6EX)
The Kobo Elipsa 2E lets you actually take notes directly on pages, which is one of the reasons I recommend it over the Kindle Scribe. | Image: Kobo We're already seeing great deals land on Amazon devices like the Kindle Scribe ahead of Prime Day next week, which makes sense as it's an Amazon event. It's possible we'll see even more Kindle deals arrive soon, but it's less certain what kind of discounts - if any - we'll see on e-readers from rivals like Kobo. Thankfully, if you don't want an Amazon e-reader, Rakuten Kobo has launched a new sale, dropping its top-notch Kobo Elipsa 2E down to an all-time low of $349.99 ($50 off) when you purchase it direct from Rakuten Kobo. You can also pick it up for the same price at Amazon or Target via a third-party seller.I spent a lot of time testing both the Kindle Scribe and the Kobo Elipsa 2E, and ultimately Kobo's is my favorite... Continue reading...
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by Charles Pulliam-Moore on (#6P6EY)
Image: HBO In Julio Torres' series Fantasmas, survival in the future is an intricate, corporate-owned game of feeding your identity to the machine. Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6P6DN)
Image: The Verge Valve is a famously secretive company with an enormous influence on the gaming industry, particularly because it runs the massive PC gaming storefront Steam. But despite that influence, Valve isn't a large organization on par with EA or Riot Games' thousands of employees: according to leaked data we've seen, as of 2021, Valve employed just 336 staffers.The data was included as part of an otherwise heavily redacted document from Wolfire's antitrust lawsuit against Valve. As spotted by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik, some data in the document was viewable despite the black redaction boxes, including Valve's headcount and gross pay across various parts of the company over 18 years, and even some data about its gross margins that we weren't... Continue reading...
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by Kevin Nguyen on (#6P6DP)
Image: First Film Corp. Director Gary Hustwit tells us about his living documentary and the technology that changes it for every screening. Continue reading...
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by Thomas Ricker on (#6P6AG)
Fully equipped direct-to-consumer e-bikes still require compromises at this price range. Continue reading...
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by Alex Heath on (#6P63N)
President Donald Trump. | Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump will no longer be subject to extra severe penalties for content rule violations on his Facebook and Instagram accounts, Meta said on Friday.Previously, Trump's account could be fully suspended for even a relatively small infraction that wouldn't lead to the same penalty for any other account. Now, with the Republican National Convention taking place next week, he'll be treated more like everyone else.In assessing our responsibility to allow political expression, we believe that the American people should be able to hear from the nominees for President on the same basis," Meta's president of of global affairs, Nick Clegg, said in a company blog post. He added that the previous restrictions to Trump's... Continue reading...
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by Kylie Robison on (#6P63P)
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge OpenAI is a leader in the race to develop AI as intelligent as a human. Yet, employees continue to show up in the press and on podcasts to voice their grave concerns about safety at the $80 billion nonprofit research lab. The latest comes from The Washington Post, where an anonymous source claimed OpenAI rushed through safety tests and celebrated their product before ensuring its safety.They planned the launch after-party prior to knowing if it was safe to launch," an anonymous employee told The Washington Post. We basically failed at the process."Safety issues loom large at OpenAI - and seem to just keep coming. Current and former employees at OpenAI recently signed an open letter demanding better safety and transparency practices... Continue reading...
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by Umar Shakir on (#6P63Q)
And on the other side of the iPhone, there's a Notes app. | Image: Moft Moft is launching a new MagSafe accessory that adds a literal notepad and pen to the back of your iPhone. The company's new Snap Flow" looks like a slim magnetic origami kickstand (like the one Moft is known for) but opens up like a book to reveal a paper pad and a really nifty ballpoint pen that magically folds into a prism shape.It's hard to believe there's a product in 2024 that lets you take handwritten notes while using a revolutionary pocket computing device as a clipboard. Sometimes, the phone and other apps are the hurdles to writing down a story idea in my Notes app before it's gone forever, so it could be nice to jot down thoughts the old-fashioned way.The Snap Flow has refillable notepad paper, a clip so you can use a... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6P617)
Image: SpaceX SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket experienced an engine failure after it launched late Thursday night from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission, Starlink Group 9-3, was carrying Starlink satellites and failed to reignite its upper second stage after developing a leak. Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown," Elon Musk said overnight, confirming that the engine experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly."SpaceX:
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