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How to stream the Olympics like a champ
Peacock's Multiview is a way to see all the best stuff at the Olympics all at once. | Image: Peacock For once, the answer for how to stream sports is simple: if you want to watch the 2024 Paris Olympics, you need only open up Peacock. This is the third time the Peacock team has streamed the Olympics, but it's the company's biggest undertaking yet: 5,000 hours of content over two weeks across 39 sports, all of it streaming live. Every day, from morning until midafternoon, there will be live sports; in the evening, NBC will air its prime-time show with all the best action from the day. This is the most content we've ever had on the platform," says John Jelley, NBCUniversal's SVP of product and user experience. His team's goal is to help you make sense of all of it.(Disclosure: Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, is also an investor in... Continue reading...
Google brings Nest Hello support to the Home app
The Nest Hello video doorbell can now be fully migrated to the Google Home app from the Nest app. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google announced this week that it's rolling out support for its Nest Hello doorbell in the Google Home app. This allows you to transfer Google's original video doorbell camera - aka the Nest Doorbell (wired, first-gen) - from the Nest app to Google's Home app. Google is also bringing its garage door detection feature out of public preview, making it available to all users with compatible hardware. This uses a Nest Cam to alert you when your garage door is left open.Garage door detection launched last fall in Google's public preview - a public beta where users can try out upcoming features - but it's now available to all Nest Aware subscribers in the US and Canada. (Nest Aware starts at $8 a month / $80 a year.)The feature works with... Continue reading...
Microsoft calls for Windows changes and resilience after CrowdStrike outage
Image: The Verge Microsoft is still helping CrowdStrike clean up the mess that kicked off a week ago when 8.5 million PCs went offline due to a buggy CrowdStrike update. Now, the software giant is calling for changes to Windows, and has dropped some subtle hints that it's prioritizing making Windows more resilient and willing to push security vendors like CrowdStrike to stop accessing the Windows kernel.While CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its testing software for its botched update, its software runs at the kernel level - the core part of an operating system that has unrestricted access to system memory and hardware - so if something goes wrong with CrowdStrike's app then it can take down Windows machines with a Blue Screen of Death.CrowdStrike's... Continue reading...
Steam is getting some big upgrades for game demos
Image: The Verge Valve has introduced some changes to Steam that should make it easier to find and install playable game demos. In a new events blog post, Steam said the Great Steam Demo Update" was based on developer and player feedback, with new functionality that makes demos behave more like standalone games hosted on the platform.For one, demos can now have a store page that's completely separate from the main game, allowing developers to display demo-specific content like trailers, screenshots, and supported features. These pages will also display buttons to both install the demo and visit the main game's store page, and allow players to leave demo-specific reviews.And if a demo becomes available for a game that users have on their wishlists, or... Continue reading...
Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft has started testing a new way to access your Android phone from directly within Windows 11's File Explorer. Windows Insiders are now able to test this new feature, which lets you wirelessly browse through folders and files on your Android phone.The integration in File Explorer means your Android device appears just like a regular USB device on the left-hand side, with the ability to copy or move files between a PC and Android phone, and rename or delete them. It's certainly a lot quicker than using the existing Phone Link app. Image: Microsoft Android phones will appear inside File Explorer. You'll need a device running Android version 11 or higher, be part of the Windows Insider program, and the... Continue reading...
Peacock’s horror thriller Teacup starts streaming in October
Image: Peacock It looks like Peacock is getting a solid dose of horror very soon. At San Diego Comic-Con, the streamer showed off a very brief teaser for its upcoming thriller series Teacup, while also confirming that it will start streaming in October.According to Peacock, the show follows a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat in order to survive." It's helmed by showrunner Ian McCulloch - best known as a producer on the Western hit Yellowstone - and based on the novel Stinger by Robert McCammon. In a statement about the adaptation, McCulloch had this to say:
Epic will bring Fortnite to third-party iOS app stores
Image: Epic Games Epic Games plans to bring Fortnite to the third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL, which is only available in the EU. The company made the announcement in a Thursday blog post about its strategy for mobile stores, and it says it expects to announce support for at least two other third-party stores soon."While Epic says that it plans to bring our own mobile games including Fortnite to other mobile stores that give all developers a great deal," it didn't provide a specific timeline. In addition to Fortnite, Epic also plans to bring Rocket League Sideswipe to AltStore PAL, spokesperson Natalie Munoz tells The Verge.When reached for comment, AltStore's Riley Testut pointed to Epic's post and said that we're very excited to be bringing F... Continue reading...
Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have finally won the Prop 22 gig worker battle
California Gig Workers Union members gather outside the Supreme Court in May. | Photo by Lea Suzuki / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash workers in California will remain independent contractors after the state's Supreme Court upheld Proposition 22, as reported by CalMatters. The unanimous decision issued on Thursday is a win for ridehailing and food delivery services, which have spent millions campaigning for Prop 22 to avoid having to classify gig workers as employees.While Prop 22 guarantees workers some protections, such as 120 percent of the local minimum wage for each hour spent driving, a health insurance stipend, and reimbursement for job-related injuries, it's far from the full range of benefits Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and other services would've had to provide if workers were classified as employees.
NASA blew up this inflatable space station structure on purpose
Image: NASA NASA and Sierra Space blew up another space habitat in June, and everyone is smiling about it. That's because the full-size inflatable structure in this ultimate burst pressure" test only failed after exceeding NASA's recommended x4 safety levels by 22 percent.Sierra Space's inflatable structure, known as a Large Integrated Flexible Environment, or LIFE, had its last stress test in January. LIFE is built from basket-weaved Vectran fabrics" that strengthen once inflated. It's intended to be used as a component in the Orbital Reef space station project involving NASA, Blue Origin, and Sierra Space.This second burst test will get us the design, repeatability, and architecture as we go towards our certification of the pressure shell of... Continue reading...
Video game performers to go on strike
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge After a year and a half of negotiations, SAG-AFTRA has called a strike of all video game work produced under the union's Interactive Media Agreement. The strike goes into effect July 26th at 12:01AM and impacts all SAG-AFTRA actors, voice actors, and motion capture actors and involves companies like Activision Blizzard, EA, Insomniac Games, WB Games, and more. According to SAG-AFTRA's press release, the union and video game companies could not come to an agreement regarding AI protections.We're not going to consent to a contract that allows companies to abuse AI to the detriment of our members," said SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher in the press release. When these companies get serious about offering an agreement our members can... Continue reading...
Apple’s AirTags are on sale for $23.99 a pop, matching their all-time low
Apple's UWB trackers remain a cheap, convenient way to keep tabs on all your belongings. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Over the past month or so, we've seen a flurry of new Bluetooth trackers, from Motorola's forthcoming Moto Tag to ESR's Find My-compatible wallet. That being said, if you're an iPhone user, Apple's AirTag remains the best option - one you can still grab at Amazon and Walmart for an all-time low of $23.99 ($5 off). You can also buy a four-pack of trackers at Amazon and Walmart for around $89 ($10 off), though be aware that you can often buy the bundle for $15 less.Despite having launched several years ago, Apple's AirTags pack plenty of utility. The ultra wideband (UWB) location trackers provide ultra-precise tracking if you're embedded in the Apple ecosystem, as they allow you to easily leverage the company's extensive Find My network... Continue reading...
WhatsApp now has 100 million monthly users in the US
Illustration: The Verge Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today on his WhatsApp channel that WhatsApp now has 100 million monthly active users in the US as of July 25th.According to WhatsApp, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Seattle are among the fastest-growing markets in the country. However, the company says it's experienced significant growth" in Southern states as well, with more than 10 million users in Texas.This is the first time data pertaining to users has been released since Meta's acquisition of the messaging app and demonstrates how the messaging platform, already the biggest messaging app in the world, has experienced tremendous growth in the U.S.," WhatsApp spokesperson Ashley O'Reilly wrote in a press release.Since purchasing WhatsApp... Continue reading...
Overwatch 2 opens the door to a return for 6v6
Soldier 76 and Reinhardt in Overwatch 1. | Image: Activision Blizzard A couple of years into the Overwatch 2 experience, player angst has reached a point where the people making the game are considering bringing the old 12-person matches back. Today's blog post from the developers at Blizzard says that, finally, we're exploring how we can test different forms of 6v6 in the game to gauge the results."Game director Aaron Keller also notes that issues like hero balancing, game performance, and what might happen to queue times if players have a choice between the two formats are questions the team needs to answer but is at least ready to start considering.Other than making a full-priced game free to play and laying out promises about player-vs-environment content that weren't exactly fulfilled, the shift... Continue reading...
There’s a blender hidden inside this insulated travel cup
The Nutribullet Flip's high-torque motor is strong enough to blend ice and most fruits. | Image: Nutribullet Nutribullet's new Flip incorporates a blender into an insulated stainless steel tumbler that looks no larger than a typical travel mug. If you don't have enough time in the morning to blend your breakfast, the rechargeable Flip works anywhere you don't mind making a bit of noise. (Maybe skip the crowded subway.)The $99.99 Flip isn't Nutribullet's first single-serve blender, nor is it the company's first rechargeable one. What sets it apart from past offerings is that the blender part - including blades, an 11.1-volt electric motor, and a rechargeable battery - are all incorporated into the Flip's lid, instead of into a removable base that gets left behind. Image: Nutribullet You can drink and pour from the Flip's... Continue reading...
Runway’s AI video generator trained on thousands of scraped YouTube videos
Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela onstage at Vox Media's 2023 Code Conference. | Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media Runway trained its AI text-to-video generator on thousands of YouTube videos and pirated films, according to a report from 404 Media. A spreadsheet of training data obtained by the outlet includes links to YouTube channels belonging to major entertainment companies, such as Netflix, Disney, Nintendo, and Rockstar Games, along with creators like MKBHD, Linus Tech Tips, and Sam Kolder.There are also links to channels owned by news outlets like The Verge, The New Yorker, Reuters, and Wired. The channels in that spreadsheet were a company-wide effort to find good quality videos to build the model with," a former Runway employee tells 404 Media. This was then used as input to a massive web crawler which downloaded all the videos from all... Continue reading...
Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app
Image: Sonos The big Sonos app redesign was intended to make the company's software more modern, customizable, and easier to use. But two months after its May release, it's hard to look at this situation as anything but a colossal unforced error. Sonos has been steadily adding back missing features and functionality with frequent app updates, but the chorus of customer frustration isn't going away.To that end, CEO Patrick Spence today published a letter that covers the progress Sonos has made with the new app - and what customers can expect in the near future. It also contains Sonos' first direct apology for the rough patch that too many" users have gone through. Some customers have been waiting for that after the company's initial responses (like... Continue reading...
OpenAI is releasing a prototype of its search engine to rival Google, Perplexity
Image: The Verge OpenAI is announcing its much-anticipated entry into the search market, SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine with real-time access to information across the internet.The search engine starts with a large textbox that asks the user What are you looking for?" But rather than returning a plain list of links, SearchGPT tries to organize and make sense of them. In one example from OpenAI, the search engine summarizes its findings on music festivals and then presents short descriptions of the events followed by an attribution link.In another example, it explains when to plant tomatoes before breaking down different varieties of the plant. After the results appear, you can ask follow-up questions or click the sidebar to open other... Continue reading...
Congress moves forward on the Kids Online Safety Act
Image: Cath Virginia/ The Verge The push to childproof the internet is reaching a tipping point. Continue reading...
After record-breaking heat, UN issues ‘call to action’
Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge Global temperatures are shattering records this week. And the United Nations is making an urgent call to action" on extreme heat that's killing workers and putting more people at risk with climate change.The first three days of this week have been the hottest on record for the planet, according to preliminary data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service. And it's now looking likely that 2024 could beat last year to become the hottest year on record. Against that backdrop, United Nations (UN) agencies released a new global analysis of heat stress on workers today, along with a roadmap for how to protect the most vulnerable.Let's face facts: extreme temperatures are no longer a one-day, one-week, or one-month... Continue reading...
The Associated Press removes a fact-check claiming JD Vance has not had sex with a couch
Photo by Alex Wong / Getty Images The Associated Press has apparently retracted a fact-check published yesterday with the headline, No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch." As of Thursday morning, the article page displayed a page unavailable" error message.The fact-check references a few joke social media posts that have been circulating that claim the Republican vice presidential nominee wrote in his book Hillbilly Elegy about having sex with a couch.One tweet reads, In his dreadful novel, Hillbilly Elegy,' JD Vance described having sex with a rubber glove secured between cushions on his couch. Republicans chose him to be one heartbeat away from becoming POTUS. Voters in NC, the U.S. furniture capital, should be particularly horrified." (Fact-check: H... Continue reading...
Google’s Gemini AI is getting faster with its Flash upgrade
Illustration: The Verge Google's Gemini AI chatbot will be able to respond to you more quickly and process more content in prompts thanks to an upgrade to the company's Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model.With the upgrade to 1.5 Flash, you'll see across-the-board improvements in quality and latency, with especially noticeable improvements in reasoning and image understanding," Amar Subramanya, VP of engineering for Gemini, says in a blog post. Gemini's context window, or the amount of chunks of text that an AI model can process at once, is also getting quadrupled to 32K tokens, Subramanya says.1.5 Flash, which was announced at Google I/O in May, will be available in the free version of Gemini on the web and mobile starting today, according to Subramanya.Google is... Continue reading...
Mario and Yoshi go for a run in Lego’s latest Nintendo set
The set perfectly recreates the pixelated 16-bit Mario and Yoshi sprites from Super Mario World. | Image: Lego Lego has announced its latest collaboration with Nintendo at San Diego Comic-Con: a pixelated recreation of Mario and Yoshi from the 16-bit Super Nintendo classic, Super Mario World. Like Lego's Art sets, it's a 2D creation meant for display but also includes hidden moving mechanisms, bringing Yoshi to life.The 1,215-piece set stands over 15 inches tall when assembled and features a yellow-caped Mario riding Yoshi atop a grass-covered hill. The front of the set is assembled from Lego tiles and looks to be a very accurate recreation of the 16-bit sprites used in Super Mario World. Image: Lego The mechanisms powering the display piece's animations are all left exposed on the back. But when you turn the set... Continue reading...
Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 leak brings back the wing tip — kind of
Image: Android Headlines Google's Pixel Buds Pro 2 could bring back the wing tip design we saw on the first generation of the Pixel Buds. A series of images shared with Android Headlines by reliable leaker OnLeaks show the buds with a slight bulge opposite the ear tip.The wing isn't as prominent as the so-called stabilizer arc" that protruded from the original Pixel Buds. Our review of those buds from 2020 mentioned that the arc could cause discomfort after wearing them for long periods of time. Hopefully, the more subdued wing on the Buds Pro 2 won't do the same. Image: OnLeaks via Android Headlines Other than the wing tip, the Pixel Buds Pro 2 appear to trade their predecessor's black grills for larger ones that match the color of the... Continue reading...
Southwest is switching to assigned seating
Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images Southwest Airlines is about to change how it handles customer seating by switching to assigned and premium ones, a significant change from the sit-anywhere-you-want setup it's had for over 50 years. The transformation comes as Southwest reported some turbulence in its earnings, with a 46 percent drop in profits for the second quarter, as reported by WSJ.In a press release, Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan said the changes will be based on employee and customer feedback. Jordan called offering seats with premium legroom and assignments transformational" but did not offer a timeline or how it would look. The Airline said it has conducted simulation and live trials that helped it make the decision, and that customer preferences have... Continue reading...
Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies
Image: The Verge The ClaudeBot web crawler that Anthropic uses to scrape training data for AI models like Claude has hammered iFixit's website almost a million times in a 24-hour period, seemingly violating the repair company's Terms of Use in the process.If any of those requests accessed our terms of service, they would have told you that use of our content expressly forbidden. But don't ask me, ask Claude!" said iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens on X, posting images that show Anthropic's chatbot acknowledging that iFixit's content was off limits. You're not only taking our content without paying, you're tying up our devops resources. If you want to have a conversation about licensing our content for commercial use, we're right here."
How the Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling could doom net neutrality
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos via Getty Images On today's episode of Decoder, we're talking about the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Chevron deference and what it means for the future of the internet.I've been covering the fight over net neutrality for almost my entire career as a tech reporter - over 15 years now. The idea is that internet service providers shouldn't be able to discriminate between what services you access on the internet: AT&T shouldn't be able to slow down X and speed up Threads, and Verizon shouldn't be able to block Zoom because it owns BlueJeans.It's pretty basic stuff, and after all this time, the Biden administration's Federal Communications Commission once again made it the law. But big telecom companies truly hate the idea that anyone would... Continue reading...
Elgato transforms its Stream Deck Plus with new XLR dock and USB hub accessories
Image: Elgato Elgato is launching two new docks for its Stream Deck Plus device that can add XLR microphone support or a USB hub. The Stream Deck Plus originally launched in 2022 with the usual Stream Deck buttons, a new LCD display, and additional knobs, but these docks extend the functionality even further.The $119.99 XLR Dock slots into the rear of the Stream Deck Plus and delivers up to 75dB of gain, enough to power Shure's popular SM7B microphone. Just like Elgato's dedicated Wave XLR, it even has a headphone jack for zero latency monitoring.The XLR Dock means you only need a single USB cable routing to your laptop or PC and a single device instead of having to combine an XLR interface and Stream Deck. The knobs on the Stream Deck Plus can... Continue reading...
Adobe exec compared Creative Cloud cancellation fees to ‘heroin’
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Early termination fees are a bit like heroin for Adobe," according to an Adobe executive quoted in the FTC's newly unredacted complaint against the company for allegedly hiding fees and making it too hard to cancel Creative Cloud. There is absolutely no way to kill off ETF or talk about it more obviously" in the order flow without taking a big business hit," this executive said.That's the big reveal in the unredacted complaint, which also contains previously unseen allegations that Adobe was internally aware of studies showing its order and cancellation flows were too complicated and customers were unhappy with surprise early termination fees.In a short interview, Adobe's general counsel and chief trust officer, Dana Rao, pushed... Continue reading...
New leak spoils Google’s upcoming Pixel 9 event
Image: Google Yet another Google Pixel 9 leak has surfaced, and this time, it's in the form of marketing materials shared with 91mobiles by reliable leaker OnLeaks. The marketing images offer a detailed look at the specs and features that could come with the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, leaving us with very little we don't know about the new devices.As shown in the leaked images, the base Pixel 9 may feature a 6.3-inch display and 12GB of RAM, while the Pixel 9 Pro may come in 6.3-inch and 6.8-inch sizes with 16GB of RAM. The materials suggest that the Pixel 9 Pro Fold could arrive with an upgraded 6.3-inch display when folded and an eight-inch display when unfolded, along with 16GB of RAM. All devices are expected to come with... Continue reading...
The Disney Plus, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle is now available
Image: Disney / Warner Bros. Discovery The Disney Plus, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle jointly assembled by Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery is now available in the US. Prices start from $16.99 per month for an ad-supported tier (as opposed to the monthly $25.97 price to pay for each service's ad-supported tier separately), or $29.99 per month to go ad-free (versus $47.97).Some details about the Disney / Hulu / Max bundle offer were initially revealed back in May, which was followed by Comcast's announcement of a similar streaming bundle for Xfinity customers that combines Netflix, Peacock, and Apple TV Plus. Disney-owned ESPN is also set to offer a live sports streaming service with Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox later this year.If large streaming bundles like these... Continue reading...
The massive Fallout: London mod is out now
Image: Team FOLON It'll be some time before Bethesda releases a new Fallout game, but in the meantime, some enterprising fans have taken it upon themselves to release a big expansion for Fallout 4. The long-in-development mod Fallout: London is available now to download for free via GOG and is also compatible with the Steam version of Fallout 4. There is a catch, however: you need to be using the version of the game before the recent next-gen update. (A next-gen compatible version is also in the works, though it doesn't have a date yet.)In development since 2019, the London mod introduces a new location and story to the postapocalyptic world, complete with fully voiced characters and 200 different quests. There's an estimated 90 hours of gameplay... Continue reading...
The Galaxy Ring keeps you in Samsung’s orbit
It's not so much a standalone health tracker or a smartwatch alternative as an accessory for your Galaxy Watch. Continue reading...
Coast-to-coast in a solar-powered car — and a new Cannonball Run record
Image: Abigail Bassett When you think of the Cannonball Run, you probably think of a group of people making the trip from New York's Red Ball Garage to the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach in the shortest (and usually most dangerous) amount of time. Police encounters, lack of sleep, zero rest stops, a spare fuel tank or two, and gallons of energy drinks are usually what fuels these attempts to make the roughly 3,000-mile route in record time.But something was lacking in the most recent successful attempt: conventional gasoline. That's because speed wasn't the aim of the three friends who built and drove a solar-powered car across the country in a record-setting 13 days, 15 hours, and 19 minutes.While that's more than 300 hours longer than the 25-hour... Continue reading...
Asus ROG Ally X review: the best Windows gaming handheld by a mile
The first true Steam Deck competitor has arrived. Continue reading...
Amazon is discontinuing my favorite Echo — the one with a dot-matrix clock
Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge I have six Amazon Echo smart speakers in my house, and I've tested more, but my favorite is the Echo Dot with Clock. I love how the fabric-covered LED dot-matrix display makes time unobtrusively accessible, beaming its gentle white light from my dresser across my blackout-curtained dark bedroom. (It definitely beats asking Alexa the time.)So I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news: Amazon has discontinued the Dot with Clock in favor of a more expensive, less eye-pleasing model.You can check the product page for the latest device availability, but once inventory of this generation Echo Dot with Clock is sold through it will not be restocked," Amazon spokesperson Liz Roland tells The Verge.Amazon didn't tell us why it's going away. At... Continue reading...
FBI director discusses the Trump rally shooter’s search history and drone details
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images FBI director Christopher Wray said on Wednesday that the person who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump searched the web for How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?" one week before the rally shooting, as reported by the The New York Times.Investigators recovered the search from a laptop linked to 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, which refers to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald. That's a search that's obviously significant in terms of his state of mind," Wray said during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. That is the same day that it appears that he registered for the Butler rally."As reported by the NYT, Wray said Crooks visited the site of the Butler,... Continue reading...
The NBA’s new TV deals put a lot of games on Amazon’s Prime Video starting in 2025
Photo by Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Amazon's Prime Video has inked an 11-year deal that will bring NBA and WNBA games to the streaming service starting with the 2025-2026 season. Prime Video will air a total of 66 regular-season games and 20 playoff games each year. The league's new agreements also include Disney and Comcast-owned NBC Universal, which will keep some games on the linear ESPN, ABC, and NBC channels.They'll air on Disney's upcoming standalone ESPN streaming service and NBC's Peacock as well. As reported by The New York Times, all three companies have agreed to shell out billions for the rights, with Disney paying $2.62 billion annually, Comcast paying $2.45 billion, and Amazon paying $1.93 billion. Image: Amazon The deal represents a... Continue reading...
A new Nest Learning Thermostat might be on the way
A new Nest Learning Thermostat appears to be imminent. | Image: MysteryLupin via X Leaked images posted on X by @MysteryLupin show a fourth-generation Nest Learning Thermostat and new temperature sensors, as well as several other thermostats: Nest E, Nest Learning Thermostat (3rd Gen). Missing from the pictures is the Nest Thermostat (2020), presumably because it's not compatible with Nest's room sensors.The new addition looks similar to the third-generation model but appears to have a more curved display while retaining the physical dial, as pointed out by 9to5Google. The display is likely a touchscreen, as with the third-generation model, and the image shows a new icon with three wavy lines.This indicates that the new thermostat is also an indoor air quality monitor, which would be a new feature for Nest... Continue reading...
NASA fired its space lasers to communicate with the ISS
A graphic representation of a laser communications relay between the International Space Station, the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration spacecraft, and the Earth. | Image: NASA/Dave Ryan NASA researchers have successfully tested laser communications in space by streaming 4K video footage originating from an airplane in the sky to the International Space Station and back.The feat demonstrates that the space agency could provide live coverage of a Moon landing during the Artemis missions and bodes well for the development of optical communications that could connect humans to Mars and beyond. NASA normally uses radio waves to send data and talk between the surface to space but says that laser communications using infrared light can transmit data 10 to 100 times faster than radios. GIF: NASA Demonstration of the transmission's journey. Engineers fitted an airplane with a portable laser terminal,... Continue reading...
Bing’s AI redesign shoves the usual list of search results to the side
Illustration: The Verge Bing's new search experience puts AI-generated answers front and center while pushing traditional search results to the side. The new layout, which is rolling out for a small number of queries, fills your search results page with AI-generated summaries addressing various aspects of your question.Microsoft has shared an early look at what this search experience will look like... and it's a lot. For the query What is a spaghetti western?" Bing displays a summary explaining that it's a subgenre of western films produced by Italian filmmakers," along with a series of bullet points of the genre's key characteristics. Image: Microsoft I know that this feature isn't fully rolled out yet, but as a Bing and Edge user (we... Continue reading...
AMD is slightly delaying its Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs ‘out of an abundance of caution’
An image representing AMD's new Ryzen 9000 desktop parts. | Image: AMD AMD was set to launch its new Zen 5 processors on July 31st, including the 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X, a chip it's calling the world's most powerful desktop consumer processor." Instead, it's now announcing a one- to two-week delay out of an abundance of caution." The Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X will now launch on August 8th, while the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X will go on sale on August 15th.This is not because AMD's found any issues with the actual chips, spokesperson Stacy MacDiarmid tells The Verge. Rather, AMD discovered some of its chips didn't go through all of the proper testing procedures, and the company wants to make sure they do.Here's the full statement from AMD computing and graphics SVP Jack Huynh:
CrowdStrike and Microsoft: all the latest news on the global IT outage
Image: The Verge A global IT outage grounded flights and resulted in outages at the London Stock Exchange and other systems early Friday morning. Continue reading...
World of Warcraft developers form Blizzard’s largest and most inclusive union
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More than 500 developers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on World of Warcraft have voted to form a union. The World of Warcraft GameMakers Guild, formed with the assistance of the Communication Workers of America (CWA), is composed of employees across every department, including designers, engineers, artists, producers, and more. Together, they have formed the largest wall-to-wall union - or a union inclusive of multiple departments and disciplines - at Microsoft.This news comes less than a week after the formation of the Bethesda Game Studios union, which, at the time of the announcement, was itself the largest wall-to-wall Microsoft union.In a statement emailed to The Verge, Microsoft spokesperson Delaney Simmons wrote, We... Continue reading...
The incredible shrinking, stretching iPhone
Little phone, how I miss you. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge We've already heard rumblings about an iPhone Slim model taking the place of the iPhone Plus in 2025, making it the iPhone 17 Slim. Now, a new report from Apple supply chain expert Ming-Chi Kuo corroborates earlier claims, suggesting that the company's incredible shapeshifting non-Pro iPhone is about to evolve yet again.Kuo agrees it will come with a 6.6-inch screen and adds that it'll have just one rear-facing camera along with the company's beleaguered in-house 5G chip. Kuo says that the Slim model won't be a direct replacement for the Plus; instead, it represents new design trends beyond the existing iPhone lineup." That tracks with rumors that it might cost more than the $1,200 Pro Max.Apple has had one heck of a time trying to... Continue reading...
Apple Maps launches on the web to take on Google
A screenshot of Apple Maps on the web. | Screenshot: The Verge Apple Maps is finally available on the web. Through a beta that launched on Wednesday afternoon, you can now get driving and walking directions as well as view ratings and reviews from the web version of Apple Maps in a desktop or mobile browser.Apple Maps is available through the beta.maps.apple.com site. You can do most of what you can do in the iOS version of the app, including view guides, order food directly from Maps, explore cities, and get information about businesses. Apple says it's going to launch additional features, like Look Around, in the coming months.The web-based version of Apple Maps is only available in English for now and is compatible with Safari and Chrome on Mac and iPad, along with Chrome and Edge on Windows... Continue reading...
Kamala Harrishasn’tsaid a lot about tech policy, buthere’swhat we know
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images The vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee is a cipher on many tech issues -here's what we've been able to piece together. Continue reading...
Herman Miller now offers plant-based leather on its iconic lounge chair
The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottomancan now be ordered with plant-based upholstery made from bamboo. | Image: Herman Miller Can you finally feel guilt-free about buying an iconic piece of furniture that starts at $6,395? For the first time in 68 years, Herman Miller is offering its Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman with a plant-based upholstery option that looks and feels like leather but is primarily made from bamboo.The plant-based fabric, called Banb, was developed by von Holzhausen and first launched back in 2020 as a durable alternative to both leather derived from animals and vegan leathers made using plastic-based materials like polyurethane. Banb is made by chopping up bamboo and extracting fibers that are spun into a yarn that can be woven into fabrics. Those fabrics are then treated with a plant-based topcoat sealant, according to von Holzhausen's... Continue reading...
The Senate passed a bill cracking down on sexually explicit deepfakes
Photo by Samuel Corum / Getty Images The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday letting victims of nonconsensual intimate images created by AI - or deepfakes" - sue their creators for damages.The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE) Act lets victims of sexually explicit deepfakes pursue civil remedies against those who produced or processed the image with the intent to distribute it. Victims who are identifiable in these kinds of deepfakes can receive up to $150,000 in damages under the bill and up to $250,000 if the incident was connected to actual or attempted sexual assault, stalking, or harassment" or the direct and proximate cause" of those harms. It's now up to the House to take up the bill before it can be moved to the... Continue reading...
Apple may use Samsung for iPhone cameras, ending longtime Sony run
Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple might start using Samsung camera sensors as soon as 2026, marking the end of Sony's decade-plus run as the sole supplier of the phones' camera sensors.The phones are expected to use a Samsung-made 1/2.6-inch 48MP ultra-wide CMOS image sensors" starting as early as 2026," according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The rumor doesn't suggest whether Samsung will replace Sony for any other iPhone camera sensors.Although Apple doesn't usually talk about who makes its components, CEO Tim Cook said in 2022 that Sony had been its iPhone camera supplier for more than 10 years. Indeed, past reports have suggested that Sony sensors were used in phones like the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 8.Given software processing and Apple's... Continue reading...
iPhone torrenting apps are now available in the EU
You won't find (most) of these on Apple's official iOS App Store. | Image: Riley Testut / AltStore PAL The first batch of third-party apps are making their way onto AltStore PAL, just over three months after the alternative iOS app marketplace launched in the EU. Three out of the four apps being released today are exclusive to AltStore PAL and can't be found on Apple's official iOS App Store. The apps developed by people other than AltStore PAL co-creator Riley Testut include two torrenting apps and a social discovery app for dating.Specifically, the new additions include iTorrent, an iOS torrent client that can be used without jailbreaking iPhones or iPads, and qBitControl, a qBittorrent remote client for iOS devices. PeopleDrop is a dating-focused social discovery platform" that connects you with other users in the real world as they... Continue reading...
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