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by Emma Roth on (#6Q8QQ)
The Crew Dragon capsule will launch aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. | Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images SpaceX is getting ready to set out on its historic Polaris Dawn mission, which will send four astronauts into orbit aboard its Crew Dragon capsule. The five-day journey through the Van Allen radiation belts will include the first spacewalk done by private astronauts.If you're curious about the mission, here's what you should know about today's launch targeting currently targeting 5:23AM ET.
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by Lauren Feiner on (#6QKT2)
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Google and the US Justice Department each believe the other wants too much of one thing: control.Control is the defining characteristic of a monopolist," DOJ counsel Julia Tarver Wood said during opening statements in the federal government's second antitrust trial against the search giant, which kicked off on Monday in Alexandria, Virginia. To the government, Google exerts too much control over every step of the way publishers sell advertising space online and how advertisers buy it, resulting in a system that benefits Google at the expense of nearly everyone else.Control is the defining characteristic of a monopolist."To Google, the government is seeking control over a successful business by making it deal with rivals on more... Continue reading...
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by Gaby Del Valle on (#6QKRZ)
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance - a vocal proponent of conspiracy theories about immigrants replacing" Americans - is now spreading misinformation about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, killing family pets and protected wildlife.Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn't be in this country," Vance posted on X on Monday, echoing an unsubstantiated rumor that took off on right-wing social media over the weekend.The unnamed reports" Vance cites are likely from Infowars or the Daily Mail, both of which published thinly sourced posts about Haitian migrants eating pets and wildlife. Both publications reference a Facebook post in which someone claims their neighbor's... Continue reading...
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by Emma Roth on (#6QKPZ)
Photo by Jemal Countess / Getty Images James Earl Jones, the distinguished actor behind the voice of Darth Vader, has died at age 93, according to Deadline.Jones was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, in 1931. After managing to overcome a speech impediment, Jones went on to have a massive acting career, with credits spanning dozens of plays, TV shows, and films over several decades. He got his start on Broadway, starring in Sunrise At Campobello at the Cort Theatre in 1958 - now known as the James Earl Jones Theatre.However, his 1977 role in the very first Star Wars left a huge mark on his audience, though he wasn't initially credited for voicing the villain as a courtesy to David Prowse, who wore Darth Vader's suit. While Jones is best known for his distinctive voice in the S... Continue reading...
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by Emma Roth on (#6QKMA)
Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple has revealed the launch date for iOS 18 - and it's just days away. The update, which will add new ways to customize your iPhone's homescreen and lockscreen, arrives on September 16th.In iOS 18, you can freely rearrange apps and widgets on your homescreen and change their appearance. Apple is rolling out a redesigned Control Center, too, along with a new password management app and support for satellite messaging. Some other updates include new text effects in messages, a revamped Photos app, and new ways to organize your inbox in the Mail app.However, this update doesn't include the Apple Intelligence features coming to the iPhone 15 Pro and across the iPhone 16 lineup. The upcoming tools will help you rewrite and summarize text... Continue reading...
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by Sean Hollister on (#6QKMB)
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge AMD is saying the quiet part out loud: it's now prioritizing AI chips ahead of flagship GPUs for gamers. The company's just laid out a new business strategy, where it will merge its RDNA gaming graphics and CNDA data center efforts into a single universal UDNA" that's aimed at AI first.In two interviews with Tom's Hardware (you'll definitely want to read both), AMD computing and graphics boss Jack Huynh doesn't beat around the bush. With gaming graphics, he explains, the goal is now building scale and market share at lower price points - not the King of the Hill" flagship GPUs that haven't convinced enough buyers to leave Nvidia behind.Here's the key passage from the first interview:
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#6QKMC)
Beats' new iPhone 16 cases feature a microfiber-lined interior and will come in four colors. | Image: Beats Beats, Apple's other headphone brand, just announced its first collection of smartphone cases designed for the Apple 16 lineup, with full compatibility with the new Camera Control button.The $49 hardshell polycarbonate cases feature flexible sidewalls" to help absorb some of the impact when dropped and a microfiber lining to protect an iPhone's finish. According to Beats, the outer surface of each case has been treated with a glossy scratch-resistant coating," a feature that potentially comes in response to Apple's problematic - and now discontinued - microtwill FineWoven cases, which were prone to scratches.Available to order today through Apple's website in midnight black, summit stone, riptide blue, and sunset purple colorways,... Continue reading...
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by Charles Pulliam-Moore on (#6QKMD)
A group of people on a film set staring towards the camera. | HBO HBO's parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, is no stranger to building doomed cinematic universes, but the network seems game to poke fun at the messy business of it all with Armando Iannucci, Sam Mendes, and Jon Brown's new series, The Franchise.Set in a world where the fictional superhero movie Tecto: Eye of the Storm is deep into production, The Franchise follows as the film's crew tries to survive the experience of working on a project that seems destined to fail. Between dealing with temperamental actors and fire scares, things are difficult enough for production workers Daniel (Himesh Patel) and Dag (Lolly Adefope).But as studio executives drop in to give notes with clash with the director's vision, the vibe on set becomes... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QKME)
Image: Apple Apple released a new, more powerful version of the MagSafe charger during its September iPhone 16 event today. The puck will be compatible with all iPhones and any Qi2 device, but only the new iPhone 16 models are listed as supporting the fastest 25W wireless charging rate.That's a higher maximum rate than the phones offered by Samsung and Google right now - the Galaxy S24 series maxes out at 15W, while Google's Pixel 9 phones range from 15W-23W when using the second-generation Google Pixel Stand. (Pixel 9 models can only manage 12W charging on standard Qi chargers.)
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by Allison Johnson on (#6QKMF)
The colors are good this year. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge The iPhone 16 and 16 Plus are official, with Action Buttons inherited from the 15 Pro and a new look for the camera bump. We've just gotten some hands-on time with them in Cupertino, California, following the announcement, and the great news is that color is back, baby: they look great.The rear cameras are now stacked vertically on a smaller pill-shaped camera bump. This arrangement is better suited for capturing spatial video, lest we all forget about the Vision Pro. It's also just a fresh look for the regular iPhone, and Apple likes to throw one in every few years to shake things up. Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Camera bump goes sideways. They come with the same size screens as their predecessors: a... Continue reading...
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by Victoria Song on (#6QKMG)
It's quite light on the wrist. I was surprised. Now that Apple's Glowtime event is over, we've gotten to spend some time with the Apple Watch Series 10.This is the 10th anniversary of the Apple Watch, but the Series 10 isn't that different from what you already know. It looks a lot like prior Apple Watch models, but it has an updated design that makes the whole package thinner while expanding the screen sizes to 42mm and 46mm, up from 41mm and 45mm on the Series 9. That said, even though the sizes have crept larger since the Series 7, both the 42mm and 46mm don't feel chunky when you wear them. Apple says the new display is 40 percent brighter and that its always-on mode will now refresh once every second, up from once every minute on older devices. The jet black... Continue reading...
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by Nilay Patel on (#6QKHC)
The iPhone 16 Pro Max. | Image: Nilay Patel / The Verge I just spent a few minutes with the new iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, which feature bigger displays with thinner bezels, revamped cameras, and Apple's new Camera Control button, which is pretty fascinating.Let's start with Camera Control, which is a physical button - it depresses into the case ever so slightly, with additional haptic feedback from Apple's Taptic Engine to make it feel like a chunkier click. You can just click away at it, and it'll fire off photos from the 48MP main camera with zero shutter lag. I was not able to slow it down in my short demo time, but we'll see how that goes in real life. Image: Nilay Patel / The Verge The new Camera Control button on the iPhone 16 Pro Max. The button is also... Continue reading...
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by Emma Roth on (#6QKHD)
Screenshot: The Verge Apple's It's Glowtime" event has just come to a close. While the iPhone 16 was the headliner of today's showcase, Apple had several other announcements to share, including some exciting new additions to its smartwatch and AirPods lineups.Here are all the biggest announcements from the event.The iPhone 16 adds two new buttons Screenshot: Apple In addition to inheriting the iPhone 15 Pro's Action Button, the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus now come equipped with a handy new DSLR-like button that you can use to take pictures and videos as well as adjust settings. They also have rear cameras stacked atop one another that support spatial video recording for viewing on the Apple Vision Pro.The iPhone 16 has a faster A18... Continue reading...
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by Ash Parrish on (#6QKHE)
Image: Team Asobi Astro Bot cannot stop winning - whether it be the hearts of fans and critics or racking up some of the highest review scores of a game this year. Now the game will continue its well-earned victory lap with the news that it's getting DLC...for free...this year. Astro Bot director and Team Asobi studio head Nicolas Doucet confirmed the news in an interview with Australian outlet Quest Daily.The DLC update will add new maps geared toward speedrunning challenges, leaderboards, and of course, new PlayStation-themed bots to rescue. However, don't expect something the size of Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree - Doucet says the DLC isn't going to be that huge."The DLC's additional challenge levels should definitely appeal to players who... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QKHF)
Finding out what kind of dog this is with Visual Intelligence. | Screenshot: Apple Apple has announced a new feature called Visual Intelligence that will be part of iOS 18's Apple Intelligence suite of AI features later this year." The feature works much like similar features offered by other multimodal AI systems from Google or OpenAI.Visual Intelligence lets you instantly learn about everything you see," Apple's Craig Federighi said during the company's September event today. Federighi said the feature is enabled by Camera Control," which is the company's name for a new capacitive camera button that's now on the side of the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro phones. To trigger it, users will need to click and hold the button, then point the phone's camera at whatever they're curious about.iPhones use a combination of... Continue reading...
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by Jess Weatherbed on (#6QKHG)
The AirPods Pro 2 are also getting a five-minute hearing test feature. | Screenshot: Apple Apple has announced a batch of hearing health updates coming to the AirPods Pro 2, including a new clinical grade" hearing aid feature for users with mild to moderate hearing loss. The iPhone maker says the hearing aid functionality is still awaiting FDA clearance, but it expects the agency's approval alongside other regulatory bodies soon."When enabled, the over-the-counter hearing aid capability will boost specific sounds in real time, such as speech and other environmental noises. A new clinically validated hearing test feature will also be included in this update that can help to detect hearing loss. Apple says the test requires both the AirPods Pro 2 and a compatible iOS 18 iPhone or iPad and can be taken in under five minutes. ... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6QKHH)
Image: Apple Apple announced the iPhone 16 Pro lineup at Monday's product event, with bigger screens, a new A18 Pro chip, a bunch of new recording features, and improved battery life.The company's new flagship smartphones have slightly bigger screens across both models: 6.3 inches on the iPhone 16 Pro and 6.9 inches on the iPhone 16 Pro Max (up from 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches, respectively, on the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max). Apple also says the phones have the thinnest borders on any Apple product." The bodies of the phones are once again made from titanium. They come in four colors: black, white, natural, and a new desert titanium."The iPhone 16 Pro lineup comes with the A18 Pro chip, with a 16-core neural engine that it says will offer... Continue reading...
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by Antonio G. Di Benedetto on (#6QKHJ)
The iPhone 16 gets a fair number of trickle-down features from last year's Pro models as well as some new features and colors of its own. | Image: Apple Apple has announced the iPhone 16, the latest edition of its mainline smartphone. The iPhone 16 comes in a variety of slightly refreshed colors that are more vivid compared to previous years. Also refreshed is the updated dual-camera arrangement on its rear, once again set up vertically, as last seen on the iPhone 12 from 2020.The iPhone 16 has a variety of new hardware refinements and features, like a new A18 chip with 3nm process, increased battery life, water and dust resistance, an Action Button that debuted on last year's Pro models, satellite messaging (starting in the US and Canada), Wi-Fi 7, improved thermal design for gaming with hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and a new physical Camera Control button below the power button.... Continue reading...
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by Justine Calma on (#6QKHK)
Apple Watch Series 10 is available in an aerospace-grade polished titanium" | Screenshot: Apple The titanium Apple Watch Series 10 is carbon neutral, Apple announced during the It's Glowtime" event. Any Apple Watch in any finish can be carbon neutral this year, Apple says.To reduce emissions, the titanium watch is made with 95 percent recycled titanium, Apple's chief operating officer Jeff Williams said. Apple also makes enough renewable energy purchases to match the electricity used to manufacture the watch. It also says it's prioritizing non-air shipping" to limit pollution from transportation.Apple introduced its first-ever carbon-neutral products last year, select case and band combinations of Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Ultra 2, and Apple Watch SE." Along with the announcement today, the watches are the company's... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6QKEA)
Image: Chris Welch / The Verge Apple is adding sleep apnea detection to the Apple Watch. The new feature is coming to the Apple Watch Series 9, the just-announced Series 10, and the Apple Watch Ultra 2, Apple announced at its product event on Monday.Sleep apnea is a disorder that causes you to stop breathing as you sleep. Sleep apnea is a feature that wearables makers have been working on for some time, with Samsung getting cleared by the FDA for sleep apnea tracking with the Galaxy Watch earlier this year. Apple says it's using the accelerometer on its watches to monitor a new metric that it calls breathing disturbances." You'll be able to see your nightly breathing disturbance values in the Health app.The company expects to get FDA clearance for its sleep apnea... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QKEB)
The Apple Watch Ultra 2 in black. | Photo: Chris Welch / The Verge Apple has refreshed the Apple Watch Ultra 2 with a new satin black" color option and sleep apnea detection feature, the company announced at its September event today. It's the first time Apple has offered the Watch Ultra in more than one color since it launched two years ago.The Watch Ultra 2 will use the watch's accelerometer and measurements over time to detect when a sleeper's motion is consistent with sleep apnea. The feature is coming to the new Apple Watch Series 10, as well as the Series 9. Apple also announced a new titanium Milanese Loop. It's $799 and available for preorder today ahead of a September 20th release. Screenshot: Apple The Watch Ultra will get watchOS 11, which brings with it updates to... Continue reading...
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#6QKEC)
Screenshot: Apple The 10th version of the Apple Watch has been announced at Apple's event on Monday and features a 40 percent brighter wide-angle OLED screen that's larger than the display on the Apple Watch Ultra.The new Apple Watch Series 10 is just 9.7 millimeters thick, making it 10 percent thinner than the Apple Watch Series 9. Apple says its larger OLED screen, the largest used in an Apple Watch to date, allows the wearable to display an extra line of text onscreen, making it easier for users to check emails and messages at a glance.Powered by Apple's new S10 chip with a four core neural engine, the Series 10 features a polished aluminum finish, and a new metal back integrating the smartwatch's various antennas. It's still water resistant to... Continue reading...
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by Verge Staff on (#6QKED)
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge We're here with the latest on Apple Intelligence, iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods. Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6QKEE)
Apple's It's Glowtime" iPhone 16 event is nigh. | Screenshot: YouTube Apple's first new phones since announcing Apple Intelligence debut in September. Continue reading...
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by Jess Weatherbed on (#6QKAZ)
The US-only beta test is limited to a small group of narrators." | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon will begin inviting a small group of Audible narrators to train AI-generated voice clones of themselves this week, with the aim of speeding up audiobook production for the platform. The US-only beta test was announced on Audible's creator marketplace and will be extended to rights holders like authors, agents, and publishers later this year," according to Amazon.There is a vast catalog of books that does not yet exist in audio and as we explore ways to bring more books to life on Audible, we're committed to thoughtfully balancing the interests of authors, narrators, publishers, and listeners," Amazon said in its announcement. Participants in the beta will submit a voice recording to train their AI replica and will retain... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QKB0)
An apparent image of the Meta Quest 3S. | Image: Meta Meta appears to have leaked the Meta Quest 3S, its rumored budget follow-up to last year's Quest 3 headset, in its own Windows Meta Quest Link PC software. Spotted by UploadVR, the images posted on Reddit show a VR headset that's visually a bit of a cross between the Quest 2 and Quest 3.The headset is expected to make its first Meta-sanctioned appearance very soon at the company's Connect event that starts on September 25th.The Quest 3S" (if it ships with that name) appears to have front-facing cameras. Instead of three pill-shaped camera cutouts like on the Quest 3, they're clustered in two sets of three on the front cover of the device, while the strap remains the same. I could still find the image buried deep in the asset folders... Continue reading...
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by Antonio G. Di Benedetto on (#6QKB1)
Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge It may be iPhone 16 announcement day, but there's a great deal available right now for Android fans. Now that all versions of the Google Pixel 9 are out in the wild (including the excellent Pixel 9 Pro Fold), last year's Pixel 8 Pro has dropped to a new low of $624 ($375 off) at Amazon, Target, and Best Buy - and Best Buy is extending an extra $100 discount if you activate with a carrier through them.The 2023 Pixels may not feel quite as nice as the new models or have the same borderline-problematic AI camera tricks, but the Pixel 8 Pro remains a very good phone with a big, colorful 6.7-inch OLED screen and a camera system with a 5x telephoto sensor that achieves a further 10x magnification through digital zoom. In addition, the Pixel... Continue reading...
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by Tom Warren on (#6QKB2)
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Sony is holding a PlayStation Technical Presentation" tomorrow, just days after teasing a PS5 Pro console. The nine-minute stream will be hosted by Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PS5 console. Cerny previously revealed the full PS5 specs ahead of its debut in 2020.The stream will start at 8AM PT / 11AM ET / 4PM UK on September 10th and will be broadcast on the PlayStation YouTube channel. Sony hasn't provided any further details about the technical presentation, but the announcement comes just after Sony teased the PS5 Pro in a 30th anniversary PlayStation image.A montage included a PS5 design that looks identical to the PS5 Pro leak from last month. Leaked images of the PS5 Pro showed a console with three black stripes in the... Continue reading...
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by Nilay Patel on (#6QK7E)
Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo: Anthropic Anthropic's new chief product officer on the promise and limits of chatbots like Claude and what's next for generative AI. Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QEHF)
The IFA tech show is celebrating its 100th year. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Laptops that twist, robovacs that can climb, and AI in everything; here's all you need to know about everything revealed at Europe's largest tech show. Continue reading...
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by Jess Weatherbed on (#6QK2Z)
The Ultimate Ears Miniroll is available now in black, gray, pink, and blue colorways. | Image: Logitch / Ultimate Ears Ultimate Ears just launched the Miniroll, a new compact Bluetooth speaker that's more portable than the company's Boom-branded lineup. Priced at $79.99, the Miniroll is now the smallest and most affordable Bluetooth speaker offered by Ultimate Ears, and revives the disc design used by the company's discontinued Roll and Roll 2 products.As its name suggests, that familiar form factor has been shrunk to a diameter of around 4 inches (105mm), and a thickness of 1.9 inches (48mm) - making it easier to fit into pockets or smaller bags. The Miniroll weighs 9.8 ounces (279g) and still features a built-in strap that can be used to attach it to things like bags and belt loops. Ultimate Ears also says that the speaker is drop-proof" up to... Continue reading...
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by Umar Shakir on (#6QJZV)
Apple's iPhone 16 event invitation. | Image: Apple Apple is getting ready to announce the iPhone 16, which will surely be its most powerful and best-camera-having phone yet (at least for the Pro models). It's also expected to be the first iPhone to launch with Apple Intelligence across the board.In addition to the iPhone 16 lineup and a slate of new watches and AirPods, Apple is expected to show more AI features, like the ability to understand what's onscreen, along with features it introduced at WWDC in June, which include an upgraded Siri, image generation, AI rewrite, and call recording and transcription abilities.The word glowtime" is likely a reference to the glow effect that appears around the edges of the screen when Siri is activated in the latest developer betas of iOS 18.... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QJQJ)
AUKEY Aukey debuted three new magnetic wireless chargers at IFA in Berlin that come with fans to keep your phone cooler while it's charging. The company says that means the chargers, called the MagFusion 3-in-1 Pro, the MagFusion GameFrost, and the MagFusion Dash Pro, will charge your phone faster, too.All three use the Qi2 standard, which means up to 15-watt charging for compatible phones and backward compatibility with normal Qi devices. Aukey claims they can drop charging temperatures as much as 68 degrees Fahrenheit compared to traditional wireless chargers."The MagFusion 3-in-1 Pro stand can simultaneously charge an iPhone, AirPods, and an Apple Watch. It can tilt up and down over a 30-degree range, also. The MagFusion GameFrost is,... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QJP8)
Illustration by Carlo Cadenas / The Verge A pair of security researchers say they discovered a vulnerability in login systems for records that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses to verify airline crew members at airport security checkpoints. The bug let anyone with a basic knowledge of SQL injection" add themselves to airline rosters, potentially letting them breeze through security and into the cockpit of a commercial airplane, researcher Ian Carroll wrote in a blog post in August.Carroll and his partner, Sam Curry, apparently discovered the vulnerability while probing the third-party website of a vendor called FlyCASS that provides smaller airlines access to the TSA's Known Crewmember (KCM) system and Cockpit Access Security System (CASS). They found that... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QJJY)
Illustration: The Verge Tomorrow's iPhone 16 launch won't be the final Apple event of the year, as the company plans to debut some M4 Macs and new iPads with another showing in October, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman in today's Power On newsletter.Apple could be announcing a new iPad Mini for the first time since 2021 in October, as well as a Mac Mini with an M4 chip, packed into a box about the size of an Apple TV, making that the first real redesign of the diminutive desktop in over a decade. So it's about time for both! The event will include new versions of the iMac and MacBook Pro, both with M4 chips, as well, Gurman writes.Between that and updated iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods expected at tomorrow's Glowtime" event, only a handful of Apple... Continue reading...
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by David Pierce on (#6QJH2)
Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 51, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I hope you love spy shows as much as I do, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)This week, I've been reading about cobalt miners and religious AI and the history of the Moleskine, listening to pop-punk Disney songs on repeat, finally starting The Sopranos (I know, I know), soundtracking my workday with the Earth.fm app, giving Tweek another whirl for simple task and calendar stuff, and spending too much time debating whether NFL Sunday Ticket is worth the money. It's definitely not, but it also, like, kind of is.I also have for you everybody's favorite new PlayStation game,... Continue reading...
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by Victoria Song on (#6QJH3)
The first Apple Watch was announced on September 9th, 2014. A decade later, it's the most popular smartwatch in the world. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It's been ten years since the Apple Watch was announced. Where does it go from here? Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QJ8Q)
Image: Apple The iPhone 16 is nigh as Apple prepares to debut its next smartphone lineup on Monday, September 9th, at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. The company is expected to officially announce four phones as usual, with two standard iPhone 16s and two iPhone 16 Pro models, all likely packed with Apple Intelligence AI features.You can catch the livestream at Apple's own website, on its YouTube channel, and even on an Apple TV. (Apple usually makes sure you see this when you scroll from the home screen of the Apple TV app, but you can search for Apple Event" to find it, too.)The Vergecast talks iPhone 16.Besides new iPhones, Apple will probably declare the release dates for its next major software updates, including iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15 Sequoia,... Continue reading...
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by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy on (#6QJ68)
Nanoleaf's Sense Plus Smart Switch wirelessly controls Nanoleaf's lights, including its new ceiling light. | Image: Nanoleaf After nearly a decade of development, Nanoleaf's smart switch is finally here. You can pre-order the $30 Sense Plus Smart Wireless Anywhere" Switch today, and it should ship in October. But to get to this point, Nanoleaf had to pivot from its adoption of Thread and create a new, proprietary protocol called Litewave.The battery-powered device brings physical control to Nanoleaf's smart lighting system, allowing you to press a button to turn lights on or off, dim or brighten, or change colors. Plus, built-in motion and light sensors let the Sense adjust your lighting based on room conditions.We needed to make sure that our products would work reliably with less dependence on the platforms," Gimmy ChuThe Sense, a version of which was f... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QJ4M)
The Verge Negotiations for a new carriage deal between Disney and DirecTV are continuing into this weekend, reports Deadline. Meanwhile, the two are lobbing messaging at customers who are left out in the cold as the first NFL weekend kicks off.It's been a week since DirecTV customers have been able to watch channels like ABC or ESPN. Disney published posts on Instagram and elsewhere, Variety wrote, pointing DirecTV viewers to alternatives like Spectrum or Disney's own Hulu with live TV subscription to watch things like the US Open tennis tournament or the upcoming Monday Night Football game between the Jets and the 49ers.Last week, Disney accused DirecTV of an agreement that undervalues our portfolio," while DirecTV insisted that Disney is... Continue reading...
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by Ash Parrish on (#6QJ34)
Image: Team Asobi The sequel to a simple pack-in game is a flawless love letter to both PlayStation's history and video games in general. Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QJ35)
Starliner just after undocking from the ISS. | Screenshot: YouTube The Boeing Starliner spacecraft successfully completed its uncrewed flight back to Earth, NASA announced overnight. The return ended the Starliner's most recent flight test months later than intended and leaves its original crew, NASA astronauts Barry Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams, aboard the International Space Station until next year.The Starliner touched down right on time at 12:01 AM ET at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, according to NASA. Officials at the agency hailed its successful descent:
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by Sheena Vasani on (#6QJ10)
You can buy a disassembled iPhone 4S framed for just $99. | Image: Grid Studio If you're a fan of all things retro, Grid's framed disassembled gadgets are a celebration of vintage tech you will likely find charming. The company turns obsolete smartphones, gaming consoles, controllers, and other old-school gizmos into collage-like artwork placed in shadowbox-style frames, making for incredibly unusual pieces of home or office decor. And right now through September 12th, many of our favorite Grid items are up to around 40 percent off in honor of the company's fourth anniversary.A wide range of nostalgia-inducing gadgets are on sale; you can check them all out here. You can, for instance, buy the translucent Game Boy Color and the iPod Photo from 2004 for $159.20 when you use promo code GRID4 at checkout. For me,... Continue reading...
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by Allison Johnson on (#6QHZN)
Regular iPhone, rise up. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Look, I get it.People aren't buying phones like they used to, so Apple's really gotta put the squeeze on us every upgrade cycle. And recently, that has meant pushing more people toward the Pro iPhone, rather than the regular one. Every year for the past few years, Apple has withheld more and more features for its Pro phones, bring them down to the standard iPhone at a drip. But that might be changing this year, if the rumors are true, and to that I say: it's about damn time.In the past couple of cycles only the Pro" models have gotten the latest Bionic chipset. That doesn't just mean that the Pro models are more powerful - it also means that the regular iPhone won't be eligible for the same feature updates that the Pro models get... Continue reading...
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by Sean Hollister on (#6QHRP)
A still image of Doom on a volumetric display. | Photo by James Brown (@ancientjames) In 2022, I introduced you to James Brown, the Weta Workshop graphics engineer whose hobby is building amazing displays. Now, he's built a crystal ball filled with shimmering, spinning volumetric light - and of course he's playing Doom on it.But not just any Doom. Voxel Doom, where every dot of the game's graphics lives in 3D space, just like the dots of the volumetric display he's created.As he explains on YouTube, the physical illusion is fairly simple: It's like a hologram fan, but instead of spinning a 1D strip to make a 2D image, it spins a 2D panel to make a 3D image." On his Mastodon, he breaks it down a bit more with visual aids:Brown's been working on this for over a year now: if I'm not mistaken, he introduced the... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6QHPZ)
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA's Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module's forward port on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. | Image: NASA The Starliner flew home empty after undocking autonomously, while the astronauts it took to the ISS will make a separate trip back to Earth in 2025. Continue reading...
by Emma Roth on (#6QHQ0)
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Rumors about the Watch Series 10 have been relatively scant in the runup to Apple's event next week, where it's expected to debut alongside the iPhone 16. However, a report from 9to5Mac says it will have an upgraded ECG sensor capable of detecting sleep apnea.That backs up today's reporting from Bloomberg, which says the Watch Series 10 will be capable of identifying whether someone shows signs of sleep apnea - a condition that causes people to suddenly stop breathing during sleep. If the watch determines that the user may have sleep apnea, it will then recommend that they see a medical provider for more tests.Some other upgrades potentially coming to the Watch Series 10 include slightly larger displays and a thinner case, as well as... Continue reading...
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by Emma Roth on (#6QHNC)
Illustration: The Verge Meta has finally pulled the curtain back on what its plans for third-party chats in WhatsApp and Messenger will look like. The change, which is coming for users in the European Union, introduces new options to put Messenger and WhatsApp messages in the same inbox as third-party chats or keep them separate.It's building new notifications into Messenger and WhatsApp as well, which will let users know when they can link chats from newly supported apps. Meta says it has gone above and beyond the basic' features required for interoperable messaging" and will offer rich messaging features, like reactions, direct replies, typing indicators, and read receipts. Image: Meta It will also start including the option to create... Continue reading...
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by Lauren Feiner on (#6QHND)
Illustration: The Verge The Justice Department wants to learn more about Google's AI strategy in order to determine what kinds of changes it will ask for to resolve Google's monopoly in search.The request came during a hearing on Friday in a federal court in Washington, DC, where Google and the DOJ met before Judge Amit Mehta, who recently ruled in favor of the DOJ and agreed that Google is an illegal monopolist. Mehta's decision officially ended the first phase of the trial, which focused on whether Google is liable under antitrust law. Now the parties are moving onto the remedies phase, where the government will propose solutions to correct the illegal behavior and restore competition to the market.DOJ attorney David Dahlquist told the court that the... Continue reading...
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by Sean Hollister on (#6QHNE)
The AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme is the chip inside the Asus ROG Ally X, Asus ROG Ally, and Lenovo Legion Go - and in early 2025, AMD will announce its successor, the Z2 Extreme, for future PC gaming handhelds.That's the word from Digital Trends' Jacob Roach, who heard AMD computing and graphics boss Jack Huynh say it's targeting a 2025 release on an IFA stage in Berlin; I just confirmed with AMD spokesperson Stacy MacDiarmid that the company plans to announce it in early 2025, though AMD's declining to say any more about it today.The only other things we've heard: AMD says it's working with multiple partners, so the chip may already be in handheld makers' hands. And it's probably based on AMD's Strix Point; so say Jez Corden's sources over... Continue reading...