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Perplexity is launching its AI-powered browser on Android. The new Comet app is available to download now, and it comes with many of the same features as the desktop version of the browser, including the ability to summon Perplexity's built-in AI assistant while you surf the web. It's one of the first major AI-centric browsers [...]

Amazon Prime Video is testing another new generative AI-powered feature to help catch you up on a show you've been watching before starting a new season. Video Recaps uses AI to identify a show's important plot points and create a short but theatrical-quality" summary video that combines a selection of clips with music, dialogue, and [...]

Google just announced some unexpected and welcome news: Pixel 10 owners can now send and receive files with Apple devices over AirDrop. And equally interestingly, the company engineered this interoperability without Apple's involvement. Google says it works with iPhone, iPad, and macOS devices, and applies to the entire Pixel 10 series. While limited to Google's [...]

Carrying around a full stack of physical books isn't practical, but an e-reader lets you take a full library with you anywhere. Thankfully, Amazon's latest Kindle is currently on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target in its ad-supported configuration for $79.99 ($30 off) or without ads for $99.99 ($30 off), which is a new [...]

Nvidia has partnered with Google to launch a new cloud gaming plan exclusive to Chromebooks. GeForce Now Fast Pass will allow Chromebook owners to stream over 2,000 games directly from an existing PC game library without ads, and new Chromebook purchases will include a year's membership for free. Fast Pass looks similar to GeForce Now's [...]

Move over Google Assistant, there's a new robot to yell at while driving. Starting today, Google is rolling out its Gemini AI assistant to Android Auto users, allowing drivers access to a truly conversational" voice assistant who can help with directions, messages, and errands. With Gemini, you can just speak naturally, have a back and [...]

It feels like Microsoft is blindly racing toward another Windows 8 situation. Windows 8 was arguably the most divisive release of Windows in its 40-year history, as Microsoft attempted to overhaul the operating system for a touch-first future. Spooked by the iPad, the company shipped a radical overhaul that ditched the familiar Start menu and [...]

HBO's latest Game of Thrones prequel series hasn't even premiered yet, but there are already plans for it to run for at least one more season. Today, HBO announced both A Knight for the Seven Kingdoms and House of the Dragon have been renewed for second and fourth seasons, respectively. In addition to the Game [...]

Suno, the AI music startup being sued by the big three major labels, the RIAA, and even some indie acts for illegally training its model on copyrighted material, just raised $250 million (which might help pay its legal bills). What caught my eye in the Wall Street Journal article about the funding round and the [...]

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Meta is about to get some new competition in the AR-powered smart glasses space: A little-known company called Vonderful Inc. is gearing up to launch its first pair of AI [...]

Year after year, model after model, the Boox Palma gets a little closer to the device of my dreams. Onyx, the company that makes it, found a formula that remains both simple and delightful: it's a gadget about the size of a smartphone, with access to the full breadth of Android apps, but with an [...]

Let's talk about AI and what I've been calling the DoorDash problem." This is about to define the next battle in AI, and it might completely transform not only how you order a sandwich - but also how the entire internet economy works in general. So what, exactly, is the DoorDash problem? Briefly, it's what [...]

The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) released the latest version of the Qi2 standard in April 2025, bringing wireless chargers a step closer to the faster charging rates offered by USB cables. Qi2.2 supports up to 25W charging, which is a welcome improvement to the 15W that has been the maximum rate for the standard since [...]

You no longer need an iPhone to get the most out of AirPods. Apple's AirPods provide a basic listening experience when paired to non-Apple devices, but the free LibrePods app, developed by Kavish Devar, unlocks features like ear detection, head gestures, and customizations on Android and Linux devices, as spotted by Android Authority. LibrePods was [...]

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT Atlas with vertical tabs that make it look a bit like the Arc browser. Now, instead of opening a new tab at the top of the AI-powered browser, you can change your tab style to access it within a left-hand sidebar. Similar to Arc, you can resize the sidebar on ChatGPT [...]

Google just took the wraps off Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), its improved image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro that promises to turn your visions into studio-quality designs with unprecedented control, flawless text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge." That's a step up from thosehyperrealistic 3D figurinesthat caused the original [...]

Google is making it easier for Gemini users to detect at least some AI-generated content. From today, you'll be able to use the Gemini app to determine if an image was either created or edited by a Google AI tool, simply by asking Gemini Is this AI-generated?" While the initial launch is limited to images, [...]

The details are fuzzy, but I think my husband and I downloaded the YouTube Kids app to our TV sometime in 2022, when between one and three members of the household came down with the flu at the same time. Like countless parents of toddlers before us, we needed something, anything, that would buy us [...]

Leica is announcing a Q3 Monochrom, its latest digital camera that captures only black-and-white photos and video. In many ways, the Q3 Monochrom is the same as a standard Q3, but with its 60-megapixel sensor modified to not record color, and dressed up in a stealthier logo-less design. It's available today for $7,790, a $1,055 [...]

FCC chair Brendan Carr has reportedly written to the BBC, PBS, and NPR announcing an investigation into whether a controversial BBC documentary with a misleading edit of a Donald Trump speech was ever aired in the US. Breitbart obtained a copy of the letter, which hasn't been shared publicly by either Carr or the FCC. [...]

Verizon is preparing to lay off more than 13,000 employees, or about 13 percent of its workforce. In a message to employees, Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says that the reductions come as part of plans to cut costs and reorient" the company around delivering for and delighting our customers," as first reported by The Wall [...]

After one of the biggest telecom hacks in US history, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved to enforce strict standards on carriers' cybersecurity measures. On Thursday, the agency is set to vote to roll back those requirements, arguing they were an unnecessary overstep of its authority. The China-linked Salt Typhoon hack revealed last year impacted [...]

It's finally happening. Three years after Matter launched, the interoperability standard now includes the most popular smart home devices: cameras. The Matter 1.5 spec, announced today, adds support for all types of video cameras - from indoor and outdoor, wired and battery-powered cameras, to video doorbells, baby monitors, pet cams, and more. Matter support should [...]

Last year Qualcomm promised that games would just work" on its Snapdragon X Elite laptops, but in my testing I found that was far from the case. Now, a year on, Windows on Arm is a lot more ready for gaming, thanks to emulator improvements, driver updates, a new Snapdragon Control Panel, and Qualcomm's work [...]

President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order as soon as Friday that would give the federal government unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence, including the creation of an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the attorney general, "whose sole responsibility shall be to challenge State AI laws." According to a draft of the [...]

Today, Major League Baseball announced new media rights deals with ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Netflix that run for the next three seasons. The Netflix deal brings live MLB games to its platform and continues to grow its library of sports programming in an arrangement that Front Office Sports reports is worth about $50 million per year. [...]

Nvidia just sold more AI chips than it's ever sold before, blowing past its own estimates in today's Q3 2026 earnings. Not only did it pull in a record $57 billion in revenue - and roughly $4,000 of pure profit per second - it grew its data center business by $10 billion in a single [...]

Google has announced it's testing a new AI-powered search tool, Scholar Labs, that's designed to answer detailed research questions. But its demonstration highlighted a bigger question about finding "good" science studies. How much will scientists trust a tool that forgoes typical ways of gauging a study's popularity with the scientific establishment in favor of reading [...]

The holidays have a way of sneaking up on us. One minute you're trick-or-treating with your kids, and the next you're panic shopping in a Buc-ee's gift aisle. But it doesn't have to be that way. With the right cheat sheet, you can keep the holiday spirit high and stress levels low. Fortunately, we did [...]

This is just a little public service announcement ahead of Black Friday. Walmart will once again tout the M1 MacBook Air as an unbeatable deal for laptop shoppers. It sure is tempting at $599, especially if you haven't seen the deal before. It might even be the right choice for some people. But for most [...]

Editor's note:Black Friday doesn't officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we've rounded up thebest early Black Friday dealsyou can already get. Some people rarely lose things. Wallets are always exactly where they're supposed to be, keys never go missing, and remotes never slip between the [...]

Epishine, a company that makes solar cells optimized for indoor lighting, has announced its technology is being used in a new remote control for Google TV devices, as spotted by 9to5Google. The remote will rely on rechargeable batteries instead of disposable ones, and thanks to the use of solar cells on both sides it may [...]

As AI tools continue to rise in popularity, it's easy to forget the satisfaction of using something that doesn't need an update or a prompt to help you get things done. I'm talking about tools. They're simple and rugged, and they don't make things needlessly complicated. And now that the holidays are approaching, these tools [...]

Tech critics' least favorite law is under siege again, this time with a focus on its recommendation algorithms. On Wednesday Sens. John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced the Algorithm Accountability Act, which amends Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make platforms responsible for preventing their recommendation systems from causing certain foreseeable [...]

If you compare the Apple Watch Ultra 3 with the Ultra 2, you probably wouldn't be able to tell they were made with drastically different manufacturing processes. The titanium Apple Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3 are not only made with 100 percent recycled titanium powder, but are also 3D-printed, a process that's pretty impressive [...]

A federal judge in New York denied Disney's request to block Sling TV's short-term passes, which give viewers the ability to stream live content for as little as one day. In a ruling on Tuesday, US District Judge Arun Subramanian ruled that Disney didn't prove that Sling TV's passes caused irreparable harm" to the entertainment [...]

A college student recently told me about the latest tech designed to help students cheat - and it wasn't ChatGPT. It was an actual, physical gadget marketed in YouTube ads as the workaround to physical, hardcopy tests, which are back in vogue now as AI tears through higher education like a tornado. (One example is [...]

In one particularly memorable sequence in Demonschool - the new tactical RPG from Necrosoft that, after a few hiccups, releases on November 19th - I throw a doll at a zombie's head, dispatch it with a roundhouse kick to the jowls as I watch my friends sweep demons off the floor in vortices of blood, [...]

It's no surprise that the Porsche Cayenne EV is a beast. Of course the famed German automaker would tout its all-electric SUV as the most powerful," the quickest - both off the line and in a charging stall - and record-setting in so many ways. The question remains: how beastly are we talking? Now, thankfully, [...]

Adobe is acquiring the digital marketing platform Semrush for around $1.9 billion. In a press release on Wednesday, Adobe says the deal will allow it and Semrush to give marketers insight into how their brands appear across the web. The acquisition builds on Adobe's existing suite of marketing tools that help businesses manage digital campaigns [...]

The EU's cookie consent policies have been an annoying and unavoidable part of browsing the web in Europe since their introduction in 2018. But the cookie nightmare is about to crumble thanks to some big proposed changes announced by the European Commission today. Instead of having to click accept or reject on a cookie pop-up [...]

TikTok is testing a new control that will let users manage how much AI-generated content appears in their video feed on the app. To help make the filter more effective, the app will also soon start adding invisible watermarks to AI content. The new AI slider will appear along with TikTok's other content controls under [...]

This time I'm really going to do it. I am going to put Linux on my gaming PC. Calling it now. 2026 is the year of Linux on the desktop. Or at least on mine. Linux has been a perfectly viable desktop OS for ages. But gaming on Linux is now viable, too. Valve's hard [...]

After years of staring down the world's biggest tech companies and setting the bar for tough regulation worldwide, Europe has blinked. Under intense pressure from industry and the US government, Brussels is stripping protections from its flagship General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - including simplifying its infamous cookie permission pop-ups -and relaxing or delaying landmark [...]

I was starting to doubt it would ever happen, but I finally found a regular, helpful use for AI: vanlife travel planner. I'm not a student and I don't code. I am, however, on day 48 of my van tour through Europe with my wife and dog. We travel without a specific itinerary, chasing the [...]

Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival, Unity, to bring games made using Unity's engine into Fortnite. The change will mean that Unity games could sit alongside Epic's own suite of experiences as well as those created by third-party developers using the Unreal Editor for Fortnite - and it opens [...]

Meross has announced a new version of its MS600 presence sensor that's now battery-powered, so installation isn't limited to places where you can camouflage a power cord. A single CR123A battery powers the new MS605 presence sensor for up to three years. Battery life may be reduced in high-traffic areas if the sensor is activated [...]

A blog post published Tuesday night by Cloudflare cofounder and CEO Matthew Prince has details on what caused its worst outage since 2019," pinning the issue to a problem in the Bot Management system that is supposed to control which automated crawlers are allowed to scan particular websites using its CDN. Cloudflare said last year [...]

Editor's note:Black Friday doesn't officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we've rounded up thebest early Black Friday dealsyou can already get. The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it's time to [...]