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Windows 11 is rolling out the biggest update to MIDI since the musical communication format was first released in 1983. Microsoft announced that its latest Windows 11 Canary test build includes a public preview of Windows MIDI Services, which supports MIDI 2.0 and updates allowing MIDI 1.0 to run on Windows on Arm. MIDI (which [...]

Warner Bros. has made it easier to watch some of its movies online for once, bucking a trend of wiping them from existence. As spotted by Gizmodo, the official Warner Bros. Entertainment YouTube channel has quietly added more than 30 full movies to a playlist over the past month that you can watch here for [...]

Dog treats made from lab-grown meat have gone on sale in the UK, in what the manufacturers say is a world-first. Chick Bites are getting a limited release at a single pet store from Friday, but Meatly says it is expanding production and hopes to make its lab-grown meat more widely available as it scales [...]

The Zenfone 12 Ultra officially launches today, but unlike previous generations, this one won't be sold in the US. As expected, the 12 Ultra is a de-gamer-ified ROG Phone 9 Pro with a big screen, a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, and a unique gimbal-like stabilizer in the main camera. It's the same formula Asus followed [...]

Key resources for environmental data and public health have already been taken down from federal websites, and more could soon vanish as the Trump administration works to scrap anything that has to do with climate change, racial equity, or gender identity. Warnings floated on social media Friday about an impending purge at the Centers for [...]

US consumers may already be seeing additional fees on shipments from China after President Donald Trump's tariff on Chinese goods took effect on Tuesday. Clint Reid, the founder and CEO of a company that offers software to help with cross-border commerce, posted screenshots on X showing additional charges added to a shipment from DHL: Another [...]

Volkswagen has announced that next month, it will show off a new low-cost, entry-level EV that could cost just 20,000 (about $20,800 USD), the price it suggested it would hit back when it announced the ID. Life concept in 2021. That's a steal compared to current low-end US EVs like the over-$28,000 Nissan Leaf. Meanwhile, [...]

Steam's early access program helps small to medium-sized developers get an idea off the ground, but not every game actually does. Now, Valve has a notice designed to warn Steam users when they visit an early access game's store page if it's been a minute since the last update. If the dev's lofty goals for [...]

The keyboard company Qwertykeys has temporaily halted all shipments to the United States in response to President Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods going into effect. The company says it's working on ways to mitigate shipping costs and that the tariffs have made it so that all keyboards from China to the U.S. are now subject [...]

Ford's electric vehicle and software business lost $5.1 billion in 2024, up from $4.7 billion lost in 2024. And the automaker doesn't anticipate any relief this year, when it predicts it will lose as much as $5.5 billion on its EV business. Ford reported its fourth quarter and full-year earnings on Wednesday, beating Wall Street [...]

Google is joining Meta, Amazon, and other big tech companies in winding down its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. In a Wednesday memo to employees that I obtained (and you can read below), Googleas head of HR, Fiona Cicconi, said there will no longer be DEI hiring targets due to the companyas status as [...]

Amazon sent out five different invites to its upcoming product event, and when pieced together, they spell out a familiar word: Alexa, the name of the company's digital voice assistant. We assumed the event would be about Alexa'slong-heralded renaissance,and given this message, plus AmazontellingReutersthat the event will be Alexa-focused, it seems certain the new Alexa [...]

Things at Sonos are getting worse before they get better - if they're going to get better. Today the company laid off approximately 200 employees, The Verge has learned. The news was announced at around 4PM ET, and a letter to employees from interim CEO Tom Conrad was posted on Sonos' website shortly thereafter. One [...]

Sony has updated its Creators' Cloud platform so that images uploaded to a user's cloud storage from select Sony cameras can be automatically transferred to Google Drive or Adobe Lightroom. With Google Drive, you can save photos for backup and sharing, and with Adobe Lightroom, images can be processed almost immediately, even by a remote [...]

Hey, real quick: look at this keyboard. There's something cool about it. It's a mechanical keyboard. It's a laser keyboard. It's a magnetic induction keyboard. It has the new switches. It has the old switches. It's very thin. It's got a weird layout. It has a trackpoint. Or a screen. It has cool keycaps. It [...]

Nintendo is gearing up for the Switch 2's launch sometime in 2025, and president Shuntaro Furukawa says that the company is taking risks and proceeding with production so that we can meet as much demand as possible," according to a machine translation of an earnings Q&A. The company had some trouble keeping the original Switch [...]

Apps distributed through both Apple and Google's app stores are hiding malicious screenshot-reading code that's being used to steal cryptocurrency, the cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky reported today. It's the first known case" of apps infected with malware that uses OCR tech to extract text from images making it into Apple's App Store, according to a [...]

Herman Miller has announced a new height-adjustable desk that doesn't look like one. Instead of relying on just two columns to raise and lower its work surface, the Spout Sit-to-Stand Table uses four cylindrical legs, each containing their own motor. The design makes the Spout table easier to move around (it even includes optional wheels), [...]

The long block outside of the US Treasury Department on Tuesday was lined with protesters. They flooded across the street with signs bearing slogans: aNobody elected Muska; This is illegal"; aStop the coup.a It was one of multiple DC protests targeting billionaire Elon Musk's reported access to core government payment systems, attended by Democratic members [...]

Last summer, the staff at Gannett's consumer reviews site Reviewed received terrible news: the media giant was shuttering the entire vertical and would be laying off dozens of employees. Effective November 1st, Reviewed would cease operations. Gannett blamed Google's changing search algorithm, which had degraded [its] business model." The shuttering was a blow to the [...]

Google has edited Gemini's AI response in a Super Bowl commercial to remove an incorrect statistic about cheese. The ad, which shows a small business owner using Gemini to write a website description about Gouda, no longer says the variety makes up 50 to 60 percent of the world's cheese consumption." In the edited YouTube [...]

Amazon sent out invites today for a February event in New York City. The invite gives few clues as to what will be announced at the event, which will be hosted by Panos Panay and the Amazon Devices & Services team on February 26th. However, a blue swirly logo behind the words You're invited" does [...]

Netflix has a busy year of premieres ahead, but it might be most notable for whatas ending. As the streaming service continues to push into a new era full of live events, reality TV, and ad sales, itas also saying goodbye to arguably its two biggest franchises, with both Stranger Things and Squid Game wrapping [...]

Disney wants to win the sports streaming war by making ESPN available however the consumer wants it, wherever the consumer wants it," Disney CEO Bob Iger said during an earnings call on Wednesday. The entertainment giant aims to give viewers multiple ways to watch ESPN, whether it's through a standalone app slated to launch this [...]

From a presentation standpoint, Super Bowl LIX will largely be sticking to the status quo on Sunday. Fox Sports is capturing the game in 1080p HDR and upscaling that to 4K for its own networks and the free Tubi live stream. Comcast just announced that it'll be airing the game in Dolby Vision, which it [...]

The larger Jurassic Park franchise feels like it should be telling stories about dinosaurs having taken over the entire planet at this point, but the new trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth makes it seem like the movie is going to retread old territory with a bit of a video game-inspired twist. Set five years after [...]

As we settle in for the long, excruciating wait for more tangible news on the Switch 2, Nintendo has thrown us a little extra nugget of information. While we knew the company was planning to share more about the Switch 2 on April 2nd, now we have a time: 9 AM ET / 6 AM [...]

Kagi, a paid alternative to Google Search, now says it will credit your account if you subscribe and forget to use it. The company introduced what it calls Fair Pricing" in a blog post yesterday, writing that any time you don't use any of your searches during a full billing cycle, it will apply a [...]

The US Postal Service has reversed yesterday's surprise decision to stop accepting inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong. It will continue to accept international shipments from the two countries, though it warns of disruption" to deliveries. USPS previously announced that it was temporarily halting all packages shipped from China and Hong Kong. The decision [...]

Time is not on DJIas side. The worldas largest drone maker has less than a year to convince the Trump administration to save its products from an automatic US ban a at a time when drone fears have been stoked more than ever. Some of those fears were exacerbated by DJIas own bad timing: days [...]

Google updated its artificial intelligence principles on Tuesday to remove commitments around not using the technology in ways that cause or are likely to cause overall harm." A scrubbed section of the revised AI ethics guidelines previously committed Google to not designing or deploying AI for use in surveillance, weapons, and technology intended to injure [...]

Uber is getting ready for the launch of Waymo's public robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, prompting customers to join a list of people interested in riding in the Alphabet-owned company's AVs when they finally go live. It also revealed photos of the new co-branded robotaxis that will operate across a swath of the Texas capital [...]

The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday that it's temporarily suspending inbound packages from China and Hong Kong, a move that's likely to create delays and problems for packages from other destinations too. The suspension comes after President Trump used an executive order imposing a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods to also close a [...]

Microsoft Build is once again being held in Seattle this year, just over the lake from Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The developer conference will start on May 19th and run through May 22nd at the Seattle Convention Center. Microsoft hasn't provided any hints about what the company plans to launch at Build, but it's [...]

Instead of making Titanfall 3, developer Respawn took the franchise in a completely different direction with Apex Legends. A free-to-play battle royale game that mashes together elements of Overwatch and Fortnite, Apex Legends was a complete surprise when it launched, but it has turned out to be a big hit early on, luring tens of [...]

Elgato is releasing a new version of its audio stream control software Wave Link that includes new AI-powered voice enhancements for your mic. It also has a new OS-level management system to redirect audio streams to certain apps, split audio to yourself and your audience, add audio effects, and quickly mute channels. The latest version [...]

Google parent company Alphabet expects to invest approximately $75 billion" in capital expenditures in 2025, according to a statement from CEO Sundar Pichai in Alphabet's Q4 2024 earnings release. Capital expenditures have become a hot topic as of late as big tech companies race to build infrastructure to support their growing AI ambitions, and today's [...]

Google's Gemini AI assistant doesn't have ads today, but the company has very good ideas" for ways they could show up down the road, CEO Sundar Pichai said on Alphabet's investor call this afternoon. Right now, you can access Gemini for free or pay for a subscription to use advanced features, but it sounds like [...]

Apple launched a new app today, called Apple Invites, which lets you create, share, and manage invitations for events. With it, you can generate a quick digital invitation that, when shared with your friends, lets them gather all the info about the event, RSVP, and add it to their calendar. That includes your Android friends, [...]

OpenAI just gave itself a full rebrand, complete with a new typeface, logo, and color palette, as explained to Wallpaper in an interview about the process behind the changes. You'll have to look closely to spot the difference between the redrawn logo and its old one, but a side-by-side comparison shows the updated blossom" with [...]

The world's hottest AI company went through three CEOs in under a week and ended up with the same one it had at the start - so what happened, and what's next? On November 17th, 2023, OpenAI's nonprofit board abruptly announced that co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was out. The shake-up came just shy of [...]

Microsoft is bringing its storied real-time strategy series Age of Empires to the PlayStation 5, starting with Age of Mythology: Retold and its Immortal Pillars expansion pack, both launching on March 4th. Microsoft is continuing to evolve the Xbox platform with cloud gaming that works on almost any device, and bringing more of its biggest [...]

If you'd like to catch up on Oscar-nominated films like The Wild Robot ahead of the awards show next month, you might want to check out Peacock's latest promotion. Through February 18th, new and lapsed subscribers can get one year of ad-supported Peacock Premium for $29.99 if you sign up now. That's over half off [...]

Two weeks ago, I showed you how the worldas fastest graphics card works in a small form factor PC. To my surprise, Nvidiaas RTX 5090 Founders Edition delivered the vast majority of its performance even in a 12.7-liter desktop with a five-year-old CPU. It made me wonder: what if I plugged this card into a [...]

Apple raised the cost of its monthly AppleCare subscription prices for iPhones by 50 cents, MacRumors reports. The 50 cent price hike applies to both standard AppleCare Plus and AppleCare Plus with Theft and Loss monthly plans for Apple's current iPhone lineup. So, for example, the standard AppleCare Plus for the iPhone 16 will cost [...]

Threads will now let you share the custom feeds you've created, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday. This means other users can pin your custom feed to their homepage, giving them access to the same stream of curated content. Threads first rolled out custom feeds in November, which you can use to track your [...]

Defunct robotaxi company Cruise has begun to lay off employees today, sources tell The Verge. The layoffs come two months after General Motors said it would no longer fund Cruise, and would instead shift its spending toward advanced driver assist and personally owned autonomous vehicles. Cruise held an all-hands meeting today, in which it announced [...]

After the most tumultuous nine months in Sonosa history, the brand is trying to find its footing again. Even as work continues to rehabilitate the companyas beleaguered mobile app, Sonos is planning to take a big swing in a new product category: itas getting into video for the first time. In the coming months, Sonos [...]