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by Andrew Webster on (#6G773)
Image: Rockstar It's finally happening: Rockstar Games has officially revealed that the next chapter of the Grand Theft Auto franchise will get a trailer next month. Likely to be called GTA VI, the new game is expected to feature the series' first female protagonist, influenced by Bonnie and Clyde. GTA VI will also reportedly be set in a fictionalized version of Miami, just like 2002's GTA: Vice City.After reports of a GTA VI reveal this week, Rockstar Games took to X (formerly Twitter) today to officially announce that a trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto" is coming in early December.It has been a long time coming for GTA fans. Grand Theft Auto V launched a decade ago in 2013 and, since then, has been ported to successive generations of hardware... Continue reading...
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by Allison Johnson on (#6G774)
There's nothing wrong with the Galaxy S23 FE, but it feels like an uninspired collection of surplus components rather than one for the fans. Continue reading...
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by Andrew J. Hawkins on (#6G775)
A Niron Magnetics employee takes quality measurements | Image: Sara Rubinstein for General Motors General Motors is eyeing a new type of magnet for its EV motors that's less dependent on rare earth minerals from China.The automaker is forming a strategic partnership" with Niron Magnetics, a Minnesota-based company that is developing magnetic technology based in iron nitride. GM's venture arm is also investing an undisclosed sum into the company as it seeks to incorporate new technologies into its EV production.The hope is that Niron's magnets can eventually be used in the motors for the company's electric vehicles, most of which currently use permanent magnets made from rare earth and heavy earth minerals from China. In contrast, Niron's magnets purport to use iron nitride, which is comprised of the much more common elements of... Continue reading...
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by Jess Weatherbed on (#6G776)
Premium subscribers in the US can now access Spotify's catalog of 200,000 audiobooks. | Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify Premium subscribers in the US can now access the streaming platform's on-demand catalog of over 200,000 audiobooks, alongside 15 hours of listening each month for free. Ten hours of additional listening can be purchased for $10.99 if you need a top-up between billing cycles. Premium subscriptions start at $10.99 per month.Audiobooks will appear on the Spotify home feed, and specific titles can be searched for just like music tracks. Spotify has also curated a selection of nine suggested audiobook titles if you need some recommendations on where to start. Audiobook access has already rolled out to paid Spotify subscribers in the UK and Australia. Image: Spotify Do your own math, obviously, but shorter... Continue reading...
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by Emilia David on (#6G777)
Julia Nikhinson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Amid growing concern that AI can make it easier to spread misinformation, Microsoft is offering its services, including a digital watermark identifying AI content, to help crack down on deepfakes and enhance cybersecurity ahead of several worldwide elections.In a blog post co-authored by Microsoft president Brad Smith and Microsoft's corporate vice president, Technology for Fundamental Rights Teresa Hutson, the company said it will offer several services to protect election integrity, including the launch of a new tool that harnesses the Content Credentials watermarking system developed by the Coalition for Content Provenance Authenticity's (C2PA). The goal of the service is to help candidates protect the use of their content and... Continue reading...
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by Makena Kelly on (#6G74K)
Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta announced Wednesday that it would require advertisers to disclose when potentially misleading AI-generated or altered content is featured in political, electoral, or social issue ads.The new rule applies to advertisements on Facebook and Instagram that contain realistic" images, videos, or audio falsely showing someone doing something they never did or imagining a real event playing out differently than it did in reality. Content depicting realistic-looking fake people or events would also need to be disclosed. The policy is expected to go into effect next year.In the New Year, advertisers who run ads about social issues, elections & politics with Meta will have to disclose if image or sound has been created or altered... Continue reading...
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by Jon Porter on (#6G74M)
Green bubbles in Apple's Messages app. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge iMessage serves as an important gateway between business users and their customers" and should be regulated as a core" service under the EU's new Digital Markets Act (DMA), said Google and a group of major European telcos in a letter sent to the European Commission, and seen by The Financial Times. Being designated as a core platform service" would be significant for iMessage, as it could compel Apple to make it interoperable with other messaging services.The letter arrives as the European Commission investigates whether iMessage meets the requirements to be regulated under the bloc's strict DMA rules.Google has been very vocal about its desire for Apple to adopt RCS, the cross-platform messaging standard pitched as the successor... Continue reading...
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by Tom Warren on (#6G72Q)
Image: JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images Samsung has started to detail its own generative AI model, Samsung Gauss, that can run locally on devices. Korea Times reports that Gauss will be integrated into the next Galaxy S24 handset, expected in early 2024. Samsung showcased Gauss during its own AI forum this week, revealing how the AI model can generate and edit images, compose emails, summarize documents, and even operate as a coding assistant.Parts of Samsung's Gauss model can run locally on the device, and Samsung executives teased last month that the company will start adding generative AI to core functions" of mobile devices starting in 2024. That comment followed reports of an AI focus for Samsung's Galaxy S24, which is widely expected to be announced in early 2024.S... Continue reading...
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by Tom Warren on (#6G72R)
Grand Theft Auto V was a huge hit. | Image: Getty Rockstar Games reportedly plans to reveal Grand Theft Auto VI, the next installment in the hugely popular open-world franchise, as early as this week. Bloomberg reports that an announcement could come this week, with a trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI set to drop in December to mark 25 years of Rockstar Games.Rockstar first confirmed it was working on the next Grand Theft Auto in February 2022, and that active development for the unnamed title was well underway." Since then a report from Bloomberg claimed that Grand Theft Auto VI will feature the series' first female protagonist, influenced by Bonnie and Clyde. Grand Theft Auto VI will also reportedly be set in a fictionalized version of Miami, similar to the location used for 2002's G... Continue reading...
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by Nathan Edwards on (#6G6TK)
It's wide. | LG LG has a pair of new 45-inch ultrawide gaming monitors. That sounds very wide to me, though LG says it's the equivalent of two 24-inch monitors, which sounds almost compact compared to the 49-inchers from Samsung and LG, or the gargantuan Samsung Odyssey Ark we tested last year.The UltraGear 45GR65DC ($799) and 45GR75DC ($899) are slightly smaller and a few hundred bucks cheaper than the 49-inch 49GR85DC, which we wisely just called the 49-inch UltraGear when we wrote about it earlier in the year. I can't do that with these since there are two of them, but they're basically the same except that the 45GR75DC has USB-C with 90W power delivery and the 45GR65DC doesn't. If you preorder the fancier one before the 19th, LG will throw in a... Continue reading...
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by Umar Shakir on (#6G6TM)
Very clickable good dogs. | Image: Google Google is rolling out new generative AI tools for creating ads, from writing the headlines and descriptions that appear along with searches to creating and editing the accompanying images. It's pitching the tool for use by both advertising agencies as well as businesses without in-house creative staff. Using text prompts, advertisers can iterate on the text and images they generate until they find something they like.Google also promises that it will never generate two of the same images, which can avoid the awkward possibility that two competing businesses end up with the exact same photo elements.The step-by-step ad creator is coming to those who use Google's Performance Max ad campaign product, and it's capable of generating ads... Continue reading...
by Jay Peters on (#6G6TN)
Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple just released iOS 17.1.1, and it has fixes for a couple notable bugs that have popped up recently.One bug was pretty bad. Some users had reported that if they tried to charge their iPhone 15 using BMW's in-car wireless charging, certain NFC features like Apple Pay or BMW's digital car key would break. BMW's UK account on X (formerly Twitter) confirmed in October that the issues were being investigated together with Apple." An Apple service memo reported on by MacRumors said the issue happened when charging an iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, or iPhone 15 Pro Max in some BMW and Toyota Supra cars.The other bug was more harmless: on the lock screen weather widget, the snow icon was sometimes showing up as just a file icon.... Continue reading...
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by Richard Lawler on (#6G6TP)
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Soon, Instagram users will have a choice about using read receipts in direct message conversations.Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri both announced on their Instagram Broadcast channels that the change is currently in testing, and Mosseri included this picture showing the toggle as well as what it looks like in action. Image: Meta Instagram's read receipts toggle for DMs. What they didn't mention is if that option is coming to Messenger, which similarly forces users into using read receipts without any way to turn them off. We also have no idea how soon this could roll out more widely, but keep an eye on your conversations to see if those indicators suddenly start to disappear or if anyone is turning down your... Continue reading...
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by Andrew Webster on (#6G6TQ)
Image: Nintendo Nintendo's foray into movies isn't stopping anytime soon: the company has confirmed that it's working on a live-action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda. The movie will be directed by Wes Ball, best known for the Maze Runner trilogy and the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto will serve as a producer, much as he did on this year's animated Super Mario Bros. movie. He'll be producing alongside Avi Arad.This is Miyamoto. I have been working on the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda for many years now with Avi Arad-san, who has produced many mega hit films," Miyamoto said in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter. We might be waiting a while for the movie, however; Miyamoto said, It will... Continue reading...
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by Ariel Shapiro on (#6G6R1)
Photo by Stephen J. Cohen / Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge's newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more.Hope you all had a great weekend. Today, I've got news on James Corden's new SiriusXM deal, Theo Von's rise on the charts, and, in what I will admit is a significant tone shift, a look at which podcasts are actually helping the discussion around the Israel-Hamas war.James Corden inks SiriusXM dealDon't call it a podcast deal (so I've been told). The former Late Late Show host will have a new weekly program on SiriusXM that is exclusive to subscribers. This Life of Mine with James Corden will be a weekly celebrity chat show, because literally what else would it be? The show, which will launch in early 2024, was announced in the... Continue reading...
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by Emma Roth on (#6G6R2)
Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft, the game publisher behind franchises like Assassin's Creed and Far Cry, is laying off 124 employees at its visual effects studio and on its global IT team.Hybride - the name of Ubisoft's Montreal-based visual effects studio - has worked on several big-name projects, including Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Beau Is Afraid, and more. Of the 124 impacted workers, Ubisoft spokesperson Antoine Leduc-Labelle says 98 people are based in Canada, making up less than 2 percent of the company's workforce in the country. (Ubisoft has studios in Montreal, Quebec City, Chicoutimi, Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, and Sherbrooke.) Leduc-Labelle adds that this doesn't affect Ubisoft's production teams.Over the past few months,... Continue reading...
by Andrew Webster on (#6G6R3)
Revenant Hill. | Image: The Glory Society Revenant Hill, the much-anticipated follow-up to indie hit Night in the Woods, has been canceled. According to development studio The Glory Society, the decision was made after members of the team were forced to step away from the project due to recent serious health issues."Making anything complex poses challenges along the way," reads a posting on the studio's site. It continues on to say the following:
by Brandon Widder on (#6G6MX)
The ROG Ally certainly isn't perfect, but it's still a big step forward for Windows handhelds. Thanks to the rousing success of the Nintendo Switch and Valve's Steam Deck, it's safe to say that portable gaming is having a moment - something The Verge's David Pierce discussed at length with the Polygon crew on a recent episode of The Vergecast. Asus also entered the handheld fray earlier this year with the ROG Ally, and now, thanks to an ongoing Asus promo, it's available with an AMD Z1 Extreme chip for an all-time low of $599.99 ($100 off) with offer code NC100.We had some serious reservations with the ROG Ally when we first reviewed the handheld gaming PC. Asus has since ironed out some of our initial concerns, but some remain, including the console's mediocre battery life and a bizarre performance gap between the retail units... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6G6MY)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit is beginning to test the first of its own add-ons built through its Developer Platform. The company's first add-ons, available to a small number of subreddits and only to mods, will include tools for mods to more easily monitor and remove comment threads; ban spammers and remove their content; and for sports-focused subreddits, create posts that are live scoreboards, spokesperson Courtney Geesey-Dorr tells The Verge.Reddit announced the Developer Platform in August 2022 as a way for developers to more easily host and develop things like apps, bots, and mod tools for Reddit. At the time, Reddit opened up a waitlist for interested developers, and although the platform is still in closed beta, Geesey-Dorr says a handful" of... Continue reading...
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by Umar Shakir on (#6G6MZ)
Illustration: The Verge WhatsApp might still deploy ads on the platform alongside the app's Instagram Stories-like Status feature, company head Will Cathcart recently said in an interview. As pointed out by TechCrunch, Cathcart stated that WhatsApp ads could show up in different places within the app, including the newer Channels feature and statuses, though no timeline was provided for the change.In the Brazilian publication Folha De S.Paulo, the interviewer asked Cathcart if WhatsApp would continue to be free and without ads. Cathcart responded that WhatApp will not have ads within the inbox or in the messaging experience." Cathcart also added that Channels could charge people to subscribe, and the owners could promote ads for it within Channels.The... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6G6HG)
Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A new program called Lantern aims to fight online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA) with cross-platform signal sharing between online companies like Meta and Discord. The Tech Coalition, a group of tech businesses with a cooperative aim to fight online child sexual exploitation, wrote in today's announcement that the program is an attempt to keep predators from avoiding detection by moving potential victims to other platforms.Lantern serves as a central database for companies to contribute data and check their own platforms against. When companies see signals, like known OCSEA policy-violating email addresses or usernames, child sexual abuse material (CSAM) hashes, or CSAM keywords, they can flag them in their own systems.... Continue reading...
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by Jess Weatherbed on (#6G6HJ)
FigJam AI includes three tools for now, but Figma teases there are more to come." | Image: Figma Figma, best known for its product design applications, has announced FigJam AI - a new suite of generative AI tools for its collaborative whiteboard service FigJam that creates ready-to-use templates for common design and planning projects. The idea is that FigJam AI can reduce the preparation time needed to manually create these collaborative whiteboard projects from scratch, leaving designers with time to concentrate on more pressing tasks.FigJam AI is available in open beta starting November 7th and is currently free" for all customer tiers. We have asked Figma to clarify if FigJam AI will remain free to use when it enters general availability and will update this article if we hear back. Image: Figma Want an... Continue reading...
by Andrew Webster on (#6G6HH)
Captain Velvet: The Jump+ Dimensions. | Image: Crunchyroll Crunchyroll is making a bigger push into games. The anime streaming service, which has previously published a handful of mobile titles, is adding mobile games to its offering in a move similar to Netflix's ongoing foray into gaming. The new feature is called the Crunchyroll Game Vault and is available starting today.The vault is available for free to subscribers of the Mega Fan and Ultimate Fan tiers of Crunchyroll - the two higher-cost tiers available - and at launch, there will be five titles. That includes Captain Velvet: The Jump+ Dimensions, River City Girls, Wolfstride, Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery, and Inbento. Much like on Netflix or Apple Arcade, the games will all be free and devoid of in-app purchases.Whereas most... Continue reading...
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by Wes Davis on (#6G6E3)
Waze will warn you when a route is crash-prone. | Image: Waze Waze has a new safety feature that launches an alert when drivers are coming up on a particularly crash-prone section of their route. Waze's blog post says the feature, which has been in beta since last year, uses historical crash data and key information about your route" like traffic levels or what kind of road it is to generate the warnings.Seeing if a route is crash-prone means drivers can be more alert, or that seems to be Waze's hope. A Google help page says the crash history alerts don't distinguish between major and minor incidents, so knowing what you're in for - and whether you should consider another route - might be hard. But alerts like this have to strike a balance between being informative and not becoming a distraction,... Continue reading...
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by Umar Shakir on (#6G6E4)
(C) 2023 Stellantis Stellantis is making a new electric-propelled Ram truck with a large EV battery pack linked to a gasoline engine that can extend range for long trips without frequent charging stops. The automaker's new pickup, the 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger, claims to go up to 690 miles on a full tank and charge.Since the Ramcharger runs on dual electric motors, a 250kW in the front and 238kW one in the rear, it's effectively an EV. But operationally, it's like dealing with a plug-in hybrid. If you recall Chevy's discontinued Volt, it too operated like an EV and provided around 50 miles of pure range - but a gas engine then kicks in to continue powering the EV system once the battery is depleted. The Ramcharger is basically like a massive version of the... Continue reading...
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by Charles Pulliam-Moore on (#6G6E5)
Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Though negotiators from both the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) met this past weekend in hopes of bringing Hollywood's ongoing labor strike to an end, contract talks have reportedly stalled once again due to the desire of studios to own performers' digitally scanned likenesses in perpetuity.Previously, the AMPTP insisted that its most recent proposed contract was its best and final" offer. But according to The Hollywood Reporter, SAG-AFTRA refused and walked away from the negotiations over the AMPTP's insistence on pushing for new rules regarding the use of people's likenesses that would ultimately leave actors in the lurch. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the AMPTP's... Continue reading...
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by Becca Farsace on (#6G6E6)
The Sony A9 III features the company's first global shutter in a full-frame mirrorless camera. | Image: Sony Sony has announced the latest in its line of popular professional mirrorless cameras: the A9 III. It's a $5,999 full-frame camera with a stacked 24.6-megapixel sensor that succeeds the A9 II released four years ago. But the most important thing about the A9 III is its new shutter.The A9 III is the first full-frame camera to use a global shutter. This allows it to expose every pixel at the same time so there is no distortion in both stills and video. Within most mirrorless cameras, such as the Canon R5, Panasonic GH5, and Nikon Z9, there is a rolling shutter. Rolling shutters capture an image by exposing row by row of pixels, which can lead to distortion. Below is a graphic from Lensrentals.com that shows this difference well. ... Continue reading...
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by Emma Roth on (#6G6E9)
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge As YouTube tightens its restrictions on ad blockers, privacy advocates in the European Union are betting that government regulations can put a stop to the crackdown.One privacy expert, Alexander Hanff, filed a complaint in October with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Hanff argues that YouTube's ad blocker detection system is a violation of privacy - a charge Google denies - and illegal under EU law. AdBlock detection scripts are spyware - there is no other way to describe them and as such it is not acceptable to deploy them without consent," Hanff tells The Verge. I consider any deployment of technology which can be used to spy on my devices is both unethical and illegal in most situations."The fight against ad blocker... Continue reading...
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by Emma Roth on (#6G6EA)
Illustration: The Verge A group of Google contract workers who helped train the company's Bard AI chatbot and write Google Help articles voted overwhelmingly to form a union on Monday. The workers, who are contracted to work for Google through Accenture, unionized to secure better working conditions and protections.The contractors will join the Alphabet Workers Union, the labor organization that represents employees at Google and its Alphabet parent company. They first started unionization efforts in June after they were directed to work on the then-unannounced Bard chatbot. As part of their efforts to help train the bot, they were asked to handle obscene, graphic and offensive prompts," according to a report from Bloomberg.When one of the contractors filed... Continue reading...
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by Nilay Patel on (#6G6AW)
The former president joined me on Decoder to discuss AI regulation, the First Amendment, and of course, what apps he has on his homescreen. Continue reading...
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by Andrew J. Hawkins on (#6G6AX)
Image: Redwood Redwood Materials has recycled e-bike batteries and Tesla batteries. Now, it's ready to level up a few sizes.The electric vehicle battery recycling and manufacturing venture founded by the former chief technologist of Tesla announced today that it will help decommission and recycle a 4MWh stationary storage substation in Kauai, Hawaii, as part of a massive solar array. The decommissioning recently wrapped and the batteries are now being transported to the company's facility in north Nevada for recycling.It will be one of Redwood's first battery energy storage systems and an important step in the company's broader effort to prove that lithium-ion batteries and energy storage products of all sizes can have a new life beyond their... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6G6AY)
The Aftermath logo. | Image: Aftermath They've started Aftermath, a new website about video games and culture. Continue reading...
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by David Nield on (#6G685)
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge It can be all too easy to spend too much time on your phone, cycling through social media posts, news updates, video clips, messaging apps and then back round again. Before you know it, half an hour or more has gone by, and you've accomplished very little.If you're looking to get a better balance between the time you spend staring at your phone screen and the time you spend doing everything else, Android has a tool that can help. It's called Digital Wellbeing, and like Screen Time for the iPhone, it can tell you about your phone use and help you set up limits on it.Digital Wellbeing is enabled by default, so the first time you open it, you should find that it's already keeping tabs on what you get up to on your phone. It's available... Continue reading...
by Tom Warren on (#6G686)
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia's rumored RTX 4070 Super and RTX 4080 Super GPUs might launch in early 2024. Hardware leaker Kopite7kimi says Nvidia's RTX 40 series Super cards will debut at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2024, reports VideoCardz. Kopite7kimi has a reliable track record for Nvidia hardware.While Nvidia isn't listed as an exhibitor at CES, the company often has conference rooms where it hosts press briefings and demonstrates its latest gaming technology. Hardware leakers have been teasing details about RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Super cards for weeks, with the RTX 4080 Super rumored to include 20GB of VRAM.Both RTX 40-series Super GPUs are expected to also feature a higher memory bus than the existing 4080 / 4070 cards, with the RTX... Continue reading...
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by Emilia David on (#6G687)
Photo by Mitchell Clark / The Verge Phone accessory maker Popsocket will now let people design their phone grips with AI via Stable Diffusion and award up to $100,000 in a holiday giveaway for the best designs.Popsocket's AI Customizer allows people to make their phone holders or cases exude as much personality as they want, and bring their wildest visions to life," says Popsocket. While the company previously offered a way to design cases and grips, that feature used a library of backgrounds or asked users to upload their own photos. Image: Popsocket Generate an image from a text prompt or with the help of an upload. The AI customizer uses a highly optimized version of Stable Diffusion XL," the company tells The Verge in an email. Users... Continue reading...
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by Jon Porter on (#6G688)
YouTube's conversational AI tool can summarize videos and answer questions. | Image: Google YouTube's latest AI experiments includes a new chatbot that's designed to give you more information about a video you're watching. The conversational AI tool, as Google's support post calls it, aims to answer your questions about a video and can also recommend related content. It can also quiz you on a topic if you're watching an educational video. The experimental feature has been announced alongside another AI tool that aims to organize a video's comments into topics.Both features come as part of a wider push from Google to integrate AI across its services including Search, Gmail, and its office productivity suite. In YouTube specifically we've already seen the company announce a host of AI features aimed at video creators, like... Continue reading...
by Jess Weatherbed on (#6G65X)
The slightly thicker shape of the Creator Edition S Pen should feel more natural to grip - like a real pencil. | Image: Samsung The S Pen Creator Edition tablet stylus that Samsung unveiled alongside its Galaxy Tab S9 series in July is now available to buy in the US for $99.99. Designed with writing, sketching, and digital painting in mind, the S Pen Creator Edition is a more premium stylus compared to the standard $59.99 S Pen that ships with Galaxy Tab S9 devices, providing more benefits for creative professionals like additional tilt-sensitivity and a thicker shape for improved grip.The S Pen Creator Edition is compatible with Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and higher, Galaxy Note10 and higher, Galaxy Tab S Series, and PCs that already support the existing S Pen. It cannot be used with any Galaxy Z series of folding devices. The stylus is battery-free and doesn't... Continue reading...
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by Jess Weatherbed on (#6G5ZK)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Co-working office space provider WeWork has filed for bankruptcy covering its locations in the US and Canada, and in a filing, it said it had liabilities of between $10 and $50 billion.It's the latest turn for a company that went from being valued at $47 billion in January 2019 to unsuccessfully attempting an IPO later that year.Investors were unimpressed with a company that counted its founder and CEO, Adam Neumann, as a significant risk factor. Its fall was eventually captured in both a documentary for Hulu, WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, and the podcast-turned-TV show for Apple TV, WeCrashed.As Elizabeth Lopatto described its IPO paperwork:
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by Wes Davis on (#6G5TB)
The new PS5. | Image: Sony The new PlayStation 5 hasn't come out yet - it doesn't even have a specific release date - but a few YouTubers have gotten their hands on it, including Dave Lee from the Dave2D channel. Lee posted his teardown of the console yesterday, and if you've been curious about how that detachable disc drive works, this is the best look you'll get at it without buying the $499.99 PS5 yourself later this month.After Lee pries off the PS5's plastic side cover, you can see the drive sitting there with three screws staring back at you. I thought they were pentalobe screws at first, but a later zoomed-in shot shows they're just standard crosshead screws. Phillips head, if you like. Okay, no surprises there. Good. Clip: Dave2D / GIF:... Continue reading...
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by Allison Johnson on (#6G5QX)
Android 14 wreaked havoc on some Pixel phones with multiple user profiles. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Google's November update should be coming very soon to Pixel phones, providing some relief for a critical bug affecting people with multiple user profiles on their devices. The update - spotted by 9to5Google - contains a fix for an issue occasionally causing devices with multiple users enabled to show out of space or be in a reboot loop," which was affecting Pixel 6 phones and later running Android 14. The update will start arriving on Pixel phones beginning today, with the rollout continuing through the next week.This particular bug was a nasty one. In some cases, people were unable to access their media storage, while others were entirely shut out of their phones in a boot cycle that required a factory device reset. For people with... Continue reading...
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by Mia Sato on (#6G5QY)
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok's $1 billion creator fund will come to an end on December 16th, 2023, the company told users today.Creators in the US, UK, Germany, and France will no longer be able to monetize their content through the original fund, TikTok spokesperson Maria Jung says. TikTokers in Italy and Spain aren't affected by the change.The creator fund was originally introduced in 2020, with the company promising to pay out $1 billion over the course of three years to people making the app's viral content. Along the way, influencers and other content creators have noted the low payouts - sometimes just a few dollars for millions of views - making it impossible to earn a living through the creator fund alone. TikTok didn't respond to questions about... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6G5QZ)
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony is terminating its X (formerly Twitter) integrations for PS5 and PS4, meaning you soon won't be able to post screenshots and clips to X from those consoles.As of November 13, 2023, integration with X (formerly known as Twitter) will no longer function on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles," Sony said in a support message on its website. This includes the ability to view any content published on X on PS5/PS4, and the ability to post and view content, trophies, and other gameplay-related activities on X directly from PS5/PS4 (or link an X account to do so)." Wario64 posted a screenshot of a similar message on Threads that appears to have popped up on a PS5 console.Sony didn't elaborate on why it's cutting off its X... Continue reading...
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by Charles Pulliam-Moore on (#6G5MX)
The Marvel Spotlight logo. | Image: Marvel Studios In an effort to help viewers understand which of its spinoff projects will have significant connections to the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe and which are really meant to work as standalone stories, Marvel's rolling out a new kind of branding just in time for its upcoming Echo series.Ahead of Echo's debut on both Disney Plus and Hulu, Marvel announced today that it will be the first series to arrive under the studio's new Marvel Spotlight banner: the brand consisting of all the MCU's spinoffs that, while set in the same universe where the Avengers exist, are not required watching to understand what's happening in the next Avengers movie, for example.Speaking to Marvel.com, Marvel's head of streaming, Brad Winderbaum, likened the... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6G5MY)
Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Ybarra and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer at BlizzCon 2023. | Photo by Robert Paul for Blizzard Entertainment Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio's future. Continue reading...
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by Emilia David on (#6G5MZ)
Illustration: The Verge OpenAI announced more improvements to its large language models, GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, including updated knowledge bases and a much longer context window. The company says it will also follow Google and Microsoft's lead and begin protecting customers against copyright lawsuits.GPT-4 Turbo, currently available via an API preview, has been trained with information dating to April 2023, the company announced Monday at its first-ever developer conference. The earlier version of GPT-4 released in March only learned from data dated up to September 2021. OpenAI plans to release a production-ready Turbo model in the next few weeks but did not give an exact date.GPT-4 Turbo is cheaper to run for developersGPT-4 Turbo will also see" more data,... Continue reading...
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by Alex Heath on (#6G5N0)
Illustration: The Verge The GPT platform is a no-code way to make custom AI agents for all sorts of tasks, and it's available exclusively for ChatGPT Plus subscribers. Continue reading...
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by Jon Porter on (#6G5N1)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One hundred million people are using ChatGPT on a weekly basis, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced at its first-ever developer conference on Monday. Since releasing its ChatGPT and Whisper models via API in March, the company also now boasts over two million developers, including over 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies.OpenAI announced the figures as it detailed a range of new features, including a platform for building custom versions of ChatGPT to help with specific tasks and GPT-4 Turbo, a new model that has knowledge of world events up to April 2023 and which can fit the equivalent of over 300 pages of text in a single prompt.ChatGPT was widely seen as the fastest growing consumer internet app of all time after its launch nearly a... Continue reading...
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by Sheena Vasani on (#6G5HP)
Logitech's G Fit earbuds uniquely conform to the shape of your ears. | Image: Logitech While it might seem like every sale going on right now is somehow related to Black Friday, some retailers are still discounting things because, well, why not? Case in point, right now, Amazon seems to have randomly decided to discount a bunch of Logitech gaming accessories - and we're here for it.Amazon's slashing prices on a bunch of items, taking $40 off Logitech's last-gen G Pro X Superlight ($109.99) and even offering Logitech's G915 Lightspeed TKL wireless mechanical keyboard at a new record low price of $149.99 ($80 off). Heck, even one of our favorite gaming mice - the minimalist ambidextrous Logitech G303 Shroud - is on sale for $99.99 ($30 off).Our favorite deal, however, is available on the Logitech G Fits wireless gaming... Continue reading...
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by Jacob Kastrenakes on (#6G5HQ)
Illustration: The Verge ChatGPT changed everything. What comes next? Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6G5HR)
Photo by Jerod Harris / Getty Images for Vox Media Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd is stepping down from the chief executive role of Bumble Inc., the company announced on Monday. Wolfe Herd will be succeeded by Lidiane Jones, the current CEO of Slack, who took the role at that company in January. Jones will start at Bumble on January 2nd, 2024. Wolfe Herd will remain at Bumble as its executive chair.Wolfe Herd was initially a co-founder at Tinder; after being pushed out of the company, she went on to found Bumble in 2014. Bumble started as a dating app where women would kick off conversations, and the company has since expanded into friendships and networking. Bumble Inc. is the parent company of more than just Bumble; it also oversees Badoo, Fruitz, and Official.This move... Continue reading...
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