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Dune: Awakening will slumber for just a bit longer
Players looking to harness desert power will have to wait as Dune: Awakening has been delayed. Funcom, developers of the MMORPG based on Frank Herbert's Dune sci-fi series, announced the news saying the game will be pushed back from its May release date to June 10th. Players who have pre-purchased one of the game's deluxe [...]
Amazon’s latest Fire HD tablets are now on sale starting at $95
If you want a mental escape from today's constant bombardment of alarming news, one method is to lose yourself in a good book - and an excellent way to do that is to read that good book on one of Amazon's Fire tablets. Amazon has put many of the latest Fire HD tablets on sale [...]
Google’s geothermal energy ambitions are growing
Google, for the first time, inked an agreement to purchase geothermal energy for its facilities in Asia. The deal also marks the first geothermal power purchase agreement for Taiwan, according to the company. Google is working toward climate goals of cutting the company's planet-heating emissions in half and matching its electricity use with carbon-free energy [...]
It’s time for Europe to choose between US or Chinese satellite tech, says FCC chair
European allies who have reservations about working with Elon Musk's Starlink will have more to worry about if they side with Chinese satellite internet services, Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr told the Financial Times. Carr said that politics having an influence on long-term decisions in Europe was unfortunate," and that allied Western democracies" should [...]
Anthropic launches research tool and Google Workspace integration
Anthropic is launching two major features today: Research and Google Workspace integration. The company announced today that Claude can now connect directly to your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Documents, turning the AI assistant into what Anthropic calls your frontline workplace assistant." Instead of manually digging through countless emails, calendar invites, and documents to find information, [...]
Google rolls out its AI video generator to Gemini Advanced subscribers
Google is letting Gemini Advanced subscribers try out Veo 2, its text-to-video AI model that it says is capable of creating high-resolution clips with cinematic realism." Starting today, subscribers can select Veo 2 from the Gemini model dropdown on the web and mobile, where they can enter a prompt to generate an eight-second video in [...]
Kill your crewmates in 3D when Among Us 3D launches in May
An emergency meeting has been called to announce Among Us 3D will launch on May 6th. The game was originally planned to be a VR-exclusive before the development crew at Innersloth and Schell Games pivoted to making this version of the game accessible to those without the expensive hardware too. Among Us 3D is compatible [...]
Google must stop favoring Search and Chrome on Android in Japan
Japan's Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has ordered Google to stop making deals that give preference to Google Search and Chrome on Android devices. Nikkei Asia says that it's the first time the regulator has issued a cease and desist order to a major tech company. The regulator found that Google had asked at least six [...]
Tom Hiddleston dances through the new Life of Chuck trailer
After a light teaser trailer last month, we finally have our first proper look at The Life of Chuck. And while it doesn't give too much away, the new trailer provides a good taste of the emotional tone of the movie, which is a heartwarming story of one man's life that has a touch of [...]
Comcast announces a five-year price lock for Xfinity internet plans
Comcast has announced that new customers can choose a five-year, guaranteed price lock-in for its Xfinity internet plans. The plans won't require an annual contract, and range in price from $55 to $105 per month, according to a release emailed to The Verge. They also include unlimited data. It's a nice thought, being able to [...]
4chan’s ‘cesspool of the internet’ is down after apparently being hacked
4chan appears to be down following a major hack that reportedly exposed its source code. A user on a competing messaging board claimed responsibility for the attack on Monday night and claimed to have reopened the site's /qa/ board. 4chan is, obviously, also notorious for trying to trick outsiders about things happening on the site, [...]
Leaked images suggest Oblivion remaster coming soon
An Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered announcement seems imminent. Images from the game were found in the website files of the developer Virtuous before being removed. The images, which can still be seen on the hosting site imgur, included several side-by-side comparisons between the game's 2006 release and the remaster. Several photos show off the [...]
Notion Mail is a minimalist but powerful take on email
Notion is launching the third app in its suite of work tools, an email app called Notion Mail. (The other two, of course, are Notion Calendar and Notion itself.) The app, available now for web and Mac and in testing for iOS, is the next step in Notion's attempt to compete with Microsoft Office and [...]
Why Doctor Who’s latest robot threat is a dangerous AI: ‘this is what’s happening’
The newest season of Doctor Who opens as the series often does a with an unsuspecting human stumbling into some alien strangeness that doesnat make any sense until an odd yet charming Time Lord shows up in a police box ready to save the day. The premiere episode, aThe Robot Revolution,a feels like classic Doctor [...]
Where to buy refurbished products
Buying a refurbished device rather than a new one can save you a ton of money. It can also be a savvy method of getting what you want during yet another moment of global trade instability, with the latest blow coming from the Trump administration's intense tariffs on US imports from China. However, these products [...]
What you should know before buying refurbished gadgets
Most people know that buying a refurbished tech product will save you money compared to buying it new. It also gives a device a second life instead of sending it off to be recycled. Not only that, buying refurbished is sometimes a clever workaround for finding new or tough-to-find products at a lower price. If [...]
Nanoleaf’s new pegboard dock lights up your accessories and room
The latest addition to Nanoleaf's lineup does more than just light up a room. Like the company's Expo Smart Display Cases, Nanoleaf's new Pegboard Desk Dock is designed to both organize and put accessories like controllers and headphones on display using color-changing LED lighting that can be synced to what you're watching, playing, or listening [...]
Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti arrives on April 16th starting at $379
Nvidia is announcing its RTX 5060 family of GPUs today, just a day before it releases the RTX 5060 Ti on April 16th. Two variants of the RTX 5060 Ti are launching, the $379 8GB of VRAM model and the $429 16GB version. The $299 RTX 5060 will launch at some point in May with [...]
The 2025 Vergecast streaming draft
(Before we get started, a reminder: The Vergecast is nominated for a Webby Award! Voting is only open for a few more days, and the award is decided by your votes. Weare up against some steep competition, but we really want to win a and wead love your help. Thanks so much to everyone who [...]
Polaroid’s new instant camera warns you about exposure and focus issues before you shoot
Polaroid's new Flip camera can prevent unwanted surprises when an instant photo develops. Using a new scene analysis feature, the instant camera warns you when the image you're framing is overexposed, underexposed, or when there's potential focus issues before you press the shutter button - all through a red LED warning light in the viewfinder [...]
Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days
Android is launching a new security feature that will force devices to reboot themselves if you haven't unlocked them for a while, making it harder for other people to access the data inside. The feature included in the latest Google Play services update says that Android phones will automatically restart if locked for 3 consecutive [...]
Hertz says hackers stole customer credit card and driver’s license data
Car rental giant Hertz is alerting customers that personal information including credit card details and Social Security numbers may have been stolen in a data breach that impacted one of the firm's vendors. In a notice posted to its website, Hertz says that company data was acquired by an unauthorized third-party" during a cyberattack exploiting [...]
Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand
aYour honor, the FTC calls Mark Zuckerberg.a Flanked by two bodyguards, Metaas CEO solemnly strode into a Washington, DC courtroom. Despite his last-ditch efforts to avoid a trial, he was there, jaw clenched, to defend his company from being broken up by the US government. Shortly after he was sworn in, the Federal Trade Commissionas [...]
Apple’s complicated plan to improve its AI while protecting privacy
Apple says it's found a way to make its AI models better without training on its users' data or even copying it from their iPhones and Macs. In a blog post first reported on by Bloomberg, the company outlined its plans to have devices compare a synthetic dataset to samples of recent emails or messages [...]
Trump says he wants to deport some US citizens, too
President Donald Trump wants to expand his already chaotic and cruel mass deportations. On Monday, he told reporters that heas looking into the possibility of sending US citizens to a megaprison in El Salvador. aIad like to go a step further,a Trump claimed at a press conference with Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele on Monday. aI [...]
OpenAI debuts its GPT-4.1 flagship AI model
OpenAI has introduced GPT-4.1, a successor to the GPT-4o multimodal AI model launched by the company last year. During a livestream on Monday, OpenAI said GPT-4.1 has an even larger context window and is better than GPT-4o in just about every dimension," with big improvements to coding and instruction following. GPT-4.1 is now available to [...]
Sony’s excellent WF-1000XM5 earbuds have hit their lowest priceever
Want a premium pair of earbuds without having to pay a premium price? Right now, Sony's noise-canceling WF-1000XM5 are on sale at Amazon and Target for $179.99 ($120 off), their best price to date. It's possible Sony could release the WF-1000XM6 sometime later this year, but for now, few wireless earbuds offer as much value [...]
Star Wars is getting a turn-based strategy game called Zero Company
The Star Wars strategy game announced in 2022 finally has a name: Zero Company, as EA revealed today. A website about the game describes it as a single-player turn-based tactics game," includes an image, and says that a first look" will be shown at Star Wars Celebration Japan on April 19th. The game will be [...]
Meta AI will soon train on EU users’ data
Meta has announced that it's preparing to train AI on the data of EU users of its apps, including Facebook and Instagram. The company says that includes things like public posts, comments, and their chat history with Meta AI, but won't include private messages with friends and family." It also only applies to those who [...]
You can hot swap the battery on Samsung’s new rugged tablet
Samsung has announced new versions of its rugged tablets and smartphones designed for use in environments where they're going to get dirty, wet, and knocked around. Both the Galaxy XCover7 Pro and Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro feature improved battery life, but the tablet goes one step further with a dual hot-swap" feature allowing the battery [...]
HBO’s Harry Potter TV series has cast its regulars (not those ones)
After weeks of speculation, Warner Bros. Discovery has officially announced the first cast members who will appear in its upcoming Harry Potter TV adaptation. The casting confirmations, focused around some of the most notable adult characters from the Harry Potter novels, are one of the most reassuring signs of life for the wizarding world series [...]
Nvidia starts producing its Blackwell AI chip at TSMC’s Arizona plant
Nvidia has brought some of its chip production stateside. On Monday, Nvidia announced that it has started producing its Blackwell AI GPUs at TSMC's plant in Phoenix, Arizona, while companies within the state package and test them. TSMC, or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., is the world's biggest chipmaker and announced a $100 billion investment in [...]
Eddington doomscrolls back to the pandemic’s darkest days in new trailer
As easy as it has been for some people to downplay the covid-19 pandemic as part of putting it behind them, Ari Aster's next feature looks like a sobering reminder of how bad things really were. Set in May of 2020, Eddington revolves around sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) [...]
The Meta Quest 3S just got its first discount
Due to the fluctuating tariff situation, a lot of people are seriously mulling over tech purchases they might otherwise be content to put off for a while. And it makes sense. While I don't endorse panic buying, your reasons for buying now are more justified because prices may increase. In light of that instability, it's [...]
In The Last of Us season 2, Joel finally goes to therapy
Joel is a troubled guy. Throughout the first Last of Us game (and subsequent TV adaptation on HBO, where heas played by Pedro Pascal), he sees and does a lot of things head rather forget. He certainly doesnat seem to want to talk about them much. Which is why itas nice to see that, in [...]
HBO’s The Last of Us had to speed up Abby’s reveal
In The Last of Us Part II, it takes a long time before players understand just who Abby is. A new character introduced as both an antagonist and protagonist, Abby is locked in a violent game of revenge with Ellie, but her reasoning and history donat become clear until around midway through the game, when [...]
Katy Perry is going to space with Blue Origin in a few minutes
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is preparing to put pop singer / songwriter Katy Perry into space, along with five other women: former NASA scientists Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen, journalist Gayle King, journalist and Bezos fiancee Lauren Sanchez, and film producer Kerianne Flynn. Their flight, called NS-31, will launch aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, [...]
Chipolo’s colorful new trackers now work with Apple’s and Google’s networks
Chipolo has announced a new Bluetooth tracker called the Pop, featuring the same bright color options as its Chipolo One but with support for both Apple's Find My and Google's Find My Device networks. The Chipolo Pop also has a much larger Bluetooth range than the company's current lineup of trackers and features improved water [...]
Apple’s picked a very fitnessy way to mark a decade of smartwatches
April 24th will be the 10th anniversary of the day the first Apple Watch shipped to customers. A decade is a major milestone in the gadget world, but you won't see a lot of anniversary-themed fanfare to mark the occasion. Instead, Apple is dubbing the 24th as Global Close Your Rings Day - and it [...]
Lime will recycle bike and scooter batteries with Redwood Materials
Lime, the largest bike- and scooter-sharing company in the world, announced that it has struck a deal with Redwood Materials to recycle its lithium-ion batteries. Lime says its e-bike and e-scooter batteries typically last 500 charge cycles, or between five and seven years. Once those batteries reach their end of life, Lime will ship them [...]
Samsung pauses One UI 7 rollout worldwide
Samsung has, by all accounts,halted the rollout of its long-awaited One UI 7 update following the discovery of a bug that prevented some Galaxy S24 owners from unlocking their phones. The pause was first reported by leaker and tipster Ice Universe, who said that a serious bug" had been found. While the complaints seem to [...]
PS5 price rises substantially in UK and Europe
Sony has raised the price of most of its PlayStation 5 console hardware in the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand by 10-15 percent, blaming a challenging economic environment." With rising US import costs thanks to tariffs likely a contributing factor, an equivalent price rise in the US is probably on the way. Sony manufactures [...]
People are turning on Elon Musk
Elon Musk's popularity with the American public is waning, according to the latest polling average from Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin. The billionaire CEO of multiple companies wears many hats, but the most visible one of late has been as the face of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an organization that has been tearing through [...]
Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons
Crosswalk buttons in at least three California cities appear to have been hacked this weekend to give them the seemingly AI-generated voices of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In videos posted online, the apparent voice of Musk begs listeners to be his friend, or that of Zuckerberg brags about undermining democracy" [...]
Smartphone tariffs are coming back in ‘a month or two,’ says Trump admin
Smartphones, laptops, and other products that are exempt from Trump's April 9th tariffs will be lumped in with duties on semiconductors in a month or two," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl on This Week. The tariffs on the electronics industry would be announced over the next week" said President Trump [...]
How the Switch 2 compares to the ROG Ally
The Nintendo Switch 2 has entered the ring, possibly complicating your decision of which handheld to buy this year. While Nintendoas new console, which comes out on June 5th, may seem similar to handheld gaming PCs like the Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally, thereas a lot that sets them apart. Everything like how you [...]
Wool, water, Wi-Fi: Modernizing an ancient business at the final frontiers of e-commerce
One night in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, a felting artisan ended her day with a prayer. May our partners have good health. May they be ambitious, and successful, and may their businesses grow. The next morning, sisters-in-law Chinara Makashova and Nazgul Esenbaeva, and the people they worked with awoke to what seemed like a miracle: Shopify orders. [...]
iPads could get more Mac-like features soon
By the time Apple releases M5-powered iPads, using iPadOS may feel closer to working on a Mac, according to Bloombergas Mark Gurman in todayas Power On newsletter. It wonat be macOS running on a tablet, but he writes that the changes will be significant enough to make people who want such a thing happy. Updates [...]
Freitag’s newest messenger bag is made from trash to last
I remember the day: a sinewy bicycle messenger skillfully weaved through honking automobiles and came to a stop at the traffic light in front of me. But instead of dropping a foot, he balanced high above his fixed-gear pedals for nearly a minute, his crossbody bag bulging against the urgent deliveries within. That was a90s [...]
Science Saru’s The Ghost in the Shell series gets a new teaser trailer
A new teaser trailer for Science Saruas The Ghost in the Shell anime series has been announced on the official Ghost in the Shell website in a post spotted by Anime News Network. The post also revealed some of the staff heading up the series, which includes people whoave worked on other shows from the [...]
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