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by Victoria Song on (#6E4VD)
If your smartwatch is stinky, it's time to give it a quick clean. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge When was the last time you cleaned your smartwatch? These are devices you wear 24/7, and if you took off your watch right now, there's a good chance you'd find dead skin, sweat, oil, and grime all over it. A gunky sensor array isn't the best for health tracking, and crusty charging contacts are also less than ideal. If you've experienced any skin irritation or smelled something funky - this may be why.Plus, I hate to break it to you, but your straps are also filthier than you think. A recent study found that nearly 95 percent of smartwatch wristbands contained high levels of bacteria, including Staphylococcus, E.coli, and Pseudomonas - particularly on porous materials like rubber, plastic, and fabric.The good news is that cleaning... Continue reading...
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by Sean Hollister on (#6E4QZ)
These are Meta's old Ray-Ban Stories - not the new ones. | Photo by Amanda Lopez for The Verge How will Meta convince you to buy its next Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses after a reported 90 percent of buyers abandoned them after purchase? Meta has a plan! The second-gen glasses will let you livestream video to viewers who can talk back to you.Tech journalist Janko Roettgers says he's seen internal documents that show the second-gen Ray-Ban Stories will not only let you stream video directly to Facebook and Instagram but also let viewers whisper in your ear.Live streamers will be able to directly communicate with their audience, with the glasses relaying comments via audio over the built-in headphones," Roettgers writes at Lowpass. The device should also have improved battery life and better cameras" - that's a quote from... Continue reading...
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by Emilia David on (#6E4R0)
Illustration by William Joel Open-source AI model repository Hugging Face just got massive investments from Google, Amazon, Nvidia, and Salesforce as demand for AI model access grows.Hugging Face, which acts like GitHub for machine learning and other AI models, codes, and datasets, raised $235 million in a Series D fundraising round, reported CNBC. This latest financing brings Hugging Face's valuation to $4.5 billion, just one of the many businesses benefitting from investors' interest in generative AI.Investors in this round included Google, Amazon, AMD, Intel, IBM, Nvidia, and Salesforce, all of whom have invested significantly into generative AI foundation models or processors running these models.Clement Delangue, Hugging Face CEO, tells The Verge the new... Continue reading...
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by Emma Roth on (#6E4R1)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile is laying off a little under" 7 percent of its workforce, affecting about 5,000 roles at the company. The move will mostly impact workers in corporate, back-office, and technology roles, with those in retail or customer care positions remaining unaffected.Other carriers, including AT&T and Verizon, are contending with layoffs, but T-Mobile specifically promised to keep adding jobs following its merger with Sprint in 2020. Despite this commitment, the company laid off hundreds of workers shortly after, while a 2021 report from The Wall Street Journal found that T-Mobile employed 5,000 fewer people at the end of 2020 when compared to before it merged with Sprint.What it takes to attract and retain customers is materially more... Continue reading...
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by Emma Roth on (#6E4R2)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2020. | Image: Joe Burbank / Orlando Sentinel / Tribune News Service via Getty Images The US Department of Justice is suing Elon Musk's SpaceX over allegations that it discriminated against asylees and refugees in hiring. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, the DOJ claims that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, SpaceX discouraged refugees and asylees from applying to the company by wrongly stating that SpaceX can only hire U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents."The lawsuit states SpaceX failed to fairly consider" and refused to hire" the asylees and refugees who ended up applying anyway. It also alleges that SpaceX wrongly claimed" that the US's export control laws allowed it to only hire US citizens and lawful residents. Additionally, the DOJ claims SpaceX hired only" US citizens and green card holders... Continue reading...
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by Ash Parrish on (#6E4R3)
Image: Larian Studios There's a big subset of gamers that have not yet been able to experience the chaotic joy of Baldur's Gate 3 - console players. While we know that BG3 is releasing on the PlayStation 5 on September 6th, Xbox players have had no idea when to expect the game to hit their console of choice.That situation got a little clearer with a tweet from Larian Studios' CEO Swen Vincke saying that Xbox players can expect Baldur's Gate 3 this year."
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by Jay Peters on (#6E4R4)
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Sony Interactive Entertainment, the division of Sony that's responsible for PlayStation, is acquiring the high-end headphones maker Audeze, according to a press release. Sony says that the acquisition will strengthen SIE's efforts to continue innovating when it comes to the audio experience of PlayStation games."Audeze will operate independently and still make products for multiple platforms, though Sony notes that it will be benefiting from being a part of the PlayStation ecosystem." Terms of the acquisition weren't disclosed.Sony's press release highlights how Audeze's headphones use patented technologies and unique planar magnetic drivers to deliver an outstanding sound experience" for consumers and recording professionals. Sony... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6E4R5)
Image: Epic Games It's that time again: Epic Games is launching another major season of Fortnite on Friday, and a day ahead of the start of the season, the company debuted a cinematic trailer that hints at some of what you can expect.A big feature of this season appears to be heists. The trailer shows a band of Fortnite characters sneaking into an elaborate building, disabling laser traps, and tossing a suitcase that turns into a gun. (Fortnite has done heists / secret agent themes before, and I'm curious what this new season will bring.) It also appears players will also have to contend with a vampire named Kado Thorne - hopefully he factors heavily into whatever Epic has up its sleeve for the next Fortnitemares event.The trailer gives a preview of... Continue reading...
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by Sheena Vasani on (#6E4M5)
The Beats Studio Pro look similar to their predecessor but sound and drown noise out better. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It's not often you see significant discounts land on gadgets that were just released a month ago, which is why even we're taken aback by today's Beats Studio Pro deal. After a long six-year wait, a new pair of Apple-owned Beats headphones were finally released in July, and they're already a whopping $100 off at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.The new over-ears look similar to their predecessor, the Studio 3, but are more comfortable with better noise cancellation and a natural-sounding transparency mode. They're also the first Apple headphones to support lossless audio over USB-C, which allows for improved sound quality, while new features like spatial audio with dynamic head tracking also help. Admittedly, their noise cancellation and... Continue reading...
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by David Pierce on (#6E4M6)
Amazon's still showing a football game... but it has some ideas about what else it can do. | Image: Amazon This NFL season, if you watch a Thursday Night Football game on Amazon Prime Video, you're likely to see all sorts of new on-screen stuff. If a team finds itself in a late-game drive with everything on the line, you might see a graphic telling you whether the team should go for it on fourth down. When the quarterback snaps the ball, the broadcast might automatically highlight the most open receivers down the field. And as the team marches down the field, you might see lines on the field not just showing a kicker's field goal range but the exact spot from which he's more than 50 percent likely to nail the game-winner.For its second season as the official broadcast partner of Thursday Night Football, Amazon is leaning on AI tools and... Continue reading...
by Antonio G. Di Benedetto on (#6E4M7)
The jumbo-sized Ultra is the battery champ of the Apple Watch line, lasting up to two days with average use. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge We're inching closer to September's Apple event, and along with a rumored iPhone 15 lineup, we're likely to see a new Apple Watch. There are some rumors of a new model and color option for the Apple Watch Ultra, but we'll have to see if Apple's flagship smartwatch gets the annual upgrade cadence. In the meantime, the Apple Watch Ultra is nearing its one-year anniversary and is on sale for a sizable $100 off. You can get it with a green alpine loop strap or a yellow and beige trail loop strap for $699.99 when checking out at Amazon.The Apple Watch Ultra is built for the more hardcore outdoors and fitness crowds, with an extra-large 49mm display, battery life that can last up to two days (or more in low-power mode), and helpful extras... Continue reading...
by Tom Warren on (#6E4M8)
Image: Bungie Destiny 2: Lightfall was unusual for Bungie. The now Sony-owned studio hyped up Lightfall as the beginning stages of the biggest light vs. darkness battle we've ever seen. The battle begins here and now," said Commander Zavala in an epic launch trailer. The in-game reality felt, for many, like the story writing was lackluster. Even six months on, Lightfall has mostly negative reviews on Steam, a sign that fans were expecting more.There's now a lot riding on The Final Shape, the upcoming Destiny 2 expansion that's set to conclude the light and darkness saga of Destiny in February - a story that's been told for nearly 10 years now. But with unease in the Destiny community, how is The Final Shape going to draw unhappy or lapsed players... Continue reading...
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by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy on (#6E4M9)
The fourth generation of Blink's wireless outdoor camera adds person detection. | Image: Blink Amazon's budget smart camera company Blink is bringing person detection to its flagship battery-powered camera. The Blink Outdoor 4 smart security camera also comes with a new design, upgraded image quality, and improved motion detection, while keeping the brand's signature two-year battery life on just two AA batteries.The camera launches today, August 24th, priced at $119.99 for a one-camera system with a Sync Module 2, and $109.99 for an add-on camera. (The cameras require the module.)Person detection on a security camera is helpful to reduce unwanted alerts by providing the option to be notified only if someone is outside your property, not just something like a cat walking past or a tree blowing in the wind.Blink's is powered... Continue reading...
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by Emilia David on (#6E4GG)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate new code and debug human-written work, the company said.Code Llama will use the same community license as Llama 2 and is free for research and commercial use.Code Llama, Meta said, can create strings of code from prompts or complete and debug code when pointed to a specific code string. In addition to the base Code Llama model, Meta released a Python-specialized version called Code Llama-Python and another version called Code Llama-Instrct, which can understand instructions in natural language. According to Meta, each specific version of Code Llama is not interchangeable, and the company does not recommend the base Code Llama or... Continue reading...
by Umar Shakir on (#6E4GH)
Platinum Black Ford F-150 Lightning with a smoked light bar and matte black finish. Ford's making a special new factory matte black Platinum Black edition of its all-electric F-150 Lightning truck. Revealed today, this Lightning looks like Batman's Tumbler Batmobile from The Dark Knight trilogy, with some glossy finish remaining on the door handles, roof, and elsewhere. Ford spokesperson Susannah Evans tells The Verge that under the factory wrap, the vehicle is finished with Ford's glossy agate black paint.Ford will only make 2,000 of these murdered-out pickups that start at $97,995, which is about $6,000 more than the regular Platinum tier and roughly the same as the price before Ford dropped prices on the truck in July.In today's announcement, Ford says that midway through the second year of production, it is on... Continue reading...
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by Chris Welch on (#6E4GJ)
Illustration: The Verge Warner Bros. Discovery's Max service is making a bigger push into news with a new 24/7 CNN stream that's scheduled to debut on September 27th. It's called CNN Max, and in a press release this morning, the company said the new service will be part of an open beta for news that will enable experimentation with product features, content offerings, and original storytelling, all with the input and feedback from the Max community."CNN Max will be available across all of Max's subscription tiers. But you shouldn't confuse it with CNN's linear cable network; this isn't quite that. You'll see many familiar faces; Max says CNN Max will feature some of CNN's tentpole shows like Anderson Cooper 360, The Lead with Jake Tapper, Amanpour, and The... Continue reading...
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by Tom Warren on (#6E4DT)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Intel is getting ready to launch its 14th Gen desktop processors later this year and now MSI has accidentally spilled all the details. VideoCardz spotted a training video on MSI's YouTube channel that includes important details on Intel's unannounced 14th Gen processors, codenamed Raptor Lake-S Refresh. MSI says on average Intel's 14th Gen processors will be three percent faster than the 13th Gen, but the Core i7 will see a big 17 percent bump to multithread workloads.The video, which The Verge was able to briefly watch before it was made private, reveals that the core counts of the Core i5-14600K and Core i9-14900K will remain the same as their 13th Gen equivalents, but the Core i7-14700K is getting a boost to its performance cores.... Continue reading...
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by Jess Weatherbed on (#6E4DV)
Several users have been contacted by scammers using the identify of real Waymo employees. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Several users of Adobe's art-themed social media platform Behance have encountered an elaborate scam in recent weeks involving fraudulent job offerings from people claiming to be recruiters at autonomous driving tech company Waymo.Detailed information about how the job scam is being operated was published by u/Impressive-Fox-6719 on the Behance subreddit, warning other Behance users to be wary of fake Waymo recruiters offering high-paying design roles. According to the post, the scam is a common fraud scheme that involves sending users a fake job confirmation following an interview" on Skype, and a cheque to begin purchasing office equipment. After confirming the deposit to the scammers, the money is then instead sent to another person... Continue reading...
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by Jon Porter on (#6E4BB)
Renders from the Android app show a camera with a similar design to that seen in the FCC listing. | Image: Philips Hue via Dave Zatz First came a report from a reputable blog, then came a series of blurry images via the FCC, and now The Verge can exclusively reveal renders of Philips Hue's forthcoming entry into the smart home security market. The images come to us via Dave Zatz of ZatzNotFunny, who spotted them in an update to Philips Hue's Android app released this week, and suggest that the smart lighting company is set to imminently announce its entry into the smart home security market.The images show one Nest-style smart home security camera of a total of four that the company is rumored to be preparing for release, and its design matches up with photos that leaked via the FCC earlier this week. Alongside the images of the camera, there's a render of what... Continue reading...
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by Tom Warren on (#6E4BC)
Microsoft says it's investigating reports of a Blue Screen of Death with an UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR" error message that's been cropping up on some Windows 11 PCs after installing an update released earlier this week. The latest KB5029351 update includes the usual monthly fixes, but it appears to be causing issues when used with some MSI motherboards.We are presently investigating to determine if this is an issue caused by Microsoft. We will provide an update when more information is available," reads a support note on Microsoft's Windows health center.I've personally experienced this issue on a Windows 11 gaming PC, which is running an Intel Core i9-13900KS on an MSI MPG Z690 Carbon WiFi motherboard. A number of Reddit users have... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6E40Q)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Gmail may add an extra verification step when you try to do things like adding a forwarding address and editing your filters, Google announced in a blog post on Wednesday. The extra step could help prevent a bad actor who has access to your account from filtering emails in ways you don't expect or forwarding emails to a new address without you knowing.Here are the specific scenarios where Google may add the additional step, from Google's post:
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by Emma Roth on (#6E40R)
Illustration: The Verge Following reports that Google gave up on its Project Iris AR glasses in June, a new report from Insider suggests that the company's plan to launch a mixed reality headset with Samsung is also facing setbacks.The rumored device, which is apparently called Project Moohan internally, is supposed to offer a mixed reality experience powered by the Android platform. It has reportedly been in the works since at least last year, tracking with the vague announcement Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm made earlier this year about creating a mixed reality platform.But Project Moohan has become a political headache" at Google. Sources tell Insider that the partnership makes it more likely for Samsung to call the shots on product features" and that it... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6E3YD)
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge A test version of Google Chrome on iOS now lets you put the address bar on the bottom of the screen, as spotted by MacRumors contributor Steve Moser. It's a nice change that lets you move the address bar closer to your thumb - though notably, it comes two years after Apple moved the URL bar to the bottom of Safari by default with iOS 15. Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge The new Chrome feature was available for me through the version of the app you can get via TestFlight. There are two ways to change the location of the address bar. The easiest is pressing and holding on the bar, which brings up an option to switch its position. You can also change the bar's location from Chrome's settings. (A colleague in the UK... Continue reading...
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by Emma Roth on (#6E3YE)
Illustration: The Verge In a major reversal, Apple is now expressing support for a right-to-repair bill in California, as reported by TechCrunch and iFixit. In a letter to California Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman, Apple says it endorses the SB 244 bill, which requires manufacturers to give customers and independent repair shops the appropriate tools, manuals, and parts to repair damaged electronics and appliances.Apple supports California's Right to Repair Act so all Californians have even greater access to repairs while also protecting their safety, security, and privacy," Apple said in a statement to The Verge. We create our products to last and, if they ever need to be repaired, Apple customers have a growing range of safe, high-quality repair options."... Continue reading...
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by Sean Hollister on (#6E3YF)
Images: GuliKit GuliKit, the company whose patented Hall effect joysticks are sweeping the industry with both aftermarket gamepads and drop-in replacements for your Nintendo Switch or Steam Deck, is now putting Nintendo and Microsoft on notice in a very different way.I don't know how else to say this: the company's new docking station looks like a Super Nintendo, and its new controller looks like an Xbox Elite. Thankfully, that means they both look great!
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by Jay Peters on (#6E3VT)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Wednesday, Reddit was acting up again. Some of us at The Verge ran into some issues browsing the site, including threads with blank comments and some pages with a 504 Gateway Timeout" message.The key issue seemed to be that comments weren't loading when you were browsing Reddit's website when not logged in. In an Incognito Chrome window on desktop, I could see that people posted comments but couldn't actually see what they wrote. At the bottom of the screen, Reddit's website showed messages that said, We had a server error..." I saw this issue when logged out on Reddit's mobile website as well. Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Before I originally published this story, I occasionally ran into the 504 errors... Continue reading...
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by Sean Hollister on (#6E3YG)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Roughly three months after joining Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft among the world's trillion-dollar companies - on the back of the AI boom - Nvidia is now making far more money than it's ever made before.The company raked in $13.5 billion in revenue since May, it revealed in its Q2 2024 earnings, with the unprecedented demand for its generative AI chips blowing past any difficulty it might have had selling desktop and laptop GPUs into a shrinking PC industry. Data center accounted for a record $10.32 billion of that revenue, more than doubling in just one quarter, and Nvidia made $6.188 billion in profit as a result - up 843 percent year over year. And while gaming is more than a billion dollars short of pandemic highs, it was... Continue reading...
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by Barbara Krasnoff on (#55E2R)
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Not that long ago, a friend sent me a preview of a book that she was about to have published and asked me to read it. I was delighted - but unfortunately, the copy she sent was formatted as a PDF. And since I usually read books and other documents using my phone, I knew already that this was a recipe for eyestrain.I spent a frustrating three days squinting at my screen until somebody reminded me that you can email a PDF to your Amazon account in a way that will convert the file so that it is formatted for easy reading on a Kindle or the Kindle app. I tried it, and it worked like a charm, making the document much easier to read.If you ever find yourself faced with the same problem, here's how to convert a PDF so it can be easily read... Continue reading...
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by Victoria Song on (#6E3VV)
Both studies show that it's possible to decode brain signals into speech at a rate of about 60-70 words per minute. | Image: Stanford Two separate studies published today in Nature indicate that, in the future, brain-to-computer interfaces (BCI) could help restore communication for people who can't speak due to severe paralysis. In both studies, researchers used brain implants that could pick up brain signals, which were then translated into sentences on a screen using algorithms. While this isn't a new concept, the exciting thing is that both research teams were able to do this much faster and more accurately than existing technologies.In the study from Stanford, researchers implanted electrodes into the brain of a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in two areas associated with speech. The BCI was designed to detect brain activity when the patient was... Continue reading...
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by Monica Chin on (#5P2VA)
Here are the best cheap Chromebooks and laptops you can buy. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales You can get a good laptop on a budget; you just have to know which one to pick. Here are what we recommend for those looking to spend anywhere from $300 to $800 on a new laptop for school, work, or play. Continue reading...
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by Elizabeth Lopatto on (#6E3RE)
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Tornado Cash developers Roman Semenov and Roman Storm have been charged with three conspiracy counts in an indictment unsealed today. Storm has been arrested and Semenov remains at large, according to a statement from the Southern District of New York.Tornado Cash is a so-called mixer," a privacy service meant to obscure the trail of ownership for cryptocurrency that passes through it. The mixer knowingly violated" US sanctions and laundered more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds," according to a statement from US Attorney Damian Williams. While publicly claiming to offer a technically sophisticated privacy service, Storm and Semenov in fact knew that they were helping hackers and fraudsters conceal the fruits of their crimes."T... Continue reading...
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by Ash Parrish on (#6E3RF)
Image: BioWare BioWare is laying off approximately" 50 people, according to an announcement from the studio's general manager, Gary McKay.In order to meet the needs of our upcoming projects, continue to hold ourselves to the highest standard of quality, and ensure BioWare can continue to thrive in an industry that's rapidly evolving, we must shift towards a more agile and more focused studio," McKay wrote. As part of this transition, we are eliminating approximately 50 roles at BioWare."News of the layoffs comes as BioWare is in the midst of development on the next Mass Effect title and Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. BioWare announced Dreadwolf back in 2018 (known then only as Dragon Age 4) before going silent for two years. Then, during Gamescom 2020, B... Continue reading...
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by Emma Roth on (#6E3RG)
Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images Hollywood producers are trying to turn up the pressure on striking writers - but writers aren't biting. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) publicly released its counteroffer to the Writers Guild of America (WGA) on Tuesday, which details proposals surrounding AI, residuals, streaming data transparency, and more.This is the same counteroffer that the Hollywood studios first presented to writers on August 11th, with the AMPTP claiming it addresses all of the issues the Guild has identified as its highest priorities." As outlined in the document, the AMPTP proposes higher wages and streaming residuals, along with a requirement of at least two employees in the writers' room and a guaranteed minimum of 10 weeks... Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6E3RH)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games will let developers keep 100 percent of their net revenues from the Epic Games Store for six months if they choose to make their games or apps exclusives for that time through its new First Run program, the company announced on Wednesday.Typically, Epic lets developers keep 88 percent of their revenues, with the company taking a 12 percent cut. For developers who launch a product through First Run, the split will return to 88 / 12 once the six months are up.Developers who choose to participate in the Epic First Run program will see a few other benefits as well. Epic says First Run games and apps will be presented to Store users with new exclusive badging, homepage placements, and dedicated collections" and will be featured... Continue reading...
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by Umar Shakir on (#6E3RJ)
Image: Meta Meta's new Horizon Worlds release will make it easier to block and report other users who aren't playing nice. The new v124 release for the metaverse social platform lets players quickly access mute, block, and report functions in the user pause menu. To access the safety controls, users can hover over another person's nameplate while pausing. A shortcut will appear to mute, block, or report them.Meta is also adding new tutorials inside of the safety settings to teach users how to use the platform's safety controls, including setting personal boundaries, controlling volume, changing voice modes, muting, and even polling with others to remove someone. Entering pause also now lets users more easily access sound and profile settings.The... Continue reading...
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by Tom Warren on (#6E3MN)
Samsung's gaming hub. | Image: Samsung Samsung says it's planning to bring cloud gaming apps to its 2020 smart TVs later this year. Samsung made the announcement during a Gamescom event earlier today, but it's not yet clear which 2020 smart TV models will be updated with cloud gaming apps, nor an exact release date outside of later this year."Today, we are thrilled to announce that we will expand cloud gaming apps to our 2020 model-year TVs later this year, giving tens of millions of players access to their favorite games and services," said Mike Lucero, head of product for gaming at Samsung.Samsung originally launched its gaming TV hub for its 2022 smart TVs and monitors last year with built-in cloud gaming apps before bringing separate game streaming apps to its 2021... Continue reading...
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by Amrita Khalid on (#6E3MP)
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify said its next phase" of podcasting would be all about creators - and today, the company is starting to deliver. The audio giant is announcing a wave of new creator-focused updates that will let podcasters customize their show page and get deeper analytics about who's tuning in.Creators will have more options to customize their podcast page, including the ability to highlight specific episodes, cross-promote other podcasts, and display promotional banners for their paid content. Spotify for Podcasters will also let creators view trending data on individual episodes and reveal the specific sources of impressions. Spotify's aim appears to be twofold with these new updates: creators will have more control over how they appear to... Continue reading...
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by Monica Chin on (#6AQQ0)
We've tested and reviewed every laptop on this list ourselves. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Here are the best laptops for video editing of every shape, size, and price point. Continue reading...
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by Jay Peters on (#6E3MQ)
Image: @ZGFTECH via X Somebody has already unboxed a VR headset that is almost certainly Meta's Quest 3, even though the device isn't supposed to launch until sometime in the fall.You can see a video of the unboxing in this video on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The device comes in a brown box, and you can see the person who is filming the unboxing pull out the headset and the two Touch Plus controllers. Everything looks exactly like what Meta showed off when it announced the headset in June.
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by Sheena Vasani on (#6E3MR)
Unlike the latest iPad, the 2022 iPad Air works with the second-gen Apple Pencil and is only $50 more. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It's anybody's guess whether or not Apple will release a new iPad during its rumored September iPhone 15 event, but if you need one now, the latest iPad Air has thankfully returned to its all-time low price. You can currently buy the Wi-Fi-enabled iPad Air with 64GB of storage for $499.99 ($100 off) at Best Buy in all five shades. The tablet's also on sale over at Amazon, although it's only in stock in a few colorways.Considering the latest 10th-gen iPad sells for just $50 less, the iPad Air offers a lot of value for your money. We think it's the best iPad for most people for many reasons, like the fact that the Air works with the second-gen Apple Pencil, unlike that 10th-gen iPad. At the same time, it comes equipped with a faster... Continue reading...
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by Chris Welch on (#6E3MS)
Image: Google Google spent big money to score the rights for NFL Sunday Ticket and bring the popular service to YouTube and YouTube TV this season. So it makes complete sense that you're about to start seeing Sunday Ticket plastered all over the company's major platforms as Google looks to maximize that investment and make sure everyone is keenly aware of Sunday Ticket's new home and expanding features.If you have a recent Chromecast or a TV in your living room that runs Google TV - think Sony, TCL, Hisense, and others - that heavy promotion will be starting as early as today. Sunday Ticket will be getting prominent placement on the Google TV homescreen.Starting this football season, NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube and YouTube TV will be fully... Continue reading...
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by Victoria Song on (#6E3MT)
Peloton said in its Q4 2023 earnings call that a recent bike seat recall was costlier than expected. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In its latest earnings call, Peloton reported a net loss of $242 million for the quarter. It also lost 29,000 subscribers from last quarter and had a higher-than-anticipated monthly churn of 1.4 percent. While some of that was attributed to summer doldrums, Peloton noted that costs for a recent bike seat post-recall substantially exceeded" initial expectations to the tune of $40 million. An estimated 15 to 20 thousand members also chose to pause their subscriptions ahead of receiving replacement seats.But speaking of recalled products, Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy said in its quarterly shareholder letter that the company plans to resume US presales of the Tread Plus this holiday season for a retail price of around $6,000. (For context,... Continue reading...
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by Makena Kelly on (#6E3MV)
Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images The first GOP primary debate ahead of the 2024 presidential election is taking place tonight in Milwaukee. Most of the Republican Party's top candidates will be onstage vying to overtake Donald Trump's top polling position while the former president is reportedly skipping the event.We won't know what questions will be thrown at the candidates until they're asked, but The Verge will be watching for any mention of how the nomination contenders set themselves apart on major tech issues, like banning TikTok, data privacy, and breaking up Big Tech.How do I watch tonight's Republican debate?Previous debates have been simulcast across a variety of major networks and cable channels, but Wednesday's event will be exclusively aired on Fox News,... Continue reading...
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by Jon Porter on (#6E3HE)
Illustration: The Verge WhatsApp will soon let users create new group chats without having to name them, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. Unnamed groups will instead be given an auto-generated name based on their participants. In a screenshot shared by Zuckerberg, we can see one such group titled Rocco & Li-Chen."Although it's a minor feature, not having to name each and every group chat should be helpful for those times when you're sending group messages for one-off events. I'm personally in a dozen or so WhatsApp groups that are just titled Drinks?" which were set up for a one-off event and were never intended to be an ongoing group chat. Being able to see a list of participants in the chat list rather than a nondescript group chat title feels like... Continue reading...
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by Emma Roth on (#6E3HF)
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A London jury has found that a teenage member of the Lapsus$ hacking group carried out the high-profile cyberattacks on Rockstar Games, Uber, and Nvidia, according to a report from the BBC. The Southwark Crown Court jury found 18-year-old Arion Kurtaj guilty on 12 counts, including blackmail, fraud, and several violations of the UK's Computer Misuse Act.Kurtaj was arrested several times within the past two years but continued to carry out cyberattacks on several companies, such as Nvidia, by using social engineering and SIM-swapping techniques. London police arrested Kurtaj for the final time in September 2022 after he violated bail conditions that banned him from using the internet.According to the BBC, prosecutors told the court that... Continue reading...
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by Sean Hollister on (#6E3HG)
Two years ago, we told you how Qualcomm was eying the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck, building a reference design that eventually morphed into the Razer Edge. And while Razer's handheld was eventually hamstrung by truly ridiculous pricing, Qualcomm is now building three new chips to replace the previous one.Today, the company's announcing the Snapdragon G Series handheld gaming portfolio" with three distinct tiers: a Snapdragon G1 for game-streaming handhelds with over 10 hours of battery life on Wi-Fi, a Snapdragon G2 for full-featured mobile and cloud gaming" with 5G, and the Snapdragon G3x Gen 2 to start chasing PC gaming handhelds on performance. Image: Qualcomm The G1 tier is Wi-Fi 5, G2 adds Wi-Fi 6 and... Continue reading...
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by David Pierce on (#6E3HH)
The Mythic I is a computer, but it's nothing like your computer. Computers used to be made out of wood, endlessly customizable, and totally personal. Now they're all metal rectangles. Can one guy in his LA house help bring the old way back? Continue reading...
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by Makena Kelly on (#6E3HJ)
Image: Rob Flaherty, Biden 2024 deputy campaign manager There's no escaping him. Dark Brandon," Joe Biden's undying alter ego, has appeared on everything from baseball caps to crop tops. Now, his menacing red eyes are staring out from the FoxNews.com homepage - where the first GOP presidential debate is set to stream later tonight.Throughout the entire day, Biden's reelection team will be running an ad campaign featuring the meme on the Fox News website. The ads call attention to Biden's campaign promises to protect abortion rights, lower the cost of prescription drugs, and defend social security, as first reported by People magazine Wednesday.Tax cuts for yacht owners?" one ad reads. Good luck with that, champ." There he is. The Dark Brandon" meme is being pushed... Continue reading...
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by Chris Welch on (#6E3HK)
Image: Sony In addition to announcing the price of its upcoming PlayStation Portal remote gaming gadget, Sony also shared new details today on the PlayStation-branded wireless earbuds that it first revealed several months ago. They're officially called the Pulse Explore and will be priced at $199.99, though the company isn't yet sharing exactly when they'll be available (or even up for preorder). That's as much as the Portal device itself and substantially more than any of Microsoft's first-party Xbox audio peripherals.The Pulse Explore buds come at a premium, but Sony is positioning them as a unique offering for their combination of lossless audio quality and low-latency performance. Sony will also be releasing a new Pulse Elite headset for... Continue reading...
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by Sean Hollister on (#6E3E5)
Cloud III Wireless versus Cloud II Wireless. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge My colleague Cameron Faulkner called the HyperX Cloud II Wireless among the most comfortable headsets I've worn." Today, HP is announcing its successor - the Cloud III Wireless - and I'm happy to say it's better in most every way.When I heard the new Cloud III Wireless would offer quadruple the battery life at 120 hours versus 30 hours, I figured there had to be a catch.It's rare that a product just... gets betterBut after hours comparing the Cloud II and Cloud III side by side and back to back, I haven't heard, seen, or felt one yet! The new PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch headset does cost $20 more, weighs an extra ounce, and not everyone will appreciate the additional padding - but it's got the same balanced, punchy sound... Continue reading...
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