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As far as I'm concerned, 8BitDo's Pro 3 is the ultimate controller. You may already know that it makes a model literally called the Ultimate controller, but it plays second fiddle to the new Pro 3 in some key ways. It's highly customizable, allowing you to change the face buttons, joystick caps, and more. Let [...]

Nintendo has announced a new free mobile app coming to iOS, Android and the Switch. It's called Hello, Mario! and was revealed alongside a new collection of Mario-themed products designed for kids and toddlers launching in Japan later this month. All of Nintendo's mobile apps have been free to download so far, but while some [...]

On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered its Dojo supercomputer project to be disbanded after the project's leader and most of its employees left to join another AI project. The news marked a major setback to the automaker's efforts to develop its own in-house developed supercomputer to train AI models for [...]

Google's apparent quest to bring AI features across all of its apps has just extended to one of its most mundane: Google Finance. The company announced on Friday that it's testing a new, AI-powered Google Finance," chatbot included. The revamp, which will roll out in the US in the coming weeks, will let you ask [...]

Released as part of a new collection of smartphone, tablet, and earbud cases celebrating the Mauritshuis museum collection in The Hague, Netherlands, Casetify's new AirPods Max accessory can turn you into a 360-year-old work of art. Made from a silk-like textile," according to Designboom, the headphone cover's fabric has been finished with a pleated design [...]

For the uninitiated, watching a Jeffrey Epstein truther such as Laura Loomer have such influence over the White House's decisions is nothing short of baffling. ABC News attributes "the ouster of at least 15 individuals from Trump's second administration" to Loomer's influence - partially, at least. For Washington veterans who grew up in quote-unquote normal [...]

Tesla is dissolving the team that was developing its Dojo supercomputer, according to Bloomberg. The change, which reportedly includes the departure of Dojo head Peter Bannon, marks a notable shift away from using in-house technology to train the AI models powering Tesla's self-driving features and its Optimus humanoid robot. Tesla CEO Elon Musk first introduced [...]

Marina Galperina is a senior tech editor at The Verge who works with staff writers and freelancers on reports and theme weeks. She recently started a new newsletter called The Stepback, which breaks down one essential story from a writer of the week every Sunday. (From Marina: Please subscribe!") During a recent discussion of Labubus [...]

Here's the tricky part about assessing an AI system's deception rate: if the system is really good at deceiving you, you might not notice. This week on The Vergecast, Adi Robertson and Alex Heath join me to discuss the launch of GPT-5 and GPT-OSS... and the strange charts we saw along the way. GPT-5 is [...]

While Microsoft was busy updating Copilot yesterday with OpenAI's new GPT-5 model, it also quietly launched Copilot 3D. It's a free-to-use feature that can transform a regular 2D image into a 3D model that can then be used in game creation, animation, 3D printing, VR / AR, and much more. Copilot 3D just needs a [...]

CFO Lin Tao mentioned Sony's beleaguered phone brand at the company's recent financial results presentation, calling it a very important business for us," according to CNET Japan. You could have fooled me. Sony's last two Xperia 1 flagships have skipped the US market entirely, and it appears to be pulling back in Europe too. It [...]

We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken up the issue. Apple's malicious compliance in the EU has so far prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming to iOS, but recently published guidelines related to Japan's Smartphone Act could change [...]

The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees with a message in the company's Slack. "As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been looking at comp for our technical teams given the movement in the market," wrote Altman, according to a copy of the message that was shared [...]

During its big GPT-5 livestream on Thursday, OpenAI showed off a few charts that made the model seem quite impressive - but if you look closely, some graphs were a little bit off. In one, ironically showing how well GPT-5 does in deception evals across models," the scale is all over the place. For coding [...]

The Browser Company - the makers of the Arc browser - just launched a $20 per month subscription to its new AI-powered web browser, Dia, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new Dia Pro subscription comes with unlimited access to the browser's chat feature, which lets you ask questions about the content in your tabs. [...]

Laptops are great, but sometimes it's simply just more convenient to use a tablet like the iPad Air. The Air's easier to carry, after all, and still powerful enough to handle everything from streaming to taking notes and reading. And right now, the latest version of the Air is down to a new low price. [...]

GPT-5 has finally arrived. Along with the announcement of the highly anticipated AI model, OpenAI also previewed several updates coming to ChatGPT, ranging from visual changes to improvements to the chatbot's performance. Here's a rundown of all of the changes you can expect to see in ChatGPT. Say goodbye to the model picker With the [...]

During today's Nintendo Indie World showcase, I had two epiphanies. The first was the realization that friendslop games are about to hit the Switch 2 like a falling piano in a Road Runner cartoon. The second was that I love that for me, because that means I can finally play them. My friends love "friendslop," [...]

It's official: Skydance Media's deal to purchase CBS parent company Paramount Global for $8 billion is complete, and incoming chairman / CEO David Ellison's first order of business is a massive restructuring. In an open letter about his plans for Paramount, a Skydance Corporation (the merged companies' new name), Ellison announced that, going forward, the [...]

Samsung's latest Unpacked event came and went with no major announcements related to the company's Galaxy Buds lineup. However, if you don't want to wait for what's next, you can currently save on the Samsung Galaxy Buds FE, which are down to $46.99 ($53 off) at Woot. That's their best price yet and a deal [...]

Meta's consumer VR headsets are already among the best you can get for their price points, but at a conference next week, the company is showing off some impressive-sounding research prototypes that could be a peek at what its headsets might be capable of in the future. One headset, called Tiramisu," brings a new milestone [...]

Zach Cregger's first major film Barbarian was tense and frightening, but it was also infused with a healthy dose of absurdity. The movie's twisted sense of humor made it easier to stomach its grotesque violence and a bit more difficult to anticipate how its unhinged story would unfold. But Barbarian also worked surprisingly well as [...]

OpenAI officially launched its new GPT-5 models today, and Microsoft is now bringing GPT-5 to Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Copilot, and more. It's part of a big simultaneous release of GPT-5 that will show up in Copilot as the new smart mode that I detailed in Notepad last month. The new [...]

Elon Musk has long bragged that the Tesla Cybertruck is a uniquely impervious vehicle thanks to its stainless steel body and "bulletproof" windows, calling it "an armored personnel carrier from the future." Now that claim will be put to the test by none other than the US Air Force, which aims to use the Cybertruck [...]

OpenAI is releasing GPT-5, its new flagship model, to all of its ChatGPT users and developers. CEO Sam Altman says GPT-5 is a dramatic leap from OpenAI's previous models. He compares it to "something that I just don't wanna ever have to go back from," like the first iPhone with a Retina display. OpenAI says [...]

Lawmakers have introduced a new bill aimed at countering foreign piracy sites," as reported earlier by TorrentFreak. The bill, called the Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block BEARD) Act, would allow copyright holders to ask a federal court to block piracy websites. The bipartisan legislation, led by Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chris Coons [...]

Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved with haste to get engineers to test and deploy DeepSeek's R1 model on Azure AI Foundry. It was an unusually quick turnaround for a new model on Azure that also set a new bar for success. A few months later, Nadella then pushed to onboard xAI's Grok [...]

Last year, Google surprised online video publishers with some stunning news: the company, which now generates over a quarter trillion dollars with advertising every year, effectively admitted that it isn't very good at selling ads for its own smart TV platform, Google TV. The issue at heart: Google has long required publishers to share a [...]

Peloton has pivoted many times over the past few years in its quest to return to profitability. The latest, as announced in its Q4 2025 earnings call, is leaning into health and wellness instead of just" cardio fitness. With each passing year, we are coming to understand better the importance of strength, stress management, sleep, [...]

Framework has built a name for itself by taking the locked down world of laptops and making them modular, upgradable, and repairable. So it's surprising - and maybe even controversial - the way that Framework has approached its first desktop: it's made a PC that's actually less modular than most. Don't worry; this isn't a [...]

Stop me if you've heard this one before: a new wave of tariffs are taking effect today. Announced on July 31st, the latest set of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on foreign imports - possibly illegally - will set a floor of 15 percent for around 40 countries with a trade deficit with the [...]

Following the reveal of its first 360-degree action camera a week ago, DJI has announced its first robot vacuum cleaner. The DJI Romo is available in three versions that are mostly differentiated by their appearance - two use transparent shells to reveal their inner workings - but they all borrow technology from the company's drones [...]

HBO Max's password-sharing crackdown is about to get stricter. During an earnings call on Thursday, Warner Bros. Discovery streaming head JB Perette said prompts surrounding account sharing will become more persistent starting next month, pushing people toward paying an extra $7.99 per month to add an extra member to their account. In September, you'll actually [...]

President Donald Trump has called for Lip-Bu Tan to immediately resign as Intel's CEO over his reported ties to Chinese tech firms. The demand follows Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton questioning Intel's board chairman whether Tan's alleged connections to China would conflict with security regulations. The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately," [...]

Eufy's FamiLock S3 Max ($399) is a multitasking workhorse. Launched earlier this year, it combines a smart lock and video doorbell in one, and it's one of the first locks with a digital peephole and a wave-to-unlock function. It also has a keyway, keypad, and Matter support, so it works with all the major smart [...]

Brazil opens with a bureaucratic error. A fly gets stuck in a typewriter, changing the surname of Archibald Tuttle to Archibald Buttle, a misprint on a form that dictates the government forcibly detain a suspected terrorist (Tuttle) but instead leads to the arrest of an entirely innocent man (Buttle). If the inciting events of our [...]

Nintendo's latest livestreamed event is highlighting the smattering of indie games coming to the Switch consoles later this year, and the Indie World Showcase is scheduled to start on Thursday, August 7th, at 9 AM ET. Hades 2 might make an appearance, and there's a slim chance the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong might show up [...]

A California jury has found that Meta illegally collected user health data from the Flo period-tracking app, violating the state's wiretap law. The verdict concludes a lawsuit filed against Flo, Google, Meta, and app analytics company Flurry in 2021, in which Flo app users accused the companies of collecting their private menstrual health data without [...]

The day after he won an unprecedented $243 million verdict in a wrongful death case against Tesla, attorney Brett Schreiber posted a reel on Instagram celebrating the victory. His song pick: 1992's "Damn It Feels Good To Be a Gangsta" by the Geto Boys. "This is a verdict that will change the world," Schreiber wrote [...]

Apple is teaming up with Samsung to produce digital image sensors for future iPhone models, according to The Financial Times. This is tied to Apple's Wednesday announcement that it is working with Samsung's semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas, to launch an innovative new technology for making chips, which has never been used before anywhere in [...]

GitHub has accidentally announced OpenAI's new range of GPT-5 models. A now-deleted GitHub blog post reveals that GPT-5, which will be available in four different versions, offers major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience." Reddit posters noticed a new GitHub blog post announcing that GPT-5 is generally available in GitHub models, before the [...]

Tom Conrad took over as CEO of Sonos in January as it continues to recover from last year's disastrous mobile app update, and now the company has issued its first quarterly earnings report after he dropped the interim tag from his title. Beyond the numbers, with $344.8 million in revenue and a net loss of [...]

In the very first week of his presidency, Donald Trump vowed to force silicon manufacturing back to the United States by making processors more expensive, a threat he's repeated since. Is he finally going through with that plan? Trump just announced he'll putting an enormous 100 percent tariff on chips and semiconductors - unless your [...]

At a White House press conference to discuss Apple's new US manufacturing plans, CEO Tim Cook presented a gift to President Donald Trump: a unique" piece of glass from iPhone glass manufacturer Corning that's set in a 24-karat gold base. The piece of glass is a large disc with the Apple logo cut into it. [...]

Google's Gemini AI now has a guided learning" mode that tries to help you actually understand the problems you're trying to learn about instead of just giving you the answer. Guided learning acts as a learning companion" that guides you with questions and step-by-step support," CEO Sundar Pichai says in a blog post. Answers from [...]

Apple is putting another $100 billion toward expanding manufacturing in the US as the company responds to pressure from President Donald Trump to manufacture more of its products in the US. The move builds upon the company's initial plan to invest $500 billion in the US over the next four years, and includes a new [...]

The future of Warner Bros. Games is unclear, as it shut down several studios and canceled anticipated games earlier this year. But there's no arguing that the company's back catalog of titles is full of gems, many of which are in Humble's great $12 bundle. Through August 27th, you can jump on this unbeatable deal [...]

Jurassic World: Archipelago is a new expansion pack for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 that lets aspiring pilots explore the five islands of the fictional Cinco Muertes Archipelago featured in the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies. Created by Australian developer Orbx that's known for its flight sim add-ons, the expansion lets you visit many locations [...]

OpenAI is teasing a big announcement on Thursday, and based on a not-so-subtle clue, it seems like the news will be the reveal of its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model. In a post on X, OpenAI announced a LIVE5TREAM THURSDAY 10AM PT" - notice that the s" in the word livestream is swapped for a 5." [...]

It's Tuesday, August 5th, and I have awoken to the news that Valentine, Grok's latest spicy AI companion, has been released! As an OnlyFans content creator and someone who spends a lot of time being paid to sext humans, the idea of flipping the script and interacting with a brooding sex bot as the person [...]