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In a time when video game consoles are becoming more powerful and more connected than ever and AAA games are massive, bloated endeavors, Untitled Goose Game publisher Panic decided to go back to basics with the now $199 Playdate: a minuscule yellow handheld about the size of a Post-it note with a non-backlit black-and-white screen [...]

Suno wasnat supposed to be an important part of Amazonas Alexa Plus presentation. The AI song generation platform was a minor demonstration of how Alexa Plus could integrate into other apps, sandwiched between other announcements. But it caught my attention all the same a because whether Amazon realized it or not, the company blundered into [...]

Nvidia has announced that Isaac GR00T N1 - the company's open-source, pretrained but customizable foundation model that's designed to expedite the development and capabilities of humanoid robots - is now available. The age of generalist robotics is here," says Nvidia founder and CEO, Jensen Huang. With Nvidia Isaac GR00T N1 and new data-generation and robot-learning [...]

Googleas latest acquisition is its most expensive yet a and perhaps its riskiest, too. On Tuesday, the search giant announced that it acquired the cloud security startup Wiz for $32 billion. Itas a major bet that Wiz can help beef up Googleas cloud business, which makes far less money than the offerings built by its [...]

President Donald Trump and Elon Muskas slash-and-burn approach to the US government has thrown federal agencies into disarray, as thousands of civil servants have been dismissed from their jobs without rhyme or reason. But in the chaos of the cuts carried out by Muskas pseudo-agency, the Department of Government Efficiency, some federal workers say the [...]

I donat remember when I started using Google. Google justa is. Itas the verb for internet search, it commands 10 times the market share of all its competitors combined, and it is responsible for routing a huge amount of the internetas traffic. Almost two years ago, I got out. I signed up for a search [...]

Microsoft is rolling out a new gamepad keyboard for Windows 11 that lets you type with an Xbox controller. It improves the on-screen keyboard in Windows 11 making it a lot easier to navigate with an Xbox controller and type into text fields throughout the operating system. The gamepad keyboard even has shortcuts that are [...]

Microsoft is working on a new feature in Windows 11 that will help explain how less RAM or a weaker GPU might affect your PC performance. The latest preview builds of Windows 11 include a new frequently asked questions section in the system settings, with answers related to GPU memory, system RAM, and even OS [...]

Samsung has announced that One UI 7, its smartphone software based on Android 15, will start rolling out to existing phones and tablets from April 7th worldwide, with a US rollout slightly later on April 10th. In the US the update will first arrive on 2024's Galaxy S24 models, along with the Fold 6 and [...]

Amazon's next Prime Day event likely won't occur until July; however, that hasn't stopped the retail giant from launching a slew of seasonal promos. The next one comes in the form of Amazon's Big Spring Sale, which kicks off on March 25th and runs through March 31st. And, in typical Amazon fashion, we're already seeing [...]

The Strange $55 Million Saga of a Netflix Series You'll Never See," reported in 2023 by the New York Times, is now a criminal matter, as today prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged director Carl Erik Rinsch with wire fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes. They allege that after Netflix (referred [...]

President Donald Trump fired the two remaining Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission Tuesday in what appears to be a conspicuous exercise of power over the independent agency. The White House confirmed the dismissals in an unsigned email response to The Verge. Democratic Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya shared his dismissal in a Notes app message [...]

A month of anti-Tesla dissent escalated this week with two reports of Teslas catching fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City. The first incident happened early Tuesday morning at a Tesla collision center in Las Vegas, where police say a suspect in all-black gear hit several vehicles with Molotov cocktails and three bullets and painted [...]

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission lifted off successfully Friday night, taking its crew of four on their way to the International Space Station. After it arrived, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams got their ride back home to Earth after being stranded aboard the ISS for nine months. The astronauts returned on the Crew-9 capsule [...]

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) granted Tesla's application for a ride-hail permit, a required first step in the automaker's quest to launch a robotaxi service in the state. Last year, Tesla applied to become a transportation charter-party carrier (TCP), which enables it to operate a fleet of vehicles for passenger services using employees as [...]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a prototype of the company's first fully driverless vehicle tonight during its long-awaited robotaxi event. The new vehicle is dubbed the Cybercab, and Tesla let guests at the event ride around in them at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California. The night's surprise, however, was a brand-new Robovan" transport [...]

Apple fixed a bug in the iOS 18.2 Passwords app that, for three months starting with the release of iOS 18, made users vulnerable to phishing attacks, according to an Apple security content update spotted by 9to5Mac. Here's how Apple describes the bug and its fix: Impact: A user in a privileged network position may [...]

It has been years since the excellent sci-fi improv comedy podcast Mission to Zyxx ended, but the crew of the Bargarean Jade are getting back together for a new adventure. While Mission to Zyxxas original Star Wars / Star Trek-lampooning story came to a dramatic close with the showas fifth season, Maximum Fun announced today [...]

Atari is now selling a smartwatch that prioritizes fun over functionality. The watch's user interface can be customized with Atari 2600-themed artwork and sound effects. But pushing it squarely into impulse purchase territory is the watch's ability to playCentipede, Pong, Super Breakout, and Missile Command using the touchscreen or the watch's crown dial functioning as [...]

Business is still booming for music streaming services, which crossed the 100 million US subscriber mark in 2024, according to the Record Industry Association of America's (RIAA) latest revenue report. Overall sales were also bolstered by physical media, which is growing at a slightly faster rate than digital, thanks in large part to continually increasing [...]

Nvidia is announcing its RTX Pro Blackwell series of GPUs today, designed to meet the needs of professional designers, developers, data scientists, and creatives. The lineup includes a top of the line RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU for workstations, as well as other RTX Pro Blackwell desktop and laptop variants and a datacenter version of [...]

Nvidia has revealed its new DGX Spark and DGX Station personal AI supercomputers" at today's GTC conference, which are both powered by the company's Grace Blackwell platform and designed for users to work on large AI models with or without a connection to a datacenter; the Spark is going up for preorder today. The DGX [...]

The rise of generative AI has been powered by Nvidia and its advanced GPUs. As demand far outstrips supply, the H100 has become highly sought after and extremely expensive, making Nvidia a trillion-dollar company for the first time. It's also prompting customers, like Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Google to start working on their own [...]

On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance publicly acknowledged a simmering atensiona between two warring factions inside the Republican party a the populist MAGA right and the tech billionaires who threw their support to Donald Trump a and called for a truce. In remarks at Andreesen-Horowitzas American Dynamism policy conference in Washington, DC, Vance, a former [...]

Oracle is closing in on a deal that would have it vouch" for TikTok's security in exchange for a small stake in the company's US operations, according to Bloomberg. The plan, which was reportedly discussed among the Trump administration last week, would include guarantees that an updated US version of TikTok would not contain a [...]

After briefly going dark in the US to comply with the divest-or-ban law targeting ByteDance that went into effect on January 19th, TikTok quickly came back online, but it was still missing from app stores. That persisted even after Donald Trump issued an executive order instructing the Attorney General not to take any action to [...]

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr could get a Republican majority slightly sooner than expected after Democratic Commissioner Geoffrey Starks announced Tuesday he plans to resign this spring. Starks announced his plans in a statement, but did not specify the date of his departure. President Donald Trump's Republican nominee to serve on the commission, Olivia [...]

Today at its annual Microsoft Ability Summit, the company announced that its Xbox Adaptive Joystick is now available exclusively through the company's online store for $29.99. The joystick was originally announced last August with a planned release in early 2025. It's designed to meet the unique needs of gamers with limited mobility through customizable buttons [...]

Universal Music Group has finally responded to Drake's claims that the label damaged his reputation with Kendrick Lamar's diss track Not Like Us," and there are some spicy tidbits in there. UMG, which represents both artists, broadly argues that the court should dismiss Drake's lawsuit because he's just the sore loser of an ugly rap [...]

At Nvidia's annual GTC conference in San Jose, Calif. today, the chipmaker announced it was teaming up with General Motors to develop next-generation cars, robots, and factories. GM says it will apply several of Nvidia's products to its business, such as the Omniverse 3D graphics platform which will run simulations on virtual assembly lines with [...]

The White House is working to improve Wi-Fi connectivity," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement emailed to The Verge. According to The New York Times, it's using Starlink to address the issue, which White House officials blame on the property's spotty cell service and overtaxed" Wi-Fi infrastructure. Huh. Giving Leavitt the [...]

Assassinas Creed Shadows brings the franchise to the shores of Japan. After almost 20 years and 13 mainline games, Assassinas Creed a the series about using flashy gadgets and techniques to murder your enemies undetected a has finally been set in a place famous for assassins who use flashy gadgets and techniques to murder their [...]

HP is introducing a new entry into its PC gaming line with the Omen 16 Slim. As the name indicates, it's a 16-inch gaming laptop with a slim" profile - the thinnest portion being 20mm / 0.79 inches. What its product branding doesn't immediately tell you is that the Omen 16 Slim is aimed at [...]

HP is revving its line of consumer-focused OmniBook productivity laptops with a whopping 18 new models and refreshes. These fall across various sizes and form factors in its OmniBook 3, 5, 7, and top-end X lines - including some foldable two-in-ones with stylus support. Chip-wise, there's a smattering of models using various AMD and Intel [...]

HyperX is announcing a new flagship Cloud III S Wireless gaming headset that adds Bluetooth 5.3 and a second microphone for standard headphone use on calls. It's a follow-up to the Cloud III Wireless from 2023 that was HyperX's most popular model, and which our own Sean Hollister found very compelling. Like that model, the [...]

Eric Migicovsky, the original creator of the Pebble smartwatch, is getting ready to ship two new watches. Migicovsky's new company is called Core Devices, and these will be the first Core smartwatches to hit the market. But they are Pebbles in every important way: they'll run the newly open-sourced Pebble operating system, they'll have all [...]

Google just released two new features for its Gemini AI assistant: Canvas and Audio Overviews. Canvas introduces a dedicated workspace within Gemini where users can create and refine both documents and code in real-time. Users can spin up initial drafts and then work with Gemini to edit specific sections, adjust tone, or reformat content as [...]

A Google-backed mission to detect wildfires from space launched a prototype satellite last week, which is now communicating with its developers on Earth. It's the first of at least 50 planned for a constellation of satellites called FireSat. The initiative is led by the nonprofit coalition Earth Fire Alliance, along with startup Muon Space, which [...]

Lego has announced that another popular gaming franchise is getting the plastic brick treatment. On its website, the company has teased that Lego Pokemon sets are coming soon," but also says the sets won't arrive until 2026 - which isn't as soon as we'd hoped. There are no details yet on specific sets or which [...]

Terminated employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have been brought back to work in response to a judge's order - sort of. Probationary employees (a class of government workers who are newer to an agency or role) received letters over the weekend notifying them that they were reinstated into their positions, following a [...]

Nanoleaf has announced that it will be offering one of the easiest ways to add an immersive lighting experience to your gaming PC. Its new PC Screen Mirror Lightstrip features 75 color-changing LEDs that can be attached to the back of your display to cast a colored glow on a wall that will then mirror [...]

More than 400 members of the entertainment industry have signed a letter pushing back on OpenAI and Google's proposal to allow AI models to train on copyrighted content, as reported earlier by Variety. The letter claims both companies are arguing for a special government exemption" that would allow them to freely exploit" creative industries. The [...]

The Nintendo Switch 2 is nigh. Nigh-ish, anyway. When it does launch later this year, it might start another revolution in portable gaming, as millions of people are able to play from their couch, their bed, the train, and anywhere else. That was also true of the first Switch, though, and as big a hit [...]

The failure of the Wii U has turned out to be a big win for the Switch. While Nintendoas previous console was its worst selling, it was still home to some of its most inventive games. Over the years, Nintendo has steadily brought many of them a ranging from Captain Toad puzzles to various Donkey [...]

Google's parent company, Alphabet, has announced its largest-ever acquisition, entering into a deal to buy New York-based cybersecurity firm Wiz, making it a part of its Google Cloud division. This is the company's second attempt to buy Wiz after talks stalled last year at a lower $23 billion evaluation. Wiz is a fast-growing Israeli-founded startup [...]

The putative president of the United States, Donald Trump, stood on the White House lawn. In his hand, he held a sales pitch for Tesla cars. The most powerful man in America, Elon Musk, attired for a very casual funeral and looking miserable, stood next to Trump. As Trump spoke, promising to buy a Tesla, [...]

Bumble is rolling out optional ID verification, adding badges to the profiles of users who've confirmed their identity using government-issued ID cards. It arrives as part of a series of safety updates that include a new Share Date feature intended to let you quickly share your date plans with friends and family. ID verification is [...]

Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD has revealed new fast-charging tech that can add 400km (249 miles) of range from a five minute charge. With the announcement, BYD has also promised to make a major investment in charging infrastructure, building over 4,000 of the new fast chargers across China. The Super e-Platform" tech is capable of [...]