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Microsoft is starting to gradually roll out a preview of Recall, its feature that captures screenshots of what you do on a Copilot Plus PC to find again later, to Windows Insiders, according to a blog post published Thursday. This new rollout could indicate that Microsoft is finally getting close to launching Recall more widely. [...]

Bluesky is updating its app to version 1.100, and the update includes a more comprehensive search page and new chat reactions. The search page is now known as aExplore,a where you can find trending topics, suggested accounts, and starter packs to jump-start stuff for you to follow on the app. This new Explore page still [...]

After years of stuntwork largely being overlooked by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Oscars are about to add a new category. Today, the Academy announced that it intends to start giving out Oscar statues for stunt design starting with films released in 2027 for the awards ceremony's 100th anniversary. Since the [...]

Razer has finally launched its platform for streaming PC games to mobile devices at their native screen resolutions, aspect ratios, and refresh rates. Razer PC Remote Play is now available for download on the App Store and Google Play and is compatible with Windows, Apple, and Android mobile devices running at least Windows 11, iOS [...]

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) fired about 30 members of the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in February, and many of them were part of a department that assesses the risks of self-driving cars, according to the Financial Times. One worker laid off from the NHTSA's so-called office of vehicle automation [...]

Garmin has announced a new addition to its Varia line of safety and visibility accessories for cyclists. The Varia Vue is the first to pair a bright headlight with a front-facing 4K camera designed to automatically record incidents and save the footage locally or send it to the cloud through a smartphone. It's available now [...]

If you were hoping to cop a OnePlus Watch 3, you can finally buy one starting today. The problem is it's no longer the $329.99 price that was originally intended when OnePlus announced the device a few months ago. It's now $499, a $170 or roughly 52 percent markup. The price hike was spotted by [...]

Vampire Survivors is finally launching cross-saves today, but they won't be available on PlayStation to start and have a very slim" chance of coming to the platform because of a legal issue." Last month, we told everyone that cross-save would be available on PlayStation 4 / 5, PC, Xbox, Android and iOS alongside our next [...]

Three years after signing an overall TV production deal with Amazon, Mike Flanagan is finally developing a new project for the studio. Deadline reports that Amazon is moving forward with a Carrie series adaptation from Flanagan based on Stephen King's 1974 novel about a girl born with telekinetic powers. In addition to writing and showrunning [...]

Canva is launching its latest smorgasbord of generative AI-powered workspace tools in its attempt to cram everything that Microsoft, Google, and Adobe can do into a single platform. Canva's Visual Suite is being redesigned to combine its design and productivity tools into a single interface, alongside adding new coding, photo editing, spreadsheet, and AI chatbot [...]

As Sonos continues a company-wide effort to redeem itself after last year's app snafu, it's adding a well-known industry name to its board of directors. This morning, Sonos announced that Hugo Barra is joining the board to replace Mike Volpi, who is stepping down after 15 years - the longest tenure of any board member. [...]

President Donald Trump's 90-day pause" on high tariffs for many countries could be good news for Nintendo. The shift marks an opportunity for the company to ship more Switch 2 units from Vietnam to the US. And customs data reported on by Bloomberg suggests the company has already been stockpiling Switch 2 units from Vietnam [...]

Just ahead of the second season of The Last of Us on HBO, Sony is making it a little easier for newcomers to get the full game experience. The company just announced The Last of Us Complete for the PS5, which is exactly what it sounds like: a collection feature The Last of Us Part [...]

Apple airshipped 600 tons of iPhones to the US from India before new US tariffs were scheduled to take effect, as reported by Reuters and The Times of India. Meanwhile, Nikkei Asia reports Apple, Dell, Microsoft, and Lenovo were pressing to ship as many premium" devices as possible, like high-priced computers above $3,000 that would [...]

Earlier this year, modular computer company Framework began a quest to fix entry-level laptops" with the Framework Laptop 12, its first 12-inch laptop and its first 2-in-1 touchscreen PC. And as you might expect, Trump's new US tariffs are making entry-level pricing difficult for Framework, which at least briefly delayed US preorders of the new [...]

Last week, President Donald Trump declared a series of tariffs that pitted the United States against the rest of the world. Big companies stayed nervously silent; small ones panicked. The stock market plunged. And surely worst of all, Switch 2 preorders were delayed. Then, the same day the largest tariffs went into effect, Trump hit [...]

Bosch should be worried after several bicycle brands just announced their first e-bikes built on top of DJI's compact and lightweight Avinox drive system, which is surprisingly powerful and torquey.These international brands include Forbidden, Unno, Smartmotion, Megamo, Paprika 53, and Teewing, all of which have new e-bikes built around the 1000W Avinox motor that's capable [...]

I wasnat really sure what to expect from Microsoftas 50th birthday party. Sure, cofounder Bill Gates and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would be there, but I was keen to see how Microsoft would create a party atmosphere while also launching new Copilot features. As it happens, having three CEOs onstage, some energetic hosts, and [...]

OpenAI is getting ready to unveil a number of new AI models, sources familiar with the companyas plans tell The Verge. Among the new AI models will be a release of what Iam expecting will be branded GPT-4.1, which one source describes as a revamped version of OpenAIas GPT-4o multimodal model. GPT-4o was originally introduced [...]

Over a weekend in April each year, the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall Township, New Jersey host the Vintage Computer Festival East, which welcomes hundreds of attendees to a former army base to check out a bunch of vintage hardware a not only on display, but also currently in working order.A aaThat's one [...]

Today, I'm talking to Rohit Chopra. He was the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) until the end of January, when President Donald Trump fired him and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) began trying to dismantle the agency. The CFPB has been around for just under 15 years now. Congress created [...]

After a bit of a brief, unexpected delay due to a component issue, the Google Pixel 9A is here - and it was worth the wait. Allison Johnson's review of the midrange phone just went live today, and the 9A seems like the ideal phone for those who want many of the same perks found [...]

Live from London, it's Saturday Night" is a phrase you're going to start hearing on a weekly basis next year. Variety reports that Sky Studios is working on a British adaptation of NBC's long-running Saturday Night Live sketch series. Like its American counterpart and previous international riffs on the series, Saturday Night Live UK will [...]

Around 2009, Dweezil Zappa ran into a space problem. He was busy touring the US, performing some songs written by his father, Frank. Recreating those signature apeculiar sounds,a as Zappa calls them, required lugging around a massive rig a roughly the size of two large refrigerators a held together by more than 200 connections and [...]

Allison Johnson is the smartphone reviewer for The Verge, along with, as she says, a bit of telecom on the side, which means I am a professional phone user." She came to The Verge from DPReview, where she covered digital cameras and smartphone cameras. That looks like a cozy space. Where in your home is [...]

The United Kingdom is preparing to respond to the series of tariffs President Donald Trump has introduced since taking office. New taxes on everything from pure-bred horses to bourbon are on the table, but the Labour government seems more interested in a conciliatory approach, and it's considering sacrificing a popular tax on American tech companies [...]

The creators of the Flipper Zero, a sort of electronic Swiss army knife for communicating with other devices, have come up with another tool that's designed to boost productivity and reduce distractions. The Busy Bar is a customizable app-connected pixelated display that lets others know when you need to be left alone to focus, but [...]

The A-series Pixels have been very good over the past few years. And in the Pixel 9A, Google has taken a good midrange phone and made it great. Itas $499, which feels just right for what you get in the 9A. Spend a bit more for the Pixel 9, and youall get some upgrades like [...]

Along with a new season of Black Mirror, Netflix might have just released its most interesting licensed game today. Season 7 of the sc-fi anthology includes an episode called Plaything," in which a genius coder in the 90s - the same one from the interactive Bandersnatch" episode - creates a new game that's a little [...]

Black Mirror started out as a grim, dark, and nihilistic exploration of near-future tech. But with the tragic romance of aSan Juniperoa in season 3, the anthology slowly started to shift its priorities. Early on, everything was bad: the technology and the people. And the former was used to show how awful the latter was, [...]

Oppo's new Find X8 Ultra is the latest entrant in the ongoing competition between Oppo, Xiaomi, and Vivo to produce the world's best camera phone. But unlike its rivals, Oppo has decided that bigger might not be better. Let's be clear: the Find X8 Ultra isn't a small phone by any means, with a 6.82-inch [...]

A man's recent attempt to use an AI-generated avatar in his legal appeal made an immediate impression on a New York courtroom, but probably not the one he was hoping for. Jerome Dewald - a 74-year-old that The Register notes is behind a startup that says it's revolutionizing legal self-representation with AI" - was chewed [...]

China says it will cut the number of US films that are imported into the country in retaliation against the latest wave of tariff increases imposed by the Trump administration. A statement issued by the Chinese Film Administration (CFA) on Thursday, which we've translated using Google, said that the decision to increase tariffs against China [...]

ChargePoint is ready to speed things up. On Thursday, the EV charging company revealed new AC Level 2 EV chargers that it says effectively double the speed of typical Level 2 chargers. The new architecture also supports bidirectional charging, so owners can use their EVs to power their home or business if the need arises. [...]

Next week, Waymo's driverless vehicles will begin testing on public roads in Japan for the Alphabet company's first international trip. Waymo has yet to confirm whether it will eventually launch a commercial robotaxi service in the country, but the company is still celebrating the excursion as a significant milestone." Waymo describes it as a simple [...]

OpenAI filed a countersuit against Elon Musk on Wednesday, saying on X that Elon's nonstop actions against us are just bad-faith tactics to slow down OpenAI and seize control of the leading AI innovations for his personal benefit." In the lawsuit, OpenAI's lawyers argue that Musk's continued attacks on OpenAI, culminating most recently in the [...]

Meta's latest whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams, got a warm reception on Capitol Hill Wednesday, as the Careless People author who the company has fought to silence described the company's chief executive as someone willing to shapeshift into whatever gets him closest to power. The message was one that lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime [...]

Adobe is building AI agents for Photoshop and Premiere Pro that can suggest ways to edit your photos or videos and then carry out the tasks for you, according to a blog written today by Ely Greenfield, Adobe's CTO of digital media. Adobe Photoshop's agentic AI, or what the company calls its creative agent," will [...]

Aqara is adding support for over 50 new Matter device types, making it one of the most comprehensive smart home platforms in terms of Matter support, alongside Samsung SmartThings and Home Assistant. The company is also bringing advanced bridging to all its Matter controllers, allowing you to integrate Aqara's many advanced automation features into any [...]

The day before several major tech leaders appeared before Congress, begging for ways to get more energy for the nascent American artificial intelligence industry, Donald Trump signed an executive order offering a solution: increased coal production. As part of a series of executive orders released Tuesday designed to promote the rapid growth of the coal [...]

Thanks to Framework, one of the most transparent computer companies out there, we now have a sterling example of just how ridiculous President Donald Trump's tariffs can make life in the year 2025. Today, the company made all of its computers more expensive. Then, it almost immediately reversed that to bring its computers back to [...]

Were you clamoring for two AI-generated podcast hosts to talk through the key points of your document before you send it to your boss? No? Well, you're getting it anyway. Google has announced new Gemini features coming to Workspace apps, including NotebookLM-style AI podcasts integrated right into Google Docs. There's a wide spread of new [...]

President Donald Trumpas latest round of tariffs a including a now 125 percent levy on Chinese imports a will hit the smart home industry hard. Many smart home device makers are already struggling, thanks, in part, to Trumpas first round of tariffs. Increased competition from budget smart home companies largely based in China has also [...]

One of our favorite doorbells, TP-Link's Tapo D225 Video Doorbell Camera, is on sale for just $79.99 ($20 off) at Amazon. That's a buck shy of its best price. A lot of video doorbells come with extra hidden subscription fees if you want to make the most of them, but this one doesn't. It lets [...]

President Donald Trump's tariffs have only been in effect since midnight ET, and hours later he's already announced a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff" of 10 percent for countries that haven't retaliated against the tariffs he created. However, Trump also said in his post on Truth Social that he will be [...]

Nearly a year and a half after it first launched the EP-133 KO II synthesizer in late 2023, Teenage Engineering has released its first major software update. The OS 2.0 update, which can be downloaded to the synth through a web browser or installed using a USB cable, includes features like creating new samples from [...]

WordPress.com has launched a new AI-powered site builder in early access that can construct your WordPress webpage, including fully written text, layout, generated images, and more. WordPress.com says the AI website builder can make beautiful, functional websites in minutes." However, it can't yet do the heavy lifting of creating an ecommerce site or one with [...]

The Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller isn't the only new Nintendo gamepad getting two back buttons: the Joy-Con 2 Charging Grip has the additional buttons as well, according to Nintendo's online listing for the controller. Like the Pro Controller, the new back buttons are GL and GR that can be remapped to other buttons, the [...]

Google is trying to make it easier for users of its video AI model Veo 2 to make cinematic-looking generations and edit real footage. The new Veo 2 capabilities are available to preview via Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, alongside other updates to improve Google's text-to-image generator, Imagen 3, and audio-related AI models. New Veo [...]

At Y Combinatoras Little Tech Competition Summit in downtown DC last week, there was an air of optimism and something verging on camaraderie among a surprising crowd. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) a barely recovered from his 25-hour speech about preserving democracy on the Senate floor a day earlier a showed up to discuss the importance [...]