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LG CEO William Cho and home entertainment company president Park Hyoung-sei met with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in February to discuss the collaboration. | Image: LG LG is reportedly pausing its partnership with Meta to develop an extended reality (XR) device that would take on Apple’s Vision Pro headset, just three months after announcing the joint venture . While multiple Korean news outlets are reporting that the Meta partnership has broken down entirely due to a lack of “synergy” between the companies, LG has denied terminating the deal. “LG Electronics continues the XR partnership with Meta forged in February but is controlling its pace,” LG said in a statement to Korea JoongAng Daily . Products from the collaboration, set to combine Meta’s Horizon Worlds mixed reality platform with content and service capabilities from LG’s TV business, were expected to hit the market next year. The potential... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/Gn1xNuj

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes led a tabletop exercise for journalists to role-play as election officials to understand the speed and scale of AI threats they face. | Photo by Ash Ponders for The Verge The job has never been harder, and the threats have never been stranger. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/1tDK4eH

Screenshot: YouTube Jeff Bezos’ space tourism company is flying humans to space for the first time since 2022. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/XSOnGT1

Image: John William Evelyn “I couldn’t walk away from the pen and ink thing,” says John Evelyn, creator of The Collage Atlas , a dreamlike storybook adventure recently released on Steam . The entire game is hand drawn, from tiny flowers and insects to huge buildings and the clouds that float over them. Exploring this world unwraps its dreamlike story, with environments folding out in response to your approach. “I had been drawing for many years before that […] and I’d always draw with ink straight away, without any kind of prior pencil work or sketching,” he says. “I liked all the incidental details and the accidents that come out along the way.” He compares it to improv music — “actually, sometimes it goes horribly wrong!” — but says that the feeling of getting... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/Ga6Rshf

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 38, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and you can also read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I’ve been writing about iPads and the future of Google , watching American Fiction and Bodkin , rewatching Her because of… reasons, endlessly replaying the songs of Windows95man , learning how to make better sandwiches , testing Claude for AI stuff, and listening to the new-old Childish Gambino album . I also have for you a new AI model, literally thousands of new Lego pieces, a new way to Google, the fanciest mop you’ve ever seen in your life, more emulators for iOS, and much more. And I have a question: W... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/M0kuSbw

The GE Profile is a smart indoor smoker — designed to keep smoke inside the oven, not in your kitchen. Wi-Fi connectivity means it works the Smart HQ app for remote control, but there’s no magic sauce here to make you BBQ whizz. The GE Profile Smart Indoor Smoker delivers on its promise of bringing smoking indoors, but sadly its smarts didn’t make me a better pitmaster. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/F7sAkHW