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Meta made its own AI-generated clickbait news feed

An AI-generated image of the royal family featuring two Queen Elizabeth IIs. | Image: Meta AI Facebook has long been filled with feeds of clickbait articles. Now, Meta is making its own clickbait articles with AI. The standalone Meta AI app now has a "For You" section that populates a list of clickbait-style stories for you to read. But the topics, images, and text are all AI-generated - and as questionable as you'd expect from AI-created works. The Meta AI app first launched in April 2025 with its focus on a public "Discover" feed that showed AI-generated images and conversations from other users (who frequently seemed unaware that they were being made public). That's all disappeared. The app now has a standard chatbot interface, … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/HU5YFMi
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Kabuto Park captures the fleeting joy of summer vacation

There are a lot of games that remind me of summer - hot days in the backseat with a copy of Dragon Warrior III , cooling off in the basement while grinding Gran Turismo races - but there aren't a lot of games that are actually about summer. That's part of what makes Kabuto Park so charming. It's a game that manages to not only capture the fleeting moments of a childhood summer, but also cram a Pokémon -style adventure into a game that lasts only a few hours. Kabuto Park actually launched last year on PC, but it's available now on both Xbox and the Switch, the latter being probably the ideal platform for it. It takes place over the course of a … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/TaXImbs

The next YouTube phenomenon hitting the big screen

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 131, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy last week of productivity before the World Cup starts, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I've been reading about the World Cup and peptides and parasocial media , catching up on Clarkson's Farm ahead of the new season, buying literally every single new item in The Verge Shop , watching so so so many BTS concert clips on my social feeds, brainstorming ways to resurrect my old Facebook Portal , testing Spokenly to see if it's the dictation app for me, and ponying … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/tWlDPQK

This chunky little tablet got my kid to clean up his toys

Just a cute little guy. Never underestimate the power that a cheap tablet holds over a kid under six. The Skylight Buddy is a device with one job: to be a cute little guy that helps your kid track routines and chores. It's $139.99, plus an optional subscription. And to my surprise, even though it offers a pretty limited set of features without the $39-per-year "Plus" features, it actually worked. Skylight recommends the Buddy for kids aged four up to 10. An adult has to set it up, naturally, which you do inside of the Skylight app. From there, you make a profile for your kid and assign it to the Buddy, which is strictly one-kid-per-device. That might be a non-sta … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/ripMNmo

I customized a MacBook Neo with colorful spare parts

Indigo, citrus, and a touch of blush. It’s a Neo cocktail. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The MacBook Neo is Apple's cheapest laptop, its most colorful, and its easiest to repair in years . That means owners can buy replacement parts in all four of its available colors and swap them in on their own. So that got us thinking: What if we bought a Neo just to see how funky we could make it look with official parts? I ordered an indigo Neo to tinker with, and some spare parts from Apple's self-service site . View this post on Instagram I opted for a replacement trackpad and bottom case in blush, and USB-C ports and keycaps in citrus. My goal was to make it as mishmash-y as possible without changing out more labo … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/pPFKOvB

Porsche’s Cayenne Coupe Turbo will even make 911 owners nervous

Back in 2002, Porsche fans sputtered with rage as the Cayenne made its debut at the Paris Motor. More than 20 years later, Porsche now sells more SUVs than anything else in its lineup. Last year, the Macan and Cayenne accounted for 62 percent of all Porsche sales. Now, these SUVs are trolling traditionalists in a whole new way: They've gone electric, with a Cayenne Electric joining a smaller plug-in Macan . And the Cayenne Coupe Turbo is fast enough to have 911 owners looking over their shoulders. Even Porsche's hardcore fans, the kind who attend Lollapalooza-type festivals to worship a bygone age of air-cooled engines, have to give the Tur … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/7241y58

This Google Photos update has saved your digital photo frame

Now you don’t have to manually add new photos of loved ones to your grandma’s Aura frame. | Image: Aura Aura's digital photo frames will continue to automatically sync with your Google Photos albums, after API changes threatened to remove the feature. Aura is now rolling out a full migration to Google's new Ambient API , allowing your Aura frame slideshows to be automatically updated with new photos, instead of requiring owners to manually add them via the Google Photos app. "With our updated Google Photos integration, you can add photos directly from the Google Photos app or sync an entire Google Photos album to keep Aura frames updated automatically," Aura said in its announcement. "Photos are sent directly to your Aura frames from Google Ph … Read the full story at The Verge. from The Verge https://ift.tt/Vjw1si7