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The buttons on its underside are the key to the Apple Watch’s “strap monster” status. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Changing watch straps isn’t new, but Apple’s hidden little buttons simplified it and took it mainstream. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/3jPrdzW

Image: Netflix Black Mirror ’s sixth season will land on Netflix on June 15th. The streamer revealed the release date in a new trailer on Wednesday , which gives us a more detailed look at what to expect from the mind-bending series, as opposed to the teaser we saw last month . The upcoming installment will consist of five new episodes, including one where a woman realizes that a streaming platform that looks — and sounds — a lot like Netflix created an adaptation based on her life. This particular story is called “Joan Is Awful” and stars Schitt’s Creek ’s Annie Murphy as well as Michael Cera and Salma Hayek. Black Mirror Season 6 premieres June 15 on Netflix…and also on Streamberry, apparently? pic.twitter.com/tTk0QOLdsU — Netflix (@netflix) May 31,... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/8y7wREO

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge I am willing to bet that, at some point in your life, you have attempted to learn a new language and given up. Perhaps you took a few classes in high school but never continued. Maybe you downloaded the Duolingo app to your phone but never touched it. Maybe you started Rosetta Stone but lost interest. Discord and the language-learning platform Memrise have a possible solution for you: the Memrise Discord app, a new GPT-3-trained chatbot that can teach you new tongues from the comfort of your Discord server. The problem with many of today’s language-learning methods, in the experience of Memrise co-founder Ben Whately, is that they don’t force students into real-world situations. “If we spoke about cooking like we speak about language... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/QqybuFh

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge The Windows Widgets feature is finally getting some useful additions to let you monitor CPU, memory, and GPU usage. Neowin has spotted that Microsoft’s new release of a Dev Home app includes several new widgets for Windows 11. You can use the new widgets to monitor processor utilization and speed, memory usage, GPU temperatures and usage, and Wi-Fi or Ethernet speeds. They’re certainly a lot more useful than the usual widgets or the news feeds full of junk stories from MSN. Microsoft did announce at Build earlier this month that you’ll be able to disable the Microsoft News feed in the widgets board later this year, thankfully. You can get similar information from the Game Bar, the Windows Task Manager, or apps like HWiNFO64, but it’s... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/sxPTS7Z

Recent changes to Twitter’s API access have “made it impossible for Block Party’s Twitter product to continue in its current form.” | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Block Party, an anti-harassment service designed to combat abusive content on Twitter, is the latest third-party app to leave the platform in light of Twitter locking most of its API access behind a paywall. Announced in a blog post last night, Block Party’s anti-harassment tools for Twitter are being placed on an immediate, indefinite hiatus, with the developers claiming that changes to Twitter’s API pricing (which starts from $100 per month) have “made it impossible for Block Party’s Twitter product to continue in its current form.” Block Party ’s services allowed users to automate a great deal of their Twitter moderation, with filtering and block list features that automatically block accounts that like or retweet posts you don’t want... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/C06

Spelling Bee in the NYT Games app. It’s getting archives for paid subscribers. | Image: The New York Times In March, The New York Times made a small but important change to its crosswords app: it dropped the “Crosswords” part of the name in favor of “Games.” It’s a small but important shift that acknowledges how the app has grown from a place to play the crossword into a hub for many of the NYT’s growing library of games. In addition to the daily crossword, the app now lets you access mini crosswords (“the Mini ”), Wordle , a word-spelling game called Spelling Bee , and, as part of some recent updates , sudoku and a visual puzzle game called Tiles . On Tuesday, people who subscribe to the NYT’s Games or All-Access subscriptions will start to get an extra perk: the NYT is rolling out access to the previous two weeks of Spelling Bee puzzles so that... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/gAqUvtj

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia has just become a $1 trillion company , with its rising valuation fueled by tech companies big and small racing to add generative artificial intelligence tools to their products. AI tools made up the vast bulk of recent Google I/O and Microsoft Build presentations, and Nvidia’s chips make it a key supplier for companies trying to build something with AI. The last quarterly earnings report from Nvidia noted over $2 billion in profit in three months. This latest push comes after Nvidia’s business boomed early in the pandemic during a GPU shortage while they were in demand for PC gaming and cryptocurrency mining before those markets fell back throughout 2022. Last fall, CEO Jensen Huang said it had built too many gaming GPUs and was... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/wSJLaB0

Image: Niantic Niantic, known for augmented reality mobile games like Pokémon Go and Peridot , revealed a new mixed reality experience on Tuesday. Titled “Wol,” it can be played on Quest headsets and features an “AI-enabled” talking owl discussing the redwood forest. I packed a lot into that sentence, so let’s break it down. While you can check out this experience on your phone, it differs from Niantic’s AR mobile games because you can also try it using the passthrough video feature on VR headsets like Meta’s Quest 2 and Quest Pro. To use it, you visit a URL — MeetWol.com — meaning you don’t need an app to try it. In the experience itself, a large portal into a virtual redwood forest will appear in front of you, and then Wol will fly over and start... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/v9TeRbC

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. | Image: Nintendo Right now, we are absolutely spoiled for choice when it comes to entertainment. TV shows, movies, and games all come out at such a fast and furious pace that it’s hard to keep up. Not all of them are worth your time, of course — which is where we come in. Our team spends a lot of time immersed in the various realms of pop culture so that we can handpick our favorites for you. That could mean a hot new indie game you might’ve otherwise missed or the streaming series that will become your new obsession. Either way, if you’re finding it hard to sort through the flood, this is the place to find a curated selection of the best stuff. And like last year , this page will be updated regularly throughout the year — so make sure to check back in... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/yuoPxEG

Here’s the new Prestige 16. | Image: MSI MSI — a brand traditionally known for gaming hardware — has announced a bunch of laptops at Computex 2023, and there’s an interesting lack of gamery among them. Instead, the company appears to be focusing hard on the premium lifestyle space with its mid-2023 offerings. Notable among these releases is the new Commercial 14 series, a line of business laptops intended to compete with high-end enterprise PCs — the likes of the ThinkPad. I conclude this from the fact that MSI’s press release highlights its “tailor-made solutions to enterprises through a series of optional security measures, NFC (near-field communication) and built-in Smart Card Reader.” If that’s not a word-for-word ThinkPad pitch, I don’t know what is. MSI has attempted... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/bvMKIL5

Photo by Colin Young-Wolff / Riot Games Players in the North American League of Legends esports league have voted to walk out in protest of Riot Games’ decision to no longer require franchises to field an amateur team. Since Riot’s announcement, many franchises have already dropped their amateur teams for the summer season, cutting off an important development pipeline for players who want to compete in the main League Championship Series (LCS). The vote, held by the LCSPA, which represents North American League of Legends esports players, passed “overwhelmingly,” according to an early Monday tweet . It’s unclear exactly when the walkout will take place, but assuming the two sides don’t come to some sort of agreement, it seems likely it will happen at the start of the summer... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/zwH3jPl

Image: CD Projekt Red The Witcher is a juggernaut, and thanks to new data from The Witcher game developer CD Projekt Red (CDPR), we have a better idea of just how huge it really is. The studio revealed Monday that The Witcher video games have sold more than 75 million copies , with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt alone responsible for more than 50 million of those sales . Those sorts of numbers mean that series is one of the biggest video game franchises of all time. For comparison, this new data puts The Witcher 3 in spitting distance of smash hits like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Red Dead Redemption 2 , which have both sold more than 53 million copies, and both of those are among the top-selling games ever . Those Witcher sales numbers will probably grow by quite a bit... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/i7bBlKm

Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP via Getty Images For one glorious week, PC enthusiasts will gather in Taipei. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/D4wblxa

Power, ports, and pretty lighting — for a price. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/FGlvnHX

POV: You are a pathetic creature of meat and bone. | Nightdive Studios Welcome to my death machine, interloper. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/AMEq1UZ

Image: The Verge The Steam launch of Dolphin, an open-source emulator for the Wii and the GameCube, has been delayed indefinitely (via PC Gamer ). A blog post by the developers says that’s due to a Nintendo “cease and desist citing the DMCA” (an earlier version of the blog post simply said “issued a DMCA” but it has since been updated) after they’d announced plans for a Steam launch in March. Dolphin Emulator Project : It is with much disappointment that we have to announce that the Dolphin on Steam release has been indefinitely postponed. We were notified by Valve that Nintendo has issued a cease and desist citing the DMCA against Dolphin’s Steam page, and have removed Dolphin from Steam until the matter is settled. We are currently investigating our... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/R0JDroK

The Quest 3 will improve on the Quest 2 (pictured above) in many important ways. | Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge A hands-on look at the Meta Quest 3 reveals a massive set of improvements to the Meta mixed reality headset, as detailed in Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg this morning. Gurman says the Quest 3, now codenamed Eureka, is “far lighter and thinner” than the original Quest 2, which bodes well for its comfort during extended usage. A lot of the features he mentioned are similar to what we expect to learn about the Apple “Reality Pro” VR / AR headset soon, including fancy hand-tracking and pass-through video . But some rumors say the rumored Apple headset could cost as much as $3,000 . Gurman said Meta also hasn’t settled on the Quest 3’s price yet, but that it could be costlier than the $400 Quest 2, which “may stick around at a... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/N5mXeCi

Image: The Verge The right-to-repair movement is picking up momentum across the US and the rest of the globe. Here’s the story so far. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/gKCxf43

LG 48GQ900 48-inch OLED gaming monitor | Image: LG The 48-inch LG UltraGear 48GQ900 is on sale at Amazon for an incredible 43 percent off from its typical $1,499.99 price right now, putting it at $852.14 before taxes for Amazon Prime members (or $896.99 for those without Prime), for nearly its lowest price ever. If you’d rather go to the source (or just not Amazon), LG is selling it for $899.99 , as is Newegg . This price is as good as it gets for this giant LG OLED gaming display. If you take this deal, you can expect the usual inky blacks that make OLEDs the contrast champs of the display world, and its 4K resolution will mean a nice, sharp picture spanning its flat panel. Its 120Hz refresh rate can be overdriven to 138Hz, with support for variable refresh rate (VRR), plus stamps for... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/C5fvbku

Most big-name competitors can’t match this new Onn box when it comes to value and what you’re getting for the money. But Dolby Vision might be missed by some. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/u2w3dr6

I swear, this is a screenshot of an actual YouTube video. | Image: David Pierce The video’s title is, for once on YouTube, pretty straightforward: “ 24 hours + of pure black screen in HD! ” Leaving aside the questions about the difference between standard- and high-def pure black screens, the video does what it says on the tin. Hit play, and you get more than 24 hours — 24 hours, one minute, 27 seconds, to be exact — of black screen and silence. It’s like turning off your computer, without turning off your computer. This video has 40.2 million views. The first time I watched it, I assumed there was a joke or a Rick Roll or something in there somewhere and watched an upsettingly long time to find it. Nothing. So I figured it was a bit. Fun meta-commentary about the drivel people choose to watch! Most commenters seemed... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/Y1tvBNj

Apple’s entry-level MacBook Air is an easy rec at $799.99 thanks to its speedy performance and long-lasting battery life. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Happy Saturday, readers! Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is now less than two weeks away . The company is largely expected to introduce its mixed reality headset — ending what feels like a decade of rumors — along with a new 15-inch MacBook Air . However, if you’re looking for a 13-inch machine that packs plenty of value, Apple’s base MacBook Air from 2020 is matching its all-time low of $799.99 ($200 off) at Amazon and Best Buy . Despite its age, Apple’s M1-equipped remains one of our go-to recs for anyone who can’t afford the newest MacBook Air but wants something lightweight and relatively fast. We once heralded it as one of the best laptops you could get , namely due to its long-lasting battery life, solid... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/kO4ce7E

Windows lives on. | Image: Microsoft The activation algorithm for Windows XP has, incredibly, finally been completely cracked, allowing for totally offline activation, according to The Register (via Ars Technica ). A blog post on tinyapps covered a Reddit post discussing it , but the program allowing it has apparently existed for at least several months, possibly floating in the ether as a torrent download. As for who created the software, nobody in the subreddit post knows, including user retroreviewyt , who first shared it and isn’t even sure where they got it from, speculating it came from from a torrent somewhere. In the meantime, someone appears to be working on reverse engineering the software. A user calling themselves Neo-Desktop dropped the program into Github and s... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/H2wFdJn

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last year, Ford surprised F-150 Lightning truck owners with an accessory that can recharge stranded Teslas . Now, it looks like Tesla is the one lending a hand to Ford. In a surprise Twitter Spaces meeting between Ford CEO Jim Farley and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday, Farley announced Ford is adopting Tesla’s “North American Charging Standard” (NACS), an open version of Tesla’s proprietary charging port. “We think this is a huge move for our industry and for all electric customers ,” Farley said on the call. On the surface, it seems ideal: the two biggest EV sellers working together for the benefit of the electric vehicle future. Ford customers get access to Tesla’s superior charging network, and Tesla gets crucial buy-in for its... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/yXGoDYV

Illustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge It’s easy to blame trackers when fitness goals don’t go according to plan, but sometimes the problem lies closer to home. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/X7aebSK

Image: Nintendo If you’re 20 or so hours into Tears of the Kingdom and you don’t have Autobuild, you’re doing it wrong. Last week, there was a tweet going around asking that now Tears of the Kingdom ’s been out a few weeks, what advice would you share? Lots of people left valuable nuggets of information like fusing rubies to your equipment that can keep you warm during the Rito quest-line (just, y’know, don’t fuse ‘em to anything wooden). Another good piece of advice: use Ascend more! Are you using Ascend already? Great! Use it 1,000 percent more! I shared that unless your Purah Pad’s power wheel is complete, you are not done with the tutorial, emphasizing that Autobuild is an easy-to-miss but life-changing ability. My mentions were then flooded with... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/eQrsq0v

Image: Future Publishing via Getty Images Computex, one of the biggest trade shows of the year for the laptop and PC space, begins in a couple of days. A number of companies will have big announcements, but the most anticipated event of the week is Nvidia’s keynote, which will open the show on Monday morning. The keynote speaker will be Nvidia’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who — in case you missed it — added $7 billion to his net worth a few days ago following the company’s massive Q1 earnings report. Nvidia hasn’t publicly released much information about the topics Huang will cover; Computex revealed that the talk would include “advanced developments in the fields of accelerated computing and artificial intelligence.” Needless to say, we expect AI to feature heavily.... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/je3yQG5

Image: Daedalic Entertainment The developers behind The Lord of the Rings: Gollum have posted an apology after critics and players alike slammed the title for lackluster gameplay, unrefined graphics, and overall bugginess. In a message posted to Twitter and Steam , Daedalic Entertainment says it’s sorry for the game’s “underwhelming experience.” “We acknowledge and deeply regret that the game did not meet the expectations we set for ourselves or for our dedicated community,” the message reads. “We genuinely value your feedback and have been actively listening to your voices, reading your comments, and analyzing the constructive criticism and suggestions you have provided.” A few words from the " The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ " team pic.twitter.com/adPamy5EjO — The... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/4LJDvXx

Image: Nintendo Okay, fess up: I can’t have been the only one to use one of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s known duplication glitches to make a whole bunch of diamonds for easy Rupees. It wasn’t hard to do ! Unfortunately, the money well might be running dry because, thanks to the game’s new version 1.1.2 update , it appears that many of the known duplication glitches have been patched out. The patch notes don’t specifically spell this out: Audio Bug Fixes Fixed an issue where the sound would play at an extremely high volume in certain conditions. Additional Fixes Fixed an issue in the main quest, “Camera Work in the Depths”, where players could not progress beyond a certain point. Downloading the update will allow players to proceed past... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/TL9rUGX

Image: Apple Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is expected to be one of its biggest yet. After years of rumors and leaks, Apple could finally take the wraps off of its mixed reality headset, entering the company into a new product category and giving the world a first look at its attempt to prove that virtual reality is worth investing in. There’s also certain to be a lot more: operating system updates, new apps and features, and possibly some new hardware, too. Here, we’ve pulled together details on how and when you can watch the main WWDC keynote as well as some of the announcements that we expect from Apple. When is the WWDC 2023 keynote? Apple has confirmed that this year’s main WWDC keynote is slated for Monday, June 5th,... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/vE5bdHo

LG’s newer C3 OLED is a lot like the last-gen C2 but with more processing power and a few added features. | Image: LG Honestly, I’m as confused as anyone about how a holiday that was initially about honoring fallen soldiers has come to be associated with deals on big-ticket items. Nevertheless, the fact remains that Memorial Day weekend has historically offered some of the best opportunities to save on big appliances and various electronics. Right now, for example, LG’s new C3 OLED TV is sitting at a new all-time low. The 55-inch model is currently on sale at Amazon , Best Buy , and direct from LG for around $1,695 ($205 off). Smaller and larger configurations are also being discounted ahead of Memorial Day, including the 48-inch panel, which you can buy for $1,299.99 ($203 off) from Best Buy and LG . In terms of features, LG’s C3 offers new picture... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/bndrYeZ

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Netflix is betting that a password-sharing crackdown will reverse its dwindling revenue and wavering subscriber count. The company has historically never enforced its policy of one account per household. Now, by making members pay to share their subscriptions with people who live in other homes, Netflix will cash in on all those users they’ve been missing out on for all these years, right? Well, it might not be that simple. Netflix — where co-founder and now-former CEO Reed Hastings once said “password sharing is something you have to learn to live with” — told investors last year that password sharing contributed to the streamer’s first loss in subscribers in over a decade. After months of testing throughout Latin and Central America , N... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/vxDhMid

Image: Blue Bird Blue Bird, a century-old manufacturer of America’s iconic yellow school buses, has opened a new production facility to meet the rising demand for electric school buses. Announced via a press release (and an adorable promotional video ) on Thursday, a new 40,000 square foot “Electric Vehicle Build-Up Center” has been opened at Blue Bird’s main manufacturing plant in Fort Valley, Georgia, designed to increase the company’s production of electric school buses from 100 per year to 5,000. Electric versions of Blue Bird’s “Vision” (a classic “Type C” bus with capacity for 77 passengers) and “All American” (a flat-fronted “Type D” bus for 84 passengers) buses will be assembled at the new facility, each equipped with a 155kWh battery that... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/K6f2zp1

Image: Disney Filming for Thunderbolts , the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film centered around the franchise’s anti-heroes, has been delayed due to the ongoing writers strike, The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline report. Production had been due to start in the coming weeks in Atlanta, but now isn’t expected to commence until after the strike ends. Thunderbolts is just the latest production impacted by the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike. The union representing roughly 11,500 writers from across film, television, and more went on strike at the beginning of this month in a dispute around pay in an increasingly streaming-dominated era. The WGA is also seeking to regulate the use of generative AI in writers’ rooms. Production on Blade has... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ituW4ko

Link experiencing a memory. | Image: Nintendo After Breath of the Wild, playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a lesson in letting go of old habits in order to reach new heights. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/SZO9Kr0

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images A bad cover version. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/0QJIlPf

Modifying a website is now as easy as clicking a button or spinning around a color wheel. | Image: The Browser Company If you use the Arc browser , you’re about to get the power to redesign the internet. Kind of. Arc, the popular new browser from The Browser Company, is releasing an updated version of its Boosts feature that lets you control everything from the color to the layout of every website you visit. Basically, Boosts has two features. You can use it to change the colors and fonts on a page, or you can use it to hide any given part of the page. (You can also write CSS and JavaScript, so technically the sky’s the limit, but that requires more coding knowledge.) Want to force a website to have a dark mode? Easy. Want to make an article’s text bigger so you can actually, you know, see it? Done. To explain, let me just tell you a few things I’ve... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/9UCWocL

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge As a semester-long collaborative course between Parsons School of Design and Roblox comes to a close, students and faculty consider what fashion’s future might look like. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/vqp3VNd

Illustration: The Verge OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that the company might pull its services from the European market in response to AI regulation being developed by the EU. Speaking to reporters after a talk in London , Altman said he had “many concerns” about the EU AI Act, which is currently being finalized by lawmakers. The terms of the Act have been expanded in recent months to include new obligations for makers of so-called “foundation models” — large-scale AI systems that power services like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and DALL-E. “The details really matter,” said Altman, according to a report from The Financial Times . “We will try to comply, but if we can’t comply we will cease operating.” In comments reported by Time , Altman said the concern was that systems... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/zcI0l4y

The Vivobook 15 is a 15-inch budget alternative to the Acer Aspire 5 but with some of the same problems. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/k8hspea

Image: Opera Opera is testing an AI sidebar in its browser. The feature, called Aria, is powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and can generate text, write code, answer questions, and more, according to a blog post on Opera’s website . Aria lives within Opera’s sidebar on the left side of the screen, and clicking its icon reveals a panel where you can interact with it. Unlike the standard version of the ChatGPT chatbot, Opera’s browser AI can surface up-to-date information from across the web. It’s also capable of answering questions about Opera itself, as the company says it’s knowledgeable about the browser’s “whole database of support documentation.” Image: Opera The introduction of Aria builds upon some of the AI features that Opera... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/4KYanri

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge With E3 out of the picture once again , it’s time to gear up for a very busy few months of gaming news as publishers host their own livestreamed events. Kicking things off a little early is Sony with its PlayStation Showcase . The company describes it as an event “focusing on PS5 and PSVR 2 games in development from top studios from around the world.” Most likely, that means we’ll get a good look at some big first-party titles from Sony, including Insomniac’s pair of superhero titles: Spider-Man 2 and Wolverine . There are also multiplayer versions of some of Sony’s biggest franchises — Horizon and The Last of Us — in the works, and given the company’s recent run of acquisitions , it’s likely we’ll see some brand-new properties as well. (And... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/H8o19AM

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Thoughts are swarming my mind like a nest of cyber-rats. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/pGyeC6K

Fujifilm’s new XApp will be available on May 25th. | Image: Fujifilm At some point a few weeks ago, I decided I couldn’t deal with Fujifilm’s Camera Remote app anymore. So I threw in the towel and bought an SD-to-Lightning adapter , which lets me reliably get photos from my Fujifilm cameras onto my iPhone without any fuss. But it also makes me feel like a damn caveman. It’s supposed to be better than this in 2023. I’ve been using Fujifilm’s mirrorless cameras since the days of the X-T1. But like many others, I’ve had mixed experiences with the company’s mobile app. Just look at those reviews on the App Store and Google Play . In theory, this software is intended to make syncing photos between camera and smartphone very convenient. Sometimes that actually happens, and despite its rudimentary interface,... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/KXkrhdL

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is building a natural language AI chatbot into its Windows Terminal application. The upcoming GitHub Copilot Chat experience will be available to Windows Terminal users as Microsoft experiments further with adding AI-powered features to Windows features. “Users of GitHub Copilot will be able to take advantage of natural language AI both inline and in an experimental chat experience to recommend commands, explain errors, and take actions within the Terminal application,” explains Windows chief Panos Panay in a developer blog post today . The expansion of GitHub Copilot to Windows Terminal comes just months after GitHub announced a new ChatGPT-like assistant to help developers write and fix code. Microsoft first announced W... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/cX6le0D

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge After fleshing out its vlog-focused camera lineup with the full-frame ZV-E1 , Sony is now updating its bread-and-butter point-and-shoot that kicked off the ZV family. The new ZV-1 II is an $899.99 camera with a one-inch-type sensor, wider zoom lens than its predecessor, and various quality-of-life improvements over the ZV-1 of 2020. While the 20.1-megapixel resolution and ISO range remain the same, the new model opts for a wider, more vlog-friendly zoom lens and various conveniences like a USB-C port when it launches in June. The original ZV-1 was very much an offshoot of the longstanding RX-100 line — a longtime favorite for people who wanted a compact camera with good image quality for stills — with enhanced video features and a better... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/oijhBaI

The Playdate is the size of a Post-it note, and it is loved. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge $199 gets you a system with 24 games and plenty of indies to sideload. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://www.theverge.com/23733264/panic-playdate-handheld-gameboy-season-one-two

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in January 2023. | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has issued a new public advisory warning that “there are ample indicators that social media can also have a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents.” Although the report says social media can provide benefits to younger users and cautions that more research is needed to fully understand its impact, it says America needs to “urgently take action to create safe and healthy digital environments that minimize harm and safeguard children’s and adolescents’ mental health and well-being during critical stages of development.” The report notes that advisories from the Surgeon General like the one issued today represent an attempt to call attention to “an urgent... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/1q4JptC

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft’s yearly developer conference, Build, is kicking off Tuesday, May 23rd, and running through Thursday, May 25th. The annual event showcases Microsoft’s latest platform improvements for developers, and we’re expecting to hear a lot about the company’s AI plans this year. Microsoft will hold Build virtually and in person at the Seattle conference center, where developers, students, engineers, and technology professionals will attend to hear the latest announcements on Windows, Microsoft’s productivity apps, Azure cloud services, and more. AI will play a big part of Microsoft Build 2023 after the software maker has rolled out a GPT-4-powered version of Bing and announced its Copilot assistant platform for Office apps, Teams, and... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/GlH9eR5

The 2024 Toyota Tacoma Limited. | Image: Toyota The Toyota Tacoma is finally getting a hybrid option. Last week, Toyota announced that the 2024 Tacoma will feature a new i-Force Max hybrid powertrain it says is the “most powerful” ever offered on the pickup. Along with the new powertrain, the hybrid Tacoma will also come with a 2.4-liter engine and a 48-horsepower electric motor. It also features an eight-speed transmission that’s powered by a 1.87kWh NiMH (nickel metal hydride) battery pack, creating a system that’s capable of delivering 326 horsepower with 465 lb-ft of torque. Toyota says this nearly doubles the torque output of the automaker’s current Tacoma with a V-6 engine. The hybrid i-Force Max powertrain will be available on the TRD Sport, TRD Off-Road, Limited, TRD Pro, and... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/iSoYJeG

Cadillac Escalade IQ nameplate. | Image: GM GM has announced it’s working on an all-electric version of the luxury full-size Cadillac Escalade SUV, called the Escalade IQ. The Escalade IQ joins Cadillac’s other EVs, which include the ultra-luxury and limited Celestiq and the more attainable Lyriq SUV, which starts at $64,000 . It’s all part of GM’s plan to make the luxury brand exclusively an EV label by 2030. GM’s Ultium platform is the basis for its current and upcoming electric vehicles, including the Chevy Equinox EV, Silverado, and even the GMC Hummer EV — and presumably this one as well. Many of the electric vehicles from multiple automakers are leaning into larger SUVs in the US market as demand for them increases. Kia’s EV9 is one hotly anticipated three-row SUV that... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/wGJrTKq

Image: Venmo Venmo is introducing a new service that allows parents to open a Venmo account for children between the ages of 13-17 to send and receive money via the app. Venmo Teen accounts also come with a debit card and controls for parents to monitor transactions and manage their child’s privacy settings — important because Venmo has been routinely criticized for its lack of privacy protections in the past. Parents or legal guardians must sign up for a Venmo Teen account on behalf of their children. Each Venmo Teen account is connected to the parent’s personal Venmo account, which allows guardians to send money to their teen, monitor their account balance and transactions, and manage their privacy settings. Up to five Venmo Teen accounts can be... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/FdA3v2D

Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge; photo by Anthony Hamboussi Tevina Willis taped up her windows as Superstorm Sandy neared her Red Hook, Brooklyn, home. Outside her apartment, hurricane winds pushed a wall of water into the city. The storm surge swept boats from the harbor onto streets turned into rivers. Willis rode it out. “I had been through hurricanes in the projects when I was a child,” she says. “I knew just to be calm and sit away from the windows, away from glass.” Two days later, the storm subsided. But for Willis and others in Red Hook, the disaster was just the beginning. New York City’s infrastructure was mangled. Power and telecommunications lines — even cellphone networks — had gone down. Her building inside the Red Hook Houses, a public housing complex where she lived, was left... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/61qm2gY