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Illustration: The Verge Google is planning to roll out a technology that will identify whether a photo was taken with a camera, edited by software like Photoshop, or produced by generative AI models. In the coming months , Google’s search results will include an updated “about this image feature” to let people know if an image was created or edited with AI tools. The system Google is using is part of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity ( C2PA ), one of the largest groups trying to address AI-generated imagery. C2PA’s authentication is a technical standard that includes information about where images originate and works across both hardware and software to create a digital trail. Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe, Arm, OpenAI, Intel, Truepic, and Google... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/IhQ7HtY

The Series 10 bets big on a larger display and a more wearable design. As far as iterative updates go, that’s a savvy choice. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/UqFS3kI

Apple announced a new set of AirPods Max during its event last week, updating them with USB-C and in a new set of colors. The switch to USB-C is a welcome one, to be sure, but Apple changed nothing else about them. And that feels weird, right? What gives? Apple’s high-end luxury headphones were impressive when they launched in 2020. They had all the features of the AirPods Pro and made clever use of the Apple Watch’s digital crown for volume control. They also sounded fantastic — still do, in fact! But the rest of the market didn’t sit still; alternatives from Sony , Bose , and more recently, Sonos , all offer comparable features and sound — most notably, they each compete with the AirPods Max when it comes to noise cancellation (Bose does... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/WCdB5jO

Image: Nintendo The incoming holiday season has some reliable signs, with Christmas songs on the radio, football back on television, and Nintendo Switch bundles with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe . If you somehow have avoided the convertible console so far, then this is your chance to get not only the system but also a complimentary subscription to Nintendo Switch Online. Since we know that the Switch 2 will be announced soon , Nintendo has improved the offer over last year’s bundle by including the Switch OLED as an option and packing in 12 months of the online service for free instead of three. Image: Nintendo The Mario Kart 8 pack-in is in the form of a digital code, so that’s worth noting if you demand physical media. But otherwise,... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ULZVfRs

Aerial image of a controlled burn. | Image: Google A Google-backed initiative aims to prevent raging infernos by using satellites that can detect small fires before they grow out of control. The goal is to launch a constellation of satellites called FireSat into low Earth orbit. It’s a collaboration between a newly founded nonprofit coalition called Earth Fire Alliance and the startup Muon Space, which designs and operates satellite networks. Google.org is funding the project, and Google’s research team is also helping to develop the technology to spot wildfires and monitor their growth from space. “There is a significant gap between the data we have available today and what we could have with better satellite coverage.” Climate change is setting the stage for more monstrous wildfires... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/GQTPLEM

The AirPods 4 with active noise cancellation are worth springing for compared to the regular pair. Both sound good, but the ANC works surprisingly well — most of the time. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/F2c5geW

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge For so many years, the Evernote elephant was a truly iconic logo. Evernote was one of the first productivity apps to embrace smartphones, to enable cross-platform sync, and to make it really easy to store and create almost anything. And so Evernote was huge. But Peak Evernote was roughly a decade ago. Since then, the product has often felt stagnant (or worse), the company churned through executives and business plans, and it seemed like Evernote was slowly turning into a zombie app. Not gone, not even forgotten, just sort of... there. In 2022, when Bending Spoons acquired the company and soon after laid off nearly all its staff, millions of Evernote users were confused about what the future held for the tool they had relied on for so... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/rG9uoV0

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 52, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I swear I don’t always just share absurdly expensive gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I’ve been reading about Chappell Roan and college football and the problem with pennies , watching Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist and Jennifer Garner’s delightful AD home tour , taking copious notes on Ben Thompson’s newslettering process , making surprisingly great bread with a random recipe from Reddit , and trying out Google’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold. I also have for you some expensive but excellent new gadgets, a couple of great new tech podcasts, the best pause music... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ApbWJhj

Image: Goblinz Publishing Shogun Showdown sometimes breaks my brain. The new deckbuilding roguelike is all about tactics, and a key part of the game is that you can always see what the enemies plan to do next. Every once in a while, that gets me in a quandary where I know I’ll lose. But when things click into place and I clear everyone out in one fell swoop, I feel like a strategic genius. In the game, which just left early access , you’re constantly trying to position your character across a small level to either attack your foes or dodge their moves. As you play, you can upgrade your “tiles” (think: cards) to improve their damage, add perks like freezing ice, or lower their cooldown so that you can use them more frequently. You’re also able to stack up to... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/jMxAbKn

Image: The Verge Disney and DirecTV are back in business with each other after a carriage dispute that has kept ESPN, ABC, and other Disney-owned networks off of the cable provider since the beginning of September. ESPN and other channels Disney had blocked have been restored, giving DirecTV subscribers access, once again, to Monday Night Football, college football games, and other programming from Disney’s channels. As part of the deal, DirecTV will offer packages that include Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN Plus as bundles or a la carte options. It’ll also include “Disney’s upcoming ESPN flagship direct-to-consumer service” when it launches, for no extra cost. And DirecTV will be able to “offer multiple genre-specific options — sports, entertainment, kids... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/jOVMBvN

You can wear the NotePin or clip it almost anywhere — which is pretty much its whole appeal. | Image: Plaud Kudos to Plaud for one thing: in a year otherwise marred by high-profile failures and oh so much AI vaporware , it made an AI gadget that does exactly what it claims to do and does it pretty well. The gadget is called the NotePin , and it’s a $169, pill-shaped voice recorder that can transcribe, summarize, and pull important information out of your audio. This is something current AI systems can actually do well! There’s good and mature tech at every step along the pipeline here, from tiny microphones to speech-to-text transcription to natural-language processing and AI summarization. The NotePin does it well. But the reason the NotePin works is also the reason I wouldn’t recommend buying one. AI voice recording is great and handy and... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/sxCvLby

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Next week, a court will hear arguments about whether the US government can ban TikTok , based on evidence it doesn’t want anyone — including the social media company — to see. On September 16th, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will hear oral arguments for TikTok v. Garland , TikTok’s First Amendment challenge to legislation that it claims amounts to a ban. It’s a fight not just about free speech but whether the Department of Justice can make a case using classified material that its opponent can’t review or argue against. The government argues TikTok is a clear national security threat but says that revealing why would be a threat, too. “I think the courts are going to tread very carefully here,” Matt Schettenhelm, a... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/cJvAtBg

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Debates over AI’s artistic value have focused on its generative output. But so far, interactive systems have proved far more interesting. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/Zst42fm

The Verge United Airlines’ in-flight Wi-Fi is getting a big upgrade on its jets, thanks to SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. After teasing “something big” for the skies, United says that it will start testing Starlink’s fast Wi-Fi service in early 2025, with the first passenger flights expected later next year. United is installing Starlink Wi-Fi into all its aircraft, more than 1,000 planes, over the next several years and the service will be free for passengers. “Everything you can do on the ground, you’ll soon be able to do onboard a United plane at 35,000 feet, just about anywhere in the world,” says United CEO Scott Kirby . One mile at a time reports that United currently has four different Wi-Fi providers, with regional jets utilizing Intelsat... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/1W247dk

Image: The Verge Microsoft is laying off around 650 employees in its gaming division today. The latest cuts come months after Microsoft laid off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees , and after the closure of several game studios , including Redfall developer Arkane Austin. Xbox chief Phil Spencer announced the layoffs to employees in an internal memo this morning, seen by The Verge . The cuts are related to the Activision Blizzard deal, and Spencer makes it clear in his email that “no games, devices or experiences are being cancelled” and no studios are being closed as part of the layoffs today. “As part of aligning our post-acquisition team structure and managing our business, we have made the decision to eliminate approximately 650 roles across... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/9JDZVep

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Between flashy shots of a sleek new Apple Watch and a colorful array of iPhones, Apple made a major announcement for a two-year-old product: the AirPods Pro 2. The earbuds will soon gain a hearing aid function that anyone can access, a move that will provide a cheaper alternative to traditional hearing aids and an all-in-one solution that could change the way people get help for hearing loss. The Food and Drug Administration signed off on over-the-counter hearing aids in 2022, giving people access to cheaper alternatives that don’t require them to see a doctor. Provided Apple receives approval from the FDA, Apple’s new “clinical-grade” over-the-counter hearing aid capability will roll out as a free software update this fall. Some people... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/W23HbPi

Nuro wants to put its technology into a range of vehicle types. | Image: Nuro Nuro, the delivery robot company created by veterans of Google’s self-driving car project, is taking the bold — and risky — step to expand its business model to include robotaxis and personally owned autonomous vehicles. The California-based company, which currently operates a small fleet of delivery vehicles in California and Texas, doesn’t plan to build the vehicles itself. Instead, it will license its autonomous driving technology to outside companies, including car companies that want to use it for advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS) and rideshare operators for robotaxis. Nuro uses hardware provided by major companies like Nvidia and Arm to power its Nuro Driver, the company’s branding for the hardware and software used to power... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/elNfqAT

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images SB 1047 aims to regulate AI, and the AI industry is out to stop it. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/pgHQxmU

Hugs and kisses! | Image: Cody Peterson (Each Other) Though I’d heard this XOXO festival would be the last one, many people I spoke to seemed not to believe it. I was told by previous attendees that festival organizers Andy Baio and Andy McMillan — affectionately called “the Andys” — “always say that.” But from the festival’s beginning, it also seemed clear that the Andys didn’t plan to do this forever. Anyway, this year’s XOXO felt like an Irish wake to me. It was like we had all gathered over the body of a specific period on the internet to pay our respects. XOXO began in 2012, born on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter , where Baio worked. The basic idea was to celebrate “disruptive creativity” — that is, to take all the artists who make a living online and bring them together with... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/E7HeT6u

The Dirigera hub and Ikea's Home smart app. | Image: Ikea Two years after announcing support, Ikea’s Dirigera hub can now be updated to act as a bridge between Ikea’s smart home devices and Matter-enabled systems. The software update builds upon early beta support by letting Ikea’s entire lineup of Zigbee-based smart home devices — like lights, blinds, controllers, air purifiers, and sensors — communicate with Matter-enabled devices from any company. Bridging support for existing devices to Matter is a small but significant step in Ikea’s plan to fully support the new smart home protocol. It’s the same tepid approach Philips Hue has taken but hopefully with better results . Other companies like Aqara have more fully embraced the standard by launching native Matter devices that don’t require... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/kU68WmF

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will meet on the presidential debate stage for the first time on Tuesday night. Though it’s technically the second presidential debate of the general election, it’s the first since Harris became the Democratic nominee, replacing President Joe Biden as the party’s candidate. That happened after Biden’s disastrous debate exacerbated concerns about his age, leading to a fracturing of support in the party and his eventual decision to step down and endorse his VP for the top of the ticket. Tech isn’t likely to be a major focus of this debate, but since it’s one of the first opportunities we’ve had to hear from Harris since she took on the nomination, we’ll be listening for clues... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/8JiIev6

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Let’s be super clear about something: the iPhone 16’s “Camera Control” is very much a button . It’s a cool multipurpose button that has a lot to say about how Apple views cameras and AI and the future of how we interact with technology and the world, but a button just the same. And the new button may be the most interesting thing about the new slate of iPhones. On this episode of The Vergecast , we gather a few hours after Apple’s latest iPhone launch to talk through all the new devices. We dig into the differences between the iPhone 16 and the 16 Pro and why fans of the regular iPhone might be in for a good year. We talk about the new cameras, the new colors, and the button. We talk a lot about the button. After that, we talk about the... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/nOyvXpo

The first two Pixel Watches were playing catch-up. Now, Google’s starting to flesh out its wearable vision. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/FYgxdu2

The new pause option for iOS 18 can be seen here underneath the recording button. | Image: Tom Warren / The Verge Apple has added a new Camera app feature in the latest iOS 18 beta that gives iPhone users a dedicated option to pause video recordings. The feature, spotted by 9to5Mac , is coming to all iOS 18-supported iPhone models when the OS update is released on September 16th, unlike the wider “Camera Control” tools that are exclusive to the iPhone 16 . The feature will finally enable iPhones to film multiple shots in a single video instead of the current process that requires users to take separate recordings that must be edited together. When updated to iOS 18, a pause button is added to the Camera app which changes to a Record button when users have actively paused their video recording. Users can also switch between camera lenses while a... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/fQjTm0h

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Sony is holding a PlayStation “Technical Presentation” tomorrow, just days after teasing a PS5 Pro console. The nine-minute stream will be hosted by Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PS5 console. Cerny previously revealed the full PS5 specs ahead of its debut in 2020. The stream will start at 8AM PT / 11AM ET / 4PM UK on September 10th and will be broadcast on the PlayStation YouTube channel. Sony hasn’t provided any further details about the technical presentation, but the announcement comes just after Sony teased the PS5 Pro in a 30th anniversary PlayStation image. A montage included a PS5 design that looks identical to the PS5 Pro leak from last month. Leaked images of the PS5 Pro showed a console with three black stripes in the... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/CHGuhX7

Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo: Anthropic Anthropic’s new chief product officer on the promise and limits of chatbots like Claude and what’s next for generative AI. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/Je4P9mu

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Google and the government recently wrapped their search antitrust case, which ended in a judge finding Google to be a monopolist. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/91YhtOm

The IFA tech show is celebrating its 100th year. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Laptops that twist, robovacs that can climb, and AI in everything; here’s all you need to know about Europe’s largest tech show. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ja67Ek0

Illustration by Carlo Cadenas / The Verge A pair of security researchers say they discovered a vulnerability in login systems for records that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses to verify airline crew members at airport security checkpoints. The bug let anyone with a “basic knowledge of SQL injection” add themselves to airline rosters, potentially letting them breeze through security and into the cockpit of a commercial airplane, researcher Ian Carroll wrote in a blog post in August. Carroll and his partner, Sam Curry, apparently discovered the vulnerability while probing the third-party website of a vendor called FlyCASS that provides smaller airlines access to the TSA’s Known Crewmember (KCM) system and Cockpit Access Security System (CASS). They found that... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/olEfjB4

Illustration: The Verge Tomorrow’s iPhone 16 launch won’t be the final Apple event of the year, as the company plans to debut some M4 Macs and new iPads with another showing in October, according to Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter . Apple could be announcing a new iPad Mini for the first time since 2021 in October, as well as a Mac Mini with an M4 chip , packed into a box about the size of an Apple TV, making that the first real redesign of the diminutive desktop in over a decade. So it’s about time for both! The event will include new versions of the iMac and MacBook Pro, both with M4 chips, as well, Gurman writes. Between that and updated iPhones , Apple Watches , and AirPods expected at tomorrow’s “Glowtime” event , only a handful of Apple... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ZUXitBz

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 51, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I hope you love spy shows as much as I do, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I’ve been reading about cobalt miners and religious AI and the history of the Moleskine , listening to pop-punk Disney songs on repeat, finally starting The Sopranos (I know, I know), soundtracking my workday with the Earth.fm app , giving Tweek another whirl for simple task and calendar stuff, and spending too much time debating whether NFL Sunday Ticket is worth the money. It’s definitely not, but it also, like, kind of is. I also have for you everybody’s favorite new PlayStation game,... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/rcTSjID

Image: Team Asobi The sequel to a simple pack-in game is a flawless love letter to both PlayStation’s history and video games in general. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/3dq4g9E

Starliner just after undocking from the ISS. | Screenshot: YouTube The Boeing Starliner spacecraft successfully completed its uncrewed flight back to Earth, NASA announced overnight . The return ended the Starliner’s most recent flight test months later than intended and leaves its original crew, NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams, aboard the International Space Station until next year. The Starliner touched down right on time at 12:01 AM ET at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, according to NASA. Officials at the agency hailed its successful descent: “I am extremely proud of the work our collective team put into this entire flight test, and we are pleased to see Starliner’s safe return,” said Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/bfVoXhI

You can buy a disassembled iPhone 4S framed for just $99. | Image: Grid Studio If you’re a fan of all things retro, Grid’s framed disassembled gadgets are a celebration of vintage tech you will likely find charming. The company turns obsolete smartphones, gaming consoles, controllers, and other old-school gizmos into collage-like artwork placed in shadowbox-style frames, making for incredibly unusual pieces of home or office decor. And right now through September 12th, many of our favorite Grid items are up to around 40 percent off in honor of the company’s fourth anniversary. A wide range of nostalgia-inducing gadgets are on sale; you can check them all out here . You can, for instance, buy the translucent Game Boy Color and the iPod Photo from 2004 for $159.20 when you use promo code GRID4 at checkout. For me,... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/FuQU2CD

Regular iPhone, rise up. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Look, I get it. People aren’t buying phones like they used to, so Apple’s really gotta put the squeeze on us every upgrade cycle. And recently, that has meant pushing more people toward the Pro iPhone, rather than the regular one. Every year for the past few years, Apple has withheld more and more features for its Pro phones, bring them down to the standard iPhone at a drip. But that might be changing this year, if the rumors are true , and to that I say: it’s about damn time. In the past couple of cycles only the “Pro” models have gotten the latest Bionic chipset. That doesn’t just mean that the Pro models are more powerful — it also means that the regular iPhone won’t be eligible for the same feature updates that the Pro models get... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/HgqYEr0

Illustration: The Verge Google and the Justice Department are set for a rematch of sorts on Monday when they return to court to argue about Google’s alleged monopolistic behavior over how ads are bought and sold on the internet. The DOJ is fresh off a win in its search antitrust case against Google, where a federal judge in Washington, DC, agreed that Google had illegally monopolized the online search market . This time, the two parties will argue before a different judge in Virginia about whether Google has also illegally monopolized markets for advertising technology. “This is kind of a one-two punch,” says Vanderbilt Law School antitrust professor Rebecca Haw Allensworth. “Google is probably licking its wounds from having lost the last one. And it would be... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/0kyL5Dp

Snap Groups is basically Snap Layouts for Chromebooks. | Illustration: The Verge Google is rolling out a new ChromeOS update that makes it easier to keep your on-screen apps organized, copy text from images, and adjust camera and microphone settings on Chromebook devices. One of the more notable features introduced in ChromeOS 128 is Snap Groups — a feature similar to Windows 11’s Snap layouts that allows you to easily group apps together in a variety of fullscreen layouts. The feature is even triggered the same way as Microsoft does it, by hovering over the maximize app button. The ChromeOS camera app now supports Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract text from captured images of letters or other documents. It allows users to copy or search the text in images, more easily convert images into searchable... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/J3UBvT1

The most welcome upgrade on the Xgimi Aura 2 is a retractable lens protector. | Image: Xgimi Xgimi has announced an upgraded version of its ultra-short throw projector. The new Aura 2 is smaller and lighter than its predecessor while delivering more brightness, but the most welcome improvement is an automatic sliding cover on top that protects the projector’s lens and helps minimize dust buildup. Image: Xgimi The Aura 2 can project an image up to 150 inches in size while sitting close to a wall. Xgimi says the Aura 2 produces 2,300 ISO lumens of brightness from its “Dual Light 2.0” light source that uses a combination of lasers and LEDs. That’s up from 1,800 ISO lumens for the original Xgimi Aura, which should improve the Aura 2’s performance when used in rooms where ambient light can’t be completely... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/UhmkEi0

The Segway-Ninebot ZT3 Pro has six inches of ground clearance thanks to 11-inch tubeless tires. | Image: Segway-Ninebot The new Segway-Ninebot ZT3 Pro is the company’s first electric scooter that’s designed to handle terrain considerably rougher than the average urban commute. Weighing a hefty 65.5lbs, the ZT3 Pro pairs 11-inch tubeless tires with a fork suspension on the front, a coil suspension swing arm on the back, and six inches of ground clearance beneath its deck. That setup should not only provide a smoother ride when going off road but also help reduce the risk of the ZT3 Pro bottoming out when traversing uneven terrain. Powered by a 1,600-watt electric motor, the US version of the ZT3 Pro will have a top speed of 24.9mph and a maximum range of 18.6 miles in its full-power sport mode. Switching to a much slower eco mode will boost the scooter’s... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ReQXLml

The flaw doesn’t impact newer YubiKey hardware that doesn’t use the Infineon cryptolibrary. | Image: Yubico Security researchers have detected a vulnerability in YubiKey two-factor authentication tokens that enables attackers to clone the device according to a new security advisory . The vulnerability was discovered within the Infineon cryptographic library used by most YubiKey products, including the YubiKey 5, Yubikey Bio, Security Key, and YubiHSM 2 series devices. YubiKey manufacturer Yubico says the severity of the side-channel vulnerability is “moderate” but is difficult to exploit, partly because two-factor systems rely upon something the user has and something only they should know. “The attacker would need physical possession of the YubiKey, Security Key, or YubiHSM, knowledge of the accounts they want to target, and specialized... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/2ie06Np

The Verge Microsoft is holding a special Copilot event later this month that will be focused on “the next phase of Copilot innovation.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and vice president of AI at work Jared Spataro will host the “wave 2” Copilot event on September 16th. The event will be hosted on LinkedIn and focus on the business side of Microsoft’s Copilot offerings. I revealed in my Notepad newsletter last month that Microsoft is about to rebrand Copilot in the most Microsoft way possible . This means that instead of “Copilot in Word” it will become “Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word,” alongside a rebranding of “Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365” to “Microsoft 365 Copilot.” Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s event won’t be all about... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/xD6SXIM

Microsoft’s latest Surface lineup for businesses. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is ready to start selling its Qualcomm-powered Surface devices to businesses. Starting on September 10th , both the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 will be available for business customers for the first time, after launching in June to consumers as part of Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PC wave of devices and its Windows on Arm push. The hardware inside the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 for businesses will be identical to the consumer options. Businesses will be able to pick between two main options for the Surface Pro 11. There’s the 10-core Snapdragon X Plus Surface Pro 11 with 16GB of RAM, up to 512GB of storage, and the regular LCD display, or the OLED model with the 12-core Snapdragon X Elite, up to 32GB of RAM, and up... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/WTcjnfK

The iPhone SE 4 may look a lot like the iPhone 14. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The fourth-generation iPhone SE might be getting an OLED display, a new rumor bubbling up from its supply chain suggests. The company has started ordering OLED displays from both BOE and LG Display to outfit the phone with, according to Nikkei Asia . The possibility that Apple was switching its cheapest phone away from LCD tech has been rumored for over a year but Nikkei ’s report suggests Apple is gearing up to release a new iPhone SE in a few months. Apple could start producing the phones next month in preparation for an early 2025 launch, MacRumors writes . Display tech aside, it’s expected that the iPhone SE will be in an iPhone 14 chassis with — and I’m truly sorry to write this, as an iPhone Mini fan — a 6.1-inch display. It could... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/hLHf2SY

The Outdoor Backpack is available in 45L and 25L models. | Image: Peak Design / Composite The Verge San Francisco-based Peak Design — maker of one of our all-time favorite backpacks — is back with its first new bag lineup in five years . PD says its new Outdoor line of backpacks and slings can be worn together for use beyond the pavement. They feature the company’s “most advanced soft-goods design to date,” with lots of adjustment points for a variety of body types and loads. The new bags are compatible with the company’s modular packing cubes that make it easy to organize and quickly access camera equipment, clothing, and other gear. “Peak Design has been synonymous with ‘outdoor photography’ yet we still haven’t created true outdoor bags...until now,” says Peak Design founder and CEO Peter Dering in a press release. “The Outdoor Line... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/1biJD4r

From left to right: the River 3, the Rapid power bank, the Delta 3, and the Power Kit v2. | Image: EcoFlow EcoFlow just launched four new battery products designed to power everything from your home appliances in the event of a blackout to your Qi2-compatible phone to RVs. Going from most powerful to least, there’s the second-generation Power Kit to power your off-grid vanlife fantasies, the midrange Delta 3 and compact River 3 solar generators, and the Rapid Qi2 wireless power banks for phones that can also charge your laptop in a pinch. Image: EcoFlow All the new EcoFlow products. The Power Kit v2 is a follow-up to its original all-in-one power management system I reviewed 18 months ago . The kits are designed to power everything from an off-grid cabin to a small campervan, without the complexity of having to... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/Y9JwUNq

Existing subscribers Canva teams subscribers are being moved to a new, more expensive pricing model. | The Verge The price of some Canva subscriptions are set to skyrocket next year following the company’s aggressive rollout of generative AI features. Global customers for Canva Teams — a business-orientated subscription that supports adding multiple users — can expect prices to increase by just over 300 percent in some instances. Canva says the increase is justified due to the “expanded product experience” and value that generative AI tools have added to the platform. In the US, some Canva Teams users are reporting subscription increases from $120 per year for up to five users, to an eye-watering $500 per year. A 40 percent discount will be applied to bring that down to $300 for the first 12 months. In Australia, Information Age reports that the... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/NvqAyoJ

The Pixel 9 is the Android flagship for anyone who just wants a dang phone. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/b9Df283

Image: The Verge A federal judge issued a last-minute partial block on a Texas law that would require some large web services to identify minors and filter what they see online. Called HB 18 or the Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act, it was signed into law last year and was set to take effect over the weekend on September 1st. But a late Friday court ruling determined that the “monitoring and filtering” requirements posed a significant threat to online speech. The SCOPE Act requires a range of web services, particularly large social networks, to apply special rules to users whose registered age is under 18. That includes limiting data collection, banning targeted advertising, and not allowing financial transactions without... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/AB4q3Eu

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After a brutal 2023 , the vibes around self-driving cars are improving. Cruise, the industry leader whose vehicle was involved in a horrific San Francisco crash last fall, has rebooted under new management, while rival Waymo is expanding to serve broader swaths of the Bay Area and Los Angeles and Tesla is promising a new robotaxi service. Although Americans say they remain wary of autonomous driving, boosters insist there is nothing to fear. In fact, they foresee roads full of self-driving cars that are both safer and cleaner than the status quo, a tantalizing prospect in a country where transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and residents are several times more likely to die in a crash than those living in other... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/wGyhdvF

Image: Microsoft Lenovo appears ready to launch new more affordable Copilot Plus PCs. Reliable leaker Evan Blass has published a press release from Lenovo that details a variety of Copilot Plus PCs that will be announced at the IFA trade show later this week, including two that are powered by an unannounced 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus chip. The new Qualcomm-powered Copilot Plus PCs from Lenovo include the IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1, a convertible with a 14-inch OLED display, and the IdeaPad Slim 5x, a full-metal clamshell laptop with the option to pick a 14-inch OLED display. Both feature a new Snapdragon X Plus 8-core chip, instead of the regular 10-core version. Image: Evan Blass (X) The IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1 comes with an OLED... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/71tmdfr

Image: Nintendo Sure, it’s not straight-up horror as the early teasers suggested , but even still, Emio — The Smiling Man is among the darkest games Nintendo has ever made. It’s a murder mystery that doesn’t skimp on the murder and throws in an unsettling urban legend for good measure. More than that, though, it’s just a really great mystery on a platform that has steadily become an ideal home for them. Emio is actually the continuation of a decades-old franchise from Nintendo called Famicom Detective Club . Created by Metroid designer Yoshio Sakamoto , the games originally never launched outside of Japan, until a pair of surprise remakes hit the Switch in 2021 . Emio is the first entirely new entry in the franchise since the late ’80s — but even still, not... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/XZLkIml

The fediverse has the potential to help create enduring and interoperable social networks. But many creators and businesses rely on bigger, closed platforms because they offer direct ways to make money from their audiences, which is hard to do in the fediverse right now. Sub.club is trying to solve that. The idea is that this will let users on ActivityPub-based platforms like Mastodon easily offer paid subscriptions and premium content while taking a 6 percent cut in addition to payment processing fees. It could solve a big problem with the fediverse right now: it’s not easy to make a living on it unless you direct your followers back to existing platforms like Patreon that are closed off and require users to visit a particular site or... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/tzlDuOb

Image: Getty Let’s get one thing out of the way: contrary to what you may have heard, electric vehicle sales are up. I know, recent headlines suggest otherwise. Tesla sales are down . Ford is scaling back its EV rollout. General Motors is delaying an electric truck and holding back on investments in EV battery mining. And Hertz is off-loading EVs as its stock price struggles. Automakers across the board are losing millions — some are losing billions — as customer demand appears to have flatlined after an initial burst of excitement. The vibe, as they say, is grim. And yet, sales are still growing. JD Power is projecting that 1.2 million EVs will be sold in the US by the end of 2024, an increase over 1 million sold last year. That’s 9 percent of... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ad9iDLv