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    News PC memory gets faster, safer with new DDR5 standard

    As CPU makers push microprocessors even faster, a PC’s memory must keep up as well. JEDEC, a key chip standards body, has responded by issuing a new DDR5 memory standard that pushes speeds up to 8800Mbps. Put another way, that means that PC memory speeds will increase from DDR5-6800 to...
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    News The VWFNDR Keirin is an expansive new concept for the future of cameras

    The The VWFNDR Keirin camera concept. This past weekend, a local startup held an exhibition not too far from where I live in Tokyo to show off its idea for an entirely new take on camera hardware. That’s not the sort of thing that happens every weekend, even in Tokyo, so I biked on over to take...
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    News This could finally be the year the iPad gets a built-in calculator app

    Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge It’s been over a decade since the release of the very first iPad — and it may finally get Apple’s Calculator app. MacRumors reports that Apple plans to introduce its native calculator in iPadOS 18, which Apple will likely introduce during its Worldwide...
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    News Tesla reveals a new Model 3 Performance with more horsepower and faster acceleration

    Tesla On the cusp of what’s expected to be a very not-good earnings report, Tesla decided to shuffle its search results a bit with the reveal of the 2024 Model 3 Performance, with a specially tuned chassis and a 2.9 second 0–60 mph acceleration time. Interestingly, Tesla did not give this...
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    News Luminar starts shipping lidar for Volvo EX90 — while readying its next-gen sensor

    Luminar’s new Halo lidar sensor is expected to be less than one inch thick. | Image: Luminar Luminar is shipping out orders of its lidar sensors to Volvo as the automaker is preparing to start production of its EX90 electric vehicles, the company said today. Volvo will use the laser sensor to...
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    News How 14 tribes plan to use the Biden administration’s solar grants

    Cody Two Bears attends the Stand With Standing Rock Benefit at ABC Home & Carpet on December 15th, 2016, in New York City. | Photo by Mark Sagliocco / WireImage A coalition of 14 tribes received $135,580,000 for solar energy, part of a Biden administration program to help more households run on...
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    News You don’t know your K-pop persona, do you?

    Image: Spotify Spotify has launched a colorful personality quiz designed to help K-pop fans determine their persona. For those unfamiliar with the K-pop term or its Jungian roots, a “persona” refers to the distinct, public-facing role of each member of a band. The feature leans into K-pop’s...
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    News Atlus’ new fantasy-meets-Persona RPG launches in October

    Image: Atlus Metaphor: ReFantazio is the inscrutable name for Atlus’ next RPG project. The company launched a new trailer and a 30-minute video introducing players to the story, gameplay, and social elements of the game, and at first blush, it looks pretty damn intriguing. Check out the...
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    News The biggest AI companies agree to crack down on child abuse images

    Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Tech companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Amazon committed today to reviewing their AI training data for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and removing it from use in any future models. The companies signed on...
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    News Samsung's Galaxy S24 Ultra is on sale for its lowest price yet at Amazon and Best Buy

    Both Amazon and Best Buy are selling unlocked models of Samsung's Galaxy S24 Ultra with 256GB of storage for $200 off the list price. That brings the smartphone down to $1,100 and marks the lowest price we've seen yet (outside of trade-in and carrier offers). Last month, all three handsets in...
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    News Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses do the AI thing without a projector or subscription

    The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses have been something of a pleasant surprise. They make videos, take photos, livestream and act as an adequate replacement for headphones, all while looking like a normal pair of sunglasses. However, everyone’s been waiting for the addition of multimodal AI after...
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    News Midnight Commander revives the spirit of Norton’s long-dead file manager

    F5 to copy, F6 to move, or F8 to delete: At the time, these were important shortcuts for quick file management in Norton Commander. The former standard tool among file managers is long gone, but Midnight Commander offers you an adequate replacement. With its side-by-side directories, the...
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    News 8BitDo's Nintendo-style Retro Mechanical Keyboard hits a new low of $70 at Woot

    If you're in the market for a new mechanical keyboard with some retro flair, here's a deal worth noting: the 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard is down to $70 at Amazon subsidiary Woot. That's the lowest price we've tracked. This offer has been live for a few days, but it comes in $30 below...
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    News Amazon’s updated grocery delivery program has some strings attached

    After asserting itself as an overshadowing presence in retail, Amazon is still experimenting with ways to leave a similar mark in groceries. The company’s latest tweak to its service lowers the minimum price for free grocery deliveries to $35. However, most customers using the service will also...
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    News Bringing Fallout’s gritty retrofuturism into the real world

    Image: Amazon For production designer Howard Cummings, Fallout wasn’t just the name of his most recent project — it also became a verb. As he was working on Amazon’s live-action adaptation of the game series, Cummings and his team used the word Fallout as a shorthand to describe the particular...
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    News Apple’s next product event happens on May 7, and it’s probably iPads

    Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple is going to announce some new things on Tuesday, May 7, at 10 am Eastern, according to an invitation the company sent out to members of the press (and posted to its website) this morning. The name Apple has given the event (“Let Loose”) doesn’t tell us much about...
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    News You can now disable some of Fortnite’s most toxic emotes

    The "Laugh it Up" emote is one of four that can now be blocked using a setting in Fortnite. [credit: Epic Games ] For online players tired of being harassed by randos over voice chat, animated emotes have long served as a "safe" way to communicate in-game via simple, pre-approved non-verbal...
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    News Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote

    X just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it's building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named X TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.” By...
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    News Your old Rock Band guitars now work in Fortnite Festival

    You may be able to give those plastic Rock Band guitars you have stuffed away in the attic a new lease of life. Fortnite Festival (a Rock Band-style mode that debuted in Fortnite in December) now supports several Rock Band 4 controllers across PlayStation, Xbox and PC, as detailed in a blog...
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    News The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses get video calling, Apple Music, and a new style

    There’s a new cat-eye frame called the Skyler. | Image: Meta Meta just announced a slew of new updates for its Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. CEO Mark Zuckerberg just dropped an Instagram reel showing off a new cat-eye frame style for the glasses and a video calling feature. You can also now...
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    News Samsung’s new glare-free OLED S95D TV is receiving its first cash discount

    Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Don’t kick yourself if you missed out on Samsung’s free TV preorder promo from earlier this month. The company is now offering a much better cash discount on one of its most notable new models: the glare-free Samsung OLED S95D TV. The smallest TV in the lineup...
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    News The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now

    Overall, pulling out your phone is still faster, but it is handy for identifying things when you’re out and about. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It can be handy, confidently wrong, and just plain finicky — but smart glasses are a much more comfortable form factor for this tech...
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    News Apple will host a virtual event on May 7th, ahead of WWDC

    Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is only a few weeks away, but the company simply can't wait that long to make some more announcements. It has scheduled a virtual event for May 7. The stream will be available on Apple's website and the Apple TV app (and likely YouTube) and it will start...
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    News Nobody needs to spend $160 on a gaming mouse, but Razer’s new Viper V3 Pro is excellent anyway

    Razer has rolled out the Viper V3 Pro, its latest high-end wireless gaming mouse. What makes a gaming mouse “high-end,” you might ask? Mainly, it’s super lightweight and packed with impressive wireless and sensor tech, all of which makes it extremely responsive in competitive games. I’ve had one...
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    News Razer’s Viper V3 Pro mouse puts its dongle where it belongs

    The white Razer Viper V3 Pro next to its large bundled HyperPolling Wireless Dongle. | Image: Razer Does your gaming mouse track its own position 8,000 times per second? If you’re the kind of person who cares, I suspect you might also want that mouse to track that fast out of the box — instead...
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    News Linux can finally run your car’s safety systems and driver-assistance features

    Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) There's a new Linux distro on the scene today, and it's a bit specialized. Its development was led by the automotive electronics supplier Elektrobit, and it's the first open source OS that complies with the automotive industry's functional safety requirements...
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    News Take 35% off Samsung’s fast, rugged T7 Shield portable SSD

    The days of floppy disks and burned CDs may be long gone, but every once in a while you still need just a huge bucket of external storage. The frustrating thing is that the bigger the drives and files get, the longer the transfers take over USB. Samsung’s T7 Shield external drive takes care of...
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    News Aomei Backupper Pro review: All-in-one backup, now with online storage

    At a Glance Expert's Rating Pros File backup, sync, and imaging in one program Easy interface 1TB of online storage for $20 extra with yearly license, $30 with perpetual license Cons Minor interface glitches and sloppiness Doesn’t support VHD/VHDX Online storage only usable via Backupper...
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    News This versatile HP 2-in-1 laptop is a steal at $460

    You can’t really beat the versatility of a 2-in-1 laptop. You can swing the screen around 360 degrees and use it like a tablet or prop it up like a painter’s easel for watching movies or sharing a work presentation. If you’re interested in picking up such a machine, you’re in luck. Today you can...
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    News Apple announces May 7th event for new iPads

    Illustration: The Verge After kicking off 2024 with the launch of the Vision Pro, the next act in Apple’s 2024 script is a May product launch event. Apple has started inviting members of the media to a “special Apple Event” on May 7th at 7AM PT / 10AM ET. The invite’s image includes the Apple...
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    News Netflix’s Atlas is looking more and more like a buddy cop movie about working with AI

    At first glance, Netflix’s upcoming action thriller Atlas, starring Jennifer Lopez, seemed like it was going to be a rather serious movie about a mech pilot fighting to survive on an inhospitable planet. That could still be the case, but the movie’s latest trailer makes it out to be a bit more...
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    News Amazon launches an unlimited grocery delivery subscription

    Image: Amazon Amazon is bringing back free(ish) grocery deliveries for orders over $35 in the form of a new monthly subscription program the company announced today. It’s $9.99 per month for Prime members and includes unlimited one-hour grocery delivery where it’s available, as well as...
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    News Asia is officially the most ‘disaster-prone’ region in the world

    Residents clean debris of their destroyed houses at the Khaung Dote Khar Rohingya refugee camp in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on May 15th, 2023, after Cyclone Mocha made landfall. | Photo by Sai Aung Main / AFP via Getty Images No other region on Earth experiences more climate, weather, and...
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    News North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows

    Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) For almost a decade, Nick Roy has been scanning North Korea’s tiny Internet presence, spotting new websites coming online and providing a glimpse of the Hermit Kingdoms’ digital life. However, at the end of last year, the cybersecurity researcher and...
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    News Congress takes on TikTok, privacy, and AI

    Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge The TikTok ban appears to be for real this time. (Technically, “the TikTok ban or divesture but hopefully divesture” is probably more accurate, but everybody’s just calling it a ban.) Only a few weeks ago, all momentum for the ban seemed gone. Now, it’s back with...
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    News Anker’s minimalistic home backup batteries are ready for blackout season

    If you can afford this home, you can probably afford Anker’s whole-home battery backup solution. | Image: Anker Nearly a year since it was first announced, Anker is finally selling its Solix whole-home battery backup solution in North America. The Solix X1 is just 5.9 inches thick and attaches...
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    News Atlas VPN is shutting down: Here’s why all VPN users should care

    Atlas VPN, a smaller but well-liked VPN service, is set to close operations on April 24. All current paid subscribers will be transferred to its sister company, NordVPN. It’s just one in a long line of VPNs that have been absorbed by larger security services in recent years. Citing increased...
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    News Micro-ATX vs. Mini-ITX: Pros and cons for tiny motherboards

    Mini-ITX motherboards, which measure approximately 6.7 x 6.7 inches, are significantly smaller than Micro-ATX models measuring 9.6 x 9.6 inches. This smaller size makes Mini-ITX ideal for tiny computers that are even suitable for travelling, but offer fewer features and limited expansion options...
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    News 4 just-added Windows 11 features that make your life easier

    Windows 11 Moment 5 is currently the latest version of Windows 11, released on April’s Patch Tuesday. The update prepares for the update to Windows 11 version 24H2, which will be released later this year, and adds some new features intended to simplify and streamline everyday tasks in Windows...
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    News Rivian offers (up to) $5,000 discount if you trade in your gas-powered truck

    Rivian will give you up to around $5,470 in discount if you trade in an eligible gas-powered truck or SUV when you purchase or lease a qualifying R1 electric vehicle package in the US and Canada. As an "Electric Upgrade Offer" for Earth Day, Rivian said it will accept 2018 or newer Ford F-150...
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    News The best travel gear for graduates

    Travel is once again a rite of passage for many new grads, and as a parent, you probably want to ensure your child has a great time exploring the world. Visiting a new place can be a little tricky, but a few gadgets can help make the experience easier and more enjoyable for your new grad. These...
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    News Castlevania fan uncovers new Konami code in 1999 game

    Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, the director's cut version of Castlevania for the Nintendo 64, is a classic today despite issues like blurry graphics and wonky gameplay. You'd think a title designed in the last century (well, 1999) would have no new surprises, but there's a twist to the story...
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    News The rebuilt Sonos app focuses on getting you to your tunes faster

    If you use Sonos speakers, chances are you’ve used their app and encountered at least a little frustration at some point. I don’t think it’s a bad app when you consider the many functions it needs to juggle: finding and playing music from dozens of services, managing multiple connected speakers...
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    News The best noise-canceling headphones for 2024

    For most wireless headphones, active noise cancellation (ANC) is a primary feature, especially at the mid-range to premium levels. ANC is a popular tool, especially for headphones you’re going to use in a variety of locations and settings. To help you cut through the noise of all the options on...
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    News Tesla’s in its flop era

    Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Grzegorz Wajda, Getty Images When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot...
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    News SimpliSafe’s new outdoor monitoring service combines AI with live agents

    SimpliSafe’s new live guard outdoor protection service allows its agents to monitor your outdoor security cameras for potential intruders. | Image: SimpliSafe SimpliSafe is bringing live monitoring to its outdoor cameras, adding to the indoor live monitoring service it launched last year. The...
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    News Elon Musk is fighting Australia to host a stabbing video on X

    Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Image: Getty Images Elon Musk is currently embroiled in a battle with Australian authorities over demands for X to remove violent content of a stabbing that took place during a livestreamed service at a church in Sydney last week. Musk is arguing that...
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    News Sonos announces redesigned app that puts everything on your homescreen

    Image: Sonos Today, Sonos is officially introducing the redesigned mobile app that I showed you earlier this month. It’ll roll out for both Android and iOS on May 7th, but the company’s desktop apps aren’t coming along for the ride: Sonos will discontinue its controller apps for Windows and...
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    News Fortnite Festival now supports Rock Band 4 guitar controllers

    Image: Epic Games If you still have your old Rock Band guitars lying around, it’s now possible to use them in Fortnite’s Rock Band-like music mode. As promised at launch, Fortnite Festival now supports a handful of guitar controllers across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. The announcement comes as...
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    News Daily Telescope: The ambiguously galactic duo

    Enlarge / This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 3783, a bright barred spiral galaxy about 130 million light-years from Earth. (credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. C. Bentz, D. J. V. Rosario) Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world...
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    News The 2024 Porsche Macan EV has character, pace, and the right badge

    Enlarge / The third-generation Porsche Macan drops the internal combustion engine—this one is only available as a battery electric vehicle. (credit: Porsche) Porsche provided flights from London to Nice and accommodation so Ars could drive the Macan. Ars does not accept paid editorial content...
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    News Lexar SL500 Portable SSD Review: Silicon Motion SM2320 and YMTC NAND in a Potent Package

    Lexar has a long history of serving the flash-based consumer storage market in the form of SSDs, memory cards, and USB flash drives. After having started out as a Micron brand, the company was acquired by Longsys which has diversified its product lineup with regular introduction of new products...
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    News Acer Aspire Go 15 review: A $300 laptop that’s worth your money

    At a glance Expert's Rating Pros Affordable Decent battery life Good display visibility Cons Big and bulky Cheap build Limited performance Our Verdict The Acer Aspire Go 15 (2024) isn’t much to look at, but it plods along without much fuss, only struggling when demand is put on the...
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    News The Morning After: Meta teases a limited-edition Quest headset inspired by Xbox

    Meta announced it’s opening up the Quest’s operating system to third-party companies, allowing them to build headsets of their own. The Quest OS is being rebranded to Meta Horizon OS and already has two companies interested. ASUS’ Republic of Gamers (ROG) brand is working on new “performance...
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    News Atlast VPN is shutting down: Here’s why all VPN users should care

    Atlas VPN, a smaller but well-liked VPN service, is set to close operations on April 24. All current paid subscribers will be transferred to its sister company, NordVPN. It’s just one in a long line of VPNs that have been absorbed by larger security services in recent years. Citing increased...
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    News Find out your dog’s DNA with $11 off this kit

    Every dog owner wants to give their pooch the best life possible. Sometimes to do so, it helps to know more about your dog than just what’s on the surface. That’s where the DNA My Dog Essential Breed ID Test comes in. This intuitive genetic test for dogs is painless, quick, and it’s on sale for...
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    News Microsoft's lightweight Phi-3 Mini model can run on smartphones

    Microsoft has unveiled its latest light AI model called the Phi-3 Mini designed to run on smartphones and other local devices, it revealed in a new research paper. Trained on 3.8 billion parameters, it's the first of three small Phi-3 language models the company will release in the near future...
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    News Metaphor: ReFantazio, a fantasy RPG from the Persona 5 team, comes out in October

    Atlus first teased that it was working on a new RPG with a fantasy setting in mid-2023 — it also said way back then that it will be available sometime this year. Now, the developer has revealed that the game, Metaphor: ReFantazio, will come out on October 11 at a special livestream event...
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    News Take Zoom meetings to the next level with ONLYOFFICE DocSpace for Zoom

    Zoom has quickly established itself as one of the leading platforms for videoconferencing, remote working, and helping people survive lockdowns during a global pandemic. But, for all its prowess as a portal for meeting online, there remains a serious missing piece stopping it from becoming the...
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    News Adobe Photoshop's latest beta makes AI-generated images from simple text prompts

    Nearly a year after adding generative AI-powered editing capabilities to Photoshop, Adobe is souping up its flagship product with even more AI. On Tuesday, the company announced that Photoshop is getting the ability to generate images with simple text prompts directly within the app. There are...
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    News Adobe’s new Firefly model makes it easier to use Photoshop’s AI tools

    Unlike other Firefly-powered tools that generate sections of an image, Photoshop’s new Generate Image tool will fill the entire canvas. | Image: Adobe Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to its Photoshop creative software that aim to give users additional ways to control the designs...
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    News Learn a new language this summer with $450 off Babbel

    Going abroad this summer? You’ll have more fun if you know how to speak some of the language of your destination. With Babbel Language Learning, you can iron down the basics in as little as 30 days. For a limited time, we’re offering a lifetime subscription for $450 off. Babbel is the world’s...
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    News Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet

    Illustration: The Verge Microsoft launched the next version of its lightweight AI model Phi-3 Mini, the first of three small models the company plans to release. Phi-3 Mini measures 3.8 billion parameters and is trained on a data set that is smaller relative to large language models like...
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    News Amazon halts drone deliveries in California, but kicks off tests in Phoenix

    Amazon customers in California won't be able to get drone deliveries anymore. The e-commerce company has closed its delivery site in Lockeford, which has been operational since 2022, and will now offer its personnel in the area opportunities at other sites. Amazon made the revelation almost as...
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    News Fortnite will let players hide mean emotes

    YouTube Fortnite is rolling out an update on Tuesday that includes a new setting that filters out “confrontational” emotes. The v29.30 update will let players “choose not to see” the following emotes: “Laugh It Up”, “Take the L”, “Whipcrack”, and “Make it Plantain.” The four emotes won’t...
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    News Concern grows as bird flu spreads further in US cows: 32 herds in 8 states

    Enlarge / Greylag geese sit on a field and rest while a cow passes by in the background. (credit: Getty | Daniel Bockwoldt) Researchers around the world are growing more uneasy with the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) in US dairy cows as the virus continues to make its way...
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    News Newsletter service Ghost will support the fediverse protocol ActivityPub

    Newsletter platform Ghost is the latest service to pledge support for ActivityPub, the open source protocol powering the fediverse. The company announced Monday it would add ActivityPub support later this year in a move that could bring tens of millions of people into the fediverse. The...
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    News High-speed imaging and AI help us understand how insect wings work

    Enlarge / A time-lapse showing how an insect's wing adopts very specific positions during flight. (credit: Florian Muijres, Dickinson Lab) About 350 million years ago, our planet witnessed the evolution of the first flying creatures. They are still around, and some of them continue to annoy us...
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    News Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian backdoor

    Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years in attacks that targeted a vast array of organizations with a previously undocumented backdoor, the software maker disclosed Monday. When Microsoft patched the...
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    News Meta debuts Horizon OS, with Asus, Lenovo, and Microsoft on board

    Enlarge / The Meta Quest Pro at a Best Buy demo station in October 2022. Meta will open up the operating system that runs on its Quest mixed reality headsets to other technology companies, it announced today. What was previously simply called Quest software will be called Horizon OS, and the...
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    News Amazon is shutting down its drone delivery service in California as it looks to other markets

    This drone might migrate south to a new location in Arizona. | Image: Amazon Amazon is winding down its Prime Air drone delivery program in Lockeford, California — an early testing zone for a service that allowed local residents to order products weighing up to five pounds and get them...
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    News Why DolphiniOS’s Wii and GameCube emulator isn’t coming to the App Store

    Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge DolphiniOS, a fork of the popular Dolphin emulator for Nintendo Wii and GameCube games, has confirmed that it’s not coming to the Apple App Store even though emulators are now supported. In a post on Friday, the developer behind the emulator says it’s because...
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    News Anker’s 8-in-1 charging station is matching its lowest price to date

    Anker’s versatile charging orb functions as both a power strip and a StandBy-ready phone stand. | Image: Nathan Edwards / The Verge A cluttered desk can easily hijack your focus, which is why Anker’s Qi2-certified MagGo Magnetic Charging Station (8-in-1) can prove helpful. It’s small, but it...
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    News NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan

    Enlarge / Artist's illustration of Dragonfly soaring over the dunes of Titan. (credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben) NASA has formally approved the robotic Dragonfly mission for full development, committing to a revolutionary project to explore Saturn's largest moon with a quadcopter...
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    News Mozilla urges WhatsApp to combat misinformation ahead of global elections

    In 2024, four billion people — about half the world’s population — in 64 countries including large democracies like the US and India, will head to the polls. Social media companies like Meta, YouTube and TikTok, have promised to protect the integrity of those elections, at least as far as...
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    News Russian court sentences Meta spokesperson in absentia to six years in prison

    A Russian military court sentenced Meta spokesperson Andy Stone in absentia to six years in prison for "publicly defending terrorism," Reuters reports. Stone's lawyer reportedly asked for an acquittal and there are plans to appeal the sentence. A few months after Russian officials placed him...
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    News Asus battles Intel CPU crashes with ‘baseline’ motherboard BIOS

    Intel makes some very nice, very expensive CPUs, which are crashing in a not-so-nice way right now. Even Intel isn’t sure why some high-end 13th- and 14th-gen processors are crashing under load, but they’re working on it. In the meantime some OEMs and system builders are taking the support...
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    News Adios, cheap SSDs? WD and Seagate warn that PC storage prices are going up

    If you’re in the market for a hard drive or SSD, act fast! Otherwise, you could be paying more than you’d like. According to Taiwan analyst company TrendForce, storage makers Western Digital and now Seagate have sent letters to customers warning them that the companies will be raising prices on...
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    News Anker's Soundcore Space A40 wireless earbuds are back down to $49 right now

    Anker's Soundcore Space A40 is the top recommendation in our guide to the best budget wireless earbuds, as it offers enjoyable sound and a meaty set of features for well under $100. If you're looking to buy a set on the cheap, take note: A new sale on Amazon has dropped the earbuds down to $49...
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    News Some Amazon and Max cartoons may have been partially animated in North Korea

    North Korean animators may have helped create popular cartoons for Amazon Prime Video, Max and other streaming services. Researchers from the Washington-based 38 North project allegedly discovered a misconfigured cloud server on a North Korean IP address that contained thousands of animation...
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    News What we watched: Bluey’s joyful finales

    It’s never good to recommend a comedy by saying it makes you weep, but somehow Bluey, a comedy for kids, feels more real and more truthful than anything else on TV. I see so much of myself in Bandit’s triumphs and failures as he tries to parent his two daughters. I nod along to all of his...
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    News Tales of the Shire trailer shows what life as a regular Hobbit looks like

    In Tolkien's Middle-earth of orcs and Nazgûl, "cozy" isn't exactly the first word that springs to mind. And yet, Tales of the Shire is an upcoming cozy life sim set in the universe of The Lord of the Rings. Several months after the game was announced, developer Weta Workshop (which worked on the...
  83. News

    News Meta opens Quest OS to third parties, including ASUS and Lenovo

    In a huge move for the mixed reality industry, Meta announced today that it's opening the Quest's operating system to third-party companies, allowing them to build headsets of their own. Think of it like moving the Quest's ecosystem from an Apple model, where one company builds both the hardware...
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    News The EU opens an investigation into TikTok Lite, citing addiction concerns

    The European Union (EU) has opened a second formal investigation into TikTok and has accused the platform of running afoul of the region’s Digital Services Act (DSA), according to a report by TechCrunch. The probe involves the addictive nature of TikTok Lite, which is a smaller version of the...
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    News Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to Game Pass Ultimate and EA Play on April 25

    The second installment in EA's Star Wars Jedi series is coming to Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass and EA Play this week. Subscribers can continue Cal Kestis' journey in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on April 25, almost a year to the day after its debut. If you haven't checked out the first steps of...
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    News Even the indie game El Paso, Elsewhere is getting turned into a movie

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