Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. I just got back from Puerto Rico and wow, there is a lot of podcast news! Let’s get into it. Call Her Daddy is getting wide distribution It’s
Read MorePhoto by Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images Today’s hearing on child safety was — mostly — an unusually focused affair. The Senate Judiciary Committee called up the CEOs of X, Meta, Snap, TikTok, and Discord and grilled them for four hours on the potential dangers their services posed for children. Many of the lawmakers emphasized
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge During the roughly 40-minute presentation, expect to hear new info on Rise of the Ronin, Death Stranding, Sonic Generations, Judas, and more. Continue reading…
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge During the January Microsoft Research Forum, Dipendra Misra, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Lab NYC and AI Frontiers, explained how Layer-Selective Rank Reduction (or LASER) can make large language models more accurate. With LASER, researchers can “intervene” and replace one weight matrix with an approximate smaller one. Weights are the contextual
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Comcast has reluctantly agreed to discontinue its “Xfinity 10G Network” brand name after losing an appeal of a ruling that found the marketing term was misleading. It will keep using the term 10G in other ways, however. Verizon and T-Mobile both challenged Comcast’s advertising of 10G,
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority AI is being used by scammers to mimic the voices of loved ones, people in power, and more. The FCC proposes that robocalls that use AI-generated voices be made fundamentally illegal. The move will make it easier to charge the people behind the calls. Ever since AI became a
Read MorePasserby in New York may notice construction around the Apple Fifth Avenue cube as a giant replica of Apple Vision Pro is being built. Apple Vision Pro in Apple Fifth Avenue Apple Vision Pro launches on February 2, and Apple is readying its retail stores for the product in more ways than one. Dedicated spaces
Read MoreThe Vision Pro’s not-a-Lightning-connector connector. | Image: Nilay Patel / The Verge Ray Wong of Inverse discovered a hidden joy today: The Apple Vision Pro power cable connects to the battery with what may well be Lightning’s final form. Using a SIM removal tool, he pushed into a small hole in the silver external battery
Read MoreIn an interview with The Register, author and activist Cory Doctorow offers potential solutions to stop “enshittification,” an age-old phenomenon that has become endemic in the tech industry. It’s when a platform that was once highly regarded and user-friendly gradually deteriorates in quality, becoming less appealing and more monetized over time. Then, it dies. Here’s
Read MoreBuilding a 3D motor printed motor is one thing, but creating a completely custom servo motor with encoder requires some significant engineering. In the video after the break [365 Robots] takes us through the build process of a closed-loop motor with a custom optical encoder. The motor, an axial flux design, uses a stack of
Read MoreThe proprietary battery pack for Apple Vision Pro has a permanently attached cable, or so we thought, as a user with a SIM eject tool forced the cable free. Apple Vision Pro battery Apple Vision Pro doesn’t have a built-in battery to help cut some weight from the already hefty headset. Instead, it uses an
Read MoreOpenAI’s most powerful AI software, GPT-4, poses “at most” a slight risk of helping people create biological threats, according to early tests the company carried out to better understand and prevent potential “catastrophic” harms from its technology. From a report: In October, President Joe Biden signed an executive order on AI that directed the Department
Read MoreYouTuber ToastedShoes had his Pokémon mod of Palworld taken down. Now he’s back with a new mod with “legally distinct” creatures—for as long as it lasts.
Read MoreImage: Philips Philips is halting sales of its recalled sleep apnea machines in the US after finding they were pumping foam particles into users’ airways. In its earnings report on Monday, the company says it will not sell new CPAP or BiPAP devices in the US until it meets the requirements outlined by the Food
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The latest pre-release version of the Microsoft Edge browser for Android has added support for extensions. There are currently three available extensions in the “Extensions Beta” page. It’s unknown when extensions will be enabled in the stable version of the browser. Although Chrome tends to be the go-to browser
Read MoreSan Francisco-based Zilliz has released a new version of its database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering, Zilliz Cloud. The company claims the new version offers better performance while reducing cost of ownership compared to its previous version. Zilliz Cloud is built atop the open source Milvus vector database management system. Zilliz was founded by engineers who had helped
Read MoreIvanti warned on Wednesday that hackers are exploiting another previously undisclosed zero-day vulnerability affecting its widely used corporate VPN appliance. From a report: Since early December, ââChinese state-backed hackers have been exploiting Ivanti Connect Secure’s flaws — tracked as CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887 — to break into customer networks and steal information. Ivanti is now warning
Read MoreApple has secured its seventeenth year running as the most admired company in the world, according to Fortune, with Microsoft and Amazon rounding out the top three spots. Apple has secured the top spot as most admired company for 17 years running Determining the most admired company began with a list of 1,500 companies, including
Read MoreBitcoin mining machines in a warehouse at the Whinstone US Bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas, on October 10, 2021. | Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images The US Department of Energy (DOE) will begin collecting data on crypto mines’ electricity use, following criticism from environmental advocates over how energy-hungry those operations are.
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft is starting to roll out a new design for its OneDrive cloud storage service for consumers. The software maker first unveiled a Fluent design refresh for OneDrive last year, and it will be available to all OneDrive personal users by the end of February. “It’s both a visual and functional upgrade designed
Read MoreOn February 2, Microsoft will release PowerPoint, Excel, and Word for the Apple Vision Pro, making the Microsoft 365 suite some of the first apps available for Apple’s spatial computing headset. Excel on the Apple Vision Pro | Image Credit: Microsoft According to Microsoft, Apple Vision Pro Immersive Environments make working on documents even easier
Read MoreIconfactory After nearly 16 years in operation, Twitterrific was abruptly deactivated last year during Twitter’s unceremonious purging of third-party apps. Now, the app’s developer Iconfactory is raising funds on Kickstarter to create Project Tapestry, a new internet reader for the publicly accessible web. The iOS app will serve as a “universal, chronological timeline,” pulling from
Read MoreThe newest Roomba vacuum — the Combo j9 Plus — faces stiff competition. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge By abandoning its deal to buy iRobot, Amazon has left the robot vacuum maker stuck under the couch. Continue reading…
Read MoreHave you ever wished you had more control over what goes into a kit keyboard build? Like, a whole lot more control? Well, that’s the idea behind the Akruvia 12×4 Playground by [iketsj]. Image by [iketsj] via YouTube This is a 48-key ortholinear keyboard, but other than that, it’s a complete blank slate. The kit
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