Curio The musician Grimes has developed an interactive AI plush toy for children which can converse with and “learn” the personalities of their owners. Grimes and toy company Curio created the line of toys in partnership with OpenAI, as first reported by The Washington Post. Grimes, who voices all three toys, is also an investor
Read MoreThe Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Mailchimp, one of the podcast industry’s best-known sponsors, recently reached out to Pineapple Street Studios about making a new show. Pineapple and Mailchimp first collaborated in 2019, producing narrative ads for Mailchimp and branded series.
Read MoreBen Horowitz / Andreessen Horowitz: Andreessen Horowitz says “we will, for the first time, get involved with politics by supporting candidates who align with our vision and values” for technology — As software has eaten the world, it has become integral to every industry and nearly every endeavor in our society.
Read MoreKytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business.
Read MorePower outages in the face of natural disasters or more mundane grid failures can range from a mild inconvenience to a matter of life or death if you depend on electrical medical equipment. [Shareable] and [People Power Battery Collective] have partnered to develop a toolkit for communities looking to share power with each other in
Read MoreImage: Sony Naughty Dog announced Thursday that it’s canceled the multiplayer game it was building in The Last of Us universe. The studio says it has been in pre-production on The Last of Us Online even while working on The Last of Us Part II. “We were enthusiastic about the direction in which we were
Read MoreImmersive audio is an integral part of creating the ideal gaming environment. The Corsair Virtuoso line of headsets has long been a fan favorite for achieving this goal, and one of the models just got its biggest price drop to date. If you catch the deal in time, you can pick up the Corsair Virtuoso
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority The House of Representatives has passed the 5G Spectrum Authority Licensing Enforcement Act. This act requires the FCC to release the 2.5GHz licenses it auctioned off in 2022, of which T-Mobile won the vast majority. The 2.5GHz licenses would allow T-Mobile to upgrade its service to more than 50
Read MoreSapna Maheshwari / New York Times: TikTok quietly changed its TOS in July 2023, including removing requiring users to go through private arbitration, making it more difficult to sue the company — Some lawyers say the changes could make it more difficult to bring legal action against the company.
Read MoreIt’s safe to say that a lot of people are going to get a Steam Deck OLED this season, and one of the nice things about any Steam Deck is that it comes with everything you need to start playing — you may not need any accessories at all. But the experience can certainly be
Read MoreMichael Kan / PCMag: The US FCC grants SpaceX a “temporary authorization” to test its cellular Starlink system by beaming data to unmodified smartphones in over two dozen locations — The experimental authorization lets SpaceX test the cellular Starlink system by using 840 satellites to beam the data …
Read MoreReuters: A judge tentatively rules that Elon Musk must testify again for the US SEC’s investigation of his $44B Twitter takeover, after the SEC sued Musk in October 2023 — A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday tentatively ruled that billionaire Elon Musk must testify again for the U.S. Securities …
Read MoreAlexander Skarsgard. | Photo by Marc Piasecki / WireImage Another day, another sci-fi announcement from Apple TV Plus. The streamer is continuing to expand its presence in the genre with the news that it’s adapting The Murderbot Diaries novels from author Martha Wells. There’s no word yet on when the show will premiere, but it’ll
Read MoreIt is a classic problem when designing with op amps: you need the output to go to zero, but — for most op amps — you can’t quite get down to the supply rail. If your power options are a positive voltage and ground, you can’t get down to zero without a special kind of
Read MoreAndrew E. Freedman / Tom’s Hardware: At Intel’s NYC event, Pat Gelsinger claimed that for AI, inference will become more important than training, and the industry wants to “eliminate” Nvidia’s CUDA — Reframing the AI framework, away from CUDA and toward more open standards. — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger came …
Read MorePhoto: Netflix No thank you for waking me up. Continue reading…
Read MorePhoto Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales and Cath Virginia / The Verge We’ve assembled a collection of quick-hit gifts that can be issued within seconds, freeing you of shipping concerns and in-store shopping. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe 15-inch M2-powered MacBook Air delivers more screen real estate than its smaller counterpart, along with two more speakers. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The new M3-powered MacBook Pros are powerhouses: but if you just need a good all-around laptop for everyday computing needs, they might be overkill. It’s a better
Read MoreOne of the Republican Party’s most successful grassroots organizations is being torn apart by scandal, including accusations of sexual assault.
Read MoreEver wonder what’s inside a Nintendo Switch? Well, the chip is an Nvidia Tegra X1. However, if you peel back a layer, there are four ARM CPU cores inside — specifically Cortex A57 cores, which take up about two square millimeters of space on the die. The whole cluster, including some cache memory, takes up
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Communications Commission could soon stop cable companies from fining customers who cancel their subscriptions early. In a release on Wednesday, the FCC voted to move forward with a rule that eliminates “junk fees” from cable and satellite providers. The rule, which FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel first
Read MoreThe Black Friday sales saw the first deal on the new Google Pixel Watch 2. Such was the offer’s popularity that many retailers were out of stock for most of November. But Google has generously extended its holiday promotion, giving you another chance to save 14% on the smartwatch. Google Pixel Watch 2 for $299.99
Read MoreAria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Amazon successfully validates Project Kuiper’s optical inter-satellite links, which use infrared lasers to move data 30% faster than terrestrial fiber cables — Amazon’s Project Kuiper successfully validated key technology that will increase throughput and reduce latency for customers using …
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: Intel announces Gaudi3, a generative AI chip launching in 2024 to compete with Nvidia’s H100 and AMD’s forthcoming MI300X, but was light on details — – Intel unveiled new computer chips on Thursday, including Gaudi3, a chip for generative AI software. — Intel also announced Core Ultra chips …
Read MoreSome Elon Musk fans are concerned that Grok, xAI’s answer to ChatGPT, is too politically liberal. The nature of the underlying AI technology will make “fixing” its outlook difficult.
Read More