Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images AWS added new languages to its Amazon Transcribe product, offering generative AI-based transcription for 100 languages and a slew of new AI capabilities for customers. Announced during the AWS re: Invent event, Amazon Transcribe can now recognize more spoken languages and spin up a call transcription. AWS customers
Read MoreFill up your toolbox with Home Depot Cyber Monday deals on Christmas trees, outdoor grills, garage furniture, and power tools.
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Read MoreImage: Chris Welch / The Verge At this point, we’ve been highlighting Black Friday deals for what feels like the better part of a month, and now it’s time for Cyber Monday! The annual post-shopping holiday weekend is here, and just like Black Friday, there are plenty of deals to be had on the budget-friendly
Read MoreEditing a video, playing a game, or getting homework done? Cyber Monday laptop deals on our favorite models will help.
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Tumblr plans to sunset Post+, launched in 2021 to let creators charge users a subscription to access content, in January 2024 — Tumblr is doing away with Post Plus, the feature that lets creators charge users a subscription to access their content. Starting on December 1st …
Read MoreAmazon’s Kindles make it easier to access all your favorite books. They’re on sale right now.
Read MoreShira Ovide / Washington Post: Many local US police departments are fearmongering by issuing warnings about the privacy risk of iPhone’s NameDrop, used to share contact information wirelessly — Some police departments have said the new iPhone feature is risky. Don’t worry about it.
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Thinking of setting some new health goals or records in the coming year? Smartwatches and fitness trackers can be a helpful tool, but sifting through the dozens of models, metrics, and styles can be a headache. Even so, Cyber Monday is one of the best times to
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google says it’s investigating Google Drive users’ reports claiming that their personal files have unexpectedly vanished from the cloud service. The company acknowledged the issue today in a new Google community support thread and believes it involves a “limited subset” of Google Drive for desktop app users. Google
Read MoreKellen / Droid Life: YouTube Premium rolls out Playables, which lets users play games on mobile and desktop with no need to download, available until March 28, 2024 — YouTube Premium’s benefits expanded this holiday week with the addition of Playables into the app. Playables, as the name sort of suggests …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Tumblr is doing away with Post Plus, the feature that lets creators charge users a subscription to access their content. Starting on December 1st, creators will no longer be able to enable Post Plus on their blogs. The discontinuation of Post Plus comes just weeks after a leaked memo revealed the platform’s
Read MoreDavid Heaney / UploadVR: Finland-based Varjo launches the XR-4, a $3,990 mixed reality headset aimed at businesses, touting a 120-degree field of view, 4K displays, and more — Varjo just announced the XR-4 series, its latest range of ultra high end PC-based headsets for enterprise and governments.
Read MoreI’ve had enough of Cyber Monday and I’ve gone rogue, here are the stupidest deals I found on the internet.
Read MoreSamantha Cole / 404 Media: Big names like Kelsey Hightower pull out of the DevTernity conference after allegations its founder made fake profiles of female speakers to boost diversity — The founder of a software developer conference has been accused of creating fake female speakers to bolster diversity numbers …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is branching out into games — at least for its paid subscribers. The platform is giving Premium users access to a set of online games that can be directly played on either the mobile app or desktop app. Known as “Playables,” the company first debuted the experimental
Read MoreThe discount may be small, but HomePod 2 is so good, it’s worth it.
Read MoreSave on the iPhone 15, Apple’s latest smartphone, at Best Buy.
Read MoreWe’ve collected all the best WIRED-approved deals on phones, tablets, cases, batteries, and accessories this Cyber Monday.
Read MoreThe M3 iMac is cool, but if you know where to look, you can save money and have a lot more fun building a desktop setup in the Cyber Monday sales.
Read MoreThere’s an insane deal on Woot for the Metal Link Apple Watch strap — save $170.
Read MoreThese Cyber Monday deals are hand-picked by WIRED editors who spend all year testing gear and logging prices to bring you the best stuff at the best prices.
Read MoreThe Yeedi Cube is the cheapest robot vacuum / mop that has a self-empty / self-clean dock, and it’s $200 off today. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge The robots are coming… for your floors. If all you want for Christmas are clean carpets, check out some of the bargains you can
Read MoreCongressional leaders are discussing ways to reauthorize Section 702 surveillance, including by attaching it to the National Defense Authorization Act, Capitol Hill sources tell WIRED.
Read MoreLeah Nylen / Bloomberg: The FTC can proceed with changes to Meta’s 2020 $5B privacy settlement, like barring monetization of kids’ data, after a judge denied Meta’s move to go to court — – Meta, under FTC order on privacy, sought federal court review — Agency opened proceeding on alleged new privacy violations
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