7 Best Philips Hue Smart Lights (2023): Gradient Lightstrip, Go Lamp, and More Tips
Philips Hue sells many of the best smart lights, but its range can be tricky to navigate. Here’s how to choose the right kit for your home.
Read MorePhilips Hue sells many of the best smart lights, but its range can be tricky to navigate. Here’s how to choose the right kit for your home.
Read MoreAhead of COP28, a scathing new UN report warns that the world is barreling toward an avoidable catastrophe. It’s a plea for world leaders to step up their ambition.
Read MoreJackrabbit’s new and improved tiny electric motorbike is the perfect first-, last-, and every-mile-in-between solution.
Read MoreImage: Samar Haddad / The Verge Part of the appeal of Google Docs is its clean, accessible interface: open up a document, and the invitation is there to simply dive in and start typing without having to bother with settings screens or page configurations. However, that doesn’t mean the word processor app is lacking in
Read MoreMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella onstage at Ignite 2023 in November. | Image: Microsoft Most of the staff at OpenAI have threatened to resign from the company and join Microsoft, which has hired ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman to lead a new “advanced AI research team.” In a letter to
Read MoreWe used to get a few early deals ahead of Black Friday, but it’s now the exception if brands wait for the day itself to launch their sales. Apple certainly isn’t holding back, with all models of the AirPods getting significant discounts ahead of Black Friday. Fans of buds over cans will be keen on
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Users are reportedly seeing a five-second delay when loading YouTube videos in non-Chrome browsers, namely Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge, despite not using any extensions or ad-blockers. The delay goes away when users switch their user agent to Chrome, indicating that the switch could be browser-related. Not all users
Read MoreThe M1 MacBook Air might be the best Black Friday deal we see this year, but you should wait until the 24th.
Read MoreJane Zhang / Bloomberg: Chinese AR startup Rokid raised $112M from NetDragon Websoft and others at a $1B valuation to help expand overseas, taking its total funding to nearly $200M — – China’s Rokid raises $112 million to help expand abroad — Big Tech still struggling to make mixed reality mainstream
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After FTX’s collapse led to financial woes for CoinDesk’s parent company, the cryptocurrency news site is getting acquired. Bullish, a crypto exchange run by former New York Stock Exchange president Tom Farley, purchased the entire site in an undisclosed all-cash deal, as first reported by The Wall Street
Read MoreFord F-150 Lightning drivers can now use Apple Maps to plan trips and find EV chargers.
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Video games run the world. They just do. The release of Call of Duty is an economic and cultural event every year, some of the biggest movies and TV shows are based on beloved games, and everybody’s best vacation this year was the hours they spent in Hyrule.
Read MoreTelephones. We’ve got a few around the place, and some may remember all the weird and wonderful varieties produced over the years. But, vintage phone dealers [Ron and Mary Knappen] may have a few too many. With a large 41,000 sqft property, at least three farm buildings, and no fewer than 33 semi-trailers loaded to
Read MoreNew York Times: While the White House may condemn Elon Musk, the US recently signed a $1.2B SpaceX deal for Starshield, a key China deterrent, showing its dependence on him — Rarely has the U.S. government so depended on the technology provided by a single technologist with views that it has so publicly declared repugnant.
Read MoreAn iPhone security exploit was found with a Flipper Zero and Bluetooth a few months ago and the latest iOS beta has still not fixed it.
Read MoreFinancial Times: A look at OpenAI’s wild weekend, as an internal debate over its future became public; investors say OpenAI still has not said why Altman was fired so abruptly — Internal debate about ChatGPT maker’s mission exploded into view during wild few days of corporate drama
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Tinder redesigns profile pages to add prompt conversation starters, basic info tags, and quizzes, and updates its app with new animations, a dark mode, and more — Tinder is revamping its profile pages to make them more informative and create easier starting points for conversations.
Read MoreI type all day. I play games all night. My wrists need a break, and this Saiji gooseneck mount holds my Switch to give me one.
Read MoreThe new Wi-Fi 7 Eero mesh takes performance to the max but could also max out your credit card.
Read MoreApple One’s recent price hike was the last straw and now I’ve canceled it — and that’s just the start.
Read MoreLooking for a money-saving MacBook deal? As Black Friday sales kick off there are already M3 savings to be had.
Read MoreVicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: Crypto exchange Bullish, run by an ex-NYSE president, buys 100% of CoinDesk for an undisclosed sum in an all-cash deal; DCG acquired CoinDesk for $500K in 2016 — CoinDesk says former Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Matt Murray will chair an independent editorial committee
Read MoreIlya Sutskever / @ilyasut: OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says he “deeply regrets” his “participation in the board’s actions” and “never intended to harm OpenAI” — I deeply regret my participation in the board’s actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we’ve built together and I will do everything I can to reunite
Read MoreMicrosoft has hired OpenAI cofounders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head a new advanced AI team, acquiring one of the most successful management groups in the AI industry.
Read MoreBen Thompson / Stratechery: Analyzing the Sam Altman-OpenAI saga: nonprofit issues, OpenAI giving for-profit work to Microsoft, staff exits, Altman’s motivations, and the new AI landscape — I have, as you might expect, authored several versions of this Article, both in my head and on the page, as the most extraordinary weekend of my career
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