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A look at Aurora, the Intel- and HPE-made, Argonne National Laboratory-based supercomputer, set to be the first to hit two quintillion operations per second (Scott Patterson/Wall Street Journal)

Scott Patterson / Wall Street Journal: A look at Aurora, the Intel- and HPE-made, Argonne National Laboratory-based supercomputer, set to be the first to hit two quintillion operations per second — That’s two billion billion operations a second, enough to explore the brain and discover drugs — LEMONT, Ill.—Inside …

X continues to suck at moderating hate speech, according to a new report

This follows earlier reports that verified X users are “superspreaders of misinformation” regarding the Israel-Hamas war. | Illustration: The Verge The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) released a new report on Tuesday that suggests X (formerly Twitter) is failing to remove posts that violate its own community rules regarding misinformation, antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other

Logitech’s webcam with articulating arm launches on Indiegogo

Logitech has launched a crowdfunding campaign for its latest webcam, the Logitech Reach. Prices range from a discounted $259 Black Friday deal to $399, with shipping expected in July 2024. At first glance, it seems unusual to see a large brand like Logitech on Indiegogo, a platform normally associated with small startups that need the

Is E Ink finally ready for prime time?

I’d be willing to bet that when you think of E Ink, you’re picturing an Amazon Kindle. But E Ink has come a long, long way in the past few years. Outside of e-readers, there are E Ink tablets, laptops, desktop monitors, signs, dresses, color-changing cars, smartwatches, and a whole gaggle of devices that utilize

Volvo CEO Jim Rowan thinks dropping Apple CarPlay is a mistake

Photo Illustration by The Verge | Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images As cars become computers on wheels, the former BlackBerry and Dyson executive is approaching Volvo’s EV transformation with a consumer electronics mindset. Continue reading…

Instagram’s close friends feature now applies to posts and Reels, too

Image: Instagram Instagram’s latest feature lets you limit your posts to just close friends. You could already share Stories and Notes with only the users on your close friends list, but including posts and Reels could drastically change how Instagram works. Since you no longer have to share posts with your entire follower list, and

Google DeepMind’s AI Weather Forecaster Handily Beats a Global Standard

Machine learning algorithms that digested decades of weather data were able to forecast 90 percent of atmospheric measures more accurately than Europe’s top weather center.

Detecting Neutrinos, The Slippery Ghost Particles That Don’t Want To Interact

Neutrinos are some of the most elusive particles that are well-known to science. These tiny subatomic particles have no electric charge and an extremely small mass, making them incredibly difficult to detect. They are produced in abundance by the sun, as well as by nuclear reactions on Earth and in supernovae. Despite their elusive nature,

Nothing is bringing iMessage to its Android phone

Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Nothing Phone 2 owners get blue bubbles now. The company shared it has added iMessage to its newest phone through a new “Nothing Chats” app powered by the messaging platform Sunbird. The feature will be available to users in North America, the EU, and other European countries starting

Sources: Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including its search engine, not just a 51% stake, amid pressures relating to the war in Ukraine (Sylvia Westall/Bloomberg)

Sylvia Westall / Bloomberg: Sources: Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including its search engine, not just a 51% stake, amid pressures relating to the war in Ukraine — – Deal to sell Russian unit may be announced in December — Dutch-registered Yandex previously planned to sell a 51% stake

Google’s CEO is about to drop into the Fortnite trial

Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Philip Pacheco, Bloomberg, Getty Images We have spent five days in a San Francisco courtroom watching witness after witness in the Epic v. Google trial. We’ve heard a lot about Google’s app store dealings, mostly from people who aren’t widely known to outsiders. But

Polestar makes the rear window obsolete with its new crossover coupe

The new Polestar 4 is the Swedish EV brand’s first crossover coupe, slotting between the compact and midsize segment. It features the quickest acceleration yet from a Polestar vehicle, a completely new Google-based infotainment system, lots of fresh designs, and the lowest carbon impact of any Polestar. But by far the most controversial feature is

CISA Has a New Road Map for Handling Weaponized AI

In its plans to implement a White House executive order, CISA aims to strike a balance between promoting AI adoption for national security and defending against its malicious use.

Tumblr Is Always Dying

The mainstream narrative has declared Tumblr dead for years. Last week, a leaked memo finally revealed the site’s plans to scale down its operations—but its art, fandoms, and inside jokes rage on.

Sources: EU regulators plan to file anti-competitive charges against Adobe’s $20B Figma deal as early as this week; Adobe announced the deal in September 2022 (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: EU regulators plan to file anti-competitive charges against Adobe’s $20B Figma deal as early as this week; Adobe announced the deal in September 2022 — EU preparing to file anti-competitive charges, according to people familiar with probe — Adobe’s $20bn deal to buy Figma …

RIL, a nonprofit coalition of tech VCs and execs, releases a voluntary commitment for startups building AI responsibly, signed by Insight, IVP, and 33 other VCs (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: RIL, a nonprofit coalition of tech VCs and execs, releases a voluntary commitment for startups building AI responsibly, signed by Insight, IVP, and 33 other VCs — The new guidelines are part of an effort to enact some guardrails for potentially thousands of startups across the AI industry.

Broadcasts 3 is my favorite way to listen to internet radio

Listen to a whole library of radio stations on your phone with the Broadcasts 3 app.

How to electrify your life when you rent

Illustration by Nico H. Brausch for The Verge Two years ago, Caroline Spears was finally living on her own, roommate-free, in a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, where the cost of living continues to go up. She was drawn to its affordability and space. “It was a great work-from-home spot,” Spears said. She didn’t foresee,

What is GPT-4 Turbo? New features, release date, pricing explained

Credit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Ever since ChatGPT creator OpenAI released its latest GPT-4 language model, the world of AI has been waiting with bated breath for news of a successor. But even though competitors like Google and Meta have started to catch up, OpenAI maintained that it wasn’t working on GPT-5 just yet.

Filing: Google sues two men in California who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to spam Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620K URLs (Andy Maxwell/TorrentFreak)

Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: Filing: Google sues two men in California who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to spam Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620K URLs — Two men who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to bombard Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620,000 URLs …

Apple Tap to Pay brings iPhone-based contactless payments to France

Apple has announced that its Tap to Pay feature is now live for businesses in France.

Notion’s new Q&A feature lets you ask an AI about your notes

Q&A tries to both answer your questions and cite its sources. | Image: Notion The first killer app of AI for businesses, it appears, is a simple thing: to be able to find information in the morass of files, folders, attachments, incompatible enterprise software apps, and everything else that constitutes modern knowledge work. Notion, which

Opal’s second camera is the Tadpole, a tiny webcam for laptops

The Tadpole is meant to just clip right over top of your laptop’s webcam. | Image: Opal Two years ago, Opal launched a camera with a tweet. (They were still called tweets back then.) It was the middle of a global pandemic, a work-from-home revolution, and a truly brutal time to start a hardware company

Venmo Groups aims to make it easier to split up and track expenses

Venmo groups debuts today and will roll out over “coming weeks.” | Image: Venmo / Crop: The Verge Venmo has started rolling out a new “Venmo Groups” feature that aims to make it easier to organize and share common expenses with others. The company says the feature will let people track, split, and manage group

MacBook Pro M3 Pro vs MacBook Pro M2 Pro

If you’re looking at an upgrade from your M2 Pro Macbook Pro, here’s everything the new M3 Pro model does better.

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