Earlier this year Charles Martinet, who voiced Mario for decades, retired. After weeks of speculation about his replacement, Nintendo revealed the new voice actor with little fanfare. What gives?
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple will update tvOS with a redesigned TV app around December and remove some of its dedicated apps on the Apple TV to steer more users to the TV app — – Company envisions one place for customers to find video — Dedicated apps for buying movies and shows will
Read MoreJuli Clover / MacRumors: Apple schedules a “Scary Fast” event for October 30 at 5PM PT; in the event teaser, an Apple logo morphs into the macOS Finder icon, suggesting a Mac focus — Apple today announced its second fall event of 2023, with the online event set to be held on Monday, October 30
Read MoreMatt Marshall / VentureBeat: A paper from Geoffrey Hinton and other experts warns of AI systems’ worrying capabilities and says 33% of companies’ AI R&D budgets should go to managing risks — Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, two of the so-called AI godfathers, have joined with 22 other leading AI academics …
Read MoreMadlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: California and dozens of other US states sue Meta in federal court over claims Facebook and Instagram exploit youths for profit and feed them harmful content — The suit, filed in federal court in California, adds to growing scrutiny of social media giants over how they serve their youngest users.
Read MoreImage: YouTube YouTube Music is finally letting you change the cover art of your playlists. While you still won’t get to upload your own image, you can now make a custom image using generative AI. As shown in the below GIF, you can create AI-generated art by tapping the pen icon in the bottom right
Read MorePhoto by Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge Chevy Bolt owners might have the option to receive a $1,400 payout from GM as compensation for dealing with the cars’ defective EV batteries that required a software range limiter to prevent them from catching fire. As reported by Engadget, the new offer from GM comes as
Read MoreEarlier this year, reports surfaced that Apple was developing a new version of its HomePod smart speaker — but this time with a built-in display. Now, leaked images have emerged that seem to confirm those rumors and provide the first glimpse of what Apple may be planning. The leaked photo, originally posted on Twitter by
Read MoreA slew of laptops featuring Google’s new Chromebook Plus specs are on sale right now at Best Buy for as little as $269.
Read MorePhoto by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge General Motors announced the delay of production of its upcoming slate of electric vehicles, including the Chevy Equinox EV, Chevy Silverado EV, and GMC Sierra Denali EV. The news comes amid a broader environment in which EV demand is softening and prices are dropping, even as sales continue
Read MoreChina’s commitment to leading the AI frontier is evident, with a significant uptick in patent filings that dwarf those of the U.S. China’s AI ascent In a move that underscores China’s technological ambitions, Bloomberg reports the nation has recorded a surge in AI-related patent filings. The World Intellectual Property Organization shows Chinese institutions filed 29,853
Read MoreThe Switch OLED has a bunch of small improvements beyond its screen, like a better kickstand and revised dock. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Expectations may be high for an often-rumored Nintendo Switch 2, but until Nintendo announces something new, the best option around remains the Switch OLED. Since it’s been such
Read MoreFinancial Times: Analysts: Chinese AI startup SenseTime’s pivot from government surveillance work to data centers now seems doomed by new US export controls on powerful AI chips — Hong Kong-based AI company SenseTime faces ‘end of the road’ for data centre ambitions — SenseTime, once the darling …
Read MoreWhat in the world could possibly justify charging $129 for a USB cable? And is such a cable any better than a $10 Amazon Basics cable? To answer that question, [Jon Bruner] fired up an industrial CT scanner to look inside various cables (Nitter), with interesting results. It perhaps comes as little surprise that the
Read MoreImage: Nintendo Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s online multiplayer keeps making me think of Elden Ring. Nintendo’s latest Super Mario game has a clever online multiplayer mode. When you connect online, you’ll see near-invisible versions of other players throughout the game’s islands and levels as they also travel the Flower Kingdom. It’s a lot like how
Read MoreThe Air 2 glasses in their graphite and red models. | Image: Xreal Xreal is opening preorders for its latest generation of augmented reality glasses, the Xreal Air 2 and Air 2 Pro, for a November release in the US, UK, Germany, France, and Italy. The glasses are a follow-up to the first-generation Air glasses
Read MoreUbisoft’s new entry in the Assassin’s Creed series may be rooted in history, but it spends so much time on fiction that the real ancient world is barely a backdrop.
Read MoreBetween pregnancy “crisis centers” and “abortion pill testing,” there’s a lot of questionable info out there. Here’s how to tell what’s evidence-based and what’s not.
Read MoreBenedict Evans: A Twitter user since 2007 reflects on leaving due to Elon Musk swapping stasis at the company for chaos, his constant bullshitting, and spreading toxic content — Twitter always used to look a lot like Craigslist. It stumbled into something that a lot of people found very useful …
Read MoreBloomberg: WIPO: in 2022, Chinese entities applied for 29,853 AI patents, up from 29,000 in 2021, almost 80% more than the 16,800 US filings, down from 17,800 in 2021 — – Patent filings from China almost doubles the sum of US in 2022 — Top players like Baidu, Alibaba race to monetize AI products
Read MoreAdi Robertson / The Verge: Xreal, formerly Nreal, announces the $399 Xreal Air 2 and $449 Air 2 Pro glasses with brighter Micro OLED displays, shipping in November in the US and the UK — Xreal is opening preorders for its latest generation of augmented reality glasses, the Xreal Air 2 and Air 2 Pro
Read MoreBring your Halloween jack-o’-lanterns to life with these pumpkin carving tools for kids and kids at heart alike.
Read MoreImage: Crunchyroll If you’re a Prime Video subscriber, beginning today, you can start streaming Crunchyroll, the popular anime service, right from inside the Prime Video app. The companies have announced a global distribution agreement that allows Amazon to offer Crunchyroll as one of its Prime Video Channels. Prime Video Channels are optional add-on services that
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: After Unciphered created a hack for an old IronKey USB drive to recover 7,002 bitcoin, the owner refuses their help because he agreed to work with other experts — Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if
Read MoreSuzanne Smalley / The Record: Q&A with FTC Commissioner and digital privacy expert Alvaro Bedoya on the agency hiring child psychologists to understand social media’s impact on children — I saw and I heard stories from parents about the mental health issues that their children were experiencing and how both the parents and …
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