Financial Times: Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon hits cinemas globally, after Tim Cook personally attended the Cannes premiere, ahead of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon in November — Tech giant prioritises cinemas over streaming as it pushes deeper into Hollywood — Tim Cook is not known for the theatrical flair …
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Meta announces Habitat 3.0, a simulator that supports robots and humanoid avatars, and HomeRobot, a home robot hardware and software platform — Researchers from Meta Platforms Inc.’s Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research team said today they’re releasing a more advanced version …
Read MoreWhile Meta hasn’t reinvented the category, it’s nailed the execution. But culturally, is the timing right for smart glasses? Continue reading…
Read MoreGoogle Chrome has done a lot of work on JavaScript performance, pushing the V8 engine to more and more impressive feats. Recently, that optimization has one more piece, the Maglev compiler, which sits between Sparkplug and TurboFan, as a mid-tier optimization step. With a Just In Time (JIT) system, the time saving of code optimization
Read MoreSharon Goldman / VentureBeat: Nvidia Research announces Eureka, a new AI agent powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 to autonomously write reward algorithms and teach robots complex skills — Nvidia Research announced today that it has developed a new AI agent, called Eureka, that is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and can autonomously teach robots complex skills.
Read MoreThe SanDisk PRO-G40 SSD is a great external SSD that’s rugged to boot, but SanDisk’s reliability issues are holding it back.
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Chatting with someone while wearing your AirPods Pro has never been difficult: all it takes is a quick press-and-hold of the earbuds’ stem to activate transparency mode, and then it’s easy to hear anyone in your vicinity. But now Apple is taking things a step further and attempting
Read MoreWith a giant screen, great battery, and a stonking zoom camera, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is the all-round smartphone top dog.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Today, let’s talk about how the traditional platform justice system is seeing signs of a new reform movement. If it’s successful at Discord, its backers hope
Read MoreWhile we’ve all used emojis in some way, this new app could change how you express yourself in your conversations.
Read MoreLittle black buds for the discerning heavy music fan — but how good are they?
Read MoreAlexander Lee / Digiday: FaZe Clan is acquired by esports holding company GameSquare Holdings in a deal valuing Faze at ~$16M, down from a $725M market cap at its 2022 SPAC merger — FaZe Clan’s billion-dollar journey has taken an unexpected — but perhaps inevitable — turn. Burned by controversy and facing …
Read MoreX’s community notes feature isn’t doing much to prevent the spread. | Illustration: The Verge The vast majority of viral misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war being posted on X (formerly Twitter) is being pushed by verified users, according to a recent study by NewsGuard — a for-profit organization that rates the trustworthiness of news sites.
Read MoreGoogle Photos has a clever new feature for your group photos. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge There are a few things you can always depend on in photography, and one is that someone will always be blinking or making a weird face in a group photo. You can try taking 20 photos
Read MoreThe defense in the FTX cofounder’s trial have been accused of failing to land any blows during cross-examination. They might be doing the best they can with a weak hand.
Read MoreThe mobile app isn’t for everyone, but for one insomniac, Pikachu and Snorlax made a big difference. Continue reading…
Read MoreMy feed is haunted by dangerous displays and an 8-foot-tall not-a-jack-o-lantern named Lewis, all grasping to go viral.
Read MoreVenture capitalist Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist manifesto is correct to say technology can make the world a better place—but misses the mark on so much else.
Read MoreImage: Nintendo Even though he doesn’t speak, in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Mario says more than he ever has in any game previous. Beyond his “wahoos” and “okey dokeys,” this Mario has a real personality, facilitated by a suite of power-ups and Nintendo’s meticulous attention to detail. Though we’ve seen a bit of this new
Read MoreThe HPV vaccine can effectively prevent a range of cancers if administered at the right age. But boys still can’t access it in most countries.
Read MoreThese mics can be made to sound just like their highly coveted, expensive counterparts. For musicians, it’s the next best thing to having professional studio equipment at home.
Read MoreDeepfake porn is on the rise. The new documentary Another Body is a gut-churning inside look at what it’s like for the women targeted.
Read MoreDebugging computers in the 1950s sounds like it wasn’t an easy task. That’s one of the interesting facts from this fascinating talk by [Guy Fedorkow] about the Whirlwind, one of the first digital computers ever built. The development of this remarkable computer started at MIT (Funded by the US Navy) in 1949 as a flight
Read MoreFinancial Times: The US’ tighter chip rules may leave Alibaba and Baidu relying on outdated and stockpiled chips, like the Nvidia V100 from 2017, to pursue their AI ambitions — Chinese tech groups restricted to using outdated processors as Washington aims to curtail Beijing’s artificial intelligence ambitions
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