Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google is moving quickly to restore some of the features and functionality it previously removed from multiple products in response to Sonos’ patent infringement case. After its victory in federal court on Friday, the company plans to undo the restrictions it implemented on speaker groups. “We recently made
Read MoreBelkin’s MagSafe offering is one of the few charging pucks that lets you make use of Apple’s new StandBy feature. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Wireless charging is nearly ubiquitous, but obtaining true MagSafe speeds when charging your iPhone isn’t always cheap. Apple’s first-party MagSafe Charger clocks in at a
Read MoreImage: A24 Priscilla is the work of a filmmaker playing to her strengths. While director Sofia Coppola might be called a “nepo baby” because her father is Francis Ford Coppola, the point of the insult is to call out unacknowledged privilege. Meanwhile, Coppola’s work is largely about growing up in the orbit of powerful men
Read MoreBlack Friday might be around the corner, but these Prime Day TV deals can help set the mood for the upcoming colder, cozier weather.
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Lines of code showing Bard’s integration with Google Assistant were found in the Google app. It appears that Google could swap out Assistant’s logo with Bard’s star logo. The onboarding progress appears to bring up a prompt to “Upgrade to the new Assistant powered by Bard.” During its
Read MoreQualcomm names its ARM PC platform Snapdragon X. | Screenshot by Wes Davis / The Verge Qualcomm says it has a new name for the next generation of its ARM PC platform: Snapdragon X. The platform is based on the Oryon CPU tech from its 2021 acquisition of Nuvia, a company founded by former Apple
Read MoreWhen Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange collapsed, customers lost billions of dollars. A New York court will decide whether it was fraud.
Read MoreImage: Writers Guild of America It still remains to be seen just how Hollywood’s most recent writers strike is ultimately going to change the shape of the industry, but after a lengthy and hard-fought battle for better working conditions, the Writers Guild of America finally has a new labor contract that an overwhelming majority of
Read MoreThe new PS5 models. | Image: Sony Sony officially announced a new PS5 model with a detachable disc drive and 1TB of internal storage. Often referred to as the PS5 “Slim,” this new model is slightly slimmer and shorter than the existing one but will crucially replace both the PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition. In
Read MoreAdobe announces new Firefly Image 2, Firefly Vector, and Firefly Design models at MAX 2023. | Image: Adobe Adobe is going all in on AI, announcing three new generative AI models today that add powerful features to Illustrator and Adobe Express and vastly improve Photoshop’s text-to-image capabilities. During the company’s Adobe Max event on Tuesday,
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Adobe debuts the Firefly Image 2 Model, which is larger than its predecessor, better at rendering humans, and coming to Firefly’s web app, Photoshop, and more — At MAX, its annual conference for creatives, Adobe today announced that it has updated the models that power Firefly, its generative AI image creation
Read MoreAnker always offers value for money when it comes to headphones and earbuds. When that affordability collides with the Prime Big Deal Days sale, you can guarantee fantastic bang for your buck. We’ve picked out two of our favorite Anker Soundcore Space deals to spotlight from the sale, with as much as 46% off impressive
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Sony announces a new $500 PS5 model with a detachable disc drive, 1TB of internal storage, and a slightly slimmer and shorter design, shipping in November — Sony officially announced a new PS5 model with a detachable disc drive and 1TB of internal storage.
Read MoreApple products can be shockingly resistant to price drops — something that’s especially true of the company’s ever-popular AirPods lineup. Fortunately, that does not seem to be the case right now, given you can pick up the latest AirPods and the new AirPods Pro with USB-C on Amazon for $89 ($40 off) and $189 ($60
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Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Samsung is joining Google in its taunts to get Apple to adopt RCS. Samsung US has posted a new satirical short focused on the green bubble vs blue bubble divide. Apple continues to avoid acknowledging RCS. For a while now, Google has been pushing for Apple to support Rich
Read MoreThe T4 Cyclone comes in white and the T4 Cyclone Pro in black. | Image: GameSir GameSir is the latest company to launch wireless controllers featuring magnetic, stick-drift-resistant “Hall effect” joysticks: the new T4 Cyclone and Cyclone Pro gamepads. Currently, standard controllers from companies like Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft still incorporate potentiometer joysticks that are
Read MoreX’s Trust and Safety team says it’s working to remove false information related to the Israel-Hamas war. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is sharing conspiracies and chatting with QAnon promoters.
Read MorePhoto by AFP / AFP TV / AFP via Getty Images Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service in San Francisco to tens of thousands of people across 47 square miles of the city — a significant expansion of the company’s driverless ridehail operations. Last August, Waymo and its driverless rivals won approval from California
Read MoreMax A. Cherney / Reuters: AMD plans to acquire Santa Clara-based Nod.ai, which specializes in deploying open-source AI software and has raised ~$36.5M, per PitchBook — AMD said on Tuesday it plans to buy an artificial intelligence startup called Nod.ai as part of an effort to bolster its software capabilities.
Read MoreWe’re willing to bet most Hackaday readers have accidentally spot welded a few electrical contacts together over the years, complete with the surge of adrenaline that comes with the unexpected pops and sparks. It’s a mistake you’ll usually only make once or twice. But where most of us would look back at such mishaps as
Read MoreJonathan Greig / The Record: Amazon, Google, and Cloudflare say a DDoS attack hit 398M RPS in August, ~8x larger than the previous record, due to a new bug; Google was able to mitigate it — Amazon, Google and Cloudflare said they detected the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on record in August due to
Read MoreWhat if this was your computer’s desktop? Space OS thinks it should be. | Image: Deta / David Pierce Here’s how your computer should work, according to Mustafa Abdelhai, the co-founder and CEO of a startup called Deta. Instead of a big empty screen full of icons, your desktop should be an infinite canvas on
Read MoreImage: Sony Sony Electronics has just announced the $199.99 InZone Buds, its first gaming-focused pair of wireless earbuds. The company says the earbuds are designed to optimize battery life (with up to 12 hours of continuous use) and deliver audio at the lowest latency possible. The InZone Buds support a variety of devices including the
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge After a federal judge tossed out a $32.5 million verdict against the company, Google is today celebrating a win in its long-running legal battle with Sonos. In a blog post, Google accuses Sonos of “running a years-long, misleading campaign against helpful features in our Google Home devices and smart speaker devices on
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