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Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A leak may have revealed the pricing, specs, and launch date of the Galaxy S23 FE. The Galaxy S23 FE may be sold in the US for $599. The Galaxy S23 FE could launch on October 4. After months of leaks and rumors, we’re now getting a full picture
Read MoreEuropean competition authorities have blocked an acquisition by Dutch travel company Booking as scrutiny on Big Tech companies heats up.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit is going to let users spin Reddit gold into real money as part of its new “Contributor Program,” the company announced on Monday. It also shared details on the replacement for its old Reddit Gold system that let users show extra appreciation for posts or posts that
Read MoreWhen you’ve been a fact-sponge for electronics trivia for over four decades, it’s not often that an entire class of parts escapes your attention. But have you seen the Skiatron? It’s a CRT that looks like a normal mid-20th-century tube, until it’s switched on. Then its secret is revealed; instead of the glowing phosphor trace
Read MoreThere are two ways to compute, and two ways to see the world. It’s batch vs. loop—and we need them to reconcile.
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: OpenAI rolls out an update to let Plus and Enterprise users prompt ChatGPT using voice commands or by uploading an image, available for other users “soon after” — Most of OpenAI’s changes to ChatGPT involve what the AI-powered bot can do: questions it can answer, information it can access, improved
Read MoreAmrita Khalid / The Verge: Spotify partners with OpenAI to launch an AI-powered voice translation feature that reproduces podcasts in other languages using the podcaster’s own voice — What if podcasters could flip a switch and instantly speak another language? That’s the premise behind Spotify’s …
Read MoreJoanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI updates ChatGPT on iOS and Android to let the bot speak in five different voices in a conversational tone, rolling out to Plus and Enterprise users — Plus, you can now upload photos, and the chatbot can interpret them — You’ll have two reactions to hearing my conversation
Read MoreYou’ll soon need to pay $6 a month to regain Guard features through the new Emergency Assist service (pictured). | Image: Amazon Amazon has announced that it’s shutting down Alexa Guard — a DIY security feature for Echo devices that listens for intruders or household alarms when you’re away from home. The free version of
Read MoreImage: Getty Images Getty Images is partnering with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, a new tool that lets people create images using Getty’s library of licensed photos. Generative AI by Getty Images (yes, it’s an unwieldy name) is trained only on the vast Getty Images library, including premium content, giving users full
Read MoreImage: Meta Meta’s Horizon Worlds 3D social platform is starting to roll out on the web and mobile, and it generally works a lot better outside of VR than I expected — though I wish there were more to do. Until recently, Horizon Worlds has only been available on Meta’s Quest VR headsets. In VR,
Read MoreOne “simple trick” and your next Windows install will be blissfully free of bloatware.
Read MoreSince February this year, we’ve been testing out early versions of Android 14 on Pixel phones. However, it’s only been over the past two months that we’ve seen a concentrated rollout of betas for popular Android skins. Now we have all the details from OnePlus about its own take on Android 14, known as Oxygen OS
Read MoreKyle Wiens / iFixit News: A teardown of the iPhone 15 Pro Max: a redesigned frame for easier back glass repairs, new tetraprism periscope lens, software lockdown makes repairs hard, more — Repairable design undermined by parts-pairing DRM — iPhone 15 is here, and it boasts a new charge port, titanium frame, a periscope, and
Read MoreEmilia David / The Verge: Getty partners with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, which lets users create legally protected images using Getty’s library of licensed photos — Getty Images is partnering with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, a new tool that lets people create images using Getty’s library of
Read MoreCredit: Google / YouTube A serial leaker has now posted screenshots of the official Pixel 8 Google Store pages. The screenshots shed light on a few more features, such as full-resolution capture. The screens also list extras you’ll get when buying a Pixel 8 handset. We’ve seen a flood of Google Pixel 8 rumors and
Read MoreCredit: 91Mobiles A new leak has revealed all the new features and sensors coming to the Pixel Watch 2. The information comes with a leaked official promo video for the smartwatch. If you’ve been following tech news coverage today, you’d know that a spate of Pixel leaks has completely spoiled Google’s October 4 launch party.
Read MoreScreenshot: iFixit via YouTube While Apple may have made the iPhone 15 Pro Max easier to repair physically, a teardown from iFixit reveals it still comes with the same parts pairing constraints as its predecessors. Like the iPhone 14, iFixit found that the iPhone 15 lineup has a redesigned midframe that you can access by
Read MoreJess Weatherbed / The Verge: Amazon moves some free features, like smoke and CO alarm detection, from its security system Alexa Guard to its $5.99/month Emergency Assist service — Amazon has announced that it’s shutting down Alexa Guard — a DIY security feature for Echo devices that listens for intruders or household alarms when you’re
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Shipments of the latest Galaxy foldables were reportedly up by as much as 10% over their predecessors. It looks like the new foldables could face a sales challenge due to the economy, though. Samsung could still cross 10 million Galaxy foldables shipped in a year for the first time.
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Today, we have ChatGPT, Bard, Alexa, Siri, and a thousand others. Nearly a half-century ago, there was GUS. GUS, which stood for the Genial Understander System, came out of a project at Xerox PARC in the 1970s that hoped to find ways to teach computers to understand human
Read MoreIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Over the last 25 years, Netflix shipped more than 5 billion DVDs to millions of subscribers. The disc-by-mail service, which is shutting down this Friday, owed its success to lots of behind-the-scenes innovation. Continue reading…
Read MoreAutoimmune diseases occur when the immune system starts attacking the body’s own cells. They can cause a wide range of deleterious symptoms that greatly reduce a patient’s quality of life. Treatments often involve globally suppressing the immune system, which can lead to a host of undesirable side effects. However, researchers at the University of Chicago
Read MoreKamiya onstage at Microsoft’s 2016 E3 press conference. | Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Hideki Kamiya, the Japanese video game director known for his work on Bayonetta, Viewtiful Joe, and The Wonderful 101, is leaving PlatinumGames. The news was first announced by the development studio on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, with Kamiya
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