Dead and Buried is a Wild West arena shootout multiplayer VR game. | Image: Gunfire Games Hope you didn’t enjoy playing Dead and Buried, Dead and Buried II, or Bogo on your Rift or Quest headsets — because Meta’s shutting them all down with no explanation, just like it already did with Echo VR (aka
Read MoreJason Koebler / 404 Media: A look around MGM’s Vegas properties, where a September 10 cyberattack has led to broken slot machines and payment kiosks, strained employees, and long waits — At the Aria, Bellagio, and MGM Grand, evidence of the massive ransomware hack is everywhere, if you’re looking for it.
Read More[InazumaDenki] wanted to answer the question: can you drive a motor with an audio amplifier chip? The answer, of course, is yes. The TDA7052 has a single input, and a bridge output meant to drive a speaker differentially. It should work if the motor doesn’t present more of a load than a speaker. The plan
Read MoreThe September 2023 Android security patch is here! If you own a recent Google Pixel smartphone or the Pixel Tablet, you can perform a software update check now in System Settings to grab it. You can also update manually or simply wait for the OTA notification. With the release of this security patch, we can
Read MorewatchOS 10 is all about the widgets — and you can try them out for yourself by downloading the public beta. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge If you were intrigued by the idea of widgets on your Apple Watch at this year’s WWDC, good news! Apple’s watchOS 10 is live and ready
Read MoreJoyce Lee / Reuters: Netflix and South Korean ISP SK Broadband end their lawsuits with each other over whether Netflix should pay for network usage, and agree to form a partnership — South Korean internet service provider SK Broadband and Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) said on Monday they were ending all lawsuits with each other …
Read MoreCiting privacy and security concerns over public large language models, Kinetica is adding a self-developed LLM for generating SQL queries from natural language prompts to its relational database for online analytical processing (OLAP) and real-time analytics. The company, which derives more than half of its revenue from US defense organizations such as NORAD and the Air Force,
Read MoreJon Victor / The Information: As Google prepares its Gemini multimodal LLM, a source says OpenAI is racing to debut GPT-Vision, which integrates multimodal image and text features into GPT-4 — As fall approaches, Google and OpenAI are locked in a good ol’ fashioned software race, aiming to launch the next generation of large-language models:
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Demonstrators flood city streets ahead of a key United Nations climate summit with a clear message for Joe Biden: ‘end fossil fuels.’ Continue reading…
Read MoreWhether you pay $600 or $700, the Asus ROG Ally looks the same. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you’ve been eying an Asus ROG Ally gaming handheld but can’t quite justify the $700 price tag… you’ll probably want to keep on waiting. Today, the company has begun selling a less-expensive $600
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft Paint gets support for layers and image transparency, 38 years after its launch, rolling out to Windows Insiders first — Microsoft is finally rolling out support for layers and image transparency to the Paint image editor application 38 years after its launch.
Read MorePerpetual motion and notions of ‘free energy’ devices are some of those pseudo-science topics that seem to perpetually hang around, no matter how many times it is explained how this would literally violate the very fabric of the Universe. Even so, the very notion of a device which repeats the same action over and over
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Android 14 is on its way in the near future, but what about Android TV 14? Google has reportedly canceled its plans to roll out Android TV 13. It seems Google is moving on and focusing on the next iteration instead. Typically, Android TV updates are relatively minor compared
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority set out specific principles to help guide AI regulations and companies that develop the technology. The CMA, which acts as the primary antitrust regulator for the UK, focused its attention on foundation models: AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama 2, and
Read MoreNew details about the Garmin vivoactive 5 have leaked. The leak reveals Garmin could be switching from an MIP display to a AMOLED display. Garmin may unveil the vivoactive 5 on September 20, 2023. It’s been four years since Garmin debuted the vivoactive 4 and 4S. However, a new leak reveals that the vivoactive will
Read MoreThis big boi comes with a high price tag of $2,499.99. | Image: Samsung After first making its official debut at CES 2023 earlier this year, Samsung’s massive 57-inch Odyssey Neo G9 gaming monitor is now available to preorder in the US. You can get it for $2,499.99 when you preorder it ahead of its
Read MoreThe outdoor offering from the multiroom system king has had a big revamp for detailed tunes with more power, but it’s not an unqualified success.
Read MoreI get it — you hate writing by hand. But have you ever considered why that is? Is it because typing is easier, faster, and more convenient here in 2023? Maybe so. All of those notwithstanding, I honestly think there’s an older reason: it’s because of the rise of ballpoint pens. And I’m not alone.
Read MorePhoto by Nilay Patel / The Verge iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, Apple’s next major updates for the iPhone and iPad, are now available to download. With iOS 17, some of the biggest new features come to phone calls. Apple’s new Contact Posters let you pick a photo (or Memoji) and font that fill up
Read MorePhoto by Victoria Song / The Verge Along with iOS 17, Apple has just released watchOS 10, the newest version of its smartwatch operating system that fundamentally changes the way you interact with the Apple Watch by reincorporating widgets. This update, available on the Apple Watch Series 4 and up, comes just a few days
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge The RIAA just put out the music industry’s midyear revenue report, and it’s a stark illustration of the haves / have-not divide that’s been accelerating in the streaming era. Actually, scratch that: it’s a terrific illustration of how good it is for the haves: retail revenue is up
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Amazon is hiring Microsoft’s former CPO Panos Panay to run the Alexa and Echo unit; longtime hardware chief Dave Limp said in August he is retiring — Amazon.com Inc. is hiring Microsoft Corp.’s product chief to run the division responsible for Alexa and the Echo smart speakers …
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Whether you’re looking for a way to connect an external graphics card or multiple high-resolution displays to your laptop, chances are that you’ve considered Thunderbolt at some point. The interface was once only present on a select few computers like the MacBook Pro line, but it has now become
Read MorePhoto by David Becker / Getty Images Panos Panay is reportedly joining Amazon, Bloomberg reports. The former Windows and Surface chief announced his departure from Microsoft earlier today, and Bloomberg reports that he’s moving to Seattle’s other giant tech company to oversee Amazon’s vast hardware products. Panay has been instrumental in the creation of Surface
Read MoreFederico Viticci / MacStories: Review of iOS and iPadOS 17: a bigger bet on widgets and the modularization of apps, nice tweaks to Stage Manager, but visionOS stole the spotlight this year — Well, last year was weird. — For the first time since I started writing annual reviews of Apple’s two mobile operating systems
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