Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge This might finally be the end of the hurricane street shark phenomenon. X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, updated its crowdsourced fact-checking Community Notes feature to tag videos directly and automatically populate those notes onto any matching videos. The same tagging was recently added to images with Community
Read MoreImage: Clubhouse Clubhouse is back, kinda. The app that popularized social audio rooms is reinventing itself “to be more like a messaging app” with new voice-only group chats called “chats,” as detailed in a blog post from the company. Think of a chat as something like a group Instagram story that you contribute to with
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft says Chinese hackers who in June breached US government email accounts stole an MSA key from a crash dump after hacking a Microsoft engineer’s account — Microsoft says Storm-0558 Chinese hackers stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google is rolling out Android 14 beta 5.3 today to supported Pixel devices. There are only nine updates with this new beta. We expected the stable launch of Android 14 to begin this week, but that isn’t happening. Last year, Google rolled out the stable launch of Android 13
Read MoreHint: the 7800 XT is the smaller one on top. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge The most important thing about the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics card, available today, is its $500 price. In almost every other way, it’s unremarkable. Reviewers agree: its performance is often indistinguishable from the AMD RX
Read MoreHere’s what you’ll see. | Image: Maxon In early September, Maxon announced the release of a major update to its Cinebench benchmark, Cinebench 2024. The big change is that that the new Cinebench tests GPU power in addition to CPU power, whereas the previous version was CPU-only. If you’d like to see how your PC
Read MoreWayne Ma / The Information: Source: Apple’s budget for training AI is now millions of dollars per day; its conversational AI team Foundational Models has ~16 people led by Ruoming Pang — Apple has been expanding its computing budget for building artificial intelligence to millions of dollars a day.
Read MorePhoto by Patrick George for The Verge Hyundai introduced a new feature called “Hyundai Pay” that lets owners of the 2024 Hyundai Kona pay for parking at several thousand locations directly from their car’s infotainment screen. It’s the latest example of the auto industry’s multiyear effort to make in-car payments a real thing. Users input
Read MoreTypically when you’re replacing parts in an old computer it’s either for repairs or an upgrade. Upgrades like adding a more capable processor to an old computer are the most common, and can help bring an old computer a bit closer to the modern era. [Dr. Scott M. Baker] had a different idea, when he
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Whenever I get a new phone and eventually install Instagram, the first thing I do is dig through the app’s settings menu for a toggle that reads “Upload at highest quality.” According to the app, when enabled, this ensures you’ll “Always upload the highest quality photos and videos,
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: Spotify is testing making song lyrics a Premium-only feature, currently “with a limited number of users in a pair of markets” — A number of Spotify users began to notice something strange over the last day or so: the in-app lyrics, which typically pop up under the currently playing song
Read MoreGive this phone the software update policy it deserves, Google. | Image: Google If this year’s I/O was any indication, we’re going to hear about AI a lot at next month’s Pixel 8 launch. AI for your videos, AI for your text to the babysitter, blah blah blah. Fine. But there’s something else I’m hoping
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge China’s government has banned officials at central government agencies from bringing foreign-branded phones, including the iPhone, into offices or using them for government work, reports The Wall Street Journal. Citing unnamed sources, the article says China seeks to “cut the country’s reliance on foreign technology” and beef up cybersecurity, as well as
Read MoreImage: The Verge Max, the streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, could soon offer sports that you can watch for free during a limited period of time, according to a report from Bloomberg. The promotion will reportedly start later this year, with Warner Bros. Discovery hoping to attract more viewers by showing live basketball,
Read MoreSonos’ second-gen Move looks similar to the prior model but is now available in a new green shade. | Image: Sonos Four years after releasing its first portable speaker, the Sonos Move, Sonos has finally given it a refresh. After months of leaks and rumors, the company has officially confirmed the Sonos Move 2 will
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The UK will amend the Investigatory Powers Act with the controversial “spy clause,” but in a declawed state. This clause, in its original form, would have allowed the UK government to break chat encryption. Apple’s iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, and other chat apps would have exited the country if the
Read MoreIf you’ve ever lived somewhere it gets properly cold, you’ll know that winter’s icy grasp brings the inevitable challenge of keeping roadways safe. While road salt and gritting have long been the go-to solutions, their detrimental environmental impact and the potential for infrastructure degradation are well-documented. However, a game-changing new development might just offer a
Read MoreReuters: Filing: Google tentatively settled a US Play Store class action antitrust lawsuit brought by over 30 states; the settlement is subject to the court’s approval — Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday tentatively settled a class action suit alleging that its U.S. Play Store …
Read MoreCredit: Polestar Swedish EV automaker Polestar plans to launch a smartphone. The smartphone will launch alongside its upcoming Polestar 4 SUV. It will be a joint venture with Chinese smartphone maker Xingji Meizu. In a world where brands constantly have to find ways to get a step ahead of their competitors, sometimes it pays to
Read MoreDisney CEO Bob Iger. | Image: Neilson Barnard / Getty Images When Bob Iger stepped down as CEO of Disney in early 2020, he butted heads with his handpicked successor, Bob Chapek. But we really didn’t know just how bad — and how petty — some of the things Iger did to express his unhappiness
Read MoreImage: MrBeast The faces on YouTube thumbnails might start to look a bit different. A lot of thumbnails feature a person with an open mouth in shock, awe, excitement, or horror because of a belief that the open-mouth face entices people to click on a video. But MrBeast, the individual with the most subscribers on
Read MoreA still from Elemental. | Image: Disney / Pixar Disney has announced that Disney Plus subscribers will be able to stream Elemental, its parable about interracial relationships, beginning September 13th. The company is also releasing a making-of documentary for the film, called Good Chemistry: The Story of Elemental, and an Up-related short called Carl’s Date
Read MoreIf you’re ready to upgrade your aging iPhone, you have a few options in 2023. First, you could consider the iPhone SE if you’re on a budget. For those looking for a more premium experience, the iPhone 14 family could be worth a look. Of course, those phones are about a year old — give
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: The Atlantic Council details how a Chinese law from 2021 requiring companies to disclose flaws within two days of discovery helps China’s hacking operations — Some foreign companies may be complying—potentially offering China’s spies hints for hacking their customers.
Read MoreInfluxDB Clustered, the self-managed, open source distributed time-series database for on-premises and private cloud deployments from InfluxData, is now generally available. InfluxDB Clustered is expected to replace the company’s older InfluxDB Enterprise offering and is built on its next-generation time-series engine that supports SQL queries. Other versions of the database with the same engine, including
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