A dredger shoots sand onto a beach in France. The boat pumps sand from offshore sand bars before shooting it back onto beaches in an effort to fight erosion. | Image: NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP via Getty Images People are dredging an alarming amount of sand from the seafloor, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Read MoreThe Information: Sources: over half of the 14 authors of Meta’s original Llama research paper from February quit over battles for compute resources, a hot job market, and more — Meta Platforms’ releases of its large-language models, Llama and Llama 2, in the past six months have won the company praise for offering free …
Read More“Sincerely Accra” is a part of the Gold Coast Report podcast network. | Image: GCR This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Hope everyone has had an enjoyable Labor Day weekend. For today’s issue of Hot Pod, I have a Q&A I conducted with
Read MoreJessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: Antenna: MLS Season Pass had 110K US signups on July 21, the day of Messi’s first MLS match, up from 6,143 on July 20; July was TV+’s best signup month in 2023 — Soccer superstar attracts over 110,000 sign-ups to MLS Season Pass on day of first game —
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Read MoreImage: Roberto Baldwin for The Verge BMW says it will use Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud software to manage data from its autonomous vehicles. The company has a preexisting deal with AWS to handle data from its connected cars. Now, the German automaker is expanding that deal to include data from its next-generation advanced driver-assist
Read MoreWhen we last left this subject, I told you all about Transorma, the first letter-sorting machine in semi-wide use. But before and since Transorma, machines have come about to perform various tasks on jumbled messes of mail — things like distinguishing letters from packages, making sure letters are all facing the same way before cancelling
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft will finally stop forcing Windows 11 users in Europe into Edge if they click a link from the Windows Widgets panel or from search results. The software giant has started testing the changes to Windows 11 in recent test builds of the operating system, but the changes are restricted to countries within
Read More3D media, the tech trend that refuses to die, may be once again making a comeback, thanks to Apple.
Read MoreCypher 007 is an interesting new James Bond game coming to Apple Arcade this month
Read MoreThe gap between the keyboard’s two halves gives you so much room for activities (or a trackball). | Image: ZSA Ever wonder what it might feel like to be an astronaut who’s concerned about avoiding carpal tunnel while working their nine-to-five desk job? Now there’s a keyboard to help you live that fantasy. ZSA is
Read MoreEven though manufacturers of handheld ham radios have been busy adding all sorts of bells and whistles into their portable offerings, for some reason, many of them lack a modern USB-C port. In the same vein, while some have USB for programming or otherwise communicating between the radio and a computer, very few can use
Read MoreThe camera isn’t much bigger than the E-mount itself. | Image: Sony Sony’s got a teeny-tiny new box camera that’s small and light enough to be sent into the sky on a drone, and it’s packing the high-resolution 61-megapixel full-frame sensor of its A7R V camera. The Sony ILX-LR1 is a new E-mount full-frame mirrorless
Read MoreImage: Nintendo It’s September, so naturally, it means it’s time to announce all the holiday video game bundles. And as inevitable as Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” being the number one song in America in October, Nintendo is releasing yet another Mario Kart 8 Deluxe holiday bundle. This non-Switch OLED bundle
Read MoreSteven Levy / Wired: An in-depth profile of OpenAI, Sam Altman, CTO Greg Brockman, and others, who all see ChatGPT and GPT-4 as stepping stones along the way to building an AGI — The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT. But that was just the start. The ultimate goal:
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta plans to “deprecate” the News tab in Facebook’s bookmarks section in the UK, France, and Germany. That’s typically been company speak for removing a feature. The changes are supposed to go into effect in early December, according to Meta. “As a company, we have to focus our
Read MoreIt’s got nice features like hair-trigger lockouts, but what is up with these cheap-o looking LED strips? | Image: PowerA Accessory maker PowerA seems to know that RGB gamer lights are all the rage, but its new Xbox controller and LED strips have very strong “We have gamer lights at home!” vibes. PowerA’s new RGB-infused
Read MoreMark Bergen / Bloomberg: Meta plans to eliminate the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany in early December 2023 and won’t sign new deals for news content in those countries — The company will “deprecate” the news tab — a Facebook feature to prominently display news material — for users in the
Read MoreGaming handhelds have been around for decades now, but with the Steam Deck breaking the market open a few years ago, it feels like we’re having a renaissance of emulation-focused handhelds. And while expensive handheld gaming PCs like the Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go often get the lion’s share of the attention, Android-based
Read MoreVishal Chawla / The Block: Visa expands its USDC stablecoin settlements to Solana, partnering with Worldpay and Nuvei for pilots, and has already moved millions of USDC via VisaNet — – Visa expanded its USDC stablecoin settlement capabilities to Solana, forming partnerships with Worldpay and Nuvei for pilot programs.
Read MoreCarly Page / TechCrunch: Dutch chipmaker NXP alerts customers to a breach involving their personal data, discovered on July 14; NXP declines to say how many customers had been impacted — Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has alerted customers to a data breach involving their personal information.
Read MoreClimate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors—everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded in the Nevada desert.
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok has started transferring European user information to its newly launched data center in Ireland. In an update on Tuesday, TikTok says it’s working on opening two additional data centers in Europe, including one in Norway and another in Ireland. TikTok’s move to open a data center in
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