PlayStation Portal. | Image: Sony Sony is officially launching its handheld remote player, the PlayStation Portal, on November 15th. The portable device will stream PS5 games over Wi-Fi and features an eight-inch LCD screen running at 1080p resolution at 60fps. Sony says the Portal will launch in the US, UK, and other regions for $199.99
Read MoreAshley Belanger / Ars Technica: A US district judge grants a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that requires age verification to access porn sites — Texas was supposed to start enforcing the law tomorrow. — The day before a Texas antiporn law that requires age verification …
Read MoreSamsung’s new app, Samsung Food, is designed to be a personalized AI cooking assistant. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Wi-Fi-connected kitchen appliances have struggled to prove their worth, but Samsung’s not entirely new app could help realize the potential of connected cooking. Continue reading…
Read MoreBrody Ford / Bloomberg: Dell reports Q2 revenue down 13% YoY to $22.9B, vs. $20.8B est., Client Solutions down 16% to $12.9B, Infrastructure Solutions down 11% to $8.5B; DELL jumps 7%+ — – Server partnership on AI with chipmaker Nvidia fuels demand — PC sales to consumers and businesses were better than expected
Read MoreImage: James Bareham / The Verge A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that would require age verification and health warnings for pornographic websites, calling it unconstitutional and poorly defined. In a preliminary injunction decision released today, Judge David Ezra ruled in favor of the Free Speech Coalition, an adult industry trade association. The
Read MoreNotepad’s getting autosave. Notepad! | Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s testing some neat new features for the Windows 11 Snipping Tool and the one and only Notepad dot exe. They’re only in the Windows Insider Program for now, but they’re there. Anyone who’s ever tried to shut down their PC or close Notepad in the past, I
Read MoreSamsung’s new app, Samsung Food, is designed to be a personalized AI cooking assistant. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Wi-Fi-connected kitchen appliances have struggled to prove their worth, but Samsung’s not entirely new app could help realize the potential of connected cooking. Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: James Bareham / The Verge A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that would require age verification and health warnings for pornographic websites, calling it unconstitutional and poorly defined. In a preliminary injunction decision released today, Judge David Ezra ruled in favor of the Free Speech Coalition, an adult industry trade association. The
Read MoreBenj Edwards / Ars Technica: University of Zürich and Intel researchers reveal Swift, an autonomous drone trained via deep reinforcement learning to beat human champions in FPV drone racing — University creates the first autonomous system capable of beating humans at drone racing.
Read MoreImage: Larian Studios It brings me no joy to say this, but I can’t play Baldur’s Gate 3 for the foreseeable future. Is it because my plate of games is full and will remain so for the next eight years? That’s true, but it’s not the reason. Or is it because the game has taken
Read MoreChrome’s new Copy Video Frame tool outputs a high-quality image with no overlay. Too bad I couldn’t use it to show the right-click menu! | Screenshot: The Verge Google just made it easier to grab high-quality still images from videos — and it works in a bunch of browsers. In a post on Google’s Keyword
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge New York’s subway pass system has turned off a feature that could enable others to track your travels if they have access to your bank card number. In a statement to The Verge, Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesperson Eugene Resnick says the agency “disabled the feature” as part
Read MoreSegways stunned the world when they first hit the market in 2001. Hoverboards then terrified the world with nasty accidents and surprise fires. [James Bruton] loves hoverboards regardless, and set out on a mighty upgrade regime turning the ride-on toy into a giant omniwheeled bicycle. The build relies on two giant omniwheels of [James’s] own
Read MoreMicrosoft is retiring its Visual Studio for Mac IDE. The company advises developers on Mac to seek alternatives such as the C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code and other extensions that enable .NET development. Citing ongoing user feedback and usage patterns for Visual Studio for Mac, Microsoft on August 30 said it is now
Read MoreChild safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting. The company issued a rare, detailed response on Thursday.
Read MoreChild safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting. The company issued a rare, detailed response on Thursday.
Read MoreMicrosoft is retiring its Visual Studio for Mac IDE. The company advises developers on Mac to seek alternatives such as the C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code and other extensions that enable .NET development. Citing ongoing user feedback and usage patterns for Visual Studio for Mac, Microsoft on August 30 said it is now
Read MoreThe Indian Space Research Organisation’s Pragyan rover does the twist on the Moon. | Image: ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is riding on the high of its Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission’s successful landing, sharing more of it with the world by posting a new video of the lander’s imager observing the rover as it
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Bumble updates its community guidelines to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxxing, and says the company blocked 8.2M+ accounts in 2023, mostly using AI — Dating app company Bumble has released its updated community guidelines with an aim to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxing.
Read MoreStarfield is all about space exploration — potentially like hundreds of hours of it. | Image: Bethesda Game Studios It’s been a very busy year for big game releases, with Starfield being one of the biggest titles that has yet to launch. The Xbox and PC exclusive from Bethesda is promising a massive sci-fi world
Read MoreCredit: Google Google has introduced a new feature for the Chrome browser. The feature allows the user to copy the exact frame they want from a video. Unlike taking a screenshot, this feature will let you capture a better-quality image of the frame. Have you ever tried to take a screenshot of a moment in
Read MoreImage: Colin Young-Wolff Though The Guard won Valorant’s Ascension tournament, earning them a promotion into the international league, the team will not compete in the 2024 season, and its roster has been dissolved. Continue reading…
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta is testing a “For you on Threads” carousel in Instagram, with a button to open the Threads app, after adding a “Send to Instagram DM” button in Threads — Meta is continuously experimenting with features to bump up engagement on Threads, which has fallen off …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia and AMD say they face new restrictions in some Middle Eastern countries, Reuters reports. This widens the restrictions on these chips beyond China and Russia. The new licensing requirement applies to “a subset” of Nvidia’s top-end chips, the company said. In response, the Biden administration said it
Read MoreBecause Nintendo’s upcoming Mario game had no deadline, its creators were able to experiment with new styles and move from the Mushroom Kingdom to the Flower Kingdom—with delightfully trippy results.
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