The Razer BlackWidow V4 75 mechanical keyboard. | Image: Razer Razer’s launching a new mechanical keyboard that might get the attention of more than just those who fall into the RGB-forward gamer demographic. The company’s BlackWidow V4 75 includes hot-swappable switches, a gasket-mounted plate with two foam layers, screw holes on the PCB board for
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The developer Relay for Reddit, of one of the remaining third-party Reddit apps for Android, detailed the potential prices for planned subscriptions for the app in a new post on Thursday. The costs of a subscription will go up based on a user’s daily average number of API
Read MoreIt has only been a matter of weeks since the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 hit the market, but Amazon already has a no-strings-attached deal on the majestic Android phone. By clipping the on-page coupon, you can now save $100 on the clamshell foldable. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 for $899.99 ($100 off)
Read MoreCredit: Google Google has launched a new hub for all of its product policies. The “Transparency Center” is meant to grant greater visibility of these policies to the public. The website also provides tools to remove harmful content. If you ever wanted to find a specific Google product policy, like for YouTube Premium or Chrome,
Read MoreAshley Carman / Bloomberg: Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company’s annual gross profit by €35M — An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform
Read MoreIn our experience, there’s rarely any question when the cat uses the litter box. At all. In the entire house. For hours. And while it may be instantly obvious to the most casual observer that it’s time to clean the thing out, that doesn’t mean there’s no value in quantifying your feline friend’s noxious vapors.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Match Group, which owns dating apps like Tinder, Plenty of Fish, and Match, is ending its partnership with the nonprofit organization that provided background checks to its users, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. The service that provided the checks, called Garbo, is shutting down its consumer-facing business as a
Read MoreCredit: Intel If you’ve shopped for a new computer recently, you may have come across the term APU in relation to processing hardware. Compared to CPUs and GPUs, which you may already know about, the term APU is relatively less common and understood. This may lead to some confusion and understandable questions like: is a
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A rumor claims the iPhone 15 could have a charging speed of up to 35W. The rumor suggests that only some of the 15 series models will get this faster charging speed. If true, the iPhone 15 could have an 8W faster charging speed compared to the Pixel 8
Read MoreCarl Franzen / VentureBeat: Arthur launches Arthur Bench, an open-source tool for comparing the performance of LLMs, like OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo and Meta’s Llama 2, for specific use cases — New York City-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Arthur has announced the launch of Arthur Bench, an open-source tool …
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Spotify is spending a lot of money on podcasts that don’t actually involve any talking. That’s according to a report from Bloomberg, which states the company could increase its annual gross profit by a whopping $38 million if it steers users away from so-called white noise podcasts. These
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Microsoft published an AI-generated travel article about Ottawa, Canada that prominently recommended tourists visit the Ottawa Food Bank, as spotted by Paris Marx, but it pulled that version of the story after we published this article. The food bank was the No. 3 recommendation on the list, sitting behind the National War
Read MoreIt has only been a matter of weeks since the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 hit the market, but Amazon already has a no-strings-attached deal on the majestic Android phone. By clipping the on-page coupon, you can now save $100 on the clamshell foldable. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 for $899.99 ($100 off)
Read MoreCredit: Google Google has launched a new hub for all of its product policies. The “Transparency Center” is meant to grant greater visibility of these policies to the public. The website also provides tools to remove harmful content. If you ever wanted to find a specific Google product policy, like for YouTube Premium or Chrome,
Read MoreFrom Underrated to The Beanie Bubble, here’s everything you should be watching on Apple’s streaming service.
Read MoreClimate activists of Extinction Rebellion wearing masks of company CEOs including X’s Elon Musk take part in a demonstration in Berlin, Germany, on April 13th, 2023 | Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP via Getty Images Almost half of “Environmental Twitter” has vanished from the platform now called X, new research shows. A wave of
Read MoreJohn Callaham / Neowin: Microsoft plans to discontinue Azure Kinect Developer Kit, a depth-sensing camera it released in 2019, in October 2023 — Microsoft thought it had the next generation of technology control inputs when it first revealed the Kinect motion-tracking camera sensor for its Xbox 360 console.
Read MoreIf you’re looking to back to school with Apple, here’s everything you should know.
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google launches a new Transparency Center to let users report harmful content, make appeals, read transparency reports and product or service policies, and more — Google is launching a new Transparency Center to make it easier for users to learn more about its product policies.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Mark Zuckerberg has announced that WhatsApp now has HD photo support. The app now has an HD button that will allow you to select image quality. The feature is rolling out globally in the next few weeks and will be followed by HD videos. WhatsApp is getting a long-awaited
Read MoreApple’s best iPhones might not have its best accessories if rumors of ditching the leather iPhone 15 cases are true.
Read MoreIn March a viral letter called for a pause on AI development, warning that algorithms could outsmart humanity—but many experts who signed on did not believe the technology poses an existential risk.
Read MoreImage: Poncle Vampire Survivors is out on Switch on Thursday (it’s great), and sometime in the future, you might be able to bring your save file to Nintendo’s console — and everywhere else the game is available, developer Poncle announced. “A lot of people have been asking for cross-save, and the Nintendo Switch port will
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Netflix has one last surprise in store for those who subscribe to its DVD by mail rental business. It’s telling members that it will send up to 10 extra discs before it ends the 25-year-old subscription service for good, as reported earlier by Collider. Netflix first announced that
Read MoreMadhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Llion Jones, who co-authored Google’s pioneering transformer paper, launches Sakana AI alongside David Ha, the former head of Google’s AI research arm in Japan — Llion Jones and David Ha take inspiration from nature with start-up Sakana AI — A former Google researcher who co-authored …
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