Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is the first open-world Pokémon game in the truest sense. After completing the introduction, players can head off onto three different paths: Victory Road, the Path of Legends, and Starfall Street.
Read MoreNASA’s Juno probe reached Jupiter in 2016, spending several years studying our solar system’s largest planet. The spacecraft is now in the second year of its extended mission as it focuses on the planet’s expansive system of moons. NASA has just released a new image of the volcanic moon Io, and you can consider this
Read MoreVim is the greatest or the worst text editor of all time, depending on the tribe you’re in. Either way, members of both camps can appreciate this build from [Chris Price], which uses a foot pedal to ease operations for the user. The basic concept was to use a pedal to enable switching between normal
Read MoreGo Speedtest 3.0. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple, Google, and Mozilla, the makers of Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, are teaming up to create a next-gen browser benchmark called Speedometer 3, according to tweets from all three companies. This means that the major players in the web browser and rendering engine space
Read MoreThe entrepreneur says he’s cracking down on doxing. Many see his account-blocking spree as self-serving.
Read MoreAs cars add more and more automated driving features, how can car companies be certain these systems won’t be misused to wreak havoc on our roads? They can’t, actually. That’s why more and more cars with driving-assistance systems are keeping an eye on the human behind the wheel, as well as what’s ahead on the
Read MoreSvelteKit, a framework for building full-stack web applications using the Svelte UI component framework, has reached 1.0 status. Unveiled December 14, the milestone release makes SvelteKit the recommended way to build all Svelte applications, the Svelte development team said. Svelte team members said Svelte makes it easier to build user interfaces than working with the
Read MoreKaya Yurieff / The Information: New York-based Howl, which runs a marketplace facilitating cooperation between creators and retailers, raised a $27M Series A led by Highland Capital Partners — As our Creator Economy Database shows, influencer marketing is a crowded field. The two-year old startup Howl hopes to stand …
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge With the release of iOS 16.2 this week, you can now upgrade your Apple HomeKit smart home to a new underlying architecture, which Apple says “will improve the performance and reliability of the accessories in your home.” This new foundation for Apple’s smart home was first announced at
Read MoreTurn the clock back a couple of decades, and the only time the average person would have given much thought to batteries was when the power would go out, and they suddenly needed to juice up their flashlight or portable radio. But today, high-capacity batteries have become part and parcel to our increasingly digital lifestyle.
Read MoreIllustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Last night, Elon Musk popped into a Spaces chat discussing his move to ban a bunch of journalists’ accounts from the platform. Confronted by Buzzfeed News’ Katie Notopoulos and The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell (who was one of the banned reporters) on how he can claim to support
Read MoreSeems like we’ll be waiting a little bit longer to hear about the next home for NFL Sunday Ticket. | Photo by Christopher Mast / Getty Images Apple’s long-rumored deal for NFL Sunday Ticket may not happen this year after all. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said this summer that the NFL expected to pick where
Read MoreI can’t wait to take on some robot dinos with my friends. | Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment Horizon Zero Dawn developer Guerrilla Games is working on a new Horizon online multiplayer game, according to a tweet about jobs at the studio (via Kotaku). “A new internal team is developing a separate Online Project set in
Read More(Credit: AMD) AMD’s long-awaited RDNA3 GPUs launched on Dec. 13, and although they didn’t score a knockout victory over their rivals in early tests, they’re clearly worthy competitors. Their main flaw, reviewers noted, was lackluster ray tracing performance, to the surprise of exactly nobody. But now that the dust has settled and cards are in
Read MoreA Eufy camera in the rain. | Image: Eufy It’s been two weeks since we reported that Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras, and we’ve been pushing the company for answers ever since. But the company hasn’t answered a single one of our questions — in fact, I haven’t
Read MoreWill Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: A Q&A with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the lessons he learned from DALL-E 2’s success, what DALL-E means for society, and more — Three things the groundbreaking generative model taught OpenAI’s CEO. — Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has been at the heart of the San Francisco-based firm
Read MoreSamsung has decided to change its business strategy next year. The new strategy will see Samsung focus less on cost reduction and more on competitiveness. Samsung is going all in to beat Apple and become the top OEM. For years Apple has had a stranglehold on the phone market, and the grip has only gotten
Read MoreFrom time to time, you might experience a few issues with Touch ID, but all is not lost! If you’re struggling to log in with Touch ID on your mobile device or Mac, there are a few things you can do to fix the problem.
Read MoreWaymo is sending its fully driverless cars to handle some of the trickiest types of passenger pickups you can muster: airport trips. The company announced that customers flying in and out of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport will now be able to hail one of the company’s “rider only” vehicles, a sign that the Alphabet company
Read MoreWhile some of us can fall asleep anywhere from a noisy auditorium to a brightly lit train station, others are more fussy, requiring quiet and dark to nod off. [Craig Lindley] likes to minimize light when he’s trying to sleep, and decided to build himself a simple clock that wouldn’t disturb his rest. The basic
Read MoreMiriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal: Private equity firm Advent plans to acquire Maxar, which operates 90 satellites that collect images used by Google Maps and others, for $6.4B including debt — Including debt, the transaction is worth $6.4 billion — Advent International agreed to buy Maxar Technologies Inc. MAXR 122.47%increase …
Read MoreSheila Dang / Reuters: Twitter’s head of trust and safety Ella Irwin says the company manually reviewed “any and all accounts” that violated its new policy by posting links to ElonJet — Twitter Inc’s head of trust and safety told Reuters the company manually reviewed “any and all accounts” …
Read MoreImage: Getty The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into General Motors’ Cruise, citing incidents in which the company’s autonomous vehicles have blocked the road or caused rear-end collisions. NHTSA is examining incidents in which Cruise’s vehicles “engage in inappropriately hard braking or become immobilized.” There are three incidents that the agency
Read MoreIf Twitter had implemented its rules uniformly, other world leaders would have been banned too.
Read MoreHistorian Michael Livingston explores the real-world myths and legends the author used to construct his epic fantasy series.
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