That’s a skinny XPS. | Image: Windows Report Want a look at Dell’s new notebook lineup that’s apparently powered by Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon X Elite processors? Courtesy of Windows Report, these leaked images come ahead of Microsoft’s May 20th event where new Surfaces (and other laptops) are expected to sport the same chips. They unsurprisingly
Read MoreA “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” resulted in the deletion of UniSuper’s account last week, disrupting the financial services provider’s than half a million members. “Services began being restored for UniSuper customers on Thursday, more than a week after the system went offline,” reports The Guardian. “Investment account balances would reflect last week’s figures and UniSuper
Read MoreWhile split-flap alarm clocks once adorned heavy wood nightstands in strong numbers, today the displays are most commonly found in train stations and airports. Hey, at least they’re still around, right? Like many of us, [The Wrench] has always wanted to make one for themselves, but they actually got around to doing it. This doesn’t
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Imagine this: you’ve “dated” 600 people in San Fransisco without having typed a word to any of them. Instead, a busy little bot has completed the mindless ‘getting-to-know-you’ chatter on your behalf, and has told you which people you should actually get off the couch to meet.
Read MoreTim Levin reports via InsideEVs: Two things of note in the electric vehicle world happened today around the same time. First, the Geely Group-owned Chinese EV brand Zeekr debuted on the New York Stock Exchange today at a valuation of around $5.2 billion. Then, around 250 miles south in Washington, D.C., news emerged that the
Read MoreThat’s a skinny XPS. | Image: Windows Report Want a look at Dell’s new notebook lineup that’s apparently powered by Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon X Elite processors? Courtesy of Windows Report, these leaked images come ahead of Microsoft’s May 20th event where new Surfaces (and other laptops) are expected to sport the same chips. They unsurprisingly
Read MoreThe new iPad Air comes in two sizes, while the Pro model picks up an M4 chip and a more vibrant OLED panel. | Image: Apple At long last, Apple’s newest iPad Pro and iPad Air are finally, officially real. Preorders opened May 7th, with the former tablet starting at $999 and the latter at
Read MoreRed Hat is extending its Lightspeed generative AI technology to work with the company’s Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud application platform as well as with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Announced May 7, Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed will offer intelligent, natural language processing capabilities, intended to make OpenShift and
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Imagine this: you’ve “dated” 600 people in San Fransisco without having typed a word to any of them. Instead, a busy little bot has completed the mindless ‘getting-to-know-you’ chatter on your behalf, and has told you which people you should actually get off the couch to meet.
Read MoreThe new iPad Air comes in two sizes, while the Pro model picks up an M4 chip and a more vibrant OLED panel. | Image: Apple At long last, Apple’s newest iPad Pro and iPad Air are finally, officially real. Preorders opened May 7th, with the former tablet starting at $999 and the latter at
Read MoreMacworld Quick show of hands: How many of you have gotten stuck in a multi-person iMessage session that caused your phone to go “buzz” every five seconds? Yep. We’ve all been there. In the old days, in order to escape the constant buzzing, you had to turn on iOS’s system-wide Do Not Disturb feature or
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile will pay a combined $10.22 million to a group of states to settle claims that the carriers lied to customers about their “unlimited” plans and “free” phone offers. The settlement, which follows an investigation from a coalition of 50 attorneys general, requires the three
Read MoreThree bursts of charged particles ejected from the sun have merged into a wave that could lead to brilliant auroras being visible from Moscow to Oklahoma City.
Read MorePhoto by IDA MARIE ODGAARD/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images GameStop, the used video game retailer that’s become increasingly associated with other kinds of speculative investments, wants to cash in on the resurgent card collecting craze — staffers have told Pokébeach, Polygon, and The Verge that stores will begin buying and selling rare Pokémon cards, and
Read MoreThe annual developer conference kicks off with a keynote address on Tuesday. Look out for updates on Android, Search, and Assistant, plus a whole lot of AI news.
Read MoreSearch giant Baidu fires its head of public relations after she outraged Gen Z workers. From a report [non-paywalled link]: The head of public relations at a major Chinese tech firm gained hundreds of thousands of followers seemingly overnight after posting a series of viral videos laying out her unapologetically tyrannical management style. The videos
Read MoreMatter Casting is now rolling out to all Fire TVs on FireOS 6 or higher. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge If the Fire TV is your streaming stick of choice, I have good news. There’s now an easy way to cast content from your phone or tablet to your TV — as
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The Pixel Watch and Pixel Watch 2 send a notification to your phone once it is done charging. Users are reporting that they are no longer seeing this fully charged notification. Some are even saying that they never had the feature in the first place. Back in November 2023,
Read MoreZitchas writes: The practice of having games require a connection to a publisher’s server — whether it is to check for a license or to access plug-ins and DLC — is an increasingly common thing in computer software; and many people are concerned that at some point in the future the publisher will shut down
Read MoreDo you like your cup of tea to be cooled down to exactly 54 C, have a love for machining, and possess more than a little bit of a mad inventor bent? If so, then you have a lot in common with [Chronova Engineering]. In this video, we see him making a fully mechanical chime-ringing
Read MoreMacworld It’s possible to call someone even if they’ve blocked your number on their iPhone, because the iOS blocking feature relies on your caller ID being visible… and you can hide that fairly easily. Whether it’s advisable, ethical or even legal to do so is another matter. In this article we explain how to hide
Read MoreEight years ago, a coalition of retail banks in India built a mobile payments system called the UPI. The system is interoperable, allowing users to make instant peer-to-peer transactions between them — across all participating banks — and to merchants at zero cost. Today, it processes more than 12 billion transactions each month — more
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Electronic Arts has a long, storied history of trying to wring more money out of gamers after they’ve purchased a game — now, it appears, the company’s hard at work on its next generation of in-game ads. EA CEO Andrew Wilson admitted as much on the company’s Q4 earnings
Read MoreThe number of tornadoes so far in the United States this year is just above average. But their distribution is changing. From a report: Tornadoes tend to travel in packs these days, often with a dozen or more forming in the same region on the same day. On the worst days, hundreds can form at
Read MorePhoto by Zhang Dagang / VCG via Getty Images Who’s afraid of China’s electric vehicles? President Joe Biden. The president is preparing to announce higher tariffs on imported Chinese EVs, effectively closing out the possibility that the country will be able to afford to import its much cheaper and, in many cases, more desirable plug-in
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