Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority A new report forecasts that GenAI smartphone shipments will increase from 11% in 2024 to 43% by 2027. Samsung currently ships the most GenAI phones, but Apple is likely to take the lead by next year once it enters the AI space. Qualcomm will lead the AI SoC
Read MoreViber is rolling out AI-powered chat summaries for group conversations. The feature leverages OpenAI’s technology to condense up to 100 unread messages in a chat quickly. Summaries are generated as bullet points highlighting action items and important discussion threads. Popular messaging app Viber has announced a new AI-powered chat summarizer feature that offers concise summaries
Read MorePigeon River Country State Forest in Vanderbilt, Michigan, U.S., on Wednesday, April 20th, 2022. State and local governments in the US are enrolling public-owned forests in carbon projects that could earn them tens of millions of dollars but provide little new help in the fight against climate change. The charity that serves as a major
Read MoreUbisoft has come under fire from players who claim the company has revoked access to a game they had previously purchased. Users attempting to launch “The Crew” on Ubisoft Connect are met with a message stating, “You no longer have access to this game. Why not check the Store to pursue your adventures?” The game
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Visible has introduced its annual prepaid plans, allowing you to lock in a year of service and save on your monthly bill. The Visible Plus annual plan costs $395 upfront, saving you $145 over the year. The standard Visible annual plan costs $275 upfront, saving you $25 over the
Read MoreAbstract of a paper on Nature: Music is ubiquitous in our everyday lives, and lyrics play an integral role when we listen to music. The complex relationships between lyrical content, its temporal evolution over the last decades, and genre-specific variations, however, are yet to be fully understood. In this work, we investigate the dynamics of
Read MoreCourtesy of Prime The mysterious hole at the center of Amazon’s Outer Range was something to fear when the sci-fi / western drama first debuted. But the show’s new season two trailer makes it seem like the gaping chasm might wind up answering all of the Abbott family’s prayers. Outer Range’s first season came to
Read MoreThe cassette is one of the coolest music formats ever, in that you could chuck them about with abandon and they’d usually still work. [Chris Borge] recently decided to see if he could recreate these plastic audio packages himself, with great success. He kicked off his project by printing some examples of an open source
Read MoreGoogle is working to add support for NFC Wireless Charging into Android 15. Many smaller devices don’t support Qi wireless charging because they don’t have enough space to fit a charging receiver coil. NFC Wireless Charging requires much less integration space, so it’s better suited for smaller devices. When it comes to wireless charging, the
Read MoreThe UK is starting to draft regulations to govern AI, focusing on the most powerful language models which underpin OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Bloomberg News reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: Policy officials at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology are in the early stages of devising legislation to limit potential
Read MoreMacworld Every year, Apple announces the new version of iOS at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June. It then enters a beta testing period (first for developers only, then for the public) before being released in September, around the time the new iPhones go on sale. We don’t expect the process or timeline to change
Read MoreSenator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has written a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, saying that TurboTax “continues to relentlessly upsell” customers while also directing them away from services that would otherwise be free. From a report: As noted in the letter, Warren’s staff analyzed TurboTax’s services using a sample taxpayer and found that the company
Read MoreApple Fellow Phil Schiller has been testifying in an Australian Federal Court about the origins of the App Store in 2008, and it’s just the latest example of pointless attacks on the company. Phil Schiller (left) and Steve Jobs with the first online App Store promo Let’s be clear — Apple has apparently shafted suppliers,
Read MoreLast time, we looked into using a logic analyzer to decode SPI signals of LCD displays, which can help us reuse LCD screens from proprietary systems, or port LCD driver code from one platform to another! If you are to do that, however, you might find a bottleneck – typically, you need to capture a
Read MoreImage: Nick Barclay / The Verge The revamped Disney Plus app could soon feature always-on channels dedicated to Star Wars and Marvel shows, according to a report from The Information. The channels, which are reportedly similar to those on free ad-supported streaming services like Pluto or Tubi, could take away the choice when it comes
Read MoreSony’s flagship earbuds are smaller, lighter, and better-sounding than the last-gen model. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Whether you need some peace while working from home or plan on taking some summer travels, a good pair of wireless earbuds is crucial for preserving and protecting your sanity. My favorites have been from
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: Shakeeb Ahmed, a cybersecurity engineer convicted of stealing around $12 million in crypto, was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison. In a press release, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the sentence. Ahmed was accused of hacking into two cryptocurrency exchanges, and
Read MoreMisleading posts including AI-generated videos, photos, and repurposed footage from other conflicts have been viewed millions of times.
Read MoreThe controversial GBA4iOS clone that hit the top of the App Store is gone, and the rules Apple cited for its removal leave us with more questions than answers about the future of emulators on the platform. Emulator app iGBA is accused of copying another developer’s work without license Shortly after Apple changed its App
Read MoreThe layoffs follow the company’s first drop in year-over-year vehicle deliveries since 2020. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A few weeks after reporting its first year-over-year decline in vehicle deliveries since 2020, Tesla is now planning to lay off over ten percent of its global workforce, according to an internal company-wide email
Read MoreThe audio experts at our sister site, SoundGuys, have the Sony WF-1000XM5 as the best pair of wireless earbuds for most people on their best wireless earbuds list. The buds retail for $300, but a new Amazon deal has dropped them to their lowest price ever at $229.95. Sony WF-1000XM5 for $229.95 ($70 off)
Read MoreMartin Corrigan will take over as interim CEO of EirGrid while a formal selection process is organised to appoint a new chief executive. Read more: EirGrid’s Mark Foley to step down as CEO after six years
Read MoreSony is getting ready to release a more powerful PS5 console, possibly by the end of this year. After reports of leaked PS5 Pro specifications surfaced recently, The Verge has obtained a full list of specs for the upcoming console. From the report: Sources familiar with Sony’s plans tell me that developers are already being
Read MoreLet’s admit it! We have all been there at some point—when browsing the web, finding a video we want to watch, and playing it only to see an error message. Windows users often deal with video error messages like ‘Error Loading Player’, ‘The Media Could Not be Loaded’, etc., while playing videos through the web
Read MoreGoogle has previously launched with just two phones in its flagship phones lineup. This has been the case since the first-generation Pixels back in 2016, but it’s been known for a while that this is changing with the introduction of a smaller Pro device to the upcoming Pixel 9 lineup. However, thanks to Google insider,
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