The SwitchBot K10 Plus robot vacuum now works with Matter. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge This week, SwitchBot announced that almost its entire line of smart home devices can now work with Matter through its SwitchBot Hub 2. This includes its mini K10 Plus robot vacuum — one of The Verge’s
Read MoreImage: Bungie Destiny 2’s The Final Shape expansion has a lot riding on it. It’s the culmination of a 10-year story and the conclusion of Destiny’s light and darkness saga. After a four-month delay, fans haven’t really seen much of The Final Shape, but today, Bungie delivered a preview of what’s to come. The teaser
Read MoreA new study found that song lyrics are now angrier, more repetitive, and vain. Consensus wavers, but what remains incontestable is social media’s impact on the music we hear most.
Read MoreMiku Expo 2024 in Portland, Oregon. | Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge If you made it through that headline and you’re confused, don’t worry — I was, too, at first. Hatsune Miku is an internet fandom thing. She’s not a real person, and she didn’t get her start in some obscure anime — she’s
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Code hidden within the Google Photos app suggests the Magic Editor tools could soon become available to users without a Google One subscription. The change may include a “metered saves” system, which would allow a limited number of free edits per month. Magic Editor offers impressive capabilities like changing
Read MoreCruise is redeploying robotaxis in Phoenix after nearly five months of paused operations, the company said in a blog post. The catch? The cars will be in so-called “manual mode,” so they won’t be driving themselves. From a report: Cruise will resume manual driving of its autonomous vehicles to create maps and gather road information
Read MoreIn a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights found that Switzerland had not done enough to protect its citizens from climate change—blowing open the door for further cases against governments.
Read MoreFortinet released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products, including OS and FortiProxy. A cyber threat actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following advisories and apply necessary updates: FR-IR-23-345 FortiClientMac – Lack of configuration file validation FG-IR-23-493
Read MoreThe Verge There are more iPads than ever, and it can be tough to sort out which one is the best for you. Fortunately, we’re here to guide you through your next iPad purchase. Continue reading…
Read MoreAs the moon blocked the view of the sun across parts of Mexico, the United States and Canada on Monday, the celestial event managed another magnificent feat: It got people offline. From a report: According to Cloudflare, a cloud-computing service used by about 20 percent of websites globally, internet traffic dipped along the path of
Read MoreApple has released an incremental update for visionOS to the public, at the same time as seemingly re-releasing a developer beta of visionOS 1.2. Apple Vision Pro The update to the Apple Vision Pro bringing it up to visionOS 1.1.2 is an incremental change to the headset’s operating system. The release on Tuesday follows after
Read Morejd shares a report: Peter Higgs, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who discovered a new particle known as the Higgs boson, has died. Higgs, 94, who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 2013 for his work in 1964 showing how the boson helped bind the universe together by giving particles their mass, died at
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority An APK teardown of the latest version of Google Photos suggests Android users will be able to choose the backup quality of their photos and videos. Backups that are compressed will be saved in a permanently reduced size. The option to compress full-resolution photos and videos was previously only
Read MoreA series of CT scans of the Apple Vision Pro shows how much complexity is in the headset, and how carefully designed it all is to fit together. CT scan of the Apple Vision Pro Lumafield is now to CT scans what iFixit is to hardware teardowns. After exposing cheap components in fake AirPods and
Read MoreA woman shows a placard reading “For feminist and social ecologic justice” in Toulouse, France, March 19th, 2021. | Photo by Alain Pitton / NurPhoto via Getty Images An international court has, for the first time, ruled that a country violated human rights by not protecting people from the effects of climate change. A Swiss
Read MoreLéa Seydoux in The Beast. | Image: CMPR A period piece, a contemporary drama, and a speculative sci-fi film all in one, The Beast’s director, Bertrand Bonello, explains how he used three parallel narratives to explore a single idea. Continue reading…
Read MoreMeta Platforms is planning to launch two small versions of its forthcoming Llama 3 large-language model next week, The Information has reported [non-paywalled link]. From the report: The models will serve as a precursor to the launch of the biggest version of Llama 3, expected this summer. Release of the two small models will likely
Read MoreElla Purnell in Fallout. | Image: Amazon Fallout is a mixture of contradictions. In one moment, the games are dark and gruesome; in the next, silly and playful. So when it came time to adapt the series into a streaming show on Amazon, nailing that eclectic tone was key. “I think it’s very fundamental to
Read MoreApple’s high-fidelity video format ProRes was introduced with the iPhone 13, but Lightning’s speed limitations prevented users from unleashing its video-creation potential to the fullest. Here’s how to get the most out of ProRes, using software, tools, and drives you probably already have. USB-C on iPhone 15 turns it into a video powerhouse. With the
Read MoreThe Apple Watch Series 10 will get a new display, with a report claiming changes will be made to the OLED panel that could extend the battery life. Apple Watch Series 9 The advanced display of the Apple Watch has helped reduce the power consumption of the wearable over time. For the Series 10 device,
Read MoreGoogle Pixel smartphones have long been some of the best Android smartphones you can buy, but their presence at the top is surprising if you take a deeper look at the spec sheet. The Pixels barely have top-of-the-line specifications, trailing behind most market leaders. However, thanks to some nifty software magic, Google can extract the
Read MoreMore than 200 chemical plants across the country will be required to curb the toxic pollutants they release into the air [non-paywalled link] under a regulation announced by the Biden administration on Tuesday. From a report: The regulation is aimed at reducing the risk of cancer for people living near industrial sites. This is the
Read MoreFidelity Investments’ Sumaya Almeida discusses how she ended up as a software engineer in Ireland and her experience of the FIT tech apprenticeship programme. Read more: From TV to tech: How this software engineer began a new career
Read MoreThe researchers claim that this material can be manufactured cheaply and could make it easier and faster to detect diseases in patients. Read more: DCU claims new ultra-small material can detect diseases faster
Read MoreImage: Prime Video Fallout’s TV adaptation is coming to Prime Video a day early. The new series will now make its debut on Wednesday, April 10th, 2024, at 9PM ET / 6PM PT, rather than on April 11th. Walton Goggins, who plays nuclear wasteland survivor The Ghoul, made the announcement on Monday, saying the early
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