Illustration: The Verge Google just landed a deal to capture planet-heating pollution at a huge bargain: $100 per ton of CO2, the price climate tech startups around the world are racing to achieve in order to make their technologies commercially viable. The company announced the agreement today with Holocene, a startup with an even shorter history than others in the emerging carbon removal industry that has nevertheless attracted some big-name... Read more ›
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A photo of the disc drive on the slim PS5. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Today may have marked the beginning of the end for game console disc drives. Sony finally announced the $699.99 PS5 Pro, and while it looks to be an impressive machine, it’s the first PlayStation console that will require you to buy the console and a separate disc drive if you... Read more ›
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Popsicles or Light Sabers, your choice. | Image: Lifx Lifx has a new smart “Polychrome” Tube light that can glow with multiple colors and transform your home lamps and fixtures into fun light-up popsicles. The bulbs are made of a frosted glass tube and contain 104 LEDs with 52 controllable zones that enable color shifting effects and includes themes like cracking fire in “Flame Mode,” or a lava lamp effect... Read more ›
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The standard Galaxy Buds 3 can’t go toe-to-toe with the pro-grade model, but they do offer many of the same features. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s forthcoming AirPods 4 might be the latest pair of wireless earbuds to pique our interest, but if you’re a Galaxy phone owner, it’s hard to resist the appeal of the Galaxy Buds 3. And now, thanks to the latest Discover... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple heavily sprinkled mentions of AI throughout its iPhone 16 event on Monday. However, generative Apple Intelligence features won’t be ready for the public launch of iOS 18 on September 16th or the new iPhones when they’re released on September 20th. The first set of Apple’s AI features is scheduled for public availability next month in most regions — except the EU — as... Read more ›
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Photo illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Between the Apple Watch Series 10, the Ultra 2, and the second-gen SE, there are more options than ever. We’ll help you sort through them. Continue reading… Read more ›
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Photo by Bruce Bennett / Getty Images This week, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stunned safety advocates by proposing new vehicle rules that it says will help reduce pedestrian deaths in America. The new rules appear aimed directly at the trend of increasingly massive SUVs and trucks, which have been shown to be more deadly to pedestrians than smaller and midsize vehicles. Never in its 50-plus years... Read more ›
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Image: Microsoft Microsoft is launching its Xbox Game Pass Standard tier today. After briefly testing it with Xbox Insiders last month, the new $14.99 per month Game Pass Standard subscription is launching with the usual Game Pass library for Xbox and online console multiplayer access, too. This new tier doesn’t include immediate access to day-one game releases, though. Microsoft first revealed this new Xbox Game Pass Standard tier in July,... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge This weekend, ESPN began publishing AI-generated recaps of women’s soccer games. It’s using Microsoft AI to write each story, with humans only involved in reviewing each recap for “quality and accuracy.” ESPN says these stories will “augment” rather than detract from its other content — but needless to say, people have feelings. It’s not that ESPN is masquerading AI work as that of humans.... Read more ›
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The replacement AirPods Max ear cushions in the new color options are now available. | Image: Apple If you’re envious of the new AirPods Max colors but don’t think a switch from Apple’s proprietary Lightning port to USB-C is enough reason to upgrade, you can now buy replacement ear cushions in the new colorways that are still compatible with the original version of the headphones, as MacRumors discovered. The ear... Read more ›
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Image: Apple Apple’s all in on AI — at least Apple’s version. “The next generation of iPhone has been designed for Apple Intelligence from the ground up,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said before revealing the iPhone 16. Software chief Craig Fedherighi pitched Apple Intelligence as a “personal intelligence system” that’s at “the heart of the iPhone 16 line-up.” After the event Apple even published a whole press release dedicated to... Read more ›
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Image: Intrepid Pictures When Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass) adapts a Stephen King story, you might expect something spooky. That was true with his takes on Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game. It’s not the case with The Life of Chuck, which isn’t trying to creep you out or tap into your darkest nightmares. It’s a story about celebrating what we have while we... Read more ›
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Image: Mubi Director Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance goes full David Cronenberg body horror with a gruesome parable about the violence of youth-obsessed beauty standards. Continue reading… Read more ›
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The Iodyne Pro Mini. | Photo: Iodyne Do you know what’s on your portable drives? Or where you saw them last? Are they ready to store and share massive gobs of video? Are they blazing fast? The Iodyne Pro Mini is designed to be the (pricey) answer to all of that. It’s the first external SSD with a pair of Frore AirJet Mini Slim inside, a solid-state cooling chip that,... Read more ›
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Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A coalition of 42 state and territory attorneys general is calling on Congress to pass regulation requiring warning labels on social media platforms. In a letter on Monday, the attorneys general wrote that the warning labels will bring attention to the “inherent risks” social platforms pose to children. US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy first proposed the warning labels in June as... Read more ›
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Tab groups will soon make it easier to revisit webpages across devices without bookmarking them. | Image: Google Google is adding some new features to Chrome that aim to help users organize and keep track of their browser tabs across both desktop and mobile devices. The search giant announced in a new blog post that tab groups — which enable Android and desktop Chrome users to keep related pages together... Read more ›
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Screenshot: Pocket It’s hard to keep up with everything you come across on the web, such as an article you don’t have time to read at the moment or a video you’d like to run again later. Years ago, I started getting the better of this issue with Pocket, a well-known app that allows you to bookmark an article to a separate server and then retrieve it to read at... Read more ›
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Image: Insomniac Games Sony finally confirmed the PS5 Pro this morning, and in addition to enhanced features like Wi-Fi 7 and 8K gaming, PlayStation execs shared new info on how recent and older games will perform on the system and all the current games that can take advantage of the Pro’s power. One feature the PS5 Pro will include is called Game Boost. The official PlayStation Blog says PS5 Pro... Read more ›
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Image: Sony Sony just announced the $699.99 PS5 Pro, a beefed-up version of the PS5 that includes a larger GPU and advanced ray tracing support. But if you want to play your physical games on the new console, you’ll have to pay extra: a disc drive isn’t included, so you’ll have to buy and install one separately for an additional $79.99. “PS5 Pro is available as a disc-less console, with... Read more ›
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The GMMK 3 is quite the modular mechanical keyboard, as its initialism-style name implies. The GMMK 3 and GMMK 3 Pro are easy to configure and customize, though you can quickly blow your budget. Continue reading… Read more ›
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