Image: Acer At IFA today, Acer announced itâs expanding its Swift AI laptop line with models featuring Intelâs new Lunar Lake chips, Qualcommâs just-announced eight-core Snapdragon X Plus and AMDâs Ryzen AI 300. And, it claims, each of them can theoretically last over 24 hours playing back video, or over 17 hours in productivity tests. If you buy them with their IPS panels and 65 watt-hour batteries, Acer claims the... Read more âș
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Acer has so far stayed out of the handheld gaming PC race, but thatâs about to change. Itâs just announced its first Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally competitor, the Acer Nitro Blaze 7, which looks like it fits somewhere between last yearâs Asus ROG Ally and the newer ROG Ally X. Like Asus â but unlike most rivals â it features a 7-inch 1080p variable refresh rate IPS screen... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Sony After eight years in development, it took less than a month for Concord to die. Yesterday, Sony announced that the game, which only launched on August 23rd, would be shutting down on September 6th. Ryan Ellis, game director at developer Firewalk Studios, said that it âdidnât land the way weâd intended.â That seems to be an understatement: the game is going offline, full... Read more âș
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Image: Qualcomm Google has committed to releasing an Arm64 version of Google Drive on Windows later this year, after Microsoft and Qualcomm have been working hard to convince app developers to port their applications over to Windows on Arm. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon made the announcement onstage at the companyâs IFA event earlier today, where he also revealed that both NordVPN and ExpressVPN will be available on Qualcommâs Snapdragon laptops... Read more âș
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Ignore my cruddy handwriting to marvel at this beautiful color. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales A front light and color display are just two of the ways this pretty note taking device puts luxury first. Continue reading⊠Read more âș
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Appleâs iPhone 16 event invitation. | Image: Apple Apple is getting ready to announce the iPhone 16, which will surely be its most powerful and best-camera-having phone yet (at least for the Pro models). Itâs also expected to be the first iPhone to launch with Apple Intelligence across the board. In addition to the iPhone 16 lineup and a slate of new watches and AirPods, Apple is expected to show... Read more âș
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The flaw doesnât impact newer YubiKey hardware that doesnât use the Infineon cryptolibrary. | Image: Yubico Security researchers have detected a vulnerability in YubiKey two-factor authentication tokens that enables attackers to clone the device according to a new security advisory. The vulnerability was discovered within the Infineon cryptographic library used by most YubiKey products, including the YubiKey 5, Yubikey Bio, Security Key, and YubiHSM 2 series devices. YubiKey manufacturer Yubico... Read more âș
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The Verge Microsoft is holding a special Copilot event later this month that will be focused on âthe next phase of Copilot innovation.â Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and vice president of AI at work Jared Spataro will host the âwave 2â Copilot event on September 16th. The event will be hosted on LinkedIn and focus on the business side of Microsoftâs Copilot offerings. I revealed in my Notepad newsletter last... Read more âș
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Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm launched its first big wave of Windows laptops this summer at $999 and up â but a new, somewhat weaker chip could soon shave off at least $100. Today, the companyâs announcing its first 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will feature in a new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 thatâll retail for $899 each. While the new Qualcomm chips have all the same... Read more âș
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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft is ready to start selling its Qualcomm-powered Surface devices to businesses. Starting on September 10th, both the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 will be available for business customers for the first time, after launching in June to consumers as part of Microsoftâs Copilot Plus PC wave of devices and its Windows on Arm push. The hardware inside the Surface Pro... Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snapchat will soon start âexperimentingâ with placing sponsored messages next to chat threads from friends, according to CEO Evan Spiegel. These âSponsored Snapsâ from brands will appear as unread messages in Snapchatâs main Chat tab, implying that theyâll sit above messages from a personâs contacts until theyâre acted on. This is the first time Snap will show ads in the most used part... Read more âș
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Image: Instagram Instagram is adding the ability to leave comments on Instagram Stories, the ephemeral posts that many people use even more than traditional posts these days. Previously, replying to an Instagram Story sent a private message visible only to the person who posted the content. The addition of comments adds a more public way to respond to Stories. The ability to comment in the first place is more limited,... Read more âș
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The port is on the wrong side of the car for most Tesla Supercharger stalls, but at least Hyundai didnât tape it on this time. | Image: Hyundai The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 refresh revealed today looks like it will be one of the first non-Tesla vehicles to get a native Tesla-based charging port, now known as the North American Charging Standard, or NACS, built in from the factory. Last... Read more âș
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Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Microsoft has started testing a new gamepad keyboard layout in Windows 11 thatâs designed for Xbox controllers. The gamepad keyboard layout improves the on-screen keyboard in Windows 11, so you can use an Xbox controller to type or navigate around the OS. The gamepad keyboard is now in testing as part of the beta channel for Windows 11 and even includes... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge In a reversal, Starlink says itâs âcomplying with the orderâ to block access to X in Brazil. The company previously refused to restrict X unless Brazil unfroze its financial assets. Starlink, the satellite internet company controlled by Elon Musk, has been caught in the crosshairs of an ongoing feud between the billionaire, who also owns X, and Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. In addition to... Read more âș
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Cath Virginia / The Verge An antitrust investigation by the Department of Justice focusing on Nvidiaâs AI dominance as the hardware company of choice is escalating, reports Bloomberg. The outlet reports that Nvidia and other companies have received legally binding requests for information as its sources say regulators are investigating whether Nvidia is âmaking it harder to switch to other suppliers and penalizes buyers that donât exclusively use its artificial... Read more âș
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You can buy the third-gen AirPods starting at $139.99, which is one of their better prices to date. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Appleâs ever-popular AirPods. Since Apple launched the third-gen AirPods at the end of 2021, weâve seen the starting price of the second-gen, entry-level model consistently dip below $100. And now that the... Read more âș
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Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Last month, it was discovered that an inactive piece of software that ships on all Google Pixel smartphones presented a potential security vulnerability for device owners. The company quickly said it would remove âShowcase.apk,â which was created years ago âfor Verizon in-store demo devices and is no longer being used.â But in the off chance it was ever exploited, cybersecurity form iVerify found... Read more âș
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Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. | Image: Konami For anyone looking to explore the best Castlevania has to offer, the just-launched Castlevania Dominus Collection is pretty much a no-brainer. It includes a trilogy of games from the Nintendo DS era that show designer Koji Igarashi arguably at the height of his powers: the experiences combine smooth, satisfying action with worlds that are intricate labyrinths to be mastered slowly over time. Bringing... Read more âș
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Image: Volkswagen Volkswagen has announced itâs rolling out its improved in-car AI voice assistant, IDA, with both locally processed and cloud-based responses from ChatGPT and other models, starting on September 6th. The first cars getting the feature will be the 2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI and the 82-kWh battery version of the 2024 ID.4, with other cars getting it later this year. Drivers in cars that support ChatGPT will need... Read more âș
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