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 “Showcase.apk,” which was created years ago “for Verizon in-store demo devices and is no longer being used.” But in the off chance it was ever exploited, cybersecurity form iVerify found... Read more ›
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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 ›
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Image: Volkswagen Volkswagen has announced it’s 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 ›
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Nick Barclay / The Verge People are losing a lot more money to Bitcoin ATM scams. In a report released Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission said it’s found the amount of money lost to Bitcoin ATM scams has increased nearly 10 times from 2020 to 2023 — going from $12 million to a whopping $114 million. Consumers have already lost $65 million to the ruse in the first half of... Read more ›
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The Google Pixel 9. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Android 15 has officially arrived — for developers, at least. Google’s next-gen operating system is available in the Android Open Source Project, with support for Pixel phones due to roll out in the coming weeks. You’ll have to wait a little longer if you have a compatible device from Samsung, Motorola, OnePlus, Nothing, or other brands, while Google describes... Read more ›
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The first Pixel Fold (left) and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold (right). The highest compliment I can pay the Pixel 9 Pro F — oh forget it, let’s just call it the Pixel Fold — is that I forgot I was using a folding phone while I was using it. Sounds like a weird compliment, right? Isn’t the whole point of the thing that it opens up so you can... Read more ›
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Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Clearview AI has been hit with its largest fine yet under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by a Dutch regulator. The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) announced a fine of 30.5 million Euros, or about $33.7 million. The American facial recognition company, which built a database of images scraped from social media platforms, has been the target of regulators around the world for... Read more ›
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Neon Director Asif Kapadia is best known for his documentaries chronicling the lives of entertainment icons whose work left indelible marks on the worlds of music and sports. But his next feature looks like a nightmarish vision of a future that feels all-too-possible. Though Kapadia’s new film 2073 features plenty of archival news footage from our present, it’s also a sci-fi thriller set in a distant future where years of... Read more ›
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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images California lawmakers push to regulate artificial intelligence. Continue reading… Read more ›
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You can still get a free smart color bulb when you buy the Echo Show 8 on sale for $104.99. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge It’s always sad when a three-day weekend ends, especially when it also marks the unofficial end of summer. On the bright side, many Labor Day deals are lingering, which means you still have an opportunity to save on a slew of... Read more ›
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Image: Capcom Capcom called and said Xbox can come for the ride, too. The publisher has announced that it will release its two upcoming fighting game collections — Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics and Capcom Fighting Collection 2 — on Xbox in 2025. Capcom announced the two games earlier this year for Playstation, Switch, and Steam with Xbox platforms conspicuously absent. Now, after Capcom had what it called... Read more ›
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Image: Sony Sony is taking its latest PlayStation game, Concord, offline on September 6th, following poor sales of the game. The first-person hero shooter launched exclusively on PS5 and PC on August 23rd, but estimates have put sales at under 25,000. Concord also only managed to hit an all-time peak of 697 players on Steam, lower than the launch peak of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum — widely regarded... Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The news that Tesla will likely reveal its long-awaited, much-debated autonomous robotaxi at the Warner Bros. movie studio in Los Angeles underscores how much ground the company needs to cover in order to catch up to its rivals in the self-driving space. It also inadvertently provides a ready-made metaphor for the types of Hollywood trickery Elon Musk and Co. will no doubt need... Read more ›
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Image: Microsoft Intel says that Microsoft’s new Windows AI features will start arriving on some of its laptops in November. AMD has already launched laptops that are capable of meeting Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PC hardware requirements for Windows AI features, but the features have so far only been available on new Qualcomm-powered devices. Intel is announcing new Intel Core Ultra 200V processors today, codenamed Lunar Lake, which will start getting... Read more ›
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A graphical representation of Intel’s Lunar Lake chip. | Image: Intel Do good things come to laptop buyers who wait? Today, Intel is revealing its first nine answers to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and AMD’s Strix Point laptop chips — and the company claims the new Core Ultra 200V lineup, formerly known as Lunar Lake, can meet or beat them in almost every way. When the first wave of laptops... Read more ›
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Image: The Verge Earlier this year Apple started opening up its App Store to game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and GeForce Now, freeing them from being restricted to web apps on the iPhone and iPad. Despite multiple changes to Apple’s App Store guidelines this year, Microsoft and Nvidia have still not published native cloud gaming apps for iOS, and Microsoft is now detailing exactly why. Microsoft already said... Read more ›
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Image: The Verge The organization behind National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is being slammed online after it claimed that opposing the use of AI writing tools is “classist and ableist.” On Saturday NaNoWriMo published its stance on the technology, announcing that it doesn’t explicitly support or condemn any approach to writing. “We believe that to categorically condemn AI would be to ignore classist and ableist issues surrounding the use of... Read more ›
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The IFA tech show in Berlin, Germany is one of the biggest home appliance shows in the world. It’s also a showcase for smartphones, computers, gaming, audio, home entertainment, and smart home. | Image: IFA I’m a sucker for the smart kitchen. Build me a kitchen that can tell me what to cook, when to cook, how to cook it, and do the boring bits for me, then clean it... Read more ›
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Volvo FH Electric commercial truck. | Image: Volvo Volvo’s commercial trucking division is launching a next-generation long-range version of its flagship electric semi-truck, due out in the second half of 2025, with twice the battery range of the previous one. The new FH Electric truck can travel 600km or about 373 miles on a single charge. The current model goes 300km or about 186 miles in comparison, which Volvo representative... Read more ›
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Photo by Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images Here’s everything being announced from Europe’s biggest tech show. Continue reading… Read more ›
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