The Samsung Odyssey headset with Windows Mixed Reality from 2017. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft has reportedly struck a deal with Samsung for OLED panels that could power a new line of mixed reality headsets. Korean outlet The Elec reported earlier this week that (as per a machine translation) the partnership is still in its very early stages, with mass production not started until 2026.... Read more ›
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Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge The Biden administration released new priorities today for safeguarding clean energy infrastructure from possible cyberattacks. Smart grids and EVs can have big benefits when it comes to saving energy and cutting down pollution. But as more pieces of our lives become electric and digital, new cybersecurity challenges arise. That’s why the Biden administration is releasing guidance today on how to keep new parts of... Read more ›
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Samsung handed out nearly 17,000 smartphones to athletes and “Olympic family.” | Image: Samsung For the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic games, Samsung created almost 17,000 exclusive Galaxy Z Flip 6 Olympic Edition phones to be given away to athletes and “Olympic family.” As the Olympic games now draw to a close, many of those phones are being flipped online and are available to those who weren’t chasing a spot... Read more ›
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AMD stands up to Qualcomm with its new Ryzen AI chips, showing it’s nowhere near out of this race. Continue reading… Read more ›
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AT&T learns the importance of distinguishing between “is” and “will be” regarding service availability. | Image: AT&T AT&T has updated its satellite calling advertisement after T-Mobile challenged its rival’s use of the verb “is.” When the “Epic Bad Golf Day” video starring comedic actor Ben Stiller was initially released in April, the ad closed with “The future of help is an AT&T satellite call away.” This has now been changed... Read more ›
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Collections is replacing the Library tab, but keeping its bookshelf symbol. | Image: Google You can say goodbye to your library tab in Google Photos, because Google is introducing a new destination called Collections that’s supposed to make “finding content easier than ever.” Collections house all of your albums in one place, such as your private albums and those that have been shared with you by other users, as well... Read more ›
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Image: Bethesda If you haven’t played Doom or Doom II for a while — or ever — a new re-release that Bethesda surprise-dropped (sorta) on Thursday might be the perfect excuse to jump in to the classic games. The re-release, which combines both games into one package called Doom + Doom II and is a free update for anyone who already owns Doom (1993) or Doom II, offers a long... Read more ›
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Illustration: The Verge The Turkish government has blocked access to Roblox following a government investigation that found content that could lead to child exploitation. “According to our Constitution, our State is obliged to take the necessary measures to ensure the protection of our children,” Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc says in a machine-translated post on X. It’s unclear when Roblox might be unblocked in the country. “On Aug 7, we learned... Read more ›
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Illustration by The Verge Anybody with a Substack account can now publish posts on Substack’s web and mobile app, the company announced on Thursday, turning the newsletter platform into even more of a social network. (Currently, users publishing posts on their profile from mobile can only do so via the Substack iOS app, though support for Android is coming soon.) Substack members can publish content, get paid and free subscribers,... Read more ›
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Image: The Verge OpenAI is going to let users of ChatGPT’s free tier make up to two images per day with its DALL-E 3 model, the company announced on Thursday. When the company launched DALL-E 3 in September, it was available first to users who paid for ChatGPT Plus. One of DALL-E 3’s key improvements is that ChatGPT can come up with a prompt to make an image, which should... Read more ›
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Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge It’s a mess, but Intel and partners are working to clean it up. Continue reading… Read more ›
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The Thumby Color shrinks the Game Boy Advance to a handheld just two inches in size. | Image: TinyCircuits How small can you shrink the Nintendo Game Boy Advance? That’s a question Tiny Circuits is answering with the Thumby Color, a GBA clone measuring just two inches in size that still manages to fit a directional pad, shoulder buttons, a rumble motor, a 16-bit color screen, and the ability to... Read more ›
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Tesla owners won’t need to used their own adapter at Omni Port-capable stations. | Image: ChargePoint ChargePoint has a new plug system for its charging stations that will make it easier for EV drivers to select the correct connecter for their electric vehicle. The new plug, called Omni Port, works by automatically installing an adapter (or excluding one) to the tip of the connector when you’re ready to charge, which... Read more ›
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Image: OpenAI OpenAI has released its GPT-4o System Card, a research document that outlines the safety measures and risk evaluations the startup conducted before releasing its latest model. GPT-4o was launched publicly in May of this year. Before its debut, OpenAI used an external group of red teamers, or security experts trying to find weaknesses in a system, to find key risks in the model (which is a fairly standard... Read more ›
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Image: Google Google’s earlier-than-expected Pixel hardware event is just around the corner — it’s scheduled for Tuesday, August 13th. Thanks to the relentless flow of leaks that have emerged over the past few weeks, we have a pretty good idea of what to expect. Google has already confirmed that it’s launching the Pixel 9 and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, but the company may have some other surprises in store,... Read more ›
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Musk has chosen lawfare over free speech. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A group of advertisers, called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), have “discontinued” activities, Business Insider reports, citing an email sent to members. The group said it had limited money, and was focused on fighting the antitrust lawsuit filed against it by X. GARM was an initiative formed in 2019 by the World... Read more ›
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Nanoleaf’s Essentials Matter line, which includes an A19 bulb and light strip, will be one of the first Matter products to work with Apple Home’s Adaptive Lighting feature. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge A major feature of Apple Home will soon work with Matter devices. With iOS 18, Apple is enabling Adaptive Lighting for smart lights connected to its smart home platform through Matter, the interoperability... Read more ›
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Image: Oculus Studios Meta is closing Ready At Dawn, its first-party studio behind VR games like Echo VR and Lone Echo, Android Central reported on Wednesday. The shutdown is effective immediately. Meta acquired the studio in 2020. As for why Meta is shutting down the studio, here’s what Android Central said: One report in mid-July said that Meta was cutting its Reality Labs division’s budget by 20% by 2026, and... Read more ›
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250 lumens of illumination isn’t super bright, but the light is cheap enough to group several of them together. | Image: TTArtisan Even if you switched to a digital camera decades ago, TTArtisan’s Mini LED Light is a fun reason to carry around a film cartridge. Instead of a roll of 35-millimeter film inside, there’s a rechargeable battery and an array of 15 LEDs. It’s not the brightest camera light... Read more ›
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One of the classic problems of looking into a palantir was correctly interpreting what the viewer saw... | Image: The Verge Palantir, the company named for the dangerous seeing-stones that tended to mislead their users, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver services for classified networks in US defense and intelligence agencies. “This is a first-of-its-kind, integrated suite of technology that will allow critical national security missions to operationalize... Read more ›
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