Image: Mojo Wang for The Verge The Echo ecosystem has seen its fair share of failures while trying to popularize Amazonâs Alexa smart assistant. Continue reading⊠Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images When Northwestern University graduate student Sino Esthappan began researching how algorithms decide who stays in jail, he expected âa story about humans versus technology.â On one side would be human judges, who Esthappan interviewed extensively. On the other would be risk assessment algorithms, which are used in hundreds of US counties to assess the danger of granting bail to accused criminals. What... Read more âș
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Image: Mojo Wang for The Verge When dealing with an aging parent, Alexa was a great help â in both practical and emotionally important ways. Continue reading⊠Read more âș
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Avride, the robotics company that spun out of Russian search giant Yandex, has a new sidewalk delivery robot to show off. The company currently operates a fleet of six-wheeled delivery robots in Austin, Texas, delivering Uber Eats orders to customers, as well as South Korea. Now Avrideâs next generation model is shedding a couple of wheels â and showing big gains in efficiency. The new robot only has four wheels,... Read more âș
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Image: Mojo Wang for The Verge When Alexa launched 10 years ago, Amazon envisioned a new computer platform that could do anything for you. A decade later, the company is still trying to build it. Continue reading⊠Read more âș
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Only 1,000 units of the Phone (2a) and Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition will be produced. | Image: Nothing Nothing has announced a new version of its Phone 2A Plus featuring a customized glow-in-the-dark design and packaging created in part by some of the companyâs âmost talented followers.â The Phone 2A Plus Community Edition is the result of a contest held by the company encouraging its community to âbuild a... Read more âș
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The Profile Wireless microphones can be clipped or magnetically attached to clothing. | Image: Sennheiser Sennheiser has announced a new portable wireless microphone kit designed to be an affordable and flexible all-in-one solution for content creators and videographers. The Profile Wireless system features a wireless receiver that can be connected to various devices, a pair of compact clip-on transmitters with built-in microphones that can also be used as handheld or... Read more âș
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Canonâs budget-friendly VR lens will be available in November with an estimated retail price of $449.99. | Image: Canon Canon has officially announced its new RF-S7.8mm F4 STM Dual lens, which features stereoscopic elements that have been squeezed into a body no larger than a traditional 2D camera lens. It was originally teased during the Apple WWDC 2024 keynote last June and is designed to work with a Canon EOS... Read more âș
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An AMD Radeon GPU. | Image: AMD AMDâs Q3 2024 earnings call today wasnât bullish on gaming revenue overall, but it did confirm a hot new rumor on GPUs â specifically, the launch of AMDâs next-gen RDNA 4 parts early next year. âWe are on track to launch the first RDNA4 GPUs in early 2025,â said AMD CEO Lisa Su, and the company confirmed to PCWorld that itâs the first... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge From the unbeatable Switch Pro and comfy Joy-Con alternatives to a dongle that lets you use your Xbox or PlayStation controllers with your Switch, these are the best Switch controllers you can get. Continue reading⊠Read more âș
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New iPhones for the AI era. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Whether you want a battery that lasts for days or the very best deal, weâve got some recommendations for an iPhone youâll love. Continue reading⊠Read more âș
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Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge We found the best cameras for your budget and needs. Continue reading⊠Read more âș
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Image: The Verge Reddit just turned a profit for the first time. As part of its third-quarter earnings results released on Tuesday, the company reported a profit of $29.9 million, along with $348.4 million in revenue â a 68 percent increase year over year. The company hasnât been profitable at any point in its nearly 20-year history. Since going public, Reddit lost $575 million during its first quarter on the... Read more âș
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Illustration: The Verge Google is building a bunch of AI products, and itâs using AI quite a bit as part of building those products, too. âMore than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers,â CEO Sundar Pichai said on the companyâs third quarter 2024 earnings call. Itâs a big milestone that marks just how important AI is to the... Read more âș
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Illustration: The Verge The Alphabet Workers Union filed a charge against Google with the National Labor Relations Board after Google management asked workers to ârefrainâ from talking about its ongoing Search antitrust case. The union charges that Google issued an âoverly broad directiveâ on discussing the case to employees, according to a copy of the charge filed in August and viewed by The Verge. On August 5th, just after US... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images If youâre a swing state voter, you may have seen ads claiming that vice president Kamala Harris wants to institute a mandatory gun buyback program and make it easier for undocumented immigrants to get driverâs licenses. These ostensibly pro-Harris ads are the product of Progress 2025, a campaign designed to look like the Democratic answer to the Heritage Foundationâs Project 2025 â... Read more âș
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Getty Miramax is ready to put a new Scary Movie into theaters, and this time around, the studio is doing the sensible thing by keeping the Wayans brothers directly involved. Deadline reports that Marlon, Shawn, and Keenen Ivory Wayans have signed on to co-write / co-produce a new Scary Movie reboot for Miramax that will, like earlier installments, spoof a variety of other horror films. Rick Alvarez (White Chicks, Little... Read more âș
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Image: OpenAI OpenAI is reportedly working with Broadcom to develop new custom silicon designed to handle its large AI workloads for inference and secured manufacturing capacity with TSMC, according to sources speaking to Reuters. OpenAI has reportedly built a chip development team of about 20 people, including lead engineers who previously worked on Googleâs Tensor processors for AI. Still, on its current timeline, the custom-designed hardware may not start production... Read more âș
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Illustration: The Verge Google is rolling out some new Chrome memory management features aimed at helping you wrangle out-of-control tabs more easily. The updates include new âPerformance issue alertsâ and some tweaks to the existing Memory Saver mode, which already tries to free up the resources of inactive tabs in the background. The new alerts appear when a new Performance Detection tool finds that one of your tabs is using... Read more âș
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Image: Universal Netflix will bring even more Universal films to its lineup thanks to a new deal that will send the studioâs live-action movies to the streamer starting in 2027. Under the agreement, Universal and Focus Featuresâ live-action titles will appear on Netflix no later than eight months after their release in theaters. The new arrangement also includes renewing their exclusive licensing agreement for animated films from the Universal-owned Illumination... Read more âș
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