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 ›
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Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Get ready for another wave of urgent motherboard updates for your desktop PC. Intel has just announced a new microcode update for its 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake processors — the ones that could possibly get permanently damaged and begin to crash your PC. While there’s still no fix for chips that are already crashing, the company is now releasing microcode update... Read more ›
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket hit a significant milestone this week, completing its first second-stage hot fire test that validates the interactions between the subsystems, its two BE-3U engines, and the ground control systems. The test lasted for 15 seconds and allowed the launch operations team to practice launch procedures in the lead-up to New Glenn’s planned November launch. New Glenn is Blue Origin’s big rocket answer to SpaceX when... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Open AI describes its business structure as “a partnership between our original Nonprofit and a new capped profit arm,” which has been a contributing factor in last year’s short-lived board coup against CEO Sam Altman and a recent lawsuit by co-founder Elon Musk. But that’s reportedly set to change along with a massive new funding round that’s still being negotiated but could... Read more ›
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Photo: David Pierce / The Verge Pour one out for the Rabbit R1. Only 5,000 people of the 100,000 who bought the orange AI gadget are still using it daily, five months after it launched. That’s straight from the mouth of Rabbit founder Jesse Lyu, who gave the number to Fast Company while explaining that the device had to launch before it was ready in order to beat big tech... Read more ›
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Illustration: The Verge You don’t have to spend a fortune to have a robot clean your floors. Here’s our pick of the most cost-effective bots you can buy right now. Continue reading… Read more ›
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The new Moonwalkers Aero are lighter than the originals, and can be customized in different colors. | Image: Shift Robotics Shift Robotics has launched a new version of its Moonwalkers shoes / motorized roller skates that claim to boost the speed of your natural walking gait. Unlike the first generation, there are six wheels instead of ten on the Moonwalkers Aero, which the company says makes them lighter and quieter.... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge DoNotPay, a company that claimed to offer the “world’s first robot lawyer,” has agreed to a $193,000 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the agency announced on Tuesday. The move is a part of Operation AI Comply, a new law enforcement effort from the FTC to crack down on companies that use AI services to deceive or defraud customers. According to the FTC complaint,... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia. / 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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The Space Invaders: My Play Watch can be customized with various retro gaming themed straps. | Image: F84 Taito Corporation, which gave the world Space Invaders over 45 years ago, has collaborated with the designers from Floor 84 Studio to create watch that pairs retro gaming with basic health tracking capabilities. The Space Invaders: My Play Watch is now available for $60 for the earliest backers of a Kickstarter crowdfunding... Read more ›
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that his office had launched an investigation into the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries alleged role in causing a plastic pollution crisis on April 28th, 2022, in Playa Del Rey, California. | Photo: Getty Images California is going after ExxonMobil over what it calls a “campaign of deception” about plastic recycling. The Golden State filed suit against the oil giant this week, alleging that... Read more ›
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The Sunto Wing don’t sound any different than the entry-level Sonic, but they tack on a few extra flourishes. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge I’m a big fan of noise-canceling earbuds in most situations, but when it comes to running, I’ve always preferred something that doesn’t drown out the sound of approaching cars, dogs, and other obstacles. Luckily, if you’re in the same camp as me,... Read more ›
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Photo by Jay Peters / The Verge Meta is overhauling its metaverse avatars, and you’ll be able to use them soon: the new look will be available on October 1st, the company announced at its Connect conference on Wednesday. The new avatars will be available on Meta Horizon OS (its VR operating system), as well as Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. Meta’s avatars started out in a rough place, but the... Read more ›
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Screenshot: YouTube OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving the company, she announced on Wednesday. “I’m stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration,” she wrote in a post on X. “For now, my primary focus is doing everything in my power to ensure a smooth transition, maintaining the momentum we’ve built.” This comes almost a year after a boardroom coup shook the... Read more ›
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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Meta’s Quest headsets and app store have been around for a while, but with a software experience largely limited to 3D and AR apps and games. But now, the company says it’s opening things up — Horizon OS and Quest VP Mark Rabkin said during Meta Connect that from today, the Meta app store “fully welcomes 2D and spatial apps.” Meta also says... Read more ›
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Image: HP HP has a groundbreaking announcement. No, it’s not making it easier to use cheaper, third-party ink, nor does it have a solution for frequent paper jams and irritating software issues. It’s bringing AI to printers. The new HP Print AI experience is rolling out today in an “exclusive” beta and comes with a Perfect Output feature that’s supposed to clean up printouts of webpages. HP says it will... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing back on the idea that social media directly harms teen mental health. During an interview with The Verge’s Alex Heath, Zuckerberg said that “the majority of the high-quality research out there suggests that there’s no causal connection at a broad scale between these things.” This echoes the statement Zuckerberg gave in front of Congress in January... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train AI models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn’t valuable enough for it to matter. In an interview with The Verge deputy editor Alex Heath, Zuckerberg said Meta will likely strike “certain partnerships” for useful content. But if others demand payment, then — as... Read more ›
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Amazon’s Echo Frames are a stylish pair of audio glasses that give you quick access to Amazon Alexa. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In case you missed the news, Amazon recently announced a second Prime Day event for the fall. The two-day deal blitz, dubbed Prime Big Deal Days once again, will run from October 8th through the 9th, offering Prime subscribers a chance to save... Read more ›
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Photo by Jay Peters / The Verge Meta has big ambitions for using AI to help creators, and it showed two impressive demos of what that could look like onstage at Connect today. One version of this involves fully recreating real influencers as AI figures. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg presented a live demo of a creator-based AI persona, which looked like the creator, talked like the creator, and tried to... Read more ›
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