AI-generated images have made significant progress since the days of abstract renderings and glitchy amalgamations. OpenAIās newly released āImages for ChatGPTā has an uncanny ability to nail depth, shadows, and even text. Itās unleashed a frenzy of people recreating a familiar style: Hayao Miyazakiās work at Studio Ghibli. The art style was already ubiquitous across [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Mark Zuckerberg ā having spent months cozying up to President Donald Trump ā will now be looking to reap the benefits as European tech regulators bear down on Meta. The EU is expected to impose fines against the social media giant any day now, having preliminarily ruled in July 2024 that Facebook and Instagramās āpay [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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The developers of Palworld and PUBG: Battlegrounds have announced details of dating simulators set in the universes of their respective games. The Palworld dating sim, technically called Palā”world! ~More Than Just Pals~, was actually announced ahead of April Foolsā Day last year. But yesterday, developer Pocketpair released a second trailer for the game and published [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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OpenAI has raised $40 billion in a new investment round led by SoftBank, vaulting the company to a $300 billion valuation. Itās the largest funding round for a private tech company in history, according to CNBC. OpenAI is set to receive $10 billion up front (SoftBank will invest $7.5 billion along with $2.5 billion āfrom [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Ampler made one of the first modern e-bikes I ever tested, and now itās selling the first commercial electric bikes ā the Nova and Nova Pro ā Iām aware of that can be charged over a USB-C port integrated right into the frame. Hell, that same jack will even charge your gadgets in a pinch, but not [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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The release of Appleās iOS 18.4 on Monday includes good news for robot vacuum owners. The update includes support for controlling robot vacuums and adding them to automations and scenes in the Apple Home app via the Matter protocol. With the official rollout of iOS 18.4, companies like Roborock, iRobot, and Ecovacs are introducing firmware [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Apple has released iOS 18.4, and one of the biggest features is priority notifications, which use Apple Intelligence to highlight āimportant notifications that may require your immediate attention,ā according to Appleās patch notes. The priority notifications will appear at the top of your notification stack on your Home Screen, as shown in the below picture [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Microsoft is making its AI features widely available on Copilot Plus PCs equipped with Intel and AMD chips. One of the most notable of these features will be Live Captions, which translates audio to English subtitles from dozens of different languages in real time. Microsoft first started testing Live Captions on Intel and AMD devices [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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From the Kindle Colorsoft and Samsungās new Galaxy S25 to the top-of-the-line Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra, Amazonās Big Spring Sale has brought steep discounts on some of our favorite gadgets. Thereās just one problem: a large chunk of them will set you back at least several hundred dollars, if not more. That can be a tough [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Microsoft has announced that itās overhauling its Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error message in Windows 11. The new design drops the traditional blue color, frowning face, and QR code in favor of a simplified screen that looks a lot more like the black screen you see when Windows is performing an update. Itās not [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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One of SonyĆ¢ĀĀs best-ever PlayStation ads is a 21-second video titled, Ć¢ĀĀOfficial PlayStation Used Game Instructional Video.Ć¢ĀĀ ItĆ¢ĀĀs a Ć¢ĀĀstep-by-stepĆ¢ĀĀ guide about how to lend your PS4 games to your friends. It has one step: one person hands another person a game box. The ad succinctly clowns on MicrosoftĆ¢ĀĀs original and convoluted game sharing policy [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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The big difference between Samsungās Galaxy Z Flip 7 and the cheaper Z Flip 7 FE will be their cover screens, going by new renders released by the leaker OnLeaks. Earlier this month he produced designs that show a new, larger cover screen on the flagship Flip 7, but our first look at the more [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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From the Apple Watch Series 10 and Samsungās new Galaxy S25 to the top-of-the-line Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra, Amazonās Big Spring Sale has brought steep discounts on some of our favorite gadgets. Thereās just one problem: a large chunk of them will set you back at least several hundred dollars, if not more. That can be [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Just as flower buds are beginning to bloom to mark the seasonal shift toward warmer months, Amazon is hosting its first big sale event of 2025. The Big Spring Sale, as it is known, is happening now and runs through tomorrow, March 31st, bringing with it a slew of discounts on gardening supplies, bedding, and [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Billy Tolley swings a Microsoft Kinect around an abandoned room in sudden, jittery movements. Ć¢ĀĀWhoa!Ć¢ĀĀ he says. Ć¢ĀĀDude, it was so creepy.Ć¢ĀĀ On the display, we see an anomaly of arrows, spheres, and red lines that disappears almost as soon as it arrives. For Tolley and Zak Bagans, two members of the Ghost Adventures YouTube [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 77, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If youĆ¢ĀĀre new here, welcome, donĆ¢ĀĀt forget to make your Venmo private, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, IĆ¢ĀĀve been reading about RISC and Ben Affleck and GoogleĆ¢ĀĀs [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Thousands of anti-Tesla protesters took to the streets Saturday March 29th in opposition to Elon Musk and his efforts with DOGE to eliminate humanitarian aid, close federal agencies, and fire government workers. It was the culmination of nearly two months of steady, almost daily demonstrations aimed at hurting TeslaĆ¢ĀĀs sales Ć¢ĀĀ and ultimately Musk himself. [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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In our notification-heavy world, there is still one activity where you might just miss that buzz on your phone or ping on your smartwatch ā while youāre vacuuming. Thankfully, Samsung has a solution. Its newest cordless stick vac, the new Bespoke AI Jet Ultra ($1,099), now has an LCD display control panel that, along with [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Whenever Verge staffers are asked to describe their smart tech, office tools, kitchen gadgets, or whatever else, they talk about things they recently bought, things they picked up 10 years ago, or things theyāve had sitting around their house for decades. Weāve gathered a few of the items that our staffers have enthused about in the past [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Just as flower buds are beginning to bloom to mark the seasonal shift toward warmer months, Amazon is hosting its first big sale event of 2025. The Big Spring Sale, as it is known, is happening now and runs through Monday, March 31st, bringing with it a slew of discounts on gardening supplies, bedding, and [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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I realized quite late in AssassinĆ¢ĀĀs Creed Shadows that being this version of a shinobi is hard Ć¢ĀĀ but it was precisely the precision the game demanded that made it all the more rewarding. With Shadows, the AssassinĆ¢ĀĀs Creed franchise has achieved both its most impressive stealth and assassination mechanics. At its best, Shadows evokes [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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The Razer Blade 16 is designed to be the gaming-focused alternative to the MacBook Pro, and IĆ¢ĀĀm always here for that. I love a gaming laptop that still looks and feels like a somewhat normal laptop, and the new Blade returns to a thinner and lighter chassis design after the last-gen got a bit chunky. [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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ItĆ¢ĀĀs sold as an outdoor camplight, but BougeRVĆ¢ĀĀs very bright LED lantern is really a multifunctional work lamp for any place that needs an extra dose of lighting. ItĆ¢ĀĀs rechargeable and compact enough to serve as a long-lasting flashlight with three swiveling LED panels that can direct 3000 lumens onto your table, campsite, workspace, or engine block [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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A court took action on Friday to keep the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from shutting down a consumer watchdog agency while its court case plays out. Judge Amy Berman Jackson granted a preliminary injunction to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from being further gutted while she decides whether [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Microsoft is no longer playing around when it comes to requiring every Windows 11 device be set up with an internet-connected account. In its latest Windows 11 Insider Preview, the company says it will take out a well-known bypass script that let end users skip the requirement of connecting to the internet and logging in [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Amazonās Big Spring Sale is happening now through Monday, March 31st, with several dozen good-to-great deals available that donāt require an Amazon Prime membership. Our main roundup has you covered with more than 100 deals on Verge-favorite gear with quite a high price ceiling. But, for this post, we wanted to provide some low-cost alternatives [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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A couple of years after buying Twitter, Elon Musk announced that his AI business xAI has acquired the social media platform thatās now known as X. In a tweet, he described it as an all-stock transaction, valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. Elon Musk: @xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Microsoft is starting to test Quick Machine Recovery, a feature designed to prevent incidents like last yearās Crowdstrike catastrophe. Itās rolling out in its latest Windows Insider Preview build (6120.3653) and allows IT professionals to remotely recover Windows 11 devices even if they wonāt boot. Microsoft first announced Quick Machine Recovery last year as part [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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After Google completed its acquisition of Fitbit in early 2021, the company integrated Fitbitās services with its own and required users to migrate existing Fitbit accounts to a Google account by 2025. But in an email sent to Fitbit users today, Google now says that deadline has been extended until next year. āAs we have [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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The company that has pushed to open up the deep sea for mining is cozying up to the Trump administration after years of hitting roadblocks in international negotiations. The island nation of Nauru initially sponsored The Metals Company (TMC) and its deep-sea mining effort. In 2021, that triggered a race to develop regulations before TMC [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Just as flower buds are beginning to bloom to mark the seasonal shift toward warmer months, Amazon is hosting its first big sale event of 2025. The Big Spring Sale, as it is known, is happening now, and runs through Monday, March 31st, bringing with it a slew of discounts on gardening supplies, bedding, and [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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