Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. SoftBank isn’t just part of the group investing $500 billion into Project Stargate to build American AI infrastructure capacity for OpenAI. It’s also making a Japanese joint venture with OpenAI, will spend… Read more
read more...SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says AGI will arrive ‘much earlier’ than he thought
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Hulu might be rebooting Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. It looks like Buffy the Vampire Slayer is coming back from the dead (again) as part of a new Hulu series. Deadline reports… Read more
read more...Meta spends big to make its Ray-Ban glasses a true mainstream hit
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Victoria Song is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Meta isn’t shy about its ambitions to make its Ray-Ban smart glasses a mainstream gadget. So much so, it’s made not one but two Super… Read more
read more...Intel receives $536 million from EU following antitrust fine reversal
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Intel has secured a $536 million (€515.55 million) payout from the European Commission following a lengthy legal battle over an antitrust fine dating back to 2009. This payment covers interest on the original $1.1 billion (€1.06 billion) penalty, which the EU’s second-highest court largely annulled in 2022. The case stemmed from the European Commission’s ruling… Read more
read more...Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Handheld Performance Review
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Introduction After being a PlayStation 5 exclusive for less than two years, Marvel’s Spider-Man has web-slinged to PC in all its glory. The full-fledged sequel to the 2018 game is bigger and prettier than the original. Instead of controlling just one Spider-Man like in the first game, and the follow-up Spider-Man Miles Morales, players can… Read more
read more...Audi will try to make its model names make more sense
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Umar Shakir is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Audi is launching a new global nomenclature system for its vehicles to more clearly represent a vehicle’s type, size, shape, and powertrain. The updated… Read more
read more...Chinese algorithm claimed to boost Nvidia GPU performance by up to 800X for advanced science applications
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Researchers from Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, a collaboration between Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Beijing Institute of Technology, have reportedly developed a new computational algorithm that can significantly enhance the efficiency of peridynamics (PD), a non-local theory used to model fractures and material damage. The new method increases performance by up to 800 times, dramatically… Read more
read more...EcoFlow says subscriptions aren’t required for advanced features… yet
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Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. EcoFlow has confirmed that it’s currently testing new advanced features for its PowerStream Balcony Solar System that were made available to a small group of testers… Read more
read more...Adaptive Charging could soon extend the lifespan of your Pixel Watch
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Dominic Preston is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Google could soon bring its Adaptive Charging battery protection feature from its Pixel phones to the Pixel Watch line. The feature is designed to preserve battery health by preventing overcharging, and hinges on… Read more
read more...Engineer turns old 3D printer into a tattoo gun that you definitely shouldn’t use at home
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Earlier this week, YouTuber and hardware hacker Emily The Engineer unveiled how she successfully converted a 3D printer into a fully functioning tattoo machine, which was then subsequently tested on her friend Dan, who reportedly came up with the whole idea, to begin with [h/t Hackaday]. Amusingly, the full video documenting the process includes Dan… Read more
read more...Uber wants to make riding with a service animal easier
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Uber introduced a new feature designed to make it easier for people with disabilities to ride with service animals. For years, Uber’s policies toward service animals have been in accordance with state and federal law: they are allowed to ride at all times at no extra cost. But now the company is allowing customers to… Read more
read more...Modern Discord hacked into Windows 95 and 98, slimmed down version keeps core functionality intact
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(Image credit: @IProgramInCpp on Twitter) To the surprise of us in the newsroom and likely numerous existing Discord users who have felt the application get heavier and less performant over time, one lone developer has successfully backported Discord with most of its key functions intact to Windows 95 and Windows 98 Second Edition. Boiling down… Read more
read more...Corsair Frame 4000D Review
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Introduction I would like to thank Corsair for supplying the review sample. The Corsair Frame 4000D is an evolution of the mainstream 4000D with a focus on additional modularity. Besides that, the chassis also offers a refreshed design language while still offering both black and white variants. The Corsair 4000D we are reviewing here is… Read more
read more...Cloudflare is making it easier to track authentic images online
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Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Cloudflare has launched a new feature to help people quickly verify the authenticity of online images. The web security and hosting provider has adopted the Adobe-led Content Credentials system, which… Read more
read more...Kobo’s e-readers are now $10 more expensive
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Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Kobo has increased the price of three of its e-readers following a similar price increase by the company in January 2023. The seven-inch Kobo Libra Colour,… Read more
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