Wes Davis is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Verizon is adding a new option to bundle Google One AI Premium into its wireless myPlan and myHome internet plans, the company announced today. The add-on will be… Read more
read more...Verizon bundles Google AI into its wireless plans for an extra $10
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This 4K projector’s periscope arm lets you install it almost anywhere
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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. Fujifilm has announced a new ultra-short throw projector with its lens attached to an articulated arm that can pivot and rotate. Unlike most UST projectors that… Read more
read more...From toilets to chips — Toto’s electrostatic chucks are becoming a crucial element of modern fabs
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(Image credit: Toto) Toto is mainly known for its advanced toilets and sanitary ceramics. However, the company’s expertise in ceramic production can also be applied to semiconductor manufacturing. Since the 1980s, Toto has made electrostatic chucks (e-chucks) indispensable in modern semiconductor manufacturing. According to Nikkei, operating profits from these products are expected to exceed $100… Read more
read more...Korean retail RTX 5090 spotted for sale in China — Chinese shoppers plunder Japan and Taiwan, too
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A clearly Korea-sourced Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card has been spotted for sale on an online Chinese marketplace. Korean PC tech fan @Harukaze5719 highlighted the listing and seemed exasperated by its presence. Perhaps the ‘OMG’ was due to the difficulty in obtaining one of these new Nvidia graphics cards in South Korea. We are… Read more
read more...Infinity Nikki taught me a painful lesson
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I’ve been having a great time with Infinity Nikki. I do my dailies, grind for materials, and desperately search for an outfit that works with the single ugliest piece of clothing in the game: a red vest. But as I’ve progressed, the game has given me — a gacha newbie — an unfortunate crash-course education… Read more
read more...Apple leaks event-planning ‘Invites’ feature
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The Invites app will be included in iCloud Plus to help you plan events. The Invites app will be included in iCloud Plus to help you plan events. Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she… Read more
read more...Meta says this is the make or break year for the metaverse
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This year will decide if Horizon Worlds “will go down as the work of visionaries or a legendary misadventure,” according to a Meta executive. This year will decide if Horizon Worlds “will go down as the work of visionaries or a legendary misadventure,” according to a Meta executive. Photo by David Pierce / The Verge… Read more
read more...Accidental wildfire alerts prompt probe from Congress
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House of Representative members from California want to know what led to accidental evacuation alerts that fomented confusion during devastating Los Angeles fires in January. The Palisades and Eaton wildfires broke out in early January, killing at least 29 people and destroying more than 16,000 structures. In the midst of the chaos, some 10 million… Read more
read more...Users report bricked or unstable RTX 5090 and 5080 cards — root cause to be determined
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Widespread reports from users on Chinese forums and Reddit suggest that initial instabilities observed with Nvidia’s RTX 50 GPUs could extend beyond simple PCIe 5.0 compatibility problems. The diverse nature of the reports makes it hard to identify a single root cause; with users experiencing initialization failures, GPU-bricking drivers, PCIe 5.0 instability, and the list… Read more
read more...The timeline apps are here, and they’re awesome
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The folks at Iconfactory, which once made a wonderful Twitter client called Twitterrific, launched a new app on Tuesday. It’s called Tapestry, and it’s a cross between a social app and a news reader. The app can ingest feeds of all kinds: someone’s Bluesky posts, your favorite YouTube creator’s videos, a blog’s new posts, all… Read more
read more...California bill would make AI companies remind kids that chatbots aren’t people
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. A new bill proposed in California (SB 243) would require AI companies to periodically remind kids that a chatbot is an AI and not human. The bill,… Read more
read more...U.S. RTX 50 laptop pricing starts from $1,899 for an RTX 5070 Ti toting Asus ROG Strix G16
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(Image credit: Asus) Nvidia’s RTX 50 series laptop GPUs are expected to start shipping in March 2025, but retailers and OEMs are already putting up listings with prices. We’ve already seen laptops equipped with RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090 graphics cards go live on the Polish e-commerce website Dream Machines. And in… Read more
read more...DeepSeek research suggests Huawei’s Ascend 910C delivers 60% Nvidia H100 inference performance
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Huawei’s HiSilicon Ascend 910C is a version of the company’s Ascend 910 processor for AI training introduced in 2019. By now, the performance of the Ascend 910 is barely sufficient for the cost-efficient training of large AI models. Still, when it comes to inference, it delivers 60% of Nvidia’s H100 performance, according to researchers from… Read more
read more...Adobe Acrobat’s AI chatbot can now summarize contract jargon
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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. Adobe is adding features to Acrobat’s AI Assistant that should help users to better understand contracts. The new “contract intelligence capabilities” allow the PDF management software’s chatbot to automatically recognize… Read more
read more...Space is the next frontier in Fantastic Four: First Steps’ new trailer
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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. Thankfully, the new teaser for Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps doesn’t spoil all that much of the film, but it does give you… Read more
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