Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. NASA is planning to host a live Twitch stream next week from the International Space Station (ISS) – its first from the ISS. The stream, which takes place on February 12th at… Read more
read more...NASA is going to do a Twitch stream from the ISS
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World of Warcraft finally tackles the housing crisis
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After 20 years, World of Warcraft is finally adding player housing. During its Warcraft 30th Anniversary Direct last year, Blizzard delighted players with the surprise announcement that the feature — a long-time staple in other MMOs — was on the way. Now the studio has revealed a bit more information with a new blog explaining… Read more
read more...Google’s Gemini Super Bowl ads push AI as a tool you can use every day
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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. Google debuted a pair of new Super Bowl commercials that portray AI as a technology that’s as central to people’s lives as the phone or computer they… Read more
read more...EVGA closes its official forums and transitions to Reddit
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EVGA, one of Nvidia’s most prominent partners, made waves two years ago, in September 2022, when it exited the GPU business. If the sudden closure of the EVGA forums is any indication, the company will continue to wind down its business. At the time of writing, a banner on the forum’s main page posted yesterday… Read more
read more...This Raspberry Pi portable cyberdeck is straight out of a sci fi movie
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We love Raspberry Pi cyberdecks and have covered quite a few over the years but every now and then we come across one that’s particularly exciting and today is one of those days! Maker and developer ReevesMedia, as they’re known as over at Reddit, has uploaded a thread showcasing this really cool portable cyberdeck dubbed… Read more
read more...Valve shoots down rumors of RDNA4-based Steam Console — it routinely tests new hardware that isn’t put into its own devices
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(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Following a report from GamingOnLinux pointing out that recent rumors of an in-testing Steam Console were simply vapor, an official statement from Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais on BlueSky confirmed this to be the case. Griffais clarifies that the pre-release Mesa Vulkan work on AMD’s RDNA 4 architecture is perfectly in line… Read more
read more...Doom runs on an Apple Lightning to HDMI dongle — SoC inside adapter has enough power for smooth gameplay
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A developer could hack into the Apple Lightning to HDMI dongle and run Doom directly on the accessory. According to nyan_satan’s comments in the YouTube video (h/t MacRumors), the $49 Apple Lightning Digital AV Adapter features a custom Samsung SoC with a 400MHz ARM Cortex-A5 core and 256 MiB of DRAM. The dongle should be… Read more
read more...Asus rolls out golden RTX 5090 for buyers with deep pockets — ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition for the Middle Eastern market
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Asus has launched a conspicuously opulent golden edition of its flagship RTX 5090 graphics card. The new Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition was unwrapped on stage, revealed Nameless Koala on the Nvidia subreddit, and noted it is a Middle Eastern exclusive. That isn’t surprising, as the Dhahab (Arabic for gold) Edition… Read more
read more...Head of DOGE-controlled government tech task force resigns
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Alex Heath is a deputy editor and author of the Command Line newsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. Ted Carstensen, the head of the United States Digital Service (USDS) organization that has been renamed to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is resigning instead of taking… Read more
read more...Leica made a $329 iPhone camera grip
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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. Leica has announced a new iPhone accessory called the Leica Lux Grip designed to make using its iOS-only Leica Lux app feel more like shooting with… Read more
read more...Rooster Teeth is coming back
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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. Rooster Teeth — the studio behind animated web series such as RWBY, Red vs. Blue, and Gen:Lock — seemed like it was shuttering… Read more
read more...Google is adding AI watermarks to photos manipulated by Magic Editor
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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. Google Photos is adding its digital SynthID watermarks to photos that have been edited using the Magic Editor’s generative AI feature. The new feature is rolling out “this week” according… Read more
read more...Microsoft Teams is getting a Facebook-like feed and follow button
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Meta is shutting down its Workplace platform next year, but Microsoft is planning to keep the dream of Facebook at work very much alive. Multiple sources at Microsoft tell me the company has started testing a fully integrated Facebook-like feed inside Microsoft Teams recently. Teams users will be able to post to the feed, known… Read more
read more...Gamer reportedly received an RTX 5080 with RTX 5090 branding — it turns out to be an RTX 5080, after all
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One of the few people who was able to buy an RTX 5080 was surprised to see that their card was an RTX 5090, at least according to the engraved name on the cooler. Reddit user EssDee3D posted an image showing what appears to be an RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPU in an RTX 5080… Read more
read more...Researchers trained an OpenAI rival in half an hour for less than $50
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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. Researchers managed to create a low-cost AI reasoning model rivaling OpenAI’s in just 26 minutes, as outlined in a paper published last week. The model, called s1,… Read more
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