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Google is rolling out Gemini’s real-time AI video features

Gemini can ‘see’ screens and camera feeds in real-time for some Google One AI Premium subscribers now. Gemini can ‘see’ screens and camera feeds in real-time for some Google One AI Premium subscribers now. Mar 23, 2025, 10:30 PM UTC Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Wes Davis is a weekend editor who covers the… Read more

Google confirms it deleted Maps Timeline data for some

Only those with cloud backups enabled have a chance at getting the data back in Google Maps. Only those with cloud backups enabled have a chance at getting the data back in Google Maps. Mar 23, 2025, 7:08 PM UTC Illustration: The Verge Wes Davis is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech… Read more

The Apple Watch may get cameras and Apple Intelligence

Apple plans to release camera-equipped AI wearables by 2027, says Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Apple plans to release camera-equipped AI wearables by 2027, says Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Mar 23, 2025, 2:43 PM UTC Wes Davis is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a… Read more

Why Balatro’s developer stays anonymous

Balatro just won four Game Developers Choice Awards, including Game of the Year, but the person who made the game wasn’t on stage to accept them. Instead, Playstack communications director Wout van Haldren spoke on behalf of Balatro’s developer, who goes by the alias LocalThunk, each time the game won an award. “The team does… Read more

Hue accidentally leaks a new video doorbell

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. An update to the Philips Hue app this week appears to have leaked a new Hue Secure video doorbell, reports Hueblog. The unannounced product shows up in a… Read more

Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’

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. Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI… Read more

Photo Mode is my new gaming obsession

Infinity Nikki and Assassin’s Creed Shadows have become my twin obsessions for their meticulously detailed environments, textures, and weather. With open-world dress-up game Infinity Nikki, I continue to be agog at how clothing textures are rendered with such detail and fidelity that by mere sight, I know exactly what a piece of fabric will feel… Read more

SwitchBot adds robot vacuums, smart shades, and its new Hub 3 to Home Assistant

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. SwitchBot will integrate more than 45 of its products with Home Assistant during the first half of this year, the company said in an email to The Verge…. Read more

7 cool indie games from GDC 2025

The Game Developers Conference, an annual gathering that brings thousands of game developers to San Francisco, has just wrapped up. While most of the event is about networking and interesting talks about game design and technology, there were also a bunch of unreleased indie games that we got to check out. Yes, much of video… Read more

People keep putting fake walls in front of Teslas

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. Someone has responded to YouTuber Mark Rober’s Tesla fake wall test with a video that also tries to address the question of whether the… Read more

It’s time to squad up in this preview from Apple’s Mythic Quest spinoff series

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. Aside from cutscenes, most of Mythic Quest takes place in the real world. But Apple’s upcoming spinoff series Side Quest will give us… Read more

Lyft’s robotaxis will launch in Atlanta this summer

The company will bring autonomous vehicles to Dallas in 2026. The company will bring autonomous vehicles to Dallas in 2026. Mar 21, 2025, 9:23 PM UTC Image: Alex Castro / The Verge Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme…. Read more

Drama over quantum computing’s future heats up

On March 18th, Chetan Nayak, a physicist leading Microsoft’s quantum team, presented new data on the company’s quantum computing chip at the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California. It was meant to calm a raging debate among physicists, but researchers remain skeptical of the results. “I never felt like there would be… Read more

Watch this ultra-detailed animation of the seafloor

The world has a more detailed map of the seafloor than ever before thanks to observations taken from space. NASA published a video this week showing a remarkably clear picture of the bottom of the ocean made possible thanks to new satellite technology. The face of the moon has been more thoroughly mapped than the… Read more

Google will let you make AI podcasts from Gemini’s Deep Research

Google’s Audio Overviews can now help you parse Gemini’s in-depth reports. Google’s Audio Overviews can now help you parse Gemini’s in-depth reports. Mar 21, 2025, 8:10 PM UTC 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