But they’re more dangerous with AI.
The Pro camera’s major upgrade offers minor image quality improvements — whether or not you know what an f-stop is.
A surprisingly consequential update for the world’s most popular smartwatch.
The $149 AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case have great ANC and finally add swipe volume controls.
We’ve tried the first foldable iPhone at Apple’s launch event.
Researchers warned AI would go rogue. This is only the beginning.
Microsoft’s controversial Xbox One bets are paying off more than a decade later.
Valve’s new headset is another joyous piece of early access hardware.
Snap has spent half a decade working toward its first consumer pair of AR glasses. They’re finally here — and they’re bold as can be.
New camera-free frames might avoid the ‘pervert glasses’ nickname, The Information reports.
Public-facing workers are being filmed, harassed, and creeped out by AI-powered smart glasses.
This crop of smart glasses is the most stylish, affordable, comfortable, and capable yet. They still don’t make sense.
The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.
The US is finally reclassifying plug-in solar as a household appliance to offset high energy costs.
Rockstar’s latest epic is almost here, and it seems nothing can stop it.
Tools that promise to detect AI writing can be dubious, but educators and publishers are using them anyway.
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The company is claiming ‘worldwide rights’ to a film that has to be released under a Creative Commons license.
But they’re more dangerous with AI.
On Version History: Nilay Patel and Victoria Song recount their memories of their iconic and expensive calculators.
Plus, in this week’s Installer: Valve’s Steam Frame, Nintendo’s expansive new Fire Emblem, Fujifilm’s tiny new camera, and more.
Muse probably can’t ‘see’ your notifications. But it also has no idea how it works.
First, it was the Gulf of Mexico. Then the Kennedy Center. Then Lake Ontario. And let’s not forget about the Department of Defense. Now the president is trying to leave his mark on artificial intelligence. The only real surprise is that American Intelligence wasn’t on his short list.
It’s been a poorly kept secret that the company was working towards building its own wet lab. It was hiring biologists and even bought startup Coefficient Bio in April. Now it’s confirmed to TechCrunch that a lab is up and operating in the Bay Area.
The president’s threat against CNN, MS Now, and Politico was real.
Norwood was on Piers Morgan Uncensored to discuss its AI slop movie, Misaligned. There’s a painful lag between questions and answers, and it routinely fails to answer the actual question. But the most surreal moment comes when Norwood glitches mid-answer and starts speaking Cantonese.
“Best-case scenario, the men handling this technology are completely incompetent. Worst-case scenario, we are all being led into a disaster.” Eventually, the woman was escorted from the building, but not before disrupting the company’s celebration of flooding the world with awful AI-generated fliers.
Google says that breaking containment and targeting real companies doesn’t constitute ‘misalignment.’
The company’s Labor Day sale is still going strong through the weekend, and the Hyte X50 is one of my favorite deals.
Not every smart TV is as easily hackable as Gamers Nexus says LG’s are, but they’re all tracking what you watch unless you opt out.
Valve’s 0.3.0 update for Steam Frame claims “Substantially faster charging while unit is off / sleeping.” It’s true. I used to see 8-watt charging when plugging in a dead unit, and 27-watt charging at peak. Now I’m getting 19-21W charging right away and up to 42W in game.
That’s enough to plug in a dead Frame and start playing right away.
According to CNN, the US military had planes in the air and armed personnel ready to board a Chinese ship in the Middle East this spring because of an intelligence report saying it carried parts for a nuclear weapons program. The only problem? Their sources say that report was an AI-bot-generated hallucination:
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.
Separately, Bloomberg reports a Pentagon investigation into the deadly February 28th missile attack on an Iranian school has identified failures that include “overreliance on artificial-intelligence technology.”
The companies knew they were driving us toward Google Zero, and did it anyway.
The price increase reportedly follows higher prices from chip manufacturer TSMC, and could impact everything from AMD’s GPUs to its motherboard chipsets. Intel is reportedly planning a similar price hike, and Qualcomm and Nvidia also raised prices earlier this year.
Trump has once again escalated his capricious assault on journalism. The president said today that “effective immediately” he is banning CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House, and threatened for “other fake news media outlets to follow.” In 2025, he banned the Associated Press during a temper tantrum over its refusal to go along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. It’s not clear what set the president off this time.
Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an executive order addressing data centers and AI risks.
The House of Mouse has poached Karandeep Anand from the chatbot company.
The team behind Apple’s new foldable basically gave a second keynote to GQ, and snagged a couple brief statements from new CEO John Ternus. “Steve [Jobs] talked about the intersection of technology and liberal arts, and I think iPhone Duo is a perfect example of that,” Ternus told GQ.
After 100 years this Leica I was suffering from light leaks as a result of shutter curtains that had become porous. This satisfying ASMR video shares the two and a half hour process of the camera being disassembled, cleaned, repaired, and put back together by an expert technician.
Find out who lives and who dies as Verge staffers travel the treacherous Oregon Trail in a live playthrough of the classic edutainment game. This season, Version History is going back to school: We’ll talk about the TI-84+ graphing calculator, One Laptop Per Child, Chromebook, LeapPad, and the overhead projector. Our premiere episode about The Oregon Trail is already live!
On The Vergecast: an iPhone 18 Pro camera deep dive, the state of the AI safety debate, and more.
With Congress unlikely to act before the midterms, California is angling to take the lead.
Academics, evaluators, and AI leaders signed a public letter calling not just for embedded third-party evaluators at top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, but for conditions that allowed for transparency by those evaluators, like “limiting the scope of non-disclosure agreements.” I wrote an in-depth feature about the battle over the need for embedded evaluators this week for The Verge.
You’ll have to pay at least $9.99 a month for Apple Home’s new AI-powered features, including video summaries, for just one camera. If you want access on up to five cameras, it’s $59.99 (included in the 12TB iCloud Plus plan). Is this a sign of more subscription fees on the horizon for Apple’s smart home?
A three-person team of researchers used a corrupted image file and forum software to hack into OpenAI.
The commission is waiving its rules to let foreign wealth funds own 49.5 percent of Paramount-Warner Bros.
HBO’s Hacks was a magnet for well-deserved Emmys, and I was personally delighted to hear that the complete series would come to Blu-ray. The set recently went up for preorder, costing $69.99 at Amazon, and includes cast screen tests, deleted scenes, bloopers, table reads, and more detailed at Blu-ray.com.
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It features an OLED screen and a Snapdragon X2 Elite CPU. Also, get a $25 DoorDash gift card with the new Fire Emblem.
The FPGB Mini is only slightly wider than the original Nintendo cartridges it plays.
The flight covered 3,199 miles with “zero control inputs from onboard safety pilot,” including autonomous taxi, takeoff, cruise, and landing, the company said. The modified Cessna Caravan aircraft equipped with Joby’s Superpilot autonomous flight system took off from Buchanan Field Airport in Concorde, California, and landed at Dare County Regional Airport in the Outer Banks, North Carolina. In addition to the on-board safety pilot, Joby monitored the aircraft remotely from its headquarters in California, as well as from Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina, up to 2,323 miles away.
Those are just three of 1,400 new words added to the more comprehensive online version of Merriam-Webster’s linguistic repository. Other additions include Mandela Effect, AGI, letterboxing, looksmaxxing, and what seems like a really late acknowledgement for Rickroll.
They’ve opened “at least one criminal probe” following complaints about the glasses being used to film women on the street in public without their consent, Reuters reports. France’s data protection authority also says businesses are “increasingly” asking if they can ban smart glasses at work, similar to a ban under consideration in Australia.
