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The new iPads are here! Following their unveiling at last week's "Let Loose" Apple event, the new iPad Pro and iPad Air models launched this week alongside the Apple Pencil Pro and revamped Magic Keyboard, bringing the first updates to Apple's iPad lineup in over 18 months. This week also saw the...
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When to Expect the Next iPhone SE to Launch
It has been over two years since Apple released the third-generation iPhone SE, and rumors continue to surface about a new model. The latest word comes from The Information , which today reported that Apple plans to release a new iPhone SE with a similar design as the standard iPhone 14 in the sp...
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Apple is said to be working on a 'significantly thinner' iPhone
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Hands-On With the New M2 iPad Air
Apple this week came out with new iPad Pro and iPad Air models. The iPad Pro has a next-generation M4 chip and an OLED display so it got much of the attention, but Apple added a whole new size to the Air lineup to offer a more affordable way to get a bigger screen. We spent some time with the n...
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Best Apple Deals of the Week: Discounts Hit Every AirPods Model, Plus First Sales on M4 iPad Pro and M2 iPad Air
This week's best deals included some of the first discounts on the new M4 iPad Pro and M2 iPad Air, as well as big savings across the entire AirPods lineup. If you're okay with investing in a previous generation, you'll also find big savings on the M1 iPad Air. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate par...
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Amazon's Kindle Scribe dips back to an all-time low, plus the rest of this week's best tech deals
Delta , an emulator that can play Nintendo games, had to change its logo after Adobe threatened legal action. You'd think it would face trouble from Nintendo, seeing as it has been going after emulators these days, but no. It's Adobe who's going after the developer, which told TechCrunch that it ...
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After Apple loosened its App Store guidelines to permit game emulators, the retro game emulator Delta — an app 10 years in the making — hit the top of the App Store’s charts. But the increased attention also brought the threat of legal action, as Adobe targeted Delta for sporting a logo that look...
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Delta Emulator is abandoning its current logo for a different, yet-to-be-revealed mark — because Adobe thinks Delta’s stylized letter “D” is a bit too close to its stylized letter “A” for comfort. It’s not every day you see an app changelog that includes news of a legal threat, but get a load of...
The developers behind the popular Game Boy emulator Delta for the iPhone said they updated the app's icon today to avoid potential legal action from Adobe. Delta's new app icon (left) and Adobe's logo (right) "Adobe threatened legal action unless we changed our app icon — so we did," say the rele...
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Not all the departures from OpenAI have been on the best of terms. Jan Leike, a coleader in the company’s superalignment group who left the company Wednesday, among a growing series of departures , has taken to X to explain his decision—and he has some harsh words for his former employer. Leike s...
Jan Leike, a key OpenAI researcher who resigned earlier this week following the departure of cofounder Ilya Sutskever, posted on X Friday morning that “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products” at the company. Leike’s statements came after Wired reported that OpenAI h...
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Company insiders explain why safety-conscious employees are leaving. For months, OpenAI has been losing employees who care deeply about making sure AI is safe. Now, the company is positively hemorrhaging them. Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike announced their departures from OpenAI, the maker of Chat...
A new crop of early-stage startups — along with some recent VC investments — illustrates a niche emerging in the autonomous vehicle technology sector. Unlike the companies bringing robotaxis to city streets, these startups are taking their tech off-road. Two recent entrants — Seattle-based Overl...
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Since its Early Access release back in 2017, Motion Twin and Evil Empire’s Dead Cells has become one of the most popular roguelikes of the current gaming generation. The two studios may have recently ended development on the game, but it’ll still live on the form of the animated series, Dead Cell...
When the founders of Sagetap, Sahil Khanna and Kevin Hughes, started working at early-stage enterprise software startups, they were surprised to find that the companies they worked at were trying to sell their innovative tech through old-school methods like repeated cold emails and calls. Khanna,...
The following article discusses spoilers for the first season of X-Men ‘97. I was excited about the return of the ‘90s Saturday morning cartoon version of the X-Men. Still, I wasn’t sure Marvel, under the auspices of Disney, could deliver on the flavor of the original while also making a modern s...
The GE Profile is a smart indoor smoker — designed to keep smoke inside the oven, not in your kitchen. Wi-Fi connectivity means it works the Smart HQ app for remote control, but there’s no magic sauce here to make you BBQ whizz. The GE Profile Smart Indoor Smoker delivers on its promise of bring...
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I’ve spent years struggling to find a chair that conforms to my back, rather than the other way around. My search might be over.
The popular repair website iFixit today shared a video with teardowns of the new 13-inch iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil Pro . The website praised the inclusion of adhesive pull tabs for the battery cells in the new iPad Pro, as they make repairs easier. We already shared another iPad Pro teardown ...
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. By the way, TechCrunch plans to launch an AI new...
Summer movie season is kicking off in full swing this week, between glitzy debuts at Cannes, and our first thoughts on incoming blockbusters like Furiosa. But it seems neither you or we could escape the absolute nightmare of John Krasinski’s bizarre new fantasy film, If. Click through to see our ...
For most of its first season, Sugar on Apple TV Plus was a fairly typical if slickly produced detective story. It starred Colin Farrell as John Sugar, a private investigator with a number of charming quirks — obsessed with old movies, unable to get drunk, beloved by dogs — who was determined to ...
This adorable laptop stand, keyboard, and trackpad folds into a little book for you to carry it around.
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For starters: Crypto, import tariffs, and Microsoft shipping out staff Kettle It's been a fairly troubling week in terms of the relationship between China and the Western world.… 
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If you are a fan of Google's Gemini AI and want to gain quick access to the service from your GNOME desktop, there's a handy extension that makes this possible.
Workers walk in Glencore’s Mutanda Mine, which Tesla sources cobalt from, in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 19th, 2023. Mining for minerals used to make EVs and batteries is plagued with allegations of abuse, the latest report from the nonprofit Business & Human Rights Resou...
Good news! Microsoft has finally made it possible to use the Widget Board on Windows 11 without being subjected to an onslaught of clickbait news articles.
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In his new book, Christof Koch views consciousness as a theorist and an aficionado.
Plus: Sony Music tries to keep its catalog out of the clutches of AI, there’s a towering new Lord of the Rings Lego set, and Google’s new AI features march onto the web.
Investing in the right technology can change people's attitudes to your brand. That's something the troubled airline may be learning.
Palmer Luckey says it’s a “certainty” that artificial intelligence systems will kill innocent bystanders in wars of the future, according to a recent interview the tech mogul did with Bloomberg News. This is why Luckey stresses it’s absolutely crucial to keep human beings in the loop when AI syst...
The latest iPad Airs and iPad Pros breathed fresh life into Apple’s tablets just as they seemed to be getting stale. Love them or hate them , the new Pros and Airs are pretty damn powerful, with the M4-powered tablet being practically just as capable as the most recent baseline MacBooks , but wit...
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This week, the Gizmodo science team explored the disturbing trend towards raw milk amid a bird flu outbreak among cattle, and the technological disruptions stemming from the historic geomagnetic storm that triggered stunning auroras across much of the globe. Reporter Ed Cara broke down a study we...
Plus: Three arrested in North Korean IT workers fraud ring, Tesla staffers shared videos from owners’ cars, and more.
Blue Origin is preparing to send a crew of private astronauts to suborbital space, finally resuming its space tourism program on New Shepard after nearly two years of it being grounded. Read more...
Generative AI (general artificial intelligence) has been the trendiest term in software for two years. Now it’s about to make its way to the consumer hardware market, too. By the latter half of this year, it’s likely that we’ll begin to encounter phones being marketed as GenAI smartphones or simp...
Animated GIFs have become a staple of the internet. Invented in 1987, the looping, soundless video clips can be found everywhere online, from social media networks to messaging platforms. They're often used to express emotions, communicate ideas, or just make people laugh. Because they are so sho...
Apple will soon begin selling the Vision Pro in additional markets outside the U.S., according to Bloomberg , and Mark Gurman today reports that the United Kingdom and Canada are included in the list of countries where the headset is next set to launch. Gurman's update corroborates the exact same...
Apple for a limited time will increase the trade-in value for older iPhones when customers buy any iPhone 15 model in the U.S. and Canada. Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman reports that Apple will soon boost the credit paid for older iPhones when customers buy an iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, ...
The problem isn't just that LLM-bot generated code is bad – it's where it came from Comment The Debian project has decided against joining Gentoo Linux and NetBSD in rejecting program code generated with the assistance of LLM tools, such as Github's Copilot.…
This story originally appeared in The Technology Letter and is republished here with permission. When an analyst leaves a bank to join another bank, it’s a chance to make a big pronouncement about how they view the overall industry they cover. Such was the case over the weekend as former Barc...
The Analogue Pocket is the most advanced Game Boy to ever take actual carts, but Ayaneo has just unveiled a pair of emulator -centric pocket computers that could give it a run for its cash — including a modern take on the original DMG-01 Nintendo Game Boy that now includes a 419ppi OLED screen. ...
Feds scoff at blockchain integrity while software bug said to have been at heart of the matter The US Department of Justice has booked two brothers on allegations that they exploited open source software used in the Ethereum blockchain world to bag $25 million.…
Springtime means it’s keynote season in the tech world, and in 2024, that means “time to show off your AI bona fides.” Google and OpenAI have already revealed big new upgrades to Gemini and ChatGPT this month, and now it’s time for Microsoft Build. The tech giant’s annual developer conference kic...
The following contains spoilers for “Boom.” It should be a given any new series needs time to find its footing, even when it’s a revival of an already-running hit. The first three episodes of “new” Doctor Who have been fun, but not without their own idiosyncrasies that made them hard to love. Now...
Throw another healthcare biz on the barby, mate Australian prescriptions provider MediSecure is the latest healthcare org to fall victim to a ransomware attack, with crooks apparently stealing patients' personal and health data.…
That X-Men ‘97 season finale was quite the sucker punch for fans invested in Marvel Animation’s revived classic series coming into a modern era . We saw the X-Men overcome seemingly insurmountable odds against Bastion after the reveal that he was this season’s big bad—not the red herrings Magneto...
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Prices would need to be dramatically slashed to avoid increasing the national deficit.
The Information today reported that Apple plans to release an all-new, high-end iPhone 17 model next year, and there was one detail that is worth singling out: the rear cameras could be relocated to the "top center" of the device. Google's Pixel 8 Pro The rear camera system on the iPhone has been...
Since the iPhone X’s introduction of OLED and Face ID in 2017, Apple’s phones haven’t changed their look significantly, but now The Information reports a major redesign is underway for a new “Slim” iPhone. The outlet says it could arrive in 2025 as part of the iPhone 17 refresh, with a price eve...
Yup, demand's that strong Since 2023, the leasing rate for datacenters in North America that haven't even been fully built yet has shot up and now stands at 84 percent for the first quarter of this year.…
Apple’s restrictions will still hold it back, but there’s a lot of possibility.
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This week was pretty quiet on the ransomware front, with most of the attention on the seizure of the BreachForums data theft forum. However, that does not mean there was nothing of interest released this week about ransomware. [...]
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At Microsoft’s big AI and Surface event on May 20th, the company takes another shot at Arm Windows PCs. Continue reading… 
Here's how to maximize your Apple Watch straight out of the box.
Being able to point to a study does not mean that the studied ingredient is a get-out-of-sunburn-free card.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas doesn’t mince words when it comes to Google. Speaking on stage at Fast Company ’s Most Innovative Companies gala in New York City Thursday night, Srinivas criticized the tech behemoth’s approach to AI-native search , specifically its decision to pull in AI for only...
Apple today published its second annual App Store Transparency Report [ PDF ], highlighting details like the number of apps that were rejected during the year, the number of customer and developer accounts deactivated, the number of apps removed from the App Store, and more. In 2023, there were...
To refresh its once iconic Windows media player, Winamp is kind of, sort of opening up the source code. See what that means for users and developers.
Reddit has been eager to sell data from user posts. 
Now Google and OpenAI can slurp up your precious memes and priceless comments Still upset that Reddit decided to sell all its content to Google for training its AI? Well, bad news: Now OpenAI has jumped into the mix as well.… 
Canada’s security agency is trying to dissuade Canadians from using TikTok, telling users that their data is “available to the government of China.” In an interview with CBC News set to air on Saturday, David Vigneault, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said that “there...
Thanks to a partnership with AST SpaceMobile, AT&T customers can look forward to communicating from areas where they don't have a cellular connection.
Details surrounding the death of John Barnett, a corporate whistleblower who was in the midst of suing aviation giant Boeing when he was found dead in a parking lot earlier this year, have finally been revealed. Read more...
Think about the expectations. Nine years ago, you released maybe one of the best films ever made . It won a ton of Oscars, made solid money at the box office, and has since only risen in respect and reverence. And now, you’re going back. Not just to that world, but to that story and those specifi...
Give your kitchen a fresh new look (or make it more functional), even if you don't have the budget for a remodel.
Cat Royale project explores what it takes to trust a robot to look after beloved pets.
91Mobiles After 2023’s big year for foldable phones , what’s next? According to these leaked pics, we can expect Motorola’s foldable Razr line to stretch that front cover screen even further on both versions. As revealed by 91Mobiles and Sudhanshu Ambhore on X , the Razr 50 Ultra 5G will feature...
We may have a good look at Motorola’s next foldable phones. Separate leaks from 91Mobiles (via 9to5Google ) and longtime device-leaking insider Evan Blass show the entry-level Moto Razr 50 and high-end Razr 50 Ultra (likely branded as the 2024 Razr and Razr+ in the US) in various colors from all ...
At the Exceptional Women Alliance (EWA), we enable high level women to mentor each other to enable each leader to achieve personal and professional happiness through sisterhood. As the nonprofit organization’s founder, chair, and CEO, I am honored to interview and share insights from some of the ...
Valve’s next game appears to be a multiplayer hero shooter known as Deadlock . This is according to leaks from playtesters posted on social media earlier today, with some of the details verified by known Valve data miner Tyler McVicker. “Since testers started sharing Deadlock screenshots all ove...
According to a pair of content creators, the wait for a new Valve game is almost over: A third-person hero shooter called Deadlock is in closed alpha and an announcement seems imminent. The game has apparently been in the works since 2018, with IceFrog, a developer synonymous with the original D...
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Whether you just got a new iPad or want to learn more about everything your tablet can do, these are the settings and features you should unleash ASAP.
Meta is once again taking on its competitors by developing a feature that borrows concepts from others — in this case, BeReal and Snapchat. The company is developing a feature for Instagram called “Peek” that would allow users to post authentic pictures that can only be viewed once. While Snapcha...
It's still Siri—but you can (sometimes) call it by another name.
UniSuper, a $135 billion pension account, details its cloud compute nightmare.
With Memorial Day weekend coming up and summer vacation not far behind, here’s some of our favorite Disney -inspired fandom fashion, accessories, and other fun essentials to throw in your luggage. Read more...
If you drive someone else’s vehicle regularly, you need non-owner car insurance.
If you’re looking for booze with an extra bit of buzz, you’re in luck. Microbiologists in the U.K. have just created beer using yeast sourced from the guts of Africanized honey bees, a.k.a. killer bees. Read more...
Forget the foldable screens: Acer's Aspire Vero 16 (2024) raises the bar on sustainable laptops with a chassis made of 60% post-consumer recycled plastic.
But incumbent is mentioned a lot more in attack material Although Joe Biden spends more on Facebook and Instagram ads than Donald Trump, ads attacking the US president outnumber those attacking his likely rival in this year's presidential election, according to data analysis.…
Amendments contain loopholes that may blunt their effectiveness.
A bug in iOS 17.5 is apparently causing photos that have been deleted to reappear , and the issue seems to impact even iPhones and iPads that have been erased and sold off to other people. A Reddit user wiped an iPad following Apple's guidelines in September of 2023 before selling it off to a fri...
Who could have guessed that John Krasinski would be so good at making horror movies? His directorial debut was A Quiet Place , he followed it up with A Quiet Place Part II , and now he’s made IF, not a horror film by genre but a horrible film in quality. We reviewed the film quite unfavorably her...
Using subjective phrasing like "scientists believe" makes facts seem like opinions.
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Starting in July, Microsoft will begin gradually enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users signing into Azure to administer resources. [...]
As the corpse of E3 lies a-mouldrin’ in its grave , its spirit marches on in the form of bevy of video game showcases and events. There’s a hefty number of them — some notable, some not (but they should be) — and they encompass a wide range of games and genres. Here’s your guide to the whats, wh...
In the summer of 2023, OpenAI created a “Superalignment” team whose goal was to steer and control future AI systems that could be so powerful they could lead to human extinction. Less than a year later, that team is dead. OpenAI told Bloomberg that the company was “integrating the group more deep...
Your local nail tech could be a secret agent for Kim’s cunning plan Three individuals accused of facilitating North Korea's bid to fund its weapon program using US money are now in handcuffs.…
Two things are true when listening to the head of a movie studio. One, they’re not going to say anything bad about their movies, and two, they definitely know everything happening with those movies . That’s why a new interview with the chairman of Sony Motion Pictures Group, Tom Rothman, should b...
IndieBio’s Bay Area incubator is about to debut its 15th cohort of biotech startups; here are a few we took special notice of, making some major, bordering on ludicrous, claims that could pay off in a big way. Biotech has been creeping out in recent years to touch adjacent industries, as companie...
Slack trains machine-learning models on user messages, files and other content without explicit permission. The training is opt-out, meaning your private data will be leeched by default. Making matters worse, you’ll have to ask your organization’s Slack admin (human resources, IT, etc.) to email ...
Want to enjoy entertainment on your Quest 3 without disturbing others? Here's how you connect Bluetooth earbuds with your favorite VR headset.
Slack says policy changes are imminent amid backlash.
Both the Garmin Epix Pro and Fenix 7S Pro are currently matching their all-time low. The same goes for Garmin’s inReach Mini 2. Here at The Verge , our deal writers spend a lot of time covering the latest discounts at Amazon, Best Buy, and other retailers that happen to sell the tech we cover. A...
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This weekend, The Phantom Menace turns 25—and while we’ve celebrated the ways the film brought so much to Star Wars in the past , for its 25th anniversary we wanted to look back at a few different things, big and small, that make Phantom Menace so great all these years later, whether you caught i...
Several users running the Android 15 beta report having the satellite messaging option on their phones. Here's how to check if you have the feature.
YouTube TV has announced that its ‘multiview’ feature for watching four streams at once is now available on Android phones and tablets. The Android launch comes two months after YouTube TV rolled out the feature to iPhones and iPads. The feature, which first launched in March 2023, is aimed at sp...
Funds to be used for purchasing servers and networking kit AI server startup CoreWeave has raised $7.5 billion in a debt deal from private equity companies Blackstone, BlackRock, and others.…
If you're not separating your work life from your school or personal life in Chrome, you're doing it all wrong.
I knew what to expect from the Surface Pro 10 for Business the minute Microsoft announced it: A faster processor with a neural processing unit (NPU) inside the same case as the Surface Pro 9. As the first "AI PC" Surface devices, the Pro 10 for Business tablet and its more traditional sibling, th...
Why is OpenAI’s superalignment team imploding? On Monday, OpenAI announced exciting new product news: ChatGPT can now talk like a human. It has a cheery, slightly ingratiating feminine voice that sounds impressively non-robotic, and a bit familiar if you’ve seen a certain 2013 Spike Jonze film. ...
A trial vaccine has succeeded in generating low levels of antibodies needed to target HIV. It’s a first but much-needed step toward preventing infection.
For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with iMazing to offer MacRumors a chance to win an Apple Vision Pro headset. The giveaway celebrates the recent release of iMazing 3 , and the winner will also receive an iMazing 3 license that covers five devices (including the Vision Pro). iMazing 3 has...
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Conspicuously absent from the incredible news this week that Nicolas Cage was coming to Prime Video to play Spider-Man Noir was a single mention of Silk: Spider-Society , another Spider-Verse show that has been in the works for a long, long time. Read more...
Prime Video's Fallout series has been a hit with critics and audiences , but Microsoft and Bethesda weren't ready to fully capitalize on its success. Fallout 4 rocketed up the sales charts and Bethesda updated it for current-gen consoles, but there was no new Fallout game ready to go. In fact, th...
The New York Police Department plans to use drones to respond to some 911 calls in a new program, according to testimony delivered Thursday at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. And while that’s concerning enough, one Republican congressman had some ideas about how to...
The Edifier QR65 speakers prove you don't need to spend thousands on high-end audio gear for room-filling sound.