Google’s Gemini Super Bowl ads push AI as a tool you can use every day

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 access it on. But, like some of Google’s other Super Bowl ads, the company is once again attempting to make you pull out your tiss … | Continue reading


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Here’s why your smart fridge needs an expiration date

Have you thought about what you’re going to do when your smart fridge is too old to download its latest software update? While you’d probably replace your phone or computer when its software hits its end of life, your fridge will still keep your food cold even if it can’t stream … | Continue reading


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Head of DOGE-controlled government tech task force resigns

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 the “Fork in the Road” buyout offer for federal employees. “I write to let you … | Continue reading


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Leica made a $329 iPhone camera grip

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 its dedicated cameras. It adds a DSLR-style grip to the iPhone and features customizable function buttons, a two-stage shutter butto … | Continue reading


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Rooster Teeth is coming back

Rooster Teeth — the studio behind animated web series such as RWBY, Red vs. Blue, and Gen:Lock — seemed like it was shuttering for good last year. The company announced that it was winding down operations due to parent company Warner Bros. Discovery’s inability to find a party in … | Continue reading


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Elon Musk’s DOGE storms federal weather forecasters’ headquarters

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly infiltrated the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the agency that collects and shares vital weather and climate information. Sources have told The Verge, as well as oth … | Continue reading


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Google is adding AI watermarks to photos manipulated by Magic Editor

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 to Google, and is intended to make it easier for people to quickly identify images that have … | Continue reading


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What’s on your desk, Nick Statt?

What exactly is a producer? Well, according to Nick Statt, who is senior producer on The Verge’s Decoder podcast with Nilay Patel, “the word ‘producer’ means a lot of things in a lot of different contexts.” In his case — here at The Verge and in the world of audio — it means he a … | Continue reading


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Microsoft Teams is getting a Facebook-like feed and follow button

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. Te … | Continue reading


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Shipping companies warn of delays and new charges from Trump’s China tariffs

In the two days since President Trump enacted new tariffs on goods from China, none of the major US shipping companies and couriers have yet announced detailed policies on new fees, though some have warned of possible delays and disruption. Despite that, both senders and recipien … | Continue reading


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Researchers trained an OpenAI rival in half an hour for less than $50

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, was refined using a small dataset of 1,000 questions and for under $50, according to TechCrunch. To do this, researc … | Continue reading


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Spotify signs Warner Music deal heralding new subscription tiers

Spotify and Warner Music Group have inked a new multi-year deal covering publishing and recorded music that aims to “shape the future of audio-visual streaming.” In its announcement, Spotify says the agreement will expand the streaming platform’s catalog of audio and visual conte … | Continue reading


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Elon Musk’s presidency is just getting started

On today’s episode of Decoder, we’re discussing a very big problem with extremely far-reaching consequences: how dysfunctional has the federal government in the United States become, and how much of it has been handed to Elon Musk? If you’ve even glanced at the news over the past … | Continue reading


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This vintage-looking camera has a button for computational photography

OM System has announced a new Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera called the OM-3 with a design inspired by the Olympus OM-1 film camera that first debuted in 1972. Despite its vintage appearance, the OM-3 offers features similar to last year’s OM System OM-1 Mark II in a more co … | Continue reading


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The Peloton story: everything you need to know

Peloton was a pandemic darling — one of the businesses that seemed to find its purpose as something more than a cultish fad when the world shut down. And then, everything went horribly wrong. First, the supply chain issues with monthslong delays for bikes that irked new customers … | Continue reading


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Lyft is using Anthropic’s Claude AI for customer service

Lyft announced a new partnership with Anthropic to use the Claude AI assistant to handle customer service requests. Claude is already being put to use handling service inquiries from drivers, reducing the average resolution time for a request by 87 percent, the company said. In a … | Continue reading


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Microsoft is bringing major MIDI improvements to Windows 11

Windows 11 is rolling out the biggest update to MIDI since the musical communication format was first released in 1983. Microsoft announced that its latest Windows 11 Canary test build includes a public preview of Windows MIDI Services, which supports MIDI 2.0 and updates allowin … | Continue reading


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AT&T customers can now see why a business is calling

Customers on AT&T’s network are getting one more tool to help them decide when to pick up the phone: an indication of why a business is calling you, right from the incoming call screen. It’s a continuation of the branded calling feature that AT&T and TransUnion introduced last ye … | Continue reading


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Warner Bros. is streaming full movies for free on YouTube

Warner Bros. has made it easier to watch some of its movies online for once, bucking a trend of wiping them from existence. As spotted by Gizmodo, the official Warner Bros. Entertainment YouTube channel has quietly added more than 30 full movies to a playlist over the past month … | Continue reading


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World’s first lab-grown meat for pets goes on sale

Dog treats made from lab-grown meat have gone on sale in the UK, in what the manufacturers say is a world-first. Chick Bites are getting a limited release at a single pet store from Friday, but Meatly says it is expanding production and hopes to make its lab-grown meat more widel … | Continue reading


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The Asus Zenfone 12 Ultra is skipping the US

The Zenfone 12 Ultra officially launches today, but unlike previous generations, this one won’t be sold in the US. As expected, the 12 Ultra is a de-gamer-ified ROG Phone 9 Pro with a big screen, a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, and a unique gimbal-like stabilizer in the main camera … | Continue reading


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China tariffs may already be hiking up import fees

US consumers may already be seeing additional fees on shipments from China after President Donald Trump’s tariff on Chinese goods took effect on Tuesday. Clint Reid, the founder and CEO of a company that offers software to help with cross-border commerce, posted screenshots on X … | Continue reading


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Volkswagen claims it’s actually making that $20,000 EV and will show it next month

Volkswagen has announced that next month, it will show off a new low-cost, entry-level EV that could cost just €20,000 (about $20,800 USD), the price it suggested it would hit back when it announced the ID. Life concept in 2021. That’s a steal compared to current low-end US EVs l … | Continue reading


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Steam now warns you if an ‘early access’ PC game might be abandoned

Steam’s early access program helps small to medium-sized developers get an idea off the ground, but not every game actually does. Now, Valve has a notice designed to warn Steam users when they visit an early access game’s store page if it’s been a minute since the last update. If … | Continue reading


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Qwertykeys halts keyboard shipments to US over tariff costs and confusion

The keyboard company Qwertykeys has temporaily halted all shipments to the United States in response to President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods going into effect. The company says it’s working on ways to mitigate shipping costs and that the tariffs have made it so that “all ke … | Continue reading


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Ford lost $5 billion on EVs in 2024, teases new models

Ford’s electric vehicle and software business lost $5.1 billion in 2024, up from $4.7 billion lost in 2024. And the automaker doesn’t anticipate any relief this year, when it predicts it will lose as much as $5.5 billion on its EV business. Ford reported its fourth quarter and fu … | Continue reading


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Google tells employees why it’s ending DEI hiring goals

Google is joining Meta, Amazon, and other big tech companies in winding down its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. In a Wednesday memo to employees that I obtained (and you can read below), Google’s head of HR, Fiona Cicconi, said there will no longer be DEI hiri … | Continue reading


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There’s a hidden message in Amazon’s event invites

Amazon sent out five different invites to its upcoming product event, and when pieced together, they spell out a familiar word: Alexa, the name of the company’s digital voice assistant. We assumed the event would be about Alexa’s long-heralded renaissance, and given this message, … | Continue reading


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Sonos lays off 200 employees as its struggles continue

Things at Sonos are getting worse before they get better — if they’re going to get better. Today the company laid off approximately 200 employees, The Verge has learned. The news was announced at around 4PM ET, and a letter to employees from interim CEO Tom Conrad was posted on S … | Continue reading


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The Sonos app fiasco: how a great audio brand nearly ruined its reputation

In May 2024, Sonos released a completely rebuilt and overhauled mobile app for Android and iOS. The new software was meant to improve performance, make the app feel more customizable, and allow for new features in the future. But customers immediately complained about countless b … | Continue reading


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All the news on Qi2 wireless charging

The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) has (finally) released the new Qi2 standard that will help new devices and chargers line up perfectly, thanks to the magic of magnets. Version 2.0 of the Qi wireless charging standard supports up to 15W charging so that iPhone owners don’t have … | Continue reading


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What’s on your desk?

Many of us work from home, and so one of the most important places in those homes is our workspaces — in other words, our desks. Everyone’s workspace is different. What kind of desk — and desk chair — do you use? Is your workspace neat and organized or filled with tchotchkes and … | Continue reading


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ChatGPT drops its sign-in requirement for search

ChatGPT no longer requires you to log in to use the AI chatbot’s search engine, OpenAI announced on Wednesday. With the feature, ChatGPT will surface responses based on information from the web while presenting a list of sources it used to inform its answer. OpenAI first launched … | Continue reading


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Newer Sony cameras can now upload images to Google Drive and Lightroom

Sony has updated its Creators’ Cloud platform so that images uploaded to a user’s cloud storage from select Sony cameras can be automatically transferred to Google Drive or Adobe Lightroom. With Google Drive, you can save photos for backup and sharing, and with Adobe Lightroom, i … | Continue reading


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Reddit tells communities threatening Elon Musk and DOGE workers to cool down

Reddit has seen an increase in rule-breaking posts across “several communities,” and it has issued a temporary ban on one that featured users calling for violence against people who work for the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). That community, r/WhitePeop … | Continue reading


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Look at this keyboard

Hey, real quick: look at this keyboard. There’s something cool about it. It’s a mechanical keyboard. It’s a laser keyboard. It’s a magnetic induction keyboard. It has the new switches. It has the old switches. It’s very thin. It’s got a weird layout. It has a trackpoint. Or a scr … | Continue reading


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Nintendo says it’s ‘taking risks’ to meet Switch 2 demand

Nintendo is gearing up for the Switch 2’s launch sometime in 2025, and president Shuntaro Furukawa says that the company is “taking risks and proceeding with production so that we can meet as much demand as possible,” according to a machine translation of an earnings Q&A. The com … | Continue reading


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iOS App Store apps with screenshot-reading malware found for the first time

Apps distributed through both Apple and Google’s app stores are hiding malicious screenshot-reading code that’s being used to steal cryptocurrency, the cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky reported today. It’s the “first known case” of apps infected with malware that uses OCR te … | Continue reading


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Herman Miller made a convertible standing desk that actually looks great

Herman Miller has announced a new height-adjustable desk that doesn’t look like one. Instead of relying on just two columns to raise and lower its work surface, the Spout Sit-to-Stand Table uses four cylindrical legs, each containing their own motor. The design makes the Spout ta … | Continue reading


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‘The biggest heist in American history’: DC is just waking up to Elon Musk’s takeover

The long block outside of the US Treasury Department on Tuesday was lined with protesters. They flooded across the street with signs bearing slogans: “Nobody elected Musk”; “This is illegal”; “Stop the coup.” It was one of multiple DC protests targeting billionaire Elon M … | Continue reading


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VW and Audi dealers are suing Scout over its no-dealers plan

A coterie of Florida car dealers filed a lawsuit this week against Scout Motors over its direct-to-consumer sales model. The complaint alleges that Scout, which operates under the Volkswagen Group, is in violation of Florida law which blocks automakers from trying to bypass deale … | Continue reading


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A reviews site embroiled in AI scandal is back from the dead

Last summer, the staff at Gannett’s consumer reviews site Reviewed received terrible news: the media giant was shuttering the entire vertical and would be laying off dozens of employees. Effective November 1st, Reviewed would cease operations. Gannett blamed Google’s changing sea … | Continue reading


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Google pulls incorrect Gouda stat from its AI Super Bowl ad

Google has edited Gemini’s AI response in a Super Bowl commercial to remove an incorrect statistic about cheese. The ad, which shows a small business owner using Gemini to write a website description about Gouda, no longer says the variety makes up “50 to 60 percent of the world’ … | Continue reading


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Amazon announces February product event

Amazon sent out invites today for a February event in New York City. The invite gives few clues as to what will be announced at the event, which will be hosted by Panos Panay and the Amazon Devices & Services team on February 26th. However, a blue swirly logo behind the words “Yo … | Continue reading


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The Gemini AI app can now show its thinking

Google is bringing its experimental “reasoning” artificial intelligence model capable of explaining how it answers complex questions to the Gemini app. The Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking update is part of a slew of Gemini 2.0 AI rollouts announced by Google today, including its latest … | Continue reading


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Bandai’s live-action Gundam movie is getting a theatrical release

For a while, it looked like the first live-action Gundam movie was going to make its debut on Netflix, but Bandai now plans to put the movie in theaters. Though details about the film are still very slim, Bandai and Legendary announced today that their live-action Gundam feature … | Continue reading


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Beats Studio Buds Plus are matching their record low with $50 off

We’re still awaiting a new pair of Powerbeats Pro to drop sometime this year, but if you’re a Beats fan in need of a solid pair of wireless earbuds to bridge the gap, you’re in luck. The Beats Studio Buds Plus are on sale for their all-time low of price of $119.99 (about $50 off) … | Continue reading


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The end of Squid Game and Stranger Things solidifies Netflix’s new era

Netflix has a busy year of premieres ahead, but it might be most notable for what’s ending. As the streaming service continues to push into a new era full of live events, reality TV, and ad sales, it’s also saying goodbye to arguably its two biggest franchises, with both Stra … | Continue reading


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