Month: March 2024

Sony’s PS5 Pro is up to three times faster, may arrive holiday 2024

Sony's PS5 Pro is up to three times faster, may arrive holiday 2024 Sony’s PS5 Pro is up to three times faster, may arrive holiday 2024 Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony is reportedly working on a PlayStation 5 Pro model that may well include a far more powerful GPU that’s up to […]

Google Meet’s face touch-up filters come to desktop

Google Meet's face touch-up filters come to desktop Google Meet’s face touch-up filters come to desktop Image: Google Google Meet is rolling out filters you can use to “lightly” touch up your complexion before you head into a meeting. The company first launched the feature on mobile last year, but now it’s coming to Google […]

Supreme Court defines when it’s illegal for public officials to block social media critics

Supreme Court defines when it's illegal for public officials to block social media critics Supreme Court defines when it’s illegal for public officials to block social media critics Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos via Getty Images In an opinion signed by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the Supreme Court established a test to determine […]

PC games start at just $1 in Steam’s spring sale

PC games start at just $1 in Steam's spring sale PC games start at just $1 in Steam’s spring sale From AAA blockbusters to indie cult classics, there are tons of games up to 95 percent off. | Valve / Steam You’d think most gamers would have indulged enough over the long winter season that […]

Zoomers are turning on the TikTok famous congressman who voted to ban the app

Zoomers are turning on the TikTok famous congressman who voted to ban the app Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Until relatively recently, Rep. Jeff Jackson, a freshman Democratic congressman from North Carolina, had more than 2.5 million followers on TikTok. Jackson’s follower count dropped by over 100,000 virtually overnight — as did his […]

Microsoft is stuffing pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows again

Microsoft is stuffing pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows again Screenshot by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft is once again injecting pop-ups into Google’s Chrome browser in a bid to get people to switch to Bing. The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the […]

Uber and Lyft to leave Minneapolis over ‘deeply flawed’ pay rules

Uber and Lyft to leave Minneapolis over 'deeply flawed' pay rules Uber and Lyft to leave Minneapolis over ‘deeply flawed’ pay rules Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber and Lyft are pulling their services out of Minneapolis after the city council passed an ordinance that will increase drivers’ pay. Both companies say they will no […]

How to make an Apple Vision Pro Persona

How to make an Apple Vision Pro Persona Samar Haddad for The Verge | Photo by Apple Now that you’ve got your $3,500 Apple Vision Pro, gone through the tutorial, and gotten the hang of things, it’s time to do the next best thing: make a Persona. Personas are Apple’s name for a digital avatar […]

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 16 review: setting the bar for foldables

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 16 review: setting the bar for foldables Its beautiful 16-inch OLED display morphs into a 12-inch laptop, but do splurge for the ‘optional’ keyboard and folio. Early into testing Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold 16 Gen 1, I briefly regretted purchasing its dual-display Yoga Book 9i. I bought it months ago, and […]

Mercedes is trialing humanoid robots for ‘low skill, repetitive’ tasks

Mercedes is trialing humanoid robots for 'low skill, repetitive' tasks Mercedes is trialing humanoid robots for ‘low skill, repetitive’ tasks Mercedes also eventually plans to assess how Apollo handles delivering totes of kitted parts. | Image: Apptronik Mercedes-Benz is the latest automotive company to trial how humanoid robots could be used to automate “low skill, […]