Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running
Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running Vinyl reigns when it comes to physical media. | Image: RIAA People bought 43 million vinyl records last year, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That’s 6 million more than the number of CDs sold in 2023, marking the second time since 1987 […]
Heat and drought are sucking US hydropower dry
Heat and drought are sucking US hydropower dry Lake Mead, formed by Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States, at 47 percent capacity as viewed on August 14, 2023 near Boulder City, Nevada. | Photo by George Rose/Getty Images The amount of hydropower generated in the Western US last year was […]
Microsoft Teams is getting smarter Copilot AI features
Microsoft Teams is getting smarter Copilot AI features Image: Microsoft Microsoft is improving the way its AI-powered Copilot works in Microsoft Teams with new ways to invoke the assistant during meeting chats, summaries, and more. Copilot is already able to summarize Teams meetings, but in the coming months, it will combine spoken transcripts and written […]
AI headphones and clicky phone keys
AI headphones and clicky phone keys Image: The Verge / Photo courtesy of University of Washington The world is a noisy place. High-end headphones are getting better at shutting it out; solid noise-canceling headphones from Sony, Bose, and others are increasingly a must-have for anyone who spends a lot of time on planes and trains, […]
Disney Plus has a new Hulu-ified logo
Disney Plus has a new Hulu-ified logo The old Disney Plus icon logo (left) compared with the updated teal one (right). | Image: Disney Disney has made some slight but notable updates to the logo and splash screen for its Disney Plus streaming service that likely nod to its looming merger with Hulu. The biggest […]
The PS5 is getting an automatic game clip feature that helps other players
The PS5 is getting an automatic game clip feature that helps other players Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony is introducing a new Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later this year that is designed to automatically create clips that can help other players. PS5 players will be able to automatically upload […]
Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google
Here's why AI search engines really can't kill Google Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google Illustration by Vincent Kilbride The AI search tools are getting better — but they don’t yet understand what a search engine really is and how we really use them. AI is coming for the search business. Or […]
Canva acquires Affinity to fill the Adobe-sized holes in its design suite
Canva acquires Affinity to fill the Adobe-sized holes in its design suite Affinity’s professional design software could give Canva the edge it needs to seriously compete against Adobe. | Image: Canva / Affinity Web-based design platform Canva has acquired the Affinity creative software suite, positioning itself as a challenger to Adobe’s grip over the digital […]
Nissan announces plans to make 16 new electrified vehicles by 2026
Nissan announces plans to make 16 new electrified vehicles by 2026 Image: Nissan Nissan has laid out a new plan to electrify 16 of the 30 vehicles it produces by 2026, with the rest using internal combustion instead. For those of us in North America, the company says it plans to release seven new vehicles […]
Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface chief
Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface chief Illustration: The Verge Microsoft is naming Pavan Davuluri as its new Windows and Surface chief today. After Panos Panay’s surprise departure to Amazon last year, Microsoft split up the Windows and Surface groups under two different leaders. Davuluri took over the Surface silicon and devices work, with […]