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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, […]

FCC clamps down on confusing ‘hidden fees’ in your cable TV bill

FCC clamps down on confusing 'hidden fees' in your cable TV bill FCC clamps down on confusing ‘hidden fees’ in your cable TV bill The ruling aims to make it easier to accurately compare subscription prices against other providers. | Illustration by Hugo Herrera / The Verge Cable and satellite TV providers will need to […]

Are we really going to ban TikTok?

Are we really going to ban TikTok? Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge The TikTok ban might be for real this time. Nearly four years after the first attempt to get the ByteDance-owned company either sold or barred from the US, a new bill is flying through congressional votes, and President Joe Biden has already […]

The wedge-shaped M1 MacBook Air lives on — at Walmart, for $699

The wedge-shaped M1 MacBook Air lives on — at Walmart, for $699 Walmart’s selling them for $699 with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge When Apple stopped selling the M1 MacBook Air last week to make way for the new M3 version, I mourned the loss […]

Anker’s latest sleep buds promise to block out snoring partners for longer

Anker's latest sleep buds promise to block out snoring partners for longer Anker’s latest sleep buds promise to block out snoring partners for longer Anker’s new Soundcore Sleep A20 earbuds in a charging case. | Image: Anker Anker is revamping its sleep-focused true wireless earbuds with the new Soundcore Sleep A20 model. It’s announcing the […]

Ampler introduces an all-road electric bike alongside series refresh

Ampler introduces an all-road electric bike alongside series refresh Curt Anyroad in silver. | Image: Ampler Ampler — one of our favorite European e-bike makers — is back with a 2024 model refresh that includes a new all-road variant of the sporty Curt. The Curt Anyroad is available with either a high- or low-step frame, […]

The FCC has finally decreed that 25Mbps and 3Mbps are not ‘broadband’ speed

The FCC has finally decreed that 25Mbps and 3Mbps are not 'broadband' speed The FCC has finally decreed that 25Mbps and 3Mbps are not ‘broadband’ speed Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge “I think our new threshold, frankly, should be 100Mbps. I think anything short of that shortchanges our children, our future, and our […]

CIA allegedly made fake social media accounts to troll the Chinese government

CIA allegedly made fake social media accounts to troll the Chinese government Image: The Verge The CIA allegedly launched a secret operation to troll Chinese officials and turn public opinion against them through leaked intelligence and negative news on social media. Reuters reports the operation began in 2019 and was also aimed at causing paranoia […]

Year: 2024