Gocycle’s CX lineup of electric cargo bikes are lightweight and foldable
Gocycle's CX lineup of electric cargo bikes are lightweight and foldable Gocycle’s CX lineup of electric cargo bikes are lightweight and foldable The Gocycle CX+ cargo e-bike has a unique Flofit handlebar. | Image: Gocycle Gocycle, the British e-bike company founded by a former McLaren car designer, has just taken the wraps off an innovative […]
TikTok loses Taylor Swift, Drake, and other major Universal Music artists
TikTok loses Taylor Swift, Drake, and other major Universal Music artists Major artists like Swift have been removed from TikTok. | Photo by Buda Mendes/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Universal Music Group (UMG) has started removing the music catalogs of performers the label represents — including Taylor Swift, Drake, and Olivia Rodrigo — from […]
Google inks major new offshore wind deal
Google inks major new offshore wind deal Google’s data center in Eemshaven, Netherlands. | Image: Google Google announced its biggest deal yet to purchase offshore wind energy for its data centers in Europe, signing power purchase agreements to support two new wind farms off the coast of the Netherlands. It’s part of Google’s plan to […]
Hulu is cracking down on password sharing, just like Disney Plus and Netflix
Hulu is cracking down on password sharing, just like Disney Plus and Netflix Image: Disney Hulu has just laid the groundwork to kick friends, family, and freeloaders off its streaming service unless they pay for their own accounts. This week, the company revised its Terms of Service to explicitly ban password sharing outside of “your […]
TikTok’s CEO can’t catch a break from xenophobia in Congress
TikTok's CEO can't catch a break from xenophobia in Congress TikTok’s CEO can’t catch a break from xenophobia in Congress Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images Today’s hearing on child safety was — mostly — an unusually focused affair. The Senate Judiciary Committee called up the CEOs of X, Meta, Snap, TikTok, and Discord […]
Spotify’s exclusivity era nears its end
Spotify's exclusivity era nears its end Spotify’s exclusivity era nears its end Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. I just got back from Puerto Rico and wow, there is a lot of podcast news! […]
Death Stranding 2’s new trailer is delightfully disturbing
Death Stranding 2's new trailer is delightfully disturbing Death Stranding 2’s new trailer is delightfully disturbing Image: Kojima Productions The sequel to Death Stranding is shaping up to be just as strange as the original. At its State of Play showcase today, Sony showed off a new trailer for the game that… starts out with […]
Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables
Apple's Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables The Vision Pro’s not-a-Lightning-connector connector. | Image: Nilay Patel / The Verge Ray Wong of Inverse discovered a hidden joy today: The Apple Vision Pro power cable connects to […]
Microsoft LASERs away LLM inaccuracies
Microsoft LASERs away LLM inaccuracies Illustration: The Verge During the January Microsoft Research Forum, Dipendra Misra, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Lab NYC and AI Frontiers, explained how Layer-Selective Rank Reduction (or LASER) can make large language models more accurate. With LASER, researchers can “intervene” and replace one weight matrix with an approximate smaller […]
All the news from PlayStation’s 2024 State of Play
All the news from PlayStation's 2024 State of Play All the news from PlayStation’s 2024 State of Play Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge During the roughly 40-minute presentation, expect to hear new info on Rise of the Ronin, Death Stranding, Sonic Generations, Judas, and more. Hot on the heels of Xbox’s Developer Direct […]