A star creator’s go-to travel gear
A star creator's go-to travel gear A star creator’s go-to travel gear Image: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 23, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also, you can read all the old editions […]
X plans to create a content moderation ‘headquarters’ in Austin
X plans to create a content moderation 'headquarters' in Austin X plans to create a content moderation ‘headquarters’ in Austin Image: The Verge X says it will hire 100 full-time employees for a new trust and safety office in Austin, Texas, according to a Saturday report by Bloomberg. The plan comes, as the article notes, […]
X appears to block Taylor Swift searches… barely
X appears to block Taylor Swift searches… barely Illustration: The Verge X appears to have blocked searches for Taylor Swift as a reaction to a recent trend of graphic AI fakes of the world-famous recording artist being posted to the site. Right now, if you search “Taylor Swift” or “Taylor Swift AI” on X, formerly […]
Microsoft tests Windows 11 with a built-in fix for bad meeting audio
Microsoft tests Windows 11 with a built-in fix for bad meeting audio Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft released a new Canary test build for Windows yesterday that brings the company’s Voice Clarity feature, which previously only worked on Surface devices, to all Windows machines, including those using ARM CPUs. The company says […]
Nomad’s 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger and the Sonos One are down to their best prices
Nomad's 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger and the Sonos One are down to their best prices Nomad’s 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger and the Sonos One are down to their best prices Nomad’s minimalist Base One Max 3-in-1 is on sale for $95. | Image: Nomad Fancy phone chargers are nice, but they’re often too expensive to justify the […]
Google’s Lumiere brings AI video closer to real than unreal
Google's Lumiere brings AI video closer to real than unreal Google’s Lumiere brings AI video closer to real than unreal Still frame from a teaser reel of Lumiere clips | Image: Google Google’s new video generation AI model Lumiere uses a new diffusion model called Space-Time-U-Net, or STUNet, that figures out where things are in […]
This MIDI guitar is my favorite new way to make music
This MIDI guitar is my favorite new way to make music The Jamstik Classic. For many years now, my Stratocaster has been a memento hanging on my wall representing the time before I got a MacBook. I swapped my electric guitar out for a 25-key keyboard controller and a library of virtual instruments once my […]
How to keep track of friends and family on Android
How to keep track of friends and family on Android Image: The Verge Many of us are hyperaware of the multitude of ways we can be tracked with modern technology, so you may feel like you don’t need to add another to the mix. But knowing the whereabouts of trusted friends and family can be […]
Microsoft Teams went down around the world for over eight hours — it’s recovering
Microsoft Teams went down around the world for over eight hours — it's recovering Microsoft Teams went down around the world for over eight hours — it’s recovering Illustration: The Verge Was it a joyous outage where you got to relax, or did something mission-critical go wrong? Either way, “a portion” of Microsoft Teams went […]
Here are the best Apple Watch deals right now
Here are the best Apple Watch deals right now The entry-level Apple Watch SE is a gateway smartwatch if there ever was one. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Editor’s note: Apple was recently banned from selling the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 due to a patent dispute with medical […]