‘Holy shit’: Gemini 3 is winning the AI race — for now
'Holy shit': Gemini 3 is winning the AI race — for now When an AI model release immediately spawns memes and treatises declaring the rest of the industry cooked, you know you’ve got something worth dissecting. Google’s Gemini 3 was released Tuesday to widespread fanfare. The company called the model a “new era of intelligence,” […]
OnePlus 15R will get a late launch next month
OnePlus 15R will get a late launch next month The phone and tablet are coming to the US, but the watch is Europe-only. This month’s OnePlus 15 arrived to much fanfare about its enormous battery life, but no sign of the cheaper 15R that was expected alongside it. Now we finally know that phone will […]
Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times
Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times Ankit Khanal gets his news from News Daddy. More than 20 times a day, Khanal, a sophomore at George Mason University, opens TikTok to have the biggest stories of the day delivered to him by a bleach-blonde 26-year-old named Dylan Page, one of the […]
Microsoft is speeding up and decluttering File Explorer in Windows 11
Microsoft is speeding up and decluttering File Explorer in Windows 11 Microsoft is making some changes to the File Explorer in Windows 11 that will make it less cluttered and launch faster. The latest Dev preview builds of Windows 11 include File Explorer preloading “to help improve File Explorer launch performance,” and changes to the context menu […]
DOGE is no more, and in its wake, only chaos
DOGE is no more, and in its wake, only chaos In April, Elon Musk began backing away from his role as head of DOGE. By June, he was more or less fully gone from DC. In his wake, he left a power vacuum and significant ill will that has apparently led to the dissolution of […]
About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll problem
About This Account reveals the scale of X's foreign troll problem It’s long been known that X (and Twitter before it) is a major venue for foreign influence campaigns to meddle in American politics. Much of the focus has been on Russian troll farms, which the US government has targeted on several occasions. But the […]
X’s messy About This Account rollout has caused utter chaos
X's messy About This Account rollout has caused utter chaos Yesterday X started rolling out a new About This Account feature, which included what country the account was created from and what country the account is “based” in (which is different from “connected via”). Head of product at X, Nikita Bier, was quick to say […]
Sony’s last-gen XM4 headphones are over 50 percent off for Black Friday
Sony's last-gen XM4 headphones are over 50 percent off for Black Friday The current discount takes nearly $200 off the original list price. More than five years after making their debut, Sony’s WH-1000XM4 remain an excellent pair of noise-canceling headphones. And right now, Best Buy is offering a doorbuster deal that drops them to just […]
Vine walked so TikTok could run
Vine walked so TikTok could run What are thooooose? Well, they’re my Vines, the six-second videos that helped mint a generation of famous comedians and also kicked off the era of endlessly looping vertical video that has consumed us all ever since. If you weren’t there at the time, most Vines might seem utterly nonsensical. […]
The app that will instantly improve your Windows PC
The app that will instantly improve your Windows PC Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 106, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, Happy Thanksgiving Week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about prediction […]