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Image: Netflix Netflix released a new teaser for Squid Game’s second season on Thursday. Gi-hun, again played by Lee Jung-jae, is participating in the games again, but based on the trailer, it appears that he will try to convince he other contestants to rebel against the competition — and that, at times, he may not be successful. “Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 gave up going to the states and comes back with a new resolution in his mind,” according to description of the show from the trailer . “Gi-hun once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of 45.6 billion won.” (I’m curious if the setup means the season will end similarly to the second... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/K7itFIr

A Walmart-branded BrightDrop 400 electric van. | Image: GM GM moved its electric van company BrightDrop into Chevy in August to save some money , and today, the newly branded version of the vehicle is reaching one of BrightDrop’s earliest customers: Walmart. After piloting BrightDrop 400 vehicles for customer deliveries, Walmart is officially adding them into its fleets . The company says its in-home delivery program is expanding to reach 62 million households nationwide and will roll out Chevy BrightDrops in Austin, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, northwest Arkansas, Orlando, and the San Francisco Bay area by the end of the year. Walmart had struck a deal with BrightDrop in 2022 to reserve 5,000 vans that included the larger 600 models (the number indicating the approximate square footage of cargo... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/WvOnaFt

Now that Apple has finished announcing its slate of new M4-equipped Mac computers, we’ve finally been able to see them in person. The Verge ’s Vjeran Pavic got some hands-on time with the new products and took some gorgeous photos that you can peruse below. I’m blown away by how small the new Mac Mini is; the old Mac Mini, which was already small, seems giant in comparison. Vjeran tells me that, in person, the smaller Mac Mini is cute but that it’s “more like a mini Mac Studio than a mini Mac Mini.” He also says there’s no way to reach the power button, which is on the underside of the computer , without lifting it up. As for the other computers, the new colors of the iMac really pop when they’re lined up together in these photos, if you... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/3PDiSm2

Image: Activision Comcast is boasting about what it’s calling its “biggest week in internet history,” which it pegs on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 downloads and Thursday Night Football streams. The company says the Call of Duty game, which it released on October 25th, was responsible for a whopping 19 percent of its overall traffic last week. It’s not really possible to quantify that further, given Comcast didn’t provide any specific numbers — either about how many customers were downloading the game or how big their downloads were. Ranging between 84.4GB for the PlayStation version and 102GB for the PC edition Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is, in the grand tradition of Call of Duty games, a hefty download. It can be as much as 300GB if players choose to go... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/XC68gsL

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images If you’re a swing state voter, you may have seen ads claiming that vice president Kamala Harris wants to institute a mandatory gun buyback program and make it easier for undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses. These ostensibly pro-Harris ads are the product of Progress 2025, a campaign designed to look like the Democratic answer to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 — but they’re actually funded by a group called Building America’s Future, a pro-Trump super PAC that is in turn funded by Elon Musk. Building America’s Future is expanding an ad campaign targeted at undecided voters in swing states, 404 Media reports . Over the past week, the PAC spent over $300,000 on a dozen Facebook ads, which are sub-targeted to 819... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/v7tdTKD

Image: OpenAI OpenAI is reportedly working with Broadcom to develop new custom silicon designed to handle its large AI workloads for inference and secured manufacturing capacity with TSMC, according to sources speaking to Reuters . OpenAI has reportedly built a chip development team of about 20 people, including lead engineers who previously worked on Google’s Tensor processors for AI . Still, on its current timeline, the custom-designed hardware may not start production until 2026. In the meantime, the sources also said OpenAI is incorporating AMD chips into its Microsoft Azure setup. AMD introduced its MI300 chips last year, which was a big part of the news this summer that its data center business has doubled in a single year as it chases market... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/9iUwt8a

“We take pride in the fact that we are expanding the market by welcoming new investors into the financial system.” - Robinhood’s S-1 | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge US citizens can gamble on the upcoming election on Robinhood, the financial nihilism app announced. Robinhood has termed this “unlocking a new asset class that democratizes access to events as they unfold.” Let’s pause — I would like to reflect on this incredible phrase, about an asset class that democratizes access to events as they unfold. See, I thought we all had access to the events of the election because we all exist in reality and can find out about them. But apparently, if we can’t gamble on an event, it isn’t happening. This is a fascinating vision of metaphysics, and I would like to hear more about it. No one bet on my birth, for instance, and thus there is no asset class relating to my existence. So am I real? “Democratizes... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/1i...

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Microsoft is taking its gloves off today. The software giant is accusing Google of being behind what it calls “shadow campaigns” to discredit Microsoft’s cloud business. In a scathing blog post , Microsoft deputy general counsel Rima Alaily reveals that Google is about to launch a new “astroturf” group this week. “It is designed to discredit Microsoft with competition authorities, and policymakers and mislead the public,” says Alaily. “Google has gone through great lengths to obfuscate its involvement, funding, and control, most notably by recruiting a handful of European cloud providers, to serve as the public face of the new organization. When the group launches, Google, we understand, will likely present itself as a backseat member... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/K5vCVaR

Image: Mr.Nelson design for The Verge / Getty Images Your vote matters. Here’s how it will change the future. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/sM9aW5C

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple’s unusual approach to an October event is skipping the event and just announcing some forthcoming announcements. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/1x8zQeE

Image: The Verge A few months ago, my doctor showed off an AI transcription tool he used to record and summarize his patient meetings. In my case, the summary was fine, but researchers cited by ABC News have found that’s not always the case with OpenAI’s Whisper, which powers a tool many hospitals use — sometimes it just makes things up entirely. Whisper is used by a company called Nabla for a medical transcription tool that it estimates has transcribed 7 million medical conversations, according to ABC News . More than 30,000 clinicians and 40 health systems use it, the outlet writes. Nabla is reportedly aware that Whisper can hallucinate, and is “addressing the problem.” A group of researchers from Cornell University, the University of Washington, and... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ZGTIJXc

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Ever wondered why some of your Instagram videos tend to look blurry, while others are crisp and sharp? It’s because, on Instagram, the quality of your video apparently depends on how many views it’s getting. That’s according to a video AMA from Instagram head Adam Mosseri, in which he explained why some videos are lower-quality than others. Here’s part of Mosseri’s explanation, from the video, which was reposted by a Threads user today: In general, we want to show the highest-quality video we can ... But if something isn’t watched for a long time — because the vast majority of views are in the beginning — we will move to a lower quality video. And then if it’s watched again a lot then we’ll re-render the higher quality video. He... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/3HTjUV4

Image: Finji I used to hate jigsaw puzzles. I thought they were frustrating, messy, and took way too long to solve. But my wife showed me how those parts of jigsaw puzzles can actually be fun: there’s something satisfying and meditative about working through those frustrations, sorting through the mess, and putting a picture together, one piece at a time, over the course of a few hours. (Or days.) The makers of Wilmot Works It Out , a new puzzle game, understand this, and everything about the game is designed to make solving puzzles fun instead of annoying. In the game, you play as Wilmot, an adorable white square with a face who has a puzzle-by-mail subscription. (He’s the same smiley square from Wilmot’s Warehouse , a 2019 puzzle game also made by... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/EswXh18

Image: The Verge Google could preview its own take on Rabbit’s large action model concept as soon as December, reports The Information . “Project Jarvis,” as it’s reportedly codenamed, would carry tasks out for users, including “gathering research, purchasing a product, or booking a flight,” according to three people the outlet spoke with who have direct knowledge of the project. Powered by a future version of Google’s Gemini , Jarvis reportedly only works with a web browser (it’s tuned specifically for Chrome). The tool is aimed at helping people “automate everyday, web-based tasks” by taking and interpreting screenshots and then clicking buttons or entering text, The Information writes. In its current state, it apparently takes “a few seconds” between... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/iKG5no6

A Lyft sign taken in January 2023 at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. | Photo: Mat Hayward / Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Friday that rideshare company Lyft has agreed to pay $2.1 million as part of a proposed settlement that requires it to change how it advertises driver pay. The company routinely advertised that drivers could make “specific hourly amounts” — in one instance, claiming earnings of “up to $33” per hour for driving in Atlanta — that were based not on an average, but on what the top fifth of drivers made, according to the Commission. The company also apparently included tips in those figures. Such moves “overinflated the actual earnings achieved by most drivers by as much as 30%,” writes the FTC, which says the company now must base potential pay claims on what drivers typically make, instead. And... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/1NDmCq5

Image: Scout Motors Read about Scout Motors’ first new vehicles since the eighties: the electric Traveler SUV and Terra pickup truck. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/nosiYV3

Image: The Verge Miles Brundage, OpenAI’s senior adviser for the readiness of AGI (aka human-level artificial intelligence), delivered a stark warning as he announced his departure on Wednesday: no one is prepared for artificial general intelligence, including OpenAI itself. “Neither OpenAI nor any other frontier lab is ready [for AGI], and the world is also not ready,” wrote Brundage, who spent six years helping to shape the company’s AI safety initiatives. “To be clear, I don’t think this is a controversial statement among OpenAI’s leadership, and notably, that’s a different question from whether the company and the world are on track to be ready at the relevant time .” His exit marks the latest in a series of high-profile departures from OpenAI’s... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/nmyY5xX

It may be time to bury the M1 MacBook Air for good. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Apple might be updating several Macs with M4 chips as early as next week , but it’s looking like the MacBook Air lineup might not join the party until early 2025 . That said, if you’re on an older MacBook and can’t wait to upgrade, there have been few better times than now. The base 13-inch M2 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage has fallen to an all-time low of $699.9 ($200 off) at Amazon , while the step-up 512GB model is down to $949.99 ($249 off) thanks to an on-page coupon. You can even grab the M3 MacBook Air 13 at Amazon starting at $899 ($200 off), which is $50 shy of its all-time low. Although the M1 Air was technically discontinued earlier this year, we still considered its $699 price a great value for routine... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/BiRyUZX

The iOS 18 updates keep rolling. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge When Apple said that iPhone owners in the EU would be able to set new default apps for things like calling and messaging, it sounded a lot like only people in the EU would get that option. That’s not the case, though: a note on Apple’s developer website states that all users worldwide can set new default apps for calling and messaging in iOS 18.2. Maybe the continental divide between iPhones in the US and EU won’t be so wide after all. The first iOS 18.2 developer beta went out today, and it didn’t take long for 9to5Mac to spot the new options . There’s a whole new section in the settings menu dedicated to managing default apps. This includes defaults you could already reassign, like your browser or email app. Other options include call... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/OtGfIlW

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple plans to release MacBook Airs with M4 chips in early 2025, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports . The company just refreshed the lineup with M3 chips this spring , but the M4 update will “likely” launch between January and March 2025, Gurman says. Both the 13-inch and 15-inch models will apparently get the M4 update, and they’ll have a similar design to the M2 MacBook Air. The potential spring launch for M4-equipped MacBook Airs means that product line won’t be part Apple’s rumored announcements for next week. With those updates, Apple is going to reveal new MacBook Pros, Mac Minis, and iMacs, Gurman says. If you’re waiting for a new Mac Studio, though, don’t expect that imminently. The Mac Studio is currently powered by the M2 Max and... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/7abWG4A

Image: Microsoft Microsoft has made Windows Update significantly faster in its latest big update to Windows 11. Version 24H2 started rolling out earlier this month with lots of useful improvements, but now Microsoft is revealing this big update also reduces install time, restart time, and even CPU usage for monthly Windows updates. Microsoft typically distributes monthly cumulative security and non-security updates, which are designed to roll out new features or protect against new threats. Windows 11 version 24H2 includes new ways to update the OS that make it more efficient and speedier, including parallel processing of components, scalable use of system RAM, and an optimized cache to update components. These changes mean Windows 11 version 24H2 can... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/Oil1ceZ

AT&T will let you try before you buy. | Image: The Verge T-Mobile and Verizon have been offering free network trials for a couple of years at this point; now, AT&T has finally introduced a trial program of its own. It’s a no-commitment way to give the AT&T network a try while still holding on to your current carrier, number, and device. Pretty cool! But you’ll need an unlocked phone, which might disqualify a lot of people who are still paying off their current device — though the FCC is trying to do something about that. AT&T calls its program Try AT&T, and at the moment, it’s iOS only; the carrier’s blog post states that Android support will be introduced in 2025. The trial makes use of eSIM, which allows you to use a secondary line on your phone without ditching your primary number.... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/a0Z58OR

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge From the unbeatable Switch Pro and comfy Joy-Con alternatives to a dongle that lets you use your Xbox or PlayStation controllers with your Switch, these are the best Switch controllers you can get. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/N57GaTd

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The House Committee on Homeland Security is looking into Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) surveillance network in the wake of a report that nearly one-third of the agency’s cameras along the US-Mexico border don’t work. Privacy advocates say this is just the latest instance of expensive border surveillance infrastructure not working as advertised. An internal Border Patrol memo obtained by NBC News said that “several technical problems” had contributed to a large-scale outage of the Remote Video Surveillance Systems, a series of surveillance towers and cameras that have been used to remotely surveil the border since 2011. According to the memo, approximately 150 of the 500 cameras are non-operational. The memo says that the Federal... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/3zWqwN0

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Tesla has delayed the release of its range extender for the Cybertruck and downgraded the amount of mileage it will add for the dual-motor version of the truck, as noticed by Electrek . The reduced range and delay are just more ways that the Cybertruck, which saw some big changes from when it was first announced , has had trouble living up to its hype . Previously, Tesla said the range extender, which will take up a good chunk of the Cybertruck’s bed space, would give the dual-motor Cybertruck an estimated total of 470 miles of range . But the company has since downgraded that estimate by 25 miles to say that the extender gives you an estimated range of 445 miles. (Without the extender, Tesla says to expect an estimated range of 325 miles... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/zRI2iQ1

Simply telling playtesters not to share any details hasn’t exactly worked out. | Image: The Verge Nintendo has updated the official website for its mysterious “ Switch Online: Playtest Program ” today, privately revealing more information to participants about what it entails. The playtest is running from October 23rd, 9PM ET until November 5th, 8PM ET, and is only available to the roughly 10,000 people who have already registered for the program. The test software is now available to download ahead of the start of gameplay, and requires 2.2GB of free space. Participants didn’t sign an NDA, but Nintendo requested in the playtest terms and conditions that users refrain from sharing any details about it — which has gone about as well as can be expected. While Nintendo has already started issuing copyright strikes to take leaked media... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/KkespfO

The Special Edition model of the Galaxy Z Fold. | Image: Samsung Samsung just announced the Special Edition model of the Galaxy Z Fold. It’s thinner and a little lighter than the Galaxy Z Fold 6 that only recently went on sale, and includes slightly larger displays on the inside and out. It also has more memory available for Galaxy AI and an upgraded 200 megapixel wide-angle camera. Great! Unfortunately, it’s only been announced for South Korea, priced at 2,789,600 KRW or just over $2,000 when it goes on sale Friday, October 25th. And it seems the only other release market will be China. At 10.6mm and 236 grams, the Galaxy Z Fold SE is 1.5mm thinner and 3 grams lighter than the Galaxy Z Fold 6. Memory is now 16GB standard, and the wide-angle sensor has been bumped up from 50 to 200 megapixels. The... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/8h2NvUT

Michelle Yeoh is back in Trek. | Screenshot: YouTube Star Trek: Section 31 will premiere as a direct-to-streaming movie on January 24th on Paramount Plus, which revealed the date during a Trek panel at the New York Comic Con. Fans will finally see Michelle Yeoh’s Star Trek: Discovery character, Emperor Philippa Georgiou, put her Mirrorverse skills to use as a super secret space spy. When we last saw Emperor Georgiou (an alternate dimension version of Captain Georgiou Discovery’ s first season) she was flung back in time by a being called the Guardian of Forever. Before that, though, she had been recruited as a member of Section 31, the clandestine organization that the Trek franchise often uses to illustrate that even the glossy Federation has a shady side. The film, originally announced a... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/U10iljA

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Tech billionaire Elon Musk gave a $1 million check to an audience member at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he’s been Trump-stumping , on Saturday. And he said he will continue to give that prize to one random voter per day until the Presidential election on November 5th. The move could very well break US election law. Only people who have signed a petition from Musk’s America PAC are eligible for the sweepstakes-style offer. And only registered voters are eligible to sign the petition. According to its terms, Musk will give $1 million to someone in Pittsburgh today, but will later expand to anyone living in swing states like Georgia, Nevada, or Arizona. It’s against federal law to impel anyone to vote or get registered to... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/o57tTpZ

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Early this morning, I received an email from “The Internet Archive Team,” replying to a message I’d sent on October 9th. Except its author doesn’t seem to have been the digital archivists’ support team — it was apparently written by the hackers who breached the site earlier this month and who evidently maintain some level of access to its systems. I’m not alone. Users on the Internet Archive subreddit are reporting getting the replies, as well. Here is the message I received: It’s dispiriting to see that even after being made aware of the breach 2 weeks ago, IA has still not done the due diligence of rotating many of the API keys that were exposed in their gitlab secrets. As demonstrated by this message, this includes a Zendesk token... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/8b7QzlG

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 57, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy Kindle Season to all who celebrate, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I’ve been reading about sports betting and designer proteins and the Ford Bronco , listening to Bon Iver’s new Sable and Brian Eno’s old Music for Airports on repeat, watching Archer and Unstable , desperately trying to find a better controller for the Nintendo Switch, and finally seriously making plans to build a whole seltzer system into my kitchen counter. It’s just time. I also have for you an unusually gadget-heavy week: new Kindles, new iPads, new retro game consoles, and much more.... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/qflWunX

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge When people search for “Adam driver Megalopolis ” on Instagram or Facebook right now, instead of seeing posts about Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film , they’re shown a warning, titled, “Child sexual abuse is illegal.” That bizarre fact was pointed out in a post on X yesterday, and as of today, I’m still seeing it when I search for the phrase. But why? Well, it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with recent Threads moderation failures . Nor are there bombshell revelations about Megalopolis or its main star that I’m aware of. Screenshot: Instagram Yikes. Instead, Facebook and Instagram seem to be blocking searches containing “mega” and “drive” — I saw it when I searched with those two words together, but not when I... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/JnFE4UP

Ford says some of its NACS adapters could cause issues. | Image: Ford Ford started offering free adapters for Tesla’s Supercharger network to owners of its EVs in February , and now it’s telling some of its customers to stop using them, reports InsideEVs . The company found a “potential issue” that could cause “reduced charging speeds over time” or even damage to the charge port itself, according to a service bulletin it’s sending to those affected. Ford EV owners should follow the link on Ford’s notice to make sure it has the right address on file. If it is, they won’t need to do anything else to get their replacement, but if not, the company says customers need to update their address by October 24th. Ford will supply a replacement adapter in the coming weeks and provide return instructions to send back... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/yOocQLk

Save me some money, Ultrahand. | Image: Nintendo If you’ve been waiting to pick up one of the all-time great games for the Nintendo Switch, you can do so now for as cheap as it gets. Woot is offering first-time customers the chance to buy a physical version The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for $39.99 ($30 off) when you use code ZELDAWELCOME at checkout. If you’ve purchased from Woot before you can still buy the game for a solid $49.99 ($20 off) — or just make a new Woot account, we’re not the cops. Last year’s mega-hit from Nintendo followed in Breath of the Wild’s footsteps as a direct sequel, but it rewrote the formula of its open-world take on Hyrule with new crafting, physics, and exploration mechanics. It’s the kind of game that opens up all kinds of avenues for your... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/aHek9Jn

The future of phones is flat. | Image: Digital Chat Station on Weibo The next OnePlus flagship looks a little flat — and that’s a good thing. The alleged image of the unreleased OnePlus 13 was posted to Weibo and has been since removed, but not before it was spotted by 9to5Google . It shows the phone with flat sides rather than the curved edges featured by recent OnePlus phones. It’s a small shift, but it would make OnePlus the latest in a long list of phone makers to adopt the (arguably more comfortable) flat edge design. The current trend dates back to 2020 when Apple released the iPhone 12 with flat sides, calling on an older design from the iPhone 4 and 5. Over the past few years, other companies followed suit with flat screens and less curved side rails: Samsung started straightening out the Galaxy S... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/pzhNY5t

McLaren’s Chromed out F1 car. | Image: McLaren McLaren is updating the version of Google Chrome on its F1 racecar . By that, I mean: McLaren’s got more Google Chrome logos and chrome finish than usual on the F1 car it’s bringing to the US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, this weekend. McLaren’s MCL38 continues the tradition of rocking Google-colored wheels and logos, but like last year’s special British Grand Prix version , the livery for this weekend’s race has a splash of literal chrome beneath the Chrome logo, looking like it came out of a custom car shop from the aughts. This time, however, McLaren has added extra Chrome logos and what looks like a heavier slathering of metallic chrome that extends down the sidewalls. It’s a lot of chrome, as driver... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/AbYqXeQ

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Thanks to Qi2, there are way more great chargers for your MagSafe phone than ever before. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/uP0vgNZ

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon has discontinued the Kindle Oasis, which was the only Kindle still available with physical page-turn buttons. The company announced a new Kindle lineup earlier today , but Amazon confirmed to The Verge that it’s moving on from the Oasis. “Once current inventory of Kindle Oasis sells out online and in stores, we will not restock the device,” Amazon’s Devon Corvasce says in a statement. “Today, all of our devices are touch-forward which is what our customers are comfortable with.” Amazon’s own listing for the Oasis includes a message that the e-reader is “currently unavailable.” Amazon first introduced the Kindle Oasis in 2016 , positioning it as a high-end e-reader with page turn buttons and a design with added bulk on the side to... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/5qgWeip

High fashion for zero gravity. | Image: Axiom Space travel, it must be said, does not seem glamorous. You have to pee your pants and eat reconstituted roast beef for dinner. But future space flights might get a little fancier when the next moon-bound astronauts put on Axiom Space’s new spacesuit , designed in partnership with Prada. The Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU for short) can withstand the punishing conditions of the lunar South Pole — with a touch of sophistication that space apparel has been lacking, evidently. Prada and Axiom collaborated on the outer layer of the suit, with the fashion house lending expertise on “high-performance materials, features, and sewing techniques.” In addition to protecting the wearer from the icy cold vacuum of space, the suit also aims... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/OCQDh9J

JLab’s Go Pop ANC wireless earbuds include active noise cancellation and a pair of microphones on each bud. | Image: JLab JLab already sells a budget-friendly pair of noise canceling wireless earbuds with its $59.99 ANC 3 , but at $29.99, the company’s new Go Pop ANC are half the price while still offering features like an ambient sound boosting mode and up to 21 hours of battery life with ANC active. Although we haven’t tested them, at $29.99, we’re not necessarily expecting the JLab Go Pop ANC’s active noise-canceling performance will rival the capabilities of industry-leading offerings from companies like Sony . The Go Pop ANC rely on just two microphones in a feed-forward system that detects and cancels external sounds. More advanced and more expensive ANC systems use a hybrid approach with additional mics inside the ear that can detect and remove a wider... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/OgDrHWX

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images The FIDO Alliance, the organization that’s helping shepherd passkey adoption, announced a draft of new specifications that would let users securely move their passkeys across different password managers. Passkeys are great — it’s nice to be able to log in to apps and websites without entering a password. But there hasn't been a standard protocol for transferring your passkeys across password managers. The new specifications, the Credential Exchange Protocol (CXP) and Credential Exchange Format (CXF) , are designed to fill that gap. The FIDO Alliance’s “Credential Provider Special Interest Group,” which includes representatives from 1Password, Apple, Bitwarden, Google, Microsoft, Okta, and more, collaborated on the specifications. The new... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/Fr9gTZs

Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Is it possible for a phone to have “pretty privilege”? Mediocre features and functionality be damned, the original Motorola Razr V3 and its successors dominated the US cellphone market for four years following its 2004 release — up to and including the iPhone’s introduction in 2007 — seemingly on vibes and aesthetics alone. Not to glamorize consumerism or anything, but I miss it terribly. I was 11 years old when the Razr launched and probably among the first generation of kiddies that begged their parents to buy them a cellphone. We weren’t really the target demographic before that — cellphones had mostly been bulky, boring things primarily for working adults. SMS texting had just become something that everyone did day-to-day, and mobile... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/s2PMHfX

Image: Nintendo Hackers released a collection of leaked data from Pokémon game developer Game Freak over the weekend, including personal information about employees. Game Freak — which develops the main lineup of Pokémon video games — confirmed the breach in a statement, saying (per a machine translation from Japanese) that it was the result of “unauthorized access to our servers by a third party” and dated back to August of 2024. Game Freak said the leaked personal information — which it characterizes as names and company email addresses — included around 2,600 items. As Polygon notes , however, the breach appears to include much more than employee information. Redditors and others say they’ve unearthed source code from previous games as well as unused... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/siqAIN2

Image: Apple Apple has released the first trailer for the second season of Silo , and it looks like the season will tell us what happens to protagonist Juliette after the jaw-dropping cliffhanger at the end of season one. The show, based on a series of books by Hugh Howey, is about a community of 10,000 people living in an underground silo that’s intended to protect them from dangerous conditions aboveground. If you’ve been meaning to see the first season and haven’t yet, you probably shouldn’t watch this new trailer; as you might have guessed, it has quite a few mysteries that are fun to experience for yourself. Silo’s second season premieres on Apple TV Plus on November 15th . The season will have 10 episodes , with a new episode each week. The season... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/6OJLpy0

Adobe’s Firefly Video Model can generate a range of styles, including ‘realism’ (as pictured). | Image: Adobe Adobe is making the jump into generative AI video. The company’s Firefly Video Model , which has been teased since earlier this year, is launching today across a handful of new tools, including some right inside Premiere Pro that will allow creatives to extend footage and generate video from still images and text prompts. The first tool — Generative Extend — is launching in beta for Premiere Pro. It can be used to extend the end or beginning of footage that’s slightly too short, or make adjustments mid-shot, such as to correct shifting eye-lines or unexpected movement. Clips can only be extended by two seconds, so Generative Extend is only really suitable for small tweaks, but that could replace the need to retake footage to correct tiny... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/MYu0sA1

Image: the Internet Archive The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week. A data breach and DDoS attack kicked the site offline on October 9th, with a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records also stolen in recent weeks. The Internet Archive is now back online in a “provisional, read-only manner,” according to founder Brewster Kahle . “Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again.” While you can access the Wayback Machine to search 916 billion web pages that have been archived over time, you can’t currently capture an existing web page into the archive. Kahle and team have gradually been restoring A... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/dUQ0nNY

Image: The Verge Both T-Mobile and AT&T have plans to release their first devices soon that run on RedCap, a 5G specification that is tooled for Internet of Things devices, according to Fierce Wireless . What is RedCap? Great question! Also called “reduced capability” or NR-Light, RedCap is a low-bandwidth version of 5G that’s expected to make certain devices, like wearables, sensors, or surveillance cameras simpler and more power efficient, according to an Oracle document . That could mean cheaper cellular-connected smartwatches, XR glasses, or other portable products that don’t need high-powered antennas and fast throughput last longer on a charge. AT&T, which began testing the spec on its own network early this year, reportedly plans to release its... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/TXIU8Ri

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge The Presidential campaign of Donald Trump asked X to stop links to a story containing VP nominee JD Vance’s hacked dossier from circulating before X chose to block them , reports The New York Times . X had cited its “rules on posting unredacted private personal information” as its justification for suspending the reporter who first published the dossier in his story. That’s a markedly different set of actions than those Musk took two years ago after criticizing Twitter’s decision to suppress a 2020 news story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. He called the choice “a violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment” and seeded internal documents related to the decision to certain journalists to report on — which doxxed people in the process . T... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/UuZSYIQ

Screenshot: SpaceX livestream SpaceX launched Starship for its fifth flight test at about 8:25AM ET from its South Texas launch site. The company succeeded in returning the Starship Super Heavy booster to its landing pad, where it was “caught” using arms on the launch tower that SpaceX refers to as the “chopsticks.” The catch was a first for the booster, which the company hadn’t returned without incident before its previous flight test in June . The company’s next task is to return Starship, which is expected to splash down in the Indian Ocean, as it did before. Screenshot: SpaceX livestream Starship’s booster being caught by its launch tower “chopsticks.” Liftoff was delayed slightly while it cleared boats out of its launch range, pushing... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/7Xj1qnS

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 56, 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 at the Installer homepage .) This week, I’ve been reading about Bill Lawrence’s TV shows and the massively powerful crypto lobby and the wild world of plankton , listening to Ed Helms narrate the excellent Snafu podcast, playing an alarming amount of both Balatro and Retro Goal , trying to get back in the habit of making overnight oats, and taking every single one of my phone calls with the excellent mic on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses . I also have for you the coolest alarm clock I can remember, a splashy new Bitcoin documentary, a new... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/Iykg0wW