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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Su Zhu, the co-founder of the collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), was arrested in Singapore on Friday. Zhu was taken into custody while attempting to leave the country from Singapore’s Changi Airport, as reported earlier by Bloomberg . Teneo, the liquidation firm in charge of liquidating 3AC’s assets, says it received a committal order against Zhu after he failed to comply with a court order that compelled him to cooperate with the liquidation process. That committal order directs Singaporean police to arrest Zhu and hold him in prison for four months. Teneo says it obtained a “similar” committal order for 3AC’s other co-founder, Kyle Davies. During his time in prison, Teneo says the liquidators will engage with Zhu... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/tI2HPmg

A painting of Munchlax and Snorlax inspired by Van Gogh’s “The Bedroom.” | Image: The Pokémon Company The horde of people that descended upon the Van Gogh Museum yesterday to snatch up as much merchandise as they could was the first sign that the Pokémon x Van Gogh collaboration might be a bit more chaotic than expected. While there was hope that all the fracas might die down and give everyone a chance to get in on the fun, unfortunately, it doesn’t look like that’s going to be the case. Initially, it seemed like The Pokémon Company’s plan was for people to be able to easily find multiple pieces of merchandise from the special Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum collection online at the Pokémon Center, even if you couldn’t make it to the actual exhibit in Amsterdam. This afternoon, though, The Pokémon Company announced that its online store is... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/z15Zv07

An Xbox 360 wireless headset. | Photo by Alphathon (Wikimedia Commons) If you’re going to do financial crimes, maybe an Xbox isn’t your best bet? That is one but hopefully not the only lesson learned by 26-year-old Anthony Viggiano, a former Goldman Sachs investment analyst who’s been indicted for insider trading, along with two of his friends. He allegedly tipped off those friends to big financial deals using both encrypted messaging and — incredibly — a game console’s audio chat. According to the indictment ( via Kotaku ), the FBI secretly recorded Viggiano admitting that he passed on illegal info, possibly via an Xbox 360, of all things: Salamone: You have shit where you’re giving fucking information to fucking Steve [Forlano Jr.]? VIGGIANO: Nah. Nah. Because similar to you . .. signal, or like XBOX... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/NS9GBrC

A PS5’s internals, inside a QuantumX waterblock, inside a Raijintek case, with custom water cooling and bracket. | Image: EK Water Blocks Changing the look of your PS5? Easy — the slightest amount of elbow grease will let you pop on new plates . But if you want to seriously mod that sucker for bragging rights, you can now preorder a $450 monoblock that lets you liquid-cool every single component on both sides of Sony’s board. It’s called the QuantumX , and it’s by EK Water Blocks, a company that sells all kinds of gear for DIYers to build their own custom loop water cooling for high-end PCs. Image: EK Water Blocks A closer look at the waterblock, mounted inside a case. And let’s be clear: you will need all kinds of custom liquid cooling gear if you go down this road. The company isn’t selling an entire DIY kit, just the cooling block. Your $450... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/rQq57b4

 Drolta Tzuentes as she appears in Castlevania: Nocturne. | Image: Netflix Netflix’s newest Castlevania animated series reworks elements of the franchise’s best games into an epic history lesson about freedom and the French Revolution. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/aht5exl

Journalism and other fields are dealing with a new wave of tools like Google Bard. | Image: Google The arrival of generative artificial intelligence has accelerated the use of AI in different fields, including journalism. AI is most visible in journalism when things go wrong. Some newsrooms have published AI articles riddled with errors or offensive suggestions. There’s widespread anxiety that AI will be used to replace journalists on the cheap. But a new global survey demonstrates the ways that AI has worked its way into the business, even as journalists worry about its implications — and they don’t just involve writing articles. The report was published this week by JournalismAI, an initiative from Polis, the London School of Economics and Political Science’s journalism think tank. It is supported by the Google News Initiative. “... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/sgqoiyT

Image: Creative Assembly / Sega Sega is canceling the live-service shooter Hyenas before the game’s launch. Sega announced the news in a press release , stating the cancellation was due to “the lower profitability of the European region.” In addition to Hyenas , Sega will also cancel other unannounced in-development projects. Hyenas was billed as a live-service extraction shooter that looked similar to the Payday games. However, instead of robbing banks for cash, players in Hyenas would steal high-value collectibles, some of which were based on various video game properties, including a Sonic the Hedgehog doll or an Atari 2600. Hyenas was apparently a source of friction within Sega. During a quarterly earnings call back in August , Sega executives said they were... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/u8macdv

Image: Apple This is Hot Pod , The Verge’ s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Hello Hot Podders, Amrita and Ariel here! Today we’re bringing you a co-bylined issue of the newsletter, mostly out of necessity. We’ve got a whole mess of news to dive into: Apple takes a big(ish) step toward integrating its audio apps, Google Podcasts is defeated by YouTube Music, and Spotify launches a new AI tool for podcasters. Google Podcasts is dead, long live YouTube Music Well, this was predictable. Tuesday morning, YouTube announced that it will be sunsetting Google Podcasts as it increases its focus on making YouTube Music a podcast destination. The app will be discontinued next year. “As part of this process, we’ll be... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/MjtJdXz

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tom Cortese, Peloton co-founder and chief product officer, is stepping down from his role. In a press release shared on Tuesday , Peloton says it will replace Cortese with former Twitter executive Nick Caldwell. “After nearly 12 years of pouring myself into Peloton and serving our Members, I have decided it is time to move on and create space for new perspectives,” Cortese says. “I’m eager for new growth for Peloton and for me personally, but I’m also excited to support and watch this next phase of Peloton’s evolution.” Cortese isn’t leaving the company completely. Peloton says he’ll enter an advisory role on November 1st to “support its vision and growth.” Cortese has held a pivotal role at Peloton, where he led the company’s development... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/UH2Cxm8

Image: CMF CMF, the affordability-focused brand owned by Nothing, has launched its first line of products: the Buds Pro , Watch Pro , and a 65W GaN fast charger . The Buds Pro are a pair of wireless earbuds that offer a solid set of features at a £49 / $49 price tag. The buds come with hybrid active noise cancellation (ANC) that uses microphones on the inside and outside of the bud to detect and cancel out noise with a depth of up to 45dB. Image: CMF The earbuds also feature transparency mode, which lets you hear the sounds around you in case you want to stay aware of your environment. With noise cancellation switched off, the Buds Pro should offer up to 11 hours of playback on a single charge (or up to 39 hours with the case).... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/QPJWUS1

Newegg’s caption for this photo was “Joseph Olmedo of Newegg examines a graphics card to determine its condition.” Joseph, you’re doing great, man. | Image: Newegg Newegg will now take your old GPU off your hands in exchange for a trade-in credit on a new one. The Newegg Trade-In Program , which soft-launched earlier this month but was officially announced today, gives you a modest bit of cash back on your new GPU and Newegg a steady stream of cards to refurbish and resell. Estimated trade-in values range from $30 for a 4GB AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT all the way up to $561 for an Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti 24GB. You check your trade-in value by clicking the big ol’ “Check Your Trade-In Value” button on the product page for a GPU and selecting your card from a drop-down menu. Despite the “GeForce GTX” card in the photo above, Newegg won’t take cards older than the AMD RX 5000 series (launched in July 2019) or... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/SERN35A

Photo by Steven Ferdman / Getty Images The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules meant to guarantee fair access to the internet and its information, five years after they were repealed by then-president Donald Trump in 2018. Previous net neutrality rules adopted in 2015 classified broadband service under public utility rules and prevented internet service providers from blocking websites, throttling traffic, or charging more for faster access to certain services. According to FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel, the commission is expected to conduct an initial vote on reinstating these rules next month during an October 19th meeting. “Net neutrality is one of the most widely discussed issues in telecommunications... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/GvXN1ed

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Apple just released macOS Sonoma , and along with the new 14.0 version of its operating system, there’s an update for its standalone Studio Display monitor that addresses some of our issues with its much-derided webcam ( via MacRumors ). Now, the Studio Display’s camera offers manual control over framing and zoom, which you can adjust by moving the image back and forth or in and out within the video preview window. From Apple’s update notes : Studio Display Firmware Update 17 Adds support for zoom, recenter, and manual framing to the built-in camera Minor stability improvements If you move too far one way or another, there’s a Recenter button to take things back to the default. The updated controls are also available if you’re using an... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/6N7YREQ

Rick, Summer, and Morty. | Image: Adult Swim Adult Swim has been tight-lipped about its plans to keep Rick and Morty going following the scandal-related departure of series co-creator and star Justin Roiland earlier this year. For months, fans have wondered how the show might continue with its titular characters being voiced by someone else, and while Adult Swim hasn’t announced the new actors’ names just yet, Rick and Morty ’s latest season 7 trailer makes it pretty clear the newcomers are up to the task. Between the haunted jewelry, robot ghosts, and voracious inhalation of spaghetti, it’s difficult to tell just where Rick and Morty ’s seventh season will pick up. What does jump out rather shockingly, though, is how Rick and Morty sound essentially the same as they did before the... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/m5Kv6f7

Illustration: The Verge Most of OpenAI’s changes to ChatGPT involve what the AI-powered bot can do : questions it can answer, information it can access, and improved underlying models . This time, though, it’s tweaking the way you use ChatGPT itself. The company is rolling out a new version of the service that allows you to prompt the AI bot not just by typing sentences into a text box, but by either speaking aloud or just uploading a picture. The new features are rolling out to those who pay for ChatGPT in the next two weeks, and everyone else will get it “soon after” according to OpenAI. The voice chat part is pretty familiar: you tap a button and speak your question, ChatGPT converts it to text and feeds it to the large language model, gets an answer back,... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/K7tGA3V

Amazon has commited to an initial $1.25 billion investment that can be increased by an additional $2.75 billion. | Image: Amazon / Anthropic Amazon announced on Monday that it will invest up to $4 billion into Anthropic — the AI startup best known for its Claude chatbot and founded by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei who used to work for OpenAI. This deal pales in comparison to the reported $13 billion that Microsoft has so far invested into OpenAI , the biggest name in generative AI technology right now, but that partnership has been blossoming since 2019 . Nevertheless, it’s a clear sign that Amazon is staking its claim in the escalating AI arms race. Anthropic says it’s Claude AI model is safer than rival AI services because it can revise its own responses without human moderation Anthropic’s Claude and Claude 2 large language model–based chatbots are similar to OpenAI’s... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/xJ0B9X4

A teaser image of the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro released by Google. | Image: Google Google’s upcoming Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro could come with seven years of software support, according to a leaked list of specs published by 91Mobiles . Kamila Wojciechowska , the original source of the leak, has also published US pricing for the two unannounced phones ahead of their October 4th launch. The Pixel 8 Pro is reportedly due to start at $899, the same as the 7 Pro, while the Pixel 8 could start at $699, a $100 increase over the $599 starting price for the Pixel 7. Wojciechowska notes that it’s unclear whether Google will offer seven years of major Android OS updates for the phones, or whether the figure just refers to seven years of security patches (my money’s on the latter, for what it’s worth). But either way it’s a decent... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/DyGFI94

The Writers Guild of America has been on strike since May 2nd. | Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images The Hollywood writers strike may be close to an end. After a more than 140-day work stoppage, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced on Sunday night that it reached a “tentative agreement” with major Hollywood studios on pay, working conditions, and more. “We can say, with great pride, that this is an exceptional deal — with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership,” the WGA negotiating committee wrote in an email to members. WGA leadership said details of the agreement couldn’t be shared until its language is finalized; after that, writers will have to vote to approve the deal. The guild said its leaders may end the strike as soon as Tuesday, once the contract is finalized and sent to members... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/qFlXWED

The tall lady from Resident Evil Village comes to iPhones soon. | Image: Capcom Capcom quietly revealed an October 30th release date for Resident Evil Village on a page for the iOS and iPadOS versions of Village and the Resident Evil 4 remake. Resident Evil 4 remains listed as “available 2023.” Capcom doesn’t list any prices, but for reference, the macOS version of the game is $29.99 on the Apple App Store. Yesterday, Gematsu reported that Capcom had announced the same release date for the port in Japan. Capcom hasn’t formally announced the release date for the US version of Village outside of the page linked above. We’ve reached out to the company to confirm the release date is as listed on its site. Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge Resident Evil Village for iOS and iPadOS appears to have a... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ki3FH7S

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is preparing to announce a generative AI chatbot, called “Gen AI Personas” internally, aimed at younger users, according to The Wall Street Journal . Reportedly set to launch during the company’s Meta Connect event that starts Wednesday, they would come in multiple “personas” geared towards engaging young users with more colorful behavior, following ChatGPT’s rise over the last year as one of the fastest-growing apps ever. Similar, but more generally targeted, Meta chatbot personas have already been reportedly tested on Instagram . According to internal chats the Journal viewed, the company has tested a “sassy robot” persona inspired by Bender from Futurama and an overly curious “Alvin the Alien” that one employee worried could imply... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/tDg3IdQ

Victoria Thiem, system safety engineer from Lockheed Martin, checks the temperature of the actual size OSIRIS-REx’s return capsule sample during the recovery rehearsal at Lockheed Martin, Waterton Canyon campus in Littleton, Colorado on Tuesday, June 27, 2023.  | Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as much as several hundred grams of asteroid material, which could help scientists understand the earliest stages of the solar system. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/RyduePt

NASA Seven years after the OSIRIS-REx mission launched, a capsule containing rocks captured from the asteroid Bennu in 2020 will land in Utah on Sunday morning. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/NRBLATd

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 7, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, first of all, hi, hello, welcome, and second of all, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I’ve been reading about the AI writing lives of real writers , rewatching the John Wick movies to prepare for The Continental , shopping for StandBy-capable iPhone docks , getting back into VR exercise with Supernatural boxing , and really, really, really hoping Microsoft’s controller-first vision for the future of gaming comes true soon. I also have for you a new super-slick Windows laptop, two crypto-related podcasts you should hear, a reason to try Bard again, OpenAI’s new image-making tool, a... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/rgphq7X

Driverless trucks from Waymo. | Credit: Waymo Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed Assembly Bill 316 , which would have required human attendants in driverless vehicles over 10,000 pounds, reports Reuters . The bill saw broad support among state legislators and was backed by the Teamsters and other labor organizations. At the moment, The governor wrote in his veto message that the bill “is unnecessary for the regulation and oversight of heavy-duty autonomous vehicle technology,” adding that the existing regulatory framework is “sufficient.” The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) was given regulatory authority over autonomous vehicles in the state. Newsom writes that the DMV consults the state highway patrol, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, “and others with... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/REvt5o1

The Apple Watch Series 8 bears more than a striking resemblance to this year’s model (surprise, surprise). | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Apple Watch Series 9 has officially landed, bringing with it a few minor improvements under the hood, watchOS 10 , and a new Millennial pink(!) color. The new smartwatch is technically the best Apple has ever made, though the updates are all pretty iterative. Thankfully, if you’re looking to pick up an Apple Watch for the first time or make the jump from an earlier model, the last-gen Series 8 is on sale at Best Buy in select styles starting at $279 ($120) or at Amazon for $20 more . So, what exactly do you lose out on opting for the Series 8 over the Series 9? Well, for starters, the Series 9 packs a new S9 SiP chip, which allows for quicker performance, onboard Siri processing, and Apple’s handy double-tap feature. It also features... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/mSUrsP0

Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge “ The new FineWoven iPhone cases are very bad ,” according to my colleague Allison Johnson, so you probably shouldn’t buy one. Still, I’ve been curious to learn more about them, and iFixit’s new teardown just gave me even more information than I could have thought to ask for : it put one of the new cases under a microscope, tested how it stood up to things like hot sauce and coffee, and tore the thing apart — and, best of all, photographed every step of the way. There are some incredible zoomed-in photos of the fabric, for example; that black thing in a post from iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens is a human hair included for scale! Another photo shows how the fibers are affected when cut by a knife — it’s not pretty. Apple's new FineWoven case... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/dgar6bH

Apple didn’t choose the USB-C life, but boy are we glad it got here anyway. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/iWowd6y

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft’s big Windows and Surface event focused on its AI vision of the future. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/i3jpPoe

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you’ve just picked up a new iPhone 15 device, before you transfer over your data from an older phone, make sure to update that new phone to iOS 17.0.2 first. An Apple support document says that the update, which came out on Thursday, fixes an issue that “may prevent transferring data directly from another iPhone during setup” ( via MacRumors ). Note that iOS 17.0.2 is only available for the just-launched iPhone 15 phones; the most current software for older iPhones is iOS 17.0.1, which also launched on Thursday and included some big security updates . After attempting to start a transfer, your new phone might prompt you to update — at least, that’s what happened to one colleague of mine at The Verge . The iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro are... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/sK350Q7

Quantic Dream is famous for choose-your-own-adventure games like Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human , where protagonists can die along the way — and apparently, Disney and Lucasfilm have signed off on that idea for its upcoming Star Wars game. “There’s no game over. Anyone can die, anything can happen, and the story sort of continues,” Quantic Dream marketing VP Lisa Pendse told IGN at the 2023 Tokyo Game Show. “One of the big focuses we’ve had when we announced Star Wars Eclipse was to make sure it was clear that this is actually an action adventure game that has all of the elements that you would come to expect and want from a Quantic Dream title, which is intricately branching narratives, multiple playable characters,” she told the... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/qXFV7Gb

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge A little more than a week after announcing a disastrous new pricing model that infuriated developers , Unity has introduced its revamped version . The new plan is a drastic departure from what was initially announced. Now, users on the Unity Personal subscription plan will not be charged the new fee, and Unity will increase the revenue cap on games made with that plan to $200,000. Furthermore, any game made with Unity that makes less than $1 million in 12 months will not be subject to the fee. The company is also changing what games can be assessed with the new fee. Previously, the fee would have applied to all games that met the specific download and revenue thresholds. This applied to games both in development and released. Now Unity is... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ISoeLzZ

Amazon’s first projector project, the Amazon Glow, folded in failure last year. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Amazon is reportedly working on a projector that would turn any surface in your home into a screen, as reported by Reuters . People familiar with the matter told the news organization that the projector is designed to do things like beam a recipe on the wall above a stove and make Zoom calls that track you as you move around the house. A touch interactive projected screen is an obvious move for the ambient smart home that Amazon has long proposed, one where the tech appears when you need it and disappears when you don’t. I mean, that's literally the definition of a projector. When I reviewed Amazon’s first attempt at a smart projector, the now-discontinued Amazon Glow , I said that it would have made more sense as a smart home control... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/weSzbEu

Image: The Verge Mastodon, the federated microblogging platform, has been updated to version 4.2 , which comes with massive improvements to search and the web interface, particularly for logged-out and first-time users. One of Mastodon’s many charming qualities is that, unlike Twitter X, Bluesky, Instagram, and most other social media platforms, the user base is split across thousands of instances, each of which can decide to federate with or block any of the others. This is good in many ways. You can get a nice little intentional community going on your local server, and servers that are filled with abusive, illegal, and harmful content and / or users are widely ostracized. But it presents some, shall we say, unintuitive workflows for people used to... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/1p9mwU7

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nintendo has added support for passkeys, a passwordless sign-in method that uses your fingerprint, face scan, or other methods to give you access to your online accounts. As spotted earlier by NintendoSoup ( via 9to5Mac ), Nintendo now lets you register and use a passkey to sign in to your account from a variety of different devices. To add a passkey to your account, head to accounts.nintendo.com from the device you want to use the passkey. Once you sign in to your Nintendo account, hit Sign-in and security settings > Passkeys > Edit . Then, select Register a new passkey and follow the steps to complete the setup process on the device you’re using. Right now, Nintendo only supports passkeys on devices with iOS 16 or later, iPadOS 16 or... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/FTyzR5c

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok search results pages could soon have a link to Google results. A feature spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu shows the TikTok search results page including a link to search Google for the same query ( via Insider ). In another screenshot shared by Oncescu , a TikTok pop-up reads, “TikTok does not endorse or take responsibility for search results from Google.” Google declined to comment. TikTok didn’t immediately respond to The Verge ’s request for comment but confirmed to Insider that it’s testing the feature in some markets. The addition of Google results linked in the TikTok app is the latest and most notable example of the shortform video app leaning into search. Earlier this month, we noticed that TikTok had quietly been a... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/2NHlBQz

Razer’s vision of your future. | Image: Razer Razer now has its own light bulb. And two lamps. And a flexible LED lighting strip. They’re all filled with RGB LEDs, they all sync with other RGB products in Razer’s Chroma network, and they’re all coming by the end of this year. Together, they could theoretically help you create the picture at the top of this story, which I am led to believe is a depiction of a “Gamer Room.” There are no words. But there are products, ones named Aether, which might look nice individually. Image: Razer The Aether Light Bulb will cost $50 a pop when it arrives later this year; it’s a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi bulb that puts out the typical 800 lumens of light you’d expect from a 60-watt equivalent (but tops out at 9W since it’s LED) and can... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/HQuErBz

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon executives were “okay” with people being secretly signed up for its Amazon Prime membership program, the FTC said in an amended lawsuit on Wednesday ( as reported by The Wall Street Journal ). The original lawsuit, filed in June , claimed that Amazon had tricked millions into unwittingly subscribing to Prime through buttons that were presented prominently during checkout. The FTC added new details to back up its claims on Wednesday, including internal messages and the names of three senior Amazon leaders who allegedly “played a key role” in the scheme. The executives include two of Amazon’s most senior leaders at the time, Neil Lindsay — the senior vice president who oversaw Prime — and Russell Grandinetti, Amazon’s senior vice... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/94zklYv

The third-gen Echo Show 8 has a new look and some excellent changes under the hood. | Photo by Alex Cranz / The Verge And Echo Show 8 makes three! Amazon now has three smart home hubs, with the Echo Show 8 (third-gen) joining the newly announced Echo Hub and existing fourth-gen Echo smart speaker in sporting both Thread and Zigbee connectivity. These wireless radios, along with Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi, and Sidewalk, mean the new Show 8 can be used to set up and control almost any smart home device (sorry, Z-Wave). This also rounds out Amazon’s Echo options that fully support the new smart home standard Matter (over both Thread and Wi-Fi) quite nicely, although one at a lower price point than $100 would be good. The third-gen Echo Show 8 ($149.99) also has Amazon’s latest AZ2 processor , which makes it 40 percent faster, Amazon’s Dave Limp said at the fall... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/28E61HF

The Panasonic SoundSlayer (GNW10). | Image: Panasonic Companies keep trying to make neck speakers a thing. People must be buying them, though, because Panasonic is releasing a new one: the GNW10 SoundSlayer , a wireless neck speaker with AI voice isolation (which it confusingly calls “AI voice control”) for phone calls and in-game voice chat. The SoundSlayer is $299 and will be available in late October of this year. This is essentially an updated version of the wired SoundSlayer neck speaker that Panasonic released two years ago. The biggest change is that the new SoundSlayer employs a small transmitter that plugs into your console or PC and sends audio with a proprietary 2.4GHz wireless protocol that Panasonic says is good for under 20ms of latency. That’s less than you’d typically see... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ZoAeC9u

Yes, you can play your docked Nintendo Switch on your iPad like it’s a portable monitor. | Image: Lux The developer behind the popular iPhone pro camera app Halide has a new app that lets you use your iPad as an HDMI display you can use to play console games on, monitor your camera on a production set, and more. The app is called the Orion Video System, which is available today on the App Store and features a simple “modern design” interface — but with it comes fun retro-themed fonts and menus that remind you of the times you’ve attempted to set the clock on your VCR. Orion works because Apple’s just opened the floodgates for USB video class (UVC) support on the iPad with iPadOS 17. You can now connect compatible webcams and video capture cards to USB-C iPad models (sorry, iPads with Lightning ports), including the cheap sub-$20 ones you... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/5HcZKUB

This is not good. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Folks, what you’ve heard so far is true. Apple’s new FineWoven iPhone cases and accessories are bad. Like, really bad. I’ve been puzzling over them for the past week, looking at them from different angles. Picking them up, setting them down, petting them. Seven days later, I still can’t make sense of them and have no other choice but to say it out loud: FineWoven is very bad. FineWoven is a new fabric option you’ll find on iPhone 15 cases, AirTag holders, and MagSafe wallets. Apple calls it a “luxurious and durable microtwill.” It’s silky, almost slippery to the touch, and costs $59 for any of the phone cases, $35 for an AirTag holder, and $99 for one of the new watch bands — not the most expensive phone cases you can buy, but pretty... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/3xvOf7d

Illustration: The Verge A few lucky WhatsApp beta testers got a surprising treat this week: the company appears to be testing a version of its iOS app that is also optimized for the iPad. As first spotted by WABetaInfo , version 23.19.1.71 of WhatsApp’s TestFlight app includes the new iPad app as well. From what we can see in screenshots, the iPad app works exactly like you’d expect. You connect to it by scanning a QR code the same way you’d link your account to any other device. You’ll see a list of your conversations on the left and your current chat on the right. It’s pretty much the iOS app, but instead of seeing one pane at a time, you see both. It almost makes you wonder what took so long, especially when WhatsApp head Will Cathcart said all the way back... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/JoU70k2

An object lesson in filial piety! | Illustration: The Verge; Image: Getty Images The lawyers who represent what’s left of FTX filed suit against Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents, saying they “exploited their access and influence within the FTX enterprise to enrich themselves, directly and indirectly, by millions of dollars.” The point of the suit is to get that money back so it can be paid out to the people FTX owes. Before all this, Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman were already well-known and respected Stanford Law School professors. Last week, Bloomberg dropped a fascinating profile of the two of them . Fried “has written extensively on questions of distributive justice, in the areas of tax policy, property theory and political theory,” according to her Stanford profile . She also ran a donor network for Democratic... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/lfInmLu

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge iFixit is dropping the repairability score on the iPhone 14. While the organization originally gave the phone a seven out of 10 to indicate high repairability, iFixit has lowered that rating to a four after taking into account parts pairing requirements that make fixing the device a hassle. When iFixit announced its score for the iPhone 14 last year, it said it was looking mainly at the repair-friendly design of the device. Unlike its other devices, Apple included a rear glass panel that you can pop off with basic repair tools, including a heating mat, suction handle, and an opening pick. While this design change was notable at the time, iFixit acknowledges that it missed the significant hurdles to repairability programmed within iPhones... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/uKaok8W

Image: Unity Unity plans to change its forthcoming pay-per-install program following widespread criticism from game developers. “We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy we announced on Tuesday caused,” Unity posted on X (formerly Twitter) . “We are listening, talking to our team members, community, customers, and partners, and will be making changes to the policy. We will share an update in a couple of days.” This new communication from Unity comes after nearly a week of clarifications , retractions , and a growing force of upset developers who threaten not only to remove their games from the engine but also a potential class action lawsuit. Though Unity said an update on the pricing model will likely be out sometime this week, a... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/PqGzNoA

The new AirPods Pro software update is available starting today. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Last week, as predicted, Apple announced that the second-generation AirPods Pro would start shipping with a USB-C charging case instead of one using the company’s Lightning port. But surprisingly, this refresh isn’t strictly about the case: Apple also added dust resistance (on top of the existing water resistance) to the USB-C AirPods Pro. And the company announced that these AirPods Pro — and not the model from last year — will support lossless audio when paired with the upcoming Vision Pro headset next year. I’ve been using the refreshed second-gen AirPods Pro for a few days now, and while the dust resistance makes for some added peace of mind, I can’t imagine that anyone except for the staunchest USB-C loyalists will feel any... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ZMcSCFN

With stereo sound, twice the battery life, and line-in playback, the Move 2 improves upon the original at every turn — unless you need Google Assistant. Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/EZMvYja

It’s another sale to convince you to subscribe (or stay subscribed) to Prime. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We knew it was coming , but now we can officially mark our calendars for the next Prime Day sale. Amazon has announced that its fall Prime Day is scheduled for October 10th and 11th . Last year’s fall sales event from around the same time was called the Prime Early Access Sale, and this time around, Amazon is calling it Prime Big Deal Days. Setting aside the confusing fact that Amazon can’t settle on consistent naming, Prime Big Deal Days is designed to kick off the early holiday shopping season well ahead of Black Friday / Cyber Monday, and frankly, it sounds a whole lot like last year’s event. Amazon says there will be big discounts and seasonal deals from brands like Sony, iRobot, Dyson, Jabra, and likely more. The entire event is... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/4LY2kCZ

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has been planning to stream PC games over the cloud, internal emails from the FTC v. Microsoft case show. Microsoft currently streams games through its Xbox Cloud Gaming service, but it’s limited to Xbox titles as the servers run specialized Xbox Series X chips . Microsoft has been working on leveraging its Azure servers to stream PC games over Xbox Cloud Gaming. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emailed Xbox chief Phil Spencer, Kareem Choudhry, head of cloud gaming at Microsoft, and Sarah Bond, head of Xbox creator experience, in July 2021 after rumors emerged of Google turning Stadia into a white-label cloud gaming service for developers to run their games on. Image: US Courts Satya Nadella’s email about... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/T9EGDsz

Grand Theft Auto V turns 10. | Image: Rockstar Games It’s been exactly 10 years since Grand Theft Auto V first launched on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, followed soon after by Grand Theft Auto Online . In a thread on X today , Rockstar Games thanked fans, calling them “the reason GTA V has thrived across multiple console generations.” Last week, Rockstar announced new content for GTA Online commemorating the anniversary: new outfits; GTA V -themed weapon finishes; extra modes; a stock car called the Bravado Hotring Hellfire for GTA+ members; and other collectibles and bonuses for playing certain missions. Celebrate 10 years of Grand Theft Auto V in GTA Online this week with a trio of outfits inspired by Michael, Franklin, and Trevor. Plus, get bonuses on classic modes including 4X GTA$... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/JINRF0K

Laura Normand / The Verge Apple CEO Tim Cook acknowledges in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning that there are “some things about” the platform formerly known as Twitter that he doesn’t like. Cook called the platform’s apparent anti-Semitism problem “abhorrent” but said, “Twitter is an important property; I like the concept that it’s there for discourse.” He didn’t say whether he believes Apple should be advertising on X, only that it’s something the company “constantly” asks itself. Dickerson also pushed Cook on the Vision Pro’s release schedule, asking him about reports that the headset is facing manufacturing delays. Cook said emphatically that the Vision Pro remains on track, echoing his claims from the iPhone 15 “Wonderlust” event last week . He added that... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ajlZ6pk

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Mark Gurman writes in the subscriber edition of his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg from this morning that he expects Apple to finish its transition to USB-C by 2025. Gurman says that, in addition to other products, he expects the company will release USB-C versions of the now-discontinued MagSafe Battery Pack and the MagSafe Duo “eventually. But don’t hold your breath.” By comparison, Apple took either a little over a month or about two years to totally move over to Lightning, depending on how you look at it. The company retired the 30-pin port from its most important products when it launched the fourth-gen iPad a little over a month after the iPhone 5’s September 2012 debut. But it also kept the iPod Classic in its stable until... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/MAISdi4