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The NVIDIA app, currently in beta, will replace GeForce Experience soon
This February, NVIDIA released a one-stop graphical adjustments app in beta, succinctly named the NVIDIA App. The app isn’t a direct replacement for the existing GeForce Experience app since it also lets you install other NVIDIA apps like GeForce NOW (cloud gaming) and NVIDIA Broadcast (improved streaming experience), which GeForce Experience isn’t capable of. However,…
The hidden toll taken by tropical storms
Workers, community members, and business owners clean up debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Marshall, North Carolina, on September 30th, 2024. | Photo: Getty Images Tropical storms take many more lives than officially recorded, according to a sobering study published today in the journal Nature. It comes as people across the Southeastern US…
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is 13 percent off less than a week after its release
Nintendo hates discounting its first-party games when they are five years old, let alone five days old. Woot is selling the just-released The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom for $52, which certainly breaks from tradition. This is a discount of $8 or 13 percent. It’s unlikely you’ll find anything lower until the game starts…
Microsoft wants to know why some game developers aren’t on Xbox
Image: Microsoft Microsoft wants to hear from game developers who might be skipping Xbox or those already building games using the company’s developer tools. The software maker is expanding its Xbox Research team to include the community of game developers, seeking feedback directly from developers about tools, support, and the overall pain points of the…
Meta wants to make it easy for creators to earn on Facebook
Meta is consolidating its three creator monetization programs for Facebook to make it easier for users to start earning on the social network. The company has three ways for creators to earn on the website: Via In-stream ads, Ads on Reels and Performance bonuses. Each one has a different eligibility requirement and sign-up process. The…
Bose QuietComfort Earbuds (2024) review: A more affordable ANC ace
Believe it or not, Bose hasn’t been in the noise-canceling earbuds game very long. The company’s first ANC model arrived in late 2020, with two more to follow in 2022 and 2023. It successfully brought its powerful active noise cancellation (ANC) tech to the true wireless form factor from the jump, but has further improved…
Find a new favorite read with two free Kindle books for Prime members
GET TWO FREE KINDLE BOOKS: Amazon Prime members get two free Kindle e-books with Amazon’s First Reads program during the month of October. No Prime membership? Get these books for $1.99 to $4.99 each. Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon Two free Kindle books with Prime membership Non-members can score Amazon First Reads for…
Take 35% off eero 6+ mesh WiFi routers and stay connected
GET 35% OFF: As of Oct. 2, you can get a three-pack of eero 6+ mesh WiFi routers for just $194.99, down from $299.99, at Amazon. That’s $105 off. Opens in a new window Credit: eero Our pick: Amazon eero 6+ mesh Wi-Fi router (3-pack) $194.99 at Amazon $299.99 Save $105.00 Get Deal If you’re…
‘Better Man’ trailer transforms Robbie Williams into a singing, dancing chimp
Robbie Williams biopic “Better Man” hits select theaters December 25 and opens nationwide on January 17. Please follow and like us:
AMD’s next-gen frame generation tech rolls out to boost FPS in more games
AFMF 2 is now widely available after rolling out to beta testers earlier this year. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AMD has officially launched the latest version of its Fluid Motion Frames tech that can boost gaming frame rates on RDNA 2- and RDNA 3-based graphics hardware. Following its technical preview in…
World’s first 3D-printed hotel under construction in Texas
Texas will soon be the site of the world’s first 3D-printed hotel, El Cosmico, which has just begun construction in the desert north of Marfa. The existing hotel is expanding its premises with 43 new hotel units and 18 residential homes over 60 acres, without the need of cranes and scaffolding that typically come with…
Automattic demanded a cut of WP Engine’s revenue before starting WordPress battle
Image: WordPress.com Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, asked rival hosting service WP Engine to hand over 8 percent of its revenue each month before igniting a very public battle over what you can and can’t do with an open-source project. On Wednesday, Automattic published the proposed deal that it sent to WP Engine on…
Echoes of Wisdom’s best trick is turning Zelda into a dungeon master
Image: Nintendo The latest top-down Zelda game turns your knowledge about dungeons into the ultimate superpower. Continue reading… Please follow and like us:
Toyota puts another $500 million into an air taxi startup Joby
Toyota is betting big on air taxis. | Image: Toyota Toyota is investing another $500 million into Joby Aviation to support the air taxi startup’s certification and commercial production of electric VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircrafts for use in a ride-hailing service. The automaker has now invested a total of $894 million since 2018….
Palworld is bound for mobile, thanks to the maker of PUBG
Palworld could be on its way to a mobile device near you. Krafton, the publisher of PUBG: Battlegrounds, has agreed a licensing deal with the game’s maker, Pocketpair, to bring the smash hit to mobile. Krafton’s PUBG Studios will develop the mobile version. No other details have been announced, other than to note that PUBG…
Target’s new sneakers expand to fit growing feet
The adult version of the Ünos by Sz shoes can expand a full size to accommodate growing feet. | Image: Target Target is introducing a new line of sneakers with a clever design that allows them to grow alongside the wearer, extending how long they can be worn before they’re too small. The ÜNOS by…
New Presale Gem ‘Flockerz’ Goes Live – What Is FLOCK Meme Token
Flockerz’s presale is now raising $350K, sparking excitement among crypto investors as it emerges as a potential contender for the next big meme coin. The project is building a community-driven token that pays people for joining in governance. $FLOCK holders control the project’s future by voting on key decisions and earning free tokens in return….
DC Studios’ next big project is an animated movie about the Robins
DC Studios Though we’ve yet to see just what kinds of features DC Studios has been cooking up under James Gunn and Peter Safran’s co-leadership, the company has already announced yet another big movie built around (a pair of) Gotham’s heroes. Last night, Gunn — who recently wrapped filming on his upcoming Superman reboot starring…
WhatsApp to roll out filters and backgrounds for video calls
In the coming weeks, WhatsApp users will soon be able to fake their backgrounds in video calls as the instant messaging company announces filters and background features. The news was shared through a company blog post on Tuesday (October 1) and will be the first time video calls on WhatsApp will see new additions since…
Tesla’s sales are finally picking up
Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images After two straight quarters of declines, Tesla’s vehicle sales are finally on the upswing. Tesla reported producing 469,796 vehicles over the three-month period that ended in September, a 9.1 percent increase compared to the third quarter of 2023. The company also reported delivering 462,890 vehicles to customers during…
OpenAI shares four major updates at San Francisco DevDay
The OpenAI platform is getting some major changes as the company announced four updates at its ‘DevDay’ in San Francisco on Tuesday (October 1). This includes ‘Realtime API,’ ‘Prompt Caching,’ ‘Model Distillation,’ and support for fine-tuning. The team made it so the new additions would be visible and able to be used from the announcement…
EU questions YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok on their AI recommendation systems
The European Commission has sent a request for information on the design and operation of recommender systems to YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok. Recommender systems are machine learning algorithms that use data to suggest items that a user might be interested in. However, under the Digital Services Act (DSA), the EU’s landmark content moderation regulation, the…
Ring brings 24/7 recording to some of its wired cameras
Ring is rebranding its subscription products, ditching Ring Protect in favor of Ring Home, and to celebrate it’s bringing some new features along. The most notable change is the addition of 24/7 recording if you own select wired video doorbells, ensuring you don’t miss anything if a motion alert wasn’t triggered. You’ll also get video…
Ring is finally adding 24/7 recording to its security cameras
Ring is bringing the much-requested feature to its smart security platform starting on November 5th. | Image: Ring Smart home security company Ring announced today that it’s bringing 24/7 continuous video recording (CVR) to its smart security cameras. This will allow a camera to record continuously rather than just when it detects motion, which is…
Venmo is getting payment scheduling
Users can also schedule one-time or recurring payment requests to each other. | Illustration by Hugo Herrera / The Verge Venmo is making it easier to send repeat payments to friends and family or schedule specific payments and payment requests ahead of time. The new P2P feature allows Venmo users to schedule these as one-offs…
Throne and Liberty classes explained – how is it different from your traditional MMO?
It seems like classes have been part of gaming since, well forever. Even before video games were a thing we have been so conditioned by classes in tabletop games and Dungeons and Dragons that when a game comes along and does things differently it makes us pause, afraid of the new. That is what has…
Microsoft to discontinue HoloLens 2 headset
Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens 2 headset, with no indication of a replacement coming anytime soon. The company’s second-generation augmented reality headset launched five years ago and has a price tag of $3,500 which is the same as Apple’s Vision Pro. Microsoft is now telling its partners and customers that this is the last chance…
Nvidia unveils its new NVLM 1.0 AI model, rivaling the likes of OpenAI’s GPT-4
Nvidia has released its powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that could outpace the likes of OpenAI’s GPT-4. The company’s new NVLM 1.0 family of open-source multimodal large language models (LLMs), with its flagship model, NVLM-D-72B, has around 72 billion parameters. According to Nvidia’s research team, the new AI model excels in vision-language tasks while maintaining…
Microsoft’s Copilot to partner with news publishers for AI tool, amidst other changes
Microsoft Copilot’s new cross-platform assistant Copilot Daily is rolling out this week, with the company partnering with major news publications for the AI tool. Copilot Daily will provide users with a summary of news and weather and will pull from authorized content sources, all read in the distinctive Copilot voice. To make this happen, Microsoft…
The best digital frames for 2024
You’d think making a good digital picture frame would be easy. All you need is a good screen and a seamless way to get images to the device. Combine that with an inoffensive, frame-like design and you’re good to go. Despite that, Amazon is positively littered with scads of digital photo frames and I can…