I traded in my MacBook and now I’m a desktop convert
You can forget a lot about desktops if you use laptops exclusively for 23 years. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When the M3 MacBook Airs came out last month, I did a good ol’ double facepalm that Captain Picard would be proud of. The wedge shape was no more (kinda). My…
Drake deletes AI-generated Tupac track after Shakur’s estate threatened to sue
Drake apparently learned it isn’t wise to mess with Tupac Shakur — even decades after his untimely death. Billboard first spotted that the Canadian hip-hop artist deleted the X (Twitter) post with his track “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which used an AI-generated recreation of Shakur’s voice to try to get under Kendrick Lamar’s skin. The takedown…
How to delete the data Google has on you
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Think about everything you do across Chrome, Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, and everything else Google owns, and you get some idea of how much data you’re giving up to the company each day. For most of us, it’s… a lot. Whether or not you think the data collection…
Google adds AI conversation practice for English language learners
Illustration: The Verge Google is testing its AI listening skills with a feature that lets people speak into their phones and practice English with a conversational AI bot. Google first rolled out the speaking practice experience in October 2023. Originally, the feature only provided feedback on spoken sentences. Now, users can practice having ongoing conversations…
Aaron Sorkin is working on a Jan. 6-focused follow-up to The Social Network
Aaron Sorkin has announced that he’s currently writing a followup script to The Social Network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He broke the news during an episode of The Town podcast that centered on how Facebook and social media have influenced democracy in the years since his Oscar-winning hit. The first film chronicled the early…
Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Espresso’ is the internet’s Song of the Summer
There are four little words that the girls just can’t get out of their heads: “That’s that me espresso” — a little nonsensical, a lot catchy. They seem to answer the season’s hottest question: What’s the Song of the Summer? Sabrina Carpenter’s sun-drenched hit, “Espresso,” is currently the top contender. While artists scramble to promote…
WhatsApp cambia para siempre el diseño de la app y añade un nuevo icono de doble flecha
La aplicación de mensajería instantánea propiedad de Meta, WhatsApp, se encuentra en uno de sus momentos más transformadores a nivel mundial. La empresa, propiedad del multimillonario Mark Zuckerberg, está mejorando sus servicios para ofrecer las mejores prestaciones a sus millones de usuarios, incluidos los de España. Este es el caso, por ejemplo, del renovado reproductor…
La gran joya del románico español que reabre sus puertas al público
León presume desde hoy de su remodelado Museo de San Isidoro, la gran joya del románico español, que este viernes ha vuelto a abrir al publico sus nuevos espacios expositivos tras una inversión de tres millones de euros a cargo de la Fundación Montemadrid y el Cabildo. Una rehabilitación que ha puesto en valor esta…
FDP setzt sich durch: Klimaschutzgesetz wird umgebaut
Die Verabschiedung stand noch auf der Kippe. Doch der Bundestag hat nun Änderungen des Klimaschutzgesetzes verabschiedet. Die Opposition sieht eine Aufweichung. Der Bundestag hat am Freitag die umstrittene Reform des Klimaschutzgesetzes beschlossen. Ein dagegen gerichteter Antrag des CDU-Abgeordneten Thomas Heilmann war am Vorabend am Bundesverfassungsgericht gescheitert. Die Reform des Gesetzes kam vor allem auf Verlangen…
La decisión de Pedro Sánchez provoca una discusión a dos bandas de Gonzalo Miró en “Espejo Público”
La carta de Pedro Sánchez y su futura decisión seguirá trayendo mucha cola e incertidumbres. Las apuestas sobre sus próximos pasos siguen en el aire y en “Espejo Público” han realizado una quiniela sobre su verdecito final, que ha levantado ampollas entre Gonzalo Miró, Sussana Griso y Mariló Montero, que no es la primera vez…
Census change will lead to more data on health of Middle Eastern, North African people in US
Nada Hassanein | (TNS) Stateline.org Before the successful, healthy birth of her son, recalls Germine Awad — an Egyptian American who is a psychologist at the University of Michigan — clinicians told her that her hormone levels were too high and that her pregnancy was in danger. “They don’t know us,” her mother reassured her….
Exclusive Trailer Debut for Hiroshi Shimizu Retrospective, Starting May 4, Sheds Light on a Japanese Master
If it is very hard to expand the canon, the legwork must always be done. In my own time I’ve seen the understanding of mid-century Japanese cinema expand, however marginally, from Kurosawa alone to Ozu and Mizoguchi; it may be time to place room for their contemporary Hiroshi Shimizu, whose films are subject of a…