Jimmy Kimmel has responded to yet another angry Trump post about his Oscars joke.
Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare are finally coming to PC this month
Image: Rockstar Games The original Red Dead Redemption has ports on the PS4, the Nintendo Switch, and now, finally PC. Rockstar has announced that the game and its zombified, non-canon side story Undead Nightmare is coming to PC October 29th. The game will feature new PC-specific settings to tinker with and take advantage of including:…
The Kindle Paperwhite Kids is down to just $115 for October Prime Day
The Kindle Paperwhite Kids is an e-reader fit for the whole family, complete with optional parental controls. | Image: Amazon As expected, Amazon is offering some great discounts on its own devices as part of its October Prime Day event — including e-readers like the note-taking Kindle Scribe, which is down to $254.99 ($85 off)…
Scientists who built ‘foundation’ for AI awarded Nobel Prize
Geoffrey Hinton, called the “Godfather of AI,” during day Collision 2023 at Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada. | Photo By Ramsey Cardy / Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images Two scientists credited with laying the “foundation of today’s powerful machine learning,” University of Toronto professor emeritus Geoffrey Hinton and Princeton University professor John Hopfield, were…
Kaspersky no longer on Google Play Store anywhere following US ban
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Citing US restrictions, Google removed Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus software from the Play Store and terminated its developer account in the days leading up to the September 29th deadline of the restrictions, according to a Kaspersky blog post yesterday. The decision was “based on overinterpretation of the U.S. restrictions,”…
Red Dead Redemption finally comes to PC 14 years after its original release
Fourteen years after it debuted on PS3 and Xbox 360, and endless rumors later, Red Dead Redemption is finally coming to PC. It will hit the Rockstar Store, Steam and the Epic Games Store on October 29 with the Undead Nightmare standalone expansion included. Developer Double Eleven helped Rockstar with the port, which has many…
Severance season 1 is coming home on Blu-ray
Image: Apple While new episodes of Severance won’t stream on Apple TV Plus until January, you will be able to own a physical copy of the show’s first season in just a few weeks. Unlike Mark Scout (Adam Scott) and his fellow Lumon employees who can never entirely go home, Severance’s first season will be…
Prime Day is a great time to get the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic for 33 percent off
Get that physical rotating bezel! | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This year’s Samsung Galaxy Watch lineup had no physical rotating bezels. Boo. So, it’s a good thing that the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic is roughly 33 percent off for Amazon Prime Day. This might be the last-gen Galaxy Watch, but hardware-wise,…
The best October Prime Day deals you can get for under $100
Amazon’s souped-up Fire TV Stick 4K Max has hit an all-time low of $34.99 for a limited time. | Image: Amazon If you’re looking to maximize your budget and score a bigger haul for your money during October’s Amazon Prime Day sale, you’ll be happy to know that there are many great deals you can…
Most US TikTok users aren’t following political accounts, study says
As TikTok faces the possibility of a ban in the United States, a new study sheds light on the type of accounts US adults follow on the platform. According to the report, published by Pew Research, political content and news are only a small fraction of the accounts US adults follow in the app. The…
‘Underconsumption core’ is just another form of consumerism
Once, the trend on TikTok was to own dozens of Stanley cups, displaying each prized possession like an exhibition at a museum. Now, that ideology has been replaced by influencers who have just one Stanley cup and actually use it — a trend called “underconsumption core.” Underconsumption core is framed as the antidote to overconsumption….
‘Heretic’ trailer teases Hugh Grant at his scariest
Hugh Grant stars alongside Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East in A24’s “Heretic,” about two Mormon missionaries trapped in a game of cat and mouse. Please follow and like us:
Take 50% these Philips espresso machines during Amazon’s October Prime Day sale
Fall and winter might see darker mornings, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be enjoyable. Treat yourself to a fully automatic espresso machine that’ll not only give you a reason to get out of your warm bed every morning, it’ll save you money in the long run compared to daily trips to the coffee shop….
SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts are leaving the ISS on October 13
NASA and SpaceX are looking to undock the Crew-8 mission vehicle from the ISS on October 13, 3:05AM Eastern time. Crew-8’s astronauts were originally scheduled to start making their way back to Earth on October 7, but since their spacecraft is going to splash down off the coast of Florida, NASA and SpaceX had decided…
Meta Quest 3S hands-on: A $300 VR headset without major compromises
Instead of cramming more technology into its Quest VR headsets, which would inevitably escalate their price, Meta has taken the opposite approach with the Quest 3S. It’s a slightly bulkier, slightly less sharp version of the Quest 3 starting at $300, almost half off that headset’s $500 launch price. The Quest 3S pitch is clear…
How to watch Tesla’s big Robotaxi unveiling
You’d be forgiven for thinking it may never happen, but it appears as though it’s really happening this time. We’re talking, of course, about Tesla’s big Robotaxi event. When: It starts at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 10. The physical event is taking place at Warner Bros. Discovery’s movie studio in Burbank, California, but there…
Machine learning pioneers, including the ‘Godfather of AI,’ are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
Two scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” John Hopfield, an emeritus professor of Princeton University, devised an associative memory that’s able to store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. Geoffrey Hinton, who has been dubbed…
Meta trying to get Threads engagement bait ‘under control’
Meta has acknowledged the increase in engagement bait material on its text-based social media app Threads. Threads was launched in July 2023 to rival Elon Musk’s platform X. It has proved a popular alternative, with the app gaining more than 175 million users in its first year. However, it hasn’t been free of problems. Recently…
Throne and Liberty Classic or Action mode? Which should you choose?
When starting off a game of Throne and Liberty (after waiting for the janky servers to actually let you in) one of the first things you are taught in that tutorial you ignored is about switching between Action and Classic modes. Even if you were paying attention it is not instantly apparent from the text…
Google Docs adds tabs to help you stay organized
Google has released a new feature for Docs that will make it easier to break down — and, later, to find and access — information into separate sections. It’s adding tabs to Docs, so that you can “build content in a way that makes it possible for you to find what you’re looking for quickly.”…
The best smart locks you can buy right now
Illustration: The Verge Never get locked out again with a smart lock you can control from your phone, with your voice, or with just a touch of your finger. Continue reading… Please follow and like us:
Adobe has a new tool to protect artists’ work from AI
Adobe is releasing a new web app next year alongside a Chrome extension (pictured) for inspecting content metadata. | Image: Adobe Adobe is expanding its Content Credentials “nutrition labels” to make it even easier for creatives to be credited for their work, identify what is and isn’t AI online, and protect their content in the…
This controller can change the layout of its face button labels
The GameSir Tarantula Pro controller features a motorized mechanism to change the labels on its action buttons. | Image: GameSir GameSir’s new Tarantula Pro controller is designed for multiple gaming platforms, including the Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, PCs, and Steam devices. To make switching between those platforms a little easier, both the layout and the…
Foxconn to build world’s largest Nvidia superchip production facility in Mexico
Foxconn is building the world’s largest manufacturing facility for Nvidia’s GB200 superchips in Mexico. The Taiwanese company is the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and they’re often known for being Apple’s biggest iPhone assembler. They already have a large presence in Mexico, with more than $500 million having previously been invested into the state of…
Students turn AI glasses into doxing devices, creating a system called I-XRAY
Privacy concerns have been raised after two Harvard students just demoed a proof-of-concept system called I-XRAY which uses smart glasses to access personal information about others. The system combines the use of the glasses along with custom software to ID strangers and retrieve personal data about them. The system has been coined ‘I-XRAY.’ The students,…
Galaxy A16 5G is introduced with six years of software updates
Samsung has quietly unveiled its newest smartphone, the Galaxy A16 5G, which will have a huge six years of software support. The phone hasn’t yet been officially announced but the company has listed it on its Dutch website which is where it was first spotted. The smartphone is the successor to the A15 5G which…
The Apple iPad Pro just dipped to its lowest price ever during October Prime Day
SAVE $150: The Apple iPad Pro, 11-inch (M4, WiFi, 256GB) and Apple iPad Pro, 13-inch (M4, WiFi, 256GB) are $150 with on-page coupon at Amazon. iPad Pro deals during October Prime Day Best deal on the 11-inch version Apple iPad Pro, 11-inch (M4, WiFi, 256GB) $849 at Amazon with on-page coupon (save $150) Get Deal…
Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is $85 off for Prime Day
The Kindle that lets you take handwritten notes is on sale for Amazon Prime Day. The 16GB model of the Kindle Scribe is currently $85 off and down to $255 instead of the usual $340. That’s not an all-time low — the ereader hit $240 as recently as July’s Prime Day — but this is…
The incredible blandness of AI photography
Just a few taps in Google Photos, and you can AI the crowds away. Skógafoss is a must-see, everyone said, and in a country with as much natural beauty as Iceland, that means it’s gonna be some majestic shit. The waterfall didn’t disappoint, but even on a chilly weekday in March, the place was mobbed….
Rapper Cardi B shares new meme token on X – is she hacked?
American rapper Cardi B has seemingly endorsed a new cryptocurrency meme coin on her X account leaving fans are debating whether she has been hacked. The singer, who is famous for her song W.A.P. with Megan Thee Stallion, shared the token on Monday (Oct. 7). It is fittingly called $WAP. The animated video features a…
Ooni pizza ovens are up to $280 off for Amazon Prime Day
Amazon Prime Day is here, flooding the internet with all kinds of wild deals. Even Ooni pizza ovens are available at remarkable discounts. For instance, the Karu 16 is now $519, which is $281 off the usual price. That’s quite a sale. The Ooni Karu 16 topped our list of the best pizza ovens, and…