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Samsung has launched its new line of Galaxy Book5 laptops with the Pro 360, a Copilot+ enabled Windows 11 PC with Intel’s latest Core 2 CPU and Arc GPU. Unusually, it also supports some Android AI features like Circle to Search with Google that work by connecting the PC to a smartphone. Intel’s latest Core…

By the early 2000s, it seemed everyone had two things: a cell phone and the certainty its radio waves could give them cancer. The first is arguably more true than ever, but a new World Health Organization-backed systematic review found no link between mobile phone use and brain cancer. These findings included no association with…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Sony After eight years in development, it took less than a month for Concord to die. Yesterday, Sony announced that the game, which only launched on August 23rd, would be shutting down on September 6th. Ryan Ellis, game director at developer Firewalk Studios, said that it “didn’t land the…

Image: Qualcomm Google has committed to releasing an Arm64 version of Google Drive on Windows later this year, after Microsoft and Qualcomm have been working hard to convince app developers to port their applications over to Windows on Arm. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon made the announcement onstage at the company’s IFA event earlier today, where…

It’s wild to think the reMarkable 2 was announced in March 2020, a time more famous for other reasons these days. More than four years later, the company is ready to show off its latest distraction-free writing slate. That long gestation period has been worth it, with the new model packing a nicer chassis, faster…

Apple’s iPhone 16 event invitation. | Image: Apple Apple is getting ready to announce the iPhone 16, which will surely be its most powerful and best-camera-having phone yet (at least for the Pro models). It’s also expected to be the first iPhone to launch with Apple Intelligence across the board. In addition to the iPhone…

Ignore my cruddy handwriting to marvel at this beautiful color. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales A front light and color display are just two of the ways this pretty note taking device puts luxury first. Continue reading… Please follow and like us:

The flaw doesn’t impact newer YubiKey hardware that doesn’t use the Infineon cryptolibrary. | Image: Yubico Security researchers have detected a vulnerability in YubiKey two-factor authentication tokens that enables attackers to clone the device according to a new security advisory. The vulnerability was discovered within the Infineon cryptographic library used by most YubiKey products, including…

The Verge Microsoft is holding a special Copilot event later this month that will be focused on “the next phase of Copilot innovation.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and vice president of AI at work Jared Spataro will host the “wave 2” Copilot event on September 16th. The event will be hosted on LinkedIn and focus…

Spotify is expanding its listening data-generated “daylist” to even more users, so I won’t be the only one playing something as niche as a “demure power ballad Wednesday morning,” “scream writer Monday evening,” or “laurel canyon classic folk Friday afternoon” playlist around here. The audio streaming company launched its personalised, ever-changing playlist in January in…

A guy — we’ll call him David but that’s not his real name — just sent me a picture of his cat with a couple of small kittens by its side over Instagram DMs. “My cat gave birth a couple of weeks ago and had kittens,” he tells me in a reply to one of…

One of the most common criticisms against Snapchat is that it’s not very intuitive and is quite hard navigate as a new user. Personally, I never quite got the hang of it and find TikTok much, much easier to use. Apparently, Snap is aware of the issue, because it’s currently testing a “simplified version of…

The X TV app — teased earlier this year — is out in beta on Amazon Fire TVs, Google TVs and some LG sets. The short teaser video included in the beta app announcement shows a typical-looking streaming video interface sewn into what looks like Google’s version of the X app. There are rows of…

Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm launched its first big wave of Windows laptops this summer at $999 and up — but a new, somewhat weaker chip could soon shave off at least $100. Today, the company’s announcing its first 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will feature in a new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron…

If you want a new Surface Pro with 5G, you’ll have to order it through Microsoft’s commercial store for business customers. Today, the company announced that 5G versions of the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Pro (Copilot+) for Business will be available on September 26. Last month, Microsoft also kicked off pre-orders for the Wi-Fi…

Qualcomm is moving to make AI PCs more affordable. Following the company’s 12-core Snapdragon X Elite and 10-core Snapdragon X Plus, it unveiled a toned-down eight-core version of the Snapdragon X Plus on Wednesday. The chip includes the same Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU) from the higher-end variants, capable of 45 trillion operations per second…

Dell revealed details for new models in its Inspiron and Latitude laptop lines at IFA 2024. The company announced in May that it would be powering several of its new devices with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus, and now we have more information about how those processors will work in Dell’s collection of Copilot+ PCs. The…

Microsoft’s latest Surface lineup for businesses. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is ready to start selling its Qualcomm-powered Surface devices to businesses. Starting on September 10th, both the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 will be available for business customers for the first time, after launching in June to consumers as part of Microsoft’s Copilot…

Stephen King clearly has the Dark Tower on his mind in a big way. The author has been posting on X (formerly Twitter) about his eight-book series for the past few weeks, seemingly hinting that another story could be on the horizon. The problem? His posts were about as vague as it’s possible to get….

One of the best reasons to buy a Tesla over another EV is Tesla’s vast Supercharging network. And while most U.S. car manufacturers have adopted the standard via a dongle, Hyundai’s new Ioniq 5 is one of the first that does it natively. On the outside, the latest Ioniq 5 isn’t that different from its…

In 2022, journalist Alexi Mostrous investigated the story of Kirat Assi, a 29-year-old London radio broadcaster who was romantically catfished for eight years in one of the most complex cases of false identity you’ll ever hear. Tortoise Media’s resulting true crime podcast Sweet Bobby saw millions tuning in. And now, Assi’s story will be re-examined…

Another Stephen King story adaptation is on its way, and it sounds like the author himself is a big fan of this one. On Tuesday we got some first look images and more information about The Life of Chuck, Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of the horror author’s novella of the same name, courtesy of Vanity Fair….

Lyft is rolling out a new price lock feature that caps the cost of rides, in an attempt to solve the problem of cost unpredictability for those who rely on the platform for daily commutes. The company says this tool will even work during peak hours, when rides are usually at their most expensive. There…

TL;DR: Live stream the Scotland vs. Australia T20 international series for free on BBC iPlayer. Access this free streaming site from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. We know that cricket isn’t for everyone, but can we all agree that T20 cricket is a lot of fun? Test cricket obviously has a place in the…

Haliey Welch, the internet star behind that viral “Hawk Tuah” video, is launching her own podcast. On Monday Welch took to social media to announce the (undeniably brilliantly named) Talk Tuah. SEE ALSO: Watch Hawk Tuah Girl’s first video interview on Brianna Chickenfry’s podcast “I’m Haliey Welch,” she says in the announcement video. “A little…

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TL;DR: For $379.99, score a refurbished MacBook Pro with a 3.1GHz i5 processor, 512GB SSD, and the surprisingly useful Touch Bar. Let’s stir the pot a little — the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro is one of those features that’s easy to overlook but genuinely useful once you give it a shot. Whether you’re…

The highly-anticipated open-world racing game Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown drives onto the track in a little over a week’s time (12th September), and before we head to Hong Kong Island for Nacon’s “lifestyle and social experience that redefines what an open-world racing game can be,” the PC specs have been released showing exactly what…