Google says that generated videos should also now be more consistent with thereference images they’re based on. | Image: Google / The Verge Google is making its Veo 3.1 AI video model pay closer atten...
Hi HN, In most codebases I’ve worked on, temporary hacks (“TODO: remove later”, “just for this release”) slowly become permanent. Nobody remembers why they exist, but they keep shipping to production....
Elon Musk’s platform X on Wednesday announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualised photos of women...
Learning app Duolingo has 17 million followers on TikTok where its mascot Duo is a social-media celebrity. Isa Foltin/TikTok via Getty Images Social media is more important than ever for US retail sit...
The pandemic gave workers increased options as home offices became the norm in some fields. Now, with the EU experiencing industrial slowdown and AI automation, workers are growing increasingly wary o...
Sean Hollister demos the Lego Smart Brick at CES. The Lego Smart Brick won our Best in Show award at CES 2026, and it was no wonder after watching Lego designer Maarten Simons' expert demo there. So I...
Sony’s WH-1000XM6 are among the wireless headphones affected by the Fast Pair vulnerability. Several Bluetooth audio devices from companies like Sony, Anker, and Nothing are susceptible to a new flaw ...
Meta has made the decision to discontinue Workrooms as a standalone app Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Meta is switching off Horizon Workrooms as a stand-alone...
Embark Studios’ Arc Raiders cheater purge is underway, and it seems popular streamer Turner Tenney, a.k.a. Tfue, has found himself in – and back out of – the line of fire. The internet personality, wh...
It was an overcast January morning in 2025 the day I decided to delete my operating system. The Ubuntu installer warned me that it would remove everything on my hard drive, permanently wiping the enti...
The first big outage of 2026 is here, as Verizon customers across the US, including several of our phones, complain that service has been spotty or nonexistent since just after noon ET, with phones sw...
NASA's first moonshot with astronauts in more than a half-century is set to take place as soon as early February. The moon rocket moves to the pad this weekend at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, with ...
This week, Nintendo finally removed an infamous, adults only-themed island from Animal Crossing: New Horizons . Existing since 2020, the suggestive fan creation was almost as old as the game, and gain...
NASA carried out its first medical evacuation from the International Space Station after an astronaut required care, bringing four crew members back to Earth earlier than planned. The early return tem...
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Amazon's data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that's leaching metal from ores using microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon Web Services will be the first...
Chinese artificial intelligence firm Zhipu AI said its new image generation model was trained on chips from Huawei Technologies, making it the first powerful open-source model to be developed on an en...
Why not get your custom insole engraved? This is Optimizer , a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches,...
If you compare the value proposition of getting one of Remarkable’s Paper Pro E-Ink tablets vs. buying a laptop, the latter will win in most scenarios. Laptops are more capable, with more ports, apps,...
Despite a fix from Sui core developers, the Sui Foundation has not provided details on what triggered the network outage....