Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images A lawsuit has been filed against Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google in the wake of a teenager’s death, alleging wrongful death, negligence, deceptive trade practices, and product liability. Filed by the teen’s mother, Megan Garcia, it claims the platform for custom AI chatbots was “unreasonably dangerous” and lacked safety guardrails while being marketed to children.As outlined in the lawsuit, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III began using Character.AI last year, interacting with chatbots modeled after characters from The Game of Thrones, including Daenerys Targaryen. Setzer, who chatted with the bots continuously in the months before his death, died by suicide on February 28th, 2024, “seconds” after... Continue reading…

If you have taken up 3D printing, you know it can be both fun and frustrating at the same time. One common source of frustration is having to shuttle your Gcode files between your computer and the 3D printer. After all, older consumer 3D printers and even newer budget models lack network connectivity.

If youve ever wished you could display your digital artwork and photos in style but didnt want to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a digital frame, there is another way to fulfill that wish. If youve got the DIY skills, you can build your own digital photo frame powered by Raspberry Pi. Heres how you can make that happen.

If you're building out your next setup, you're probably trying to decide which monitor to useor perhaps which monitors to choosebecause you want a multi-monitor setup for peak productivity. But I bet there's one display type that you haven't already considered: a high-resolution projector. Now, if you've used any of the aged projectors in the conference room at work for presentations, I don't blame you for not thinking about them as your primary display. But they've gotten excellent in recent years, with advances in LED light sources that mean they're essentially silent, a far cry from the loud fans of incandescent bulbs. Here's why you should at least think about them as an option.

Illustration: The Verge Roblox is making some potentially major changes that will limit what pre-teens can access and give parents more control over what their kids do on the platform, according to an email sent by the company and shared with The Verge. The changes follow recent reports highlighting how Roblox has failed to protect children.In July, for example, Bloomberg published a big report about predators on the platform. Turkey blocked access to Roblox in August, saying it was a necessary measure to protect its children. (Roblox said this week that it would open an office in the country if access was restored.) Earlier this month, a popular financial newsletter accused Roblox of enabling child abuse and the investment firm Hindenburg Research alleged... Continue reading…

Removing unwanted objects, people, or even blemishes from photographs is one of the most common uses of Photoshop. It can be a lifesaver when touching up professional headshots or vacation pictures you want to post. Adobe Photoshop offers several ways to clean up images, including the traditional Content-Aware Fill, Clone Stamp tool, and Spot Healing brush, as well as AI-based generative fill. In this guide, we will explore all the options available for removing objects in Photoshop.

Photo by Selcuk Acar / Anadolu via Getty Images Automatic emergency braking (AEB) isn’t perfect, but the technology is improving, according to a recent study conducted by AAA. The research comes on the heels of a new federal rule requiring all vehicles to have the most robust version of AEB by 2029.AAA wanted to see how newer vehicles with AEB fared compared to older models with the technology. AEB uses forward-facing cameras and other sensors to automatically tell the car to apply the brakes when a crash is imminent. And according to the test results, newer versions of AEB are much better at preventing forward collisions than older versions of the tech. The motorist group conducted its test on a private closed course using older (2017–2018) and newer versions (2024) of the same... Continue reading…

Vivaldi, a productivity-focused browser, has just received its "biggest update to date" on desktop devices. The new VIvaldi comes with a fresh new look along with some new features, most notably, the Dashboard, a convergence spot for the content that's most relevant to you.

Thanks to Google's partnerships with services like Steam, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Nvidia GeForce Now, you can enjoy AAA game titles on the latest Chromebooks and ChromeOS tablets. Although it's not possible to play every game locally on your Chromebook, if you have a fast and reliable internet connection, you can play just about anything over a game streaming service.

Arm and Qualcomm have been in a war for quite a while now over Qualcomm's Oryon cores. These cores are used in the Snapdragon X series and, now, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. To give a brief overview of the situation, Qualcomm purchased Nuvia, a start-up developing Arm-compatible custom cores aimed at servers. After Qualcomm made that purchase, Arm claims that the cores Qualcomm calls "Oryon" are iterations upon those initial designs. Arm claims to have given Nuvia "substantial, crucial, and individualized support" in making those cores, which in effect, means that Arm helped to create its own competitor given that those cores are why Qualcomm will be using fewer off-the-shelf Arm cores. Arm also says that Qualcomm would have needed permission to transfer and use Nuvia's designs.

Virtualization serves as the crux of pretty much every home lab project, be it running an instance of macOS on top of your favorite hypervisor or testing new Linux distros for your self-hosting needs. However, nested virtualization dials the whole running-a-PC-inside-a-PC shtick to an eleven, as it lets you turn virtual machines into hubs capable of deploying their own VMs.

If you're thinking about buying a new monitor, and want to go with the best, then this OLED model from Alienware is going to be just what you're looking for. Not only does the brand deliver some of the best quality possible thanks to its QD-OLED panels, but if you act quickly, you can also score a pretty sizable discount too. Alienware's AW3423DWF gaming monitor is now $220 off, bringing it down to its lowest price ever at just $680. While this isn't cheap, it's a great price for the best OLED monitor on the market right now.