Photo by Howard Schnapp/Newsday RM via Getty Images Amazon’s next ideas for growing its grocery business could blur the lines between Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh by enmeshing the two businesses’ fulfillment networks in a new set of experiments, according to The Wall Street Journal. Amazon has reportedly started shipping Whole Foods products from 26 Amazon Fresh fulfillment centers and plans to build a microfulfillment center at a Pennsylvania Whole Foods Market and stocking it with Amazon Fresh household goods and groceries. Another part of the plan includes an experimental “Amazon Grocery” inside a Chicago Whole Foods that offers brands and groceries that the upscale store wouldn’t normally carry, according to WSJ. The goal of the tests is to give Amazon customers a way to buy... Continue reading…

Was anyone asking for this? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge At the risk of stating the obvious, AI is absolutely everywhere lately. There’s AI in your car, AI in your messaging app, AI in your glasses. I’ve gotten pretty desensitized to it all as a hazard of the job, but it was Spotify’s AI DJ that actually got my attention. I’ve listened to a top 40 radio station in the past two decades, so I’m familiar with the concept of a robot picking music for me. In that context, an AI DJ doesn’t seem like much of a stretch. But after using it on and off for a week, I’m convinced it’s the perfect analogy for our AI-everything moment. It’s eerily human, and it plays a lot of music I like. But take it from someone with access to a high-quality local indie radio station — one that employs human DJs! — there... Continue reading…

Darktable is an open-source photo-editing software. It allows professional photographers to be a deeper part of the process of editing compared to those who use programs like Lightroom, Affinity Photo, or Luminar Neo. There are some great open-source creative tools, but Darktable is incomparable for the process of editing beautiful imagery.

Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple has begun selling repair parts for iPhone 16 and 16 Pro phones on its self-service repair store. That includes replacements for commonly damaged parts like cameras, displays, and back glass, and follows the release of official Apple iPhone 16 repair manuals in September, as MacRumors notes.A replacement camera assembly will run you $169 for the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus or $249 for the 16 Pro and Pro Max. And new displays range from $279 to $379, depending on the model. Batteries are either $99 or, for the 16 Pro phones, $119. And if you don’t have the tools, you can always rent out one of Apple’s heavy, specialized repair kits for $49.Taking on a DIY iPhone repair isn’t quite as dicey as it once was, thanks to Apple’s gradual shift... Continue reading…

Image: Disney Star Wars spinoff Andor is finally coming back for its second and final season on Disney Plus April 22nd, 2025, Disney announced during its D23 event in Brazil yesterday. And in a clear nod to Rogue One, the 2016 film it’s setting up, it has a new logo with the subtitle “A Star Wars Story.”The new season will complete the so far excellent story of Cassian Andor’s (Diego Luna) transformation from street rat to hard-bitten rebel alliance spy in the lead-up to the events of Rogue One. Its 12-episode run will be broken up into blocks of three episodes, each covering three-day events taking place in a four-year period, as TheWrap notes. On April 22, 2025, #Andor returns to @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/c6P3pdNBi6— Star Wars (@starwars) N... Continue reading…

One of the big parts of parenting is teaching our kids how to behave in various situations, and that also includes the digital realm. Whether they're using a laptop for schoolwork, a Chromebook for in-class assignments, or using their first smartphone, it's important that our kids know how to stay safe online. Part of this is using inbuilt parental controls to limit exposure to the more salacious parts of the internet, but it's also about talking to our kids about ground rules, how to spot scams and other issues, and most importantly, that they can always come to us if they feel unsafe wherever they are.

When youre attempting to build your dream NAS, there are plenty of permutations and combinations you can try out for the hardware. The same can be said for software, as theres a staggering number of operating systems that can turn your newly purchased NAS components into a powerful storage server.

If you think of Microsoft Excel or spreadsheets in general, you probably think the software is only helpful for financial or statistical analysis in the workplace. After all, thats what the spreadsheet was originally created for. However, weve seen many less-than-typical uses of Microsoft Excel, and the truth is that your quality of life at home could easily be improved by using Excel for specific tasks.

Welcome to The Drive, a weekly column looking at some wacky, interesting, cool, and pivotal things within the tech space! Curated by PC Hardware Lead Editor Richard Edmonds through almost two decades covering the sector. Think something should be covered? Hit me up at [email protected]!

With its powerful linking capabilities, graph views, Markdown support, and focus on local storage, Obsidian has surely taken the note-taking space by storm. But like any software, its not a one-size-fits-all solution. Whether you want a better user interface, out-of-box features, or crave an open-source solution for transparency, there is a whole universe of Obsidian alternatives waiting to be explored.

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 60, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, it’s a lot of gaming stuff this week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been… doomscrolling about the election, if I’m honest. But let’s not talk about that. I’ve also been reading about shipwrecks and in-flight magazines and baseball bat influencers, making a bunch of lists in Listy, dusting off my Bluesky account as Threads becomes increasingly worse, logging a surprising number of hours in VR with Batman: Arkham Shadow, playing with tasks and notes in the Craft beta, seeing if I can replace Gmail with Thunderbird for Android, and trying really, really... Continue reading…

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge Popular music changes all the time, but there’s been one consistent element in practically everything released in the last two decades: Auto-Tune is everywhere. What started as a simple audio processing tool in the 1990s has become the dominant force in music. Artists are training to sing with Auto-Tune; songs sound like Auto-Tune. Like it or hate it, Auto-Tune is everywhere. And to be clear, most people like it.On this episode of The Vergecast, the second installment in our series about the future of music, music journalist and Switched on Pop co-host Charlie Harding tells us the story of Auto-Tune. (Disclosure: Switched on Pop is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network, as is The Vergecast.) It starts, of all places, in the oil and gas... Continue reading…