Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images TikTok — an app used to by 170 million Americans — now has its future resting in the hands of three judges. The company fought for its life during oral arguments on Monday only for the judges to express a great deal of skepticism towards TikTok’s case. Attorneys for TikTok and a group of creators suing to block the law popularly known as “the TikTok ban” made their case before a panel of three judges on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Though the bill seeks a divestment of the app from its Chinese owner ByteDance by a January 19th deadline, the company says the ultimatum is in truth a ban that would stifle the speech of TikTok and its creators, and improperly limit the information Americans are able to receive.The Department of Justice... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s official: Amazon’s second Prime Day event of the year will take place at the beginning of October. The two-day shopping event — which Amazon is calling Prime Big Deal Days for the second year in a row — will begin at 12:01AM PT / 3:01AM ET on Tuesday, October 8th, and run through Wednesday, October 9th, the company announced on Tuesday.Like last year, Amazon is running the 48-hour promo in an attempt to jumpstart the holiday shopping season, giving Amazon Prime members another chance outside of Prime Day proper to save on everything from home goods to everyday essentials. Although we typically see the lowest sale prices during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Amazon’s fall sale often provides solid deals on a range of tech, including... Continue reading…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images JD Vance almost gave the game away. In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday, the Republican vice presidential candidate came close to acknowledging that rumors about Haitian migrants eating cats in Springfield, Ohio, are completely fabricated — and then backtracked, saying the rumors are true after all.“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,” Vance said. When Bash asked him to clarify whether he created the story, Vance made an about-face, claiming he had heard “firsthand accounts” from his constituents. “I say that we’re creating a story meaning that we’re creating the American media focusing on it,” Vance... Continue reading…

Intel is not the giant it was a decade ago, and its Q2 2024 earnings proved it. After losing 30% of its stock overnight, the company has been looking for ways to recover and re-establish dominance in the chip market. Recently, there were rumors that Intel was considering splitting itself in two to help manage costs. Now, the CEO has stepped forward and confirmed that it's happening.

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge iOS 18 introduces more customization and paves the way for Apple Intelligence. Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Intel is spinning off its chipmaking business as part of its plans to reverse billions in losses and a tumbling stock price. In an announcement on Monday, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said the Intel Foundry will become an independent subsidiary with “clearer separation and independence” from Intel.With the change, the Intel Foundry will have its own operating board and report its financial earnings separately from Intel. Intel will also stop work on the factories it’s building in Poland and Germany for two years “based on anticipated market demand.” The company is still moving forward with its plants in Arizona, Oregon, New Mexico, and Ohio, however.Additionally, Intel plans on selling part of its stake in Altera, the programmable chip... Continue reading…

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images After a disclaimer that nothing we’d hear tonight is financial or legal advice, followed by a 40-minute interview with former President Donald Trump — which touched on the apparent attempt on his life at a Florida golf course, the border, the “evil forces” conspiring against him, and his granddaughter’s foreign language skills — and subsequent conversations with Trump’s sons and associates, the X Space dedicated to announcing Trump’s “crypto platform” more or less got to the point.The goal of World Liberty Financial, Trump’s new decentralized finance project, is to drive “the mass adoption of stablecoins and decentralized finance,” according to a statement posted on its X account earlier this month. But over the course of the lengthy... Continue reading…

Microsoft OneDrive is a great alternative to Dropbox or Google Drive for storing your important files safely in the cloud. The files you store in OneDrive can be accessed from any computer you use through a web interface, or via the dedicated Windows or Mac OneDrive app. You can also access those files from your iPhone or Android device.

With the artificial intelligence sector continuing to thrive, weve seen plenty of creativity and productivity-oriented apps add AI-powered features to their arsenal of tools and services. This includes the ultra-useful generative fill facility Adobe integrated into Photoshop back in 2023. If youre unfamiliar with this game-changing feature, generative fill leverages the Adobe Firefly model to simplify the process of editing images. Besides allowing you to switch backgrounds, generative fill lets you add and even delete entire objects from a photo!

When buying a gaming PC, you have mostly standard pricing across manufacturers, as well as on sites like PCPartPicker to help you determine the right price based on individual components. In contrast, when it's finally time to sell your PC, there's no single source of truth to determine the resale value of your beloved machine. Selling PC hardware involves a fair amount of guesswork where the resale market dynamics dictate a lot of the pricing.

Image: The Verge OpenAI is turning its Safety and Security Committee into an independent “Board oversight committee” that has the authority to delay model launches over safety concerns, according to an OpenAI blog post. The committee made the recommendation to make the independent board after a recent 90-day review of OpenAI’s “safety and security-related processes and safeguards.”The committee, which is chaired by Zico Kolter and includes Adam D’Angelo, Paul Nakasone, and Nicole Seligman, will “be briefed by company leadership on safety evaluations for major model releases, and will, along with the full board, exercise oversight over model launches, including having the authority to delay a release until safety concerns are addressed,” OpenAI says.... Continue reading…

With iOS 18 and Halide’s recent update, the third-party camera app can now be opened without unlocking an iPhone. | Image: Sebastiaan de With Halide users who’ve upgraded their iPhones to iOS 18 are now able to quickly access the advanced camera app directly from their phone’s lockscreen without having to unlock it first. Previously, only the native iOS camera app could be conveniently accessed that way.Although Halide offers advanced features like manual shutter speed adjustments and a “Process Zero” option that delivers images without any AI processing, accessing Apple’s camera app was always faster thanks to its lockscreen shortcut. Halide could be made accessible through a lockscreen widget, but actually getting into the third-party camera app required an iPhone to be unlocked using Face ID, Touch ID, or by entering a passcode. Screenshot: Halide H... Continue reading…