With Intel in the middle of an AI-based hardware race, it's pulling out as many stops as it can. We've seen it discuss how it wants to achieve 100 TOPS of AI performance in its next generation of CPUs, but it also wants to discuss what it's up to with its new Xeon processors. Turns out, Intel has been hard at work ensuring that its Xeon 6 chips can handle AI workloads, improving its performance by 17x over four years.

Evernote, once a darling of digital note-takers, has been through tough times due to growing criticism from the community. The company replaced its native apps with below-average Electron solutions, hiked subscription prices, and crippled the free plan with a number of limitations, the latest of which permits connection to only a single device. If you are fed up with Evernotes subpar experience and looking to jump ship, you have come to the right place.

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A French investigative judge has charged Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with enabling illegal transactions among other alleged offenses, according to reports from NBC News and Le Monde. Durov had been arrested Saturday as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse material and other criminal activity on Telegram.French prosecutors will release Durov under judicial supervision on a €5 million bail, but he won’t be allowed to leave France. As noted by Le Monde, Durov also faces charges of refusing to comply with authorities and complicity in the criminal distribution of CSAM.Durov was arrested as he deplaned in Paris on a warrant issued by France’s OFMIN agency that’s tasked with preventing violence against minors. An agency official... Continue reading…

More data than ever is being generated at home and in offices and network-attached storage (NAS) has proven a reliable method of storing everything in a single location. They're essentially high-capacity storage servers without all the technical overhead. If you're unfamiliar with server management, a NAS enclosure can be an entry point to store lots of data without getting your hands dirty. Just about any device can connect and transfer data to the NAS, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktop PCs, and other storage services. But how do you choose a NAS? Here are some handy pointers to bear in mind when shopping around.

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Yelp, one of Google’s most persistent and outspoken rivals, has finally filed its own antitrust lawsuit against the search giant, less than a month after a federal judge ruled Google an illegal monopolist.Yelp alleges that Google has created or preserved its monopoly in local search services by preferencing its own inferior vertical over competitors’, which Yelp says harmed competition and reduced the quality of local search services. Yelp claims that the way Google directs users toward its own local search vertical from its general search engine results page should be considered illegal tying of separate products to keep rivals from reaching scale.Yelp wants the court to order Google to stop the allegedly anticompetitive conduct and... Continue reading…

When building your new PC, the power supply unit (PSU) will provide power to all connected components. Be it your motherboard, CPU, RAM, SSDs, GPU, and case fans. They all draw power through the PSU. It's vital to spend a good amount of money on the PSU and purchase one from a reputable brand to ensure you have adequate protection and it's reliable for daily use. This is the only barrier between the national grid and your expensive PC parts.

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The California State Assembly has passed the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act (SB 1047), Reuters reports. The bill is one of the first significant regulations of artificial intelligence in the US.The bill, which has been a flashpoint for debate in Silicon Valley and beyond, would obligate AI companies operating in California to implement a number of precautions before they train a sophisticated foundation model. Those include making it possible to quickly and fully shut the model down, ensuring the model is protected against “unsafe post-training modifications,” and maintaining a testing procedure to evaluate whether a model or its derivatives is especially at risk of “causing or enabling a... Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge Apple Music subscribers can now transfer their playlists over to YouTube Music, according to a recent support document spotted by MacRumors. Up until now, Apple did not offer native tools for transferring playlists to rival music services, making YouTube Music the first.There are some caveats, however. Only songs available on YouTube Music can be transferred over, which means you won’t be able to migrate audio files like podcasts or audiobooks. You also can’t transfer curated or non-collaborative shared playlists, music files, or the folders you’ve created to organize playlists in Apple Music. To move your playlists over to YouTube Music, you must have an active ‌Apple Music‌ or iTunes Match subscription, as well as an active YouTube... Continue reading…

Google's Pixel phones are considered second-to-none in the camera department, as they take advantage of the company's amazing software to produce stunning shots using unique features. The Pixel phones particularly excel in low-light photography, thanks to the Night Sight feature that debuted in 2018.

Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Untangling companies’ environmental claims these days can be a head-spinning endeavor, and reading Meta’s latest sustainability report is no exception. Depending on how you look at it, the company’s greenhouse gas emissions either grew or fell last year.Depending on how you look at it, the company’s greenhouse gas emissions either grew or fell last yearConfused? The discrepancy has to do with whether you’re assessing total or net emissions and, crucially, whether you’re considering the local impact Meta has in places where it operates.It helps to take a look at the graph below from the sustainability report. The light gray bars show Meta’s total “location-based” greenhouse gas emissions. Those bars have risen steadily since 2019,... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sonos has released an update to its app as it attempts to reverse the fallout from a disastrous redesign. But while the update adds enhanced accessibility settings and improved stability during the product setup process, the update addresses just a fraction of user complaints.Sonos is reintroducing the ability to clear your music queue on the Android app — a feature that’s been sorely missed since the app’s relaunch. It also added a Night Mode toggle for sound bars, which enhances dialogue without you having to turn up the volume on your TV.There’s still plenty of room for improvement, and Sonos has a long list of features to add in its queue. Since the app’s controversial redesign in May, Sonos CEO Patrick Spence apologized for... Continue reading…

The ThinQ On is LGs new smart home hub. A smart speaker, it uses generative AI for conversational commands and control of connected devices. | Image: LG LG has announced the ThinQ ON, the company’s first dedicated smart home hub. The device, which was teased at CES earlier this year, will debut at the IFA 2024 tech show in Berlin, Germany, next week. The ThinQ ON is an AI-powered hub that can connect and control LG appliances and other smart home devices via Thread, Matter, and Wi-Fi. It works on LG’s ThinQ smart home platform and uses LG’s Affectionate Intelligence to learn from your usage patterns, monitor your appliances, and allow for voice control of connected devices.A small, circular white hub, the LG ThinQ ON is also a smart speaker with LG’s AI voice assistant onboard. The company says the assistant can understand natural language, interpret context, and learn user... Continue reading…