The first two Pixel Watches were playing catch-up. Now, Google’s starting to flesh out its wearable vision. Continue reading…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple heavily sprinkled mentions of AI throughout its iPhone 16 event on Monday. However, generative Apple Intelligence features won’t be ready for the public launch of iOS 18 on September 16th or the new iPhones when they’re released on September 20th.The first set of Apple’s AI features is scheduled for public availability next month in most regions — except the EU — as part of a beta test for iPhone 15 Pro and all iPhone 16s, plus Macs and iPads with M1 or higher Apple Silicon chips. At launch, they’ll be available in US English only.What’s coming to Apple Intelligence in OctoberWriting ToolsText Rewrite: Text Rewrite will morph your email writing draft into a more professional one, and you can change the tone to be friendly or... Continue reading…

The new pause option for iOS 18 can be seen here underneath the recording button. | Image: Tom Warren / The Verge Apple has added a new Camera app feature in the latest iOS 18 beta that gives iPhone users a dedicated option to pause video recordings. The feature, spotted by 9to5Mac, is coming to all iOS 18-supported iPhone models when the OS update is released on September 16th, unlike the wider “Camera Control” tools that are exclusive to the iPhone 16.The feature will finally enable iPhones to film multiple shots in a single video instead of the current process that requires users to take separate recordings that must be edited together. When updated to iOS 18, a pause button is added to the Camera app which changes to a Record button when users have actively paused their video recording. Users can also switch between camera lenses while a... Continue reading…

The Flipper Zero has been around for a few years now, releasing in August 2020. While it's since made waves globally, an announced successor mysteriously disappeared and hasn't been heard about since. The Flipper team has still been actively supporting the Flipper One this entire time, and now the device's big 1.0 update is finally here. And it is big.

Sure, it's expensive, but in exchange you get a phone that unfolds like a napkin. | Image: Huawei After weeks of teasing, Huawei has officially launched the world’s first dual-hinged, triple-screen foldable phone and it’s just as expensive as we feared. In China, prices for the Mate XT Ultimate Design start at 19,999 yuan (about $2,809) for the 256GB storage model — that’s roughly $300 more than a brand-new 16-inch MacBook Pro.All models are equipped with 16GB of RAM, and two additional storage variants are available that cost 21,999 yuan (about $3,089) for 512GB and 23,999 yuan (about $3,370) for 1TB. Chinese retailer Vmall reported 3.7 million preorders before pricing was announced.The Mate XT features an inverse dual-hinge design that folds in a “Z” shape, allowing it to be used in a variety of formats. The OLED display measures... Continue reading…

In the world of modern computing architectures, the vast majority of people will only ever interact with Arm or x64_64 these days. There are other architectures out there as well, but none that are really as pervasive in day-to-day life. However, one architecture known as RISC-V has been growing over the years. It's an open-standard ISA that anyone can modify and implement, making it a particularly interesting one that could challenge Arm in the long run. Now, the developers of Box64 have managed to get The Witcher 3 running on a RISC-V CPU with an AMD Radeon RX550.

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance — a vocal proponent of conspiracy theories about immigrants “replacing” Americans — is now spreading misinformation about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio killing family pets and protected wildlife. “Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country,” Vance posted on X on Monday, echoing an unsubstantiated rumor that took off on right-wing social media over the weekend. The unnamed “reports” Vance cites are likely from Infowars or the Daily Mail, both of which published thinly sourced posts about Haitian migrants eating pets and wildlife. Both publications reference a Facebook post in which someone claims their neighbor’s... Continue reading…

Keeping backups of your game saves is always a good idea, just in case something goes wrong. Whether you corrupted the save file or you just accidentally killed off an important NPC, a backup save can come to the rescue. Setting up backup saves for non-Steam games on the Steam Deck is a little tricky, given how they won't play nicely with the Steam Cloud. However, a third-party developer has added a way to automatically back up your non-Steam game saves, and cloud saves are on the way.

Trade shows are some of the most fun times of the year, and IFA 2024 was no different. This time around, Berlin was home to some huge announcements, including brand-new processors from Intel and Qualcomm, which set a lot of things in motion. And of course, we had some of our favorites. So, without further ado, let's dive right into the best of IFA 2024.

A photo of the disc drive on the slim PS5. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Today may have marked the beginning of the end for game console disc drives. Sony finally announced the $699.99 PS5 Pro, and while it looks to be an impressive machine, it’s the first PlayStation console that will require you to buy the console and a separate disc drive if you want to play your physical games.Sony’s offered disc-free variants before and inched in this direction with the PS5 “slim,” which you can buy with the separate disc drive already attached or add a disc drive to later. But with the PS5 Pro, you’ll have to get a separate PS5 disc drive, whether that means you buy it for $79.99 or swap a disc drive from a slim PS5 to a PS5 Pro. Microsoft is clearly eyeing the discless direction with Xbox as well. The more affordable... Continue reading…

The standard Galaxy Buds 3 can’t go toe-to-toe with the pro-grade model, but they do offer many of the same features. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s forthcoming AirPods 4 might be the latest pair of wireless earbuds to pique our interest, but if you’re a Galaxy phone owner, it’s hard to resist the appeal of the Galaxy Buds 3. And now, thanks to the latest Discover Samsung event, you can pick them up for $159.99 ($20 off) through September 15th from either Best Buy or Samsung.Like the Galaxy Buds 2 before them, Samsung’s latest earbuds will likely become a default pick for Android phone owners with time. Regardless of whether Samsung will admit it, the Buds 3 take heavy design cues from Apple’s now-ubiquitous AirPods, resulting in an angular stemmed look instead of the more discrete design of earlier models. They sport swipe and pinch-based gestures for controlling playback,... Continue reading…

Popsicles or lightsabers — your choice. | Image: Lifx Lifx has a new smart “Polychrome” Tube light that can glow with multiple colors and transform your home lamps and fixtures into fun light-up popsicles. The bulbs are made of a frosted glass tube and contain 104 LEDs with 52 controllable zones that enable color-shifting effects and include themes like cracking fire in “Flame Mode” or a lava lamp effect in “Morph Mode.”The accompanying app also lets you “paint” colors on the bulb surface for a more custom look for your room. Lifx is also releasing a new B10 Polychrome candlelight that has similar features to the tube, including the E26 standard bulb socket so that it can fit in the most common existing lamps or many newer specialty ones (the existing model has E12 tips). ... Continue reading…