Qualcomm is held its Computex 2024 keynote, focusing on its fresh new Snapdragon X Elite chipsets and Copilot+, as expected. Indeed, the big launch for all of that was just a couple of weeks ago, so there's not much to say that's new.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is testing “ad breaks” that force you to stop and look at an ad for a period of time before you can continue scrolling. Several X and Reddit users reported seeing the feature, and Instagram spokesperson Matthew Tye confirmed to The Verge that ad breaks are being tested. Tye said Instagram would “provide updates should this test result in any formal product changes.”One Redditor spotted the feature when scrolling through stories and posts. After a certain amount of scrolling, Instagram prevented them from going further until they looked at an ad. As shown in the screenshot, Instagram displays an “ad break” icon with a countdown timer that shows how long until you can start scrolling again.When the user tapped the icon for... Continue reading…

Today at Computex, AMD is announcing its Ryzen 9000 family of processors, based on the Zen 5 architecture. As usual, there are four SKUs to start with, and the main story is that there's a 16% improvement in IPC over the last generation.

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge A year after Spotify first increased the price of Spotify Premium in the US, it’s happening again. Next month subscribers to Spotify in the US will start receiving an email detailing the price increases to Premium, Duo, and Family plans. Spotify Premium will now cost $11.99 a month, up from the $10.99 increase announced last year.If you’re a subscriber to Spotify Duo then it’s jumping $2 a month, from $14.99 to $16.99 a month. Family will also increase from $16.99 a month to $19.99 a month. That means the price of a Spotify Duo subscription has jumped by 30 percent in a year, compared to prices before last year’s hike. Spotify Family has also increased by 25 percent over the course of a year, with Spotify Premium up by 20 percent.“So... Continue reading…

With Qualcomm's Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs ready to launch, it's competitors don't want to be left out in the cold. AMD has begun announcing its next-gen Ryzen products at Computex today, which are based on Zen 5.

If you're looking for a smartphone but don't want an iPhone, naturally you'll be drawn to the top Android phones. Naturally, then, you will consider a Pixel. Once you've landed on a Pixel 8a, you'll still want to find some solid accessories to use with it.

There are many reasons why a sizeable number of people still use Windows 10. And what's even more concerning for Microsoft is that many people were recently found to be switching back from Windows 11 to Windows 10. If you're also considering switching simply because you don't like how Windows 11 looks and behaves, we now have the easiest way to bring back one of Windows 10's core components File Explorer.

Image: AMD AMD announced at Computex 2024 its next generation of Ryzen laptop processors for generative AI workloads: the Ryzen AI 300 Series. It’s a re-brand of its top-tier Ryzen 9 chips. The new naming convention still includes the HX suffix AMD introduced in 2022, but it doesn’t indicate how many watts of power the chip draws. Instead, HX will simply refer to “top of stack” or the best and fastest Ryzen AI 300 chip.The new Ryzen AI chips are built on AMD’s latest architectures for neural, integrated graphics, and general processing: XDNA2 for the NPU, RDNA 3.5 for the iGPU, which now has up to 16 compute units, and Zen 5 for the CPU. The first two processors in this series are the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365. Both have 50 TOPS NPU,... Continue reading…

One of the benefits to PC gaming is that you can upgrade your computer over time, to get the most value from your rig throughout the years. Whether you've upgraded to the latest graphics card, a new CPU, or simply swapped your PC build into a new case for a new look, upgrading also generates a stack of old PC hardware. Over a few generations of upgrades, that pile grows, and you might be wondering what to do with those spare parts. After all, you don't want them to end up in the landfill, but maybe you're not quite ready to let them go. We've got some options to give your old PC parts a new lease on life, with some cool projects that anyone can accomplish.

Image: Qualcomm Apple’s former “I’m a Mac” actor Justin Long defected to Intel a few years ago, and now he’s looking to switch to a Qualcomm-powered Windows PC. During Qualcomm’s Computex 2024 keynote today, Long appeared in a brief 30-second skit where he was bombarded by macOS notifications and nag screens causing him to start searching for a Snapdragon-powered PC instead.Justin Long used to star in Apple’s “Get a Mac” TV commercials nearly 20 years ago. Long took on the persona of a Mac guy, humorously mocking the PC guy (actor John Hodgman) for picking up viruses and spyware, or not having access to creative tools and being too focused on boring work stuff.“Things change,” jokes Long to camera, after searching for a Windows on Arm PC following... Continue reading…

With Computex 2024 now in full swing, we're seeing a lot of announcements from big names in the tech industry as they show off all they have to offer. Asus is no exception, and they've taken the time to show off their amazing range of laptops during the event, all of which are confirmed to be Copilot+ compatible. Best of all, there's a laptop for everyone, from professionals to gamers.

World-famous photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams (pictured, 1983) is best known for his black-and-white landscape photographs. | Photo by Barbara Alper/Getty Images Adobe found itself in hot water this weekend after the Ansel Adams estate publicly scolded the company for selling generative AI imitations of the late photographer’s work. On Friday, Adams’ estate posted a screenshot to Threads showing AI-generated images available on Adobe Stock that were labeled as “Ansel Adams-style,” telling Adobe it was “officially on our last nerve with this behavior.”While Adobe permits AI-generated images to be hosted and sold on its stock image platform, users are required to hold the appropriate rights or ownership over the content they upload. Adobe Stock’s Contributor Terms specifically prohibits content “created using prompts containing other artist names, or created using prompts otherwise intended to... Continue reading…