Transparent screens, touch-sensitive keyboards, and stylus support. | Image: Evan Blass / Lenovo Leaker Evan Blass has offered another look at Lenovo’s transparent laptop concept ahead of its presumed unveiling at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month. The new leaked press image shows two of the concept laptops on a desk, with one of the devices being visible through the transparent screen of another. This is our second look at the concept device, after WindowsReport published leaked press shots of it earlier this month.See-through screens aren’t exactly a new technology. They’ve been cropping up in concept devices for over a decade, and Samsung even showed off a transparent laptop concept back at CES 2010. But 14 years later it seems like companies are ready to actually commercialize the technology. We’ve already... Continue reading…

Collage of Stabie Cascade art | Stability AI Stability AI’s newest model for image generation is Stable Cascade promises to be faster and more powerful than its industry-leading predecessor, Stable Diffusion, which is the basis of many other text-to-image generation AI tools. Stable Cascade can generate photos and give variations of the exact image it created, or try to increase an existing picture’s resolution. Other text-to-image editing features include inpainting and outpainting, where the model will fill edit only a specific part of the image, as well as canny edge, where users can make a new photo just by using the edges of an existing picture. Image: Stability AI Stable Cascade images generated from the prompt “Cinematic photo of an anthropomorphic... Continue reading…

Google released the ChromeOS 117 update last September, and it's packed with several useful features. However, what many didn't notice when the update first rolled out was support for audible effects for power state changes in Chromebook devices. But now that it's here, Google has explained key details about how it developed those sound effects.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia surpassed Alphabet in market capitalization on Wednesday, only a day after it overtook Amazon. Bloomberg is reporting that the chip maker’s stock is now worth $1.83 trillion, beating the Google owner’s $1.82 market cap by a hair. This makes Nvidia the world’s fourth most valuable company in the wake of the AI boom, after Microsoft ($3.04T), Apple ($2.84T) and Saudi Aramco. The company is currently making the H100 chip, which powers the majority of LLMs in use today, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the majority of AI projects from Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon. The world’s largest tech companies are involved in an AI chip arms race, with each of them hoping to create their own GPU chip to topple Nvidia’s virtual monopoly. Ironically,... Continue reading…

We already have a comprehensive collection of the best CPUs, which details the various CPU options across different categories and workloads. However, gaming by itself deserves a dedicated list due to the sheer number of options and their more specialized use case. Things are now more exciting than ever for gamers, with some seriously strong contenders from both AMD's Ryzen 7000 series, Intel's 13th-generation CPUs, and the new 14th-generation refresh of Raptor Lake.

Previously, we saw a leak that suggested that Microsoft Build 2024 will go live on May 21st-23rd. As it turns out, the leak was dead on, as Microsoft has announced the dates for its Build 2024 event. However, the company has also given us a sneak peek at what we can expect from the event.

Following its successful deployment, the Nova-C spacecraft now faces a two-week journey to reach the Moon’s south pole. | Photo by GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images A robotic lunar lander built by private aerospace company Intuitive Machines was successfully launched by SpaceX on Thursday, with hopes of being the first American spacecraft to successfully touch down on the Moon’s surface since the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. The Nova-C lander named “Odysseus” was carried into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launched from Cape Canaveral at 1:05AM ET on February 15th.The launch was originally scheduled to take place on Wednesday but was delayed due to concerns regarding the temperature of the rocket’s methane fuel. Shortly after liftoff, SpaceX confirmed that the IM-1 mission’s Odysseus lander had been successfully deployed and that the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that delivered it into... Continue reading…

More than two dozen great products are already on sale ahead of the holiday, including Google’s Pixel Buds Pro. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Presidents Day has us thinking about the upcoming election season — not to mention the hotly contested debates and the inevitable onslaught of presidential memes, some of which are likely to be dangerously believable. Regardless of how you feel about politics, however, the holiday remains a great time to save, especially since many deals go beyond the furniture and big-name appliances that will dominate most circulars in the run-up to the holiday on Monday, February 19th.We’re already seeing tech sales pop up at trusted retailers like Amazon and Best Buy, where you can find great deals on the gadgets we’ve tried, tested, and wholeheartedly recommend. We’re seeing great prices on devices like Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Max and the Roomba... Continue reading…

Image: General Motors General Motors may be struggling when it comes to fully autonomous driving, but the company is still feeling bullish about the future of hands-free driving. Today, it announced plans to expand its Super Cruise advanced driver-assist system, which allows drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel on certain roads, to cover nearly double the number of miles it did before. Today, Super Cruise is operational on 400,000 miles of road in the US and Canada. The company plans on adding around 40,000 miles of new roads every quarter over the course of two years, so by the end of 2025, Super Cruise will cover approximately 750,000 miles in the US and Canada. Launched in 2017 with the Cadillac CT6, Super Cruise uses information from... Continue reading…

The best docking stations can solve your laptop's connectivity woes while also keeping your devices charged for when you need to leave the office. Many of the best laptops on the market today have shrunk to a size where a wide collection of ports simply isn't possible. While you can add hubs, dongles, and adapters to your workflow, the more elegant and permanent solution is a docking station.

Microsoft is going back to basics with the Windows 11 Widgets board, giving users the option to remove the news feed from view. In Windows 11 build 26058, which began rolling out to Insiders in the Dev and Canary channels earlier this week, there's now an option for a widgets-only view, which should be available to all users in the coming months.

You probably know what processor you have inside your PC, but do you know what brand and model the motherboard is? I thought not, which is why I've written this handy guide to help you quickly check. The process takes a minute or two, depending on which method you choose. The motherboard is the most vital component inside your PC. It's what connects all the various parts together, including the CPU, GPU, storage drives, and RAM.