Apple's macOS Sequoia, otherwise known as macOS 15, has officially been announced as the follow-up to Sonoma. It's the first to feature new Apple Intelligence, Apple's take on AI, along with deep ChatGPT integration. It has tons of other cool features, too, like iPhone Mirroring that lets you view and interact with your iPhone from your Mac screen. What some users don't know is that you can test macOS Sequoia, as you can with all upcoming OS versions, prior to the public, stable release. All you have to do is install the beta version of macOS Sequoia on your compatible Mac (2019 or later iMac, 2022 or later Mac Studio, 2018 or later Mac Mini, 2019 or later Mac Pro, 2017 iMac Pro, 2020 or later MacBook Air, and 2018 or later MacBook Pro) by following the steps below. Note that Apple Intelligence features will only work on Apple Silicon Macs with an M1, M2, or M3 chip, not older Intel-based Macs.

Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk had a sexual relationship with a former SpaceX intern, who he later hired onto his executive team, according to The Wall Street Journal. He also had a sexual relationship with a second employee. And a third woman alleged that Musk asked her several times to have his children; she refused. He then denied her a raise and complained about her performance.One of the women who Musk had a sexual relationship also drew the ire of SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell, who accused her of having an affair with Shotwell’s husband. When the woman reported this to HR, HR told Shotwell. “Shotwell told the HR department at SpaceX that she wanted the woman removed from the office of the chief executive,” The Wall Street Journal wrote.The Journal’... Continue reading…

You really can't go wrong with a Dell XPS laptop. The brand's "eXtreme Performance System" line has been around for decades, and as you might expect, Dell has managed to refine these products to near perfection with sleek style and fantastic performance. For those reasons and more, the Dell XPS 14 is one of the best laptops you can buy in 2024.

Users registered in the Windows Insider program aren't the only people hit by bugs, stable Windows users also encounter them, though less frequently. The notorious VPN bug, for example, impacted both Windows 11 and 10 users, and it took Microsoft weeks to fix it. However, it now looks like the VPN issue wasn't the only bug that required Microsoft's attention.

After months of rumors and speculations, Apple officially unveiled iOS 18 at WWDC 2024. The beta OS is already available to try on eligible devices. While features like home screen customization options and Apple Intelligence dominated the presentation slides, Apple quietly included several handy add-ons to improve your day-to-day experience with your iPhone. Lets talk about the top hidden iOS 18 features and changes that Apple didn't actually mention on stage.

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge There were almost two different WWDCs this year. First, Apple did its classic platform whiparound, detailing all the new ways you can add stuff to your homescreen, share stuff with your friends, watch stuff on your TV, calculate stuff on your tablet, and more. In a normal year, that would have been the show. We would have talked about app icons for 45 minutes and gone home.The second act of WWDC was the Apple Intelligence show, in which Apple began to unveil its AI strategy. We saw a lot of features and ideas about how things might work — including a new and pretty exciting vision for Siri — but also got a sense of how Apple is planning to approach this potentially disruptive new category. We heard a lot of buzzwords! But also a lot of... Continue reading…

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify is getting ready to launch a premium add-on that offers access to high-fidelity audio, according to a report from Bloomberg. The new tier will reportedly cost $5 extra and will also come with tools to help users create playlists and manage music libraries.A source familiar with Spotify tells Bloomberg that users will be able to add the HiFi audio tier to their existing plans. If added to the Spotify Premium plan, which goes up in price to $11.99 next month, it will cost $16.99. Bloomberg reports that the add-on will also give users the ability to generate custom playlists for specific activities, dates, and times of year. The Verge reached out to Spotify with a request for comment but didn’t immediately hear back.Spotify... Continue reading…

In years gone by, you were crazy if you used a Windows machine without an anti-virus. Microsoft Defender was a passable-at-best firewall and that's about it, whereas even free anti-virus programs would run rings around Microsoft's own first-party option that's built into Windows. Nowadays that's no longer quite the case, and for most people, I'd argue that Microsoft Defender is more than good enough.

I entered into a relationship with what was known as RuneScape in 2004. I say this because that's precisely how the last two decades have felt. It has been a love/hate relationship with sporadic breaks here and there, some lasting many years. I always return to the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) at some point when coming across some RuneScape content on YouTube or having an urge to fire up one of my accounts. My wife even created an account to see what all the fuss is about with a Displate poster present on the office wall.

The Jabra Elite 10 gen 2 wireless earbuds (pictured) will still be available, serving as a final farewell to the Elite lineup. | Image: Jabra Immediately after introducing upgraded versions of its Elite 10 and Elite 8 Active earbuds, Jabra says it’s departing the consumer earbuds market entirely. Jabra’s parent company GN announced that it’s winding down its Elite and Talk audio product ranges in order to “increase focus and resources on more attractive parts” of its business, citing the rising costs of competition.“The markets have changed over time, and it is today our assessment that we cannot generate a fair return on investment compared to the many other opportunities we have within our Hearing, Enterprise, and Gaming businesses,” said GN CEO Peter Karlstromer. “I am very grateful to our retail partners, who have supported us on the Elite and Talk product lines, as well... Continue reading…

Intel and AMD have been competing with each other for decades, relentlessly pushing the computing industry forward with the best CPUs for every kind of user. While Intel was (and still is) the top dog in the data center market, AMD has transformed from being an afterthought to competing head-to-head with its longstanding rival.

Most users are probably used to doing things on our PCs with the mouse, only using the keyboard to type when necessary. But using keyboard shortcuts can frankly be a huge boost to productivity, as some of these shortcuts provide significantly faster ways to do things that can eat up your time. Even if you're a more casual user, shortcuts like Ctrl + C are hugely helpful.