This monitor is one of our favorites and is considered one of the best ultrawide monitors that you can buy in 2024. Not only do you get a fantastic QD-OLED panel that offers impressive and vibrant colors, but you also get an immersive curve that really keeps you in the action whether you're playing games or watching movies.

The new protections for blurring nude images will start rolling out globally in the coming weeks. | Image: Meta Instagram is preparing to roll out a new safety feature that blurs nude images in messages, as part of efforts to protect minors on the platform from abuse and sexually exploitative scams. Announced by Meta on Thursday, the new feature — which both blurs images detected to contain nudity and discourages users from sending them — will be enabled by default for teenage Instagram users, as identified by the birthday information on their account. A notification will also encourage adult users to turn it on.These efforts follow longstanding criticism that platforms like Facebook and Instagram have caused harm to their youngest users, from harming children’s mental health and body image, to knowingly platforming abusive parents and creating... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber has launched a new safety preferences section that gathers all of Uber’s safety tools in one place and lets users schedule them to switch on automatically.Some of the safety tools you can customize include audio recording — which saves encrypted audio of the trip that Uber can use to investigate reported incidents — and PIN verification, so you can ensure you’re entering the right vehicle. You can also share your live location and ride details with people you trust via ShareMyTrip, while RideCheck notifies Uber when a ride suddenly stops or goes off-course.You can choose to activate all of Uber’s safety features by default for every ride or customize your settings based on time and location. For example, you can set it to turn on... Continue reading…

Android 15 is in the works, and we've already had two developer previews arrive. They've both been pretty small updates though with quality-of-life improvements for the platform, and now our first Android 15 beta is arriving. Just like the developer previews before it, this is a pretty small update, but there's probably a lot more under the hood.

The CPU (central processing unit) is one of the most important components inside a PC. It's what largely determines how much processing power will be available for tasks such as gaming and running software. Choosing the right processor is a complex decision to make, but buying the best CPU is crucial as it plays an intricate role in deciding how well your PC performs on different workloads, how well it runs games, and more. There's a good argument to make for focusing your PC on Intel right now, as even on the laptop side, you'll find many of the best RTX 4090 laptops with Intel chips.

The countdown to Google I/O starts now. | Image: The Verge / Android Android 15’s first public beta is available to download now, provided you have a Pixel phone and a bit of a sense of adventure. It’s the first consumer-facing release after two developer previews, and while we have a good idea of what to expect from Google’s next mobile OS version, we’ll certainly hear more at the company’s annual developer conference soon enough.The blog post highlighting updates in today’s release covers some pretty pedestrian stuff. Apps will scale edge to edge by default and will draw behind translucent system bars on the top and bottom of the screen, rather than around them. There’s OS-level support for app archiving and unarchiving so third-party app stores can take advantage of this feature. Android 15 will also... Continue reading…

DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo is announcing a new bundled subscription service, Privacy Pro, that offers an additional layer of privacy beyond its existing offerings. Users who pay $9.99 per month will get access to a VPN that uses the open-source WireGuard protocol, on-device personal information removal, and 24/7 identity theft restoration. While users of DuckDuckGo’s private browser and/or search engine are no fans of online tracking, PrivacyPro seems geared towards the most cautious of its user-base — who are also willing to pay extra for an encrypted internet connection. DuckDuckGo’s full array of offerings have long been free to use, including its browser, search engine, various plug-ins, even its email protection service. PrivacyPro is the... Continue reading…

I love Google Photos, but I recognize that what it offers isn't for everyone. It's handing your data over to a third party that many people aren't comfortable with, and it's unknown just how much of your data is being used by Google to train their own AI models. Because of that, you may want to host your own Google Photos alternative, and if you have a NAS, you can do exactly that.

Dyson wants to make cleaning fun again, but I was already having fun letting the robots do it. | Image: Dyson Dyson has developed a new feature that uses your smartphone’s augmented reality sensors to virtually paint over areas you’ve vacuumed, so you can see if you’ve missed a spot. The feature, called CleanTrace, uses the lidar scanner found on Pro or Pro Max iPhones 12 and newer and requires you to attach your phone to the vacuum. For now, the $1,000 Gen5detect is the only dust sucker in Dyson’s ranks that will accept the smartphone clamp, which will be sold separately. We’re not yet sure how much it’ll cost. Dyson is planning to add the feature to its mobile app as a free update when it launches this June.CleanTrace exists because “consumers are haphazard and inefficient – regularly overing the same areas multiple times and missing other... Continue reading…

For $699 and $24 a month, this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. There’s only one problem: it just doesn’t work. Continue reading…

The new 2024 VanMoof S5 in Amsterdam where the majority of this UK-owned company still works. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Big question: can you trust the new company to build a better S5 and A5 electric bike? Continue reading…

Lenovo has brought some impressive upgrades with the new ThinkPad T14 Gen 5. Between the integrated NPU, the new Communications Bar, and new TrackPoint Quick Menu, there is a lot to like about this new notebook. But you’ll still need a proper docking station if you want the same rich I/O options as a desktop. These are some of the best docking stations for easily pairing your Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 with all your essential peripherals.