The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, showing off its cameras. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge How does Samsung defend itself against the notion that its phone cameras are spitting out fake AI photos of not only the Moon, but most anything else you’d care to aim them at these days? For starters, the company’s head of product is saying that every photo is fake. Samsung EVP Patrick Chomet told TechRadar recently:There was a very nice video by Marques Brownlee last year on the moon picture. Everyone was like, ‘Is it fake? Is it not fake?’ There was a debate around what constitutes a real picture. And actually, there is no such thing as a real picture. As soon as you have sensors to capture something, you reproduce [what you’re seeing], and it doesn’t mean anything. There is no real picture. You can try to define a real picture by... Continue reading…

Laptops are tools that often come along with you on the go, and interact with a number of different foreign objects that can make them dirty. It's important to keep them clean, because aside from looking sharp, a clean laptop is poised to better hold up over time. Things like dust, crumbs, hair, and even skin oils can not only make your laptop look dirty, but can also cause damage. If you find that your laptop doesn't look the cleanest, you might not know where to start. Using some types of cleaners and tools to freshen up your laptop can do more harm than good, which is why some of the best laptops today aren't cleaned as often as they should be.

Callum at home NOT annoying his partner. | Photo by Callum Booth / The Verge As convenient as e-readers are, I can’t quit actual books. Maybe it’s their reassuring weight, the satisfying crinkle of their pages, their beguiling musk; but there’s something addictive about that combination of paper, ink, and glue.Despite this — and as much as it pains me to say it — physical books aren’t perfect. One issue that’s been a particularly large albatross around my neck is reading in low-light environments. When I do so, I’m either keeping my partner awake with a blazing bedside lamp, twisting my body into awkward positions to illuminate the pages, or — worst of all — having to turn on the dreaded Big Light.But you know what? That’s all history. I’ve seen the light! More specifically, a neck light. And the longer I use... Continue reading…

Node.js is a very popular Javascript runtime environment used on a lot of web applications these days. As a developer, you're probably already familiar with the tool, but one thing that's important to keep in mind is that there are multiple versions of Node.js out there, and they can produce different results or have compatibility issues in projects that were designed for a different version. The Node Version Manager (NVM) allows you to manage and install multiple Node.js versions on your PC, so you can use them as you need to without any hassle.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Allegations that Tesla mishandled hazardous waste point to a systemic failure at the company’s California facilities. This was no simple accident or one-off event. No less than 25 counties sued Tesla this week for allegedly illegally disposing of hazardous waste. Within a couple days, the Elon Musk-led company agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle the suit that says the company “intentionally” and “negligently” disposed of materials that should have been handled with care.Waste management experts tell The Verge that a large company like Tesla should have known better. On top of the trouble it’s facing in California, the company might even have run afoul of federal regulations for handling hazardous waste.“That’s pretty egregious in my... Continue reading…

If only I hadn’t already dived headfirst into Apple’s lovely computing world. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Once upon a time, I bought a Surface Pro only to return it less than a month later. At the time, I felt it was a niche device lacking the foundational integrity of an iPad or a MacBook. I’ve grown a newfound respect for the Surface Pro line with the maturing of Windows, however, and now find the 2-in-1 nicely occupies the middle ground between a tablet and laptop. If I needed one today, Best Buy’s deal on the Surface Pro 9 with a 12th-gen Intel Core i5 chipset, 16GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and a Surface Pro Keyboard might win me over. It’s going for $999.99 ($540 off), after all, which matches its all-time low.My favorite thing about the Surface Pro 9 compared to traditional 2-in-1s is that you can use it as a tablet without the heft... Continue reading…

It's up for debate whether Apple's efforts to expand self-service repair have been of its own volition or are the result of increasing pressure from right-to-repair advocates and regulators. Regardless, one thing is clear: Apple's recent repair offerings are big wins for consumers. Earlier this month, Apple announced that it would expand its Self-Service Repair Program to give end users access to its internal diagnostic tools. This move can potentially be the most impactful right-to-repair feature Apple has shipped to date, but is it as good as it sounds? To find out, we tested it on a 15-inch MacBook Air.

YouTube, now on the Vision Pro. | Image: Christian Selig Google said it isn’t putting out a YouTube app for Apple’s new Vision Pro headset, so a third-party developer has stepped in to make one instead. Juno is the work of Christian Selig, the developer behind the now defunct Reddit app Apollo. It costs $4.99 and is already available from Apple’s App Store.Although it’s an unofficial third-party app, Juno supports most of the features you’d expect out of a native YouTube app. You can watch videos (obviously), scrub and skip through them using pinch gestures, and it’ll even respect the videos’ aspect ratios. Browsing YouTube’s catalog is also supported (though you can’t see video comments), and Juno is also set up to show YouTube ads to avoid making Google “grumpy,” Selig writes.Juno... Continue reading…

Windows 11, much like prior versions of the operating system, lets you use multiple accounts on the same computer, so if you have a desktop PC the entire family uses, you can separate each person's data to make things easier. But then you might not need those different accounts anymore, so you may want to delete them. Thankfully, that's fairly easy to do, and there are a few ways to go about it.

Some of the best laptops available today feature a dedicated (sometimes called discrete) graphics card (GPU) that can deliver much more performance compared to integrated processor (CPU) graphics. You'll find a GPU in the majority of high-end gaming laptops, as well as most that are used for development and design work; the extra performance unlocks the ability to use more intensive apps and games, and you can do it all while remaining mobile.

Image: Samsung Seeing something on my phone screen that I want to know more about is a regular occurrence, and Google always wants to make it easier to get to, well, Google. And so we have Circle to Search, a new way of looking up information on mobile devices.The idea is pretty simple — and in fact, simplicity is its main selling point. In a video, Samsung (which makes one of the phones that has this feature) gives the example of someone who sees an orange dog lamp in an image, and instead of running a text search describing what they’re looking at, they find out they can just circle the lamp with their finger to get matches from the web.Shopping is the obvious use case here, but you can also identify plants and animals, look up words, and get... Continue reading…

If you've been thinking about taking your home theater setup to the next level, you're going to want to check out this fantastic deal on TCL's monster 98-inch 4K TV. While its sheer size is something to marvel at, this TV also delivers when it comes to performance and features. Although this TV has a normal retail price that sits at $4999.99, it's now been discounted by a massive 60%, dropping the price to just $1998. If that wasn't enough, Best Buy is offering free delivery, setup and mounting for a limited time.