K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images The Wall Street Journal wrote on Thursday that MGM Resorts International didn’t pay the ransomware attackers who broke into its systems last month, forcing the company to shut down systems at several of its hotels and casinos. The hack kept many waiting to check into their rooms, including FTC chair Lina Kahn, who was in Las Vegas, Nevada to attend meetings about a merger between Kroger and Albertsons.MGM said in a press release that hackers made off with customer data, including names, contact information, date of birth, and driver’s license numbers, as well as a “limited number” of customers’ social security numbers, passport numbers, or both.The company didn’t specify how many people were affected by the hack, but according to its... Continue reading…

Thanks to MagSafe, today's best iPhones have an array of magnets around the wireless charging coil. This awesome feature makes it possible for a range of exciting accessories to fasten magnetically directly to your device. MagSafe wireless chargers or battery packs can replenish your phone through Qi charging, and when out and about, MagSafe wallets are a great place to keep your credit cards.

Google has finally unveiled the Pixel 8 at the Made by Google event, and the flagship device has all the markings of a great smartphone. While the $100 price hike on the new Pixel smartphones can be a bummer, Google has made tons of upgrades to the processor, camera, and display, so the higher pricing is somewhat justified.

The Lenovo Legion 9i is one of the most powerful gaming laptops to date. With its super powerful specs, and its own self-contained water cooling system *mind exploding emoji*, it's going to be difficult to put this incredible machine down. Of course, if you are going to be gaming all day, you’re going to need a powerful charger to keep downtime to a minimum. What’s great about the Legion 9i, aside from all its other powerful specs, is it has multiple charging options. There’s a proprietary power port as well as USB-C charging available. To keep this amazing laptop up and running, here is a quick rundown of the best chargers for the Lenovo Legion 9i.

The next Apple Vision headset could get built-in prescriptions. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg today that a future Apple virtual reality headset could be smaller and lighter, and each unit could ship customized from the factory for people with impaired vision. With the first-generation Vision Pro, the company’s solution for glasses wearers is to stock optional Zeiss-made lenses in its retail stores, which creates its own problems with managing the supply, and turning its electronics store into a health provider. The article points out how fraught tying a product to a custom display could be, given how prescriptions can change with time and how it would limit the ability to share the headset or resell it.But Apple has almost certainly already thought about this, and... Continue reading…

Image: A24 During World War II, the Germans designated the area surrounding Auschwitz the “zone of interest.” The dullness of the phrase was intentional, another euphemism as operative as “concentration camp.”In Jonathan Glazer’s sorta adaptation of Martin Amis’ eponymous novel, this self-delusion is on display. Hedwig Höss (Sandra Hüller) runs a stately home. She raises her children, bosses maids around, and tends to the garden. Their house is on a plot beside Auschwitz. Jews are being slaughtered on the other side of the wall.Whereas Amis’ novel fictionalized its characters, Glazer centers it on the real-life Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), the commandant of the camp and a rising star in the Nazi party. A powerful and frightening early scene... Continue reading…

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is looking down the road at a follow-up to the Quest 3, which is releasing this week, and plans to take cues from Apple’s Vision Pro while it races to mainstream its VR tech. That’s according to Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, who writes that the company’s Quest headset marketing plans have changed in response to Apple’s Vision Pro announcement earlier this year. Part of the plan is to release a VR headset without controllers to get the cost down next year. Gurman says a person within Meta told him the company is “in the ‘afraid of Apple’ stage,” comparing it to the mobile phone industry just before the iPhone’s launch. He writes that the company’s shift away from a heavy focus on the metaverse and more to... Continue reading…

Image: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 9, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, hurray! I’m so happy you’re here, and also, you can catch up on all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading Zeke Faux’s excellent crypto book and the story of the viral cookies that suddenly disappeared, trying desperately to figure out what the heck the Humane AI Pin actually does, pouring all my notes and tasks into NotePlan, watching the new-to-Netflix season of The Great British Baking Show and anything at all I can find about The Sphere in Vegas, and am on like my fourth week of being totally obsessed with the history of the AltaVista search engine. This week, I also have for you... Continue reading…

I be quiet! asked you how many fans it should add, what cooling it should support, and what other features you'd like to see in a PC case, and you answered, "Yes!" you'd end up with the be quiet! Dark Base Pro 901. The specification sheet is long, detailed, and impressive. So, too, is the case, with its sleek design and subtle RGB lighting effects. There's even Qi wireless charging for mobile devices and a capacitive front-facing interface for controlling the included fan and RGB hub.

Typos and other errors are pretty common during our everyday texting sessions. For a very long time, though, iMessage users had no way to amend these mistakes. That was until iOS 16 and macOS Ventura debuted in 2022, along with the ability to edit or unsend iMessages. Whether you're on iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, or their 2022 predecessors, all you have to do is follow the steps we've listed below.

The Chromebook platform has evolved so much over the years to include high-end, budget, and mid-range hardware, and the new Asus Chromebook Plus CX34 shakes that up. It's one of the many fresh Chromebook Plus models that makes picking up a great ChromeOS-powered device at your local retailer so much easier.

The best 4K laptops on the market today range from premium convertible devices designed for everyday use to powerful workstations for specialized work to gaming PCs with outstanding performance and a slick design. Many modern laptops have made the move to a taller aspect ratio — 16:10 or, more rarely, 3:2 — boosting the number of pixels on the display. But 4K resolution, whether it's with a boosted pixel count or not, delivers the same crisp image that's ideal for anyone who wants the best picture possible. We've put together this list of great laptops with a 4K display to help you find exactly what you need.