Leia co-founder and CEO David Fattal, with his Red Hydrogen smartphone. A 200-person startup named after Star Wars’ Princess Leia may have quietly cornered the market on glasses-free 2D to 3D screens — after clawing its way back from one of the biggest gadget flops of the past decade.Remember the Red Hydrogen, the 3D phone that crashed and burned so hard its founder decided it was time to retire? Leia is the company that designed its “holographic” screen, and the company has been relatively quiet since that experience. Walking into its private hotel room suite at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, my expectations were not particularly high!So you can imagine my surprise to find five tables full of Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo and MSI products and prototypes, plus a brand-new 3D OLED phone — each featuring a eye-popping... Continue reading…

When you set up a new iPhone, you'll notice a wide range of preinstalled apps. Naturally, these apps act as the default for their respective purposes, such as iOS 17 defaulting to Apple Music for music playback. But what if you want to set a third-party app as the default? Well, you can on iOS 14 and newer versions, but there are some restrictions.

This year kicked off to a great start for tech, thanks to CES 2024, and it has gotten even better with Samsung's Galaxy S24 series launch. In its typical fashion, Samsung unveiled three models: S24, S24+, and S24 Ultra. These new devices boast upgraded chips, brighter displays, improved camera performance, and better AI features, though they still have no chargers in the box. While all three models have gotten huge improvements, the Galaxy S24+ is the perfect option for users who want a bigger display, more RAM, and better storage without going for the Ultra model.

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge When it comes to filing and paying your federal and state taxes for 2023, there’s good and bad news. The good news is that if you live in Maine or Massachusetts, you have until Wednesday, April 17th, because of the Patriots’ Day and Emancipation Day holidays.The bad news is: whether you have to file by April 15th or April 17th, you still have to file.If you won’t be able to file your taxes by then — because of a family emergency, a large work project, or simple procrastination — what do you do? Well, one thing you don’t do is panic. You can file for an extension, and it won’t take long.If you’re an individual (and let’s assume you are), you can file for an extension easily online by filling out Form 4868 using the IRS’s Free File... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Arizona State University (ASU) and OpenAI announced a partnership to bring ChatGPT into ASU’s classrooms.In a press release, ASU stated that it wants to focus on “three key areas of concentration” where it can use ChatGPT Enterprise, like “enhancing student success, forging new avenues for innovative research, and streamlining organizational processes.” ASU deputy chief information officer Kyle Bowen told The Verge, “Our faculty and staff were already using ChatGPT, and after the launch of ChatGPT Enterprise, which for us addressed a lot of the security concerns we had, we believed it made sense to connect with OpenAI.” He added that ASU faculty members, some of whom have expertise in AI, will help guide the usage of generative AI on... Continue reading…

The Samsung Galaxy S24 series has just been launched, featuring the new and mighty Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor and Samsung's new Galaxy AI features in One UI. The Galaxy S24 is the entry point to the new series, featuring the same compact design as before, but now with a larger battery. If you've just ordered yours, it's important to get the right accessories for it. These are some of the best chargers for the Galaxy S24 that are worth considering, since the phone does not ship with one. As durable as the phone may be, it's always good to pair it with a quality case. We have rounded up some of the best cases for the S24 from some of the top brands, and across price ranges.

Rabbit CES 2024 darling Rabbit has announced a partnership with Perplexity that will link the “conversational AI-powered answer engine” to the R1, a $199 Teenage Engineering-designed AI gadget that’s already sold through 50,000 preorders. Unlike LLMs that can only reference data up to a certain date in the past, what they’re pitching for the R1 is a built-in search engine with “live up to date answers without any knowledge cutoff.”According to Perplexity co-founder Aravind Srinivas, who announced the deal in a live Spaces broadcast with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu, the first 100,000 Rabbit R1 purchases will also come with one year of its Perplexity Pro subscription. The plan includes access to newer LLMs like GPT-4 and normally costs $20 per month.I... Continue reading…

Mark Zuckerberg. Aside from Meta’s new focus on building artificial general intelligence, the biggest news inside the company this week is CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to move its AI research team, FAIR, to sit in its product organization. Going forward, Joelle Pineau, the VP who leads FAIR, and Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist, will report to Meta’s chief product officer, Chris Cox. They previously reported to CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, who leads the Reality Labs division. “With this change, we elevate the importance of AI research as an essential ingredient to the long-term success of the company and our products,” Cox wrote in an internal note to employees on Wednesday that I obtained. “Alongside the major infrastructure investments Mark mentioned... Continue reading…

Nilay Patel Just like Netflix, YouTube also isn’t building a native app for the Vision Pro. Its iPad app won’t support the $3,499 headset, either, as YouTube spokesperson Jessica Gibby tells The Verge, “YouTube users will be able to use YouTube in Safari on the Vision Pro.”Those aren’t the only major services that won’t have dedicated apps on the Vision Pro. A source familiar with the situation tells Bloomberg that Spotify isn’t planning to create a new app for the Vision Pro and “doesn’t expect to enable its iPad app to run on the device,” potentially forcing users to access Spotify in a web browser. Spotify spokesperson Grey Munford tells The Verge that the company can’t confirm this report and that Spotify has “made no announcement concerning... Continue reading…

If you're using a Windows PC with an Intel Core Ultra CPU or a 13th-generation Intel CPU, you might have heard of Intel Unison. This app is similar to Microsoft's Phone Link and brings your iPhone or Android phone closer to your PC. With it, you can see your phone's photos, transfer files, answer phone calls, and even send messages.

Despite people not using it as much as other browsers, there are a lot of reasons why Microsoft Edge is the best one out there. Microsoft is always adding handy features to its browser, and a new one just appeared on the Canary branch. A slew of new screenshotting tools have arrived, including an easy way to show your image to Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok has launched many songs that have gone viral over the years, but now it’s testing a feature that lets more people exercise their songwriting skills… with some help from AI.AI Song generates songs from text prompts with help from the large language model Bloom. Users can write out lyrics on the text field when making a post. TikTok will then recommend AI Song to add sounds to the post, and they can toggle the song’s genre. The Verge reached out to TikTok for comment. The feature was first spotted last week. AI Song doesn’t seem to be available to everyone yet, but some TikTok users have already begun experimenting with it. The results so far are not great. Many are out of tune despite the availability of auto-tuning vocals. Take... Continue reading…