Chromebooks are great for the multimedia experience and not just for browsing the web. The best Chromebooks, like the HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook, are convertibles that let you flip the screen around and watch movies or YouTube online without your keyboard getting in the way. A great ChromeOS tablet like the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5 Chromebook might also have an OLED screen that brings the content on the screen to life.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 is a great mid-rage, more affordable GPU compared to some of the more expensive graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia. AMD launched the Radeon RX 7800 XT to take on Team Green's RTX 40-series GPU, but the real question is: Which graphics card is best out of the two, and which GPU should you buy? We're going to look at the specifications, pricing, and in-game numbers to help you make the right decision.

It can be challenging to get into a workout groove without listening to music. Whether you’re running, lifting weights, or using a machine at the gym, you may need some tunes to pump you up in order to reach your goals. That’s why headphones are a must. Also, nobody wants to hear you blasting your music out of your phone out loud at the gym. It's an easy way to raise eyebrows.

 Drolta Tzuentes as she appears in Castlevania: Nocturne. | Image: Netflix Netflix’s newest Castlevania animated series reworks elements of the franchise’s best games into an epic history lesson about freedom and the French Revolution. Continue reading…

Image: Spotify Spotify is rolling out auto-generated podcast transcripts to more creators in the coming weeks, the company announced Thursday. The text transcripts will also be time-synced so listeners can visually follow along as a podcast episode progresses. Transcripts are available by scrolling down below the podcast player and tapping into a “read along” section. A transcription of a show makes the podcast more accessible to users and allows listeners to skip around and skim an episode without listening through. Spotify says “millions” of podcast episodes will get the tool, and in the future, creators could add media to transcripts — a useful feature if a creator is describing an image on the show, for example. Beyond transcripts, mobile... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia’s France offices were raided by the country’s competition authority this week, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. While the French agency doesn’t mention Nvidia by name, it confirms it carried out a raid over concerns about anti-competitive practices in the graphics cards industry.Sources tell the WSJ that French authorities specifically targeted Nvidia, which has seen demand for its chips skyrocket in recent months. Several companies, including Microsoft and OpenAI, have purchased thousands of the company’s high-end AI chips to power large language models.That massive demand resulted in a lot more money for Nvidia. The chipmaker reported earning a record revenue of $13.51 billion in its latest report, marking a... Continue reading…

The Boy and the Heron. | Image: Studio Ghibli Right now, we are absolutely spoiled for choice when it comes to entertainment. TV shows, movies, and games all come out at such a fast and furious pace that it’s hard to keep up. Not all of them are worth your time, of course — which is where we come in.Our team spends a lot of time immersed in the various realms of pop culture so that we can handpick our favorites for you. That could mean a hot new indie game you might’ve otherwise missed or the streaming series that will become your new obsession. Either way, if you’re finding it hard to sort through the flood, this is the place to find a curated selection of the best stuff.And like last year, this page will be updated regularly throughout the year — so make sure to check back in... Continue reading…

macOS Sonoma is generally seen as a basic operating system that runs on the latest Macs. Despite that, this OS actually packs plenty of complex features and tools that power users tend to utilize. One of the lesser-known offerings provided by macOS is the hidden download log available on Apple's new laptops and desktops. So what's this secret log all about, and how can you delete it? Let's unpack.

Navigate Apple’s lengthy iPhone product catalog like a pro. | Image: The Verge Whether you want a battery that lasts for days or the very best deal, we’ve got some recommendations for an iPhone you’ll love. Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge Google just announced it’s giving website publishers a way to opt out of having their data used to train the company’s AI models while remaining accessible through Google Search. The new tool, called Google-Extended, allows sites to continue to get scraped and indexed by crawlers like the Googlebot while avoiding having their data used to train the company’s present and future AI models. The company says Google-Extended will let publishers “manage whether their sites help improve Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs,” adding that web publishers can use the toggle to “control access to content on a site.” Google confirmed in July that it’s training its AI chatbot, Bard, on publicly available data scraped from the web. Google-Extended is... Continue reading…

Amazon Prime Day is one of the best times of the year for those wanting to buy new technology for their lives. This year, Amazon is holding a second round of Prime Day deals, and it's approaching quickly. It's called Prime Big Deal Days, and it will take place on October 10th and 11th, and you'll definitely want to keep your eyes peeled for deals as we approach the big days.

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Tesla subjected Black employees at its California factory to “severe or pervasive racial harassment” and helped perpetuate a hostile work environment for employees of color, according to a lawsuit filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Racist slurs and epithets and race-based stereotyping “permeated Tesla’s Fremont Factory subjecting Black employees to racial hostility and offenses,” the agency alleges. Black employees were also fired or subject to retaliation after raising complaints about their treatment, the lawsuit says. The lawsuit includes a lot of the language that was alleged to be used at Tesla’s factory and has also been echoed by former Black employees of the company in their own lawsuits. The EEOC... Continue reading…