Being the biggest non-Chromium browser on the market, Firefox has garnered a lot of fans that Mozilla needs to appease. Fortunately, Mozilla has no intention of letting its browser fall by the wayside. Version 121 of Firefox has just released, and it contains a slew of great features for everyone to enjoy.

Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge The electric bike company’s new leadership outlines its post-bankruptcy plan to relaunch and expand into more areas of e-mobility. Continue reading…

US Vice President Kamala Harris (right) and Michael Regan (left), administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), during an event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on Friday, January 27th, 2023. | Image: Jemal Countess / UPI / Bloomberg via Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency named 11 “grantmakers” today, universities and nonprofit organizations that will be in charge of doling out $600 million of federal funding to locally led environmental projects. It’s a new strategy aimed at making it easier for small grassroots groups — especially those burdened with the most pollution — to access funding. Those groups will be able to apply for subgrants from the EPA’s grantmakers, who’ve been assigned to oversee funds for certain regions. The 11 grantmakers include some of the most prominent voices fighting a legacy of environmental racism and injustice in the US.That includes the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA), made up of member organizations across the US — from Brooklyn’s oldest... Continue reading…

Photo Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales and Cath Virginia / The Verge The sky’s the limit when money is no object, so why waste your hard-earned cash and coin on the everyday essentials? It’s time to dream big. Continue reading…

Belkin’s 3-in-1 charging stand makes for a great StandBy companion, regardless of whether you own an Apple Watch. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The Qi2-based chargers are certainly coming, but if you can’t wait for them to land next year, Belkin’s BoostCharge Pro 3-in-1 Wireless Charger with MagSafe is on sale now at Amazon in black for a new low of $110.99 ($39 off) or in white for just $9 more.To this day, Belkin’s BoostCharge Pro remains our favorite MagSafe 3-in-1 stand for home use. The triple charging solution offers true 15W MagSafe charging speeds, the ability to fast-charge newer Apple Watch models starting with the Series 7, and support for iOS 17’s new StandBy mode, which gives you an easy way to turn your phone into a clock, calendar, or a nifty photo frame for your desk. It’s also outfitted with a 5W charging pad on the bottom, so you can juice a pair of wireless... Continue reading…

When it comes to tweaking your CPU for that extra boost, we've all heard about raising the voltage on components to handle overclocking. But have you ever considered going the opposite route and lowering the voltage? It's a nifty technique called undervolting, and it's all about ensuring your CPU's longevity. Think of overclocking as putting your CPU through an intense workout. It performs better, but it heats up, and over time, that heat will damage your CPU and lower its performance. Enter undervolting, a bit like giving your CPU a spa day.

Earlier this month, when Microsoft teased what's coming next to its Copilot chatbot, it somehow forgot to mention a key plugin that would to the AI chatbot to help users create music. Microsoft has announced that it's partnered with Suno to enable users to create original songs using simple prompts regardless of whether they're from a music background.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The UK Supreme Court ruled that AI cannot get patents, declaring it cannot be named as an inventor of new products because the law considers only humans or companies to be creators. The court unanimously denied a petition from Stephen Thaler, founder of the AI system DABUS, to name his AI as an inventor. The UK’s decision aligns with a similar decision made against Thaler in the US: he previously lost an appeal with the US Patent and Trademark Office, which also denied his petition to claim AI as an inventor. The US Supreme Court declined to hear the case. In the UK, Thaler wanted to register DABUS as the inventor of a food container and a flashing light beacon back in 2019, but the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) rejected the... Continue reading…

A PornHub banner from the 2023 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo. | Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). In a press release today, the European Commission said the three sites “fulfil the threshold of 45 million average monthly users in the EU.” The sites will have to comply with the DSA obligations by February 2024.Being designated as a VLOP means the sites will also have to conduct risk assessments and mitigate the spread of illegal content like child sexual abuse material and deepfake pornography. There are also transparency requirements like being subject to external audits, publishing transparency reports... Continue reading…

If your work usually involves having to sit for hours in front of a monitor, good ergonomics is key in avoiding long-term, posture-related injuries. Having the best standing desk is one way to ensure a comfortable work space, but sometimes, you might need more desk space or even multiple monitors at your disposal. Having a large desk is the easiest solution, but space constraints in your home could be a deterrent. This is where monitor arms come in.

Apple is infamous for its walled garden approach, where it plays by its own rules. So, when people submit to the company's ecosystem, they're restricted from performing certain actions that other platforms are open to, such as easily sideloading apps. This places Apple in a powerful position, where it often gets away with its decisions, even when most users aren't happy with it. After all, controversial changes like removing the headphone jack from all iPhone models aren't enough to push its loyalists away.

Of all the drives on your computer, the boot drive is the most important since it contains the operating system. Whether it's a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), it'll contain everything your computer needs to boot. SSDs are generally faster and more reliable than HDDs or something like a USB drive, so it's recommended that you use one as a boot drive on your computer. Seriously, swapping out your old spinning hard disk drive for an SSD is one of the best upgrades you can make to speed up your computer. Not only will it boot the operating system faster, but even the programs installed on the OS drive will launch quicker. There are plenty of ways to create a boot drive and use a new or existing SSD as a boot drive, and the following steps will get you started.