Photo by Stephen J. Cohen / Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more.Hope you all had a great weekend. Today, I’ve got news on James Corden’s new SiriusXM deal, Theo Von’s rise on the charts, and, in what I will admit is a significant tone shift, a look at which podcasts are actually helping the discussion around the Israel-Hamas war.James Corden inks SiriusXM dealDon’t call it a podcast deal (so I’ve been told). The former Late Late Show host will have a new weekly program on SiriusXM that is exclusive to subscribers. This Life of Mine with James Corden will be a weekly celebrity chat show, because literally what else would it be? The show, which will launch in early 2024, was announced in the... Continue reading…

For the most part, you can get around not having a printer. But every once in a while, there are those special occasions where you absolutely need to print, so it's always a good idea to have a printer around, even if you only use it occasionally. Of course, on the opposite end, there are people that use printers every day, and if you've been looking to upgrade or replace your printer with something new, right now's going to be a great time to shop during Best Buy's early Black Friday sales event.

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple just released iOS 17.1.1, and it has fixes for a couple notable bugs that have popped up recently.One bug was pretty bad. Some users had reported that if they tried to charge their iPhone 15 using BMW’s in-car wireless charging, certain NFC features like Apple Pay or BMW’s digital car key would break. BMW’s UK account on X (formerly Twitter) confirmed in October that the issues were “being investigated together with Apple.” An Apple service memo reported on by MacRumors said the issue happened when charging an iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, or iPhone 15 Pro Max in some BMW and Toyota Supra cars.The other bug was more harmless: on the lock screen weather widget, the snow icon was sometimes showing up as just a file icon.... Continue reading…

Image: Nintendo Nintendo’s foray into movies isn’t stopping anytime soon: the company has confirmed that it’s working on a live-action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda. The movie will be directed by Wes Ball, best known for the Maze Runner trilogy and the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto will serve as a producer, much as he did on this year’s animated Super Mario Bros. movie. He’ll be producing alongside Avi Arad.“This is Miyamoto. I have been working on the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda for many years now with Avi Arad-san, who has produced many mega hit films,” Miyamoto said in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter. We might be waiting a while for the movie, however; Miyamoto said, “It will... Continue reading…

The holiday season is looming ever closer, which means it's time to shop for gifts for your loved ones and pick up a few for yourself at the same time. We've already had big deals thanks to two Prime Days this year, and now it's time for the more traditional shopping holiday, Black Friday. It's always a great time to save on tech since companies clear the shelves ahead of the big announcements from the trade shows that start in January.

Very clickable good dogs. | Image: Google Google is rolling out new generative AI tools for creating ads, from writing the headlines and descriptions that appear along with searches to creating and editing the accompanying images. It’s pitching the tool for use by both advertising agencies as well as businesses without in-house creative staff. Using text prompts, advertisers can iterate on the text and images they generate until they find something they like.Google also promises that it will never generate two of the same images, which can avoid the awkward possibility that two competing businesses end up with the exact same photo elements.The step-by-step ad creator is coming to those who use Google’s Performance Max ad campaign product, and it’s capable of generating ads... Continue reading…

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Soon, Instagram users will have a choice about using read receipts in direct message conversations.Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri both announced on their Instagram Broadcast channels that the change is currently in testing, and Mosseri included this picture showing the toggle as well as what it looks like in action. Image: Meta Instagram’s read receipts toggle for DMs. What they didn’t mention is if that option is coming to Messenger, which similarly forces users into using read receipts without any way to turn them off. We also have no idea how soon this could roll out more widely, but keep an eye on your conversations to see if those indicators suddenly start to disappear or if anyone is turning down your... Continue reading…

Following AMD's late-2022 launch of the Ryzen 7000 series, Intel's own next-gen CPUs became official. The 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" desktop CPUs hit the market on October 20, 2022 and in the usual way, there's a lot to talk about.

Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft, the game publisher behind franchises like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, is laying off 124 employees at its visual effects studio and on its global IT team.Hybride — the name of Ubisoft’s Montreal-based visual effects studio — has worked on several big-name projects, including Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Beau Is Afraid, and more. Of the 124 impacted workers, Ubisoft spokesperson Antoine Leduc-Labelle says 98 people are based in Canada, making up less than 2 percent of the company’s workforce in the country. (Ubisoft has studios in Montreal, Quebec City, Chicoutimi, Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, and Sherbrooke.) Leduc-Labelle adds that this doesn’t affect Ubisoft’s production teams.“Over the past few months,... Continue reading…

iOS 17.1 and macOS Sonoma 14.1 debuted last month with plenty of enhancements across the respective devices. Though, expectedly, these recent releases didn't address all of the known bugs and vulnerabilities that affect Apple's latest iPhones and Macs. iOS 17.1.1 and macOS Sonoma 14.1.1 are now available to patch some of these issues and enhance the overall user experience.

It’s wide. | LG LG has a pair of new 45-inch ultrawide gaming monitors. That sounds very wide to me, though LG says it’s the equivalent of two 24-inch monitors, which sounds almost compact compared to the 49-inchers from Samsung and LG, or the gargantuan Samsung Odyssey Ark we tested last year. The UltraGear 45GR65DC ($799) and 45GR75DC ($899) are slightly smaller and a few hundred bucks cheaper than the 49-inch 49GR85DC, which we wisely just called the 49-inch UltraGear when we wrote about it earlier in the year. I can’t do that with these since there are two of them, but they’re basically the same except that the 45GR75DC has USB-C with 90W power delivery and the 45GR65DC doesn’t. If you preorder the fancier one before the 19th, LG will throw in a... Continue reading…

Your computer monitor is the key to productivity, but if it ends up getting dirty, we understand how it can slow you down at work, at school, or when gaming. Nobody likes seeing smudges or dust and other marks on their computer monitor. It's not only ugly, but in the right lighting conditions, it's also distracting. That's why in this guide, we'll explain how you can clean up your computer monitor in a few simple steps.