If you've got strong creative instincts, the ability to authentically portray emotion, and are capable of staying true to a character's voice throughout a scene, there's a job listing calling for your experience. The catch: You won't be performing in a theater, a film studio, or an underground performance space. You'd be using your talents to train an AI model for "one of the leading AI companies," according to the open role posted by Handshake, a company that provides training data to OpenAI and other labs. Handshake AI is one of a handful of companies of its kind, scrambling to provide more and more niche or specific training data to A …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Galaxy Buds Pro 4 are a nice improvement over the Buds 3, but still require a Galaxy device to use all their features. Samsung promised "more than a design refresh" for its new top-end Galaxy Buds - it added upgraded woofers for improved, dual-amped hi-fi sound, a new blade design, clearer call performance, and better noise cancellation. Ultimately, while the $249.99 Galaxy Buds 4 aren't a huge leap forward over the previous model, they keep what was good about the Buds 3 and improve on most of what wasn't - as long as you use Samsung Galaxy devices.That's because, much like the AirPods Pro 3 with Apple gear, the Buds 4 Pro still work best when paired with another Galaxy device. This unlocks all of the functionality of the Buds 4 Pro, including hi-res audi …Read the full story at The Verge.

Last fall, President Donald Trump's executive order raising the fee for H-1B visas to $100,000 - like many of his immigration policies - led to near-immediate chaos. Thousands of workers who had flown overseas to renew their visas ended up stranded abroad. Details about who would be affected only emerged after the fact. Six months later, the disorder from the initial announcement has mostly subsided. The H-1B registration season for the next fiscal year has just begun. With H-1B applications open until March 19th, it's unclear what effect, if any, the new rules will have on hiring, immigration, and the workforce, but experts are warning the …Read the full story at The Verge.

Keeping up with everything happening in AI isn’t easy, to say the least. New models, tools, and features seem to drop every other week, along with entirely new corners of the industry you somehow missed. Somewhere in all this noise, genuinely useful things end up slipping through the cracks, and you only realize it months later.

Not a single soul on the planet could ever deny just how gorgeous an OLED display looks. Whether it's an OLED gaming monitor or a 4K TV, there's simply no match for the color accuracy, vibrance, and deep blacks that an OLED panel produces. What an OLED panel also produces, though, is a crater in your bank account and bald spots on your head from all the worrying about its upkeep.

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the slow-motion disaster of live-service games, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.How it startedTwo years ago, I stood at the top of the iconic red stairs in Times Square to experience the weirdest concert of my life. As glowing butterflies flitted about the various screens, a crowd steadily grew, knowing something was happening, but unsure of what. Then a countdown started, and a minute later one of the screens opened up, revealing Ice Spice and, later, …Read the full story at The Verge.

I spent three years building the ‘perfect’ Obsidian vault as I was convinced that my detailed network of folders, tags, plugins, and Dataview queries was the secret to a second brain. In reality, I had just built a high-maintenance hobby.

Owning a robot vacuum isn't essential by any means, but it can certainly make your life easier if you own one. And while some of the earlier models did an okay job, the current generation leaves little to be desired. Impressive suction with edge-to-edge cleaning, a mop function that actually scrubs your floors to make them squeaky clean, and a self-cleaning feature that will keep things running smoothly.

He might have realized he’s about to lose a lot of money. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images David Sacks, the White House's AI and crypto czar, has warned that a continued war in Iran could be catastrophic. On the All In podcast, Sacks said that "we should try to find the off-ramp." He expressed concern that Iran could demolish oil and gas infrastructure across the Middle East, but more alarmingly, that it could start targeting desalination plants, which provide water to much of the region, and could lead to an even larger humanitarian crisis. Sacks has never made humanitarian efforts a cornerstone of his public persona, however. But he has a well-documented anti-interventionist streak, and even claimed on stage at the RNC that A …Read the full story at The Verge.

In 2020 and 2021, the social media world seemed to be on the verge of complete change. A new app called TikTok was ascendant, bringing a whole new kind of vertical video to phones everywhere. And another app - not as popular, but growing fast, and already hugely influential among the tech set - looked like it might have an entirely new social idea on its hands. It was called Clubhouse, and it was a huge bet that audio might be the future. It was the next big thing, until it wasn't.On this episode of Version History, we tell the story of the early days of Clubhouse, and how a simple audio group chat app turned into a booming entertainment a …Read the full story at The Verge.

Can’t. Stop. Dancing. | Image: Wonderwheel Recordings Shout out to subscriber N_Gorski for today's pick. They popped into the comments on last week's recommendation to ask what I thought of the new Sotomayor record. Well, I hadn't actually heard it yet, but now I'm obsessed.The group consists of siblings Raul and Paulina Sotomayor from Mexico City. Wabi Sabi is their first record since 2020's Origenes, and it is pure joy. You can look back through everything I've recommended over the last several months, and "fun" is not how you'd describe most of it. But that's what Wabi Sabi is - it's fun, chaotic, and dancey as hell.I was only familiar with Sotomayor before this because of a short docume …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you’re sifting through pages of Network-Attached Storage rigs on Amazon, Best Buy, and Newegg, you’ll probably focus on a couple of hardware specs. With the RAM prices inflating beyond control, you’ll want to opt for a unit with a decent amount of memory if you’re planning to use it to self-host virtual guests or enable Adaptive Replacement Cache on ZFS. Likewise, the speed and ports on the network interface card matter quite a bit when you want to hook your NAS up to your home server setup.