Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Major record label Universal Music Group and other music publishers have sued artificial intelligence company Anthropic for distributing copyrighted lyrics with its AI model Claude 2.The music publishers’ complaint, filed in Tennessee, claims that Claude 2 can be prompted to distribute almost identical lyrics to songs like Katy Perry’s “Roar,” Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” and the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” They also allege Claude 2’s results use phrases extremely similar to existing lyrics, even when not asked to recreate songs. The complaint used the example prompt “Write me a song about the death of Buddy Holly,” which led the large language model to spit out the lyrics to Don Mclean’s “American Pie”... Continue reading…

watchOS 10 launched back in September, providing users of the latest Apple Watch models with an overhauled interface. Though, welcomed, these cosmetic changes don't introduce many new features. The redesign certainly makes the smartwatch's personality pop, but it just doesn't significantly contribute to its functionality. That's why we're already anticipating 2024's watchOS 11, and we'll be sharing our feature wishlist below.

If you’re an urban-dwelling electric vehicle owner, your public charging options are often limited to slow AC chargers found in tight parking spaces that are too small for typical DC fast chargers. Now Gravity, the company that started an EV taxi fleet in New York City in 2021, designed a compact and super fast DC charging system for big dense cities that can reduce your charging time from hours to just minutes.Gravity’s system includes small dispenser boxes that the company calls “Distributed Energy Access Points,” which can be mounted above or in front of a parking spot and deliver up to a ridiculously high 500kW of energy. That compares to DC fast charging stations from other companies, which have larger stall units and max out at... Continue reading…

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon, Microsoft, and India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the country’s federal enforcement agency, have announced a major crackdown on tech support fraud.The CBI’s post details two instances where scammers pretended they were customer support agents for two “well-known multi-national companies” (Amazon and Microsoft) through pop-ups that “falsely appeared to be security alerts” from the companies. Through their scheme, the scammers would get people to call a toll-free number to one of their call centers, take over a user’s computer remotely, convince users of the “pretense of non-existing problems,” and “make them pay hundreds of Dollars for unnecessary services” while impersonating as workers for Amazon and Microsoft. M... Continue reading…

Smartphones are, for many, their primary camera. The built-in cameras have been getting better and better, and one of the features you’ll find in the best iPhones is a depth effect that creates compelling lock screen wallpapers with iOS 16 and above. You can also use and even adjust the depth effect with Portrait mode photos.

Samsung's known for producing excellent display panels for smartphones, TVs, and monitors. So as you might expect, the Odyssey OLED G8 features an impressive OLED panel that not only offers impressive colors and excellent black levels, but also offers a fantastic refresh rate and response time. With that said, this is one of the best OLED monitors you can buy right now.

Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau. | Photo by Brooke Palmer / Prime Video As invested as Amazon has been in its adaptation of The Boys, it always seemed like a given that the series’ new spinoff, Gen V, would be coming back for a second season following its debut last month. But just in case there was any doubt, Amazon’s just made Gen V’s sophomore year official.This afternoon, ahead of Gen V’s season 1 finale this November, Amazon announced that it has renewed Gen V for a second season. In a statement about the renewal, Amazon MGM Studios TV head Vernon Sanders described producing Gen V as “an incredible journey” and pointed to showrunners Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters’ desire to push boundaries as sources of the show’s success.“Their unapologetic approach is exactly what audiences love, and it has... Continue reading…

The Verge The FCC unanimously approved plans by several tech companies to use the 6GHz band for wireless devices on the same day it voted to move forward with restoring net neutrality rules.FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel proposed the new rules, which would authorize very low power (VLP) operations — meaning their signals won’t be able to go very far — in about 850MHz of the spectrum, on September 27th. The rules will also allow devices to “use higher power levels” so long as they’re geofenced to keep from interfering with actual licensed 6GHz usage, and the FCC will be taking comments on other ways it can expand 6GHz spectrum usage by technology devices.A September Bloomberg report pointed to some of the kinds of devices the FCC’s affirmative... Continue reading…

Samsung has shown an alarmingly short turnaround from the release of the Galaxy Tab S9 to that of the Tab S9 FE. This new product in the growing Fan Edition series offers a comparable overall experience to Samsung’s best tablets, albeit with a fraction of the power and at a fraction of the price. But does the feature-lite new tablet’s price-to-performance ratio outdo the modern specs of the Tab S9? Let’s investigate which tablet takes the cake.

The October update for the Windows Subsystem for Android is now rolling out for Windows Insiders running the latest preview builds of Windows 11. Coming in at version 2309.40000.8.0, it's a small one, but it does bring an improvement to graphics performance for Android apps.

Amazon’s paper mailers. | Image: Amazon Amazon is fulfilling a small part of its promise to switch from using plastic bubble mailers and air pillows to all recyclable paper packaging for its shipments. The company announced that it has outfitted one facility in Euclid, Ohio, with an upgraded packaging machine that can automatically fold custom-fit boxes to wrap some products, use paper mailers for small items, and slide in paper fillers instead of plastic ones in standard boxes.Amazon’s efforts to switch to nonplastic materials come after the company’s promise in July to cut out plastic mailers in favor of recyclable alternatives. Non-padded paper mailers are largely not as durable as plastic ones, but Amazon says it developed paper rolls that can stretch, seal with heat,... Continue reading…

It’ll soon be easier to charge your Tesla — and eventually everything else — at a ChargePoint station. | Photo: ChargePoint ChargePoint, one of the companies racing to put EV charging stations all over the US, announced today that it is beginning to roll out support for the NACS connector that is quickly becoming the national standard. ChargePoint stations that have previously used other ports and power sources can start to use the Tesla-created plug in November, and the company says it now offers “every necessary cable solution to charge an EV in North America and Europe.”The company first said it would add NACS plugs to some of its stations in June, as the standards organization SAE International announced that the NACS (which stands for “North American Charging Standard”) port would be standardized for cars in North America. A number of car makers have... Continue reading…