Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge If you’d rather format your Google Docs document using text shortcuts than keyboard ones, you can — Google Docs offers Markdown support. Back in March 2022, in a blog post announcing the feature, Google explained it was doing this through its autocorrect feature so that Docs will automatically format the text for you after you type it in Markdown format. For example, if you type “# Google Docs is getting more Markdown support,” it’ll automatically get converted to a level one heading. Before you can use Markdown, you have to activate the feature. The feature is off by default — probably a good choice, as it’s easy to imagine a lot of people getting confused if typing a pound sign in front of something automatically... Continue reading…

There are a lot of great wireless router options available, but if you're looking to cover a lot of space, eliminate dead zones, and get excellent speeds — a good mesh router system can't be beat. Now there are a lot of excellent mesh systems available, but if you're looking for some of the best, you're going to want to go with an Eero.

The Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 made its official debut during Apple's September event, bringing exciting changes like a new and more powerful S9 SiP, UWB, and more. While the overall design of the beefier Apple Watch Ultra 2 remains the same, Apple did make some improvements, like delivering a brighter screen that can crank up to 3000 nits of brightness when needed.

There are a lot of great Apple Mac products out there right, but perhaps one of its best laptops has to be the MacBook Air M2 thanks to its compact size, light weight, and powerful processor. If you're looking for one of the best all-rounders in the market today, this is going to be it.

Smugglers. | Image: TIFF From the uncomfortably comedic horror of Dream Scenario to the outlandish heist / revenge movie Smugglers, there was a lot to love in Toronto this year. Continue reading…

When I reviewed the Apple Watch Ultra last year, I concluded that even though it was designed for people who are far more active and adventurous than I am, I wanted one anyway because of the larger screen, more premium build, and longer battery life. In the year since I realized there are apparently many others like me, because I have seen a lot of Apple Watch Ultras out in the wild, on the arms of people who are clearly not mountaineers, extreme sports athletes or deep sea divers. I concede the cities I frequent — Los Angeles, San Francisco and Hong Kong — are privileged wealthy cities that can't be used as a reflection of the world, but I've heard enough anecdotes from colleagues and industry peers from other states that I think it's safe to say the Apple Watch Ultra has wide appeal in the states, and that with Apple products, consumers always gravitate towards the priciest/best model.

Windows 11 may have been released almost two years ago, but that doesn’t mean it's free from bugs. Corruption of Windows system files is more common than you may realize and is the leading cause of stability issues like slowdowns, freezes, and crashes.

The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, much like their predecessors, are poised to be some of the best smartwatches on the market. Between the upgraded processor, brighter screen, and all the software improvements that come with watchOS 10, they make for very compelling packages. They're also water-resistant, so you can take them swimming and, in the case of the Apple Watch Ultra 2, even diving.

If you're planning to elevate your console gaming experience with a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Series X, then you should also consider getting a good TV for gaming that can handle all the high-end gaming features. Yes, that ideally means buying the best TVs out there, but some features and qualities often go missing and unnoticed in even the best options. It would help if you considered things like input lag, variable refresh rate (VRR), and Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), among other things, for the best gaming experience. Don't worry, though, because you've come to the right place if you're in the market to buy the best 4K 120Hz TV to pair with your gaming consoles.

Illustration by The Verge After a tease in a blog post on Tuesday, Substack officially shared details about its redesigned app on Wednesday, which offers a new “Home” tab and some adjustments to the app’s current layout.The biggest change is the Home tab, which is intended to help people find stuff to read by providing “entry to an exciting universe of stories, ideas, and people” on the platform. At the top, there’s a queue of big cards highlighting posts from your subscriptions that you can swipe through. (The cards remind me of Apple’s “Up Next” suggestions in its Podcasts app.) Under those cards, you’ll see a feed of Substack’s tweet-like Notes feed, and you can sort them by “Explore” (recommendations) and “Following.” Home, inbox, chatIn a blog post,... Continue reading…

Image: Google This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here.Today let’s talk about an advance in Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, and how it addresses one of the most pressing problems with today’s chatbots: their tendency to make things up.From the day that the chatbots arrived last year, their makers warned us not to trust them. The text generated by tools like ChatGPT does not draw on a database of established facts. Instead, chatbots are predictive — making probabilistic guesses about which words seem right based on the massive corpus of text that their underlying large language models were trained on.As a result, chatbots are often “confidently wrong,” to... Continue reading…

The Bambu A1 Mini. Hands-on: Bambu’s first mini might show the future of consumer 3D printing. Continue reading…