This is the best TV you can buy if you're looking for one that can double as an outstanding art piece. While any TV can display an image on its screen, Samsung's The Frame TV stands out among the pack with its matte display and other technologies that really sell the look of a painting being on your wall.

Yes, you can even create a strawberry koala. | Screenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge You can now create your own emoji combinations directly in Google Search. The company has launched its Emoji Kitchen feature on the web (via 9to5Google), which lets you mash up existing emoji to create different combinations, like an angry pumpkin or a panda wearing a cowboy hat.To start using the tool, all you need to do is type “Emoji Kitchen” into Google Search and click on the “Get cooking” prompt. From there, you pick from dozens of different emoji to combine or play around with the randomizer. Once you’re done experimenting, you can click on the resulting emoji to copy it to your device’s clipboard, allowing you to paste it as a sticker into a message or document.The emoji maker also works on mobile browsers and the Google app,... Continue reading…

Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge Starlink, the SpaceX satellite internet service, generated $1.4 billion in revenue last year, documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal reveal. That’s up from $222 million in 2021 but $11 billion short of its original projections, according to the Journal.Interestingly, The Wall Street Journal’s report comes the same day SpaceX exec Jonathan Hofeller said at a conference that it’s no longer incurring losses for producing Starlink’s satellite antennas, reports CNBC. According to documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal, profitability took a hit in 2022, but a report by the outlet last month said SpaceX did manage to turn a profit in the first quarter of 2023.In a 2015 presentation to investors, the Elon Musk-founded company... Continue reading…

Image: Larian Studios Baldur’s Gate 3 is finally about to leave early access on Mac. Developer Larian Studios said Wednesday on X (formerly Twitter) that the game’s third major patch would be arriving on September 21st “with full support for BG3 on Mac.”Baldur’s Gate 3 is technically already available on Mac, but currently, it’s only the early access version that doesn’t include all of the content in the full version of the game that first released on PC in August and recently came out on PS5. In a post on Steam from June, Larian said that the full Mac version would be released “at a later date, and we’ll update you as soon as we have a target” — I’ll take Wednesday’s post on X as that update.Thank you from the fiery infernal engine we keep in place of... Continue reading…

There's a new high-end smartwatch in town, the Apple Watch Ultra 2. Just as the name of the watch suggests, this watch is next-level compared to its predecessor. It sports the Apple S9 processor, double tap support, precision finding, a carbon-neutral design, and a brighter screen. But what about which bands the Apple Watch Ultra 2 uses? Worry not, as the Apple Watch Ultra 2 uses the same kind of 49nm bands as the original Apple Watch Ultra.

The iPhone 15 looks to be another great iPhone model. It comes with features like USB-C charging for the first time, as well as the Dynamic Island on the display. One thing that the iPhone 15 series continues over the iPhone 14 series, though, is the lack of a physical SIM tray. The iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max all do not have a physical SIM card slot in the United States. Models sold outside the United States, however, will still have the feature.

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge QR codes can be very useful, especially when it comes to getting to a webpage quickly and easily. (For example, I’m always resorting to the QR codes at NYC bus stops to find out that I just missed the bus two minutes ago and the next one is due in about 20 minutes.) If you want to guide somebody quickly to your website or to a webpage that they need, you can create a QR code for that page. There are a variety of QR code generator apps out there that you can access. (Keep in mind that it’s wise to be careful which one you choose since a less-than-honest app can include tracking or other code with the generated QR.) In addition, some online services, such as Instagram, may offer their own QR code generation. But for a good general... Continue reading…

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Sony is hosting a State of Play presentation on Thursday, September 14th, the company announced on Wednesday. This State of Play will be focused on “indie and third-party titles from around the world,” Sony said, so don’t hold your breath for big new reveals from the company’s PlayStation Studios.“Tomorrow’s broadcast will focus on updates to previously announced games coming to PlayStation consoles,” Sony’s Shawne Benson wrote on the PlayStation blog. “From indie and PSVR2 highlights, to major upcoming titles from our third-party partners, our latest show has something for everyone!” The event kicks off at 5PM ET / 2PM PT.Thursday is quickly shaping up to be a big day for gaming news. Nintendo will be kicking off the day with its next... Continue reading…

Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Tech leaders called for regulation that balances innovation and safety as the Senate conducted one of the many “insight forums” to inform potential rulemaking. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) invited leaders in the AI space, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia president Jensen Huang, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and X chair Elon Musk to a bipartisan AI Insight Forum. The forum was closed to the public and media, but some tech leaders prepared remarks or spoke to reporters outside the event. Zuckerberg said in prepared remarks that “Congress should engage with AI to support innovation and safeguards.” He said there are two defining issues for AI: safety and access. M... Continue reading…

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Brave have each issued critical security patches, reports Stack Diary. The patches address a vulnerability that an attacker could use to gain access to or run malicious code on your computer, and the companies acknowledge it’s been actively exploited in the wild. NIST classifies the vulnerability as severe. Other companies’ applications are affected — the vulnerability is linked to code used to render WebP images, which are widely used.The software version numbers containing the fix are below.Google: Chrome version 116.0.5846.187 (Mac / Linux); Chrome version 116.0.5845.187/.188 (Windows)Mozilla: Firefox 117.0.1; Firefox ESR 102.15.1; Firefox ESR 115.2.1; Thunderbird 102.15.1; Thunderbird 115.2.2M... Continue reading…

Zach Katz, FaZe Nickmercs, and Lee Trink at Parq Nightclub in San Diego, California. | Photo by Cassidy Sparrow/Getty Images for FaZe Clan Faze Clan, a merchandising and influencer marketing agency that was once synonymous with the esports space, has fired CEO Lee Trink. CFO Christoph Pachler will take over for Trink on an interim basis, Bloomberg reports.Faze Clan cultivated a lavish and freewheeling image during its early years. The firm maintained teams across many different esports titles, created gaming-adjacent content for social media platforms like Twitch and Snapchat, and sold branded apparel. Trink, who had no esports background when he became Faze’s CEO in 2018, aimed to position it as a youth-oriented culture and lifestyle company. “We are the voice of this current gaming generation,” he said on an episode of The Vergecast in 2019, during which he also compared... Continue reading…

Apple launched its iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro, alongside the Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 during its September event. While the brand's wearables brought exciting new changes and performance enhancements, the stars of the show were the latest iPhones which now have USB-C ports for charging and data transfer. Furthermore, the Pro models now use Titanium for their exterior casing and are also powered by a new A17 Pro chip, bringing vastly more power than its predecessor.