Meta has launched a Threads app for Meta Quest VR headsets, the company announced on Tuesday. The launch follows Meta bringing the app to its Ray-Ban Display AR glasses last month and the recent news that the platform has crossed 500 million monthly active users.It seems like a pretty full-featured app. Meta says that with the Threads VR app, you can do things like browse feeds, make posts, like and reply to posts, visit profiles, search, and watch videos - you know, Threads stuff."We designed the new Threads app for Meta Quest to make using VR more social than ever," Meta says. "Whether you want to keep up with conversations during a ga …Read the full story at The Verge.

A 3D printer makes it absurdly easy to create things you didn’t need five minutes earlier. Open a model repository, and suddenly you’re looking at articulated toys, desk decorations, novelty containers, elaborate stands, and enough little plastic objects to cover every flat surface in the house. I’ve printed plenty of things just because they looked interesting, and that was reason enough at the time. But the prints I still reach for months or years later usually had a very different starting point. Something was bothering me, and I realized I could probably print a fix for it.

Did a prototype Microsoft gamepad fall off the back of a truck? We can't say, but a Redditor has legit-looking photos of a prototype Xbox controller that's almost certainly the Xbox Elite Series 3. Incredibly, they claim they bought the pad for $200 on OfferUp.In May, a Brazilian regulator's leaked images revealed that Xbox Elite 3 would have new two new scroll wheels on the bottom edge, a second wireless mode to connect directly to Xbox Cloud Gaming servers, and a new "Pair Button" that can also switch between those servers and your console.Where might that pair button live? Today, we have a possible answer: it might sit right next to t …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google TV Freeplay, the company's free, ad-supported streaming service, now supports video on demand. Instead of tuning into Google TV Freeplay's selection of always-on channels, you can now choose from over 10,000 shows and movies to watch whenever you want.The update introduces titles like Lady Bird, Seventeen Again, and Hell's Kitchen, according to Google's announcement. The company has also expanded its live TV lineup to include more than 300 channels dedicated to news, sports, reality TV, true crime, and more. Some of these new channels include World of Love Island, Yahoo! Sports Network, Bloomberg TV Plus, and The Martha Stewart Chan …Read the full story at The Verge.

Getting a new TV is always exciting, but in this day and age, you have to be wary of some of the settings that come enabled out of the box. Ads and useless features can be shoved in your face without giving you a clear option to say no.

That’s a lot of people chatting with their AI friends all day. | Image: Google For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google's fastest-growing product ever.A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn't the first AI app to hit it. OpenAI's ChatGPT hit the mark a few weeks ago, though the company buried the announcement that "more than 1 billion people are putting ChatGPT to work" in an otherwise anodyne blog post about how people use AI. External data suggested ChatGPT crossed 1 billion users as early as this June, but OpenAI hadn't announced anything until that post on August 6th. …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you're paying for Claude Code, you're probably familiar with its different tiers. It's $20 a month for Pro, $100 for Max 5x, or $200 for Max 20x, and whichever tier you pick, there's a 5-hour window and a weekly cap drawing from the same pool as your web-based chats. It's good value for what it is, but it's not cheap, and the limits can often show up at the wrong time.

There’s not much you can do with a smart home while renting. Of course, you can use smart bulbs, plugs, and wireless sensors, since they are easy to carry to your next place, but the more interesting upgrades require changes your landlord will notice.

The first week of every term hits the same way, no matter the level you're at. You get your course outline, then get overwhelmed, and leave it to "sort later". Going back to school is basically just a homework dump within the first five seconds. And if you're not doing something with it in the first week, you're playing catch-up in a panic by the time midterms arrive.

The list of legacy motherboard ports that have faded into obscurity is long, featuring heavyweights such as the VGA, DVI, FireWire, and Parallel ports. One such outdated port that has survived nearly 20 years of obsolescence is the PS/2 port. It can be seen on some modern motherboards to this day, despite being replaced by USB decades ago.

It looks like we'll be getting a successor to the Sonos Ace headphones sometime this fall, which was hinted at by CEO Tom Conrad during a third quarter earnings call. As reported by What Hi-Fi?, an FCC filing by Sonos, Inc reveals details about upcoming wireless headphones with the model number S52A.In addition to the S52A designation, one of the submitted documents shows an oval diagram - likely the ear cup - marked with the name Sonos Ace Ultra, although that name isn't listed anywhere else. It follows the naming scheme Sonos has used in the past with its Arc and Arc Ultra soundbars. The documents also list color options we'll likely see …Read the full story at The Verge.

Once Jellyfin is installed, scanning properly, and playing media without throwing a fit, it’s very easy to keep poking at Jellyfin itself. I’ve done it plenty of times.