One superhero that has received tons of praise throughout the decades is The Dark Knight, Batman. Since his first appearance on the pages of Detective Comics and in many DC Comics releases, Batman has had a cultural impact that has permeated throughout entertainment. To many, Batman is an icon in every sense of the word. Within video games, many Batman games have gone on to become classics on various platforms, including home consoles and PC. While some were based on the different live-action films from Hollywood, others were original stories that took the essence of Batman and spotlighted the best aspects of the character and his world.

The Twelve South HiRise 3 Deluxe is down to $79.99 for Memorial Day. | Image: The VergeMemorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, and if you somehow managed to skip your spring cleaning earlier this year, the turning of the season offers a fresh chance to declutter your space. Thankfully, the Twelve South HiRise 3 Deluxe offers a stylish way to organize your desk or bedside table, and it’s currently available for a new low of $79.99 ($20 off) from Amazon and Twelve South.Twelve South’s sturdy HiRise 3 Deluxe is a great 3-in-1 charging stand for a number of reasons. Not only can it deliver up to 15W of power to MagSafe-compatible iPhones, but it’s also capable of fast-charging an Apple Watch Series 7 and newer models. It includes a 7.5W wireless charging pad as well, which you can use to top off a pair of AirPods or any other Qi-compatible device you might have on hand, including a second phone, a Samsung Galaxy Watch, or other electronics.What truly sets it apart from a lot of other 3-in-1 chargers, though, is its design; instead of placing the charging pads side-by-side, Twelve South has arranged them in a front-to-back layout to reduce desk clutter. Plus, thanks to the charger’s support for StandBy mode — an ultra-handy feature Apple first introduced in iOS 17 — you can also use your phone as a mini smart display when you place it horizontally on the adjustable charging pad, allowing you to quickly check the time, view your daily schedule, and take advantage of useful widgets with ease.More Memorial Day savingsThe Sony ULT Field 3 is available at Amazon and Walmart for $148 ($52 off), which is its best price to date. The portable Bluetooth speaker features a dedicated ULT button to boost bass and volume, and delivers up to 24 hours of playback on a single charge. With a detachable shoulder strap and an IP67 rating for dust and water resistance, it’s also a great companion for beach days. You can purchase Lego’s Polaroid OneStep SX-70 Camera for $67.99 ($12 off) at Amazon, Target, and Walmart, which is $8 shy of its all-time low. The 516-piece set allows you to build a replica of Polaroid’s classic SX-70 camera. It’s a true delight to behold, thanks to details like a shutter button that ejects one of three illustrated “photos” — including one of Polaroid inventor Edwin H. Land.You can buy the latest Apple Watch SE with GPS at Amazon and Walmart starting at $169 ($80 off), which is its best price of the year. The entry-level wearable includes a host of essential health and safety features, including heart rate tracking, fall detection, and emergency SOS. It also offers Apple Pay and a variety of watchOS 11 features, such as support for the Vitals app and rest day tracking, though it lacks some of the more advanced sensors and the larger display found on the newer Series 10. Read our review.

Chapter 20: Resurrection in Doom: The Dark Agesbrings the Slayer back to the mortal plane. Having steered his ship towards the mortal plane in the previous chapter, the Slayer must now lay waste to a demon insurrection in Argent D’Nur. You can read in our review of the game how impressed it left us.

Users of Whoop’s fitness trackers have been reporting that their Whoop MG fitness trackers are turning unresponsive, in some cases within under an hour of setting them up. Now, the company is apparently replacing the trackers, in some cases before the users even ask, TechIssuesToday reports.Launched alongside the Whoop 5.0 earlier this month, the Whoop MG (which stands for “Medical Grade”) comes with EKG capabilities and blood pressure insights and requires a premium Whoop Life subscription that’s $359 per year. Users started reporting issues with the tracker almost immediately. On May 11th, a user reported in the Whoop community forum that their MG “stopped working overnight after working for 8 hours. No green light, no bluelight nothing. It won’t now pair with the app.” Others replied to say the tracker failed even sooner for them, with one person reporting that it went inert after just half an hour of use. Some also report that their 5.0 has failed.Whoop recommends a few troubleshooting steps — the usual things like making sure your device is charged or trying to reset it — but users in the community thread say it didn’t work. The company appears to be trying to rectify the situation by sending out replacement units, sometimes without users even asking for one, as the Reddit user who posted the screenshot above wrote further down in the thread. The same goes for a user who posted two days ago to say they got the same notification despite having not noticed any problems with their MG. Some in that thread even write that the company replaced their MGs without ever telling them it would be doing so.It’s already been a troubled launch for Whoop. Earlier this month, some users were outraged when Whoop said they would need to add another 12 months onto their memberships to avoid the upgrade fee for the Whoop 5.0. Previously, users only needed to have 6 months left on their subscription to get a Whoop 4.0. The company soon walked its new terms back, posting on Reddit that those who had at least 12 months left would be eligible for an upgrade. Whoop did not immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment.

Hot or warm water, whatever works.Hot water is like internet connectivity for most Verge readers: you just expect it to be there. But that's unlikely to be the case this summer when tent camping at a music festival or road-tripping into the great unknown. That's where BougeRV's battery-powered shower comes in. The $310 "Portable Propane Outdoor Camping Water Heater" from BougeRV is not only optimized for search engine discovery, it also delivers a luxurious spray of hot steaming water to the unwashed, be they human, canine, or stubborn pots and pans. Charge up the battery, attach a propane canister, drop the pump into a jug of water, and you're ready to get sudsing.It's so useful and flexible that I've ditched my plans to install a permanent shower cabin and expensive hot water system inside my adventure van, even if I don't completely trust it.My current portable shower consists of an 11-liter water bag, a manual foot pump, and a spray nozzle. To make it hot, I have to heat water on the stove or hang the bag in the sun for several hours, yet it still costs over $150. For $310, the BougeRV heated shower seems like a bargain.The BougeRV system can produce a maximum heat output of 20,500 BTUs - about half o …Read the full story at The Verge.

X is back up for most users after what appeared to be a significant outage that spiked early this morning around 9AM ET. Global internet monitor NetBlocks posted this morning that X “has been experiencing international outages for some users for a second time in a week,” adding that the issue isn’t “related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.” Downdetector showed complaints of an outage rose sharply after 8AM ET before beginning to fall about 45 minutes later. As of this writing, those reports have dropped from tens of thousands of reports to only hundreds.Elsewhere on social media, people had been complaining about issues with the network for a couple of days — one of the top posts on the r/Twitter Reddit community is a screenshot of an error message on the X login screen, with many replies complaining about login issues. The X developer platform site’s incident history log shows that a sitewide outage started Thursday and lasted roughly a day. At the moment, there’s still an error message on the platform status page that reads, “Login with X (OAuth) and other X platform login flows are experiencing degraded performance.”The issue comes after a fire reportedly broke out in an Oregon data center owned by X on Thursday morning. Wired writes that multiple unnamed sources told it that the fire, which forced “an extended response from emergency crews,” involved batteries in one of the data center’s rooms. Following reports of the fire, there were complaints that X was down, but the outage then seemed comparatively small. X did not immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment.Update May 24th: Outage reports have mostly subsided.

I've been using Proxmox a lot recently, deploying various different systems and containers across both of my machines in order to move some of my more essential systems away from my main server. However, one of my two Proxmox machines is the Ugreen DXP4800 Plus NAS, which also serves as my OPNsense machine. As a result, while it works perfectly for that purpose, I have been looking for a way to utilize the 12TB of storage that's still inside it. I've installed HexOS (based on TrueNAS) using those drives, and it works, though not effortlessly.

It's going to be a long wait for the release of Grand Theft Auto VI. It almost seems like so many other things will happen before the world finally gets to play GTA 6 on home consoles. But does that mean you have to go back and play GTA V to satisfy your open-world fix? No, not exactly. As everyone is waiting for Rockstar's next big open-world game to hit store shelves, there are plenty of other open-world games to play to help pass the time.

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy starts off by asking a simple question: what happens when you pluck a handful of colorful teenagers from their homes, plop them in a state-of-the-art school filled with every convenience, then force them to fight for their lives? Your guide as you navigate this question is an unsettling and creepy-cute mascot that knows more than it's let on, and there's an overarching mystery to the world that you can't quite put your finger on. If you, like I, answered "Danganronpa!" - as this premise sounds very much like the plot of the quirky and irreverent murder-mystery series from Spike Chunsoft - then congratulations! We're both totally wrong! And after 45 in-game days with LDA, I still have no idea what's going on, and I love it.I'm going to be gentle with myself and you for thinking LDA is another entry in the genre of high school-themed killing games. After all, it was developed by Kazutaka Kodaka, creator and writer of the Danganronpa franchise, in collaboration with Kotaro Uchikoshi, known for his work on the adventure-puzzle game series Zero Escape. And though LDA oozes with the DNA from both series, it stands so completely apart mechanical …Read the full story at The Verge.

A couple of months back, I developed an inclination towards 3D designing, so I decided to pick up a 3D printer to bring my creativity to life. It was one of the best decisions I made sense 3D printing is an excellent hobby, especially if you like fixing things around the house. In fact, I've also printed a ton of functional accessories and tools apart from fixing broken stuff, which has helped me save quite a bit of money. Since I was new to 3D printing, I decided to purchase the Creality Ender-3 S1 Pro -- a relatively low-end, entry-level printer. While it caters to my requirements, one downside was that the Marlin firmware prints rather slowly, and I could operate the printer only using the connected display.

These boots were not made for walking, but you can use AI to make them do it anyway.Even at first glance, there's something off about the body on the street. The white sheet it's under is a little too clean, and the officers' movements are totally devoid of purpose. "We need to clear the street," one of them says with a firm hand gesture, though her lips don't move. It's AI, alright. But here's the kicker: my prompt didn't include any dialogue.Veo 3, Google's new AI video generation model, added that line all on its own. Over the past 24 hours I've created a dozen clips depicting news reports, disasters, and goofy cartoon cats with convincing audio - some of which the model invented all on its own. It's more than a little creepy and way more sophisticated than I had imagined. And while I don't think it's going to propel us to a misinformation doomsday just yet, Veo 3 strikes me as an absolute AI slop machine.AI generated video: Made with Veo 3Google introduced Veo 3 at I/O this week, highlighting its most important new capability: generating sound to go with your AI video. "We're entering a new era of creation," Google's VP of Gemini, Josh Woodward, explained in the keynote, calling it "incredibly realistic." I wasn't completely sold, but then, a few days lat …Read the full story at The Verge.

Performance monitoring overlays from tools like MSI Afterburner and NVIDIA app are extremely handy for checking how well your hardware performs while gaming or stress-testing your PC. From FPS count to CPU clock speeds and GPU temperature, you can view all the information you need while actively playing your favorite games. But after using these tools regularly for well over a decade, I've realized that my peace of mind is more important as a PC gamer — after all, ignorance is bliss.