Samsung's next Galaxy Unpacked event is just around the corner, and the company is expected to take the wraps off a bunch of new devices. Based on the rumors and leaks we've seen so far, Samsung's next generation of foldables will likely be the stars of the show. Samsung is expected to show off a big redesign for the Galaxy Z Fold 8, though we can't rule out a few other surprises.Here's what you need to know about watching Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked and what to expect.When is Samsung Galaxy Unpacked?This year's Galaxy Unpacked takes place on July 22nd at 9AM ET / 6AM PT. Samsung is holding the event in London on an invite-only basis.W …Read the full story at The Verge.

The pledge was introduced in March, and has done little to quell concerns so far. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump's "rate payer protection pledge" that's meant to safeguard average citizens from footing the AI bill.Trump is expected to announce the new signatories on Thursday, which include NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, Equinix, and Digital Realty, according to a list obtained by The WSJ. An unnamed White House official told the publication that those who hav …Read the full story at The Verge.

Outside of updating my GPU drivers, I've never felt the need to rely on the Nvidia App. When DLSS 4.5 came out with a driver update, I used it once to set DLSS Override to Preset L for Super Resolution, but after that, I went right back to ignoring it. If I wanted to use frame generation or switch between DLSS modes, I'd just use the in-game settings and call it a day. But that changed when 007 First Light's native HDR implementation had issues with frame generation, pushing me to use RTX HDR as a workaround.

Affinity becoming free is great news for anyone looking for professional creative software without paying for a subscription. It removes one of the biggest barriers that kept many people searching for alternatives. As someone who regularly edits images, works with graphics, and creates content for my blogs, I was excited to see how it would fit into my workflow. But the more I used it, the more I realized that productivity isn't always about using the most polished software. Sometimes it's about using the tools that naturally fit the way you work, and that's why I still find myself opening open-source apps more often than Affinity.

When I started self-hosting my photo library, I eventually found myself in an awkward phase. I had moved everything over to Immich, and I trusted the setup, but I still couldn't bring myself to delete the old Google Photos app. The icon continued sitting on my phone's home screen as an insurance policy, in case something about my DIY setup failed. I knew Google Photos worked because I'd used it for years.

Windows 11 is built on some ancient code, and some parts of it are more apparent than others. Fortunately, Microsoft is going through Windows 11's code and UI and tweaking it to look more like something that was released in the 21st century. While it's not official yet, someone has spotted a new File Explorer UI tweak that makes it look much better.

One of the most fun things you can do with a single-board computer is wire up a touchscreen to it. It solves a lot of problems with very little effort, as you no longer need to fiddle with implementing physical buttons and have more real estate on your device's shell. The Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 was the official way of getting your Pi SBC hooked up to a touchscreen, and now, the foundation has revealed a 10-inch variant to go alongside its 7- and 5-inch ones.

As the hardware crisis begins to bite, console manufacturers have had to increase their prices, and the Steam Deck was no exception. We saw the entry-level model increase from $549 to $789, causing concerns that potential buyers have been priced out. If one report is to be believed, those fears have come true, as Steam Deck sales have plummeted by around 82%.

There's a set of unwritten rules that every Linux distribution follows, and I never thought about them until I found the one distro that doesn't. Compile for the oldest CPU anyone might own. Ship the mainline kernel. Use Valve's Proton, because Valve knows best. I've been running CachyOS on my ROG Ally X and my laptop for a while now, and it breaks every single one of those rules on purpose. It even skipped the Open Gaming Collective, the industry's big attempt at standardizing how Linux gaming distros are built.

Content Seal sounds a lot like a less accessible and reliable version of SynthID. | Image: Meta / The Verge IIn March, Meta's Oversight Board called on the company to "meet its public commitments and employ its own tools" to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta responded in July by introducing Content Seal - an invisible watermarking technology that flags images generated by the company's new AI model. But it was basically a footnote buried in the company's announcement for its Muse image and video generation tools.As someone who spends a lot of time scrutinizing AI labeling systems, Content Seal doesn't fill me with confidence. There are already more established solutions, like C2PA Content Credentials …Read the full story at The Verge.

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But every single one of Nightborne's shots was made with ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 text-to-video generator.In an X post about the short, Blomkamp described it as a "test start" meant to demonstrate what generative AI is capable of, and he said that he wants "to tackle a full feature in th …Read the full story at The Verge.

When it comes to enthusiast-geared Honda hardware, the Civic Si, Civic Type R, and Acura NSX often come to mind first for their revvy VTEC (Honda's form of variable valve timing) engines and playful chassis dynamics. The Prelude, on the other hand, less so. Instead, the Prelude is a technological study - still aimed at driving fun, but by way of integrating clever forms of engineering into a sleek grand touring coupe body.The second-generation Prelude's fuel injection was derived from F1. Then the third gen got four-wheel steering way back in the late '80s. The fourth gen? It was the first everyday Honda to inherit the NSX's VTEC on both t …Read the full story at The Verge.