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Image: AMD After bizarrely teasing a 9000-series X3D announcement last week, AMD is making it official today that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D will be available on November 7th. Priced at $479, the 9800X3D is a direct successor to the best gaming CPU on the market right now, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. There’s a lot to…
Image: Google Google Maps is getting a big update that’s supposed to help you find new places to visit with AI. Starting this week, you’ll be able to explore more locations with Immersive View and search for specific spots based on a descriptive query like “things to do with friends at night.” Google will then…
Image: Waze Waze is testing a handy-sounding update that will let you report traffic incidents while speaking naturally. With the new feature, you can tap the app’s reporting button and then say what you see, such as, “Looks like there’s a traffic jam up ahead.” The Google-owned driving app will then use the Gemini AI…
The Verge Google Maps is getting new navigation features that should make inner-city driving a little easier. When enhanced navigation rolls out in November, the blue line on Google Maps will provide a visual of which lane you need to drive in to make your next turn, while the map itself might display crosswalks, signs,…
This adapter has a Ford logo, so it will probably work well. | Image: Ford Ford is making its own branded specialty adapter to enable Tesla Supercharger access for its EV customers. The automaker will offer its new adapter alongside the current Tesla-produced one for customers still awaiting a complementary adapter and will start shipping…
The countdown to election night is on. Officials across the country are preparing to count tens of millions of ballots. Every state reports votes differently, and that means the candidate in the lead in any race can change throughout election night and the days after. For example, a state that reports votes from cities and…
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a progressive state prison official — who was instrumental in establishing “gender-affirming care” for trans inmates in Washington state — to serve on the Justice Department’s National Institute of Corrections (NIC) advisory board. Among the policies implemented was one where pat-downs or other searches would be “performed by a correctional…
Anna Kendrick blasted an unnamed director who she said humiliated her in front of a crowd of background actors on set. During a Monday interview on the “Happy, Sad, Confused” podcast, the 39-year-old actress was asked by host Josh Horowitz to share the “worst note that she ever got from a director.” The “Pitch Perfect”…
Erik and Joseph “Lyle” Menendez, the Beverly Hills brothers who shotgunned their parents to death from behind in 1989, are asking California Gov. Gavin Newsom for clemency less than a week after Los Angeles’ district attorney told a judge their prison sentences should be reduced. Their lawyer, Mark Geragos, filed documents Monday, with the support…
The optics were perfect. The crowd was massive. The media reviews were glowing. But there was a fundamental contradiction at the heart of Vice President Kamala Harris’ speech on the Ellipse that virtually no one is talking about. First, I’ll give the vice president her due. It was a well-written address and strongly delivered. It…