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Image: CD Projekt Red You may have to wait until January 30th to buy Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 graphics card, but owners of last-gen Nvidia 40-series GPUs can already download and install DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation software via the Nvidia app. And if you want a compatible, graphically-intense game to test DLSS 4 out,…
Google’s Nest Learning thermostat. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google is bringing smart home controls in Gemini to everyone. The Google Home extension in the Gemini app is adding a few new features, in addition to letting you adjust your smart lighting, thermostat, speakers, and other compatible devices as long as…
This icy 2025 Audi Q8 E-Tron has a heat pump. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge Many EV manufacturers have leaned heavily on energy-gulping resistive heaters to keep the cabin and battery warm in the winter time. But heat pumps, which can cut down on battery range losses in the cold, are becoming more…
Image: The Verge Following last month’s test, Threads will now let everyone schedule posts, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday. You can use the feature by creating a new post, selecting the three-dot menu in the top-left corner, and selecting “Schedule.” Once you get your post timed up, you can view, delete, or edit…
Two former Politico reporters spoke candidly about efforts made by their bosses to either slow-walk or completely quash their reporting on the Biden family during their time at the news outlet. Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri, now journalists for Axios and Puck respectively, reflected on their time at Politico on Palmeri’s “Somebody’s Gotta Win” podcast. …
Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day was under considerable pressure entering the inaugural 12-team edition of the College Football Playoff. Despite ending the regular season with a 10-2 record, Day was on the sideline in late November for a fourth consecutive loss at the hands of the Michigan Wolverines, the Buckeyes’ top rival. The…
FLIGHT SONG – An airline passenger posted a video of a veteran singing “God Bless the USA,” originally written by Lee Greenwood, on a Southwest flight leaving President Donald Trump’s inauguration. FROZEN FOOD – A man proudly displayed Minnesota’s version of a frozen dinner after leaving noodles outside in extremely cold temperatures. FLYING DRY? –…
An Italian court on Thursday afternoon upheld Amanda Knox’s criminal conviction for slandering her former boss nearly two decades ago, when she was wrongly accused of murdering her fellow foreign exchange-student roommate. The Supreme Court in Rome found Knox, a 37-year-old former Italian exchange student, guilty in June 2024 of wrongly accusing bar owner Patrick…
A screenshot from a video of TerraPower’s groundbreaking ceremony for its demonstration project in Wyoming. TerraPower, a nuclear energy startup founded by Bill Gates, struck a deal this week with one of the largest data center developers in the US to deploy advanced nuclear reactors. TerraPower and Sabey Data Centers (SDC) are working together on…
FIRST ON FOX: A top national trade organization has sent letters to three departments in the Trump administration advocating for specific policies that the group believes will most effectively achieve President Trump’s goal to “unleash American energy” in the United States. The American Exploration & Production Council, a national trade association representing the leading independent…