Category: Technology

Up to five devices can be plugged into Anker’s new travel adapter, but it doesn’t deliver enough power for your laptop. | Image: Anker Looking to spend some time outside the US? Anker has announced a new travel adapter featuring a relatively slim design that’s less than an inch thick thanks to plugs that can…

The nonprofit Media Matters for America filed suit against X this week, accusing Elon Musk’s social media company of “harassment” and Musk of a “globetrotting litigation campaign against Media Matters.”  After Media Matters reported on X placing ads next to pro-Nazi content in 2023, X filed three lawsuits against the nonprofit accusing it of threatening…

Agents are said to be the future of AI, and now OpenAI is trying to help developers build their own. The company is releasing a new Responses API that offers building blocks for developers to create agents capable of searching the web, digging through files, and performing tasks on a computer on their behalf. “There…

https://platform.theverge.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=627597&action=edit Waymo is kicking off the process of making its robotaxi service in Silicon Valley commercially available to everyone. The company announced today that its ridehailing app Waymo One will now be available 24/7 to certain customers across a 27-square-mile service area in California that includes Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of…

The mysterious battery performance update that Google rolled out for the Pixel 4A in January was released to “mitigate the risk of overheating,” according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). A recall notice published by the regulator’s product safety arm on March 7th, spotted by 9to5Google, warns Pixel 4A owners that “an overheating…

Breathe Battery Technologies says its algorithm can boost charging speeds. | Image: Breathe There’s an unbelievable amount of work going on right now to boost the performance of lithium-ion batteries. PhDs around the globe are, at this very moment, furrowing their respective brows, trying to eke out a few percentage points of extra energy density,…

The original Las Vegas Sphere could eventually share content with smaller mini-Spheres. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Although original estimates set the cost of the Las Vegas Sphere at $1.2 billion, Sphere Entertainment eventually spent around $2.3 billion to build the interactive venue. As the company looks to expand to other cities,…

TikTok is rolling out a new feature to encourage teens to stop using the app at night. If a teen under 16 is still using the app after 10PM, TikTok will interrupt their feed with a full-screen “wind down” reminder, which will play “calming music to help teens relax and be mindful of the time.”…

Admit it, you read the words “Katamari Damacy” and immediately started humming a string of “nahs” to yourself. It’s been several years since we’ve had a reason to think of the Prince of All Cosmos, his finer than frog hair daddy, and the big, sticky balls of junk the become the stars in the night…

The US smartphone market is pretty boring. There are iPhones, there are Galaxies, Google will happily give you a Pixel if you remember it exists, and that’s about it. But as soon as you get out and see the world a little, you realize: there are a lot of new ideas about smartphones out there….