Category: Technology

The Father’s Day deals have landed, with discounts on everything from Bluetooth speakers to streaming devices to help you (or your dad) make the most of summer. And if your plans involve unwinding with a good book, well, Amazon’s latest Kindle Scribe is on sale at Amazon and Best Buy starting at just $299.99 ($100…

I look much more like myself in the visionOS 26 persona. For several months, my Slack avatar was a screenshot of my incredibly cursed Vision Pro persona. My virtual avatar’s head was cocked back, cackling into the pixelated void, her hair one solid unmoving block. It wasn’t good – but it also wasn’t the end…

Dia, the new browser from The Browser Company, is almost nothing like the company’s last product. That app, Arc, was a total rethink of how browsers work: it moved tabs to the side and combined them with bookmarks, it offered endless ways to organize all your stuff, and it had lots of ideas about how…

Current’s smart pizza oven can cook a 12-inch pizza in two minutes. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge I am an excellent home cook, if I do say so myself. I regularly produce restaurant-quality dishes from my smart kitchen. But I have two favorite dishes I’ve never mastered at home: pizza and burgers….

“This is absurd.” That’s all Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, recalls thinking when she first heard about the proposed moratorium on state AI regulation tucked into President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” – the same funding bill that had Trump and Elon Musk recently trading barbs online. According to the bill’s…

HP has become the first company to preview hardware built with Google Beam, the 3D video communication technology formerly known as Project Starline. It’s launching the HP Dimension, a device that features a 65-inch light field display with six high-speed cameras inside the bezel to create “a true-to-life” 3D video of your caller. Google first…

The Pura 80 Ultra has more lenses than it initially appears. Huawei has just announced the Chinese launch of its Pura 80 flagship phones, and the Ultra comes with a clever trick: a “switchable” dual-lens telephoto camera that allows two different lenses to share the same sensor. You can see both lenses side-by-side in the…

The tool provides Amazon sellers with six AI-generated clips to choose from, among other features. Amazon is making it easier for sellers to quickly create generative AI ads on its platform, sometimes with just a single click. Amazon Ad’s Video Generator, a free advertising tool introduced in beta last year, now has some new tricks…

There’s a fight for control going on inside the cockpits of many modern cars. Enable all the active safety systems in a Tesla, and it’ll do most of the steering for you. But if it makes an errant turn or meanders a little too far this way or that in the lane (and trust me,…

Samsung’s latest smart fridges now support multi-voice recognition powered by the company’s Bixby assistant, which can be used to bring up personalized information on the built-in smart displays based upon which member of a household is speaking. Voice identification in smart home tech is nothing new, but with no successful Samsung-branded smart speaker line of…