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Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The first Nintendo Switch basically had the road to itself, and Nintendo instantly proved just how awesome a hybrid console and handheld could be, leading to massive success. The next Switch is imminent, but it will launch into a world that’s packed with very capable handheld…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Smart lock companies have spent 2024 crafting nifty ways for you to gain entry into your front door, including iPhone-tapping Home Key ones from Aqara, a palm scanner from Philips, keypad and fingerprint options from August, and even a Face ID-style one from Lockly. These all sound…
As Donald Trump Jr. made a surprise visit to Greenland this week, President-elect Donald Trump’s rhetoric is getting more serious about buying Denmark’s Arctic territory. The president-elect did not rule out using military coercion to gain control of Greenland in a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. “No, I can’t assure you on either of…
Fake apps are a big problem, and their clever social engineering tricks make them hard to catch. There are tons of these apps out there mimicking popular apps like PayPal and Spotify. Security researchers have found another fake app pretending to be the premium version of Telegram, a messaging app with over a billion downloads….
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta’s overhaul of its content moderation and fact-checking policies in the US is bringing into focus a key geopolitical tension likely to grow under the incoming Trump administration: the regulation of speech online. CEO Mark Zuckerberg made no secret of his attempt to align his interests with…
Image: The Verge The AI search engine Perplexity is launching an integration with Tripadvisor that will add more information about hotels. Now, when you search for places to stay, Perplexity will present you with a neatly organized list of hotels, alongside summaries of why it chose them using information sourced from Tripadvisor. In an example…
Image: Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz said that its electric vehicles will be able to access Tesla’s Supercharger network starting in February. By now you should be familiar with how this goes: a manufacturer announces Supercharger access, first through the use of NACS-to-CCS adapters and then later with native NACS integration. The adapters are available to purchase through…
Image: Microsoft Microsoft is holding another Xbox Developer Direct event on January 23rd. It’s the third Developer Direct in a row, making it an annual look at what’s ahead for Xbox for the year. Like last year’s event, Microsoft will provide some updates on Xbox games that are planned for release in 2025, including feature…
Image: VideoLAN The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles…
After meeting with President Biden at the White House on Monday, Edmundo Gonzalez, the man who won Venezuela’s presidential election in July, traveled to Argentina and then Panama with the ballots to prove that he, not Nicolás Maduro, is Venezuela’s democratically elected leader. “We elected by a landslide, a good man and Edmundo Gonzalez. We…