The best laptops you can buy
Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The best laptops for you, from ultraportables to gaming machines, MacBooks to Chromebooks. Read the full story at The Verge.
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Valve will be Lenovo’s ‘special guest’ at just-announced gaming handheld event
Image: Evan Blass (X) “The future of gaming handhelds is coming to CES ‘25 and you have a front row seat!” the email in my inbox exclaims. Let me translate: it looks like Lenovo just tacitly confirmed it will announce its first SteamOS handheld in Las Vegas on or before January 7th, 2025. We’re expecting…
Sonic 4 is speeding into theaters in 2027
Image: Paramount Variety is reporting that Paramount Pictures is planning to extend the Sonic The Hedgehog trilogy by yet another movie. Sonic The Hedgehog 4 has been greenlit with a target release window of spring 2027. The news comes mere hours before Sonic The Hedgehog 3 releases in theaters on Friday December 19th. The movie…
8BitDo’s new mini Xbox controller fits gamers with smaller hands
8BitDo’s new Mini Wired Xbox controller is smaller and lighter than its Ultimate C gamepad. | Image: 8BitDo 8BitDo has announced an alternate version of its Ultimate C wired Xbox controller that’s 20 percent smaller and 10 percent lighter while still featuring full-sized triggers, joysticks, and buttons. Although the new 8BitDo Ultimate Mini is designed…
Prince Andrew skips King Charles’ Christmas lunch as he faces backlash over Chinese spy scandal
Prince Andrew missed a holiday event hosted by King Charles on Thursday after facing public backlash. Prince Andrew was revealed to have recently had contact with an alleged Chinese spy, Sky News reported. His office released a statement last week, saying he had cut ties with a Chinese businessman who’s been named a risk to…
Oklahoma executes man convicted of grisly murder of 10-year-old girl
Oklahoma man Kevin Ray Underwood was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday in the nation’s 25th and final execution of the year. Underwood was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, information provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) to Fox News Digital states. He killed a…
Instagram teases AI editing tools that will completely reimagine your videos
The puppet influencers are coming…in 2025. | Image: The Verge / Adam Mosseri Instagram is planning to introduce a generative AI editing feature next year that will allow users to “change nearly any aspect of your videos.” The tech is powered by Meta’s Movie Gen AI model according to a teaser posted by Instagram head…
Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) review: an AMD upgrade
The AMD Strix Point CPU in the Zephyrus G16 gives this gaming laptop a battery life boost over the Intel version. Unfortunately, the price is also boosted. Read the full story at The Verge.
Waymo still doing better than humans at preventing injuries and property damage
Photo by Jason Henry / AFP via Getty Images Waymo’s autonomous vehicles cause less property damage and fewer bodily injuries when they crash than human-driven vehicles, according to a study that relies on an analysis of insurance data. The study is the product of the collaboration between Waymo and insurer Swiss Re, which analyzed liability…
Leak: This is Lenovo’s rollable display laptop
Image: Evan Blass Lenovo showed off a laptop concept with a rollable display last year, and in 2025, it might release one that you can actually buy. Leaker Evan Blass just shared images of what he says is a sixth-generation Lenovo ThinkBook Plus, and based on two of the images, it has a display that…