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Garmin Fenix 8 review: the $1,000 smartwatch has excellent battery and fitness tracking and an OLED option, but costs $350 more than the Fenix 7 and lacks LTE (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15 Battery

The FBI reveals it created Ethereum-based token NexFundAI with the help of “cooperating witnesses” as part of an investigation into crypto price manipulation (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15 FBI Ethereum

Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games from the Xbox app on Android from November, after a judge ordered Google to open up the Play Store (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15 Android Google Microsoft Xbox

A look at the promise of AI agents as a way for companies to monetize AI models; PitchBook: AI agent startups raised $8.2B over the past 12 months, up 81.4% YoY (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15 Startup AI

A review of Submerged, the first scripted short film shot in Apple's Immersive Video for the Vision Pro: technologically impressive, but an isolating experience (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15 Apple

X drops Unilever from its “advertiser boycott” lawsuit, after making a deal with Unilever “to continue our partnership” as part of an “ecosystem-wide solution” (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15

Sources: Microsoft plans to test the ability to stream games that users own but aren't in the Xbox Game Pass library, starting with Xbox Insiders in November (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15 Microsoft Xbox

Threads users criticize Meta after the company posted three AI-generated images of the Aurora Borealis on its Threads account (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15 AI

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back in a “provisional, read-only manner”, after a DDoS attack on the Internet Archive on October 9 and a data breach (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15

Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Model in public beta in Premiere Pro, including letting users extend footage and generate video from prompts (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15 AI Adobe

At its Adobe Max event, Adobe adds AI tools to Photoshop, like Distraction Removal, and makes Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and more generally available (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15 AI Adobe

Q&A with Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn on gamifying language learning, how the app makes money, AI, “founder mode”, returning to the office, and more (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-15 AI

MediaTek announces the 3nm Dimensity 9400 mobile chip, which features its own 8th-gen NPU, claiming “80 percent faster large language model prompt performance” (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-9 Mobile

Adobe launches a Content Authenticity web app to let creators use its Content Credentials “nutrition labels” to apply attribution and opt out of AI training (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-9 AI Adobe

Uber announces ride-hailing and delivery updates: an EV-only Uber Green in 40 cities, a GPT-4o-powered chatbot to answer drivers' EV questions, and more (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-8 Uber chatbot

A US federal judge has given the FTC the green light to pursue antitrust claims against Amazon but ruled that some claims under state laws won't move forward (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-8 Amazon

In a final Epic v. Google ruling, US judge orders Google to open up Google Play to rivals for three years, distribute 3rd-party stores in Google Play, and more (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-8 Google

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eyeing nuclear reactors, which provide steady “baseload” power, as their carbon emissions climb due to AI tools (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-7 Google Amazon Microsoft AI

Google rolls out Android theft protection features: Theft Detection Lock, which uses AI to detect motion indicating theft, Offline Device Lock, and Remote Lock (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-6 Android Google AI

An interview with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney about how the company became “financially sound”, Unreal Engine 6, building a “persistent universe” with Disney, and more (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-6 Interview

Mullenweg says “WordPress.org just belongs to me personally”, as his WP Engine feud blurs the lines between WordPress.org, WordPress Foundation, and Automattic (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-5 WordPress

Google is “running a small experiment” showing blue verified checkmarks beside business links in its search results that indicate the company is genuine (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-4 Google

Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews when a user's question has a “commercial angle”, and identifies the ads with a “sponsored” header, on mobile in the US (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-4 Google Mobile AI

Google updates Lens to let users take a video or use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-4 Google Mobile AI

Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini Live's language support to French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, and Spanish, after launching in English (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-3 Germany France Google AI Spain

Uber partners with Avride to use its sidewalk robots, first in Austin, then Dallas and Jersey City in 2024, and its autonomous cars, starting in Dallas in 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-3 Uber Robot Autonomous Car

Oura unveils the $349+ Oura Ring 4, with a slimmer design, improved accuracy, and more sizes, shipping October 15, and completely redesigns the Oura app (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-3

Automattic demanded a cut of 8% of WP Engine's monthly revenue to use the WordPress trademark in a seven-year deal in a September 20 letter; WP Engine declined (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-3 WordPress

Microsoft releases a $150 standalone version of Office 2024 for consumers and SMBs, with core app updates and UI changes; the last standalone was Office 2021 (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-2 Microsoft

Developer Christian Selig says third-party YouTube app Juno for the Vision Pro was “removed from the App Store”, after YouTube said it violated its ToS in April (www.theverge.com)
2024-10-2 YouTube

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