Enlarge / I asked Gemini to “reimagine” the background of this Pixel 9 group shot (originally on beige paper) as “science fiction moonscape,” and then used “Auto frame” to expand the initially tight shot. Maybe that explains why this moon surface has another moon visible? Kevin Purdy / Gemini AI reader comments 31 Google made ..
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Enlarge / For this “neutral” hardware-focused review of the Pixel 9 phones, I asked the Pixel to “reimagine” a “neutral white background.” Kevin Purdy / Gemini AI reader comments 82 I asked Google’s Gemini Live chatbot, running on a new Pixel 9 Pro, how easy it was to use the Pixel 9 without all the ..
Enlarge / Sonos’ updated app was reportedly rushed out before the release of Sonos’ Ace headphones (pictured). reader comments 130 Sonos’ new app was launched and reviewed so poorly that the company is expecting to spend $20 million to $30 million on remediation. The Verge reported last week that high-level Sonos executives were considering relaunching ..
reader comments 19 Back in 2013, Nvidia introduced a new technology called G-Sync to eliminate screen tearing and stuttering effects and reduce input lag when playing PC games. The company accomplished this by tying your display’s refresh rate to the actual frame rate of the game you were playing, and similar variable refresh-rate (VRR) technology ..
Corey Gaskin reader comments 50 Back in 2010, Gary Wolf, then the editor of Wired magazine, delivered a TED talk in Cannes called “the quantified self.” It was about what he termed a “new fad” among tech enthusiasts. These early adopters were using gadgets to monitor everything from their physiological data to their mood and ..
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Epic dodging harm from Apple’s decisions (and perhaps its own). reader comments 197 It’s been four years since Fortnite, one of the world’s most popular games, was pulled from the Apple App Store in a blaze of controversy and finger-pointing. Today, it’s returning to the iPhone—but only in the European ..
Enlarge / If you’ve formatted a disk in Windows in the last 30 years, you may have come across this dialog box. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 46 As we wait for this fall’s Windows 11 24H2 update to be released to the general public, work continues on other new features that could be part of ..
Primate Labs reader comments 21 Neural processing units (NPUs) are becoming commonplace in chips from Intel and AMD after several years of being something you’d find mostly in smartphones and tablets (and Macs). But as more companies push to do more generative AI processing, image editing, and chatbot-ing locally on-device instead of in the cloud, ..
reader comments 86 Sonos is laying off about 100 people, the company confirmed on Wednesday. The news comes as Sonos is expecting to spend $20 million to $30 million in the short term to repair the damage from its poorly received app update. In a statement to The Verge, Sonos CEO Patrick Spence said: We ..
Enlarge / AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 80 Nearly two years after the release of the first Ryzen 7000 CPUs, AMD has returned with a full-fledged follow-up. The new Ryzen 9000 chips—the 6-core 9600X, 8-core 9700X, 12-core 9900X, and 16-core 9950X—bring AMD’s new Zen 5 architecture to the desktop a couple of ..
