Month: January 2023
AMD promises quick replacements for embarrassing GPU cooling fail
Audio player loading… AMD has confirmed that the issue with RX 7900 XTX graphics cards overheating is down to the vapor chamber specifically, but has assured us that only small numbers of these RDNA 3 flagship GPUs have been affected, and that any necessary replacements will be shipped swiftly. AMD’s…
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This divisive Microsoft Teams feature is coming to Zoom
Audio player loading… As part of its filter collection, video conferencing service Zoom has launched virtual avatars into beta worldwide. Announcing (opens in new tab) the new feature on its blog, Zoom said that the avatars would make meetings “more flexible and fun”, allowing users to “display [their] ‘virtual you’”.…
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This smart telescope knows how to find stars and beat light pollution
Audio player loading… If you look up at the night sky, you might see some stars, even a bright planet and, of course, the moon. You won’t see galaxies and the billions of stars that are sharing the universe with those brighter objects. That’s because studies show (opens in new…
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This dangerous Android malware is seeing a huge rise in infections
Audio player loading… An updated version of the SpyNote Android malware is being deployed at high speeds, researchers have claimed. SpyNote (also known as SpyMax) was an Android malware whose latest version, called CypherRat, was being distributed exclusively through private Telegram channels, for a price. The tool offered a wide…
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Sennheiser’s latest earphones offer high-end looks for $150
I mean, sure, if you’re wearing wired in-ear headphones in 2023, you could absolutely buy a pair with the cables going straight down. Or you could get a pair with wires that go up and swoops backward behind your ears like Sennheiser’s latest pair of earbuds, the IE 200, and…
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CES is back, and so is The Vergecast
CES will continue through the weekend, but The Verge has already seen a whole lot of what the show has to offer. This week on The Vergecast, myself, our editor-in-chief, Nilay Patel, and our senior news editor, Richard Lawler, get together and talk about some of the weirdest stuff we’ve…
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