Month: April 2023
Planning on traveling or cooking? ChatGPT-powered Bing AI just got more useful for you
Microsoft just let us know how it has been making the popular Bing chatbot more helpful in some areas, and most recently there have been improvements to how the AI handles queries about traveling and recipes for cooking. In a blog post (opens in new tab) summarizing improvements made over…
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Twitter will let media publishers charge per article starting in May
Full-time Twitter CEO and part-time Tesla enthusiast Elon Musk said on Saturday that users of his social media platform will be able to avoid media subscriptions and pay per article starting “next month.” Musk says that Twitter’s forthcoming “one-click” service “should be a major win-win for both media orgs & the public”…
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The Stream Deck mastered the LCD key by making it peripheral
Like many great products, the Elgato Stream Deck wasn’t exactly a new idea. When the very first one debuted six years ago this month, we instantly compared it to Art Lebedev’s legendary Optimus Maximus keyboard, which promised an array of swirling OLED screens under your fingertips an entire decade earlier.…
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Hitting the Books: Who’s excited to have their brainwaves scanned as a personal ID?
All of those fantastical possibilities promised by burgeoning brain-computer interface technology come with the unavoidable cost of needing its potentially hackable wetware to ride shotgun in your skull. Given how often our personal data is already mishandled online, do we really want to trust the Tech Bros of Silicon Valley…
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The entire Super Mario Bros. movie keeps getting posted to Twitter
It’s a long-standing belief here at The Verge that copyright law is the only real law on the internet, because it’s the only speech regulation most people on most platforms will accept. (At least in the United States.) Post something that blatantly infringes someone else’s copyright, and most platforms will…
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How to Choose a Router (2023): Tips, Technical Terms, and Advice
How much speed do you need? And what’s a MU-MIMO? We decipher the jargon and explain what to look for. Source
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