Month: September 2024

Samsung drops another hint that Galaxy AI won’t be free beyond 2025

Take a close look at the press releases for the brand new Samsung Galaxy S24 FE, Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Plus, or Samsung Galaxy S10 Ultra, and you’ll notice a footnote pointing to a future where some Galaxy AI features require a payment. As spotted by SamMobile, the exact text…

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Amazon Prime Day 2024: The best deals to shop ahead of the October Big Deal Days sale

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days is back this year, returning on October 8 and 9. The “fall Prime Day” of sorts has served as the online retailer’s unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season for the past few years. We expect most of the deals to be Prime exclusives, meaning…

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Razer leans into haptics with a new gaming cushion and vibrating headphones

Razer has released the Freyja gaming cushion, a haptic cushion that you can attach to your gaming chair, the company announced. The cushion is $299.99, and it’s available to buy now. The Freyja is an extension of the vibration you get from gaming controllers — except instead of just jolting…

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Spotify is back after a Sunday morning outage

Spotify was down earlier on Sunda, with users across social media reporting that the app and website weren’t working, and for those of us at The Verge who tried we saw the same issues. Downdetector showed a spike in the number of reports about problems with the music streaming service…

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YouTube blocks songs from artists including Adele and Green Day amid licensing negotiations

Songs from popular artists have begun to disappear from YouTube as the platform’s deal with the performing rights organization SESAC (Society of European Stage Authors and Composers) approaches its expiration date. As reported by Variety, certain songs by Adele, Green Day, Bob Dylan, R.E.M., Burna Boy and other artists have…

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Apple may release an iPad-like smart home display next year

Apple is preparing to take a fresh run at the smart home that starts with a rumored smart display that it may release next year. That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who writes in his Power On newsletter today that the display will use a new operating system, called homeOS,…

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