Author: Zach_Wilson

Amazon’s new page alerts buyers to recalled or unsafe products

Amazon has a new place to share product recall info for products purchased on its site. The personalized alert page can help consumers learn if anything they’ve bought on Amazon has known issues that make it dangerous to keep using. Amazon says it “always proactively” notifies customers about items purchased on…

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Why you won’t see any new TV rewatch podcasts during the Hollywood strike

This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Today, I’ll dive into Spotify’s second quarter earnings call this morning. Despite layoffs and the shutdown of a number of podcasts, it’ll be a while until we see the benefits from a thriftier company. I also…

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PS5 exclusive Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will officially run on Steam Deck

a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>This game’s default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Decka:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Screenshot by Sean Hollister / The Verge But again, Rift Apart was supposedly a PS5 exclusive for reasons — and even the game’s minimum PC system requirements originally suggested you’d…

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Elon Musk just changed Twitter’s logo again — sort of

After replacing Twitter’s little blue bird with an X logo, Elon Musk changed it again. On Tuesday afternoon, Musk replaced Twitter’s X logo with one that has slightly thicker lines — but then said he would reverse the change. “I don’t like the thicker bars, so reverting,” Musk writes on…

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OpenAI can’t tell if something was written by AI after all

OpenAI shuttered a tool that was supposed to tell human writing from AI due to a low accuracy rate. In an (updated) blog, OpenAI said it decided to end its AI classifier as of July 20th. “We are working to incorporate feedback and are currently researching more effective provenance techniques for…

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General Hospital is using scab writers, and it’s complicated

According to Peace, the show has run through all the scripts that were written before the strike began and has now employed non-union writers in order to keep the show on the air. Typically, people who cross picket lines to perform struck work are met with derision, but Peace acknowledged…

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