Author: Zach_Wilson
HMD’s first repairable Nokia wasn’t a one off
HMD’s Nokia G42 is the company’s latest smartphone designed to be easy for users to repair from spare parts and kits sold in partnership with iFixit. The purple version of the device with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage is going on sale in the UK from today for…
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Veloretti Ace Two e-bike review: rarified heir
First, let me apologize: most readers of The Verge can not buy the latest electric bikes from Amsterdam-based Veloretti. But for everyone living in the Netherlands, Belgium, or Germany with €3,299 to spend… well, congratulations because you can buy one of the best e-bikes available at any price and far and away…
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Google says its secret AI weapon could eventually outsmart ChatGPT
Google’s DeepMind laboratory is currently developing a new AI system called Gemini with claims it’ll rival, if not surpass, ChatGPT, according to a report from Wired. In order to surpass ChatGPT, the developers plan on integrating an old “artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo” into the upcoming language learning model (LLM).…
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Exclusive: World’s fastest CPU goes on sale everywhere in Europe – but not in the US
Just weeks after AMD launched its first cloud-native processor, the 128-core EPYC 9754, the processor has started to appear online (in tray, rather than retail box) in several European markets. The CPU, labeled 100-000001234, can be preordered but is out of stock from all the eight online retailers I checked…
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Google is laying off employees at Waze
Google is laying off employees at Waze, CNBC reported on Tuesday. The company is moving Waze over to Google’s ads system, and that change will mean cuts at Waze in “sales, marketing, operations and analytics,” Chris Phillips, VP and GM of Google’s Geo unit, wrote in an email seen by…
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All the news about EV charging in the US
The state of electric vehicle charging in North America is way too much like smartphone charging wars — but focused on much more expensive hardware. Like USB-C, the Combined Charging System (CCS, Type 1) plug is widely adopted by almost every manufacturer and charging network, while, like Apple and Lightning, Tesla uses…
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