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Call Recording, announced at WWDC 2024, is one of the most highly anticipated iOS 18 features. And now, thanks to the iOS 18.1 developer beta that dropped today, iPhone users can test the new perk.First, follow our guide to install the new iOS 18.1 developer beta. Next, because Call Recording is an Apple Intelligence feature, you'll need an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max to access it. Once you've met these requirements, here's a quick-and-easy guide on how to test the new iOS 18 Call Recordi

Image: Apple Apple’s iOS 18.1 developer preview comes with an AI-powered feature that lets you record and transcribe phone calls, as reported by MacRumors. Users with access to the beta can tap the new “record” button in the top-left corner of the call screen to keep an audio log of their call.
Once enabled, all callers will hear a message saying, “This call will be recorded.” The Phone app will then record the call, while automatically creating a transcription that

The Frame can easily pass for a traditional picture frame, which is part of its charm. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you want to help the student in your life feel a little more at home this school year, Samsung’s Music Frame is a unique piece of dorm decor that’ll do just the trick. And right now, the art-inspired smart speaker is down to $347.99 ($52 off) at Amazon, which matches the all-time low we last saw during Amazon Prime Day.Samsung’s Music Frame is a lot of th

There’s a bit of soldering involved with the mod, so Voultar will initially be only selling an installation service. | Screenshot: Macho Nacho Productions Nintendo sold over 49 million Super Nintendo consoles, but not all of them were created equal. A later hardware revision improved the quality of the SNES’s video output, and over three decades later, one modder has come up with a way to bring those same improvements to nearly every Super Nintendo ever released.
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Some of the Apple Intelligence features previewed during WWDC 2024 | Image: Apple Apple has just released the developer betas for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, giving users access to the company’s first set of AI features.Some of the Apple Intelligence features arriving with the beta include Siri with an updated design and ability to maintain context across multiple requests, new Mail features like smart reply and email summaries, natural language search in Photos, and oth

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re a PlayStation 5 owner and are curious about VR gaming, now may be the best time to pick up Sony’s headset. The PlayStation VR2 is currently on sale for its lowest price ever, available on its own for $349.99 ($200 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and direct from PlayStation or as a bundle with Horizon Call of the Mountain for $399.99 ($200 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and PlayStation. The deal is part of the ongoing PlayStation Summer Sale,

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re a PlayStation 5 owner and curious about VR gaming, now may be the best time to pick up Sony’s headset. The PlayStation VR 2 is currently on sale for its lowest price ever, available on its own for $349.99 ($200 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and direct from PlayStation or as a bundle with Horizon Call of the Mountain for $399.99 ($200 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and PlayStation. The deal is part of the ongoing PlayStation Summer Sale, ru

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch’s mobile app is getting a major update that puts its TikTok-like feed front and center. The company started testing the update earlier this year, and over the course of this week, the new app will roll out to all users on Android and iOS, Twitch says in a blog post.
The big change is that the new app will open on a feed of content you might like (a “Home” tab) instead of opening on the “Following” tab. The change follo

Image: Sony Sony Interactive Entertainment and Team Asobi — the developers behind the forthcoming Astro Bot — have teamed up to design and release a limited edition Astro Bot DualSense controller.
Just look at it. I need it.The Astro Bot limited edition controller adds blue controller grips and sci-fi accents and features Astro’s signature pair of bright blue eyes on the touchpad that, based on the adorable trailer, appear to blink at you. (They better blink at you — what

Image: Dinosaur Polo Club Canceled video games are typically shrouded in secrecy, the kind of thing we only learn about via leaks well after the fact. But Dinosaur Polo Club, the indie studio behind the minimalist strategy games Mini Metro and Mini Motorways, has revealed a recently canceled project in a refreshing bout of transparency.
The game was codenamed Magic School, and it was an attempt for the studio to branch out from the clean, streamlined experiences it has become known for. The prob

Several long-distance fibre-optic cables in France were “sabotaged” overnight, according to local police, causing widespread disruptions to internet services across the country.  The perpetrators remain at large, as the cat-and-mouse between police and criminals at the Olympics continues on the sidelines of sprints, swims, and shot puts.  The internet cables were severed early on Monday morning, said network provider Netalis on X. Junior Minister for Digital Affairs Marina

The race for semiconductor leadership is on — and European chip startups are rising to the challenge. Europe is already home to high-profile chip companies including ASML, NXP, Arm, and Infineon. However, it lags behind in manufacturing capacity. The EU is currently producing about 10% of the world’s semiconductors. The UK accounted for 0.5% of chip sales globally in 2023. In an ongoing battle against chip giants in Taiwan, China, and the US, both the EU and the UK are doubling down

Photo by Kenny Holston-Pool / Getty Images X owner Elon Musk shared a deepfake video spoofing a campaign ad for Vice President Kamala Harris. It appears to violate the platform’s own policies against synthetic and manipulated media.
The video Musk shared on Friday alters a recent campaign video Harris released, one that makes it sound like the presidential candidate said things she didn’t. The manipulated clip has Harris saying things like she is “the ultimate diversity hire&rd

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Apple’s new AI features for the iPhone may not arrive with the initial rollout of iOS 18 and the expected launch of the iPhone 16 in September, according to a report from Bloomberg. Instead, the company reportedly plans on launching Apple Intelligence with iOS 18.1 in October as it works to get the rollout right.
Apple took the wraps off its first AI features during its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, showing off a new and improved Siri, AI

Arc’teryx’s new powered MO/GO pants claim to boost leg strength by up to 40 percent. | Image: Arc’teryx Strength-boosting exoskeleton suits can help make jobs with physical labor feel less strenuous, but Arc’teryx has partnered with Skip, a spinoff of Google’s X Labs, to bring the technology to leisure time. The powered MO/GO pants feature a lightweight electric motor at the knee that can boost a hiker’s leg strength when going uphill while also absorbing the

Dutch airline KLM has teamed up with British-American startup ZeroAvia to develop a liquid hydrogen-powered turboprop aircraft. The partners aim to conduct a flight demonstration between two yet-to-be-named airports in 2026. ZeroAvia builds hydrogen-electric powertrains that can be retrofitted onto new or existing aircraft. The company has raised over $300mn from the likes of Airbus, Amazon, and British Airways to realise its vision for zero-emission flight.  Hydrogen-electric engines use

When Simone Biles saluted the judges and stepped onto the mat to vault at the Sportpaleis in Antwerp, Belgium, it seemed like every camera in the packed arena was trained on her. People in the audience pulled their smartphones to record. The photographers zoomed in from their media perches. One TV camera tracked her run on a high-speed dolly, all the way down the runway, as she hurdled into a roundoff onto the springboard. The spider cam, swinging above, caught the upward trajectory of her body

Image: MysteryLupin (X) Google appears to be preparing to launch a fourth generation Nest Learning Thermostat. Details on the thermostat first leaked last week, and now the same leaker has posted more documents on X that show this new model will have a customizable home screen, a new “Dynamic Farsight” feature, and a “borderless” display.
The leaks detail a “high-res borderless display” which looks like it will allow the UI of the Nest Learning Thermostat to e

Image: MysteryLupin (X) Google appears to be preparing to launch a fourth-generation Nest Learning Thermostat. Details on the thermostat first leaked last week, and now the same leaker has posted more documents on X that show this new model will have a customizable homescreen, a new “Dynamic Farsight” feature, and a “borderless” display.
The leaks detail a “high-res borderless display,” which looks like it will allow the UI of the Nest Learning Thermostat to e

Fatherhood has played a large role in Abubakar Salim's work over the past few years.From 2020 to 2022, the actor and game developer starred in Raised by Wolves as Father, an android raising human children on planet Kepler-22b. In 2024, his video game studio Surgent Studios released Tales of Kenzera: Zau, a side-scroller about a shaman on a quest to revive his father. As creative lead on Zau, Salim drew on his grief for his own late father, describing the game as "a piece of art that honored him"

From Rook's Rest to the recruitment of new dragonriders by Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy), House of the Dragon Season 2 has delivered more dragon action than Season 1 or all of Game of Thrones. And more dragon action means more dragon-riding scenes.SEE ALSO:'House of the Dragon' cinematographer talks dragons, 'Succession' inspiration, and more
House of the Dragon's dragon-riding scenes are shot with actors riding on a device known as a buck, whose mechanical bull-like moments mimic those of th

Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) is having the worst time.Her daughter Helaena (Phia Saban) is traumatized from Jaehaerys' death. Her son Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) nearly died because of her other son Aemond's (Ewan Mitchell) fratricidal urges. She's fled a life-threatening riot, been undermined at and kicked out of the Small Council, and even started a disastrous situationship with Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel). Oh, and she learned that all of these tragedies happened because she misundersto

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for July 29's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, kee