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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images Google can now turn your research into an AI-generated podcast, complete with two “hosts” that discuss what you’ve dug up. The experimental feature lives within NotebookLM, the AI note-taking app Google launched last year, and will have AI hosts “summarize your material, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth.”
It’s meant to build on NotebookLM’s existing features that

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images Google can now turn your research into an AI-generated podcast, complete with two “hosts” that discuss what you’ve dug up. The experimental feature lives within NotebookLM, the AI note-taking app Google launched last year, and will have AI hosts “summarize your material, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth.”
It’s meant to build on NotebookLM’s existing features that

The Apple Watch Series 10 is bigger, thinner, and brighter than previous models — including the rugged Apple Watch Ultra 2. | Image: Apple Earlier this week, during Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” event, the tech giant introduced the new Apple Watch Series 10 and a new look for the Apple Watch Ultra 2. The smartwatches start at $399 and $799, respectively, and both are available for preorder ahead of their forthcoming release on Friday, September 20th.The new Series 10 is b

Klipsch’s Flexus Core 300 soundbar will leverage Dirac’s room correction calibration tools. | Image Klipsch Klipsch has announced its new Flexus Core 300 soundbar, which it claims is the industry’s first to utilize Dirac’s Live Room correction technology to optimize its sound specifically for the room where it’s installed and where listeners are sitting. Dirac Live is typically only featured in amplifiers and receivers that are part of a more complex — and mor

An AMD Strix Point laptop. | Photo by Joanna Nelius / The Verge Many laptops and gaming handhelds share a single pool of memory between the CPU and GPU — and sometimes, you might want that RAM boosting your graphics instead. Now, AMD won’t make you dive into a BIOS to reroute that power. The company’s new Variable Graphics Memory lets you turn up to 75 percent of your system memory into dedicated video RAM, just by tapping a button in AMD’s desktop Adrenalin app.
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The PS5 Pro looks like a slim that got a growth spurt. | Image: Sony After various rumors and leaks, the PlayStation 5 Pro is finally official — complete with a new GPU, $700 price point, and no built-in disc drive. But is that pretty much it? What makes this new console 40 percent more expensive than the existing PS5 you can buy today for $500? The same one that’s bound to go on sale during the holidays, not long after the Pro’s November 7th launch date.What are the difference

BROOKSHIRE, TEXAS - APRIL 25: Solar cells are run through a PV cell soldering stringer at Elin Energys solar panel manufacturing facility. | Photo: Getty Images The US has quadrupled its capacity for manufacturing solar panels in just a couple of years since passing the biggest federal spending package yet on climate and clean energy.
Domestic solar module manufacturing capacity grew to 31.3 gigawatts in the second quarter of 2024, according to a report published this week by Wood Mackenzie and

Image: Bluesky Bluesky, the decentralized X alternative, now supports video. The platform announced on Wednesday that you can share videos up to 60 seconds long on its desktop site and mobile app.
The videos will autoplay by default, but Bluesky says you can turn this feature off in the settings menu. You can also add subtitles to your videos, as well as apply labels for things like adult content. There are some limitations to Bluesky’s video feature, as the platform will only allow up to

Don’t want to commit to a new color of paint? Glasst’s Unpaint can be peeled off after a couple of days. | Image: Glasst Glasst has come up with an unusual solution for DIYers struggling to commit to a new wall color. Its Unpaint is a paint alternative that can be applied using standard tools like brushes, rollers, or even sprayers, but not permanently. When it dries, the company claims the paint can be easily peeled off instead of requiring laborious sanding or solvents to remove it

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In case you missed the news, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions recently went up in price with the rollout of a new “Standard” tier, which doesn’t include day-one access to first-party Xbox games. Thankfully, if you’re still keen on an Ultimate membership, CDKeys is offering one-month subscription codes for $11.19 ($9 off) and three-month codes for $29.79 (about $30 off). These aren’t the lowest prices we’ve seen, but

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile, which is working with SpaceX to let people text and make phone calls over satellite, says it has successfully sent a test emergency alert via a Starlink satellite. Satellite alerts can help ensure that people receive critical communication when they’re out of wireless coverage range, and T-Mobile claims this is the first time a wireless emergency alert has been sent over satellite in the US.
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Image: the Internet Archive Google Search is now adding links to archived websites in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. That’s a bit of good news for anybody lamenting the disappearance of the cached pages link from Google’s results.
The Internet Archive hosts billions of archived webpages, as it notes in its blog post today about the change. The Wayback Machine is a very helpful tool for looking at older versions of websites to see what may have changed compared to past

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images Following last night’s debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, several users on X homed in on the Vice President’s earrings — speculating that she was using them to get her talking points. Echoing a long history of political conspiracy theories, they claimed she wore the Nova H1 Audio Earrings, which double as wireless earpieces. But anyone who looks closely enough can tell they’re not the same.
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A Ram 1500 truck assembly process at Stellantis’ Sterling Heights, Michigan plant. | Image: Stellantis Stellantis, the European parent company of American brands Ram, Dodge, Chrysler, and Jeep, is retooling its Michigan plants to enable more electric vehicle production.
The automaker says it will put more than $400 million into three Michigan facilities to support its “multi-energy strategy,” enabling manufacturing of electric and gas versions of the same vehicles to be built i

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Want a PS5, but don’t want to spend $700 on a PS5 Pro? Thanks to Sony’s new refurbished website for PS5s, you’ll soon be able to buy an older version of the console for a lot less money than the PS5 Pro’s eye-watering cost.
You can see everything that’s on offer on Sony’s certified refurbished website, which lists a bunch of products as “coming soon.” A refurbished PS5 in the original launch design with a disc driv

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After previews at Google I/O 2024 and months of testing, the finished version of Android 15 is now available for developers.
That doesn’t mean it’s out for users just yet: according to Google, it’ll be a few weeks before it arrives on Pixels and then will get to Samsung and other select devices “in the coming months.” As usual with Android, the software will come with a variety of different tweaks and variations depending on t

The PS5 Pro’s announcement yesterday wasn’t a surprise. What was a surprise was the price: at $699.99, it debuts as Sony’s most expensive console ever. It brought back memories of the PS3’s controversial price tag, a console that when adjusted for inflation is the same $779 price point of a PS5 Pro with the additional disc drive. It’s a very expensive PlayStation, and I fear it’s a test of what’s to come for next-gen console pricing.
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Image: A24 We’re in a pretty great period for established actors doing weird shit. Obviously, there’s Nic Cage, playing everything from an ancient vampire to a deranged satanist to an average man who haunts your dreams. But the likes of Amy Adams (mom who transforms into a dog) and Hugh Grant (oompa loompa and evil wizard) are also in experimental eras. Now, Grant has taken perhaps his most surprising role: the antagonist in A24’s horror movie Heretic from codirectors Scott Bec

Even in shadow, the new SUV looks like any SUV. | Image: Lucid Lucid revealed new information about the EV charge port of its upcoming Gravity SUV and teased an all-new, more affordable vehicle at Tuesday’s Technology and Manufacturing Day event.
The Lucid Gravity, slated for its first deliveries later this year, will come equipped with a native Tesla-compatible port “in 2025.” The Tesla connector, now known as the North American Charging Standard, or NACS, is being adopted by

Even in shadow, the new SUV looks like any SUV. | Image: Lucid Lucid revealed new information about the EV charge port of its upcoming Gravity SUV and teased an all-new, more affordable vehicle at Tuesday's Technology and Manufacturing Day event.
The Lucid Gravity, slated for its first deliveries later this year, will come equipped with a native Tesla-compatible port “in 2025.” The Tesla connector, now known as the North American Charging Standard, or NACS, is being adopted by largel

Image: The Verge A federal judge halted a Utah child safety law requiring social platforms to verify the ages of their users. In an order on Tuesday, Judge Robert J. Shelby issued a preliminary injunction in favor of NetChoice, saying the law likely violates the First Amendment.
NetChoice, the technology trade association that includes Meta, Snap, Google, and X, sued the state to block the law in December 2023, alleging it “violates the constitutional rights of all Utahns.” In additi

Fashion app Depop has unveiled new AI gear from the firm’s tech wardrobe. The second-hand marketplace can now generate an entire listing from a single photo. Launched today, the feature is designed to accelerate the listing process. All users need to do is upload their image and hit “Generate Description.” Image recognition and GenAI will then create the listing description. The system will also add various item attributes, from category to colour and brand. Every detail will

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Google’s tool that lets publishers sell ad space on their websites is ubiquitous, but that’s largely a testament to how hard it is for customers to get out of it, one former publishing executive testified in federal court on Tuesday.
“I felt like they were holding us hostage,” said Stephanie Layser, a former programmatic advertising executive at News Corp (which owns brands like The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post)

 Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Linnea and Andrii talk about quantum accelerators, major job cuts at WeTransfer, a planet that never was, and a few things in between. You’ll also hear an on-stage interview with Lee Taylor, CFO of OnlyFans, with Cristina Criddle, techn

Adobe’s new text-to-video and image-to-video AI features will be available in beta later this year. | Image: Adobe Adobe has teased some of its upcoming generative AI video tools, including a new feature that can produce video clips from still images. This latest preview builds on the in-development Firefly video model that the software giant demonstrated in April, which is set to power AI video and audio editing features across Adobe’s Creative Cloud applications.
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Nuro wants to put its technology into a range of vehicle types. | Image: Nuro Nuro, the delivery robot company created by veterans of Google’s self-driving car project, is taking the bold — and risky — step to expand its business model to include robotaxis and personally owned autonomous vehicles.The California-based company, which currently operates a small fleet of delivery vehicles in California and Texas, doesn’t plan to build the vehicles itself. Instead, it will lic