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Image: Sony Sony is upping the limited warranty on some InZone gaming monitors to three years and is tossing in OLED burn-in coverage for the 27-inch M10S. The company announced the additional coverage today after launching both the InZone M10S OLED and M9 II LED in September with only one-year limited warranties out of the box. Sony says other than that, the limited warranties remain as they were.
Manufacturers have long been averse to talking about burn-in or have outright categorized the phen

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple updated its AirPods firmware support page today with a more detailed step-by-step guide on how to upgrade the AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max with their latest firmware, according to MacRumors. While most Apple devices, like the iPhone or Apple Watch, can start updates in the settings, with the AirPods you have to wait for the update process to happen on its own.
The AirPods firmware support page still includes Apple’s original summar

Dragons, fairies, and talking rats descended upon Madison Square Garden on Jan. 24 for Dimension 20's sold-out Gauntlet at the Garden — and the results were nothing short of a blast.Led by Game Master Brennan Lee Mulligan and starring "intrepid heroes" Emily Axford, Ally Beardsley, Brian Murphy, Zac Oyama, Siobhan Thompson, and Lou Wilson, Gauntlet at the Garden transported its thousands of audience members back to D20's New York City-set Unsleeping City campaign. That the cast was battlin

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Chinese startup DeepSeek claims its AI models can match the performance of those made by OpenAI and Meta — but at a fraction of the cost. DeepSeek is shaking up the AI industry with cost-efficient large-language models it claims can perform just as well as rivals from giants like OpenAI and Meta. The Chinese startup says its flagship R1 reasoning model is capable of achieving “performance comparable” to OpenAI’s o1 equivalent, while the ne

The Pebble Time Round just got a new lease on life. | Photo: Chris Welch / The Verge Eric Migicovsky still wears his Pebble. Thirteen years after he founded the wearables company and found huge success on Kickstarter, and more than eight years after he sold the company to Fitbit, which was then acquired by Google, Migicovsky’s watch still works. (In case you’re wondering: when I saw him at CES a few weeks ago, he appeared to be wearing a white Pebble Time Round model. But he has a bo

When shopping for the woman in your life, real romance isn't about the amount of money you spend or picking out the biggest bouquet of roses. It's about showing that you pay attention to her complaints, know what she likes, and appreciate what she does for you by gifting her something that makes her life easier. We're picking the bar up off the floor in 2025 with Valentine's Day gift ideas for women that are sure to please. Thoughtful, practical, whimsical, or appropriately mushy, these gifts go

Sorry, OpenAI (and Google and Meta and…). A recently released AI model called DeepSeek from a China-based startup is currently wreaking havoc on the tech space in the U.S. Why? Because it's blowing all other Big Tech models out of the water. And, to top it off, it's allegedly doing so with less funding and less technological resources.Here's what the AI industry says about DeepSeek compared to OpenAI's leading chatbot, ChatGPT.DeepSeek is actually openNow, re

Tesla, owned by Elon Musk, is taking the European Union (EU) to court over its tariffs on electric vehicles imported from China. Filed last Wednesday with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by Tesla’s Shanghai division, the lawsuit comes in the wake of similar legal moves by BMW and other Chinese car manufacturers.The tariffs are part of the EU’s ongoing efforts to combat what it sees as unfair trade practices. A 2023 investigation concluded that Chinese EV manufacturers, including

DeepSeek AI, the hottest name in generative AI right now, says it’s weathering "large-scale malicious attacks" after becoming the most-downloaded app on Apple’s App Store, overtaking OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the process.SEE ALSO:Could Trump ban DeepSeek? What the TikTok ban saga tells us.
The China-based AI startup has experienced explosive growth over the past week, drawing comparisons to the viral launch of ChatGPT itself. DeepSeek AI's open-source large language model (LLM), Deep

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge iOS 18.3 is here, and it’s bringing changes to AI notification summaries on your iPhone. In iOS 18.3’s release notes, Apple says it has temporarily disabled notification summaries for news and entertainment apps.
The change, which was first spotted in the iOS 18.3 beta, comes after the BBC called out the feature for incorrectly summarizing one of its headlines. If you opt-in to the feature, Apple will notify you once it becomes available ag

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January may feel like a month of 31 successive Mondays, but finally, we've almost reached the end. Just near that light at the end of the tunnel though, is a reminder: Valentine's Day will be here sooner than you think.Of co

What does life look like when one of your family members has been convicted of horrific crimes?This is the question posed in Happy Face, a new series about Melissa Reed (Annaleigh Ashford), the daughter of convicted serial killer Keith Jeppersen (Dennis Quaid). But when another man faces the death penalty for a crime that may have been her father's, Melissa is forced to reconnect with her dad in order to try and work out the truth.The first two episodes of Happy Face are streaming on Paramount+

SAVE $100: The Keurig K-Duo Plus coffee maker is on sale for just $99.99 at Best Buy, down from the typical price of $199.99. That's a 50% discount.Opens in a new windowCredit: KeurigKeurig K-Duo Plus$99.99 at Best Buy $199.99 Save $100.00Get DealMorning is no time to be fighting with your coffee maker. If your current coffee setup is causing more trouble than enjoyment, you deserve an upgrade. You need something versatile, programmable, and a no-fuss machine. And if you'd like something afforda

As natural (read: human-exacerbated) disasters ramp up in severity across the globe, communities have had to reconcile with extreme, life-altering loss. Cities have been completely decimated by fires and floods. Homes have been destroyed by tornadoes and extreme storms. And while the tangible losses of personal belongings is often debilitating, it pales in comparison to the incalculable loss of life. SEE ALSO:Why the 'digital divide' persists within Indigenous communities
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Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is widely launching the ability for its AI chatbot to “remember” certain details about you, such as your dietary preferences or your interests, the company said in a blog post on Monday. It will then use your past conversations, in addition to details from Facebook and Instagram accounts, to provide more relevant recommendations.
Meta first started rolling out a memory feature for its AI chatbot last year, but now it will be available acr

DeepSeek, a Chinese open-source AI system similar to ChatGPT, has risen to popularity at a peculiar time: in the midst of an ongoing legal battle over whether another Chinese tech platform, TikTok, should be allowed to run in the U.S. Some users are curious if the U.S. government would attempt to ban DeepSeek on the same grounds it has used to attempt to ban TikTok.In short, sure, the U.S. could ban DeepSeek if it wanted to. It has the capacity to ban things it doesn't like from countries i

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In a mere week, DeepSeek's R1 large language model has dethroned ChatGPT on the App Store, shaken up the stock market, and posed a serious threat to OpenAI and, by extension, U.S. dominance of the AI industry. Last Monday, Chinese AI company DeepSeek released an open-source LLM called DeepSeek R1, becoming the buzziest AI chatbot since ChatGPT. It's purportedly just as good — if not better — than OpenAI's models, cheaper to use, and allegedly developed with way fe

The Apple Sports app has been updated with broadcast information for users in the US. | Screenshot: David Pierce / The Verge Apple updated its iOS Sports app today with several new features, including a faster way to navigate the app, support for a handful of additional soccer tournaments, and information about where you can watch games that are being nationally broadcast in the US.
According to the release notes for the update, you can now quickly “swipe left or right to browse all of the

The 2021 Kindle Paperwhite isn’t significantly different than its successor, rendering this an excellent deal if you want a waterproof Amazon e-reader. | Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge If you’re feeling bored because it’s too cold to go outside, here’s an e-reader deal that might help: Woot is selling a refurbished 2021 Kindle Paperwhite with 16GB of storage and ads for just $89.99 with a 90-day warranty, saving you about $60 off the latest model. New Woot customer

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PBS Though much of PBS’ programming is already available to stream through through its own apps, now you can access it through Amazon Prime Video.
Amazon has launched a selection of new, ad-free FAST channels consisting of programming from over 150 local PBS affiliate stations and the PBS KIDS Channel. Even if you aren’t subscribed to Prime Video, you will be able to access live affiliate streams in the “Watch for Free” section without having to watch the third-party ads

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge After surging to the top of Apple’s App Store charts in the US, DeepSeek’s AI Assistant is now restricting new user sign-ups. According to an incident report page, registrations are being temporarily limited “due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek’s services,” though it’s unclear how these limitations are being applied.
“Existing users can log in as usual,” DeepSeek said in its update. “Th

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Stunning AI advances from Chinese startup DeepSeek have sent tech stocks tumbling across the US and Europe. DeepSeek released a free chatbot and new open-source AI models last week. Within days, the chatbot had overtaken ChatGPT to reach the top spot on the Apple App Store’s free app rankings. The new R1 models sent further shockwaves through the AI world. R1 promised performance to rival OpenAI top’s reasoning model — at just a fraction of the cost. Marc Andreessen, one of th

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Cath Virginia / The Verge Spotify and Universal Music Group have signed a new multi-year agreement that could result in a tiered subscription approach aimed at providing extra perks for “superfans.” The two didn’t announce any specifics, including the number of years the deal lasts, but UMG says it’s consistent with a “Streaming 2.0” vision it presented to investors last year.
UMG chairman and CEO Sir Lucian Grainge called the agreement “precisely the ki

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The Apple Watch Series 10 is the biggest and brightest you can buy without paying hundreds more for the Ultra. | photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
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A new super-powered, open-source AI model called DeepSeek R1 is rattling the industry this week, after it was unexpectedly dropped into the laps of artificial intelligence experts — and the world — with seemingly valid challenges to OpenAI's expensive AI model.Released by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, the DeepSeek R1 advanced reasoning model purports to outperform the most popular large language models (LLMs), including OpenAI's o1. According to the company, DeepSeek R1 bested these b

Mike White's anthology series The White Lotus returns for its third season this February, promising more satire of the ridiculously rich (and maybe another death).SEE ALSO:'The White Lotus' isn't a whodunnit. So why are we watching it like one?
The White Lotus Season 3 brings us to a luxury resort in Thailand, where new groups of travelers — plus a familiar face in Season 1's spa manager Belinda (Natasha Rothwell, How to Die Alone) — are ready for the vacation of a lifetime. The trai

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