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Where to pre-order the iPad Air 6: Get the M2 iPad at launch
If you’re looking to be one of the first adopters of the all-new iPad Air 6 then we’ve got you covered with our round-up of available pre-orders.
It’s been a big week for Apple fans (particularly those who love the iPad) as both the iPad Air and iPad Pro are getting major 2024 updates, with the former now being available in two size variations for the first-time ever.
There are also new versions of the Magic Keyboard, as well as the massively upgraded Apple Pencil Pro which promises to be
New Asus ROG Ally handheld gaming PC set to be announced later today
Asus will announced a new ROG Ally handheld gaming PC later today, it’s been confirmed.
The company has posted a YouTube premiere video that’s set to go live at 8PM tonight, GMT. Its title is a fairly unambiguous “The next ROG Ally is coming…”.
Given that it’s been only a year since the launch of the original Asus ROG Ally – an expensive (£699), technically advanced gaming handheld – it seems unlikely this is going to be a full-blown ROG Ally 2 follow-up.
Rather, we’re expecting
WiiM announces two new wireless audiophile streamers — one with a touchscreen
WiiM has announced two new audiophile streaming devices for the high end of its wireless audio streaming devices. Called the WiiM Ultra and the WiiM Amp Pro, both support AirPlay 2, Chromecast, DLNA, and several other streaming protocols and will be available this summer.
Both devices are equipped with a 32-bit / 384kHz ES9038 Q2M Sabre DAC. (Last year’s Wiim Amp used an ES9018 Sabre DAC instead). They also use Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 for wireless connectivity, and they each
5 times email blunders cost business
Typos, wrong recipient, lost in spam – we’ve all been there and, for the most part, these mistakes are pretty harmless. But when it comes to business, the margin for error on emails rapidly drops while the risk skyrockets.If you want an example of what not to do when sending business emails, here are 5 email fails that led to shut-the-front-door level consequences.Media agency hits ‘send all’What could make planning a mass redundancy more uncomfortable? Over to Carat Media, who accidentally sent
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Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio
Image: Tango Gameworks
Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a town hall to discuss the division’s future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees, according to internal remarks shared with The Verge.
For some listeners on the call, it was a surprising goal: Microsoft had just shut down the Japanese developer Tango Gameworks, which
Intel and motherboard makers disagree on how to stabilize your crashing i9 CPU
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge
Recently, motherboard makers have issued BIOS updates to improve the stability of Intel 13th and 14th Gen i9 chips in crashing games. But Intel, which announced last month that it was investigating these issues, is now asking gamers not to implement those settings.
The companies now seem to be at odds on how to adjust your CPU. Motherboard makers like Asus are recommending an “Intel Baseline Profile” with “basic functionality” and “lower po
Microsoft’s ‘air gapped’ AI is a bot set up to process top-secret info
Image: The Verge
Microsoft Strategic Missions and Technology CTO William Chappell announced that it’s deployed a GPT-4 large language model in an isolated, air-gapped environment on a government-only network. Bloomberg first reported the setup, citing an unnamed executive who claimed that the Azure Government Top Secret cloud-hosted model represents the first time a “major” LLM has operated separated from the internet.
Chappell announced the AI supercomputer on Tuesday af
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The judge in Epic v. Apple thinks Apple’s being shady about buttons and links
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge
Epic Games and Apple are in court for evidentiary hearings for the next couple of weeks over whether Apple violated the anti-steering injunction set down by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in 2021 after their landmark trial.
These hearings are going to be a lot of nitty-gritty details about App Store guidelines. Today, for example, involves a lot of questioning about buttons. (Apple restricts button styles for links that go outside of their
Marvel is bringing a mixed reality edition of What If…? to the Vision Pro
Who watches the watcher watching The Watcher watching them? | Image: Marvel / Disney
The Vision Pro is about to get what sounds like an honest-to-goodness mixed reality video experience from Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive, something the platform sorely needs. The companies announced What If...? – An Immersive Story, which they say is Disney Plus’ “first-ever” interactive original content. It’ll come exclusively to Apple’s VR headset and use a mixture of augmented and vi
Apple's hardware blitz in the M4 iPad Pro is missing the software magic to make it sing
<div>Cupertino's challenge will be aligning breakthrough hardware, like the AI-powered M4 chip, with cutting-edge software.</div>
Apple’s best announcement had nothing to do with the iPad Pro
keyboard ipad 10th gen
OPINION: Even though plenty of new products and features were unveiled during Apple’s Let Loose event, it was clear that the company wanted to focus on the M4-toting iPad Pro. Given just how unbelievably powerful the device will be, this is fair, but I think that for many people the best news of the night was found elsewhere.
It was a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ announcement but towards the end of the event, Apple unveiled a sizeable price drop for the standard iPad 10th
Is this mystery chatbot really GPT-4.5 in disguise? Here's how to see for yourself
<div>People are using the 'im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot' for some impressive tasks - and you can, too. Here's how.</div>
You can get a $100 gift card when you preorder Google’s Pixel 8A
Say Aloe to my little friend. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
Apple and Sonos aren’t the only companies dominating the headlines with new devices this week. Google also officially announced the Pixel 8A following weeks of rumors, introducing the forthcoming handset a full week ahead of Google I/O 2024. The phone launches on May 14th, but you can preorder an unlocked model from Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store starting at $499 with a $100 gift card.
As expected, t
Peacock is turning The Office into a franchise with a new spinoff series
Newer shows like Abbott Elementary have proven that there’s still interest in mockumentary-style TV more than a decade after The Office came to an end, and NBC has plans to capitalize on the moment with a new series set in the same — apologies — universe Dunder Mifflin exists in.
Greg Daniels was responsible for adapting The Office for NBC, and the network announced today that he and Michael Koman are creating a new, untitled spinoff series for Peacock that will focus on “a dying
12 iPhone apps that I can't live without (and why you need them, too)
<div>There are nearly two million apps available on the App Store, but these are the 12 most useful, and I'm not gatekeeping them any longer.</div>
The best robot vacuums for 2024: Expert tested and reviewed
<div>I've tested nearly every popular robot vacuum on the market from brands like Roomba, Dreame, Shark, and more. These are my favorite models.</div>
6 features the Nintendo Switch 2 must have for me to buy it
OPINION: Nintendo has finally confirmed that the successor to the Switch will launch before April 2025, which means it’s only a matter of months away from release.
The Nintendo Switch has been a huge success, currently ranking as the third best selling console of all time. This means that the Switch 2 has a lot to live up to, especially now that there’s far more competition in the handheld market following the release of the Steam Deck.
With that in mind, I’ve created this list of the 6
Google DeepMind’s new AI can model DNA, RNA, and ‘all life’s molecules’
Illustration: The Verge
Google DeepMind is introducing an improved version of its AI model that predicts not just the structure of proteins but also the structure of “all life’s molecules.” The work from the new model, AlphaFold 3, will help researchers in medicine, agriculture, materials science, and drug development test potential discoveries.
Previous versions of AlphaFold only predicted the structures of proteins. AlphaFold 3 goes beyond that and can model DNA, RNA, a