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Modern gadgets are all well and good, but sometimes things get more exciting when you enter the realm of fantasy. And the worlds of gaming, TV, and film often feature extremely cool gadgets that we just wish were real, whether it’s an impossible VR headset or a smartphone powered by a ghost. So, every so often, we decide to treat them as if they were real, and review science fiction gizmos...
Though the Pokémon games' Rotom Phones haven't really changed all that much design-wise over the past few years, each generation has introduced new functionalities that made upgrading a no-brainer. Sword / Shield's Rotom Phone - the very first one - came with a bare-bones camera that made it easy to snap wide-angle (screen)shots out in the Galar region's Wild Area. The second-generation...
Ex-Luminar CEO Austin Russell is trying to wrest back control of his company. | Image: Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge
Earlier this year, Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell abruptly resigned from his position after it was revealed he was the target of an ethics inquiry. Now, the 30-year-old billionaire is trying to wrest back control of his old company, which made him a fortune by...
Amazon’s smart doorbell company Ring is now working with the AI-powered surveillance camera company Flock. According to a letter sent to the company by Sen. Ron Wyden, Flock had allowed data access to the Secret Service and the Navy — as well as ICE, as previously reported by 404 Media.
The partnership is through Ring’s Community Request program. In April, Ring announced another...
Kelly Reichardt has been called one of America's greatest filmmakers, and also one of its quietest. But her latest, The Mastermind, centered on an art heist that goes off the rails, is probably her loudest movie yet and definitely her biggest budget to date. Reichardt even set out to make something different from her previous work - which includes First Cow, Showing Up, and Wendy and Lucy...
The Arctis Buds are great for gaming, whether you use a Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 5, or Steam Deck. | Image: The Verge
When I have to decide which wireless gaming earbuds that I want to use, it’s a tough choice between the SteelSeries Arctis Buds and the Sony InZone Buds. Both have a comfortable fit, active noise cancellation, great sound quality, and their USB-C transmitters work...
The Intellivision Sprint features the same unique controllers as the original, but they’re now wireless and rechargeable. | Image: Atari
Atari has announced yet another retro console revival, but this time it’s launching hardware from an old competitor.
Atari and Plaion, a company that develops, publishes, and distributes games, have collaborated on the new Intellivision Sprint that blends...
It's a testament to the developers at Double Fine that it doesn't take long before controlling a sentient lighthouse with spidery legs starts to feel almost normal. Keeper, the latest from the studio behind Psychonauts and Grim Fandango, is obviously a strange game. You play as a building that can walk and solve puzzles and which befriends a cute bird while on a quest to rid a fantastical...
A real, and not AI generated photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. | Image: Getty Images
OpenAI said on Thursday night that it has “paused” deepfakes of Martin Luther King Jr. on its social app Sora after users created “disrespectful” AI-generated videos of the late civil rights leader. It said representatives or estates of other historical figures will now be able to opt out of their likeness...
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