Elon Musk’s gilded robot car barely made it on public roads before federal regulators launched an investigation into the vehicle’s lack of traditional features – many of which are required by law. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was opening an audit query (AQ) into the Tesla Cybercab “to examine the process and […]
Microsoft is partnering with TCL to bring its Xbox app to supported TCL smart TVs. The Xbox app lets you connect to Xbox Cloud Gaming and stream Game Pass titles or select games you own as part of a subscription. The Xbox app will arrive on TCL TVs at some point “in the coming months,” […]
A senator’s letter confirms the U.S. military moved to prevent the tracking after foreign adversaries used location data to target troops.
The original robot vacuum company showed off a concept robot at the IFA tech show in Berlin today. The Roomba Duo combines a heavy-duty floor-washing machine with a smaller, slimmer Roomba. The two floor cleaners can move around your home together, with the main unit mopping and sweeping larger floor areas and the smaller unit […]
The investigation was launched just a few hours after Tesla put the first production Cybercabs on the road in Austin.
Bluetti doesn’t want you to call the Pioneer 5000 a solar generator (SoGen), even though that’s what it is. What makes it slightly different from other large power stations that can be charged off solar – aka, a SoGen – is the dolly cart and up to 18KW of instant surge power available to start […]
Instagram’s visible AI labels are supposed to help people quickly spot synthetically generated content at a glance. Over the last few weeks, however, users have been reporting that the system has gone haywire. They say Meta has been automatically applying an “AI Content” label to images that they didn’t create or edit using generative AI […]
Europe’s biggest tech trade show, IFA, has taken over Berlin this week – and we’ve been on the ground all week checking it out in person. We figure you have questions, so we’re hosting an AMA that’s exclusive to Verge subscribers at 12PM ET today. That’s when we’ll start dropping answers, but you can ask […]
There is a torrent of unappetizing slop coming from restaurants, cafes, and brands that are increasingly turning to AI to generate images promoting their food. The resulting horror show includes donut shrimp, Reubens from the deep, wormlike noodles, and noodle-like pastries and stringy chicken. There’s also construction material masquerading as ice cream, ice cream masquerading […]
Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith. While the software maker originally announced a similar developer-optimized Windows effort at Build earlier this year, Project Zenith is designed for new developer-focused devices with 64GB or more of unified memory. “Project Zenith devices come with a preconfigured Windows setup for development and a […]