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Google will let Mac users talk to Gemini simply by pressing the ‘fn’ key
Users only have to long-press the 'fn' key on the bottom left corner of their keyboard to talk to Gemini on Mac.
Are remote car starters still worth it in 2026?
Some newer vehicles include the feature, but to keep it, you'll have to pay monthly. You can also buy remote starters outright.
DoorDash is going airborne with new drone delivery division
A Wing drone carrying a DoorDash delivery. The food delivery app company says it will build its own drones going forward. | Image: Google DoorDash is launching a new drone delivery program called...
The Nothing Ear 3A deliver great, but sometimes buggy, performance for the price
Nothing has had a strong visual identity since the Ear 1 were released in 2021 for $99 and challenged the notion that a highly featured headset requires a high price. The Ear 3A have the same...
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 feels like the future
A short king. Is this the future of foldable phones? Samsung clearly thinks so. The company has given its new wide foldable the "Z Fold 8" name, positioning the phone not as a widescreen oddity,...
Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning
Artists whose work has been co-opted by AI are taking to court. | Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson,...
OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face
The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already...
Costco’s organic chicken isn’t what it seems
Packages of chicken breasts at a Costco Wholesale store in San Diego. | Kevin Carter/Getty Images Organic chicken costs on average more than twice as much as conventional chicken, and people buy it...
We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety
Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an...
Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms
After the recent Xbox outage even blocked people from playing offline disc-based console games, Microsoft is trying to soothe concerns that you don't truly own anything under Xbox's license system....