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Sen. Adam Schiff on AI regulation, free speech, and impeaching Trump one more time
Today, I’m talking with Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. Schiff sits on a number of committees with oversight into tech and AI: intellectual property, antitrust, privacy and technology...
An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS
Getting some extra storage space on your Mac could be as easy as deleting Apple's AI features with a new open-source command line tool called RemoveMacAI. There used to be a single Settings toggle...
Siri can index more of your personal data — here’s how to limit it
If you're concerned about Apple's new digital assistant, here's how you can restrict its access to your data.
Are phone coolers actually worth it?
Phone coolers will make the back of your phone cooler, but whether this has any practical effect depends on how hot the device is running.
OpenAI is sticking more ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will "initially" appear when you...
How far away can a Wi-Fi extender be from your router?
Wi-Fi extenders can help under the right conditions, but you'll need to put them in the right place to see good results.
TCL’s paperlike OLED phone made me more excited for the iPhone Duo
TCL’s P80 Ultra is its first Nxtpaper phone with an OLED screen. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge I've spent most of the last couple weeks using an otherwise unexceptional midrange Android phone...
What color is a tennis ball?
A while back, I was at physical therapy, and the topic of tennis came up. Someone said something about yellow tennis balls, and I was like… “What? They’re green.” And then someone else...
Google admits not every Android app runs great on Intel Googlebooks
This Asus Googlebook is one of the Intel models that may have issues. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Google has waited until the day its new Googlebook laptops hit the market to admit...
The messy bargain that could bring down your power bill
Congress has a new bipartisan plan to lower your power bill. | David Paul Morris/Bloombe There’s no place like Kansas, a state whose howling winds are so fierce that in the 1800s, the roaring...