My weather app is now a dating sim
/ Carrot Weather is getting an update that adds the ability to romance its homicidal AI character. Filling up the heart meter gets you gifts.Image: Carrot One of Carrot Weather’s main selling points, besides the fact that it’s a genuinely very good app for getting the forecast, is its character. The app has an “AI” […]
Comic: How to Replace the Sky
How to Replace the Sky, a comic by Matt Hyunh. At the end of 2020, the painting software I’d used my entire professional life updated itself with a new button. Illustration of a Photoshop window, with the Sky Replacement tool selected in a menu. I made my living as a commercial illustrator, making pictures for […]
Mickey 17, the next film from Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, is out in 2024
/ Robert Pattinson stars in the sci-fi movie, which comes to theaters on March 29th. You’ll have to wait a bit to see Parasite director Bong Joon-ho’s next project. The sci-fi film, called Mickey 17, will hit theaters on March 29th, 2024. The news was revealed via the briefest of teaser trailers, which shows star […]
You can now play some Ubisoft games you own for PC on Amazon’s cloud gaming service
/ Ubisoft and Amazon are now letting people play ‘select’ games they own on PC on Amazon’s Luna service. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is one of the games you’ll be able to play on Luna if you already own it.Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft and Amazon will now let you play some titles you own for PC via […]
Kodiak gets $50 million to develop self-driving reconnaissance vehicles for the US Army
/ The California-based startup will work with the army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle program over the next 24 months. Image: Kodiak Robotics Kodiak Robotics, the autonomous truck startup, will receive $49.9 million to help the US Army develop self-driving vehicles for reconnaissance, surveillance, and other “high-risk” missions. The Mountain View, California-based company, which primarily builds self-driving […]
The RadTrike is Rad Power Bikes’ first electric three-wheeler — and I got to test it out
Electric Bikes Rad Power Bikes, the number one seller of e-bikes in North America, discovers that when it comes to power, stability, and fun, three is the magic number. Share this story Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge “This way to the Rad Cave,” Mike Radenbaugh says with a wink. It’s a cloudless day […]
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is reportedly facing a federal probe on animal welfare grounds
/ Employees are said to have raised concerns internally that demands for fast progress are causing unnecessary mistakes. A monkey in Neuralink’s in-house facility.Image: Neuralink Neuralink, the brain implant company founded by Elon Musk, is reportedly facing a federal probe over the treatment of animals used in its experiments. Reuters reports that a probe was […]
YouTube is making its own Twitch-like emotes
/ YouTube now has its own set of custom emotes that work across all comments and live chats. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is starting to roll out its own custom emotes. The Twitch-like emotes, dubbed YouTube Emotes, can be used across YouTube in comment sections and during live chats, though the […]
Meta Oversight Board demands changes to “cross-check” program that protected Donald Trump
/ Cross-check is supposed to reduce the ‘perception of censorship,’ but it amounts to special treatment of big accounts. Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s Oversight Board has released an in-depth report on Facebook and Instagram’s controversial cross-check system, calling on Meta to make the program “radically” more transparent and beef up its resources. […]
Tuesday’s top tech news: Apple’s DIY repair service comes to Europe
Europeans, this could soon be you.Image: Apple It’s always nice to start the day with a bit of unambiguously good news, so it brings me great pleasure to report that Apple’s DIY repair service for iPhones and Macs has launched in select (read: eight) European countries. The service is still not perfect (Apple’s devices arguably […]