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Source: The Verge Google has announced a new AI feature that uses Gemini AI bot to add events to your Google Calendar based on emailed details in Gmail. Emails that Gemini thinks describe events will get a new “Add to Calendar button” that starts the interaction. When you click it, the Gemini prompt sidebar will…
Source: The Verge Unlike disassembling most modern smartphones, iFixit’s teardown of Nintendo’s Alarmo appears to be relatively painless. Removing a single tri-point screw on the bottom of the alarm clock allows its faceplate to be simply twisted off, providing easy access to its internal hardware. There aren’t a lot of surprises inside Alarmo. Below its…
Source: The Verge Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of at least one its PlayStation game characters. An anonymous tipster has shared an internal video from Sony’s PlayStation group with The Verge that demonstrates an AI-powered version of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West. The video is narrated by Sharwin Raghoebardajal, a director of…
Source: The Verge Apple plans to significantly redesign the look of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS later this year, Bloomberg reports. The changes, which are set to arrive with iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16, will touch many parts of the operating systems, including “updating the style of icons, menus, apps, windows and system buttons,”…
Source: The Verge Do you want to drop a not-so-subtle hint that you prefer the analog sound of vinyl over digital music whenever someone asks you the time? AndoAndoAndo’s new Vinyl Record Automatic Watch looks like a tiny turntable strapped to your wrist – but not just any old record player. The timepiece’s designer, Yu…
Source: The Verge Microsoft has started sending out invites to a 50th anniversary and Copilot event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The April 4th event will take place on the day Microsoft marks 50 years since it was first founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975. The event on Microsoft’s campus…
Source: The Verge Though the main My Hero Academia anime series is set to end later this year, its gritty prequel is about to make its streaming debut on Crunchyroll. Today, Crunchyroll announced that it has secured the exclusive, global (outside of Asia) rights to stream studio Toho’s My Hero Academia: Vigilantes from director Kenichi…
Source: The Verge Ron Wyden has represented Oregon in the US Senate since 1996 and is the co-author of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Across U.S. politics, it’s become fashionable to blame nearly all the internet’s ills on one law I co-wrote: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Everyone from President Donald…
Source: The Verge Today, the $700 PlayStation 5 Pro can already produce crisper, sharper, smoother, and more stable graphics than a PS5, if you sit close enough to appreciate them. But starting in 2026, the company hopes to imbue games with a new AI upscaling formula that’ll make them even crisper, based on the AMD…
Source: The Verge On September 10th, PlayStation held a “technical presentation” that confirmed the long-rumored PS5 Pro’s existence and souped-up specs, like a buffed GPU, Wi-Fi 7, and support for Sony’s AI-driven upscaling technology, PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, or PSSR. It will also come with features like PS5 Pro Game Boost to improve the performance…
