Nintendo has finally caved and raised the price of the Switch 2. That’s a big deal.
SSDs now cost double or even triple what they did in December, with HDD prices on the rise, too.
Will the base model Neo disappear just like the cheaper version of the Mac mini?
The former OpenAI CTO had receipts. But they mostly confuse her own story.
Shivon Zilis’ notes might be the most important evidence we’ve seen so far.
OpenAI’s former CEO testified under oath that Altman lied to her.
Emails going as far back as 2015 give a glimpse into the foundations of OpenAI and the early tensions at the company.
Xteink made an even smaller and thinner e-reader by unfortunately skipping a USB-C port.
It’s just a simple Bluetooth speaker, but for 10 bucks it’s a cheap, colorful addition to a desk, shelf, or kid’s room.
So easy to use you’ll take it everywhere, but it can’t stream services like Netflix or Amazon Prime.
Colin Angle revealed his latest creation this week: a dog-sized robot ‘Familiar’ designed for human connection, not chores.
Mirumi is adorable. But living with it reminded me of the limits to the companionship a social robot can provide.
Just don’t call it the Gimbal Phone.
iRobot’s collapse marks the end of an era. Co-founder Colin Angle calls it a blow for robotics.
All 42 “regular part-time and full-time employees” of the studio, behind games like Psychonauts and Kiln, will be part of the union, Aftermath reports.
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At 12.3 inches, the new Asus ROG Strix XG129C is a little smaller than its competition from Corsair.
The new ‘Clips’ feed will show snippets from Prime Video’s shows and movies.
For more than an hour on Friday, many people were having trouble connecting to Discord, with the platform showing a message saying that there were “increased API errors.” Discord confirmed it was investigating issues at 3:08PM ET, and by 6:38PM ET, it reported that all “critical functionalities have recovered for all users.”
Updates: Discord says the issues are resolved.
Google gave Snapseed its first major update in years on iOS last June, and now the Android app is getting a big upgrade, too, 9to5Google reports. Both apps are now on version 4.0.
Less than two months after shutting down its open beta relaunch and downsizing its team, Digg has launched a new version at di.gg. This updated version of the platform, instead of functioning similar to Reddit, is more like an online sentiment tracker. Right now, it’s focused only on tracking AI news, but “it’s going to be all the things,” according to Kevin Rose.
While some automakers are pulling back on EVs, others are embracing them. Four years after the launch of the Cadillac Lyriq, the GM-owned brand is selling more EVs than ever. In addition to the Lyriq, there’s also the Optiq, Vistiq, and Escalade IQ. (And don’t forget the bespoke $360,000 Celestiq.) Moreover, three-quarters of customers buying new EVs are conquests from other brands, particularly Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Lexus, and BMW.
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The battle over AI data centers
As Bloomberg reports, Lime finally filed for an IPO on Friday, five years after it originally announced plans to go public. The Uber-backed micromobility company notes in its SEC filing that it intends to use the proceeds from the IPO to pay off debt.
The ruling restores federal grants that were shut down for ‘DEI’ prejudice.
If you, like me, played countless hours of Star Fox 64 growing up, then I think you’ll very much enjoy the 10 tracks from the upcoming Switch 2 remake’s soundtrack that Nintendo added to its music app. They’re so dang good.
Nintendo also uploaded the game’s prologue, which was shown in this week’s announcement direct, as a separate video.
The network says the FCC’s actions threaten to chill speech.
The Trump Administration has made another website, this time a dedicated Pentagon page with “new, never-before-seen files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE).
There’s definitely plenty of darkness, shadow effects, and PDFs with all kinds of stamps — let us know if you find anything interesting this time.
The glitzy Dreame Aurora Lux is what the Trump phone wishes it was.
What kind of chips and in which devices? Good question!
“Once you reserve, your place in line will be saved,” says Valve. You’ll have 72 hours to purchase once it’s your turn.
We’re only a few days out from Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe’s English language theatrical release on May 15th. But if a week is too long a wait, you can check out a sneak peek at the film right here.
Jaron Schneider of PetaPixel has a new piece in his personal Gunpla collection for me to be jealous of: a camera. The modified IUTD TBC (To Be Continued) 35mm film camera is hand-painted and decaled by Little Road Camera to mimic the original RX-78-2 Gundam.
I may have to do something extremely wicked… and order one of these.
If the pointy-toothed grin of Labubu dolls wasn’t unsettling enough, a group of MIT grad students has turned 12 of them into a rolling robot capable of following you around. There’s more details about Labububot here, but the video should be all you need to keep you wide awake tonight.
Studios like Naughty Dog and Santa Monica Studio have already adopted an AI-powered animation tool.
This invention from Pablo Rochat made me cackle out loud. It’s a tripod deployed from his arms that reminds us of the chair pants from Jury Duty and the trouser bench from Community. Would anyone use this? Should anyone? You decide.
The two-channel mixer brings some of TE’s punch-in performance effects to any audio input.
Meta recently began tracking employees’ computer activity to train its AI models, plans to cut 10 percent of staff later this month, and is pushing “employees to make so many A.I. agents that others had to introduce agents to find agents, and agents to rate agents,” sparking “anger and anxiety,” reports the New York Times:
Some said they no longer saw Meta as a place for a long career. Others were looking for new jobs or trying to signal that they wanted to be laid off so they could receive severance pay, the current and former employees said.
Or, in the case of the Google Store, you’ll get a $35 store credit to choose your own band.
Logitech’s new Rugged Combo 4c Keyboard has some useful upgrades that will benefit more than just students.
The early days of Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership have been revealed in detail in court documents this week.
Native Instruments’ CEO says the InMusic acquisition will bring continued investment to its products.
Earlier this week I wrote about the social media “clippers” that get paid to semi-covertly promote podcasts, TV shows, and other media through anonymous accounts. One of the clipping campaigns was for Perplexity AI — but nobody can tell me who, exactly, is responsible for the clips:
Reached via email, Perplexity distanced itself from clipping company Vyro, with spokesperson Jesse Dwyer saying Perplexity “has no knowledge” of the company and “takes any unauthorized use of the Perplexity name or logo very seriously.” When asked to confirm Perplexity had not run or authorized clipping campaigns, Dwyer initially stopped responding to The Verge. After publication, Dwyer told The Verge it was “not accurate” to say Perplexity launched the clipping campaign.
So who did?
You can also save on Nintendo’s upcoming Star Fox game for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Dreame’s self-cleaning mopping vac.
Nintendo has finally caved and raised the price of the Switch 2. That’s a big deal.
The Tappy can be used to flip pages, skip tracks, or doomscroll without having to touch your device.
All 173 of the RWD Cybertrucks sold by Tesla are being recalled.
On The Vergecast: Altman, Musk, Murati, Rando Twitch Guy… and the ChatGPT Phone.
Similar to the “Copy Fail” exploit revealed a week ago, the two “Dirty Frag” exploits (CVE-2026-43284) also allow a local user to give themselves root privileges on nearly any Linux distribution. The researcher who found it says that, “Because the embargo has now been broken, no patches or CVEs exist for these vulnerabilities.”
Ubuntu developer Canonical has detailed mitigations, and Red Hat says it will provide guidance “soon.”
The two companies are forming a joint venture that will combine Sony’s designs with TSMC’s manufacturing capabilities to develop next-gen image sensors. The joint venture, majority owned by Sony, will also allow the companies to explore opportunities in physical AI applications in the robotics and automotive industries, the press release says.
The Google Docs-style editing feature won’t appear in the upcoming WordPress 7.0 update, according to an announcement on Thursday. WordPress.org co-founder Matt Mullenweg cites concerns surrounding recurring bugs and memory efficiency, but plans to launch the feature in a future version of WordPress.
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