The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback
Smartphones with folding OLED screens have been around for over six years, but China’s Readmoo is the first company to announce a consumer-ready e-reader with a folding E Ink display. Details on when its mooInk V will ship, or how much it will cost, haven’t been announced. Yet the company says it has spent nine […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/650922/readmoo-e-ink-mooink-v-color-folding-screen-ereader
Google One AI Premium is free for college students until Spring 2026
Google is the latest AI service provider to court users in higher education. Starting today, college students in the US can sign up for Google’s One AI Premium plan for free, shirking the usual $20 monthly subscription fee until June 30th, 2026. Applicants will need to sign up before the deal expires on June 30th, […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/650921/google-one-ai-premium-gemini-free-college-education
Zuckerberg tells court he made WhatsApp and Instagram better
Towards the end of Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in a Washington, DC courthouse, a smile flashed across his face. Meta’s lead attorney, Mark Hansen, had asked the CEO if he was “happy†about paying $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014. Zuckerberg flashed a grin, took a brief pause, and responded, “I’d do it again.†Over the […]
Xbox will soon let you purchase games in its mobile app
Xbox is finally rolling out the ability to purchase games and DLC, as well as sign up for Game Pass directly from its mobile app. But there’s a catch: you’ll no longer be able to access remote play within the Xbox app. The update is arriving for beta testers on iOS and Android, but Xbox […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/649958/xbox-purchase-games-mobile-app-launch
How to set up Do Not Disturb modes on your Android phone
In recent years, Do Not Disturb has evolved on both iPhones and Android phones: it’s no longer just a simple block on notifications and distractions, but rather a selection of modes you can customize to suit all the different scenarios in your life (like driving, sleeping, working, or exercising at the gym). This means you […]
https://www.theverge.com/how-to/649276/do-not-disturb-android-galaxy-how-to
OpenAI’s upgraded o3 model can use images when reasoning
OpenAI is releasing two new AI reasoning models today: o3, which the company calls its “most powerful reasoning model,” and o4-mini, which is a smaller and faster model that “achieves remarkable performance for its size and cost,” according to a blog post. The company also says that o3 and o4-mini will be able to “think” […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/649941/openai-o3-o4-mini-model-images-reasoning
Amazon’s latest Fire HD tablets are now on sale starting at $95
If you want a mental escape from today’s constant bombardment of alarming news, one method is to lose yourself in a good book — and an excellent way to do that is to read that good book on one of Amazon’s Fire tablets. Amazon has put many of the latest Fire HD tablets on sale […]
https://www.theverge.com/tech/648968/amazon-fire-hd-10-tablet-amazfit-band-7-tracker-deal-sale
Google’s geothermal energy ambitions are growing
Google, for the first time, inked an agreement to purchase geothermal energy for its facilities in Asia. The deal also marks the first geothermal power purchase agreement for Taiwan, according to the company. Google is working toward climate goals of cutting the company’s planet-heating emissions in half and matching its electricity use with carbon-free energy […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/648979/google-geothermal-energy-power-purchase-agreement-asia-taiwan
It’s time for Europe to choose between US or Chinese satellite tech, says FCC chair
European allies who have reservations about working with Elon Musk’s Starlink will have more to worry about if they side with Chinese satellite internet services, Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr told the Financial Times. Carr said that politics having an influence on long-term decisions in Europe was “unfortunate,” and that “allied Western democracies” should […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/649052/fcc-brendan-carr-starlink-europe-satellite-internet
Google rolls out its AI video generator to Gemini Advanced subscribers
Google is letting Gemini Advanced subscribers try out Veo 2, its text-to-video AI model that it says is capable of creating high-resolution clips with “cinematic realism.” Starting today, subscribers can select Veo 2 from the Gemini model dropdown on the web and mobile, where they can enter a prompt to generate an eight-second video in […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/648816/google-veo-2-ai-video-generation-gemini-advanced
Kill your crewmates in 3D when Among Us 3D launches in May
An emergency meeting has been called to announce Among Us 3D will launch on May 6th. The game was originally planned to be a VR-exclusive before the development crew at Innersloth and Schell Games pivoted to making this version of the game accessible to those without the expensive hardware too. Among Us 3D is compatible […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/649011/among-us-3d-release-date-may-steam-vr-pc
Anthropic launches research tool and Google Workspace integration
Anthropic is launching two major features today: Research and Google Workspace integration. The company announced today that Claude can now connect directly to your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Documents, turning the AI assistant into what Anthropic calls “your frontline workplace assistant.” Instead of manually digging through countless emails, calendar invites, and documents to find information, […]
OpenAI debuts its GPT-4.1 flagship AI model
OpenAI has introduced GPT-4.1, a successor to the GPT-4o multimodal AI model launched by the company last year. During a livestream on Monday, OpenAI said GPT-4.1 has an even larger context window and is better than GPT-4o in “just about every dimension,” with big improvements to coding and instruction following. GPT-4.1 is now available to […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/647896/openai-chatgpt-gpt-4-1-mini-nano-launch-availability
Sony’s excellent WF-1000XM5 earbuds have hit their lowest price ever
Want a premium pair of earbuds without having to pay a premium price? Right now, Sony’s noise-canceling WF-1000XM5 are on sale at Amazon and Target for $179.99 ($120 off), their best price to date. It’s possible Sony could release the WF-1000XM6 sometime later this year, but for now, few wireless earbuds offer as much value […]
https://www.theverge.com/tech/648207/sony-wf-1000xm5-noise-canceling-earbuds-amazon-target-deal-sale
OpenAI debuts its GPT-4.1 flagship AI model
OpenAI has introduced GPT-4.1, a successor to the GPT-4o multimodal artificial intelligence model launched by the company last year. During a livestream on Monday, OpenAI said GPT-4.1 has an even larger context window and is better than GPT-40 in “just about every dimension,†with big improvements to coding and instruction following. GPT-4.1 is now available […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/647896/openai-chatgpt-gpt-4-1-mini-nano-launch-availability
OpenAI debuts new flagship AI model
OpenAI has introduced GPT-4.1, a successor to the GPT-4o multimodal artificial intelligence model launched by the company last year. During a livestream on Monday, OpenAI said GPT-4.1 is better than GPT-4o “on just about every dimension.” Two smaller model versions are also included in this rollout: a lightweight GPT-4.1 Mini model that, like its predecessor, […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/647896/openai-chatgpt-gpt-4-1-mini-nano-launch-availability
Star Wars is getting a turn-based strategy game called Zero Company
The Star Wars strategy game announced in 2022 finally has a name: Zero Company, as EA revealed today. A website about the game describes it as a “single-player turn-based tactics game,” includes an image, and says that a “first look” will be shown at Star Wars Celebration Japan on April 19th. Bit Reactor, a studio […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/648151/star-wars-zero-company-strategy-game-celebration
Smartphone tariffs are coming back in ‘a month or two,’ says Trump admin
Smartphones, laptops, and other products that are exempt from Trump’s April 9th tariffs will be lumped in with duties on semiconductors in “a month or two,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl on This Week. Yesterday, the Trump administration released updated guidance that excluded smartphones, laptops, and more from Trump’s new […]
DoorDash is expanding into sidewalk robot delivery in the US
DoorDash’s international arm Wolt has already been experimenting with Coco’s fleet of sidewalk robots in Helsinki, Finland. Now, DoorDash is linking up with sidewalk robot maker Coco to expand automated food deliveries to the US. It’s live in Los Angeles and Chicago with nearly 600 merchants set up to drop your lunch and other goods into […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/647206/door-dash-coco-side-walk-robot-delivery-la-chicago
Digg will let you reserve your username (for a price)
Digg’s return to the modern internet is one step closer with the launch of an “early access” group called Groundbreakers. For a one-off $5 fee you can claim your username before someone else does and get a behind the scenes look at the new Digg as it comes together. Digg says that the $5 fee […]