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Google Search Live is getting a UI upgrade to match Gemini Live (APK teardown)

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR Google recently introduced Search Live, letting you chat with Google AI to search your screen. The tool has a lot of functionally in common with Gemini Live. Now it looks like Google’s working to give Search Live the same sort of overlay it’s building for Gemini Live. All the biggest players in tech are absolutely scared to death right now at the prospect of being left behind by the current wave of AI-driven advancements, so everyone’s racing to stay a

Our Terrifying First Look at Jacob Elordi in Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Is Here

Much like Frankenstein’s monster itself, the monster at the center of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a mash-up of inspirations. There’s Boris Karloff, the original and most famous Frankenstein. There’s artist Bernie Wrightson, whose illustrations of the character greatly impacted del Toro. There’s Mary Shelley, of course, whose novel the film is based on. And then there’s make-up artist Mike Hill and the actor under that make-up, Jacob Elordi, who you see above in the first official image

The Directors of ‘Project Hail Mary’ Explain Why the Movie Is a PC, Not a Mac

Making movies is all about compromises. This actor is unavailable, so you cast someone else. That location is too expensive, so let’s build a set. This shot is impossible, so let’s think of something better. At every step, the big, huge mechanism of filmmaking is always a work in progress. But on Project Hail Mary, directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord tried to embrace a new philosophy. “What’s great about this movie is there are so many things that make it harder to make,” Miller said in Hall H

Avatar: Fire and Ash brings war to Pandora in first trailer

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. The first trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash is finally here, and it looks like James Cameron might have made another banger. Though Avatar: The Way of Water ended on hopeful note with Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their family finding a new home with a different group of Na’vi, Fire and Ash’s trailer makes c

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Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse

Voice assistants are… not perfect. That’s me being nice. But if I were to cease being nice, I’d probably say something more like “voice assistants suck,” and I think most would agree I’d be justified in saying so. While no voice assistant really manages to escape that criticism, I usually opt for Google Assistant, which—in my experience—is the least sucky. Or it used to be, but after some recent hiccups, I may have to start rethinking that dishonorable distinction. Last week, Google Assistant u

5 Samsung DeX features I’ll miss if they don’t return in One UI 8

I’ll admit it: I’ve never been the biggest Samsung DeX user. Not because I don’t like it — I think it’s the gold standard for casting your phone to an external display — but because I spend far too much time with non-Samsung phones in my pocket. The funny thing is that every time I leave the Galaxy ecosystem behind, that’s precisely when I need DeX most. And now that it’s about to undergo significant changes as part of One UI 8, I’m a little worried. I don’t want to lose certain DeX features, e

From Cheating Exposés to Dating Background Checks, TikTok Detectives Are Thriving

It’s a dark November night in Los Angeles. The car in front is lit by its rear lights only. After driving for 20 miles, it stops, suddenly, in the middle of the street. A man in a dark t-shirt gets out and runs towards an apartment. A woman appears and jumps up, wrapping her legs around him. They start making out before going to get tacos and, later, returning to her place. At 6 a.m. the next morning his car is still outside the woman’s apartment. A few hours later, they emerge holding hands, h

Designing a flatpack bed

I just moved into an unfurnished apartment and my professional woodworker friend just got a plywood-sheet-sized CNC router, so I’ve been designing myself a bedframe. The rough scope / requirements: fit a 200 cm x 180 cm mattress have 50 cm of clear space underneath for storage visually hide this space from the front (required) and sides (nice-to-have) CNC-cuttable from a single sheet of baltic birch (2440 mm x 1220 mm) maybe use Ikea LÖNSET slats Christoffer Martens’s Siebenschlafer bed is

Designing a Flatpack Bed

I just moved into an unfurnished apartment and my professional woodworker friend just got a plywood-sheet-sized CNC router, so I’ve been designing myself a bedframe. The rough scope / requirements: fit a 200 cm x 180 cm mattress have 50 cm of clear space underneath for storage visually hide this space from the front (required) and sides (nice-to-have) CNC-cuttable from a single sheet of baltic birch (2440 mm x 1220 mm) maybe use Ikea LÖNSET slats Christoffer Martens’s Siebenschlafer bed is

7 Things Wuchang Fallen Feathers Doesn't Tell You

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers isn't a revolutionary Soulslike title that aims to change the subgenre, but it's catching the attention of many players right now, in part because it's available on day 1 on Xbox Game Pass. Wuchang, however, does have some issues with underexplaining certain mechanics, which is giving players a little trouble. Wuchang makes some changes to the Soulslike formula established by FromSoftware, the developers of Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. Those changes aren't laid out so

Here’s the real problem with Nothing’s quirky Phone 3 design

Ryan Haines / Android Authority I love Nothing’s semi-transparent design language. Its debut Phone 1 was the first Android phone in a long time that I can remember being just as happy to look at as I was to use (if only because it didn’t work in the US). Then, I watched Nothing refine its style over a few generations of mid-range and budget phones, reworking its Glyph interface and camera placement until it found a combination so cute that Wall-E might fall in love with it. Now, though, I thin

Apple beta season is here

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 91, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, how is summer more than a month over already, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I also have for you some new betas from Apple, a retro-styled PC, some thoughts about cases, and how to play Dance Dance Revolution

I’ve tried dozens of to-do apps — these 6 clicked with me, but one’s my favorite

Megan Ellis / Android Authority I may not be that big of a productivity nerd, but I do like my things organized, and I go to great lengths to find a system that works for me. My style is that I don’t control every minute of my day — so I’m less of a calendar person and more of a to-do list guy. That’s a subtle way of saying that I’ve tried a lot of to-do apps before zeroing in on one. I have an unbeatable favorite that works perfectly for my workflow, but there are several others that are equal

This Dinosaur Probably Chirped Like a Bird

Scientists have discovered a dinosaur that might have chirped like a bird, a finding that suggests the evolutionary origins of birdsong may be far more ancient than we previously thought. In a paper published last week in the journal PeerJ, an international team of researchers describes a 163-million-year-old fossil found in northeastern China’s Hebei Province. The fossil dinosaur, which they’ve dubbed Pulaosaurus qinglong, measures just 28 inches (72 centimeters) and is largely complete, givin

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

Why is everyone in such a rush? The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about programming, or that programming is somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. Felleisen et al. give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say "Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies." The Abtruse Goose comic also had their take. Let's analyze what a title like Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours could mean: Teach

This humanoid robot can do cartwheels, handstands and roundhouse kicks at less than $6,000

For less than the price of a fully decked-out MacBook Pro, you can buy Unitree's latest humanoid robot called the R1. You only have to shell out $5,900 for a robot that weighs around 55 lbs, stands about four feet tall, and is built with a Large Multimodal Model to handle complex tasks. If you're wondering what the R1 will be used for, your guess is as good as ours. Unitree said its robot is "fully customizable" and demoed its capabilities in a video showing off cartwheels, handstands, boxing,

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The Sail instruction-set semantics specification language

Implicit parameters are always integers, and they must appear first before any other parameters in the function type signature. The first argument can then just be omitted when calling the function, like so: Functions may also have implicit parameters, e.g. we can implement a zero extension function that implicitly picks up its result length from the calling context as follows: Sail will also ensure that the output of our function has precisely the length bits('n * 'm) for all possible inputs

I broke my caseless Pixel but refuse to learn my lesson

Mitja Rutnik / Android Authority I recently broke my Pixel 7. In a span of just a few weeks, I managed to drop it three times, shattering the display to the point it doesn’t even turn on anymore. The final drop was the most damaging: my caseless Pixel plummeted from my pocket straight down onto concrete. Game over. What’s ironic is that back in December, I wrote a post about how I’ve never actually used a proper case but never damaged any of my phones even remotely. I guess I jinxed it, and no

Google makes great apps, but these aren’t it if you ask me

Andy Walker / Android Authority Google is a software company and knows how to make great apps. I mean, I use apps like Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and Drive on a regular basis. Then there are its AI-focused apps like NotebookLM, which is by far the most underrated app in Google’s arsenal. However, there are a few apps I think are way underdeveloped and need some serious work. They’re simply too basic for me, or lack many of the features you get with the competition. I know Google is all about simpli

The Greek Small-Town Doctor Who Knows AI’s Secrets

On vacation in Greece since July 17, I figured it was a good opportunity to see how artificial intelligence was perceived in this small European Union country, which sits at the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. My curiosity was amplified by the fact that I was far from the famous islands like Santorini or Mykonos, which are typically overrun by tourists. The first four days of my trip took me to Ioannina, a town in the country’s northwest, a region of mountaineers and shepherd

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These $130 Asus Gaming Headphones Get Almost Everything Right

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Asus ROG Pelta $130 at Amazon Pros Sound great Comfortable Customizable sound Affordable Three connection modes Cons No noise cancellation No Xbox support Minimal headband adjustment After reviewing the Turtle Beach Stealth 700 headset last year, I was impressed by just how much a good headset can improve the gaming experience. While headsets like th

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Best Home Security Cameras for Apple HomeKit and Siri in 2025

Today’s home security cameras come packed with features, not to mention testing out compatibility with the Apple Home app. We test in several different ways in our homes and CNET offices to really check out everything these cameras can down. Set up and camera quality As we set up cameras, we pay close attention to their design and how fragile or durable it is, as well as what features they have -- for example, how easy it is to change batteries or insert a microSD card. And, of course, we spen

The New ‘Toxic Avenger’ Promises Heart Along With All That Goopy Gore

Troma Entertainment… in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con… in the year of our Lloyd Kaufman 2025? You better believe it. The cult hero rises again in The Toxic Avenger, a title that’s still popular enough 40-plus years after the release of the original Toxic Avenger to command the convention’s largest meeting room. With that panel came an in-room-only sneak peek at the unrated horror comedy; as the marketing for Macon Blair’s long-awaited reboot has teased (it premiered back in 2023 at Fantastic Fe

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

It’s time for modern CSS to kill the SPA Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites. The app-like fallacy “Make it feel like an app.” At some point during the scoping process, someone says the words. A CMO. A digital lead. A brand manager. And with that single phrase, the architecture is locked in: it’ll be an SPA. Probably React. Maybe Vue. Almost certainly deployed on Verce

CoSyn: The open-source tool that’s making GPT-4V-level vision AI accessible to everyone

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have developed a groundbreaking tool that allows open-source AI systems to match or surpass the visual understanding capabilities of proprietary models like GPT-4V and Gemini 1.5 Flash, potentially reshaping the competitive landscape between open and closed AI development. The tool, called CoSyn (Code-Guided Synthesis), addresses a critical bottleneck in AI development: the scarcity of high-quality

‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Lures Fans In by Taking Us Back to Where It All Began

Universal Pictures and Blumhouse were on hand at San Diego Comic-Con to give attendees a sneak preview of Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. Returning stars Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) and Piper Rubio (For All Mankind), who play the film franchise’s central brother and sister roles, Mike and Abby, were on hand to share some insight on what the siblings have been up to since the events of the first film. “Mike and Abby went through a lot,” Hutcherson explained. “Mike is just wanting to get back t

CNET Survey: 64% of People Still Don't Want a Foldable Smartphone

Foldables have been a staple of the smartphone release cycle for years now, with products from companies like Samsung, Motorola and Google. Despite the refreshingly unique form factor in a sea of mobile uniformity, the vast majority of consumers still aren't sold. According to a CNET survey, 64% of respondents say they aren't willing or interested in buying a foldable smartphone in the next year, while just 13% say they are. An additional 20% aren't sure if they want a foldable and only 3% say

Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech

Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech 4 days ago Share Save Sam Gruet Technology Reporter Reporting from Vancouver Share Save Getty Images Digital trucking apps look to minimise trucks without cargo When Jared first started out in trucking more than two decades ago, he didn't anticipate he'd be on tour with a country music star, hauling guitars, amps, and other pieces of on-stage equipment. "It just happened, right place, right time," the Canadian driver, who prefers not to use his sur

Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009)

Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001. This was a gem. He said that the reason that happened was because engineering in 1980 was not what it was in the mid-90s or in 2000. In 1980, good programmers spent a lot of time thinking, and then produced spare code that they thought should work. Code ran close to the metal, even Scheme — it was understandable all the way down. Like a resistor, where you could read the bands and know

The role of the cybersecurity PM in incident-driven development

Article written by cybersecurity expert Yuriy Tsibere. Gone are the days when cybersecurity meant stopping annoying viruses like the Love Bug. Today, it’s about battling a massive, financially motivated cybercrime industry. Attacks are smarter, faster, and more damaging—and that changes everything for product teams. For product managers (PMs), this means understanding that attackers are constantly exploiting the same weak spots: stolen admin credentials, missing multi-factor authentication (MF

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