A Reddit user recently pit the chess engine Stockfish, which has won the Top Chess Engine Championship eight times, against the notorious AI-powered conversation bot ChatGPT in a dismal chess match. While Stockfish, as it has been created to do, was able to hold its own, ChatGPT sadly succumbed to chess’ high-stakes environment and went
Month: February 2023
Traeger’s latest pellet smoker brings welcomed innovations to a new price point. The company just unveiled its latest Ironwood design, which offers a handful of features that debuted on the more expensive Timberline product line a few months ago. As a longtime Traeger smoker owner, I’m excited about these updates as they make using the
/ Community features used to be one of Fitbit’s best selling points, but that might not be the case going forward. The Google-fication of Fitbit continues.Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Fitbit users: better one-up your friends in challenges while you still can. Starting March 27th, Fitbit will remove all adventures, challenges, and
It’s no longer a debate: Disney Plus is one of the best streaming services out there. While Netflix and HBO Max seem to be canceling shows or outright removing them left and right, Disney Plus continues to deliver premium content — and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. While offering a wide variety of entertainment at
Alex Lychak Contributor Alex Lychak is head of product at Nebula, an IT company with Ukrainian roots that develops mobile applications and web products. Last year was akin to a ride through hell. Global macroeconomic instability, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, funding shortfalls, supply chain disruptions and many other factors made running a company an extremely
Los Angeles is a great city for professionals with a passion for entertainment. And no matter what type of person you are, you need a strong internet connection for work or streaming your favourite show. LA is home to more internet providers than most cities, so you’ve got no shortage of options to choose from.
‘The buzz and momentum for these companies is unlike anything I’ve seen before’ Mary Ann Azevedo 11 hours With so many fintechs laying off staff, it can be easy to assume that the entire industry is in distress. But that’s not the case. In fact, some companies are finding opportunity in the masses of layoffs.
The world of Cyberpunk 2077 is one where technological innovation has run wild. Its citizens are full of robot parts, can send data with their minds and can literally see other people’s dreams and memories. Yet despite all this, one aspect of everyone’s daily lives is still incredibly quaint (at least by those standards): its
/ Phone 1 owners are starting to see a stable release for Nothing OS 1.5, the company’s Android 13 skin which has been in beta testing. Nothing’s moody OS is getting its first major update.Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge As spotted by XDA-Developers, Nothing is starting to release its first major OS upgrade
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is a city-builder that has a particular focus on how urban planning worked alongside the communist economies of Eastern Europe during the Cold War. It’s not for everyone, then, but it certainly has its fans. CC Off English Sadly those fans are now the only ones able to play the
No matter how you slice it, buildings are serious climate change drivers. Every component of the so-called built environment — from off-site materials production and construction to electricity and maintenance — comes at a steep environmental cost. The sector is responsible for nearly 40% of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions globally, according to the International Energy
After a decade of keeping its North American charging network closed to outsiders, Tesla appears poised to allow other electric vehicles to use its Superchargers. The White House announced on Wednesday that the company would open 7,500 chargers — including 3,500 250 kW stalls along highways — to any EV with the combined charging system
This story is part of Samsung Event, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Samsung’s most popular products. At the start of the month, Samsung announced its most powerful Galaxy Book laptop to date, the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra. Just like its top Galaxy S23 Ultra phone and Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra tablet, the Ultra laptop is
If you’ve ever played free-to-play video games on your phone, you may have seen an advert or two, including mini-games and other content with variable quality and relevance. That’s the space where Incymo operates; it promises to leverage machine learning and other smarts to maximize advertising revenues for game publishers, promising its users a 30%
/ Chief product officer Neal Mohan will take over YouTube as a senior vice president. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down from her post, she announced in an email sent to employees that YouTube posted publicly on Thursday. Wojcicki has been at Google for nearly 25 years
/ Take even more control over your Galaxy phone’s camera by unlocking a new set of options. Samsung puts a whole lot of camera customization options at your fingertips — if you know where to find them.Image: Samar Haddad; Allison Johnson / The Verge Right out of the box, Samsung Galaxy phones provide a lot
Wild Hearts, developed by Koei Tecmo’s Omega Force and published by EA, tries its best to take the monster-hunting genre crown from Capcom’s long-running franchise, Monster Hunter. The problem is it copies Capcom’s homework a bit too much. Despite fast action and a stacked variety of enemies, Wild Hearts is a carbon copy so blatant
Apple took a big PR hit as news spread that its item tracker the AirTag was being used for stalking and car thefts, which led the company to retool its software with a closer eye on user safety. AirTag’s competitor Tile is now introducing its own plan to make its device safer, with the launch
Feb 16, 2023 Tech Speaker 1: Seven years ago, Sony debuted the PlayStation VR on PlayStation 4 20 16. It has been a long time, but now the PlayStation five has its own VR accessory, the PlayStation VR two. Let’s put this in perspective because VR has been here for a while and VR in
Ever since Netflix evolved into a cursed megadepot of endless content (in a good way), there’s been constant chatter and memes about shows being “bingeworthy.” You could argue that Netflix pioneered this concept, dropping entire seasons of a show at once, negating the need to wait for weekly episodes. You could order UberEats, lie in
CommandK, a startup offering a dedicated platform to manage enterprise security, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed. Companies accumulate a lot of sensitive data and store secrets, such as API tokens, SSH keys and personally identifiable information. But protecting that is a complex task and requires state-of-the-art security prowess. This
If you’ve been holding our for a price drop on the Nintendo Switch OLED model, your patience is being rewarded today with Woot discounting the console by $20. Usually, Nintendo Switch deals consist of accessory bundles or free gift cards, but today’s deal offers a rare chance to make a direct saving on the hardware itself.
Around 39,000 people were killed in motor vehicle incidents in the USA in 2020 — and 6,200 of those deaths were pedestrians. Needless to say, those deaths aren’t just statistics: each has a ripple effect on families, loved ones and the wider communities. Viva is looking to tackle transportation impacts after raising $8.5 million in
No matter what, you do not want to find yourself near a neutron star. These stellar beasts, made mostly of neutrons, are basically ultra-dense cosmic corpses roaming around space and, with incomprehensibly strong gravitational fields, torturing everything in their paths. They’re like the baby brothers of black holes. When big stars (at least 20 times
So many online games have shut down so far in 2023 that we’ve already had to do a roundup, and it’s only February. Which means loads more are going to meet similar fates over the next 10 months, and the next two to meet their demise are Natural Selection 2 and Spellbreak. CC Off English
It was pretty cool last week when Valve, developers of the ancient Team Fortress 2, said that the game was getting “a full-on update-sized update”. It is less cool a week later to find that the company has edited that announcement post in an attempt to pump everyone’s brakes. CC Off English You can’t blame
/ Additional sustainability options are still available to test groups only. Image: Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft is rolling out a new February update to its Xbox consoles that adds one of several planned sustainability updates and Google Home app support. With the update, Xbox consoles are able to be “carbon aware” of when
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The past six months have been hard on many Silicon Valley families, with a string of layoff announcements from the tech industry’s largest companies hitting an estimated quarter million employees around the world. But the latest data from Silicon Valley Index finds that the area still has historically low unemployment, and that tech companies are
At Andreessen Horowitz’s recent American Dynamism summit, Hadrian founder and CEO Chris Power painted a picture of the country in peril. “I’m here to talk to you about an existential risk to the future of the Republic and how Hadrian is trying to solve it,” he began. His words – a mix of rationalism and
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