1 of 34James Martin/CNET CES 2025 is full of the technologies of tomorrow, from radical to ridiculous and everything in between. CNET’s team has been on the ground in Las Vegas looking for the most interesting new ideas and products to share with you — including this year’s unexpected Best Overall winner. Read more: The Official Best
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Text messages and chats online can include a combination of words, pictures and emoji to convey a message. Words and pictures can be easy to understand, but when someone sends emoji you might feel like you’re decoding a secret message. A “😃” or “❤️” are easy to understand, but how are “😩” and “😭” different?
If your iPhone or iPad is running short of free storage, you may think twice about enabling Apple Intelligence. When the first features were made available in iOS 18.1, Apple said the Apple Intelligence features needed at least 4GB of space. Now with iOS 18.2, that requirement has jumped to 7GB. What’s going on? Since much
Vizio makes some great budget TVs, proving that you don’t have to spend a fortune to get a big, beautiful screen for enjoying movies or sports. Take the 55-inch Vizio Quantum Series, for example. It’s down to just $318 at Walmart right now, and though it’s an affordable model from 2023, it’s still packing plenty
Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. So the purple category in the NYT Connections puzzle was kind of entertaining today, but if you don’t know a certain probability puzzle
Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Connections puzzles. Today’s Strands puzzle is fairly simple, because each of the answers is paired with another answer. So if you find one, think about what word
As wildfires rage for the third consecutive day through parts of Los Angeles, now including the Hollywood Hills, several neighborhoods have been forced to evacuate for safety purposes. But on Thursday afternoon, a wildfire evacuation alert was mistakenly sent to the smartphone of every resident in Los Angeles County, a region with more than 9
Doorbell cameras are standard fare these days. More and more people have invested in connected security systemss, as the technology has become both cheaper and more user friendly. There’s one important thing these system won’t do, however: shoot people and animals with paintballs. That is, however, pretty much the Eve PaintCam’s whole M.O. Carrying the
Hippocratic AI, a startup building AI solutions that can handle non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks, secured a massive $141 million Series B at a valuation of $1.64 billion led by Kleiner Perkins, the company announced Thursday. The funding comes nine months after Hippocratic AI raised a $53 million round from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz and five
/ Meta, Microsoft, and Opera are on board with the initiative, which aims to support Chromium projects. By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Share this story Illustration: The Verge Google is partnering with
Happy New Year! Did you walk away from Christmas with more games to play and a backlog that seems impossible to chop through? Well, get ready to possibly add even more games to it, as Amazon has announced 16 free games are coming to Prime members in January. Suggested Reading The Week In Games: A
Riot Games is temporarily closing its headquarters in Los Angeles County as dangerous fires continue to burn in the Palisades and elsewhere. The League of Legends maker, which is situated just a few miles from the current edge of the Santa Monica evacuation warning zone, will only allow staff associated with “critical functions” into the
Jan 9, 2025 Tech We saw a lot of awesome robots at CES this year but can’t crown any of them “the best.” Here’s why. So this was supposed to be a video about the best robots at CES and while I did see a lot of awesome robots this year, I don’t feel ready
Robots were around every corner during CES 2025 this week, but there was one that got very close to sounding and looking like an actual human. CNET’s Jesse Orrall interviewed Realbotix’s Aria, a blond, “female” robot who answered questions with just a touch of robotic awkwardness. (See which robot made our best of CES awards.) Aria, dressed in a
Scale AI relies on an army of workers it categorizes as contractors to do essential AI work like labeling images or rating LLM responses for Big Tech and others. But the AI startup, most recently valued at $13.8 billion, is facing mounting legal challenges over its labor practices. On January 3, 2025, former Scale AI
A devastating combination of fires, fierce Santa Ana winds and drought have turned parts of the greater Los Angeles area into a disaster zone. Multiple major wildfires are triggering mass evacuations and consuming homes and buildings. As the flames blaze across the ground, eyes up in space are following the fires’ movements across Los Angeles
With a new year comes a brand new set of games for you to play each and every week. If your wallet is feeling the strain but you still want something to play, the Epic Games Store has exactly what you need. Similar to Steam, which is owned by Valve, Epic’s platform offers gamers access
Millions of packages stolen each year. DoorBox aims to change how packages are delivered with its smart package box that features a theft-proof design with live camera feeds and an alarm that activates automatically if the box is tampered with. After selling 2,000 units of its initial version, which offered manual functionality, the startup unveiled
The Razzies, the Darwins — not all awards are good. Sure, CES is a time to celebrate the year’s weirdest and most wonderful consumer electronic, but thankfully we’ve got iFixit around to throw a little cold water on the fair. As we enter the penultimate day of the event, the repair stalwart presents its “Worst
/ Tech leaders are lining up — and paying up — to curry favor with Trump. By Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right. Share this story Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Google and Microsoft
Finnish startup Doublepoint launched its free app, WowMouse, for the Apple Watch this week at CES 2025. The app uses the wearable’s sensors, compass, and accelerometer to turn your hand into a mouse that can control devices through hand gestures. The Apple Watch already uses a similar technology for the double tap feature it released
French startup Rounded believes AI voice agents are going to become the default way customers interact with companies, so instead of building AI voice agents that are ready to use, the company is building an orchestration platform that lets companies build their own voice agent. Rounded started off working on a web3 product before shifting
Ask any scientist that has worked with cell cultures in a lab: contamination is high on their list of fears. Even one stray bacterium or fungal spore can spoil an entire experiment. Now imagine scaling that risk up to biomanufacturing, which uses living cells to make a range of stuff, including drugs, food ingredients, and
First and foremost, I used CNET’s hose testing guidelines to evaluate each product in three specific areas: connection, kink and flow rate. These performance-based tests helped identify how the hoses functioned, and also how they compared to one another. Each hose passed the connection test, which checked to make sure none of them were leaking
If you were lucky enough to get a new phone, handheld console or tablet over the holidays, you might suddenly be worried about keeping it powered while on the go. Thankfully, you don’t have to spend a lot to get a beefy power bank to take with you when out and about. Thanks to a
Xocean, an Irish marine robotics startup that provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), has raised €115 million ($119 million) as it looks to expand coverage to additional sectors. Founded in 2017, Xocean has built a fleet of remotely-controlled USVs that can remain offshore for long periods of
/ Daily Listen creates a roughly five-minute audio summarization of search topics you’ve expressed interest in. By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Share this story Illustration: The Verge Google is testing an experimental AI feature that
Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Connections puzzles. Do you fish? Do you eat a lot of fish? If either of those are true, you’ll likely do swimmingly on today’s Strands puzzle. Personally,
Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Connections: Sports Edition isn’t too tough today, especially if you’re a hockey fan, as I am. Read on for hints and answers for today’s
There’s a new tech company claiming to have found the solution for one of mankind’s most mundane chores, and CNET’s ground team got to see the products in action at CES 2025. Tenet’s AI Laundry Robots are hoping to be a new and more efficient way to wash and dry your clothes. During the huge
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