How to keep track of friends and family on Android
Image: The Verge Many of us are hyperaware of the multitude of ways we can be tracked with modern technology, so you may feel like you don’t need to add…
This MIDI guitar is my favorite new way to make music
The Jamstik Classic. For many years now, my Stratocaster has been a memento hanging on my wall representing the time before I got a MacBook. I swapped my electric guitar…
Air pollution from Canada’s tar sands is much worse than we thought
Enlarge / Aerial view of the Athabasca oil sands near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. (credit: Bloomberg Creative via Getty) Canada’s tar sands have gained infamy for being one of the…
Gotta go? We’ve finally found out what makes urine yellow
Enlarge (credit: Science Photo Library) There are many mysteries in life that we end up shrugging off. Why is urine yellow? It just is, right? Rather than flush that 125-year-old…
AI Chips Market Reaching $400+ Billion in 2027
New Street Research provides research on the rapidly growing AI chips and AI Industry. Their projections are for a far larger industry with more infrastructure by 2027. Elon Musk had…
In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges
Enlarge The hackers who recently broke into Microsoft’s network and monitored top executives’ email for two months did so by gaining access to an aging test account with administrative privileges,…
Satya Nadella says the explicit Taylor Swift AI fakes are ‘alarming and terrible’
Laura Normand / The Verge Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has responded to a controversy over sexually explicit AI-made fake images of Taylor Swift. In an interview with NBC Nightly News…
Fossil is quitting smartwatches
The Fossil Gen 6 Wellness Edition. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Fossil Group has decided to call it quits on smartwatches. The company announced this afternoon…
White House calls for legislation to stop Taylor Swift AI fakes
Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Legislation needs to be passed to protect people from fake sexual images generated by AI, the White House said this afternoon. The statement,…
The seven dirty words you can’t say with AI
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! I’ll be writing today’s Insider edition of Hot Pod…