Meta asks court to dismiss FTC’s monopoly claims
Image: The Verge | Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images Meta is asking a federal court to dispense with the Federal Trade Commission’s anti-monopoly lawsuit against it, arguing it’s failed to…
Roku’s idea of showing ads on your HDMI inputs seems like an inevitable hell
Illustration: The Verge In this week’s edition of his Lowpass newsletter, Janko Roettgers covered a Roku patent that seems to telegraph that the company is planning some heavy advertising tactics…
Ivanti CEO pledges to “fundamentally transform” its hard-hit security model
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ivanti, the remote-access company whose remote-access products have been battered by severe exploits in recent months, has pledged a “new era,” one that “fundamentally transforms the…
Life’s Origins: How Fissures in Hot Rocks May Have Kickstarted Biochemistry
How did the building blocks of life originate? The question has long vexed scientists. Early Earth was dotted with pools of water rich in chemicals—a primordial soup. Yet biomolecules supporting…
Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo: Getty Images Congress has been trying to crack down on data brokers — and the data brokers are fighting back. In late March,…
Ford cuts EV plans even as it becomes nation’s second-largest EV brand
Enlarge / Electric F-150 sales are up 80 percent year over year. (credit: Ford) Ford has caught a case of electric vehicle pessimism and is scaling back or delaying some…
The science of smell is fragrant with submolecules
Enlarge (credit: Design Cells) When we catch a whiff of perfume or indulge in a scented candle, we are smelling much more than Floral Fantasy or Lavender Vanilla. We are…
Meta relaxes “incoherent” policy requiring removal of AI videos
Enlarge (credit: Francesco Carta fotografo | Moment) On Friday, Meta announced policy updates to stop censoring harmless AI-generated content and instead begin “labeling a wider range of video, audio and…
Samsung readies its new line of AI accelerator chips to rival Nvidia in the future
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF With a $2 Trillion valuation Nvidia has proven there’s a huge market for GPU’s and now everyone else wants a piece of the market. …
In just one second AI knows how you’re feeling from your voice
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future as AI figures out human emotions this could be used to create trustful AI’s that manipulate us all. Love the Exponential…