Tailwinds don’t help “everesting” cyclists
Enlarge / Physicist Martin Bier in an aerodynamic tuck, a cycling position that reduces wind resistance. (credit: Martin Bier) Many avid bicyclists these days have hopped onto the “everesting” bandwagon,…
Meta’s $300 Quest 3S trades a worse display for a lower price
Enlarge / Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg announces the Meta Quest 3 headset. (credit: Meta) At a Connect conference keynote today, Meta officially unveiled the Quest 3S headset, a cheaper version of…
OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says
Enlarge (credit: Anadolu / Contributor | Anadolu) OpenAI hopes to convince the White House to approve a sprawling plan that would place 5-gigawatt AI data centers in different US cities,…
Getting Infinite Data by 2080 to Improve SuperAI
A deep discussion of the developments with AI and the upcoming 2025 Tesla Dojo 2 and 2026 Dojo 3 chips. But AI needs compute and data. Won’t AI reach a…
Here’s how much Disney Plus will charge to share your password
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company would start making users pay to share their passwords this month, and now we know how…
The best free or low-cost photo storage services
Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge In November of 2020, Google — which had offered unlimited storage for what it called “high quality” (read: compressed) photos — announced that,…
Meta’s cheaper Quest 3S might just be an upgrade
The Verge’s Alex Heath wearing a Quest 3S. Meta finally announced the very heavily leaked Quest 3S VR headset, and the leaks were right: it’s a $299.99 headset that looks…
Meta is discontinuing the Quest Pro two years after launching it
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta is discontinuing the Quest Pro, its high-end VR headset launched in 2022 that we said “isn’t very good.” The company plans…
Meta releases its first open AI model that can process images
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Just two months after releasing its last big AI model, Meta is back with a major update: its first open-source model capable of…
Meta’s going to put AI-generated images in your Facebook and Instagram feeds
Image: Meta If you think avoiding AI-generated images is difficult as it is, Facebook and Instagram are now going to put them directly into your feeds. At the Meta Connect…