The best budget laptop of 2023
Here are the best cheap Chromebooks and laptops you can buy. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales You can get a good laptop on a budget; you just have to…
Reddit just expanded the r/Place canvas, and there are already messages cursing the CEO
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Reddit added more space to the r/Place collaborative canvas on Friday, giving users additional room to collaboratively draw pixelated art. Almost immediately after…
Those weird mobile games are now on the Switch (sorta)
Image: Metacore Have you ever been doomscrolling on a weeknight and see a weird ad for a mobile game that has you match three to fight off zombies or move…
Infant deaths surge in Texas after abortion ban
Enlarge / (From L) Plaintiffs Damla Karsan, Austin Dennard, Samantha Casiano, Taylor Edwards, Center for Reproductive Rights attorney Molly Duane and Amanda Zurawski attend a press conference outside the Travis…
The next Mazda MX-5 Miata might be an electric vehicle
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Mazda) The fifth-generation Mazda MX-5 Miata may well be a battery-electric vehicle. Motortrend reports that the Japanese automaker, builder of one of the Internet’s most…
69% of Russian gamers are pirating after Ukraine invasion pushback
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Russian gamers were not introduced to piracy by the backlash to their country’s invasion of Ukraine—far from it. But piracy is ramping up,…
Redditors prank AI-powered news mill with “Glorbo” in World of Warcraft
Enlarge / A World of Warcraft illustration from the Zleague.gg article on “Glorbo.” (credit: Zleague.gg) On Thursday, a Reddit user named kaefer_kriegerin posted a fake announcement on the World of…
OpenAI, Google will watermark AI-generated content to hinder deepfakes, misinfo
Enlarge (credit: MediaNews Group/East Bay Times via Getty Images / Contributor | MediaNews Group RM) Seven companies—including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection—have committed to developing tech to…
Meet the MCU’s new Kree villain, Dar-Benn, in trailer for The Marvels
Brie Larson returns as Captain Marvel, who finds herself in a destabilizing universe in The Marvels. Marvel Studios might not have a panel at San Diego Comic-Con this year, but…
An influencer’s guide to the writers and actors strikes
Photo by John Lamparski / Getty Images For the first time in over 60 years, the unions representing actors and Hollywood writers are staging a strike at the same time,…