Meta is improving Quest VR hand tracking and adding system-level live captions
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta’s newest update for its Quest VR headsets, v56, will add a lot of welcome upgrades, including improved hand tracking, system-level live…
Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. Animation workers are organizing to form a union
Image: The Animation Guild A group of Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. Animation production workers — the staff of different managers, assistants, IT specialists, and coordinators who play vital roles…
The Borderlands movie comes out next year
A screenshot from Borderlands 3. | Image: 2K The Borderlands movie, which has been officially in some sort of development since 2015, will finally be released on August 9th, 2024,…
Microsoft to stop locking vital security logs behind $57-per-user monthly plan
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) Microsoft will expand access to important security log data after being criticized for locking detailed audit logs behind a Microsoft 365 enterprise…
This white dwarf star has two “faces”
Astronomers have discovered an unusual blue-tinted white dwarf star with two distinct “faces”: one side is hydrogen and the other side is helium, according to a new paper published in…
Dealmaster: Apple gear, Lenovo laptops, and more
Enlarge / Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11, which not-confusingly-at-all feature 13th-generation Intel Core processors. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) As always, the web is loaded today with good deals on gadgets,…
Millions of servers inside data centers imperiled by flaws in AMI BMC firmware
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Two years ago, ransomware crooks breached hardware-maker Gigabyte and dumped more than 112 gigabytes of data that included information from some of its most important supply-chain…
ChatGPT can now remember who you are and what you want
Image: The Verge The newest feature of ChatGPT is designed to help you type a little less. It’s called “custom instructions,” and it gives you a place to tell your…
Neopets is moving into a ‘new era’ — and leaving NFTs and the metaverse behind
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge It might be time to log into your Neopets account again. Neopets, a virtual pet website that first launched in 1999, certainly isn’t…
Meta tells news publishers to talk to the hand
Enlarge / A worker picks up trash in front of the new logo in front of Meta’s headquarters on October 28, 2021, in Menlo Park, Calif. (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)…