Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest. Nearly 10,000 years ago, at the base of a mountain in Africa, people’s shadows stretch up the wall of a natural overhang of stone. They’re lit by a…
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Documentaries investigating the existence of aliens and UFOs—or UAPs, as they’re now called—are having a particularly potent moment now that the U.S. government, long a hotbed of secrecy or dismissiveness, has been more openly entering the chat. Even noted E.T. fan Steven Spielberg is dipping back into the…
Read MoreYou can pinpoint the exact minute of the high-water mark for tech-based enthusiasm: January 9, 2007, 9:41 AM PST, the moment Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world. Cell phones weren’t new—neither were cellphones with touch screens—but this one was different: so high-tech it seemed…
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The Monster High movie has found its writers. The post-Wicked world is finding us ways to return to Oz. Plus, could yet another Stranger Things spinoff be in the works? Spoilers, away! The Batman, Part II Speculation over Sebastian Stan’s reported role in the film has amplified after Stan’s…
Read MoreHackers continue to find ways to sneak malicious extensions into the Chrome web store—this time, the two offenders are impersonating an add-on that allows users to have conversations with ChatGPT and DeepSeek while on other websites and exfiltrating the data to threat actors’ servers. Beware these Chrome extensions…
Read MoreElon Musk’s AI company has restricted Grok’s controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heavy criticism from across the world for letting users generate sexualized and nude images of women and children. In replies to users on Friday, Grok said only…
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The CES show floor officially closes its doors at the end of the day, but there’s still a trickle of announcements and reveals coming out of Las Vegas. If you’re struggling to stay on top of all the new tech, gadgets, concepts, and AI-powered devices as the final…
Read MoreWe may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. The 65-inch Samsung QN90F Neo QLED TV is currently $1,199.99 on Woot in “factory-reconditioned” condition. That undercuts a new unit, which sits around $1,600 on Amazon, and…
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A close up photo of an Asus monitor showing its RGB stripe sub pixel layout. CES is a lot — a deluge of consumer tech surrounded by lots of bad carpeting. The Verge’s on-the-ground team of super nerds covered so many new products and technologies that it’s understandable if it…
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Elon Musk’s X has partially restricted access to Grok’s image editing capabilities amid growing backlash to the flood of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors generated by the platform. As of this writing, it no longer generates images as @grok replies for free, but Grok’s image editing…
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