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  • Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 are at their lowest-ever price for Prime Day

    The second-gen AirPods Pro offer the most complete package in Apple’s earbuds lineup, and they’re only improving with time. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon’s second Prime Day of the year is bringing serious savings across the board, but some deals truly stand out. Take the AirPods Pro 2, for example —…

  • Roblox accused of lying to investors about user numbers by Hindenburg Research

    Image: Roblox Roblox is facing accusations that it lied to investors about the number of people who use the platform. In a report published on Tuesday, the investment firm Hindenburg Research claims Roblox is “consistently overstating the amount of people on its platform by 25 percent to 42 percent or more.” Roblox, which went public…

  • Meta is bringing AI-edited video ads to Facebook and Instagram

    Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge The next time you scroll through your Instagram and Facebook feed, you might see a video ad edited with AI. That’s because Meta is testing new AI video editing capabilities that will allow advertisers to animate an image as well as expand the borders of a video. GIF:…

  • AI is fixing — and ruining — our photos

    Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge What is a photo? No, like really. What is a photo? What is a photo? What is a photo? What is a photo? When you tap the shutter button on your phone, and it grabs nearly a dozen frames out of a cache that was capturing data well before…

  • Scientists who built ‘foundation’ for AI awarded Nobel Prize

    Geoffrey Hinton, called the “Godfather of AI,” during day Collision 2023 at Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada. | Photo By Ramsey Cardy / Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images Two scientists credited with laying the “foundation of today’s powerful machine learning,” University of Toronto professor emeritus Geoffrey Hinton and Princeton University professor John Hopfield, were…

  • iFixit now sells a USB-powered tool for removing the iPhone 16’s battery

    iFixit’s VoltClip offers an alternative to buying another disposable 9V battery. | Image: iFixit Apple recommends removing the iPhone 16’s battery, which is held in place with a new electrically debondable adhesive, by using a 9V battery and some alligator clips. iFixit’s new USB-powered VoltClip is an alternative tool that eliminates the need for a…

  • Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare are finally coming to PC this month

    Image: Rockstar Games The original Red Dead Redemption has ports on the PS4, the Nintendo Switch, and now, finally PC. Rockstar has announced that the game and its zombified, non-canon side story Undead Nightmare are coming to PC on October 29th. The game will feature new PC-specific settings to tinker with and take advantage of,…

  • The Kindle Paperwhite Kids is down to just $115 for October Prime Day

    The Kindle Paperwhite Kids is an e-reader fit for the whole family, complete with optional parental controls. | Image: Amazon As expected, Amazon is offering some great discounts on its own devices as part of its October Prime Day event — including e-readers like the note-taking Kindle Scribe, which is down to $254.99 ($85 off)…

  • Severance season 1 is coming home on Blu-ray

    Image: Apple While new episodes of Severance won’t stream on Apple TV Plus until January, you will be able to own a physical copy of the show’s first season in just a few weeks. Unlike Mark Scout (Adam Scott) and his fellow Lumon employees who can never entirely go home, Severance’s first season will be…

  • Apple’s next MacBook Pros might have leaked in Russia

    Is this the M4 MacBook Pro? | Screenshot: YouTube At least two Russian creators have posted videos in which they unbox what appears to be the next base model 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip. Apple, which hasn’t announced the laptops yet, is rumored to have a launch planned for November. Over the weekend,…