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Google’s NotebookLM can help you dive deeper into YouTube videos
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge NotebookLM, Google’s AI note-taking app, can now summarize and help you dig deeper into YouTube videos. The new capability works by analyzing the text in a YouTube video’s transcript, including autogenerated ones. Once you add a YouTube link to NotebookLM, it will use AI to provide a brief…
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X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked document that’s alleged to be the Trump campaign’s research into vice presidential candidate JD Vance. The journalist who wrote the newsletter, Ken Klippenstein, has been suspended from the platform. Searches for posts containing…
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Ford’s BlueCruise 1.4 update lets you keep your hands off the wheel much longer
Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge Ford is releasing a new version of its BlueCruise hands-free driving software, version 1.4, which it claims will let you keep your hands off the wheel twice as long. In fact, the company tells us it can now run an average of five times longer compared to last year’s…
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Nvidia’s RTX 5090 will reportedly include 32GB of VRAM and hefty power requirements
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia is reportedly planning to ship its upcoming GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card with 32GB of GDDR7 memory. Hardware leaker Kopite7kimi has published rumored specifications for the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 today, and both cards will reportedly be more power-hungry as Nvidia looks to debut more capable…
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Twitch’s BibleThump will soon go to emote heaven
Image: Edmund McMillen; The Verge Pretty soon, Twitch users will no longer be able to express their sadness with the BibleThump emote. According to Twitch, on September 30th, its rights to display the popular crying pink blob will expire after over a decade of being one of the foundational Twitch emotes along with Kappa, FrankerZ,…
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An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless
Image: Michael Straight via Facebook Michael Straight, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, was left unable to walk for two months after the company behind his $100,000 exoskeleton refused to fix a battery issue, as reported earlier by the Paulick Report and 404 Media. “I called [the company] thinking it was no big…
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A deepfake caller pretending to be a Ukrainian official almost tricked a US senator
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took a Zoom call with someone using deepfake technology to pose as a top Ukrainian official, The New York Times reports. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) received an email last Thursday that appeared to be from Dmytro Kuleba,…
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Google’s new Nest Learning Thermostat is discounted for the first time
Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge The recently launched Google Nest Learning Thermostat has its first notable discount, as Wellbots is offering it in all three color options for $259.99 ($20 off) with checkout code NLT4VERGE. Google took nearly nine years to replace the last model with this sleeker, Pixel Watch-looking design, but you…
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Moment’s SuperCage smartphone rig has more ports and more power for filmmakers
An integrated USB-C hub allows accessories like external drives to be attached to an iPhone in the SuperCage while still powering it. | Image: Moment Moment’s SuperCage is a new smartphone accessory that improves the functionality and ergonomics of using a smartphone as a pro video camera. Smartphone cages for mobile filmmakers aren’t a new…
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Samsung’s new Galaxy S24 FE brings AI features to a lower price
A couple days after prematurely revealing the phone on its website, Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy S24 FE. It starts at $649.99 with 128GB of storage, and Samsung’s also offering a 256GB model for $709.99. Design-wise, we’re looking at a phone that’s very similar to last year’s version — though the S24 FE is…