This ultralight 14-inch laptop costs less than $1,000 and is a good option for students, if you can ignore the quirks.
Scientists are forecasting 11 North Atlantic hurricanes this year, five of them being major. Here’s what’s turning the storms into increasingly dangerous behemoths.
When emoji and Memoji can’t fully capture your emotions, Stickers will do the trick.
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The Eastern Conference has a few matchups that will be cleared for hyperspace.
It’s the beginning of May and this weekend poses some interesting matchups in the universe. Saturday is Star Wars Day, so watch MLS you can while celebrating some of your favorite characters. There are 3 matches between Eastern Conference teams that should have you ready to blast off, so let’s take a look at what matchups...
Google may start asking users that still utilize passwords instead of their passkeys to wait 24 hours before they can access their account. | Illustration: The Verge
Google is kicking off World Password Day by updating us on its efforts to replace the often hacked, guessed, and stolen form of authentication with passkeys. Their passwordless approach relies on device-based authentication instead, making logging in faster and more secure.
In a blog post on Thursday, the company...
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Microsoft says it’s investigating reports of VPN connection failures after installing the April 2024 Windows 11 update. The KB5036893 security update was issued on April 9th for all supported Windows 11 versions, and some users have reported that VPN connections with TPM-backed certificates aren’t working after the patch was installed.
Reddit user Flo-TPG says the Windows 11 update caused “a certificate could not be found” error while attempting to use a VPN...
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Say what you will about Bose’s more ambitious swings — I appreciate that it takes them in the first place — but today, the company is releasing a new product in a category that it’s always been pretty excellent at: Bluetooth speakers. Bose is more or less supersizing its SoundLink Flex into a new, larger model called the SoundLink Max. Considering how Bose’s acoustic processing has for years squeezed impressive sound out of relatively small hardware, I’m...
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Nvidia is releasing a script that simplifies getting its GeForce Now cloud gaming service up and running on Valve’s Steam Deck device. The script automatically installs Google Chrome, adjusts the browser to enable gamepad use, and then adds a GeForce Now shortcut to your Steam library.
While the script automates the process of using the SteamOS terminal app to install Chrome and enable gamepad support, you’ll still need to make some manual tweaks...
We all hate the feeling of buying products that just weren't worth it — but you won't find any of that disappointment here.
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"One of my friends had an interview with Apple and she wore a black turtleneck and glasses and told the interviewer, 'Do I look familiar?'"
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See, it could always be worse.
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Pretty and practical.
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This color-adaptive under eye brightener works so fast that your eyeballs will be like ???????????? in disbelief.
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Trump’s former fixer is now a political content creator.
This week, we talk through everything there is to know about hybrids: how the different technologies work, how to keep one charged, and which cars best fit different lifestyles.
SB Nation caught up with F1 Academy driver Lia Block ahead of the Miami Grand Prix
Lia Block may be just 17 years old, but she already has a wealth of motorsport experience under her belt. The Williams F1 Academy driver has competed in multiple disciplines, won at every stop along the way, including some prestigious events, and was tapped by Williams to slide into their spot for this F1 Academy season.
However, that experience comes with a caveat.
This weekend’s Miami Grand Prix...
Another dark day for Peloton. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Peloton’s CEO Barry McCarthy is stepping down after announcing yet another round of layoffs, this time affecting about 15 percent of its remaining workforce, or roughly 400 global team members. It’s the fifth round of layoffs to hit the pandemic darling and comes after McCarthy said on its Q1 2023 earnings call that the company was done with layoffs and that the “ship was turning.”
“Hard as the decision...
IDK, Kayleigh is kinda growing on me!
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TL;DR: Unblock Pornhub from anywhere in the world with a high-speed VPN. The best service for bypassing restrictions to access blocked porn sites is ExpressVPN.
The world of porn has once again been thrown into disarray. And it all comes down to access.
Earlier in the year, Pornhub blocked access to users in North Carolina and Montana. Soon after, the same thing has happened in Texas. And now Florida is seemingly next in line for a ban.
Fortunately, there is a quick and easy hack for bypassing...
Training data scraped from the web may have been OK for the first wave of large language models, but as competition increases, more and better data will be needed.
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