ESPN is testing a generative AI avatar called ‘FACTS’
Image: ESPN ESPN is testing an AI-generated avatar with the Saturday college football show SEC Nation. Dubbed FACTS, it’s going to be “…promoting education and fun around sports analytics” with…
Google will let you make AI clip art for your documents
Illustration: The Verge Google Workspace is rolling out a Gemini-powered AI image generator directly in Google Docs that lets you quickly whip up visuals for your writeups. Essentially, it’s a…
Disney has reportedly pulled a Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur episode for telling a trans-inclusive story
Disney Though the remainder of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’s final season is set to hit the Disney Channel and Disney Plus some time next year, the studio is reportedly…
The M4 MacBook Pro features a quantum dot display
Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The new M4 MacBook Pros that launched last month have an unadvertised change with new quantum dot displays, according to display…
Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Social network Bluesky, in a post on Friday, says that it has “no intention” of taking user content to train generative AI tools. It…
Senator to Valve: what’s with all the Nazis on Steam?
Image: The Verge US Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has sent a letter to Valve CEO Gabe Newell asking if the company intends to take measures to curtail extremist content on…
The new Mac Mini is great — now do the iPhone SE
This could be so much better. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge We could argue all day about the merits of iOS versus Android, but there’s one thing…
Casio’s first smart ring has innovative features like a stopwatch and flashing alarm
Casio’s smart ring is a tiny digital watch. | Image: Casio Not to be outdone by its longtime rival, Casio has announced its own digital ring watch that brings more…
Cruise fined $500K for submitting a false report after last year’s pedestrian crash
Image: Cruise GM’s Cruise will pay a criminal fine of $500,000 to resolve a federal investigation and accept a deferred prosecution agreement after the company admitted to falsifying a report…
Facebook is changing its primary metric to ‘views’
Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge Facebook is making “views” its primary metric to measure the performance of content, bringing it in line with Instagram metrics. Views will be measured…
