Category: Hardware
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This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. At 8PM on election night in New York City, I arrived at an unmarked office building in the Meatpacking District. Inside, a few dozen young Kalshi employees moved between…
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The Apple MacBook Air M4 laptop has long hovered at $799 at Amazon — a full $200 below its Apple Store price. But it just dropped down to $749, which is the lowest price we’ve seen since this model was introduced in March. This sale is for the model with 16GB of RAM and 256GB…
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The University of Pennsylvania has a somewhat unusual distinction: It is the alma mater of two of the planet’s most polarizing figures, Elon Musk and Donald Trump. As the political power of both men rose over the last year, the US government began to pressure Penn, first by pulling its research funding and then by…
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Syphilis can be a tricky disease to diagnose—especially when a patient may not be sharing the whole story. Doctors in Belgium met with a real head-scratcher when an 83-year-old married man came in with a rare form of secondary syphilis—the second of four stages of the sexually transmitted bacterial infection that has been called a…
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Snap and Perplexity AI have struck a $400 million deal that will bring the AI search engine directly to Snapchat sometime in “early 2026,” the two companies announced. With the partnership, Perplexity’s AI search engine will be a prominent part of Snapchat’s “chat” interface so users can “ask questions and get clear, conversational answers drawn…
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Google on Wednesday revealed five recent malware samples that were built using generative AI. The end results of each one were far below par with professional malware development, a finding that shows that vibe coding of malicious wares lags behind more traditional forms of development, which means it still has a long way to go…
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Gemini can now draw from your emails and documents while performing “deep research” queries. Google’s announcement blog called this “one of our most-requested features” for Gemini Deep Research, which is an agentic feature styled specifically for creating research reports rather than just answering questions. The chatbot starts by creating a multi-step research plan, then it…
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Written by Article updated on November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM PST David Carnoy Executive Editor / Reviews Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET’s Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio products, including headphones and speakers. He’s…
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The best soundbars are designed primarily to be heard, not seen. This new aluminum-clad behemoth from Bang & Olufsen, however, demands to be heard and seen, and it arrives with a price tag as lofty as its eye-catching “sculptural” design. Slated to go on sale next month for a whopping $5,800, the Beosound Premiere from Bang & Olufsen arrives packed with speaker drivers—10 of them—as…