Image: Amazon The latest trailer for Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series gives us the best look yet at the mysterious, raggedy dude from the previous teasers. Guess what? That’s Gandalf. That’s Gandalf, ahead of schedule for once, coming to Middle-earth one Age early to hang out with hobbits while…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Adi Robertson using the Quest 2. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta will now allow users of its Quest VR headsets to log in with a new Meta account instead of a Facebook account, the company announced on Tuesday. The company had said in July that this change would be rolling…
The iPad and iPhone are growing apart. | Photo by David Pierce / The Verge Apple has confirmed that iPadOS 16.0 won’t be getting a public release and that the tablet-centered OS won’t be coming out until after iOS starts hitting phones. In a statement to TechCrunch, attributed only to “the company,” it said: “we…
Enlarge / The lettering “Hey Google” on the Google pavillon at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas in 2018. These words activate Google Assistant, Google’s virtual personal assistant. (credit: Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance) Voice assistant hot words are nice when you need them and annoying when they go off accidentally. For Google, maybe a valuable…
Enlarge (credit: Tuxedo Computers) Ultralight laptops are great for slipping into a bag and traveling with, and they look pretty stylish. However, a trim build often comes with trade-offs. Battery capacity is a common one, as companies struggle to fit larger batteries into machines that are under an inch thick. German PC-maker Tuxedo Computers’ latest…
Highly biodiverse ecosystems are especially at risk for climate change-related extinctions. Deposit Photos Since they were first recorded by Irish scientist John Tyndall in 1859, scientists have observed how greenhouse gases (GHG) like carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide and act like a giant blanket around the Earth. Like a greenhouse does for plants, these…
If you have great lighting, a good photographer can take decent photos even with the crappiest camera imaginable. In low light, though, all bets are off. Sure, some cameras can shoot haunting video lit only by the light of the moon, but for stills — and especially stills shot on a smartphone — digital noise…
Twitch is lifting its exclusivity agreement that prevented its partners from streaming on other services, the company said in an email to partners on Tuesday. Starting today, partners can now stream on YouTube, Facebook Live and more, just not while streaming on Twitch at the same time. “When we first developed the Partner Program, we…
Save $150: As of Aug. 23, the iRobot Roomba i2 is on sale for $199.99 at Amazon. That’s 43% off its MSRP of $349.99. Two Roombas are on sale for under $200 at Amazon, but one is the obvious choice. We’ve seen iRobot’s current entry-level model, the 694, on sale for $199 quite often over…
In a pair of eye-opening new space photos, the largest planet in our solar system glows like never before, with its hazy surface, and its northern and southern auroras, rendered seemingly incandescent by the sun’s glaring rays. The James Webb Space Telescope is equipped with a system called the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), which doesn’t take…