Walmart also has plenty of deals to cash in on today | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Amazon isn’t the only one with deals on Prime Day. If you’re looking for alternatives to shopping at Amazon, Walmart is currently featuring many of the same deals, like the Apple Watch Series 8, the SteelSeries…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Doctors rely on computer systems to deliver care. | Getty Patients at hospitals in one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States are facing delays in care due to a cyberattack. The disruption is stretching into its second week. CommonSpirit Health, which operates more than 700 healthcare sites in over 20 states, said…
The Meta Quest Pro. | Image: Meta Meta has finally announced the Meta Quest Pro: a $1,499 virtual reality headset it’s been teasing for the past year. The Quest Pro is a new branch of the Quest VR headset lineup, featuring a new processor and screen, a dramatically redesigned body and controllers, inward-facing cameras for…
The Meta Quest Pro | Photo by Alex Heath / The Verge Meta’s new high-end headset introduces eye tracking and mixed reality for $1,499 Continue reading… Read More
M3gan the doll sitting among her fellow playthings. | Universal Pictures The poster alone for Universal’s upcoming horror M3gan, from director Gerard Johnstone, was enough to make it seem like the feature might be worthy of a spot in the great killer doll canon. But watching the movie’s trailer, it’s clear that M3gan’s going for…
The Meta Quest Pro virtual reality headset. | Photo by Alex Heath / The Verge Meta finally showed off its Quest Pro virtual reality (VR) headset at its Connect event on Tuesday, revealing that the high-end device will sport the new Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 1 chip. Qualcomm says the chip offers 50 percent higher…
Image: Apple The trailer for season 3 of Mythic Quest, Apple TV Plus’ comedy show about game development, debuted on Tuesday, and as with previous seasons, it seems to tackle a lot of the big issues in game development today: the difficulty of adapting playable experiences into movies; having to deal with massive egos; and…
Enlarge / Between 2024 and 2027, Honda plans to sell many new EVs in North America, starting with this, the Prologue. A key component of the revised electric vehicle tax credit is a requirement for an ever-increasing amount of domestic content in those EVs’ battery packs. Automakers and battery manufacturers were already in the process…
COVID vaccines delivered by a nasal spray could be common in the future. Deposit Photos Researchers at Oxford announced today that a nasal spray version of the COVID-19 vaccine they’ve developed with AstraZeneca failed in early stages of clinical trials. The underwhelming results in were published in eBioMedicine. Scientists have abandoned their plans to develop…
Snapchat is rolling out a new AR experience that lets you try on and purchase Halloween costumes directly within its app, the company announced today. Starting today, Snapchat users can try on and buy costumes of popular movie and TV characters from “Stranger Things,” the “Harry Potter” series, “Squid Game,” “Minecraft,” “Ghostbusters” and more. The…