LG has announced a 32-inch Smart Monitor product that can download apps, stream games, and more and even has an ergonomic mounting stand built in. Carrying the snappy model number 32SQ780S, this monitor is actually more similar to a TV than you might expect – especially when you see that attached stand. It runs WebOS…
Google is ramping up the presence of Android gaming on PC, with the launch of the Google Play Games beta in several more countries. Following an experimental launch in the Far East, the beta is now available in the United States, Canada and five other countries as a standalone application for Windows PCs. Google isn’t…
Samsung is reportedly planning on making space for an S-Pen holster within the next-generation Galaxy Z Fold 5 smartphone. While the S Pen stylus does work with the Galaxy Fold range – indeed, there’s a special, thinner Fold Edition that comes with a protective pouch, as well as a special case – the inability to…
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Fire tablets and other Alexa-enabled gadgets are currently on sale at Amazon. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge It’s Alexa’s birthday, and to celebrate, Amazon is discounting a wide range of its smart home products, including Echo devices, Fire TVs, Blink video doorbell systems, and Fire tablets. We’ve outlined a few highlights here…
Illustration: The Verge Google is adding package tracking features to Gmail, which should make it easier to see where your orders are at a glance while you scroll through your emails. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company says you’ll start seeing “a simple, helpful view of your package tracking and delivery information right…
OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund, OpenAI says. The $100 million entrepreneurial tranche was announced last May…
Four years ago, Comma.ai founder George Hotz turned to his board — of which he is the only member — and fired himself as CEO. At the time, the goal for the famed iPhone and Playstation 3 hacker, known as geohot, was to build out a new research division to focus on behavioral models that…
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, interest rates for mortgages dropped to historic lows. Predictably, home buyers made hay, taking full advantage of the favorable financial environment to pick up new homes and refinancing mortgages on their existing homes. Startups operating in the financial side of the real estate tech market suddenly faced…
Web3 developer tooling startup Tenderly is getting into the node game with a new product it announced today called Web3 Gateway. The product will help web3 developers read, stream and analyze blockchain data, according to the company. The offering builds on the company’s observability stack, which it says indexes over nine billion transactions across more…