360-degree cameras have a new superpower
…Insta360 cofounder Max Richter tells me the company’s cameras were already in demand for real estate virtual tours, construction progress reports, and facility inspections. If I were a real-estate agent…
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Venmo finally takes privacy seriously
…You could imagine a world where we play a much more prominent role in all of those areas of a consumer’s life.” Update, May 11th: Updated story with the timeline of…
Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
…Once disabled the model will no longer download or update. More details in our help center article.” Update, May 6th: Added statement from Google.
Framework is building a better couch keyboard because everyone hates the Logitech one
…He says that Logitech’s keyboard is precisely the reason he’s building a new one: “It’s that Logitech keyboard that everybody owns and nobody likes,” he tells me. “Everybody’s…
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
…my “dumb” technology hasn’t required an update in more than 20 years. Saving money is valuable to me, too. The people who tell us that AI will dominate our future and…
Fortnite developers can make AI characters now — just don’t try to date them
…Epic spokesperson Jake Jones tells The Verge that there’s “no timeline to share” for when the beta will launch. The tool is powered by Google’s Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite…
A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers
…Sammy Azdoufal — the man from France who created a remote-controlled army of DJI Romo robot vacuum cleaners without really trying — tells The Verge he found 1.1 million remotely accessible Meari…
Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
…That date commitment is 10 years of automatic security updates for Chromebooks released in 2021 or later. But there’s no telling what Google’s focus on Chromebooks and ChromeOS will be…
Microsoft’s Office and LinkedIn chief now runs Teams in latest reshuffle
…Sources tell me that the Microsoft Teams organization is moving to report to Roslansky, who will now lead a new Work Experiences Group at Microsoft. The changes, which come a week after…
Subnautica 2 launches soon after lengthy legal dispute
…Gallegos suspects that the team will release minor updates every four to six weeks and that there will be “several months” between big updates that change the game’s world and add…