Google Assistant
…With over 1 million “Actions” and a rapidly expanding list of supported devices, Google’s smart assistant will soon be everywhere. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Apr 21 You can now talk to Google…
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Great news, the Moto G Stylus is no longer teeming with bloatware
…The third-party weather app is now clearly identified as “developed by OneLouder Apps” on the initial splash page — something I complained about in my last Stylus review in 2023. If an…
That UL logo is more complicated than it looks
…There’s some pretty rigorous approaches to that standard development and the consensus grounded in science. Now getting that standard adopted by governments does take... And again, our standards development organization…
Rivian’s software chief thinks you don’t need CarPlay or buttons
…Actually, we started with about 800 or 900 developers coming from Rivian, and then we had about 50 colleagues who joined us from the Volkswagen Group. The rest are developers and engineers…
The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times
…DX was originally announced internally as a way to improve the developer experience, says Ben Harnett, a software engineer at the Times and chair of the unit’s generative AI committee. The…
The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026
…They’ll support features like live translation, navigation assistance with Gemini, and notification summaries. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Universal-Cart-intelligent-insights.jpg?quality…
It’s make or break time for AI labeling systems
…Meta hasn’t responded to our questions about what this will look like or what cameras will be supported, though I presume it will involve labels that say something like “captured on…
The Govee smart lamp brightened up my room, and then my life
…I did not expect to develop an emotional attachment to a lamp. But I did, and now it’s one of my favorite gadgets. The Govee was quick and easy…
Xbox and PlayStation have to prove they’re worth their new price tags
…6 billion to acquire Destiny developer Bungie in 2022. Since then, Bungie has been hit with multiple rounds of layoffs, the studio announced plans to end support for Destiny 2, and it…
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
…whenever OpenAI hits a development milestone) and the total payments are capped. “OpenAI products will ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities,” Microsoft announced…