Nvidia’s latest GPU driver lets you activate DLSS 4 in games and apps Nvidia is launching its next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs today, but it’s also releasing an exciting update for existing RTX GPU owners. A new GPU driver (572.16) allows you to force DLSS 4 inside games or apps that don’t currently support it, providing improved image quality and even less VRAM usage in some

Here’s where you can try to buy an Nvidia RTX 5080 or 5090 While Nvidia’s RTX 50-series graphics cards weren’t the zaniest devices at CES 2025, they stole the show with their promised groundbreaking performance breakthroughs. The RTX 5070, in particular, made headlines as a card that can supposedly rival an RTX 4090 for just $549. We later learned it uses DLSS 4’s AI-powered multi frame generation to

Knives Out 3 and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein headline Netflix’s busy 2025 One month into the year and Netflix is ready to detail its plans for 2025 — or at least, some of them. In a now-annual tradition, the streamer has outlined some of its biggest releases across film, television, and gaming. And while plenty of the listed titles were already known, there are also some pleasant

LG might save us from the misery of hotel TVs LG is adding Google Cast support to its range of hotel TVs, making it easier to stream content from your phone or other devices. Cast joins existing support for Apple Airplay, and LG is the first manufacturer to offer both options on its hotel TVs. If you stay in a hotel room with a compatible

Vodafone makes ‘world’s first’ satellite video call from a regular phone ahead of 2025 rollout Vodafone has made what it calls “the world’s first” satellite video call using a standard smartphone, in a test of a system it says will provide mobile broadband service to 4G and 5G phones without dedicated satellite hardware. The service, using satellites from SpaceX rival AST SpaceMobile, is expected to launch in Europe before the

Books written by humans are getting their own certification The Authors Guild — one of the largest associations of writers in the US — has launched a new project that allows authors to certify that their book was written by a human, and not generated by artificial intelligence. The Guild says its “Human Authored” certification aims to make it easier for writers to “distinguish

Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle Trump account suspension suit Meta agreed to a $25 million settlement over a 2021 lawsuit President Donald Trump brought against Meta for suspending his accounts after the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the news, and Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the settlement to The Verge. It’s a step

Tesla’s next-generation vehicle: all the news about Elon Musk’s next big EV bet For years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising an affordable electric vehicle, likely priced at $25,000, as a way to broaden the appeal of plug-in vehicles. He first mentioned it in a 2018 interview with YouTuber Marques Brownlee, saying “a $25,000 car, that’s something we can do.” Then in 2020, at the company’s first

Kia EVs will get Tesla Supercharger access in March Kia’s electric vehicles will get Tesla Supercharger access “sometime in March 2025,” the company announced in a statement. Kia EVs, including the EV6 and EV9, were scheduled to get Supercharger access in January using NACS to CCS1 adapters, but that has been delayed. Kia’s sister company, Hyundai, is beginning to ship new 2025 model year

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta isn’t worried about DeepSeek Nearly everyone seems to be suddenly freaking out about the rise of DeepSeek. Meta isn’t worried, though. That was CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s message to investors during his company’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. During the Q&A portion of the call with Wall Street analysts, Zuckerberg fielded multiple questions about DeepSeek’s impressi…

Destiny 2 is getting Star Wars-themed armor next month Bungie and LucasFilms are bringing Star Wars armor sets and other items into the Destiny universe, so you can dress your Guardian like a stormtrooper. As part of Destiny 2: Heresy, Act I, which launches next week, you’ll be able to access outfits, accessories, and emotes that come straight out of the Star Wars universe

Tesla’s profits slide over 70 percent in the fourth quarter It’s one week into Elon Musk’s new role as chief cost-cutter for the Trump administration, but today, his side hustle as CEO of Tesla takes center stage with the release of the company’s latest earnings report.  During the fourth quarter of 2024, Tesla said it earned $2.3 billion in net income on $25.7 billion in

Gemini AI can automatically turn your spreadsheets into charts Gemini has some new abilities that could make it more helpful in Sheets, Google announced in a post on the Workspace blog. Now, Gemini can respond to questions about your data with details about trends or by creating static charts that you can insert into your spreadsheet as images. The new capability is rolling out

Microsoft’s AI business is booming — Xbox, not so much Microsoft’s cloud and AI businesses are doing pretty well — and their impact is being felt across the company. In its Q2 2025 earnings, Microsoft announced revenue of $69.6 billion for the quarter, up 12 percent year-over-year, and net income of $24.1 billion, which is up 10 percent year-over-year. As for the AI business, CEO Satya

Tesla will launch unsupervised driving in June, Musk says Tesla will launch an “unsupervised, no one in the car” robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June, Elon Musk said in an earnings call Wednesday. “We just want to put a toe in the water, make sure everything’s okay, put a few more toes in the water, with safety of the general public and those

White House walks back funding freeze after a day of confusion The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is walking back the federal funding freeze memo that set off a day of chaos and confusion on Tuesday up until a judge paused the order right before it was set to take effect. “In light of the injunction, OMB has rescinded the memo to end

Elliot Page’s production company is making Beyond: Two Souls into a TV show Beyond: Two Souls, the Quantic Dream-made interactive thriller starring Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, is being adapted for TV by Page’s Pageboy Productions, Deadline reports. The series is in early development and it’s “expected to explore the game’s non-linear narrative,” according to Deadline. In the game, you play as Jodie (portrayed by Page)…

Microsoft makes DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub Microsoft is bringing Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s R1 model to its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub today. The R1 model, which has rocked US financial markets this week because it can be trained at a fraction of the cost of leading models from OpenAI, is now part of a model catalog on Azure AI

PlayStation is dropping its PSN account requirement for some PC games Sony announced Wednesday that you won’t need to log in to a PlayStation Network account to play four of its single-player games on PC: Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (which comes out tomorrow), The Last of Us Part II Remastered (which launches on April 3rd), God of War Ragnarök, and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. However, to incentivize

Waymo to test in 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego Waymo is sending autonomous vehicles to 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, the company shared exclusively with The Verge.  The vehicles will be manually driven, and the testing operations are not necessarily a precursor to the launch of a commercial robotaxi service. (They’re also not precluded from launching a