Microsoft’s PC Game Pass arrives on Nvidia’s GeForce Now service this week Image: NvidiaNvidia is starting to roll out access to PC Game Pass and Microsoft Store titles on its GeForce Now streaming service this week. PC Game Pass subscribers will be able to start streaming titles through GeForce Now on August 24th, including first-party Microsoft games like Deathloop and Grounded as well as third-party titles like No M…

Nvidia’s new DLSS 3.5 works on all RTX GPUs to improve the quality of ray tracing Image: NvidiaNvidia is introducing DLSS 3.5 this fall with a new AI-powered Ray Reconstruction technique that’s designed to improve the quality of ray tracing. Unlike DLSS 3’s Frame Generation, which was limited to just RTX 40-series GPUs, DLSS 3.5 will boost ray tracing across all RTX-series GPUs going back to the RTX 20 series. Nvidia is prim…

Asus ROG Strix Scar X3D review: AMD’s new chip is a game-changer AMD proclaimed that its Ryzen 9 7945HX3D would be the world’s fastest mobile gaming chip. It was right. Continue reading…

Half-Life 2 is getting remade into a ray-traced beauty thanks to modders That precious suit has never looked better. | Image: NvidiaA community of modders is developing a ray-traced Half-Life 2 remake using Nvidia’s early access RTX Remix platform, and Nvidia is debuting its first trailer for Gamescom. Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project will not win any awards for good naming, but the beautified update to the PC’s…

Threads on the web is here Image: The VergeMeta is finally launching a much more capable web app for Threads, the company announced on Tuesday. You’ll be able to post, interact with other posts, and look at your feed, spokesperson Christine Pai tells The Verge. It’s set to roll out over the next few days, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. So far, Threads on the web has essen…

Gillette x Razer gamer razor has no lights and has no lasers Razer’s new razor has no RGB, but it’ll shave ya. | GilletteLabsAfter all this time, Razer made a razor. Well. Technically, Gillette made a razor and put Razer’s branding on it. Finally, a razor for gamers! Don’t confuse this with the Razer Razer, this year’s April Fool’s Day joke. That was an RGB gaming mouse with an electric shaver built into…

The EU might need to reassess Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal after restructuring Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeMicrosoft announced a restructuring of its proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition earlier today that involves transferring cloud gaming rights for current and new Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft. It’s a big change in Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal that’s designed to appease UK regulators that blocked…

Meta releases multilingual speech translation model Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeMeta released a new speech-to-text model that can translate nearly 100 languages called SeamlessM4T, as the company continues to try to make a universal translator. SeamlessM4T, which stands for Massively Multilingual and Multimodal Machine Translation, that the company said can translate speech-to-text an…

Instagram is adding a chronological feed for Reels and Stories in Europe Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeInstagram and Facebook users in Europe are getting more options to opt out of Meta’s recommendation algorithms, the company has explained in a blog post today. According to Meta’s president of global affairs Nick Clegg, European users will be able to access features like Reels, Stories, and Search on Facebo…

Microsoft to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft in bid for UK approval Illustration by William Joel / The VergeMicrosoft is restructuring its proposed Activision Blizzard deal to transfer cloud gaming rights for current and new Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft. The transfer of rights is designed to appease regulators in the UK that are concerned about the impact Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion deal will have…

X reportedly tests removing headlines from links to news articles The VergeA report from Fortune claims that X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, has tested stripping headlines from articles shared on the site. Posts would only include the lead image and the URL, unless the person or publisher posting the link adds their own text, per materials the outlet viewed. The image would still serve as a…

Ford’s Mustang Mach-E recall to prevent power failures is under investigation Photo by Sean O’Kane / The VergeThe National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) is opening a query on Ford’s response to a recall last year that affected almost 49,000 Mustang Mach-E vehicles, as reported by Automotive News. The June 2022 recall was issued due to a malfunction involving overheating of the electric SUV’s high-volta…

FCC filing hints at a new Fitbit tracker — but which one? The FCC filing seems to indicate a Bluetooth-only tracker. The Fitbit Inspire 3 (pictured) is a less likely candidate since it launched just last year. | Photo by Victoria Song / The VergeIt looks like the Pixel Watch 2 may not be the only wearable that Google launches this fall. A new FCC filing for what appears to be a Fitbit tracker also surf…

X says it’s fixed the bug that broke links and images in pre-December 2014 tweets Image: The VergeOver the weekend, word spread about a problem affecting old tweets, and eventually, we narrowed it down to anything posted before December 2014, either with an image or a link that had been shortened by Twitter. A post by Tom Coates alerted many people to the problem and he noted that a 2014 Ellen DeGeneres selfie from the Oscars…

Tell every PC gamer you know: Dough, formerly Eve, is ready to issue refunds Eve’s promised products, circa 2020. | Image: EveEvery time I write about Dough — the PC gaming monitor company formerly known as Eve — some people tell me to stop! They say Dough scammed them out of money or shipped their monitors too late to matter or ghosted their attempts to get customer support. Today, I’m here to tell you about an opportun…

The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeThe New York Times has blocked OpenAI’s web crawler, meaning that OpenAI can’t use content from the publication to train its AI models. If you check the NYT’s robots.txt page, you can see that the NYT disallows GPTBot, the crawler that OpenAI introduced earlier this month. Based on the Internet Archive’s Wa…

Microsoft kills Kinect again Image: MicrosoftMicrosoft is discontinuing the Kinect — again. The company officially stopped manufacturing the depth camera and microphone in 2017 and brought it back in a new form in 2019 as the Azure Kinect Developer Kit. Now, Microsoft is ending production of that, too, but it has partnered with some outside companies to provide options avai…

Samsung’s latest pitch for the Z Fold 5: two iPhones at the same time Imagine if this were two iPhones in a trench coat. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The VergeHey, wait a minute, that Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 is actually just two iPhones in a trench coat! That’s the idea behind the latest update to the Try Galaxy web app, which, when running on two iPhones, offers a Samsung One UI demonstration spread across both …

T-Mobile’s new Go5G plan gets even more expensive and offers faster phone upgrades Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeT-Mobile announced it’s offering a yearly phone upgrade plan called Go5G Next for $100 per month for a single line. It’s a pricier companion to the $90-per-month Go5G Plus plan with bi-annual upgrades the carrier debuted earlier this year. The prices from T-Mobile’s announcement assume you’re using automat…

Tesla points to ‘insider wrongdoing’ as cause of massive employee data leak Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeTesla has determined that two of its former workers are responsible for a massive data leak that includes personally identifiable information on over 75,000 employees, TechCrunch reports. According to a filing with the state of Maine’s attorney general office, Tesla’s data privacy officer, Steven Elentukh, …