Here’s how Bambu will fix its 3D printers that began printing by themselves Users woke to find that their Bambu printers created designs all by themselves. | Image: BambuBambu will issue multiple fixes for the unusual bug that caused some of its 3D printers to start pumping out designs by themselves — and in some cases, damaging the printer in the process. In an official blog post, Bambu details multiple new features th…

Big companies use AI-generated ads because they’re cheap Mondelez logo with Oreos. | Photo by Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty ImagesCreating an ad can be tricky and costly, and more brands see generative AI as a means to make that process less painful. Reuters reported large advertising agencies like WPP and multinational corporations like Unilever look to generative AI to cut marketing costs whi…

Cruise robotaxi collides with fire truck in San Francisco, leaving one injured Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesA Cruise robotaxi in San Francisco collided with a San Francisco Fire Department truck late Thursday, CNBC reports. A passenger riding inside the Cruise self-driving vehicle suffered “non-severe injuries” and was transported in an ambulance, according to an official company post on X (forma…

Disney Plus moves Ahsoka episodes into prime time on Tuesdays Image: DisneyAhsoka, Disney’s next big Disney Plus Star Wars show, will now premiere on Tuesday nights at 9PM ET / 6PM PT, Disney announced on Friday. That means the first two episodes of the show will now be available the evening of Tuesday, August 22nd. It’s only a slight shift from Ahsoka’s original premiere date of Wednesdays. But since Disn…

The fandomization of news Lil Tay in 2018. | Image: Lil Tay / YouTubeYounger generations expect news to come straight from creators. But when creators are wrong, the news ecosystem quickly breaks down. Continue reading…

How to delete your Twitter history Illustration by Samar Haddad / The VergeOver the last few months, Elon Musk’s X, which was formerly known as Twitter, has been a bubbling cauldron of strange advertising decisions, continuous upheavals, and weird overflows of testosterone. Not that Twitter has ever been calm waters. Before Musk, Twitter was the social media world’s most reliabl…

Baldur’s Gate 3 on the Steam Deck looks bad but plays great Screenshot by Jay Peters / The VergeBaldur’s Gate 3 is a delight on Steam Deck — even though I sometimes can’t tell what’s going on. I suspected that might be the case going in. Everything I had seen about Baldur’s Gate 3 before I downloaded it promised a vast, sprawling adventure, and all the streams of the game I watched on Twitch featured inc…

Low interest rates and loneliness: the origins of the pandemic crypto boom Glauber Contessoto, also known as “Pro,” records a video about Dogecoin. | Image: This Is Not Financial AdviceThis Is Not Financial Advice and Easy Money attempt to explain the extremely online financial mania. Their very divergent takes show how difficult it is to fully understand. Continue reading…

Tiffany Haddish on her new movie’s bleak vision of our streaming future Tiffany Haddish and Asante Blackk in Landscape With Invisible Hand. | Image: MGMLandscape With Invisible Hand is an alien invasion story with a twist: a species known as the Vuuv take over the planet not by force but through economics. Their advanced technology allows them to live in floating cities with the human elite, while the rest of the po…

Twitch will let streamers ban users from watching their streams Illustration by Nick Barclay / The VergeTwitch is rolling out an update next month that will finally allow streamers to block banned users from viewing their streams. Currently, Twitch allows you to ban users from the chat section of a stream, but they can still view streams. Twitch revealed earlier this week, during its Patch Notes stream, that…

Google adds a reminder to clean your Pixel Buds every once in a while You really should be checking them regularly anyway, but hopefully, this helps to avoid any gross build-up. | Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeWhen was the last time you cleaned your earphones? Ideally, you’re not leaving it long enough to see a sizable amount of crud building up (which is fairly unavoidable when you’re regularly shoving them int…

The iPhone 15 might have faster charging speeds Apple may need to ship the iPhone 15 with a power adapter to support the increased wattage from USB-C charging. | Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesApple is set to introduce the iPhone 15 in the next few weeks, and the device’s long-rumored transition from Lightning to USB-C may provide a boost to its charging speed. According to …

Razer’s new BlackWidow V4 75 could be a great starter mechanical keyboard The Razer BlackWidow V4 75 mechanical keyboard. | Image: RazerRazer’s launching a new mechanical keyboard that might get the attention of more than just those who fall into the RGB-forward gamer demographic. The company’s BlackWidow V4 75 includes hot-swappable switches, a gasket-mounted plate with two foam layers, screw holes on the PCB board f…

One surviving Reddit app plans to charge based on how much you use it Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeThe developer Relay for Reddit, of one of the remaining third-party Reddit apps for Android, detailed the potential prices for planned subscriptions for the app in a new post on Thursday. The costs of a subscription will go up based on a user’s daily average number of API calls, essentially meaning that the…

Threads gets retweets — sorry, reposts — in the reverse-chronological feed Illustration: The VergeThreads is adding reposts (aka retweets) to its reverse-chronological “Following” feed, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced in a Threads post on Thursday. It’s a small but nice addition to the app that makes the Following feed a bit more useful, and while Mosseri said Meta added it “based on your feedback,” the Following…

Spotify reportedly has a $38 million white noise problem Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The VergeSpotify is spending a lot of money on podcasts that don’t actually involve any talking. That’s according to a report from Bloomberg, which states the company could increase its annual gross profit by a whopping $38 million if it steers users away from so-called white noise podcasts. These kinds of podcas…

A key feature of NFTs has completely broken Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeOne of the big promises of NFTs was that the artist who originally made them could get a cut every time their piece was resold. Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore. OpenSea, the biggest NFT marketplace still fully enforcing royalty fees, said today that it plans to stop the mandatory collection of re…

Microsoft’s AI recommends the Ottawa Food Bank as a tourist destination Illustration: The VergeMicrosoft has published an AI-generated travel article about Ottawa, Canada, that prominently recommends tourists visit the Ottawa Food Bank, as spotted by Paris Marx. The food bank is the No. 3 recommendation on the list, sitting behind the National War Memorial and above going to an Ottawa Senators hockey game. Microsoft…

Match Group will no longer offer background checks on Tinder and other dating apps Illustration: The VergeMatch Group, which owns dating apps like Tinder, Plenty of Fish, and Match, is ending its partnership with the nonprofit organization that provided background checks to its users, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. The service that provided the checks, called Garbo, is shutting down its consumer-facing busines…

Amazon tests new star ratings that are even harder to read Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeAmazon is testing a new way to show star ratings for products in search results that is more difficult to parse at a glance, as reported by Android Police. Under the new system, when you’re browsing search results, Amazon will show you an average star rating as a number, then a singular gold star, and then…