NASA Plus is the latest streaming competitor The new NASA Plus logo. | Image: NASANASA is about to voyage into the streaming-verse. The federal space agency is announcing a new “NASA Plus” streaming service that will bring the on-demand non-sci-fi space content you crave to TVs and mobile devices everywhere. And best of all, NASA says it will be “ad-free, no cost, and family-friendly” (via…

Google’s latest robot can offer you an energy drink Google robot choosing a ball. | Image: GoogleGoogle wants to make its robots smarter with the release of the AI learning model Robotic Transformer (RT-2). RT-2 is the new version of what the company calls its vision-language-action (VLA) model. The model teaches robots to better recognize visual and language patterns to interpret instructions an…

Stop filming concerts Photo by Hannes P Albert / picture alliance via Getty ImagesLook, I understand where you’re coming from. You paid good money to be here at the Eras Tour or whatever. You waited in line for two hours. You were up all night selecting your outfit. You sat in ridiculous traffic. You fought a relentless battle against Ticketmaster, and dagnabbit, you…

Wireless earbuds can actually help you hear conversations better Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeEarlier this week, a reader contacted me with a dilemma: his wife has always had super sharp hearing when it comes to environmental / ambient noise. She can “hear a gnat blink at 1,000 yards. Forty years ago, she could hear electronic clocks running,” he said. And so they’ve been in search of a solution that would…

Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion is a tropical vacation Image: Square EnixIt’s finally time for the Final Fantasy XIV beach vacation episode! This year’s Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest kicked off the American leg of the global event in Las Vegas this weekend. Thousands of fans braved the absolute blistering Las Vegas heat for cosplay events, concerts, and, of course, presentations designed around everybo…

Two years later, Netflix is still experimenting with games Image: Netflix / Ripstone Games / Night SchoolOxenfree II: Lost Signals and The Queen’s Gambit Chess could not be more different, and yet both are key to understanding Netflix’s gaming philosophy. Continue reading…

The best Garmin watches for training and everyday life Garmins aren’t just multisport behemoths anymore. | Illustration by Will Joel / The VergeGarmin may be best known for its hardcore fitness watches, but it’s got an extensive line of lifestyle offerings, too. Continue reading…

Model 3 owners love their Teslas but increasingly not Elon Musk: survey Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty ImagesBloomberg’s latest survey of thousands of Model 3 owners presents a conflicted view of Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk, suggesting that while owners are happy with their cars they’re souring on Musk himself. The survey, which asked 5,000 Model 3 owners a series of questions about their vehicles…

Garmin Fenix 7S Pro review: too much of the same The Fenix lineup feels a bit superfluous now that the Epix Pro is here. The flashlight still rocks, though. Continue reading…

Sony’s first PS5 sale brings steep price drops to UK, Germany, India, and beyond Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeSony is running a PS5 sale in the UK, India, Ireland, and Germany where the price of a standard console is dropping by around 16 percent. In the UK the PS5 can now be found for £399.99, below its regular £479.99 price and even far below the £449.99 price at launch, before a PS5 price hike outside the US last year…

AMD’s Ryzen 9 7945HX3D could be its slam-dunk gaming laptop chip AMD and Asus have announced the ROG Strix Scar 17 X3D, a beefy 17-inch gaming laptop with an RGB lightstrip on the bottom. Which, sure, whatever. The exciting news is what’s inside this device. This Strix is powered by AMD’s 7945HX3D mobile laptop, which could, if the stars align, provide gaming performance that we haven’t seen in AMD’s current …

Verizon and AT&T are charging a new fee to customers on older unlimited plans Verizon would very much like you to switch to its new Unlimited Welcome plan. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeThe carriers are at it again: Verizon and AT&T are both notifying customers on older unlimited plans to expect a new fee on their bill soon. Customers on Verizon’s 5G Start and AT&T’s Unlimited Elite plans are affected, and the …

Intel CEO: ‘We’re going to build AI into every platform we build’ Image: IntelIntel CEO Pat Gelsinger was very bullish on AI during the company’s Q2 2023 earnings call — telling investors that Intel plans to “build AI into every product that we build.” Later this year, Intel will ship Meteor Lake, its first consumer chip with a built-in neural processor for machine learning tasks. (AMD recently did the same, f…

Lionel Messi is already giving Apple’s MLS streaming service a boost Photo by Hector Vivas / Getty ImagesLionel Messi has taken MLS by storm, and that’s good news for Apple. The league partnered with Apple for a streaming service called MLS Season Pass, which kicked off this season and will continue for the next decade. And though Messi only played his first match for his new club, Inter Miami, on July 21st, it s…

Driverless car legislation is still stuck in neutral in the US Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeAt a recent House of Representatives subcommittee hearing on self-driving cars, Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) kicked off her five minutes of questions for the panelists with a quick appraisal of the toaster-shaped autonomous shuttle that has puttered around her district in Gainesville, Florida, for the past three…

Mark Zuckerberg isn’t being held in contempt of Congress after all Image: Getty ImagesSo, it looks like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t going to be held in contempt of Congress after all — at least for now. The House Judiciary Committee was supposed to vote to hold Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress on Thursday, but chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) canceled the vote shortly before it was scheduled to take place, as firs…

Roblox is now available to try on Meta Quest VR headsets Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeRoblox is now available in open beta on Meta’s Quest VR headsets. Roblox and Meta had announced earlier in July that the social metaverse platform would be arriving on the headsets soon, and now, you can try it for yourself. To check out Roblox experiences on your Quest, you can grab the app from the Qu…

These city maps show how much hotter it is from neighborhood to neighborhood People gather at Barton Springs Pool on June 21st, 2023, in Austin, Texas as extreme temperatures across the state prompted excessive heat warnings | Photo by Brandon Bell / Getty ImagesSeeing how much hotter certain neighborhoods can get compared to others nearby blows my mind, and I report on this kind of thing for a living. I live in New Yor…

Elon Musk says Twitter will soon only offer dark mode because it’s “better in every way” Image: The VergeJust when you think Elon Musk can’t get any more divisive, he’s weighed in on the light mode versus dark mode debate — and Twitter, currently undergoing a rebranding to X, is apparently going all in on the latter. Early this morning, Musk posted that “this platform will soon only have ‘dark mode’. It is better in every way.” That…

Artifact is getting an AI-powered text-to-speech feature to read you the news There are other options available if you don’t want to use voices from Snoop Dogg or Gwyneth Paltrow. | Image: ArtifactArtifact — the new-ish news app from Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger — is adding an AI-powered text-to-speech feature that will read you news articles. The company is offering the new feature as part of a p…