Finding the young girl captured in a photograph of Gaza detainees from the BBC
Julia, aged 3, looks on from a crowd of fearful and exhausted men. This is her story.Read More
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iPhone sales are booming — with or without Apple Intelligence from the Verge Chris Welch
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge To cap off a busy week that saw the rollout of the first Apple Intelligence features and several new Macs, Apple reported its fiscal Q4 earnings this afternoon. The period included very early sales of the iPhone 16 lineup, offering a chance to gauge the momentum of…
Amazon’s new Alexa has reportedly slipped to 2025 from the Verge Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the week’s least surprising news, Amazon’s reinvention of its Alexa voice assistant has reportedly fallen even further behind. According to Bloomberg, the launch of a new Alexa — billed as a smarter, more capable AI-powered voice assistant — has been pushed back. Again. “A person familiar with…
Intel’s Gaudi AI chips are far behind Nvidia and AMD, won’t even hit $500M goal from the Verge Sean Hollister
Nvidia made a fortune on the AI boom. AMD’s rival AI chip became the fastest ramping product in its history, already pulling in $1 billion per quarter and inspiring AMD to remake itself as an AI company too. But Intel, which suggested it would pull in $1 billion, even $2 billion on the back of…
ChromeOS gets a big update with Quick Insert, Focus mode, and new AI features from the Verge Umar Shakir
The Quick Insert button is on the Galaxy Chromebook Plus and is coming to future 2025 Chromebooks. | Image: Google Starting today, Google’s ChromeOS 130 update with Quick Insert, Focus Mode, Welcome Recap, and other features is rolling out. Chromebook Plus models with NPU also get exclusive special features in 130, such as the new…
The iPhone 17 might use Apple’s own Wi-Fi chips from the Verge Allison Johnson
Hardware is hard. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple’s journey to making its own wireless chips has been a long one, but the end might be in sight. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo posted on X that Apple’s switch to its own in-house Wi-Fi / Bluetooth chips will start with the iPhone 17 in the…
Why is Nintendo targeting this YouTuber? from the Verge Sean Hollister
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Turbosquid Retro Game Corps isn’t Nintendo’s typical mark. Could he fight back? Continue reading… Read More
Chinese online retailer Temu faces European Union investigation into rogue traders and illegal goods from ABC
Chinese online retailer Temu is facing a European Union investigation over suspicions it’s failing to prevent the sale of illegal productsRead More
Takeaways from AP story on Ukrainian schools built underground to guard against bombs and radiation from ABC
Most of the Russian weapons that hit the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia kill in an instant: the drones, the ballistic missiles, the glide bombs, the artillery shellsRead More
New York semiconductor site picked for $825 million in funding from ABC
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer says a semiconductor research facility in upstate New York will be getting $825 million in funding as one of three national technology centersRead More