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Here is what’s happening at Computex 2024

Getty More chips, more AI. Continue reading…

PewDiePie ‘avenged’ as MrBeast becomes YouTube’s most-subscribed channel

MrBeast is now the most-subscribed YouTube channel. | Photo: Chris Unger / Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Bollywood music label T-Series had the most-subscribed YouTube channel for years after Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie, conceded his protracted and problematic fight for the top spot to it. But now that honor belongs to YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, who posted yesterday that his MrBeast YouTube operation had ‘avenged’ PewDiePie by overtaking T-Series.
The news apparently prompted a rush,

Billionaire who booked a SpaceX flight around the Moon cancels after delays

Maezawa in 2022. | Photo: Yoshikazu Tsuno / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa had once planned to take eight artists on a flight around the Moon aboard SpaceX’s Starship. But now, with Starship still in development the flight already indefinitely delayed, Maezawa says he has canceled the trip.
The X account for the flight, called dearMoon, announced the news on Friday, followed by posts from the billionaire himself. In those, he said he had signed on in 2018

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Hyundai’s first US-built EV will be the tax credit-ready Ioniq 5

Image: Hyundai The Hyundai Ioniq 5 will reportedly be the first car rolling out of the company’s new Georgia factory this fall. Moreover, company CEO Jose Muñoz tells Automotive News he expects the US-made version will net buyers the full $7,500 federal EV tax credit, which the South Korea-made vehicle isn’t otherwise eligible for (outside of a leasing loophole).
Hyundai will start producing the Ioniq 5 at the Georgia plant in October, but the company won’t be making bat

Apple’s non-AI WWDC plans include Settings and Control Center revamps

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge It sounds like Apple’s WWDC plans go beyond sprinkling AI fairy dust on everything (though that’s going to be a big part of it, too). Besides Siri gaining new AI-powered app control, the company also plans to overhaul things like the Settings apps for iOS and macOS, Control Center, Messages, Mail, and more.
A new, “cleaner” Settings app UI will mean better organization and improved search, Mark Gurman writes in his Power On Newslet

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Nubia Flip 5G Review: Cute, Cheap, and Flawed

Compact, cute, and fairly cheap, Nubia’s Flip 5G could be your first foldable, but the software lets it down.

Nvidia’s small GPU initiative will keep graphics cards large — but I’m glad it exists

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia just gave the PC gaming industry a reason to shrink its biggest graphics cards and produce smallish cases. It’s not what I expected, but I think it might actually help. Read before you judge, friends — I was definitely ready to call out some Nvidia BS, but I’ve mostly come around.
When leakers revealed last month that Nvidia would help steer its graphics card partners toward smaller gaming PCs, I began to daydream. Might we finally see a g

Nvidia’s G-Assist is an AI chatbot that guides you through games and optimizes your PC

G-Assist is a real tech demo from Nvidia. | Image: Nvidia When Nvidia first announced G-Assist it was an April Fools’ prank in 2017 that joked about an AI assistant being able to help you play a game while you ran to the door for your pizza delivery. Now, seven years later, G-Assist is back as a real demo of a powerful GeForce AI assistant that Nvidia might eventually bring to life for game developers and RTX GPU owners.
Project G-Assist is only a tech demonstration right now, but it&rsquo

Nvidia unveils inference microservices that can deploy AI applications in minutes

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, gave a keynote at the Computex trade show in Taiwan about transforming AI models with Nvidia NIM.Read More

Nvidia unveils GeForce RTX enhancements for AI PC digital assistants

Nvidia unveiled new RTX technology to power AI assistants and digital humans running on new GeForce RTX AI laptops.Read More

Nvidia recruits Taiwan’s electronics makers to its digital twin strategy

Taiwanese electronics makers are using Nvidia's industrial digitalization, or digital twin, technology to transform their factories into more autonomous facilities.Read More

Nvidia and AMD are bringing Microsoft’s Copilot Plus AI features to gaming laptops

Nvidia leans into RTX AI PCs. | Image: Nvidia Nvidia and AMD are gearing up to launch gaming laptops that include the AI Copilot Plus features that Microsoft just announced for Qualcomm-powered laptops. At Computex today, Nvidia briefly teased that “RTX AI PC” laptops are on the way from Asus and MSI that will eventually include Copilot Plus PC features.
“Newly announced RTX AI PC laptops from ASUS and MSI feature up to GeForce RTX 4070 GPUs and power-efficient systems-on-a-chi

Computer makers unveil Nvidia Blackwell systems for AI rollouts

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at Computex that the world’s top computer manufacturers today are unveiling Nvidia Blackwell architecture-powered systems featuring Grace CPUs, Nvidia networking and infrastructure for enterprises to build AI factories and data centers. Nvidia Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs), which have 25 times better e…Read More

A better way to take video on your phone

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 40, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, send me all your recommendations immediately, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)This week, I’ve been reading about Shein and Reese Witherspoon and Hollywood Ponzi schemes, journaling in Papery, testing Lazy for all my link dumps and notes, drinking a lot of Poppi soda, developing a mac and

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The Hunt for Ultralight Dark Matter

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The Asus ROG Ally X is official — and I took a peek inside

$799 for twice the battery, twice the storage, and loads of small improvements.Continue reading…

Lego debuts its first Minecraft set for adults

Minecraft is 15 years old, so it’s only natural that Lego should honor the anniversary with a set just for the game’s many adult fans. The company has started taking preorders for The Crafting Table, a 1,195-piece 18-and-up build, as Jay’s Brick Blog writes. The set will cost $89.99 in the US when it’s released on August 1st.
Lego says the set will include “familiar biomes, favorite mobs and hidden Easter eggs.” As the name suggests, the kit looks like an in-

Netflix says Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft arrives October 10

Netflix and Crystal Dynamics revealed the October 10 premiere date for the upcoming anime series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft.Read More

How to watch NASA and Boeing’s first Starliner launch

Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty Images Boeing, NASA, and the United Launch Alliance (ULA) are now targeting a June 2nd, 12:03PM ET crewed launch for Boeing’s Starliner capsule after scrubbing it just minutes before liftoff on June 1st. If the Sunday launch happens, it will be the first time Starliner, which has faced multiple delays, will have flown with human beings on board.NASA says the ULA is currently investigating why a computer, called a ground launch sequencer, didn’t enter “

Boeing’s first crewed Starliner launch delayed again over computer issues

Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty Images Boeing, NASA, and the United Launch Alliance (ULA) are now targeting a June 2nd, 12:03PM ET crewed launch for Boeing’s Starliner capsule after scrubbing it less than 4 minutes before liftoff on June 1st. If the Sunday launch happens, it will be the first time Starliner, which has faced multiple delays, will have flown with human beings on board.NASA says the ULA is currently investigating why a computer, called a ground launch sequencer, didn’t enter

Research vs. development: Where is the moat in AI?

Companies that build user-friendly tools, infrastructure for smooth AI integration and new LLM-powered products will be the winners.Read More

OpenAI’s ‘Sky’ sounds a lot like ScarJo, according to voice researchers

Scarlett Johansson at Cannes in 2023. | Photo: Laurent Koffel / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Researchers at Arizona State University found that Scarlett Johansson’s voice does indeed sound like “Sky,” OpenAI’s currently discontinued GPT-4o voice, according to NPR, which commissioned the comparison. After using AI models developed to analyze vocal similarities to compare Sky to roughly 600 other actresses, the lab reportedly found Johansson’s voice was “more si

Netflix’s Tomb Raider anime starts streaming in October

Image: Netflix Lara Croft’s next adventure — well, one of them, anyway — will start streaming this fall. Netflix announced that its animated Tomb Raider adaption will hit the service on October 10th. The show is called Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, and it picks up right after the most recent video game trilogy, which culminated with Shadow of the Tomb Raider in 2018. Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carter in the MCU) will star as Croft.
Here’s the setup:
Following the event

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Godzilla Minus One got a surprise Netflix release today

Image: Toho International Godzilla Minus One is officially streaming worldwide on Netflix as of today, everywhere except Japan and France, according to film distributor Toho International in a release shared with The Verge. You can also buy ($14.99) or rent ($5.99) HD digital copies of your own, either in color (Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play) or black and white (Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play).Written and directed by Takashi Yamakazi, Godzilla Minus One goes back to the giant radioactive kaiju&rs

Godzilla Minus One gets a surprise Netflix release

Image: Toho International Godzilla Minus One is officially streaming worldwide on Netflix as of today, everywhere except Japan and France, according to film distributor Toho International in a release shared with The Verge. You can also buy ($14.99) or rent ($5.99) digital copies, either in color (Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play) or black and white (Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play).
Written and directed by Takashi Yamakazi, Godzilla Minus One goes back to the giant radioactive kaiju’s origins.