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Here are the 5 things you need to know about Amazon's new Ring cameras.
The Verge· 2025-10-04 15:01
Here are five things to know about Ring's newest cameras. Number one, the new Ringwire Doorbell Pro is Ring's first 4K capable video doorbell. With an impressive 10x zoom, it uses Ring's new retinal vision, which is just a fancy way of saying it uses AI to make your footage look better.Number two, Ring announced a new indoor camera, outdoor camera, and flood light camera, all with 4K resolution. and retinal vision along with some lower priced options in 2K. Number three, Ring cameras and doorbells will soon ...
Remember hoverboards? Tomorrow on show Version History, we revisit their explosive rise (and fall).
The Verge· 2025-10-04 14:00
walking. So old school, right. It's like if you want to go across the office or down the street or to the other side of the building, you have to use your feet.Like it's the middle ages. It's so it's who has the time. You know what I mean.Well, I have a better way. They're hoverboards. They're those two wheeled self-balancing scooters and they are all the rage.From the Verge and Vox Media, this is Version History, a show about the best and worst and strangest and most important products in the history of te ...
You can now exclude specific songs on Spotify #Vergecast
The Verge· 2025-10-03 15:00
Spotify will now let you exclude a single song from your algorithm and taste profile on Spotify. So recently I have a 2 and a halfyear-old who only wants to watch Toy Story 100% of the time. This morning I'm pretty sure he faked sick for I think the first time ever so that he because he wanted to stay home and watch TV and I saw through him and he's not here.But anyway, his favorite song on earth is the third song from the Toy Story soundtrack, which is called I Will Go Sailing No More. And it is it's the o ...
Alexa Plus is great for recipes. #Vergecast
The Verge· 2025-10-03 14:01
The recipe stuff is so good. And you can now like snap a picture of a recipe, send it to Alexa, and it will break it out into a format for you with the ingredients, the steps. It will talk you through it.You can say, "Hey, what what was the temperature I needed to set it for for the oven and just go back and forth while you're walking around your kitchen?" That experience so much better. >> That's the stuff, right. Like all the agent stuff is like fine and interesting and I think like a long way off from ac ...
Is a free TV worth never ending ads? #Vergecast
The Verge· 2025-10-03 13:01
a free television that they ship to your house and put in your house and in exchange for it being a free television, there's a big bar of ads that runs below your television at all times. Is that a fair description of what you've been going through? >> Yes, that's that's very accurate. I think it actually begins before it even gets to your house because when you reserve a telly, you have to agree to so many different things to collect your data to use for its ads. Like a lot of the questions you'll have to ...
Amazon debuted the new Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11 during its fall 2025 hardware event on Tuesday.
The Verge· 2025-10-02 15:01
Product Innovation - Amazon launched four new Echo smart speakers, including the Dot Max, which is a pint-sized but powerful smart speaker with an improved control panel [1] - The new Echo Studio has been shrunk but maintains or improves sound quality and can be integrated into an Alexa home theater setup [2] - The Echo Show smart displays feature a slimmer, slicker, and more responsive design with thinner bezels and brighter screens, available in 11-inch and 8-inch versions [3] - New mount available for Echo Show smart displays allows for easy adjustment [4] Technology & Features - New speakers utilize Wi-Fi sensing to detect presence and improve smart home automation, such as automatically turning on lights [4] - All new smart speakers and displays come with Alexa Plus, Amazon's new AI-powered voice assistant [4] Market Perception - Amazon's hardware has been perceived as somewhat lackluster, but the new devices appear to be a significant upgrade [5]
This is the GPD Win 5, with a 45-85W AMD Strix Halo chip.
The Verge· 2025-10-02 14:01
MSI claw Legion goto. No, this PlayStation VAshaped handheld is the most powerful ever made. Today I'm toying with the GPD Win 5, the first AMD Stricks Halo handheld.That's the same chip in Framework's desktop PC. And this prototype's powerful enough to play the PS5's Returnal or the demanding Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p in ultra spec. I played Expedition 33 at 1080p high, not to mention Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, one of the most demanding games on PC, all in the palms of my hands.There's just one enor ...
The Verge’s Andrew J. Hawkins joins us to discuss how he started a bike bus in his community.
The Verge· 2025-10-01 16:01
We started a bike bus and that sort of created a community around cycling especially with kids to school every Friday. You ride in a in a big group, right. And the sort of the idea being that there's safety in numbers, right.Because it is kind of daunting when you're, you know, we've got little kindergarteners on their on their bikes riding in the street alongside of huge trucks and SUVs and buses and all of this kind of stuff, but we're, you know, we're biking with them. You know, it's a big group. The kid ...
Are Gemini summaries the end of YouTube videos? #Vergecast
The Verge· 2025-10-01 15:12
Content Creator Business Model - Gemini summaries of YouTube videos pose an existential threat to content creators [1][5] - If viewers switch to summaries, creators risk becoming training data providers instead of content providers [6] - The current YouTube model relies on longer videos and more ads for revenue, driven by Google's search ranking algorithms [3][4] - Recipe websites and YouTube exemplify how creators prioritize platform optimization over user experience to generate income [3][4] Platform Dynamics - YouTube's algorithm favors longer videos to maximize watch time and ad revenue [4] - The industry isn't fully considering the potential collapse if AI summaries become mainstream [7]
Google has a new line up of home hardware coming out. From smart speakers, to cameras to doorbells.
The Verge· 2025-10-01 13:01
I just got a look at the new Google Home hardware launching this week. And of course, it's all about AI. There's a new Google Home smart speaker.There's new Nest doorbells and cameras and some budget friendly security cameras starting at just $23. Besides these new colors, these Nest Cams have basically the same design as the last generation. But Google says it's what's on the inside that counts.There's 2K HDR video resolution, a taller and wider field of view so you can see more of the action, and a new zo ...