Oh god, Hulu deepfaked Damian Lillard into its own TV commercial
If you watch basketball, Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers has been everywhere on your TV during the last few weeks — just not in the Hulu commercial that…
AdultFriendFinder is a porn-tastic hookup site that’s stuck in the past
Sex-positive • It’s all about sex • Great for finding hookups Too much about sex? • Hard to find a real relationship • NSFW • Ad overload The title AdultFriendFinder…
Facebook’s ‘Kill Switch’ Solves the Wrong Problem
Executives at Facebook are reportedly considering the option of a “kill switch” that would turn off all political advertising in the wake of a disputed presidential election. Put more simply:…
Add the Prospect of ‘Gigafires’ to Your List of 2020 Horrors
A wildfire burns over grape vines.Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) On top of the global pandemic and increasingly nightmarish election race, good chunks of the country are spending the last…
The Uncanny Escapism of ‘Flight Simulator 2020’
From a couple thousand feet up in Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator 2020, real-world mapping data from Bing Maps unfurls from the horizon. Giza’s pyramids are hourglass piles of sand. Hong…
Botched iOS Lightroom update irreversibly deleted users’ photos and presets
An Adobe blunder just cost numerous Lightroom users years of work they’ll never get back — and all the company has to offer in return is a sorry. An update…
The Google Pixel 5 renders are in — and it looks just like the 4a
Earlier this month, Google finally released its mid-range phone, the Pixel 4a. Along with that, the company said it’s going to launch the Pixel 5 later this fall. Now, thanks to…
An AI just embarrassed the US Air Force in a virtual dogfight
We’ve already seen AI conquer masters of chess, Go, and StarCraft II. But could it defeat an Air Force pilot in a (virtual) dogfight? DARPA has spent the last year…
How Intel helped give the ‘world’s first’ cyborg a voice
On a cold November day in 2016, Dr Peter Scott-Morgan was having a long, hot soak in the bath. After stepping out of the tub, he gave his foot a…
Hear our reviews of Samsung’s Note 20 Ultra, Galaxy Buds Live, and Galaxy Watch 3
This week on The Verge’s flagship podcast, The Vergecast, Dieter Bohn, Becca Farsace, and Dan Seifert log into a Zoom meeting to discuss their reviews of the next line of…