eBay’s new acquisition could make it easy to buy a car from anywhere
The Verge eBay has “signed a definitive agreement” to buy online automotive transaction platform provider Caramel to help make buying and selling vehicles on the auction site “more simple than ever.” Caramel has a site and app that helps private parties and independent dealers sell cars by handling the paperwork, ownership transfer, financing, More...
Free Our Feeds wants to build a social media ecosystem ‘resistant to billionaire influence’
Image: Free Our Feeds Technology advocates and celebrities are backing the launch of Free Our Feeds, a campaign designed to “save social media from billionaire capture.” The project aims to raise $30 More...
Samsung is adding two new Galaxy Ring sizes
Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Samsung is making the Galaxy Ring available to more people by adding size 14 and 15 rings to its options starting on January 22nd. With the expansion, which was rumored More...
Mercedes-Benz’s Virtual Assistant uses Google’s conversational AI agent
Mercedes-Benz’s MBUX Virtual Assistant will use Google Gemini on the cloud. | Image: Mercedes-Benz / Google Google Cloud’s new Automotive AI Agent platform promises to “continue conversations and reference More...
8BitDo’s drift-free mobile controller is on sale for the first time
8BitDo’s mobile controller offers a little more grip than others we recommend. | Image: 8BitDo While the cradle-style Backbone One is a great mobile controller we often recommend, it’s not the right choice More...
Microsoft creates new AI engineering group led by former Meta executive
Image: The Verge Microsoft is creating a new engineering group that’s focused on artificial intelligence. Led by former Meta engineering chief Jay Parikh, the new CoreAI – Platform and Tools division More...
A major data broker hack may have leaked precise location info for millions
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Last week, major location data broker Gravy Analytics disclosed a data breach that may have resulted in the theft of precise location data for millions of people, More...
Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI
Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo: Amazon AWS chief Matt Garman says Amazon is already seeing the benefits of its massive AI investments. Read the full story at The Verge. More...
Adobe’s new AI tool can edit 10,000 images in one click
Image: Adobe Adobe is launching new generative AI tools that can automate labor-intensive production tasks like editing large batches of images and translating video presentations. The most notable is “Firefly More...
Mastodon’s CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization
Image: The Verge Decentralized social network Mastodon has announced plans to transfer its ownership to a new nonprofit entity. Ownership of Mastodon will move away from the control of CEO Eugen Rochko, in More...
