The 2024 US Open Is Designed to Thwart Golf’s Big Hitters - Technology news - NewsLocker (2024)

Players, aided by technology, are hitting the ball farther than ever, and courses can’t keep getting longer—meaning operators are having to find smarter ways to keep the sport challenging.

McLaren Artura Spider Hybrid 2024 Review: Performance Party

This drop-top hybrid supercar is the very definition of dynamic driving. Only the indistinctive looks let it down.

Chrome on Android can read webpages out loud from within the app

Illustration: The Verge Google is rolling out a new option called “Listen to this page” that can read a webpage out loud to you from within the Android Chrome browser. The feature comes with playback controls similar to those you’d find in music or podcast players, letting you pause, change the reading speed, scrub forward, or skip ahead or back by 10 seconds at a time.
You can also change the voice it uses, as well as the language. The feature supports several, including Engli

McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now

A McDonald’s in Pittsburgh. | Photo: Paul Weaver / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images If your local McDonald’s has been getting your order confidently wrong with an AI chatbot at the drive-thru, I have good news for you: The company is ending the program for now. The company told franchisees that it’s winding down an AI drive-thru ordering partnership with IBM “no later than July 26th, 2024,” according to trade publication Restaurant Business.The company wil

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When to ignore — and believe — the AI hype cycle

Predicting the future of AI is no simple feat, but understanding when hype is worthy or not is key to moving the industry forward.Read More

The OLED iPad Pro was only the beginning for Apple’s return to thin devices

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The thinness of the OLED iPad Pro is only the beginning of a renewed effort by Apple to make increasingly thin computers, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. The company plans a “significantly skinnier” iPhone 17 and is also working on shaving off some of the thickness of the MacBook Pro and the Apple Watch, he writes.
It’s not the first time we’ve heard about a new, extremely thin &l

Apple won’t wait until next year for some Siri improvements

Image: Apple Siri may do more than make the edges of your iPhone a glowy rainbow when iOS 18 drops this fall. Apple Intelligence features won’t be out until 2025 for anyone not testing them in beta this year, but reports suggest that Siri itself will still get natural language updates and other key features before the year is out.
For instance, users will be able to type to Siri without diving into accessibility settings, and it will be more conversational, understanding you even when you

The Best Electric Bikes of 2024 That We've Tested and Reviewed

We tested the best electric bikes in every category—commuting, mountain biking, foldable, cruisers, and more.

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NZXT Relay Headset and SwitchMix Review: Innovative Convenience

NZXT’s first foray into audio gear comes with one of the most innovative accessories I’ve seen in years—if you use wired headphones.

Analog Photography: The Beginner’s Guide to Film Cameras (2024)

Which film camera should you get? Which films are the best? We demystify the world of analog photography to help you get started.

The 14 Best Pillows We Found After Months of Night-Time Testing (2024)

We spent months sleeping on various pillows to find the right support for your noggin whether you snooze on your side, back, or in a tangle of blankets.

Sorry, VR: The Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarers Are the Best Face Computer

Finally! An AI-enabled face computer that's comfortable, useful, attractive, and not completely humiliating to wear.

The super simple gadget trying to replace your phone

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 42, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)This week, I’ve been writing about Excel, reading about tin foil hats and the song “Smooth,” obsessing over Francis Ford Coppola’s note-taking system, watching Anyone But You, Hit Man, and Mission: Impossible - Gh

How to Spot a Business Email Compromise Scam

In this common email scam, a criminal pretending to be your boss or coworker emails you asking for a favor involving money. Here's what do to when a bad actor lands in your inbox.

Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI's Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy

Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles.

Let Slip the Robot Dogs of War

The United States and China appear locked in a race to weaponize four-legged robots for military applications.

NASA says Voyager 1 is fully back online months after it stopped making sense

Image: NASA Voyager 1, the farthest human-made craft from the Earth, is finally sending back data from all four of its scientific instruments, NASA said this week. That means the agency is once more receiving its readings on plasma waves, magnetic fields, and space-bound particles.
Voyager 1 stopped sending back good data in November, and fixing it was fraught as engineers had to wait 45 hours to hear anything back. In April, the agency got it to start sending back health and status information,

AGI isn’t here (yet): How to make informed, strategic decisions in the meantime

AI is a powerful technology, but humans must be the ones making critical decisions driven by reason, benchmarking and common sense.Read More

Philips Hue’s jaunty sunrise smart lamp is called the Twilight

The Philips Hue Twilight lamp. | Image: Smartlights.de Philips Hue’s next smart bedside lamp will reportedly be called the “Twilight.” The lamp will feature two buttons on top for power, scene selection, and sleep automation, and it also has LEDs in the back that will feature a sunrise or sunset effect, according to HueBlog.com.
The rear LED and main light, like the Hue Dymera’s top and bottom lights, will apparently be individually controllable, and when triggering its s

Sharge’s Macintosh-inspired 67W charger is nearly half off right now

There are many 67W chargers out there, but few are as adorable as Sharge’s travel-friendly Retro 67. Earlier this week, we published a guide rounding up an assortment of last-minute Father’s Day gifts for those who celebrate. However, if you need a Hail Mary and your dad is the nostalgic type with a penchant for all things Apple, the Sharge Retro 67 is currently on sale for an all-time low of $39 ($30 off) at Amazon and direct from Sharge.In February, my colleague Sean Hollister penn

Sharge’s cute, Macintosh-inspired 67W charger is nearly half off right now

There are many 67W chargers out there, but few are as adorable as Sharge’s travel-friendly Retro 67. Earlier this week, we published a guide rounding up an assortment of last-minute Father’s Day gifts for those who celebrate. However, if you need a Hail Mary and your dad is the nostalgic type with a penchant for all things Apple, the Sharge Retro 67 is currently on sale for an all-time low of $39 ($30 off) at Amazon and direct from Sharge.In February, my colleague Sean Hollister penn

18 Best Camera Bags, Slings, Straps, and Backpacks (2024)

Tote your photo and video gear around in style. We tested more than 75 packs and rounded up our favorites.

Nintendo’s first US commercial might be this 1980 ad

Got a broken arm? Just play Toss-Up! | Screenshot: YouTube Nintendo is a gaming juggernaut today, but it wasn’t really on anyone’s radar in the United States in 1980. And what was possibly the first US commercial for hardware produced by the company — a handheld called Toss-Up, from its “Game & Watch” series — certainly didn’t help, as a newly-restored copy shows. That’s because there’s no mention of Nintendo at all, or even Game & Wa

HiGround Opal Base 65 Keyboard Review: More Hype Than Substance

HiGround’s entry-level keyboard costs more and delivers less than most mid-tier mechanical keyboards.

The iPad should fold in half

This should fold in half. It just should. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Folding an iPad in half is a very bad idea if you want to keep using your iPad. But hear me out: it should fold in half. Why? Because it would make an absolute banger of a folding phone.
First of all, what’s even going on here anyway? The Pro iPhones have more processing power than they know what to do with. The iPad Pro is an incredible computer that nobody can use as a computer. The iPad Mini still ex

Barnes and Noble Nook 9-Inch Lenovo Tablet Review: Affordable and Capable

Barnes and Noble’s cheap new e-reader can also work as a basic, bare-bones tablet.

The Best Gender-Neutral Clothing Brands (2024): Tested and Reviewed

These fashion brands are here to help you break free from the gender binary.

How to Shop Like a Pro During Amazon Prime Day - July 2024

We’ve got tips to help you cut through the clutter to find real Amazon Prime Day deals.

The Cloud wins the AI infrastructure debate by default

ANALYSIS: As artificial intelligence (AI) takes the world by storm, an old debate is reigniting: should businesses self-host AI tools or rely on the cloud? For example, Sid Premkumar, founder of AI startup Lytix, recently shared his analysis self-hosting an open source AI model, suggesting it could be cheaper than using Amazon Web Services (AWS).…Read More

The 34 Best Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now (June 2024)

The Boys, Outer Range, and Fallout are just a few of the things you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.