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The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past.

Only two of five vehicles finished the race around a notoriously difficult Formula 1 track, exposing what happens when autonomous systems meet blind corners, sensor failures, and physics.

Amazon raised prices across its devices in August. Here are the early device deals ahead of Prime Day that are still worth it—and which aren’t.

Ahead of the Kindle’s 20th anniversary next year, Amazon is refreshing its entire range of e-readers with fresh colors, an aluminum build, and a new frame design that’s both thinner and lighter.

HP is announcing a new laptop that's squarely aimed at Apple's MacBook Neo. The 2026 HP OmniBook 5 14 starts at $699.99 with an Intel Core 5 315 "Wildcat Lake" processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. Much of that sounds pretty familiar, being in lockstep with both Apple's Neo and its recent competition […]

Do we really need a new version of Carrie? That's the question that plagues any attempt to reimagine the classic horror tale. Stephen King's 1974 novel remains one of his most iconic, and the film version from Brian De Palma and Sissy Spacek two years later remains unsurpassed, despite a handful adaptations that followed in […]

Kindles don't usually change much with each new version, but Amazon is launching next-generation models today that look and feel a whole lot nicer. The base Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft are a millimeter thinner and 30 percent faster at opening books, and their power buttons have moved from the bottom to the right […]

There are few blockbuster games that are as confident as Gears of War: E-Day. A prequel to one of Xbox's most transformative titles, E-Day knows exactly what it wants to be: a brutal, tense, and self-aware action game, one that is stronger because it doesn't deviate from that premise. Twenty years since the original Gears […]

The base Galaxy S26 with 256GB of storage costs nearly $1,000 after Samsung raised prices in the US by $100 or more, Phone Arena reports. The Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus were already $100 more expensive than their S25 predecessors when they launched earlier this year, which Samsung said RAM price hikes were partly to […]

On Monday, Variety reported that RoseBerry Media is recutting episodes of the Australian soap opera Neighbours "into microdramas." These clips will be available on Epis, a short-form vertical video streaming platform. Though Neighbours ran for 41 seasons from 1985 to 2025, at launch, RoseBerry is only recutting two storylines from the late aughts focused on […]

Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah.  The idea was to build the world’s biggest data center — a 40,000-acre AI campus with nine gigawatts of power, or more than double the average power usage of […]

At OpenAI's annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals - primarily Meta, whose Muse AI agent platform has seen early runaway success. CEO Sam Altman walked onstage to cheers and announced Dots, a "real-deal AI" agent powered by GPT-6 Astra, "inspired by the cool agents that we […]

New York City residents struggling to get out of recurring subscription fees can now submit complaints to the city government. As of Thursday, the city's click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, which requires businesses to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up. That means a gym that lets you […]

The compact Bluetooth remote is designed to let readers turn pages without touching their Kindle.

The new Kindle lineup features its lightest and thinnest designs yet, with a sleek, front-flush display that eliminates bezels for good.

Audible is rolling out new features that help listeners keep track of characters, explore places and imagery mentioned in books, and even interact with characters using generative AI.

The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids.

The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.

Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system.

The CEO promised to get more specific about his vision. But the details are still absent.

This is a submission for the Sanity Challenge, Path Two: Vibe-Code Something Strange What I Built Vouch is a small mutual-aid app. Someone types or dictates what they need ("two bags of rice and a dozen eggs for my kids"). The app turns it into a checklist. Neighbors pledge items from that checklist. Whoever buys the items uploads the receipt, and the request closes with a certificate anyone can check. The strange part is that the AI can't write a single sentence. I di...

TL;DR : spark.read.parquet(path) reads almost nothing. The real work starts at the first action , when Spark turns your DataFrame into four plans, slices your files into tasks, ships those tasks to executors and, depending on what you asked for, shuffles data across the network. This article follows one DataFrame through all of that, in five scenarios: a plain read, a read with filters, a sort, a join, and finally the whole pipeline end to end. ⏱️ 30-minute read. Every scenario comes ...

The energy industry has spent years asking the wrong question: How do we add AI to energy? A better question is: How do we make the fragmented information systems of global energy capable of communicating with each other? That distinction changes everything. The Hidden Bottleneck Consider a single international energy transaction. Production data may live inside an ERP or MES. Operational telemetry may come from SCADA and IoT systems. Commercial i...

When I add AI to an existing business application, my first concern is not the chat interface. It is whether the assistant can access something the current user cannot. That is the starting point for my RAG ASP.NET Core implementation in SupportAgent.NET, an ASP.NET Core and React customer-support copilot. The internal assistant uses native tool calling to look up permitted customer and order records through normal .NET services. It also retrieves company documents and drafts replies, whic...

In January 2023 a Microsoft director wrote an internal memo calling AI scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history". On September 17 a federal court unsealed the summary-judgment filings in the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, and that line is now public, next to quotes from Satya Nadella, Greg Brockman and ChatGPT's own product lead. If your team trains on data it didn't license, or writes candid memos about it, this OpenAI lawsuit is the one to read. ...

In our previous technical case study, we covered how we initially launched our React and Vite utility site with rich schema markup and pre-rendered static HTML. Building on that foundation, we recently expanded our suite of tools to 24 specialized web calculators, driving a massive boost in search engine indexation and impressions. In this article, we share our architectural blueprint, content expansion methodology, technical SEO implementation, and zero-latency client-side execution model. ...

Short answer: choose the smallest exception-capture path that can reconstruct one failed financial agent run across every model call, tool call, retry, and outward notification. A lightweight capture API is enough only when it preserves that causal chain, records latency and cost inputs consistently, and fails without delaying the route. If it cannot, the operationally simpler choice is the fuller tracker, even when sourcemaps and replay are deliberately out of scope. This decision is about i...

IoT addressed an important problem: making physical objects observable. They can give you information on temperature, vibrations, position, pressure, energy usage, equipment state, and thousands of other features. But data collection is just the beginning. The next and harder step is to make sense of this information. This is where AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) comes into play. The idea of AIoT is to incorporate connected physical objects with data pipelines, ML, analyt...