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I am dying to know how much money Plex is about to make the next six weeks charging people to stream their own video from their own homes. Today, it’s giving every prospective customer until July 1st to lock in a lifetime subscription at today’s rates — before it triples the price to $750.
Amid the flurry of today’s Google I/O announcements, Google shared details about Wear OS 7 , the next major update to its smartwatch platform. To help you keep track of things like deliveries and sports scores, Wear OS 7 will get the iPhone-style Live Updates that were introduced on Android last year — which can appear on your watch or your smartphone —…
Google announced at its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday that it’s launching Pics, a new AI-powered design and image-generation app for Google Workspace. The tech giant says it designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.
What better way to unwind from a two-hour keynote presentation than to pore over the weirdest and wildest details, from a Gmail bot you can converse with to DeepMind’s leader saying the singularity is near . The Vergecast went live right after the show, with senior AI reporter Hayden Field joining me to discuss the highlights.
Google’s cutting-edge research and products will help unlock AGI’s incredible potential for the benefit of the entire world. When we look back at this time, I think we will realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity.
Shay Shwartz knows a lot about email phishing attacks. As a teenager, he made money as a hacker, but after getting caught at age 16, he realized he could use his cyber talents to prevent attacks rather than launch them.
At the Google I/O 2026 keynote, the tech giant revealed new agentic capabilities in Search , where users can create, customize, and manage multiple AI agents to stay updated on topics of interest. The announcement is part of Google’s larger push toward agentic AI systems that can take initiative and assist with ongoing tasks instead of answering one…
Google isn’t finished infusing AI into your inbox. On Tuesday at their IO 2026 developer conference , the tech giant announced an expansion of its “AI Inbox” functionality for Gmail , which is adding conversational AI features.
Google has big promises for its AI-powered future — and a lot of it depends on your trust. At I/O 2026, Google described a bunch of new tools that it claims will make your life easier.
Nintendo recently teased the “Choose Your Game” Switch 2 console and digital game bundle , coming in early June. However, multiple retailers (including Nintendo itself) are already offering the $499.99 bundle.
Last year, after watching Google’s I/O keynote, I wrote that it felt like Google’s future was Google googling . After watching this year’s I/O keynote on Tuesday, I don’t think Google just wants to google for you — I think it wants to do everything for you, all from a search box.
A few syntactical tics – and the verdict of an AI detection platform – have sparked a furore over the possibility that a short story given a prestigious literary award was written by AI. The foundation that awarded the prize and Granta, the magazine that published the winning story , said they had considered the allegations but had not reached a conclusion…
Ugreen has announced a new Apple Find My-compatible tracker with a novel design that limits where you can hide it, but greatly benefits battery life. Inspired by “major football tournaments” the company doesn’t call out by name, the Ugreen FineTrack 2 is shaped like a soccer ball and is designed to be used hanging off your keys or bags.
A handful of Democrats called an unofficial hearing on Capitol Hill Monday to slam the Department of Justice’s “trivial” and “pathetic” settlement with Live Nation-Ticketmaster, previewing how they might go after Trump administration antitrust deals if they win back congressional power in November. While the DOJ settlement with Live Nation, which came one…
Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, and the holiday’s sales include plenty of deals on gadgets that can help you make the most of the season. If your plans involve beach days, pool parties, or backyard barbecues, now’s a great time to pick up a portable Bluetooth speaker , as many of our favorite models are currently on sale.
The jury’s speedy decision to reject Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the other founders of OpenAI and Microsoft confirmed what we saw in the courtroom: Musk’s case was a weak one, in part because he waited so long to file it. Watching the closing arguments last week, OpenAI’s attorneys detailed point by point how the law was on their client’s side, while the…
Security researcher Brian Krebs brings us the news that America’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has had a large store of plaintext passwords, SSH private keys, tokens, and “other sensitive CISA assets” exposed in a public GitHub repo since at least November 2025. The now-offline public repo—named, somewhat aspirationally, “Private-CISA”—was…
Last week, we noted Kickstarter’s new content guidelines , which had some pretty weird new additions, including a prohibition on “sexual wellness products that are not designed for insertion or penetration and are not marketed primarily for sexual gratification.” Those rules have now been eliminated and the company has restored an earlier version of its…
OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of Earth observation models 🧠 Models: https://huggingface.co/collections/allenai/olmoearth | 📄 Tech Report: https://allenai.org/papers/olmoearth_v1_1 | 💻 Code: https://github.com/allenai/olmoearth_pretrain We released OlmoEarth (v1) in November 2025. Since then, partners have applied it across a wide range of tasks,…
Google is getting (back) into the smart glasses game. At Google I/O on Tuesday, the company announced a new partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to produce a new line of AI-powered glasses.
See everything your AI agent does — and stop it before it does something catastrophic. A full trace of every LLM call, tool, and decision, plus a real-time firewall that blocks credential exfil, cross-tenant leaks, and destructive tool calls.
Google isn’t finished infusing AI into your inbox. On Tuesday, the tech giant announced an expansion of its “AI Inbox” functionality for Gmail , which is adding conversational AI features.
The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than 25 years ago.
At the 2026 Google I/O keynote, the tech giant revealed new agentic capabilities in Search, where users can create, customize, and manage multiple AI agents to stay updated on topics of interest. The announcement is part of Google’s larger push toward agentic AI systems that can take initiative and assist with ongoing tasks instead of answering one…