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Time for Samsung and Google to make some room in the midrange.

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It’s not easy to calculate the watts and joules that go into a single Balenciaga pope. But we’re not completely in the dark about the true energy cost of AI.

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• Houthi rebels are threatening US warships and shipping using naval drones, a new report said.
• The commander of a US Navy carrier strike group says these weapons are among the more frightening.
• The use of cheap sea drones has been pioneered, to considerable success, by

• Russian dissident Alexey Navalny became President Vladimir Putin's biggest opponent.
• He campaigned against fraud and corruption and ran in elections before he was jailed.
• On Friday, Russian officials said he had died suddenly in prison.

Alexey Navalny, an outspoken critic

We still can’t stop thinking about the Apple Vision Pro. This week, Cherlynn and Devindra chat with CNET’s Scott Stein about our post-review impressions of Apple’s headset. We’ve got further thoughts about using it in public (maybe don’t), the isolation of being sealed off from the world, and the way falling asleep with the Vision Pro on can make you lose your sense of reality. We also discuss

• Gen Z workers are losing sight that feeling stressed or sad are "normal life experiences." 
• Kathleen Pike, a professor at Columbia, said these feelings aren't necessarily signs of mental illness. 
• Feeling stressed out or anxious can actually help you focus or identify problems you can solve. 

Gen Z appear to be struggling

• The Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has died in prison.
• The 47-year-old was being held in an Arctic penal colony with harsh conditions.
• He was the only effective political rival to Vladimir Putin, and his imprisonment was widely condemned as political.

Alexey Navalny

I’ve been using the AIAIAI Unit-4 Wireless+ studio monitors for a couple of months now. And initially, I wasn’t sure what to make of them. They’re solid studio monitors with 4-inch woofers and 1-inch silk tweeters. They sound good and look good. But the pitch — the reason these things cost $800 for a pair — is that they’re wireless. And not, “they’re studio monitors that also happen to have

Shortly before The Verge published its review of the Apple Vision Pro, I put it on to sit for some photos. The review unit had been fitted for our editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, but I’d worn it a few times as a guest and had a surprisingly good experience. That afternoon, though, I foolishly decided to skip the typical guest setup, which

A Canadian tribunal has ruled that Air Canada must pay damages to one of its passengers for misleading advice given by its customer service chatbot, which resulted in the passenger paying nearly double for their plane tickets.

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Hold up, I'll need a couple of years recovery from the whiplash that is the leg-breaking, portal-punching, action-screaming trailer for Invincible Season 2, Part 2.

Based on Robert Kirkman's comics, Prime Video's off-kilter animated superhero series sees Steven Yeun voicing superhero Mark Grayson (aka Invincible), who faces bigger and bigger intergalactic (and Earthly) threats. After a highly