Month: March 2023

Fagiani / The Verge Just weeks after news broke that tech site CNET was quietly using artificial intelligence to produce articles, the company is doing extensive layoffs that include several longtime employees, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. The layoffs total around a dozen people, a CNET staffer says, or about 10 … Read more

Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images The White House has issued a new cybersecurity strategy that addresses, among other things, the role of large tech companies in preventing cyberattacks. The strategy document calls to “rebalance the responsibility to defend cyberspace,” shifting responsibility for things like ransomware attacks off of individuals, small businesses, and local governments. It also … Read more

Disney Pirates of the Caribbean aside, Disney’s movies based on its theme park attractions have never really popped the way it hoped for. But if there’s one takeaway from the first trailer for director Justin Simien’s Haunted Mansion, it’s that the studio is hell-bent on figuring out how to make these things work, no matter … Read more

Image: Behaviour Interactive The video game film adaptation machine keeps merrily chugging along with Blumhouse Productions and Atomic Monster teaming up with Behaviour Interactive to produce a feature-length film adaptation of Dead By Daylight. The announcement of the new venture comes days after Blumhouse shared that it’s starting its own gaming division. Atomic Monster founder … Read more

Image: Movies Anywhere Movies Anywhere has proven to be one of the most pro-consumer things to emerge from the entertainment world in ages. You buy a movie on one digital service, and then you get to watch it across numerous other services and hardware platforms. It’s one of those cases where “it just works” actually … Read more

Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Panic, the company behind the adorable Playdate handheld, is holding an event next week to share some updates on new games and the device’s upcoming storefront. The update — called Playdate Update — will be 13 minutes long and take place on March 7th at 12PM ET. The company … Read more

Image: Ford Ford announced the creation of a new wholly owned subsidiary called Latitude AI to lead its efforts to develop a hands-free, eye-off, unsupervised driving system. The company has rehired about 550 employees from Argo AI, the autonomous vehicle operator that shut down last year after Ford pulled its funding. Latitude AI will be … Read more

You may not look like yourself, but TikTok’s Bold Glamour face filter appears far more advanced than previous beauty effects we’ve seen. | Image: The Verge / Jess Weatherbed TikTok rolled out new AI tools for filters last month. But the company won’t say if its new Bold Glamour effect uses them — and the … Read more