The 2024 Social Media Algorithm Update Explained

Think about it. Your interests change as you grow, but your social graph doesn’t automatically evolve. So if you’re still connected to old high school friends who post about things you don’t care about anymore, guess what? You still have to scroll past their content. It’s not your imagination. Something big has changed across all … Read more

Steam’s improved family sharing is out now for everyone

Image: The Verge Valve’s new Steam Families feature is now available for everyone following a beta launch earlier this year. With Steam Families, parents are able to share games with their families, manage parental controls for their kids, and approve requests from their kids to buy Steam games. The big improvement with Steam Families over … Read more

Amazon starts testing ads in its Rufus chatbot

Rufus, Amazon’s recently launched, shopping-focused chatbot, is getting ads soon. That’s according to a changelog published by Amazon this week (first spotted by AdWeek), which states that sponsored ads could soon start appearing in placements for Rufus users in the U.S. Ads will be shown based on Amazon search and conversational context, Amazon says, and … Read more

LineLeap lets users pay to skip the line at bars

No one likes standing in line. I was reminded of just how awful the experience can be last Saturday, while being herded like cattle through a two-hour queue for a nightclub in unseasonably cold weather. I’d not soon repeat the experience. Fortunately, there’s a startup for that. LineLeap, backed by Y Combinator, lets people pay … Read more

Google is using AI to make fake podcasts from your research

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images Google can now turn your research into an AI-generated podcast, complete with two “hosts” that discuss what you’ve dug up. The experimental feature lives within NotebookLM, the AI note-taking app Google launched last year, and will have AI hosts “summarize your material, make … Read more

You can customize the sound of Klipsch’s new soundbar for exactly where you sit

Klipsch’s Flexus Core 300 soundbar will leverage Dirac’s room correction calibration tools. | Image: Klipsch Klipsch has announced its new Flexus Core 300 soundbar, which it claims is the industry’s first to utilize Dirac’s Live Room correction technology to optimize its sound specifically for the room where it’s installed and where listeners are sitting. Dirac … Read more

Analysis of the Jante’s Law Process and Proof of Conjecture: Coupling Y (⋅) and Z(⋅)

:::info Authors: (1) Edward Crane, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, BS8 1TH, UK; (2) Stanislav Volkov, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University, Box 118 SE-22100, Lund, Sweden. ::: Table of Links Abstract and Introduction Preliminaries Reduction to the case of uniform geometry All original points are eventually removed, a. s. Proof of Theorem 1 … Read more

OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise at $150B valuation

OpenAI is reportedly in talks with investors to raise $6.5 billion in new funding, valuing the startup at $150 billion, according to Bloomberg and the Financial Times. That’s significantly higher than OpenAI’s previously reported valuation from earlier this year, $86 billion, and far higher than any other AI startup today. The funding round will reportedly … Read more

Short-term Memory Effects in the Phototactic Behavior of Microalgae: Discussion and References

:::info Authors: (1) Taha Laroussi, Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique (LadHyX), CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France; (2) Mojtaba Jarrahi, Universit´e Paris-Saclay, CNRS, FAST, 91405 Orsay, France; (3) Gabriel Amselem, Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique (LadHyX), CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France. ::: Table of Links Abstract and Introduction Methods Results Model Discussion, … Read more