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On paper, the N1 chip’s Wi-Fi capabilities appear “virtually identical to its Broadcom-based predecessor” in the iPhone 16, according to Ookla. The N1 is also limited to 160MHz channels and doesn’t take full advantage of Wi-Fi 7’s faster 320MHz channels, but for real world users that limitation didn’t have a significant impact.Using Speedtest Intelligence data gathered during the six-week period after Apple’s latest smartphones were released, Ookla found that the median download and upload speeds of the iPhone 17 family were both up to 40 percent higher than the iPhone 16 family around the world. The N1’s 10th-percentile speeds were…
Editor’s note: Black Friday doesn’t officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we’ve rounded up the best early Black Friday deals you can already get.The Nintendo Switch 2 has arrived, but we’re not going to up and forget about the original Switch. We’ve still got love for the console and its millions of owners. That’s why we’ve kept testing controllers that might be a good fit for you. Even as many accessory makers are making controllers with the Switch 2 in mind (with likely more to follow soon, given that Nintendo…
Google is beginning to launch Gemini 3 today, a new series of models the company says is its “most intelligent” and “factually accurate” AI systems yet. They’re also a chance for Google to leap ahead of OpenAI following the rocky launch of GPT-5, potentially putting the company at the forefront of consumer-focused AI models.For the first time, Google is giving everyone access to its new flagship AI model — Gemini 3 Pro — in the Gemini app on day one. It’s also rolling out Gemini 3 Pro to subscribers inside Search. Tulsee Doshi, Google DeepMind’s senior director and head of…
Omega has given the Planet Ocean a full reboot for 2025, rolling out the fourth generation of its flagship dive watch with a new case design, a slimmer profile, and seven fresh models. It’s a big moment for the brand, the original Planet Ocean landed in 2005, and while each generation has added its own […] Read the full article here
The latest Apple Watch SE impressed us with all of its upgrades this year, but the Apple Watch Series 11 is still the better option if you’re an iPhone owner who requires more advanced health notifications. Thankfully it, like the SE, is now down to a new record-low price, starting at $349.99 ($50 off) at Amazon and Walmart for the 40mm, GPS-enabled version.Unlike the SE 3, Apple’s entry-level wearable, the Apple Watch Series 11 offers features like EKG readings, blood oxygen tracking, and the FDA-cleared hypertension notifications. Its 24-hour battery life makes it far more useful for sleep tracking, and…
Microsoft is trying to transform Windows into a “canvas for AI,” with new AI agents integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar. These new taskbar capabilities are designed to make AI agents feel like an assistant in Windows that can go off and control your PC and do tasks for you at the click of a button. It’s part of a broader overhaul of Windows to turn the operating system into an “agentic OS.”“This is all about us wanting to make sure that every user can get the superpowers of AI,” says Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows experiences, in…
I’ve developed a sixth sense for old video game cartridges. I can spot them at flea markets and thrift stores, spy them hidden behind stacks in used book stores. It happened after I first bought an Analogue Pocket, when the hunt for new and interesting Game Boy games became as important as actually playing them. Now my attention has turned to the Nintendo 64. Analogue’s long-delayed take on the console — dubbed the Analogue 3D — might just be the most premium way there is to play N64 games, making it ideal for collectors.After playing with the Analogue 3D over…
The concept of enshittification, as coined by the author and activist Cory Doctorow, just feels right. Whether you’re searching on Google, shopping on Amazon, or scrolling on Facebook, large platforms often feel like they’re not trying to bring us value so much as extract every bit of value they can out of us. It wasn’t always like this, was it? Can we get it back?On this episode of The Vergecast, Doctorow has an answer: no, it wasn’t always like this, and yes, we can get it back. Doctorow’s new book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do…
On December 11th, 2010, Jeffrey Epstein was fretting about what came up if you Googled him. By this time Epstein had already pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution with a child and was a registered sex offender, and just a few days earlier he had been photographed in Central Park taking a stroll with Prince Andrew.Epstein emailed an associate to complain. “the google page is not good,” Epstein wrote, according to documents released last week by the House Oversight Committee. He also took issue with tens of thousands of dollars of payments, which appear to have been made to “clean up”…
The tech industry trade group NetChoice is suing Virginia over a new law that will restrict minors from using social media for more than one hour per day. The lawsuit, filed on Monday, asks the court to block the law over claims it violates the First Amendment by putting “unlawful barriers on how and when all Virginians can access free speech online.”Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed the social media bill (SB 854) into law in May, and it’s set to go into effect on January 1st, 2026. Under the law, social media platforms will have to prevent kids under 16…
Google filed a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by anti-corporate diversity activist Robby Starbuck, who claimed Google’s AI falsely associated him with sexual assault allegations and a white nationalist.Starbuck is seeking $15 million in damages from Google. But the company says in its filing that his claims simply represent his “misuse of developer tools to induce hallucinations.” Starbuck doesn’t identify what prompts he used to generate the outputs at issue, according to Google, or any actual person who was misled by the alleged claims. Starbuck did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Google, of course, could eventually…
The company’s AI-enhanced forecasts have proven themselves to be quite accurate so far. AI weather models have also been able to make predictions faster and more efficiently than conventional physics-based models. Until now, Google’s work in this area has been mostly experimental. Now, it’s making those predictions a selling point for Google products and services.“We’re taking it out of the lab and really putting it into the hands of users”“We’re taking it out of the lab and really putting it into the hands of users in more ways than we have before and sort of shedding off the experimental kind…