Google Ends Search Results Annotation Experiment Google is Ending an Experiment that Let You Annotate Search Results Google is ending a months-old experiment that let people attach colorful notes to search results, the company confirmed to 9to5Google. Google announced the Notes experiment for Search Labs in November. If you had opted-in to Notes, you could see and add annotations featuring text and images to links in search results in the Google app. (They were kind of a Google-y take on X’s Community Notes.) But given Tuesday’s announcement, it seems the test wasn’t popular enough to warrant a wider release. “Search Labs is our testbed for bold experimentation and as we’ve shared, not all experiments will launch broadly,” a Google spokesperson told 9to5Google. “We’ve seen in our research that people want…

Puerto Rico Files $1 Billion Suit Against Fossil Fuel Companies Puerto Rico filed suit against fossil fuels companies this week, alleging that the oil and gas giants have misled the public about climate change and delayed a transition to clean energy. The suit seeks $1 billion in damages to help Puerto Rico defend itself against climate disasters. In a complaint filed in San Juan yesterday, Puerto Rico’s Department of Justice says that the companies violated trade law by promoting fossil fuels without adequately warning about the dangers. The defendants include ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and other energy companies. It’s the latest in a slew of lawsuits attempting to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the consequences of climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil... Continue reading… source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/16/24199686/puerto-rico-fossil-fuel-industry-lawsuit-climate-change

The Best Prime Day Deals on Charging Devices We’re rounding up all the best deals on charging tech for your home, car, and travels. If you’re still charging your phone with whatever random wall wart came in the box three phones ago, or your laptop with the bulky brick it came with, now’s a great time to upgrade. Advances like GaN chargers have led to smaller, faster USB-C chargers for phones and laptops alike, and Qi2 gives iPhones (and maybe soon some Android phones?) MagSafe-speed charging at lower prices. And with Prime Day deals available now, you can save quite a bit and charge in less time, too. There is a sizable selection of charging devices on sale, whether you’re looking to outfit a home office or your coffee office.…

Best Prime Day Tech Deals Under $25 The Best Prime Day Tech Deals Under $25 Everyone loves cheap stuff that’s actually good to use or invaluably helpful in your day-to-day. While Amazon Prime Day offers a deluge of deals on no-name tchotchkes and sketchy knockoffs (many of which have inflated, bot-fueled review scores) it does have its fair share of inexpensive hidden gems that are actually worth your money. We know not everyone is shopping for big, multi-hundred or thousand dollar tech every time a deal comes around, so we’re always on the lookout for sales that fit into more modest budgets like sub-$100 and sub-$50. Here, we’re rounding up our top picks for Prime Day that are just 25 bucks or less. Some of them may be ho-hum essentials…

The Best Prime Day Tech Deals You Can Grab for $100 or Less The Fitbit Charge 6 is a great $100 tracker with a solid set of fitness and health tracking features. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge What do the latest AirPods Pro, the Meta Quest 3, and the iRobot Roomba j7 Plus all have in common? They’re all on sale for Prime Day... for upwards of $200. Thankfully, you can still score deals on terrific gadgets and goods without racking up credit debt or dipping into your savings account during Amazon’s two-day sale. In fact, there’s plenty of tech on sale for less than a Benjamin if you know where to look. Over the years, we gadget nerds at The Verge have tested all kinds…

OpenShot: Freier Mac-Videoeditor mit großem Update Die Entwickler des Open-Source-Projektes OpenShot haben vor wenigen Tagen eine neue Version ihres gänzlich kostenfreien Videoeditors veröffentlicht und versorgen die Anwendung für Mac, Linux und Windows mit zahlreichen neuen Funktionen und Verbesserungen. Auf Version 3.0 kletterte OpenShot nach über zehnjähriger Entwicklung bereits im Dezember 2022, die neue Version 3.2 beziehungsweise das inzwischen verfügbare Hotfix auf Ausgabe 3.2.1 liefert nun wesentliche Leistungssteigerungen und neue Benutzeroberflächen-Designs. Neue Benutzeroberflächen-Designs Eine der auffälligsten Neuerungen ist die Einführung der neuen Designs „Retro“ und „Cosmic Dusk“. Letzteres befindet sich noch in der Testphase, kann aber bereits in den Einstellungen aktiviert werden. Diese neuen Designs sollen eine modernisierte Benutzeroberfläche bieten, die nicht nur optisch ansprechend ist, sondern auch die Bedienbarkeit verbessert. Zu den funktionalen Optimierungen zählt die neue „Remove Gap“-Funktion. Diese…

The Best Robot Vacuums Image: The Verge Floor-sweeping robots are only getting better, with new mopping skills, better navigation chops, and more automation, meaning less work for you. We picked the best bots you can buy right now. Continue reading… source: https://www.theverge.com/22997597/best-robot-vacuum-cleaner

The Pixel 9 Pro Could Get a 50MP Selfie Cam The Pixel 8 (left) and Pixel 8 Pro (right) . | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge The Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL could help you capture clearer selfies thanks to a major upgrade to the front-facing camera. Leaked marketing materials shared with Android Authority depict the Pro 9 and Pro 9 XL with 50 megapixel auto-focusing selfie cameras. The selfie cam and the rear-facing ultrawide and telephoto cameras are all rumored to use 50MP Sony IMX858 image sensors, while the primary rear camera may feature a 50MP sensor from Samsung. You can get an early look at what appears to be the Pixel 9 Pro’s camera in action in this video posted to TikTok, which shows…

The Best Kindle Deals Available for Amazon Prime Day 2024 Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s no secret that Amazon sells some of the most popular e-readers on the market. Every Kindle I’ve ever tested has been snappy and sharp with a decent feature set, making them ideal for those embedded in Amazon’s ecosystem. And now that Prime Day 2024 is here, they’re even more attractive purchases since many are steeply discounted. To make life easier, we’ve rounded up the best deals on everything from the entry-level Kindle to the note-taking Kindle Scribe. We’ve added deals on the kid-friendly variants and bundles too, so you don’t need to pore through Amazon looking for them. And remember: if you want to save money on other devices, make sure…

Apple, Anthropic and Other Companies Used YouTube Videos to Train AI Apple, Anthropic and Other Companies Used YouTube Videos to Train AI Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More than 170,000 YouTube videos are part of a massive dataset that was used to train AI systems for some of the biggest technology companies, according to an investigation by Proof News and copublished with Wired. Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Salesforce are among the tech firms that used the “YouTube Subtitles” data that was ripped from the video platform without permission. The training dataset is a collection of subtitles taken from YouTube videos belonging to more than 48,000 channels — it does not include imagery from the videos. Videos from popular creators like MrBeast and Marques Brownlee appear in the dataset,…