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Louis Vuitton Launches the Portable Nanogram Speaker
As Louis Vuitton continues to expand its lineup of premium tech offerings, the Maison has now revealed its new portable LV Nanogram Speakers.Building up from LV’s Horizon Speaker, the new electroacoustic transducer arrives in a much more compact size that befits its portable and travel-friendly nature. Measuring 13.5cm across, the speaker features an aluminum build that weighs just 520 grams. It’s incoporated with a leather loop that allows the speakers to be attached to bag straps and handles.While the Horizon faithfully recreates the LV Toupie bag silhouette, the Nanogram Speakers boast a spinning top appearance that resembles more of a diamond shape. Embedded with debossed detailing and monogram flowers that reference the Maison’s signature codes, an LV logo has also been integrated int...
Sony’s HT-AX7 is a Portable Surround Sound System
You might expect an audiophile or a cinephile to have a surround sound system at home, but not everybody has one owing to space and cost considerations. Sony is looking to change that with its HT-AX7 Portable Theatre System, a novel and somewhat niche portable speaker system.The Japanese tech giant is no stranger to launching peculiar products. Its recent PlayStation Portal "remote player" is a good example; a beautifully designed handheld that does what it was intended to do very well, but that, by design, is limited in ways (no bluetooth, no built-in web browser) that perhaps limit its potential customer base.Sony's HT-AX7 Portable Theatre System would also fall under this category, a portable surround sound system that has a very specific user in mind. The HT-AX7 is a take-me-anywhere s...
Switch 2: all the news and rumors on Nintendo’s next console
Analyst tips 8-inch LCD for Nintendo Switch 2. Supply chain analysis from Omdia’s Hiroshi Hayase suggests Nintendo’s next console, widely expected to launch later this year, will have a bigger screen than both the original Switch (6.2-inches) and the OLED model (7-inches), Bloomberg reports. That lines up with VGC’s previous reporting about the LCD display. Developers reportedly saw demos of the new Switch last year, and Activision was briefed on it as early as 2022. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Nintendo There’s a very good chance that this will be the last year where th...
The Biden administration will pause new gas export projects
/ After facing backlash over pollution from gas export terminals, Joe Biden announced a pause on new projects. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>In this marshy coastal region between Texas and Louisiana, the proliferation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal projects, massive facilities that receive and liquefy gas from pipelines, then transfer the LNG to ships for export, unsettles residents, who consider the plants to be a threat to their coast.
The Xbox Series S is down to $229
/ It’s $70 off at Dell, which is nearly enough to buy an expansion card when storage space eventually runs out. a]:text-gray-13″>If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge We’ve seen the original Xbox Series S in white dip below the $249.99 mark over the past several months. But if you missed out on those opportunities, Dell presents another with a sale that brings Microsoft’s entry-level gaming console down to $229.99. That’s a $70 discount compared to its...
OpenAI cures GPT-4 ‘laziness’ with new updates
/ OpenAI also promised general availability of GPT-4 Turbo with vision. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Illustration: The Verge In a blog post, OpenAI said the updated GPT-4 Turbo “completes tasks like code generation more thoroughly than the previous preview model and is intended to reduce cases of ‘laziness’ where the model doesn’t complete a task.” The company, however, did not explain what it updated. Some ChatGPT users recently complained about the chatbot frequently refusing to complete prompted tasks and blamed the lack of updates to GPT-4. However, OpenAI’s update is for G...
Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet
/ An independent review of an incident in which a driverless Cruise vehicle dragged a pedestrian over 20 feet concludes the company has connectivity issues. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of General Motors, tried to send a 45-second video to regulators of an incident in which one of its driverless cars dragged a pedestrian 20 feet but was hampered by “internet connectivity issues,” according to a report compiled by a law firm investigating the incident. The law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &...
Epic intends to launch its game store — and Fortnite — on iOS
/ Fortnite is coming back to the iPhone in the EU after Apple opened up the platform to comply with the Digital Markets Act. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>Fortnite in 2020, when it was banned on the App Store.
Pokémon Company Investigating ‘Palworld’ Plagiarism Accusations
2024 in the video game industry is off to a very wild start.
Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes
/ The term ‘Taylor Swift AI’ was trending in various regions, with one post gaining more than 45 million views before it was eventually removed. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>Many of the posts circulating the offending images are still live.
I love my GPT, but I can’t find a use for anybody else’s
/ AI is going to unleash my productivity… as soon as I can figure out what it’s good for. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: OpenAI When OpenAI announced other people could build their own custom versions of ChatGPT-style chatbots, I was initially only interested in a journalistic way. I knew this was an interesting commercial step for OpenAI, but the value of the store is still an open question. Why should I use most GPTs (as the bots are called), when I can usually call up an app that does the same thing? But I can’t deny there’s one incredibly useful bot that’s changed...
