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The Verge
6 days ago
- Business
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'I was given an offer that would explode same day.'
Posted Jul 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM UTC Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. Alex Heath Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Alex Heath Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All AI Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Google Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Tech
The Verge
7 days ago
- Science
- The Verge
A closer look at Meta's wristband for controlling devices.
Posted Jul 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC A closer look at Meta's wristband for controlling devices. Meta's hinted at this kind of wristband before, but The New York Times just published a deeper dive based on a research paper published in Nature . The neat thing is it can 'predict' what you're going to do based on electrical signals sent from your brain through your muscles. This isn't a new concept. Third-party straps like the Mudra Band do similar things. But according to my colleague Alex Heath, this particular band will launch at Connect with Meta's Hypernova glasses. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. Victoria Song Senior Reviewer, Wearable Tech Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Victoria Song Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Gadgets Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Meta Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Tech Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Wearable
The Verge
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
A look at the state of deepfakes.
From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet See all Stories Posted Jul 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC A look at the state of deepfakes. If you're interested in a high-level overview of the state of deepfakes, I recommend checking out this blog post from Captions, a Capcut competitor and a software platform that enables creators to generate AI-generated videos from scratch. What struck me the most is the company's prediction that, 'Very soon, most models will allow you to generate a person (real or synthetic) in any situation – without a duration constraint (longer than 12 seconds) and featuring multiple people in one shot.' Chat, are we cooked? I'll have Captions CEO Gaurav Misra on Decoder later this week to talk about this. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. Alex Heath Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Alex Heath Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All AI Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Creators Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Tech
The Verge
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
Inside the AI startup frenzy: ‘Everyone's pivoting, then pivoting again'
Welcome to Decoder! I'm Alex Heath, Deputy Editor at The Verge and author of the Command Line newsletter. This is the first in a series of Thursday Decoder episodes that I'll be hosting while Nilay is out on parental leave. I've been covering AI a lot at The Verge, and I'm excited to start sharing some of the conversations I regularly have with leaders in the space here. The plan is for each episode to focus on a specific theme, from the rise of deepfakes to how AI is reimagining the browser. This week, I'm focusing on how AI companies talk about what they're building. My guest is Ellis Hamburger. He's the founder of Meaning, a marketing firm that works with a lot of buzzy AI startups. Ellis actually used to work at The Verge shortly after it first launched in 2012, when he covered the early mobile app boom. Now, he's in the trenches with a lot of AI startups, helping them figure out how to present their products to the world. That gives him a pretty unique perspective. First, some disclosures: Ellis has a lot of clients that we cover at The Verge, including Nothing, Raycast, Readwise, Daylight, Friend, Mainframe, Tolan, and more. He also previously worked at The Browser Company and Snap. We recorded this episode together in Los Angeles, and as you'll probably be able to tell, Ellis and I have been friends for a long time. I've always found Ellis to be an original thinker, and I hope you find our conversation as interesting as I did. If you'd like to read more on what we talked about in this episode, check out the links below: Questions or comments about this episode? Hit us up at decoder@ We really do read every email! A podcast from The Verge about big ideas and other problems.
The Verge
11-06-2025
- Business
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HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam
HP has become the first company to preview hardware built with Google Beam, the 3D video communication technology formerly known as Project Starline. It's launching the HP Dimension, a device that features a 65-inch light field display with six high-speed cameras inside the bezel to create 'a true-to-life' 3D video of your caller. Google first announced Project Starline's rebrand last month. At the time, Google said that it would let third-party manufacturers, starting with HP, use its design framework to build devices with Beam. The HP Dimension is meant for enterprise use. It costs $24,999, and that doesn't even include the software needed to hold video calls, as users will need to purchase a Google Beam license separately to gain access to Zoom or Google Meet. (HP and Google haven't said how much a license will cost yet.) As my colleague Alex Heath pointed out in a demo of Google Beam, you don't need a headset, glasses, or any kind of special equipment to see a colleague as if they're in the same room. Beau Wilder, HP's head of future customer experiences, said you don't need a special room either, but having a white background is best for an 'optimal' experience. 'We're not trying to put a caricature in a small box across the table from you,' Wilder said. 'We want you to walk into the room and instantly make eye contact without even thinking about it.' HP Dimension users will still be able to hold calls with people from other video conferencing platforms and devices, but their colleagues won't be able to see their images projected in 3D — and vice versa. Along with a series of built-in cameras, the HP Dimension features adaptive lighting that 'adjusts to the environment,' allowing users to see realistic shadows on facial features and natural skin tones. The HP Dimension pairs its light field display with spatial audio that Wilder said 'never separates the voice from the body.' It comes with HP's new Poly Studio A2 table mics, as well as four speakers located behind its curved, 'acoustically transparent' mid-wall for 'a direct path to the ears.' 'The ultimate goal of Google Beam — and it's manifested on HP Dimension — is to feel like you're there,' Andrew Nartker, general manager of Google Beam, said during the briefing. 'You feel just like you're there at the table working together … It's all meant to bring us together and ultimately feel like we're completely physically present.' The HP Dimension will launch in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, and Japan later this year. Companies like Salesforce, Deloitte, and NEC Corporation have already committed to bringing Google Beam into their offices.
