The original Xbox console has had a massive influence on the gaming industry‚ disrupting the norm and introducing online multiplayer to the community. Fast-forward to today‚ the Xbox Series X has rewritten the playbook with its cutting-edge hardware that pushes the capability of video game graphics.

It's Not Just Trump: Democrats Trying to Disqualify Other Republican Candidates Using the 14th Amendment

Image: Google The DeepMind robotics team has revealed three new advances that it says will help robots make faster‚ better‚ and safer decisions in the wild. One includes a system for gathering training data with a “Robot Constitution” to make sure your robot office assistant can fetch you more printer paper — but without mowing down a human co-worker who happens to be in the way. Google’s data gathering system‚ AutoRT‚ can use a visual language model (VLM) and large language model (LLM) working hand in hand to understand its environment‚ adapt to unfamiliar settings‚ and decide on appropriate tasks. The Robot Constitution‚ which is inspired by Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics‚” is described as a set of “safety-focused prompts” instructing the... Continue reading…

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge SpaceX is suing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after the agency accused the Elon Musk-owned company of illegally firing employees. In a lawsuit filed in federal court on Thursday‚ SpaceX claims the NLRB’s actions are unconstitutional. On Wednesday‚ the NLRB filed a complaint alleging SpaceX illegally fired a group of employees for drafting an open letter that criticized Musk’s behavior. The NLRB also claims SpaceX interrogated employees about their involvement with the letter and encouraged employees to quit if they participated in organized activities. Now‚ SpaceX is responding with a lawsuit that says the open letter was a “distraction to SpaceX employees around the country.” It claims the NLRB’s proceedings‚ which involve... Continue reading…

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge There’s a lot to explore in macOS — from file sharing to keyboard remapping — so you’d be forgiven for not having discovered every single feature that Apple’s desktop operating system has to offer. One of the most useful and yet less well known features is something Apple calls hot corners. Like keyboard shortcuts‚ hot corners can help you do more in less time on your Mac. The idea is that certain actions are triggered when you move the pointer into one of the corners of the display. Better yet‚ you’re able to configure these actions so that they correspond to the jobs you’re doing most often on macOS. You can‚ for example‚ quickly create a new note in Apple Notes‚ or launch the system screen saver‚ or open up Mission Control. You don’t... Continue reading…

People who get poor sleep in their 30s and 40s might be more likely to develop memory and thinking problems a decade later‚ a new study warns. Those who had the most disrupted sleep in early adulthood had more than double the odds of poor thinking performance when tested in...

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate edged higher this week‚ ending a nine-week slide that gave prospective home buyers some breathing room after home loan borrowing soared to the highest level in more than two decades.

Apple and Disney cannot avoid shareholder votes about their use of artificial intelligence put forward by a labor group‚ the top U.S. securities regulator has ruled.

Donald Trump's son Eric Trump fired back Thursday at a report by Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability that claims the former president pocketed millions of dollars from foreign governments while in office.

The Dow Jones Industrial closed up Thursday‚ the first time in 2024 a major Wall Street benchmark finished higher‚ as financial stocks and strong jobs data prompted investors to delay estimates of when interest-rate cuts could begin.