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This soundbar has a secret. | Image: Vizio Is it just me, or is the karaoke machine trend trying to come back? There’s the Apple Music Sing feature, Ford’s in-car karaoke app, and Sansui’s cheap new OLED TV, just to name some examples. And now, Vizio’s getting in on the action with a new 2.1 stereo soundbar and subwoofer called the “MicMe” that comes with two wireless microphones and a dedicated karaoke app. It also has “six voice enhancements” (which, for our tone-challenged friends, include multiple pitch correction settings, according to details Vizio emailed to The Verge.) The microphones have eight hours of battery life and a charging cradle you can set down next to your TV. They have built-in LEDs with nine ambient color options that, when in use, get brighter the louder... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge Photo by: CHONA KASINGER/Bloomberg and ULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images It matters which story you tell about the future of artificial intelligence. Is AI just a tool for humans to use, like any other software? Is it a malignant force acting to destroy creativity? Will it create robots bent on destruction? Or will it make the world incredible, beautiful, equal, perfect in ways we can’t even begin to imagine? This will shock you, but some of the men running the biggest companies in AI think it’s the latter. Both OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have recently written blog posts — Altman’s short and pithy, Amodei’s long and thorough — about the AI-powered world they hope to help create. These are powerful men with huge teams and vast resources at their disposal; it matters a lot what they... Continue reading…

Image: Mr.Nelson design for The Verge / Getty Images A presidential campaign is an expression of ideology, often vocalized as a number of promises. Sometimes, those promises are made even when they’re outside the scope of what a president can enact. With Vice President Kamala Harris taking on former President Donald Trump, The Verge’s election guide attempts to cut through the noise of electioneering to identify the actual policies at stake. For the tech industry, many issues hang in the balance, including the regulatory power to govern AI, monopolies, and cryptocurrency. More broadly, this election will determine the future of electric vehicles and how the US approaches climate change. But The Verge’s stake in this election is larger than just the tech issues. Every day, we walk our... Continue reading…

The 2026 Cadillac Lyriq-V | Image: Cadillac Cadillac is launching a new performance version of its all-electric Lyriq SUV. The new 2026 Lyriq-V, the luxury automaker’s first EV to get a V-Series badge, will come to North America, Australia, and New Zealand to start, plus other markets later. The specific launch date and pricing have not yet been revealed, but we can expect 2026 model-year vehicles to be available this time next year. In an email to The Verge, Cadillac production communications representative Katie Minter wrote that the company will share more information on the features and specifications of Lyriq-V in early 2025. Although we barely know anything about the Lyriq-V, GM says that V-Series vehicles are AWD standard and have “instantaneous acceleration,” which is also... Continue reading…

Fantastical for Windows is already at full feature parity with the Mac app. | Image: Flexibits Fantastical is one of the best and most powerful calendar apps on the market. Since it first launched in 2011, it has been both nicer to look at and easier to use than your average calendaring tool. I’ve been a user for years, and every time I switch away, I come back for the design, the natural-language processing that lets you create events just by typing “Lunch with Arthur 12:30 Friday at Panera,” and the integrations with to-do list apps. It’s an expensive app, at $57 a year or $7 a month for all its features, but it’s worth it for anyone who lives out of their calendar. And as long as you only have Apple devices. Now, at long last, Fantastical is coming to the most important productivity platform: Windows. Flexibits, the developer... Continue reading…

Apple has an enticing week of Mac announcements ready for fans. After unveiling the new M4 iMac, Cupertino has also tweaked its most powerful Mac, the M2 Ultra Mac Pro. Now, if you're planning to get this computer, it comes with USB-C accessories instead of Lightning. This change comes over a year after the M2 Ultra Mac Pro was unveiled. At the time, we expected Apple to offer its Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad with USB-C connectors. However, it remained with its Lightning standard. With the new M4 iMac, Apple upgraded its peripherals with a USB-C port. That said, despite the colorful keyboard and trackpads available with the iMac, the black and white versions sold separately also have this new port. Despite that change, the M2 Ultra Mac Pro specs are unchanged. You can still get this device with up to a 24-core CPU, 76-core GPU, and 32-core Neural Engine. It features up to 192GB of unified memory and 8TB of storage. When will Apple unveil a new Mac Pro? While the company moved on from the M3 family before introducing an Ultra variation, Apple is expected to unveil a new Mac Pro and a new Mac Studio later next year. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Cupertino is working on an M4 Max and M4 Ultra Mac Studio to be unveiled around WWDC 2025. The new Mac Pro, which could finally see a design revamp, is expected to launch a little later. At this moment, it's unclear if Apple is planning to make the Mac Pro more modular, like its Intel counterpart introduced at the WWDC 2019. The most expensive Mac doesn't feel like a solid upgrade even for movie studios, as it can't be upgraded like the previous iteration. BGR will let you know once we learn more about the possible features and changes coming with Apple's most expensive Mac. Don't Miss: 9 new M4 iMac features: Everything you need to know The post Apple’s Mac Pro got one key upgrade after the M4 iMac launch appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $150 off eufy Robot Vacuum Omni C20, $30 Fire TV Stick 4K Max, $99 Beats headphones, more Today’s deals: Free Echo Pop & Amazon Smart Plug, $30 Philips OneBlade 360, $38 Sony headphones, more Best deals: Tech, laptops, TVs, and more sales Today’s deals: $119 off iPad mini, $120 heated jackets, Energizer batteries, $30 Crock-Pot, more

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