Image: Warner Bros. Mad Max: Fury Road had a lot of fantastic things going for it, but few shined quite as brilliantly as Charlize Theron’s tough-as-nails take on Imperator Furiosa. The character was a testament to how many more fascinating stories George Miller could dream up for his beloved apocalyptic franchise. And while Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’s eponymous antihero might look a bit different in the Fury Road spin-off’s first trailer, it seems like the movie is going to over-deliver on everything Miller’s fans have been waiting for. Set in a hellish future where traditional societies have collapsed, and…

In iA Writer’s traditional minimalist interface, AI text shows up in grey, while your own words an in black. | Image: iA Writer iA Writer 7, the latest version of the minimalist multi-platform writing software, has a new feature that’s designed to clearly mark text contributed by generative AI systems like ChatGPT. While your own words appear in black, you can choose for AI-generated text copied into your iA document to be greyed out. Then, as you tweak and edit the AI additions you can easily keep track of how much text is your original work and how much is…

Now free users can transcribe up to two messages per week. | Image: Telegram Telegram has introduced a bunch of new features to its Android and iOS messaging apps this week, including easier ways to find channels to join and giving non-paying Telegram users access to voice transcriptions. In its latest update released on Thursday, Telegram said it was opening up the voice-to-text transcription feature instead of keeping it locked behind a $4.99 subscription to Telegram Premium, allowing anyone to transcribe voice and video messages, or translate audio into another language. There is one important caveat: only Premium Telegram subscribers…

Voicemod Thanks to AI voice cloning, anyone can sound like Joe Rogan, Oprah, or even Darth Vader. But a newly launched set of features from Voicemod should make it easy for users to create and share their own bespoke AI voices from scratch. Users can now create and tweak unique synthetic voices with AI Voice Changer and then share them with other users on Community Voices. For those outside the world of gaming, Voicemod is an AI voice cloning program popular with streamers and gamers. Prior to this update, it had over 100 options for AI voices, including popular fantasy…

The update is available now for some users, with a full rollout expected over the “coming days/weeks.” | Image: The Verge A critical security update is now available for some Chrome users on Mac, Linux, and Windows that patches a zero-day vulnerability that could make systems susceptible to data theft and other cyber attacks. On Tuesday, Google confirmed in a Chrome stable channel update that it “is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-6345 exists in the wild.” The vulnerability was discovered on November 24th by two security researchers working within Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Google hasn’t released many details…

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky | Noah Berger Amazon’s cloud business AWS launched a chat tool called Amazon Q, where businesses can ask questions specific to their companies. Announced during a keynote speech by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Q acts like an AI assistant where users can ask questions about their businesses using their data. For example, employees can query Amazon Q on the company’s latest guidelines for logo usage or understand another engineer’s code to maintain an app. Q can surface the information instead of the employee sifting through dozens of documents. Users can access Amazon…

Photo by Mike Kemp / In Pictures via Getty Images Uber notched another win in its effort to win over the beleaguered taxi industry, announcing a plan to start listing London’s famed black cabbies in its app. The service won’t roll out until early 2024, but some London cabbies have already begun to sign up. Uber says all 15,000 of London’s cab drivers “will now have the opportunity” to sign up for Uber trip referrals. The company recently brokered deals with taxi fleet owners in New York City, Paris, Rome, and Los Angeles to list drivers in its app. Next…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Drive users on iOS are getting a new scanning feature that lets them quickly photograph documents and add them to their libraries, the search giant has announced. The feature has been available for Android for over a decade, but until now iPhone and iPad users haven’t had the same option. Google has also upgraded the scanner in Drive’s Android app. iPhone users in the US will also benefit from a new title suggestion feature that attempts to auto-generate a document title based on text it recognizes in the scan. The feature previously…

The Yeedi Cube is the cheapest robot vacuum / mop that has a self-empty / self-clean dock, and it’s $200 off today. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge The robots are coming… for your floors. If all you want for Christmas are clean carpets, check out some of the bargains you can grab during Cyber Monday on the best robot vacuums and mops you can buy. Even though Cyber Monday doesn’t technically happen until tomorrow, you can get all of these deals now. From simple suckers like the Roborock’s Q5 Pro that will best pet hair, to…

Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images AWS added new languages to its Amazon Transcribe product, offering generative AI-based transcription for 100 languages and a slew of new AI capabilities for customers. Announced during the AWS re: Invent event, Amazon Transcribe can now recognize more spoken languages and spin up a call transcription. AWS customers use Transcribe to add speech-to-text capabilities to their apps on the AWS Cloud. The company said in a blog post that Transcribe trained on “millions of hours of unlabeled audio data from over 100 languages” and uses self-supervised algorithms to learn patterns of human speech…

Illustration by Aaron Fernandez for The Verge The Monday after a long holiday weekend is no fun… unless you like to save money. If you missed out on all the great Black Friday deals, Cyber Monday provides one more chance to save some serious cash before the holidays. And even though we’re now down to the final hours, many of the best Cyber Monday deals are holding steady, allowing even last-minute shoppers to save big before the clock strikes midnight. Right now, for example, you can score significant discounts on a number of popular holiday gifts, including Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra…

Illustration by Aaron Fernandez for The Verge Black Friday used to be one day! Feels like it started mid-November this time around, and here we are on Sunday. How is this day different from Cyber Monday? How will Monday be any different than Tuesday? It’s all a barely differentiated smear at this point. But the good news is that the deals are still here. They’ll be here tomorrow, too, but if your Sunday plans include scanning for deals, at least you’ll find plenty of them. Most of the good deals we’ve seen on phones, smartwatches, headphones, and accessories are holding…

Illustration by Aaron Fernandez for The Verge Black Friday 2023 has come and gone, and we’re cruising toward Cyber Monday — but that doesn’t mean all of yesterday’s deals are history. Quite the opposite. You can still take advantage of big savings at many retailers. Whether you’re shopping for a new smartphone, the latest noise-canceling headphones, or a stylish smartwatch, a ton of popular products are still heavily discounted. Whether you’re checking off everyone on your list for the upcoming holidays or you’re just shopping for the best prices for yourself, we’re scouring all the quality deals Black Friday has…

Illustration: The Verge If it feels like every streaming service received a price hike this year, it’s probably because most of them have. Netflix, Apple TV Plus, Discovery Plus, and Disney Plus are just a few recent examples, though there are still ways to weather the price increases. Black Friday brings all sorts of deals, after all, including ways to save on your monthly streaming bill. And even as we enter the weekend, many of the most tempting streaming discounts are still available. In fact, some streaming services are offering deals that offset their recent price hikes — well, at…

The second-generation Apple Pencil can be had for under $100. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s the most wonderful time of the year? Pfft, more like the most expensive. Gifts, travel, decorations, parties, delicious meals… these can all add up and put a real dent in your wallet. That’s why we’re working hard to help you save in every way, from curating budget-friendly gift guides to offering deal-hunting tips. And now, below, we’re rounding up the best Black Friday deals under $100 that are still available as of Saturday — many of which are featured in…

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge At this point, we’ve been highlighting Black Friday deals for what feels like the better part of a month. Now that the annual shopping holiday weekend is officially here, however, we can tell you with the utmost certainty what the best deals are — including the budget-friendly tech you probably didn’t know you needed, much of which can be had for under $50. We’ve sifted through the deluge of deals at Amazon, Best Buy, and other retailers to bring you an assortment of cheaper deals below, several of which can be had for…

Dbrand’s leather phone skins are around 30 percent off, dropping them just below our price threshold. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Every Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there’s always a ton of hype about the discounts on big-ticket items — you know, the deals on the OLED TVs, game consoles, and tablets of the world. But it never fails that many of the ultra-cheap items make for some of the most clutch deals, namely because spending very little on a small accessory you end up using all the time can be the most gratifying. This year, we’re…

Both Google’s Pixel Buds Pro and Apple’s AirPods Pro are on sale this weekend. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The hard-to-resist holiday sales have officially arrived, with many headphones and earbuds from the biggest tech brands discounted to their lowest prices ever for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. And as you can see, a ton of deals are already available well ahead of both of those frenzied shopping days. If you’ve been holding off for the best possible savings on something from Apple, Sony, Samsung, Google, and other brands, you’re likely not going to do better than…

Illustration by Aaron Fernandez for The Verge Black Friday is here once again — well, at least for a little while longer. Even though the recent deluge of deals in the run-up to the shopping holiday made it feel as though the big day had already arrived, today is the day when you should be able to score the very best deals of the year on wireless earbuds, tablets, OLED TVs, and all things tech. Whether you’re checking off everyone on your list for the upcoming holidays or you’re just shopping for the best prices for yourself, we’re scouring all…

The Black Friday sales are still underway! For more deals we recommend across all categories, be sure to check out the rest of the Black Friday deals worth buying here. Every month or so, we like to ask our staff about their favorite stuff — whether it’s pet toys, travel aids, kitchen gadgets, or straightforward tech. And the results are usually very different, very interesting, and a lot of fun. In celebration of the annual post-Thanksgiving sales, we looked through some of our recent “favorites” articles and found deals on a lot of the tech, kitchen tools, travel aids, and…