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Here’s a thought: what if the next-generation Siri is awesome? Not just awesome for setting timers and dictating text messages (though that would be nice), but so awesome and fun to talk to that people actually start falling in love with their iPhones. We may not be prepared for what happens next.On this episode of The Vergecast, Sexy Siri is just one of the topics at hand. Nilay and David are joined by Joanna Stern, senior tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal, to talk through their most mild, medium, and spicy predictions for the year to come.There are some reasonable, even fairly likely, predictions made in this episode. The hosts debate the likelihood of an Apple foldable, what might happen when Grand Theft Auto VI finally drops, and the possibility of a comeback for EVs. Then t...

I still wouldn’t buy an Xbox Ally, and I still don’t think the tweaked version of Windows that shipped with it is ready for primetime. The Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) needs work. But two months after I panned the cheaper $600 white Xbox Ally and wasn’t quite sold on the $1,000 black one, one of my most-hated Windows issues is getting better.I didn’t stop testing these handhelds after my October review; I’ve been playing Hollow Knight: Silksong and Blue Prince on them. I installed FSE on an MSI Claw 8 AI Plus, too. And after too many updates to count, I’m finally beginning to trust two of these handhelds to save my game (and battery life) when I put them to sleep. Even the third isn’t as bad as it was.The Xbox Ally X. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeSleep has been the bi...

Une girafe, dans la Réserve nationale de Samburu, au Kenya, le 17 septembre 2019. SERGIO PITAMITZ/BIOSPHOTO VIA AFP Les producteurs de bétail le savent bien : pour soutenir la croissance de leurs bêtes, rien de tel qu’un bon apport en sel. Pas seulement pour mettre de plaisante humeur veaux, vaches et cochons. Mais parce qu’ils en ont besoin pour bien faire fonctionner leur métabolisme. Comme nous autres humains, du reste, et comme tous les animaux sauvages de la savane. Dans les réserves africaines, les rangers installent des pains de sel pour attirer les animaux sauvages… et les touristes en quête d’émotion. A ce petit jeu, les animaux ne sont pas égaux. Une étude conduite en 2023 par des chercheurs danois et américains a mon...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Cybercriminals keep getting better at blending into the software you use every day. Over the past few years, we've seen phishing pages that copy banking portals, fake browser alerts that claim your device is infected and "human verification" screens that push you to run commands you should never touch. The latest twist comes from the ongoing ClickFix campaign.Instead of asking you to prove you are human, attackers now disguise themselves as a Windows update. It looks convincing enough that you might follow the instructions without thinking, which is exactly what they want.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportGet my best tech tips, urgent security alerts and exclusive deals delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, you’ll get instant access to m...

Two years ago, the company sold about 5,000 units of the Playground. Last year, that number was roughly 150,000. This year, it’s on track for 600,000. Before its pivot, Nex did about $3 million of annual revenue and wasn’t profitable. This year, the company is projecting more than $150 million of sales and says it’s on pace to finally break even.

Sektori is an old-school twin-stick shooter. Created by a former developer at Returnal studio Housemarque, it puts you in the role of a little ship that blasts through swarms of enemies, and you have to weave through them to get upgrades to help you survive. Often, my runs end after less than a couple minutes, like a retro arcade game. But creator Kimmo Lahtinen brilliantly weaves modern ideas from roguelikes with pulsing visuals and music that make Sektori a mesmerizing experience.A key part of what makes Sektori good is how it puts you into a flow state. “Sektori is a place, a form of being, a method of transformation,” reads the description of the game’s campaign mode. “Sektori is seeking, processing, shaping. Sektori is a specter of your zero state.” It may be fancy, high-concept la...

Pascale Senellart, à Paris, le 26 septembre 2025. PATRICK IMBERT/COLLÈGE DE FRANCE Après deux heures d’entretien, le résumé d’un parcours exceptionnel tombe. « Mon père n’avait pas le bac. Il est devenu technicien à l’armée et est entré chez IBM. Il travaillait sur des énormes machines, avec des cartes perforées. Il a participé à l’aventure de l’informatique. Et moi, soixante ans plus tard, je continue cette histoire en construisant la nouvelle génération avec des ordinateurs quantiques. La symbolique est magnifique », constate Pascale Senellart, 53 ans, dans les bureaux encore neufs de Quandela, l’entreprise qu’elle a cofondée en 2017 à Massy (Essonne). Créée avec l’un de ses postdocs, Niccolo Somaschi, aujourd’hui le PDG, et un doctorant, Va...

Native Instruments and Ableton have had incredible success with their custom MIDI controllers that integrate with their DAWs (digital audio workstations), Maschine and Live, respectively. Native Instruments’ Maschine (yes, it’s the name of the hardware and the software) and Ableton’s Push are pretty much the gold standard for integration between music-making software and hardware. Serato is hoping it can capture even a sliver of that magic with its pairing of Slab and Serato Studio.Plenty of others have tried their hand at building (or having others build for them) custom controllers for their DAWs — FL Studio, Studio One, and the MPC desktop suite have all gotten dedicated hardware at some point. Success, however, has been mixed. What Serato has going for it is that Studio is a relativ...

As I’m sitting in my office writing this review, delicious, cheesy, garlicky scents are wafting up the stairs. I can hear whizzing and whirring, and the occasional clunk, as a robot chef in my kitchen is making macaroni and cheese. Its app tells me there are three minutes left in the process, and based on the snapshot it’s showing, the dish looks like a creamy pile of cheesy goodness.I’ll be heading out the door shortly to pick up my daughter from the school bus, and when we’re back, the robot-cooked mac and cheese will be waiting for her to dive into, staying fresh thanks to a “copilot” mode that keeps it warm and stirs it occasionally until we’re ready.$1500The GoodFully autonomous cookingMakes really good foodActually saves timeOver 1,000 recipes and countingIt’s a robot chef!The Bad...

The Nex Playground is apparently one of the hottest consoles this holiday season thanks to its kid-friendly games and fun, motion-controlled gameplay. And now through December 14th, the cube-shaped console is on sale for its Black Friday low of around $199 ($50 off) at Amazon. There are some other great deals still available you might have missed this week, too, including a sizable discount on the new Google Pixel Buds 2A and Genki’s Moonbase Charging Station, which looks straight out of Star Wars.The Nex Playground easily connects to your TV and provides a clever interactive solution that encourages you and your family to move around. A built-in camera and AI software track your movements with precision, so you are the controller. The cube-shaped console comes with five games (Fruit Ni...