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Hey HN! We’re Aakash and Viswesh, and we’re building Canary (). We build AI agents that read your codebase, figure out what a pull request actually changed, and generate and execute tests for every affected user workflow. Aakash and I…
Epic Games and Disney are making a big announcement as part of their continually deepening relationship. In June, Epic announced that Fortnite creators would “soon” be able to make custom Star Wars-themed games and experiences, and starting Thursday that feature…
For decades now, Counter-Strike players have gotten used to tapping the reload button whenever they have a spare, safe moment. Yesterday evening, though, Valve announced that it had decided this system needed “higher stakes,” overhauling Counter-Strike 2‘s reload mechanic in a…
Kitten TTS is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. (We had a thread last year here: ) Today we’re releasing three new models with 80M, 40M and 14M parameters. The largest model (80M) has…
The Whoop 5.0 has several medical-minded tools, like ECG and blood pressure monitoring. Here’s how I actually used them.
Horizon Worlds was once a cornerstone of Meta’s plans to build a social metaverse — four years later, the company almost shut it down.
Companies like Bushman already sell omnidirectional camera lights for 360-degree shoots, but they start at over $300, which is more than half the price of popular 360-degree cameras from companies like DJI and Insta360. Harlowe, a company known for lighting…
Roku’s Howdy offers ad-free streaming for $2.99 a month. This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Streaming is getting expensive: This week,…
Hindsight is 20 | Image: The Verge / Getty Images In 2021, the virtual world was the future of the internet. The pandemic had sequestered everyone indoors, heightening the appeal of digital communities. Facebook rebranded to Meta – a sign…
The FBI and the Justice Department took down two websites linked to the pro-Iranian hacktivist group Handala, which last week hacked medical tech giant Stryker.