Your smart fridge can now warn you when you’ve spent too long in the shower

The Samsung partnership will give Kohler smart shower users another way to control their setups. | Image: Kohler

Samsung is integrating Kohler’s Anthem luxury smart showers into its SmartThings ecosystem, allowing users to control the shower, adjust its temperature, set timers, and manage presets, as well as monitor water usage through SmartThings-compatible devices.

Kohler’s Anthem smart showers can be operated using physical controllers mounted inside the showers or in a...

Samsung is turning your Galaxy phone into a smart door key

Samsung Galaxy smartphones and watches will soon be able to act as a digital key for your home. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge

At some point next year, Samsung users should be getting access to the same convenience iPhone users have had for years: the ability to tap their phone or watch on a smart door lock to unlock it. No more messing with keys or unlocking your phone and opening an app; your phone becomes your key.

This week, Samsung announced it’s adopting the new Aliro...

Google is rolling out 'AI-organized' search results

First Google gave us AI overviews of search results, now it's using AI to organize those search results.

On Thursday, Google announced the rollout of full-page search results organized by AI. Instead of traditional rankings-based search, Google will now organize the results into buckets of subcategories based on your query.

The update is only on mobile for now, and starts with recipes and meal inspiration first, but will expand to other categories later on. So if you're looking for...

Not so short, YouTube Shorts announces 3-minute videos

Denim shorts aren't the only shorts getting longer. On Oct. 15 YouTube will allow users to upload three-minute Shorts, an increase from the previous 60-second limit.

According to a press release, longer Shorts were "a top requested feature by creators," likely because it will make it easier to cross-post content across TikTok and Shorts. TikTok...

3 newly announced ways Google Search is using AI

On Thursday, Google announced new search-related updates. In addition to the broad rollout of the redesigned AI Overviews feature, which makes links to publications more prominent, along with — whomp, whomp — ads on AI Overviews, Google touted some entirely new features.

Here's what's happening with Lens, Circle to Search, and Google's entirely new experience for searching for recipes

The Lens tool that's handy for searching visual elements can now...

Why Uber and Lyft drivers are using risky DIY Tesla robotaxis

Some ride-hail drivers say Tesla’s FSD software allows them to work longer hours and earn more money.

A self-driving Tesla carrying a passenger for Uber rammed into an SUV at an intersection in suburban Las Vegas in April, an accident that sparked new concerns that a growing stable of self-styled “robotaxis” is exploiting a regulatory gray area in U.S. cities, putting lives at risk.

$1.5 billion in U.S. federal funds will go to power grid projects in these three regions

The funds from a 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law will enable nearly 1,000 miles of new transmission lines in Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Four electricity transmission projects serving the U.S. southwest, southeast and New England will get $1.5 billion in public funding to improve the grid’s resilience and connect customers with clean energy, the government said on Thursday.

Why OpenAI needs another $6.6 billion in VC money

As the company moves toward its goal of ‘artificial general intelligence,’ it requires more computing power and electricity.

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Google’s new AI search will change the way you browse the internet

Google is not just about instant answers anymore, but exploring a topic.

When Google launched its AI Overviews, a world of normies got access to the power of modern AI search. Instead of a page of links, its Gemini model synthesizes one answer—and occasionally adds some glue—in attempts to offer a single, end-all-be-all search result. 

But today, Google is sharing plans that reframe AI search as the exact opposite of that initial strategy. Rather than giving you one perfect answer,...

The office property market may finally be at a turning point

The U.S. office property market has been hard hit since the pandemic by higher interest rates and as many office workers worked from home.

The beleaguered U.S. office property market may be bottoming out, analysts told Reuters, pointing to a string of sales of stressed properties at big discounts over the last quarter that have helped set a new pricing benchmark.

After Fans Were Shocked That Sabrina Carpenter’s Grandparents Attended Her Seriously Sexy Concert, Sabrina Herself Has Responded

In recent years, Sabrina has become renowned for not being afraid to embrace her sexuality.

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Google’s Visual Search Can Now Answer Even More Complex Questions

Launched in 2017, Google Lens processes 20 billion visual searches a month. Now it will work with video and voice, too.

College Football Playoff updated 12-team bracket going into Week 6

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Here’s what the College Football Playoff bracket would look like right now.

We’re a quarter of the way into the college football season and as teams get deeper into conference play, eyes begin to turn to the new 12-team College Football Playoff bracket. An expended CFP invites a more bracketology style of discussing the playoff implications. With things changing so much every week, it’s about time we do a 12-team College Football Playoff...

Jon Rahm conquers ‘Carnasty’ thanks to unorthodox advice from former Dunhill Links champion

Jon Rahm during a practice round at St. Andrews. | Photo by Ross Parker/SNS Group via Getty Images

Jon Rahm turned in a masterful round at Carnoustie, the most difficult of the three courses hosting the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

Carnoustie is one of the most challenging courses in Scotland, let alone the world. That explains why so many colloquially call it “Carnasty,” as this links course can unleash a hellish experience on any player on any given day.

Ask anyone who...

How four expensive cards imploded Magic: The Gathering’s most popular format

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast is fundamentally changing how Magic: The Gathering’s most popular format will operate. Earlier this week, the card game’s publisher announced that it will assume control of the Commander format after a week of controversial decisions punctuated by an outpouring of violent harassment. The decision ends the format’s 13-year run as a volunteer-led and community-driven entity wholly independent of Wizards of...

Inside Elon Musk’s AI party in OpenAI’s old headquarters

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images

It had all the makings of a typical recruiting event for a tech startup in San Francisco. There was free food, drinks, and live music generated via code being written in real time.

But there were also mandatory metal detector screenings, ID checks, and security guards everywhere. It was held by Elon Musk at the original Mission District headquarters of OpenAI, which Musk cofounded before leaving after (reportedly) failing to take...

Google Lens now lets you search with video

Illustration: The Verge

If you can’t capture what you want to search for with just a picture, Google Lens will now let you take a video — and even use your voice to ask about what you’re seeing. The feature will surface an AI Overview and search results based on the video’s contents and your question. It’s rolling out in Search Labs on Android and iOS today.

Google first previewed using video to search at I/O in May. As an example, Google says someone curious about the fish...

YouTube Shorts are getting less short

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YouTube Shorts, the company’s answer to TikTok, is getting updates including longer video lengths, the company announced today.

Beginning on October 15th, creators will be able to upload YouTube Shorts that are up to three minutes in length — a feature YouTube says was highly requested by users. TikTok currently allows videos as long as 10 minutes and has steadily increased the limit over the years.

YouTube also announced a template feature...

Google’s AI search summaries officially have ads

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Google is rolling out ads in AI Overviews, which means you’ll now start seeing products in some of the search engine’s AI-generated summaries.

Let’s say you’re searching for ways to get a grass stain out of your pants. If you ask Google, its AI-generated response will offer some tips, along with suggestions for products to purchase that could help you remove the stain. The products will appear beneath a “sponsored” header, and Google spokesperson Craig Ewer...

HBO Bitcoin doc ‘Money Electric’ hunts for Satoshi Nakamoto—see a first look at the trailer

Fast Company spoke with filmmaker Cullen Hobeck about his new movie, which airs on HBO and streams on Max.

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