/Top Stories/ Last Updated: Mon, Oct 7th, 2024 @ 10:15am EDT

The Verge

Verge Staff

A professional’s guide to the iPhone 16 Pro camera

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

The iPhone 16 Pro’s camera upgrades may be the true highlights of this year’s phone. So, for the past three weeks, The Verge supervising producer Vjeran Pavic has been testing out everything the camera has to offer.

Apple’s new Camera Control button may be the headline feature, but the iPhone 16 is also equipped with a suite of new photo adjustment tools that let you dial in individual aspects of how an image looks. Apple also beefed up the...

The Verge

Andrew Webster

Why Persona’s longtime director made an epic fantasy RPG

Metaphor: ReFantazio. | Image: Atlus

Persona 5 helped the roleplaying franchise break out with mainstream audiences, and it’s also a game that was in the works for a long time. Early work began in 2008, just after Persona 4 came out, with full development kicking off three years later. So, just ahead of the game’s launch in 2016, director Katsura Hashino — steward of the franchise since Persona 3 — asked the team what they wanted to do next. “Everyone said fantasy,” he...

Fast Company

Reuters

The 2024 Nobel Prize goes to these U.S. scientists for a groundbreaking discovery in genetics

The laureates discovered a new class of tiny RNA molecules, which play a crucial role in gene regulation.

U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live, the award-giving body said on Monday.

Fast Company

Reuters

How Helene conspiracy theories on social media are harming disaster relief efforts

One of the more far-fetched rumors is that Helene was an engineered storm to allow corporations to mine regional lithium deposits.

In the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Helene in the United States this week, a new storm emerged on social media — false rumors about how disaster funds have been used, and even claims that officials control the weather.

BuzzFeed - Latest

People Are Revealing The Little Things That Make Someone "Bad In Bed," And It's Actually *Such* An Important Discussion

"Please, for the love of God, do not switch the tempo every 8 seconds." Yikes.

View Entire Post ›

ESPN.com

Adriana Garcia

AC Milan coach fumes over Pulisic penalty drama

AC Milan coach Paulo Fonseca expressed his confusion over Christian Pulisic not stepping up for his side's penalties in Sunday's 2-1 defeat at Fiorentina despite being the team's designated penalty taker.

ESPN.com

Jets' Rodgers has low ankle sprain, 'fine' for MNF

Jets QB Aaron Rodgers has a low ankle sprain but should be "fine" to play in New York's next game against the Bills on "Monday Night Football," coach Robert Saleh said.

ESPN.com

Mike Reiss

Patriots' Peppers to face assault, drug charges

Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers was arrested Saturday and will face charges that include assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, strangulation and drug possession.

Wired Top Stories

Andrew Watman

Rarebird Px Coffee Review: Alertness Without the Jitters

The first paraxanthine-infused coffee succeeds at providing alertness without caffeine’s side effects.

SBNation.com

Noa Dalzell

Connecticut Sun star reveals key to her big performance against the Minnesota Lynx

Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images

DeWanna Bonner scored 18 points to help the Sun stay alive in a must-win game against the Lynx — and attributed her play to the presence of her 7-year-old daughter in the stands.

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — The Connecticut Sun faced elimination against the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday night, but came away with a 92-82 win to stay alive and force a Game 5 in the conference semifinals.

DeWanna Bonner was key to the victory. The 37-year-old recorded 18...

The Verge

Barbara Krasnoff

How to tint your app icons in iOS 18

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge

For several years now, it’s been possible to personalize your iPhone screen by creating your own icons, mostly by using Apple’s built-in Shortcuts app (and we have instructions for doing just that). But if you want to do a little customization in a short amount of time, a new feature in iOS 18 lets you tweak the color of your app icons in a matter of moments. Here’s how.

On your iPhone homescreen:

Long-press somewhere on the background so...

The Verge

Umar Shakir

Instacart’s smart cart helps you navigate to the sauce that’s on sale

The Caper Cart. | Image: Instacart

If you always have trouble finding that specific pasta sauce like I do, there’s a smart grocery shopping cart that can map it out for you. Instacart’s Caper Cart, which has a touchscreen and payment terminal up front where you’d normally seat your toddler or play Jenga with your produce, now has a new store map system that can help navigate you to products you’re looking for, on-sale items, and even send you on fetch quests that can land you...

Fast Company

Stephanie Mehta

This ex-Microsoft executive-turned-CEO is betting on ‘gritty tech’

Toni Townes-Whitley, CEO of government contractor SAIC and one of only two Black women running a Fortune 500 company, explains the power of mission-critical tech.

Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of  Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a...

Fast Company

David Salazar

This new AI answer engine plans to pay media companies for their content

ProRata has raised $25 million and has partnerships with the Atlantic, the Guardian, and Universal Music Group.

When ChatGPT launched two years ago, it blew open the doors to a new way to search for information online. Instead of sifting through a search engine’s list of links, users can now query a chatbot and get an actual answer. Today, AI titans like Google and OpenAI and upstarts like Perplexity are all working on their versions of AI overviews and answer engines—new ways to...

Fast Company

Frederic Bertley

How chatbots can win over crackpots 

A breakthrough study finds that a conversation with AI can reduce belief in conspiracy theories.

Technology is inherently neutral. Whether it is used for good or evil depends upon whose hands it lands in—and what they do with it. At least, so goes the argument that most of us have come to accept as a framework for assessing—and potentially regulating—the role of artificial intelligence.

Fast Company

Associated Press

What would happen to the U.S. debt under a Harris or Trump presidency? Here’s what a new report reveals

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released a report suggesting a Harris presidency could increase the national debt over 10 years by $3.5 trillion. The same analysis says former President Trump’s ideas could heap another $7.5 trillion onto the debt and possibly as much as $15.2 trillion.

No one is likely to be happy with the projected higher deficits laid out in a new analysis of Kamala Harris’ and Donald Trump’s economic plans.

The analysis released Monday by the...

Fast Company

Tracy Brown Hamilton

Hurricane Milton live tracker: Map tools and apps follow the powerful storm’s path in real time as it approaches Florida

Less than two weeks after the devastation brought by Helene, southern U.S. states are bracing for another powerful storm. Here’s how to track its path in real time.

Hurricane Milton has rapidly escalated to a Category 3 storm and continues to gain strength just two days before its anticipated landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Currently, the storm features sustained winds of 120 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

BuzzFeed - Latest

If You're Size 14 And Up, Here Are 40 Things To Update Your Wardrobe Without Breaking Your Budget

Affordable layering pieces, dresses for every occasion, comfy tees, and *so* much more... talk about an upgrade.

View Entire Post ›

BuzzFeed - Latest

Just 37 Unexpectedly Awesome Finds From Amazon

A "floating" mug, a book-shaped flower vase, and a wine-pouring handbag walk into a bar...

View Entire Post ›

BuzzFeed - Latest

23 Movies That People Think Are Completely Over-Hyped

A masterpiece to some is an over-hyped dud to others.

View Entire Post ›

The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program.
The time or date displayed (including in the Timeline of Articles feature) reflects when an article was added to or updated in LooksNeat.