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June 17, 2026

22 articles

Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans

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“A scan of an imaging phantom, segmented to validate how cleanly structures separate under controlled conditions.“ | Image: Midjourney Medical Midjourney CEO David Holz ju...

by Richard Lawler

Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices

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Apple is planning to raise prices in response to the ongoing memory shortage. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook says "price increases are u...

by Emma Roth

VSCO launches Studio Pro mobile photo editing app and plans $500 per year subscription

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VSCO is taking on Adobe with a new Studio Pro editing app rolling out today on iOS and coming to macOS later this year, as Bloomberg reports. At launch, the app offers to...

by Stevie Bonifield

Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games

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Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn't yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next majo...

by Jay Peters

Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands

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Anthropic has spent much of this week fighting to get its newest AI models back online after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut access for all f...

by Robert Hart

Two-thirds of Americans think AI is advancing too quickly

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According to the latest Pew Research poll, 49 percent of Americans report using chatbots at least occasionally, but 63 percent think the tech is advancing too quickly. Ov...

by Terrence O’Brien

The Echo Dot Max is cheaper than ever in an early Prime Day sale

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The Echo Dot Max comes in a variety of fun colors, including purple. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge We’re seeing good early Prime Day deals ahead of the ev...

by Sheena Vasani

Vibe-decoding the White House-Anthropic fight over Fable

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CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei attends a working lunch with G7 leaders, G7 outreach partners, and global tech CEOs on innovation and AI, during the G7 Summit on June 17th, 20...

by Tina Nguyen

Can anyone look cool wearing Snap’s $2,000 glasses?

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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel wearing the Snap Specs. They’re not the worst on him, but bold fashion rarely makes for mainstream success. | Screenshot: CNBC Yesterday, Snap debute...

by Victoria Song

We got free GTA V upgrades before GTA VI

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Rockstar Games will allow players to upgrade older versions of Grand Theft Auto V for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S for free just months before the launch of GTA VI...

by Emma Roth

SanDisk’s new PlayStation 5 SSD will cost you more than three PS5 Pros

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SanDisk has announced an expensive way to boost the PlayStation 5's storage capacity. The company's new Optimus GX PRO 850P NVMe SSD is an officially licensed PS5 accesso...

by Andrew Liszewski

In a big year for horror, Widow’s Bay still stands apart

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Horror is having a moment. In 2026, the genre is especially well-represented: new blood is dominating the box office through films like Backrooms and Obsession, establish...

by Andrew Webster

Paramount Plus is two dollars for two months of ad-free viewing

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A poster showing the cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Image: Paramount Paramount Plus is offering new and former subscribers a discounted rate until June 25th, 2026...

by Brad Bourque

In Toy Story 5, the problem really is these damn phones (and tablets)

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The Toy Story franchise began with a story about a vintage doll feeling threatened by the arrival of an electronic action figure. Woody and Buzz's rivalry embodied a shif...

by Charles Pulliam-Moore

How to find the best deals during Amazon’s Prime Day sale

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Amazon’s Prime Day is one of the biggest shopping events of the year, and the four-day sale for 2026 begins June 23rd at 3:01AM ET and ends at the same time on June 27th....

by Cameron Faulkner

AI search grounded in Facebook posts? What could go wrong?

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More AI search in more places. AI is pretty reliable at putting things on your calendar these days, but it hasn't quite cracked answering the related and all-important que...

by Allison Johnson

The best Apple deals you can already get ahead of Prime Day

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The latest AirPods Pro are currently almost as cheap as the AirPods 4 with noise-canceling. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon’s Prime Day sale kic...

by Sheena Vasani

Got Thread problems? There’s an app for that

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The new Thread Networks Diagnostics Tools app from Thread Group, the standards body behind the wireless IoT protocol, officially launches in beta today. The app, which ar...

by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Final Fantasy meets Zelda? Yes, please

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Let's be real: There's no shortage of Zelda-style games to play right now. That's true even if you've exhausted all there is to see in Tears of the Kingdom or Echoes of W...

by Andrew Webster

Will Matter finally be able to do what it should have always done?

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Matter 1.6 introduces a new way to share smart home devices with different ecosystems. | Image: CSA Matter, the smart home interoperability standard, might finally get a f...

by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

My backyard made me a color-changing smart lighting convert

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I'll admit it. I was wrong. Wildly colorful lighting is delightful for your smart home - well, outdoors, at least. Smart lighting is one of my favorite features of the s...

by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

The next humanoid robot might not look human at all

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The next humanoid robot might not have a head. It might not have legs. It might even sit on a wheeled base and fold down like a deck chair. But, as Genesis AI puts it, "h...

by Robert Hart