In Helldivers 2‚ you play as an elite soldier protecting the freedom of Super Earth in this great sci-fi shooter. Protecting it from what you ask? Well‚ giant alien bugs and baby-stealing robots‚ of course! Terminids are the first of two factions players will meet in Helldivers 2‚ and boy are they a doozy. From the humble Scavenger to the mighty Bile Titan‚ each has its own behavior and weaknesses to be aware of.

Kingdom Hearts has a loyal fanbase spanning over 20 years‚ and players can’t get enough of the colorful original characters and their interactions with a variety of figures from Disney media. Joining the popularity of Final Fantasy‚ Square Enix’s action RPG already has enough merchandise on the market to fill Destiny Islands‚ but these new plush toys are worth checking out too.

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Illustration by Erik Carter A video of Elizabeth Warren saying Republicans shouldn’t vote went viral in 2023. But it wasn’t Warren. That video of Ron DeSantis wasn’t the Florida governor‚ either. And nope‚ Pope Francis was not wearing a white Balenciaga coat. Generative AI has made it easier to create deepfakes and spread them around the internet. One of the most common proposed solutions involves the idea of a watermark that would identify AI-generated content. The Biden administration has made a big deal out of watermarks as a policy solution‚ even specifically mandating tech companies to find ways to identify AI-generated content. The president’s executive order on AI‚ released in November‚ was built on commitments from AI developers to figure out a way to tag... Continue reading…

I’ve got a long way to get to Mordor‚ but an imaginary destination can be more fun than metrics. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge In mid-November‚ my nagging calf strain became a full-blown injury. Techtember and Techtober kicked my butt. My grandma died. Also‚ my lease was running out and I had about two weeks to find somewhere to live. These are the perfect conditions for a fitness slump. Slumps happen to everyone. But I still beat myself up pretty hard. I review wearables and fitness tech for a living‚ but that doesn’t make me immune to the toxic aspects of fitness culture. Didn’t my failure to perform‚ even during difficult times‚ make me a fraud? With each run‚ I found myself chasing a past version of myself who was thinner‚ faster‚ and stronger. Logically‚ I knew better‚ but it was depressing. On Christmas‚ I was cleaning out my old apartment by myself‚... Continue reading…

Otter’s AI Chat in Channels. | Image: Otter AI Otter‚ the automated transcription service‚ is rolling out a new AI feature that lets groups ask a chatbot questions about what happened in their past meetings. It takes information from all the meetings that group members were in and answers prompts like‚ “What did we decide on yesterday?” The feature is called “AI Chat in Channels‚” and it basically opens up Otter’s AI chats to a group instead of the single-user experience they are now. Channels‚ which can be found within the Otter platform‚ function a lot like Slack chats. They let people talk with frequent collaborators and share transcripts with each other. Most generative AI chat features — the kinds that trawl through a user’s agenda or emails — are normally only available in... Continue reading…

The Kimi app as viewed in the macOS App Store. | Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge There’s a vision testing app called Kimi sitting at number eight in the Apple iOS App Store’s trending list of free entertainment apps right now (and number 46 overall for free apps!). But it’s not an app for testing your eyesight‚ at least not unless you consider watching pirated movies on your smartphone a form of vision testing‚ which‚ I suppose you could? I called Kimi sneaky in the headline‚ and it is insofar as if you glanced at it‚ you’d probably dismiss it immediately because it looks so very scammy and it’s actually not the vision testing app it claims to be. But it’s also simultaneously astoundingly blatant. There’s a half-assed description (beneath the quarter-assed screenshots) that says it’s “an interesting APP that tests... Continue reading…