Tag Archives: Smarter

Most of us think we need massive amounts of time and discipline to get smarter. The image that comes to mind is someone in a library, surrounded by towering stacks of books, reading for hours every night while sipping green tea and scribbling notes in the margins. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just trying to get through our to-do …

Apple’s Vision Pro was meant to usher in a new era for headsets. However, its high price and somewhat limited utility resulted in what may be the company’s biggest flop in years. Now it’s time for Samsung to give things a go with the Galaxy XR. It’s a fresh take on modern mixed reality goggles developed through deep partnerships with …

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a new setting that gives Pixel users more control over the Always-on Display. This new option will automatically power down the display when no user activity is detected, helping save battery life. The feature isn’t live yet, and it’s unclear exactly how Android will determine when the phone is …

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they’re going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 10AM ET. Opt in for Optimizer here. We’ll be off for the next two weeks and back on …

Diablo 4 may be far more challenging come Season 11, with a slew of updates set to address monster behavior and difficulty. As detailed by Blizzard, the goal is to have monsters starting with Season 11 more regularly test players’ defenses and force players to interact with them in new ways. Enemy monsters will see changes to make their behavior …

Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin shared some strong feelings about the Browns’ decision to trade quarterback Joe Flacco within the division last week. Flacco was sent to the Bengals, who had lost three straight games with Jake Browning filling in for the injured Joe Burrow. They lost again to the Packers in Flacco’s debut on Sunday, but Tomlin is still …

Eating a Mediterranean-style diet with fewer calories, adding moderate physical activity, and receiving professional guidance for weight management can lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 31%. That is the key finding of PREDIMED-Plus, a large clinical trial led in Spain by the University of Navarra together with more than 200 researchers from 22 universities, hospitals, and research …

Every day, in every organization around the globe, people disagree about everything from pricing strategies to hiring decisions to major acquisitions. And disagree they should. Research across every social science shows that disagreement offers important benefits: Divergent perspectives spark creativity, prevent costly errors, and drive better decisions. But, of course, there is also risk: Disagreement handled poorly can have massive …

The odds are you’re reading this on your phone. You may have come here via social media, the CNN app, an email or a good old-fashioned browser. The chances are you did not open your smartphone with the intention to load this story, but here you are. A necessity, a habit or an addiction, call it what you like: we’re …

This week, Amazon will launch new Echo hardware designed to supercharge Alexa Plus, the AI-powered upgrade to its voice assistant. I’ve been using Alexa Plus for the last few months as part of its Early Access program, and while the new assistant is off to a promising start, it’s still clearly a work in progress. To fix Alexa, Amazon had …