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Samsung is reportedly making a budget Bixby-powered smart speaker
The Verge 2018 tech report cards
The Verge 2018 tech report card: Tesla
Google wins dismissal of facial recognition lawsuit over biometric privacy act
Lady Gaga teases an anime cyborg at her Las Vegas concert
The Verge 2018 tech report card: SpaceX
The biggest video games, tech news, and apocalyptic anxieties of 1998
China lifts a freeze on new video games but excludes its biggest player
2018: A year in The Verge illustrations
The 13 best sci-fi books to check out on your new Kindle

Samsung is reportedly making a budget Bixby-powered smart speaker

Posted: 29 Dec 2018 01:53 PM PST

Samsung promised a Bixby-powered Galaxy Home smart speaker back in August, a premium device that could potentially compete against Apple's HomePod and the Amazon Echo Plus. While that speaker still isn't available and doesn't have a set release date, the company is reportedly also planning a second Bixby speaker that comes in black and according to SamMobile, citing an anonymous source, may be a more affordable option that can compete with the likes of cheaper smart speakers.

The second Bixby speaker reportedly has the model number SM-V310, while the Galaxy Home is model number SM-V510, suggesting that there could always be more Bixby smart speakers down the line. There aren't any known specs for the lower-end speaker yet, but it's...

The Verge 2018 tech report cards

Posted: 29 Dec 2018 01:06 PM PST

If one word described the focus around the tech industry this year, it's privacy. From user data mishandling to the private lives of major tech executives having an impact on company cultures, this year we've become more aware than ever of when to take control of your own privacy — and when it's time to speak out.

Beyond that, 2018 has also been a quieter year for innovation than the last — from gadgets to gaming to smartphones, most products we saw this year have been building on the grounds 2017 broke without many major new hardware releases. So how did some of the biggest tech companies and industries fare this year on The Verge's annual report cards? In this last week of 2018, we'll take a look at the past 12 months in technology,...

The Verge 2018 tech report card: Tesla

Posted: 29 Dec 2018 11:30 AM PST

In 2018, Tesla turned its biggest ever quarterly profit, and its first profit in two years. The company shipped close to some 100,000 Model 3s in the first full year of production of the most affordable vehicle it makes. SpaceX, one of Tesla CEO Elon Musk's other companies, successfully launched its brand new Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time ever — and Musk used it to send one of the original Tesla Roadsters into space. By those measures, 2018 was a wild success for Tesla.

Of course, there's more to the story: a failed plan to go private, announced by Musk on Twitter; a beef with the SEC; difficulty retaining top executives not named Elon Musk; and a close call with death. There were questions about the safety of Tesla's cars, the...

Google wins dismissal of facial recognition lawsuit over biometric privacy act

Posted: 29 Dec 2018 11:13 AM PST

Google has been facing a lawsuit since 2016 for alleging scanning and saving the biometric data of a woman who was unwittingly captured in 11 photos taken by a Google Photos user on Android. The lawsuit over facial recognition privacy has just been dismissed by a judge in Chicago, who found that the plaintiff didn't suffer "concrete injuries," as first reported by Bloomberg.

In the original suit, the woman sued Google for allegedly uploading her data to Google Photos and scanning it to create a template of her face without her permission. The Google lawsuit is one of three cases aimed at prominent tech companies that have allegedly violated the United States' toughest biometric privacy law and it's the first one to get dismissed.

Lady Gaga teases an anime cyborg at her Las Vegas concert

Posted: 29 Dec 2018 09:46 AM PST

Lady Gaga has been teasing a new animated character on social media as part of her Las Vegas residency show. It looks to be a cyborg with long blue hair and the ability to fly through space, a character that Gaga was also dressed as on Friday. In a short, mysterious clip posted to YouTube and Instagram, the character looks around at a shining star before making contact with it and absorbing its powers.

The anime-like character charges up, while crying, "What's happening to me?" before hurtling through space with the newfound energy. The video ends with the appearance of "PetGa," an alien being first seen during the release and promotion of Lady Gaga's 2013 album ArtPop. PetGa says fondly, "Hello Gaga," and then the word "Enigma" flashes...

The Verge 2018 tech report card: SpaceX

Posted: 29 Dec 2018 09:30 AM PST

After a banner 2017, SpaceX decided to one-up itself in 2018 by launching the world's most powerful rocket, which flung a sports car beyond the orbit of Mars.

Just two months into the year, SpaceX finally made good on its long held promise to launch the coveted Falcon Heavy — an upgraded version of the company's Falcon 9 rocket. Consisting of three Falcon 9 cores strapped together, the Falcon Heavy is capable of putting more weight into low Earth orbit than any other rocket currently in operation. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk first announced the concept for the rocket in 2011, with the goal of launching it in 2013 or 2014. Obviously, it took longer than that, and Musk even admitted that the program grew so complicated he tried to cancel it a few...

The biggest video games, tech news, and apocalyptic anxieties of 1998

Posted: 29 Dec 2018 07:00 AM PST

We're heading into the last days of 2018, and by extension, the last days of our look back at 1998 — where the dot-com bubble was steadily inflating, cyberspace was transforming everything from crime to horoscopes, and the end of the internet (or maybe civilization itself) was just a year away with Y2K. And that means one thing in the media world: time for some retrospectives!

I'll be deviating slightly from the normal format by accepting a few pieces from both earlier in December and later in January, so I can offer a spread of analysis looking back at the year.

IGN: 1998 in video games

It's generally acknowledged that 1998 was a fantastic year for video games. In October, GameSpot published a list of the year's best and most...

China lifts a freeze on new video games but excludes its biggest player

Posted: 29 Dec 2018 06:51 AM PST

China just lifted its ban on new video games after nearly a year of keeping games from getting released. Its regulatory arm approved 80 new games today, as first reported by Reuters. But curiously enough, none of them are from the country's biggest gaming company, Tencent.

Tencent is best known as the company that owns WeChat, China's pervasive app that can make payments, host mini-apps, and connect people through messages and emojis. But its main source of revenue is video games it owns like Arena of Valor (also known as Honor of Kings), League of Legends, and ones that it's invested heavily in such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite. But as China tightened its video game rules this year and Tencent has struggled to adapt,...

2018: A year in The Verge illustrations

Posted: 29 Dec 2018 06:00 AM PST

A lens into some of The Verge's biggest stories of the year

The 13 best sci-fi books to check out on your new Kindle

Posted: 29 Dec 2018 06:00 AM PST

The holidays are here, and it looks like you got a new Kindle (or a device with a Kindle app). You now have before you a fun task: to build a portable library of all the books that you have on your reading list — or to create a new list for the coming year.

If you're looking for recommendations, here are 13 science fiction books that stand on their own (or are loosely part of a bigger world) to start off with. (If you're interested in trying a series, you can also check out some of last year's recommendations.)

We've rounded up our favorite and most-used apps, games, and utilities. Look for our picks for iPhones, PCs, and Mac; our favorite games for iOS and Android, and our top choices for the PS4, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch.

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