The Steam Deck. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Valve has been clear it wants to build a Steam Deck 2 — and equally clear that a faster handheld wouldn't arrive soon. Now, Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais tells The Verge and CNBC that it could be late 2025 or beyond before it raises that bar — because it wants to see a leap in performance without a significant hit to battery life. "I don't anticipate such a leap to be possible in the next couple of years," he told me via email. Here's the whole quote: It's important to us that the Deck offers a fixed performance target for developers, and that the message to customers is simple, where every Deck can play the same games. As such, changing the performance level is not something we are taking lightly, and we only want to do so when there is... Continue reading…
For $999, the Skydio 2 does something no other drone can do — intelligently follow you while dodging obstacles instead of crashing to its doom. It’s affordable compared to the $2,500 prototype the startup introduced last year, plus it’s smaller and lighter, with longer battery life and a far better camera, too.
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Valve's next major SteamOS update brings some significant new display settings as well as some new performance improvements to Steam Deck. You can read all about the SteamOS 3.5 update in a blog post on the Steam website. Two major new features are support for variable refresh rates (VRR) and HDR if you're using your Steam Deck with an external display that supports them. Valve says that HDR can be enabled if you have a compatible display while VRR can be enabled if you have a compatible USB-C adapter. The company has also changed the Steam Deck's default color rendering to "emulate the sRGB color gamut," which Valve says will result in "a slightly warmer and more vibrant color appearance." If you don't like the change, or want to try... Continue reading…
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Roblox will finally be available on PlayStation soon. At its 2023 Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) on Friday, Roblox announced that its popular social and gaming app is coming to PS4 and PS5 in October. And during Sony's September 14th State of Play, the company announced that the game would be released on October 10th. Roblox, which is free to download, is already out on a bunch of platforms, including PC, Mac, iOS, Android, and Xbox, but the lack of support for Sony's consoles has felt like a notable hole in Roblox's lineup. There have been some clues that a PlayStation version has been in the works, though: a 2022 job listing indicated that Roblox was hiring for a PlayStation engineer, and CEO David Baszucki hinted on an August... Continue reading…
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google usually celebrates its birthday on September 27th for no particularly obvious reason, but for its 25th anniversary, the company's getting out ahead — with CEO Sundar Pichai "kicking off celebrations" with a 2,400-word public memo reflecting on where the company's been. There's very little in here that will surprise anyone who's heard Pichai speak at length, and... it's mostly brags, which makes sense. But I expect you'll want to hear what the second-highest paid CEO of the world's fourth-most valuable company has to say in this moment of transition! Before I present the whole memo, here are a few passages that caught my eye: The questions I've asked Google have evolved over time: "How do you fix a dripping faucet?" "Fastest... Continue reading…
Eleven days ago, we sent these questions to Western Digital’s head of PR and published them publicly on The Verge: What’s the fuss? For months, the company…
Don't buy the SanDisk Extreme. | Image: Western Digital Eleven days ago, we sent these questions to Western Digital's head of PR and published them publicly on The Verge: Why are these drives still on sale? Will you offer free data recovery services to affected customers? When? Are you proactively warning customers and retailers who have already purchased these drives that significant data loss is possible? If not, why not? What, exactly, is going wrong with these drives? How did this happen? What's the fuss? For months, the company has been laughably silent about how its pricey portable SanDisk Extreme SSDs might lose all your data. It happened to my colleague Vjeran Pavic twice. It happened to Ars Technica. It happened to PetaPixel. Months after our inquiries, Western Digital... Continue reading…
According to Sean Hollister from The Verge, supervising producer Vjeran Pavic recently lost 3 TB of video stored on a SanDisk Extreme SSD. Worse yet, this is...