Duke Arts Presents is proud to announce the return of its three classical music series, including the flagship eight-concert Chamber Arts Series from the…
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Chatting with someone while wearing your AirPods Pro has never been difficult: all it takes is a quick press-and-hold of the earbuds' stem to activate transparency mode, and then it's easy to hear anyone in your vicinity. But now Apple is taking things a step further and attempting to remove any and all friction from interacting with other people. This fall, the company rolled out a new feature called Conversation Awareness to the second-generation AirPods Pro. When you enable this setting, the earbuds will detect whenever you've started speaking. And once you do, the volume of your music will automatically get dialed down, and the AirPods Pro will "enhance voices in front of you while reducing additional background noise," according to. Continue reading…
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge My phone is absolutely littered with messages. I have a mess of messaging apps: Messages, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, GroupMe, Google Chat, Discord, Slack, Messenger, and Snapchat. Then there are all the apps that aren't necessarily for messaging but still offer it as a feature, like LinkedIn and Instagram and X. Reddit and TikTok both can act like messaging platforms; I get messages through Tumblr sometimes; Skype is still sort of around. Chat is a core part of the modern internet experience, which is why everyone wants a piece: if you can build the app in which people talk to their friends, you've built the stickiest thing in tech. But in reality, all that competition means we spend our days endlessly checking inboxes and trying to. Continue reading…
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge The issue You may have noticed recently that of the tabs on your Chrome browser have circles around the tab's icon and that the icon itself is smaller and slightly faded. What's that all about and can I change them back? You can see how much memory has been freed up by hovering your cursor over the inactive tab. Quick fix Chrome's recent Memory Saver feature, according to Google, "automatically frees up memory from tabs you haven't used in a while." The circled tab icons indicate which tabs are currently inactive. To make them active again, you just have to click on them. The full story I have a tendency to use a lot of tabs over the course of a working day and I'm sure a lot of our readers do the same. Some of. Continue reading…