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Google’s New Accessibility Features Will Finally Make Small Text Easier to Read on Mobile
Ahead of Google I/O 2025, which starts on May 20, the company has announced a few big accessibility focused features for Android and Google Chrome. Among these are improvements to the Android screen reader, more expressive captions, and easier to read text in Chrome for Android. This follows Apple’s recent accessibility focused announcements, with both companies’ posts timed to mark…
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I’m obsessed with Max’s Karen Read trial documentary — you should get on this wild ride
I believe in the Sixth Amendment. I believe people deserve a fair trial — especially when they’re accused of murder. But “A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read,” now streaming on Max, made me question how that’s even possible when the criminal justice system is this broken. The three-part docuseries follows the 2024 trial of Karen Read,…
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Is Voice AI safe? Yes, but read the fine print
This voice-changing app uses AI to transform your voice in real-time on various platforms, including Discord, Zoom, and popular games. But is Voice AI safe to use? Many feel that the app’s questionable quality, deceptive marketing, and complex refund process make it feel scammy. Other criticisms come from a lack of proper documentation on Voice AI’s “Live Mode” and MetaModel…
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You’ve Read Misinformation About the Switch 2, Here Are the Facts
The absence of any money talk during the Switch 2 Direct ended up backfiring on Nintendo as it caused the rampant spread of misinformation. It’s possible you’ve unknowingly come across some of this yourself. Here are the facts about the Switch 2’s pricing, cartridges, and compatibilities. Related Nintendo Switch 2 Overview: Compatibility, Release Date, Design, Features and More The Switch…
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Have Your Linux Terminal Read to You With the espeak Command
Summary eSpeak lets you listen to your terminal commands instead of just reading them. You can install eSpeak through your default package manager such as uisng APT, DNF, or YUM. With various eSpeak options, you can adjust output speech, increase or decrease speech rate, and even choose different languages and accents. Want to listen to log files, command output, file…
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‘The You You Are’ From Severance Is Real, and I Read It
Fans of Apple TV+’s Severance, your day is about to be improved: Apple has released eight chapters of The You You Are, the fictional self-help book by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale that is central to the plot of the show. If you want to read it, you can even download it for free, or listen to the audiobook version, narrated…
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Have a Reading Backlog? Let AI Read to You
Summary Listening to articles while exercising or doing household chores is an ideal way to get through a reading backlog. Speechify or Matter apps can read articles to you, but note the subscription cost for natural sounding AI voices. Speechify can be used for free, if you can tolerate the robotic free voices. Getting through your reading backlog can be…
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Go Read This: The Verge’s favorite reads from all over the web
The internet is filled with awesome stuff to read, and there’s new awesome stuff to read being published every day! That’s the good news. The bad news is that finding the good stuff feels harder than ever. You either find your favorite writers or sources and check them religiously or just hope that the algorithm gods deliver you something you’ll…
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When the JFK Assassination Files Will Be Released and Where to Read Them
Among the panoply of executive orders signed by president Trump in his first week in office is a directive of special interest to conspiracy theorists: on Thursday, Trump directed the federal government to “present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,” as well as the…
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I read more books on my phone than ever before in 2024 — here’s why
There’s something about the end of the year that always puts me in a retrospective mood. One thing I’ve been considering is how I used technology over the last year — and that’s help me realized something about the way I read books these days. For years I avoided Kindles and e-readers in general, primarily out of the preference for…
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