Jess Weatherbed Profile and Activity

News Reporter

Jess Weatherbed is a news writer, and part of The Verge UK-based team. While passionate about the future of technology, she originally trained as a prosthetics makeup and wig-making technician, fuelled by a love of animatronics and practical movie effects.

Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews across computing, PC gaming and streaming. Additional bylines can be found at GamesRadar, PCGamer, Creative Bloq and Space.com.

Security

Cyberattacks are targeting US water systems, warns EPA and White House

Jess Weatherbed

3:12 PM UTC|

Gaming

Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update smashes its Steam player record

Jess Weatherbed

10:43 AM UTC|

Gaming

Apex Legends devs confirm esports hacking incident, respond with ‘layered’ updates

Jess Weatherbed

4:29 AM UTC|

Toys

Lego’s 3,745-piece D&D set comes with its own playable adventure

Jess Weatherbed

Mar 19|

Tech

Nvidia is using AI to turn game characters into chatbots

Jess Weatherbed

Mar 19|

Jess Weatherbed Mar 18

OpenAI’s custom chatbots are easier to make than market.

The Information reports on GPT Store developers disappointed by a lack of customers for their ChatGPT-style products and limited analytics support. One developer claims his role-playing chatbot “could have gotten more traffic by partnering with a small influencer on TikTok” after being featured for two weeks.

Verge reporter Emilia David had questions about the value of the GPT Store after struggling to “find a use” for chatbots made by other users, and it’s not clear if there are any great answers yet.

OpenAI’s Chatbot App Store Is Off to a Slow Start

[The Information]

Adobe

Adobe Substance 3D’s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures

Jess Weatherbed

Mar 18|

Jess Weatherbed Mar 18

Fitbit by Google is now just Google Fitbit.

Three years after completing its $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit, Google has taken another step towards integrating the fitness-tracking company into its hardware lineup with some updated branding.

Recent changes on the Fitbit website, first spotted by 9to5Google, include an updated wordmark that uses capitalized Google Sans font and ditches the dotted arrow logo, which is still featured on the brand's favicon.