How we made New York City with a pile of e-waste
June 2024This past week, we published Andrew Hawkins' feature E-Waste Empire, which tracked the millions of pounds of dead electronics that New York discards each year.
Steve Jobs movie review: portrait of a broken man
June 2024The single most poignant moment in Steve Jobs, Aaron Sorkin’s long-awaited study of the adored Apple founder, is perhaps its simplest: Jobs (Michael Fassbender), triumphant as the reinstated CEO of Apple and minutes away from debut of the iMac, confesses to his 19-year-old daughter Lisa that he’s imperfect.
'Fallout 3' photo pilgrimage reveals the digital apocalypse's real-world inspirations
June 2024While those of us who grew up in the Washington, D.C. area may have noticed some liberal artistic license in Fallout 3's depiction of the region, certain real-world locations were recreated with a familiar accuracy.
3.33 years after its release, someone actually beat Threes
June 2024If you’re not familiar with Threes, it is, at its heart, a simple game. Players swipe tiles together, combining a blue “1” and red “2” to create a “3.
8BitDos drift-free Ultimate Bluetooth Controller is selling for a new low of $55.99
June 2024Nobody likes stick drift in their game controllers, but everybody loves a good deal. So this sale on the 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth Controller and its drift-free Hall effect sticks is a perfect solution.
8chan returns to the internet as 8kun
June 2024Missing from the list of 8kun’s boards is /pol/, where the alleged El Paso, Texas shooter published his manifesto earlier this year.
A 422-page Christmas gift for the know-it-all gamer in your life
June 2024I know nothing about Britain's game development scene in the 1980s. Most Americans don't, but the blindspot is embarrassing considering I pride myself on having a deep knowledge of video game history.
Acers new education Chromebooks include durable designs and Arm-based processors
June 2024Acer is announcing five new laptops aimed at schools today, consisting of four Chromebooks and one Windows convertible. Two of the Chromebooks are Intel-based convertibles, with screens that spin around to turn them into laptops, while the other two feature a more traditional design and are powered by Arm-based processors.
AI tools will make it easy to create fake porn of just about anybody
June 2024With nothing more than a few photographs and some free software, it’s now possible to quickly graft anyone’s face onto pornographic images, videos, and GIFs.
Airbus develops electronic flight bag apps for iPad-wielding pilots
June 2024A number of airlines have adopted iPads for their electronic flight bags (EFBs) as a way of cutting down on weight, and now airplane manufacturer Airbus is helping further lighten the load by offering apps for tablet-toting pilots.
Alpha Motors EV designs look cool, but will they ever get made?
June 2024Alpha Motor Corporation is nominally an electric vehicle startup. It has spent the last year pumping out retro-futuristic design after retro-futuristic design, one of which just won the award at this year’s LA Auto Show for best electric coupe.
Amazon and Apple call a truce in lawsuit over 'app store' trademark
June 2024Just in time for the fifth anniversary of Apple's App Store, Apple and rival Amazon have agreed to a truce in a long-running trademark infringement lawsuit over whether Amazon has the rights to use the term 'app store' in its own Amazon Appstore for Android.
Amazon fined $1.3 billion for abusing market position in Italy
June 2024Amazon has been fined $1.3 billion (€1.1 billion) by antitrust regulators in Italy. The company is accused of using its dominance in the online shopping world to steer Italian sellers into using its logistics service, Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA).
Amazon Fire HD 10 review: more personal TV than personal computer
June 2024In recent years, the tablet world has been little more than the iPad world. If you’re looking for a tablet, it’s very likely that the iPad is the right tablet for you.
Amazon Musics Maestro lets listeners make AI playlists
June 2024Amazon Music may soon let you create playlists with a text prompt using Maestro, its new AI playlist maker. Maestro, which is currently available in beta to a small number of Amazon Music subscribers in the US, will let users put together playlists using any prompt, including emojis, Amazon said in a blog post.
Amazon rebrands FreeTime to Amazon Kids to make the service less confusing
June 2024Amazon debuted FreeTime back in 2012 as a way for kids to enjoy and experience tech and for parents to easily monitor their kids’ usage.
AMDs 7nm Ryzen 5000 mobile processors promise 2021s best gaming notebooks
June 2024At its CES 2021 keynote, AMD has announced its new Ryzen 5000 mobile CPUs. Most (but not all) of them are based on the company’s 7nm “Zen 3” architecture.
AMDs Radeon RX 5500 is its new entry-level competitor to Nvidias GTX 1650
June 2024AMD has announced its second series of GPUs based on its new 7nm RDNA architecture: the Radeon RX 5500 series. While the company says the RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT were aimed at running games at 1440p resolution and high frame rates to compete with Nvidia’s midrange RTX Super cards, its latest GPUs have more modest specs and aim to offer decent performance at a resolution of 1080p.
An exploit let a security researcher into Apple, Microsoft, and PayPal
June 2024Security researcher Alex Birsan has found a security vulnerability that allowed him to run code on servers owned by Apple, Microsoft, PayPal, and over 30 other companies (via Bleeping Computer).
Apple adds voicemail transcription to iOS 10
June 2024Apple announced a whole raft of new communication focused features with iOS 10 at WWDC today, but really, what we're most looking forward to are voicemail transcriptions.
Apple delays Mac App Store sandbox deadline
June 2024Apple has pushed back the deadline on its polarizing sandbox rules until March 1st, giving app developers more time to toe the line on the new guidelines.
Apple will reportedly launch an M3-equipped iMac later this year
June 2024Apple’s readying a new iMac that could launch as early as the second half of this year, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Apple will soon offer better support for third-party iPhone displays and batteries
June 2024But perhaps more interesting is the fact that Apple also published a new whitepaper — “Longevity, by Design” (PDF link) — that explains “the company’s principles for designing for longevity.
Apple's new upgrade program makes it easy to buy an iPhone every year
June 2024Apple today announced the iPhone Upgrade Program, a new initiative that will let consumers buy new, unlocked iPhones from the company and move up to the new flagship model every year.
Apples most expensive MacBook Pro now costs $6,700
June 2024That may sound a lot at first, but Apple hasn’t really changed the prices on anything from last year to this year: the top-spec MacBook Pro is priced higher than ever because Apple is offering more options than it has in the past.
ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world
June 2024A Japanese supercomputer has taken the top spot in the biannual Top500 supercomputer speed ranking. Fugaku, a computer in Kobe co-developed by Riken and Fujitsu, makes use of Fujitsu’s 48-core A64FX system-on-chip.
Ask Stoya: My girlfriend wants to read my texts is that normal?
June 2024My girlfriend (3 months) and I just broke up because I wouldn’t let her read text messages between a female friend of mine and me.
At CES, everything was AI, even when it wasnt
June 2024It may be the year of AI at CES, but many of these “AI” features have been around for a while — it’s just that companies are only now embracing the branding of artificial intelligence.
Augmented reality headset company Daqri is reportedly shutting down
June 2024Daqri, known for its business-focused augmented reality headsets, is reportedly shutting down. TechCrunch wrote yesterday that the company’s headquarters had been shuttered and many employees had been laid off, citing reports from former staff members.
Beyond Good & Evil 2 development continues amid Ubisoft cancellations
June 2024“Beyond Good and Evil 2’s development is under way and the team is hard at work to deliver on its ambitious promise,” a Ubisoft spokesperson tells Eurogamer.
Blue Ella review: freaky design meets superior sound
June 2024Even if you’ve never heard of Blue as a company, you’ll have no doubt heard its microphones at some point in your explorations of the web.
Bose announces QuietComfort 45 noise-canceling headphones with 24-hour battery life
June 2024After they first surfaced in July in an FCC filing and again earlier this month, Bose is today introducing the QuietComfort 45 headphones.
Bose gets into hearing aid business with new FDA-cleared SoundControl hearing aids
June 2024Bose announced today that it will begin selling direct-to-consumer SoundControl hearing aids for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss on May 18th.
Carvana will apply a clean vehicle tax credit at checkout for used EVs
June 2024You will still need to file your taxes correctly using IRS Form 8936, and you have to agree to transfer the credit to Carvana once you do file.
Crash Bandicoot 4: Its About Time review: a charming throwback
June 2024The Crash Bandicoot series has always occupied a strange place in the pantheon of platform games. It doesn’t offer the sheer joy of movement and discovery that has propelled the Super Mario games, nor the technical spectacle that drives each new Ratchet and Clank title.
Dell XPS 13 (late-2020) review: greatness, refined
June 2024This is an easy review. Today, we’re looking at the XPS 13 9310, Dell’s best-in-class 13-inch ultraportable laptop. It’s identical to the Dell XPS 13 9300, which I reviewed back in April, in every way, except one: it has Intel’s new 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors.
Designer death: 'Elysium' concept art shows the chilling dystopia of humanaugmentation
June 2024Elysium may not have lived up to everyone's expectations as a movie, but it sure was an incredible looking vision of the future.
Diablo IV boasts extensive character and class customization options
June 2024Forget BK — you can also have it your way in Diablo IV, too. Blizzard released a video highlighting the various customization options available to players to ensure every new arrival to Sanctuary is unique.
Dril and AOC are now on Bluesky
June 2024Two Twitter icons joined Bluesky on Thursday. Dril was first, with AOC joining shortly after. The invite-only decentralized Twitter alternative has been gaining steam in recent days — I’ve seen a lot of people I follow on the bird-themed social network start to show up on Bluesky.
Drops signature MT3 profile mechanical keycaps are buy one get one free
June 2024I know Saturdays are usually for sleeping in, but I hope you don’t sleep on this round of deals. Drop has a very special sale on its exclusive collection of MT3 profile keycaps for Cherry-style mechanical keyboards.
Dysons AR app shows you where youve vacuumed
June 2024Dyson has developed a new feature that uses your smartphone’s augmented reality sensors to virtually paint over areas you’ve vacuumed, so you can see if you’ve missed a spot.
Elgatos new HDMI 2.1 capture cards are finally here forXboxSeries X and PS5 streaming
June 2024Elgato is finally ready to launch its HDMI 2.1 cards and on February 1st, or 2/1, no less. After months of teasers, there are now two options for gamers wanting to capture footage from the latest Xbox Series X and PS5 consoles at higher framerates and resolution.
Elon Musk donates $1 million to plant trees after testifying that hes cash-poor
June 2024Musk told the YouTuber he would make the donation on Twitter after some nudging by Marques “MKBHD” Brownlee, who has interviewed Musk in the past and is an avid Tesla fan.
Engineering coffee: experiencing the Alpha Dominche Steampunk
June 2024Bombeck promised me that operation of the Steampunk required minimal training, and sure enough, after a quick demo and a handful of instructions, I, an unexperienced barista, was able to brew delicate and nuanced cups of coffee from the machine in minutes.
Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in May
June 2024Normally in these posts I try to put together some sort of competition-style write-up, pitting the services against one another in a streaming free-for-all.
Examining AMCs embarrassingly stupid investment in a literal gold mine
June 2024AMC threw both its analysts and memestock shareholders for a loop this week after the company announced it was acquiring a 22 percent stake in a mining company.
FAA clears UPS delivery drones for longer-range flights
June 2024UPS delivery drones are now allowed to fly longer distance flights beyond the sight of ground operators, the Federal Aviation Administration revealed in a press release on Wednesday.
Far Harbor pulled me right back into Fallout 4
June 2024I had grand plans after I wrapped up the main story of Fallout 4 back in November. I was going to work on my settlements, building them up into places people would actually want to live, while wandering the Commonwealth wrapping up all of the quests I had left unfinished.
Figma pulls AI tool after criticism that it ripped off Apples design
June 2024Figma’s new tool Make Designs lets users quickly mock up apps using generative AI. Now, it’s been pulled after the tool drafted designs that looked strikingly similar to Apple’s iOS weather app.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has a release date
June 2024Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the sequel to the remake of the beloved RPG, finally has a release window. It’ll be coming to the PS5 in early 2024.
Fitbit One and Zip hands-on and press image gallery
June 2024/ Images of Fitbit One and Fitbit Zip By Thomas Ricker, a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad.
GM says its cars are protected against the OnStar hack
June 2024"Impacted customers will receive a communication from OnStar today and the previous version of the app will be decommissioned following that communication to ensure customer security,"
Golf Peaks turns mini-golf into a card-based puzzle game
June 2024It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play.
Google Assistant Driving Mode appears to be coming to Android at last
June 2024The Google Assistant Driving mode that the company first announced in 2019 has started appearing on some Android devices, XDA-Developers reported.
Google explains 'How Search Works' with new interactive site
June 2024Google has launched a new animated website called "How Search Works." It's an interactive scrolling graphic that shows what goes on behind the scenes everytime someone types a query into Google Search, broken into three distinct sections: one on Google's massive web-crawling and indexing operation (covering 30 trillion pages), another on its alogrithms and ranking strategy, and a final section on how it fights and removes spam.
Google forces YouTube Vanced to shut down due to legal reasons
June 2024“DISCONTINUATION OF THE VANCED PROJECT Vanced has been discontinued. In the coming days, the download links will be taken down. The Discord server, Telegram chat and subreddit will stay for the time being.
Google Home now supports multiple users, but still cant separate work and personal accounts
June 2024We ask you to say the phrases “Ok Google” and “Hey Google” two times each. Those phrases are then analyzed by a neural network, which can detect certain characteristics of a person's voice.
Googles making it even easier to remove your personal info from search
June 2024Google’s “results about you” tool, meant to simplify the process of removing search results that contain personally identifying information, is starting to roll out to some users, according to a report from 9to5Google.
Googles Pixel Buds app will soon remind you to clean your earbuds
June 2024When was the last time you cleaned your earphones? Ideally, you’re not leaving it long enough to see a sizable amount of crud building up (which is fairly unavoidable when you’re regularly shoving them into your ears), but if you happen to own a pair of Google Pixel Buds or Pixel Buds Pro then don’t worry — Google will soon remind you.
Grand Theft Auto 5s new ray tracing on PS5 and Xbox Series X / S looks fantastic
June 2024Grand Theft Auto V now has ray-traced reflections on PS5 and Xbox Series X / S consoles. A new patch, spotted by Eurogamer, brings ray-traced reflections to the game’s fidelity mode (30fps), adding a lot more realistic detail to vehicles, characters, windows, and basically any glossy surfaces.
Hades turns death into a chance to try something new
June 2024In most games, death feels like a waste of time. That’s true whether I die because I fail to react quickly enough, don’t have the right gear, or am just outmatched by the challenge before me.
Halo Infinites co-op and Forge modes delayed to November
June 2024343 Industries is delaying its next season of Halo Infinite to March 2023, extending its current season that started in May to 10 months long instead of the original promised three months.
Haunting of Bly Manor review: a puzzle box disguised as a ghost story
June 2024Let’s just get this out of the way: the follow-up to Netflix’s excellent horror series The Haunting of Hill House is nowhere near as scary as its predecessor.
Head to head: Nanoleaf Skylight versus Aqara Ceiling Light T1M which is the best smart ceiling l
June 2024For too long, color-changing smart lighting has been stuck inside bulbs and light strips, limiting its use to table lamps, the occasional recessed can light, and maybe lighting up the underside of your cabinets.
Healthcare.gov's technical problems frustrate Americans
June 2024In the wake of the glitch-ridden launch of the US government's online health insurance marketplace, the Obama administration is reportedly considering loosening the requirements for hiring federal tech workers and establishing a special agency to oversee future tech projects, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Heres how to pick between the Apple Watch Series 6, SE, and older models
June 2024Starting price$399$279$399$199ProcessorS6 dual-core processorS5 dual-core processorS5 dual-core processorS3 dual-core processorwatchOS versionwatchOS 7watchOS 7watchOS 7watchOS 7Water resistanceWater resistant up to 50 metersWater resistant up to 50 metersWater resistant up to 50 metersWater resistant up to 50 metersConnectivityWi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 5.
Heres what Apple means when it says its event was shot on iPhone
June 2024It’s a neat way to promote the recording quality of iPhone cameras, but it’s not like everyday folks can recreate these kinds of results at home unless they happen to own a shedload of ludicrously expensive equipment.
Honda made an airport robot to handle all the boring, repetitive tasks
June 2024Honda’s latest robot is an autonomous work vehicle (AWV) designed to handle all the boring, repetitive tasks at airports. It’s also meant to demonstrate that autonomous vehicles can have other purposes that don’t involve jamming up city streets or obstructing emergency vehicles.
Hot-Blood Dance Crew is coming to the US from Chinas largest streaming service iQiyi
June 2024China’s largest streaming service, iQiyi, is bringing one of its most popular television shows to North and South America. The dance-off reality TV show Hot-Blood Dance Crew will now be shown on Rakuten Viki, a popular video platform that allows Americans to stream Asian dramas like Boys Over Flowers, My Love From the Star, and Goblin.
How I learned that Google Lens is more than a gimmick
June 2024Last Saturday, I discovered two things: I needed to buy a doorbell for my mother’s apartment, and Google Lens could be a really useful time-saver.
How its possible for a person to be sucked from an airplane mid-flight
June 2024When the left engine on Southwest 1380 exploded today, a woman was nearly sucked out of the plane through the broken window next to her, other passengers on the flight told NBC.
How Microsoft finally landed helicopters and gliders for Flight Simulator
June 2024Today is a big day for Microsoft Flight Simulator fans, as helicopters and gliders finally take to the skies in the 40th Anniversary Edition of the game.
How to hide faces and scrub metadata when you photograph a protest
June 2024While showing up at a protest can demonstrate your opinion to the world, you may not want your face — or the faces of other protesters — to be included, especially when there is the possibility that authorities will collect and use that information (as they have for tracking movements during COVID-19 social distancing).
How to retweet using Twitters new temporary format
June 2024Twitter is temporarily changing how you retweet ahead of the November 3rd US presidential election, to help prevent abuse and the spread of misinformation.
How to turn a Stormtrooper toy into a kid-sized Halloween costume
June 2024A year ago, Jakks Pacific released a massive toy for part of their Force Awakens line: a 48-inch stormtrooper. It’s a neat action figure, with a motion-activated sensor that allows it to repeat a couple canned lines.
How to use Braves tools to protect your privacy while browsing
June 2024Brave, which came out of beta last fall, is a browser with a difference. Aggressively anti-advertising, the Chromium-based browser strips sites of their ads while allowing users to opt in to its own set of anonymized advertising.
HTC unveils new Vive Pro 2 with 5K resolution display and 120Hz refresh rate
June 2024HTC has unveiled the new Vive Pro 2, an update to its high-end virtual reality headset that adds a host of small but worthwhile improvements.
I thought I knew the future of luggage, but then I saw this suitcase that follows you around
June 2024I really did think I knew the whole future of luggage. A rideable suitcase? That seemed to be the pinnacle of innovation.
Insta360 Link review: this webcam takes Center Stage
June 2024One of the biggest trends in webcams is software that automatically keeps you in frame as you move around. Apple popularized it on the iPad and Studio Display with its Center Stage feature, and even buzzy upstarts like Opal provide it as an option on its dedicated webcams.
Instagrams upcoming Twitter competitor shown in leaked screenshots
June 2024One of Meta’s top executives showed employees a preview of the company’s upcoming Twitter competitor during a companywide meeting today that was watched by The Verge.
Intels 10nm Cannon Lake chips are delayed again
June 2024Intel is once again delaying the release of its next-generation 10nm Cannon Lake processors, with mass production on the chips now expected for 2019 instead of the end of 2018 as originally planned, via Engadget.
Introspection is at the core of puzzle game Old Mans Journey
June 2024It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play.
iPad Mini 2021 review: a little different
June 2024The complete redesign of the $499 2021 iPad Mini has a lot of people taking a second look at it — myself included.
iPhone X units are shipping sooner than expected
June 2024If you ordered an iPhone X that was expected to arrive later in November, you might want to double check your order — there are multiple confirmed reports of Apple shipping out iPhone X units earlier than the original November 17th to 24th estimate.
Itch.io is waiving all sales fees today for Creator Day
June 2024Indie game storefront Itch.io is waiving sales fees on everything today, May 14th, as part of the company’s first Creator Day.
John Carpenters Toxic Commando is a new video game from the horror icon
June 2024Horror legend nerd John Carpenter is helping make a new game called John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando. Based on a brief trailer, it looks like you’ll be taking on hordes of zombies in a first-person shooter — fortunately, there were a lot of cars featured in the trailer that were used to fend off the enemies.
Jon Stewart on AI, Lina Khan, and the other things Apple didnt want him to say
June 2024In the months since the cancellation of The Problem With Jon Stewart on Apple TV Plus, the former host of the show, Jon Stewart, has revealed details here and there about the acrimonious relationship with Apple.
Kindle Fire review - The Verge
June 2024Look and Feel To be clear, the software experience of the Fire isn't wholly disconnected compared to other Android tablets or phones.
Lime launches weekly subscription service for frequent riders
June 2024Lime just announced LimePass, a weekly subscription service that waives the unlock fee on renting the company’s electric scooters and bicycles.
Lofree Flow review: converting to the low-profile lifestyle
June 2024Low-profile mechanical keyboards have always seemed a bit odd to me. I get the appeal — in theory, they offer a slim, visually lighter design similar to a typical membrane chiclet keyboard while maintaining the improved tactility and better typing experience of a traditional mechanical keyboard.
Many of the short stories that inspired Love, Death + Robots are free online
June 2024Last week, Netflix dropped the 18-episode series Love, Death + Robots, an anthology of short animated films produced by Seven director David Fincher and Deadpool director Tim Miller.
Mars might have a ring like Saturn's in 20 million years
June 2024Mars' gravitational pull is slowly tearing apart one of its two moons, Phobos, which will lead to the space rock's inevitable destruction.
Math says Jon Snow is the most important player in Westeros, too bad he's so dead
June 2024Jon Snow, who is obviously very dead and never coming back, may have been the key to the whole A Song of Ice and Fire story.
Meta says about half of its Reality Labs operating expenses go toward AR
June 2024The company has been pushing toward its vision of AR glasses for a while, and while that product might still be very far out, Meta has taken recent steps to get closer to it.
Microsoft backtracks on Xbox Live Gold price hike
June 2024We messed up today and you were right to let us know. Connecting and playing with friends is a vital part of gaming and we failed to meet the expectations of players who count on it every day.
Microsoft has nine months to stop another antitrust battle from escalating
June 2024Microsoft has reached a settlement with an industry group backed by European cloud infrastructure providers, quelling an antitrust battle that could have embroiled it for years and resulted in fines.
Microsoft really recorded a Christmas carol with the words Bingle Bells
June 2024Microsoft tweeted a fake commercial for a pretend holiday album called Microsoft Holiday Hits, a not-real, four-CD album that claims it features “60 festive favorites.
Microsoft unlocks Copilot AI inside Office apps for all businesses
June 2024Microsoft is unlocking the doors for all businesses to get access to its AI-powered Office features. Microsoft’s Copilot for Microsoft 365 launched in November, with enterprise customers having to commit to at least 300 users and pick up the phone to get on the list.
Microsoft's flagship New York City store opens its doors on October 26th
June 2024Microsoft is opening its first flagship store in New York City later next month. Located just a few blocks away from Apple's iconic cube on Fifth Avenue, Microsoft's new retail location will replace an old Fendi store at 677 Fifth Avenue and serve as the company's first full retail store in Manhattan.
Motorola Moto E (2020) and Moto G Fast review: smartphone basics on a budget
June 2024Despite a recent run of high-end phones, Motorola’s ambition for the past few years has been to own the budget and midrange phone space.
N++ is impossibly hard, and I cant stop playing
June 2024I’ve come to accept that I’ll never see all there is to see in N++. I blame a combination of factors, really.
Netflix is rapidly taking over the Emmys
June 2024This year’s Emmy nominations are out, and one thing is abundantly clear: Netflix is now an entertainment powerhouse, close on the heels of HBO.
Netflixs new Avatar: The Last Airbender trailer has cute critters and dramatic battles
June 2024We’re about a month away from the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender on Netflix, which can only mean one thing: it’s time for a trailer.
Netflixs Yu Yu Hakusho needed more time in the spirit world
June 2024When Netflix’s One Piece launched to generally favorable reviews and fan enthusiasm, it gave me hope that the same quality and care that went into it would go into its other adaptation of a seminal work in shonen anime: Yu Yu Hakusho.
Netgears new $509.99 5G hotspot is coming to AT&T on September 18th
June 2024AT&T has announced pricing and a release date for Netgear’s latest 5G hotspot, which it will start selling exclusively for $509.
Nix Hydration Biosensor review: for the athlete who sweats the details
June 2024Everywhere I look, people and gadgets are yelling at me to hydrate. On social media, the algorithm bombards me with fitness and beauty influencers who say I should drink a gallon of water a day.
OnLive Universal Wireless Controller review
June 2024Non-Onlive games? Sorry, it doesn't do that I started using the OnLive controller and dongle on a laptop — probably the least unique use of the controller, as there are plenty of options in this realm, but by far the most practical.
OpenAI is making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits
June 2024OpenAI says ChatGPT Edu will allow universities to “responsibly deploy AI to students, faculty, researchers, and campus operations.” It’s built on its faster GPT-4o model, which offers improved multimodal capabilities across text, vision, and audio.
OpenAI will use Associated Press news stories to train its models
June 2024OpenAI will train its AI models on The Associated Press’ news stories for the next two years, thanks to an agreement first reported by Axios.
Orange is the New Black can't compete for a comedy Emmy
June 2024The decision is an unexpected one, because the show competed as a comedy at the 2014 Emmys, with Uzo Aduba, aka "
Parrot Bebop 2 review: fun, fine, and fatally flawed
June 2024I flew the Bebop 2 in three different locations: a park in New York City; a beach in Hammonasset, Connecticut; and a golf course in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Peacock adds 2 million paid subscribers following months-long drought
June 2024Shell says the growth was “driven by content,” citing the end of NBC’s content-sharing deal with Hulu in September, which brought next-day streaming of shows like Saturday Night Live, Law & Order, and One Chicago exclusively to Peacock.
Pixel 3 XL found in a Lyft, had already leaked enough for driver to recognize it
June 2024It’s been the subject of creepshots on public transit. It’s reportedly been stolen and sold for thousands on the black market a full two months before its official announcement.
PlayStation 5 wont be available for in-store purchase on launch day, Sony confirms
June 2024After a hectic preorder season, Sony today announced that there will be no PlayStation 5 consoles available for walk-in purchases at retail stores on the console’s launch date.
PlayStation Network is back after hours of partial outage
June 2024Your PS5, PS4, PS3, and Vita might have looked normal — but if you had issues, it’s because Sony’s PlayStation Network was not completely healthy.
Pokmon Concierge is coming to Netflix
June 2024Though Netflix has become one of the only reliable places to stream the Pokémon anime, the streamer’s gearing up to launch an intriguing series of its own.
Popular link in bio service Linktree is launching an app for iOS and Android
June 2024Linktree, a popular “link in bio” service, is launching a mobile app on iOS and Android, the company announced on Tuesday.
Porsche 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid boasts 770 horsepower, gets 78 miles per gallon
June 2024The world's first plug-in hybrid supercar, the 918 Spyder, has just finished a series of driving trials, and now Porsche has revealed some impressive new specs for the car.
Predictions for the future of smartphones
June 2024What will the smartphone look like in 10 years? The most likely answer, I’m afraid, is one of two options: it’s either completely unknowable or disappointingly predictable.
Prehistoric fossils suggest modern dogs evolved from a single population of wolves
June 2024The dogs of ancient Europe probably looked a lot like the mutts roaming Europe today, new DNA discoveries from dog fossils suggest.
Punch Quest is the iPhones hottest game, but its a financial flop
June 2024Rocketcat Games' Punch Quest was released last week and it's already the talk of the iPhone gaming world — not only has the title been downloaded more than 630,000 times, Metacritic also lists it as one of the highest rated games on the platform to date.
Putting your face into Fallout 4 is exactly as cool as you'd think
June 2024Intel is very keen for you to know all about its RealSense technology, which combines three cameras to see and map the world.
Revels mopeds are a fun ride around Brooklyn and Queens
June 2024The electric motor scooters came at dawn. Slowly, at first, but then truckful after truckful. They were parked on the streets of densely populated (and mostly affluent) neighborhoods across Brooklyn and Queens like Williamsburg, Park Slope, Long Island City, and Astoria.
Samsung adds DisplayPort and more Multi View options to second massive Ark monitor
June 2024Samsung’s latest massive 55-inch Odyssey Ark monitor is now available to buy in the US for $2,999.99, the company announced today.
Samsung announces 85-inch version of its outdoor TV with a giant price to match
June 2024You can’t just stick any regular TV out on the back porch and expect it to survive; there’s a reason outdoor TVs usually sell for a hefty premium.
Samsung Galaxy S10 review: the awkward middle child
June 2024Samsung’s Galaxy S10 lineup of phones is perhaps the most expansive and extensive line of devices to share the same basic name.
Samsungs 65-inch Frame TV is over $600 off at Woot
June 2024For example, the 55-inch Samsung Frame TV is $1,087.99 ($412 off), and the 65-inch model is $1,397.99 ($602 off). The latter is a great size for many people looking to go big, but if you want a gargantuan Frame, you can also get the 85-inch version for $2,697.
Shinolas Runwell Turntable is an elegant first step into the audio business
June 2024Shinola announced today that it's getting into the audio business with its new Runwell Turntable. The turntable marks the first release from the new Shinola Audio division of the Detroit-based company, which is typically known for its leatherwear products, bicycles, and watches.
Snapchat apologizes for leaked user data, updates app to let you opt out of 'Find Friends'
June 2024In the past week, many have called for an apology from Snapchat, and even for CEO Evan Spiegel's job. Today's apology won't entirely satisfy Snapchat critics, but is a wise move nonetheless for the young company as it faces perhaps its biggest PR disaster to date.
SonicFox beat a troll in Mortal Kombat and forced him to become a furry
June 2024EVO doesn’t start until August, but the best fighting game match of the year has already happened. Dominique “SonicFox” McLean is a fighting games legend.
Sonos Arc soundbar review: excellent Atmos surround sound
June 2024The new Sonos Arc soundbar is perhaps the biggest flex of the company’s design, engineering, and technology advancements that we’ve seen yet.
Sony Xperia P review - The Verge
June 2024In case you've lost count, it's now been six months since Google released the source code for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Space Craft - The Verge
June 2024AWS in space? Amazon streamlined logistics for moving goods, and Amazon Web Services does the same for many operations on the internet.
Space startup Momentus charged by SEC with misleading investors
June 2024The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday charged embattled space infrastructure startup Momentus Space and its founder, Mikhail Kokorich, with allegedly misleading investors about its propulsion technology and downplaying regulators’ national security concerns associated with Kokorich, who is Russian.
Starlink Mini is now available for anyone in the US to roam
June 2024The laptop-sized all-in-one dish can even be powered directly by a USB-PD power source capable of 100W (20V/5A) — that means anywhere from an hour of usage when using a small power bank to a few days when connected to a solar generator.
Sticking a leather cover on my laptop seemed like a good idea
June 2024Until it fell victim to the Flexgate calamity, my MacBook Pro had been spending the past few months comfortably ensconced in a stick-on Toast leather cover.
Still Wakes the Deep review: the horror of the ocean gets more tactile
June 2024The sea is basically the blue skin of the world, yet we know so little of its depths. Much like the vastness of space, it is filled with mystery.
Study: viewers have no patience for buffering, abandon videos after two seconds of waiting
June 2024It's hardly a surprise that viewership drops the longer it takes for a video to buffer, but a professor has analyzed data from 6.
Summer Game Fest 2023: how to watch
June 2024Summer Game Fest 2023 is nearly here. Geoff Keighley’s major summer gaming event takes place on Thursday, and this year, it might have some special significance.
Surprise! Google will let the Pixel 8 run on-device AI after all
June 2024We did it, y’all. We bullied Google into letting the Pixel 8 run on-device AI. Starting with the next Pixel feature drop, the Pixel 8 will use Gemini Nano for a couple of AI features.
T-Mobile is reportedly adding a $35 Device Connection Charge
June 2024T-Mobile hasn’t responded to our request to confirm the new charge, but according to the internal documents obtained by The T-Mo Report and corroborated on Reddit, the $35 Device Connection Charge will be applied to all new postpaid device activations.
Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space' is now an iOS / Android game and it's actually worth playing
June 2024I'm playing an interactive music video for Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" and I'm doing everything I can to avoid Taylor Swift.
TCL 10 5G UW review: the first budget-friendly phone with 5G
June 2024The TCL 10 5G UW is the latest 5G phone exclusive to Verizon’s network today, and it’s the most affordable 5G-ready phone yet — for the moment, at least.
Tesla warns that the Model 3 is about to lose half of its tax credit in the US
June 2024A federal tax credit funded through the Inflation Reduction Act can currently shave up to $7,500 off the price of Tesla’s Model 3, but that’s about to drop in half.
The 29 best graduation gifts for the class of 2023
June 2024Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Plug Slim (three-pack) Nothing feels more like heaven than crawling into bed after a long day of work — that is, until you realize you forgot to turn off the lights.
The Animal Crossing-inspired Nintendo Switch Lite is down to its best price yet
June 2024From terrific deals on MacBooks to the Super Mario Party Joy-Con bundle, Walmart’s rival Prime Day sale has surprised us with some pretty good deals.
The best April Fools prank in tech.
June 2024The best April Fools’ “prank” in tech. Turns out, it was Gmail. Twenty years ago, nobody believed Google would give out a whole gigabyte of email storage for free.
The best Black Friday book deals from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and more
June 2024While most people tend to focus on the big deals on things like TVs or laptops on Black Friday, it’s also a great time of the year to buy books.
The best coffee maker you can buy
June 2024It’s estimated that there are between two dozen and 100 different species of coffee plants, but for the common drinker, only two matter: coffee arabica and canephora.
The CIA says that Chinas security agencies provided funds for Huawei: report
June 2024Earlier this year, the Central Intelligence Agency informed its counterparts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK that Chinese technology company Huawei has received funding from the Central National Security Commission of the Communist Party of China, the People’s Liberation Army, and a “third branch of the Chinese state intelligence network,” according to The Times.
The classic game Myst is coming to your iPhone or iPad
June 2024The classic puzzle game Myst is celebrating its 30th birthday this year with a new way to play: on your iOS device.
The first film by Roma director Alfonso Cuarn is streaming on Netflix
June 2024There are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that it’s hard to see through all the crap you could be watching.
The history of the Walkman: 35 years of iconic music players
June 2024We take portable music for granted these days. Any commuter in any big city in the world is more likely than not to have a pair of earbuds or headphones on as they walk, bike, or ride to their destination.
The Invincible review: stranded on a harsh alien world
June 2024For a while there, first-person exploration games — otherwise known as walking simulators — were all the rage. There were titles like Gone Home, Firewatch, What Remains of Edith Finch, and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture that were basically FPS games without the guns, allowing players to explore spaces from a first-person viewpoint, uncovering a story as they went.
The Last of Us TV shows premiere date was revealed by the HBO Max app
June 2024HBO’s adaption of The Last of Us could premiere on Sunday, January 15th, according to text that’s appeared from HBO Max.
The new Apple News logo will look very familiar to Dota 2 fans
June 2024It's not unusual for Dota 2 fanatics like myself to perceive the game's logo in innocuous everyday objects, but when it comes to the new Apple News logo, I think even laypeople will have to agree that it bears a striking resemblance.
The New York Times' smartwatch cancer article is bad, and they should feel bad
June 2024Could your smartwatch be GIVING YOU CANCER? That's the claim made by a new article in The New York Times by Nick Bilton, originally titled "
The official Lisa Frank Facebook page is an internet safe space for aggressively positive memes
June 2024Consider your average internet meme. In a world of crying Jordans and Mr. Krabs blur memes, is there any place left on the internet that doesn't thrive off of laughing at someone else's misery?
The original Ninja Gaiden Black and II code has apparently been lost
June 2024People who missed out on the first 3D-action Ninja Gaiden games released in the aughts (and that other one that we don’t really talk about from 2012) will have a chance to play all three this coming June in Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection, announced for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PS4.
The popularity of zombies is due to a mistake in Night of the Living Dead
June 2024Zombies are everywhere, with blockbuster TV shows like The Walking Dead and in Game of Thrones, and films such as 28 Days Later, World War Z, Zombieland, and many others.
The Roku Channel is getting better about news
June 2024The Roku Channel is one of a few increasingly popular free ad-supported TV services — also known as FAST. With FAST, you get to watch lots of content for free, but you have to sit through ads.
The wildest Tears of the Kingdom builds weve seen
June 2024The most enjoyable aspect of Tears of the Kingdom for me right now isn’t so much my own adventures in the game.
The worlds strongest water gun is back and wetter than ever
June 2024Sypra has made a name for itself by creating powerful, electronic water guns, the first of which launched on Kickstarter in 2018.
These tree-climbing goats disperse seeds by spitting instead of pooping them out, study says
June 2024In Morocco, goats help disperse the seeds of local argan trees by spitting them out. This way of disseminating seeds might actually be more common than scientists have previously thought, according to a new study.
This backlit PC control panel is extremely dope
June 2024We've all dreamed of controlling a Star Trek-style control panel, managing a computer's functions through physical buttons and tactile commands. Well, some crazy bastard on the internet has really done it, mounting a hundred-button backlit control panel above his multi-monitor setup.
Tile now has QR labels for lost items
June 2024Tile announced its latest product, new QR code labels to help folks find their lost items. The Lost and Found Labels are meant to be used with things that don’t work well with regular Bluetooth item trackers, like earbud cases and school textbooks.
TiVo to merge with Xperi to create one of the largest licensing companies in the world
June 2024TiVo is combining with Xperi — a licensing firm that specializes in semiconductor technology as well as various A/V brands — in a $3 billion merger, the two companies announced today.
Twelve Souths new Apple Watch sweatband doesnt work with every watch
June 2024One of the defining features of the Apple Watch is the vast number of bands you can buy to make it fit your needs and style.
Twitch announces a program allowing DJs to split revenue with record labels
June 2024Livestreaming platform Twitch announced a new program aimed at DJs today that will allow creators to use copyrighted music in their streams by paying a fee.
Twitch streaming is returning to the Xbox dashboard
June 2024Microsoft is bringing back Twitch streaming integration directly into the Xbox dashboard. Twitch first appeared directly integrated into the Xbox One dashboard in 2014, using the original Snap interface to allow players to stream directly to the service.
Twitter has switched over to its Chirp font
June 2024Twitter is rolling out its Chirp font to the Twitter app and feed, meaning that your daily scrolling might look a little different than you’re used to.
Uncovering the past using the future: how lasers are revolutionizing archaeology
June 2024A map of the lost city of Mahendraparvata, created using lidar technology (Credit: Archaeology and Development Foundation — Phnom Kulen Program)
Vampire Survivors feels like a different game with a friend
June 2024Vampire Survivors with a friend is surprisingly slow. Typically, the indie hit feels frantic as your character automatically uses various weapons so you can defeat waves of oncoming enemies, scoop up experience gems, and race toward far-strung items across levels.
Verizon announces its nationwide 5G network
June 2024Verizon is making a big expansion of its 5G network: the carrier is now rolling out nationwide support for the new networking standard, which will reach more than 200 million people.
Verizons new Netflix and Max bundle costs $10 / month with ads
June 2024Verizon will soon offer customers a cheaper way to subscribe to Netflix and Max. Starting December 7th, myPlan customers can get a bundled subscription to both services for just $10 per month.
Volkswagen boss joins Twitter with a jab at Elon Musk
June 2024Volkswagen Group boss Herbert Diess joined twitter Wednesday, and his first tweet was a light trolling of Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
VR treatment for lazy eye in children gets FDA approval
June 2024The Food and Drug Administration approved a virtual reality-based treatment for children with the visual disorder amblyopia, or lazy eye, the company behind the therapy announced today.
Watch and listen to Matthew McConaughey making bizarre sounds
June 2024You've got your high art YouTube compilations, and then there are the videos that contain nothing but Matthew McConaughey making unintelligible noises for four entire minutes.
Watch Jordan Peele use AI to make Barack Obama deliver a PSA about fake news
June 2024What does the future of fake news look like? No one really knows, but here’s a little sampler from Jordan Peele and BuzzFeed, who teamed up to make the above PSA.
Watch the first 'Ender's Game' trailer and a Hangout with director Gavin Hood
June 2024As promised earlier this week, the first teaser trailer for Ender's Game has been released on YouTube. Along with the trailer, star Asa Butterfield (who plays Ender), director Gavin Hood, and producer Bob Orci are taking to a Google+ Hangout to talk about the upcoming adaptation of Orson Scott Card's classic science fiction novel.
Watch the first terrifying ride on the world's tallest water slide
June 2024The world's tallest water slide is almost ready for the public — it just needs a little bit more testing before it opens later this year.
Watch the first trailer for Veep season 4
June 2024TV, especially DC TV, has been a fun multiverse as of late. TV America has just seen the simultaneous inauguration of two different presidents — on the darkest timeline, we have President Frank Underwood on House of Cards, and now on the uncontested funniest timeline, we have President Selina Myer on Veep's fourth season, premiering April 12th on HBO.
Watch the new trailer for Christopher Nolans Tenet that just debuted in Fortnite
June 2024Christopher Nolan, one of Hollywood’s biggest proponents of the theatrical experience, is the latest director to see his movie get the Fortnite treatment.
Watch this new James Bond short from the guy behind that gritty Power Rangers video
June 2024Adi Shankar, the producer behind for the gritty Power Rangers reboot that wowed the internet last week, is back again, proving that phrases like "
Weve run out of things to crush, which is bad news for this Furby
June 2024Motherboard calls this pressing the “gruesome death” that Furby deserves, and the many YouTube commenters who apparently requested the video seem to agree.
Why I chose Brave as my Chrome browser replacement
June 2024Readers of this august website may recall that a year ago, I lauded Firefox and its progress toward becoming a genuine alternative to Google’s dominant Chrome browser.
Windows 11s next update arrives on September 26th with Copilot, AI-powered Paint, and more
June 2024Microsoft will release its next big Windows 11 update on September 26th. The update will include the new AI-powered Windows Copilot feature, a redesigned File Explorer, a new Ink Anywhere feature for pen users, big improvements to the Paint app, and much more.
WinGPT is a new ChatGPT app for your ancient Windows 3.1 PC
June 2024Someone has created a ChatGPT app for Windows 3.1 PCs. WinGPT brings a very basic version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT responses into an app that can run on an ancient 386 chip.
Xbox One no longer requires Kinect to be plugged in
June 2024Microsoft is making another Xbox One policy change by allowing gamers to use the upcoming console without Kinect. When Microsoft originally unveiled the Xbox One in May, the company said the Kinect would be a mandatory part of the system that needed to be plugged in at all times.
You can build this retractable glowing lightsaber using an old-school magic trick.
June 2024You can build this retractable glowing lightsaber using an old-school magic trick. Disney’s “real” lightsaber wowed us with a glowing blade that extended and retracted, but since it refuses to sell it to Star Wars fans, the YouTube channel HeroTech made its own using LED strips, motors, and a magician’s cane.
You no longer have to buy a new car or stereo to use Android Auto
June 2024During Google’s annual developers conference this past spring, the company teased a version of its Android Auto software that would run entirely on an Android phone and not require a new car or aftermarket dashboard display.
Your guide to this years summer video game events
June 2024As the corpse of E3 lies a-mouldrin’ in its grave, its spirit marches on in the form of a bevy of video game showcases and events.
YouTube lays off employees in business organization
June 2024YouTube is cutting jobs on the business side of the house, according to a person familiar with the matter. The news was announced internally on Wednesday by chief business officer Mary Ellen Coe, who oversees thousands of people working in areas like business operations, partnerships, and advertising.
Marco Polo is Netflix's $90 million rip-off of Game of Thrones
May 2024The first few minutes of Marco Polo, Netflix’s new $90 million medieval drama, are bloody. Battered by a long journey, our titular hero and his band have just come upon a village full of slaughtered peasants.
The Neon Demon: a spoiler-filled chat about the years best or worst movie
May 2024The film follows Jesse, played by Elle Fanning, a 16-year-old newcomer to Los Angeles who hopes to break into a career in modeling.
'The Wind Rises': the beauty and controversy of Miyazaki's finalfilm
May 2024Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises is a lot of things. It's the final feature-length film from one of the all-time greats of Japanese animation.
A filmmaker installed security software on a decoy phone to spy on smartphone thieves
May 2024Ever reached into your pocket to find your phone had been snatched? Dutch film student and former iPhone owner Anthony van der Meer experienced that awful feeling first-hand while having lunch in Amsterdam.
Akira Toriyamas coming back for a new Dragon Ball series
May 2024Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama has shifted to providing general narrative guidance and character designs for many of the franchise’s projects in recent years.
Alphabet shareholder pushes Google for better whistleblower protections
May 2024Alphabet shareholder Trillium Asset Management is pushing Google to adopt better whistleblower protections in light of the firing of prominent AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru.
Amazon just surprised everyone with a crazy speaker that talks to you
May 2024Well this one came out of nowhere: Amazon is building a speaker that's controlled with your voice. It's called Echo, and Amazon tells The Verge it will be "
Amazon outage isnt just online: delivery vans and warehouse bots arent moving packages
May 2024The Amazon Web Services outage that started this morning might be worse than it seemed. That’s not only because it’s reportedly cutting off some streams from Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, and Netflix, but because the apps that keep warehouse, delivery, and Amazon Flex workers connected are down, too.
Amazon sues group that fakes returns so people can get free MacBooks
May 2024Amazon is suing a naughty but enterprising group called REKK for offering a paid service to willing shoppers looking to get big-ticket items like laptops and game consoles for cheap by exploiting its return and refund system.
Amazons earnings miss means Jeff Bezos is no longer worlds richest person
May 2024Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is once again the world’s second richest person, after a brief stint earlier today as the wealthiest individual on Earth.
AMD's new graphics cards crank up the speed while keeping the price affordable
May 2024The RX500 cards aren’t dramatically different from their predecessors, but they up performance by boosting clock speeds across the line, without any impact to price.
Amnesia: Rebirth will launch for PC and PS4 on October 20th
May 2024Amnesia: Rebirth, the latest game from Swedish studio Frictional Games, will be released on October 20th. Rebirth is a sequel to Amnesia: The Dark Descent, which was released 10 years ago this month.
An exposed database tracked whether 1.8 million Chinese women were breed ready
May 2024Over the weekend, security researcher Victor Gevers stumbled upon a Chinese database of 1.8 million women that listed their names, physical addresses, phone numbers and one potentially more troubling status: whether they were “breed ready.
Anker Liberty Air 2 Pro review: $130 ANC earbuds worth listening to
May 2024It is increasingly hard to stand out in the wireless earbud market. You can find a pair of earbuds at nearly every price point with a range of different features sprinkled throughout.
Apple confirms iPod nano and iPod shuffle have been discontinued
May 2024The last of the traditional iPods that lacked internet connectivity are gone. Apple has quietly taken down the websites for both the iPod nano and iPod shuffle today.
Apple MacBook Pro review (2018, 15-inch): the heat is on
May 2024It seems like Apple can’t launch a laptop these days without walking face-first into at least one controversy. With the new MacBook Pros, it walked into two.
Apple resumes Apple Watch sales after ban is paused
May 2024You can once again buy the latest Apple Watches straight from Apple. The Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 will be available again in some physical Apple stores starting today, with wider availability expected by Saturday.
Apple Vision Pro launches February 2nd
May 2024It’s finally time: Apple has announced it will start shipping its Vision Pro headset on February 2nd in the United States.
Apples Siri will soon handle multiple smart home commands
May 2024Despite some hints toward a possible Apple smart display with its new StandBy feature for iPhones, Apple’s WWDC was underwhelming for the smart home.
Aston Martin DB11 perfects the imperfect square
May 2024Who says a wheel has to be round? On the Aston Martin DB11 steering wheel, square is the new round.
Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 review: sure, this one is good, too
May 2024Last week, I wrote about the ROG Strix Scar X3D: a gigantic, very expensive gaming laptop with off-the-charts benchmark scores. The X3D is a very exciting product in terms of what it represents for the laptop sphere but not something I necessarily see a whole bunch of people rushing to purchase.
Audacy exits onerous podcasting deal with APM
May 2024This story originally ran in Hot Pod Insider, a newsletter from The Verge on podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here.
Broadband gap: Google Fiber isn't the only revolution in Kansas City
May 2024You’re not in Mountain View anymoreYou’re not in Mountain View anymore Google started laying the groundwork for Fiber long before installing its first internet connection in November 2012.
Bungie.net to stop updating Halo data on March 31st, completing split from the franchise
May 2024If there's one thing that comes to mind when you hear about the game developer Bungie, it's got to be the mega-hit franchise Halo.
Call of Duty is the latest to detect and ban XIM cheaters
May 2024Activision is cracking down on third-party hardware cheating in Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Devices like XIM, Cronus Zen, and ReaSnow S1 have been widely used in Call of Duty to allow mouse and keyboard users to get the benefits of aim assist and reduced recoil from controller mixed with the benefits of movement from mouse and keyboard.
Call of Duty now shows you when a cheater has been booted right in the kill feed
May 2024There’s nothing worse in an online multiplayer Call of Duty lobby than facing a cheater that ruins the game, but players can now revel in the satisfaction of seeing them booted in real time.
Check out some wonderful Playdate game demos, including a low-fi Doom
May 2024Playdate, the tiny yellow handheld game console from software developer and indie game publisher Panic, is still in the works without a firm release date.
Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a warning for Silicon Valley
May 2024Around the time J. Robert Oppenheimer learned that Hiroshima had been struck (alongside everyone else in the world), he began to have profound regrets about his role in the creation of that bomb.
Chrome is about to look a bit different
May 2024Chrome on the desktop is about to get a new look. Google’s widely used browser is getting an update based on its Material You design language in the coming weeks, and in this case, that will include refreshed icons with “a focus on legibility” and new color palettes that “better complement your tabs and toolbar,” according to a blog post from Chrome VP Parisa Tabriz.
Coub is Russia's answer to the GIF, and it's coming to America
May 2024Short film clips that play on an endless loop are one of the internet's favorite forms of amusement. In the United States, GIFs, and more recently Vines, have done an admirable job satisfying this craving.
Crunchyroll ends free streaming for new and continuing series
May 2024Crunchyroll will no longer offer free ad-supported streaming for newly-released episodes, the anime streaming service announced in an update on its site (via Gizmodo).
Dad Adam Driver learns how to play Fortnite on SNL
May 2024Saturday Night Live returned for its 44th season this weekend, with The Last Jedi’s Adam Driver returning as host. While he didn’t reprise his role of Matt the Radar Technician from his 2016 appearance, he did jump on another cultural bandwagon: Fortnite.
DeviantArt's Muro adds Redraw: instant replay for art
May 2024In August of 2010, online art community DeviantArt released Muro — a free, Javascript- and HTML-based web app that allowed the site’s members to make complex, layered images and share them with the community; all without a hint of Flash.
Disney and YouTube TV cut a deal to bring back ESPN, FX, and other channels
May 2024Disney and YouTube TV have reached a deal today to put more than a dozen Disney-owned channels back on Google’s internet TV streaming service.
Disney pulls some movies from Disney Plus Kids profiles because they feature racist stereotypes
May 2024This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together.
DoorDash launches $1 million disaster relief fund for restaurants
May 2024Restaurant delivery platform DoorDash has launched a restaurant disaster relief fund that will offer grants of up to $10,000 to US restaurants affected by natural disasters over the next year, the company said Wednesday.
DreamWorks Animation is now owned by Comcast
May 2024Less than four months after Comcast announced its $3.8 billion plan to pick up DreamWorks Animation SKG, the deal is closed.
El-P publishes the email that led to the creation of Run The Jewels logo
May 2024The Run The Jewels logo is excellent. You've got all the classic design elements in play: disembodied hands, disembodied mummified hands, some bloody stumps, claw-like fingernails, and a gold chain fat enough to drown a small dog.
Elon Musk's best idea for stopping spambots is making you pay for extra Twitter DMs
May 2024Twitter will “soon” implement daily limits on the number of direct messages unverified accounts will be able to send in “an effort to reduce spam,” the company announced on Friday via its Twitter Support account.
Emirates, Air India, and others cancel flights due to AT&T and Verizons 5G rollout
May 2024On Tuesday, Emirates, Air India, ANA, and Japan Airlines all announced that they were canceling some flights to the US due to this week’s rollout of C-band 5G over concerns it could potentially interfere with some instruments, particularly on Boeing 777 aircraft.
Epic finally backpedals on Fortnites B.R.U.T.E. mech suit with dramatic nerfs
May 2024Epic Games has heard the feedback loud and clear, and this afternoon the Fortnite developer announced a series of sweeping changes to its newly introduced B.
Facebook is ending forced arbitration for sexual harassment complaints
May 2024Facebook will no longer force employees to settle sexual harassment claims in private arbitration, following a similar change at Google yesterday, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Facebook just changed its mission, because the old one was broken
May 2024Social media is a short-form medium where resonant messages get amplified many times. This rewards simplicity and discourages nuance. At its best, this focuses messages and exposes people to different ideas.
Fallout 76s new trailer introduces a dire post-apocalyptic world
May 2024There’s still a ways to go before the online-focused Fallout 76 launches, but Bethesda has provided a tiny taste of the post-apocalyptic world with a new introductory video.
Fitbit to remove Pandora, Deezer support from Sense, Versa watches, too
May 2024The writing is on the wall for Fitbit smartwatches. Today, the company announced its ending support for Pandora and Deezer on the Sense, Versa 2, and Versa 3 smartwatches.
For Amusement Only: the life and death of the American arcade
May 2024If you’ve never been inside a “real” arcade, it could be hard to distinguish one from say, oh, a Dave & Buster’s.
Fortnite shopping carts are giving Epic Games a big headache
May 2024One of Fortnite’s biggest draws is that it’s constantly updated with new things, like limited-time events or fancy weapons. While the steady drip of tweaks and additions help keep Fortnite fresh, it’s hard to predict how all these different elements will interact with one another.
Fossil Gen 5 smartwatch review: best of a Wear OS situation
May 2024I have been banging on about how Google’s smartwatch platform, Wear OS, needs work for well over a year now — and I’m far from alone.
Fujifilm made its first ever square format analog Instax camera
May 2024Fujifilm is announcing a square format analog Instax camera, and it sounds like a cute novelty gift to whip out at the dinner table.
Galaxy AI starts rolling out for the S23.
May 2024Galaxy AI starts rolling out for the S23. Are you’re using an older Samsung device and jealously eying up the Galaxy AI features available with this year’s phones?
Garmins new Tactix Bravo was made for your everyday SEAL Team Six mission
May 2024Garmin is known for its rugged and reliable outdoor performance wearables, but one of its newest watches is more suitable for a covert mission than a weekend warrior outing.
GM is ditching CarPlay for your safety.
May 2024GM is ditching CarPlay for your safety. MotorTrend paraphrased GM infotainment boss Tim Babbitt’s reasoning for ditching Android and Apple:
Good Sudoku on the iPhone teaches you the beauty of sudoku
May 2024Zach Gage was never really interested in sudoku. But that changed when he started watching the Cracking the Cryptic channel on YouTube, where seasoned pros tackle seemingly impossible puzzles, like the “Miracle Sudoku” video that recently went viral.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is headed to Washington this week to discuss censorship and China
May 2024Last month, President Donald Trump kicked off a largely unfounded controversy, based on a misleading Fox News report, over censorship of conservative viewpoints in Google Search.
Google demos two new text-to-video AI systems, focusing on quality and length
May 2024Last week, Facebook’s parent company Meta shared a new AI model that turns text prompts into short, soundless videos. But it turns out Google has been working on the same problem, and recently released two new AI text-to-video systems, one of which focuses on image quality while the other prioritizes the creation of longer clips.
Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
May 2024Over 8,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit’s upcoming API changes, and it’s shown me just how much I rely on Reddit to find useful, human-sounding information in my Google search results.
Google now lets you see dinosaurs in the real world through augmented reality
May 2024It’s one thing to read about the massive dinosaurs that used to roam the Earth; it’s quite another to imagine how they’d look stomping around your neighborhood.
Google Perspectives: the new search feature helps you find human information online
May 2024You know the Reddit trick, right? The one where, when you’re searching Google and you want an actual human perspective on which headphones to buy / where to go in Buenos Aires / how many crayons your kid can eat before they get sick, the best thing to do is add “reddit” to the end of your search results?
Google Pixel 3A name: what does the A stand for?
May 2024Google has officially released the Pixel 3A, its latest smartphone that serves as a cheaper, midrange entry point into the company’s Pixel lineup.
Google Pixel USB-C earbuds review: more than okay Google
May 2024Unmentioned during Google’s big hardware event this month was the introduction of a new member of the Pixel Buds family of earphones, the Pixel USB-C earbuds.
Google's Project Fi adds support for iPads, other data-only devices
May 2024Google has announced that Project Fi is expanding to more than just Nexus phones for the first time. Subscribers to the phone service will be able to order a data-only SIM to put into a tablet.
Googles AI search results are already getting ads
May 2024Google only just rolled out AI summaries in search results — and now they’re getting ads. In an update on Tuesday, Google says it will soon start testing search and shopping ads within AI Overviews for users in the US.
GoPro will launch new cameras starting at $199 this year.
May 2024GoPro will launch new cameras starting at $199 this year. GoPro will launch multiple cameras this year, the company announced during its Q4 earning call.
Harlan Ellison, one of science fictions most controversial authors, has died
May 2024The science fiction genre has lost one of its greatest — and most controversial — authors. Harlan Ellison, who wrote and edited groundbreaking sci-fi anthologies, short stories, and television episodes, died at the age of 84, according to his wife, via an associate.
HBO Max fixes Birds of Prey blunder and uploads the R-rated version
May 2024Johanna Fuentes, the head of communications at HBO’s parent company WarnerMedia, sent out a tweet on Saturday night to announce that the unedited version of the film is back on HBO Max.
Homes need to be built for better internet
May 2024Until a couple of months ago, I hadn’t lived in a “smart home” built within the last five years. I was lured in by the availability of symmetrical 1GB fiber internet for the same $100 that got me 500Mbps of asymmetrical cable at my previous apartment.
Horizon Worlds avatars now walk among the virtual universe with their own legs
May 2024Virtual avatars in Meta’s Horizon Worlds universe have gained legs, according to UploadVR. You should now see them when looking at other users or checking out your own avatar in a mirror, but your own avatar’s legs aren’t visible from a first-person perspective.
Hot Pod Summit is back
May 2024This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. We’ve got a bunch of news in podcast world, but first, an announcement: Hot Pod Summit is BACK, baby!
How a Ryan Gosling meme helped its creator cope with cancer
May 2024Ryan McHenry. Two weeks ago, Ryan McHenry had a cancerous tumor removed from his right leg. The doctors told him there was a 50 percent chance they’d have to amputate the entire limb — but they wouldn’t know until the operation started.
How and why I built my first mechanical keyboard
May 2024Depending on who you ask, mechanical keyboards have any number of benefits. Some people like how long they last, others like the way they feel, and plenty of people claim that their tactile feedback makes them easier to use.
How Casio is selling $900 selfie cameras in China
May 2024The compact camera market is essentially dead, as smartphones have supplanted traditional point-and-shoots for most people’s photography needs. Smartphones have also pioneered entirely new forms of photography, like selfies.
How to cut out photos of people, pets, and objects in iOS 16
May 2024While the lock screen is one of iOS 16’s marquee features, there’s another fun addition that’s a little less obvious: the ability to easily cut out subjects from pictures.
How to download and install iOS 14 and iPadOS 14
May 2024iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, Apple’s newest software updates for the iPhone and iPad, are rolling out now, and they bring a lot of new features.
How to get started with Cinebench 2024
May 2024In early September, Maxon announced the release of a major update to its Cinebench benchmark, Cinebench 2024. The big change is that that the new Cinebench tests GPU power in addition to CPU power, whereas the previous version was CPU-only.
How to manage app permissions on your Android phone or tablet
May 2024Your phone, your rules: Android gives you a pretty comprehensive toolkit when it comes to managing app permissions on your device, enabling you to control access to parts of the system like the camera, the microphone, and your current location.
How to set up eSIM on the Apple iPhone XR and XS
May 2024Sometimes a single phone number isn’t enough — if you need to go abroad, for example, or need separate business and personal numbers, two is definitely better than one.
How to use Alexa to turn on the lights
May 2024Deploying smart home technology is one of the more appealing promises of voice control systems like Alexa. It’s tempting (and maybe inevitable) to fall down a rabbit hole of complexity when you’re setting up a smart home because there are so many options and possibilities.
How to use Houseparty to video chat with your friends
May 2024Houseparty is a video chatting app designed for spontaneous communication — less for setting up meetings than for those moments when you’re bored and you want to chat with a friend.
How Twitter broke the news
May 2024ereHere is a very dumb truth: for a decade, the default answer to nearly every problem in mass media communication involved Twitter.
HP just officially made backpack VR computers a trend
May 2024HP's recently launched Omen gaming line will soon include a high-end PC that's also a backpack, designed for walking around in virtual reality.
Huaweis 5G chip is years behind what we have in the United States.
May 2024Huawei’s 5G chip is “years behind what we have in the United States.” That’s what US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said on 60 Minutes about the in-house 5G chip powering Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro:
HyperX Cloud Mix wants to be your gaming headset and headphones in one
May 2024HyperX has announced its first Bluetooth headset. Called the Cloud Mix, the headset’s use of the universal Bluetooth standard means that it will pair just as easily (or clumsily, as in the case of most Bluetooth connections) to your smartphone as it will to your PC.
iMessage and FaceTime are back up and running
May 2024Apple says that it’s fixed the iMessage and FaceTime outage that was causing “message not delivered” errors on Tuesday for about half an hour starting at 11:48AM ET (8:48AM PT).
In praise of Nils Sjoberg, Taylor Swift's hilarious songwriting pseudonym
May 2024It feels a little like the music community is taking one long, collective nap this summer, and that means I'm extremely grateful for today's semi-salacious news involving Taylor Swift, Calvin Harris, and some songwriting subterfuge.
Insta360s One R shape-shifts between a 360 and an action camera
May 2024This is the Insta360 One R. Like Insta360’s prior cameras, it’s capable of shooting 360 degrees of footage. But it’s also a standard 4K action camera.
Instagram makes old stories easier to find alongside new anti-bullying features
May 2024Instagram is adding new features to help users find old stories posted over the last three years and to reduce abusive behavior.
iOS 11 review: Control Center, multitasking, and much more
May 2024iOS 11 is available, officially, today. It's coming to every iPhone and iPad made in the past few years, and chances are, you're going to upgrade.
Iran reportedly orders 'Zionist' Zuckerburg to appear in court
May 2024An Iranian court has opened a case against Instagram and WhatsApp over alleged privacy breaches, and it's summoning Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for questioning, reports Reuters.
Its getting harder to get Google Search to show AR animals
May 2024Remember Google’s AR search, which can make augmented reality bugs, dinos, neat NASA objects like the Apollo 11 command module, and buildings appear atop the real world through the lens of your phone?
Leaked Surface Mini images provide a closer look at Microsofts canceled tablet
May 2024Surface Mini images leaked earlier this year, and now we’re getting an even closer look at Microsoft’s canceled tablet. Evan Blass has published marketing images for the Surface Mini, revealing a red rubber case with a kickstand and full specifications.
LG now makes a 2,000 pound TV that costs $1.7 million
May 2024LG has announced a new lineup of Direct View LED (DVLED) home cinema displays, which range in size from a huge 108-inch HD screen to an obscene 325-inch 8K panel that costs an eye-watering $1.
Life is Strange 2s first episode arrives on September 27th
May 2024The first episode of Life is Strange 2, the follow-up to Dontnod Entertainment’s breakout success in 2015, will launch on September 27th.
Lime adds Wheels shared e-bikes to its app as it seeks to become a one-stop shop for mobility
May 2024The next time you open Lime’s smartphone app, you may see a new type of vehicle that isn’t an electric scooter.
Ludacris' CGI abs are a joke the rapper has been making for over a decade
May 2024Yesterday, Ludacris released a video for his new track “Vitamin D,” but the only thing anyone was paying attention to were his abs.
Matias is building the wired Mac keyboards that Apple wont
May 2024Apple discontinued its wired Mac keyboard back in June when it introduced a new version of its wireless Magic Keyboard with a number pad, but a company called Matias is trying to keep the wired version alive with its own replica versions.
McDonald's terrifying new mascot was made for the meme age
May 2024McDonald's says its newest mascot is intended to inspire good eating habits in children — but its launch today on Facebook and Twitter seemed primarily to inspire dread in the restaurant chain's customers.
Microsoft Build - The Verge
May 2024Microsoft’s two dreams. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has opened Build 2024 by discussing the new AI era. He says Microsoft has had two dreams for decades:
Microsoft leaked its own Xbox documents, court says
May 2024Microsoft is responsible for the huge trove of leaked documents that revealed things like a new disc-less Xbox Series X design, unannounced games from Bethesda, and executive musings about buying Nintendo, according to a new filing from the FTC v.
Microsoft opens the doors to its New York City flagship store
May 2024Microsoft chose a busy day to hold the grand opening of its Fifth Avenue retail store. Today marks the launch of the company's new Surface products, including the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4.
Microsoft Paint is finally adding some of Photoshops best features
May 2024Microsoft is on a slow-burn path to making Paint a useful tool for actual creators by finally implementing one of Photoshop’s core features: layers.
Millennials to Snake People is a Cloud to Butt whose time has come
May 2024Millennials are gross and weird. That explains why so much internet content is devoted to talking about millennials, and what millennials eat, and what millennials wear, and what millennials think about sex, and how many millennials it takes to screw in a light bulb.
Mindy Kalings new teen sitcom Never Have I Ever is an empathetic exploration of grief
May 2024If you told everyone exactly how high school would play out, odds are many would opt the hell out. High school in America is a bizarre and unkind time, a collective coming-of-age story that has as much room for variety as there are people who go through it.
Mosquitoes stick six needles into you when they suck your blood
May 2024The mosquito truly is a blood-sucking machine. The thin tube the insect injects into the skin, what's called the proboscis, is actually comprised of six different needles that all work in tandem to extract blood from the body.
My Hero Academia: what you need to know about the biggest superhero anime
May 2024One of the biggest anime this spring is My Hero Academia, returning for its third season from animation studio Bones (Fullmetal Alchemist, Soul Eater, Space Dandy, Mob Psycho 100).
NASA artifacts and a piece of the Hindenburg go up for auction
May 2024While a glove belonging to the second man on the moon might be a curiosity to most, a collector may soon pay thousands to own it.
NBA will let fans watch individual out-of-market games for $6.99
May 2024Watching your favorite basketball team's games from another city no longer requires an expensive, season-long subscription package. Beginning next season, the NBA will offer individual, out-of-market games for $6.
Neon White review: demon-hunting speedrunning on the Switch and Steam
May 2024Neon White had me straining my neck with every seemingly out of reach jump — and I couldn’t get enough. Developed by Angel Matrix, a small team led by Donut County designer Ben Esposito, Neon White combines thrilling parkour action, a late ‘90s Quake-style aesthetic, and a bonkers story that’s kind of like if The Purge were set in the afterlife.
Netflix turns the clock back on F1 drama with Senna.
May 2024Netflix turns the clock back on F1 drama with Senna. 30 years after the tragic death of Brazilion F1 great Ayrton Senna, Netflix released a first look at its upcoming series based on his life.
Netflix's Stranger Things looks like the show Steven Spielberg and Stephen King never made
May 2024Netflix has so much programming rolling out lately that it can be hard to keep track of it all, but judging from the first trailer, it might be hard to forget its upcoming show Stranger Things.
New trailer for Apples Morning Show has journalists out for blood
May 2024All three journalists are at different points in their careers: Aniston plays an aging morning anchor, Witherspoon is a reporter who is losing sight of her identity, and Carell is facing the consequences of sexual harassment allegations.
New York City's taxi industry insiders made an app to compete with Uber
May 2024The introduction of Uber to New York City has destabilized the taxi industry. The value of medallions has been cut nearly in half, pushing medallion owners into financial distress.
New York Citys skyscrapers are sinking the city and climate change can make things worse
May 2024New York City is sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, new research shows, which could put its population of more than 8 million people at an increased risk of coastal flooding.
Nextbit Robin review: a smartphone in the clouds
May 2024The Robin’s hardware isn’t much to get excited about: it’s largely similar to other mid-range Android phones released in the past few months.
Nomineering, Week 3: How the Academy fixed being out of touch 45 years ago
May 2024Welcome to Nomineering, where we take a weekly look at the news and stories behind the most lavish, high-budget spectacle the film industry has to offer: Oscar season.
Nothing Phone 1 review - The Verge
May 2024Nothing claims its new Phone 1 can “Bring us back. To us” with “deeper interactions” and “brave simplicity.” It’s not the life-changing phone that Nothing makes it out to be; it’s just a good midrange device with flashing lights on the back.
Nreal Light review: Hardware is only half the battle
May 2024Nreal has sold me on the appeal of watching TV with a pair of glasses, and I wish I could recommend buying the glasses that did it.
Nvidia has reinstated its RTX 3060 Ethereum cryptocurrency mining limit
May 2024Nvidia is trying again to limit the use of its RTX 3060 graphics cards for mining Ethereum, with a new update once again adding a hash limiter to the GPU, via VideoCardz.
Pininfarinas 1,900 horsepower Battista is one of the fastest EVs on the planet
May 2024After months of teasing, Italian automotive design-outfit-turned-manufacturer Pininfarina has revealed its first car, the Battista. It’s a sleek $2.6 million hypercar with power that lives up to its brawny-sounding name, and it’s sure to blow nearly any other car in the world off the asphalt, all without using a drop of gas.
Pocket City 2 is a mobile SimCity but better
May 2024Did you play SimCity on a floppy disk? Are you uncomfortable with the “theft” part of Grand Theft Auto but you love running around and playing mini-games?
Pokmon Stadium is coming to Nintendo Switch Online on April 12th
May 2024Pokémon Stadium will join Nintendo’s growing roster of Nintendo 64 classics you can play through Nintendo Switch Online starting April 12th.
Pokmon: The First Movie remake on Netflix once again gives your favorite monsters a new look
May 2024Netflix is releasing a new, CGI animated version of the very first Pokémon movie. Dubbed Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution, the remake of the 1998 film follows Ash and friends as they get wrapped up in a legendary pokémon’s quest for revenge.
Qualcomm announces new Snapdragon 768G 5G processor
May 2024The first phones with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765 processor are just starting to trickle out, but that isn’t stopping the company from announcing an upgraded version today called the Snapdragon 768G, which offers better CPU and GPU performance than its predecessor.
Russia isn't building its own mobile operating system
May 2024Whether it's for reasons of security, national pride, or a mixture of the two, Russia wants to have fewer iPhones and Android phones.
Sago Mini Worlds toddler iPad games are adorable and thoughtful
May 2024Kids entertainment can be a special kind of hell if you’re not a kid. For every Bluey — a show that’s thoughtful, funny, and thoroughly watchable if you’re over the age of five — there’s a Blippi.
Samsung Galaxy Book Pro (13-inch) review: a travel buddy
May 2024When I reviewed the 15-inch Galaxy Book Pro 360 earlier this year, I concluded that it was great — but that its somewhat unique combination of a 15-inch OLED screen, integrated graphics, and a stylus at a fairly premium price point made its audience fairly specific.
Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro: price, availability, and how to preorder
May 2024While we have yet to put them through their paces — we’ll be doing so in the coming weeks ahead of our full review — the Buds 2 Pro don’t drastically depart from the design Samsung established with the original Buds Pro.
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 review
May 2024You won’t notice much of a difference between the Note 10.1 and the older Galaxy Tab 2 10.1— in fact, they look almost identical.
Samsung T7 Touch review: portable, fast, and secure
May 2024A good portable SSD should be small, fast, and able to connect to devices through the almighty USB-C port. Samsung’s new T7 Touch checks all of those boxes, plus another big one: it’s more secure than your average SSD.
Satechis new Apple Watch USB-C charging dock is already 20 percent off
May 2024Satechi has made a convenient USB-C Apple Watch charging dock. It plugs into a USB-C port and then charges the Watch through a magnetic dock.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark review: a surprisingly scary, insightful film
May 2024With the success of Stranger Things and the new film version of Stephen King’s It, nostalgia feels like something of a current horror trope.
SD cards could soon hold 128TB of storage
May 2024The SD Association has announced a new card specification that should increase maximum storage on SD cards to 128 terabytes and provide much faster data transfer speeds of 985 megabytes per second.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren demands details on Texas crypto mining energy consumption
May 2024Democrats are pressing Texas energy regulators to disclose how much energy crypto mining companies consume from the state’s vulnerable power grid nearly a year after it failed during an extreme winter storm.
Sex and the City is now available in HD for the first time on HBO Max
May 2024A newly remastered version of Sex and the City is now available to stream on HBO Max, WarnerMedia announced on Friday.
Shein products are getting more expensive.
May 2024Shein products are getting more expensive. Prices are rising as Shein eyes IPOs in the UK and the US. The average price of a dress is up 28 percent in the US compared to a year ago, for example.
Sifu review: the games toughest battle is with its own origins
May 2024Sifu is very hard. You will metaphorically ram your own head through a wall trying to finish the game as often as you will literally ram the heads of your various assailants through walls, windows, glass bottles, metal pipes, bats, and the occasional footstool.
Sikorsky made a helicopter thats easier to fly than a drone
May 2024I’m sitting in a secure beige conference room at the headquarters of Lockheed Martin-owned aircraft manufacturer Sikorsky in Stratford, Connecticut. In a few hours, I’ll be in the cockpit of a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter outfitted with the company’s six-year-old Matrix autonomous flight technology, which was born out of a DARPA program, letting a computer take me on a guided tour of the Housatonic River from about 3,000 feet in the air.
Snapchat is cutting payments for Spotlight content again
May 2024Snapchat is decreasing the reward money creators can get when they make content for the platform’s TikTok competitor — again. Business Insider reports that the pot of cash up for grabs for users making Spotlight videos now sits at millions of dollars per year.
Snapchat rolls out its BeReal-esque dual camera feature
May 2024Snapchat is adding a new feature to its main camera, allowing users to capture photo and video using the front- and back-facing cameras on their phones at the same time.
So many iOS emulators. - The Verge
May 2024So many iOS emulators. RetroArch, a long-running (and very good) emulator frontend, is waiting for Apple to green-light it for the App Store, according to one of its developers.
So were all playing Fallout 4 again, huh?
May 2024So we’re all playing Fallout 4 again, huh? Sales for the game rose by 7,500 percent week-on-week across Europe, according to Gamesindustry.
Sorry Earth, talking cat collar cant actually make cats talk
May 2024I have a dog, and I'm not ashamed to admit I talk to her a lot. I often wish she could talk back, but since she can't, I usually just make up what I think she would say in response.
SpaceX says Starlink network issue has been resolved
May 2024SpaceX said Tuesday evening that it fixed an outage with Starlink, the company’s satellite internet service. “The network issue has been fully resolved,” the company wrote at 9:39PM ET.
SteelSeries brings its adjustable mechanical switches to compact keyboards
May 2024The SteelSeries Apex Pro Mini and Apex Pro Mini Wireless are a pair of new compact mechanical keyboards that come with adjustable switches, a feature that’s made SteelSeries’ previous full-size 2019 Apex Pro one of the most capable gaming keyboards around.
Streaming service price increases: the latest on Netflix, Disney Plus, Max, Hulu, and more - Page 2
May 2024Death. Taxes. All your streaming services getting a little more expensive all the time. These are the new certainties in life, it seems.
Tesla announces new engineering headquarters in California
May 2024Tesla announced a new engineering headquarters in California, saying it would take over office space in Palo Alto formerly occupied by Hewlett Packard.
Tesla owner says remotely disabled Autopilot features have been restored
May 2024Tesla has restored the Autopilot driver assistance features it remotely disabled on a used Model S, just days after Jalopnik published a story about the customer’s ordeal.
The age of the iPod is over
May 2024Over the holidays, Apple's iPad and iPhone sold better than they've ever sold before: 51 million iPhones and 26 million iPads in a single quarter.
The Apple Vision Pro presents a view of a lonely future
May 2024The year is 2025. I’m sitting on the couch next to my husband, who appears in my field of vision whenever we talk to each other.
The best GPS communicator to buy for your next adventure
May 2024The number one rule for off-the-grid adventures is “Come back alive.” That’s a very good rule, but there are other important ones, too, including “Don’t make your friends and family worry about you,” “Don’t get lost,” and other well-roasted chestnuts.
The best roller skates for the rink, street, and everything in between
May 2024Not long ago, we wrote about how roller-blading is back — but that’s not the only fun way to pass the time with wheels strapped to your feet.
The cost of AAA development is too damn high.
May 2024The cost of AAA development is too damn high. A report from Kotaku has examined some of the documents released as a part of a malicious ransomware attack on Spider-Man 2 developer Insomniac Games.
The Darth Vader choke fetish meme is now canon
May 2024I’m going to hit you with spoilers right off the bat, so stop here if you haven’t seen Rogue One — but man, did that Vader / Krennic choking scene seem weirdly sexual to anyone?
The FDA has approved the first digital pill
May 2024The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first digital pill for the US which tracks if patients have taken their medication.
The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 2, Stormborn
May 2024I’m going to address something right now, and then we’re not going to talk about it again for the rest of our lives: it is strange to watch the men tasked with writing Game of Thrones attempt to write intimacy that is not twisted in some way.
The new Kindle Oasis lets you adjust color temperature for night reading
May 2024Amazon has a new version of its high-end Kindle Oasis, and it’s adding the ability to change the color temperature of the display, in a first for Amazon’s e-reader lineup.
The new Onyx Boox Tab Ultra C is a color E Ink tablet with a 16-megapixel rear camera
May 2024Onyx today announced a new tablet with an E Ink display capable of showing colors: the 10.3-inch Boox Tab Ultra C.
The push-button ignition was a luxurious way to start your car until it wasnt
May 2024The first time I started a car by pressing a button, it felt too easy and convenient — like I had somehow stumbled into a tax bracket I don’t belong in.
The Rise of Skywalkers realest-feeling tech is ancient censorship software
May 2024Two years ago, my former colleague Sarah Jeong laid out how Star Wars: Rogue One — and, indeed, much of the Star Wars mythology — is about internet freedom.
The Verge review of animals: the cockroach
May 2024This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule.
The Wandering Earth: news and updates for Chinas biggest science fiction movie
May 2024China isn’t typically known for its science fiction blockbusters, but a new trailer for an upcoming film called The Wandering Earth has all the hallmarks of a big, Hollywood-style genre movie: it features a dramatic story of the Earth in peril, complete with eye-popping scenes of spaceships escaping Earth.
The Xbox button on Elite 2 controllers now supports RGB colors
May 2024Microsoft now fully supports RGB colors on the Xbox button of its Elite 2 controllers. While platforms like Steam have offered color options for the Xbox button on Elite 2 controllers, Microsoft is now natively supporting this on its own Xbox consoles in a new September update issued today.
The Xbox dashboard, a visual history
May 2024Few interfaces have changed more often — or more radically — than the Xbox dashboard. Most platforms with a large user base are incredibly slow to introduce sweeping changes, but that hasn’t been the case for Microsoft’s game consoles.
These on-demand drone lights are a clever idea
May 2024UK insurer Direct Line has a clever idea: drone streetlights you summon on your phone and that follow you around when you need them.
This picture of the Nintendo Switch and Wii U is kind of mind-blowing
May 2024I’ve owned a Wii U for over four years, for my sins, and I’ve spent a few hours with the Nintendo Switch, so you might not expect me to find a picture of the two next to each other especially revelatory.
This PS2 mod is a handheld dream come true
May 2024Dubbed the “PS2 Eclipse,” the mod involved trimming down an original PS2 motherboard and packing it into a 3D printed chassis with a set of PlayStation Vita buttons, Nintendo Switch joysticks, a 5-inch 480p display, batteries, and a couple of extra custom circuit boards.
This unexpectedly charming gadget saved my Christmas lights and my sanity
May 2024I thought I could hold out until Friday, but as I stared at my Christmas tree’s unlit midriff, I realized that was too long to wait.
Tigers Are Not Afraid review: a poignant fantasy about the Mexican drug war
May 2024Fairy tales and horror films often share the same purpose: to provide thrills, scares, and fantasies for people living comfortable lives.
TikTok, Reddit, and Facebook are struggling with ivermectin misinformation
May 2024TikTok, Reddit, and Facebook are dealing with waves of content about ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug that has picked up traction among anti-vaxxers as a COVID-19 treatment.
Time to get your hopes up about a Silksong release date.
May 2024Time to get your hopes up about a Silksong release date. If Nintendo’s recent showcase didn’t satisfy your need for indie game news, here comes Microsoft.
Transcend announces JetDrive Lite 330 1TB SD card
May 2024The idea is that you can pop this device into a MacBook Pro’s SD slot and it blends right in. It’s the right color so that it doesn’t disrupt the overall look, and it’s the right size so that it won’t add any additional bulk.
Tumblr gets a search function that actually works
May 2024Good news for GIF fans: Tumblr has introduced a new search feature. Where before users were only able to search the reblogging site using tags, they're now able to search for words, tags, or even multiple tags.
Twitch adds new labels for streams with mature content
May 2024Twitch is replacing its Mature Content toggle for livestreams with new “Content Classification Labels,” according to a blog post published Tuesday.
Twitter adds a new way to see popular game-specific sports tweets
May 2024Twitter’s latest attempt to help users find more relevant and popular tweets across its platform is a new set of lists specific to ongoing sports matches.
Two Coinbase employees exchanged NFT rings with their wedding vows
May 2024NFTs allow you to buy and sell ownership of unique digital items and keep track of who owns them using the blockchain.
Underwater skeleton tea party discovered by Arizona snorkeler
May 2024A snorkeler in Arizona spotted two skeletons tied to lawn chairs on the bottom of the Colorado River on Monday. According to La Paz County Sheriff's Office, a diver from the local fire department was sent to investigate, only to discover the remains were the sort of plastic skeletons that might be found in a haunted house or biology classroom.
US military planning to fund fleets of small, smart, cheap drones
May 2024The Pentagon is considering expanding its fleet of drones and autonomous systems in the next two years, possibly enhancing it with AI.
Watch the first trailer for Duncan Jones new film Mute
May 2024Netflix has unveiled its first trailer for Mute, the latest film from Warcraft director Duncan Jones, who confirmed earlier this month that it would begin streaming on February 23rd.
We bought gadgets from Amazons banned brands and it was a piece of cake
May 2024If you’re a reputable Chinese gadget manufacturer with millions of dollars at stake because Amazon banned your ass for inflating user reviews.
We sent the top ANC headphones to a lab to test their noise-canceling abilities
May 2024Active noise cancellation, or ANC, has come a long way since Bose launched the first consumer noise-canceling headphones — the QC1 — back in the year 2000.
What connects new Star Wars, old Star Wars, and even Star Trek? This typeface
May 2024Button made in collaboration with Ann Friedman for Busy Beaver Button I have since successfully used ITC Serif Gothic, and atoned for abusing that server copy by purchasing it for myself.
What happened to the Apple Car?
May 2024What happened to the Apple Car? This deep dive from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman offers a detailed timeline of the company’s embattled EV that employees referred to as the “Bread Loaf” due to its microbus-style design.
What Pizzagate has in common with every conspiracy theory
May 2024On Sunday afternoon, a man named Edgar Welch walked into the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria with an AR-15 rifle, firing at least one shot and surrendering only when he was satisfied that no children were being held captive on the premises.
Why Epic cant afford to lose the Unreal Engine in its legal fight with Apple
May 2024Epic’s legal fight with Apple over the future of Fortnite has quickly evolved into an existential battle for one of the game studio’s most lucrative and important assets: the Unreal Engine platform.
Why is Amazon using a racist bully to promote Prime Air?
May 2024Last weekend, Amazon released an ad for its Prime Air drone delivery system, which shows a compelling demonstration of a pair of shoes being delivered to a home by some sort of helicopter-airplane hybrid.
Why Oktas Jameeka Green Aaron says passwords will go away
May 2024Today, I’m talking with Jameeka Green Aaron. She’s the chief information security officer, customer identity at Okta. Okta is a big company, a Wall Street software as a service darling, and also just the thing a lot of us have to log into at work 50 times a week to get anything done.
Why the director of O.J.: Made in America included graphic crime photos, but not Kato Kaelin
May 2024O.J.: Made in America is a masterpiece, as good if not better than the other critically acclaimed O.J. television miniseries, FX's American Crime Story: The People vs.
Windows 12 may arrive in 2024 in major Microsoft shakeup
May 2024Microsoft is changing how it releases major versions of Windows again, and it could mean we see a Windows 12 release in 2024.
WiZs motion sensing smart lights can now monitor your home
May 2024WiZ is launching a new home monitoring feature that leverages the smart lighting company’s existing motion-sensing Wi-Fi smart bulbs. Paired with a new $70 indoor security camera, WiZ Home Monitoring can alert you to potential intruders in your home.
Xfinity Mobile now lets you bring your own iPhone
May 2024Comcast is starting to make it easier and cheaper to sign up for Xfinity Mobile, its new mobile phone service, by allowing people to bring their existing phones to the network instead of requiring them to buy new ones.
Yahoo partners with Twitter to bring tweets to its homepage news feed
May 2024Yahoo's homepage just got an upgrade courtesy of Twitter — a new partnership between the two companies will bring selected tweets to Yahoo's homepage as part of its news stream feature.
Yeast can now make opiates
May 2024Yeast isn’t just for beer and bread — now it makes opiates, too. A strain of yeast engineered in a lab was able to transform sugar into a pain-killing drug — called hydrocodone — for the first time.
YouTube is bringing shopping features to Shorts as it chases TikTok
May 2024The long-form video giant is testing shopping features with US-based creators and audiences in the US, India, Brazil, Canada, and Australia, allowing influencers to tag their own products in Shorts that viewers can then purchase, according to the report.
YouTube is killing Stories - The Verge
May 2024YouTube is getting rid of Stories, a feature for temporary posts, beginning in June. Users won’t be able to post Stories starting June 26th, and existing posts will expire after seven days.
YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children
May 2024Earlier this week, a report in The New York Times and a blog post on Medium drew a lot of attention to a world of strange and sometimes disturbing videos on YouTube aimed at young children.
Hurts so good: 12 hours with the new Samsung Gear VR
May 2024I have long been fascinated with the idea of virtual reality, but despite the explosion of VR devices and media over the last few years, I haven’t really spent much time trying it out.
Why Google Daydream matters and how it could change virtual reality
May 2024In 2014, a cardboard box overshadowed almost everything else at Google’s annual I/O developers conference. Announced half-jokingly at the end of its keynote, Google Cardboard was a disposable fold-up virtual reality headset powered by a smartphone, an extremely lo-fi competitor to the Oculus Rift.
100 Thieves is laying off 20 percent of its staff as it focuses on core of esports and apparel
May 2024Another big esports brand is making some major changes. 100 Thieves, which already announced layoffs in January, is laying off more staff and spinning out its internal game development studio and its Juvee energy drink, 100 Thieves president and COO John Robinson said in a Thursday thread on X (formerly Twitter).
16GB Galaxy S III on T-Mobile is $279.99 after rebate
May 2024Pricing for the Galaxy S III on T-Mobile is now live on the company’s site, and the phone is not cheap.
1Password has a new, handy way to share Wi-Fi passwords.
May 20241Password has a new, handy way to share Wi-Fi passwords. 1Password can now automatically generate scannable QR codes for Wi-Fi credentials, as reported by 9to5Mac, meaning you can easily get your friends connected to your network without revealing your punny Wi-Fi password.
A third-party Snapchat client has leaked tens of thousands of user photos
May 2024Some Snapchat users are waking up to an unpleasant surprise this morning. A cache nearly 13GB of private Snapchats is now circulating through 4Chan, in a leak the users have dubbed The Snappening.
Adobe announces new prototype AI tool for creating and editing audio
May 2024Adobe’s latest generative AI experiment aims to help people create and customize music without any professional audio experience. Announced during the Hot Pod Summit in Brooklyn on Wednesday, Project Music GenAI Control is a new prototype tool that allows users to generate music using text prompts and then edit that audio without jumping over to dedicated editing software.
Affinity Version 2 launches as an alternative to Adobe Creative Suite
May 2024Software developer Serif has launched V2 of its Affinity creative suite, bringing new features and enhancements to its trio of graphic design and content creation applications that undercut Adobe on price.
Africa's tallest apartment building was built for luxury but filled with garbage
May 2024Johannesburg's Ponte Tower was built in 1975 as a monument to luxury. The enclosed space at the center of the cylindrical apartment block was to house shops and a dry ski slope; some of its apartments were three stories tall and came with inbuilt hot tubs.
After Comcast, Netflix signs traffic deal with Verizon
May 2024Netflix just confirmed that it will pay Verizon for direct access through the carrier's network, allowing for improved streaming video for customers.
Agreeing that Substack is an acceptable place to publish or comment does not require you to accep
May 2024“Agreeing that Substack is an acceptable place to publish or comment does not require you to accept Substack’s sales puffery about it.
Alien: Covenant leaves much better lingering questions than Prometheus
May 2024In 2012, the science-fiction / horror film Prometheus brought Ridley Scott back to the film franchise he launched in 1979 with Alien.
Amazon Prime Day 2020: all of our latest coverage
May 2024Prime Day, Amazon’s annual deals extravaganza, will run from October 13th-14th, the company announced today. Amazon says the two-day shopping event will feature “over one million deals across every category,” including brands like Panasonic, Roborock, Keurig, Under Armour, Coleman, Adidas, Lacoste, Marvel, Ticwatch, and more.
AMD Radeon VII GPU review: a hot, loud, powerful answer to Nvidias RTX 2080
May 2024AMD’s Radeon VII is the company’s eagerly anticipated response to the RTX 2080 graphics cards that Nvidia launched last fall. Priced the same as the RTX 2080, the $699 Radeon VII is the first graphics card underpinned by a 7nm process, potentially giving AMD the ammunition to deliver a competitive high-end graphics card for the first time in years.
Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI with a chatbot that can read a novel in less than a minute
May 2024An often overlooked limitation for chatbots is memory. While it’s true that the AI language models that power these systems are trained on terabytes of text, the amount these systems can process when in use — that is, the combination of input text and output, also known as their “context window” — is limited.
Apple announces 600 million iOS devices sold, 93 percent of devices running iOS 6
May 2024Tim Cook is getting ready to introduce the latest version of iOS, and he just announced that the company has sold over 600 million iOS devices since the first iPhone launched back in 2007.
Apple has been categorizing all your brassiere photos for over a year now
May 2024A tweet by user ellieeewbu today revealed that searching “brassiere” in the Photos app on iPhones categorizes photos featuring bras automatically into a group.
Apple reportedly cant get enough chips for the iPhone 13
May 2024The chip shortage is hitting the iPhone 13, with Apple reportedly unable to get enough parts to hit its planned manufacturing goals, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Apple restored Russian social network VKontakte to the App Store
May 2024Apple has reinstated the apps made by the Russian technology group VK on the App Store after the company provided proof that it’s not “majority owned or controlled by a sanctioned entity” (via The Guardian).
Apple Watch 4 review: the best smartwatch gets better
May 2024The greatest Apple product comeback story of the past few years has, without a doubt, been the Apple Watch. Launched with great fanfare four years ago, the initial version tried to do way too much with way too little, and it had confusing software to boot.
Apple Watch release date is April 24th, with pricing from $349 to over $10,000
May 2024The Apple Watch will go on sale April 24th, with prices starting at $349 and running to over $10,000 for its top-of-the-line models.
Apple wont name a new head of hardware design
May 2024Going forward, the company’s group of “about 20” industrial designers will instead report to Apple COO Jeff Williams, and many of the team’s veteran designers will get bigger roles, Bloomberg reports.
Apples latest AI acquisition leaves some Wyze cameras without people detection
May 2024Earlier today, Apple confirmed it purchased Seattle-based AI company Xnor.ai (via MacRumors). Acquisitions at Apple’s scale happen frequently, though rarely do they impact everyday people on the day of their announcement.
Assassins Creed Mirage gets new story trailer and gameplay demo
May 2024At its big summer showcase, Ubisoft provided the best look yet at the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Mirage. To start, a new story trailer gave a better look at the new assassin, Basim, and the 9th century version of Baghdad he’ll be exploring in the game.
AT&T violated labor law but can still ban workers from recording conversations, NLRB rules
May 2024An AT&T policy that bars employees from recording conversations with managers or colleagues is legal, according to a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board Monday.
BeagleBone Black Wireless comes with Wi-Fi but no Ethernet
May 2024Iconoclastic tinkerers have a new toy: the popular BeagleBone Black single board computer just got a slight makeover. The new BeagleBone Black Wireless swaps out the 10/100 Ethernet port for some much-needed Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.
Best anti-October Prime Day 2023 tech deals from Walmart, Best Buy, and more
May 2024Amazon’s fall Prime Day event is underway. For more deals we recommend across all categories, check out our full roundup here.
Bill Clinton and Kylie Jenner: very similar Snapchat styles
May 2024Yesterday evening, former president and Arkansan Bill Clinton took over the Snapchat account of his wife (and presidential candidate) Hillary Clinton, before the California primary.
Bitcoins insatiable appetite forenergyis driving uppollutionand costs for Americans, repo
May 2024Bitcoin mines in the US have had a tremendous impact on power grids, a New York Times investigation reveals. The mines — which are giant data farms — use vastly more electricity than the communities surrounding them, driving up pollution from coal and gas power plants.
BlackBerry Torch 9810 review - The Verge
May 2024For those who haven’t followed my smartphone history (and I suspect many haven’t), last December I gave up my BlackBerry Curve 8530 for an Android phone.
Bose Ultra Open Earbuds review: a completely new kind of earbud
May 2024Bose’s goal in developing the new Ultra Open Earbuds was to create a pair of earbuds that you can truly wear all day.
Brave New World review: A show with nothing to prove
May 2024At a time where you can show just about anything on TV, Brave New World, the biggest new drama premiering on the brand-new Peacock streaming service, still manages to surprise.
Brothers involved in fake iPhone swapping at Apple Stores were sentenced to federal prison
May 2024It’s normally pretty easy to get your broken iPhone replaced at Apple’s Genius Bar under your AppleCare plan, but a (criminally) enterprising sibling duo found a way to trick the system by swapping counterfeit devices with real ones.
Bungie reflects on a difficult week.
May 2024Bungie reflects on a difficult week. “This has been one of the most difficult weeks in our studio’s history, as we’ve parted ways with people we respect and admire,” says the Destiny 2 dev team in a blog post today reflecting on the layoffs.
Charter asks ex-customers to resubscribe or risk their credit scores
May 2024Charter has been telling former customers that it’ll forgive their debts and stop reporting them to credit agencies if they resubscribe to the company’s Spectrum TV, internet, or voice service, according to a story from the Los Angeles Times.
Dell XPS 15 and XPS 17 with 13th Gen Intel chips to launch on March 2nd
May 2024The 2023 editions of the Dell XPS 15 and Dell XPS 17 will be available for purchase on March 2nd, Dell has announced.
Dells 32-inch 6K monitor is a more affordable alternative to Apples pro display
May 2024Dell’s U3224KB, the 6K 32-inch monitor it announced back at CES, is going on sale today for $3,199.99. That’s over $1,000 cheaper than Apple’s 32-inch $4,999 Pro Display XDR, which also targets professionals with a similar high resolution 6K panel.
Dewayne Perkins and Tracy Olivers The Blackening is getting a sequel.
May 2024Dewayne Perkins and Tracy Oliver’s The Blackening is getting a sequel. The Blackening, Lionsgate’s 2022 horror comedy satire from co-writers Dewayne Perkins and Tracy Oliver, ultimately raked in an impressive $17.
Drops of God review: wine tasting turned into high-stakes drama
May 2024Everything about Apple and Legendary’s newest streaming series is extreme — which you can probably tell since it’s a show about wine with the overly dramatic title Drops of God.
E3 2016s unexpected trend: video game preorder masks
May 2024High-profile games and sequels tend to launch with both standard editions (just the game) and premium-special-ultra-limited-legendary editions (the game plus a number of hardware and software trinkets that will be lost in a desk drawer or garage).
E3 2019: the most important stories from gamings biggest week
May 2024E3 2019 has come to a close, and it’s been another wild week of gaming news. There were big reveals, flashy press conferences, cool trailers, and even a glimpse of how the future of gaming could change in the years to come.
eBay accused of selling hundreds of thousands of harmful polluting products
May 2024The complaint alleges that eBay sold 343,000 aftermarket defeat devices, which illegally subvert motor vehicle emission controls in violation of the Clean Air Act.
Eero adds 1Password and VPN protection to its premium subscription service
May 2024Smart router Eero is adding more deals to its premium Eero Plus security service, including subscriptions to encrypt.me, Malwarebytes, and 1Password.
Elon Musk made a South Park joke at his Mars colonization announcement
May 2024How will Elon Musk and SpaceX fund its ambitious plan to go to Mars? The question was a big one coming into today's announcement, and Musk opted to suggest some kind of "
Elon Musk now has a heavy metal tribute band
May 2024Racing to the future, he puts the pedal down. One hundred thousand watts, at his command. Rocketing to the stars, on to mars we fly.
Elon Musk tells a judge the SECs endless investigation is stifling his free speech
May 2024Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, one of the wealthiest men in the world (depending on the day) says the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has tried to “chill” his free speech in an “unrelenting investigation” of him and the automaker he co-founded.
Everything terrible about Donald Trump's taco bowl tweet
May 2024Earlier today, Donald Trump celebrated Cinco de Mayo by publishing a tweet that read: "Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill.
Everything we think we know about Elon Musks plan for Twitter
May 2024“I have a ton of ideas,” Elon Musk texted Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal in April, “but lmk if I’m pushing too hard.
Exclusive: Chat is Googles next big fix for Androids messaging mess
May 2024A top-tier Android phone can cost upwards of a thousand dollars, and for that money, you’ll get some amazing features. It will have a stellar screen, top-flight camera, gobs of storage, and an absolutely atrocious texting experience.
Facebook considered selling user data, internal documents suggest
May 2024Internal Facebook documents seized by British lawmakers suggest that the social media giant once considered selling access to user data, according to extracts obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
Facebook videos reach 8 billion views per day
May 2024It's worth noting that Facebook counts video views differently than competitors like YouTube. On the Google-owned video service, a view is counted only if a viewer lets the video play for at least 30 seconds.
Fallout 76s Wastelanders update almost makes it feel like a proper Fallout game
May 2024Fallout 76 was always missing something. Sure, it had lots of other problems — frustrating bugs and glitches, and vastly overpriced microtransactions — but what always stood out the most to me was how empty the world felt.
Famicom Detective Club review: more great crime drama on the Switch
May 2024There’s something about the Nintendo Switch that makes it a great fit for murder mystery stories. Just like a good novel, these are games best enjoyed while curled up in a comfy chair with a warm drink, ideally when it’s dark and rainy outside.
Final Fantasy XVI includes an homage to an infamous monster from Final Fantasy XIV
May 2024Final Fantasy XVI, out today, is stuffed with neat little homages and references to the Final Fantasy games that came before it.
Fitbit Inspire 3 hands-on: blast from the past
May 2024When I first strapped on the Fitbit Inspire 3, it felt like stepping through a portal to 2015 — back to a time when fitness bands reigned supreme, and smartwatches were clunky devices that hadn’t found their purpose quite yet.
Flywheel owners found out that their bikes were bricked through Peloton
May 2024Every morning at 4:30AM, Shani Maxwell would throw on her Flywheel T-shirt and hop on her Fly Anywhere bike. An avid fan who’s been riding with Flywheel since 2013, she’d leapt at the chance to own the company’s branded bike when the company released its Peloton competitor in 2017.
Fortnites Eminem concert teased the future of the game
May 2024Fortnite’s latest virtual concert was more than just Eminem stomping across a destroyed city — it also teased a number of experiences coming to the game in the future.
From Conan to Stern, SiriusXM CEO Jennifer Witz is betting on talent and distribution
May 2024Jennifer Witz is the CEO of SiriusXM, a quietly fascinating company. You probably know it as the satellite radio brand that’s in virtually every new car, but it also owns Pandora, a huge podcast network that includes 99% Invisible and Team Coco, and a content operation that supports huge stars like Howard Stern and has deals with every major sports league.
GDC rescinds award for Atari founder after criticisms of sexually inappropriate behavior
May 2024Organizers of the Game Developer’s Conference have rescinded plans to give the annual Pioneer Award to Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell after numerous game developers pointed to reports of sexually inappropriate comments and behavior by Bushnell in the early days of Atari.
Get ready for a repositioned end call button in iOS 17
May 2024Apple looks set to be moving one of the most well-used buttons in iOS; the Phone app’s red end call button.
Google crackdown means you wont be able to buy Barnes & Noble ebooks on Android
May 2024Starting next week, users of Barnes & Noble’s Android app will no longer be able to buy digital books in the app, and it seems to be due to a Google Play policy deadline that’s been more than a year and a half in the works.
Google Fis throwing in a free year of YouTube Premium for Unlimited Plus subscribers
May 2024If you’re subscribed to Google Fi’s Unlimited Plus plan, you can now enjoy an extra perk in addition to unlimited data: one year free of YouTube Premium.
Google forced OnePlus to decimate a Fortnite launcher deal, claims Epic Games
May 2024Epic Games sued Google over pulling Fortnite from the Google Play Store Thursday evening, following a similar lawsuit against Apple.
Google Glass apps: everything you can do rightnow
May 2024Google Glass isn’t ready for prime time. Even Google knows this, which is why it hasn't shipped to the masses yet.
Google is laying off employees at Waze
May 2024Google is laying off employees at Waze, CNBC reported on Tuesday. The company is moving Waze over to Google’s ads system, and that change will mean cuts at Waze in “sales, marketing, operations and analytics,” Chris Phillips, VP and GM of Google’s Geo unit, wrote in an email seen by the publication.
Google is prompting users to create passkeys for passwordless logins
May 2024Passkeys can replace traditional passwords with your device’s own authentication methods. That way, you can sign in to Gmail, PayPal, or iCloud just by activating Face ID on your iPhone, your Android phone’s fingerprint sensor, or with Windows Hello on a PC.
Google Maps gets a new icon and more tabs to celebrate 15th anniversary
May 2024Google Maps is turning 15 years old, and to celebrate, Google is rolling out a new icon for the service along with a slightly redesigned app and a couple of new features.
Google Now's voice is starting to sound way more natural
May 2024The voice assistants in our phones have always sounded somewhat robotic, but Google is taking steps to do away with that.
Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL cost $399 through Google Fi today only
May 2024In celebration of Google Fi’s birthday, Google is slashing the cost of its Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones for new and existing users.
GTA V returns toXboxGame Pass, this time with xCloud support
May 2024The release on xCloud will allow players to play the game, including the GTA Online mode, on the go without being tethered to their console.
Hawaii governor forgot Twitter password during false missile alert crisis
May 2024Governor David Ige (D) was informed of the erroneous notification only two minutes after it was pushed out at 8:07 AM HST, but he didn’t tweet that it was a false alarm to his 7,687 followers until 8:24 AM.
HBO - The Verge
May 2024Streamers love a good bundle. During Warner Bros. Discovery’s earnings call on Friday, CEO David Zaslav said bundling streaming services “just makes an awful lot of sense.
Here are a few of our favorite deals from Sonys latest Days of Play sale
May 2024Sony’s recent State of Play showcase may have given us a brief glimpse into the company’s plans for 2024 and beyond, but that probably does little if you were hoping for something you can play right now.
Heres how companies have flouted net neutrality before
May 2024Today, the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order takes effect, effectively repealing net neutrality protections in the US. The effects probably won’t be sudden; we’ve explained what might happen without the rules and what’s already happened since the vote last year.
Horizon Forbidden West arrives on PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium on February 21st
May 2024Sony is bringing Horizon Forbidden West to its PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscription service on February 21st. It’s arriving just a year after it was first released on PS4 and PS5.
How RIM's Mike Lazaridis plans to turn Waterloo into the Quantum Valley
May 2024"What we have here is the Bell Labs of the 21st century," proclaimed Mike Lazaridis, co-founder and vice-chairman of Research In Motion, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC) last week.
How to change your Android phones default browser, assistant, and more
May 2024Android provides you with countless ways to customize your phone, from the color and shape of your app icons to your preferred method of system navigation.
How to create a signature for PDF documents on an iPhone
May 2024More and more official papers are being turned into PDF documents, and you may be asked to sign one electronically while you’re away from your computer (here, by the way, is how to sign a PDF document using a Mac or a PC).
How to handle a medical emergency on a deep space mission
May 2024Here on Earth, having a medical emergency means calling an ambulance and getting to a nearby hospital as soon as possible.
How to protect your privacy on Instagram
May 2024My Instagram profile probably reveals more personal details about me than any other social network page. As a result, I started to get creeped out after I realized just how many people were following me I didn’t actually know.
How to stop Googles Smart Compose text suggestions
May 2024When you’re composing a document or email in Google Docs or Gmail, you may have noticed that the application often tries to finish sentences for you.
How to turn GIFs into a wallpaper for your Apple Watch
May 2024While looking for some new and interesting wallpapers for my Apple Watch, I came across a Reddit post showing Apple Watch wallpaper that had been created from a GIF — and I simply had to create some of my own.
How to use Ctrl + Shift + V in Microsoft Word
May 2024Word has long let you remove formatting from whatever you pasted after the fact, using the little ribbon that pops up and gives you the option to keep the original formatting, match the formatting of your document, or just use plaintext.
I Am Groot review: delightfully inconsequential animated shorts
May 2024The big streaming series from Marvel and Star Wars take all the headlines, but since its debut, Disney Plus has also slowly become a service stuffed with animated shorts.
I really hope the second season of Platonic explores its relationship to Invasion.
May 2024I really hope the second season of Platonic explores its relationship to Invasion. Platonic has been renewed! Given the first season ended on a pretty definitive note it will be curious to see where season two goes.
I rode in the Mercedes-AMG Cigarette Racing 515 Project One
May 2024On Thursday morning, I hopped on the new Cigarette Racing 515 Project ONE, and became the first non-employee to experience the potency of Formula One at sea.
IFA 2023: the coolest smart home tech I saw in Berlin
May 2024The dust has settled on IFA 2023, Europe’s biggest tech trade show, held annually in Berlin, Germany. The Verge was on the ground at the show, which ran from September 1st to 5th, covering all the big news and gadget launches.
Instagrams standalone Boomerang and Hyperlapse apps are gone from the App Store and Google Play
May 2024Instagram has removed its standalone Boomerang and Hyperlapse apps from Apple’s App Store and Google Play, as reported by TechCrunch. The removal comes shortly after Instagram’s February 28th announcement that it would stop supporting the IGTV app, and the changes indicate that Instagram is opting to consolidate some of its separate offerings to focus on the main Instagram app.
Intel says Clover Trail tablets will get 10 hours of battery life, deliver full Windows 8 compatibil
May 2024Microsoft's been calling Windows 8 a no-compromise operating system since day one, but tablet buyers are going to have to make a difficult choice.
iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max: Apple announces new flagship phones with three cameras
May 2024Apple has announced its next-generation iPhones: the 5.8-inch iPhone 11 Pro and 6.5-inch iPhone 11 Pro Max. Despite the number change, the two phones look pretty similar to last year’s iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max but with one major change: a third rear camera.
iPhone 15 hands on: USB-C and a big camera upgrade
May 2024Apple has just announced its new iPhone 15 models, and the big news is USB-C, a camera upgrade, the addition of the Dynamic Island, and even some improvements to the display.
Is Starlink actually profitable? - The Verge
May 2024Is Starlink actually profitable? The accounting is “more of an art than a science,” anonymous sources tell Bloomberg. But on an operational and ongoing basis?
Kickstarter, Etsy, GameStop, and Marriott are getting behind Apple Pay
May 2024More retailers are moving to support Apple Pay, with Kickstarter, Etsy, and GameStop the latest to join a growing list. With an update released yesterday, Kickstarter's iOS app now lets you crowdfund any US-based project with Apple Pay.
Laptop Reviews - The Verge
May 20247 Verge Score Where the Blade comes ahead in performance, the Zephyrus wins on value. 7 Verge Score Small design variations make a big difference.
Lego Rivendell revealed: $500, 6167 pieces, on sale this March
May 2024Frodo, Samwise, Merry, Pippin, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, Boromir, Aragon, plus Elrond, Arwen, Bilbo, and more — there’s room in Lego’s just-announced 6,167-piece elven sanctuary Rivendell for the entire Fellowship to debate The One Ring, and the shards of a particularly noteworthy sword.
Light sensors on wearables struggle with dark skin and obesity
May 2024Light sensors used to track heart rate in wearable devices like the Apple Watch Series 5 and the Fitbit Versa 2 don’t work as well on darker skin or people with obesity, according to modeling done in a new study.
Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls
May 2024Linus Sebastian’s Linus Media Group YouTube empire is currently in crisis, with accusations of theft, lapses in ethics, and most recently, allegations of sexual harassment.
Lost Judgment review: a better sequel with a messy story
May 2024The Yakuza series is beloved for its uncanny ability to bounce between absurd humor, deep pathos, and brutal violence and making it seem like the most natural thing in the world.
M2 versus M3: how the new MacBook Pros compare
May 2024In addition to a new iMac, Apple announced new M3-powered versions of the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro during its “Scary Fast” event on Monday.
Mastodon 4.2 improves search, onboarding, and cross-site interactions
May 2024Mastodon, the federated microblogging platform, has been updated to version 4.2, which comes with massive improvements to search and the web interface, particularly for logged-out and first-time users.
Microsoft Surface Book 3: new Nvidia GPUs, up to 32GB of RAM, and faster SSDs
May 2024Microsoft is launching its Surface Book 3 today, with a big promise of 50 percent more performance than its predecessor from more than two years ago.
Microsofts Activision deal is on life support because cloud gaming still sucks
May 2024I am not a merger apologist. I generally don’t think the world’s better off with an ever-smaller number of companies at the helm!
Microsofts new Xbox Home UI looks way better with more room for backgrounds
May 2024Microsoft has reworked its Xbox Home UI to better accommodate background images and simplify access to key parts of the Xbox dashboard.
MrSpeakers Ether 2 review: true high-resolution headphones
May 2024There’s a black-and-gold Hi-Res Audio sticker that you’ll surely have seen many times by now. It often shows up on the boxes of cheap headphones because manufacturers want to give their products an extra sheen of performance claims.
NCAA March Madness Live app brings live streaming to iPhone, iPad, and select Android devices for $3
May 2024Just in time for "bracketology" comes the new NCAA March Madness Live app for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Android devices.
NestWi-Fi Pro review: a faster, more reliable mesh system
May 2024Google’s new Nest Wi-Fi Pro is an excellent upgrade if you’re coming from an existing Google router. I saw significantly faster speeds, improved reliability, and better performance on the Nest Wifi Pro — which adds Wi-Fi 6 and 6E — compared to the previous Nest Wifi system and its Wi-Fi 5.
Netflix says 'no rules' would be better than FCC's net neutrality proposal
May 2024Netflix filed a comment with the FCC yesterday strongly condemning the commission's new net neutrality proposal, which would allow internet service providers to offer so-called "
New Trailers: Ted Lasso, Fathom, Annette, The Conjuring, and more
May 2024The Oscars are tonight and despite my best efforts I still haven’t seen all the Best Picture contenders, so will hold off on making predictions (but honestly not sure how anyone beats Chadwick Boseman as Best Actor).
New York Posts Hunter Biden laptop source sues Twitter for defamation
May 2024A computer repair shop owner cited in a controversial New York Post story is suing Twitter for defamation, claiming its content moderation choices falsely tarred him as a hacker.
Nintendo is releasing neon pink-and-green Switch controllers for Splatoon 2
May 2024Last night Nintendo revealed some new details on two of its big upcoming Switch games, Arms and Splatoon 2. But mixed amongst the story trailers and new character reveals was some bright, colorful new hardware.
Nixie Watch gets first redesign in more than 10 years
May 2024The original round Nixie Watch made famous by Steve Wozniak is now available in a thinner, rechargeable, square design. Like its predecessor, the Square Nixie Watch features two Nixie tubes, a vintage technology that displays orange glowing numbers on bent pieces of metal suspended in gas.
Official Police Business: Taser is aggressively lobbying for a body cam monopoly
May 2024Official Police Business is a weekly column and newsletter by reporter Matt Stroud about new developments in police technology, and the ways technology is changing law enforcement — think body cameras, cell-site simulators, surveillance systems, and electroshock weapons.
Olympus announces PEN E-P5, a Micro Four Thirds camera with 1963 looks and 2013 specs
May 2024If it ain't broke, don't fix it — or fix it, and then undo it all 50 years later. That's what Olympus is doing with the new PEN E-P5, the company's latest Micro Four Thirds camera, which looks for all the world like the PEN F from 1963.
Oppo Find X review: unrefined ambition
May 2024Every year, Samsung spends untold amounts of money on ad campaigns more concerned with bashing Apple’s iPhone than promoting its own Galaxy phones.
Oregons governor signs right-to-repair law that bans parts pairing
May 2024Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has now signed one of the strongest US right-to-repair bills into law after it passed the state legislature several weeks ago by an almost 3-to-1 margin.
Overwatch is coming to the Nintendo Switch
May 2024Blizzard’s colorful hero shooter Overwatch is getting more portable very soon. Today, during its Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo revealed that the team-shooter would be launching on the Switch on October 15th.
Palmer Luckey says his new headset is driven by military requirements but its also going to be
May 2024Palmer Luckey says his new headset is “driven by military requirements but it’s also going to be used for non-military stuff.
Pandora gives you a station made from 10 years of thumbs-ups
May 2024For better or for worse, Pandora is giving listeners one station where they can hear everything they’ve ever thumbed up in the radio streaming service’s 10-year history.
Paramount Plus is a powerful nostalgia machine, but it doesnt feel necessary yet
May 2024Paramount Plus is maybe one of the best streaming services for people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who are looking to get nostalgic about the television of their youth.
Project Astra: the future of AI at Google is fast, multi-modal assistants like Gemini Live
May 2024“I’ve had this vision in my mind for quite a while,” says Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind and the leader of Google’s AI efforts.
PSVR 2s No Mans Sky is an immersive but overwhelming trip to space
May 2024More than six and a half years after No Man’s Sky was first released, I took my first trip into the game last week, wearing the brand-new PlayStation VR2 headset.
Quake II is getting the remaster treatment
May 2024Two years after the surprise announcement and release of a remastered version of the original Quake, Quake II is getting a similar glow-up to coincide with the start of QuakeCon.
Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner, so the police punished him
May 2024F E A R I N G F O R HIS L I F E Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner.
Razer co-founder and gaming mouse pioneer Robert Krakoff has died
May 2024Robert “Razerguy” Krakoff, the co-founder and former president of gaming hardware company Razer, died last week at the age of 81.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is delayed again
May 2024Rockstar Games is pushing back the long-awaited sequel to 2010’s Red Dead Redemption once more. Red Dead Redemption 2 is now slated for an October 26th release this year, a budge from its first delay to spring 2018.
Revisiting Threes, 2048, and the endless chain of ripoffs
May 2024Gabriele Cirulli was 19 years old when he made 2048. At the time, in early 2014, he didn’t realize two things: first, that something as simple as a web game could go so intensely viral for reasons that would elude him.
RIM dodges $147.2 million damages payment in Mformation patent case
May 2024Research In Motion (RIM) has been spared a punishing $147.2 million damages payment after the verdict in a lengthy patent battle with Mformation was overturned last night.
Samsung adds support for Matter 1.2 to SmartThings
May 2024Samsung SmartThings looks set to become the first major smart home platform to fully support Matter 1.2. According to a press release, the SmartThings platform now works with Matter 1.
Shadow of the Erdtrees new perfume weapons are seriously broken and seriously fun
May 2024Imagine if those aggressive salespeople at the Macy’s perfume counter were shoving napalm in your face instead of Chanel No. 5: that’s what it feels like playing with the new perfume bottle weapons in Shadow of the Erdtree.
Shaolin Soccer is the perfect film to watch before the World Cup final
May 2024There are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that it’s hard to see through all the crap you could be watching.
Shareholders have approved Disneys acquisition of 21st Century Fox
May 2024Shareholders have approved Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century’s film and television studios this morning, paving the way for Disney to add Fox’s catalog of networks and intellectual property to its already vast holdings.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law review: a lean, green, uncanny valley machine
May 2024She-Hulk herself isn’t a telepath, but Disney Plus’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law knows exactly what you were thinking when you first saw its statuesque heroine in all her uncanny VFX glory, and it appreciates all the feedback.
Siri says some weird things
May 2024Look, I'm not going to go into great detail about what I've been doing with Siri during my testing period, but I will tell you this - Siri says some crazy stuff.
Skyrim is getting a next-gen upgrade exactly 10 years after its original release
May 2024Nearly a decade after its original release, Bethesda Softworks is announcing new updates coming to its acclaimed hit Skyrim. On November 11th, exactly 10 years after its original launch date, the game is getting a free next-gen upgrade that will be available to all owners of Skyrim Special Edition.
Sol Republic's Shadow is a comfortable, lightweight wireless headphone
May 2024Wireless headphones are everywhere. They are quickly becoming the most popular style of headphones around, with sales exploding and store shelves getting filled with various models from almost every headphone manufacturer.
Sony's PlayStation 3D Display launch delayed in Europe
May 2024While the Sony PlayStation 3D Display has launched and is widely available in the US, the same can't be said across the pond.
Spotify removes silent album that earned indie band $20,000
May 2024Spotify has spent years battling the perception that it skimps on royalties; on average, the company pays out $0.007 each time an artist's song is streamed by its millions of users.
Sprint is dead. Long live Sprint
May 2024It’s done. We now have just three major cell phone carriers in the US: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, which just completed its merger with Sprint.
Supreme Court rejects Elon Musks efforts to get rid of his Twitter sitter
May 2024Musk has been required to receive approval from his so-called “Twitter sitter” after signing a consent decree with the SEC in 2018 in response to his tweets about taking Tesla private, in which he falsely stated to have “funding secured.
Take up to 50% off of merch from The Verge for Black Friday and Cyber Monday
May 2024It’s nearly Thanksgiving, which means it’s time for some wild Black Friday weekend deals. And the official Verge store is no exception: today through Monday, you can save big on merch from The Verge.
Tesla Cybertruck: all the news about Elon Musks pickup truck - Page 2
May 2024The endless wait for a new EV is becoming a familiar rite of passage. The latest customers to experience the “when will this EV that I ordered actually arrive” anxiety?
Tesla software update said to include UI refresh, improvements to Autopilot
May 2024Tesla is readying a significant software update for its cars, including a smarter version of Autopilot and a user interface update, reports Electrek.
The 2018 Tomb Raider movie dials down the franchises tackiness
May 2024Released in summer 2001, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was an ungainly attempt to level up the art of cinematic Raiders of the Lost Ark knockoffs.
The Associated Press style guide will no longer capitalize 'internet'
May 2024This summer, many traditional media outlets will abandon a last vestige of old technology journalism: the capitalized "Internet." The Associated Press has announced that its highly influential style guide will be updated this year to require "
The Book of Boba Fetts first chapter has a lot of blank pages
May 2024The Book of Boba Fett finally is giving its titular character the spotlight. The fan-favorite bounty hunter has long lurked in the margins of Star Wars’ history: his brief introduction in an animated short during the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special; and his rocketing to popularity thanks to his iconic armor (practically designed to sell action figures) despite his brief appearances in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, his shoehorned backstory in Attack of the Clones, and a half-baked arc in The Clone Wars.
The co-founder of a collapsed crypto hedge fund was arrested in Singapore
May 2024Su Zhu, the co-founder of the collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), was arrested in Singapore on Friday. Zhu was taken into custody while attempting to leave the country from Singapore’s Changi Airport, as reported earlier by Bloomberg.
The contagion effect. - The Verge
May 2024The “contagion effect.” Lawrence Koh, who ran Google Play’s games bizdev, is getting quizzed about a document that seems to show Google running scared.
The DJI Inspire 3 is a $16,499 8K cinema drone for professionals
May 2024DJI makes a whole lot of drones, and many of them are feature-packed, easy to use, and generally are priced for casual or enthusiast buyers.
The future of streaming is free ad-supported TV and movies
May 2024The big-name streaming services had a really good run. The likes of Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Disney Plus, Apple TV Plus, and all the other Pluses have spent the last decade upending the way we make and consume movies and shows and changing the whole business of Hollywood in the process.
The Mr. Robot Hack Report: Hacking Android phones with a rogue femtocell
May 2024Mr. Robot is a show built on hacks. The mother of all hacks serves as the big cliffhanger at the end of the show's first season, and nearly every plot development leading up to it was nudged along by some kind of exploit.
The Nintendo Switch Pro Controller is the best way to play Zelda: Breath of the Wild
May 2024One of the most surprising things about the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con grip — the standard controller that comes with the console — is that it works at all.
The Pico 5 headset might be canceled, but ByteDance isnt done with VR.
May 2024The Pico 5 headset might be canceled, but ByteDance isn’t done with VR. ByteDance reportedly scrapped it after sales of last year’s Pico 4 “fell far short of ByteDance’s expectations,” according to a report by The Information.
The Raspberry Pi 5 is finally here
May 2024Despite doubts that the Raspberry Pi 5 would launch this year, the latest version of the microcomputer has arrived with some notable upgrades at a $60 starting price.
The ROG Strix Flare II Animate puts a tiny dot-matrix display on a keyboard
May 2024Asus calls this tech the AniMe Matrix LED display, and says you can use it to show all sorts of things; custom images and animations, system info like battery life, time, and date, and even audio visualizations.
The smells and tastes of a great video game
May 2024As video games and movies become more immersive, it may start to become apparent what sensations are missing in the experience.
The Valve Index might have the most fun VR controllers Ive ever tried
May 2024The Valve Index is supposed to be virtual reality with no expense spared. The recently announced headset costs $999, more than twice the price of competing Oculus and HTC devices.
The Verge Holiday Gift Guide 2017
May 2024Anker Wireless SpeakerThis portable cube speaker will make a Beats Pill look like a joke. It has aux and Bluetooth connectivity and packs a serious punch for its compact size.
The Z8 is Nikons best mirrorless camera yet
May 2024When I reviewed the $5,496.95Nikon Z9, I said that “Nikon finally put itself in the professional mirrorless camera race, and in a lot of ways it’s now winning.
This 18,000mAh Energizer battery has a phone in it
May 2024I told you MWC 2019 would be a show where things got weird, but even I didn’t anticipate a company being wild enough to build a phone with an 18,000mAh battery.
This CDC infographic lets you know if your facial hair wont work with a mask
May 2024The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is preparing for the potential spread of the coronavirus in the US. You might be considering getting masks or a respirator to cover your mouth and protect yourself.
TikTok is now banned in Montana: heres what you need to know
May 2024Montana Governor Greg Gianforte has signed a bill banning TikTok within the state — the first ban of its kind in the United States.
Time Warner Cable and DirecTV grew revenues in Q2 despite losing customers
May 2024Two of the nation's bigger cable providers just reported their quarterly results, and both lost subscribers without it hurting the company's bottom line.
Toshiba sells its electronics department to Hisense
May 2024Toshiba signed a deal today selling its television subsidiary to China’s Hisense, according to the Nikkei Asian Review. The Japanese company will sell a 95 percent stake in Toshiba Visual Solutions to Hisense Electric for $113.
TSMC is partnering with Sony on its new $7 billion chip factory in Japan
May 2024The new factory had previously been announced last month by TSMC CEO C.C. Wei, although at the time, it had yet to be approved by TSMC’s board of directors.
Tumblr will ban all adult content starting December 17th
May 2024Tumblr will permanently ban adult content from its platform on December 17th in a move that will eradicate porn-related communities on the platform and fundamentally alter how the service is used.
Turtle Beach loudly announces its most silent wireless gaming headset
May 2024Turtle Beach has announced the Stealth Pro, its latest flagship wireless gaming headset equipped with “unrivaled active noise cancellation” and a swappable two-battery system.
Turtle Beachs new split Atom controller clamps onto your Android phone
May 2024Hot on the heels of releasing its first cloud-focused controller, Turtle Beach is announcing a dedicated game controller for Android phones.
Twitch re-bans streamer charged with assault after briefly letting him come back
May 2024Today, the Australian Fortnite streamer MrDeadMoth — otherwise known as Luke Munday, 26 — was banned again from Twitch for an indeterminate period of time, after an outcry from the gaming community.
Twitter is becoming a podcast app
May 2024Twitter is officially getting into podcasts. The app will launch a test version of Twitter Spaces today that includes podcasts, letting you listen to full shows through curated playlists based on your interests.
Unemployment checks are being held up by a coding language almost nobody knows
May 2024Just a month ago, Peter Cassidy was working at an airport in the small ski town of Montrose, Colorado. But as the novel coronavirus trickled into his county, Cassidy and his co-workers watched as the list of inbound flights got shorter and shorter.
URB-Es new electric vehicle can charge all your devices at once
May 2024We first saw the URB-E electric vehicle three years ago, when the company debuted a prototype at CES 2014. We got a chance to take the first production model for a spin in December of 2015, and came away impressed.
VAIO's first post-Sony laptops transform into tablets
May 2024Sony jettisoned VAIO more than a year ago now, but the iconic PC brand isn't dead. Sold to investment fund Japan Industrial Partners, VAIO is back with two new PCs, announced today in Tokyo.
Verizon now sells a $100 tracking device with one year of free service
May 2024Verizon today launched sales of the $99.99 Verizon Smart Locator, a tiny device that can be kept with your keys, bag, or other possessions (or pets) that you never want to lose.
ViacomCBS wants to prove to skeptics it finally understands streaming
May 2024If you’re still unsure of what Paramount Plus is, don’t worry — you’ll learn soon, because ViacomCBS is going to spend a good portion of 2021 trying to get you to sign up for it.
Video Boost on the Google Pixel 8 Pro is a handy low-light video tool
May 2024When Google introduced Night Sight on the Pixel 3, it was a revelation. It was as if someone had literally turned on the lights in your low-light photos.
Wacom and Magic Leap are creating an optimistic vision of the future of productivity
May 2024You’ve most likely seen some iteration of the image above before, in overreaching tech concept videos preaching the possibilities of the collaborative workspace of the future.
Warner Bros. Discovery is effectively killing Cartoon Network
May 2024Along with making Warner Bros. Discovery a less-diverse place overall, CEO David Zaslav’s latest bit of corporate restructuring is probably going to gut Cartoon Network and turn it into a shadow of its former self.
Watch the ad for the Tartan Prancer, Vacation's ridiculous fake van
May 2024One of the highlights of the original National Lampoon's Vacation was the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, a ridiculous — and utterly hideous — fictional station wagon driven by the Griswolds poking fun at the era's auto industry.
Watch the first full trailer for Marvels Black Panther
May 2024The first full trailer for Marvel’s Black Panther is here, and it gives us a better look at the world of Wakanda, where T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) is the newly crowned king.
Watch the new trailer for Ooblets, an adorable cross between Harvest Moon and Pokmon
May 2024Ooblets is an upcoming game that was announced earlier this year at GDC 2017, and at the PC Gaming Show at E3, it debuted a new trailer for the absolutely adorable RPG.
We reviewed the $150 Xbox 360 made of Lego-like Mega bricks
May 2024Have I mentioned recently that I have the best job in the world? This week, I spent three and a half hours building an Xbox 360 out of Mega Bloks, the Lego-like bricks produced by Mattel.
What's next for Reddit's amateur Serial sleuths?
May 2024Early yesterday morning — Thursday, December 18th, 3:21 AM ET — a corner of the internet exploded. Reddit's /r/serialpodcast, created to serve the fanatical following of one of the most successful podcasts of all time, had already been named subreddit of the day, and by mid-afternoon, the listing and comment pages were pulling in over 80,000 page views every hour.
WhatsApp is adding official support for Metas Bitmoji-style avatars
May 2024Avatars, the customizable characters that are already available across Meta services like Facebook and Instagram, are officially launching on WhatsApp. Meta has announced that they can be used as a profile picture on the messaging service or sent in the form of one of 36 custom stickers.
When does sharing become oversharing?
May 2024I’m a chronic oversharer on social media — and usually an intentional one. Mostly, I write about my severe mental health struggles and things that deeply enrage me, but that constant oversharing can be hard to maintain.
Why the latest temperature check onclimate changeis still terrifying
May 2024The latest numbers are in for how much our planet is projected to heat up this century, and it’s got me sweating.
Windows 11: the latest on Microsofts next-generation OS
May 2024When Microsoft announced Windows 11 in June, it revealed that Microsoft Teams would be integrated directly into the operating system and that you’d be able to connect with other people via a new Chat window.
Windows Store apps for Windows 8 detailed, restricted to five PCs at a time
May 2024Microsoft detailed the fine points of its Windows Store for Windows 8 today. The store, due to enter beta in late February, was previously revealed in December, and allows developers to submit apps starting at $1.
With Copilot Plus, the new and improved Windows PCs are here
May 2024Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 43, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty gets off to a ridiculously cool start
May 2024The developers are marketing Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty all wrong. I’m sure the fact that it’s a Soulsborne-like released in the midst of the Great Elden Ring DLC winter is no doubt appealing.
Youll be able to talk to Alexa on Android phones starting this week
May 2024Amazon’s Alexa-everywhere approach to its digital voice assistant means the company has aggressively been pushing its AI companion onto every app and inside every device it can.
YouTube adds HDR support for iPhone XS and XS Max
May 2024The phones were released on Friday, and in the few days since launch, users have noticed that they couldn’t play high dynamic range content from the service — whereas the iPhone X, 8 Plus, 8, and iPad Pro all can.
YouTube is finally coming to all Oculus mobile VR headsets
May 2024YouTube will soon launch an app on Oculus’ mobile VR headset, the Oculus Go, bringing YouTube to Oculus’ entire mobile ecosystem.
YouTube Music will let you search by humming into your Android phone
May 2024The Android YouTube Music app is rolling out a feature that’s part Shazam and part your friend when you say, “hey what’s that song that goes.
YouTubes family vloggers worry about future amid comments crackdown
May 2024Jon and Danielle Murray, who started vlogging about their family life with six daughters almost four years ago, are debating whether they should abandon YouTube entirely.
Here's why so many airports have rocking chairs
May 2024I first noticed the rocking chairs a few years ago while flying out of Seattle. It seemed like a quirky touch not out of character at an airport with an abundance of art and whose drinking fountains playamplified gargling sounds.
Tunnel vision: how an obsessed explorer found and lost the world's oldest subway
May 2024The $2.6 million was never spent due to the disagreements between Diamond and the AAA, and the museum was never built.
11 ways to power up your gaming on your PS5
May 2024Playing games on your PlayStation 5 is, of course, much more exciting than digging through menus and configuration options — but if you invest a bit of time in getting these settings set up right, you’ll get the benefit in your gameplay.
1Password can store passkeys for Android apps.
May 20241Password can store passkeys for Android apps. To use the feature, your device needs Android 14 or higher, the latest version of 1Password, and an app that supports passkeys.
A reading list for remembering Carrie Fisher, the writer
May 2024Though Carrie Fisher will be most widely remembered for her iconic role as Star Wars’ Princess Leia, her career spanned five decades and half a dozen disciplines — she was a voice actor, screenwriter, live theatre performer, memoirist, novelist, and a fervent activist who spoke openly about her own struggles with mental health and addiction.
A24s Dream Scenario is a shapeshifting parable about our obsessions with viral fame
May 2024There are so many different factors at play when it comes to how viral sensations go viral that it can be hard to pinpoint what, exactly, made the people behind them interesting in the first place.
Adam Mosseri spells out Threads plans for the fediverse
May 2024On Friday, two days after Threads finally started publicly testing ActivityPub integration, Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared a thread on Threads detailing the company’s plans for its continued integration with the fediverse.
Al Gore and James Bell are retiring from Apples board of directors as Dr. Wanda Austin joins.
May 2024Al Gore and James Bell are retiring from Apple’s board of directors as Dr. Wanda Austin joins. Gore has been on the board since 2003 while Bell has been a member since 2015.
Amazon raises free shipping minimum to $35 for some users
May 2024Amazon is once again flirting with a $35 minimum for non-Prime subscribers to qualify for free shipping. It’s currently testing the increased minimum order amount, which has been set at $25 since 2017.
Amazon's Fire tablet now comes in four colors and with more storage
May 2024Amazon is slightly upgrading its Fire tablet today. Users can now buy the device in magenta, blue, and tangerine, in addition to black.
Amazons clothing try-on service opens up to all Prime subscribers today
May 2024Amazon’s clothing try-on service, Prime Wardrobe, is opening up to all Prime subscribers today. Prime Wardrobe had a soft launch last June as an invite-only beta and has been rolling out to more consumers over the past year.
An exhaustive list of Rogue Ones many Easter eggs
May 2024Disney’s first standalone Star Wars film, set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, is finally here. Rogue One’s sort-of-prequel status allows it to tie in with other Star Wars stories, from the core series to spinoffs like Rebels, giving eagle-eyed fans plenty to search for throughout the film.
Android will be able to detect if your phone has been snatched
May 2024Google is announcing an array of new security features as it releases its second Android 15 beta, including a feature that can detect the moment your phone is swiped from your hands.
Ankers 3-in-1 Qi2 charger is $30 off in its first sale
May 2024As might have been expected, mobile accessory makers used Qi2’s arrival as an opportunity to fill out their charger lineup with the new wireless fast charging standard.
Apple (1987) imagines the face computer of the future (1997).
May 2024Apple (1987) imagines the face computer of the future (1997). Pop culture predicted a lot about 1997 that didn’t happen. The Terminator’s Skynet didn’t become self-aware and nuke the world.
Apple announces watchOS 11 with new training features and Live Activities
May 2024Apple just announced watchOS 11, the latest version of its smartwatch platform, at WWDC 2024. Developers will be able to start tinkering with it starting today, while a public beta will arrive sometime next month.
Apple explains the new iPhone warning for unauthorized battery replacements
May 2024Responding to criticism that it's trying to steer consumers toward more expensive battery replacements, Apple today claimed that the “important battery message” added to iOS is there in the name of customer safety.
Apple halves cost of 2TB iCloud plan to $9.99 a month
May 2024Among the many announcements at WWDC yesterday, Apple cut the cost of its 2TB iCloud storage plan in half — from $19.
Apple patches Siri, no longer says Lumia 900 is 'best smartphone ever'
May 2024We all know the Siri says some funny things, but it looks like Apple wasn't a fan of the automated assistant's response to the question "
Apple Pro Display XDR review: category of one
May 2024It’s been a long time since Apple made a standalone display; the Apple Thunderbolt Display was discontinued in 2016. Apple tried to point customers looking for an external display at an LG 5K monitor for a while, but it was fairly buggy, leading the company to promise pro customers a high-end display of its own when it also promised to reboot the Mac Pro in 2017.
Apple reportedly backs out of NFL Sunday Ticket negotiations
May 2024The Athletic’s Daniel Kaplan backs up Byers’ reporting, saying on Twitter that he’s told, “Apple has indeed bowed out.” While Apple was once considered the front-runner in Sunday Ticket negotiations, talks between the iPhone maker and the NFL dragged on over the past several months, with a November report from The Athletic indicating that Apple’s expectations didn’t align with that of the NFL.
Apples new Mac Pro will be assembled in China, not the US
May 2024The vast majority of Apple products are manufactured in China, so it’s not entirely surprising to see Apple shift its production overseas.
Arc raises $30 million to power its electric boat ambitions
May 2024Electric boat startup Arc has raised $30 million just five months after coming out of stealth mode and has started putting its first prototype through its paces.
Arcade game rental service will deliver 'Donkey Kong' to your door
May 2024There's no doubt that the old arcade machines of the '80s carry a certain amount of cachet, but they're also a lot of work to find and refurbish, and they're generally not too cheap either.
Atari acquires longtime rival Intellivision
May 2024Imagine if Nintendo woke up one day and decided to buy Sega — that’s essentially what’s happened today as Atari has announced it has acquired Intellivision, ending one of the longest company rivalries in the video game industry.
Become Epic Sax Guy in Pippin Barr's 'Epic Sax Game'
May 2024Epic Sax Guy, the idiosyncratic Moldovan sax player who performed at Eurovision 2010, is now the subject of his own 8-bit video game.
Belkins convertible wireless charger supports new Qi2 magnet-enhanced standard
May 2024Belkin is embracing the new magnet-enhanced Qi2 wireless charging standard with a pair of new products being announced at Berlin’s IFA 2023 tech show.
Best Buy is offering Totaltech members a chance to snag a PS5 on November 7th
May 2024According to the PlayStation 5 product page at Best Buy, Totaltech members will be able to purchase a console starting on November 7th at 12PM ET / 9AM PT.
Bill Maher expands podcast operation with a controversial host
May 2024This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Hello! I know many of you are in LA for Podcast Movement Evolutions.
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May 2024National security agencies are warning space companies about potential security threats. The New York Times reports that the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, FBI, and Air Force have issued a “broad warning” to firms like SpaceX and Blue Origin saying to look out for foreign actors, like Chinese and Russian intelligence agencies, who they believe are trying to infiltrate their networks and steal data.
Blue Origin auctions New Shepard ride with Jeff Bezos for $28 million
May 2024Blue Origin’s month-long auction for a trip to the edge of space with its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos ended on Saturday with a closing price of $28 million.
Brian K. Vaughan apologizes for saying Apple banned 'Saga' after Comixology confusion
May 2024A day after Image Comics announced that Brian K. Vaughan's comic Saga #12 would not be available for purchase in iOS apps, the comic will be coming back to the store — and Vaughan has issued an apology.
Bright: All the trailers and commentary for Netflixs biggest film to date
May 2024Any doubts about whether Netflix has effectively established itself as part of the Hollywood community vanish immediately upon stepping into the company’s Los Angeles offices.
Can Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare get casual gamers playing violent games?
May 2024Plants vs. Zombies was wildly successful in large part due to its accessibility: The strategy game was easy to understand, and had an irreverent sense of charm.
Cards Against Humanity writers are battling an AI on Black Friday to keep their jobs
May 2024The creators of Cards Against Humanity are back for their annual Black Friday stunt, and this one is delightfully dystopian. Starting at 11AM ET today and lasting for the next 16 hours, the human writers on the CAH team are facing off against an artificial intelligence to see who can create the most popular new pack of cards, based on how many people pay for more $5 packs.
Chevrolet is the first big carmaker to offer an unlimited data plan
May 2024It’s not just big carriers offering unlimited data plans these days — carmaker Chevrolet has now got in on the act, announcing today that it would offer an unlimited 4G LTE plan for drivers to use inside their cars.
Crysis Remastered leak reveals Nintendo Switch support
May 2024If you’ve ever asked the question “can the Nintendo Switch run Crysis?” then it looks like we’re about to find out.
Developer has no regrets after angry letter to Zuckerberg goes viral
May 2024Two days ago, developer and startup founder Dalton Caldwell published an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg accusing Facebook of at first supporting his startup, then essentially threatening to crush it because it was competitive with a Facebook product.
Discord on Xbox will soon let you stream your gameplay to friends
May 2024Microsoft is improving its Xbox and Discord integration with a new streaming gameplay feature. Xbox owners will soon be able to stream their gameplay from a console to Discord users, allowing friends to watch them play games or even offer advice for solving challenges or boss battles.
Do we really want answers to Twin Peaks original questions?
May 2024Back in 1991, when David Lynch and Mark Frost’s groundbreaking TV melodrama Twin Peaks was cancelled, it left viewers with a lot of unanswered questions.
Doctor Strange 2 review: The Multiverse of Madness is a gorgeous mess
May 2024Most of Marvel Studios’ movies are meant to be at least somewhat accessible regardless of how much familiarity one has with the larger MCU or the comics a film is loosely based on.
Don't die: livestreaming turns video game speedruns into a spectator sport
May 2024On January 21st, Twitch user Adam_ak decided to play through the spooky, foreboding horror game Amnesia: The Dark Descent as fast as he could — and 11,000 people tuned in to watch it live.
Double down: a brief history of the most meaningless phrase in tech
May 2024We don’t doubt that that "double down" will continue to be a favorite catch phrase for tech executives, and we also don’t doubt that there will be many failures to follow it in the future.
E3 was a concentrated dose of gaming and Im going to miss it
May 2024Back at E3 2017, I had a plan. The annual convention always had a wide range of game developers in attendance, offering reporters like me the opportunity to talk to prominent folks from all over the world.
Emmys 2021: How to watch online, and whos nominated
May 2024The 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony is tonight at 8PM ET (5PM PT), and streaming platforms like Apple TV Plus, Netflix and HBO Max are poised to win big.
Epic and Lego partner to build a metaverse for kids
May 2024Two of the biggest names in entertainment are coming together to create a virtual space aimed at kids, through a new partnership between Fortnite developer Epic Games and Lego.
Epics hyperrealistic MetaHumans can soon be animated using an iPhone
May 2024Epic will soon let you animate your MetaHumans. The company first launched the MetaHuman creator tools in 2021 as a way of streamlining the process of making more realistic human characters.
Explore the impossible architecture of 'MonumentValley'
May 2024I just spent 10 minutes rotating a floating castle in the sky while soft piano music tinkled in the background.
Facebook quietly launches a TikTok competitor app called Lasso
May 2024Facebook has quietly released an app called Lasso that lets users create fun, short videos designed to compete with TikTok, the viral 15-second video app that recently merged with Musical.
Facebook responds to former VP who said social media is destroying society
May 2024Facebook has taken the unusual step of directly responding to a former employee who recently excoriated the biggest social networks for “ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.
FedEx refused to deliver a Huawei phone into the US
May 2024If you were planning to ship a Huawei phone to America, you might be in for a surprise. This week, writers at PCMag tried to ship a Huawei P30 from a UK office to a US one, and were surprised to find it sent back a few days later.
Florida man arrested for shooting Walmart delivery drone.
May 2024Florida man arrested for shooting Walmart delivery drone. Dennis Winn, the suspect, admits he fired what he characterized as a single warning shot.
Ford F-150 Lightning gets an EPA-confirmed range of up to 320 miles
May 2024The official range estimates for the Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck are in, and they’re looking pretty good. The base model, which starts at $39,974, will get around 230 miles of range, while the extended range versions start in the mid-$50,000s and can go about 320 miles — or about 20 additional miles than originally expected.
Fortnites next major in-person tournament will be in Copenhagen
May 2024It’s not quite a return to the World Cup from 2019, but Fortnite is getting a major in-person tournament this year.
Forza Horizon 5 is the perfect portable Xbox game
May 2024Forza Horizon 5 is an absolutely stunning showcase of the Xbox Series X. Cars look incredible, and I’ve loved taking in the game’s lush and colorful landscapes as I’ve raced through the streets of Mexico blasting classical music.
French government replaces 'hashtag' Twitter term with 'mot-dise'
May 2024The word "hashtag" is an essential piece of Twitter lexicon, but officials in France have decided to formally replace the English-derived term with a French alternative, "
From Back to the Future to Project Almanac, a short history of suburban sci-fi
May 2024At first glance, Project Almanac isn’t the most conventional of stories. The movie, which opened this past weekend, is about a bunch of high school misfits that just happen to build a time machine out of an Xbox after running into some secret blueprints in their basement.
Gallant and dvsn's debut albums are two wildly different takes on alt-R&B
May 2024If you’re in the mood to have your face melted, watch Christopher Gallant cover Sufjan Stevens’ "Blue Bucket of Gold" in a single take.
GameSnacks are Googles new HTML5 games designed for bad internet connections
May 2024Smartphones are becoming even more powerful gaming machines as time goes on, with the latest devices capable of pushing some incredible graphics on a pocket-sized device.
Gmail has a new logo thats a lot more Google
May 2024Google is replacing its iconic Gmail envelope logo with a design that’s a lot more in keeping with other Google products.
Go read this report on how law enforcement can extract sensitive data from your car
May 2024MSAB marketing materials promise cops access to a vast array of sensitive personal information quietly stored in the infotainment consoles and various other computers used by modern vehicles — a tapestry of personal details akin to what CBP might get when cracking into one’s personal phone.
Good Omens season 2 review: a lovey-dovey shippers delight
May 2024The first season of Amazon and the BBC’s Good Omens adaptation was full of clever new details that weren’t present in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s original novel, and the show was better for them because of how they helped flesh out its world of angels, demons, and curiously worded prophecies.
Google Domains is finally out of beta after more than seven years
May 2024Google Domains, the company’s domain registration service, is losing the beta tag after first launching more than seven years ago, Google announced Tuesday.
Google introduces a virtual 'Genius Bar' to answer device questions
May 2024Google is giving its online store the human touch. The Google Play store for devices like Nexus phones and tablets now has a new option to begin a video chat with a salesperson who can answer any questions you might have about Chromebooks, Android Wear, or other devices that Google sells directly through the site.
Google News to relaunch in Spain after mandatory payments to newspapers scrapped
May 2024Who should get paid when big tech platforms aggregate news stories? This was the question that prompted Google to shut down its Google News platform in Spain in 2014, after the country decided the US tech giant should cough up a monthly fee to Spanish papers.
Google now lets you order food without a delivery app
May 2024Starting today, you can now order food directly from Google Search, Google Maps, or Google Assistant. The functionality works using partnerships with existing delivery companies like DoorDash, Postmates, and ChowNow, and means you can order from any of them without having to downloading an additional app, or even visiting their website.
Hondas extended reality is a mash-up of VR and motorized wheelchairs
May 2024Honda announced a new “extended reality” experience that combines virtual reality with personal mobility devices like the automaker’s self-balancing Uni-One wheelchairs.
How did you get that job: video game voice actress Laura Bailey
May 2024Welcome to our series — How did you get that job? — where we run interviews with interesting people about their work and how they came to be doing it.
How to create a signature for PDF documents on an Android phone
May 2024Sometimes there’s no way around it — you’ve got to use an app. If you need to sign a PDF document from your Android phone, that’s simply how you’ve got to go — unlike iOS, which lets you create a signature using its built-in Markup app, you need to find a third-party source.
How to tame notifications on your Android phone
May 2024Notifications are the soundtrack to modern digital life. When they’re out of control, they make it hard to hear anything else going on.
How to watch Linda Yaccarino, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech CEOs testify in Congress
May 2024Today, the US Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony from five CEOs of major tech companies: Linda Yaccarino of X, Shou Zi Chew of TikTok, Evan Spiegel of Snap, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, and Jason Citron of Discord.
HTC One mini 2 review: average by design
May 2024The One mini 2 is an amalgamation of all three of its forebears. At 4.5 inches, its display is a little bigger than the 4.
HTCs latest VR headest doesnt need external trackers, but it feels like it does
May 2024After starting out as extremely limited versions of their PC-powered counterparts, standalone VR headsets are starting to get pretty advanced, at least on paper.
Hulu wants to make Margaret Atwoods Handmaids Tale sequel into a show, too
May 2024The Handmaid’s Tale is Hulu’s flagship original series, and it might be getting even bigger, thanks to The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s upcoming sequel to the original novel that inspired the series.
India reveals worlds first 100 percent solar-powered airport
May 2024The airport’s parent company, Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL), plans to sell surplus energy from the new solar plant to the Kerala State Electricity Board.
Inside one of the worlds first human composting facilities
May 2024Rachel Gerberding has a green thumb. So when her mother died this April, Gerberding decided to compost her. Gerberding, who lives in Washington state in a house surrounded by flowers, had heard about a newly legal method to turn human remains into soil.
Instagram is rolling out new notifications about COVID-19 information
May 2024Instagram is announcing two new features to help combat COVID-19 misinformation: users in areas with surging cases will see a link to their local health authority at the top of their feed and anyone searching for vaccine information will also be directed to credible health sources.
It doesnt actually matter whether Batman kills people
May 2024Watchmen and Man of Steel director Zack Snyder was back in the news this week, defending his decision to have Batman kill people in Batman v.
James Bond can't get past the TSA
May 2024Pierce Brosnan, no one's favorite James Bond apart from a few people who played too much Goldeneye 007 on the N64 as kids, has been stopped at an airport in Vermont for carrying a knife.
Japan and the Netherlands join US with tough chip controls on China
May 2024Following years of lobbying from Washington, Japan and the Netherlands agreed on Friday to tighten restrictions on the export of chip manufacturing technology to Chinese companies.
JVC releases more wireless headphones for different occasions
May 2024Like many other headphone makers at CES this year, Japanese electronics company JVC released several wireless headphones, bringing us ever closer to a wireless future where we’re all juggling a dozen chargers in our bags.
Kobos all-you-can-read subscription coming to the US could challenge Amazon
May 2024Kobo is bringing its Kobo Plus service, which lets you read unlimited ebooks and audiobooks for a flat monthly fee, to the US.
Levels Health review: optimize your fitness with a $400 glucose tracker
May 2024“What is that thing on your shoulder?” has been the question I’ve been asked most frequently for the last month. Understandably so.
Lionsgate shows off first image of Stranger Things David Harbour as Hellboy
May 2024Lionsgate has released the first image of Stranger Things star David Harbour as Hellboy’s titular demonic lead. An earlier report that the company had set a 2019 release date for the film was false, Lionsgate said.
Listen to Diddy's hyperkinetic new single 'Finna Get Loose'
May 2024It's been a crazy week for Diddy: He was arrested for assaulting his son's UCLA football coach with a kettlebell. He led Bad Boy Records' mammoth 20th anniversary celebration (and fell flat on his face) at the BET Awards.
Man breaks Guinness hoverboard record after standing on a drone
May 2024A Canadian inventor has set a new Guinness World Record for the farthest hoverboard flight, thanks to a homemade contraption that looks nothing like Marty McFly's ride of choice.
MekaMon is an AR robot that you control using your smartphone
May 2024When it comes to gaming competition with friends, most of us grew up playing games like Pokémon, battling with friends through Game Boys and old link cables, and mostly using our imagination when the gameplay animation was still pretty basic.
Melinda Gates turns her focus to promoting women in tech
May 2024Melinda Gates is taking time from her philanthropic work to build out a personal team dedicated to helping increase the number of women in technology-related jobs.
Microsoft launches Copilot Pro worldwide with a one-month free trial
May 2024Microsoft is expanding its $20 monthly Copilot Pro subscription to more markets today, after launching the AI-powered assistant for consumers in January.
Microsoft Office 2021 will launch on October 5th
May 2024Microsoft is launching its next perpetual version of Microsoft Office for commercial customers today, and promising an Office 2021 consumer release on October 5th.
Microsoft Teams and Outlook back online after a four-hour outage
May 2024Thousands of users reported issues early this morning at around 2:30AM ET, with services like Microsoft Teams and Outlook email not loading for many across Europe and Asia.
Microsoftinvestigating Windows 11 BSOD unsupported processor update errors
May 2024Microsoft says it’s investigating reports of a Blue Screen of Death with an “UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR” error message that’s been cropping up on some Windows 11 PCs after installing an update released earlier this week.
Microsofts Android launcher now lets you track your kids location and app usage
May 2024Microsoft is bringing a new location-tracking feature to its Android launcher app. Available in preview, the new family tracking feature lets Microsoft Launcher users track the last known location of their family members.
Microsofts new Windows 11 update brings fixes for the VPN problems from the last update.
May 2024Microsoft’s new Windows 11 update brings fixes for the VPN problems from the last update. It’s Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft says a problem that caused VPN connections to fail after installing the April 2024 security update can be resolved by installing an update released today, May 14th.
Midjourney is testing a highly requested consistent characters feature.
May 2024Midjourney is testing a highly requested “consistent characters” feature. The generative AI service’s new algorithm can now use the same character across multiple images and styles without deviating too far from their original design.
Mike Brooks Keiko trilogy is the perfect read for fans who miss Firefly and Dark Matter
May 2024If you’re a fan of TV shows about wayward starship crews taking on whatever job will keep them flying, you might be suffering though a dry spell right now, since shows like Firefly, Farscape, and Dark Matter are no longer running.
NASA collected a sample from an asteroid for the first time heres why it matters
May 2024NASA completed its first-ever sample return mission from an asteroid today, with a science capsule containing material from an asteroid landing after having traveled on a 1.
National Geographic posts massive, interactive photos of space shuttle Discovery's interior
May 2024Earlier today, the space shuttle Discovery made a low-altitude pass over Washington D.C. atop a specially modified 747 on its way to its final resting place at the Smithsonian Institution.
Netflix Tudum 2023: all the biggest news and trailers
May 2024A behind-the-scenes look at Rebel Moon. We haven’t seen much of Zack Snyder’s upcoming sci-fi film aside from a few images, but this featurette gives a bit more insight into what the movie will be like.
Netflixs new Play Something shuffle feature is here to solve your movie night indecision
May 2024Netflix is officially rolling out its new “Play Something” feature today to all its users, adding a button across the streaming service’s UI to automatically suggest new shows and movies that you’ve never watched before.
Newsweek ends its 80-year print run with a hashtagged cover
May 2024On December 31st, Newsweek magazine will end its print run, shifting its content to an online-only format called Newsweek Global. It's now posted the cover of the final issue on Twitter, showing a stark black and white photograph of the old Newsweek Building in New York — which the magazine itself vacated in 1994.
Nintendo Labo VR kit review
May 2024For the last few years, it’s seemed like every major tech and gaming company has experimented with virtual reality to some degree, including Sony, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, HTC, Valve, and plenty more.
Nintendos Wii U and 3DSonline services will shut down in April
May 2024Next spring, Nintendo will shut down the online services behind nearly all of its 3DS and Wii U software, affecting multiplayer and other connected features.
Nissans new Leaf goes more than 200 miles on a charge
May 2024Nissan has promised a long-range version of the new Leaf ever since it updated its famous electric car back in 2017, and this week at the Consumer Electronics Show the Japanese automaker finally broke its silence.
Nokia unveiling Lumia 928 for Verizon next month, says Bloomberg
May 2024Nokia's new flagship Lumia 928 for Verizon is reportedly scheduled for a launch in May.Bloomberg reports that Verizon will "unveil a plan next month"
Now, how did Invincible production sketches wind up on a North Korean server?
May 2024Now, how did Invincible production sketches wind up on a North Korean server? It’s very common for US-based studios to outsource big chunks of their animation projects overseas where production costs are significantly cheaper.
One Video: Deadz by Migos feat. 2 Chainz
May 2024Every Friday, a slew of new music videos hits the web. Watching them at your desk is not time theft because you deserve it; think of it as a nice reward for surviving another work week.
OnePlus 8 review: familiar formula
May 2024Now that OnePlus has established itself as one of the major players in the smartphone world, there are certain things you can take for granted about its devices.
Oscars 2016: BB-8, R2-D2, and C-3PO show up to celebrate John Williams
May 2024Star Wars: The Force Awakens has yet to win an Oscar tonight, losing out to both Mad Max and Ex Machina, but there's still one very important award left: Best Original Score.
Overwatch 2s newest cinematic is the next big step in the games journey
May 2024From the first reveal of her character in a small thumbnail portrait in 2016 to her official debut in Overwatch 2 some six years later, Vivian Chase, call sign Sojourn, has been on a journey.
Pandora CEO Tim Westergren has stepped down
May 2024Pandora CEO Tim Westergren has stepped down effective immediately, the company announced today. The news of his departure was first reported by Recode.
Pentax K-30 review - The Verge
May 2024Pentax may not be the first name you think of when you shop for a digital camera, but the company has a history of making good DSLRs — the K-5 is a favorite of many photographers, for instance.
Pinterest now lets you filter search results by skin tone
May 2024Pinterest has rolled out new changes that let users filter hair and beauty search results by skin tone ranges, as a way to make it easier to find what you may be looking for.
Playing Tears of the Kingdom is rewiring my brain
May 2024Anyone who has managed to clock in hundreds of hours on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild since its 2017 release will understand well how, over time, you can’t help but develop a constellation of habits and preferences that end up defining your individual playstyle.
Pokmon Scarlet and Violets second DLC arrives this December
May 2024Today, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company announced that The Hidden Treasures of Area Zero: The Indigo Disk is slated to debut on the Nintendo Switch on December 14th.
PS5 restock updates: where to buy a PlayStation 5 right now
May 2024The great PlayStation 5 shortage is over — well, at least according to Sony. Thanks to the increased availability of Sony’s next-gen console, there are now multiple options for bringing home a PS5, none of which are an uphill battle.
Quick fixes: how to download an image from a Google Doc
May 2024There is no obvious way to download an image from a Google Docs document. Download the document to an HTML file.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2: how to preorder
May 2024You’ll be able to get your hands on the new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 very soon. Samsung recently shared a lot more about its new foldable phone, which you can read right here.
Samsung officially kills off the Galaxy Note brand, but the stylus stays
May 2024The news isn’t exactly a surprise. Samsung hasn’t released a Galaxy Note device since the Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra were released in 2020.
Senate reauthorizes FISA spy program, but not before its midnight expiration
May 2024The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial program that allows warrantless spying on foreign “targets,” but a long, knock-down, drag-out fight over amendments kept the Senate in session past midnight on Friday, when the surveillance program officially expired.
Severance season 1 review: wonderfully tense workplace horror
May 2024In the age of binge-watching and television seasons that drop all at once, Severance feels unique: it’s a show you definitely don’t want to watch in one go.
Silvergate has collapsed - The Verge
May 2024Silvergate Bank, which had been a cornerstone in the crypto world, announced it’s closing and returning deposits. In a press release, the bank’s holding company, Silvergate Capital Corporation, said it made the decision to shut down “in light of recent industry and regulatory developments.
Sonos will launch Google Assistant on its smart speakers next week
May 2024After months of beta testing, Sonos is nearly ready to roll out Google Assistant to its Sonos One and Sonos Beam smart speakers.
Sony's new A9 camera is a full-frame mirrorless with ludicrous speed
May 2024Sony just announced its most advanced full-frame camera for professional photographers yet. The new A9 is designed to pose a formidable challenge to Canon and Nikon, with a full-frame stacked CMOS sensor (24.
Sonys Back Button Attachment is a glimpse at the PS5 controller we didnt get
May 2024Over six years after it was first released, Sony suddenly created a new set of buttons for its DualShock 4 controller.
Star Wars holochess creator is turning to Kickstarter to fund his new game
May 2024Famed movie artist Phil Tippett's most famous work could soon become a reality: but he's turning to Kickstarter to make it happen.
Star Wars Outlaws is a new open-world Star Wars game from Ubisoft
May 2024During the Xbox Games Showcase on Sunday, Microsoft and Ubisoft revealed a cinematic trailer for a new Star Wars game titled Star Wars Outlaws.
Starbucks wants you to schedule coffee meetings in Outlook
May 2024Starbucks is making a strategic bet on Microsoft Office. At Microsoft's Build conference in San Francisco today, Starbucks CTO Gerri Martin-Flickinger took to the stage to announce a Starbucks add-in for Microsoft Office.
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League gets a big feature in PlayStations State of Play
May 2024During Sony’s first State of Play of 2023, we were offered an extended look at Rocksteady’s first game in a handful of years — Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League.
Super Nintendo Classic Edition review: the perfect way to play 16-bit classics
May 2024The Super NES Classic Edition is perhaps the most obvious product Nintendo has ever made. Given the frenzy surrounding the NES Classic, it seemed inevitable that the company would produce a miniature version of its 16-bit console as well.
Switching from Google Photos to iCloud will soon be a lot less painful
May 2024The service is pretty straightforward: photos and videos are sent directly to iCloud, so there’s no need to download anything. You can send your whole library at once or specify which albums you want transferred.
Take-Two has officially acquired Zynga
May 2024Take-Two has officially completed its $12.7 billion deal for social game developer Zynga, the two companies announced Monday. With the acquisition, Take-Two not only takes ownership of big Zynga franchises like FarmVille but also gets access to Zynga’s expertise building hugely popular free-to-play mobile games.
TCL 30 V 5G review: Verizon 5G and not much else
May 2024If you find yourself face to face with the TCL 30 V 5G, chances are you’re at a Verizon store or on Verizon’s website contemplating its prospects as a “free” phone.
Ted Lasso helped me crush the competition in FIFA 23
May 2024There are a lot of reasons to be interested in FIFA 23. The latest soccer game from EA includes big features like the unfortunately belated addition of women’s pro leagues from France and England, alongside the return of Italian giants Juventus and general improvements to gameplay and visuals.
Telegram launches Telegraph, an anonymous blogging platform
May 2024Telegram now has a blogging platform to go along with its popular messaging app. It’s called Telegraph and, according to VentureBeat, offers fast publishing and anonymous posting — without requiring you to register an account or sign in through social media.
Tesla cars are accelerating without warning, prompting government scrutiny
May 2024The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday that it is weighing whether to launch an investigation into “sudden unexpected acceleration” of 500,000 Tesla vehicles, according to Reuters.
Tesla investors sue Elon Musk for launching a rival AI company
May 2024Several Tesla shareholders are accusing Elon Musk and the company’s board of knowingly diverting talent and resources away from the company and directing it toward Musk’s rival artificial intelligence company, xAI.
Tesla layoffs hit Supercharger team just as its poised to take over EV charging
May 2024Tesla was on the cusp of taking over electric vehicle charging in the US — then, the layoffs came. Today, multiple outlets reported that the company has laid off hundreds of employees, just weeks after cutting 10 percent (approximately 14,000 people) of its global workforce.
Teslas latest screwup involves making the font size of its braking system too small
May 2024An incorrect font size is displayed on the instrument panel for the Brake, Park, and Antilock Brake System (ABS) warning lights.
The aliens are stronger together in A Quiet Place: Day One.
May 2024The aliens are stronger together in A Quiet Place: Day One. The first A Quiet Place featured a fair number of shots showing off the movie’s terrifying looked like up close, but the franchise’s latest entry seems like it’s going to spotlight what groups of the creatures can do in packs judging from the looks of this new trailer.
The entire story of Twitter / X under Elon Musk - Page 23
May 2024After Elon Musk tried to get out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter and the company sued to hold him to it, his lawyers unsuccessfully tried to hold off the trial until next year, and now they’re pushing for another delay.
The environmentally conscious Fairphone 4 is finally coming to the US
May 2024The Fairphone 4 — a user-repairable smartphone built using ethically sourced materials — is finally coming to the US, almost two years after it first debuted back in September 2021.
The FBI reportedly paid Carnegie Mellon University $1 million to attack Tor
May 2024Encryption service Tor was designed to keep its users anonymous, but early last year, it was compromised, handing reams of information about people who used the software to view the "
The Forest turns Japan's suicide forest into an obstacle course for Americans
May 2024In 2010, Vice premiered a 20-minute documentary entitled Aokigahara: Suicide Forest. Vice publishes dozens of short documentaries a year, but this one struck a nerve — it follows an environmental protection worker as he makes his rounds through the dense and sprawling forest at the base of Mt.
The Game of Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 8, No One
May 2024In the Game of Game of Thrones, it takes a lot of time to become no one. I've seen some grumbling that tonight's episode negated everything that Arya Stark's been up to for the past two seasons, and I don't think that's exactly true — she's become a formidable fighter; and has grown sufficiently jaded about the once-impossibly-mysterious House of Black and White (as have we, I think).
The gloriously surreal space epic Ad Astra is half a great movie
May 2024Director James Gray’s lush new space opera Ad Astra is essentially two parallel films. One is a visually inventive science fiction odyssey that imagines near-future space travel as the new Wild West frontier.
The Happy Rings EDA sensor tracks mental health instead of fitness
May 2024Startup Happy Health is looking to give the mood ring a “smart” makeover. Instead of dubious color-changing stones, it has created the Happy Ring, which aims to alert users about their mental health using biometric sensors and artificial intelligence.
The iPhone 13 Mini is dead
May 2024The mini-sized iPhone is dead. Apple quietly dropped the iPhone 13 Mini from its lineup on Tuesday, discontinuing the last of its smaller-sized phones.
The LG V30 is coming to US carriers starting October 5th
May 2024The LG V30 now has a release date in the US. Well, release dates is more accurate. It’s coming to all four big carriers beginning early next month, but specific availability differs between them.
The Lightyear One is a prototype solar car with 450 miles of range
May 2024Lightyear has unveiled the first prototype of the Lightyear One, an electric vehicle covered in solar panels that it plans to start delivering to consumers in 2021.
The Lotus Emeya is the latest electric hypercar to join the under 3 second club
May 2024Lotus revealed the 2024 Emeya electric hypercar, a four-door sedan with nearly 1,000 horsepower and a burning desire to reach 60mph in under three seconds.
The LSD Avengers, Silk Roads self-appointed drug inspectors, announce retirement
May 2024Acid is a freaky drug; it can make you feel like you’re a kid again, or trap you in a real-life horror movie.
The mission to retrieve a Mars sample is running into turbulence
May 2024Hundreds of millions of miles away, on the frigid surface of Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover is hard at work, diligently gathering fresh samples of Martian rock, sealing them in pristine tubes, and leaving them on the surface ready for collection.
The new Anki Vector robot is smart enough to just hang out
May 2024On the table before me are two diminutive robots, each emitting endearing little robot beeps and bloops, their screen eyes active.
The new plan to save MoviePass has arrived, and its weird
May 2024The embattled film-subscription service MoviePass launched its promised new subscriber plan today, the one it previously announced would replace its existing standard one-movie-ticket-per-day plan.
The new Star Wars Outlaws trailer introduces you to the criminal underworld
May 2024It already seemed like Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws was going to play like Grand Theft Auto in space, and the game’s latest trailer only heightens that vibe.
The Olympus Pen E-PL9 has retro style and can record 4K video
May 2024Olympus has announced the Pen E-PL9, a new model in its Pen Lite series of pocket mirrorless cameras. It’s an updated version of the E-PL8 model released back in 2016 that looks to improve on some of the older camera’s shortcomings while updating some specs for the future.
The Shannara Chronicles is Game of Thrones without wrinkles
May 2024MTV's shiny new epic-fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles is adamantly not a comedy. It has the kind of grim-faced ultra-seriousness that so often makes genre films feel a little ridiculous, with characters declaiming instead of just talking.
The story of the internet, as told by Know Your Meme
May 2024Brad Kim’s mother recently found Jesus, which is nice but a little bit of a problem for him. “I don’t know how to tell my mom, like, ‘I don’t think I can ever get religious, as long as I’m on the internet.
The SXSW feature film lineup is here
May 2024With South by Southwest 2016 little more than a month away, the festival has finally announced its feature film lineup. The event will show 139 new films, showcasing the talents of young and established filmmakers and documentarians from around the world.
The UKs controversial porn block will go into effect on July 15th
May 2024The UK’s controversial porn block has a new launch date: July 15th, 2019. The scheme, which is designed to stop people under 18 from accessing pornographic material online, has been repeatedly delayed.
The US strengthens air quality rule for soot
May 2024The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a significantly stricter standard today for fine particle pollution, commonly referred to as soot. It’s the first time in twelve years that the agency has updated the rule to reflect current science and the culmination of a power struggle that has spanned three presidential administrations.
The Verge Archives - Marvel
May 2024You can now download an app to run a 5K with Thor and Loki. Marvel’s new running app — Marvel Move — is now available.
The Verge Archives - Virtual Reality
May 2024Experience the glamor of managing a laundromat with Arcade Paradise VR. The Meta Quest game, which is $19.99 and available to preorder, puts you in charge of stuff like scrubbing toilets and plucking chewed gum in a 1993 laundromat.
The Weather Channel makes for a pretty great streaming service
May 2024The Weather Channel is not trying to win you over by spending big on its version of House of Cards. It’s not bidding on The Office next time it comes up, nor is it interested in NFL games.
The Xbox games showcase airs June 9th, followed by a Call of Duty Direct
May 2024Microsoft is officially holding its big Xbox summer showcase on June 9th, as The Verge reported earlier this month. The showcase will air on Sunday, June 9th, at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM UK and will include a deep dive into the next installment of Call of Duty after the main show ends.
This crazy Avatar drink is way better than the Unicorn Frappuccino
May 2024I was traumatized earlier this year when I tried the Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino, so when I saw that Disney’s new Pandora: The World of Avatar land had its own multi-colored neon beverage, I was wary.
This is a perfectly circular phone, and it's wonderfully weird
May 2024The Runcible is weird but it's fun to hold The circular device curves back out from the screen to form a comfortable saucer shape, and it is a fun device to hold.
This is your next jam: Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, and more
May 2024Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I’d love to go just one week without some kind of album-length surprise.
Tidals subscription is getting simpler and cheaper yes, you read that right
May 2024Tidal seems to have decided that there just aren’t enough people willing to pay upward of $20 per month for the highest-possible audio fidelity.
TikTok is hosting a music festival featuring Cardi B and Charlie Puth
May 2024TikTok is taking its viral sounds offline and hosting an in-person music festival in December, the company announced today. And of course, the entire thing will be livestreamed via TikTok Live.
Tim Sweeney explains how the metaverse might actually work
May 2024At its State of Unreal event at GDC, Epic announced... a lot of different things. There were animation tools for virtual humans, a sprawling digital asset marketplace, a new Fortnite creator economy, an Unreal Engine-powered creation tool for Fortnite, and more.
Trumps new social media app launches on iOS
May 2024Truth Social, a social media network developed by former president Donald Trump’s new media company, is now live on the iOS App Store in the US.
Twitter wont act on Nicki Minaj tweet irresponsibly linking COVID-19 vaccine to impotency
May 2024“My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent,” Minaj tweeted to her 22.
Uber is testing an on-demand staffing business called Uber Works
May 2024Uber is testing an on-demand staffing business called Uber Works, according to the Financial Times. The service would make it possible for businesses to hire short-term workers for things like “events and corporate functions, such as waiters or security guards,” the report says.
Uber rival Sidecar is ending ride-sharing and delivery services this week
May 2024Sidecar, a ride-sharing and delivery service, will cease operations at 2PM PT on December 31st, according to co-founders Sunil Paul and Jahan Khanna.
Using the internet without the Amazon Cloud
May 2024Amazon servers make up so much of the internet that it can be hard to separate the two. As of last year, Amazon Web Services controlled roughly 40 percent of the cloud market, running the backend for Netflix, Pinterest, Slack and dozens of other services with no visible connection to the company.
Verizons new filter blocks spoofed phone numbers that are too close to yours
May 2024Verizon wants to help curb those obnoxious “spoofing” calls from similar area codes to your own with a new tool called Neighborhood Filter.
Watch the Bugatti Chiron smash through the mythical 300 mph barrier
May 2024Speed, especially extremely high speeds, can get pretty abstract. I don’t know about you, but I find it difficult to wrap my head around anything faster than 150 mph, which is the speed most commercial airplanes reach when they take off.
Watch this: 'Def Con: The Documentary' covers two decades of a giant hacker meetup
May 2024Jason Scott, the well-known digital archivist with archive.org who has previously produced a documentary on bulletin board systems, has turned his attention to Def Con — the Vegas convention that now attracts thousands of hackers (and would-be hackers) each year.
We tested Aptoide, the first free iPhone app store alternative
May 2024The popular alternative Android marketplace Aptoide just launched as a challenger to the Apple App Store in Europe. We’ve seen a trickle of stores launch since March when the Digital Markets Act (DMA) forced Apple to support third-party iOS app marketplaces — but nothing has so far managed to upset the balance of power and change the status quo.
Welcome to CNN correspondent Mortal Kombat
May 2024There were no special holograms for this year's CNN midterm election coverage — iPads and Surfaces, yes, but nothing too crazy.
What is a smart home, and do you need one?
May 2024I find the simplest way to explain the concept of a smart home is that it’s a natural evolution of our homes.
Where to preorder Sonys new Spider-Man PS5 console and accessories
May 2024Preorders for Sony’s upcoming limited edition Spider-Man PlayStation 5 console and some of its matching accessories are still available. The themed setup can be bought as a full bundle with a disc-equipped PS5, a digital code for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and a matching controller for $599.
Which FX shows should you stream on Hulu?
May 2024This month, Hulu added nearly the entire library of FX television shows as a result of Disney’s recent acquisition of Fox.
WiiMs Mini and Pro are the Chromecast Audios real replacement
May 2024About a year or so ago, I decided to network all my speakers together to be able to do multiroom audio.
Will HBOs The New Pope give us as many memes as The Young Pope did?
May 2024If you like strange, beautiful television shows about fictional papacies, I have good news for you: HBO is working on a Young Pope follow-up.
Windows 95 is now an app you can download and install on macOS, Windows, and Linux
May 2024Windows 95 is the operating system that’s now used as a yardstick for what’s possible on modern devices and platforms. We’ve seen Microsoft’s popular OS appear on the Apple Watch, an Android Wear smartwatch, and even the Xbox One.
Windows Terminal now supports colorful themes to spruce up your dev environment
May 2024Microsoft is adding full theme support to its Windows Terminal this week. The customization support allows Windows Terminal users to alter the appearance of tabs, the window, and even background images for the Terminal interface.
WordPerfect is not only still around, a new version came out in 2021
May 2024Recently my colleagues and I were discussing the history of word processors (that’s just the kind of thing we do here), and a few of them reminisced about using one called WordPerfect many, many years ago.
Xiaomis Mi Mix Alpha is almost entirely made of screen
May 2024Xiaomi’s Mi Mix series has always pushed the boundaries of phone screens and form factors, from the original model that kicked off the bezel wars to last year’s sliding, notchless Mi Mix 3.
YouTube removes Logan Paul as a preferred ad partner, puts his YouTube Red projects on hold
May 2024If you or anyone you know is considering suicide or is anxious, depressed, upset, or needs to talk, there are people who want to help:
YouTubers can swear at the start of videos again without getting demonetized
May 2024YouTube will ease its restrictions on swearing in videos after an update it rolled out in November sparked backlash from several creators, and the company will be reviewing videos that had their monetization affected by the policy.
Zenbook 14X OLED Space Edition vs. MacBook Pro
May 2024Many publications (The Verge included) have heralded this year’s MacBooks as the best laptops you can buy today. For many users, they will be.
American Horror Story: Hotel is a nightmare and I don't want to wake up
May 2024More than any other show in recent memory, American Horror Story is built on its ability to one-up itself on a weekly basis.
How video game concept artist Janice Chu finds inspiration in limitations
May 2024Unlike a lot of artists, Janice Chu didn’t necessarily grow up knowing she wanted to draw things for a living.
New trailers: The Hateful Eight, Chi-Raq, Star Wars, and more
May 2024I finally saw The Martian over the weekend and really loved it. It's just a two-hour thrill ride where every obstacle is solved by science, which is really fun to watch (for more, you should read our review).
'Chrono Trigger' for Android finally available outside Japan on Google Play
May 2024Beloved role-playing game Chrono Trigger has been ported several times since its release in 1995, including to iOS and Android. But while the iOS version was released in the iTunes App Store last year, the Android version has only been available on Square Enix's Japanese games marketplace.
240W USB-C PD chargers are nearly here, says Framework CEO
May 2024Now, Framework is taking us to 180 watts — and the CEO expects 240-watt chargers right around the corner. Today, the modular laptop company revealed that it will ship its upcoming Framework Laptop 16 with the first 180W USB-C PD 3.
90 Seconds on The Verge: Friday, July 13th, 2012
May 2024Three weeks later, we're at episode 14. That's 1,260 seconds in theory and 1,275 seconds in practice (blame it on time dilation in the first two episodes) — 1,289 if you count the extra one second YouTube adds to every video embed.
A physicist on why AI safety is the most important conversation of our time
May 2024Should we be worried about the dangerous potential of artificial intelligence? Sort of, says Max Tegmark, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A rare geomagnetic storm is heading to Earth heres what it means for critical infrastructure
May 2024The National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued a rare “severe” geomagnetic storm watch for the US for Friday night.
After 15 years of sad covers, Mad World gets a happy performance
May 2024The 1982 Tears for Fears song “Mad World” is not exactly cheery, lyrics-wise, but production-wise it’s kind of a bop. It’s a fun song, with a catchy beat — yet if you think of “Mad World” you probably think of a dreary little drudgefest of a tune and Patrick Swayze crying alone.
After 28 years, someone opened an unopenable door in Super Mario 64.
May 2024After 28 years, someone opened an “unopenable” door in Super Mario 64. YouTuber pannenkoek2012 explains, in great detail, why a door in the “Cool, Cool Mountain” can’t be opened (there’s an invisible wall) and how someone figured out how to open it anyway.
Amazon finally has a way to cast your content to its Fire TVs
May 2024Developed by Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung (and others), Matter is an open-sourced, IP-based connectivity software layer for smart home devices.
Amazon is dropping dozens of in-house brands you didnt even know it owned
May 2024Amazon is slashing the number of in-house brands it offers on its marketplace. The retail giant plans on cutting 27 of its 30 private-label clothing brands as it looks to cut costs and stave off antitrust scrutiny, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
Amazon is publishing new open-world racer from former Forza developers
May 2024Amazon is continuing to expand its presence in video game publishing. The latest example: the company is teaming up with Maverick Games, a new studio formed by former Forza developers at Playground, to launch “a narrative-led open-world driving game.
Amazon is selling last years Apple TV 4K for $80, and thats practically a steal
May 2024There aren’t a ton of differences between the third-generation Apple TV 4K and last year’s model. The new one’s faster (but good luck telling the difference), supports HDR10 Plus, and has a smaller, lighter design.
Amazon launches The Hub locker delivery system for apartment buildings
May 2024Amazon has revealed a new delivery locker designed for apartment blocks and other housing complexes that may not have mailroom services to securely process packages.
An upcoming 5G deadline could cause airline delays starting July 1st
May 2024US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday there may be some airline delays or cancellations starting July 1st if the last remaining passenger jets haven’t upgraded their altimeters to deal with 5G interference, per a report from The Wall Street Journal report.
And were on to sideloading.
May 2024And we’re on to sideloading. Epic knows Google will argue that it’s an open platform where anyone can install apps without going to a store.
Ankers next batteries will have a faster charging chip
May 2024Anker is upgrading the PowerIQ fast charging technology used in its chargers and battery packs to a new, faster version, known as PowerIQ 2.
Apple AirPods Max first look: lots to prove
May 2024I’ve been playing with Apple’s new $549 AirPods Max over-ear headphones since yesterday afternoon, and so far they sound very nice and fit very comfortably.
Apple announces Apple Watch Series 6 with ability to measure blood oxygen levels
May 2024Apple has announced the Apple Watch Series 6, the latest in its line of popular smartwatches. The Series 6 model maintains the same overall design introduced with the Apple Watch Series 4 and continued with the Series 5, but it adds a variety of new sensors to allow for things like blood oxygen monitoring and better sleep tracking.
Apple announces its M4 chip
May 2024Apple’s next-generation chip, the M4, is coming to the new iPad Pro. The new OLED iPad Pro models will include the upgraded chip, which is focused on improving performance for AI-related tasks in iPadOS.
Apple celebrates Pride with new Apple Watch bands and watchfaces
May 2024Apple has released two new colorful watch bands and faces to commemorate Pride month, which begins in June. One Apple Watch Pride band features a light-colored rainbow striped across the entire strap.
Apple has finally approved a MagSafe car mount charger, and it only costs $99.95
May 2024A mere two years after Apple introduced MagSafe for iPhones, we're finally getting the accessory that probably should've launched with it: a magnetic car mount that's also capable of actually charging your phone.
Apple is now banned from selling its latest Apple Watches in the US
May 2024Apple was blocked from selling the Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 in the US after President Joe Biden’s administration declined to veto the ban; however, on December 27th, the federal appeals court temporarily paused it, allowing Apple to restart sales in its stores and on Apple.
Apple posts ASL interpretation of its Time Flies event
May 2024Apple made an American Sign Language interpretation of its “Time Flies” event available on its website on Tuesday (via AppleInsider). There are two screens in the ASL-interpreted event replay — the left one shows the event video, while the one on the right shows someone interpreted what’s being said in ASL.
Apple wont be forced to open up iMessage by EU
May 2024Apple’s iMessage is not being designated as a “core platform service” under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission announced today.
Apples $700 Mac Pro wheels work terribly on skateboards
May 2024Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past month, you’ll know that Apple has started selling a set of standalone wheels for the Mac Pro for $700.
Apples latest iOS update could have a big impact on podcast downloads
May 2024This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Today, we’ve got a joint issue looking at why Apple’s latest iOS update could cause download numbers to go down and featuring a talk about brand safety with Spotify’s director of global advertising platform integrity.
Apples rumored HomePod with a screen could arrive with Apple Intelligence.
May 2024Apple’s rumored HomePod with a screen could arrive with Apple Intelligence. Apple’s smart home efforts could use both a smarter Siri and a smart display, and we may soon get both.
Apples rumored NFL Sunday Ticket deal might not happen this year
May 2024Apple’s long-rumored deal for NFL Sunday Ticket may not happen this year after all. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said this summer that the NFL expected to pick where the lucrative broadcasting rights would land by the fall.
Asus new curved monitor offers smoother gaming on a budget
May 2024Asus has a new gaming monitor out, the ROG Strix XG27VQ, a name that I’m not even going to bother commenting on.
Audezes $300 gaming headset promises comfort and multipoint Bluetooth
May 2024While Razer, Logitech, and other companies are working on their 2023 gaming headsets, Audeze has announced its new Maxwell wireless model that starts at $299 with support for PlayStation, Windows, macOS, Nintendo Switch, and mobile — everything but Xbox.
Audezes new Mobius headphones have amazing 3D sound processing
May 2024Gaming headphones all tend to come with lofty promises about 7.1 sound or special spatial audio imaging or some other gimmick that can entice people to buy them.
Audio-Technica X5000 hands-on: audiophile headphones for real humans
May 2024Like anything else in life, IFA is what you make of it. Yes, everyone will experience the big marquee events from Samsung, LG, Lenovo, and Sony, but after that, it’s really up to you to decide how you’re going to digest 22 cavernous halls of new gadgets and technology.
AWS re:Invent 2023: the biggest news and announcements
May 2024Amazon’s new virtual desktop link is a Fire TV Cube for businesses. Instead of relying on hard drives, thin clients like the cube offload most computing power to the cloud and can connect virtual desktops remotely.
Bastion and Torbjrn have been temporarily removed from Overwatch 2
May 2024Bastion and Torbjörn are the heroes affected, impacting their ultimate and regular abilities. Torbjörn has the lesser of the two bugs, resulting in him being pulled from the competitive queue but still available in Quick Play.
Beoplay H9 review: its complicated
May 2024My favorite pair of portable over-ear headphones is last year’s Beoplay H6. It combines minimalist Danish style, fantastic sound, and endless comfort for the perfectly fair price of $299.
Bethesdas Starfield and Redfall have been delayed to 2023
May 2024Starfield, the biggest upcoming title from Microsoft-owned Bethesda, has been delayed to the first half of 2023, according to a tweet from the studio.
Black Lightnings Nafessa Williams on leaving a hated day job to go be a superhero
May 2024Mild spoilers ahead for The CW’s Black Lightning. Black Lightning is one of broadcast television’s few black superhero shows. Based on the DC comics of the same name, Black Lightning follows Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams), a school principal and family man in his 40s, who’s conflicted between returning to the superhero life and ignoring crime on the streets.
Black Ops Cold War is a great game trapped inside Call of Duty
May 2024At 17 years old, Call of Duty is not quite America’s longest war, but it’s close. When I went into the single-player story mode for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, I knew what to expect: a pleasing shooting gallery with familiar narrative twists (there’s always a nuke about to go off) and re-shuffled scenery (this time the walls are plastered in vintage Doritos ads).
Boses wild-looking Ultra Open Earbuds are here kind of
May 2024The all-new Bose Ultra Open Earbuds feature an innovative cuff-shaped design with polished, soft edges and a stunning finish. They don’t block your ears but rather attach to the side, making them appear more like a fashion accessory than a traditional audio wearable.
Botox for migraines: first my insurance company made me try drugs that didnt work
May 2024I’ve had migraines since I was 12, but in 2015 my attacks got much worse. Without migraine-specific painkillers, my migraines make me queasy and tired, forcing me to go to bed with a freezing wet towel on my head.
Bungie is preparing to fix the Destiny 2 weapon crafting bug
May 2024Destiny 2 has one of the worst — and most hilarious — bugs in its history right now, allowing players to create guns with perks that are game-breaking in activities or PvP.
Buy Nothing exploded on Facebook now it wants a platform of its own
May 2024In the same week, Katylin has seen a banana and a boat given away between neighbors, no strings attached. In her local Buy Nothing group in Seattle, neighbors share what they have to give — vacations, gift wrap, symphony tickets, Airbnb accommodations — up for grabs to whoever wants or needs it.
Cannondale joins the electric cargo bike party
May 2024Cannondale is announcing its first electric cargo bikes today with the Cargowagen Neo long-tail model launching in the US, and the Wonderwagen Neo front-loader headed exclusively to Europe.
Core, an accessible game creation tool, is expanding from PC to iOS and Mac this summer
May 2024Core, a free PC-based app built on Unreal Engine that lets you create and play games, is expanding to iOS and Mac this summer, developer Manticore Games announced Friday.
Cotton mouth: California pot startups are sucking the state dry
May 2024The marijuana business is booming, with private investors pumping money into startups and a market that's expected to grow nearly five-fold to $10 billion over the next four years.
Cowboy Bebop review: Netflixs adaptation has heart, style, and some rough edges
May 2024Netflix’s live-action take on Cowboy Bebop comes with a lot of expectations. Much of those come from the existing fans, of course — those who loved the original anime with its jazz- and corgi-infused mix of noir and sci-fi and are hoping the new series does it justice.
Dark Patterns: inside the interfaces designed to trick you
May 2024Harry Brignull is a London, UK-based independent user experience designer with a PhD in cognitive science. He is also the founder of Dark Patterns, which is dedicated to, in his words, "
Dell XPS 13 vs Asus ZenBook 13: Which is the best OLED?
May 2024OLED has been commonplace in high-end TVs for quite a while, but it’s still making its way into the laptop mainstream.
DJI Pocket 2 packs more features and more mics into tiny 4K vlogger cam
May 2024The DJI Pocket 2 is drone-maker DJI’s latest handheld stabilized vlogging camera, and comes with an upgraded camera, more microphones, and new modular design.
Down dog is an important yoga pose, and we also wanted to make my dog the logo for the app.
May 2024“Down dog is an important yoga pose, and we also wanted to make my dog the logo for the app.”
Driving the Ford GT, America's fastest supercar
May 2024Announced in 2015 to a wildly positive response, the 2017 Ford GT is the second resurrection of the GT40, the car that captured the first win for Ford (and the United States) in one of the most prestigious races in the world: the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Dude, wheres my self-driving car?
May 2024{props.credit} ) }const containers = document.querySelectorAll(".w-full figure.w-full"); containers.forEach(container => {const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(container); root.render()}) In 2015, the then-lead of Google’s self-driving car project Chris Urmson said one of his goals in developing a fully driverless vehicle was to make sure that his 11-year-old son would never need a driver’s license.
E*Trade reportedly considers shutting down Roaring Kittys account after new GameStop posts.
May 2024E*Trade reportedly “considers” shutting down Roaring Kitty’s account after new GameStop posts. Keith Gill, the same Redditor who sparked a frenzy in 2021 has returned, and the stock is spiking again.
E3 is partnering with PAX organizers for 2023 return in LA
May 2024Mere weeks after the ESA announced that, no, seriously this time, E3 will make an in-person return in 2023, it’s ready to share some more details.
Edgelords arent the internets cultural leaders snowflakes are
May 2024Earlier this week, YouTube streamer PewDiePie lost a contract with Disney because of some Nazi references in his videos and one absurdly ill-considered attempt to make a joke out of genocide.
Eli Roth is directing a film adaptation of Borderlands
May 2024Director Eli Roth has signed onto a film adaptation of Gearbox’s Borderlands games, joining Chernobyl writer Craig Mazin and producers Avi and Ari Arad.
Elon Musk denies report of an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brins wife
May 2024Elon Musk allegedly fractured an old friendship with Google co-founder Sergey Brin after having an affair with his wife, Nicole Shanahan, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
Elon Musk says he didnt attend secret meeting to stop Trump
May 2024Real-life Tony Stark and SpaceX/Tesla/SolarCity head honcho Elon Musk did not attend a secret Republican meeting to discuss toppling Donald Trump, he says in a tweet.
ESPNs standalone streaming channel is included in Charter and Disneys new deal
May 2024Disney and Charter have resolved the carriage dispute that blocked millions of viewers from watching ESPN, ABC, FX, and other Disney-owned networks.
Eves new gadget turns retro rollers into smart blinds
May 2024The purpose of Eve’s MotionBlinds Upgrade Kit for Roller Blinds is apparent right from the name: it’s a device meant to make your regular old shades smart by adding a motor and a way to talk to your existing smart home setup.
Facebook is discontinuing the Oculus Rift S
May 2024Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus is ending sales of the Rift S headset next spring. It’s retiring the PC-based VR device to focus on the standalone Oculus Quest 2, which can also be tethered to a computer through Oculus’ Link feature.
Facebooks next big AI project is training its machines on users public videos
May 2024Teaching AI systems to understand what’s happening in videos as completely as a human can is one of the hardest challenges — and biggest potential breakthroughs — in the world of machine learning.
Fords 2024 F-150 has 5G and doesnt cost extra for a hybrid
May 2024Ford’s F-150 truck lineup is adding more hybrid powertrain options to more trims for the 2024 model year. New tech additions include the line’s first optional heads-up display, so you can check your speed without looking down, and a built-in 5G modem that’s up to date with the latest wireless standards.
Google acquires Bump, a startup that enables devices to wirelessly share data
May 2024In a blog post today, Bump CEO and founder David Lieb announced that his company had been acquired by Google. Bump builds a set of proprietary technologies that allow devices to share data.
Google and YouTube are trying to have it both ways with AI and copyright
May 2024There’s only one name that springs to mind when you think of the cutting edge in copyright law online: Frank Sinatra.
Google Fiber is leaving Louisville in humiliating setback
May 2024Google Fiber’s attempt to roll out its gigabit internet across the city of Louisville, Kentucky has apparently failed so spectacularly that the company has decided to completely shut down the service and leave town altogether.
Google is paying the Wikimedia Foundation for better access to information
May 2024Google is paying the Wikimedia Foundation to help serve up the most accurate and up-to-date information on its search engine. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group behind Wikipedia, says Google is one of the first companies to buy into its commercial Enterprise service.
Google Messages will auto-delete OTPs and sort like Gmail, but only in India
May 2024Google is updating its Messages app in India to allow it to delete one-time passwords (OTPs) automatically, to stop the single-use codes from clogging up your inbox, the company has announced.
Googles AI photo editing tools are expanding to a lot more phones
May 2024Google is making its AI photo editing features available to a lot more people. Starting May 15th, just about all Google Photos users will be able to access features previously limited to Pixel owners and Google One subscribers — a nifty upgrade if you were tired of Photos urging you to “upgrade” to get access to more editing tools (it’s me).
Googles Find My Device will soon use billions of Android devices to locate your stuff
May 2024Google is expanding and modernizing its Find My Device platform, bringing it closer in line with location-tracking solutions from Apple and Tile.
Googles latest Pixel feature drop adds even more battery optimizations and Adaptive Sound
May 2024Google’s latest Pixel feature drop, where the company brings a slew of new software tricks to its smartphone lineup, is being announced today.
Hands-on with the new Xbox One controller and its crazy vibrations
May 2024The Xbox One console is nice, but what really matters is the controller: after all, it's the thing you hold in your hands the whole time you're using the console, and if Microsoft has its way that's going to happen a lot.
Healthcare.gov now works for 80 percent of users after 400 fixes, administration says
May 2024Healthcare.gov, the error-riddled website where uninsured Americans are supposed to shop for health insurance, now works for "in the zone of 80 percent"
How independent writers are turning to AI
May 2024On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida, and she was behind schedule.
How is it still getting worse for Sam Bankman-Fried?
May 2024In the break after Caroline Ellison stepped down from the stand, Barbara Fried engaged defense lawyer Christian Everdell in an animated conversation.
How Netflix built its own set-top box, and why Reed Hastings wouldn't release it
May 2024In December 2007, Netflix was almost ready to release a potentially revolutionary device: Project Griffin, a Netflix-built set-top box that would stream movies and TV from its then-nascent "
How to avoid being victimized by porch pirates
May 2024It’s the holiday shopping season, and although people are once again visiting stores in person, most of us are also (or only) shopping online.
How to reset your Apple ID password
May 2024If you have an Apple device, your Apple ID is likely used for a lot of important things, like accessing your App Store purchases and iCloud content, locating a lost device, and more.
How to set up the Apple Watch in 16 steps
May 2024Step 9: Set up Activity app Apple has a few systems built into the Apple Watch for tracking your health. There’s a Workout app and a heart rate monitor for exercise, but the one that you’ll probably like the most is the Activity app.
How to share your Wi-Fi on Windows 11
May 2024A few months ago, one of my devices randomly decided it didn’t want to connect wirelessly to my internet anymore. This was annoying, but while I waited for it to be repaired, there was an easy fix.
How to use AirDrop on Apples iPhone and iPad
May 2024Apple’s AirDrop is a hugely convenient feature for transferring photos, videos, documents, and other files between the company’s devices, including iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
How Wattpad changed the way we think about writing
May 2024I started reading early, and I spent my childhood hungry for stories. For the first half of my life, I was sustained by my small public library, finding solace in old, ratty copies of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
Huaweis HarmonyOS appears to just be a forked version of Android
May 2024HarmonyOS was initially pitched as a wholly distinct OS from Android and iOS, something that would be just as at home on smart home appliances (like the company’s Honor Vision TV) as it would on smartphones.
I couldnt test-drive Radio Flyers Star Wars landspeeder, but my 5-year-old did
May 2024I can tell that my son is impatient to start off. We’re at the end of a paved recreation path not far from my house, and we’re waiting for a mother and son to turn around with their pair of dogs.
I regret buying the PSVR 2
May 2024For months, I’ve been thinking about selling my PlayStation VR2. After a damning scoop, I’m finally ready to let it go.
I used OpenAIs new tech to transcribe audio right on my laptop
May 2024OpenAI, the company behind image-generation and meme-spawning program DALL-E and the powerful text autocomplete engine GPT-3, has launched a new, open-source neural network meant to transcribe audio into written text (via TechCrunch).
Instagram adds a request button for friends to crash your live stream
May 2024Following a test this past summer and a wider rollout in late October that allowed Instagram friends to live stream together, the service today is adding the option for you to request to join a pal’s live stream, just in case you believe your presence is required.
Intels Mobileye begins testing autonomous vehicles in New York City
May 2024Mobileye, the company that specializes in chips for vision-based autonomous vehicles, is now testing its AVs in New York City — a difficult and rare move given the state’s restrictions around such testing.
iOS 17.5 beta lets you keep Find My on during iPhone repairs
May 2024Pretty soon, Apple might let you send your iPhone in for repair without disabling Find My and Activation Lock. In the fourth iOS 17.
Is Walker passing the buck?
May 2024Is Walker passing the buck? “In 2008 I was involved with our engineering team ... In the years since I’m not sure who was responsible for updating our retention policies,” he says, in response to a question about who was in charge of setting the 24-hour history-off retention policy.
J.J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan teaming up for HBO 'Westworld' pilot
May 2024HBO is working on a television version of Westworld to be masterminded by Jonathan Nolan and J.J. Abrams. Variety reports that the network has committed to producing a pilot for the series, with Nolan directing and co-writing with Lisa Joy.
Jamaica wants to make it really easy for tourists to buy weed
May 2024Jamaica is looking to install airport kiosks where tourists can obtain permits to legally purchase marijuana, in an effort to cash in on the country's burgeoning weed industry.
Jedi: Survivor review: Star Wars wish fulfillment
May 2024But when it comes to video games, the galaxy far, far away hasn’t been quite so prolific. That’s what made Jedi: Fallen Order stand out so much.
Joi Ito has resigned from the MIT Media Lab
May 2024“After giving the matter a great deal of thought over the past several days and weeks,” Ito wrote in the email, “I think that it is best that I resign as director of the media lab and as a professor and employee of the Institute, effective immediately.
Keeping up with Crypto: NFTs and the law
May 2024I’m going to let you in on a Decoder secret: at the end of last year, I tasked our producers with finding better ways for us to cover crypto and Web3 on Decoder.
Khaby Lame is now the most-followed TikToker in the world
May 2024TikTok has a new reigning champion. Khaby Lame, a 22-year-old Senegalese-born creator, became the most-followed person on TikTok last night, surpassing American TikTok star Charli D’Amelio, who formerly had the distinction.
Liz Reid is the new head of Google Search
May 2024There are few bigger jobs at Google than being the person who runs Search. As of today, there’s a new person in that seat: Liz Reid, who has been at Google for more than 20 years and has most recently been leading the company’s efforts with AI search, known as Search Generative Experience (SGE).
LOrals new makeup applicator uses AR to give you the perfect brow
May 2024L’Oréal is no slouch when it comes to gadgets. Like Dyson, L’Oréal has been pushing the game in beauty tech for the past few years, announcing neat gizmos like wearable UV and pH sensors.
Lost Ark becomes the second most played game in Steam history after just 24 hours
May 2024Lost Ark has comfortably passed 1 million concurrent players after just 24 hours, becoming the second most played game in Steam history by concurrent counts.
Magic creeps into the Cold War in podcast The Witch Who Came in From the Cold
May 2024There are a ton of podcasts out there, but finding the right one can be difficult. In our new column Pod Hunters, we cover what we’ve been listening to that we can’t stop thinking about.
Magical school bus starts selling weed lunches
May 2024A food truck claiming to be the world's first to (openly) sell marijuana-infused meals will start plying its wares next weekend in Washington state.
Mark Hamill will host a show about geek supercollectors for the Comic-Con network
May 2024Comic-Con's upcoming streaming service has landed a big name for one of its original shows: Luke Skywalker himself. Today Comic-Con HQ announced that Mark Hamill would be hosting a new show, Pop Culture Quest, which will feature Hamill talking to memorabilia collectors while they show off their impressive treasure troves of action figures, comic books, and other pop culture items.
Marvel outlines Phase 6 with Fantastic Four and two new Avengers movies
May 2024Things will kick off with Fantastic Four on November 28th, 2024; followed by Avengers: The Kang Dynasty on May 2nd, 2025; before wrapping up with Avengers: Secret Wars on November 7th, 2025.
Max Headroom: the definitive history of the 1980s digital icon
May 2024On Thursday, April 4th, 1985, a blast of dystopian satire hit the UK airwaves. Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future was a snarky take on media and corporate greed, told through the eyes of investigative journalist Edison Carter (Matt Frewer) and his computer-generated alter-ego: an artificial intelligence named Max Headroom.
Meta unspools Threads - The Verge
May 2024This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here.
Metaverse Fashion Week had big brands but few people
May 2024The metaverse can be eerily quiet. That wasn’t what I expected to feel while wandering the many virtual booths and installations at Metaverse Fashion Week.
Microsoft releases Skype Preview for Windows Phone 8
May 2024A preview version of the new Skype app for Windows Phone 8 is now available to download. First announced last month, the app is a more complete incarnation of the VoIP client than Windows Phone 7 users had before; features include the ability to run in the background, incoming calls that match the style of regular phone conversations, and lock screen notifications.
Microsoft starts blocking unauthorized Xbox controllers and accessories
May 2024Microsoft is starting to block “unauthorized” Xbox controllers and accessories from being used on Xbox consoles. Resetera posters spotted a warning about the block last week, with some third-party Xbox controllers now throwing up a “connected accessory is not authorized” warning when connected to an Xbox console.
Microsofts mice, keyboards, and webcams are being discontinued in favor of Surface accessories
May 2024Microsoft will no longer manufacture mice, keyboards, and webcams that are Microsoft-branded. Instead, Microsoft is now focusing on its Surface-branded PC accessories, which include mice, keyboards, pens, and more.
Minecraft adds tribute to Technoblade after streamers death
May 2024Minecraft has been updated with a tribute to the popular streamer Technoblade, whose death from cancer was announced by his family last week.
Moto E review: the people's smartphone
May 2024The cheapest smartphones so far have all been patronizing. Designers using $500 devices in their day-to-day lives are asked to imagine what someone with a quarter of their budget would tolerate and the product is typically a pale imitation of the thing people actually want to buy.
Motorolas upgraded Moto G Stylus gets a faster display and a bigger battery for $299
May 2024Motorola is back with its latest refresh of its budget stylus phone, the Moto G Stylus. The new 2022 model keeps the same $299 price tag as last year’s version, but promises improvements in battery life, a faster refresh rate, and upgraded cameras over the old model.
MSI Creator Z16 review: thin isnt everything
May 2024MSI’s Creator Z16 is one of a new cadre of “creator” laptops that have been popping up from companies that are traditionally gaming-oriented over the past two years.
Nintendos collaboration with Champion includes bright red Mario overalls
May 2024Nintendo and Champion are attempting to turn Mario into a style icon with a new collaboration. As part of Super Mario’s 35th anniversary, the two companies have announced a limited edition capsule collection that mashes streetwear with the Mushroom Kingdom.
Notion just removed the biggest limit on its free plan
May 2024Notion, the workspace and note-taking app, just became much more appealing to individual users. The company said today that people on its free plan will now be able to create unlimited notes, making it a top contender for anyone in the market for a sophisticated note-taking app or collaboration software.
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super review: $999 is the main feature
May 2024Nvidia’s RTX 4080 Super is the third and potentially final of Nvidia’s refreshed 40-series GPUs. The RTX 4070 Super got a significant performance boost, the RTX 4070 Ti Super got a smaller bump, and the RTX 4080 Super barely gets faster at all.
OnePlus 9 Pro review: the best Android alternative to Samsung
May 2024The OnePlus 9 Pro is a legitimate flagship phone that is genuinely competitive with the best Android phones on the market — at least from a features and quality perspective.
Oppo Find X3 Neo leaks, showing off third handset in upcoming X3 lineup
May 2024Images of the unannounced Oppo Find X3 Neo have leaked again, this time giving us our best look yet at the third phone in Oppo’s upcoming Find X3 phone lineup, NieuweMobiel.
Or else forget about it: Why Smooth will never be forgotten
May 2024June 1999 changed the world. On the first day of the month, Napster launched and began to change the music industry; George W.
Oscars 2024 winners: Oppenheimer and Christopher Nolan lead the way
May 2024Like many of the movies up for Oscars, this year’s Academy Awards ran longer than most viewers probably considered reasonable. But lengthy as the ceremony was, it was marked by enough surprises to make it one one hell of a watch.
Outer Wilds, Among Us, Gundam and the Portal Gun have a real chance at becoming official Lego sets.
May 2024Outer Wilds, Among Us, Gundam and the Portal Gun have a real chance at becoming official Lego sets. They got the 10,000 votes to join these amazing Lego Ideas candidates.
Owen Wilson channels his inner Bob Ross in the first trailer for Paint
May 2024First, Daniel Radcliffe took on the role of Weird Al. Now, Owen Wilson is doing the same for Bob Ross — kind of.
Peridot review: Niantics pet game is a next-gen Tamagotchi
May 2024It’s startling when a cuddly little critter, called a dot, stares at you with its gigantic eyes — even if it’s happening through a screen.
Physicist who worked on room temperature superconductor accused of research misconduct
May 2024An investigation has found that the physicist who claimed to have developed one of the first room-temperature superconductors engaged in “research misconduct,” as first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Pinterest is adding search filters for different hair textures
May 2024Pinterest is launching a search tool to help people narrow their hair inspiration searches by hair pattern. When users search for hairstyles, new filter options — for coily, curly, wavy, and straight textures, as well as shaved / bald and protective styles — will appear under the search bar.
PS5 cloud streaming details: launch dates and bandwidth requirements
May 2024Sony has released more details about its PS5 cloud streaming feature for PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers, including bandwidth recommendations and a detailed FAQ page coinciding with the Japanese launch of the service on October 17th.
PS5 owners can get six months of Apple TV Plus for no charge
May 2024Apple and Sony have teamed up to offer PS5 owners a great promotion on the Apple TV Plus streaming service. New and existing subscribers can get six months of service for no charge by simply opening the Apple TV Plus app on PS5 (and signing in with your Apple ID, if you aren’t a current user).
Question Club: The Lego Batman Movies original content, smart humor, and endless recycling
May 2024Back in 2014, Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s The Lego Movie became a critical hit and an immense financial success, turning a $60 million budget into nearly $470 million in box office take worldwide.
Razer reveals Project Christine, the concept gaming PC even a toddler could upgrade
May 2024Gaming hardware maker Razer has been working on this for two years: an easy-to-modify, powerful, quiet PC that will appeal both to the hardcore gamers who build their own machines as well as people who love to play, but don't know how to put together a computer.
Red solar panels cometh. - The Verge
May 2024Red solar panels cometh. Instead of defacing clay tile roofs with standard blue or black solar panels, these 400W double-glass panels from Austria-based Sonnenkraft are available in terracota red, yet still claim a 20.
Researchers say there are serious security problems in Samsungs SmartThings
May 2024Researchers at the University of Michigan have uncovered multiple design flaws in Samsung's SmartThings platform that could allow a malicious app to unlock doors, set home access codes, falsely set off smoke alarms, or put devices on vacation mode, among other attacks.
Ring Car Cam review: this dash cam doubles as a car security device to keep watch over your vehicle
May 2024The latest video surveillance device from Amazon-owned Ring — the Ring Car Cam ($249.99) — is now available. The long-delayed dash cam / security device for your car provides the final piece of the puzzle for training digital eyes on everything you own.
Roblox shuts down Chinese mobile app to work on a new version
May 2024Roblox shut down the Chinese version of its iOS and Android app, also known as LuoBuLeSi, just five months after its release in China, according to a report from TechCrunch.
Samsung Galaxy C5 leaks reveal a new metal, mid-range smartphone
May 2024Samsung makes a lot of phones for a lot of different markets, and photos of an interesting new one just leaked.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 review
May 2024When you unsheath the S Pen (which I will forever call the Spen, and thus assume it's a Swedish stylus), the Note 8.
Samsung Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus review: smart choices
May 2024The Galaxy S24 Plus and S24 borrow some of the best ideas from Apple and Google, taking a running jump with them into the AI era.
Save $100 on LGs 27-inch Ultragear 144Hz QHD gaming monitor
May 2024It’s Saturday, and hopefully that means you get a chance for some R-and-R-and-D: rest, relaxation, and deals. We’ve pooled together some great tech deals to help with those first two parts.
Sony Xperia V to use new, thinner touchscreen tech, Apple expected to follow suit
May 2024It looks like Sony left a few details out when it announced its new lineup of Xperia phones back at IFA; the company has just revealed that its mid-range Xperia V will be using what it's calling "
Spheros cute robot car indi is driven to teach kids about programming
May 2024Sphero, a long-time maker of robotic toys, has announced a robotic toy car that’s designed to teach young children about the fundamentals of programming (via Gizmodo).
Spider-Man: Homecoming: all the updates, trailers, and commentary on the new reboot
May 2024The “homecoming” in the title of Spider-Man: Homecoming has two meanings, and they both speak directly to the movie’s small focus.
Star Wars: Visions Volume 2s first trailer looks utterly spectacular
May 2024Even though none of the nine shorts that make up Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 will be truly canonical, the heart and soul of Star Wars storytelling’s palpable in damn near every shot of the new trailer, which makes clear that the show’s next season will feature two stop-motion animated episodes.
Stop saying 'space is hard'
May 2024On June 28th, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket meant to deliver supplies to the International Space Station exploded en route. It was the third cargo resupply mission to fail within the past year.
Streaming feels more like cable TV than ever
May 2024And it's true! When streaming first emerged, it was a beautiful alternative to piracy, which was very convenient and very illegal, and cable, which was festooned with ads and weighed down by channels you were paying for and didn’t want.
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania is a remaster of the first three Super Monkey Ball games
May 2024Sega on Tuesday announced Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania, a “modern HD remaster” of Super Monkey Ball, Super Monkey Ball 2, and Super Monkey Ball Deluxe that will be releasing on October 5th for Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S, and PC.
Taylor Swift loves easter eggs.
May 2024Taylor Swift loves easter eggs. Did you know the release timeline for 1989 (Taylor’s Version) was sneakily announced using nail varnish and latte art?
TED withdraws support for upcoming TEDx event, didn't meet guidelines for 'solid science'
May 2024TED has revoked a license it provided to organizers of the TEDxWestHollywood event, which allowed those behind the program to freely use the TEDx brand for the upcoming talk.
Teslas Cybertruck is having trouble living up to the hype
May 2024During the Cybertruck event last year, Elon Musk showed off a pretty impressive demo that pitted its 6,600-lb EV pickup against a Porsche 911 on a quarter-mile drag strip.
The $50 TinyTV 2 will let you channel surf on a one-inch screen
May 2024What is this, a television for ants? Basically yes! The TinyTV 2, a Kickstarter project from the company that brought us an even smaller Game Boy, is one of the smallest and cutest video players I’ve ever seen.
The abridged history of Disney, 20152040 AD
May 2024By Chris Plante The Verge's Disney hub is your place for Disney news. Showing stories in chronological order from 2015 to 2040.
The archnemeses of war rugs
May 2024Aaron Davies remembers being blown away by the colors. Instead of the muted tones and abstract motifs of traditional Persian carpets, the rug in front of him depicted a map of Afghanistan surrounded by guns and tanks, woven with fluorescent pink, green, and blue threads.
The best Cyber Monday deals
May 2024With another Black Friday behind us, the best way for you to save on anything tech-related is with the Cyber Monday deals that are blanketing the internet today.
The biggest unanswered questions from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
May 2024Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald brought some titanic changes to the Harry Potter canon, reaching beyond the still-fledging Fantastic Beasts prequel series to flesh out events glossed over in the book series.
The Chickening is a NSFW, poultry-covered remix of The Shining
May 2024The Chickening, a surreal short film that screened at Sundance 2016, is like a high-touch TV pilot for Adult Swim. Director / animators Nick DenBoer and Davy Force have spliced, warped, and reanimated The Shining into a five-minute movie trailer featuring a mustachioed Danny; a chicken-pitching Jack Torrance; and a space alien Dick Halloran, whose sexual organs — if I'm reading this correctly — have been replaced with a live chicken head.
The co-founder of a prominent tween girl YouTube network has been arrested for molesting a minor
May 2024Content warning: the following story contains sensitive material regarding physical and verbal abuse. Ian Rylett, the 55-year-old British co-founder of the mega-popular YouTube empire SevenAwesomeKids, was arrested in Florida in August, BuzzFeed News reported today.
The Emmy Awards are officially delayed because of the writers and actors strikes
May 2024The 75th annual Emmy Awards have officially been postponed. Instead of taking place in September, the Television Academy says the ceremony will now air on January 15th, 2024, marking the first time the Emmys have been delayed in over 20 years.
The Game Boys Pokmon Trading Card Game is still unrivaled 25 years later
May 2024The Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Nintendo Game Boy Color wasn’t designed to evolve with the tabletop game it was based on — let alone the rest of the sprawling multimedia franchise it’s a part of.
The Lion King remake is the biggest animated earner ever, but Disney claims it isnt
May 2024Disney’s CGI remake of its 1994 film The Lion King has crossed $1.3 billion at the international box office, officially beating out Frozen’s $1.
The Nintendo Switch is getting a free Pokemon RPG today
May 2024Pokémon Quest, a “rambunctious action RPG” from Game Freak, is available now for Nintendo Switch via the eShop. The developer announced the game today as part of larger reveal for the franchise’s future, which includes two other Switch titles, Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!
The only game I play on my phone is Minesweeper
May 2024I recently got an ad for Solitaire 95 on Instagram. I don’t know what I did to piss Instagram off so much it put me in the demographic of ‘people who play Bejeweled Blitz on non-timed mode,’ but the ad worked, because I downloaded the game.
The person who swatted Ubisoft has been sentenced
May 2024Twenty-two-year-old Yanni Ouahioune was recently sentenced in France to three years of community service for calling in a fake hostage situation in 2020, also known as swatting, at the Ubisoft Montreal offices, as well as initiating DDoS attacks against a French government office and making threats toward Minecraft maker Mojang, according to Montreal Gazette.
The Samsung right-to-repair story just got worse
May 2024iFixit just broke up with Samsung over its shaky commitment to right to repair, but things may be worse than we thought.
The Verge Review of Animals: the red-lipped batfish
May 2024This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule.
The Zephyrus is the laptop for someone who doesn't want a laptop
May 2024A couple months ago, my colleague Chaim Gartenberg wrote a fair and accurate review of the Asus ROG Zephyrus. It's an astonishingly thin, ultra-powerful laptop for gamers, and it almost utterly fails at being a laptop.
Theres a whole Dungeons & Dragons channel now.
May 2024There’s a whole Dungeons & Dragons channel now. Hasbro has launched the ad-supported Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures channel, which will stream D&D content 24/7, on Freevee and Plex, with other FAST services to come.
Thomas the Tank Engine brings blood, chaos, and terror to Fallout 4
May 2024Despite what developers and the crooked mainstream media tells you, there's actually only one thing true gamers want from their video games: Thomas the Tank Engine mods.
Tim Cook doesn't want Apple to be a 'treasure trove' of user data for the NSA
May 2024Apple's privacy and security measures have been under a microscope for the past month, first with a targeted attack on celebrities that led to leaked nude photos, and now on Apple's own systems as the company gears up tohandle people's credit cards as part of Apple Pay.
Today is the last day to save on Disney Plus and Hulu before the price hike
May 2024Like nearly every streaming service these days, Disney is raising the prices of its ad-free Disney Plus and Hulu plans. Starting tomorrow, October 12th, Disney Plus will go from $10.
Top AI researchers and CEOs warn against risk of extinction in 22-word statement
May 2024A group of top AI researchers, engineers, and CEOs have issued a new warning about the existential threat they believe that AI poses to humanity.
Toyota builds a 26-foot-long limo pickup truck, because why not
May 2024If you’re looking to buy a limousine, you have lots of choices. The stretched versions of the Lincoln Town Car or the Cadillac CTS, for example, are good options.
Triby Review: Alexa on your fridge
May 2024I really like those basic audio functions on the Triby. Sometimes it's just easier to hit a button for the radio station you want than trying to wrangle Alexa into giving you exactly what you want to hear.
Twitter is testing a newsletter subscription button on profile pages
May 2024The subscribe button has to be turned on in Revue’s settings before it can show up on Twitter. Visually, the new button and newsletter card appear underneath your Twitter bio almost like a pinned tweet, populated with the title of your Revue newsletter, a photo, a short description, and the actual subscribe button.
Verizon is bundling Netflix with AMC Plus now, too.
May 2024Verizon is bundling Netflix with AMC Plus now, too. The new bundle comes with Netflix’s ad-free Premium plan and AMC Plus for a price of $25.
Virgin Hyperloop switches focus from passengers to cargo as it lays off half its staff
May 2024Virgin Hyperloop has laid off almost half its staff as the company switches its focus from transporting passengers to shifting freight.
Watch the final trailer for the first Justice League animated series to debut online
May 2024Next week will be the premiere of the new Justice League animated series Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles, the online-only, alternate universe DC animated series.
Watch this laser-guided knife throwing machine nail 10 in a row
May 2024It looks like something out of a video game, but this gadget is real: a portable, mechanical, computerized, laser-guided knife gun that actually throws spinning knives end over end through the air (via Gizmodo).
We asked an influencer, yoga teacher, and others how their pandemic pivots went
May 20242020 has been a year, not least because much of the world pivoted to remote work. Industries that typically rely on in-person connections, like fitness and religious institutions, found themselves having to engage their audiences through live streams.
We finally know what tzi the iceman was wearing when he died 5,300 years ago
May 2024Hikers discovered Ötzi’s frozen body in the Alps in September 1991. The ice had preserved his body remarkably well, turning him into a natural mummy and making him a rich source of information about life in the Copper Age.
What to expect at the Detroit Auto Show
May 2024Detroit may be steeped in its automotive past, but the Motor City is not feeling all that nostalgic about its contributions to the car industry.
When a will isn't enough: medical bracelet asks EMTs to erase browser history
May 2024Medical alert bracelets are typically used to warn EMTs of critical information as they're hurriedly working to save your life, including any allergies to medications you may have.
Where did the covid microchip vaccine conspiracy theory come from?
May 2024On October 2nd, 2020, then-President Donald Trump and the first lady tested positive for the coronavirus. As we were all waking up to the news, I got into my car and tuned in to The Breakfast Club on Power 105.
Why can't I help celebrate Kris Jenner's 60th birthday?
May 2024I write about entertainment for The Verge, and like any entertainment reporter worth their salt I consider myself a connoisseur and appreciator of Kwality Kardashian Kontent.
Why Justin Timberlake didnt star in The Death of Dick Long
May 2024The Death of Dick Long isn’t exactly what viewers might expect, judging from the mild innuendo of the title and the trailer portraying it as a comedically dark disaster about a boys’ night out that goes wrong.
Why Microsoft might be considering Xbox exclusives on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch
May 2024Rumors are swirling that Microsoft has been considering bringing some Xbox exclusives to rival PlayStation and Nintendo Switch platforms. Sea of Thieves and Hi-Fi Rush have both reportedly been under cross-platform consideration, and when you combine the rumors with recent comments from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Xbox CFO Tim Stuart, it’s clear Microsoft is weighing its Xbox strategy now that the Activision Blizzard deal is complete.
Windows 11 is getting updated snipping tool, calculator, and mail apps
May 2024Microsoft is improving some of the built-in apps available in Windows 11. Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel can now test new updates to the Snipping Tool, Calculator, Mail, and Calendar apps.
You can finally play Douglas Adams Starship Titanic on a modern PC
May 2024Douglas Adams is best known for his five-part trilogy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but the late author also dabbled in video games.
You can now adjust the sleep timer settings on your Kindle.
May 2024You can now adjust the sleep timer settings on your Kindle. Amazon’s latest software update lets Kindle users adjust the lock screen timeout interval — previously set to 10 minutes — so you don’t have to keep waking up your Kindle if you need to take a longer break.
You can still buy the last-gen iPad with a headphone jack for $249
May 2024If you’re looking for a budget-friendly tablet for entertainment purposes, the 10.2-inch ninth-gen iPad still offers excellent value for your money.
You wont be able to use the YouTube app on the Vision Pro
May 2024Just like Netflix, YouTube also isn’t building a native app for the Vision Pro. Its iPad app won’t support the $3,499 headset, either, as YouTube spokesperson Jessica Gibby tells The Verge, “YouTube users will be able to use YouTube in Safari on the Vision Pro.
YouTube is reducing its default video quality to standard definition for the next month
May 2024By default, videos will start playing in standard definition (480p) quality, according to Bloomberg. People who want to watch videos in high definition can still do so, but they must manually select that option.
YouTube Music is officially rolling out podcasts
May 2024Podcasts have finally started to arrive for YouTube Music users in the US. The change will allow you to tune into podcasts on the YouTube Music app, where you can gain access to on-demand, offline streams that support background listening without a Premium subscription.
YouTube permanently bans controversial creator LeafyIsHere
May 2024YouTube has banned the controversial creator Calvin Lee Vail, better known as LeafyIsHere, for repeatedly violating the company’s harassment policies. The ban follows big changes to YouTube’s harassment policy meant to deter behavior that in part helped creators in the commentary community like Leafy develop a following.
YouTube tests a play something button for when you dont know what to watch
May 2024YouTube appears to be testing a new “play something” button on its mobile app that directs you to a random video when you don’t know what to watch.
After a hit game, indie developers struggle to replicate success
May 2024When Mike Bithell started working on Thomas Was Alone, his first solo game, he imagined three possible tiers of success.
DxO One Review
May 2024I’m always looking for a new way to take pictures. For the longest time, the only camera I needed was my trusty-but-bulky Canon DSLR.
Morgan review: finding the most boring bits of a Frankenstein story
May 2024There’s nothing inherently wrong with telling a story that’s been told before. Every fictional story is a “What if?
The FBI has collected 430,000 iris scans in a so-called 'pilot program'
May 2024To create that pool of scans, the FBI has struck information-sharing agreements with other agencies, including US Border Patrol, the Pentagon, and local law enforcement departments.
2024 iPad Air vs. 2024 iPad Pro: spec comparison
May 2024ProcessorApple M2 chipApple M2 chipApple M4 chipApple M4 chipApple M1 chipApple M2 chipApple M2 chipScreen type11-inch Liquid Retina display13-inch Liquid Retina display11-inch Ultra Retina XDR display13-inch Ultra Retina XDR display10.
A fakeclimate changetheory is going viral on TikTok after Joe Rogan talked about it
May 2024A made-up global warming theory discussed in the Joe Rogan Experience podcast is spreading on TikTok despite the platform’s new policy against climate disinformation, a new report shared exclusively with The Verge finds.
A first look at The Last of Us season 2.
May 2024A first look at The Last of Us season 2. We may have to wait until next year to return to the post-apocalyptic show, but HBO has released these images to hold us over.
A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to Slackbot and stayed undetected for months
May 2024Hiding on Slack isn’t all that hard, apparently; you just have to pretend you’re a bot. That’s what IT Brew’s Tom McKay did when he left Gizmodo in 2022, and he went undetected by the site’s management for months.
A teen is reportedly the mastermind behind the Lapsus$ hacking group
May 2024“Four researchers investigating the hacking group Lapsus$, on behalf of companies that were attacked, said they believe the teenager is the mastermind,” Bloomberg said.
A tiny moon was found orbiting a dwarf planet at the edge of our Solar System
May 2024Astronomers have spotted a tiny, faint moon orbiting a dwarf planet at the outer fringes of our Solar System. The little satellite was found circling around Makemake, a dwarf planet in the large region of icy bodies located beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt.
Alexa now knows how high swans fly thanks to Wolfram Alpha
May 2024Amazon’s Alexa is now getting a Wolfram Alpha integration that will allow it to answer way more math and science questions.
Amazon delivery app Mentor tracks drivers locations and measures their performance
May 2024Amazon built its own in-house mobile app called Mentor that it uses to track the location and rate the performance of third-party delivery drivers, according to a new report from CNBC.
Amazon puts its AWS servers to work rendering massive simulated cities
May 2024Amazon has a new AWS service, AWS SimSpace Weaver, that lets users build massive simulations that look like real-world SimCity maps.
AMD says FSR 2.0 will run on Xbox and these Nvidia graphics cards
May 2024Last week, AMD promised a new technology that should let you blow up your games to higher resolutions or increase their framerates without requiring the fancy machine learning hardware of Nvidia’s GPUs like Nvidia’s lauded DLSS.
AppGratis CEO complains of 'confusing' guidelines after Apple pulls his app
May 2024Back in January, app distribution company AppGratis had just raised $13.5 million to fund expansion. After three years, it had carved a niche in the iOS App Store, offering promotions that gave users a free app every day and getting revenue from the developers.
Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone
May 2024The iPhone’s app ecosystem is about to go through its biggest shake-up since the App Store launched in 2008. Today, Apple announced how it plans to change the rules for developers releasing iOS software in the European Union in response to the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) coming into force in March.
Apple is releasing iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 on September 18th
May 2024iOS 17 will be available for public download on September 18th, introducing iPhone users to new features like Live Voicemail, StandBy mode, and a new Journal app.
Apple is reportedly working on a way to make AR apps thats as simple as talking to Siri
May 2024Apple is apparently working on a way to let you make apps for its long-rumored mixed reality headset using Siri, according to a new report from The Information.
Apple now lets you extend a Macs AppleCare Plus coverage beyond three years
May 2024Apple’s Mac computers typically come with a one-year warranty that you can optionally extend to three years by purchasing AppleCare Plus.
Apple TVs Prehistoric Planet looks so good it feels like a real nature documentary
May 2024From the moment the first Tyrannosaurus swam onto the screen in Prehistoric Planet I was a lost cause — I giggled in delight.
Apple Vision Pro first look: the mixed reality future is (almost) here
May 2024What does the Apple Vision Pro look like? Imagine a pair of ski goggles. The fanciest, most sci-fi ski goggles you’ve ever seen.
Apple, Facebook, and Twitter hacks reportedly originated in Eastern Europe
May 2024The recent attacks on Apple’s systems originated in Russia or Eastern Europe, and are linked to similar attacks on Facebook and Twitter, say new reports from Reuters and Bloomberg.
Apples AR is closer to reality than Googles
May 2024Apple has often been accused of acting like it invented things that others have been doing for years. That complaint is not without merit, however Apple can lay claim to transforming existing things into mainstream successes, which takes no small amount of invention in its own right.
AT&Ts 100 Mbps low-cost internet can be free with the Affordable Connectivity Program
May 2024AT&T has announced that it’s offering a new tier of its low-cost Access from AT&T plan, which lets eligible customers get “up to 100 Mbps of symmetrical speeds” for $30 per month — a big upgrade from where the 10 or 25 megabits per second for $10 per month the plan used to max out.
Baidu and Teenage Engineerings smart speaker is a stylish Chinese Echo
May 2024The prevailing design trend with smart speakers like the Amazon Echo has been to make them look as minimalist and unassuming as possible, presumably so they can be placed anywhere around the house.
Behind the next-gen Xbox leaks and police raid of hacker SuperDaE
May 2024Earlier this week, Australian police raided the home of SuperDaE, a hacker and gaming enthusiast who notoriously tried to sell an Xbox Durango development kit on eBay last year.
Boses noise-canceling QC35 II are back down to their lowest price
May 2024A set of noise-canceling headphones should definitely come in handy if you’re planning to travel soon. They’re essential if you want to silence the hum of the jet engines or to hush distracting sounds that are keeping you from concentrating.
Buy your mom an iPhone.
May 2024“Buy your mom an iPhone.” Debates over green bubbles, iMessage, and RCS came to a head in this moment from the 2022 Code Conference when LiQuan Hunt asked Tim Cook about messaging across platforms.
Castlevania: Nocturne season 2 is on the way
May 2024Castlevania: Nocturne’s season 1 finale made it crystal clear that there was even more to Richter Belmont’s story still waiting to be told.
Color Factory: how pop-ups are trying to conquer the experience economy
May 2024People can’t be left alone in a pop-up. Sure, most of the tens of thousands of attendees will get through the 14 rooms of photogenic eye candy just fine.
Comcasts latest Wi-Fi 6 device aims to keep you online during a storm
May 2024Comcast is launching a new cellular-equipped backup internet device that’s designed to keep customers connected during storms and localized outages. The Xfinity Storm-Ready WiFi is a Wi-Fi 6-capable device powered by the Xfinity 10G network that doubles as a Wi-Fi extender to help boost connectivity to hard-to-reach areas around the home.
Comparing the number of shots in Mad Max: Fury Road with The Road Warrior
May 2024Mad Max: Fury Road, the latest in the post-apocalyptic movie franchise, is markedly more frenetic than the most popular entry in the series, The Road Warrior.
Conan OBrien makes a $150 million podcast deal
May 2024After bottomless headlines about podcast licensing deals, I guess getting acquired is cool again. Or maybe Conan is just tired. I’m tired, and I didn’t even spend three decades as the “good king” of late night.
Corsair K70 RGB TKL mechanical keyboard review: great gaming, good typing
May 2024Corsair’s K70 RGB TKL is an unashamedly gaming-focused keyboard. For one thing, it’s only available with the kinds of switches people normally recommend for playing games, while other features like low input latency and a dedicated “tournament switch” for esports clearly have gamers in mind.
Creality K1, Bambu P1P, Prusa MK4, Ankermake M5: 3D printers with a need for speed
May 20243D printers can take hours or even days to produce simple parts — but it only took two weeks for the biggest names in consumer 3D printing to declare that era is over.
Daredevils suffering makes a man trope is common, familiar, and bad for everyone
May 2024Like the first two seasons of Netflix’s Daredevil series, the third season loves to show its hero getting beaten up. For the first few episodes, Daredevil, aka Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), is convalescing after the events in Netflix’s Defenders crossover miniseries, and the camera lingers lovingly on his battered face and body, watching him stagger about the screen in an ecstasy of infirmity and pain.
Devin Nunes sues Twitter for letting users allegedly defame him
May 2024US Representative Devin Nunes has sued Twitter and a handful of users for defamation and negligence, accusing Twitter of acting as a “vessel of opposition research” for hosting accounts that insulted Nunes.
Diablo IVs endgame looks expansive (and a bit confusing)
May 2024Diablo IV’s dungeons are gonna be a nightmare after players complete the campaign. The developers just released a new video outlining the game’s endgame progression, and it’s filled with all sorts of somewhat bewildering things like paragon systems, world tiers, nightmare dungeons, and more.
Diet Pepsi will no longer contain aspartame beginning this summer
May 2024Pepsi is getting rid of aspartame, the artificial sweetener and sugar substitute that has been an ingredient in Diet Pepsi for decades.
Dishs next step into wireless service is buying another small provider
May 2024Dish has acquired Ting Mobile, a small cell service provider, in its latest step toward becoming a major nationwide carrier. Ting launched in 2012 and had 286,000 subscribers as of July 2018, making it downright tiny.
Disney Plus is upgrading Marvel movies to IMAX aspect ratio
May 2024Disney and IMAX have announced a collaboration that will see several Marvel movies presented in IMAX’s Expanded Aspect Ratio format on Disney Plus.
DJI Mavic Air 2S review: one big upgrade
May 2024Despite it not even being a year old, DJI is already upgrading its mid-tier Mavic Air 2 drone. The new $999 Mavic Air 2S (yes, $200 more than the prior model) comes with some notable new features and upgrades, including a much larger image sensor.
Dozens of Tesla Cybertrucks vandalized by someone who really doesnt like Elon Musk
May 2024Elon Musk may have just won approval for a $56 billion pay package from his adoring supporters, but someone in Fort Lauderdale is clearly not a fan of the controversial CEO.
DuckDuckGos App Tracking Protection has entered public beta
May 2024App Tracking Protection for Android is a free feature from the privacy-focused company that blocks third-party trackers within apps, even when said apps aren’t actively being used.
eBay's Black Friday deals include Samsung 4K TVs, iPads, and GoPros
May 2024You might still think of eBay as an auction site, but for years now it's essentially been a store first and foremost.
Endling - Extinction is Forever Review: it is not afraid to hurt you
May 2024In a video game climate that bends over backwards to assure you the cute little creatures you play as or with cannot be harmed, it was shocking to hear the mother fox’s neck snap in Endling - Extinction is Forever.
Epic used Fortnite OG to lure players back to a very different game
May 2024You could say that Fortnite is entering a new phase. With the launch of Lego Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival, the game is now more than a popular battle royale — it’s a platform designed to house lots of different kinds of experiences.
EVE: Valkyrie, VRs first big game, is no longer VR-only
May 2024EVE: Valkyrie, the multiplayer space dogfighting game that launched with the Oculus Rift in 2016, has gotten an update that makes the VR headset optional.
Every episode of Friends is now on Netflix
May 2024It's probably hard to remember such a thing in 2015, but NBC used to be the network leader in primetime comedies.
Facebook is testing a Messenger feature that would identify suspicious accounts
May 2024Facebook is currently testing a new feature for Messenger that would identify suspicious accounts sending unwarranted direct messages, letting users know the account’s country of origin by phone number and whether it was recently created.
Fashion Nova first company required to pay FTC for blocking bad reviews
May 2024Fashion Nova, a California fast-fashion retailer, will pay a $4.2 million settlement to the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that it blocked negative product reviews from being posted on its website.
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is an emotional culmination of a decade-long journey
May 2024The easiest way to describe Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is to call it a game about hope. That’s not really a unique descriptor since, to some degree, all Final Fantasy games, MMORPG or otherwise, are about hope.
Finally, offline maps with turn-by-turn guidance.
May 2024Finally, offline maps with turn-by-turn guidance. I’m a trail runner that switched from Garmin to an Apple Watch Ultra. I like to leave my heavy phone at home which meant installing (and paying for) WorkOutDoors and Footpath to fill that massive off-line mapping void.
Flexgate is real, and Apple should acknowledge it
May 2024I have a late-2016 MacBook Pro, and, like many people with that generation of laptop, I recently fell victim to the Flexgate display problem.
Fortnite: Chapter 2: Season 3 has flooded the battle royale island
May 2024The new season of Fortnite is finally here — and it brought with it a flood. Today Epic Games released the long-delayed third season for Fortnite: Chapter 2, following a massive event earlier in the week which saw the game’s battle royale island surrounded by a wall of water.
Fortnites mecha-monster battle was its most impressive and cinematic live event yet
May 2024Fortnite players who happened to boot up the game this afternoon were treated to a cataclysmic showdown between a giant robot and a terrifyingly large monster.
Foxconns giant glass dome in Wisconsin is back, baby
May 2024The dome, which will contain both the NOC and an auditorium, was initially revealed in early September — but Foxconn yanked the plans on literally the same day, and didn’t comment on whether the dome would come back.
Fujifilm Instax Square SQ10 review: digital downer
May 2024Do you want to keep your photos for a long time, and make some of them widely available? Or do you want them to be more ephemeral, something you can give to a friend and maybe never see again?
Google and Facebook adopt water gun emoji, leaving Microsoft holding the pistol
May 2024Google is the latest company to ditch the pistol with a new emoji update for Android users. The switch to a bright orange and yellow water gun, rolling out now, mimics changes made by Apple, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Samsung over the last few years.
Google has finally made scrolling through massive Sheets better.
May 2024Google has finally made scrolling through massive Sheets better. If you parse through hundreds of rows and columns every day for work, you know how much of a pain in the butt it is scrolling past the data you need.
Google Pixel 8A review: the sensible choice
May 2024Hear me out: out of Google’s entire Pixel lineup, the A-series budget phone makes the most sense. Sure, the Pixel 8A misses out on the fancier stuff, like a telephoto lens or the very highest rating for water resistance.
Google TVs Magic Button makes its debut but not on a Chromecast
May 2024Google’s rumored “Magic Button” shortcut for Google TV has been spotted in the wild on a real-world remote for an upcoming streaming box.
Google using 360-degree backpack cameras for new Street View treks
May 2024Google's Street View cameras are expanding beyond cars, snowmobiles, or even trolleys: the company has just debuted a 360-degree back-mounted camera that will allow hikers to capture hard-to-reach places.
Google's Inbox can finally show multiple email accounts at once
May 2024Google Inbox has a new “all inboxes” view on Android, allowing you to see all of your inboxes without tapping back and forth.
Googles making code formatting a breeze in Docs
May 2024Google Docs is getting a new feature that will make it easier to show code in an easy-to-understand way. The company announced that it’s adding code blocks to its “smart canvas” system, which will automatically add the proper spacing and color-coding for a variety of programming languages, such as Python, C, and Javascript.
Hack together your own e-paper smartwatch with this $50 open-source kit
May 2024If you’ve ever wanted to be like Steve Wozniak and have your own custom-made, geeky watch, Squarofumi (stylized SQFMI) may have the product for you: an open-source, Arduino-powered smartwatch with a 1.
Hades and four other really good games are leaving Game Pass
May 2024Hades is one of those genre-redefining games. It is a roguelike that never actually feels like one because of how the story and the characters are weaved through the gameplay.
HBO Max will launch internationally in June
May 2024HBO Max will finally make its international debut in June, with the streaming service set to launch in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Here comes another Netflix price hike
May 2024Netflix is getting another price increase. As part of the streamer’s third quarter earnings results, Netflix announced that starting today, users on its $9.
Heres every type of data exposed in the Ashley Madison hack
May 2024There are plenty of ways to look up whether your information has been exposed in the Ashley Madison hack — all you need is an email address.
Heres the tech behind the Carolina Panthers giant AR cat
May 2024This past weekend marked the first Sunday of the 2021 NFL season, and while it was full of exciting highlights, one may have towered over them all: the Carolina Panthers’ viral video of a giant virtual panther leaping around Bank of America Stadium.
Hey Robot, the genius game that tests your smart speaker, is now free on the web
May 2024Hey Robot, the immensely clever board game from designer Frank Lantz’s Everybody House Games, now has a free digital version on the web for anyone to play.
How Blue Planet II captured never-before-seen views of the ocean
May 2024On her very first dive into the frigid waters of Antarctica, Orla Doherty’s yellow submarine began taking on water. So she did what she was supposed to — she stuck a finger in the puddle at her feet and licked it.
How Googles Pixel Buds compare to Apples AirPods
May 2024Yesterday, Google announced the second round of its very own Pixel phones, but it also expanded its small universe of “Made by Google” hardware.
How to decide which laptop to buy
May 2024The thing nobody tells you about working as a professional laptop reviewer is that everyone in your life who you are even somewhat acquainted with will, at some point, ask you what laptop they should buy.
How to track your luggage or anything else with AirTags
May 2024This summer, we made the tactical error of visiting extended family in Europe. As the trip approached, we noted with growing concern headlines of airport chaos, long security lines, and mountains of lost baggage.
How to train an AI to sound just like you
May 2024You may not think of it this way, but you probably hear AI voices all the time. When you’re talking to Alexa or Siri, that’s a model trained on human speech to be able to say almost anything.
How to use Google Tasks in Gmail on your desktop
May 2024Google’s Tasks app functions like a digital to-do list. While there are dedicated Android and iOS apps for Tasks, it’s also integrated right into the inbox view when you’re using Gmail on a desktop.
How to watch Nvidias Computex 2024 keynote.
May 2024How to watch Nvidia’s Computex 2024 keynote. Nvidia is gearing up for more AI announcements during its Computex 2024 keynote. CEO Jensen Huang will take the stage in Taiwan at 7AM ET / 4AM PT / 12PM UK today to detail more of Nvidia’s AI plans.
Images of Samsungs Galaxy Watch 3 leak online
May 2024Images of Samsung’s unannounced Galaxy Watch 3 have leaked online, giving us our first look at the company’s upcoming wearable. The images appeared on South Korea’s NRRA certification website, where they were spotted by MySmartPrice.
Intel shares 48 benchmarks to show its Arc A750 can compete with an RTX 3060
May 2024Intel has released 48 benchmarks that show its upcoming Arc A750 GPU should be able to trade blows with Nvidia’s RTX 3060 running modern games.
iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max: price, specs, notch, and new always-on display
May 2024Apple has officially announced the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. In the first big display redesign since Apple introduced the iPhone X in 2017, both handsets have a new pill-shaped cutout that replaces the notch and can adjust dynamically.
IRS tells Microsoft it owes $29 billion in back taxes
May 2024Microsoft’s corporate VP for worldwide tax and customs Daniel Goff responded to the audit in a blog post, and says the company has changed its corporate structure and practices since the years covered by the audit.
Italian regulators order ChatGPT ban over alleged violation of data privacy laws
May 2024Italy’s national privacy regulator has ordered an effective ban of AI chatbot ChatGPT, accusing creators OpenAI of “unlawful collection of personal data.
Ive been getting tons of wrong number spam texts, and I dont hate it?
May 2024The text that arrived at 3:51PM on Monday, March 28th, seemed innocent at first. “Mr. Steven,” it read, “I am very sorry, after our communication and understanding during this period of time, I feel that we are not suitable in some ways.
Jawbone's new Up4 is a fitness tracker that's also a mobile wallet
May 2024We haven't seen very many fitness trackers that include tap-to-pay NFC functionality built in. The ability to double as a mobile wallet is usually reserved for pricier smartwatches like the Apple Watch and smartphones themselves.
JBL announces the Tour One M2 headphones and Tour Pro 2 earbuds
May 2024JBL has just announced the Tour Pro 2 wireless earbuds, featuring adaptive noise cancellation and customizable ANC alongside a charging case with a 1.
Judge orders Google to calculate the costs of Epics biggest Play Store demand
May 2024But Judge Donato is indeed considering them. He’s ordered Google to calculate the costs of complying with those demands by June 24th, one month from today:
Kenya suspends Sam Altmans eyeball-scanning crypto project
May 2024Kenya is pumping the brakes on Worldcoin — the eyeball-scanning crypto project launched by OpenAI founder Sam Altman. The Kenyan government has ordered Worldcoin to stop collecting data in the country while it reviews the project for potential privacy and security risks, as reported earlier by Reuters.
Makoto Shinkais Suzume has a new trailer and a premiere date
May 2024Suzume, the next feature from the director behind Weathering With You and Your Name, is releasing internationally next April. Crunchyroll announced the news today, revealing that Makoto Shinkai’s next feature will be in theaters outside of Asia starting on April 12th (it debuted in Japan last month).
Master Chief's evolution: the concept art of 'Halo4'
May 2024"All of the games I worked on before they were video games, but they were not Halo," says Gabriel "
Meitu has a tracking problem, not a spying problem
May 2024Is the hot new camera app hiding something? That was the question bubbling up this week, as a Chinese photo-editing app called Meitu began to catch on with stateside users.
Metas workout-friendly Quest Active Pack is releasing October 25th
May 2024Meta announced that a new sweat-resistant face mask and controller straps for exercising in the Quest 2 will be available for purchase online starting Tuesday, October 25th.
Microsoft and Apple ditch OpenAI board seats amid regulatory scrutiny
May 2024Microsoft has dropped its seat as an observer on the board of OpenAI, less than eight months after securing the non-voting seat.
Microsoft Surface Duo 2 review: Duo-over or strike two?
May 2024Folding phones may be the future, but right now, they are still in their infancy. And in this weird time period where companies are still trying to figure out the best way for a folding phone to work, there are two camps: Samsung and others that fold a big screen down to a smaller, pocketable size, and Microsoft, which joins two screens with a hinge to create a digital book-like device.
Microsoft unveils its new logo, the first major change in 25 years
May 2024Microsoft has just unveiled a new look and feel to its corporate logo. Following 25 years from its former iteration, this is the first major Microsoft logo change in the company's history.
Microsoft unveils Windows in the car, battles Apple CarPlay
May 2024Microsoft has been powering a lot of different car entertainment systems over the years. Ford, Kia, BMW, Nissan, and Fiat have all used special versions of Windows to create their own interfaces and systems, but Microsoft is also focusing on its own "
Microsoftmakes Copilot less useful on new Copilot Plus PCs
May 2024Microsoft launched its range of Copilot Plus PCs earlier this week, and they all come equipped with the new dedicated Copilot key on the keyboard.
Microsofts adorable Xbox Series S is $50 off at Adorama right now
May 2024If you’re still on the hunt for an Xbox, our deals team has got you covered. The Xbox Series S, the slimmer and paler cousin of the Series X, is on sale right now at Adorama for $249.
Microsofts Skype struggles have created a Zoom moment
May 2024If the coronavirus pandemic had swept across the world in 2011, everyone would have been using Skype to connect over video and voice calls.
Misty I is a robot for developers, not roboticists
May 2024There are approximately one million toy robots on shelves right now that can teach kids to code. But how many let programmers control a “real” robot, without requiring them to become roboticists?
MSI Prestige 14 review: hot pink and hot in your lap
May 2024The MSI Prestige 14 isn’t a new machine — it’s been kicking around since last October — but it’s just been released in a new color: a very pink color.
Nikola founder charged with securities fraud over allegedly fake truck demo
May 2024In Southern District of New York federal court on Thursday, Nikola founder Trevor Milton was charged with securities fraud. The charges allege that Milton made a series of materially false claims which portrayed the electric vehicle company Nikola as far closer to releasing a functional product than it actually was, and raising more than $500 million of investment in the process.
Nine wild details from the new Elon Musk biography
May 2024This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here.
Nintendo 3DS XL review - The Verge
May 2024It shouldn't come as a surprise to see Nintendo launch a new 3DS revision less than 18 months after the original console — after all, the company waited almost exactly the same length of time before following up the DS with the DS Lite.
Nintendo Wii U pictures - The Verge
May 2024/ The device previously known as Project Cafe — the successor to the Wii teased by Nintendo in April — is now official today at E3 in Los Angeles.
Nomads new iPad folios bring back the leather touch
May 2024Though Apple has ditched leather across its product lineups, third-party accessory makers are carrying on full steam ahead. Nomad’s latest cases for the iPad Air and iPad Pro, the Leather Folio and Leather Folio Plus, have a similar design and features as Apple’s Smart Folio cases but with a leather finish.
Nvidia launches $1,999 GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
May 2024Nvidia is launching its $1,999 GeForce RTX 3090 Ti today. After a mysterious delay following a January announcement, the “fastest GPU on the planet” will be available from Asus, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galax, Gigabyte, INNO3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac in stores today.
Nvidias new RTX 2060 12GB graphics card is coming on December 7th
May 2024In February 2021, Nvidia committed to reissuing some of its older GPUs — namely the RTX 2060 and GTX 1050 Ti — to give gamers a couple of low-cost options that scalpers or crypto miners (hopefully) won’t see much use for during the chip shortage.
Oscars 2016: Inside Out wins Best Animated Feature
May 2024Pixar's Inside Out just took home the Oscar in the Best Animated Feature category. The Pete Docter-directed film, which was a critical and commercial hit for the studio, chronicled the emotions of a young girl.
Philips Hue will no longer make the triangle- and globe-shaped versions of its new Lightguide smart
May 2024Philips Hue’s glamorous, oversized dimmable smart bulbs designed as open lighting fixtures have hit a snag. “Aesthetic inconsistency” (i.e., they didn’t look good) discovered during consumer testing of the new Lightguide bulb line has caused the company to stop making the triangle- and globe-shaped bulbs.
Pikmin 4 blooms this summer
May 2024To start off Nintendo’s first Direct of 2023, it gave us a release date for the gentle, wholesome alien plant collection Pikmin 4.
PlayerUnknowns new game sounds outrageously ambitious
May 2024Hey, remember PlayerUnknown? As in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG to your friends? Yeah, well Brendan Greene, aka PlayerUnknown, has provided details surrounding his latest gaming project, codenamed “Artemis,” which aims to be an open-source Earth-sized virtual environment supporting hundreds of thousands of players that can make or play whatever they want.
Playing Super Monkey Ball with a monkey in a ball just makes sense
May 2024Gamers could get an edge in Sega’s Super Monkey Ball with the help of a unique DIY controller: a literal monkey in a ball that can be physically rolled around instead of mashing a joystick on a gamepad.
Reviews - The Verge
May 2024Lutron’s latest Diva deals with your more dramatic lighting. The new $130 Diva smart dimmer for ELV+ lighting brings higher-tech lighting control to the Caseta smart lighting line's new look.
Revisiting Limitless, a movie about drugs and loneliness
May 2024Later this week, CBS will start airing Limitless, a series that continues the 2011 film of the same name. Limitless is making the same gambit as Fox's Minority Report, in hopes that the plot of a science fiction thriller will translate well into a weekly crime drama.
Roli Lumi review: a portable keyboard that lights the way for first-time musicians
May 2024Piano lessons for me as a child meant sitting down every Tuesday at a shiny black Yamaha upright, looking up at shelves laden with tributes to my piano teacher’s twin obsessions: busts of classical greats like Beethoven and Chopin, and copies of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, to which he contributed every year.
Samsung Captivate Glide, DoubleTime, and Pantech Pocket available on AT&T on November 20th
May 2024AT&T has set a release date for two of the new Samsung phones coming to its network: the QWERTY landscape slider Captivate Glide and the clamshell DoubleTime will both be available on November 20th.
Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple
May 2024Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps.
Samsung Odyssey G9 review: the most immersive monitor you can buy
May 2024I have been a technology cheapskate most of my life. I’ve rarely bought a monitor brand-new; I’m pleased to say I pieced together my current three-screen articulating swing-arm setup primarily from Craigslist and hand-me-downs.
Season 3 of The Man in the High Castle doubles down on science fiction and stumbles
May 2024Spoilers ahead for previous seasons of The Man in the High Castle. Science fiction often challenges social and political issues that might be hard to tackle in different genres, so it’s ironic that the closer Amazon’sThe Man in the High Castle gets to traditional science fiction, the less relevant to current reality it becomes.
She sold her bathwater PayPal took her profits
May 2024Belle Delphine, the woman who went viral in 2019 for selling jars of her bathwater, revealed earlier this month that the stunt earned her $90K in profits.
Shein beat out its competitors soon it could sell Forever 21 clothes
May 2024A deal struck by Shein and Forever 21 could see the digital retailer and legacy fast-fashion brand converge online and in person.
Showtime Anytime now available to Time Warner Cable customers
May 2024Time Warner Cable customers can now stream Showtime hits like Homeland, Dexter, Californication, and Weeds from a smartphone or tablet. The company today added itself to the list of cable providers that support Showtime Anytime.
Singer George Michael dies at the age of 53
May 2024Ex-Wham singer and solo artist George Michael has died at the age of 53. His publicist said today that Michael passed away peacefully at home in the UK, a fact confirmed by his family, who asked for privacy at the time.
Snapchat is reportedly working on third-party access controls
May 2024Snap is reportedly working on a new feature that will let users control which third-party apps will have access to their Snapchat accounts, according to Mashable.
Sonic Colors is getting remastered as Sega announces a handful of new Sonic games
May 2024One of the most beloved Sonic the Hedgehog games is making a return. Sega announced today that a remaster of Sonic Colors — called Sonic Colors: Ultimate — will be coming to the PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on September 7th.
Sonic The Hedgehog can actually spin in Legos new sets
May 2024Lego has made another fan toy dream come true: its new Sonic The Hedgehog sets actually let you send Sonic spinning through an entire miniature level.
SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg gave the internet language
May 2024Although SpongeBob SquarePants has been airing more or less consistently for nearly 20 years, the show’s first three seasons — which aired between 1999 and 2004 — were its most influential.
Sprint made its unlimited plan worse, and added a more expensive option
May 2024Sprint is the latest carrier to realize that words are meaningless, its unlimited plan was never going to be unlimited anyway, and it might as well run with it.
Steve Kramer, the political consultant behind Biden deepfake robocalls, faces $6 million fine
May 2024The Federal Communications Commission has proposed imposing multimillion-dollar fines on the political consultant responsible for the robocall campaign that used an AI-generated deepfake of President Joe Biden’s voice — and on the telecom company that facilitated the calls.
Stock up on these discounted Nintendo Switch games at GameStop
May 2024Whether your Nintendo Switch is brand-new or you’ve had it since launch, it’s always good to stock up on games when they’re discounted.
Strip mining: the rise of the world's most popular comics app
May 2024Jacob Blackstock launched a tester version of Bitstrips in the App Store in early October. It was a "stealth" launch for friends and family to work out the app’s kinks, but the world found out.
Super Mario Odyssey has co-op, will let you play as Marios hat
May 2024Super Mario Odyssey looks like the next big game for the Nintendo Switch, and while the big reveals and gameplay demos happened earlier this week at E3, Nintendo had one last surprise: Odyssey will feature local co-op, with the second player taking control of Cappy, Mario’s magical sentient hat (as spotted by our friends at Polygon.
Tesla keeps ignoring the governments requests to fix Autopilot
May 2024The National Transportation Safety Board is not happy with Tesla’s failure to respond to its safety recommendations made four years ago concerning the company’s controversial driver assist feature, Autopilot.
Tesla leak reportedly shows thousands of Full Self-Driving safety complaints
May 2024For each incident there are bullet points for the “technical review”. The employees who enter this review into the system regularly make it clear that the report is “for internal use only”.
Tesla Model S getting first ever over-the-air car firmware upgrade next week
May 2024Tesla's Model S electric sedan will be the first car to receive an over-the-air firmware update when version 1.9.11 rolls out to over 100 owners next week.
The best and weirdest new horror to watch this fall
May 2024This fall, The Verge is making a choice. The choice is fear! We’ve decided to embrace the season by taking in as many new horror movies as possible and reporting back on which ones are worth your time.
The Better CEO who fired 900 people over a Zoom call is taking time off
May 2024The CEO of digital mortgage firm Better.com, who fired 900 employees on a Zoom call last week, is taking time off from the company while it conducts a “leadership and cultural assessment,” according to an email to employees from the board of directors.
The black-and-white Snyder Cut is definitely black-and-white and definitely still 4:3
May 2024Well, that didn’t take long. Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Justice is Gray, the black and white version of the film that hews closer to the director’s ideal vision for his superhero epic, is out today on HBO Max.
The final trailer for Netflixs live-action Avatar is a VFX bonanza.
May 2024The final trailer for Netflix’s live-action Avatar is a VFX bonanza. We’re only a few days out from the premiere of Netflix’s live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the series’ final trailer gives us our best look yet at what sort of VFX-heavy action set pieces the streamer has cooked up for the Gaang.
The five coolest games from Upload VRs E3 2021 showcase
May 2024Upload VR returned to E3 with its third annual showcase of the most inventive and intriguing games coming to VR. As the medium continues to mature year after year, it continues to be a platform for developers to innovate.
The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 1, Dragonstone
May 2024Here we are. The gang’s all back in town, and it’s time for another season of fights, hook-ups, and eviscerating burns.
The head of Teslas Dojo supercomputer project has left the company.
May 2024The head of Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer project has left the company. Ganesh Venkataramanan left Tesla in November, Bloomberg reports. The project is now being overseen by Peter Bannon, who has designed chips for Intel and Apple.
The Joe Rogan Experience is now available wherever you get your podcasts.
May 2024The Joe Rogan Experience is now available wherever you get your podcasts. After over three years of Spotify exclusivity, Joe Rogan’s podcast is now available via other podcasting apps — including Apple Podcasts — and will return to YouTube “within weeks.
The Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Wii
May 2024The Nintendo Switch had a relatively strong holiday quarter, with 10.67 million units shipped between October and December despite the global semiconductor shortage.
The rise and fall of the 'Star Wars theater'
May 2024Before the release of Star Wars in March 1977, Lucasfilm wasn't sure if the film would be a success. The studio restricted its opening to just 37 theaters across the whole of the US, including the Coronet in San Francisco, which was the only screen showing the movie for 50 miles.
The smaller iPhone 16 Pro might get Apples new tetraprism zoom lens
May 2024Next year’s Pro iPhones are both “expected” to have the “tetraprism” zoom lens Apple is using for the 5x telephoto camera in the iPhone 15 Pro Max, according to a new post from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports
May 2024The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will expand its facial recognition program to around 430 US airports over the next several years following what it calls “extremely promising” results in its pilot program, according to Fast Company.
These colors don't run: getting tattooed at Star Wars Celebration
May 2024"Everyone can find something to admire, or aspire to." Whether getting their first tattoo or simply adding to their collection, the fans I spoke to all stressed how iconic they thought the Star Wars films, books, and comics were.
This $133 water gun has a digital ammo counter and charges over USB-C
May 2024Backyard war has changed. In my day, we used to have to work at spraying each other in the face with water guns.
This $39 Cooler Master case turns your old Framework Laptop parts into a tiny PC
May 2024Framework CEO Nirav Patel, leader of the first company to fulfill the promise of a truly modular laptop, doesn’t just want you to buy new parts for his computers.
This tool automatically transcribes your Zoom meetings as they happen
May 2024Automated transcription service Otter.ai now integrates directly into Zoom calls to transcribe meetings on the fly. During a meeting, anyone on the call can click the “Otter.
This walking app let me whack my co-workers with a baseball bat
May 2024Violence is never the answer. That said, it was fun when I opened a walking app and whacked a Verge editor with a baseball bat and made another slip on a banana peel.
Ticketmaster, Taylor Swift, and antitrust explained
May 2024This special episode of Decoder dives deep into Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and how a handful of policy changes in the 1980s led to one firm so thoroughly dominating the live events business in the United States that Congress held a hearing in 2023 because Taylor Swift fans were upset about antitrust law.
TikTok is tracking its most popular songs with a Billboard top 50 chart
May 2024TikTok is partnering with Billboard to launch a top 50 chart that tracks the most popular songs on the platform. Topping the chart right now is Sexyy Red with “SkeeYee,” followed by Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red,” with Taylor Swift’s “August” taking third place.
TikTokkers are calling Rep. Jeff Jackson a hypocrite
May 2024Until relatively recently, Rep. Jeff Jackson, a freshman Democratic congressman from North Carolina, had more than 2.5 million followers on TikTok.
Toothbrush startup Quip is launching a $20 floss dispenser
May 2024Quip, the electric toothbrush subscription service, is launching its second product today: a floss dispenser called Floss. The metallic dispenser will sell for $20 and refillable floss canisters, which are automatically delivered every three months, will sell for $5 each.
TuneIn, the TiVo for radio, hits 40 million users and raises $16 million in new funding
May 2024Who said radio was dead? Palo Alto-based TuneIn lets listeners stream more than 70,000 radio stations from around the world as well as more than two million on-demand programs such as podcasts and TEDTalks.
Twitter stops auto-refreshing timelines so tweets wont disappear while youre still reading the
May 2024Twitter has updated its platform to prevent auto-refreshing of users’ feeds that caused some tweets to “disappear” while they were reading them.
Two Sonos Era 100 smart speakers work great for home stereo audio, and theyre $90 off
May 2024I’ve been reluctant to jump into the Sonos game because I know just how addictive it can be once you’ve crossed over — like Pringles, I know I won’t stop at just one.
Uber for teens: the company lifts age restrictions to allow unaccompanied minors for the first time
May 2024Uber announced a new account for teenagers that allows minors to take rides without their parent or guardian present. Prior to today’s announcement, unaccompanied minors were not allowed to request Uber rides.
US Postal Service to run same-day delivery trial program in San Francisco
May 2024Earlier this week eBay formally launched its same-day delivery service eBay Now, and now it looks like the United States Postal Service itself might want to get in on the action.
Valorant is finally coming to consoles
May 2024Riot’s tactical shooter Valorant has been a PC-exclusive since it launched in 2020 — but that’s changing very soon. The developer has finally provided some details on the console version of the game, which will be available in a limited beta on the PS5 and Xbox Series X / S starting on June 14th.
Verizon is making it easier to block spam texts sent by email
May 2024Verizon is making it easier to block pesky spam texts sent by random email addresses. If you find yourself overloaded with these messages, you can now text “Off” to 4040 to stop receiving texts from emails altogether.
Verizon says its fully committed to Googles phones this year after rumor of a split
May 2024Verizon says it’ll continue to carry Google’s Pixel phones throughout 2020, rejecting a rumor that the carrier — and for many years, the Pixel’s biggest sales channel — was abandoning Google’s smartphone line due to sluggish sales.
Verizon SureResponse is a panic button for the elderly (hands-on pictures)
May 2024Verizon is following Zomm's footsteps by announcing a device intended to help the elderly. The Verizon SureResponse is a one-touch panic button of sorts that has a 24 hour link to Verizon's support line for any sort of emergency.
Verizon will now charge more money for in-store activations of new phones
May 2024Verizon is altering its activation fee structure to incentivize customers to buy new phones online, according to CNET. Prior to this week, the standard activation fee, both for an in-store activation and when purchasing a new phone online, was $30.
Vine's porn controversy: Twitter's video-sharing app comes under fire thanks to NSFW content
May 2024In the latest development in today's pornography on Vine saga, Twitter's video-sharing app now blocks many searches for pornographic terms. Trying to search for the #porn hashtag (and other terms such as #sex, #boobs, and #booty) brings up no results at this time.
Viral video of Russian woman bleaching manspreaders was anti-feminist propaganda
May 2024Last month, a video of a woman allegedly dumping water mixed with bleach into the laps of manspreaders on the Russian subway went viral.
Wacom tablets are sharing your app usage with Google Analytics
May 2024Wacom tablets have been collecting data on what apps users open, and it’s not entirely clear what Wacom is doing with the data.
Walmart, Ikea, and Amazon have a dirty shipping problem
May 2024Giant retailers, including Amazon and Ikea, have pledged to go green, but their shipping is still pretty dirty. Now shoppers can now see how much pollution some of the biggest retail companies in the US each generate while bringing goods into the country, thanks to a new report.
Watch the intense 'Terminator 2' truck chase recreated in 'Grand Theft Auto V'
May 2024Grand Theft Auto V's multiplayer can be used for more constructive activities than robbing and killing — or at least, it can be with enough organization by the players.
Watching LG's new OLED TV: is curved the future?
May 2024It seems two Korean electronics giants are taking the claim of "world's first" curved OLED TV here at CES. We've just stopped by LG's massive booth here after checking out Samsung's concave set, and it looks almost as if the two companies are showing off the exact same 55-inch television.
Waymos driverless cars are finally ready for the highway
May 2024Waymo’s days of avoiding freeways are finally coming to an end. The Alphabet-owned company announced today that its fully driverless vehicles would begin tackling the higher speeds of Phoenix’s freeways, all while ferrying passengers to and from their destinations.
What happens to the internet's most useless websites after their viral fame?
May 2024Fidgetspin is a one-trick site, designed around a fad likely to fade into obscurity before the year’s end. It lets visitors spin a virtual fidget spinner.
What to do when you need to send a fax
May 2024If I asked you the last time you actually had to fax something to someone, odds are you’d stare at me as if I was asking about the last time you hired a horse and buggy.
Why a DNA data breach is much worse than a credit card leak
May 2024This week, DNA testing service MyHeritage revealed that hackers had breached 92 million of its accounts. Though the hackers only accessed encrypted emails and passwords — so they never reached the actual genetic data — there’s no question that this type of hack will happen more frequently as consumer genetic testing becomes more and more popular.
Why does this digital abacus exist?
May 2024Sometimes, old fashioned things are better. I understand the arguments of those who prefer taking pen and paper notes to typing for example, or even people who prefer analog, vinyl recordings to digital ones.
Windows 11 is getting Android apps, taskbar improvements, and more next month
May 2024Microsoft is planning to launch a public preview of its Android apps for Windows 11 next month, alongside some taskbar improvements and redesigned Notepad and Media Player apps.
Windows Phone was a glorious failure
May 2024This past weekend, Microsoft made official what was already known for years: the Windows Phone mobile operating system is dead. There’ll be no further development, no miraculous Windows 10 Mobile revivals, and no further attempts to compete with the overwhelming duopoly of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.
Withings new multiscope combines four health gadgets into one
May 2024Withings always shows up to CES with a futuristic health tech device in tow, and this year is no different. The company’s latest gadget is the $249.
X fixed the bug that broke images attached to tweets from before 2014
May 2024Over the weekend, word spread about a problem affecting old tweets, and eventually, we narrowed it down to anything posted before December 2014, either with an image or a link that had been shortened by Twitter.
Xbox Games Showcase 2023 and Starfield Direct: the biggest announcements
May 2024Microsoft just wrapped up its annual summer showcase for Xbox games, and it was a big one. Not only did Microsoft share tons of information about new titles coming to Xbox, but the company also showed a long look at Starfield, Bethesda’s long-awaited sci-fi RPG.
Yahoo Mail eliminates passwords as part of a major redesign
May 2024Seven months after replacing traditional passwords with single-use SMS codes, Yahoo is taking the next step toward blowing up the password altogether.
Yahoo Mail is adding more AI to simplify desktop email
May 2024Yahoo is updating Yahoo Mail on the desktop with new AI capabilities and other features to help simplify email and task management.
You can now use Edges password manager to log in to mobile apps
May 2024Microsoft is updating Edge on Thursday to allow the browser’s password manager to log you in to your mobile apps. The new release, technically Edge 92, also includes new password safety features through a password health dashboard.
You can save 20 percent on three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
May 2024My digital game library is filled with titles that I’ve never played, so a few years ago, I promised myself that I would stop buying every new release.
YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels
May 2024After debuting a generative AI feature last year that produces music in the style of famous artists like Charli XCX, John Legend, and T-Pain, YouTube is now asking major record labels to allow it to clone more musicians.
YouTube will allow videos with breastfeeding nudity and twerking to be monetized
May 2024Breastfeeding: Breastfeeding content where a child is present, even with visible areola, can now earn ad revenue. Previously, such content was only monetizable if no areola was visible.
Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more
May 2024Had enough Zoom meetings? Can’t bear another soul-numbing day of sitting on video calls, the only distraction your rapidly aging face, pinned in one corner of the screen like a dying bug?
Zoom in style in a sci-fi ship decimating coronavirus particles
May 2024It’s been more than a few weeks now that many of us have been forced to use Zoom for communication. In that time, really creative backgrounds for Zoomers have popped up.
Zoom is laying off 1,300 employees, around 15 percent of its workforce
May 2024Zoom is laying off about 15 percent of its staff, which means about 1,300 people will lose their jobs, according to a memo from Zoom CEO Eric Yuan that the company posted on its blog.
Zynn, a TikTok clone, topped the App Store by paying users to watch videos
May 2024TikTok has a new competitor: Zynn, a nearly button-for-button clone of TikTok that differentiates itself with one key twist — it pays users to sign up, watch videos, and convince others to follow suit.
'Brief Encounters' explores Gregory Crewdson's quest to pull real moments from fake photos
May 2024Ansel Adams said, “you don’t take a photograph, you make it.” And while that’s true for anyone that steps behind the lens, Gregory Crewdson is pushing Adams’s dictum to incredible heights.
'Grand Theft Auto V' coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 on September 17th
May 2024Rockstar has announced that Grand Theft Auto V, the next chapter of the studio's most renowned franchise, will be released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 September 17th.
$100 - $300 | Holiday gift guide 2014
May 2024Sense sleep tracker Sense is a sleep tracker with real sophistication: it also measures temperature, light, motion, humidity, sound, and even the level of pollen and dust in the air.
1More ComfoBuds Pro review: comfortably sound
May 20241More has absolutely flooded the true wireless earbud market, and it’s confident enough in its new ComfoBuds Pro noise-canceling earbuds to proclaim them as superior to the AirPods Pro — for a fraction of the price.
2019 Golden Globes: the complete list of winners
May 2024The Golden Globes have ushered in the beginning of a new awards-show season, with feature films including Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Roma winning top prizes.
2024 US Elections - The Verge
May 2024The first presidential debate was very bad. Here’s a summary that includes tech policy issues and also some of the most unhinged stuff we heard tonight.
A Komodo dragon has been crowned Twitchs permanent PogChamp replacement
May 2024On January 6th, the day a riot of pro-Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, Twitch removed the iconic PogChamp emote because the person it depicted made statements calling for further violence.
A new featurette introduces the worlds of Star Wars: The Last Jedi
May 2024The Star Wars universe has always been home to scores of fantastic planets, and with The Last Jedi just days from hitting theaters, Lucasfilm has released a new featurette that highlights some of the places that we can expect to see on the big screen next week.
A quick Spotify trick: see all of the songs that got away
May 2024Do you ever get the sense that your Spotify playlists are shrinking? Or that you’re hearing the same songs more often?
A trauma surgeon explains the bloody reality of keeping gunshot victims alive
May 2024This month’s shooting at YouTube’s headquarters, which left four people injured and one person dead, rattled Silicon Valley. But for Dr.
All the news from the 2024 presidential election - Page 2
May 2024Independent presidential candidate and notable anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has tapped Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy Silicon Valley lawyer, as his running mate.
All the Samsung Galaxy S24, Plus, and Ultra leaks
May 2024This is the time of year when Samsung unwillingly has major details of its flagship Galaxy S line of phones leaked out months before they launch.
An 8-minute video explaining everything good and bad about Gremlins
May 2024Does It Hold Up is a chance to re-experience childhood favorites of books, movies, TV shows, video games, and other cultural phenomenon decades later.
Ankers Nebula Mars portable projector review
May 2024If you, like me, spend a lot of time shouldering the nagging anxiety of an ever-depleting phone battery, you’ve probably heard of Anker.
Apple announces macOS Big Sur release date
May 2024Apple says it’ll release macOS 11.0, dubbed Big Sur, on November 12th. The company first announced the new OS at its developer’s conference in June and released it as a public beta in August.
Apple is giving out Postmates Unlimited subscriptions
May 2024Apple Pay is now offering customers free Postmates Unlimited subscriptions. That is if you sign up for the service through Apple Pay, of course.
Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework
May 2024Apple, which many had considered very conservative in its approach to AI, quietly released frameworks and model libraries designed to run on its chips and maybe bring generative AI apps to MacBooks.
Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds
May 2024Apple launched a new iPhone app today called Apple Sports, giving users a one-stop location to check scores, team stats, betting odds, and more across a number of major sports leagues.
Apple macOS Sonoma review - The Verge
May 2024Around this time last year, I called macOS Ventura “a bunch of good updates you can mostly ignore.” The year before, I said that macOS Monterey had “not impacted my life much.
Apple TV 4K (2021) review: much better remote, slightly faster box
May 2024It’s easy to be underwhelmed by the new Apple TV 4K. It looks identical to Apple’s first 4K streaming box introduced back in 2017, and the day-to-day experience of using it doesn’t feel dramatically better when compared to that device.
Apples iPhone has an aggravating text notifications bug
May 2024If you’ve noticed that you’re receiving SMS texts and iMessages from people but aren’t getting any notifications about them, you’re not alone.
Apples Vision Pro headset will turn you into a digital avatar when FaceTiming
May 2024Apple’s Vision Pro headset will let you replace your face with a hyperrealistic avatar when you’re using FaceTime. As shown during WWDC 2023, you can scan your face using the headset to create a digital “persona” of yourself that will appear during video calls.
Astronomers say Monet's 'Sunset' masterpiece was painted at 4:53PM on February 5th, 1883
May 2024Researchers from Texas State University have used forensic astronomy to uncover new details about Claude Monet's Étretat: Sunset — a stunning seascape that the impressionist master painted during a trip to the Normandy coast in 1883.
Asus and MSI expand OLED monitor warranties to cover burn-in
May 2024MSI and Asus are providing consumers who purchase their OLED monitors with some additional peace of mind, having now revised their warranty coverage on certain models to cover the dreaded issue of panel burn-in.
Beeper is giving up on its iMessage dream
May 2024Beeper is throwing in the towel in its fight to bring iMessage to Android — mostly. Although it just announced yet another fix to let Android users send iMessages from its messaging apps, Beeper announced that it’s going to stop finding workarounds and instead focus on its “long-term goal of building the best chat app on earth.
Best cheap TV deals for October 2023
May 2024Things are looking bright for those who want to nab a great TV in 2023 at a substantial discount. That’s because, these days, you can usually land a great deal on a mid- or high-end TV from LG, TCL, Hisense, or Amazon’s own Fire TV brand with some regularity — even if the biggest discounts remain reserved for sales events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Amazon Prime Day, and the lead-up to the Super Bowl.
Best webcam 2023: the top webcams you can buy right now
May 2024If you don’t already have a laptop with a built-in webcam — or the one on your laptop isn’t very good — you might need a standalone webcam.
BoJack Horseman was a powerful Netflix show about addiction and a messy one about celebrity
May 2024As BoJack Horseman progressed through its six seasons, the show’s most obvious punchline didn’t get funnier; it got scarier. Yes, the cartoon horse was depressed.
Canon EOS Rebel T4i review: testing the world's first touchscreen DSLR
May 2024Each DSLR manufacturer has slightly different ways of approaching prosumer camera controls. Nikon has loads of physical buttons, for instance, while Canon relies a little more on menus, requiring you to dig through screens for little-used settings while keeping the primary controls at your fingertips.
Cards Against Humanity holds 99 percent off Black Friday sale on cars and diamonds
May 2024The card game company Cards Against Humanity has a long history of pulling Black Friday stunts. In 2013, it actually raised the price of its game by $5; in 2014, it sold literal bull shit.
Charter Spectrum hit with $7 billion in punitive damages over 2019 murder
May 2024A jury in Texas found Charter Communications liable for $7 billion in punitive damages this week as the result of a lawsuit from the family of Betty Jo McClain Thomas, an 83-year-old woman who was stabbed to death by one of its employees in December 2019.
China finally built an elevated bus that straddles traffic and it's totally bizarre
May 2024Last May, pictures of a weird, elevated bus that glides above traffic began circulating on the internet. Predictably, everyone freaked out.
Chinas top actress Fan Bingbing reappears what happened?
May 2024China’s highest-paid actress Fan Bingbing (X-Men: Days of Future Past) disappeared this summer following accusations of tax evasion. This month, an apology for breaking the law appeared on her social media account, and Fan has been ordered to pay 884 million yuan ($127 million) to avoid criminal prosecution.
Chuck Schumer calls on Congress to pick up the pace on AI regulation
May 2024Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is launching a new “all-hands-on-deck” effort Wednesday to regulate artificial intelligence, aiming to strike a balance between economic competitiveness and safety.
Citi Bike is for sale
May 2024Lyft is exploring a sale of its bike and scooter business, which includes New York City’s popular Citi Bike. The news comes several months after the struggling ridehail company laid off a third of its workforce in an effort to reduce costs.
Clubhouse is breaking up to stay relevant
May 2024Hello again everyone — it’s been a while! Ariel’s on vacation for the next week-plus, which means I get to tap in again and do my best impression of your usual host.
Contour Roam Review - The Verge
May 2024You know what they say — the best camera is the one you have with you. Having a camera doesn’t always mean you’re able to capture spontaneous moments with ease, though.
Cruise launches public waitlist for its robotaxis in San Francisco
May 2024Cruise, the self-driving company backed by General Motors and Honda, announced a public waitlist for its robotaxi service in San Francisco.
DARPAs 100 Year Starship program reportedly appoints astronaut Mae Jemison as head
May 2024The DARPA-seeded 100 Year Starship study is a long-term effort designed to foster interest and research in space exploration, and according to the BBC, it now has a leader: former astronaut Mae Jemison.
Dell is discontinuing its Venue Android tablets
May 2024"The slate tablet market is oversaturated and is experiencing declining demand from consumers, so we’ve decided to discontinue the Android-based Venue tablet line,"
Dell touts its humble startup soul in new 'Beginnings' ad spot
May 2024Dell's no longer a public company, and in a new effort to shed its behemoth corporation image, the company's playing up its humble beginnings from Michael Dell's mini fridge-clad college dorm room.
Dell XPS 13 Plus review: XPS plus, battery minus
May 2024Dell collectively shocked everyone who follows the laptop market when it announced the XPS 13 Plus. After I published my first impressions last December, I got all kinds of DMs and emails from people asking what the heck this thing was.
Desus and Mero are over
May 2024Duo Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, who established one of the top comedy brands of the decade with their podcast Bodega Boys and their eponymous show on Showtime, are well and truly done.
Detective Pikachu review: an absurdly silly, wonderful ride
May 2024As a piece of storytelling, the live-action Pokémon movie Detective Pikachu fails spectacularly. Warner Bros. has the impossible task of trying to make the film appealing and likable for a movie-going audience that extends beyond nostalgic adults reminiscing over their trading cards, and kids caught up in their current Pokémon obsession.
Done your Wordle for the day? Try out these spoofs instead
May 2024Part of the charm of Wordle — this season’s must-play puzzle game — is that you can only do it once a day.
Doomfist finally arrives as Overwatchs newest hero
May 2024Overwatch’s latest hero has just been announced, and it’s none other than Doomfist, a character players have been eagerly anticipating since his first mention dating all the way back to the game’s original cinematic trailer.
EFF blasts Microsoft over Windows 10 privacy concerns
May 2024The Electronic Frontier Foundation has accused Microsoft of disregarding user choice and privacy with Windows 10. In a scathing editorial, EFF employee Amul Kalia calls on Microsoft to "
Elon Musk says Tesla will try a little advertising
May 2024Tesla might be getting into advertising, Elon Musk announced in a shareholder meeting on Tuesday. Tesla has long been a holdout on traditional advertising, and has found extensive growth over the years through mostly word of mouth.
Ex-Apple designer Jony Ive is now designing expensive things for Ferrari, too
May 2024Details on what LoveFrom is actually doing for the luxury carmaker or Exor are slim. “The first expression of this new partnership will bring together Ferrari’s legendary performance and excellence with LoveFrom’s unrivalled experience and creativity that has defined extraordinary world changing products,” Exor writes, without explaining what the companies will do together.
Facebook introduces Portal TV, a video chat camera accessory for your television
May 2024Facebook is bringing its connected device strategy to the television. The company today announced Portal TV, an accessory that brings the company’s wide-angle video chats to the biggest screen in the house.
Facebooks head of AI really hates Sophia the robot (and with good reason)
May 2024Sophia the robot is a bit of a non-persona non grata in the AI community. Its creators, Hanson Robotics, consistently exaggerate the bot’s abilities, pretending that it’s “basically alive,” rather than just a particularly unnerving automaton.
Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to artificial intelligence
May 2024Back in December, the unsavory hobby of a Reddit user by the name of deepfakes became a new centerpiece of artificial intelligence debate, specifically around the newfound ability to face-swap celebrities and porn stars.
Far-left Volcano Group claims responsibility for Tesla Gigafactory fire
May 2024A group of left-wing extremists has claimed responsibility for the suspected arson attack that shut down the Tesla Gigafactory outside of Berlin on Tuesday.
Former Lyft driver files class action lawsuit against Uber over its Hell tracking program
May 2024A former Lyft driver is filing a class action lawsuit against Uber less than a month after The Information exposed its controversial “Hell” program.
Forza Street is a new free-to-play racing game coming to Android, iOS, and PC
May 2024Microsoft just took the wraps off of Forza Street, the finalized title for what was a work-in-progress game dubbed Miami Street.
Frog's Mark Rolston: the 'Minority Report' interface is a 'terrible idea'
May 2024Mark Rolston holds the title of chief creative officer for Frog, the venerable design company responsible for the look of Sony Trinitron televisions in the seventies and Apple's minimalistic "
George Hotz, iPhone hacker and Elon Musk antagonist, is leaving Comma AI
May 2024It’s no longer about all nighters, powering through with brute force, sparring with elegance, winning and losing, all within grasp yet all not…I’m probably delusional but you wouldn’t start a company otherwise, right?
Gigi Sohn returns to Congress for a third try at securing empty FCC chair
May 2024Gigi Sohn, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Communications Commission, is set to appear for a third confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday.
Gloomwood is my new favorite knocking-guys-out simulator
May 2024I have no idea how most people play stealth games, but for me, the genre is primarily about one thing: knocking guys out.
GM thinks MotorTrend misrepresented its own executives comments about CarPlay and Android A
May 2024GM thinks MotorTrend “misrepresented” its own executive’s comments about CarPlay and Android Auto. Yesterday, we linked to a MotorTrend story paraphrasing GM infotainment head Tim Babbitt saying CarPlay and Android Auto can actually distract drivers.
Good Deal: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3 with 14mm lens for $329
May 2024Just in time for summer holidays, Panasonic's Lumix DMC-GF3 is on sale so that you can document your time in the sun.
Google can now alert you when your private contact info appears online
May 2024Google is making it a lot easier to find and remove your contact information from its search results. The company will now send out notifications when it finds your address, phone number, or email on the web, allowing you to review and request the removal of that information from Search.
Google has rolled out Immersive View for Maps across five cities
May 2024Immersive View is now rolling out for Google Maps in five global cities after the feature was first introduced across hundreds of notable landmarks last year.
Google is adopting MLS for its end-to-end encryption in Messages
May 2024Google’s Messages app might be getting cross-platform chat encryption in the future. The company is announcing adoption of an end-to-end encryption system known as Messaging Layer Security, or MLS.
Google Maps is making a big privacy change to protect your location history
May 2024Google Maps is changing the way it handles your location data. Instead of backing up your data to the cloud, Google will soon store it locally on your device.
Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro hands-on: features, photos, and more
May 2024This has been a refrain over the past couple of months, so you probably won’t be surprised to learn that the Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro look and feel a lot like the devices that came before them: the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro.
Group chats between Android and iOS might be a little less painful
May 2024A change to messaging in iOS 17 might be on the way to alleviate some of the pain involved in group chats between iPhone and Android owners.
Here is the Spotify COVID content policy that lets Joe Rogan slide
May 2024Content that promotes dangerous false or deceptive content about healthcare that may cause offline harm and/or pose a direct threat to public health such as:
How Hereditary director Ari Aster became an unlikely horror hero
May 2024“I don’t necessarily consider myself a horror filmmaker,” writer-director Ari Aster tells me hours before his debut feature Hereditary screens at the 2018 Overlook Film Festival.
How one British actor landed starring roles in Final Fantasy XVI and Diablo IV
May 2024Ralph Ineson is 2023’s video game “it” guy. The English actor, who’s made a sizable career out of supporting roles across television and film, managed to nab leading roles in two of this year’s biggest games, Diablo IV and Final Fantasy XVI.
How to be human: is love worth it?
May 2024Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "Ask Leah" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years.
How to change your DNS to see if Cloudflare can speed up your internet
May 2024A couple days ago, Cloudflare launched its own DNS service at 1.1.1.1, promising that consumers would enjoy greater privacy and potentially faster internet if they switched over from their ISP’s default.
How to hook up your iPhone with Apple's vintage iPod Hi-Fi speaker
May 2024Earlier this week, Apple announced HomePod, a new $350 speaker that’s designed to seamlessly work with all your Apple devices and Apple Music content.
How to quickly record voice notes on your iPhone
May 2024Whether you’re trying to quickly record ideas, an interview, or even a song idea, a voice recording app on your iPhone can come in useful.
How to set up AirPlay on your Sonos speakers
May 2024Sonos is adding support for Apple’s AirPlay 2 wireless audio standard to its speakers, making them far more versatile for anyone who prefers Apple Music (or just likes using Apple’s music app for local music on an iPhone).
How to type special characters on a Windows PC
May 2024Here’s the situation: you’re typing a report for work, and you suddenly have to write the phrase “Jones née Berkowitz.” Or you are adding a phrase in Spanish and need to use the word “años.
HP unveils a 12-inch Android tablet that looks like a giant HTC One
May 2024Both the Slate 8 and Slate 12 are running KitKat and include a handful of pre-installed HP apps. Though HP is marketing them as business-ready tablets, that's primarily because HP is ready to sell you an entire ecosystem of business accessories if you want them — otherwise, they're fairly standard tablets.
Human error in a nuclear facility nearly destroyed Arkansas
May 2024Here in the US, we like to think that our nuclear weapons exist to prevent our enemies from detonating a nuclear explosion on US soil — that is, when we think about them at all.
In his Late Night debut, Seth Meyers is strong but plays it safe
May 2024On March 3rd, 2009, a 34-year old Jimmy Fallon stepped out for his first show as host of NBC's Late Night, taking over for Conan O'Brien.
In March, you can restart Spider-Man 2 in New Game Plus mode.
May 2024In March, you can restart Spider-Man 2 in New Game Plus mode. A new title update to Spider-Man 2 arriving on March 7th includes new suits, New Game Plus, and other features, Insomniac Games announced in a post on X.
Inside the cryptocurrency scam vortex
May 2024On May 22nd, a crypto finance project called DeFi100 posted a message to its website: “We scammed you guys and you can’t do shit about it.
iOS 10 is surfacing hardcore porn GIFs in iMessage
May 2024Apple is having trouble removing porn from iMessage's new GIF search feature. Overnight, Deadspin noticed a highly sexual My Little Pony GIF appearing in searches for the word "
iPhone 4S announced, available October 14th starting at $199
May 2024Apple has just officially unveiled the new iPhone 4S at its "Let's Talk iPhone" event in Cupertino today, capping a longer-than-usual product cycle with a relatively mild refresh of the original iPhone 4.
iPhone X announced with edge-to-edge screen, Face ID, and no home button
May 2024The long-awaited and extensively leaked special edition iPhone is finally upon us, and it’s called the iPhone X (pronounced “iPhone 10”).
iRobot Roomba j7 Plus vs. Samsung Jet Bot AI Plus: the battle of the poop-dodging bot vacs
May 2024Robot vacuums have come a long way since the days I used to babysit my original Roomba (circa 2006), following it around to make sure it didn’t thrash around on a threshold or ignore the miniature lighthouses and trundle unseeingly into a no-go zone.
iRobots new Roomba vacuums start at just $250
May 2024iRobot is adding two new budget-friendly robot vacuum cleaners to its lineup that aim to provide the best of the cleaning basics, offering both vacuum-only and 2-in-1 vacuum plus mop models for less than $300.
Is Gabe Newells Neuralink competitor coming out of stealth?
May 2024Is Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor coming out of stealth? The Valve boss has quietly been building brain-computer interface startup Starfish Neuroscience for years — state records show it was incorporated August 2019, long before Gaben talked up those BCI use cases for gaming.
It is possible to make spiders creepier, ancient fossils in amber show
May 2024About 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, four, tiny spider-like creatures became trapped in amber. Today, scientists announced they belong to an entirely new species.
Jay Z returns to Spotify
May 2024Today is the birthday of Shawn Corey Carter. To celebrate his 50h, the artist better known as Jay Z has returned his entire music catalog to Spotify where he’s sure to cash in on this gift to subscribers.
JBS, the worlds largest meat supplier, hit with cyberattack
May 2024JBS, a Brazilian company which supplies a fifth of the world’s meat, was the victim of a coordinated cyberattack, Bloomberg reports.
Journalist Clive Thompson examines the people making the software that rules our world
May 2024Between never-ending Facebook scandals and debates over fake news and polarization, the general public seems to be more aware than ever of the extent to which software governs our daily lives.
Kanye Wests iPhone passcode is 000000
May 2024West revealed the password as part of a stream of consciousness speech to the president, which saw him break off on a tangent to show off a GIF of what West referred to as “the iPlane 1,” a hydrogen-powered concept aircraft that he felt “our President should be flying in.
Kraven the Hunters first trailer is really just a Rhino delivery system
May 2024Rather than giving the nerds what they want and just pitting its titular big game hunter against Spider-Man, Kraven the Hunter will tell the dark and rather tragic story of how Sergei Kravinoff (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) became a psychopathic leather enthusiast with a taste for human blood.
Lets remember netbooks - The Verge
May 2024There’s an Apple event next week, and it’s looking fairly likely that we’ll see updated models of the iPad Pro and perhaps the iPad Mini.
LG Displays tandem OLED display for laptops has begun mass production.
May 2024LG Display’s tandem OLED display for laptops has begun mass production. LG used double-stacked OLED technology for in-car screens even before it popped up in Apple’s new iPad Pros.
Lime Prime is the scooter companys new monthly subscription service
May 2024Lime is rolling out a new monthly subscription service for its electric scooters that’s called — no joke — Lime Prime. Lime typically charges a fixed rate to unlock a vehicle and then a per-minute fee to ride.
Listen to the world's longest echo
May 2024You probably can't hear most of it, but this over one-minute-long recording is proof of the world's longest echo. Set by a group of scientists inside an abandoned wartime fuel bunker, The Independent reports that it was created by firing off a pistol loaded with blanks.
Meet the musicians who compose in Mario Paint
May 2024If you go to YouTube and search “Mario Paint Composer,” you’ll be treated to a variety of quirky remixed music. Some of the best tracks sound as if the original song was put through a chiptune music filter and uploaded, staying incredibly faithful to their source material.
Mental health apps are still failing their privacy checkups
May 2024An investigation into mental health apps has revealed that many of the most popular services are failing to protect the privacy and security of their users.
Microsoft brings Spotify and useful widgets to its Xbox Game Bar on Windows 10
May 2024Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer admitted last year that the software maker had “a ton of work to do on Windows” for PC gamers.
Microsoft is getting back into physical retail sort of
May 2024Microsoft is returning to selling products at brick-and-mortar stores, kind of. The software giant will start selling products at its “Experience Centers” in London, New York City, and Sydney next month.
Microsoft is now selling Samsungs Galaxy S9, without any Microsoft apps
May 2024Microsoft is selling Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus through its US stores — but unlike last year’s Galaxy S8, Microsoft isn’t customizing it at all.
Microsoft just made a huge, far-from-certain bet on nuclear fusion
May 2024Microsoft just signed a jaw-dropping agreement to purchase electricity from a nuclear fusion generator. Nuclear fusion, often called the Holy Grail of energy, is a potentially limitless source of clean energy that scientists have been chasing for the better part of a century.
Microsoft: Apple has it wrong, it's a PC+ era
May 2024Microsoft's chief operating officer, Kevin Turner, took to the stage at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference earlier today to stir up the crowd and discuss Apple's idea of a post-PC era.
Microsofts new Xbox night mode dims your screen, controller, and power button
May 2024Microsoft is working on a new night mode for Xbox consoles. The software giant has started testing this night mode with Xbox Insiders in the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring today, and it allows Xbox owners to dim their screens, controller LED brightness, and even the Xbox power button.
My new favorite Twitter account just posts classic clips of SNL hosts introducing the musical guest
May 2024As we are speaking, it’s a Friday afternoon, and I am about to see my social media feeds populated with a video of you declaring it to be the weekend.
New job posting shows Amazon seeking a digital currency and blockchain expert
May 2024Amazon is hiring a digital currency and blockchain product lead for its payments team, according to a new job listing. First reported by Insider, the ecommerce giant is looking for an “experienced product leader to develop Amazon’s Digital Currency and Blockchain strategy and product roadmap.
Nintendo took the guts from the Nvidia Shield for its new console
May 2024Nintendo just unveileda new console called Switch, and it’s powered by a custom Tegra processor from Nvidia. The chip has a checkered history of failure and success — it’s mostly been an impressive machine for graphics demos — but Nintendo choosing it for a major console release gives it a substantial new beachhead into the consumer market.
Nokia details its history via Facebook Timeline, dates back to 1865
May 2024Now that Facebook Timelines are mandatory for brands, we've seen plenty of creative uses of the feature — from the history of the White House to Spotify's look at centuries worth of musical milestones.
North Korea defends blackout satellite photos: 'the essence of society is not on flashy lights'
May 2024No single image could hope to capture the ruin and catastrophe brought upon the people of North Korea by the despotic Kim dynasty, but famous satellite photos of the Korean peninsula at night come closer than most; the prosperous South appears severed from the Chinese mainland as Pyongyang's dim lights are outshone by fishing boats.
Oculus Rift S review: A swan song for first-generation VR
May 2024There’s a new Oculus Rift on the market, and it doesn’t look much like the Oculus Rift. The original Oculus Rift was a fascinating product.
OnePlus Bullets wireless headphones dont tangle and can fast charge
May 2024OnePlus is accompanying its new phone launch today by also releasing its first pair of wireless headphones, called the Bullets Wireless.
Persona 5 is launching on September 15th in Japan
May 2024The wait is over: Persona 5 finally has a release date. After a lengthy countdown, which kicked off back on April 22nd, developer Atlus has revealed that the role playing game will be launching on September 15th in Japan, though it's unclear when the game will be launching in the rest of the world.
PSA: Instagram's new (and old) terms of service go into effect today
May 2024Instagram's controversy-ridden new terms of service (TOS) and privacy policy go into effect today, but without the language that set off a frenzy of hysteria among users and the media last month.
Psst... were hearing Android boss Hiroshi Lockheimer might appear today in Epic v. Google.
May 2024Psst... we’re hearing Android boss Hiroshi Lockheimer might appear today in Epic v. Google. Today may be the single biggest day for big-name witnesses; not only is Google CEO Sundar Pichai dropping in on Jury Island but Epic plans to call Hiroshi Lockheimer, too.
Puzzmo is imagining a better newspaper games page
May 2024For more than a decade, designer Zach Gage has been building an impressive library by reimagining classic games. There have been remixes and updates to everything from chess to solitaire to sudoku, along with inventive word games like Knotwords and SpellTower.
QR codes can be phishing scams in disguise, warns the FTC
May 2024The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned the public against scanning any old QR code in a consumer alerts blog last week.
Range Rover will release an all-electric midsize SUV in 2025, JLR says
May 2024Jaguar Land Rover will invest £15 billion ($18.7 billion) over the next five years in electric and autonomous vehicle technology, the automaker announced Wednesday.
Riding the Uno Bolt, a weird and wonderful self-balancing unicycle
May 2024Small, powerful, and affordable electric motors have helped dozens of startups flood the market with increasingly practical personal vehicles over the last few years.
Riot Games cuts more than 500 jobs
May 2024After last year saw over 9,000 layoffs in the video game industry, 2024 is continuing the trend, and League of Legends maker Riot Games is the latest example.
Roblox executive says children making money on the platform is a gift
May 2024Roblox, one of the most popular gaming platforms in the world, has taken a lot of heat from critics who accuse it of exploiting its users, the vast majority of whom are children and teenagers.
Saints Row developer Volition permanently shuts down
May 2024In the post, the company explained that the reason for Volition’s closure was tied to parent company Embracer Group’s new restructuring program.
Sam Bankman-Fried charged with fraud, money laundering
May 2024About 12 hours after we learned authorities in the Bahamas have arrested FTX co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed the first of multiple sets of charges he’ll face.
Samba de Amigo: Party Central review: it isnt quite the same without maracas controllers
May 2024The halcyon days of plastic instrument controllers may be long gone, but there hasn’t been a moment in recent memory where I yearned for it more than while playing Samba de Amigo: Party Central on the Nintendo Switch.
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 2 review: premium in the right ways
May 2024I’ll spare you the suspense: the battery life is good. It’s not incredible. The Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 2 is far from the longest-lasting Chromebook I’ve ever tested.
Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra review: big phone, small updates
May 2024Samsung has settled into a new routine for its Galaxy Note line of smartphones: take some of the major new features from the flagship Galaxy S updates from earlier in the year, improve on them slightly, and add a stylus.
Samsung Galaxy Watch review: iteration over innovation
May 2024It was my third time trying and failing to get the new Samsung Galaxy Watch to play Spotify music on my home speakers.
Samsungs T7 Shield is a more durable version of its portable USB-C SSD
May 2024Samsung has announced the T7 Shield USB-C portable SSD, which, by all accounts, has the same internal hardware as the T7 but with a more rugged design that endows it with IP65 water and dust resistance.
See how Twitter feels with real-time emoji tracker
May 2024Some say that emoji have taken over the world — and there's no better way to see that dominance in action than by checking out emojitracker.
Sega is turning Golden Axe into an animated series
May 2024Comedy Central has ordered 10 episodes of Golden Axe, an animated show based on the fantasy beat ’em up sidescroller games.
Sex pixels: what 4K means for porn
May 2024"Porn killed Betamax." Among the tech cognoscenti, this is often an article of faith, suggesting that A/V format wars are won and lost not on dull technical details such as price (VHS machines had a cheaper retail) and recording time (VHS tapes were longer), but in the sticky back rooms and cash registers of America’s adults-only mom and pop shops.
SF Motors is exactly the kind of EV startup Elon Musk complained to Trump about
May 2024Across the country from the New York Auto Show, which started this week, a small electric vehicle startup called SF Motors has emerged from the shadows.
Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America
May 2024Share Now, the car-sharing service formerly known as Car2Go, is leaving North America. Daimler and BMW, the two global automakers that share ownership of Share Now, said it would cease service on February 29th, 2020.
She-Hulk gets very real about the rage-inducing horror of revenge porn
May 2024She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’s Jennifer Walters is introduced as a woman so in control of her emotions that she doesn’t have to live in fear of ever flying into one of the ultra-destructive, Hulked-out berserker rages her cousin Bruce is known for.
Siri Eyes Free mode coming to 2013 Honda Accord, two Acura models later this year
May 2024Honda has announced that support for Siri's Eyes Free mode will be coming to the 2013 Accord and Acura RDX / ILX models "
Skate 3 is a perfect respite from the horrors of 2016
May 2024Between elections and earthquakes, the end of 2016 has started to feel a bit like the end of the world. But there's been a solitary light in the darkness of November: Microsoft finally saw fit to make superlative skateboarding game Skate 3 playable on its Xbox One console.
Snapchat adds Instagram-style mention tagging to Stories
May 2024The new feature was first spotted by Matt Rappaport, and appears to work as you’d expect: type out a username in the text field on your image or video caption in Stories, and viewers will be able to tap on it to bring up a new menu linking to the user info, where you’ll be able to directly add them as a friend.
Sony invests another $200 million in Epic Games
May 2024Sony has just invested another $200 million in Epic Games as part of a $1 billion funding round, Epic announced today.
Sony releases new PS5 update with Discord integration, 1440p improvements, and more
May 2024Sony has released a new PS5 update that includes the highly anticipated Discord integration. Version 7 of the PS5 software is available for all consoles right now, allowing PS5 owners to join Discord calls on their console, alongside improvements to 1440p resolution, the ability to transfer data between PS5 consoles, and a new option to use your voice to capture clips of your gameplay.
Sony says a GeForce RTX 4080 or Radeon RX 7900XT will run Forbidden West at 4K / 60fps on PC.
May 2024Sony says a GeForce RTX 4080 or Radeon RX 7900XT will run Forbidden West at 4K / 60fps on PC.
Sony wants to buy Paramount with the help of yet another private equity firm.
May 2024Sony wants to buy Paramount with the help of yet another private equity firm. Private equity firms are a blight on society, but Sony is hoping that its offer to buy Paramount for about $26 billion with the help of Apollo Global Management will be tempting enough to get the studio to consider biting — something Skydance and its private equity partner Redbird Capital Partners haven’t been able to do just yet.
Spike Lee ruined my favorite NBA 2K16 game mode
May 2024I’ve spent hundreds of hours lifting nobodies to NBA stardom over the last half-decade. Tiny point guards who can jump like Spud Webb and bomb threes like Steph Curry; prototypical shooting guards, chiseled from marble and feted with endorsements; paint-bound monoliths who back their way into MVPs and championships; I’ve made them all, played them from the ends of benches to fake billboards around the world.
Spotify cancels industry-favorite podcast Heavyweight
May 2024Heavyweight, one of Gimlet’s flagship shows and a favorite among people in the industry, has been cancelled by Spotify. After the show finishes its current season, the team that makes Heavyweight will be laid off, a person familiar with the situation told The Verge.
Spotifys $10.99 Basic plan drops the audiobooks
May 2024Spotify just announced that it would be increasing prices in the US, but on Friday, it announced a new Basic plan that brings back a $10.
Square updates Card Case iPhone app with automatic, location-based payment option
May 2024Square has gone from giant of the smartphone-enabled mobile payment scene to scrappy underdog now that major players like Google and the ISIS network have started paying attention.
Stack Overflow is feeding programmers answers to AI, whether they like it or not
May 2024Stack Overflow’s new deal giving OpenAI access to its API as a source of data has users who’ve posted their questions and answers about coding problems in conversations with other humans rankled.
Stubios is the new name of Tubis fan-fueled studio program
May 2024Tubi has established itself as one of the streaming space’s more interesting players by becoming an easily accessible hub for independently-produced features.
Substackers Against Nazis want the company to explain itself.
May 2024“Substackers Against Nazis” want the company to explain itself. More than 200 Substack authors have signed an open letter to the company’s leadership asking them to explain why they are “platforming and monetizing Nazis.
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania review: Im split
May 2024As a kid, I remember spending hours playing Super Monkey Ball and Super Monkey Ball 2 on the GameCube with my sister.
Surface 'mini': Microsoft's rumored small tablet
May 2024Microsoft unveiled its Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 devices at an event in New York City yesterday. The new tablets look a lot like the original Surface RT and Surface Pro at first glance, but beneath the surface Microsoft has made some significant changes to speed and battery life, as well as to the devices' ability to be used comfortably in the lap.
T-Mobile suffers major network outage across US
May 2024Thousands of T-Mobile customers in the United States reported significant network problems on Monday night, with many unable to place calls or carry out other basic functions.
TCLs excellent 6-Series 4K TV is only $499.99 at Best Buy
May 2024TCL’s 6-Series 4K HDR televisions with Roku software built in are an incredible value even at their usual asking price. You can spend thousands on a big 4K TV, but if your eyes are set on something cheaper, The Verge calls TCL’s latest “the best 4K TV under $1,000.
Tesla profits dip as it invests in factory upgrades and AI development
May 2024Tesla continues to see its margins slip due to price cuts. Today the company reported earnings of $1.9 billion in net income on $23.
Tesla reached a settlement with a Black employee who won two trials over racial abuse.
May 2024Tesla reached a settlement with a Black employee who won two trials over racial abuse. The terms of the settlement are confidential, reports CNBC.
Tesla Roadster is now fully open source.
May 2024“Tesla Roadster is now fully open source.” “Whatever we have, you now have,” is how CEO Elon Musk described the documents released for the 15-year-old Roadster.
The Center for Investigative Reporting is suing OpenAI and Microsoft
May 2024The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), the nonprofit that produces Mother Jones and Reveal, announced on Thursday that it’s suing Microsoft and OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement, following similar actions by The New York Times and several other media outlets.
The climate controversy swirling around NFTs
May 2024Famed auction house Christie’s just sold its first “purely digital piece of art” for a whopping $69 million. For that price, the buyer got a digital file of a collage of 5,000 images and a complex legacy of greenhouse gas emissions.
The clock is ticking on Googles smartwatch platform
May 2024Last week, I wrote about the new software update for Wear OS, Google’s smartwatch platform. I thought (and think) that it’s a good update for existing users and potentially a foundation that the company could build on to make something that’s actually competitive with both the Apple Watch or even Samsung’s Galaxy Watch.
The extended 'Birdman' trailer shows the surreal life of a washed up superhero star
May 2024It's been decades since Michael Keaton was Batman, but it's still impossible not to associate him with the role. Now, Keaton is taking those associations and fictionalizing them in Birdman, where he stars as a washed up actor who used to be synonymous with the flying superhero.
The failed Lily drone is back as a boring version of itself
May 2024In 2015, drone startup Lily grabbed attention by promising a handheld unit you could simply throw into the air to activate.
The Game Boy Camera will soon get a second life as an awful webcam
May 2024This is made possible using the GB Operator: a USB dock that allows Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges to be played on a computer (or the Steam Deck) through an app called Playback and the open-source mGBA emulator.
The Google Home Hub will put Assistant up against Amazons Echo Show
May 2024Google has just announced the Home Hub at its fall hardware event — a new Google Assistant device that looks like it’ll compete with products like Amazon’s Echo Show and the newly announced Facebook Portal by adding a screen to its existing Google Home device lineup, as revealed in an accidentally posted event recap video spotted by David Ruddock.
The new Atari 2600 Plus will play your old cartridges
May 2024Atari has announced it’s relaunching its most well-known console as the Atari 2600 Plus on November 17th for $129.99, with preorders open now.
The Polar Ignite 3 comes with a daily alertness forecast
May 2024Folks who like to optimize their days might get a kick out of Polar’s latest fitness watch. The $329.95 Ignite 3 comes with a new feature that claims to predict when you’ll be at your most alert during the day based on your circadian rhythms.
The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now
May 2024When the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses launched last fall, they were a pretty neat content capture tool and a surprisingly solid pair of headphones.
The US wants to fix its broken lithium battery supply chain
May 2024The US announced plans to build out a domestic supply chain for lithium batteries, which are critical for electric vehicles and renewable energy.
The Verges 2023 in review
May 2024In the podcasting world, the year 2019 may seem like it happened in a parallel universe. Vulture’s Nicholas Quah deemed it the beginning of the “big podcasting era,” pointing to the millions of dollars that Spotify invested in building out its podcast operation — and the expected domino effect as other companies follow suit.
The Walking Dead developer Telltale hit with devastating layoffs as part of a majority studio clo
May 2024Telltale Games, creators of episodic adventure games like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Batman: The Enemy Within, laid off approximately 250 employees today as part of what the company is calling a “majority studio closure.
ThinkPad X12 Detachable review: Lenovos latest take on the Surface Pro
May 2024You could line up most ThinkPad models of the past few years and the average laptop buyer might have difficulty telling the difference between them.
This giant glowing orb is the worlds first floating Apple Store
May 2024Apple’s worldwide retail network may be struggling during the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped the company from indulging in its penchant for pricey-looking, unique, and outlandish exterior design.
This is my next Podcast, live at 7PM ET / 12AM BST / 11PM GMT!
May 2024Um, was there something to talk about this week, or today? It's going to get crazy, so settle into the chat below -- we'll be on at 7PM ET to talk about the wildest week in recent memory.
This is what NASCARs EV prototype sounds like.
May 2024This is what NASCAR’s EV prototype sounds like. I’ve never been to a stock car race, but I have seen my share of monster trucks, dirt track races, and sprint cars.
TikTok pulls out of Hong Kong due to new security law
May 2024TikTok says it will stop offering its social video app in Hong Kong after the region adopted a new national security law granting expanded powers to the mainland Chinese government.
Tony Fadell-backed company sues Andy Rubins Essential
May 2024Keyssa, a startup specializing in wireless data transmission that is backed by Nest co-founder Tony Fadell, has filed a lawsuit against Android phone maker Essential, according to a report from Reuters.
Tovala Smart Oven Air Fryer review: tasty meal kits, limited smart features
May 2024The one thing no one tells you about working from home is that you have to make your own lunch. And my midday eating habits have become dire.
Tron invades Fortnite with Light Cycles and new skins
May 2024/ Tron is the latest brand to appear in Fortnite By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game.
Tumblr is launching a livestreaming feature
May 2024Tumblr is adding support for livestreaming via the video platform Livebox. The feature is being rolled out to US users on iOS and Android now, and a release for global users and the desktop site is planned for the future.
TurboGrafx-16 Mini review: a great plug-and-play console thats also a history lesson
May 2024When I was a kid, I spent almost as much time reading about games in magazines as I did actually playing them.
Turtle Beachs new Elite Pro 2 gaming headset comes with a metal headband and SuperAmp
May 2024Turtle Beach is launching a new version of its popular Elite Pro gaming headset today. The Elite Pro 2 has been developed alongside esports teams like OpTic Gaming, Splyce, and the Houston Outlaws, and it includes a new SuperAmp to balance out game sound on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
Uber is testing in-app call support for Bay Area drivers
May 2024Uber drivers often complain that they'd like to be able to talk to an actual person when reporting a problem, such as unruly riders or a bug in the app, rather than being forced to have a back-and-forth with an Uber representative over email.
Valves Steam Deck OLED store seems to be recovering
May 2024If you’ve had trouble ordering Valve’s new Steam Deck OLED, you’re not alone. Orders opened at 1PM ET on Thursday, and many people ran into issues actually completing a purchase.
Wacom says its first OLED drawing tablet is cool and skinny
May 2024Wacom has thrown a tablet-shaped curveball at digital creatives waiting on Apple’s highly anticipated OLED iPads. The company introduced the Wacom Movink 13 on Wednesday, its own OLED-based offering that targets creatives in need of a highly portable display drawing tablet.
Warner Bros. will return to theatrical releases in 2022, ending its HBO Max experiment
May 2024Warner Bros. will return to releasing its theatrical films exclusively in theaters next year, Deadline reports. The decision ends the studio’s 2021 experiment of releasing major films like Wonder Woman 1984, Godzilla vs.
Watch 50 years of 'Doctor Who' deaths andregenerations
May 2024Welcome to the first annual Verge Hack Week. We're totally blowing up our site: we've given our reporters and editors the entire week to play with new tools and experiment with new storytelling ideas, while members of our amazing product team have gathered in New York to help build all sorts of interesting new things.
We can now make shrunken, see-through rodents for science
May 2024In a lab in Germany, researchers are making shrunken, see-through rodents. Don’t worry, it’s not as macabre as it sounds. Rather, this new method is a step forward for science because it’s the first time we can image whole animals at once and see how their organs work together.
What a frelling delight. - The Verge
May 2024What a frelling delight. Shout Studios is streaming all of Farscape, the excellent 90s science fiction show full of Jim Henson puppets.
What the hell is going on between Jeff Bezos and the National Enquirer?
May 2024The richest man in modern history is caught in a bizarre sexual blackmail plot with geopolitical implications. Yesterday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos accused the National Enquirer of “extortion and blackmail” involving a story published last month.
WhatsApp reunites Modern Family for ad about green bubble friends
May 2024Four members of ABC’s Modern Family cast have returned to their roles to star in a new commercial for WhatsApp. The ad is designed to promote WhatsApp to families that use a mix of iPhones and Android devices, so they can avoid green bubbles and the limitations of Apple’s group chat MMS solution.
Who is new Meta COO Javier Olivan?
May 2024Mark Zuckerberg once called Javier Olivan, Meta’s new chief operating officer, “one of the most influential people in Facebook’s history.”
Wild Nintendo patent filing shows game controller made out of a screen
May 2024Patent filings are a shaky indicator of future product plans, and you shouldn't ever bank on the ideas making their way to market.
Wyze security cameras and home monitoring will be offline for two hours
May 2024The smart home company sent an email to its customers this week stating that system maintenance on February 8th at 12AM PT will impact every feature of the system that relies on the app or website.
Xbox Series S review: small console, big potential
May 2024The Xbox Series S is the smallest Xbox Microsoft has ever created. It’s also the Xbox with the biggest questions hanging over it.
YouTuber Logan Paul's video of a dead body put his own audience at risk
May 2024Take the opportunity to educate the public about suicide Avoid language which sensationalizes or normalizes suicide, or presents it as a solution to problems
YouTubes latest experimental feature lets you zoom in on videos
May 2024YouTube is testing a new mobile app feature with its premium subscribers that allows them to zoom in on any video.
First Click: That year when David Foster Wallace came to CES and wrote about porn
May 2024“Are there booth babes?” interrupted a friend as I explained the experience of covering CES. I paused, not clear if the model-slash-actress types hired to hawk goods at CES truly deserve the sleight once reserved for scantily clad Playboy Bunnies.
15 questions and answers about Underworld: Blood Wars
May 2024The latest Underworld movie just hit theaters. It wasn’t screened for critics, with good reason: This is a review-proof movie. In fact, there isn’t much point in reviewing it, since it’s so clearly a fan-service movie, made with franchise fans in mind.
A first look at Apple's iWork for iCloud beta
May 2024Apple is starting to roll out a public beta of iWork for iCloud, its upcoming online office suite, and it's inviting select users to test out the new apps through an emailed invitation.
A paper towel dispenser with an end-user license agreement is a special kind of hell
May 2024The battle for supremacy in the world of hand hygiene is a dirty one, and nothing demonstrates this better than the depressing sight of a paper towel dispenser with a EULA.
A strange, short journey through Sheins world
May 2024The Shein pop-up store in New York this month resembled the e-commerce giant’s website, except picture-perfect. Neutral-toned clothing hung on neat racks, next to party dresses that cost less than the cocktail you might drink while wearing them.
After $74,500 in damage, Cablemod is fully recalling its Nvidia 12VHPWR GPU power adapters.
May 2024After $74,500 in damage, Cablemod is fully recalling its Nvidia 12VHPWR GPU power adapters. Technically, it began a voluntary recall in December — “STOP USING THEM IMMEDIATELY,” it wrote — but now the US Consumer Product Safety Commission is involved.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD review (7-inch)
May 2024Browser Amazon first introduced its Silk browser with the original Fire, touting faster download speeds thanks to a bunch of backend, server-side processing.
Amazon sellers are marking products as collectible to get around price gouging rules
May 2024Amazon has suspended thousands of third-party sellers for price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic, but sellers have found a loophole to avoid detection when raising prices: labeling their products as “collectibles,” even if there’s no conceivable way they could be.
Amazons CEO says more layoffs will happen in 2023
May 2024Amazon will be cutting jobs again at some point in early 2023, CEO Andy Jassy informed employees in a memo on Thursday.
Amazons new AI-powered Alexa might cost up to $10 per month
May 2024Last year, David Limp, Amazon’s former senior vice president of devices and services, hinted at charging for a more capable version of Alexa — and now we have an idea of how much it might cost.
Ampler Axel e-bike review: this is the way
May 2024Yes, that’s an e-bike, despite the hidden battery and motor that’s so quiet and diminutive that nobody would expect it. It’s built by Ampler, which isn’t a household name — but should be.
Android 5.0 Lollipop review - The Verge
May 2024Google has been on a mission to redefine itself as a design-focused company for some years now. With the release of Android 5.
Anthony Levandowski, Ubers fired self-driving car engineer, founded his own church
May 2024Anthony Levandowski is many things to many different people: brilliant engineer, serial entrepreneur, ruthless businessman, trade secret thief. (That last one is just alleged.
Anthropics AI now lets you create bots to work for you
May 2024Anthropic is releasing a new feature for its AI chatbot Claude that will let anyone create an email assistant, a bot to purchase shoes, or other personalized solutions.
Apple may be testing an M3 Mac Mini
May 2024Apple could have a Mac Mini powered by its new M3 chip in the works for 2024, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter today.
Apple quietly added Qi2 charging to the iPhone 12
May 2024Qi2 (properly Qi v2.0 MPP, for Magnetic Power Profile) is a new magnetic wireless charging standard that can charge compatible devices at up to 15W.
Apples secretive car project is still [idiom meaning going nowhere].
May 2024Apple’s secretive car project is still [idiom meaning ‘going nowhere’]. Apple is [verb ending in -ing] its decade-old project to build a car, pivoting to a [adjective] design with the intent to introduce a [adjective] car by [year].
Astros new A20 Gen 2 is its first headset made for the PS5 and Xbox Series X
May 2024Astro’s latest wireless gaming headset, the A20 Gen 2, is an upgraded version of the 2017 model. It will ship in October for $119, which is considerably down from the $149 that the previous-generation A20 was priced at.
Asus announces 240Hz portable gaming monitor and another with a touchscreen
May 2024Asus was one of the first companies to release portable USB-C monitors, and at Computex this year it’s releasing two unique new designs.
Asus's Padfone Infinity is a big phone, and an even bigger tablet (hands-on)
May 2024What do you get when you mix a phablet and a tablet? You get the Asus Padfone Infinity, which the company just announced at MWC.
Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 2 review: Dalek-shaped delight
May 2024Look, there are some things that will happen with this review that are outside of my control. Firstly, if you’ve ever seen an episode of Doctor Who, or if one has even aired somewhere in your vicinity, you’ll exclaim that this Bang & Olufsen speaker looks just like a Dalek.
Batman: Arkham studio accused of failing to prevent sexual harassment
May 2024Nearly two years ago, several female employees at Rocksteady Studios, the developer behind the Batman: Arkham series, sent a letter to management accusing the studio of failing to prevent sexual harassment and sexism in the workplace, according to a new report by The Guardian.
Beats Studio Pro spec sheet appears to leak in full
May 2024Weeks after 9to5Mac revealed some initial details of Beats unannounced Studio Pro headphones, the publication has followed up with what appears to be a complete list of specs for the over-ears.
Bose SoundWear Companion neck speaker review
May 2024When is the ideal moment to wear a neck speaker? What’s the perfect use case for donning a Bluetooth speaker that’s shaped like a horseshoe?
Bravely Default 2 review: is a classic RPG that feels a little too familiar
May 2024When the first Bravely Default launched in 2014, it represented a return of sorts. Developer Square Enix made its name with classic turn-based roleplaying games like Final Fantasy, but those eventually gave way to bigger, more cinematic experiences.
Comcast adds AnyPlay live TV streaming to iPad Xfinity app, Xoom coming soon
May 2024Comcast just announced that it's adding live TV streaming to its Xfinity iPad app — the new feature, called AnyPlay, essentially turns your iPad into a secondary cable box and lets you watch any of your channels while you're on your home network.
Controversial 'Los Angeles Plays Itself' documentary is finally coming home
May 2024Thom Anderson's 169-minute documentary about the City of Angels' complicated relationship with Hollywood is finally coming to digital platforms, according to IndieWire.
Crashing the casting call for 94110, a show about San Franciscos hottest zip code
May 2024Last month fliers began appearing on certain blocks of San Francisco advertising open auditions for a television pilot about "six leading technology executives living, learning, and loving together in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Cruise resumes robotaxi tests after one of its cars ran someone over
May 2024Cruise has announced that it’s resuming tests for its fleet of self-driving taxis in Phoenix, Arizona , though not with passengers just yet.
Dark Horse: the story of a record-shattering, all-electric 68 Mustang
May 2024The world’s most expensive supercars can hit 60 miles per hour in less than three seconds. The fastest production car in the world, the Hennessey Venom GT, does it in 2.
Dells Concept Luna is a repairable sustainable laptop
May 2024On Tuesday, Dell announced a new design concept for a laptop that’s long lived, easy to take apart and fix, and takes a smaller toll on the climate.
Design legend Dieter Rams celebrates 80th birthday, releases full 1976 speech
May 2024In celebration of his 80th birthday, Dieter Rams — whose seven decades of work have earned him dozens of accolades and awards — has invited his employer, Vitsœ, to publish his 1976 speech on the fundamentals of design.
Did Apple just Sherlock our favorite password managers?
May 2024Password managers are essential. They keep track of your passwords, encourage better security practices, and generally help to manage your life across your devices.
Discord is partnering with game developers to sell themed avatars and profile effects
May 2024Discord says it will sell official game-themed items in its store soon. Discord launched its in-app store in November with avatar decorations and profile effects available for anyone willing to buy them.
Does Google think octopus is a dessert?
May 2024Alright, Google. We need to have a serious talk. For months, the greater technology community has been waiting on tenterhooks to find out the name of Android O.
Donald Trump was arrested, please like and subscribe
May 2024Hours before Donald Trump arrived at the Manhattan criminal courthouse Tuesday, hundreds of his most ardent supporters gathered at a park just across the street.
Dont be so sure you know what a lowercase G looks like
May 2024Can you pick out a lowercase G from a lineup? Researchers from Johns Hopkins University found that a surprising number of adults can’t.
Dutch boy's dead rat transformed into flying dead rat drone
May 2024A 13-year-old Dutch boy wasn't prepared to say goodbye to his dead pet rat — so he transformed it into dead pet rat that flies.
Epic Games teases Fortnite appearance by Brazilian soccer star Neymar
May 2024Epic Games and Brazilian soccer player Neymar are teasing a likely appearance by the star athlete in Fortnite on March 16th, with clues coming via a couple of tweets.
Eric Schmidt will sell nearly half his Google stock for an estimated $2.51 billion
May 2024Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt plans to sell 42 percent of his shares in the company, as revealed in an SEC filing on Friday.
Exclusive: the Sonos Move 2 is coming in September with stereo sound and 24-hour battery life
May 2024Sonos’ next portable speaker is near — even if it’s going to miss the peak of the outdoor summer season. I’ve learned that the Move 2 will be released around the end of September.
Facebook dating: secret crushes feature lets you can see which friends are thirsting after you
May 2024Facebook Dating still isn’t available in the United States. But in the five countries where it launched already — and the 14 more that are joining the service today — there’s a new way to see which friends might be romantically interested in you.
Facebook F8 2018: conference live stream and schedule
May 2024Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference kicks off this morning, just roughly a month and a half since the Cambridge Analytica scandal completely redefined the conversation around data privacy and social networking platforms.
Facebook is rolling out a redesigned Messenger focused on simplicity
May 2024Facebook is releasing a redesigned version of Messenger today that attempts to put the focus back on your chats. After years of revenue-focused expansion into bots, games, payments, and other distractions, the company is bringing Messenger back to basics.
Film Crit Hulk explains why Tom Hooper's 'Les Misrables' fell flat
May 2024Film Crit Hulk, the lovable, surprisingly level-headed movie critic, has written a lengthy, thoughtful review on Tom Hooper's Les Misérables. As is often the case, Hulk's review is much more than a review — it's an educational discussion on the basics of film.
Fitness app Strava really, really wants to be the social network for athletes
May 2024Strava Inc., maker of a fitness-tracking app that caters mostly to outdoor athletes, has just announced a new feature: “Athlete Posts,” a kind of blogging platform within its existing app that lets select athletes write extensive stories and publish photos.
Ford and Baidu invest $150 million in LIDAR technology for autonomous cars
May 2024American automaker Ford and Chinese search giant Baidu are working hard on developing their own self-driving technology, but the two companies know it's sometimes smarter to buy expertise from elsewhere.
Fords new Mustang Mach-E Rally is the most performant trim yet
May 2024This new Mach-E Rally is what you’d get if you could cross Ford’s most performant Mustang Mach-E electric SUV trim, the GT, with the company’s discontinued Focus RS rally sport monster.
Fords slashing Mustang Mach-E prices in latest volley in EV price wars
May 2024A little more than six months after it raised prices on the Mustang Mach-E, Ford said it would now be slashing prices on its flagship electric vehicle as well as increasing its production targets for the year.
Fortnite Chapter 2 The End event: the island flipped over
May 2024Fortnite’s big chapter-ending event just ended, and it was a big one. After an all-out war against UFOs, zombies, and the Cube Queen, players were saved in a rescue mission led by Dwayne Johnson.
Fortnite to host We The People program focused on conversations about race in America
May 2024Fortnite’s Party Royale will air an in-game showing of We The People on Saturday, part of a series of conversations around race in America, the company announced Friday.
France fines Amazon $35 million over excessive worker surveillance
May 2024France’s National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) has fined Amazon €32 million, or about $35 million USD, for “excessively intrusive” worker surveillance that the commission says puts “continuous pressure” on employees in Amazon’s warehouses.
Galaxy Quest, the best Star Trek movie, could be getting a TV series
May 2024Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie. I’m not trying to start fights here. This isn’t a Picard versus Kirk situation.
Galaxy Watch 6: price, availability, and how to preorder
May 2024The new Galaxy Watch 6 Classic brings back rotating bezels, which its predecessor lacked, while the standard watch comes with a touch bezel that’s slimmer.
Glowforges new entry-level laser cutter has a smaller footprint and price tag
May 2024Glowforge, the company that makes desktop laser cutters for a whole range of crafting projects, has revealed a new entry-level machine that’s a little less pricey than its premium counterparts.
Google adds Photomoji, profiles, and custom colors to RCS in Messages
May 2024November has been a big month for RCS — the mobile messaging protocol championed by Google — and now, the company is capping it off with the announcement of a milestone and some festive new features.
Google has fixed its recent history of terrible speakers with the Pixel 8 Pro
May 2024I carried around a Pixel 7 Pro as my primary phone for several months and enjoyed many aspects of it — but the audio that came from its speakers was thin and feeble compared to flagships from Apple, Samsung, and others.
Google has updated its Street View cameras for the first time in eight years
May 2024The days of the large, globe-like cameras on top of Google Street View cars may be slowly disappearing. Google has refreshed the design for the cameras used to capture Street View images, which is its first significant upgrade in eight years, reports Wired.
Google One VPN expands internationally to Canada, Mexico, UK, and more
May 2024Google is expanding the VPN service that it provides as part of its Google One subscription to seven new countries: Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy, as spotted by 9to5Google.
Google search discussions and forums highlights the results you really want
May 2024It’s more or less a meme at this point that you have to add “reddit” to a search if you want to find actually useful results instead of a page full of ads and seemingly AI-generated SEO-hack articles; the Brave browser even basically built this feature into its search page earlier this year.
Google Vids is the latest AI-powered app in Workspace
May 2024For decades, work has revolved around documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks. Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Pages, Numbers, Keynote; Docs, Sheets, Slides. Now Google is proposing to add another to that triumvirate: an app called Vids that aims to help companies and consumers make collaborative, shareable video more easily than ever.
Googles new AI will play video games with you but not to win
May 2024Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA, an AI agent training to learn gaming skills so it plays more like a human instead of an overpowered AI that does its own thing.
Googles Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL just got their last security update
May 2024This month’s security update is the last for Google’s Pixel 3 and 3 XL, as noted by 9to5google. That’s actually one more update than the company promised — official support was only guaranteed through October last year.
Googles revenue continues to grow as its profits are still shrinking
May 2024Earlier this summer, Google’s parent company Alphabet made it clear that it was trying to get into fighting form as its profits slipped.
Grandson of Samsungs founder takes control of empire as earnings fall
May 2024Samsung Electronics has appointed Lee Jae-yong — who is known in the West as Jay Y. Lee — as its executive chairman, giving the grandson of the company’s founder formal control, the South Korean tech giant announced today.
Guillermo del Toro and Hideo Kojima are making a new 'Silent Hill' game
May 2024Director Guillermo Del Toro and Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima are teaming up to make a new Silent Hill video game.
Guitar Hero Live is coming late October
May 2024Guitar controllers will be returning in time for Halloween. Activision has announced that Guitar Hero Live is coming October 20th for all platforms.
Hands-on with aptX Lossless, the new tech promising CD-quality audio over Bluetooth
May 2024CD-quality music is still the benchmark for decent audio; it’s not quite hi-res, but it’s noticeably better than the lossy, compressed music found on Spotify and your old MP3 library.
Heres 16 pages of what Epic wants after winning its Google app store lawsuit
May 2024Do you think a judge will make Google allow an Android version of the Epic Games Store to live inside its own Google Play Store, let the Epic Games Store have access to every app inside Google Play, and let Android users begin sideloading apps with a single tap?
Heres why Samsung and Dells new monitors are so exciting for Mac users
May 2024A weird thing has happened at CES this year: display manufacturers not named Apple have announced true 5K and 6K monitors designed for creative work and productivity.
Heres why Threads is delayed in Europe
May 2024Last week, Meta debuted its Twitter competitor, Threads. The app gained over 100 million users in less than a week after launching in more than 100 countries, including the US and UK — but you won’t be able to download it in the European Union anytime soon.
Hey is a wildly opinionated new email service from the makers of Basecamp
May 2024With the world now in a seemingly permanent state of crisis, you may not be in the market for a new email address.
House restricts congressional use of ChatGPT
May 2024On Monday, the House set up new rules around how congressional offices can use ChatGPT and declared that any non-ChatGPT chatbots are not yet authorized, according to a new report from Axios.
How Linus Tech Tips YouTube channels were hacked to spread a crypto scam
May 2024YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips and two other Linus Media Group YouTube channels have been restored after a major hack allowed a bad actor to do things like livestream crypto scam videos, change channel names, and even delete videos.
How Selena Gomezs Rare Beauty goes viral, with CMO Katie Welch
May 2024Katie Welch is the chief marketing officer of Rare Beauty, the beauty products company founded by superstar musician and actress Selena Gomez.
How the private space industry could take over lower Earth orbit and make money off it
May 2024The Trump administration wants to end direct NASA funding for the International Space Station by 2025 — but that doesn’t necessarily mean the US will stop sending people into orbit around Earth by then.
How to cancel Fitbit Coach or Fitbit Premium
May 2024Fitbit Coach and Fitbit Premium are the company’s fitness subscription memberships that offer guided health programs from the app / wearable device.
How to get a refund from the PlayStation Store
May 2024So you bought something from the PlayStation Store, and you changed your mind? Whether you purchased a game by mistake or just decided that you’d rather have your money back, getting a refund is now as simple as chatting with a representative for a few minutes.
How white supremacists evade Facebook bans
May 2024Yesterday Twitter, in response to years of complaints about letting white nationalists use the platform even though they had already been banned, said that it plans to conduct academic research on the subject.
HP Chromebook x360 14c review: a stepping stone to something great
May 2024Chromebooks are growing up. When I first began reviewing them, Google’s Pixelbook was largely still the gold standard among Chrome OS-based devices that might appeal to working professionals (rather than younger students, as has been the primary Chromebook market for years on end).
HTC U11 Plus review: when more is less
May 2024Like the Huawei Mate 10 Pro that we reviewed earlier this week, the HTC U11 Plus is a high-spec, high-price flagship phone that’s going to be next to irrelevant in the US because of its lack of availability.
I Kill Giants director Anders Walter on making a likable fantasy with a hateful protagonist
May 2024Originally, it seemed like any film adaptation of Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura’s 2009 graphic novel I Kill Giants would have to be animated.
I spent hours waiting to find out what an NFT looks like IRL
May 2024New York City has been filled with NFTs this week. Since Monday, hundreds, if not thousands, of people have darted between talks, galleries, hangouts, parties, and other events assembled for and by the usually all-online NFT community to talk about the future of art, hype the space, and discover new and potentially soon-to-be-explosive projects.
iOS 7 Control Center allows quick toggling of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, AirDrop, and more
May 2024Apple is finally giving users an easy way to toggle their settings straight from any screen that they'd like. By dragging up from the bottom of the screen, users can access a new feature called Control Center, which includes easy access to a variety of options, including brightness, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
iPhone SE versus Pixel 6A: what Google got right and Apple got wrong
May 2024There’s a great phone under $500 that I’d recommend to just about anyone looking for the best midrange phone on the market.
It Comes At Night review: a moody horror film where humanity is the monster
May 2024Horror movies are never really about the terror they put on display. Even when monster movies are marketed and sold around a creature, they’re often just using those monsters as stand-ins.
J.K. Rowling publishing new 'Harry Potter' short story
May 2024J.K. Rowling may not be writing more Harry Potter novels, but she's far from leaving the world behind. This Halloween, she's planning to release another short story fleshing out the Harry Potter universe, specifically, focusing on the backstory of the highly disliked one-time Hogwarts professor Dolores Umbridge.
Japanese man to face first DS flashcart prosecution
May 2024A 39 year-old self-employed man in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, was arrested yesterday (May 30th) for selling devices that let users play pirated games on Nintendo DS consoles.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom review a stunning disappointment
May 2024Warning: spoilers for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom below. Three years ago, director Colin Trevorrow brought Steven Spielberg’s long-dormant Jurassic Park franchise back to life, with a storyline about a futuristic wildlife park that was so desperate to keep selling tickets, it was willing to genetically modify its creatures in the name of spectacle.
Keep an eye on Disney Plus Iwj series.
May 2024Keep an eye on Disney Plus’ Iwájú series. Disney’s Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire was a gorgeous example what kind of magic the entertainment giant could work by collaborating with African animation studios.
Knock app lets you unlock your Mac by tapping your iPhone
May 2024Mac and iPhone owners can say goodbye to unlocking their computer with a password thanks to the new app Knock. Launching today for $3.
Leak: TikTok is launching generative AI avatars, and heres what they look like
May 2024TikTok is working on a feature that will create AI-generated profile pictures, according to social media consultant Matt Navarra, who shared images and video of the tool with The Verge.
Leia is building a 3D empire on the back of the worst phone weve ever reviewed
May 2024A 200-person startup named after Star Wars’ Princess Leia may have quietly cornered the market on glasses-free 2D to 3D screens — after clawing its way back from one of the biggest gadget flops of the past decade.
LG DoublePlay review - The Verge
May 2024Almost everything about the phone's physical design, for one. It may look perfectly fine in the press pics, but the LG DoublePlay is an absolute brick in the hand, well over half-an-inch thick, and weighing nearly half a pound — heavier than even massive slabs like HTC's Evo 4G, Amaze 4G, Titan and Rezound, and even a touch more than the tank-like Droid 3 and HTC Arrive sliders.
Lisa Frankensteins trailer makes it look like a rad monster romance
May 2024From director Zelda Williams and writer Diablo Cody, Lisa Frankenstein tells the story of Lisa (Kathryn Newton), a gloomy high schooler who — like most of her peers — feels deeply misunderstood by the world.
Louie will return to FX for season five on April 9th
May 2024Louie will return for season five on April 9th, FX announced yesterday. Louis C.K., the show's writer, director, and star, has said the eight-episode run will take on a lighter tone than the fourth season that wrapped last June.
Lyfts app for drivers is getting a major overhaul
May 2024Lyft is updating its app for drivers, adding features like 24/7 phone support in English and Spanish, and a “destination” option that lets some drivers pick up fares on their way to and from work.
Mafia IIIs attention to detail makes its take on New Orleans feel real
May 2024At first glance, Mafia III doesn’t look all that unique. It’s yet another crime-focused open-world game that has players starting from the bottom and building up an underworld empire from scratch.
Matthew Weiners anthology show The Romanoffs will debut on Amazon in October
May 2024In 2016, Amazon Studios inked a $70 million deal with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner to produce The Romanoffs, an anthology show set in the modern day.
Microsoft is reportedly working on a smaller Surface Pro and Arm-powered Surface Go 4
May 2024Microsoft is reportedly working on a smaller Surface Pro with an 11-inch display and an Arm-powered Surface Go 4 model. Windows Central reports that the smaller Surface Pro is codenamed Luxor and will be similar in size and shape to the Surface Go, the more budget 10.
Microsoft now lets enterprise users recover corrupted or deleted files from the past 30 days
May 2024Microsoft's newest OneDrive for Business feature lets users restore files from any point in time over the past 30 days. Files Restore, as Microsoft calls it, lets users review changes made to files over those 30 days, including who made changes and at what time.
Microsoft teams up with Warner Bros. to store Superman on new glass storage
May 2024Microsoft has created a proof of concept for storing data on glass. The software maker has teamed up with Warner Bros.
Microsofts AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions
May 2024Microsoft’s producing a lot more planet-heating pollution now than it did when it made a bold climate pledge back in 2020.
Minecraft crosses 1 trillion views on YouTube
May 2024Long before the metaverse became the premier destination of tech companies and newlyweds, there was Minecraft. It is a platform that started as a video game about dodging explosions from hissing cactus-shaped creatures and became the blank canvas on which millions of players create their content, upload it, and generate trillions of views — literally.
Mini made a Pokmon concept car that you can hook up a game console to
May 2024Mini teamed up with Pokémon to develop a Pikachu-themed concept car that’s, fittingly, all-electric. The automaker showcased the car during the Gamescom Opening Night Live event, which lets you hook up your game console and project your gameplay from the front of the vehicle.
Monopoly will replace boot, thimble, and wheelbarrow pieces in new edition
May 2024At the start of the year, Hasbro announced it was putting the future of Monopoly into the hands of people on the internet.
Motorolas 2023 Moto G Stylus 5G comes with more processing power
May 2024Motorola hasn’t had a lot of success with midrange devices lately, but it’s trying again with the Moto G Stylus 5G — 2023 edition.
My favorite meme has been erased from the internet by copyright claims
May 2024Today is the 20th anniversary of the Nintendo 64, which is an excuse to play one of the console’s better games, Goldeneye.
Netflix alters privacy policy as part of class action suit settlement
May 2024A class action lawsuit has forced Netflix to change its privacy policy, with the company agreeing to no longer retain identifiable rental histories of former customers after one year.
Netflix is back, after an outage knocked many people offline for a few hours
May 2024People worldwide have reported trouble connecting to Netflix and a strange “tvq-pb-101” error message starting at around 5PM ET until the issue was resolved at around 8PM ET.
Netflix is resurrecting the Teletubbies with a new series
May 2024Almost as if they heard about HBO Max kicking Sesame Street to the curb, Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Po are coming back to entertain (and hopefully scare the hell out of) a new generation of Teletubbies fans in a new series from Netflix.
Netflixs Rebecca review: director Ben Wheatley flattens a classic
May 2024In 1939, Alfred Hitchcock came to Hollywood. The English master of suspense would ply his trade in sunny California, and Rebecca, his first American film, would win him his first and only Oscar.
Netflixs The Kitchen turns London into a cyberpunk dystopia in new trailer
May 2024Netflix is kicking off 2024 with a vision of our dystopic future. The streamer just released a new trailer for The Kitchen, which imagines a near-future version of London, complete with reckless biker gangs and lots of holographic displays to complete the cyberpunk look.
New iPhone 15 owners: update before transferring data from your old iPhone
May 2024If you’ve just picked up a new iPhone 15 device, before you transfer over your data from an older phone, make sure to update that new phone to iOS 17.
New research shows how many important links on the web get lost to time
May 2024A quarter of the deep links in The New York Times’ articles are now rotten, leading to completely inaccessible pages, according to a team of researchers from Harvard Law School, who worked with the Times’ digital team.
New Steam Deck update introduces longer custom boot animations
May 2024Valve released its latest Steam Deck beta update yesterday, which includes longer boot animations among the usual array of bug fixes and optimizations.
Nintendos CEO says its online accounts are the key to its next console transition
May 2024Question: Wii U was launched around six years after Wii, and Super Famicom was launched around seven years after Famicom.
Nothing Ear 2 review: its whats on the inside that counts
May 2024What a difference two years makes. Back in 2021, Nothing, the consumer tech startup led by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, had only publicly existed for a few short months before launching the Ear 1 true wireless earbuds.
Nothing is bringing iMessage toits Android phone
May 2024Nothing Phone 2 owners get blue bubbles now. The company shared it has added iMessage to its newest phone through a new “Nothing Chats” app powered by the messaging platform Sunbird.
Now you can listen to recorded Twitter Spaces on iOS, Android, and the web
May 2024Twitter is now letting all users across iOS, Android, and web listen to recordings of Spaces, which can come in handy for listeners who are late to a live broadcast.
Optimum raises prices on internet and TV plans, barely warning customers
May 2024Optimum hiked the prices of its internet and TV plans this month, and many customers have been finding out thanks to the arrival of surprisingly high bills.
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You is a morally challenging game about surveillance
May 2024It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play.
Oskar Fischingers musical animations come to life in Google Doodle sequencer
May 2024Today’s Google Doodle honors what would have been the 117th birthday of German-American abstract artist Oskar Fischinger. Fischinger’s musical animations were deemed “degenerate art” in Hitler’s Germany, and he left for the US in 1936, when an agent from Paramount Pictures recruited him to work in America.
Overwatch 2s new story missions will be paywalled
May 2024You’re gonna have to pay to play Overwatch 2’s new story missions. For $15, you’ll get access to three story missions, a legendary skin for Sojourn, and $10 in Overwatch premium currency.
Patreon is launching a free membership tier and will let fans buy things, too
May 2024Patreon built a user base with creators who wanted to charge a fee for the content they create. Now, the company is pulling down the paywall, allowing fans to subscribe to their favorite creators for free.
Pixel perfect: the story of eBoy
May 2024One It’s mid-October, and we’re strolling near the central borough of Mitte, along the yellow painted line that runs where the Berlin Wall once stood.
Post Malone now owns the One Ring Magic: The Gathering card
May 2024[In her best Cate Blanchett impression] The world is changed. It began with the forging of the great IP crossover between Magic: The Gathering and Lord of the Rings.
Rev transcribers face low pay and disturbing recordings
May 2024Content warning: This story contains discussion of abuse and violence. One transcriber working for Rev says that, for them, the recordings that graphically detail someone being abused or assaulted are the most difficult to get through.
Roast your own Spotify listens with this snarky AI
May 2024The yearly Spotify Wrapped is a rather upbeat affair, which doesn’t doesn’t quite match everyone’s mood this year. For the more sullen among us, there’s another option: a bot from The Pudding that will judge us for our crimes of listening to terrible music.
Roku's streaming boxes can now watch movies and TV shows from Google Play
May 2024Roku owners can now rent, purchase, and watch videos from Google Play. Both movies and TV shows are available, marking a rather unprecedented step for Google.
Roomba Combo j7 Plus review: an excellent robot vacuum with an okay mop
May 2024The Roomba Combo j7 Plus is a top-of-the-line robot vacuum that can also mop and empty its own bin. Thanks to its ability to map your home and avoid common household clutter, it’s one of the few bots I’ve tested that rarely gets stuck.
Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro review: the right balance
May 2024Let’s just get to it: Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Pro are the best true wireless earbuds that the company has made yet.
Samsung Galaxy Fold review: broken dream
May 2024This is going to be a weird review. It’ll be weird because, as I’m sure you’ve heard, several reviewers have experienced their Galaxy Fold review unit screens breaking a day or two after receiving them.
Samsung is offering a $50 credit when you reserve the next Galaxy Z Flip or Z Fold
May 2024The reservation period runs through Wednesday, July 10th, and even if you reserve a preorder, you are not obligated to buy the new phones if you change your mind.
Samsung reportedly inks deal to buy OLED TV panels from rival LG Display
May 2024Samsung Electronics is close to ordering millions of OLED TV panels from LG Display, according to new reports from MTN, ETNews, and Seoul Economic Daily.
Samsungs latest special edition phone is a BTS-branded Galaxy S20 Plus
May 2024Samsung is no stranger to themed special-edition smartphones, having offered Galaxy phones emblazoned with Batman logos and Star Wars themes in the past.
Scientists have discovered a mutation behind pugs weird little flat faces
May 2024So, I have what might be an unpopular opinion: there are cute dogs, and then there are pugs. With their squished little faces, buggy eyes, and snuffling breaths — there’s not much about pugs to recommend them (and I like dogs).
Sea of Stars review: pure RPG comfort food once you push past its slow start
May 2024Sea of Stars is basically a modern-day SNES RPG. I had a sense that would be the case going in: it has pixel art clearly inspired by 16-bit classics, pits a ragtag group of adventurers against evil forces, uses a clever turn-based battle system, and is filled with stunning music (including a few tracks from Chrono Trigger composer Yasunori Mitsuda).
Slack Catch Up feature: a Tinder-like card swipe for all your work messages
May 2024Slack is adding a new feature to its mobile app, meant to help you triage all your unread stuff a little faster.
Snapchat is making new lenses with built-in games
May 2024Snap wants its users to play games with their friends in Snapchat. The company’s launching new lenses today, called “Snappables,” that let users play games through touch, motion, or facial expressions.
Social media users are blocking celebrities and influencers to support Palestine
May 2024Every Met Gala has some sort of controversy, whether it’s about the dress code and theme, the guest list, or a now-infamous brawl in an elevator at an afterparty.
Social question and answer site Formspring to shut down on March 31st
May 2024Formspring, one of the original social question and answer sites, has announced that it will be shutting down on March 31st.
Sonos CEO says old products have long life ahead as new era arrives
May 2024Sonos isn’t about to make the same mistake twice. In hindsight, its transition in 2020 to a major new software platform, S2, could’ve been communicated better and handled with more consideration for longtime customers.
SpaceXs Falcon 9 rockets are grounded after an in-flight failure
May 2024SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket experienced an engine failure after it launched late Thursday night from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Target Black Friday deals - The Verge
May 2024It's almost that time of the year again, and Target's Black Friday ad is ready for viewing. We've skimmed through the flyer for the best deals, so take a look below.
Tesla reveals a new Model 3 Performance with more horsepower and faster acceleration
May 2024On the cusp of what’s expected to be a very not-good earnings report, Tesla decided to shuffle its search results a bit with the reveal of the 2024 Model 3 Performance, with a specially tuned chassis and a 2.
Tfue settles lawsuit against Faze Clan over oppressive gaming contract
May 2024Turner “Tfue” Tenney and gaming organization Faze Clan have settled an ongoing lawsuit started by the former Faze member more than a year ago.
The $40 Wyze Video Doorbell v2 offers 2K video and 24/7 local recording
May 2024Smart home company Wyze has a new doorbell cam. The Wyze Video Doorbell v2 is a 2K-capable doorbell camera with a head-to-toe view of your porch and local recording via a microSD card.
The $500 Lockly Vision Elite is a video doorbell and smart door lock in one
May 2024Smart door locks and video doorbells are useful for keeping an eye on and controlling what's going on at your front door.
The 3DRudder motion board will let you control games with your feet
May 2024We're not sure how much setup goes into the 3DRudder, although supposedly all it needs is a USB port and driver.
The Alienware Area-51ms upgradable dream has failed in just one year
May 2024Alienware has announced the second generation of its flagship Area-51m gaming laptop, the Area-51m R2. It’s largely similar on the outside to the original Area-51m, but the specs are almost completely overhauled on the inside, with 10th Gen Intel processors, new Nvidia GPUs, faster RAM, and better display options.
The best smart plugs - The Verge
May 2024Smart plugs are among the fastest, easiest, and most affordable ways to automate basic household devices. Plug one in, spend a few minutes setting it up, and enjoy the simple pleasure of turning a distant lamp on and off from the couch.
The best trailers from the Triple-i indie game showcase
May 2024There’s a new video game showcase on the block. The Triple-i initiative — a play on the term AAA, referring to blockbuster games — is a Nintendo Direct-style event focused entirely on indie releases from studios like Mega Crit, Red Hook Studios, and Evil Empire.
The best USB-C hub for your new laptop
May 2024Despite all of its promise for a better future, the reality of living with USB Type-C is kind of a nightmare.
The Biden administration announces its new smart home cybersecurity label
May 2024The Biden administration is launching a new cybersecurity label for smart devices today. In a press briefing, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said the new label, called the US Cyber Trust Mark, will signify that devices bearing it meet security standards based on those established in a report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
The first 240W USB-C power meters are here
May 2024Don’t look now, but the USB-C connector is evolving under your nose — soon, it’ll carry 240W of electricity, more than double its previous limit and enough to power all but the beefiest laptops.
The first USB-C iPhone is here thanks to a mod
May 2024Apple hasn’t created a USB-C iPhone despite years of rumors, but that hasn’t stopped a robotics engineering student from creating one.
The former Canoo CEO hired by Apple is facing a lawsuit from the SEC
May 2024Ulrich Kranz, the Apple car executive who served as the former CEO of the EV startup Canoo, is facing some legal trouble.
The maltese pigeon is the sexiest pigeon of all time
May 2024Universally, pigeons are regarded as the winged rats of any urban city, and for good reason! They're dirty, they carry disease, and they poop on you at the most inopportune of times because they can smell fear.
The Metal Gear Solid 3 remake is officially happening
May 2024In addition to this new game, a rerelease of the first three MGS games — Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and Snake Eater — was revealed on Wednesday as part of a collection called Metal Gear Solid Master Collection: Volume 1.
The New York Times gets rid of its public editor to focus on reader comments
May 2024The New York Times is terminating its public editor position, shifting its focus to reader comments and social media conversations. Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
The New York Times made a virtual reality newsreel about the 2016 election
May 2024I missed the era of cinematic newsreels by several decades, so I've mostly seen the concept deployed in fiction, where it signals an earlier era when stentorian male voices delivered thinly veiled propaganda to awed, passive audiences.
The next League of Legends music group is a virtual boy band
May 2024Riot Games is announcing its next in-universe League of Legends band: a boy band called Heartsteel comprised of the in-game characters Ezreal, Kayn, Aphelios, Yone, K’Sante, and Sett.
The Pixel 2 XL drama is undermining Googles entire Pixel project
May 2024It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Twenty days ago, when Google revealed its 2017 Pixel phones, the talk was all about the “panda” Pixel 2 XL, the one with a white aluminum back and black glass window at the top.
The VGHF built an archive of gaming history and is making it available online
May 2024Super Sushi Pinball, a game that does not prominently feature sushi, never actually launched. It was meant to be Sony’s second game in the US, intended for the NES during a time when such news would not have melted the brains of console diehards, and was marketed in video game magazines for over a year.
The Weather Channels parent company has a new AI tool to make hyperlocal weather videos
May 2024Generative AI could be coming to your local TV station as The Weather Company, aka the people that run The Weather Channel, is bringing AI tools to make weather videos.
The weird computers and claustrophobic hallways of Severance
May 2024In the vast underground office of Lumon, the megacorporation at the heart of Apple TV Plus’ thriller Severance, the computers are downright bizarre.
These boots were made for plumbing
May 2024If you’ve ever wondered what Mario’s shoes would look like in real life, wonder no more. Nintendo partnered with footwear maker Red Wing Shoes to recreate Mario’s boots as shown in The Super Mario Bros.
This GIF changed everything I knew about Furious 7
May 2024In a pivotal scene in one of this summer's biggest blockbusters, Furious 7's Hobbs — played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson — physically flexes out of the cast protecting his injured arm while declaring that "
This is your next jam: Janet Jackson, Kacey Musgraves, and more
May 2024Welcome back to The Verge's roundup of the most important music from the week that was. I'm Jamieson, I'm still your host, and this week's collection is all over the place: liquid jazz-funk, romantic country, breathy synth-pop, and everything in between.
This sensor tells your Airbnb host if it thinks youre having a party
May 2024If an Airbnb host were to list their biggest fears, “guests throwing a party and creating thousands of dollars of damage” would probably be featured at the top.
This skiing exoskeleton is designed to take the strain off your legs
May 2024Exoskeletons are slowly becoming more common in industrial settings, where they’re used to reduce the strain on workers’ bodies. But why shouldn’t we take advantage of this tech in other physically taxing environments.
Tragedy Girls is a lazy attempt at horror satire, redeemed only by how weird it is
May 2024This fall, The Verge is making a choice. The choice is fear! We’ve decided to embrace the season by taking in as many new horror movies as possible and reporting back on which ones are worth your time.
Twitch rolls out improved reporting and appeals features
May 2024Over the next few weeks, Twitch will slowly roll out improved reporting tools, simplifying the process by which streamers and viewers can report content.
Twitter account recreates MH17 crash as it happened
May 2024A new Twitter account is recreating the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down over Eastern Ukraine one year ago today.
Uber Rewards is going away later this year
May 2024Uber is ending its free loyalty program, Uber Rewards, so it can turn its attention to its subscription-based Uber One membership.
Uber-Hertz Tesla rental partnership is off to a good start with more than 15,000 on the road
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Uhans is the world's most honest gadget company
May 2024I'd never heard of Uhans before today. It's a Chinese phone manufacturer, and there are a lot of those, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that there are a few I haven't heard of.
Watch the first colorful, chaos-filled trailer for Borderlands 3
May 2024Nearly a decade after the original Borderlands, Gearbox Software has announced a third main installment in the series — alongside a trailer that features a few familiar characters.
Watch the first full trailer for Jordan Peeles surreal Twilight Zone reboot
May 2024The reboot of the classic episodic TV show The Twilight Zone will hit CBS All Access on April 1st, and with just over a month to go, CBS has released a full trailer for the series.
Watch this screaming, rainbow-clad musician demo Googles AI DJ
May 2024Developer conferences aren’t exactly known for having an energetic, party-like atmosphere, but thankfully, that didn’t stop Google’s latest hype man. The company’s I/O event this year was kicked off by Marc Rebillet — an artist known in online spaces for pairing improvised electronic tracks with amusing (and typically loud) vocals.
Watch this supercut of every table flip in movie history
May 2024Flipping tables (or (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ for net natives) is a classic among online emoji, and happens to be one of our favorites.
Waymo strikes a deal with Nissan-Renault to bring driverless cars to Japan and France
May 2024The wording of the deal is vague and doesn’t indicate any concrete plans to launch either robot taxi or delivery services, as Waymo has done in the past with its other automotive partners.
What is LitRPG and why does it exist?
May 2024I like good fiction. I promise I’m literate. But I spend most of my book time listening to "okay" sci-fi, fantasy, and mystery novels on Audible.
What really went wrong with Grimes Coachella set.
May 2024What really went wrong with Grimes’ Coachella set. Grimes manager DAOuda made a lengthy post on X to clear the air about the technical mishap that occurred during Grimes’ Coachella set last weekend.
What remains of Chatroulette: its gone to the do(n)gs
May 2024The first time “Hung.,” a 24-year-old from the UK, used Chatroulette to masturbate in front of a stranger, he was in college, late in his teens or perhaps early in his 20s.
WhatsApp is suing an infamous spyware vendor for allegedly hacking its users
May 2024WhatsApp is suing notorious spyware vendor NSO Group, saying the company was actively involved in hacking users of the encrypted chat service.
Why porn PR is rarely about the porn
May 2024Over the past few decades, the gap between the adult industry and mainstream culture has grown ever narrower. But you wouldn’t necessarily notice this from porn’s coverage.
Willow on Disney Plus is a wonderful, funny, nostalgic adventure
May 2024The two biggest fantasy shows of the year this year were... not the fantasy stuff I grew up on. House of the Dragon had plenty of gore and dragons, but was largely a show about the political machinations of a big incestuous family, and The Lord of the Rings seemed to spend every moment focused on being a gorgeous show with a staid pace that Tolkien would have loved but I found slow as hell.
With iOS 17, Apple lets you share AirTags with friends and family
May 2024Apple’s AirTag item trackers are about to get more useful — with iOS 17, you’ll be able to share them and other Find My objects with up to five other people, the company has quietly revealed.
Writer proves that Discovery aired fake image of Megalodon shark
May 2024English author and Guardian columnist George Monbiot has accused Discovery Channel of faking a photograph of a long-extinct shark for a dramatized documentary called Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives.
XCOM developers start new studio to take on The Sims
May 2024Midsummer Studios is a new game studio founded by two former Firaxis developers, Jake Solomon and Will Miller. Before founding Midsummer, the two worked on XCOM, Civilization: Beyond Earth, and Marvel’s Midnight Suns.
Youll soon be able to use your iPhone as ID at the airport
May 2024Apple has announced a forthcoming update to its Wallet app that will allow you to use your iPhone as digital identification in select US airports.
YouTube is stopping Dr Disrespects channel from making money
May 2024Dr Disrespect’s YouTube channel has been demonetized. In a statement to The Verge, YouTube spokesperson Nicole Bell wrote, “We have suspended monetization on DrDisrespect’s channel for violating our Creator Responsibility policy.
Driving BMWs 2016 7 Series: the $81,300 contradiction
May 2024There is a preconception that as a car gets larger, it gets softer and gentler; it disconnects you from the road; it places you gently on a cloud of nothingness while you glide down the highway protected by excessive sound insulation.
'Tumblr is David, and David is Tumblr:' the man behind Yahoo's new blogging platform
May 2024At age 20, high-school dropout and startup industry veteran David Karp co-founded Tumblr, the now six-year-old blogging platform that was just bought by Yahoo for $1.
#HimToo mom inspires infinite this is MY son memes and a rare Reverse Milkshake Duck
May 2024It could happen to anyone: one minute, your mom is spamming her Facebook friends with sparkly Garfield TGIF JPEGs she found via Google Image Search, and the next, she’s tweeted a photo of you insinuating that you believe women regularly lie about sexual assault.
8BitDo now makes the best Switch pro controller
May 2024Nintendo’s official Pro Controller for the Switch is generally a pretty useful accessory, but it has its problems: the D-pad is unreliable, and it doesn’t really offer any “pro-level” functionality.
A first look at the Borderlands movie.
May 2024A first look at the Borderlands movie. Eli Roth’s adaptation of the game has been in the works for quite a while, and with its August 9th premiere date looming, we’re finally getting a glimpse at what it’ll look like.
A GoPro Max successor is coming
May 2024GoPro founder and CEO Nick Woodman confirmed a new 360-degree GoPro Max camera “is in the works and will be worth the wait” at the GoPro 12 launch event.
A new trailer for A Wrinkle in Time shows off a heroic character journey
May 2024Disney has released a new trailer for its adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. This new trailer focuses on Meg Murry (played by 12 Years a Slave’s Storm Reid), a young girl who’s having trouble at school after her father mysteriously vanishes.
A teenager has been accused of broadcasting her friend's rape on Periscope
May 2024An 18-year-old Ohio woman has been accused of broadcasting live video of her friend being sexually assaulted using the Twitter app Periscope.
Adobe just released the last Flash update ever
May 2024Adobe has released the final scheduled update to its Flash Player plugin, weeks before Flash’s official retirement. As noted on Adobe’s site, yesterday marked the last update for Flash outside mainland China, which has a separate version of the software.
Aggretsukos holiday special nails the ups and downs of the perfect Instagram photo
May 2024Netflix released several holiday specials this year for its exclusive shows like Neo Yokio and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, but it’s Aggretsuko that packs the sharpest punch.
Alienware Aurora R9 and G5 5090 are Dells new bang-for-the-buck gaming PCs
May 2024Thinking of buying a new pre-built desktop gaming PC? Dell has a pair you might want to peek: the new Alienware Aurora R9 and Dell G5 Desktop, starting at $970 and $630 this week.
AltspaceVR is shutting down as Microsofts mixed reality division shrinks
May 2024“We look forward to what is to come, including our launch of Microsoft Mesh, a new platform for connection and collaboration, starting by enabling workplaces around the world,” AltspaceVR writes in its announcement.
Amazon Echo Loop ring: Alexa on your finger
May 2024Amazon took a whole damn Echo speaker and put it into a ring and called it the Echo Loop. It’s part of a program Amazon is calling “Day1,” which is code for “here are a bunch of products that are not really ready for mass sales, but we want to put them out there anyway.
Amazon missed its chance to dominate AI, according to a new report
May 2024In the voice assistant arms race, the frontrunner may be about to finish last. On the heels of Apple revealing a new “Apple Intelligence”-powered Siri at its WWDC 2024 conference, a new report from Fortune indicates that Amazon’s Alexa — arguably the most capable of the current voice assistants — is struggling with its own generative AI makeover:
Amazons new security robot is kind of cute
May 2024Because the world wasn’t frightening enough already, companies can now buy a security robot from Amazon to patrol their businesses. Lucky for humans, this thing looks like it’s just a step above a Roomba — it’s giving Wall-E instead of Terminator.
Amazons palm-scanning service now lets you sign up from your phone
May 2024Amazon now lets you sign up for its palm recognition service directly from your phone. It’s launching a new Amazon One app on iOS and Android you can use to take a photo of your palm and set up your account, allowing you to start scanning your palm at locations that support the verification tech.
Amazons WorkingWell is a new program to protect warehouse workers health
May 2024Amazon is launching a new series of health programs called WorkingWell designed to prevent workplace injuries in the company’s expansive system of warehouses and distribution centers in the US.
Animal Farm: a look at the 'Ag Gag' laws that are making it tough to film cruelty
May 2024A still from Burger King Cruelty, produced by Mercy for Animals. Americans love their hamburger, but they hate to see where it comes from.
Ankers MagSafe-compatible battery pack will stick to your iPhone on March 3rd
May 2024Anker has released a new MagSafe-compatible battery pack that can attach directly to your iPhone to offer charging without the need for a cable, 9to5Google reports.
Apple confirms some iPad Pros ship slightly bent, but says its normal
May 2024Apple has confirmed to The Verge that some of its 2018 iPad Pros are shipping with a very slight bend in the aluminum chassis.
Apple employees get a nice Vision Pro discount.
May 2024Apple employees get a nice Vision Pro discount. They’re eligible for 25 percent off the $3,499 headset, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, meaning the cost for Apple staffers is around $2,600 (though Gurman says that’s before “taxes and options.
Apple iMac rumor suggests a 32-inch version is being considered
May 2024Apple is experimenting with larger iMacs, including a 32-inch version, for the future of its famous desktop line, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who wrote in the subscriber-only version of his Power On newsletter today that development is still early, so much could change.
Apple is making Shazam a bigger part of your iPhone
May 2024Apple bought music recognition app Shazam in 2018, and now it’s integrating it into iOS in another big way — a new Music Recognition feature can identify songs playing around you as well as in apps on your phone.
Apple Pencil Pro spotted in code on Apples Japanese site
May 2024Green, yellow, orange, and blue paper are folded to form the Apple logo. Inside the logo, a creator’s hand is seen holding an Apple Pencil Pro, preparing to draw.
Apple will open the iPhone to repair with used parts
May 2024Apple is finally making it easier for users to repair their iPhones with used parts. In an update on Thursday, the company announced that this fall, owners of “select” iPhone models will be able to repair their devices with used, genuine parts while retaining full functionality.
Apple won't let you abuse its 14-day EU return policy
May 2024There was a lot of speculation around what Apple's no-questions-asked return policy would mean for developers and other content creators after it was put into place in the EU last month, and now we finally have an answer: it probably won't mean all that much, as Apple won't let customers abuse it.
Apples $299 coffee table book is a holy tome for nostalgic fans
May 2024On Tuesday, Apple released something unique: not a phone or a laptop or wireless earbuds, but a coffee table book. Designed by Apple in California features exquisite photographs of iconic Apple products, beginning with the iMac in 1998 and culminating with the Apple Pencil.
Apples Vision Pro: the first five months and where we go next
May 2024The Apple Vision Pro is many things. But for us, and for many other users, it’s one thing in particular: a really, really, really big screen.
Arrested Development undercuts its own legacy with a sad end to season 5
May 2024Arrested Development’s fifth season doesn’t necessarily have to be its last. One of the most beloved, influential sitcoms of the 2000s has returned from the dead (or the near-dead) twice before: first when Netflix aired new episodes in 2013, seven years after Fox canceled the show, and then again in 2018, after creator Mitchell Hurwitz reconvened his busy cast, in hopes of satisfying the many fans disappointed with his more ambitious, experimental fourth season.
Asus' new ZenBook Pro is the thinnest and fastest ZenBook Pro ever
May 2024Asus has a new model in its ZenBook Pro line, the UX550, that the company claims is the “fastest, thinnest, and lightest ZenBook Pro” that it’s ever made.
Beats Solo Pro review: beat the noise
May 2024Beats headphones are everywhere. You have likely seen them on your commute, at the gym, and on the heads of celebrities and star athletes.
Best Buy is ending its Gamers Club Unlocked program
May 2024Best Buy is ending its gaming subscription services including the Gamers Club Unlocked (GCU) program, which offered discounts on new games for customers, as spotted by SlashGear.
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is getting a remake.
May 2024Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is getting a remake. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake will be out on February 28th, 2024, and it’s coming to PS5, Xbox Series X / S, and PC (via Steam, the Epic Games Store, and GOG.
Can rocks absorb enough CO2 to fightclimate change? These companies think so
May 2024Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, and a slew of other companies plan to spend more than $57 million cumulatively to fight climate change by spreading crushed rock over farmland.
Can Uber be saved from itself?
May 2024The week began with a terribly embarrassing video of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick being a jerk to one of his drivers, and ended with a bombshell report about a secret and legally questionable program used by Uber to evade government scrutiny globally called “Greyball.
Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US
May 2024Over the past 72 hours, people across the US have captured what may be the most comprehensive live picture of police brutality ever.
Cloak your photos with this AI privacy tool to fool facial recognition
May 2024Ubiquitous facial recognition is a serious threat to privacy. The idea that the photos we share are being collected by companies to train algorithms that are sold commercially is worrying.
Congress wants to give NASA $19.3 billion next year, even more than Obama asked for
May 2024NASA, the perennially underfunded spaceagency, woke up to a nice surprise this morning: Congress wants to give the agency more money than it asked for.
Cross-saves for Baldurs Gate 3 on Xbox are working again.
May 2024Cross-saves for Baldur’s Gate 3 on Xbox are working again. Xbox didn’t get Baldur’s Gate 3’s most recent updates due to a bug that caused the game to crash on the Series X / S.
Dbrand replaces Zelda Triforce with all-seeing eye in Clone of the Kingdom
May 2024At first, the “Clone of the Kingdom” seems like just that. But then you realize that Dbrand replaced the Triforce with The Eye of Providence, a symbol often as famous for its connections to conspiracy theories and the Illuminati as for its benign appearance on the back of a US Dollar.
Dead Space is coming to Xbox Game Pass just in time for Halloween
May 2024There’s a whole host of great games hitting Xbox Game Pass throughout October, including the grisly Dead Space remake that’s arriving just in time for Halloween.
Deepfake CSAM is costing this man a very real prison sentence.
May 2024Deepfake CSAM is costing this man a very real prison sentence. Fifty-seven-year-old James Smelko of Pittsburgh was sentenced to 14 years and seven months in prison for possessing deepfake child sexual abuse material of child stars.
Disney Plus with ads isnt a very good deal
May 2024Disney Plus’ new ad-supported tier, Disney Plus Basic, is now available, which means I’m back for another blog about what ads look like in your streaming services.
DoorDash has acquired salad-making robot company Chowbotics
May 2024DoorDash has acquired salad-making robot startup Chowbotics, the companies announced Monday. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the Chowbotics team have all become DoorDash employees, and the company will operate independently within DoorDash.
Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified
May 2024An old Apple blog and the blog’s former authors have become the latest victims of AI-written sludge. TUAW (“The Unofficial Apple Weblog”) was shut down by AOL in 2015, but this past year, a new owner scooped up the domain and began posting articles under the bylines of former writers who haven’t worked there for over a decade.
eBay will lay off 1,000 employees 9 percent of the company
May 2024Team, We are on a path to building a stronger eBay for the future — one that is growing, and resilient in the face of any challenge.
Eeros new Max 7 is a powerful router with Wi-Fi 7 support
May 2024Eero has announced a powerful new top-of-the-line router called the Eero Max 7. It’s Eero’s first router to support the new Wi-Fi 7 standard, and it includes more networking options than the typical Eero unit.
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree preorder guide
May 2024We spent much of the time following Elden Ring’s launch begging FromSoftware to expand the universe of its latest Game of the Year award-worthy soulslike.
Elgatos app that turns iPhones into webcams gets AR Snap Lens support
May 2024EpocCam, the app from streaming brand Elgato that lets you repurpose your iPhone as a webcam for your PC or Mac, has been updated with native support for Snap Lenses augmented reality filters, Elgato’s parent company Corsair has announced.
Facebook and Instagram accused of creating a marketplace for child predators in new lawsuit
May 2024Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, allowed Facebook and Instagram to become a “marketplace for predators in search of children,” a new lawsuit from the New Mexico attorney general alleges, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Fall Guys Season 2 is out now with new medieval games and costumes
May 2024Two months after the release of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, Mediatonic has released a season 2 for its colorful battle royale platformer.
First look at Cybertrucks comically large windshield wiper in action
May 2024A new drone video has surfaced showing the Cybertruck’s ridiculously large windshield wiper in action. And you know what? It’s functional — and perhaps improved — but still doesn’t reach a good chunk of the glass in front of the passenger.
Fitbit Versa 2 review: smart fitness tracker, dumb smartwatch
May 2024Fitbit’s name has been synonymous with fitness trackers since its inception. But for the past few years, the company has also been branching into the smartwatch world to compete with the likes of the Apple Watch and Samsung’s wearable lineups.
Fortnite developer Epic Games just bought a North Carolina mall for its new headquarters
May 2024Fortnite developer Epic Games is moving its Cary, North Carolina headquarters across town to a large shopping mall, the company announced. It’s planning to convert the 87-acre Cary Towne Center into its new home base by 2024.
Foundation season 1 review: it loses itself in a century-spanning story
May 2024Foundation’s first season has officially wrapped with its season finale, which saw the first chapter of Apple TV Plus’ most ambitious show come to a conclusion.
Foundryside is a cyberpunk adventure wrapped in an epic fantasy novel
May 2024When someone asks you to picture a fantasy world, what often springs to mind is something like the works of J.
FTC cracks down on Amazon review hijacking with $600,000 fine
May 2024The Federal Trade Commission has levied its first fine against a company for “review hijacking” on Amazon, or the act of repurposing reviews from another product in order to deceive users.
Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 4, The Last of the Starks
May 2024Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones season 8, episode 4, “The Last of the Starks.” Eight years ago, Game of Thrones began as a story about a mediocre man sitting on the Iron Throne.
Game of Thrones new episode left several important things offscreen
May 2024Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones season 8, episode 4, “The Last of the Starks.” One of the bigger complaints levied at the past few seasons of Game of Thrones is that time and space have stopped meaning anything to the characters.
George R.R. Martin on a potential Elden Ring adaptation:
May 2024George R.R. Martin on a potential Elden Ring adaptation: Oh, and about those rumors you may have heard about a feature film or television series based on ELDEN RING… I have nothing to say.
Gfycat says itll use machine learning to make more high-res GIFs
May 2024Embedding a GIF into your blog post is often a hilarious way to illustrate your reactions, but the GIFs themselves can be low in resolution, like text running across an image that’s too blurry to read.
Go read Digital Foundry on the PS5 Pro.
May 2024Go read Digital Foundry on the PS5 Pro. The most trusted source for console analysis has just corroborated and analyzed the leaks.
Good Deal: Divvy for OS X at $1.99
May 2024Divvy, a window management app for Windows and OS X, is receiving the Two Dollar Tuesday treatment on the Mac App Store today, making a steep drop from its usual $14 price to $1.
Google Docs works surprisingly well in Safari on iPadOS
May 2024I had some brief time actually using an iPad Pro running iPadOS yesterday, and one of the first things I did was open up a Safari tab Apple had waiting for me: a Google Doc.
Google employees call for company to support Palestinians and protect anti-Zionist speech
May 2024In an internal letter, Google workers ask CEO Sundar Pichai to put out a statement condemning the attacks, including “direct recognition of the harm done to Palestinians by Israeli military and gang violence.
Google Hangouts upgrade removes ability to host Google Voice calls on your computer
May 2024Google new Hangouts messaging service is quite impressive — it takes Google's old and neglected Talk service and upgrades it with always-on communication, support for images, video calling, and much more.
Google is reportedly testing an alternate home page with ChatGPT-style Q&A prompts
May 2024In one example circulated internally, a tester asked Apprentice Bard if there will be another round of layoffs at Google. The company laid off 12,000 employees, 6% of its workforce, earlier this month.
Google Maps will show wildfire boundaries in near real time
May 2024Type in the name of an ongoing wildfire into Google search, and the site will now bring up a map featuring a near-real-time boundary of the fire.
Googles failed balloon-based internet might be salvaged by lasers
May 2024Alphabet’s Loon project, which aimed to provide internet via a series of balloons, was shut down last year — but the tech associated with it has been spun off into a startup that ditches the floating platforms and aims to use lasers and the cloud to provide internet to remote places.
Googles Gmail app now lets you make voice and video calls
May 2024One-on-one voice and video calls are now rolling out for Google Chat inside the Gmail app on iOS and Android, Google has announced.
Googles updated AR beauty tools make it easier to buy cosmetics online
May 2024Google is expanding its augmented reality (AR) shopping feature that allows people to virtually wear beauty products before purchasing — bringing the feature to mobile browsers and Google Shopping ads, alongside new tools for trying on foundation and hair dye colors.
Guillermo del Toro used the voice of GLaDOS in 'Pacific Rim' as a tribute to the 'Portal' series
May 2024When the trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim hit last month, gaming fans were both delighted and confused by the unmistakable presence of GLaDOS, the malevolent and omnipresent computerized being at the heart of the Portal series.
Halo MCC brings mouse and keyboard support to Xbox, leveling the playing field with PC
May 2024Today, you can fire up an Xbox game console and play Halo with a mouse and keyboard. It’s hard to believe I’m writing those words.
HBO Max is getting a Suicide Squad spinoff starring John Cena
May 2024The streaming service has ordered eight episodes with production slated to begin in early 2021. Not much is known about the plot, but Warner Bros.
Heres why Netflix is holding off on a Vision Pro app.
May 2024Here’s why Netflix is holding off on a Vision Pro app. In an interview with Stratechery, Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters says the company wants to “see where things go with the Vision Pro:”
How the word processor changed literature
May 2024In 1983, Stephen King published "The Word Processor," which hinged on the ability of the device to insert or delete words without leaving a trace.
How to clean up the iPhone apps you dont use
May 2024As we use our phones year after year or transfer everything over to a new device, many of us have accumulated a catalog of apps that we downloaded at one point but haven’t actually used in months (or possibly years).
How to make an AirTag holder for your pets collar
May 2024One seemingly obvious use for Apple’s new $29 AirTag tracker is for pets. As a new dog owner, I wanted to add an AirTag to my dog’s existing leather collar, but the options currently available are lousy.
How to post to multiple social networks
May 2024If you’re active on several social networks, it can be a real pain trying to keep up with all your accounts.
How to set up your own Contact Poster in iOS 17
May 2024Apple has added numerous features to the iPhone with iOS 17, and one of the most notable is Contact Poster — a way for you to create your own digital calling card through images, colors, and text.
How to swap out your Wi-Fi router without disconnecting all your smart home devices
May 2024When it’s finally time to get a new Wi-Fi router, there’s no need to panic. Whether you’ve switched internet service providers or you’ve decided to get something snappier, snazzier, and more reliable than whatever piece of plastic your ISP handed you, upgrading your router doesn’t have to be a headache.
How to swim with (and dry out) your Apple Watch
May 2024These days, more and more electronic devices are water resistant, including the Apple Watch. Unless you’ve got a first-generation Watch, you can wear it in the shower, while swimming in a pool or lake, and while running until you sweat.
Huawei leak shows differences between the P20, P20 Lite, and three-cam P20 Pro
May 2024After leaks of each individual device, VentureBeat reporter Evan Blass has tweeted a photo of all three rumored versions of the Huawei P20: the regular P20, the P20 Lite, and the P20 Pro.
I tried a bunch of coloring apps, and they all miss the point
May 2024The first time I saw evidence of the fad firsthand, I had to stifle a giggle -— the sight of two grown women in a coffee shop, clutching colored pencils and shading in mandala patterns, struck me as pretty silly.
Icons discovered in WatchOS 4 beta suggest Apple will support more workouts
May 2024Apple's planning to release WatchOS 4 to Apple Watch wearers in the near future, and up until now, we haven't heard much about how workouts will change.
Instacart is getting restaurant delivery thanks to Uber Eats
May 2024Grocery delivery service Instacart is expanding into restaurant takeout thanks to a new partnership with Uber Eats. In the coming weeks, Instacart will add a new feature for restaurant delivery, with the back-end mechanics powered by Uber.
Instacart says its adding a fuel surcharge to help drivers paying high gas prices
May 2024Grocery delivery platform Instacart announced Friday that it was joining the list of companies adding a temporary fuel surcharge to customers’ orders, intended to help offset higher-than-normal gas prices its driver-shoppers are paying.
iPadOS 15 ruined my iPads homescreen
May 2024There’s a lot of promise and potential in iPadOS 15. Even with some features like SharePlay missing from the initial release, others like Quick Note and a dramatically simpler approach to multitasking already improve the day-to-day experience of using Apple’s tablets.
iPhone 15, Plus, Pro, and Pro Max: price and how to buy
May 2024Apple officially announced the new iPhone 15 at its Wonderlust event earlier this week, which is now up for preorder and expected to ship on September 22nd.
iPhone mirroring is now available for developers to try
May 2024Apple released new developer betas for iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia on Monday, and spokesperson Fred Sainz confirmed on Friday that the company planned to introduce the ability for users to mirror their iPhone on their Mac.
iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes
May 2024Apple appears to have a bug that’s dredging up data that iPhone owners thought was gone. Some iPhone owners are reporting that, after updating their phones to iOS 17.
James Gunn and Peter Safran are DC Studios new co-CEOs
May 2024After months of searching for a new leader to head up its answer to Marvel Studios, Warner Bros. Discovery has chosen director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran to lead its recently formed DC Studios division.
Jeff Bezos Blue Origin protests NASAs $2.9 billion Moon contract with SpaceX
May 2024Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is fighting NASA’s decision to award SpaceX $2.9 billion to land astronauts on the Moon by 2024.
Joseph Staten is joining Netflix as creative director for a new game
May 2024Joseph Staten, Halo Infinite’s former head of creative who just announced he was leaving Microsoft, will be the creative director for a new AAA game from Netflix, Staten announced on Monday.
La Llorona review: not the ghost story youre expecting
May 2024Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Larry Tesler, the UI pioneer responsible for cut, copy, and paste, dies at 74
May 2024Larry Tesler, a computer scientist who is most well-known for creating the seminal computer concepts cut, copy, and paste, died on Monday at age 74.
Last years iPad Pro is hundreds off at B&H Photo
May 2024The new iPad Pro might be the best fit for those who want its slick, new design, and to take solace in owning the most powerful tablet that Apple has created yet.
Logi Dock review: conference calls have never been so cute
May 2024I realized two things when the pandemic forced me to start working from home: I suck at hiding the rat’s nest of cables on my desk, and modern laptops don’t provide anywhere near enough ports.
Marvel has found its Fantastic Four leads in Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby
May 2024How Marvel plans to introduce the Fantastic Four to the MCU is still unclear, but when Reed Richards shows up, he’s going to look a lot like Pedro Pascal.
Meta hit with record-breaking $1.3 billion fine over Facebook data transfers to the US
May 2024Meta has been hit with a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine (€1.2 billion) by EU data regulators, and ordered to stop transferring the Facebook data of EU citizens to the US.
Metas promised Quest 2 performance enhancements arrive with version 55 update
May 2024Mark Zuckerberg announced the Meta Quest 3 VR headset at the beginning of this month, which should bring enhanced capabilities for those who want to upgrade their Quest 2.
Microsoft Build 2024: everything announced
May 2024Microsoft had a lot to say about Windows and AI — and a little to say about custom emoji — during the Build 2024 keynote.
Microsoft Edge will let you control how much RAM it uses soon
May 2024Microsoft is working on a new feature for its Edge browser that will let you limit the amount of RAM it uses.
Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 for $799 highlights Best Buys flash sale
May 2024The Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 is $799 at Best Buy, part of the retailer’s flash sale that will last all day.
MSI Stealth 15M review: slim, light, and loud
May 2024MSI’s Stealth 15M is a gaming laptop for people who’d prefer to keep their gaming habit a secret. The metal design looks striking, and, aside from the single-zone RGB backlit keyboard, there isn’t much else about the 15M that’ll give away what you’re probably using it for — aside from its loud fans.
Netflix is adding Monument Valley next year as part of its continued gaming push
May 2024In 2024, Netflix will be adding two of the most revered mobile titles of all time to its fledgling gaming service.
Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan
May 2024Netflix is following through on its plan to phase out its cheapest ad-free tier for existing subscribers. As spotted in numerous posts on Reddit, Netflix is now asking some basic plan subscribers to choose a new plan to stay subscribed to Netflix.
Netflix says no to more Michelle Yeoh.
May 2024Netflix says no to more Michelle Yeoh. The streaming service, answering a question we asked in November, has canceled The Brothers Sun, a dark action comedy starring Michelle Yeoh, Justin Chien, and Sam Song Li.
New Trailers: The Stand, A Teacher, The Watch, The West Wing, and more
May 2024I know I am very late to the party (by like five years) but just started watching Grace and Frankie on Netflix and can I just say how wonderful it is to see amazing actresses like Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin at the height of their powers?
New York City council member-elect used AI to answer questions
May 2024Susan Zhuang, a Democrat who will soon represent the 43rd Council District in Brooklyn, New York, admitted to using AI when answering questions from a local news publication, according to a report by the New York Post.
Niantic is opening its AR platform so others can make games like Pokmon Go
May 2024Niantic Labs, the San Francisco-based game developer responsible for creating the massively successful augmented reality game Pokémon Go, plans to open up the underlying AR platform behind its products to third-party developers.
Nintendo brings Sonic Spinball and other Genesis classics to Switch Online
May 2024You can’t keep a good Sonic game down. As Sonic fans flail about, overjoyed that Sonic Origins will be launching soon, some fans expressed dismay that the franchise’s blue-headed stepchild Sonic Spinball seems to have been forgotten in all these anniversary bundles and rereleases yet again.
NIO EV gets stuck on highway after driver triggers over-the-air update
May 2024One of EV startup NIO’s cars got stuck on a highway in China on Wednesday after the driver triggered an over-the-air software update, according to Bloomberg and the South China Morning Post.
Nokia 808 PureView review - The Verge
May 2024Choose your favorite exaggerated epithet and apply it to the 808 PureView’s camera. It doesn’t matter what it is, it’ll be true.
NSA secretly taps into Google, Yahoo networks to collect information, say leaked documents
May 2024The NSA intercepts millions of pieces of Google and Yahoo user information each day by tapping into the links between servers, The Washington Post reports.
Nvidias RTX Voice app was great, and its Broadcast successor is now available
May 2024Nvidia Broadcast is a follow-up to the RTX Voice beta and introduces two new AI-powered features: Virtual Background and Auto Frame.
One of Reddits biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord
May 2024The biggest Reddit community that’s still private as part of the Reddit protest is now encouraging its users to congregate elsewhere: Discord and Substack.
One of the best Star Wars games in years is free on Epic right now
May 2024In case you missed it upon its release in late 2020, Squadrons is a very good (and very hard) spiritual successor to the beloved X-Wing and TIE Fighter space combat games of the ‘90s.
One of the last remaining music streaming holdouts has relented
May 2024Until now, Tool has been one of the biggest artists to refuse to sell its music digitally. However, over the years the band’s position has become more and more isolated, as the likes of The Beatles, Metallica, AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin have all caved one by one and allowed their music to be streamed as part of a monthly subscription.
OpenAIs news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year
May 2024As news publishers ink deals with AI companies to train their models with news stories, the price businesses like OpenAI are willing to pay for copyrighted information is coming to light.
Pandora matches Spotify and Apple Music with new $15-a-month family plan
May 2024Pandora is launching a new Premium Family plan that gives up to six users unlimited music streaming for $15 a month.
Pelotons app now pairs with third-party treadmills for some subscribers
May 2024Peloton is opening up its app to third-party treadmills for running, walking, or Tread Bootcamp classes. Pelo Buddy spotted a new support page on Peloton’s site announcing that the app can now record and display metrics on any treadmill that uses Bluetooth FTMS.
Play baseball with your food in a new July Fourth Google Doodle
May 2024I don’t think of myself as a competitive person, but give me a video game, and it’s like I’m in an Olympic final and I’m not going home without a gold medal.
Play Monopoly as Alan Turing did with new special edition board
May 2024When Alan Turing wasn't busy contributing to the fields of computing and artificial intelligence, the famed mathematician enjoyed an occasional game of Monopoly — even going to the point of playing on a hand-drawn board made by friend William Newman.
Raspberry Pi made an AI PC worth tinkering with
May 2024Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 41, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you like gaming gadgets and silly spy movies, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.
Razer Kishi V2 review: new design, frustrating problems
May 2024With the Kishi mobile controller that launched in mid-2020, Razer succeeded in turning phones into pseudo-Nintendo Switch consoles. It offered a clever design that sandwiched your phone in the middle of two controllers.
Reddit bought a five-second Super Bowl spot celebrating GameStock
May 2024Wow, this actually worked. If you’re reading this, it means our bet paid off. Big game spots are expensive, so we couldn’t buy a full one.
Renaults EZ-Ultimo self-driving concept is a giant slice of ridiculous
May 2024The Paris Motor Show is Renault’s “home” car exhibition, so the big French company always makes an extra effort for it.
Resident Evil Village: Winters Expansion review: worth it for one terrifying sequence
May 2024Resident Evil Village’s DLC made me scared of the doorways in my own home. It happened after an intense sequence in Shadows of Rose, the story campaign included with the new Winters’ Expansion.
Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsofts first desktop gracefullyfailed
May 2024Editor’s note: Bill Gates unveiled Windows 1.0 to the world 30 years ago, before finalizing it and shipping it two years later.
Right to be forgotten only applies to Google in the EU, court rules
May 2024The EU’s top court has ruled that Google does not need to remove links to sensitive information in all versions of its search engine worldwide when responding to “right to be forgotten” requests.
Roku OS 9.3 adds faster performance, Spanish voice support, and more
May 2024Roku is today announcing the latest software update that’s coming soon to Roku streaming devices and Roku TVs. Roku OS 9.
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook review: beautiful to a fault
May 2024Who is buying a $1,000 Chromebook? That’s the question people debated across the internet when Google unveiled the Pixelbook in 2017, and it’s a debate that will continue as the 2-in-1 Samsung Galaxy Chromebook makes its way onto shelves.
Samsungs recall fix for overheating washers is a software update and a dongle
May 2024As companies have announced smart appliance after smart appliance, some people (myself included) have questioned why on earth you’d want to connect something like a washing machine or refrigerator to the internet.
Sea of Solitude review: a haunting game that turns trauma into monsters
May 2024People often describe dealing with mental health issues as fighting demons — in Sea of Solitude, that phrase becomes literal. The game, from German studio Jo-Mei Games and EA’s Originals publishing label, is a brief but haunting adventure where you travel through the mind of a young woman named Kay.
SEC says companies must disclose their greenhouse gasemissions but not all of them
May 2024The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new rules that compel large companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and tell investors how their business is affected by climate change.
Sennheisers latest soundbar is half the size, and almost half the price of its premium predecesso
May 2024Sennheiser’s new Ambeo Soundbar Mini is the German audio brand’s third and most affordable soundbar. At $799 (€799 / £699), it’s still an expensive AV accessory, but in the context of the company’s original $2,499.
Shigeru Miyamoto is working with his hands again
May 2024Shigeru Miyamoto is responsible for some of the most iconic virtual worlds in history, from the Mushroom Kingdom of Super Mario to The Legend of Zelda’s Hyrule.
Smart stitches send doctors information on wounds as they heal
May 2024Visions of the future of medicine often involve digital sensors that constantly monitor patients, but not many people imagine that these sensors could be stitched directly into us.
Sonos draws more customer anger this time for its privacy policy
May 2024It’s been a rocky couple of months for Sonos — so much so that CEO Patrick Spence now has a canned autoreply for customers emailing him to vent about the redesigned app.
Sonys portable PlayStation Portal launches on November 15th for $199.99
May 2024Sony is officially launching its handheld remote player, the PlayStation Portal, on November 15th. The portable device will stream PS5 games over Wi-Fi and features an eight-inch LCD screen running at 1080p resolution at 60fps.
Spotify is going big on video podcasts
May 2024After spending more than $1 billion on podcast assets, challenging investor skepticism, laying off dozens of podcasting employees, and parting ways with its main podcasting chief, Spotify is establishing its focus for the vertical moving forward: more video, more consolidation, and more splashy names.
Star Trek: Discoverys upcoming fifth season will be its final voyage
May 2024Star Trek: Discovery both carved out a foothold for the franchise in the streaming space and gave people a compelling reason to sign up for Paramount Plus back when it was still CBS All Access.
Successes of 2022: iOS 16s amazing lock screen customization
May 2024With iOS 16, you can now set things on your lock screen, like different clock fonts, lock screen widgets, and new wallpapers, in just a few taps.
Ted Cruz has been reported to Twitter for liking porn
May 2024Um... Ted Cruz, US senator from Texas, and former Republican presidential candidate, has found himself in a very embarrassing situation. His verified Twitter account has liked a sexually explicit video on Twitter causing the two-minute porn clip to appear in his feed.
Tesla is putting Elon Musks pay package up for another vote after a judge voided the first one
May 2024Tesla is asking shareholders to vote for a second time on Elon Musk’s massive compensation package, after a Delaware judge voided the first one earlier this year on the grounds that the approval process was “deeply flawed.
The Bear makes its cable debut next week.
May 2024The Bear makes its cable debut next week. Ahead of The Bear’s season three premiere, the Hulu exclusive will appear on FX’s TV channel for the first time.
The creator of Inscryptions next game is a sequel to Pony Island.
May 2024The creator of Inscryption’s next game is a sequel to Pony Island. Daniel Mullins’ next game is called Pony Island 2: Panda Circus and it looks extremely weird.
The darknet just got its first black market search engine
May 2024The darknet black market scene was set back when US law enforcement took down Silk Road, by far the largest site, and arrested its alleged owner.
The entire story of Twitter / X under Elon Musk - Page 9
May 2024”I love Elon… I just don’t want him to dump his poop in the river.” The Washington Post reports regulators have hit Elon Musk’s Boring Company with multiple complaints over careless, unpermitted work in Bastrop County, Texas.
The Gamma app brings PS1 emulation to the iPhone
May 2024iPhone users without a penchant for jailbreaking can finally enjoy the blocky polygons and shifty textures of the original PlayStation with Gamma, a free PS1 emulator that hit the iOS App Store last night.
The hubless electric motorcycle with sci-fi style and a great name
May 2024Modern cars are riddled with sensors looking in every direction, most taxed with one simple duty: keep you safe. Motorcycles are a lot simpler.
The Latch smart lock wants to open every door in your apartment building
May 2024If you rent an apartment, you probably don't have a choice in what your door lock looks like — so even if you wanted a smart lock, you wouldn't have permission to install one.
The Mandalorians second season is going to get more Star Wars-y, in a good way
May 2024The Mandalorian’s second season is almost here. And if the trailers and rumors are any indication, it seems like the armor-clad hero’s quest to reunite Baby Yoda (née “The Child”) is going to get even more complicated and tied up in Star Wars lore than ever before.
The mobile alternative to Reddit is going international
May 2024Amino wants to be the go-to place for your interest — whether that’s paranormal activities, motorcycles, or Harry Potter. The startup’s broad goal — create communities around topics — is very similar to Reddit, but its execution is aimed at mobile natives.
The phone enthusiasts buying guide
May 2024There are plenty of buying guides for figuring out the best phone to buy at a given time, across a wide variety of prices.
The phone maker behind Cat and Motorolas rugged lineups has shut down
May 2024Bullitt Group has yet to issue an official statement confirming the closure. The manufacturer previously told The Telegraph that it planned to transfer its satellite connectivity business and all 100 of its employees to a new company owned by its creditors, though one former employee now claims the entire workforce has been laid off.
The Vision Pro will get Apple Intelligence and Go Deeper in-store demos
May 2024For all its impressive technical chops, Apple’s all-singing, all-dancing Vision Pro hasn’t set the world on fire. But it’s early yet, and the company continues to throw some weight behind the headset, and reportedly has plans to add AI features to visionOS and is readying an updated approach to in-store demos.
ThePokmonGo grandpas bike evolves to hold 64 smartphones
May 2024Chen San-yuan, the Taiwanese “Pokémon Go grandpa,” has evolved his bike into a new form: a peacock-esque contraption with 64 smartphones mounted on the front.
Theres gold (and lithium and cobalt) in all those EV battery packs
May 2024There’s a bit of a battery manufacturing boom going on. In 2021, battery manufacturing in the United States totaled approximately 55 gigawatt-hours’ worth of cells, or roughly enough batteries to produce 700,000 EVs.
These Steam Deck custom resin buttons look phenomenal and theyre for sale
May 2024Would you spend $40–$60 on artisan buttons for your Steam Deck? What if they were cast by hand from custom resin molds, made by just one guy in the USA?
This 5-second video will crash your iPhone
May 2024Apple's iOS software quality is being called into question again this week, following the discovery of a five-second video that will force an iPhone to lock up and freeze.
This Fallout 4 mod looks like a mash-up of True Detective, Silent Hill, and The Witch
May 2024For an apocalyptic wasteland, Fallout 4 is quite colorful. Its vista often contrasts the vibrant red and oranges of settlements with a clear blue sky.
This Return of the Jedi fan edit might be the ultimate version
May 2024Years before fans said George Lucas ruined Star Wars with The Phantom Menace, they were berating him for ruining Star Wars in a whole different way — with Special Editions of Episodes IV, V, and VI that infamously added unnecessary CGI, changed dialogue, and reworked entire scenes.
Threads - The Verge
May 2024Mark Zuckerberg has more to say about the Vision Pro and how much worse it is than his Quest headsets.
Tiffany Haddish on her new movies bleak vision of our streaming future
May 2024Landscape With Invisible Hand is an alien invasion story with a twist: a species known as the Vuuv take over the planet not by force but through economics.
Tim isnt going first Epic has called Don Harrison, Googles president of global partnership
May 2024Tim isn’t going first — Epic has called Don Harrison, Google’s president of global partnerships. He reports to Google’s chief business officer Philipp Schindler, who, in turn, reports to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Toshiba has made a completely unsexy pair of AR glasses
May 2024Nascent technologies are sometimes described as solutions in search of a problem, and that’s certainly something that could be said for AR glasses right now.
Twitter is being rebranded as X
May 2024X.com now redirects to Twitter.com, following a tweet from Twitter owner Elon Musk today, and an “interim X logo” will soon replace the Twitter bird logo.
Uber and Spotify reportedly partnering to bring custom playlists to your next ride
May 2024It looks like Uber is taking another step to separate its service from any other car ride. The company will announce a partnership with Spotify on Monday to let passengers stream music of their choosing as they ride in style to their destination, according to two separate reports from The New York Times and TechCrunch.
Uber halts self-driving tests after pedestrian killed in Arizona
May 2024A female pedestrian was killed after being struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle in Arizona, according to ABC 15. In response, Uber has pulled all of its self-driving cars from public roads in the state as well as in the cities of San Francisco, Toronto, and Pittsburgh.
US government seizes $56 million in crypto from BitConnects number one promoter
May 2024The US government has seized $56 million worth of cryptocurrency from an admitted participant in the BitConnect scam and intends to sell the coins and use the proceeds to reimburse victims.
US v. Microsoft: whats at stake in the Supreme Court case
May 2024Say you sign up for a free email account. You live in country A, the tech company providing the email service is headquartered in country B, and the data center where the emails are stored is in country C.
Vizio at CES 2013: Tegra 4 tablets, Android smartphones, 4K TVs, and Windows 8 PCs
May 2024As part of its refreshed 2013 HDTV lineup, Vizio has announced that it's joining the 4K market with three new sets.
Vudus name is changing to Fandango at Home
May 2024Fandango has decided to completely rebrand Vudu, a streaming video service that’s been around for over a decade, to Fandango at Home.
Watch LGs tragically-canceled rollable get put through its paces
May 2024What I find most surprising is just how finished the device looks. Although LG had said it wanted to release it before the end of 2021, I’d always assumed this was an ambition rather than a concrete plan.
Watch Taylor Swift run away from wolves in the video for 'Out of the Woods'
May 2024It's a busy New Year's Eve for multi-platinum selling musicians — first Kanye West released his latest song, "Facts," now Taylor Swift has dropped her newest video on YouTube.
What can we learn from the gut of a 5,300-year-old glacial mummy?
May 2024Bacteria found in the gut of a 5,300-year-old mummy may help scientists understand how our germs evolved with us. By sequencing the DNA of stomach contents found inside the "
What is going on with Fitbit?
May 2024These days, Fitbit users seem to be asking each other the same question: is it me, or is the app down for everybody else, too?
WhatsApp Business begins to roll out on iOS
May 2024WhatsApp Business, a separate version of WhatsApp that’s designed to allow businesses to communicate with their customers, has begun to launch on iOS.
Where are the good Android apps for Mastodon?
May 2024Recently, I started looking for an alternative to Twitter (somehow, I suspect I’m not the only one) and landed on Mastodon.
Wheres the directors commentary on streaming?
May 2024In the height of the DVD era, director’s commentary was a staple of movie watching. But if you look at any of the streaming services today, almost all fail to include these treasured bonus features.
Why a top content moderation company quit the business instead of fixing its problems
May 2024Yesterday, as I tried to sort through Twitter’s decision to ban political ads, I got a tantalizing tip from a new source.
Worms regrow their decapitated heads, along with the memories inside
May 2024Some memories just won't die — and some can even be transferred to a whole new brain. Researchers at Tufts University have determined that a small, yellow worm known as a planarian, which has long been studied for its regenerative properties, is able to grow back a lot more than just its body parts: after the worm's small, snake-like head and neck are removed, its body will even regrow a brain that's capable of quickly relearning its lost skills.
Xbox 720 document leak reveals $299 console with Kinect 2 for 2013, Kinect Glasses project
May 2024While it's clear Microsoft isn't planning to introduce its next-generation Xbox console this year, all signs indicate that a 2013 launch is on the cards.
Xbox and PlayStation battle it out at The Sphere
May 2024Microsoft and Sony have both spent thousands of dollars this week in marketing campaigns at The Sphere in Las Vegas. The $2.
Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Amazons Fire TV Sticks in July
May 2024Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app on Amazon’s Fire TV Sticks in July. The Xbox app will provide access to Xbox Cloud Gaming so subscribers to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate can stream a variety of games directly to Fire TV devices.
Xbox Ones latest update includes a do not disturb mode so your friends cant annoy you
May 2024Microsoft is starting to roll out an update for Xbox One testers that includes a new do not disturb mode. The new option lets Xbox gamers mute notifications and other distractions when they’re playing a game or watching a movie.
Yahoo is Yahoo once more after new owners complete acquisition
May 2024Yahoo and AOL, formerly known as Verizon Media, have officially been acquired by their new owners and renamed as simply “Yahoo.
Yahoo Mail brings back the tabs it killed two months ago, with a twist
May 2024When Yahoo redesigned its webmail service two months ago, it got rid of tabs, a feature the company says often confused users when they had too many open.
You can finally control Kasa devices in the Tapo app
May 2024Wi-Fi router manufacturer TP-Link is finally uniting its two smart home brands under one app, Tapo. The company has made smart gadgets since 2015, but confoundingly under two separate brands: Tapo and Kasa.
You can get Western Digitals 5TB portable drive for $100 at Best Buy
May 2024Best Buy’s deal of the day is on Western Digital’s Easystore USB 3.0 portable hard drive with a whopping 5TB of storage.
Zipcar is testing pay-per-mile rentals in some US cities
May 2024Car-sharing service Zipcar has started offering a new pay-per-mile plan in some US cities, a departure from the per-hour system that the company is known for.
Zoom and Among Us dominate Apples most downloaded charts in 2020
May 20242020 was a year when people around the world were forced to find new ways to connect, and that trend is clearly visible when you look at the most downloaded apps on Apple hardware.
'The Theory of Everything' review: a love story starring Stephen Hawking
May 2024Everyone knows who Stephen Hawking is, but I'm not sure that many people outside of a physics department could actually tell you what he did or that much about Hawking himself.
First Click: OK Google, why is iCloud storage so expensive?
May 2024Most of the time I’m happy to have gone all-in on Apple. But I feel backed into a corner when it comes to paying for even more iCloud storage when it’s necessitated by Apple’s increasingly cloud-centric app bundles.
Grease Live: the live musical you should've watched
May 2024Best production trick: CP: Fox shrewdly paired Thomas Kail, director of Broadway hit-of-the-decade Hamilton, with Alex Rudzinski, the director of Dancing with the Stars.
Hudson Mohawke talks about taking a break from the club on his new album Lantern
May 2024I think it's safe to say that the majority of your audience in the states has found you via Kanye West.
Sully review: Clint Eastwood's Hudson landing film is as competent and modest as its subject
May 2024If you were watching news broadcasts on January 15th, 2009, or in the week or so afterward, you already know virtually everything that happens in Clint Eastwood’s new movie Sully, about the pilots who safely landed a faltering commercial aircraft in New York’s Hudson River.
+ K, the Slack keyboard shortcut that saved my life
May 2024I hate Slack. Not what it represents: unified, media-rich team communication across time and space. But how it's implemented: a slow, memory-hungry web app that hates my computer.
'Auralux' minimalist real-time strategy game coming to Tegra Zone this month
May 2024War Drum Studios is bringing developer E. McNeill's popular PC game Auralux to the Tegra Zone game store this month, says Nvidia.
'Body Atlas' shows where emotions hit the hardest
May 2024Finnish researchers have attempted to pinpoint the ways in which our emotions affect our bodies. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, asked 773 participants to indicate how certain emotionally charged materials made them feel.
'The Bonhamizer' adds John Bonham's drum beats to any song you upload
May 2024The late John Bonham's body of work in Led Zeppelin before dying at the age of 32 was enough to put him on the short list of the best drummers of all time — so why not throw his thunderous beats into the song of your choice?
3M debuts gigantic 84-inch multitouch table with 40-point input (hands-on)
May 20243M unveiled an enormous 84-inch multitouch table at CES today, following up on the 46-inch display the company announced here last year.
A biotech firm wants to use drones to deliver pig organs to human patients
May 2024At CES this year, the Chinese drone maker Ehang showed off a prototype of its 184, an oversized drone that can carry a human passenger for up to 10 miles, with no pilot required.
A Cloudflare outage broke large swathes of the internet
May 2024Cloudflare experienced an outage on Tuesday morning, according to its status page. Cloudflare’s technology powers numerous other sites and services across the internet, and the outage seemed to impact a range of different sites, including Discord, Shopify, Grindr, Fitbit, and Peloton, according to Downdetector.
A playable build of the never-released StarCraft: Ghost has apparently leaked online
May 2024Over the weekend, a video and screenshots that appeared to come from a playable Xbox build of the never-released StarCraft: Ghost leaked online.
A year of Paramount Plus with Showtime is half off ahead of its impending price hike
May 2024With a Paramount Plus price hike coming on August 20th, now might be a good time to secure a year’s worth of access to the streaming service.
A YouTuber just uncovered the American Sailor Moons first episode
May 2024The decades-long search for the American version of Sailor Moon has finally come to an end. Ray Mona, a YouTuber who documents her efforts to find lost media (including the never-released Mean Girls game), has managed to unearth the pilot episode of the unaired, never-finished series that the Sailor Moon fandom has come to know as Saban Moon.
Adobe Illustrators new AI feature instantly recolors vector graphics
May 2024Adobe is launching a new feature for its Illustrator graphic design software that allows users to quickly adjust the color scheme of vector-based images through generative AI.
AI George Carlin case settled as performers demand better protection
May 2024George Carlin’s estate has reached a settlement with the media company that purportedly used generative artificial intelligence to imitate the late comedian.
Almost 300 marine species hitched a ride on tsunami debris from Japan to the US
May 2024On the morning of June 5th, 2012, John Chapman drove up to Agate Beach in Newport, Oregon, to take a look at a massive, 188-ton dock that had washed ashore during a storm.
Alphabets Project Taara laser tech beamed 700TB of data across nearly 5km
May 2024In January, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, shut down Project Loon, an initiative exploring using stratospheric helium balloons to distribute wireless internet (an attempt to use solar-powered drones folded in 2017).
Amazon disavows $500 Prime Bike, says it has no formal connection to the product
May 2024Yesterday, exercise company Echelon Fitness announced the “EX-Prime Smart Connect Bike,” or “Prime Bike” — a $500 exercise bike developed “in collaboration with Amazon.
Amazon explains how Alexa recorded a private conversation and sent it to another user
May 2024“Echo woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like “Alexa.” Then, the subsequent conversation was heard as a “send message” request.
Amazon is quietly shutting down its live radio app Amp
May 2024Amp, the live radio app launched by Amazon just last year, will soon be no more. Bloomberg reports that Steve Boom, the vice president of Amazon Music, sent a memo announcing the shutdown.
AMDs new Ryzen 7000 mobile processors include the 16-core Zen 4 7945HX
May 2024AMD has announced its new Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs for laptops. The list is a real who’s who of mobile processor architecture, including Zen 4, Zen 3 Plus, Zen 3, and Zen 2 chips.
Apple Bordeaux store vandalized and robbed during French yellow vest riots
May 2024The Apple store in Bordeaux, France, was robbed and damaged on Saturday night by “yellow vest” protesters during mass street riots, as reported by ABC News.
Apple devices now support Nintendos classic game controllers
May 2024While neither MacStories nor Troughton-Smith was able to test whether the Sega Genesis and NES controllers work with Apple’s devices, we’re assuming Apple added the same functionality.
Apple Fitness Plus review: two months in, still on easy mode
May 2024Apple Fitness Plus has been out for a couple of months now, and a few of us here at The Verge have been spending that time running it (and ourselves) through its paces.
Apple iPad mini 2019 review: no competition
May 2024People who love the iPad mini really, really love the iPad mini. It’s easy to forget that because Apple seemingly forgot that it made the iPad mini: the last update, the iPad mini 4, came in 2015, and it’s barely been mentioned since.
Apple Pay Later is rolling out to all users in the US
May 2024It looks like Apple is rolling out Pay Later to all users in the US. As spotted by MacRumors, the buy now, pay later service is now widely available within Apple Wallet and is featured on Apple’s homepage.
Apple quietly added a MagSafe charging case to its AirPods Pro, too
May 2024The new case doesn’t claim to charge Apple’s AirPod products any faster; it just has the magnets needed to attach to Apple’s MagSafe charging puck for easier alignment when charging.
Apple says collision in child-abuse hashing system is not a concern
May 2024Researchers have produced a collision in iOS’s built-in hash function, raising new concerns about Apple’s CSAM-scanning system — but Apple says the finding does not threaten the integrity of the system.
Apple TV Plus is turning into the best place for streaming sci-fi
May 2024Since it launched in 2019, Apple TV Plus has won awards and generated hits, but it still sits in an odd spot in the streaming landscape.
Apple Watch sales have nearly doubled since last year
May 2024Sales of the Apple Watch have nearly doubled year over year, CEO Tim Cook announced on the company’s earnings call today.
Apple Watch Series 8, SE, and Ultra hands-on: triple the fun
May 2024Today was a big day for Apple wearables. Not only did Apple announce the brand-new Series 8, but it also refreshed the SE and unveiled the rugged Apple Watch Ultra.
Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft teamed up on a new web browser benchmark test.
May 2024Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft teamed up on a new web browser benchmark test. Gecko (Firefox), Blink (Chrome / Edge), and WebKit (Safari) are the engines behind most web browsers, and the developers who make them have collaborated on a new benchmark to measure performance with browsing and web apps.
Apples Argylle looks like the ultimate power clash in new trailer
May 2024You might think that it would take a lot of effort to make Henry Cavill look like a huge dork, but the first trailer for Apple TV Plus’ new meta spy comedy Argylle from director Matthew Vaughn proves that all it takes is a velveteen sweater and an unforgiving trip to SuperCuts.
Bandai announces Smartpet, a robot dog with an iPhone for a face
May 2024Bandai, the creator of the original Tamagotchi, has announced another big move into the world of electronic animal care with Smartpet — a robot dog that uses your iPhone as a brain.
Battery life is the new MacBook Pros biggest question mark
May 2024Apple’s new MacBook Pros are here, and they may actually live up to the “Pro” moniker. But there’s one big question that comes with the new sizes and processors: how’s the battery life?
BGP Explained: the protocol that may be behind Facebooks disappearance
May 2024On Monday, Facebook was completely knocked offline, taking Instagram and WhatsApp (not to mention a few other websites) down with it.
Big Jambox review - The Verge
May 2024So, it looks great, but how does it sound? Before answering that question, we should return to a feature that Jawbone introduced to Jambox back in October of 2011: LiveAudio.
Bill Gates orders Ballmer's execution as 'South Park' console wars escalate
May 2024The console wars escalate tomorrow with the release of Microsoft’s Xbox One, and South Park has continued itsown take on the ongoing battle.
BlizzCon 2023: all the latest news and trailers
May 2024The new Warcraft mobile game is available to download now. Warcraft Rumble looks a lot like, well, a mobile game, but it seems to be fairly robust, with PvE and PvP modes.
Boston Dynamics Atlas robot: a full history
May 2024Is Boston Dynamics slowly preparing to put its bipedal robots to work? In a glossy new video, the company has shown off its prototype Atlas robot tossing planks and tool bags around in a fake construction site.
Building a personal brand isnt cool anymore
May 2024This week on Why’d You Push That Button?, I stew in jealousy over people who maintain anonymous online accounts. Anonymous accounts are some of my favorites to follow.
Callsheet is the new app every movie lover needs
May 2024Hi friends! Welcome to the first-ever edition of Installer. My hope here every week is to be your guide to all the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world.
Can Apples color-shifting screen really help you fall asleep faster?
May 2024Last week, Apple released iOS 9.3 and introduced "Night Shift" — a way of modifying the computer’s display so that less blue light is present — to millions of iPhones and iPads.
Celebgate hacker sentenced to 18 months in prison
May 2024Ryan Collins, one of the people behind the 2014 "Celebgate" photo leak, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Earlier this year, Collins pled guilty to carrying out a long-running phishing campaign that gave him access to dozens of private email and iCloud accounts, including those of many female celebrities, some of whom had nude photos leaked as a result of the breach.
Comcast launches Wi-Fi 6 gateway, makes xFi Advanced Cybersecurity free
May 2024Comcast announced a new version of its xFi Advanced Gateway, one of its modem / router combo products you can lease with your Xfinity internet, today at CES.
Companion robot ElliQ can ask users about their childhood to create a digital memoir
May 2024An upgraded version of ElliQ — a robot designed to act as a companion for older adults — is now available for anyone to buy.
Curiosity rover snaps panorama of massive Mars mountain
May 2024NASA this week released new high-resolution panoramic images of Mars' Mount Sharp, captured by its Mars Rover Curiosity. Named after late geologist Robert Sharp, the massive Martian mountain is a gently sloping formation that sits at the center of the Gale Crater, where Curiosity recently uncovered evidence that the Red Planet may have supported microbial life forms.
Danganronpas creator wants to make detective games more approachable
May 2024While detective stories are a mainstay in the worlds of film, television, and literature, they’re comparatively niche when it comes to video games.
Did Asus just stealth-reveal its next ROG Ally handheld?
May 2024Did Asus just stealth-reveal its next ROG Ally handheld? First Asus quietly changed the name of its original handheld to “ROG Ally (2023),” then VideoCardz obtained an internal document mentioning an “ROG Ally 2024.
Discord is finally adding themes for Nitro subscribers
May 2024Nitro has a lot of useful perks for people who spend a lot of time in Discord, such as the ability to upload larger files, send longer messages, and customize your profile, but I’d argue that you don’t have to be a power user to appreciate aesthetic changes.
Dish Network rejoins EchoStar as it tries to compete in 5G
May 2024EchoStar Corporation announced today that it finalized its purchase of Dish Network on the last day of December. Following the merger, which the companies announced in August, Dish is now a “wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar,” and why?
Dishs $25-a-month Boost Infinite plan is now out in beta
May 2024Dish has launched the beta for its Boost Infinite postpaid cell plan, which promises “Unlimited data, talk, and text” for $25 a month.
Disney courts TikTokers with a card game and quizzes
May 2024Disney is partnering with TikTok to promote its movies and TV shows through a dedicated hub filled with clips, quizzes, and a collectible card game.
Disney+ is now available for pre-order with a 7-day free trial
May 2024Disney is offering customers the option to sign up for a monthly subscription pass at $6.99 a month, or an annual fee of $69.
Doing shots with true believers at Ethereums biggest party
May 2024I knew I was in the right place when l saw a flier taped to a streetlamp advertising the “world’s first NFT bong.
Drake is Spotifys most popular artist for the second year in a row
May 2024Spotify has just released its annual list of the most popular artists, albums, and tracks for 2016, and Drake is the clear winner.
Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first cardiac arrest patient in Sweden
May 2024A man in Sweden is alive today thanks to — in part — a drone. The 71-year-old experienced a cardiac arrest while shoveling snow in December and was resuscitated by a nearby doctor after a drone flew in a defibrillator, Everdrone reported Tuesday.
Drops latest mechanical keyboards are love letters to The Lord of the Rings
May 2024A little under a year after Drop released a pair of keycap sets themed around the Elvish and Dwarvish languages from J.
E3 is dead how big was it, anyhow?
May 2024The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is dead. Following cancellations in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, as well as Thursday’s revelation that it won’t return to Los Angeles in 2024 or 2025, either, you can safely stick a fork in the world’s former most influential gaming show.
EA and Meta werent the only companies to ax games this week
May 2024Over the course of this week, the developers of several major live service titles announced that their games would be shutting down.
Elon Musk says we dug our own grave with Cybertruck, offers new delivery date
May 2024The Tesla Cybertruck finally has a delivery date, according to a company post on X (formerly Twitter). Along with its third quarter earnings today, Tesla announced the long-delayed Cybertruck electric pickup will have its first deliveries during an event on November 30th at the company’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas.
Facebook owes us $725 million: heres how to get your cut
May 2024If you’re a US Facebook user who had an active account between May 24th, 2007, and December 22nd, 2022, you may be able to receive a portion of a multimillion-dollar class action settlement related to user privacy.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake is coming to Steam on June 17th
May 2024Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade is coming to yet another platform very soon. Square Enix announced that the game, along with the bonus episode featuring Yuffie (together know as Intergrade), are coming to Steam on June 17th.
Frank Ocean fans are getting scammed with fake AI-generated songs
May 2024Fans of Frank Ocean lost thousands of dollars after a scammer sold them fake AI-generated songs, according to a report from Motherboard.
GDC 2023: the best indie games
May 2024When thousands of developers descend into one place, you know there are going to be some excellent games to check out.
Good Deal: 'Plants vs. Zombies' available for free on iPhone and iPad
May 2024Plants vs. Zombies has long been among the most popular games on both Android and iOS, but it's always come with a price tag.
Goodbye to Apples Smart Keyboard Folio, the best iPad Pro accessory
May 2024I had a sneaking suspicion this was going to happen. All the rumors about the new iPad Pro — its shift to an OLED display, the more premium Magic Keyboard — had me convinced that Apple was going to quietly move on from the quirky, very not luxurious Smart Keyboard Folio that became my preferred carry for the 2018 iPad Pro and, later, the M1 iPad Pro.
Google can keep your private details out of search results with results about you
May 2024Starting “early next year,” Google will be able to notify you if your personal info, such as your phone number, email, or home address, shows up in search results as part of its “results about you” tool.
Google employees arent convinced that Dragonfly is dead
May 2024Some Google employees believe they found evidence that Google’s plans to launch a censored search engine — codenamed “Dragonfly” — in China are still ongoing, according to a new report from The Intercept.
Google is holding an event about search and AI on February 8th
May 2024Google is about to share more about its work in artificial intelligence. Next week, Google will be holding an event about how it’s “using the power of AI to reimagine how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you need,” according to an invite sent to The Verge.
Google Maps adds 'typical traffic' to non-highway roads so drivers can avoid jams
May 2024Google Maps has a feature called "typical traffic," which lets you pick a day and time to see what the traffic has looked like historically — so if you're trying to get out of the city at 4pm on a Friday, you can avoid the most historically jammed-up highways.
Googles $99 a night company hotel advertises no commute as a perk
May 2024Google is offering its employees a new incentive to come into its Mountain View, California office: discounted hotel stays. The company is promoting $99 per night rates for its on-campus hotel to help remote employees transition into a hybrid working schedule, according to a report from CNBC.
Googles AI Duet lets you make music with a virtual pianist
May 2024Google’s latest artificial intelligence experiment is a music-playing piano bot that digests whatever keyboard melodies you give it and tries to respond in kind.
Gumroad announces cheaper pricing for creators
May 2024Gumroad is announcing a new pricing structure today that streamlines the fees and features of its platform, making it easier for creators to get started selling products or memberships online.
HBO Now coming in April for $14.99 per month, Apple TV price cut to $69
May 2024HBO's long-awaited standalone subscription service is coming next month, and Apple TV has been announced as the company's "exclusive" launch device.
HBO renews Silicon Valley for third season
May 2024Silicon Valley is only an episode into its second season, but HBO has already decided that it deserves another. The network announced this afternoon that it would be bringing Silicon Valley back for a third season in 2016.
Heres 12 minutes of Assassins Creed Shadows gameplay
May 2024The reveal of Assassin’s Creed Shadows mostly focused on its story, characters, and setting. But a new trailer gives a better idea of how the game will actually play.
Hertz is selling 20,000 EVs so it can buy more gas guzzlers
May 2024Hertz went from scaling back its electric vehicle ambitions to selling off its actual EVs in the span of three months.
Horizon Forbidden West was supposed to have a free upgrade from PS4 to PS5
May 2024“Additionally, we know that the PS4 community will transition to PS5 at different times, and we’re happy to announce PS4 versions of some of our exclusives.
How Android 12 lets you customize your phones color palette
May 2024One of the new features in Android 12 is the ability to automatically fit your phone’s color palette to that of your wallpaper.
How lost classic Doom 64 was revived for modern platforms
May 2024As if there weren’t enough doom in the world right now, this week sees the release of not one but two new Doom games.
How Nvidia's GeForce Experience harnesses meat and machine to make default game settings gorgeous
May 2024In April, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told us that the days of painstakingly tweaking PC game settings to get a decent gaming experience could soon be over.
How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson
May 2024The trouble began days before the biography was even published. CNN had a story summarizing an excerpt of Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk that claimed Musk had shut down SpaceX’s satellite network, Starlink, to prevent a “Ukrainian sneak attack” on the Russian navy.
How to easily resize and arrange windows in macOS Catalina
May 2024A well-hidden feature in macOS Catalina makes it simple to resize and arrange your windows without having to clumsily drag them around.
How to make phone calls with Google Home
May 2024Google’s smart speaker can now pull double duty as a phone for voice calls. The company just confirmed that it’s rolling out Google Home’s calling feature in the US and Canada beginning today.
How to move a smart home
May 2024Moving can be a huge headache. Throw in a bunch of connected gadgets you need to factory-reset or uninstall, and things get even more painful.
How to turn off case sound effects on Apples second-gen AirPods Pro
May 2024Apple’s second-generation AirPods Pro have more powerful noise cancellation and better sound quality than the original pair, but the company has also made significant improvements to the charging case.
How to turn your Mac desktop folder icons into emoji
May 2024Why have boring blue folder icons on your desktop when you can turn them into cats? Well, cat emoji at least.
How to use Shazam on an iPhone
May 2024When Apple released iOS 14.2 in 2020, it introduced some landmark new emoji, like the “frustrated Italian hand gesture” and bubble tea.
How to use the new Copilot AI in Windows 11
May 2024You can’t have missed Microsoft’s attempts to stuff generative AI into almost everything it makes, from Bing search to the Windows OS.
Human trials for an experimental Zika vaccine are about to start in the US
May 2024As the CDC issues travel warnings for Miami, Florida, the National Institutes of Health are set to begin the first human trials for an experimental vaccine for Zika.
Inside the actors' armory - The Verge
May 2024Meet Tony Swatton, blacksmith to the stars. For over 25 years, his business The Sword and the Stone has been furnishing Hollywood blockbusters like Batman Returns with all manner of props.
Instagram's new stories are a near-perfect copy of Snapchat stories
May 2024In a bold expansion designed to capture more of users’ everyday photos and videos, Instagram today introduced "stories," a secondary feed of ephemeral content that is available for only 24 hours from the time of posting.
iOS 7 review: a new look or a new beginning?
May 2024Microsoft, Google, Palm, and now Apple all seem to have agreed that there’s one right way to handle multitasking. When you double-tap the home button in iOS 7, a menu pops up with icons and screenshots of all your running apps — scroll through until you find the one you want, which pops open.
iPhone 15 vs Android phones: Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel
May 2024Apple finally got with the program and put USB-C on its new iPhones, but how do they compare to Android phones from the likes of Samsung and Google, where USB-C is nothing but old hat?
iPhone users on Google Fi can finally use 5G
May 2024If you’re one of the people brave enough to use Google Fi with an iPhone, your experience is about to get a lot better, as Google announced on Wednesday that you can finally use 5G instead of being stuck with LTE (via 9to5Google).
Ive made a huge mistake in Elden Ring
May 2024In Elden Ring, it’s killed or be killed — brutally. The game is designed to put you ever on the defensive, ready to lash out before you yourself can be lashed.
Japanese billionaire decides not to find girlfriend to fly around the Moon after all
May 2024E-commerce billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has backtracked on his bizarre plan to find a girlfriend to take into space by way of reality TV show.
Joby signs a deal to launch air taxi service in Dubai by 2026.
May 2024Joby signs a deal to launch air taxi service in Dubai by 2026. Joby’s agreement with Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority gives the startup exclusivity to run its electric air tax services for six years.
Karma Go review: a mobile hotspot minus the monthly fee
May 2024Karma was always intriguing, at least in theory. You get a relatively cheap mobile hotspot and data, but it's open to anybody.
Leak: the Asus ROG Ally X will have twice the battery at 80Wh and two USB-C ports
May 2024While we already knew the Ally X was shooting for double the battery life by including a larger pack, VideoCardz has leaked marketing materials that confirm it’s literally doubling the capacity to 80 watt-hours, up from the original 40Wh pack.
Loki season 1 review - The Verge
May 2024Loki did something remarkable: it made me forget about the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’s not how it’s supposed to work.
Marissa Mayer is giving Yahoo employees her annual bonus to make up for massive hacks
May 2024As those who follow Yahoo know, in late 2014, we were the victim of a state-sponsored attack and reported it to law enforcement as well as to the 26 users that we understood were impacted.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order review
May 2024Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order isn’t the latest superhero blockbuster. It doesn’t have a huge, emotional storyline that impacts various facets of the massive Marvel universe, one that expands on years of worldbuilding.
MatPat looks at YouTubes biggest changes over the last decade and what lies ahead
May 2024Matthew “MatPat” Patrick was on YouTube for two years before he hit publish on the first entry in the series that changed his life — and YouTube culture as a whole.
Mattel is making games like Uno more accessible for colorblind players
May 2024In an effort to make its games accessible to a wider audience and “create more inclusive play experiences,” Mattel has announced that 80 percent of its gaming portfolio — including iconic titles like Uno — will be made accessible for those with a color vision deficiency by the end of the year, with a push to 90 percent by the end of 2025, as spotted by Polygon.
Meta shuts down its Connectivity division after nearly a decade
May 2024Meta’s shuttering its Connectivity arm almost 10 years after launching the initiative, according to a report from Light Reading. The company confirmed to both Light Reading and Fierce Wireless that it will instead split the division across its Infrastructure and Central Products teams.
Meta Threads users can now stop their posts from showing on Instagram
May 2024Many Threads users are now saying they have the ability to opt out of having their posts shown on Instagram and Facebook.
Metas free Code Llama AI programming tool closes the gap with GPT-4
May 2024Meta’s latest update to its code generation AI model, Code Llama 70B, is “the largest and best-performing model” yet. Code Llama tools launched in August and are free for both research and commercial use.
Microsoft has been secretly testing its Bing chatbot Sydney for years
May 2024Microsoft’s new Bing chatbot AI often refers to itself as Sydney because what you see today in Microsoft’s search engine is the result of years of work to make Bing chatbots a reality.
Mr. Robot was renewed for a second season before it premiered
May 2024Well, that was fast: Mr. Robot was renewed for a second season by USA yesterday afternoon, hours before its premiere was set to air.
MWC 2024: all the phones, wearables, and gadgets announced in Barcelona
May 2024A month and a half after debuting the Magic 6 Pro in China, Honor is announcing global availability of its latest flagship at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
My spirit lives in this Twitter account of Italians pissed off at bad food recipes
May 2024I might sound stereotypical as hell here, but I’m Italian and I care a lot about food. I also think Italian food is the best food in the world, and I get mad if you bastardize Italian dishes with ingredients that have nothing to do with it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson says the Enterprise would destroy the Millennium Falcon
May 2024In a recent video interview with National Geographic, Neil deGrasse Tyson finally set the record straight for sci-fi fans everywhere. Asked whether he'd choose Star Wars' Millennium Falcon or Star Trek's Enterprise, Tyson naturally chose the jewel of the Federation fleet, the Enterprise, as his preferred spaceship.
Netflixs apocalyptic teen comedy Daybreak is an exhausting sugar rush
May 2024Daybreak’s Josh Wheeler (Colin Ford) has a killer origin story. But what separates him from Harry Potter, Katniss Everdeen, or any of the dozens of teen protagonists who’ve struggled through their own apocalyptic YA stories is that he thinks of his life in terms like “killer origin story.
Niagara Launcher is a minimalist Android launcher
May 2024After a couple years of beta testing, Niagara Launcher is now available for download from the Google Play Store. It’s designed to replace the default Android app drawer and home screen grid with a layout that’s easier to access with one hand.
Nike announces new and more colorful Nike+ FuelBand SE
May 2024At a big, athlete-filled event in New York City, Nike has announced the new Nike+ Fuelband SE. The band is mostly the same, only with some color: it comes in yellow, pink, or red accenting an otherwise black body.
Nissan is adopting Teslas NACS charging standard
May 2024For Nissan in particular, this is a big deal. The company is one of the pioneers of the electric vehicle revolution thanks to its early release of the Nissan Leaf in 2010.
Now AppleVision ProPersonas can float freely across different apps
May 2024Starting today, Vision Pro personas will be able to do more than hover like a ghost in FaceTime calls. Now, you can use them in SharePlay-enabled apps to collaborate, play games, or watch media with other people.
Nvidia is nerfing new RTX 3080 and 3070 cards for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining
May 2024Nvidia is extending its cryptocurrency mining limits to newly manufactured GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards.
OnePlus Nord N20 5G review: T-Mobiles best budget 5G phone
May 2024The OnePlus Nord N20 5G is OnePlus at its best. While the company hasn’t quite mastered the flagship, it has dialed in the recipe for a stellar budget phone.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still chasing billions to build AI chips
May 2024A new report from Bloomberg says that once-again CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman’s efforts to raise billions for an AI chip venture are aimed at using that cash to develop a “network of factories” for fabrication that would stretch around the globe and involve working with unnamed “top chip manufacturers.
OpenAI releases third version of DALL-E
May 2024OpenAI announced the third version of its generative AI visual art platform DALL-E, which now lets users use ChatGPT to create prompts and includes more safety options.
Origin EVO 16-S review: new screen, same problems
May 2024There’s something slightly unusual about the Origin EVO 16-S: it has a 16-inch screen. That’s a peculiar size for a gaming laptop, or any kind of laptop for that matter (though it may not be an anomaly for long.
Pentaxs new $500 film camera prioritizes style over quality
May 2024I used to lambaste the very idea of half-frame cameras when I was a college student obsessed with medium- and large-format film (who wants even less resolution than 35mm?
PewDiePie avenged as MrBeast becomes YouTubes most-subscribed channel
May 2024Bollywood music label T-Series had the most-subscribed YouTube channel for years after Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie, conceded his protracted and problematic fight for the top spot to it.
Pink Samsung Galaxy Note available in Korea 'today'
May 2024We're still not sure if it's a phone or a tablet, and now we have another decision to make when shopping for Samsung's Galaxy Note — the color.
PlayStation VR demos are now at Best Buy and GameStop
May 2024It'll be a few more months before you can buy Sony's PlayStation VR for yourself, but the company is installing demo kiosks at Best Buy and GameStop retail locations starting.
Porn companies are embracing crowdfunding
May 2024The flood of free porn online has made things hard for professionals who are looking to make a living. For every video-on-demand service, there are dozens of free alternatives and outright pirated films to choose from.
Prey is a complex, tense, and scattered piece of survival horror
May 2024A protagonist wakes up in a space colony after a disaster, with a blank in their memory. An artificial intelligence informs them that aliens on board have transformed the crew into monstrosities.
Pushy checkout screens are helping tipflation
May 2024Tipping is an age-old American debate. How much do you pay and when? Is it a choice or an obligation? Generally, tech has at least made it easier over the years.
Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargivers first trailer is even busier than its title.
May 2024Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver’s first trailer is even busier than its title. If it’s been a while since you thought about Sofia Boutella in Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire as Imperium soldier Kora, there’s a solid chance Rebel Moon — Part Two The Scargiver’s new trailer will leave you more than a bit confused about what’s going on.
Redbox Instant video service arrives on Roku
May 2024Verizon’s Redbox Instant streaming video and DVD rental service is coming to the Roku family of set-top boxes. The company announced today that anyone with a recent Roku player (2, 3, HD, LT, or Streaming Stick) will be able to stream some 5,500 movies and reserve physical discs (680 titles) for pickup at Redbox’s signature kiosks.
Reddit expanded the r/Place canvas, and users immediately wrote messages cursing the CEO
May 2024Reddit added more space to the r/Place collaborative canvas on Friday, giving users additional room to collaboratively draw pixelated art. Almost immediately after the space was added, users started to write in their protests against the site and CEO Steve Huffman.
Ricohs GR III street photography compact goes on sale next month for $899
May 2024After showing it off at last year’s Photokina, Ricoh has announced release details for its long-awaited GR III compact camera. As with the previous two models, it pairs an 18.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story gets its first trailer
May 2024The first teaser trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has arrived, and by the look of things this is a very different take at the rejuvenated sci-fi saga.
Roku 3 review - The Verge
May 2024Tuning in I want my set-top box to me as small and non-descript as possible — in my home theater stack, design flair is a problem.
Samsung announces the first game to support new HDR10 Plus Gaming standard
May 2024Samsung’s announcement doesn’t specify which platforms the game will support HDR10 Plus Gaming on, but we’re assuming it’s PC rather than consoles given neither Sony nor Microsoft have announced support for this latest HDR format on their platforms.
Samsung Galaxy S III review
May 2024TouchWiz Android 4.0 may underpin every interaction you have with the Galaxy S III, but Samsung has diligently skinned almost everything about the operating system.
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra review
May 2024Phones in a flagship lineup have come to feel like variations on a theme. There’s the base model, the bigger base model, and then the biggest model with an extra camera and some other minor hardware upgrades.
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2023: Z Flip 5, Z Fold 5, and all the news
May 2024Seven seconds of foldables with Suga (and maybe Baekhyun?) If you’ve ever wondered who actually uses Samsung foldables... look no further than K-pop (BTS, EXO, etc), K-dramas (Start Up, Itaewon Class), and Korean variety shows.
Samsung reportedly plans Galaxy Note 9 announcement on August 9th
May 2024We’re still months away from getting to the next burst of 2018 flagship phones, but a report from Bloomberg this afternoon says one of the biggest of those phones may come sooner than expected.
Samsung's Serif TV is a font of ugly
May 2024New TVs tend to get noticed for being super-thin or flexible, but Samsung's latest set instead wants to give the television a little depth.
Samsungs Galaxy A54 phone with a lovely 120Hz display is $100 off
May 2024Samsung’s midrange sleeper hit of a midrange Android phone is on sale and matching its lowest price to date. The Samsung Galaxy A54 5G is just $349.
Samsungs Galaxy Note 10 reportedly launching on August 7th
May 2024The Note is traditionally Samsung’s premier platform for showing off new phone technology (setting aside the Galaxy Fold for a moment, anyway).
Samsungs updated A-series phones are coming to the US, starting at $179.99
May 2024Samsung is bringing three of its new mid-range handsets, the Galaxy A50, A20 and A10E, to the US this summer. Pricing for the phones start at $179.
See the ebb and flow of Citi Bikes in New York City
May 2024After two months on the street, New York's first bike-sharing program Citi Bike is starting to yield some interesting data about how riders are actually using the service.
Self-driving Cruise vehicle crashes with San Francisco fire truck
May 2024A Cruise robotaxi in San Francisco collided with a San Francisco Fire Department truck late Thursday, CNBC reports. A passenger riding inside the Cruise self-driving vehicle suffered “non-severe injuries” and was transported in an ambulance, according to an official company post on X (formally Twitter) this morning.
Sheeple is now in the dictionary, and Apple users are the example
May 2024Just when you though the mobile operating system flame wars of yesteryear had at last subsided, think again. This morning, Merriam-Webster gleefully tweeted a new addition to its online dictionary: “sheeple,” or “people who are docile, compliant, or easily influenced.
Shift Robotics Moonwalkers X: lighter, safer robot shoes
May 2024The Moonwalkers went somewhat viral in 2022 when the company behind them, Shift Robotics, promised it had created “the world’s fastest shoes.
Should you blow into your video game cartridges?
May 2024Blowing into cartridges. The practice has basically been around as long as video games have existed — almost like a magic formula.
Shovel Knight is getting a sequel in a new dimension
May 2024Shovel Knight might be bouncing into 3D. Developer Yacht Club Games just announced a new mainline game in the hit series that started as a retro-inspired 2D platformer, and the studio says this new game will “launch Shovel Knight into an entirely new dimension of gaming,” according to a blog post.
Someone plugged an entire 4K desktop graphics card into the Steam Deck
May 2024The $400-plus Steam Deck gaming handheld does not support external graphics cards. Valve has been clear on this point for months — you can’t magically plug in a dock and run Cyberpunk or Elden Ring at 4K.
Sony announces the PlayStation 4, launching at the end of 2013
May 2024On stage at the "See the Future" event in New York, Sony has just announced its latest gaming console: the PlayStation 4.
Sony makes clear it will still sell PSP games on the PS3 and Vita stores
May 2024What does this mean for you? When the PlayStation®Store for PlayStation®Portable (PSP) was previously closed in 2016, you were still able to perform searches and make in-game purchases.
SpaceXs Starlink made $1.4 billion last year
May 2024Starlink, the SpaceX satellite internet service, generated $1.4 billion in revenue last year, documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal reveal.
Sprint sells 2.2 million iPhones, loses $1.32 billion in Q4 2012
May 2024Third-place wireless carrier Sprint has just released its financial report for Q4 2012. Compared to Q3's net loss of $767 million, the carrier slumped further to a $1.
Steve Jobs changed the future of laptops 10 years ago today
May 2024“It’s the world’s thinnest notebook,” said Steve Jobs as he introduced the MacBook Air 10 years ago today. Apple’s Macworld 2008 was a special one, taking place just days after the annual Consumer Electronics Show had ended and Bill Gates bid farewell to Microsoft.
Substack had negative revenue - The Verge
May 2024Is there a funnier phrase in the English language than “negative revenue”? You can see the negative revenue for yourself! That is what the parentheses mean!
Super Bowser now has his own 2,807-piece Lego Mario set
May 2024How tall is Bowser, the fire-breathing dragon-turtle-lizard thing who regularly roils the Mushroom Kingdom as Mario’s chief nemesis? It is the age-old question, and there’s no single answer.
Super73 RX review: more dirt bike than e-bike
May 2024The Super73 brand is instantly recognizable. With riders like Casey Neistat, Jack Black, and even Justin Bieber, these souped up e-bikes have made a name for themselves as a trendy, future-ish way to get around.
T-Mobile offering a truly unlimited data plan is a mostly good thing
May 2024T-Mobile created a lot of buzz this week when it announced it was bringing back an unlimited plan without data throttling.
Teslas new Optimus Gen 2 robot.
May 2024Tesla’s new Optimus Gen 2 robot. The latest Tesla Bot is a little bit lighter, walks faster, and balances better with improvements throughout, including in the function of its neck, feet, and hands.
Texas lawyer sues Tor for providing tools used by revenge porn site
May 2024Encryption service Tor has been caught up in a Texas revenge porn lawsuit. Yesterday, attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke linked to a lawsuit filing against Pink Meth, a nude photos site accessible only to users of the encryption software.
The Beats Solo Buds have a great look and an even better price
May 2024The first under-$100 true wireless earbuds from Beats (and, by extension, Apple) are here. Starting today, you can order the $79.
The Boys season 2 review: a satire that wants to start a cult of personality
May 2024It’s easy to get the wrong idea about The Boys. Amazon’s satirical take on superheroes — based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic superheroes who get off on behaving badly and the operatives who, in turn, get their jollies from keeping them in line — had a whiff of Deadpool about it.
The Deauther Watch is the worlds most annoying wearable
May 2024When I was a kid, I was entranced by commercials for the Talkboy Tape Recorder. They promised you a life of pranks and trickery, a perfect tool for being optimally annoying to siblings and loved ones — as seen in Home Alone 2!
The first big Wild Hearts update is beautiful and deadly
May 2024In the monster hunting game Wild Hearts, the creatures you face off against are a mash-up of animals and nature. There are towering wild hogs made out of wood and giant rats covered in glowing mushrooms.
The Forerunner 165 series is the budget training watch Garmin needed
May 2024If you’re training for a race, few multisport watch brands do it like Garmin. But there are two things I don’t like about ‘em.
The Nothing Phone 2 is mostly fine on Verizon if youve got good 5G coverage
May 2024Sometimes you’ve just gotta break the rules and go for it. I attended Nothing’s New York City product drop last week and got my hands on the Nothing Ear 2s and the Nothing Phone 2.
The Simpsons response to The Problem with Apu recognizes times are changing, but rejects progress
May 2024Last year, director Michael Melamedoff and comedian Hari Kondabolu released The Problem with Apu, a documentary about how South Asian people have dealt with seeing most of their American representation on television come from The Simpsons’ yogi and convenience store owner, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.
The Twitch streamers fighting to keep minority languages alive
May 2024Minority languages are often associated with aging rural communities, thought to have fallen out of use or confined to textbooks. Defined simply as a language spoken by less than half of the population in a country, they adapt with the times like any living language, often due to the efforts of enterprising young people.
The US is making it even harder for Huawei phones to get Android updates
May 2024The Trump administration is further tightening restrictions on Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei, making it more difficult for the company to get chips for its devices.
The V-Moda Vamp: a $650 hybrid iPhone headphone amp and battery case (hands-on)
May 2024Early last month, V-Moda CFO Val Kolton stopped by The Verge offices with his company's latest gadget: an iPhone case that combines a high-grade headphone amplifier and digital-to-analog converter with an external battery pack.
The Verge Archives - Amazon Prime Day 2024
May 2024Wiim’s excellent audio streaming boxes are 20 percent off. The Wiim Mini, Wiim Pro and Wiim Pro Plus support Chromecast Audio, Airplay 2, Spotify Connect, Tidal Connect, and a bunch more.
The world's first Bitcoin ATM is coming to Canada next week
May 2024After dumping the penny last year, Canada is taking another step towards the fiscal future with the launch of the world's first publicly-accessible Bitcoin ATM next Tuesday.
There is no best time to release new Mandalorian episodes
May 2024For the last eight weeks, waking up on Friday morning has come with a gamble for many Star Wars fans: check Twitter to see the latest headlines or watch the new Mandalorian episode before anyone has a chance to spoil it?
Theres a new AMD-powered mini PC for the Intel NUC crowd.
May 2024There’s a new AMD-powered mini PC for the Intel NUC crowd. This fast AMD mini PC comes with a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX, a Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU, and two NVMe SSD slots.
This illustrated collection of Ursula K. Le Guins Earthsea books finally does the series justice
May 2024Fifty years ago, science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin released A Wizard of Earthsea, the first installment of a well-lauded and influential fantasy series.
Tinder is now picking people it thinks you should Super Like
May 2024Tinder’s been experimenting with a lot of premium add-ons to boost revenue: it recently shot up and became the number one top-grossing app on the App Store after bringing its paid Gold tier to the US.
Treks new Fetch electric cargo bikes are aimed squarely at families
May 2024Trek announced two new electric cargo bikes — Fetch Plus 2 and Fetch Plus 4 — aimed squarely at the growing number of families who are looking to replace a car with a more sustainable mode of transportation.
Trumps latest explanation for the Huawei ban is unacceptably bad
May 2024Over the past week, the US government has taken extreme and unprecedented steps against Huawei, cutting it off from every US partner at the risk of a long-term rupture in trade between the US and China.
Turing Award 2018: Nobel Prize of computing given to godfathers of AI
May 2024The 2018 Turing Award, known as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” has been given to a trio of researchers who laid the foundations for the current boom in artificial intelligence.
Twitter flags, limits sharing on Trump tweet about being immune to coronavirus
May 2024Twitter disabled some sharing options on a tweet from President Trump on Sunday, and labeled it for violating its rules against spreading coronavirus misinformation.
Unicomp New Model M keyboard review: back to brilliant basics
May 2024I’m not old enough to have ever encountered an original IBM Model M in an office. But in my second year of university, after hearing about how amazing these old keyboards were to type on, I sought out an old model on eBay.
Vergecast: the state of MagSafe, Valves Steam Deck, and billionaires in space
May 2024Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories.
Volkswagen's huge diesel emissions scandal: the full story
May 2024US-based owners of Volkswagen vehicles affected by the manufacturer's infamous emissions scandal will now be able to sell their cars back to dealerships, after the company was granted final approval on its proposed $14.
Whale Safe project trials Ai-equipped buoys to reduce ship collisions
May 2024AI software monitoring sounds from within bright yellow buoys could reduce whale deaths by identifying whale species and pod locations. Scientists then verify the data and relay that information to any ships passing nearby, helping them to avoid the animals.
WhatsApp went down worldwide in a major outage
May 2024WhatsApp went down worldwide on Wednesday afternoon, impacting the 2 billion users of the messaging service. Users started experiencing issues connecting to WhatsApp in multiple countries just after 2PM ET today, with the service stuck on “connecting” for many.
Yogurt pods are just powdered milk and bacteria without a container
May 2024The Yomee is a new gadget on Kickstarter designed to make you yogurt. It's essentially an automated milk heating and cooling system that also happens to rely on pods.
YouTube didnt tell Wikipedia about its plans for Wikipedia
May 2024At SXSW yesterday, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the platform would start adding information from Wikipedia to conspiracy-related videos within the next few weeks.
YouTubes head of music confirms YouTube Red and Google Play Music will merge to create a new serv
May 2024YouTube's head of music confirmed that the company is planning on merging its Google Play Music service with YouTube Red to create a new streaming offering.
Asus is now selling its new school-oriented Chromebook Flip C213
Asus announced its Chromebook Flip C213 at CES this year as a device for schools. It’s a ruggedized Chromebook with a 360-degree hinge that has rubber bumpers and “modular construction,” so IT departments can replace various pieces if kids destroy the thing.