Articles by The Verge from November 2019

Image: Remedy Entertainment Black Friday is the best time of the year for the gaming fans who’ve felt like they didn’t have the budget or the time to pick up every new hit title on r...

Apple Watch | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’ve been waiting to upgrade your Apple Watch, or you’re a first-time buyer, Black Friday 2019 has been ripe with big d...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The LG G8 ThinQ isn’t the most amazing phone in the whole wide world, but it might just be the best bang for the buck this Black Friday. In ...

Image: TheGoncas2 / YouTube China has released a new government policy designed to prevent the spread of fake news and misleading videos created using artificial intelligence, otherwise ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Black Friday is one the best times of the year to pick up popular games, consoles, and gaming accessories at huge discounts, and it can be ove...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Black Friday officially starts tomorrow, November 29th, but retailers like Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Amazon, and more are making today feel like the pa...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge As you’ve probably seen on The Verge, we’ve been rounding up all of the best Black Friday deals on laptops, truly wireless earbuds, gaming...

Photo: Sony There have been more gaming deals this year for Black Friday than perhaps any other category of tech. If you’re a gamer, that’s obviously a good problem to have, and Game...

Image: Cards Against Humanity The 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 l...

Photo by Stefan Etienne / The Verge Console refreshes happen every few years, but for PC gamers, there’s always a tantalizing potential upgrade that could make your gaming machine just...

Apple Watch | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Walmart’s Black Friday sale are happening in-store and online all over the country. Like other retailers, there are impressive...

Target’s Black Friday deals are underway, both in-store and online. Like every other store, you can find big price cuts on popular products, like Sony noise-canceling headphones, gaming ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Hulu’s Black Friday deal is here, and offering a pretty low price for new subscribers, who can get their first year of service on the streaming site fo...

It’s rude to play with your food at the Thanksgiving dinner table, but exceptions can be made if you’re sculpting newly announced cyberpunk pickup trucks out of your tubers. On Thanksg...

Photo: Sony There have been more gaming deals this year for Black Friday than perhaps any other category of tech. If you’re a gamer, that’s obviously a good problem to have, and Game...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Costco’s Black Friday sale is underway, and while members will get the most of its discounts, some of them are even open for non-members. Costco was o...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Plenty of Apple products, including the new iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook Pro, and more are seeing big discounts for Black Friday. Apple itself isn’t off...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Security researchers at SRLabs have found a number of vulnerabilities with the way carriers around the world are implementing RCS, the new messagi...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge As you’ve probably seen on The Verge, we’ve been rounding up all of the best Black Friday deals on laptops, truly wireless earbuds, gaming...

If you’re always forgetting your passwords, or losing the piece of paper you’ve written them on, it may be time to switch to a password manager. A password manager is a great way to ke...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge From tomorrow, November 30th, it will be illegal to fly a drone weighing over 250g in the UK without being registered, reports BBC News. That makes toda...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge One of the biggest surprises found in Best Buy’s Black Friday ad wasn’t that it has some great deals in store for the big shopping holiday...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will mark the final chapter in the Skywalker trilogy, and prestigious British auction house Sotheby’s is marking the occasion with a new event. “Star ...

The Epic Games Store isn’t the only digital PC shop with great deals for Black Friday. GOG.com, best-known for its robust collection of classic games and lack of DRM, is offering discoun...

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images What’s it going to take to convince Xbox boss Phil Spencer to make a VR-compatible Xbox? Earlier this week, Spencer said in an interview with S...

The newest, fastest iteration of the Roku Ultra is now half price for Black Friday. You can snag the streaming box, which supports 4K and comes bundled with JBL headphones, for $48 on Amaz...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon has shared a long list of its devices that are cheaper for Black Friday. If you’ve been looking for a deal on a tablet, Kindle e-reader, smart s...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you were trying to share Thanksgiving photos today you may have noticed that both Facebook and Instagram have been suffering intermittent o...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you were trying to share Thanksgiving photos on Thursday, you may have noticed that both Facebook and Instagram began suffering intermitten...

Target, like every other store, is jumping into the Black Friday shopping craze. Its doorbuster sale kicks off Thursday, November 28th, at 5PM local time. Stores will close at 1AM on Frida...

Dayton-raised artist Keith Rankin has an eye for the surreal and an ear for the avant garde. He puts these to good use not only in his professional illustration practice, but also as the c...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Black Friday officially starts tomorrow, November 29th, but retailers like Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Amazon, and more are making today feel like the pa...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Black Friday is upon us. Many of the best deals we’ve seen all year are happening right now, whether you’re in the market for a new phone ...

An iOS developer is building an iPhone app that will turn the smartphone into an iPod Classic with its nostalgic click wheel. Elvin Hu, a design student at Cooper Union college in New York...

It’s Thanksgiving here in the United States, and you know what that means: coasting into the holiday weekend on a corny hack premise that we ought to be able to wrap up by lunchtime. (Th...

Image: @x_feroza TikTok has reversed a ban and apologized to an American teenager whose account was locked after she posted a video criticizing the Chinese government over its treatment ...

Photo by Stephen Lam/ Getty Images Famed designer Jony Ive has disappeared from Apple’s Leadership page, signaling an end to his time in Cupertino. Ive joined Apple in 1992 and led the...

If you’re not quite ready to sign up for a full-fledged cloud gaming service like Google Stadia — and who could blame you? — there are plenty of ways to dip your toe in the streaming...

Image: Artiphon Nashville-based tech company Artiphon has a new music-making gadget up for backing on Kickstarter called Orba. The Orba is a small, handheld device that’s a synth, loop...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced an updated drone policy, intended to take the place of a 2015 policy guidance. The new policy maintains a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has followed up with more details surrounding its plan to remove inactive accounts over the coming months. First, the company says the pro...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge The Department of Justice has decided not to do anything about wireless carriers’ attempts to turn eSIMs into a way to keep customers locked to their ne...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Black Friday deals on Google products are happening all over the web, including at Google’s online storefront. Regardless of where you shop,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When used within Russia, Apple’s Maps and Weather apps now list Crimea as being a Russian territory. The move, reported by BBC News, is the late...

Google is finally adding the ability to manually tag someone in Google Photos, as reported by Android Police. Google Photos has always been able to automatically recognize faces and sort t...

Image: Wyze Wyze’s security cameras will temporarily lose their person detection feature in January 2020 after the AI startup it partnered with on the feature abruptly terminated their...

There are few secrets in Hollywood as sacred as anything involving new Star Wars movies, which is why when an authentic Rise of Skywalker script ended up on eBay, people at Lucasfilm panic...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge All the speed you’d expect from a Porsche, with zero emissions Continue reading… ...

YouTube rolled out a new layout for its homepage a couple of weeks ago, and I’m not exaggerating when I say it’s made using YouTube feel like an utter chore. Complaining about YouTube...

Thanksgiving is almost here, and nothing goes quite as well with a weekend off from work and eating huge amounts of food like hours spent digesting on the couch, binge-watching movies and ...

Photo by Claire Folger Warning: spoilers ahead for major plot points of Knives Out A wealthy publishing magnate has been found dead in his study. It looks like a suicide, but you and I k...

Black Friday is almost here, kicking off this Friday, November 29th. In the days leading up to the big shopping weekend, we’ve been highlighting a few of the best deals we’d seen so fa...

Lee Se-dol is seen in 2016 during his matches with the AI program AlphaGo. | Photo: Google / Getty Images The South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol has retired from professional play, tel...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Black Friday and Cyber Monday are great for saving a lot of money on big-ticket purchases like 4K TVs, gaming consoles, laptops, phones, smart...

The Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit | Image Credit: Jay Doscher Sometimes, certain gadgets speak to you on an intuitive level. They bypass that bit of your brain that demands functionality or ...

Image: The Verge As 2019 dawned and Mark Zuckerberg announced this year’s personal challenge, I suggested it might be time to retire the concept altogether. Zuckerberg’s “challenge...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon has shared a long list of its devices that are cheaper for Black Friday. If you’ve been looking for a deal on a tablet, Kindle e-reader, smart s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new initiative has been launched to preserve tweets from deceased loved ones after the social network announced it will begin removing inactive ...

Acer is swooping in right before Black Friday with one of the best PC gaming laptop deals we’ve seen so far: its 2017 Predator Triton 700 is $2,000 off for a final price of $999.99. It�...

Image: Williams Sonoma Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is coming out in less than a month, and the tsunami of Star Wars-themed merchandise is finally starting to hit. The latest Star Wa...

On Tuesday, Patreon banned the controversial YouTuber Onision, after he allegedly doxxed a woman who says he harassed her and manipulated her into a sexual relationship. Onision, who is ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge You might hear a little more emotion from Alexa’s vaguely-robotic voice some time soon, as Amazon announced today that developers can now have Alexa re...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Transcription company Rev updated its Terms of Service agreement today following reports of workers unhappy with low pay and exposure to graphic f...

Facebook is acquiring Beat Games, the developer of popular (and excellent) virtual reality rhythm game Beat Saber. TechCrunch reported that Beat Games will keep operating independently, bu...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google today announced that its Stadia Pro premium subscription tier is getting two more free games starting in December. The titles are Tomb ...

Image: iFixit via Creative Electron Last week, Apple surprise-launched its lineup of Smart Battery Cases for the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max, and the cases have an intriguing new a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is sending out emails to owners of inactive accounts with a warning: sign in by December 11th, or your account will be history and its use...

Image: Sean Hollister / The Verge The Steam Autumn Sale has begun, allowing you to nab a copy of Resident Evil 2 for a mere $20 among other savings, but there’s one deal that stands ou...

Image: Sean Hollister / The Verge The Steam Autumn Sale has begun, allowing you to nab a copy of Resident Evil 2 for a mere $20 among other savings, but there’s one deal that stands ou...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Facebook is now operating without a third-party fact-checking service in the Netherlands. The company’s only partner, Dutch newspaper NU.nl, ju...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge There’s a lot of them Continue reading… ...

There are many reasons why Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is good: challenging combat, interesting platforming and exploration, the extremely Star Wars-y sheen over the entire production, or...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for Apple products aren’t usually found at the company’s stores but at several other retailers. Apple i...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft is turning its Outlook.com and Outlook for the Web mail services into Progressive Web Apps (PWA). This allows any Outlook user to install the we...

Enter the Mootrix. | Credit: Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Moscow Region Let’s just be up front here: yes, these pictures seem to show a cow wearing a virtual reality headse...

The Echo Show 8 is a less expensive and smaller Alexa smart display, but it doesn’t lose anything for it Continue reading… ...

Transporting a large space capsule around Earth can be a daunting process, but NASA has its own various equipment for such jobs — one of which is a very big plane with a very big belly. ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg In a lot of ways, Black Friday is already happening — even if the shopping holiday won’t officially kick off until this Friday, November 29th. Yester...

Disney+ has been updated to add a missing “continue watching” section, making it easier to resume content that viewers started watching at an earlier point. It’s a small update — D...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sony has released a firmware update for its excellent noise-canceling WF-1000XM3 earbuds that allows you to control volume directly instead of adjusting ...

Want to build your own radio station? All you need is a Raspberry Pi and a piece of wire Continue reading… ...

Joan Martinez poses for a portrait at Montez Press Radio where she is about to record "20 Years, 20 Thoughts: A Letter From Joanie to Joanne." Canal Street, New York City. | Photo by Ameli...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This year, TikTok became one of the biggest social media platforms in the world. The shortform app finally reached over a billion active users wor...

Image: Gigabyte Gigabyte’s latest eGPU is the Aorus RTX 2080 Ti, a $1500 external graphics box containing one of Nvidia’s most powerful consumer graphics cards. Rather than relying o...

Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Welcome back to our discussion about platforms and democracy! I had a great time meeting Interface readers last week at the Techonomy conference i...

All’s fair in love and tug-of-war? A few days after Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s new Cybertruck, he posted a video of the truck taking part in a tug of war with a Ford F-150, which sh...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new investigation has claimed that Amazon attempted to dodge workplace safety regulators for years up until 2015. The investigation, which lead ...

Honor V30 Pro | Honor Honor has announced the V30 and V30 Pro, the latest in its range of generally impressive upper-mid-range phones. The Honor V range is usually released globally as t...

You’re going to need a special dongle Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On November 22nd, roughly 200 Google employees and supporters rallied to protest the suspension of two colleagues, Rebecca Rivers and Laurence Ber...

Image: Google Google posted a new video today showing its upcoming Ambient Mode feature for Google Assistant in action on an Android device. The company first announced Ambient Mode at I...

Photo credit should read MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images In October, Fiat Chrysler CEO Mike Manley told investors that he’s open to making cars powered by other companies’ elec...

Photo: Allbirds Allbirds co-CEO Joey Zwillinger has waded further into the ongoing debate over Amazon’s propensity for cloning popular products, penning a short Medium post slamming th...

According to the Consumer Federation of America, of the top ten consumer complaints in 2018, the third most frequent was concerned with retail sales: “False advertising and other decepti...

Image: Hasbro If you’re looking for a familiar game to play this Thanksgiving that could also eat up the weekend and destroy your entire family, Hasbro’s got you covered with a brand...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of musicians and activists is calling for artists to pull their music from Amazon’s music streaming service until it ends its ties with ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has a new market research app launching today called Viewpoints, just a few months after the company introduced an Android data collectio...

Netflix has signed a lease to keep New York City’s iconic Paris Theater open, and will use the space to play some of its most prestigious films, the company announced today. The Netflix ...

Features and podcasts that explore the complicated narrative of what illegal transmissions can do and who they reach Continue reading… ...

Apple’s annual holiday advertisements are designed to make people tear up, and this year’s is no different. The only noticeable change between this new commercial and those from years ...

Mint Mobile, a wireless carrier known for its cheap cellphone plans, announced today that it has a new owner: Ryan Reynolds. That’s right. The voice of Deadpool is now part-owner of a ce...

On Monday, Facebook and Twitter announced that the data of “hundreds of users” may have been improperly accessed after their accounts were used for logging into Google Play Store apps ...

Protesters gather outside Hong Kong Polytechnic University on November 25 | Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images Pro-democracy candidates won a landslide victory in Hong Kong yesterday, b...

Photo by Philippe Lopez/AFP via Getty Images One of Amazon’s largest urban fulfillment centers opened last fall in the New York City borough of Staten Island, but the more than 3,000 w...

Last year, Amazon launched the Echo Wall Clock, a physical clock that can also display timers from your Echo device via a ring of LEDs around the clock’s face. Now, a new model of the de...

Tumblr is rolling out a new community hub feature called tag pages to keep people engaged with what they’re following. The new product feature comes not too long after Tumblr announced i...

Image: Huawei Huawei’s latest smart speaker, the Sound X, is being made in partnership with Devialet, a high-end audio company known for its premium Phantom speakers. Engadget reports ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that his office would drop its lawsuit opposing the multibillion-dollar merger between tele...

Pictured: AMD Ryzen Threadripper, 2nd-gen | Image: AMD Next year will see the release of AMD’s first Threadripper CPU with 64 computing cores and 128 threads, double that of the 32 cor...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram has shared new details on how its app uses machine learning to surface content for users, stressing that, when making recommendations, i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Violent police recordings, descriptions of child abuse, and graphic medical videos have appeared without warning, transcribers say Cont...

As insect invaders approach, researchers use a combination of indigenous knowledge and Western forestry science to save a valuable tradition Continue reading… ...

Spend any time in New York or London, and you’ll inevitably come across dozens of people whizzing along each city’s streets on electric scooters. Yet, despite their popularity, e-scoot...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Black Friday is technically Friday, November 29th, but the many great deals available right now indicates that the shopping holiday has alread...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re like us, Black Friday is the time of year that you wish never came to an end. Not because of the packed parking lots or the lack of sl...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is developing a new feature for Messenger which would allow you to share content to a limited circle of close friends. The feature, curre...

Photo by Oliver Berg/picture alliance via Getty Images Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has officially launched the Contract for the Web, a set of principles designed...

Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images The unveiling of Tesla’s Cybertruck last week was full of surprises, but none more shocking than the moment when lead designer Franz von...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge London’s transport regulator, Transport for London (TfL), has refused to grant Uber a new license in the city. TfL had been extending Uber’s license t...

Peak Design Everyday Zip backpack | Image: Peak Design Peak Design has announced an overhaul of its entire camera-focused bag lineup, called the Everyday Line V2. The new bags are simila...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for Apple products aren’t usually found at the company’s own stores, but at several other retailers. Be...

Adam Pype & Viktor Kraus It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest...

For Black Friday and Cyber Monday, retailers are slashing hundreds of dollars off of 4K HDR TVs at any screen size you might be looking for. Whether you’re on the hunt for a stunning LG ...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Noise-canceling headphones are some of the best gadgets around, and today’s models are truly incredible: wireless, comfortable, and capable of turnin...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge With options like the Powerbeats Pro, Jaybird Vistas, Sony 1000XM3s, and the AirPods Pro, true wireless earbuds really came into their own in 2019. This ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Two days after its big (and slightly botched) unveiling, the Cybertruck is already racking up a lot of interest. Tesla has received 146,000 preorders f...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Two days after its big (and slightly botched) unveiling, the Cybertruck is already racking up a lot of interest. Tesla had received 146,000 preorders f...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon has shared a long list of its devices that are cheaper for Black Friday. If you’ve been looking for a deal on a tablet, Kindle e-reader, smart s...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s tough to keep track of all the gaming deals that will kick off on Black Friday. That’s sort of a good problem to have; it means that ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Black Friday is almost here. The big shopping weekend actually starts on Thursday, November 28th, which is Thanksgiving in the US. If you’re...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Some of Google’s Black Friday deals start on Sunday, November 24th, just a few days before Black Friday. Deals on Google products will be ha...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge If you’re in the market for a smart speaker, we’ve got you covered with a roundup of the best Black Friday deals on Amazon Echo and Google Home speak...

YouTube has been pissing me off for weeks. I’m starting to feel like I should pay $11.99 a month to subscribe to YouTube Premium just to get rid of the annoying pop-ups Google sends me a...

Image: ILMxLAB If you hang out on the internet, you may be familiar with a certain ongoing fight over big-budget superhero movies that all traces back to an interview in which director M...

The battery lasts 10 days, but the software will bother you in one Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Black Friday is an excellent time to snag some pretty significant discounts on expensive electronics, and that includes drones from DJI. Wellbots is off...

AT&T announced today that its 5G network will launch in the first half of December. You can use it if you’ve got a compatible Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G, one of two unlimited plans, and ...

Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge OnePlus has suffered a data breach: the company says an “unauthorized party” accessed some customers’ order information. In a statement, OnePlus say...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Thursday, T-Mobile disclosed a security breach that impacted some of its prepaid customers in the United States. The company told Bleeping Comp...

Image: Apple Apple is delaying the theatrical release of its upcoming feature film The Banker following sexual misconduct allegations leveled about Bernard Garrett Jr., the son of the ch...

Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Congress has been struggling for years to pass a federal data privacy law, but on Friday, lawmakers gained an unexpected ally in A...

Most of the Black Friday gaming deals that we’ve seen so far have been on console games for the Xbox One, PS4, or Nintendo Switch. Today, Epic Games Store is bringing some much-needed sa...

After 12 long years, there’s finally going to be a new Half-Life game, and it’s exclusive to VR. Half-Life: Alyx is due to arrive in March 2020 for a wide array of PC VR headsets, but ...

The return of the electric Citi Bike is nigh! Several thousand pedal-assist electric bikes were yanked from service last April after “dozens” of people were injured due to harder-than-...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google has announced that Cloud Print, which lets you easily print things from the web using Google Chrome (even on printers that lack an internet c...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s tough to keep track of all the gaming deals that will kick off on Black Friday. That’s sort of a good problem to have; it means that ...

Image: OnLeaks (via 91Mobiles) We knew this was coming, but the first batch of early renders for the upcoming Galaxy S11 show that Samsung might be joining Apple and Google in the trend ...

Enthusiast gaming laptops are still just out of reach Continue reading… ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon has shared a long list of devices that will be discounted ahead of Black Friday. These deals will begin on Friday, November 22nd, with several wav...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Jeremy “DisguisedToast” Wang, a 27-year-old Hearthstone and Teamfight Tactics streamer from Canada with more than a million followers on Twitc...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge In a unanimous vote, the Federal Communications Commission has moved to block United States telecoms from using critical federal funds to buy Hua...

Image: Segway Black Friday is almost here, and with it, you can expect lots of deals on a range of tech gadgets. Even though it’s almost winter on the East Coast, there’s another kin...

Valve Yesterday, Valve released a trailer for its upcoming game Half-Life: Alyx — the first we’ve seen of the shooter series since 2007. Valve says Alyx is “the next part of the Ha...

As soon as I’m crowned league champion in a Pokémon game, that’s usually it for me. Once the main campaign is over, the games quickly lose their appeal; I’ve never been one to go ba...

Photo by Stefan Etienne / The Verge Console refreshes happen every few years, but for PC gamers, there’s always a tantalizing potential upgrade that could make your gaming machine just...

Photo by Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group via Getty Images Weather forecasters pushing for strict limits on 5G’s rapidly growing footprint were dealt a blow today by ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft will offer several Black Friday deals starting at 12AM ET on Thanksgiving Day, November 28th, though some of them are already happen...

When Instagram opened up its platform this August for anyone to create face filters, it sent a wave of creators to download Spark AR, Facebook’s software for building augmented reality e...

Illustration by David Huang for The Verge How the Hmong diaspora use the world’s most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Since it was first announced in 2014, Amazon’s Alexa personal assistant has become a resident in thousands of homes, is consulted by exercising ...

Google has updated its Gmail apps on iOS and Android with support for AMP, allowing users to interact with compatible emails as though they are dynamic webpages without needing to open an ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Riding shotgun in the polarizing prototype Continue reading… ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Here’s an interesting stat from the Pew Research Center: more than half of smart speaker owners in the US (54 percent) report saying “please” at le...

Photo: Sony There have been plenty of tantalizing Black Friday deals on gaming tech so far, and now there’s even more to pore over. GameStop has released its Black Friday ad, but first...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Microsoft has been granted a license to export software to Huawei once again. The software giant was caught up in a long line of US-based technology co...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has changed its security settings to let you use two-factor authentication (2FA) without having to give the service your phone number. Bac...

Elon Musk’s Cybertruck is nothing if not divisive. But nobody should feign surprise: the warning signs were there. His Tesla passion project is every bit “the futuristic-like cyberpun...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T is finally opening its 5G network up to consumers. Next month, the carrier will begin selling the Galaxy S10 Plus 5G for $1,300, and cust...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T is finally opening its 5G network up to consumers. Next month, the carrier will begin selling the Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G for $1,300, and ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the stage on November 21st to unveil the Cybertruck, Tesla’s all-electric pickup truck and the automaker’s sixth vehicle since its founding in 2003. There wil...

Tesla’s newly revealed Cybertruck is now available for preorder at tesla.com/cybertruck. The company is currently taking $100 deposits to reserve the truck. But as Tesla CEO Elon Musk no...

At the Tesla Cybertruck event in Los Angeles Thursday, Elon Musk said three words most of the tech world is familiar with: “One more thing.” That turned out to be an electric all-terra...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk just unveiled the company’s first electric pickup truck, also known as Cybertruck, at an event in Los Angeles, California. The truck will come in three versions with...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Right after announcing Half-Life: Alyx, already one of the most anticipated VR games of all time, Valve has confirmed plans to bring its Index...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The launch of Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service has been an absolute mess, overpromising and underdelivering at every turn — but at lea...

Image: Everyday Robots Today, Alphabet’s X moonshot division (formerly known as Google X) unveiled the Everyday Robot project, whose goal is to develop a “general-purpose learning ro...

Dan Seifert / The Verge Deploying 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 r...

An artistic rendering of Blue Origin’s future New Glenn rocket. | Image: Blue Origin The Air Force is going to change the criteria for selecting its next round of rocket launch provide...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If Samsung’s Galaxy S10 or Note 10 phones and some truly wireless earbuds are on your holiday shopping list for this year, there are some pr...

Image: Tesla The Blade Runner-inspired Cybertruck is here Continue reading… ...

Image: Google Google today launched a nice new Assistant feature called My Storytime that lets parents simulate reading to their kids when one parent is away from home. A parent will be ...

Valve If you’re excited about the first new Half-Life game in 12 years and you’re seriously thinking about a VR headset, you should know that it may not be your only expense. In fact...

Courtesy of Kaye Blegvad A flooded subway entrance stopped Brooklyn commuters in their tracks yesterday. For four hours on Wednesday, the staircase leading down to Broadway Station in Wi...

Settlers of Catan is an iconic, 24-year-old board game in which players compete to establish colonies on a fictional island called Catan (the game board). It’s easy to learn, deeply stra...

Image: Valve Okay, let’s acknowledge this: the Half-Life series was mechanically and narratively transformative for the first-person shooter genre and gaming as a whole. Many among us ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has removed customer reviews from its online store, as first reported by AppleInsider, and we’ve confirmed this to be the case. AppleInsid...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google employees are planning a rally on November 22nd to support colleagues who were recently placed on leave in the latest sign of rising tensio...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Microsoft had been planning to launch its new Surface Earbuds “later this year,” but the company is now delaying the wireless earbuds to spring 2020....

Half-Life is back. After more than a decade, Valve is returning to the iconic sci-fi universe with a brand-new VR game called Half-Life: Alyx. The new experience takes place before the eve...

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Today, Valve finally unveiled Half-Life: Alyx, its first full-fledged VR game and, more importantly, the developer’s long-awaited return to the Half-Life series. The game will be out in ...

Image: Alphabet Alphabet’s Loon announced today that it has signed a new commercial agreement with Internet Para Todos Perú to provide mobile internet connectivity to parts of the Ama...

NASA/Cory Huston Early this morning, Boeing rolled its new passenger spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner, out to the Florida launch site the vehicle is set to take off from next month. It�...

Image: Tesla Tesla CEO Elon Musk will take the stage on November 21st to unveil the Cybertruck, Tesla’s all-electric pickup truck and the automaker’s sixth vehicle since its founding...

Photo: Getty Images YouTube is experimenting with placing advertisements for more mature audiences on edgier YouTube videos in an effort to address demonetization woes. Videos that mig...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google has increased the maximum prize for its Android bug bounty program to $1 million for anyone who can compromise the Titan M security chip found in...

Image: Facebook Facebook is continuing to spread its Stories product, now bringing the ephemeral format to Facebook Dating users. Daters can re-share their Instagram or Facebook Stories ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon and Snap are partnering up to spread the gospel of 5G through Snapchat. The companies announced their joint effort today, which will invol...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Adobe is previewing a handful of upcoming features for Photoshop on the iPad today, just weeks after the app debuted to complaints that it was...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WeWork is being hit with layoffs today, according to CNBC, marking the latest downturn in the wake of the company’s disastrous attempted IPO. La...

Image: DIY Perks Matthew Perks, a YouTuber whose previous projects include turning old TVs into artificial daylight and an awesome water-cooled PC desk project, has found an inventive wa...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google Assistant has always been weirdly limited for users who are signed in with G Suite accounts, but Google seems to be slowly fixing this....

Amazon has announced the Dash Smart Shelf, a Wi-Fi-connected smart scale that connects to Amazon’s shopping services and can automatically reorder supplies when they run low. It’s des...

German startup Volocopter unveiled a new flying taxi station in Singapore, but it was gone within a week Continue reading… ...

Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Hot on the heels of lying about the opening of “Apple’s” “new” factory in Texas — it is neither new nor an Apple factory — Preside...

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Yelp Yelp’s newest filter is designed to help people find welcoming business that don’t discriminate based on, basically, anything. Called Open to All, the team is partnering with a ...

Image: Abode Abode has announced that the long-awaited HomeKit support is now available for its Iota home security system. The update adds the ability to manage and view the status of th...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sonos has shared its Black Friday deals. Unfortunately, the new Sonos Move Bluetooth speaker won’t be part of the savings, but most of its other speak...

DIPLE’s 35x zoom examining the head of a fly. | Image: SmartMicroOptics Everyone knows the rise of smartphones has put powerful cameras in our pockets, but we forget these cameras can ...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple will reportedly focus on overhauling the way it tests its iOS software. Bloomberg reports that Apple recently revealed changes internall...

Drones are incredibly useful machines in the air, but getting them up and flying can be tricky, especially in crowded, windy, or emergency scenarios when speed is a factor. But a group of ...

Pokémon Sword and Shield are off to a great start, selling more than 6 million copies in the week since their release. That’s according to a tweet from The Pokémon Company, which notes...

Image: Apple Apple has abruptly cancelled the premiere of The Banker, its first major movie for Apple TV Plus, after charges have emerged concerning a member of the family the film is ba...

Snap Snapchat’s latest plan for a viral augmented reality filter takes users on an aging journey where they can use a slider to begin morphing from a toddler up to an elderly person. I...

Sonos could soon speak another language. | Image: Sonos Sonos now owns Snips, a Paris-based “private-by-design” AI voice platform with the intent of making “the voice experience on...

Image: Google You can now use Google Duplex to book cinema tickets on the web on Android in the UK and US. The functionality, which was first teased back at Google I/O 2019, can be acces...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last month, Valve announced a beta of Steam Remote Play Together, which let you play local multiplayer games over the internet with your friends a...

Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images In advance of Trump’s factory tour today, I took a look at the strange relationship that’s developed between Tim Cook and Donald Trump over ...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Mercedes-Benz has finally announced a starting price for its first long-range electric vehicle, the EQC SUV: $67,900. The new SUV, which was announced mor...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook and Google’s persistent surveillance of billions of people around the world threatens human rights and free expression, says Amnesty ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Wednesday, Google announced that it would start limiting the abilities of political advertisers to target their messaging in the coming months....

Uber will launch a feature to audio-record rides in the United States as a way to ensure passenger and driver safety, according to company communications accessed by The Washington Post an...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, PayPal announced that it has acquired Honey Science Corporation, the company that makes the popular Honey deal-finding Chrome extension, fo...

A screengrab of the mishap, from LabPadre’s live stream. | Image: LabPadre A test version of SpaceX’s next-generation rocket, Starship, partially burst apart during ground tests in T...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Twitter announced that it’s rolling out an “experiment” of a new tweet scheduling feature that you can use right from Twitter’s web...

There are some objects that spit in the face of god, either in their design or their intended use, and another such product has just entered our reality. PopSocket — the makers of the no...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service launched on November 19th (and you probably shouldn’t buy into it just yet), but we’re already hearing ...

Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Google is bringing its Smart Compose feature to Google Docs, meaning G Suite users will, in future, be served AI-powered writing suggestio...

On November 20th, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released the results of its investigation into the 2018 fatal Uber crash in Tempe, Arizona, which was widely believed to b...

New York City has released its long-awaited report on government algorithms, but not everyone is happy with the result. “This is a sad precedent.” In 2017, the city passed a local law...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google’s smart displays are starting to get some more variety when it comes to video entertainment. Sling TV, the cheapest of the major internet TV str...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Thursday night, Elon Musk will appear onstage at the Tesla Design Center in Los Angeles to reveal the product he’s most excited about: Tesla�...

Image: Apple Apple has just launched its lineup of battery cases for the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max. They look very similar to last year’s cases (though, obviously, with a bigge...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Buying a new TV can feel like a uniquely stressful experience for any number of reasons. Most people tend to hold on to a TV for far longer than, say, ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On June 6th, Google opened up preorders for the $130 “Founder’s Edition” of its Stadia cloud gaming service, promising those buyers woul...

Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images There is yet another 2020 Democratic presidential debate tonight, and the pool of candidates that will be onstage has shrunk down to just 10 par...

Image: Epic Games In October, Fortnite emerged from a black hole with a new look, a new map, and a new two-month season to earn Battle Pass rewards. Now, that season has been extended al...

Image: NASA / SpaceX Last week, SpaceX fired up the engines on its new passenger spacecraft, the Crew Dragon, during a ground test, and now, you can watch the fiery show in all its slow-...

If you like being frustrated — briefly and in a satisfying way — have I got a game for you! Grégoire Divaret-Chauveau, a developer based in Nancy, France, has made a web game where yo...

Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images Amazon is reportedly planning a big expansion for its cashierless store format in 2020. According to Bloomberg, the retail gian...

SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook will be spending the afternoon of November 20th making conversation with President Donald Trump. The two are scheduled to tour a factory...

Image: Ubiquiti Ubiquiti has announced its first Wi-Fi 6 router, the AmpliFi Alien. The tri-band router supports the latest Wi-Fi 802.11ax standard and includes four gigabit LAN ports on...

When Apple Arcade launched in September, the subscription service debuted with an incredible number of games — so many, in fact, that it could be hard to find the best things to play. In...

Spark is one of the best email apps around on both Android and iOS, offering tons of customization options and plenty of high-level features, but it has tended to lag behind some of its co...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Google is adding new tools to Google Earth on the web that let you build your own tour of a place right on top of the Google Earth map. It ...

You can use the iOS app to scan documents, and the service will try to give you warnings and tell you about loopholes. | Image: DoNotPay DoNotPay, the “robot lawyer” service that hel...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Most of the year, it’s tough to find a worthwhile deal on a laptop. If you’re in the market for an upgrade, or are buying your first lapto...

Microsoft is planning to integrate Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar into its Outlook.com web mail client. The software maker has started testing this integration on some accounts r...

Image: Amazon I’ve been thinking about how Amazon takes a chaos-energy attitude towards developing ecosystems around its products. When it’s trying to get third parties to work with ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Condé Nast’s CEO Roger Lynch thinks that Apple’s premium magazine service, Apple News Plus, has yet to prove itself, Variety reports. Speakin...

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Photo: Lucasfilm / Disney On Disney+’s first day, its initial 10 million subscribers were hit with a series of outages. The company says this was because of high demand and the way eng...

After a three-year silence, there has been news on the fourth film in rebooted Star Trek film series: Noah Hawley, best known for creating FX’s Legion and Fargo TV series, is in final ta...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On June 6th, Google opened up preorders for the $130 “Founder’s Edition” of its Stadia cloud gaming service, promising those buyers woul...

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Verizon is addressing one of the biggest criticisms about the company’s growing 5G network: a lack of traditional coverage ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is hunting for software engineers to help the company build media apps for Windows. The iPhone maker revealed its plans in a job listing ear...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s Ring home security company lets police ask users for videos that are up to 45 days old and 12 hours long, Amazon said in a letter relea...

Image: iFixit Apple’s new 16-inch MacBook Pro not only has a bigger screen, but it returns to a scissor switch keyboard, has louder speakers, a better mic, and a... lid angle sensor? M...

Image: ABC 15 Federal investigators split the blame for the fatal Uber self-driving crash between the ride-hailing company, the safety driver in the vehicle, the victim, and the state of...

Black Friday is happening on Friday, November 29th, but if you shop on that day only, you’ll probably miss out on some great deals. That’s because several retailers, including Target, ...

Photo: Apple TV Plus Early reviews for The Morning Show weren’t exactly positive, and executive producers Kerry Ehrin and Mimi Leder believe a lot of the feedback was an “attack on A...

Alex Castro / The Verge Mixer is changing the way it does its clips: it’s letting its verified Partners control who gets to make them, along with adding better editing functionality to...

Google is rolling out a new service for Google Assistant that it’s calling “Your News Update.” It takes the idea of an algorithmically determined news feed — the kind you get from ...

Photography by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Smart speakers are always a popular choice for gifts: you can use them to play music, tell you the weather, and even order packages. If you’ve b...

The geoglyph spotted by AI tools is a human figure about five meters (16 feet) tall. | Image: Yamagata University / IBM Japan Scientists from Japan have used machine learning for the fir...

Image: Vizio Right now, if you want to watch Disney+ on a Vizio SmartCast TV, you can only do so by sending it to the TV from an Apple device with AirPlay. That will change soon, though,...

Kickstarter Kickstarter wants creators on its platform to be more transparent with backers about how their money is being used. The crowdfunding platform is launching a feature today cal...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Tuesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a new lawsuit against e-cigarette company Juul, alleging that the company misled con...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Bird says it will start giving out free rides to customers who take selfies of themselves wearing helmets in an effort to promote safety while...

A slippery new coating could make the crappiest place in your home a little cleaner. Developed by researchers at Penn State University, this two-part product promises to keep your toilet b...

Ojo, a California electric scooter company, announced its intention to acquire Gotcha, a scooter and bike rental service. It’s another sign that the shared micromobility industry is over...

The Verge In the winter of 2005, I was so severely underweight and starved of energy that I went to great lengths to provide my body with any source of sugar. That included chugging a br...

Amazon’s new Fire TV Blaster. | Image: Amazon Amazon has announced a new Fire TV accessory called the Fire TV Blaster. It’s a $34.99 IR blaster that’s designed to let you control h...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Mesh router system Eero has announced the biggest update to its mobile app since its launch in 2016. The new Eero app, which is available for ...

When the US entered Afghanistan, local DJs were hired to help with the war effort. And when the American military pulled out, they abandoned those voices, leaving many of them for dead...

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Spinciti is the latest company to offer a mid-priced electric bike with impressive specs and an attractive design. The Amsterdam, Spinciti’s first m...

The League The League, a dating app that requires LinkedIn verification to join, is launching its version of speed dating next month: two-minute video dates that take place within the ap...

Photo by Henrique Casinhas/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The New York Times has just published a lengthy interview with Margrethe Vestager, the head of the EU’s antitrust di...

Image: Samsung Samsung is updating the Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Watch Active with a host of new features that were introduced with the Galaxy Watch Active 2, our pick for the best smartwa...

Spotify Spotify is taking its first step toward personalizing podcast recommendations with the official launch of its Your Daily Podcast playlist, which will offer listeners an automated...

Image: Facebook Last week, Facebook quietly released a new meme-making app called Whale, The Information reports. The app is currently only available on the Canadian App Store, where its...

Nintendo has confirmed that it’ll start selling its official, previously Japan-only Switch Lite Flip Cover in the US next month, with a release date set for January 9th. This is good new...

Two years and nine months after announcing it would build three (3) full-length VR games — a number that Valve Software has historically never been able to count to before, and one of th...

Photo DigitalGlobe via Getty Images via Getty Images Wildfires and flooding exacerbated by climate change threaten to unleash contaminants from some of the most polluted sites across the...

In its ongoing effort to send cargo — and eventually people — to the lunar surface, NASA announced five new partnerships with commercial space companies that have designed robotic land...

Photo by Marcelo Perez Del Carpio / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Since last week, a network of Twitter bot accounts has been spreading confusion about the events surrounding Bolivian ...

Image: Amazon Earlier this year, Amazon began offering a free, ad-sponsored music streaming tier on Echo speakers and other Alexa devices. Offering access to “top playlists and station...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Ford’s newly revealed electric Mustang SUV, the Mach-E, is quickly becoming one of the more buzzed-about car reveals of the last few years. But while...

Photo: iFixit While it’s good news that the new 16-inch MacBook Pro has a solid, comfortable, and well-designed keyboard, there are other interesting changes to the design as well, as ...

We already know that the PlayStation 5 is coming next year, and that its controller will have a few new tricks up its sleeve (more on those later). And now, we might have an idea of what t...

Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for BAFTA LA One of the most notable writers in video games has a new home. Today, Skydance Media announced a new internal studio that will be helm...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple will be hosting a special event on December 2nd that will honor the company’s “favorite apps and games of 2019.” The event comes as a ...

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Arcimoto CEO Mark Frohnmayer has one rule for driving his hot-off-the-production-line electric three-wheeler: “Do not crash the FUV into the other F...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Today, the Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus announced that Oculus Link, which lets you plug a standalone Quest headset into your ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Ford is now taking preorders for its first all-electric SUV, the Mustang Mach-E. The company is currently taking $500 deposits for those wishing to res...

Facebook has come under fire for its policies on political ads over the past few weeks, and now Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has joined the chorus of voices in support of fact-checking politi...

Images: BMW BMW has been teasing the i4 electric car for years, and now the German automaker has released camouflaged photos of the sedan being tested in winter weather conditions ahead ...

Going somewhere new is always exciting: in all the small ways that nevertheless matter, you get to feel like a different person. Who will you decide to be? It also produces the same dilemm...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is releasing iOS and iPadOS 13.2.3 today to address a variety of odd bugs that have been introduced with the release of iOS 13. The late...

Adobe is ringing in Black Friday early with deals on all of its Creative Cloud apps for desktop and mobile, regardless of the platform you use. Until November 29th (Black Friday), you can ...

Playing the latest Pokémon games might send your Roku hardware into a fritz. It’s been confirmed by Roku that Pokémon Sword and Shield are causing interference issues for some of the c...

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Image: Samsung With the impending December 20th release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker looming like a nearby Death Star, Samsung has announced a Star Wars-themed Galaxy Note 10 Plus...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Huawei has been given yet another reprieve from the Trump administration’s ban on its products, according to Commerce Department documents file...

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Photo by Pablo Rochat / Twitter If you’ve experienced the mild horror of losing, or even momentarily thinking you may have lost, an AirPod, then beware these fake AirPod stickers. In a...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s tough to keep track of all the gaming deals that will kick off on Black Friday. That’s sort of a good problem to have; it means that ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google has detailed a few of its Black Friday deals, which start on November 24th, just a few days before Black Friday. Deals on Google produc...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Code discovered in the latest version of Samsung’s camera app suggests that the South Korean electronics giant is working on a host of new camer...

Image: Enclave Enclave’s latest 5.1 wireless surround sound systems, the CineHome II and CineHome Pro, are now available to buy following their announcement back in August. Both use th...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In today’s digital age, it can sometimes feel like hardware has taken a back seat to the software that drives devices. Button of the Month i...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge T-Mobile’s trash-talking CEO John Legere, who oversaw a dramatic turnaround of the wireless carrier since he got the job in 2012, will step down next y...

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Image: Logitech Logitech’s new Adaptive Gaming Kit is a collection of 12 buttons and triggers designed to work with Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller to make gaming more accessibl...

The film site Collider has created a deepfake roundtable that has to be seen to be (dis)believed. It stars Robert Downey, Jr., George Lucas, Tom Cruise, Ewan McGregor, and Jeff Goldblum, a...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nintendo plans to launch paid subscription memberships for its smartphone game Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp later this week, according to an i...

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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service is just two days away from launch — a launch that’s taken some serious criticism (including from yours truly ...

Ford is set to reveal its first mass-market electric car this evening, the Mustang Mach-E. It’s an all-electric SUV that bears the name of the company’s iconic muscle car, so expect a ...

Image: Paramount Pictures I watched The Lego Movie 2 a few weeks ago now that it’s finally streaming. The first one was an unexpectedly smart and hilarious take on what a Lego story ca...

Microsoft has revealed that it’s planning to kill off its Cortana app for iOS and Android in January. The software maker has posted a new support article for Cortana users in the UK, Can...

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With the launch of Disney+ this week, many fans were excited to have easy access to all 30 seasons of The Simpsons — only to find to their chagrin that their original 4:3 aspect ratio ha...

Image: Sony Sony says you can now use a web-based API to program its adorable Aibo robot dog to do new tricks — and you might even be able to make it your smart home’s best friend. ...

Redbox 2 1024 Redbox has agreed to stop reselling Disney movies’ digital download codes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The agreement settles a lawsuit Disney filed over the prac...

James Charles is one of the most influential beauty creators on YouTube, and he’s using his platform to try to find YouTube’s next beauty guru through a four-part YouTube Original seri...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Turning around the mess that is WeWork isn’t going to be up to John Legere. According to CNBC, the current T-Mobile CEO does not intend to take the chi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok has more than a billion users on its platform, and it appears the company is now experimenting with ways for it and its users to monetize t...

Part of the allure of Pokémon games is growing attached to each new creature you catch. Games like Pokémon X and Y, Sun and Moon, and Let’s Go incorporate some sort of bonding, from gi...

Under Twitter’s new ad policy, environmental groups and fossil fuel companies alike won’t be allowed to run ads with “the primary goal of driving political, judicial, legislative, or...

Airbnb is announcing new guidelines for its Experiences program, including more screening for risky or specialized experiences. Its rules are meant to improve the safety and quality of the...

Illustration by Alex Castro The US Supreme Court will take up a long-running copyright lawsuit between Oracle and Google, it confirmed today. This lets Google contest a controversial rul...

Image: Vizio Sam’s Club, like every other major retailer, will be taking part in Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2019. It recently released its Black Friday ad, and all of its deals will...

Photo: iFixit One of the main promises Apple is making with its new 16-inch MacBook Pro is that the keyboard — after years of easily broken butterfly-switch mechanisms — is finally s...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Huawei’s folding Mate X, which was originally supposed to launch in June, then September, then on an unspecific date in November, then on November 15th ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Friday, Twitter expanded on its political ad ban set to roll out next week and provided new guidelines for organizations that advertise on poli...

Hulu Hulu will increase the price of its Hulu with Live TV service by 20 percent on December 18th, setting the new subscription rate at $54.99 a month, up from $44.99. Both new and exist...

It appears someone at Ford wasn’t careful enough with the upcoming Mustang Mach-E reservation website, because now a bunch of photos and specs have leaked three days before the car is se...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple could be forced to allow rival payment services on iOS to compete with its own Apple Pay service in Germany after the country’s parliament...

Spotify Soundtrack your Ride | Image: Spotify Spotify has launched Soundtrack your Ride, a new feature that generates a road trip playlist for you based on your Spotify history and your ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge There is nothing more frustrating than buying a new computer, phone, game console, or backpack and finding out that you could have gotten it f...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Google’s weekly town halls, internally known as “TGIF” meetings, have been emblematic of the company’s professed belief in a transparent cor...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Pokémon Sword and Shield came out today, November 15th, on the Nintendo Switch, and if you’re hoping to get the game for less than full pri...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google canceled a project to publish more than 100,000 human chest X-rays online days before the data was supposed to go live after realizing they...

Microsoft is rolling out its November 2019 Update for the Xbox One today. The big new addition is Google Assistant support, allowing you to use a device with the assistant or app to contro...

Pokémon Sword and Shield introduce Gigantamax forms, supersized versions of pokémon that can be activated during specific battles for more powerful attacks. While all pokémon are capabl...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This week on The Vergecast, hosts Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller go through the two big products announced this week: Apple’s 16-...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has removed all apps relating to vaping from the App Store, citing warnings from health experts that the spread of vaping products and e-cig...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge It’s tough to keep track of all the gaming deals that will kick off on Black Friday. That’s sort of a good problem to have; it means that there’s...

Ambassador William Taylor, right, speaks, along with Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent appear during an impeachment inquiry in Washington, D.C. on November 13 | Photo by Bonnie Jo Moun...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google left thousands of machines in businesses with broken Chrome browsers this week, following a silent experimental change. Business users acce...

Fiber optic cables being installed in Germany. | Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images The UK’s opposition Labour party has promised it will give free full-fiber broadband to every home a...

Image: Epic Games Fortnite’s latest crossover is here, and this time it’s a Star Wars-themed event timed to coincide with the release of Jedi: Fallen Order. The big inclusion is a ne...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Of all the methods phone manufacturers have employed to get rid of bezels and avoid display notches, the second screen has to go down as the most elaborat...

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Photo by Efren Landaos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Taylor Swift wants the rights to her own music — and she may have just crossed an ethical line to get it. On Thursday af...

Images: Boosted Electric skateboard and scooter company Boosted has launched a new set of urethane wheels for its longboards that will offer smoother, faster rides. The new wheels are ca...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Black Friday is almost here. The big shopping weekend actually starts on Thursday, November 28th, which is Thanksgiving in the US. If you’re...

Image: Basecamp This week, Basecamp launched a new, free tier of its project management software, which it calls Basecamp Personal. Basecamp was originally designed for small businesses,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is set to dispute the Pentagon’s decision to give a massive, $10 billion contract to Microsoft for cloud services. Evidence has pointed ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The 50 attorneys general investigating Google for potential antitrust violations are expected to expand their probe and examine the company’s An...

Microsoft isn’t going to repeat its mistakes from the Xbox One with its next-generation Xbox console. “I would say a learning from the Xbox One generation is we will not be out of posi...

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Among the 50-plus new games that Microsoft is bringing to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service over the next year are ten Final Fantasy games. The list encompasses every single-player m...

American intelligence agencies quietly stopped the warrantless collection of US phone location data last year, according to a letter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligenc...

Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic Pornhub said on Wednesday that PayPal would no longer support payments to Pornhub performers (via Vice). In a blog post, Pornhub said that it was “deva...

Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it’s bringing its classic Halo game collection to PC, and adding Halo: Reach to the entire Halo: The Master Chief Collection. While the company ...

Xbox One S | Photo by Tyler Pina / The Verge Microsoft has announced its Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals at its XO19 conference in London. The company will be offering the biggest di...

Microsoft is planning to launch its xCloud game streaming service in 2020, and the company is expanding it to Windows 10 PCs next year, too. “My expectation is that it will be generally ...

Microsoft is expanding its Project xCloud preview today, with the addition of 50 games. The software maker originally launched the xCloud preview with just five titles exactly a month ago,...

Facebook Facebook is launching three new product features to increase fundraising across its platforms: a new Instagram donation button, a fundraising sticker in Facebook, and the broade...

Photo by Bill Tompkins/Getty Images Photography and video equipment retailer B&H knowingly failed to pay millions of dollars in sales taxes due in New York, according to a lawsuit fi...

Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images On Thursday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang put out a sweeping new tech policy proposal with a number of controversial proposals, inc...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram, which has been running a test to hide like counts on posts in seven different countries, announced today that it is expanding the test ...

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg set sail for Madrid, Spain, from Hampton, Virginia, on November 13th. She’s making the journey across the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is announcing that today, a year and a half after it first unveiled RCS chat as Android’s primary texting platform, it is actually making...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google search is launching a new feature that will let users check their pronunciation of unfamiliar words with the help of machine learning. When s...

Photo: Knightscope Security robots are slowly becoming a more common sight in malls, offices, and public spaces. But while these bots are often presented as replacements for human securi...

The new Disney+ service is just $6.99 per month, but an even more appealing deal in the eyes of some people is the $12.99 bundle that combines Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ on one bill. Unfort...

Soleil “Ewok” Wheeler is a lot of things: she’s a deaf 13-year-old Fortnite pro, the gaming team Faze Clan’s first female member (and the second one under 14), and as of today, Whe...

Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images An advocacy group is targeting Facebook employees with ads on LinkedIn, objecting to the company’s support of an event honoring Supreme Court justice ...

Ford’s all-electric Mustang-inspired SUV won’t be revealed to the public until November 17th, so, naturally, the slow drip-drip of information has begun. The company finally announced ...

Licensed video games can be tricky for developers. It’s one thing to make a game, but it’s another to write a storyline when you’re operating under someone else’s rules. That’s p...

Apple Watch | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Walmart is the latest retailer to share its full Black Friday ad, and we’ve gone through it to find the very best tech deals. ...

Image: Twelve South The AirFly Pro is the latest in Twelve South’s lineup of headphone dongles, designed to let you connect your wireless headphones to a device with a 3.5mm headphone ...

Photo: Courtesy of the retailer Like many beard-wearers with office jobs, I have the kind of stubble that’s not quite a beard, but is always verging on it. This was true when I first r...

Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images An extreme high tide inundated 85 percent of Venice on Tuesday night, drowning some parts of the city in six feet of water. Floodwaters pus...

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Image: Google On November 19th, Google will officially become a game company, one with its very own console, controller, and distribution platform for the latest triple-A games. If all g...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As smartphone sales plateau, Apple is increasingly looking to subscription services like Apple News+ and Apple TV+ to fuel growth. It’s long bee...

Photo by Keith Mayhew/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Nike is bringing an end to a deal with Amazon which saw the athletics brand sell its clothes and shoes directly to customer...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Late last night, Motorola announced the new Razr phone, which is a much-leaked folding device that looks exactly like a wider version of the classic Raz...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales Facebook has more than 2 billion users, and at that scale comes lots of wrongdoing. The company’s latest quarterly transparency report, which quantifies...

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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Motorola is bringing the Razr back in the form of a foldable Android phone, but that doesn’t mean that the company is leaving the classic design of th...

Today, the Public Interest Registry (PIR), which maintains the .org top-level domain, announced that it will be acquired by Ethos Capital, a private equity firm (via Domain Name Wire). Thi...

John Carmack (Credit: Quakecon_Flickr) The chief technology officer of Oculus, Facebook’s VR subsidiary, is stepping down this week, he posted on Facebook today. John Carmack, who was ...

SpaceX Today, SpaceX fired up the engines on its new passenger spacecraft, the Crew Dragon, during a ground test in Cape Canaveral, Florida — paving the way for the company to perform ...

A new SpongeBob Squarepants spinoff described as a “music-based project” centered around Spongebob’s iconic neighborhood octopus Squidward is heading to Netflix, according to The New...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This month, some users of Facebook’s iOS app found that that, in at least two situations, the app appeared to be activating the camera in the ba...

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images WordPress, one of the internet’s leading purveyors of blog infrastructure and hosting, has taken a step t...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge DJI is working on technology that would let anyone with a smartphone keep track of airborne drones that are nearby, according to Reuters. The news was a...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Black Friday is almost here. The big shopping weekend actually starts on Thursday, November 28th, which is Thanksgiving in the US. If you’re...

Photo by Bernd Thissen/picture alliance via Getty Images A common complaint you hear about electric bikes is that they basically amount to cheating. Cycling, especially mountain biking, ...

Image: Apple Music Apple Music is introducing a fun new way to take a look at your listening history from over the past year. Called Apple Music Replay, the new feature will bundle up ev...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As of Tuesday afternoon, YouTube is requiring creators to label any videos of theirs that may appeal to children. If they say a video is directed ...

Microsoft is allowing Surface Pro X owners to get access to early native ARM copies of its Edge Chromium browser today. The software giant is making the ARM version of Edge available in th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is including Instagram in its transparency report for the first time, releasing data on how the company moderates content related to chil...

A few weeks after the launch of Fortnite’s second chapter, developer Epic made a seemingly minor change: the Fortnite installer for Android was updated to become the Epic Games App. What...

Some of Disney’s older movies streaming on Disney+ will include disclaimers about the cultural context of certain scenes that are considered outright racist and prejudiced today. The dis...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple just announced a new 16-inch version of its MacBook Pro earlier this morning, with a revamped “Magic” keyboard, improved speakers, a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US office responsible for patents and trademarks is trying to figure out how AI might call for changes to copyright law, and it’s asking the...

Rockstar Games is “sincerely apologizing” to players over a series of technical problems that have plagued Red Dead Redemption 2 since its launch on PC last week. The studio tweeted ou...

Photo by LMPC via Getty Images 9. Tornado By far the worst way to get around in The Wizard of Oz. First of all, it’s loud. Second of all, it has a tendency to destroy everything in its...

The Verge 2018 tech report cards | Artist: Alex Castro When NYU economist Thomas Philippon moved to the United States from France in the 1990s, he noticed everything from laptops to inte...

Apple has a new laptop out today, the 16-inch MacBook Pro, and so Apple’s marketing chief Phil Schiller is out and about, talking trash about the competition. In an interview with CNET, ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Adobe shared a preview of a direct photo import feature for Lightroom CC on iOS 13.2, which is slated to arrive in an update by the end of the...

Photo: Disney Disney+ surpassed 10 million subscribers in its first day, the company announced today. Disney’s announcement comes after Apptopia reported that the Disney+ app has been...

Image: FCC / Motorola Images of Motorola’s unannounced foldable Razr phone have surfaced once again, this time via the device’s Federal Communications Commission certification. MySma...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google Maps is incredibly useful when you’re navigating a country you’ve never been to before. (I couldn’t have survived a recent trip t...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Today marks the official launch of Brave 1.0, a free open-source browser. The beta version has already drawn 8 million monthly users, but now,...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Tesla’s first Gigafactory in Reno, Nevada, has a well-documented place in the company’s history, both for how it helped Elon Musk ship his first ma...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is planning to offer checking accounts within its Google Pay app, The Wall Street Journal reports. Its “Cache” project, which could lau...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge To gain federal approval of their $26 billion merger, T-Mobile and Sprint have spent years promising a universe of incredible benefits, from lower...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge By the time December rolls around, the beginning of the year can be a blur. Twelve months is a long time, and it’s easy to forget what happened ...

Image: Magic Leap Spotify has released a version of its music streaming app on Magic Leap’s headset, the augmented reality company announced today. The app will show a location-aware t...

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The arrival of Apple’s new 16-inch MacBook Pro comes with an unexpected twist: the classic 15-inch model is being phased out entirely. The 16-inch MacBook Pro is replacing it in the line...

Image: Apple Apple just introduced its 16-inch MacBook Pro, and the new machine offers some firsts in terms of laptop hardware specs for the company. You can configure the 16-inch MacBoo...

The new Magic Keyboard on the 16-inch MacBook Pro. | Image: Apple After many months of rumors, Apple’s new 16-inch MacBook Pro is finally official. It has a bigger screen and a better ...

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Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge Apple will start selling its redesigned Mac Pro in December, the company tells The Verge. The pro-focused, made-in-the-USA computer was announced in June...

Whew! Disney+ has launched and the only place with more content than its app is our website. Wow okay that was corny, I’m sorry, but something about Disney brings out the safe, anodyne j...

Image: Adidas Adidas will halt production at its two robotic “Speedfactories” in the US and Germany, the company has announced. The Ansbach and Atlanta factories, which opened in 201...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge As long as mobile phones remain our primary computing devices, the balance of power between social networks seems unlikely to shift too much in any dire...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Intel revealed a new set of security problems with its processors earlier this year, and issued fixes to resolve them. While the chip maker may ha...

The 3D-printed “Liberator” gun designed by Defense Distributed. A federal judge has struck down a decision by the Trump administration to allow blueprints for 3D-printed guns to be ...

Ikea’s first Edison-style smart bulb. | Image: Ikea Ikea continues to expand its lineup of Tradfri smart lighting with its first decorative bulb. What’s notable is the price. At $9.9...

Image: Verizon In case you didn’t already have a Roku device, an Amazon Fire TV, a Chromecast, or an Apple TV, Verizon is launching a new set-top box called the Verizon Stream TV. It�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The long-rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro is due for an imminent release, according to Bloomberg. Mark Gurman reports that Apple could launch the machi...

Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook are reportedly expected to tour the company’s Texas-based manufacturing facilities together soon, CNBC r...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google has reportedly fired an employee believed to be leaking to the media, as it placed two others involved with internal activism at the co...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Best Buy has shared its Black Friday ad, and one of the big surprises was that some of its best deals are already happening. Some of them are ...

NASA A snowman-shaped object that NASA probe New Horizons flew by in early 2019 now has a brand-new name. On November 12th, NASA officials announced that the item formerly known as MU69 ...

Richard Plepler is best known as the man who helped shape HBO into the prestige network it is today, and now he’s in final negotiations to bring those talents to Apple. Plepler is looki...

Photo by Christopher Furlong / Getty Images The site of the most recent high-profile nuclear disaster is reinventing itself as a renewable energy leader in Japan. Land that became too to...

Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Over the past couple of years, courts have ruled that politicians like Donald Trump can’t block people for yelling at them on Twitter or Facebook. But...

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Designed to rival streaming giants like Hulu and Netflix, Disney+ is live Continue reading… ...

Tesla’s first Gigafactory outside Reno, Nevada. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday that his company’s fourth Gigafactory will be built just outside...

Photo by Jinitzail Hernández/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images While officials have broad powers to screen travelers at the border, they can’t search electronic devices without reaso...

Image: Microsoft Minecraft Earth (think Pokémon Go, but Minecraft) was first revealed in May, and following its beta, it’s been slowly rolling out in early access across the world, fi...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you’re already looking for Black Friday 2019 deals, Walmart is among the first of the major retailers to serve them up. It’s hard to consider the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch Studio — the broadcasting software the live-streaming site debuted back in August to a select group of users — is now open to the publi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook might have another security problem on its hands, as some people have reported on Twitter that Facebook’s iOS app appears to be activat...

Disney+ arrived with seven chapters of the Skywalker saga, but people have started to notice something strange about the first Star Wars film, A New Hope: it has an entirely different edit...

Within the next two years, the US and Europe will require all new electric and hybrid vehicles to make noise at low speeds so pedestrians hear them coming. But automakers and regulators ar...

All 30 seasons of The Simpsons are available for fans to stream on Disney+ starting today, but there’s one glaring problem: the aspect ratio is off. Every episode of The Simpsons is cur...

Microsoft is releasing its latest Windows 10 November 2019 Update to devices today. While most of Microsoft’s significant Windows 10 updates usually come with a host of new features, thi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) raised concerns over the US Army’s use of the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok to find recruits...

Lyft is bringing its rentable, pedal-assist electric bikes back to San Francisco five months after several battery fires forced the company to pull them from service. The e-bikes were onl...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Rad Power Bikes makes some capable e-bikes, like the RadWagon Electric Cargo Bike that The Verge’s Andrew Hawkins calls “a legitimate car ...

Facebook is launching a new payments system today, appropriately named Facebook Pay. It will be available across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and it’s designed to facili...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal accused Google of stealthily collecting sensitive patient data from millions of Americans without their consent...

Photo: Complexity Gaming Herman Miller, the furniture company perhaps best-known for the iconic Eames Lounge Chair, is getting into gaming. Today the company announced a partnership with...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge As of today, Podcasts on Pandora are now available for all users on the Pandora website and on its desktop app for Mac and Windows. The compan...

Disney+ arrived with seven chapters of the Skywalker saga, but people have started to notice something strange about the first Star Wars film, A New Hope: it appears to have an entirely di...

Do you pay for your own Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, or HBO Now accounts? A simple truth of today is that many of us share access to streaming services. Maybe you split the cost with frien...

Disney+ promises to be popular among viewers, especially children, Star Wars fans, animation enthusiasts, and Marvel lovers. The streaming service went live today, and while the normal cos...

Image: Disney+ Compared to competitors like Netflix or Apple TV Plus, Disney+ is uniquely situated. It’s not a new space where viewers can watch a wide, varied selection; rather, it’...

Photo: Lucasfilm / Disney Star Wars has always been heavily inspired by classic Westerns. But that’s never been quite as overt as it is in The Mandalorian, the first live-action TV ser...

Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Dell is launching new efforts to shrink its carbon footprint and cut down on e-waste. The sustainability targets were unveiled ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Within a day of impeachment proceedings being initiated against President Donald Trump, podcasts had already begun pivoting to full-on impeachment...

Private Division Midway through Obsidian Entertainment’s new role-playing shooter The Outer Worlds, I met a man miserably playing a corporate mascot, his head semi-permanently enclosed...

The $99 Sonos-compatible Symfonisk speaker sold by Ikea. | Image: Ikea Sonos is today adding a long-awaited feature to its whole-home audio solution: Spotify Free streaming support. Now ...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram has launched a new video editing tool in Brazil that copies some of the best-known features of TikTok. As reported by TechCrunch and Var...

The launch day crunch is causing some problems for Disney+. After going live in the wee hours of the morning, Disney’s streaming service is now showing “unable to connect” errors as ...

Apple One of the most important stories over the weekend was the news that Apple’s credit card is being investigated for discriminating against women. This story has almost as many lay...

The highly anticipated Disney+ streaming service, which will likely prove as essential as Netflix to many consumers, is now available. Disney+ combines content from Disney, Marvel, Star Wa...

Photo: Disney Disney+ is here, and the first episode of Lucasfilm’s highly anticipated live-action series, The Mandalorian, is live. Once you’ve finished devouring The Mandalorian’...

The first trailer for the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie arrived earlier this year, and was immediately met with criticism over Sonic’s appearance. The widespread backlash to the C...

Given the phenomenon it describes, it’s perhaps appropriate that the concept of “filter bubbles” has turned out to be so polarizing. To believers, it’s self-evident that social fee...

Snap’s latest glasses are pricey but hint at where the world is going Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It was only a matter of time before Facebook’s cloning machine was spun into action to counter the growing threat from viral video app TikTok. ...

Star Wars in 4K Atmos | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Disney+ is going live today, and it includes an unexpected perk: the first 4K versions of several Star Wars movies, including t...

Photo: Disney Disney won’t publicly share viewership numbers for its original series and movies, despite fellow streaming giants like Netflix being more transparent in the wake of indu...

Image: Sony Pictures Disney is working to bring the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe collection — 23 titles to date — to its Disney+ streaming service, but Spider-Man: Homecoming and...

Marvel Studios Marvel Studios is at the heart of a debate. One side is represented by directors like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, who argue that superhero movies dominating ...

Marvel Studios Marvel Studios Kevin Feige kicked off a chorus of complaints last week after declaring that in order to understand everything happening in future Marvel movies, people wou...

Google secretly gathered millions of patient records across 21 states on behalf of a health care provider, in an effort dubbed “Project Nightingale,” reports The Wall Street Journal. N...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last week, Netflix announced that it was ending support for older devices from Samsung, Roku, and Vizio after December 1st, but it wasn’t clear ...

Photo: Walt Disney Company Disney’s foray into an online streaming subscription service, Disney+, is set to launch globally on November 12th, and we’ve updated this post with the com...

Image: Hyper Gallium nitride chargers have been getting better fast since they first came out earlier this year — we started with 30W and 45W chargers, then small 61W bricks, then a 60...

Photo: Apple TV Plus To say that Apple TV Plus’ first slate of programming debuted to less than stellar reviews would be an understatement. Now, a top TV executive in charge of Apple�...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook is making a wonderful change to its mobile app to ease the pain on our notification-riddled brains: the company is rolling out the ab...

Nintendo’s original Entertainment System (NES) is now 34 years old. A millennial, in other words. And since the console debuted in North America in the fall of 1985, its design — the f...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Monday, Microsoft announced that it would honor the “core rights” provided to Californians through the state’s landmark data privacy law ...

Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev\TASS via Getty Images In an interview with Axios that aired November 10th, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called the murder of the journalist and US resident Jama...

Disney has apparently worked out multiple deals to get much of the MCU back at launch. A new Twitter thread from the official Disney+ account lists a number of new Marvel titles that will ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In October, Instagram phased out the “Following” tab. That’s because it shared a lot of information about what your friends and the people y...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is experimenting with a badge of shame for websites that load slowly in Chrome. “In the future, Chrome may identify sites that typically ...

Ivan Solis The newest season of Netflix’s Queer Eye has the Fab Five bringing their joyful brand of self-love and wellness to Japan, joined by stars Kiko Mizuhara and Naomi Watanabe to...

Google is secretly gathering millions of patient records across 21 states, in an effort dubbed ‘Project Nightingale’, reports The Wall Street Journal. Neither doctors nor patients were...

Google’s cloud gaming platform, Stadia, will launch on November 19th. The service costs $130 for a hardware kit; while you can pay $9.99 per month for a subscription plan called Stadia P...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge WeWork is in discussions to hire John Legere, the trash-talking executive who turned T-Mobile around, as its new CEO, according to The Wall Street Journa...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon will be opening a new, full-size grocery store in a neighborhood of Los Angeles, and it won’t be under the Whole Foods brand, the company...

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The latest XPS 13 2-in-1 rights the wrongs of its predecessor and is even better than the standard XPS 13 Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Monday, Twitter announced that it would be developing a deepfake policy and asked users to help make its final decision on the new rule. Late ...

The Verge YouTube is rolling out updated terms of service on December 10th, and a new line acts as a reminder that the company doesn’t have to keep any video up that it doesn’t want ...

SpaceX Update 10:10 AM ET: The launch went smoothly, and the 60 satellites are expected to be deployed in orbit about an hour after launch, around 10:56AM ET. The first stage of the Falc...

Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Twitter’s political ad ban probably won’t slow them down Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple plans to release its first augmented reality headset in 2022, followed by a smaller device — a pair of AR glasses — in 2023, according t...

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has said in an interview with Axios that the murder of the journalist and US resident ...

Microsoft keeps making boring software look really sexy. Earlier this year the software giant put out sizzle videos for SharePoint and Windows Terminal, which were highly produced and look...

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Image: Apple Apple’s new credit card is being investigated by financial regulators after customers complained that the card’s lending algorithms discriminated against women. The inc...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Realme keeps on increasing its share of the Indian smartphone market, growing shipments more than 400 percent year-on-year to grab 14.3 percent in the thi...

NASA On Monday, November 11, the planet Mercury will pass directly between Earth and the Sun in an event that won’t happen again for another thirteen years. During this transit, Mercur...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s a bonus episode of The Vergecast! Dieter Bohn sits down with Tom Warren and Dan Seifert to go over all of our reviews of Microsoft’s new Surfac...

SFB games It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that c...

Once again, a virtual music group stole the show at one of the biggest e-sports events of the year. Back in 2018 the opening ceremonies for the League of Legends World Championships featur...

Photo: Kyle Kaplan / Sony Pictures The Deuce wrapped up a couple weeks ago with one of the all-time weirdest final episodes. Part of me loves it: the show jumped decades into the future ...

Image: Vizio Sam’s Club, like every other major retailer, will be taking part in Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2019. But unlike most others (aside from Best Buy), it’s already gettin...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram has been running tests where it hides like counts on posts in seven different countries around the world, and very soon, it will start t...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Earlier this week, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son said that it was a mistake to have invested in WeWork, and shared a “simple” three step plan to tu...

Image: Behringer Behringer has announced its newest synth, the TD-3, an analog bass line synthesizer that’s essentially a clone of Roland’s TB-303 from 1982. Although the company doe...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook and YouTube are removing content that potentially names the anonymous whistleblower who sparked a presidential impeachment inquiry, with ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Best Buy has shared its Black Friday ad, and one of the big surprises was that some of its best deals are already happening. If you’re a My ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The company at fault for the tens of thousands of delayed text messages that were sent out early Thursday morning says that more messages were...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is removing content that potentially names the anonymous whistleblower who sparked a presidential impeachment inquiry, saying it violates...

Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for WIRED WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton is still behind the idea of deleting Facebook, telling a crowd at Wired’s 25th anniversary summit that w...

Photo courtesy Roku If you’re constantly misplacing your Roku remote, you now have an alternative way to control your movies — right from your wrist. According to the Roku blog, ther...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg The Surface Pro X sure looks nice, but a lot of currently available apps on the Microsoft Store don’t work with its custom SQ1 64-bit ARM processor —...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google has announced a few of its Black Friday deals, and they’re currently focused around its Pixel phones. You’ll be able to find decent...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samples of lung fluid from 29 lung injury patients in 10 states all contained the same chemical, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sa...

Global Climate Strike | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge “Climate strike” has been crowned word of the year by Collins Dictionary. The term, which refers to people leaving...

At the kickoff keynote for Adobe Max, the company’s massive annual creativity conference, 15,000 designers and creatives cheered as Photoshop on the iPad was unveiled onstage. The long-a...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Black Friday is quickly approaching and the sales are ramping up. The next set of deals include Sony’s outstanding wireless noise-canceling WH-1000XM...

Image: Lordstown Motors The closed General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio that’s been at the center of the company’s tension with President Trump has a new owner: an electric vehi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple stakes a lot of its reputation on how it protects the privacy of its users, as it wants to be the only tech company you trust. But if you se...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge President Trump teased new federal restrictions on vaping today to reporters at the White House, suggesting that the government might raise the ag...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WeWork — sorry, The We Company — is in freefall, and has been since its disastrous attempt to go public earlier this year. The co-working comp...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This week on The Vergecast, Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller welcome back Verge reporter and artist Dami Lee to discuss the biggest n...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix has announced that it’s dropping support for a number of old devices, including old Samsung and Vizio smart TVs, and first-generation Ro...

How random tools helped make the music to Hideo Kojima’s new game Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge ‘There’s opportunity for people to see the wonder in science.’ Continue reading… ...

There’s nothing I like more on bright and cold autumnal days than heading down to the park and watching the robot dogs playing in piles of leaves. To hear the scuttle of their little met...

Red Dead Redemption 2 finally released on PC this week, and things have not gone well for Rockstar. Yesterday, Samit Sarkar at our sister site Polygon reported on various technical issues ...

Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images In 2016, election infrastructure across the country was targeted by foreign actors. Some voters in North Carolina were told they al...

We’re nearly two months out from the launch of Apple Arcade, and things haven’t slowed down much: excellent new games from well-known creators still regularly hit the subscription serv...

It’s impossible to miss when BB cries. The unsettling baby is one of the constants of Death Stranding, the latest game from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. BB is part equipment, part ch...

Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima’s long-awaited debut under his new studio, is a large and convoluted game. Most of your time is spent navigating indecipherable terms like “chiral network...

Image: Evan Blass A newly leaked promotional video has given us our first look at Motorola’s Moto G8, which looks set to be the third entry in the G8 lineup behind the Moto G8 Play and...

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images T-Mobile announced its plans for a 5G rollout yesterday, promising to launch “nationwide” service on December 6th. It’s much wider coverage than eit...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Oh fine, let’s talk about some ancient Facebook history. Once upon a time there was an atrocious company called Six4Three. It made an app call...

Image: Disney Disney+ will be available in the UK on March 31st, a little over four months after it launches in the US on November 12th, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced on an earnings call...

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Last month Oppo announced its latest flagship phone, the Reno Ace, with a headline feature of the world’s fastest fast-charge solution yet. Oppo’s 65W SuperVOOC 2.0 fast charger is cla...

Hulu With Disney+ just five days out from launching, it’s easy to assume that Disney executives would want to talk to investors during its fourth quarter earnings call about the antici...

Photo by Brent Rose for The Verge GoPro’s new Hero 8 Black had the best first month of sales of any camera in the company’s history, according to third quarter financial results rele...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft’s latest Surface hardware is now out in the world, and it’s clear that the biggest gamble that the company took with this year�...

Disney+ will be available on Amazon Fire TV devices for the November 12th launch after all, according to The Wall Street Journal, following a WSJ report last month that said the streaming ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you’ve been holding out for a sale on the newly released Pixel 4, this upcoming Black Friday deal is worth the wait. Best Buy announced a heap of B...

The Verge The first time YouTube tried live-streaming, it failed. YouTube Gaming began in 2015, after Google tried and failed to buy Twitch, and as of this May the project was shuttered ...

Photo: Walt Disney Studios Disney’s final earnings call before the launch of its anticipated streaming service, Disney+, reminded investors that Disney is in a strong place, beating re...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Less than two months after TikTok came under fire for appearing to censor videos related to the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, the app is fa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Juul announced today that it will halt sales of its mint-flavored pods after recently released studies found the flavor was especially popular amo...

Microsoft is detailing its plans for its popular OneNote app today. The software giant reversed course and revived its OneNote 2016 desktop app earlier this week, with a new dark mode and ...

Images: General Motors General Motors teased the “future of hot rodding” this week with a stunning, if not necessarily novel idea: the automaker took a vintage 1962 Chevrolet C-10 pi...

One of the most hotly anticipated electric bicycles scheduled to be released in 2020 isn’t from a traditional bike manufacturer, or even some new crowdfunding e-bike startup, but from on...

Bill Gates and Elizabeth Warren are tweeting at each other — and it seems possible they could have an IRL conversation soon. But let’s first back up to why they’re @-ing each other. ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has just released iOS and iPadOS 13.2.2, with a fix for a frustrating bug that led apps to close in the background much quicker than usu...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Alienware’s Area-51m came onto the laptop scene at the beginning of the year with a big promise: that you’d be able to upgrade nearly every componen...

Adobe is developing live-streaming features that are built directly into its Creative Cloud apps, the company announced at its annual Adobe Max creativity conference. A beta version of the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Thursday, T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced that, if his company’s merger with Sprint closes, the New T-Mobile would roll out a program to h...

Google has upgraded its Teachable Machine, an in-browser web experiment it originally released in 2017 to teach people some basic principles of machine learning. The original version of t...

YouTube YouTube is launching a new homepage design today that will include bigger thumbnails, which is a move that frustrated people when the company first tested the refreshed look in A...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Something strange is happening with text messages in the US right now. Overnight, a multitude of people received text messages that appear to ...

Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Best Buy has shared its Black Friday ad, and one of the big surprises was that some of its best deals are already happening. If you’re a My Best Buy member (Be...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber has admitted that it may either have to come to a licensing agreement with Waymo or make design changes to its autonomous vehicle technology,...

T-Mobile has announced a new T-Mobile Connect wireless plan that’s now the cheapest plan the carrier offers: $15 per month for unlimited talk, text, and 2GB of data. That price includes...

T-Mobile has announced a new T-Mobile Connect wireless plan that’s would be the cheapest plan the carrier offers: $15 per month for unlimited talk, text, and 2GB of data. The catch? T-Mo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Thursday, T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced that if his company’s merger with Sprint closes, the new company would offer free 5G service to ...

Ore Huiying/Getty Images Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is defending the company’s decision to pull an episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act from its service in Saudi Arabia, stating Netf...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge T-Mobile’s nationwide 5G network — built on the company’s 600 MHz band of spectrum — will launch on December 6th, company CEO John Legere announc...

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Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC The most implausible thing about Death Stranding is that it exists at all. Hideo Kojima, its writer and director...

Photo: iFixit Microsoft’s new Surface Pro X computer may not have taken the world by storm as a Windows-on-ARM showcase, but as iFixit’s teardown reveals, the new hardware design is ...

Image: Casetify Casetify is known for teaming up with popular brands and artists like Pokémon and Lisa Frank to create cases for personal devices, and that now extends to popular K-pop ...

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AMD’s Threadripper processors (pictured: Threadripper 2nd-gen) come with high core counts and are designed for workstations. | Image: AMD AMD has announced its first two third-generati...

Bloodhound LSR, the UK-based team that made its public debut in September 2015 with an ambitious project to design, build, and run a vehicle capable of achieving land speeds in excess of 1...

Image: Britbox Britbox, the streaming service formed as a joint venture between the UK’s broadcasters, which came to the US over two years ago, has finally launched in its home country...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset is shipping today after being announced earlier this year. The HoloLens 2 headset, which costs $3,500, wi...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The research lab OpenAI has released the full version of a text-generating AI system that experts warned could be used for malicious purposes. Th...

Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Nintendo As Nintendo approaches this holiday season, the company seems to be in a good position. The streamlined Switch Lite launched in September...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo has announced its Black Friday deals, and chief among them is a $299.99 Switch console bundle that includes a free download code for Mario Kar...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg The latest version of Chrome OS, version 78, adds picture-in-picture support to its YouTube Android app, as well as improving the operating system’s su...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of my chief criticisms of Twitter over the years has been that the company would much rather talk about new features than actually ship them. ...

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In October, Google officially discontinued its Daydream View VR headset — and the company took another step away from its initial leadership position in phone-based VR today by announcin...

AT&T has a gift for wireless subscribers on many of its old Mobile Share Value data plans: it’s giving them an extra 15GB of “bonus” data — and it’s making them pay an extra ...

Amazon has ordered 24 episodes of the upcoming animated show Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina, according to Deadline. The show is based on the web series’ popular Twitch show, an...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Alphabet’s board has opened an internal investigation into how the company handles claims of sexual harassment and misconduct, forming both an i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google announced today that it’s teaming up with three security companies to help identify malicious apps before they’re published on the Play...

Photo by David McNew/Getty Images Bill Gates has revealed that he thinks everyone would be using Windows Mobile right now if Microsoft hadn’t have been caught up in a US Justice Depart...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon has shared a long list of devices that will be discounted ahead of Black Friday. These deals will begin on Friday, November 22nd, with several wav...

Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images Uber drivers in New York City are suing the company for allegedly failing to repay taxes it deducted from their earnings. The s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying on user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government, according to The Washington...

An actual slide from SoftBank’s earnings presentation. | Image: SoftBank SoftBank leader Masayoshi Son admitted that it was a mistake to have invested in WeWork, the beleaguered office...

Facebook Prineville Data Center | Photo: Vjeran Pavic When you try to return an item at Best Buy or Sephora, before deciding whether to take back the item, those businesses have apparent...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The new Apple AirPods Pro came out last week, and Amazon has already given them a temporary price cut. They’re normally $250, but you can buy them righ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Valve might be working on a new cloud gaming service for Steam, as potentially revealed by code buried in the company’s own website. Steam Datab...

Adobe is previewing a bunch of experimental features that could one day come to its apps, including several that use AI to manipulate images and audio. The features were revealed during Ad...

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On Wednesday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said that Facebook has refused to comply with its subpoenas to provide more information regarding its investigation into the compan...

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Image: Blizzard Game developer Blizzard found itself faced with a seemingly impossible task: how do you develop a sequel to something that’s never supposed to end? It’s a predicament...

Photo by Julian Stratenschulte / Picture Alliance via Getty Images Electrifying transportation is one of the biggest keys to solving the looming climate crisis. With more electric vehicl...

Airbnb intends to verify every single listing on its platform by the end of next year, a major policy shift meant to increase trust and safety following a shooting at a rental that killed ...

Target has released its Black Friday ad, and there are plenty of deals on 4K TVs, headphones, gaming consoles, smart speakers, and more. The most notable offer, so far at least, is an $80 ...

Photo: Film Frame / Marvel Studios Avengers: Endgame will land on Disney+ one month earlier than expected, moving from December 11th to November 12th in the United States. The date chang...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge San Francisco will ban the sale of e-cigarettes entirely starting in 2020, after the resounding defeat of a proposition designed to thwart the res...

A New York man allegedly ran a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme by claiming it was tied to a United Nations affiliate promoting international development through sports, according to an in...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google’s new Nest Mini and Nest Wifi have ultrasonic sensing so they can light up when you’re nearby. Now, Google is rolling out ultrasonic sensing t...

Image: Mondadori via Getty Images James Dean is making his return to the big screen more than 60 years after dying in a car crash, thanks to two VFX companies. Finding Jack is a movie s...

Image: Tumblr Tumblr is launching a new group messaging feature that will allow different fandoms on the site to chat more easily with each other instead of replying on re-blogs. The �...

Image: ABC 15 Uber did not have a formal safety plan in place at the time when one of its self-driving cars killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, last year, according to a trove of new docum...

The front of the Tesla pickup truck seen in a mostly indiscernible teaser image released earlier this year. | Image: Tesla Tesla will finally unveil its long-awaited electric pickup truc...

Razer has announced two wireless versions of its ergonomic Basilisk gaming mouse: the Basilisk Ultimate and Basilisk X Hyperspeed. Sitting next to each other, they look almost identical, b...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Five years ago today, Amazon surprised the tech press by unveiling Alexa and the Echo, its first smart speaker. “Well this one came out of nowhere,” ...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Niantic Labs is bringing some of its next-generation augmented reality tech out of the experimental phase. The company today announced that a live multipl...

Photo by Robert Paul / Blizzard Entertainment Jay “Sinatraa” Won is going to have to buy a bigger trophy case. The 19-year-old professional Overwatch player spent this year winning j...

Leica SL2 with 50mm f/1.4 Summilux lens Leica has announced the new SL2, the latest version of its full-frame mirrorless camera system. The new SL2 succeeds the SL from 2015 and introduc...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Apple refreshed apple.com/privacy, its webpages that explain what the company does to protect your privacy. They’re much easier to read, ...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales Behind Color Factory, one of the photogenic pop-ups trying to conquer the experience economy Continue reading… ...

Image: HBO There are plenty of things that baffle me about American culture, none more so than the tradition of having to share a room with a stranger when you go away to college. If you...

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Yesterday Xiaomi unveiled the CC9 Pro, the first phone to use the 108-megapixel image sensor the company co-developed with Samsung. The CC9 Pro won’t be sold outside of China, but today ...

Image: UPS UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward has just completed what it claims is a first for the US drone delivery market — delivering prescription medication directly to a customer�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Monday we talked about some of the pressures stacking up on TikTok: increasing skepticism from Congress about its Chinese parent company ByteDa...

Image: Fossil Fossil’s new hybrid smartwatches combine physical watch hands with a circular low-power, always-on display. The $195 (£189) Fossil HR has a monochromatic display, which ...

Image: Wyze Wyze has announced a new subscription service for its home security cameras — although it’s delayed the launch due to unspecified “critical issues.” Soon, instead of ...

Amazon’s truly wireless Echo Buds earbuds are excellent for their $130 price, to the point that they were the elephant in the room when we reviewed Apple’s new AirPods Pro. And they ma...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook says that even after it locked down its Groups system last year, some app developers retained improper access to information about me...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For the past 10 years, any regulation of social media companies in the United States has moved at a glacial pace. But when it comes to TikTok, the...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Smart home company August is once again selling its View video doorbell, a product it pulled from shelves just three weeks after launching in April due t...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge The Google Pixel and Pixel XL will get “one final software update” in December, the company confirms to The Verge. As of yesterday, it looked like ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter leadership has made it a goal of the last few years to be more transparent about its decision-making and to provide more detailed road map...

Elisabetta A. Villa/Getty Images Martin Scorsese has published a new essay in The New York Times that addresses his previous statements about Marvel movies not being considered cinema �...

Images: Ford Ford has created an all-electric Mustang with a six-speed manual gearbox, a true Frankenstein’s monster of a car that I (and I assume many others) want to drive. The sad t...

People are always getting sucked into games: remember Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over? I do. The latest victim of the trend appears to be Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, gamer extraordinaire, whose new...

Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call After months of criticizing regulators for going easy on Big Tech, a pair of Democratic lawmakers announced new legislation that would create an entire...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the biggest shopping days of the year, a relentless deals-packed weekend when you can find the best prices on te...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Communications Commission has officially released its order approving the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint following a contentious v...

Paul Gassler, via YouTube The pillars on either side of your car windshield have become thicker over time, in order to stop your car from collapsing in case it rolls over, but the wider ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google recently integrated Android Auto with the Android 10 operating system, removing the need for a separate app. But this meant that Android 10...

Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images In a recent call with investors, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi offered what could be considered a mea culpa to the cities the company ran roughshod ove...

The Verge YouTube is launching a new product today called Super Stickers, which will allow a select number of creators to earn additional revenue during live streams. Super Stickers are...

Image: V-Moda V-Moda’s M100 headphones, later iterated upon with the Crossfade Wireless and Crossfade 2 Wireless, were a fantastic value and a crowd favorite for their durability, bass...

On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that AT&T will pay $60 million to settle a case with the agency. It alleges that the company lied to customers about its “unlimited...

Image: Tile Tile’s latest Bluetooth trackers, including the new Sticker and the improved Mate and Slim, are part of a great pre-Black Friday deal that you can get in on right now throu...

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Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Walmart has agreed to drop a lawsuit against Tesla over a rash of solar panel fires filed in August, according to a new filing with the New York Sta...

Facebook’s new corporate logo is, in a word, bland, leading to plenty of goofs across the internet making fun of the uninspiring font that appears both boring and sinisterly corporate at...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This week on The Vergecast, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with Jeremy Singer-Vine, the data editor for the BuzzFeed News investigative u...

Image: Control4 Smart home platform vendor Control4 is launching a new way to interact with its system called the Neeo. The Neeo is a touchscreen remote control that lets Control4 custom...

Here at The Verge, we’ve already established our button bona fides. We’ve got a Button of the Month column and a podcast called Why’d You Push That Button?. We track button developme...

Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi has been teasing the idea for a few months now, and it’s finally here: the CC9 Pro, the company’s first smartphone with a 108-megapixel camera. Before you get to...

Xiaomi’s Mi Watch will go on sale later this month for $185. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi has officially unveiled the Mi Watch: an Apple Watch lookalike that runs a skinned version of Google...

Disney+ and ESPN+ will run ads promoting the premium TV channel Starz, The Verge has learned. Disney has agreed to run the ads in exchange for streaming rights to some of its own films, li...

Photo By Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Politicians sometimes exaggerate the laws they’re proposing. But when they start making up new sections of a bill from whole ...

Adobe is previewing an R&D feature for After Effects that can automatically track human movements and apply them to animations. The body tracker detects human body movement in source v...

Diedra Laird/Charlotte Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images One in four high schoolers and one in ten middle schoolers have tried vaping in the last 30 days, according to the 2...

The upcoming Jedi: Fallen Order is promising to offer a deep Star Wars experience, with an original story and a big emphasis on incredible lightsaber combat. But one thing won’t be makin...

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Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Ecobee is announcing today a new feature for its smart thermostats that adds improved home and away detection and schedule recommendation capabilities. C...

Photo by Gregor Fischer/picture alliance via Getty Images Splitting a song into separate vocals and instruments has always been a headache for producers, DJs, and anyone else who wants t...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg Monday brought a pile of software news from Adobe and Microsoft, borne of two events that have historically been snoozers. This year, though, we should h...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Japanese division found that reducing its working week to four days throughout the month of August caused an increase in productivit...

Image: Mozilla Mozilla is changing how Firefox handles notification requests to try and cut down on annoying pop-ups, the organization has announced. Starting with Firefox version 72, du...

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As handy as smart speakers can be, the fact they’re always listening can make them a little creepy — remember how smart speaker makers were caught using humans to listen to voice recor...

On Saturday, Airbnb CEO and cofounder Brian Chesky tweeted that the company would be banning “party houses” after five people died in a shooting during a 100-plus person Halloween part...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok, the explosively popular Chinese social media platform, may be approaching the upper limits of its global popularity. The platform launched...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch is so many things to so many people: like all of the other social platforms, it’s a place where people who are mostly too online get crea...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge As a friend, I should tell you that you should think twice before spending big bucks on tech only a few weeks before Black Friday. But I also ...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber reported its third quarter earnings on Monday, in which it posted a net loss of $1.2 billion. It was not quite as stunning as the previous qu...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg The November 2019 update for Google’s Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL might smooth out one the biggest wrinkles from its launch a few weeks ago. Per 9to5Google,...

Photo by Robert Reiners/Getty Images Twitch is losing another major streamer: Jack “CouRage” Dunlop — one of the most popular Fortnite streamers on the site with over 2 million fol...

Photo by Ollie Millington/Getty Images Google workers are again calling on the company to cut all of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. In a letter sent to chief financial officer Rut...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Adobe, Twitter, and The New York Times Company have announced a new system for adding attribution to photos and other content. A tool will rec...

Image: Google Google announced today that its free rewards program for Google Play is rolling out over the next week in the US (via Android Central). Google says the program, called Goog...

Image: Yahoo While Yahoo Groups hasn’t been a viable forum destination for years, it was at one time a popular place for people to meet and converse online. Yahoo parent company Verizo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple today announced a pledge of $2.5 billion to combat the housing crisis in its home state of California. It’s the largest commitment of any ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft will offer several Black Friday deals starting at 12AM ET on November 28th. One of the most notable inclusions of the sale is Micros...

Lloyd Bishop/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Chances are, if someone is tuning into Seth Meyers’ new stand-up special on Netflix, Lobby Baby, they’re interested in his jokes abo...

Image: Dropbox Today, Dropbox announced that it’s rolling out Dropbox Transfer, a new way to easily share files without also sharing access to your personal copies of them. When you co...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Chinese-owned social media app TikTok confirmed Monday that it will not send a representative to testify before a Senate panel slated to exami...

Facebook unveiled a new logo today that’s meant to represent the parent company that owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and more. The logo just says “Facebook,” but in a really blan...

Image: ByteDance / Smartisan TikTok owner ByteDance’s long-rumored smartphone has been released in China, reports Abacus News. The company has released the Jianguo Pro 3 under the Smar...

Microsoft has changed its mind on killing off the OneNote 2016 desktop app. The software maker released Office 2019 without any updates to the desktop version of OneNote, instead relying o...

Microsoft has created a proof of concept for storing data on glass. The software maker has teamed up with Warner Bros. to store an entire copy of the original 1978 Superman movie on glass ...

Photo: Mariya Abdulkaf / The Verge Black Friday is almost here, and that means lots of great deals on gadgets. But you know what’s better than cheap stuff? Free stuff. Fortunately, we ...

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Boeing/NASA Today, Boeing tested a key system on its new passenger space capsule, the CST-100 Starliner, a major milestone that gets the company ready for the vehicle’s first flight to...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is revealing a lot of improvements to its Teams software today, furthering its competition with rival Slack. While Microsoft’s new Tea...

Microsoft is planning to release its Edge Chromium browser early next year with a new logo. The software maker is targeting January 15th as the release date for Edge Chromium, with availab...

Microsoft is bringing some much-needed improvements to its Outlook for Mac app. Starting this week, Outlook for Mac beta testers (in the Fast Ring) will be able to access a new design that...

Microsoft first unveiled its Fluid Framework earlier this year as the future of web collaboration and shared or interactive services. The company is now launching a preview of this work to...

Microsoft is unveiling a number of new features for its Teams client today. The software maker has been building out Microsoft Teams to rival Slack in recent months, and it’s now going a...

Adobe is releasing its augmented reality app Aero today at its annual Max conference. The free iOS app lets designers build AR experiences without coding knowledge. Instead, the app makes ...

Nearly a year after it was first announced, Photoshop for the iPad is finally here. Adobe is unveiling the app at its annual Max design conference today, and it has published a blog post c...

Adobe Adobe is launching a free AI-powered Photoshop Camera app, available now to a select group of users as a limited preview for iOS and Android devices. The camera uses Adobe’s arti...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft is unveiling a new Office app for iOS and Android today. While the software giant has had separate versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint avail...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is bringing Cortana to its Outlook for iOS and Android apps. It’s something we’ve been expecting for almost two years, and it’s ar...

Coediting | Adobe Adobe XD, the design prototyping software, is introducing a coediting feature in beta today that lets users work with other designers in real time. Coediting allows use...

Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images A new initiative from the Internet Archive makes it easier to check citations on Wikipedia by linking to digitized previews ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge An affordable, manageable way to give your Switch a unique look Continue reading… ...

Microsoft is refreshing the logo for its Chromium-based Edge browser. The software giant originally unveiled its Edge icon more than four years ago, and it’s fair to say it was a logo th...

Photo: Katalin Vermes / Netflix I finally got around to watching Widows, the latest film from Steve McQueen. I love McQueen as a director — I have distinct memories of feeling complete...

MIT researchers first showed off its self-assembling “M-Block” robot cubes in 2013 — and this week, they shared a video of what they’re calling M-Blocks 2.0 (via TechCrunch). Like ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google’s Pixel 3A is a pretty good mid-range phone with a great camera. It normally starts at $399, but there are a couple deals right now to get the ...

Ant-Man 3 is reportedly in development, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Peyton Reed, who also directed Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp, will return to helm the third movie. There are...

Sony Pictures’ highly anticipated sequel to 2018’s Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse will arrive on April 8th, 2022. The company tweeted out the announcement attached with a cool, gli...

Photo by Sam Mellish / In Pictures via Getty Images Images Amazon Marketplace sellers who deal in new, used, and refurbished Nintendo products woke up to a peculiar notice yesterday: wit...

Courtesy of @emdubbbb Every year, people scramble to find that one Halloween costume that best captures the zeitgeist of the previous 12 months. This year, we got a lot of people who dre...

Image: Tile Back in September, Tile — the company that helps you find your missing items by attaching Bluetooth-enabled tags — announced that you’d soon be able to ask Google Assis...

Inboard Technology, an electric skateboard startup from Santa Cruz, California, is working with a liquidation firm to sell off its intellectual property and assets, The Verge has learned. ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is buying Fitbit and the reasons why are both simple and complicated. It’s the kind of big acquisition Google has done before (more m...

AmazonBasics AA battery | Amazon AmazonBasics, Amazon’s store brand, launched over 10 years ago, and we know as little about it now as we do about Amazon as a whole. Like most details ...

Image: Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard Entertainment today announced that its virtual card game Hearthstone would be getting a brand-new game mode called Battlegrounds. The mode is based...

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Blizzard has just announced Overwatch 2, the sequel to its popular team shooter Overwatch, onstage at Blizzcon 2019. The original Overwatch was released over three years ago, and while Bli...

Sébastien Matos has built a fantastic interactive trip through the history of one of the most important UI elements we encounter every day: the scroll bar. He’s recreated, as faithfully...

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Uber’s lawsuit challenging New York City’s first-in-the-nation law capping the number of ride-hail drivers that operate on its streets has been di...

Diablo IV is finally official. Blizzard announced the game at the opening ceremonies for BlizzCon 2019 in Anaheim, California, and it marks the first entry in the series since 2012’s Dia...

the-office-nbc-netflix Comcast and NBCUniversal are reportedly weighing whether to make its upcoming Peacock streaming service free for all customers, according to CNBC. This is differe...

Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images Blizzard Entertainment kicked off its annual BlizzCon fan expo today with a direct apology from president J. Allen Brack regarding the explosive Hong Kong c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WeWork has apparently started the process of making a gaming division, according to a trademark filing and job applications found by Bloomberg. We...

Photo by Sam Mellish / In Pictures via Getty Images Images Amazon Marketplace sellers who deal in new, used, and refurbished Nintendo products woke up to a peculiar notice yesterday: wit...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google just bought Fitbit today for $2.1 billion dollars, but apparently the search giant wasn’t the only tech company circling — Facebook was...

While building the Pixel 4’s face retouching feature, Google says it talked to the professionals who are most familiar with making people look good: wedding photographers. In an intervie...

Debt is as American as baseball, apple pie, and the Norman Rockwell conception of life in this country that refuses to die despite all of the evidence that it only existed, briefly, for a ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The United States has opened a national security review into TikTok’s parent company over its acquisition of social media app Musical.ly, Reuter...

Adobe’s Creative Cloud app is bringing thousands of new fonts to iOS and iPadOS today. Users can download the app to get access to 1,300 free fonts, and Creative Cloud subscribers will g...

Photo by Kerry Brown / Paramount Pictures The Terminator franchise has always had a fundamental problem: past the hit film that kicked off the story, nothing that happened in the series ...

Ehang, a Chinese company that builds drones large enough to carry human passengers, filed paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to go public on Nasdaq with a $100 millio...

Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple TV Plus launches today, and Apple has a pretty slick limited time deal: buy a new iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, or Mac, and you’ll ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Robot vacuums were made to make your life easier, and iRobot’s Roomba i7 and i7+ are some of the most helpful models. Both are powerful, they can map y...

Apple CEO Tim Cook offered a simple answer when investors asked why the company decided to essentially give away its upcoming streaming service, Apple TV Plus, for next to nothing: it’s ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Black Friday is still a few weeks away, but AT&T has dropped a bombshell of a deal today on the Apple TV 4K (32GB). Usually $179, you can get one of ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google’s Recorder app, which can automatically (and very quickly) transcribe audio recorded on the Pixel 4, is coming to older Pixel devices. The news ...

Photo: Apple TV Plus There 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...

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Photo by James Bareham / The Verge As of November 2019, we’ve officially caught up with Blade Runner’s dystopian future. But we’re already ten years past the very different book th...

Image: Apple Apple’s big push into original programming begins today with the launch of Apple TV Plus. The service costs $4.99 per month, but if you’ve bought an iPhone, iPad, or Mac...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google has just announced that it’s buying wearable company Fitbit for $2.1 billion. In a blog post announcing the news, Google SVP of devic...

Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Vergecast came together at The Glass Room in San Francisco this week to tackle the future of cameras, photos, filters, and Instagram’s doomsday plan. Hosts...

Shane Dawson’s new documentary series, The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star, was originally teased as a look into YouTube’s contentious beauty world, one dominated by scandalous feuds a...

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In Ronan Farrow’s book Catch and Kill, which details how the former NBC News correspondent pieced together his Pulitzer-winning reporting about Harvey Weinstein, the first menacing figur...

There’s a scene in See I would bet everything in my wallet (seven dollars, three old MetroCards, and five half-used coffee rewards cards) that it’ll go viral. It’s the one where Jaso...

If The Morning Show is Apple TV Plus’ crown-jewel prestige drama and See is its bet on sci-fi programming, Dickinson is its most fun. Circumventing Apple’s idea of what a prestigious s...

Image: Hulu Hulu subscribers can now download content to watch offline on their Android devices or Fire TV tablets, the streaming service announced on Twitter yesterday. The feature has ...

An empty content moderation floor at a Cognizant site in Tampa | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales Yesterday, as I tried to sort through Twitter’s decision to ban political ads, I got a ...

Image: LG LG’s G-Sync firmware update will arrive starting this week for compatible 2019 OLED TVs in North America. The company says that three ranges of OLED TVs will get the feature:...

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Photo: Ursula Coyote / Netflix Netflix is branching out beyond scripted video and nonfiction podcasts to create fictional podcasts. The company said today it’s planning to release a sh...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The White House appears to be abandoning its plan to freeze the fuel efficiency standards of cars at 2020 levels, reversing a cornerstone policy of...

Image: @evleaks Huawei is apparently working on a new tablet, and it looks pretty darn similar to an iPad Pro, according to leaked renders posted by 91Mobiles (via Android Central). The ...

Evan Blass (Twitter) If you’re filled with nostalgia for a new Motorola RAZR — one with a folding screen — you won’t need to wait any longer to see what the company’s been cook...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is finally doing something popular: banning political ads. Yesterday, CEO Jack Dorsey announced that his company will no longer allow spon...

Xiaomi smartwatch | Xiaomi, via Weibo In the past, Xiaomi’s products have looked a lot like Apple versions, and Xiaomi’s first smartwatch, which will launch on November 5th, appears ...

My truth: I don’t like Halloween. I think it’s fun, sure, and I do love any excuse to party or eat candy, but there’s something about the ritual of it that gets to me — something a...

Most video game protagonists walk with purpose. Nathan Drake has a particular swagger as he strolls through ancient tombs, while Leon Kennedy holds himself with the confidence of a trained...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Wednesday, Twitter announced that it will ban all forms of political advertising starting in November, opening up challenging questions about w...

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Black Friday is happening on Friday, November 29th, but if you shop on that day only, you’ll probably miss out on some great deals. That’s because several retailers, including Target, ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s iOS 13 has had a rocky start since its mid-September launch, with it being among the most buggy Apple software releases in recent me...

Loupedeck has announced a new editing console for creative work called the Loupedeck Creative Tool. It’s designed to help bridge the gap between the infinite toolbars and toggles of apps...

A fire burns in San Bernardino, CA on OCtober 31. | Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images Fires raging in San Francisco’s Bay Area and in the greater Los Angeles area have alread...

Netflix Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher, based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s adored novels, will be available to stream on December 20th, according to a new trailer. This is the second...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Cortana assistant is getting new features later this year, adding voice options (including a male voice for the first time) as well ...

WhatsApp has announced that its app can now be locked with a fingerprint on Android, following the addition of biometric security to its iOS version earlier this year. Turning the feature ...

Image: Vizio Sam’s Club, like every other major retailer, will be taking part in Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2019. But unlike most others (except for Walmart), Sam’s Club is gearin...

YouTubers have raised more than $10 million as part of a fundraiser to plant trees across the globe, meeting more than half of the goal organizers laid out last week. The initiative, calle...

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Apple TV Plus wants potential subscribers to be excited about streaming. It’s launching with four big-budget shows featuring household names. But early reviews tell a different story, on...

Evan Blass (Twitter) Motorola is planning to unveil its foldable RAZR phone next month, but two new leaks have given us an early look at the handset. Evan Blass (evleaks) shared an image...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge LoveSync was meant for couples struggling in the bedroom — instead its crowdfunding campaign became a viral joke Continue reading...

Walmart is considering a sale of its Vudu video streaming service, according to a new report from The Information. It’s not known how much the company is looking to sell the service for,...

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Screenshot by Jon Porter / The Verge One of Medium’s biggest strengths is its sleek design, which can give anything published on the platform an air of legitimacy, regardless of whethe...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Apple Watch has become the standard by which all other smartwatches are measured. It provides you with information about your fitness, heart r...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’ve ever wondered about the value of having multiple social networks competing to develop the best products and policies, Wednesday of...

Image: iFixit iFixit has completed its traditional teardown of Apple’s latest AirPods and, just as Apple promised, it’s bad news for repairs. The organization awarded the noise-cance...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nintendo’s third-quarter earnings are out, and they reveal that the company sold 4.8 million Switch consoles between July and September, a y...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Samsung Electronics has reported third-quarter earnings that show sharp declines year-on-year due to the ongoing slow performance of the globa...