Articles by The Verge from December 2019

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Late last week, Sonos was called out on Twitter by Devin Wilson for its practices around sustainability. The company drew particular attention for...

Photo credit should read JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images In July, a man walked into a Kyoto Animation’s Studio One and set fire to a bucket of gasoline. The resulting explosion killed ...

NIO’s new EC6 SUV, which is expected to hit the road in late 2020. | Images: NIO NIO, China’s leading EV startup, announced its third production vehicle this past weekend, a small...

Photo: Katalin Vermes / Netflix Netflix’s The Witcher is really popular, at least according to the company — it’s in their top ten most popular series releases this year, despite d...

Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images A handful of depression management and suicide prevention apps — downloaded millions of times — included incorrect or nonfunctional co...

Credit: Nick Walton AI Dungeon 2 may not have appeared on The Verge’s game of the year list, but it’s one of the coolest video game experiments of 2019, and it’s now playable in it...

Image: Wyze An unsecured server exposed the data of Wyze customers over a period of three weeks, the smart security camera manufacturer has admitted. The leak was first discovered by the...

Netflix’s The Witcher adaptation seems to be the streaming service’s latest hit, helped at least in part by the massive viral success of the hit song of the season, “Toss a Coin to Y...

A tiny New Mexico town has been waiting for space tourists to fly down the road Continue reading… ...

Image: 91Mobiles / @OnLeaks The Pixel 4A could be Google’s first phone to feature a hole-punch display, new renders published by 91Mobiles claim. The unofficial renders, which are base...

He Jiankui at the event where he publicly announced the experiment. | Image: ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images A Chinese court has sentenced the scientist behind the world’s first g...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Tesla has delivered the first cars produced by its Chinese Gigafactory, just under a year after the company broke ground on its first factory located o...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The holidays are here, and if you’re unwrapping a new Kindle (or a non-Amazon-branded e-reader, or just a device with an e-book app on it), ...

Two months ago, just before The Mandalorian was about to premiere on Disney+, I made a joke to some friends: wouldn’t it be funny if this show was better than Star Wars: The Rise of Skyw...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sci-fi futures, toxic cultures, and scooter wars Continue reading… ...

Storm chasers, a rocket launch, and a melting ice cream cake Continue reading… ...

You’ve got an evening to kill and a Netflix subscription — don’t waste any time browsing. These ten picks aren’t going to even begin to cover all of the great stuff on Netflix, but...

Disney The Disney-fueled ESPN+/Disney+/Hulu triple pack might be the biggest power play in the streaming wars yet. The late-2019 bundling of these services offers three huge entertainmen...

Star Wars is synonymous with big; big battles, big ships and, most importantly, big movie theater screens. But the future is changing, and The Mandalorian perfectly demonstrates what it lo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T continues to roll out its low-band 5G network, with the addition of six new cities that add some of the biggest urban areas in the US to ...

The Mandalorian and Baby Yoda will return for a second season next fall, executive producer Jon Favreau confirmed today. Favreau tweeted the confirmation, adding that it will arrive in th...

This decade, babies took on a new life. Everyone wanted to be a baby, and particularly this year, babies dominated the meme cycle. We’re obsessed with babyfication — turning everything...

Photo by Dan MacMedan/WireImage Phoebe Waller-Bridge is having a great year. Fresh off the second season of her acclaimed show Fleabag, the writer / actor / producer inked a blockbuster ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Popular USB charging company Anker has an all-new iPhone accessory that should elevate your mobile photography game in the lighting department...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Popular USB charging company Anker has an all-new iPhone accessory that should elevate your mobile photography game in the lighting department...

Alex Castro / The Verge As first reported by AdAge, Spotify said Friday it will “pause” political advertising early in 2020 on its ad-supported tier and its original and exclusive po...

Photo by ARIS OIKONOMOU/AFP via Getty Images A rapidly changing climate drove hundreds of governments around the world to declare states of emergency in 2019. While the declarations are ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Got a VR headset for the holidays this year and unsure of where to start? Not to worry — whether you’ve got an Oculus Quest, Vive Cosmos, ...

Make almost anything work with Sonos, but it’ll cost you Continue reading… ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sonos today announced that it will increase prices on the Sonos Amp and Sonos Port by $50 as it shifts production out of China and into Malaysia. The Amp...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Getting the most out of your Apple computer often means exploring well beyond the stock apps pre-installed on macOS and the top charts of the ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales Setting up a new phone is a flurry of entering passwords, transferring contact data, downloading must-have social media apps, and entering even more passw...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge Anyone who has used Windows through more than one version knows that, no matter how many utilities Microsoft adds to its operating system, there are al...

LG’s vegetable cultivator alongside a full-sized fridge. | Image: LG There’s no surer sign that CES is near than the announcement of a massive home appliance of dubious merit. Joinin...

Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images There’s no getting around it: a more sustainable future will be a battery-powered one. Without batteries to...

This Christmas season, astronauts aboard the International Space Station got into the holiday spirit by baking cookies for Santa in microgravity. Yet neither Santa nor the astronauts will ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has vetoed a bill that would have made electric scooters and bikes legal in the state, citing the lack of a man...

Photo: Disney / Lucasfilm Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker director J.J. Abrams once praised The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson for introducing Kelly Marie Tran’s Rose Tico to the Sta...

Teslasuit Teslasuit — known for its full-body haptic feedback suit — is introducing a glove that can let users feel virtual textures and gather biometric data. The device is called s...

Image: Elephant Robotics You may have heard of Aibo, Sony’s robot dog, but if a robot cat is what you’ve always wanted, you’re now able to back one on Kickstarter. In fact, it actu...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube’s recent Studio update is finally giving people an easier way to deal with copyright claim disputes. The new update now lets creators a...

Graphic by Michele Doying / The Verge Our favorites for all your new devices Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re lucky enough to have unwrapped a new iPhone as a holiday gift this year, you’ll probably want to install some new apps on it. Fo...

Courtesy of Optoro Every single day this December, an estimated 1 million return packages were picked up through UPS alone, and online shoppers are expected to send back even more purcha...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The world of iPhone and iPad games changed dramatically in September with the launch of Apple Arcade. The subscription is an incredible deal: ...

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare team is spreading some holiday cheer this season with a limited time snowball fight mode. In the game’s latest update, Infinity Ward and Activision are r...

The Pentagon has advised military members to avoid using take-home DNA kits because of concerns about “unintended security consequences and increased risk to the joint force and mission,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Tesla has started rolling out a massive holiday update that was previously teased by CEO Elon Musk last week, including a “Full Self-Driving sneak prev...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whether you’ve just gotten a new gaming PC, are building a new PC for yourself, or have just decided to gift yourself with some new games, w...

Sony’s PlayStation 4 may be entering its eighth and final year in 2020, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be a new PS4 owner this holiday season. After all, game consoles are cheaper t...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge If you’ve added an Xbox One S or Xbox One X to your entertainment center this year, you’ll need some games to play. Now more than ever, it’s far eas...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge We’re quickly approaching the third anniversary of the Nintendo Switch, and a lot has changed in that time. Nintendo’s console / tablet hy...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge If you just got a brand-new Android phone for the holidays, you probably want to play some games on your shiny device. Luckily, that’s especial...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge ByteDance is not currently exploring selling its stake in TikTok, despite a report from Bloomberg stating that preliminary conversations were held...

Disney is finally selling a proper, officially licensed Baby Yoda plush toy just in time for the holidays; the only problem is customers won’t actually get it until early next year. The...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Galaxy Tab S6 will soon be available with 5G, making it possibly the first tablet with the faster connectivity. As spotted by SamMobile, the G...

Youtube mobile app voice search | Google YouTube wants to make it easier for people to watch, control, and have the full YouTube experience on any device of their choosing. In a blog pos...

Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick is resigning from the company’s board of directors. The news comes after Kalanick sold more than $2.5 billion in...

Star Wars’ first same-sex kiss has been cut from The Rise of Skywalker in Singapore. The blink-and-you-might-miss-it moment takes place near the film’s end, when two peripheral charact...

Images of what’s rumored to be Samsung’s next foldable phone. | 王奔宏 via Weibo Earlier this month we saw images of a foldable device with a clamshell design rumored to be S...

A pair of new Pokémon games have launched exclusively on Facebook Gaming: Pokémon Tower Battle and Pokémon Medallion Battle. Pokémon Tower Battle is available worldwide, and pits two ...

It’s a Christmas micromobility miracle! Failed scooter business Unicorn is getting bailed out by rival company Unagi, after Unicorn had to shut down recently without any money leftover f...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The speed and convenience of Amazon’s own delivery network has regularly come at the price of safety, as detailed today in an extensive report b...

Twitter is banning animated PNG image files (APNGs) from its platform, after an attack on the Epilepsy Foundation’s Twitter account sent out similar animated images that could potentiall...

Lucasfilm Ltd. Two years ago, my former colleague Sarah Jeong laid out how Star Wars: Rogue One — and, indeed, much of the Star Wars mythology — is about internet freedom. A huge amo...

Chris Welch As T-Mobile’s merger trial inches toward a verdict, it’s clear the company has spent years preparing for a merger with Sprint. But a new report made public in connection ...

Image: Instagram Several prominent models and Instagram influencers are facing backlash after attending and promoting Saudi Arabian music festival, MDL Beast. Commenters are “disappoin...

So no one told you Friends was going to go away. [handclaps] As of January 1st, 2020, Friends won’t be available to stream on Netflix, and won’t be available to stream on any of the ma...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Employees at North, the company behind the augmented reality Focals glasses, warned their CEO that the glasses weren’t ready to ship two mon...

Image: Rivian Michigan-based EV startup Rivian has announced a massive new $1.3 billion financing round led by T. Rowe Price — one that includes existing investors like Amazon and Ford...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images New York City’s law to limit the amount of time Uber and Lyft drivers can spend cruising for passengers in busy parts of the city is “arbitrary ...

Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been quietly assembling a squad of tech executives to run digital advertising for his pre...

If I have one wish for 2020, it’s that we see an end to the stream of gadgets that convince customers to buy a product that requires even more products to make it functional. Instead of ...

Alex Castro Women’s share of a $100 billion industry is growing, but shoe fit remains elusive Continue reading… ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The cheap days of Sling TV are over. Dish’s internet TV service is raising the price of both of its subscription packages, Sling Blue and Sling Orange,...

Lucasfilm It’s difficult not to look at Disney’s record-breaking year, securing eight of the top 10 highest-grossing films of 2019 domestically and its impressive entrance into strea...

To live in microgravity, astronauts need to stay fit Continue reading… ...

Image: Stern Pinball Today, the pinball wizards at Stern Pinball announced a new machine based on Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things. That’s pretty meta, given the show’s reveren...

Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s officially crunch time for buying gifts before the holidays arrive. If you haven’t yet begun your shopping, it’s time to start now, because if you wai...

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg is leaving the company a little more than one year after the first of two fatal crashes involving the company’s 737 Max air...

Vinland Saga Anime streaming is a mess, but it wasn’t always Continue reading… ...

Tyler Golden/Netflix Perhaps the most deliciously satisfying thing about You is that it began as a Lifetime show. It seemed to fit right in, too — based on the novel of the same name b...

No matter how useful today’s robot vacuums are, they’ll always be defeated by an element common to many households: stairs. That’s why this flying robovac, built by YouTuber and engi...

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge One of the biggest barriers for 5G adoption is simply getting customers access to the new network. Carriers are racing to rol...

Supporters of Snopes’ campaign will get swag like tote bags and T-shirts. | Image: Snopes Fact-checking operation Snopes has launched a crowdfunding campaign ahead of 2020, likely to ...

Rumored Galaxy S10 Lite. | @Onleaks Specs for Samsung’s Galaxy S10 Lite have coalesced ahead of its imminent European launch. WinFuture.de posted details based upon a data sheet they�...

Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images As far as crimes of vanity go, editing your own Wikipedia page is...

Illustration by Ana Kova for The Verge A report from The New York Times has revealed that messaging app ToTok, popular in the United Arab Emirates, is in fact a government spy tool, crea...

Photo: Warner Bros. Theaters are receiving a new version of Cats with “some improved visual effects,” just days after it premiered to dismal reviews. The update to the CGI-heavy movi...

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 can be starte...

(NASA/Aubrey Gemignani) Boeing’s new passenger spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner, landed safely in the New Mexico desert this morning, bringing a swift end to a very rough debut flight...

Photo: Scott Garfield / Paramount Pictures Alright everyone, it’s time for Star Wars. I’m writing this before I’ve seen the new movie, so instead I’m going to write about The Las...

It’s perfectly fine and will be completely overlooked Continue reading… ...

Image: Alex Castro / The Verge Yesterday, The New York Times exposed in chilling detail how smartphones now mean practically anyone can be precisely tracked and identified in real time w...

Illustration by Corey Brickley for The Verge Welcome to the final episode of The Vergecast for 2019. On today’s docket, we’ve got a deep dive into the lives of YouTube moderators, pl...

Jake Paul is the latest YouTuber to get his own boxing special. If the team behind the growing sports streaming platform Dazn is right, it’ll be more than a one-time event. Following the...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Filings for what appear to be a new set of Samsung Galaxy Buds have hit the FCC, indicating that a new version of Samsung’s wireless earbuds...

Marvel Studios 2019 is coming to a close, and with it comes the end of the decade. Prestige TV has never been better. Marvel turned on-screen superheroes into the biggest (and most profi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Friday, Facebook and Twitter shut down a network of fake accounts that pushed pro-Trump messages all while “masquerading” as Americans with...

A decade of failures Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you’ve been putting off your holiday shopping, there are even more deals available now on popular phones, tablets, and laptops. While a lot of thes...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The outbreak of vaping-associated lung injuries this summer and fall can officially be attributed to vitamin E acetate in THC-containing vaping pr...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Motorola’s resurrected foldable Razr was one of the most exciting phone announcements in 2019, but it seems that demand for the upcoming phone was hig...

Apple has opened its bug bounty program to all security researchers, offering rewards of $1 million or more for discoveries of major flaws in its operating systems. The program, which had ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google CEO Sundar Pichai got the promotion of a lifetime earlier this month, when company co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin relinquished control of...

Image: Richie Hawtin Techno titan Richie Hawtin has always been able to tweak existing ideas in a way that completely upends them. This time, it’s concert video. CLOSER is Hawtin’s a...

Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images From next year, some of London’s electric buses will play artificial noise while traveling at low speeds, and the specific sound that�...

Apple Arcade managed to squeeze its latest game in just before the holiday break — and it’s yet another very welcome surprise. Called Builder’s Journey, it’s a puzzle / adventure h...

An older rendering of Joby Aviation’s aircraft; the company has not revealed its latest prototype yet Uber’s ambitious plans to launch an urban air taxi service just got a lift from ...

The laptop lives on Continue reading… ...

Lucasfilm Ltd. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to answer big questions about the entire Skywalker Saga. But it also raised a lot of new ones, including how well director J....

Image: Netflix So you’ve just finished watching Geralt grimace his way through eight episodes of Netflix’s new fantasy epic The Witcher. There’s a good chance you want more. Maybe ...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge A new federal study has found that many of the world’s top facial recognition algorithms are biased along lines of age, race, and ethnicity. A...

Is Dish serious about launching a 5G network? Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Geese, ninjas, leather jackets, and more Continue reading… ...

Apple’s ‘spaceship’ headquarters in California, as seen by drone. | Photo by Jane Tyska/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images A new report from Bloomberg claims Apple i...

An artistic rendering of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner | Image: Boeing The first flight of Boeing’s new passenger spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner, did not go as planned this morning, ...

If you want to understand the magic of Devil May Cry 5, look no further than V. The game’s newest lanky boy addition is one of three heroes to play as throughout Devil May Cry 5’s wind...

An Atlas V rocket carrying Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Friday, Dec. 20, 2019, just after 6:36 AM. | (NASA/Joel Kowsky) U...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Programming note: With this edition, The Interface is now on holiday break! We return January 6th. And just like that, we’ve reached the final ...

Apple is open-sourcing some of its smart home tools to “accelerate the development” of the new smart home standard announced by industry leaders yesterday. Parts of Apple’s HomeKit A...

Image: Netflix You learn nearly everything you need to know about The Witcher hero Geralt (Henry Cavill) a few minutes into the first episode. The titular witcher — a work-for-hire mon...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon’s Ring is having a very bad week. BuzzFeed News first reported today that login credentials for thousands of Ring camera owners have been publis...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over the past few years, record labels have been suing ISPs for not removing music pirates from their services, and today, the record labels may h...

Photo by Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images Photo hosting service SmugMug has penned an open letter asking fans of the photo site Flickr, which it acquired from Yahoo two years ago,...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Best Buy is having a flash sale from 7PM ET on December 19th to 1AM ET on December 20th. There’s a range of deals, but we’ve collected the ones tha...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Claire Stapleton, one of the organizers of the watershed Google Walkout protest, has penned a first-person essay for Elle magazine detailing her t...

If you used your credit card or debit card to buy gas or pay for snacks at any Wawa convenience store, anytime in the past nine months, your card information may have been skimmed by malwa...

Image: Valve Valve Software’s Half-Life: Alyx is less than six months away, and since it requires a VR headset, lots of players might be considering a major hardware purchase right now...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge After the shaky launch of Google’s cloud gaming service Stadia, which failed to deliver on some promised features amid questions about wheth...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lyft is flagging people with names its algorithm thinks are inappropriate, like “Dick,” “Finger,” and “Cummings.” The ride-hail compan...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Over the past decade, billionaire presidential candidate Tom Steyer has reinvented himself from fossil fuel funder to climate crusader. He reached a net ...

YouTubers have surpassed their goal of raising $20 million to help the Arbor Day Foundation plant 20 million trees, with the help of more than half a million donors and some wealthy tech e...

(NASA/Joel Kowsky) Tomorrow morning, December 20th, Boeing is poised to launch its brand-new passenger spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner, from Florida, sending it to the International Sp...

Tesla owners will soon be able to charge their vehicles at EVgo charging stations. The EV charging company said it will partner with Elon Musk’s company to install Tesla’s proprietary ...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge I read a joke the other day that went something like: your cyberpunk dystopia name is just your actual name because the corporations have already won. Alt...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge If you’re the owner of a Ring smart home system, the recent security issues surrounding the Ring camera — including several families whose systems we...

Image: TiVo TiVo is combining with Xperi — a licensing firm that specializes in semiconductor technology as well as various A/V brands — in a $3 billion merger, the two companies ann...

Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images On Thursday, seven Democratic presidential candidates are set to take the stage for the final primary debate in 2019. This sixth debate will be ho...

Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge OnePlus announced its second data breach in two years back in November, and the phone maker promised to launch a bug bounty program by the end of the year...

Photo by Helen Havlak / The Verge The US Congress has voted to raise the age for purchasing tobacco from 18 to 21, and it’s applied that rule to e-cigarettes as well as more traditiona...

Image: Z-Wave Alliance When Apple, Google, Amazon, and Zigbee announced that they were going to work together on a common smart home standard yesterday, one huge name was missing: Z-Wave...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge After months of negotiations, Congress approved a landmark bill on Thursday to stop the flood of illegal robocalls. The president is expected to sign it ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’ve been procrastinating on purchasing those holiday gifts, are still hoping to get your packages by December 24th, and are depending on A...

Gun violence research just got $25 million in federal funds, after a 20-year drought in funding for that purpose. The spending bill passed by US lawmakers today allocates half of the money...

Satechi Apple Watch USB-C charging dock | Image: Satechi Satechi has made a convenient USB-C Apple Watch charging dock. It plugs into a USB-C port and then charges the Watch through a ma...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is developing its own operating system that could one day reduce the company’s reliance on Google’s Android, according to a new repor...

Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, a movie set within the world of international espionage, finally has a first trailer that sheds some more light on the director’s 11th film. The first trail...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Uber has agreed to pay $4.4 million to settle charges of sexual harassment and retaliation brought by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (E...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Measuring the intelligence of AI is one of the trickiest but most important questions in the field of computer science. If you can’t understand...

Image: Satechi If you’ve been looking for an Apple Watch charger that isn’t yet another long cable that can get tangled up in your bag, Satechi’s new USB-C Apple Watch charging doc...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A September password breach of online game company Zynga affected 170 million people, according to a new report from Have I Been Pwned. According to...

2019 is coming to a close, and with it comes the end of the decade. Prestige TV has never been better. Marvel turned on-screen superheroes into the biggest (and most profitable) trend of t...

Billie Eilish performs at the Radio 1 Big Weekend at Stewart Park on May 25, 2019 in Middlesbrough, England. | Photo by Jo Hale/Redferns Billie Eilish, the 18-year-old singer-songwriter ...

Ghostery, which makes the ad- and tracker-blocking extension of the same name, has launched Ghostery Midnight, a desktop app with extended privacy features that costs $14 a month. Ghostery...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Here are two things you probably don’t know: One, a whole bunch of the top power tool brands — including DeWalt, Black & Decker, Craftsm...

Pokémon Red is the first game I can remember playing myself. And while revolutionary for the time, the rudimentary, 8-bit graphics of the series left a lot to the imagination. Pretend thi...

Image: Airbnb Airbnb has won a court battle in the EU affecting how the company is regulated in the future. The EU’s top court has ruled that Airbnb is not an estate agent but an “in...

The art of audio storytelling is thriving today — as much or more so than in the heyday of radio in the 1930s and ‘40s. There are podcasts to suit every taste, including politics, hist...

The board from the original Nest thermostat Surely a new one will fix it, right? Continue reading… ...

Image: Applesfera Twitter’s iPad app has a new design that makes far more efficient use of the tablet’s screen, Applesfera reports. While the social network’s current iPad app show...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As we start looking forward to 2020 — and your predictions are coming to this space tomorrow — a big subject on my mind is accountability. Tec...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has acquired the Spanish cloud gaming company PlayGiga, which previously offered its services across Italy, Argentina, Chile, and Spain. ...

LG’s UltraFine monitor range is best known for its 5K and 4K displays that pair great macOS integration and image quality with boring industrial design. The latest entry in the series st...

王奔宏 via Weibo Samsung’s Galaxy Fold has the dubious honor of being the first folding phone most of our readers could actually buy — but it won’t be the last. Last month, Moto...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge One of the novel ways you might want to play Stadia, Google’s cloud gaming service, is by connecting your Stadia Controller to a Pixel phone...

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Pornhub has released its annual Year in Review blog, and it contains some noteworthy data about, of all things, Android OS usage statistics, as observe...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge If you’re thinking of buying a Ring camera for someone as a holiday gift, read Motherboard’s deeply unsettling coverage first. Maybe you’ve heard a...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Huawei will release an improved version of its Mate X folding smartphone next year, with a better hinge, tougher screen, and faster processor. The details...

Photo credit should read JORG CARSTENSEN/DPA/AFP via Getty Images Edward Snowden is not entitled to any profits from the sales of his memoir and the United States government can instead ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify is testing a new feature, Tastebuds, that lets users discover new music through their friends, TechCrunch reports. The feature was first d...

Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images Share Now, the car-sharing service formerly known as Car2Go, is leaving North America. Daimler and BMW, the two global automakers that share ownership o...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge AT&T announced on Wednesday that it has turned on call validation displays for certain Android phones. That way, you can easily determine ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Gaming peripherals manufacturer Corsair has acquired Scuf Gaming, which makes a very popular line of high-end e-sports controllers. While the terms of t...

Image: Denon Denon DJ has announced an industry first for DJ gear: starting today, a new software update allows its Prime 4 standalone player and its SC5000 and SC5000M media players to ...

Amazon Amazon introduced its second Echo Wall Clock in one week today. This time, it’s partnering with Disney to launch a wall clock featuring Mickey Mouse that, like other Echo Wall C...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is expanding its free return policy for the holiday season to include millions of products not previously eligible, including electronics, ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is expanding its free return policy to include millions of products not previously eligible, including electronics, household items, and ki...

Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images/Visual China Group via Getty Images The Department of Justice has accused Faraday Future founder Jia Yueting of “engaging in dishonest beha...

Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg is ending 2019 with a couple of major decisions: he plans to take a small break from YouTube in 2020, and he’s wiped out his popular Twitter account, losi...

Image: Nuro Autonomous, light-duty trucks can now be used for commercial purposes on public roads in California. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles announced the proposal Tuesday...

Instagram Instagram is cracking down on influencers’ branded posts and the products they hawk. The company announced today that, although it’s always prohibited branded posts that ad...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Hulu watchers will be able to use voice controls with their Chromecast and Google smart displays to surf their favorite streamable content. That also inc...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Maybe you forgot to buy a holiday gift for someone, or you didn’t have time to order something ahead of a party and you don’t want to show...

Image: Adidas Tyler “Ninja” Blevins and Adidas have announced their first sneaker together: a Ninja-themed Nite Jogger shoe, which you’ll be able to buy starting on December 31st. ...

What to expect from the capsule’s debut Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The federal labor board ruled this week that employers can block workers from using email to organize, in a decision that companies, including Goo...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge I have been playing a lot of Stadia lately — not because I think Google’s game streaming service is amazing, but because, in order to get ...

Alex Castro / The Verge Short Plays of the Year Continue reading… ...

It’s that time of year again: time don an ugly Christmas sweater, enjoy the snow, and open up some presents... in Fortnite. Today, Epic Games kicked off the now-annual “Winterfest” e...

Blade Runner was the first DVD I ever owned — not the movie, but Westwood Studios’ 1997 PC adventure game. Originally released on four CDs, the ambitious game was also bundled onto a s...

2019 is coming to a close, and with it comes the end of the decade. Prestige TV has never been better. Marvel turned on-screen superheroes into the biggest (and most profitable) trend of t...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple, Google, and Amazon are teaming up to develop an open-source smart home standard that’s meant to ensure that devices work together, make the deve...

Ikea’s new Shortcut Buttons. But can it get the software right? Continue reading… ...

The Swedish furniture giant has conquered living rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms — but can it hang on to the future of the home? Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last year, Finland launched a free online crash course in artificial intelligence with the aim of educating its citizens about the new technology....

There is no multiplayer in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, but it certainly lends itself to being social. I have a running text thread with two friends about the game, and I have a couple more ...

Lucasfilm Ltd. I thought a lot about Rey’s bread while I was watching Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The weird green food is a completely extraneous detail from Rey’s life as a de...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The percentage of 12th graders who said they’d vaped marijuana at least once in the past 30 days nearly doubled between 2018 and 2019, according...

It’s been a big week for investigations here at The Interface. On Monday, we published my investigation into the mental health woes of content moderators for Google and YouTube who remov...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Before this year’s blockbuster Superhuman scandal, in which the email app maker was caught providing a non-consensual read receipt feature to it...

Remember when the organization in charge of .org domain names traditionally used by non-profits decided to sell itself to a for-profit company? It surprised everyone because up to that poi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Talking with Google Assistant can be a handy way to get answers to questions, run your smart home, or ask for the weather. But every once in awhil...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube Music has rolled out its first personalized playlists to all subscribers, including a rival to Spotify’s Discover Weekly called Discover...

Fans have long bemoaned the inability to purchase digital versions of films from legendary Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. But starting today, that’s changed. Nearly the entire ...

Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call On Tuesday, lawmakers put out a new proposal that would require the federal government to study how a pair of laws that targeted online sex trafficking...

Instagram Instagram’s newest Stories feature allows users to post multiple photos on one screen. The feature, called Layout, is launching globally today, and people can incorporate up ...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The internet is full of spoilers, making it a dangerous place to hang around if you’re trying to steer clear of what happens in Star Wars: The ...

Images: WinFuture Samsung released the Galaxy Note 10 on August 23rd, but a new variant of it is apparently in the works. What appear to be leaked marketing images of the upcoming device...

Andrews McMeel Universal Iconic comic strip The Far Side launched its official website today, which debuted with a selection of classic cartoons, doodles from creator Gary Larson’s ske...

“Hypercar” is a term often used to describe cars with specs and price tags so extreme, so outside the realm of what’s on display at your average dealership that calling it a “super...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service has broken a bunch of promises, but it’s making good on one. Starting today, Google is delivering the...

Photo credit should read INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images Respawn Entertainment today announced a new global e-sports tournament series for its battle royale shooter Apex Legends, the...

Netflix’s TV adaptation of The Witcher comes out on Friday, but if you’re looking to get your Witcher fix even sooner, you’ll be able to play CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3: Wild H...

There were lots of successes, but nothing may ever match the iPhone Continue reading… ...

Earlier this month we told you about AI Dungeon, an AI-powered text adventure with near infinite possibilities. You can type what you want into the game, and the AI will generate a respons...

Wattam. It’s been a decade since Keita Takahashi released a commercial video game — the last title from the creator of the Katamari Damacy series was Noby Noby Boy in 2009 — but th...

One of the more fascinating parts of live-streaming culture is its penchant for raising money for charities; it’s a regular feature across sites and streamers. Twitch, for example, leads...

Image: iFixit iFixit has awarded Apple’s new Mac Pro a near-perfect 9 out of 10 score for repairability, dubbing the machine a “Fixmas miracle.” The repair specialists praised the ...

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Alcon Interactive Group The classic 1997 Blade Runner adventure game, which was once nearly impossible to find and play, has been rereleased on GOG. Blade Runner (the game) told a unique...

The Star Wars saga is full of iconic imagery, characters, weapons, and spaceships, but perhaps none more so than the lightsaber. They’re powerful weapons and tools, and we’re told time...

Skyryse, an autonomous helicopter startup, unveiled the technology stack that it says will enable future fleets of air taxis to fly themselves over cities. It also released footage from a ...

Alexander Parkin Lately, there’s been a lot of heat over the simple lightbulb. Over the past decade, manufacturers raced to make their lightbulbs more efficient. The competition helped...

Sony has announced a new accessory that adds two customizable back paddle buttons to a DualShock 4 controller. It’s called the Back Button Attachment, and it features a crisp OLED displa...

Image: ABC 2019 is coming to a close and so is the decade. Prestige TV has never been better. Marvel turned on-screen superheroes into the biggest (and most profitable) trend of the era....

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The “zoom and enhance” trope is a TV cliché, but advances in AI are making it a reality. Researchers have shown that machine learning can enlarge low-resolution images, restoring deta...

Image: Epic Games There were a lot of great games this year. Pokémon Sword and Shield, Death Stranding, Control, Untitled Goose Game, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and Baba is You all hit ...

Image: Niantic Labs Pokémon Go creator Niantic Labs says its augmented reality multiplayer feature, Buddy Adventure, is coming “very soon” to the iOS and Android versions of the mob...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has fired another employee following a showing of internal activism, marking the latest in a series of controversial terminations at the se...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lee Sang-hoon, the chairman of Samsung Electronics, has been found guilty of violating South Korea’s labor union laws and sentenced to 18 months...

Tendershoot / No More Robots If you’ve frequented certain older web forums, someone may have once told you to “lurk more.” The command admonishes newcomers to immerse themselves in...

Image: Lime Lime just announced LimePass, a weekly subscription service that waves the unlock fee on renting the company’s electric scooters and bicycles. The company says the subscrip...

Image: JBL JBL is crowdfunding a new pair of headphones that use an array of solar panels on their headband to offer potentially unlimited battery life under the right conditions. The Re...

Segway-Ninebot is taking its expertise in small electric vehicles and applying it to something slightly bigger. Two things, in fact: a new electric moped and an even larger electric Vespa-...

Image: Microsoft The next-gen Xbox is coming holiday season 2020 Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you use a Samsung Galaxy S10 on Sprint, T-Mobile, or Verizon, you might be able to download Android 10 to your device right now. 9to5Google...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Amazon has informed third-party Marketplace sellers who use its platform that they may no longer use FedEx Ground or Home shipping services if they’...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Sony’s WH-1000XM3 over-ear, noise-canceling headphones have been some of the best on the market, with very good noise cancellation, the best sound of...

Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Boeing will suspend production of the 737 Max, the airplane that was involved in two fatal crashes that took the lives of 346 people, in January ac...

Since No Man’s Sky’s release in 2016, the game’s developers have been adding updates and new features — now there’s multiplayer, base building, and a virtual reality mode, among ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We’ve reached the final few days before the holidays, and before you know it, going to a local retailer — and dealing with mobs of people — ...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Rewound, the basic music player app released last week that you could skin to make your iPhone look remarkably like an iPod Classic, has been pulled from ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service hasn’t exactly had a stellar launch, leaving those who purchased the $130 “Founder’s Edition” e...

Photo by Alexander Gerst / ESA / NASA Earlier this month, we published a guide to figuring out what’s real on the internet — whether that means spotting a malicious “fake news” s...

Netflix is still looking for its big blockbuster franchise, but it seems unlikely that Michael Bay and Ryan Reynolds’ new spectacle, 6 Underground, is the answer. 6 Underground is Peak ...

Wireless headphones are a game-changer, but they’re also often pricey. That’s why it’s a good idea to take advantage of any discounts when the opportunities arise — like right now....

Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s officially crunch time for buying gifts before the holidays arrive. If you haven’t yet begun your shopping, it’s time to start now, because if you wai...

For months, T-Mobile has been saying it’s got a smarter, sounder 5G strategy than both Verizon and AT&T. To understand what an optimal 5G network looks like, you should think of a fa...

Image: Cadillac Cadillac Escalades are known for being big vehicles, and the 2021 version will apparently get a screen to match. General Motors’ luxury marque announced Monday that one...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has stopped issuing licenses for new Android phone models sold in Turkey, meaning they will not be able to ship with its services, Reuters ...

JetBlue is introducing AirSMR, a nine-minute audio experience that features calming sounds of airport announcements, the light chatter of crowds, snack bags crinkling, and airplanes landin...

It’s difficult to explain what Wattam is and also make it sound interesting. The latest release from Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi, Wattam is a whimsical adventure about... wel...

Apple News has locked down a deal with ABC News to provide live video coverage of the upcoming 2020 presidential election and future primary and general debates, the company announced on M...

Photo by Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images The next decade is going to be defined by a revolution of battery-powered transportation, and the vehicle that will lead the ...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge Our review for the new HP Spectre x360 13 just went live. The Verge’s Dan Seifert says this 2-in-1 has a compact design with slimmer bezels surroundi...

HP has finally addressed the major flaw with its Spectre laptops: the trackpad Continue reading… ...

Tonight, SpaceX is set to launch one of its last missions of the year from Florida. For this flight, the company will be trying to recover as many pieces of its rocket as possible post-tak...

These moderators help keep Google and YouTube free of violent extremism — and now some of them have PTSD Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Mercedes-Benz is pushing back the US release of its first mass-market electric vehicle, an SUV known as the EQC, to 2021. The $68,000 EV was originally su...

The Verge Like death and taxes, seeing a version of “YouTube is over” trend on Twitter just hours after a new policy change goes into effect is a certainty. YouTube’s updated hara...

Microsoft’s surprise unveiling of its next Xbox Series X console last week underscores the company’s big hardware ambitions for 2020 and beyond. The Xbox Series X will debut during hol...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple Arcade is adding an annual subscription option for $49.99 per year, joining the existing $4.99 monthly subscription option for the gamin...

Adobe Adobe’s Photoshop for iPad is getting its first major update since launch today, with the addition of the Select Subject tool. The tool automatically selects clean outlines of th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Starting today, Instagram will start warning users when they’re about to post a “potentially offensive” caption for a photo or video that’...

Image: Remedy Entertainment There’s a moment near the end of Control that is so unabashedly thrilling, joyous, and decadent in its design that it would make most roller coaster creator...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google Maps has added a new feature that lets you search for electric car charging stations according to which plug types they work with. Now,...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge With the recent launch of an Intel-powered 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 for businesses, we now have the rare opportunity to directly compare it to...

Christmas has arrived early this year, in the form of a 4K remaster of Wham!’s iconic “Last Christmas” music video. It’s living proof that the 1980s did really happen, complete wit...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is so inescapable that it’s even started invading video games. This afternoon, director J.J. Abrams stopped by a unique location to show off a new clip f...

It was the Rorschach mask in the glove box that sold me. Watchmen, HBO’s sequel / reinvention of the comic of the same name by Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore, came out the gate swinging wit...

Image: Warner Bros. I recently saw Motherless Brooklyn, Edward Norton’s adaptation of the two-decade-old Jonathan Lethem novel about a private investigator with Tourette syndrome. I’...

Apologies to Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber, but the most interesting cat content online right now is a Snapchat filter that lets humans try on a feline face. The resulting clips are...

WWE has one of the most popular YouTube channels in the world and has become a social media force, and today (as reported by Variety) the company officially joined TikTok. There’s a WWE ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s an awful feeling realizing that your internet speed is far slower than what your provider promised. But according to a new report from ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s an awful feeling realizing that your internet speed is far slower than what your provider promised. But according to a new report from ...

Photo by Donat Sorokin / TASS via Getty Images A new software system that will let people with diabetes customize their treatment and automatically adjust their insulin levels was just a...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s common knowledge that Google has photographed a huge amount of the planet for its Street View and Google Earth projects. But for the fi...

In November, Google said that it was starting to roll out RCS Chat, the successor to SMS, as Android’s primary texting platform, and as of Monday, if you are an Android user on any carri...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Billboard has announced that YouTube streams will be factored into the Billboard 200 albums chart starting early next year. Video streams from ot...

Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images Amazon has been steadily growing its logistics operation over the last decade, and it now delivers more than half of all Amazon packag...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is just days away, bringing a promised end to the nine-episode Skywalker saga on December 20th. But if you want to catch up on the earlier movies, you can ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge When Google announced its relatively inexpensive new Pixelbook Go, it said that a more expensive Pixelbook Go configuration with a 4K screen was on the ...

Image: Epic Games Fortnite is about to host another of its now-iconic in-game live events, but this one has a pretty important real-world connection. For the first time, Epic’s battle ...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building? Continue reading… ...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The billionaire and former NYC mayor avoids controversial carbon-reduction strategies Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you’ve been holding out on a deal for the latest iPad Air, the wait is over. The Wi-Fi-only version of this year’s iPad Air is $100 off at Target...

X-Box One S | Tyler Pina If you’re looking for some good gaming deals, and particularly, if you were hoping to get a deal on Call of Duty, today’s your day, because both Best Buy and...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Banking data for 29,000 Facebook employees, which was stored on unencrypted hard drives, was stolen by a thief from a payroll worker’s car, acco...

Watch company Citizen is expanding its (less well known) line of wall clocks today with two new models that add support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, in what are effectively nicer ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facial recognition has been heralded as a secure way to confirm your identity on your phone or at payment terminals, and with features like Face I...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Starting today, Apple Podcasts is available through Amazon Alexa-enabled devices like Echo speakers. People just have to say, “Alexa, play (insert show...

A business laptop you’ll actually want to use Continue reading… ...

Update, 12:52PM ET, December 13th, 2019: After the original publication of this artlce, Samsung has since clarified to Korea’s Yonhap News Agency that it hasn’t actually sold one milli...

Chris Welch T-Mobile wanted to merge with Dish back in 2015, T-Mobile CEO John Legere told a federal court yesterday, but Dish shot the deal down over concerns that T-Mobile would “dis...

Image: Sony Pictures When Sony first rebooted Jumanji two years ago with the decades-later, new-cast follow-up Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, it was a pleasant surprise even in the long...

Today, live-streaming platform Caffeine is announcing that it has a new group of celebrity creators joining its service, in what the platform is calling a “creator drop.” It has brough...

Hulu Runaways could’ve been great. The show’s basic premise, about a group of teens who discover that their parents are all supervillains and run away to fight them, is beautifully o...

Whether we’re learning to cook an omelet or drive a car, the path to mastering new skills often begins by watching others. But can artificial intelligence learn the same way? A new chall...

Obsidian Parvati Holcomb is everybody’s (or at least, lots of people’s) favorite character in The Outer Worlds. The brilliant yet sheltered engineer has charmed players with her swee...

When Christopher Ayres started as Taco Bell’s creative director, he didn’t realize just how passionately some people loved the fast-food chain. “I didn’t even know how fervent the ...

Spotify Spotify wants more people to listen to podcasts, so it’s making the process of finding one that interests you even easier. Starting this week, the company will include a button...

If thrillers tend to follow a narrative arc that looks like a curve, the Safdie brothers prefer one shaped like a coil. Their excellent new film, Uncut Gems, is an unnerving story of spira...

Image: Murfie Last month, almost a million CDs stored in Wisconsin seemed to disappear. For years, thousands of people paid a Madison-based company, named Murfie, to rip, stream, and sto...

Microsoft dropped a surprise last night — we got our first look at the upcoming Xbox and learned its name: Microsoft’s next Xbox is Xbox Series X, coming holiday 2020. I’m not sold o...

For a long time now, Microsoft has been going out of its way to downplay the “box” part of “Xbox.” Whether it’s pledging to bring all of its first-party titles to PC, releasing s...

Image: eBay eBay Motors is a new app from the auction site aimed at streamlining the process of buying and selling used cars, and it includes a couple of AI-powered features that eBay cl...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T’s real 5G network is finally launching today, as the company starts to sell the $1,300 Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G and flips the switch for ...

It’s that time of year again: The Game Awards, gaming’s most flashy awards celebration, which also doubles as an E3-style keynote packed with announcements. The 2019 edition was no exc...

Michelle Rodriguez and Vin Diesel just appeared on stage at The Game Awards to announce Fast & Furious Crossroads, a new game coming to PC, PS4, and Xbox One. It features both stars fr...

A second season of Telltale Games’ The Wolf Among Us is being produced, following the studio’s shutdown last year and its relaunch in August. The Wolf Among Us 2 had been in developmen...

Sit back and enjoy a nice look at one of the most anticipated games for the PS4. At The Game Awards tonight, developer Sucker Punch revealed the latest trailer for its PS4 exclusive Ghost ...

CD Projekt Red Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the most anticipated games of 2020, and at The Game Awards, CD Projekt Red revealed more details about another important area of the game: the sou...

A new Xbox and lots of new games Continue reading… ...

Tonight at The Game Awards, Riot revealed the first indie games it will be publishing as part of its newly-unveiled Riot Forge label. It’s called Ruined King: A League of Legends Story, ...

Tonight at The Game Awards, Riot revealed the first indie games it will be publishing as part of its newly-unveiled Riot Forge label. One is called Ruined King: A League of Legends Story, ...

The Xbox Series X is Microsoft’s newly revealed next-gen console with a unique, PC-inspired vertical design that has already had many questioning how on earth they’re going to fit it i...

The long-awaited release of Final Fantasy VII Remake is quickly approaching, but in the mean time at least we have this nice, new look at Cloud Strife. Square Enix released the game’s la...

Microsoft just announced the new Xbox Series X, and along with the console comes a new Xbox Wireless Controller. It doesn’t deviate too far from the existing Xbox One design, retaining s...

Gearbox and Counterplay Games have just announced Godfall at The Game Awards, a “third-person fantasy looter-slasher focused on melee combat” that marks the first game announced for So...

Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox is officially called Xbox Series X. Microsoft revealed the name and console design on stage at the Game Awards today. The console itself looks far more l...

For a while there, it seemed like beloved sci-fi show The Expanse might have been coming to an end, when Syfy decided not to renew it for a fourth season. But last May, Amazon stepped in �...

Photo by ARIS OIKONOMOU/AFP via Getty Images In a stunning disappointment to environmentalists, a bid to cut the European Union’s greenhouse gas emissions to nearly zero by 2050 floppe...

When “United State of Pop: Blame it on the Pop” debuted in 2009, DJ Earworm skyrocketed to stardom online. The nearly five-minute mashup from Jordan “DJ Earworm” Roseman used Billb...

Image: Epic Games Fortnite has added perhaps its most high-profile crossover items today with new Rey and Finn skins to celebrate next week’s premiere of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalk...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge President Donald Trump’s tentative trade deal with China, announced earlier today, has saved Apple from raising the prices, or eating those ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has acquired Spectral Edge, a UK-based startup whose technology could be used to improve photos taken on iPhones, according to filings made ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Tuesday, Apple released iOS 13.3, and one of its key new features was Communication Limits, which lets parents set limits on who their kids tal...

Samsung’s first folding phone may have been fraught with a stumbled launch, reliability woes, and a nearly $2,000 price tag, but that hasn’t stopped the company from finding a million ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Yesterday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made a theoretically huge announcement: he wanted Twitter to stop being a self-contained platform and start del...

Next year, NASA plans to scoop up a small batch of dirt from an asteroid named Bennu, located millions of miles from Earth — and now the agency knows which part of the space rock it’s ...

I’m an inveterate chatter. I miss the days of AIM and Gchat; I regularly reread n+1’s fantastic essay on the history and rise of chatting. So when I saw Yap — a new chat application ...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s release is just a week away, bringing the end of both Disney’s modern sequel trilogy and the overarching episodic Skywalker Saga. But if you can’t ...

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images We’ve all started a movie only to realize it’s not quite what we were expecting going in, and now Vudu ...

Netflix’s big-budget TV series adaptation of The Witcher (based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s series of fantasy novels, and not the popular video game series that, confusingly, is also based ...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission could force Facebook to back out of its plans to integrate its family of apps, including Instagram, Messenger, and W...

Lyft is getting into car rentals. The ride-hailing company announced Thursday that it’s launching a rental service available in its main smartphone app that will work pretty much just li...

Image: Amazon Similar to what Google Assistant has done, Amazon is now giving customers the option to hear some familiar voices in addition to Alexa’s default voice. Today the compay k...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission proposed a nearly $10 million fine against a robocaller who allegedly spread “false accu...

Microsoft is tweaking its Windows logo and the icons for many of the operating system’s apps. We’ve known for a year that the software maker has been planning an icon overhaul, and the...

Robinhood has launched Cash Management, a new feature for its investing app that lets users park uninvested cash in a brokerage account where it can earn interest or be spent like cash usi...

Most electric-powered aircraft being tested today look like mutant helicopters or drones on steroids. So it was with some relief that the all-electric plane that took flight in British Col...

Photo by Mike Wren / NYS Department of Health THC-containing vaping products sold under the name Dank Vapes are the most common brand associated with vaping-related injuries, according t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A lot can change in 10 years. When the sun rose on January 1st, 2010, Steve Jobs was still CEO of Apple, and the hottest Android phone was the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For the 2018 midterm elections, Twitter introduced labels that appeared on US election candidates’ profiles and tweets in order to identify the ...

Image: Remedy Entertainment Control is a stylish, cerebral, and just plain fun third-person shooter in which you gain telekinetic powers. If you like good games, it’s easy enough to re...

Small satellite launcher Rocket Lab unveiled the company’s second launch site this morning — a just-finished pad built at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island in Virgi...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whether you’re hoping to gift a capable gaming laptop to a loved one for the holidays or you just want to get one for yourself, Amazon has s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Google announced that it’s rolling out two features for its Messages app on Android that are designed to help you weed out annoyances and...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Your iPhone uses information from your cell service, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS to pinpoint its location, and since you almost always have your...

Awesome screen. Awesome camera. Long-lasting battery life. These are three things that Samsung’s influencer-filled ad would like you (or more likely, a social-savvy teen) to know about i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Interpreter mode, the feature that allows Google Assistant to translate your conversations in real time, is coming to phones. Google says it will ...

Google shows off Project Glass at I/O 2012 To tell the story of the last 10 years at Google, it helps to look at the products that no longer exist. The decade started with Wave (launched...

Image: Marvel Studios Dread it, run from it — destiny arrives all the same Continue reading… ...

Six example images that fool AI from the ObjectNet dataset. | Image: MIT Machine vision has been one of the biggest success stories of the AI boom, enabling everything from automated med...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Robocalls have become unavoidable, flooding phone networks with spam so thoroughly that most people have stopped picking up calls from unknown numbers. I...

Image: Epic Games Fortnite’s latest update has arrived, bringing a rare feature for modern shooting games: local split-screen co-op. It will allow two players to team up in a match on ...

SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company... and, of course, that Twitter account Continue reading… ...

Stop Motion by Michele Doying / The Verge 11 great gifts for the creative people in your life Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today we’re going to talk about Jack Dorsey’s surprise tweetstorm about potentially decentralizing the service — but first, some history. De...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Trying to get a handle on the progress of artificial intelligence is a daunting task, even for those enmeshed in the AI community. But the latest edition...

Photo: Sam Byford / The Verge Apple’s online and retail stores in North America have started carrying products from Brydge, a company that’s known for producing MacBook-style Bluetoo...

Back at my parents’ house, there’s a couple giant tubs of Lego sitting in my old bedroom closet stuffed with over 20 years of my Lego collection. If I ever had to sort that collection ...

After WeWork’s disastrous IPO filing, many were claiming the company would soon be valueless. But there is still something of worth at WeWork: its story and its potential as IP for Holly...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Live Photos are one of Apple’s signature camera options on iOS, making your photos look like one of the living photographs in Harry Potter. But ...

Image: Valve The first Half-Life game in 13 years might prove to be the first killer app for VR. In the 23 days since Valve announced Half-Life: Alyx, its first full-length VR game, the ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge The Environmental Protection Agency has finally published its range estimate for Porsche’s first electric car, and it’s particularly lower than mos...

Image: GM Cruise, the self-driving car company backed by General Motors, is teasing an “alternative” to pollution-spewing, congestion-causing motor vehicle traffic. In a Medium post ...

Going to the theater now feels like going to a comic book shop. You can usually pick between Marvel or DC at the box office every summer. This extends to TV and streaming — it’s possib...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge In the coming weeks, YouTube will be rolling out a new system for labeling children’s content after a landmark settlement with the FTC. But as ...

Google co-founder Larry Page is funneling money from his charitable foundation to a private flu-fighting initiative run as a for-profit company, TechCrunch reported. The program offers fre...

Photo by Martin Garcia/ESPAT Media/Getty Images This isn’t the first thing you need to know about him, but it should be said: Dr Disrespect isn’t actually a doctor. He is, however, g...

A new bar for flying cameras, but it needs to reach even higher Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tinder is the swipe, and the swipe is Tinder. But as we close out the decade, it might be time to retire the swipe we once knew. Tinder’s introd...

If you’ve always wanted an iPod click wheel on your iPhone, a new app is helping to bring Apple’s iconic music player back into the modern touchscreen era. Rewound is a basic music pla...

Led by SpaceX, there’s been a paradigm shift in the business of space Continue reading… ...

If they can’t use a smartphone, this could be useful Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Twitter is funding a small team of researchers to build an “open and decentralized standard for social media,” with the goal of making Twi...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge BMW is finally going to start integrating Android Auto into its cars starting in July 2020, the automaker announced Wednesday. And not only th...

Growing up in Australia in the late 1970s, brothers Matt and Pete Hill first had the idea of creating a skateboard that was more than just a skateboard. Lacking access to reliable transpor...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge YouTube today announced an expansion of its anti-harassment policy that will ban video creators from insulting one another on the basis of their ...

President Trump’s long trumpeted pet project, the creation of a new branch of the military called the Space Force, is now finally on the cusp of becoming a reality, thanks to a new bill ...

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After a seven-month hiatus from spaceflight, private aerospace company Blue Origin is set to fly its New Shepard rocket to space and back again on the company’s 12th overall test flight....

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Torrent site The Pirate Bay has long been infamous for allowing people to download pirated movies and TV shows. But now, it looks like it’s giving users a new option: streaming. For cert...

Image: Apple Apple’s newest top-of-the-line display, the Pro Display XDR, is out today. And it doesn’t come cheap, starting at $4,999, with a matte “nano texture” upgrade for a m...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Chinese EV startup NIO has laid off another 141 employees at its North American headquarters in San Jose, according to a new filing with the Employment...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The US Department of Justice will reportedly review Google’s November acquisition of wearables company Fitbit, potentially probing concerns ...

Apple’s new $4,999 Pro Display XDR has a lot of features and high-end specs, but one thing it doesn’t have is an integrated webcam for video calls. Fortunately, Logitech is here to fil...

Photo by Roland Weihrauch/picture alliance via Getty Images The crime scene DNA sequencing company Verogen announced yesterday that they’ve acquired the genomics database and website G...

Image: Yahoo In October, Yahoo announced that it would be deleting all content posted on Yahoo Groups on December 14th. But today, the company said that it’s extending that deadline an...

Photo: FaZe Clan/Twitter In this week’s interview on The Vergecast, editor-in-chief of The Verge Nilay Patel and Verge reporter Julia Alexander sit down with CEO / co-owner of Faze Cla...

Photo: Niko Tavernise / Netflix Netflix has finally revealed the first numbers for how many customers watched The Irishman, the streamer’s high-profile crime epic from director Martin ...

Just ahead of the holidays, Nintendo held a showcase event focused entirely on indie games coming to the Nintendo Switch. Most of the games on display are scheduled for next year, and that...

Adobe announced its December updates to its photography apps today, and among the most significant is the ability to direct import photos on Lightroom for iOS and iPadOS. iOS and iPadOS 13...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Streamers DrLupo, TimTheTatman, and Lirik are some of Twitch’s biggest stars — and they have just officially signed exclusive deals with the p...

Microsoft has been notifying Windows 7 users about January’s end of support throughout 2019. Now, the company is making its notification prompts even bigger, as full-screen pop-ups to wa...

Waze Winter sucks for a lot of reasons — it’s midnight at 4:30PM, it’s cold and wet outside and then uncomfortably warm in your office, the heating bills are a pain — but one of ...

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Image: Yubico Apple is releasing its new iOS 13.3 update for all compatible devices today. The biggest addition is the ability to use FIDO2-compliant USB-C, NFC, and Lightning physical s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook executives told Attorney General William Barr that the company would not provide law enforcement with investigative access to its encrypt...

Apple’s new Mac Pro is available to order today: it starts at $5,999, but if you want the most powerful Mac money can buy, it’ll cost you $52,599, making it the single most expensive M...

Image: Yacht Club Games Shovel Knight came out back in June 2014, and it’s a wonderful 8-bit-inspired 2D platformer that’s one of my favorite games from this decade. As part of the K...

Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge Apple’s new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR are now live on Apple’s online store. The Mac Pro starts at $5,999, which gets you an 8-core Intel Xeon CPU,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is rolling out Chrome version 79 today, and it includes a number of password protection improvements. The biggest addition is that Chrome w...

Image: Google Google has an update that might make you hate your alarm a little bit less: a new feature lets it automatically change up what your alarm plays based on the time of day and...

Today, Google is announcing that Android 10 is arriving on Android TV, and it’s about as bland of an update as they come. Primarily, it’s just the performance and security benefits of ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Today, we’re seeing some noteworthy sales on a few unlocked flagship Android phones, specifically the Google Pixel 4 and Samsung Galaxy S10....

Magic Leap is pitching its headset to businesses with a new name. The Magic Leap One Creator Edition, which shipped last August, is being replaced with the Magic Leap 1, which sells for th...

Platinum Games teased its upcoming hack ‘n’ slash game, Babylon’s Fall, during PlayStation’s State of Play event. Not much else is known about the game currently. It’s another co...

Hot on the heels of the popular Resident Evil 2 remake that was released earlier this year, Capcom has announced that it’ll be remaking Resident Evil 3 for modern hardware, which was alr...

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House House The goose can’t be stopped. The breakout hit Untitled Goose Game, which was previously available on PC and the Nintendo Switch, is now on its way to the PlayStation 4. The ...

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Wheels, an electric bike-share startup with operations in half a dozen US cities, has redesigned its two-wheeled vehicle to include a special spot to hold a helmet. The helmet is locked to...

After a seven-month hiatus from spaceflight, private aerospace company Blue Origin is set to fly its New Shepard rocket to space and back again on the company’s 12th overall test flight....

The ConnectSense Smart In-Wall Outlet. | Image: ConnectSense Most smart outlets are bricks that you plug into the outlet that’s already installed in your wall and then control that wit...

Toward the end of Life is Strange 2 — the episodic series that wrapped up its five-episode series last week — teenage lead Sean Diaz is jolted awake. After driving all night, he pulled...

Edison Mail (formerly known as EasilyDo Mail) is making the jump from mobile app to desktop email client with the release of a new Mac app. I’ve been using a beta version of Edison Mail...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge North, the company behind the augmented reality Focals glasses, is no longer selling its current glasses and is instead focusing on a second-g...

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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg Yesterday, Google unveiled a new part of its strategy with Pixel phones: the so-called “feature drop.” Google has bundled a bunch of software feature...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On Thursday, Zoe told you about the mess inside the fast-rising luggage company Away, where private communication is all but banned and lowly ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Three Microsoft products are on sale today — and today only, December 10th — only at Best Buy, including select models of the latest Surfa...

Image: Sony Sony’s MLB The Show game series, long a beloved PlayStation exclusive among sports fans, is going multi-platform. Sony Interactive Entertainment made the announcement tonig...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A social media influencer has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for concocting a scheme to violently coerce a stranger into giving up a...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Jaguar is issuing a software update to its first electric car, the I-Pace, which will gift the SUV 12 extra miles of range. The British automaker says ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Email chain hell on Gmail is getting an upgrade. The mailing system will soon allow its users to send emails as attachments without having to forw...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Away CEO Steph Korey is stepping down, just four days after an investigation from The Verge highlighted the company’s toxic culture. Korey, ...

Purrfect Apawcalypse | Itch.io Chooseco, which publishes the famous Choose Your Own Adventure series, is apparently trying to stop indie game developers from using the phrase “choose y...

Image: Epic Games Google has publicly rebuffed game developer Epic over its reported attempt to distribute its popular battle royale hit Fortnite through the Play Store without paying th...

Nearly four decades ago, William Gibson published a short story called Burning Chrome in Omni magazine, and with it, he birthed cyberpunk. (It also coined the term “cyberspace” in its ...

Redbox is exiting the game rental business, the company confirmed to The Verge on Monday. The company’s trademark rental kiosks have been a handy way to rent physical copies of movies (...

The company behind the Coolest Cooler, widely known as one of the biggest Kickstarter failures, is officially going out of business. An update sent to backers from the company’s CEO Ryan...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is under investigation by the US National Labor Relations Board, CNBC reported on Monday. The investigation follows the recent firings of ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Oculus is rolling out native hand tracking to the Quest, its standalone virtual reality headset, starting this week. Previously expected to ar...

Amazon-owned smart home security company Ring makes a variety of smart lighting products. According to FCC documentation, the company is about to enter the replaceable bulb market dominate...

Photo by Monika Skolimowska / Picture Alliance via Getty Images A bioethics study published on December 8th calls on crowdfunding platform GoFundMe to ditch campaigns for unproven and un...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google has announced that Incognito mode for Google Maps on iOS is rolling out today. Google first announced the feature at its I/O developer ...

Microsoft is planning to kill off its Wunderlist app on May 6th, 2020. The software giant originally acquired Wunderlist more than four years ago, and it has spent the past two years build...

Image: Netflix Netflix is having a good year at the Golden Globes. Along with four Best Picture nominations, the streaming service also snagged 30 nominations in TV and film. In less tha...

A new self-driving taxi service is coming to San Jose, CA, from two of Germany’s biggest companies: Mercedes-Benz and Tier 1 auto supplier Bosch. Autonomous S-Class vehicles will ferry p...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Just a few weeks after Elon Musk unveiled his polarizing sci-fi Cybertruck, the Tesla CEO was seen driving the prototype vehicle in Malibu, California ...

Image: Google Google has been quietly working to improve its augmented reality platform, ARCore, since its official launch early last year. Now, the company says its ready to unveil som...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge We’re reluctant to legitimize “Green Monday” as a shopping holiday, but it’s nevertheless making a strong case for itself today with some stella...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In court documents released today, Amazon has formally outlined why it’s challenging the government’s decision to award a $10 billion Pentagon...

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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg Google plans to start regularly releasing “feature drops” for its Pixel phones, bringing a number of new features to its phones all at once. The firs...

Surveillance is booming globally. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales/The Verge One billion surveillance cameras will be deployed globally by 2021, according to data compiled by IHS Markit...

Hollowhead, a pumpkin-headed Fortnite skin. | Epic Games Fortnite creator Epic Games is trying to avoid yet another lawsuit over dance emotes. The company preemptively filed a complaint ...

Ghostbusters is returning to the big screen once more — this time with a true sequel to the original films. The first trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife sets the stage for a small town ...

The remote that comes bundled with the Apple TV is infamous for its difficult-to-use design and controversial touchpad for navigation. It’s so bad, in fact, that Swiss TV and internet pr...

Minecraft on the PlayStation 4 is finally getting updated to the unified Bedrock Edition on December 10th. The new update will enable cross-platform play between the Xbox One, Windows 10 P...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Many popular headphone models, including Apple’s AirPods, Sony’s WH-1000XM3, and Beats Studio 3, were cheaper than usual during Black Frid...

BioShock is coming back. Today, publisher 2K announced the formation of a new studio called Cloud Chamber, which is already working on “the next iteration” of BioShock. It’ll be the ...

Just one day after Billy Crudup earned a Critics’ Choice nomination for his role in The Morning Show, Apple TV Plus’ flagship show is being honored with more nominations. The Morning ...

Animation Assist. | Image: Savage Interactive Procreate 5, Savage Interactive’s newest update for the iOS painting and illustration app, is now available. The free update brings long-a...

Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman is returning to the big screen to save the world — but this time, she’s not fighting alongside the Allies in World War I. The first trailer for Wonder Woman ...

Jason Godbey 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 tha...

Apple’s new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR were announced all the way back at WWDC 2020 in June, and now we know when you’ll be able to place an order for the high-end hardware: December ...

Unicorn, the electric scooter startup from the co-creator of gadget tracker Tile, is shutting down operations after blowing all its cash on Facebook and Google ads but only receiving 350 o...

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Netflix didn’t have plans to release numbers for The Irishman when asked by The Verge earlier this week, but ratings firm Nielsen beat the streamer to the punch. Nielsen reports that �...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Elon Musk’s tweets calling caver Vernon Unsworth, who was involved in the rescue of 13 people from a cave in Thailand, a “pedo guy” do not m...

Truth Be Told should be a home run. Its premise — the story of a podcaster revisiting a murder case 20 years after a suspect has been incarcerated — immediately evokes Serial. The pilo...

Photo courtesy Flipkart When the brand “Nokia” is mentioned, most of us immediately think “phone.” This is pretty much what it is known for. However, it looks like the company is...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge As Cyber Week draws to a close, and retailers begin their sales leading up to the holidays, deals are coming and going quickly. In this transi...

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images The NFL is hoping big data tools can help bring down the number of concussions, ligament tears, and other injuries sustained in each game of profession...

Adobe is acquiring Oculus Medium, a virtual reality sculpting tool originally revealed by the Facebook-owned VR company in 2015. Nothing is apparently changing for now — an Oculus blog p...

Alex Castro / The Verge Newly leaked documents reveal that Away has barred employees from discussing The Verge’s investigation into workplace conditions on either their personal or pro...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Magic Leap’s sales numbers reportedly haven’t matched CEO Rony Abovitz’s high expectations — and a second-generation headset could be years awa...

This genius combination of Christmas string lights and phone charger borders the line between kitschy and adorable, but I first saw it on Apartment Therapy, and I trust their judgment when...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More than 18 months after the scandal first broke, the Federal Trade Commission has officially ruled that Cambridge Analytica deceived consumers t...

Credit: Nick Walton What will video games be like when they can truly harness the power of AI? If the machine learning-powered text adventure AI Dungeon 2 is anything to go by, they’ll...

Photo by Andrea Ronchini/NurPhoto via Getty Images Leaders from 197 countries are hammering out the details of one of the most contested strategies for tackling climate change: internati...

Michael Tullberg / Getty Images Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm is making history as the first high-profile Twitch streamer to strike a deal to create a narrative scripted television serie...

Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images On Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) announced a new plan aimed at expanding broadband internet access across the country and dismantling...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge The Vergecast is back after a Thanksgiving break and our Pirate Radio series with a new tech news roundup for the week. This week’s theme: billionair...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg Google Assistant is getting a few new skills to make the virtual assistant more useful, adding the option to share photos directly through voice commands...

Image: Netflix There’s an inevitability to Marriage Story, a feeling of something like gravity: all-encompassing and firm, easy to forget it’s there as it slowly repels instead of at...

Rocket Lab’s Electron streaking into space on December 6th | Image: Sam Toms Small satellite launcher Rocket Lab successfully flew its 10th mission this morning from New Zealand, sendi...

Disney+ has quickly become the only streaming service people want to talk about in the weeks since it launched, and a big part of that is because of The Mandalorian; specifically, the exis...

About three years ago, a naked, hairless humanoid told us that it was okay to look at its butt. The internet obliged. The mesmerizing short animation Hi Stranger quickly amassed millions o...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nobody games alone anymore. That’s never been strictly the case, anyway. Video games have always been relatively social, despite the old bas...

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OnLeaks Early renders of Samsung’s Galaxy S11 suggested that the phone would have a large camera bump, and now we have a better idea of what that bump might contain. According to a new...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Uber has for the first time in its history released a comprehensive safety report about its rides in the US spanning the full length of 2018 a...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular overstated their 4G coverage in rural communities across the country, a Federal Communications Commission invest...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The new 16-inch MacBook Pro finally righted Apple’s keyboard debacle, and it’s a beast of a machine in terms of performance. But early buy...

Google Fiber is phasing out its lower-priced 100 Mbps internet access plan, opting to offer only the core gigabit-speed plan to new users. Google announced the decision yesterday, saying c...

Generation Z has taken over Tinder, and they care more about causes like climate change than they do about posting adventurous vacation shots, according to a “Year in Swipe” report Tin...

It is perhaps an understatement to say that Twitter is often a bad place to be on the internet in 2019. But what if there were a place where with only good tweets? That’s the idea behind...

For its 10th anniversary in October, Riot announced a number of new initiatives meant to expand the League of Legends universe, including a fighting game, mobile spinoff, animated series, ...

Photo by Noam Galai/WireImage Michael Bloomberg temporarily had a tiny but extremely questionable advantage in the 2020 presidential race: if you typed “Mike” into one of his company...

Qualcomm Qualcomm just announced a new virtual and augmented reality platform, and it’s working with Niantic — the company behind games like Ingress and Pokémon Go — on a smart gl...

Qualcomm has had big ambitions for ARM-powered Windows laptops for years. At its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, the chipmaker revealed its biggest play yet: the Snapdragon 8c and the Snapd...

Like it does every year, Spotify today gave users a reminder of their past with its “Wrapped” year-in-review roundup. And it seems like everyone is sharing their top songs and artists ...

Clip Studio Paint, the industry-standard software for manga artists, is now available on the iPhone. Unlike the iPad version, which is just an identical clone of the desktop app ported ove...

Mustafa Suleyman co-founded DeepMind in 2010 with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg. | Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images for TechCrunch The personnel changes at Alphabet continue, this ti...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has finally clarified a peculiar and unsettling privacy issue with its newer iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro models regarding location track...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, but some pretty decent deals are popping up. The Google Nest Hub is $79 and comes with a free Google Ne...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A group of filmmakers have sued the US government for making visa applicants hand over details about their social media accounts. The lawsuit ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Waymo’s robot taxi service in suburban Phoenix, Arizona, turns one year old on December 5th. To celebrate, the Alphabet company is taking a step towa...

The goal of YouTube’s new edition of Rewind, its annual video dedicated to the year’s biggest trends and creator moments, is to best last year’s by not ending up the most-downvoted v...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has a new research note predicting Apple’s next two years of iPhones, and there’s a wild new detail: Appl...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, reached a settlement on Wednesday with a group of parents who alleged that the company collected and exposed...

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Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge The lack of a native audio recording app built into Google’s lean Android software has always brought a chuckle from people who use iOS. Google finally...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has been leading up to launching a consumer version of its Microsoft 365 subscription for months. The Verge originally revealed that the...

Photo by Jaap Arriens / NurPhoto via Getty Images As cellphones got smarter, they also became marginally more dangerous to the clumsy, easily distracted humans holding them, according to...

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There is a peculiar kind of alchemy that happens at the point where massive amounts of money and highly regarded artists converge: everything in the vicinity becomes meaningless. (Call it ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge PlayStation is the console family for Japanese role-playing games. As the de facto home for RPGs following the Super Nintendo era, it’s enjoyed everyt...

Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images General Motors announced today that it was setting up a joint venture with South Korea’s LG Chem to mass-produce batteries for electric cars. The two...

Image: Imgur Twitch’s clips feature is one of the best ways for streamers to have their finest gaming moments go viral, and now, photo-sharing site Imgur is trying to get in on the act...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you own an older Mac computer, wiping the hard drive to prep it for sale is simple. But for newer models, including the iMac Pro, the 2018 Mac mini, ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Deconstructing Sony’s video game console is a mind-bending trip into carbon-intensive global electronics Continue reading… ...

This afternoon, SpaceX is set to launch its Dragon cargo capsule, filled with nearly 5,700 pounds of cargo and supplies for the crew of the International Space Station. It’s SpaceX’s l...

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PlayStation Now had the keys to the cloud gaming kingdom, but Sony barely stuck a toe in the door Continue reading… ...

Qualcomm’s annual Hawaiian press event to announce its products for the coming year is happening. It‘s there in part because Qualcomm needs something equally convenient for Asian and A...

Craigslist’s iOS app looks and feels like a straight copy of the website. There’s something about the brutal simplicity of Craigslist that’s always suggested an admirable caution....

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks before signing the White Houses Pledge To Americas Workers at El Centro Community College on October 3rd in Dallas | Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images The...

Commute feature will soon adjust with proximity. | GIF: Google Last month we learned that Google was rolling out ultrasound sensing to its Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max smart displays. The t...

Indian policemen inspecting the site of a blast in Srinagar in Kashmir. | Photo credit should read Idrees Abbas / Echoes Wire / Barcroft Media via Getty Images On Wednesday, reports on s...

Theo Wargo/WireImage It’s best to think of YouTube as a series of independent communities living on the same platform — what’s popular to one group might not even be on another com...

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Photo by Andrew Webster / The Verge Nintendo is adding the first new retro games to its Nintendo Switch Online service since the program expanded to include Super Nintendo titles. The mo...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is being sued after allegedly violating child privacy laws and collecting the data of young users through th...

The full clip of “Into the Unknown,” the big musical number from Frozen 2 performed by Idina Menzel and Aurora, is now available to watch on YouTube in full. That should be great news ...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge; Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Images Rian Johnson’s new film Knives Out is a devoted love letter to the whodunit genre — from it...

Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 865 might be the big news out of the company’s annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, but the company also announced details about its other ne...

Harman BMW has backtracked on its controversial decision to charge an annual fee for the use of Apple’s CarPlay in its vehicles, according to 9to5Mac. Since 2016, the German automaker ...

Qualcomm officially announced its latest flagship processor, the Snapdragon 865, yesterday at its Snapdragon Tech Summit. But at the day two keynote, the company dove deep into all the det...

In August of last year, NASA sent a spacecraft hurtling toward the inner Solar System, with the aim of getting some answers about the mysterious star at the center of our cosmic neighborho...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Black Friday was a bright spot for Nintendo this year. Today, the company announced that the Thanksgiving holiday week was its biggest sales week ever ...

A year ago, The Expanse was canceled. News of its doom arrived while its third season was airing on SyFy, the reported rationale being that the rights agreement between its production comp...

Countdown TED and YouTube announced a new climate change initiative called Countdown alongside a coalition of global leaders and nonprofit environmental organizations today at an event i...

Countdown TED announced a new climate change initiative called Countdown with the help of YouTube and a coalition of global leaders and nonprofit environmental organizations today at an ...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Microsoft is currently planning to launch two next-generation Xbox consoles for holiday 2020. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge ...

Halo: Reach launched on Steam yesterday, and it immediately raced into the top of Valve’s charts of most-played games. After originally debuting on the Xbox 360 nearly 10 years ago, Micr...

Instagram Instagram will start requiring all new users to provide their birthdays when making an account. The new requirement starts today and is seemingly geared toward creating “age-...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Cyber Monday is over, but good deals keep popping up online. You can now get the Google Home Max and Home Mini smart speakers together for $188 at Walmar...

Image: Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services debuted a keyboard called DeepComposer this week, claiming it’s “the world’s first musical keyboard powered by generative AI.” It h...

In an effort to appeal to more users, Peloton today reduced the price of its digital-only subscription and released two new apps, one for the Apple Watch and another for the Fire TV. The A...

If you needed proof that the surveillance society is truly ubiquitous, look no further than Ebo — a robot that live-streams HD video of your pet straight to your phone and can even track...

Image: Analogue For its 15th anniversary, London-based electronic music label Hyperdub has teamed up with Analogue, a video game hardware company, to release a limited edition album on a...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge As noted by MacRumors, Apple has acknowledged an issue with some entry-level 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro machines in which the laptop “keeps sh...

Focus mode, one of Google’s many features aimed at keeping you from distracting yourself on your phone, is out of beta in Android 10. It actually debuted as a beta within the existing Di...

Legislators in Washington, DC are taking a closer look at racial bias in health care algorithms after an October analysis found racial bias in a commonly used health tool. Sens. Cory Booke...

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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge As the PlayStation 3 came to market in 2006, prices of HDTVs were falling. More consumers were looking to upgrade the big screen in their living rooms. ...

Image: Plex Plex has officially launched its ad-supported streaming service, which offers free access to movies, TV shows, and documentaries from both major studios and smaller indie pro...

This afternoon, SpaceX is set to launch its Dragon cargo capsule, filled with nearly 5,700 pounds of cargo and supplies for the crew of the International Space Station. It’s SpaceX’s l...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge As we mark 25 years of PlayStation this week, Sony’s grip on the home console market has rarely been stronger. The PS4 recently outsold the original P...

James Bond may have disappeared at the end of Sam Mendes’ Spectre in 2015, but Daniel Craig’s British secret agent is back to take on a new enemy (played by Mr. Robot’s Rami Malek) i...

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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge I still remember the very first time I laid eyes on a Final Fantasy game and, by extension, the original PlayStation console. It was the year 2000, and ...

Image: Motorola Motorola has been experimenting the last few years with its One line of phones, which look to blur the line between midrange and high-end smartphones. The latest attempt ...

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A drive spotted on their phone in New South Wales. | Image: Transport for NSW Last week, the Australian state of New South Wales announced a plan to crack down on drivers using their ph...

Ford is trying to do its part to combat climate change by recycling old coffee waste from McDonald’s into car parts. The automaker will be taking food waste from the fast food giant, div...

Ford is trying to do its part to combat climate change by recycling old coffee waste from McDonald’s into car parts. The automaker will be taking food waste from the fast food giant, div...

A man costumed as ‘Dr. Manhattan’ of the comic ‘Watchmen’ arrives at the International Comic Salon, accompanied by ‘military escort’ in Erlangen, Germany, 19 June 2014.  | ...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge | Photo by Joshua Lott / Getty Images The defamation trial started today Continue reading… ...

Amazon has launched a new Echo smart speaker exclusively for the Indian market. The Echo Input Portable Smart Speaker Edition is a compact speaker with 360-degree sound and, unusually for ...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge The official Chinese variant of the Nintendo Switch will launch in mainland China next week, Tencent and Nintendo have announced. The bundle will sell ...

Qualcomm has announced a second-generation version of its ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor, the 3D Sonic Max, that promises to fix the issues with the original 3D Sonic Sensor by o...

Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge Motorola hasn’t produced an Android smartphone with flagship, top-tier specs over the last couple years. But during today’s introduction of Qualcomm�...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who have mostly stayed out of the spotlight since restructuring their company four years ago, are relinqu...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who have mostly stayed out of the spotlight since restructuring their company four years ago, are relinqu...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon-owned home surveillance company Ring gave law enforcement a heat map that let police see all devices installed in an area, allowing them to view u...

Hot off the success of Baby Yoda, Disney has ordered a new Star Wars show for its Disney+ streaming service, but this one seemingly shares more in common with American Ninja Warrior than T...

Qualcomm has officially announced its next-generation flagship processor for phones — the Snapdragon 865 — but it’ll still need a separate 5G modem to enable 5G instead of an integra...

Image: Wyze Smart home accessory maker Wyze has debuted a smart lock, which works with customers’ existing cylinder deadbolts. The Wyze Lock will cost $89, and it will be available for...

Image: Sean Hollister / The Verge The Steam Autumn Sale is now over, but it included one deal that stood out from the pack — a $5 farewell to Valve’s weirdly wonderful Steam Controll...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lyrics website Genius is suing Google, saying the company continues to knowingly copy its song lyrics and use them in search results. Genius also ...

Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Should private citizens be able to sue companies like Facebook or Twitter for misusing their data? That’s the question Republicans and Democrats have b...

Sean Gallup/Getty Images After making changes to its recommendation algorithm in an effort to reduce the spread of “borderline” content — videos that toe the line between what’s ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google is finally acknowledging that photos nowadays are as much about communication as they are form of memory collection. For years, the only way to s...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s always nice when Black Friday and Cyber Monday come to an end. The surge of emails quiets down (at least a little bit), and you can survey the dam...

Image: The Verge/Alex Castro As the number of satellites and space junk in orbit continues to increase, so do the chances of these human-made objects colliding with one another, potentia...

Photo: iFixit The original PlayStation is turning 25 years old, and to celebrate, iFixit is turning its screwdrivers and plastic pry bars to the retro console in one of its signature tea...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge, Photography by Richard Parry On December 3rd, 1994, Sony entered the video game industry — and it hasn’t been the same since. Twenty-five yea...

Whether people are shopping at Forever 21 or perusing a street fair in their cool neighborhood, chances are, there’s one symbol attached to a hoodie lying around both places: the PlaySta...

Russia has passed new legislation that will require manufacturers of smartphones, computers, and smart TVs to pre-install Russian-made software on their devices. The bill was approved earl...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge How to fight lies, tricks,and chaosonline By Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy Dec 3, 2019, 9:04am EST Illustrations by Alex Castro / ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge How to fight lies, tricks,and chaosonline By Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy Dec 3, 2019, 9:04am EST Illustrations by Alex Castro / ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of four former Google employees who were recently fired plan to file labor charges against the company, accusing the search giant of retal...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Dozens of PlayStation 3s sit in a refrigerated shipping container on the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s campus, sucking up energy and investi...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The original PlayStation was Sony’s first home console, but it came out swinging with countless classic games released during its lifespan. From well-...

The national flag flying on the roof of the Parliament House in Singapore | Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images On Sunday evening, 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley...

The Avengers’ main storyline may have come to an end in Avengers: Endgame this past April, but the first trailer for Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow is a reminder that Marvel Studios ...

When the extent of the Trump administration’s sanctions targeting Huawei became clear, we wondered whether the Chinese telecoms giant would be able to make a smartphone without American ...

Despite launching relatively late in the year, Mario Kart Tour was the biggest game on the iPhone in 2019. Today, Apple revealed its top charts for the year, and the free-to-play version o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s public image is in such a disastrous state that the company’s public relations team built an artificial intelligence-powered chatbo...

Robin L Marshall/Getty Images A new YouTube policy taking effect today, December 2nd, will allow creators with a focus on gaming to upload videos that contain simulated violence without ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google and IBM may be battling for quantum supremacy, but Amazon is currently happy to be the middleman — today, it’s announcing and launching...

A NASA spacecraft in orbit around the Moon spotted the crash site of India’s ill-fated lunar lander, Vikram, which slammed into the Moon’s surface during a landing attempt in September...

Cyber Monday is Black Friday’s encore set, back with even more deals. Some are new, others are crowd favorites from a few days ago, all of them are worth checking out because they’ll s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Match Group, the largest dating app conglomerate in the US, doesn’t perform background checks on any of its apps’ free users. A BuzzFeed News ...

Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge League of Legends publisher Riot Games will pay at least $10 million under a legal settlement with current and former female employees, following...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge There are plenty of great Cyber Monday deals across almost all categories of tech, but none more than gaming. Whether you’re interested in picking up...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple has been rumored to be working on an iPad and MacBook featuring Mini-LED displays for months, and a new research note from noted analyst Ming-Chi ...

Lil Bub, the internet celebrity cat who brought joy to millions of fans, has died. Her owner, Mike Bridavsky, announced her death on social media today in a post celebrating her life and i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Social video network TikTok apparently limited the reach of people with disabilities, including facial disfigurement and Down syndrome. According ...

Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Today former Secretary of State John Kerry and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared war on climate change. The two led an all-star...

Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s Cyber Monday, which means everyone is sorting through deals for all kinds of electronics. The number of sales may be overwhelming, which is why we’ve pi...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Target’s Cyber Monday deals are here, so if you missed your chance to snag any deals last week, you’ve got a second shot today. As with Black Friday...

T-Mobile has flipped the switch on its 5G network, setting it live over areas of the US that it says covers 200 million people. While the network is supposedly live today, no one is going ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge From Crash Bandicoot to The Last of Us Part II Continue reading… ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Best Buy is offering a long list of deals for Cyber Monday 2019 both online and in stores. You can save on products in every category, from laptops to sm...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you were told to draw a video game controller, what would it look like? Odds are, you’d scribble a rectangle with two downward wings for your palms...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re like us, Cyber Monday is a time of the year that you wish never came to an end. It’s when you can get the absolute best deals on tec...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This holiday season, the popularity of online shopping collides with upheaval in cardboard recycling. China’s 2017 decision to turn away America�...

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Apple’s new time-saving Express Transit feature is now live in London’s transport network. The feature allows Apple Pay users to simply hold their devices at transit terminals without ...

Cyber Monday is Black Friday’s encore set, back with even more deals. Some are new, others are crowd favorites from a few days ago, all of them are worth checking out because they’ll s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is releasing a new tool today that will allow its users to transfer photos directly to Google Photos. The tool is being released initiall...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Walmart’s Cyber Monday deals have begun, and all of the special prices below will last for just one day, turning off at 11:59PM PT, which is...

Disney entered the streaming market this year with the launch of its own streaming service, Disney+, home to Disney series and movies old and new. It’s proven to be a wildly popular comp...

Photo by Stefan Etienne / The Verge If you’re a current or prospective PC gamer, the Black Friday sales aren’t over quite yet. Cyber Monday has long been one of the best times to nab...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sonos’ Cyber Monday deals are much like its Black Friday deals. That’s because most of them are the same. However, it has added a few extra products ...

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

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft has a few new deals up its sleeve for Cyber Monday. In addition to its huge, excellent price cut on the new Surface Pro 7 that you s...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon is known for having almost everything in stock, and most of the times, it’s able to sell tech for less than other retailers, too. Now...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Black Friday brought about some fantastic deals on some of the latest phones, including Google’s Pixel 4, the OnePlus 7 Pro, Samsung Galaxy ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Updated 10:46AM ET, December 1st: Amazon now has stock of the seventh-generation iPad in gold and space grey for $229, so we’ve added that below. Blac...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Almost every current Google product in existence was deeply discounted over Black Friday, and those sales have continued into Cyber Monday. But you don�...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nintendo’s Switch Lite likely won’t be dropping in price any time soon, so the best deals we have to work with in the meantime are the rar...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Updated 4:43PM ET November 30th: Amazon is offering a $25 gift card when you buy a Switch Lite, so we’ve added a link in. Nintendo’s Switc...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s no longer Black Friday, which means that some of the deals have been swept away with the night. However, there are still plenty (and by that, I m...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In May, we introduced you to high-wattage USB-C PD external batteries that can charge a full-size laptop on the go — not just a phone — an...