Articles by The Verge from January 2020

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s tool for reporting instances of voter suppression is now available for US users, just days ahead of the 2020 Iowa caucuses (via Politi...

Photo: Sideshow Collectibles The picture at the top of this post isn’t a screenshot of The Child (aka, Baby Yoda) from Disney+’s The Mandalorian; rather, it’s an incredibly detaile...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon released its fourth quarter earnings for 2019 today, and the company is touting big Prime subscriber numbers as one of the main contributor...

American Airlines had already canceled some flights to China due to the coronavirus outbreak — which was officially designated a global health emergency by the WHO earlier today, having ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge OnePlus’ smartphones are infamous for lacking support for Qi wireless charging —but the company has been spotted joining the Wireless Power Consorti...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung has opened up reservations for its next flagship phones, expected to be the Samsung Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra, that the company ...

Sick of ICE? Audi is too — ICE, as in the “internal combustion engine,” which Audi wants customers to “Let It Go” in proper Frozen fashion in its new Super Bowl advertisement pro...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Snap announced today that it’s launching Bitmoji TV, which will be a weekly “show” within Snapchat that stars you and your friends’ Bi...

Photo by Naohiko Hatta - Pool/Getty Images The ongoing coronavirus outbreak is a global health emergency, the World Health Organization determined today. Since it started last month, the...

Photo by Rich Graessle/PPI/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Super Bowl LIV is coming up this Sunday, February 2nd on Fox, between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. As i...

The Electronic Software Association is introducing tighter security measures around press registration for E3, one of the world’s largest video game conferences. This move follows an inc...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A US district judge has squashed Peloton’s counter lawsuit today, against music publishers who claimed the fitness company violated rights t...

Just in time for the Super Bowl, Madden 20 will be getting a new shoe. More specifically, the Nike Vapor Edge Cleat. Among the players getting this special footwear: Christian McCaffrey, O...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Despite executive comments to the contrary, Huawei says it’s still open to using Google services after being forbidden from including them on d...

Blizzard’s colorful team-shooter Overwatch is getting some big changes next month. Today the developer provided some details on the game’s next patch, bringing Overwatch to version 1.4...

Image: Apple Apple announced today that redesigned maps in its official Maps app have now rolled out to all users in the US. The company first announced plans to redesign its maps in Jun...

Ring Video Doorbell 2 | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Ring has announced that it is adding a new privacy dashboard to its mobile apps that will let Ring owners manage their connected ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Just days after Avast’s popular antivirus software was revealed to be harvesting browsing data and selling it to advertisers, the company has sa...

A telescope in Hawaii has produced the highest resolution video of the Sun’s surface ever created, revealing what looks like exploding bits of caramelized popcorn covering the star at th...

View of St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois on January 24, 2020 where a Chicago woman affected by the coronavirus is treated in isolation. | Photo by DEREK R. HENKLE/AFP...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon released its Super Bowl commercial this week, and it’s a weird one. The company’s Super Bowl commercials have historically been a little offbe...

Today, NASA is shutting down one of its long-lasting space observatories, a telescope that’s been wandering through space for nearly two decades, snapping images of some of the coldest a...

There’s a moment in the live-action movie Detective Pikachu when the ground beneath our heroes’ feet is crumbling. As they slip and slide, Pikachu, voiced by Ryan Reynolds, yells to no...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over the past five years, AT&T has spent hundreds of billions of dollars preparing for the streaming wars, going on a spree of mergers and acq...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Fitbit added a female health feature to its app in May 2018, allowing you to manually track menstrual cycles and symptoms to predict upcoming ...

Photo by Andrei Makhonin\TASS via Getty Images Moscow is the latest major city to introduce live facial recognition cameras to its streets, with Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announcing that th...

Grubhub has a new “growth hacking” strategy that includes creating a restaurant listing on its platform for places it doesn’t even partner with. According to a new report by the San ...

“What if the Untitled Goose Game was your entire computer?” asked nobody but Sam Chiet until this week. 18-year-old Chiet has created an app for Windows PCs that spawns a virtual goose...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In four days, tens of thousands of people will descend on Miami to watch Super Bowl 2020, where San Francisco will battle Kansas City for dominanc...

This Valentine’s Day, let that special someone know your love is as infinite as a GIF that loops forever. Giphy is partnering with “video printing” company Infinite Objects to sell s...

Image: GMC General Motors has confirmed it’s resurrecting the Hummer nameplate for a new all-electric truck that will have 1,000 horsepower on offer and go from 0 to 60 miles per hour ...

Image: Private Division The Outer Worlds, the Obsidian-developed first-person RPG, is releasing on the Nintendo Switch on March 6th, the company announced today. The game’s Switch port...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung’s Galaxy Book S laptop that runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx processor is now available for preorder at Samsung.com starting at $999.99, and...

In 2011, designer Zach Gage decided to try something different: make a game in a genre he hated. The result was SpellTower, a mashup of word games and puzzlers, which went on to become one...

The stylus-equipped handset was first leaked in a press render earlier this week. | Image: @evleaks The first photographs of Motorala’s stylus-equipped Moto have appeared online, just ...

It’s not every day we get to talk about a good old-fashioned utility app update. I wouldn’t go so far as to say they’re a dying breed, but the Apple App Store platform dynamics of re...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Huawei overtook Apple to become the world’s second best selling smartphone manufacturer in 2019, according to reports from Strategy Analytics, ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge One of the year’s biggest stories at the intersection of technology and power is the Facebook Oversight Board. For the first time, a tech gi...

Punxsutawney Phil being held up to the crowds in 2019. | Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images Since 1887, the residents of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania have maintained the belief that an im...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nintendo had its strongest Switch quarter ever this holiday season, moving 10.81 million units to reach a total of 52.48 million sold as of th...

Photo by TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP via Getty Images E-commerce billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has backtracked on his bizarre plan to find a girlfriend to take into space by way of reality TV sh...

Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images Netflix has ordered a live-action show based on One Piece, the colossally popular Japanese manga and anime franchise, as first re...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung Electronics just released fourth-quarter earnings that told much the same story as the rest of 2019. Revenue was more or less flat year-on-year �...

Photo: Carlton Beener / Blizzard Entertainment The Overwatch League’s plans for a truly global e-sports league have taken a major hit. Today, Blizzard announced that the China-based ga...

Image: Epic Games Epic has announced an in-game Fortnite tournament for this weekend that’s timed with the Australian Open, and players who compete will have a shot to earn the game’...

Xinhua/Ding Ting via Getty Images The Chinese government has ordered the shutdown of Tesla’s new factory in Shanghai over coronavirus fears, which will delay the company’s production...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook says it has agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit regarding its use of facial recognition technology. The news, rep...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nearly four years after the California Institute of Technology sued Apple and Broadcom for allegedly infringing four of the university’s patents...

The original native LastPass Mac app Password management app LastPass has announced it will be discontinuing its native macOS app on February 29th, directing users in an email to switch ...

Google is testing a feature that can send Nest owners alerts about their furnaces when “unusual or unexpected patterns” are detected. The HVAC alerts will be automatically sent to subs...

Delta announced today that it will be temporarily reducing flights between the US and China due to “significantly reduced customer demand” that has resulted from concerns about the cor...

An artistic rendering of how NASA plans to send humans to the Moon | Image: NASA A proposed piece of legislation from the House threatens to change NASA’s efforts to return humans to t...

Rapid progress in voice cloning technology is making it harder to tell real voices from synthetic ones. But while audio deepfakes — which can trick people into giving up sensitive inform...

Rapid progress in voice cloning technology is making it harder to tell real voices from synthetic ones. But while audio deepfakes — which can trick people into giving up sensitive inform...

Image: Emojipedia The Unicode Consortium has revealed 117 new emoji that will be rolled out later this year as part of Emoji 13.0. There are 62 new emoji and 55 new gender and skin tone ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook’s global expansion continues unabated, as the company now reports that at least 2.26 billion people use at least one of the company...

Google’s new Super Bowl ad is going to hit you in the feels, and that’s what it intends. Remember its “Dear Sophie” and “Parisian Love” commercials? I admit I got a little chok...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Tesla’s record-setting number of sales in 2019 also helped the electric automaker generate more money in one year than ever before, the company annou...

Tesla says it’s ready to start delivering the Model Y compact SUV in the first quarter of 2020, in a letter to investors. That’s ahead of schedule, a first for the company. If the Mod...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft posted the second quarter of its 2020 financial results today, reporting revenue of $36.9 billion and net income of $11.6 billion. Surfa...

Illustration by Angie Wang Online food delivery services can often provide a valuable service, especially when you plan to order ahead, put in a larger order, have specific dietary ...

For years, UPS has been gesturing toward a future where some of its delivery vehicles are electric, autonomous, or drones. Now, the delivery giant is taking steps to make that happen with ...

The US House Ethics Committee informed House members yesterday that posting audio or video that has been altered for misleading effect on social media, also known as deepfakes, might be in...

Grubhub has a new “growth hacking” strategy that includes creating a restaurant listing on its platform for places it doesn’t even partner with. According to a new report by the San ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is temporarily shutting down all of its China offices due to the coronavirus outbreak, the company confirmed to The Verge on Wednesday. The...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Lyft announced a round of staff cuts amid questions about the company’s ability to stem its enormous losses and show how it can achieve prof...

Sweat, robot, sweat, robot: a close-up of one of the soft robotic “fingers” sweating. | Image: Mishra et al For the roboticist who has everything, here’s something new: a soft robo...

The US Department of the Interior said today it would continue to keep its entire drone fleet grounded, except when used for emergencies like firefighting, as the department reviews if the...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge In case you thought the MoviePass saga would remain a smoldering heap of yesterday’s news from here on out, guess again. Helios and Matheson Analytics...

Spotify Spotify’s going all-in on podcasting, which means it needs more people to make shows. In an effort to demystify the podcasting industry and encourage people to pursue their own...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Earlier this month, Fitbit quietly rolled out blood oxygen monitoring to five of its devices: the Versa, Versa 2, Versa Lite, Ionic, and Charg...

Image: 9to5Mac Apple may have a busy few months up ahead, with the company reportedly planning to release its rumored Tag trackers; a new high-end set of headphones; updated iPad Pro, Ma...

Sundance Institute Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from the 2020 Sundance Film Fes...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Podcast company Luminary received a wave of negative attention following its controversial debut, but the company might be trying to turn thin...

Photos by Sean O’Kane / The Verge The Lincoln Motor Company has confirmed it’s developing an all-electric vehicle that will be powered by tech from EV startup Rivian. It will be Linc...

Photo by Anusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via Getty Images Electronics giant LG is issuing a blanket employee travel ban to China amid the coronavirus outbreak. The South Korean company says it ...

Weathering With You is the latest film from Makoto Shinkai, the writer and director who shot to worldwide fame with 2016’s Your Name. Your Name was tremendous; it became the highest-gros...

Inside the burgeoning world of custom keyboard making Continue reading… ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s not tough to get around paying the full $49.99 price on Google’s Nest Mini smart speaker. Right now, Google sells them for $35 each, and during ...

Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images On Wednesday, presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) unveiled a new plan to fight disinformation, aiming to stem the effect of the Russian tr...

Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images American Airlines will suspend flights between Los Angeles and mainland China from February 9th to March 27th due to a “significant decline in de...

Photo by VIVEK PRAKASH/AFP via Getty Images Public health experts around the globe are scrambling to understand, track, and contain a new virus that appeared in Wuhan, China at the start...

Update January 29th, 10:10AM ET: SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket on time this morning, deploying all 60 satellites into orbit. The rocket also performed another landing on...

Image: Fantastical Calendar app Fantastical is getting a big update simultaneously across all Apple platforms that adds a bunch of new features, but also moves its signature software to ...

Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Tab S6 5G, a 5G variant of 2019’s Tab S6 tablet that also takes the crown as the world’s first 5G tablet, as spotted by Android Central. As ...

Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images The idea of a National Climate Bank is catching on in Congress, and it could infuse billions of dollars into efforts to eliminate the US’s planet-h...

Image: Roku Roku is doing the obvious thing: it’s creating a surround sound system that brings together the company’s Smart Soundbar, subwoofer, and Roku TV Wireless speakers for a m...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The European Union has issued a set of guidelines on the use of high-risk vendors like Huawei for building the single market’s 5G networks. Alth...

Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for WarnerMedia HBO Max is going to cost AT&T a lot of money — but company executives are mostly fine with a short-term loss if the long-term ga...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Wireless carriers are expected to start boosting LTE speeds and augmenting their 5G rollouts later this year with a swath of spectrum that, as of ...

A week after performing a crucial test flight for NASA, SpaceX is poised to launch yet another Falcon 9 rocket from Florida. This mission is tasked with sending up the latest batch of inte...

Image: Scroll Welcome back to Processor, a newsletter about computers and also sometimes other things. You are probably expecting me to spend several paragraphs making fun of Google for ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg Code discovered in the latest version of the Google Phone app has revealed more details about its unannounced call recording feature, 9to5Google reports....

Women in Hong Kong sitting on the street with sanitary masks to prevent coronavirus infections. | Photo by Miguel Candela/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images One result of a world i...

The icon shows the headphones with a cable attached to their rear rather than their front. | Image: MacRumors Apple could soon launch a new version of its Powerbeats earbuds if imagery d...

A robot made by Covariant installed in Right now, in a warehouse not far from Berlin, a bright yellow robot is leaning over a conveyor, picking items out of crates with the assurance of ...

Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images British Airways has suspended all its direct flights to mainland China in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters reports. “We...

The social media accounts of almost half of the teams in the National Football League, as well as the official NFL account, were hacked, the NFL said in a statement today. Some ESPN social...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple CEO Tim Cook said on Tuesday that the company began limiting employee travel to China last week amid the coronavirus outbreak, and that Appl...

NASA’s next big space observatory — the James Webb Space Telescope — probably won’t launch in March 2021, potentially creating added costs for the long-delayed and over-budget prog...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Google is working on another communications application, this one for workplaces, that will combine several different platforms it already operates, a...

Image: Alex Castro / The Verge Barely over a year ago, we pointed out how dystopian it seemed when Chinese schools added “smart uniforms” to track their students’ attendance. But U...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple reported its first quarter results for fiscal year 2020 this afternoon, offering an important look into the company’s holiday sales qu...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A popular Iranian ride-sharing app that was kicked off the App Store appeared to return this week under a new name, despite American sanctions. I...

Photo by VIVEK PRAKASH/AFP via Getty Images Public health experts around the globe are scrambling to understand, track, and contain a new virus that appeared in Wuhan, China at the start...

The social media accounts of several NFL teams and one belonging to the NFL were hacked, the NFL said in a statement today. Nearly half of the teams in the league had their Twitter account...

It took a few years, but the end of Kentucky Route Zero is finally here. Today sees the launch of Act V of the haunting, surreal adventure game, closing out a protracted saga for both play...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nintendo has crossed over $1 billion in revenue from its mobile games for Android and iOS according to a new report from SensorTower — large...

The mother of “Success Kid” Sammy Griner has sent a cease-and-desist notice to to Rep. Steve King, who she called a “vile man” for using the viral image of the toddler with a clenc...

Photo by Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The head of Harvard’s chemistry and chemical biology department, Charles Lieber, was charged Tuesday with making false statem...

Image: SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn, which manufactures key products for countless tech companies including Apple, says it will not be adjusting any m...

Photo by Daniel Slim / AFP via Getty Images United Airlines is suspending some flights to and from China because of a “significant decline in demand” brought on by the emerging coron...

When it premiered in 2014, it was one of Netflix’s earliest, best shows — and it would have failed in 2020. BoJack Horseman, one of Netflix’s longest-running shows, comes to an end t...

Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu via Getty Images As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread, the Chinese government and health officials around the world are counting on an intangible factor to h...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google plans to add a live transcription feature to its Google Translate app for Android at some point in the future. The feature will allow users...

Facebook expects its long-simmering oversight board to begin hearing cases this summer, with board members to be announced “in the coming months.” The announcement came on Tuesday, as ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple today released iOS 13.3.1, and the new update contains two important fixes. First, it eliminates a Communication Limits workaround that ...

Image: Scroll A new subscription service called Scroll is offering ad-free access to hundreds of websites — not by blocking the ads, but by working with an expanding group of publisher...

The social media accounts of several NFL teams and one belonging to the NFL were hacked, the NFL said in a statement today. Nearly half of the teams in the league had their Twitter account...

Anna Kooris / Sundance Institute Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from the 2020 Sun...

Photo by David McNew / Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding its enhanced health screening to 20 airports as part of its efforts to identify people wit...

Former Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has revealed his perspective of being on the Windows team when Apple unveiled the iPad 10 years ago this week. Microsoft tried to make tablet PCs a thi...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google announced today that two new games are coming to Stadia Pro, the subscription plan that lets customers of its Stadia cloud gaming servi...

Image: Facebook Facebook’s Clear History tool is now available in all countries, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a blog post today. It’s part of a new section in your settings calle...

Image: WinFuture Rumors about Samsung’s next foldable, the vertically folding Galaxy Z Flip, have been swirling for weeks. But thanks to a new leak, the full details for the upcoming f...

Moment announces its first Variable ND filters for DSLR cameras and drones | Image: Moment Moment, a company that’s well-known for its smartphone and drone accessories, has announced a...

The Moto G8 (pictured) will have a hole-punch notch and a triple-camera array on its rear. | Image: Motorola / 91Mobiles Motorola’s upcoming Moto G8 and G8 Power have been detailed in ...

Image: Nintendo / Game Freak The Pokémon Company is making it easier for players to keep all of their pokémon from every game in one place with a cloud storage service known as the Pok...

Nomad has released a new AirPods Pro case, and, like the company’s previous AirPod cases, it’s thoughtfully designed for something that’s effectively just a case that you put on top ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Some products are worth buying at full price, but Google’s Nest Hub smart display shouldn’t be one of them. This device launched for $129, but it’s...

Super Cruise, the hands-free driver assistance system from General Motors, is getting a major upgrade. An enhanced version of the advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) will be introduce...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When your Fitbit dies in the middle of a workout or fails to register an excellent night’s sleep, it can be a frustrating experience. Batte...

These days, building and launching your own satellite means creating a sophisticated piece of technology — and then flinging it into space where you’ll never see it again. That means i...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Almost two full years after they were released in March 2018, the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus are starting to get updated to Android 10, with the up...

Image: Apple TV Plus According to its Apple TV Plus webpage, Little America is “an anthology of funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring, and surprising stories about the lives of immigra...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg I’ve been revisiting the Microsoft Surface Pro X ever since the Chromium version of Edge became official — though what I’ve been using is the still...

Musician Neil Young and tech executive Phil Baker have been trying to push the tech industry to make it easier for consumers to listen to high-quality audio for almost a decade now. The du...

How a game can help us explore potentially worrying futures Continue reading… ...

The Galaxy S20 Ultra (left) and S20 Plus (right) | Image: Evan Blass (@evleaks) / Twitter Samsung is expected to announce the Galaxy S20 — the successor to last year’s Galaxy S10, an...

Illustration by Alex Castro Who’s at fault when something you buy on Amazon goes bad? Continue reading… ...

Image: 王奔宏 via Weibo Samsung’s next Unpacked event, where the company is expected to announce its next flagship phones, is taking place on February 11th, and the rumor ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The UK will allow “high-risk vendors” like Huawei to supply equipment for its 5G network infrastructure, the government announced today. The a...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Limiting and liberating Continue reading… ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Cybersecurity research company Check Point Research says in a report out today that it found security flaws in videoconferencing platform Zoom that would have al...

Karma has released a teaser image of its upcoming pickup. | Image: Karma Automotive Karma Automotive, the automaker previously known as Fisker Automotive, is working on an electric picku...

A content moderator works at an office in Tampa, FL in 2019 | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales On Friday I published a report confirming what had been obvious to anyone who spends much t...

Users can choose two of the four lenses to record from on the iPhone 11 Pro. Filmic is releasing a new app for iPhones today that allows you to capture video from two cameras at once. Th...

Photo by Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Facebook and gaming hardware maker Razer are among the first US technology companies to begin restricting travel to China amid the ...

Photo by Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Facebook and gaming hardware maker Razer are among the first US technology companies to begin restricting travel to China amid the ...

Photo by John Moore/Getty Images A man who spread conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook shooting and allegedly harassed victims’ families was arrested Monday morning in Florida. The...

Photo by: Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For Boeing, there have been many consequences to the two fatal 737 Max crashes that left 346 people dead. The company halted pro...

Image: FCA Fiat Chrysler (FCA) today announced the newest version of its infotainment system for cars, Uconnect 5. The new system adds tons of new features for future Chrysler, Dodge, Je...

Chinese tourists wearing masks use smartphones in the Ginza shopping district on January 24, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. | Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images As the coronavirus outbreak con...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge You might install antivirus software on your computer to protect your privacy and make sure no one is snooping on what you’re up to. But if you ...

Image: Atari Atari has licensed its name for a number of brand partnerships in the gaming space, but the company’s latest deal to build eight Atari-branded hotels marks its foray into ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you place a preorder for Motorola’s Razr right now, you won’t receive the phone until February 18th — more than 10 days after its launch date. ...

Bird has announced that it will acquire Circ, a leading electric scooter rental business in Europe and the Middle East. The acquisition is the latest sign of consolidation among e-scooter ...

To call Netflix’s visual take on Ghost in the Shell different would be an understatement. The animated series has gotten a full makeover in the form of CGI that looks more suited to a Pi...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Today’s best deals are a mix of fresh offers we’re seeing for the first time and a few returning favorites. The headliner is Amazon’s Echo Buds, wh...

Kentucky Route Zero starts out slow and simple. An old man named Conway pulls into a gas station to ask for directions. He has a rusting truck, rumbling away in the background, stuffed wit...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A third category of device between the smartphone and laptop Continue reading… ...

Image: @evleaks There’s been a lot of excitement around Motorola’s revived Razr and its folding screen. But a new image from Evan Blass (as reported by Engadget) suggests that a nost...

Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Today is the 10th anniversary of the original iPad being announced. Coincidence or not, the seventh-generation iPad with a 10.2-inch display is back down to its ...

Activision Blizzard Amazon’s Twitch, Microsoft’s Mixer, and Google’s YouTube are all in the middle of individual creator wars, placing million-dollar bets on the biggest gaming str...

Eve, the Finnish hardware startup that crowdsourced ideas for what turned out to be a pretty great Windows 2-in-1 but then struggled to meet demand, has announced its next product. The Spe...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In the mid-2010s, it seemed like every tech company launched a proprietary payment solution. Everyone from Apple and Google to Samsung, Chase,...

Photo: Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon’s Echo Buds are on sale for $90, in what appears to be their first sale since launching in October. The wireless earbuds normally sell for $130, w...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge At least seven state attorneys general are meeting with US Justice Department attorneys next week in what could be the first step toward the two g...

Last week, GM-subsidiary Cruise unveiled the Origin, its first self-driving car without a steering wheel or pedals. At the time, the company’s CEO Dan Ammann promised to reveal productio...

Members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice protest outside Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle, September 2019. | Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images Hundreds of Amazon workers ar...

Illustration by Ana Kova Accelerating cancer diagnoses could hurt more than it helps Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft launched its new Edge Chromium-powered browser earlier this month on both macOS and Windows. The launch marked just over a year after th...

Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images The UK government won’t adopt the EU’s controversial copyright directive after it leaves the bloc on January 31st, though politicians...

Image: Apple / USPTO Apple applied for a patent for an ambitious design for a new all-in-one computer which integrates both its keyboard and screen into a single curved sheet of glass. T...

Microsoft released its final public security updates for Windows 7 earlier this month, ending support for the operating system after more than 10 years. While the final updates looked pret...

Image: Apple via Apple Archive I hope you got your fill of the unofficial Apple Archive last week, because that expansive collection of over 15,000 classic Apple advertisements, internal...

Today’s the day that the Motorola Razr is available for pre-sale for $1499, exclusively on Verizon. Motorola originally said that it should begin shipping on February 6th, but it looks l...

Sundance Film Festival Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from the 2020 Sundance Film...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge The weekend is a good time to catch up on everything, including deals that you might have missed throughout the week. Below, you’ll find a mix of new s...

Image: Disney I feel like war movies all too often take the form of action films focused on big, broad, and misguided emotions like glory. So it was a wonderful surprise watching Jojo Ra...

Photo by SUJIT JAISWAL/AFP via Getty Images New York prosecutors have evidence suggesting that Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, shared compromising texts about her affair with B...

Image: Byte Dom Hofmann, the co-creator of Vine who has been quietly working on a successor to the short-form video platform, says the new app, called Byte, is available now on iOS and A...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Department of Commerce has pulled a potential regulation would have made it more difficult for US companies to sell to Huawei, according to...

Photo by Getty Images Public health officials are working to limit the spread of the virus Continue reading… ...

Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival Clayton Christensen, the business scholar who coined the term “disruptive innovation,” died at a Boston hospital this we...

President Donald Trump on Friday revealed the official logo for the Space Force, the newest branch of the armed forces and part of the existing United States Air Force department, in a twe...

Photo by Maverick Asio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Your risk of catching the new coronavirus is probably low if you haven’t recently been to Wuhan, China (where the virus ...

Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has entered into a multiyear partnership with Google that will see the search giant’s cloud platform power ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge So you’re the owner of a brand-new Fitbit Versa or Ionic smartwatch. Congratulations! If you’ve never used a smartwatch before, you may b...

The Yoto Player, a connected speaker for kids, has more in common with old-school cassette players than smart speakers like Amazon Echo or Google Home devices. It deliberately doesn’t ha...

Photo by Natt Garun / The Verge Fitbit is probably one of the best-known brands of smartwatches / fitness trackers next to the Apple Watch, and its range of wearables offers something fo...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google is backtracking on a controversial search engine redesign, announcing today that it will experiment with some elements of the new look in res...

The Vergecast is back in the studio to talk about the location of math. The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller are joined by Russell Brandom to dig into the issues surroun...

Aurora, the self-driving car company founded by former Waymo engineer Chris Urmson, doesn’t do dog and pony shows. It doesn’t trot out its vehicles just to prove they exist or take jou...

Photo: Call of Duty League The Minneapolis Armory was home to the Lakers during the ‘50s, later became the site of iconic Prince and Aerosmith music videos, and in 1985, was designated...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Clearview AI, an artificial intelligence firm providing facial recognition technology to US law enforcement, may be overstating how effective its service...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen consoles are both expected to launch later this year, and developers are gearing up with new games. According to GDC’s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new hands-on video from XDA Developers has given us our best look yet at Android’s upcoming AirDrop-style sharing feature called Nearby Sharin...

Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images A second US case of the new coronavirus has been confirmed in a patient in Chicago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) repo...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Beats Solo Pro are $50 off at Best Buy, taking the price down to $249.99. This matches the lowest price we’ve seen yet. And to our knowledge, this ...

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Image: Epic Games The long road to season 2 is almost over. Today, Epic Games revealed the release date for the second season of Fortnite Chapter 2, which will launch on February 20th. T...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Content moderators for YouTube are being ordered to sign a document acknowledging that performing the job can cause post-traumatic stress disorder...

When you think of Sega’s adorable, punky blue-haired Sonic the Hedgehog, do you think of Wiz Khalifa, Lil Yachty, Sueco the Child, and Ty Dolla Sign? You will now. The quartet teamed up...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google’s most recent phones, the Pixel 3A and Pixel 4, are discounted and include a free (generous) gift card with purchase at a few retailers. Neithe...

Preproduction on Lucasfilm’s highly anticipated Obi-Wan Disney+ series is delayed as the series grapples with script issues and lead writer Hossein Amini’s departure, according to Vari...

The tool can be used to generate art in various styles, including the abstract artist Piet Mondrian (this is not a Generative Placeholder so stop clicking on it). | Image: Generative Placeh...

Image: Mighty Bear Games Apple Arcade has so far been a great repository for polished, offbeat indie games that are best explored when you have some quiet time and perhaps no internet co...

In today’s digital age, it sometimes feels like hardware has taken a back seat to the software that drives our devices. Button of the Month will look at what some of those buttons and sw...

Image: The Verge/Alex Castro DirecTV fears that one of its satellites in orbit might blow up soon, and it’s gearing up to move it to safety. Due to a problem with the satellite’s bat...

CCTV cameras on London’s Westminster Bridge. | Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images Live facial recognition cameras will be deployed across London, with the city�...

Illustration by Alex Castro Happy Friday to you! I have been reflecting a bit on the controversy du jour: Google’s redesigned search results. Google is trying to foreground sourcing an...

You maniacs sold out our second-ever Interface live event, with Uncanny Valley author Anna Wiener, in record time. Thanks to everyone who bought a ticket, and we’ll look into finding a b...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung is developing its own alternative to Apple’s AirDrop file sharing service that will launch with the upcoming Galaxy S20, XDA Developers ...

Two and a half years after Ikea first announced its collaboration with Swedish design collective Teenage Engineering, the products are going on sale. The Frekvens range (which translates t...

Image: Rev Online transcription service Rev is raising its prices for the first time ever, from $1 a minute to $1.25. The price hike was disclosed in a message the company sent to Rev tr...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google has just revealed that its next I/O developer conference will take place from May 12th to May 14th. The company revealed the date after users...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Sonos CEO Patrick Spence just published a statement on the company’s website to try to clear up an announcement made earlier this week: on Tuesday, S...

Arguably the most important characters in Splatoon 2 are Pearl and Marina, a pair of aquatic DJs who host the show that airs each time you boot up the game. Outside of a few rare events, y...

Time to break out your best pink outfits because Mean Girls — the popular 2004 Tina Fey cult comedy film, which is based on Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes and has...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you use a PC, Xbox, or other Microsoft device, chatting with Cortana can be an easy way to get things done while your hands are occupied. But ...

Image: 王奔宏 via Weibo We first heard last month that Samsung’s rumored new foldable, possibly called the Galaxy Z Flip, will apparently fold clamshell-style similar to Motoro...

Image: Pysonix Today, Epic Games-owned Psyonix announced that it will stop supporting Rocket League on macOS and Linux starting in March. Psyonix says it will release a final patch on bo...

Meet Jean-Luc Picard, space dad. He was, for 178 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and four theatrical films, the captain of the starship Enterprise; an inherently trustworthy fat...

Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Last week, the House Antitrust Subcommittee held a unique hearing where executives from Sonos, Tile, Basecamp, and PopSockets lai...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Home DNA-testing company 23andMe is laying off 100 employees, which is around 14 percent of its workforce. The layoffs primarily affect the op...

Uber’s self-driving cars will soon be jockeying for space on the streets of Washington, DC, with the ride-hailing company announcing it will begin collecting data to support the developm...

Photo by Getty Images The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that it’s too early to declare an international public health emergency in response to the rapid spread of a new co...

Photo by Arif Hudaverdi Yaman/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images This week, The Guardian posted a huge story reporting that Saudi Arabia hacked Jeff Bezos’ phone in May 2018 after he rece...

Image: Swiss Post A Switzerland drone delivery service run by the Swiss Post is set to resume on January 27th, following a suspension of the program in August 2019 after two drone crashe...

Image: Google Every year, Google launches a game or puzzle that people can play to eventually learn the dates for the company’s annual I/O conference, and this year’s game is now liv...

Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for WIRED Adam Mosseri, the CEO of Instagram and a longtime Facebook employee, became a target of an anonymous online attacker who called in a fake...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok has signed a deal with the digital rights agency Merlin that will give the platform access to a huge selection of independent music. Effect...

Photo by VIVEK PRAKASH/AFP via Getty Images Public health experts around the globe are scrambling to understand, track, and contain a new virus that appeared in Wuhan, China at the start...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re a Comcast cable subscriber, get ready to pay more. The company said on Thursday that rate “adjustments” are planned for 2020, as c...

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Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service is incredibly easy to set up, but this easy setup process means that your account is open to abuse if you’re ...

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Humanity is now 100 seconds away from the apocalypse, according to the Doomsday Clock, which was updated today. That’s 20 metaphorical seconds closer ...

Image: Alienware Alienware’s previous-generation m17 gaming laptop is usually $1,999.99, but it’s steeply discounted right now from Dell. This 17-inch model houses Intel’s 9th Gen ...

Photo by Antoine Gyori/Corbis via Getty Images France and the United States have reached a truce on a debate over a controversial French “digital tax” that was set to hit some of Ame...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s search engine for datasets, the cunningly named Dataset Search, is now out of beta, with new tools to better filter searches and access...

Waymo is hitting the open road and bringing some of its self-driving minivans and long-haul trucks to two new states. The Alphabet subsidiary said in a tweet on Thursday that it would depl...

On Wednesday night, a fire broke out at Firefly Aerospace in Austin, Texas, while the company tested out the main engines on its newly developed Alpha rocket. The fire prompted a brief eva...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re an iPhone user who is steadfast about retaining your privacy, you’re probably not very happy about the recent news that Apple is...

Just days after EA announced that its mobile Tetris games will shut down on April 21st, new Tetris developer N3twork released an officially licensed version of the popular puzzle game for ...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Boston Dynamics, the creator of the internet’s favorite robot dog, is announcing a new CEO and developer conference as it begins selling its robots m...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is launching a partnership program for gyms today called “Apple Watch Connected” that’s meant to highlight chains that integrate with its we...

Bad Boys For Life pulls off one of the most unlikely tricks in blockbuster moviemaking: It’s the rare good third entry in a franchise, a successful soft reboot that introduces a small sq...

Adobe Adobe is previewing a new feature for Premiere Pro called Productions that’ll help teams work together on projects. Announced today at the Sundance Film Festival, the new panel w...

The blurring of ads and search results. | Screenshot by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Last week, Google began rolling out a new look for its search results on desktop, which blurs the line b...

Tinder Tinder is launching new safety features today, including a photo verification system that’ll place a blue check mark on daters’ profiles, a partnership with the safety app Noo...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Welcome back to Processor, a mostly daily newsletter mostly about computers, by which I mostly mean the consumer electronics industry at large...

Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Bay Area! I’ll be talking with Anna Wiener about Uncanny Valley, her brilliant new memoir of a life in tech, on February 4th at Manny’s in San Fran...

Microsoft unveiled its Surface Duo device at the company’s hardware event back in October. The dual-screen device includes two 5.6-inch displays (1350 x 1800) that fold out into an 8.3-i...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Twitter’s direct messages now support emoji reactions, the company has announced. To use them, you can either tap the small “heart and plus icon�...

Photo by Getty Images Huawei has announced the postponement of a major developers’ conference because of safety precautions around the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. HDC.Cloud 2...

A lightweight trainer with a heavy price tag Continue reading… ...

Fujifilm has announced the X-T200, the follow-up to 2018’s X-T100 mirrorless camera. It’s Fujifilm’s entry-level model with a built-in electronic viewfinder. The X-T200 looks pretty ...

Image: Verdict Impeachment podcasts are the hot new thing in podcasting, and now one of the actual impeachment jurors is getting in on the boom. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) launched a podcas...

Photo by Getty Images Disease control officials in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the outbreak of the new and rapidly spreading virus began, announced that it’s shutting down transporta...

Photo by Steven Ryan/Getty Images King County, where Seattle is located, announced on Wednesday that it’s implementing smartphone voting for an upcoming board of supervisors election. ...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo fans in Europe got some bad news this week. A new court ruling sided with Nintendo’s ongoing practice to not let users cancel digital preord...

Image: Netflix Netflix wants people to know The Witcher is just as big, if not bigger, than Disney’s Mandalorian around the world. Franchise plays like The Witcher and movies like 6 Un...

Isabel Fall’s story raised questions about how we read online Continue reading… ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon Music often doesn’t get the same buzz as Spotify or Apple Music, but the service is still growing rapidly and is catching up to those competitor...

Photo by Erin Schaff for The Verge One day after news broke that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia may have been personally involved in the hack of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ phone, a Unite...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Tesla has reached a deal with Michigan that will allow the company to sell its cars directly in the state, bringing a multiyear legal battle t...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft is starting to share more details on exactly how it imagines apps will run on dual-screen devices like the Surface Duo and Surface N...

Image: SmileDirectClub SmileDirectClub, a Warby Parker-style company that sells 3D-printed teeth aligners online that are typically cheaper than braces, has asked some customers dissatis...

Image: Netflix Following the success of Netflix’s live-action Witcher series, the streaming giant has ordered a new anime film from Korean animation house Studio Mir. Netflix hasn’t...

Microsoft is planning to use the Office 365 installer to forcibly switch Chrome users over to the company’s Bing search engine. Microsoft’s Office 365 ProPlus installer, used by busine...

Photo: 100 Thieves The collision of e-sports, content creators, and streetwear now has a physical form with 100 Thieves’ newly unveiled headquarters. Today, the company officially open...

Coca-Cola stood by its single-use plastic bottle at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Speaking to the BBC, senior vice president Beatriz Perez shifted responsibility for the ...

Image: Unity The Heretic, Unity’s cinematic tech demo which it first teased at GDC last year, is now available to watch in its entirety. It’s still only seven minutes long, so don’...

NASA has a big to-do list for 2020, as the agency continues to build its Artemis program with the goal of sending the first woman to the Moon by 2024. This year, NASA also hopes to start l...

Amazon Fire HD 10. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’ve been waiting for a discount on Amazon’s Fire HD 10, your wait is over. The tablet has been discounted to $9...

It took over a month, but Netflix is finally releasing an official version of the breakout musical hit from its popular Witcher series. “Toss a Coin to Your Witcher” is now available t...

The new ‘connectome’ maps some 25,000 neurons in a fruit fly’s brain, a portion of which are shown here. | Image: Google / FlyEM Scientists from Google and the Janelia Research Ca...

Photo by Dani Deahl / The Verge Niantic Labs says its live events for augmented reality hit Pokémon Go contributed $247 million in tourism revenue last year across three cities. The ann...

Dave Filoni’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars is one of the most beloved entries in the expansive Star Wars universe, and a new trailer for its final season hints that fans will get the closur...

Image: EA Tetris and Tetris Blitz, EA’s mobile versions of the classic puzzle game, are being discontinued. Android Police and MacRumors report that the apps will disappear from iOS an...

MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images A 2018 spyware attack on Jeff Bezos’ phone escalated into an international scandal on Wednesday, as United Nations human rights experts issued a stern...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge After a slight delay last month, Motorola’s highly anticipated foldable Razr now has a release date: it’ll be out on February 6th for $1,499, with p...

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The latest beta version of WhatsApp’s Android app has introduced a long-anticipated dark mode, WABetaInfo...

The thing that convulsed the internet for much of yesterday was this Reuters report that Apple decided against throwing away its keys to users’ encrypted iCloud backups after the FBI com...

Jay Sullivan, product management director for privacy and integrity in Facebook Messenger, testifies during a hearing before Senate Judiciary Committee December 10th in Washington, DC | Pho...

Barstool Sports co-found David Portnoy posted anti-union tweets last August. | Photo by Tom Briglia/ Getty Images Barstool Sports has agreed to delete a pair of anti-union tweets and to ...

The German government is facing a bill of around $887,000 (800,000 euros) for failing to upgrade to Windows 10 ahead of the Windows 7 end of support date last week. German newspaper Handel...

Doug_DragoX (Twitter) The back panel of the Xbox Series X has been the subject of heightened speculation ever since AMD used a fake render of the upcoming console as part of its CES pres...

Image: Google Today, Google launched three new experimental apps to help you use your phone less as part of its Digital Wellbeing initiative, including one that actually has you seal up ...

The Origin is the GM subsidiary’s first attempt to build an fully autonomous car from the ground up Continue reading… ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google has found its first major partner to help push the company’s nascent Stadia game streaming service in the United States: Verizon. Tonight the co...

A Dallas company that successfully sued Nintendo for $10 million for patent infringement may not have invented anything in the first place, a federal court has ruled. Although the novelty ...

Photo: Katalin Vermes / Netflix Netflix released its quarterly earnings report Tuesday afternoon, including a trove of new data on its latest hit, The Witcher. Among the data points Netf...

Photo by Tim Chapman/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Miami’s National Weather Service issued a warning for falling iguanas along with a cold front swooping through S...

Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Amazon Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was targeted and successfully hacked through WhatsApp from Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Even with the high-profile launches of Disney+ and Apple TV Plus last fall, Netflix added more subscribers than expected in the last three months ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Oculus’ virtual reality business software program is dropping support for the budget Go headset, pushing users toward the fuller-featured Qu...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Eight senators have been spotted wearing Apple Watches to President Trump’s impeachment trial, seemingly breaking the chamber’s ban on electronics d...

Image: AMD At CES 2020, AMD announced its new Radeon RX 5600 XT, a midrange $279 graphics card utilizing the company’s Navi architecture that sits between the cheaper RX 5500 series an...

Netflix’s Q4 2019 earnings are here, and so are the first official numbers for Netflix’s latest streaming hit The Witcher. The company says the series was watched by 76 million househo...

Under Armour may have stopped making connected health gadgets since 2017, but it’s now halting software support entirely for its HealthBox collection, which included a scale, a wristband...

Starbucks announced today that it’s going to slash the greenhouse gases it emits and waste it sends to landfills in half over the next decade. It’s also committing to conserving or rep...

Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images Boeing on Tuesday announced that it’s now estimating its troubled 737 Max aircraft won’t fly again until at least mid-2020, a delay from the earlier...

Netflix is releasing a new, CGI animated version of the very first Pokémon movie. Dubbed Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution, the remake of the 1998 film follows Ash and friends as ...

Half-Life: Alyx will launch in March 2020 for PC-based VR headsets, but right now, Valve is giving gamers the opportunity to catch up on (almost) everything Half-Life-related at no expense...

Illustration by Ana Kova A case of the new virus spreading rapidly in China has been reported in a patient in Seattle, Washington, Reuters reports. The patient had recently returned from...

Sometimes you just want more for someone, even if they are rich, famous, and probably doing fine. Today, that person is Robert Downey Jr., star of Dolittle, in which he plays an eccentric ...

AMD CEO Lisa Su at CES 2020 We’re still rolling out our Vergecast interviews from CES 2020 this month, and this week we have a chat with AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su. Dr. Su led AMD’s press ...

Photo credit should read EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images Brazilian prosecutors have charged journalist Glenn Greenwald with violating cybercrime laws, The New York Times reports. The co...

YouTube TV is now available on PlayStation 4, becoming the first third-party live TV subscription service to launch on Sony’s game console. Ever since the debut of its own PlayStation Vu...

Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group Billionaire 2020 presidential contender Mike Bloomberg doesn’t think Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) “know what they’re talki...

Big Tech government hearings often devolve into predictable shouting matches, rambling tech support pleas, or a made-up internet legal doctrine. But last week, a congressional antitrust co...

Image: Lego Lego is back with another new amazing spacecraft build set. This time, it’s a fairly realistic replica of the International Space Station, the orbiting laboratory helmed by...

A still from Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke You can save a good amount of cash on Blu-ray movies and video games on Amazon right now. In addition to discounts, it’s offering a “...

Image: Epic Epic is asking TikTok users to create Fortnite’s next emote. Over the weekend, Epic kicked off a weeklong contest that will award in-game prizes to someone who posts an ori...

Skip, an electric scooter rental startup that operates in and around Washington, DC, said it would start disclosing details about the maintenance and repair requirements of its fleet of tw...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella | Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images “What do you think is the biggest hardware business at Microsoft?” asked Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella last week during ...

Just before Christmas, Lego released a very surprising new game. Called Builder’s Journey, it wasn’t exactly what many people expected from the toy giant. The company is well-known for...

Photo by Aric Crabb / Digital First Media / Bay Area News via Getty Images Can drinking water out of a can really save us? Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Uber is experimenting with a new feature in California that allows drivers to set their own prices for rides in some circumstances instead of ...

Venmo will soon let you add custom animated GIFs to your transaction notes, the payment company announced today. If your Venmo feed is anything like mine, it’s already chock-full of flyi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In May, Sonos will stop providing software updates for its oldest products, and they’ll no longer receive any new features. The decision impacts...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple reportedly dropped plans to fully secure users’ iPhone and iPad backups after the FBI complained about the initiative, reports Reuters. A...

Jovelle Tamayo for The Verge ‘Yeet the rich’ Continue reading… ...

Video: Nebia by Moen Nebia, the shower startup that counts Apple CEO Tim Cook among its early investors, has launched the third-generation of its shower system on Kickstarter. The big ne...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The regulation of facial recognition is emerging as a key disagreement among the world’s biggest tech companies, with Alphabet and Google CEO Su...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google’s Pixelbook Go Chromebook is available in a color other than black now that the “not pink” version of the laptop is shipping...

The Mandalorian’s “Baby Yoda” has been one of the service’s biggest hits. | Image: Disney Disney+ will now launch in the UK and other markets in Western Europe on March 24th, one...

Image: Tesla In response to a petition to the NHTSA complaining about “sudden unexpected acceleration” in a variety of Tesla models and model years, Tesla issued a forceful statement...

Image: Garmin Garmin’s Tactix Delta is the latest in its lineup of rugged smartwatches built to military standards. New for the Tactix’s fourth generation is a big 1.4-inch display s...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Chinese phone maker Huawei will work with Dutch digital mapping company TomTom to put maps on its phones, Reuters reports. A TomTom spokesperson told Reut...

Radiohead Alright, I’ll admit it: despite the headline above, a downloadable library card may be the least exciting part of the “Radiohead Public Library,” a new online collection ...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the US have started using a new facial recognition system from Clearview AI, a new investigation by ...

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has called for new regulations in the world of AI, highlighting the dang...

Instagram launched its IGTV service in June 2018. | Image: Instagram Instagram is removing the IGTV shortcut button from the top right corner of the Facebook-owned app’s home screen, r...

Samsung’s new mobile chief Roh Tae-moon. | Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics has appointed Roh Tae-moon its new mobile chief, taking over from co-ceo DJ Koh, who’ll continue to...

Netflix has acquired the rights to 21 feature films from the beloved Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli for all regions outside the US, Canada, and Japan. The company will add the movi...

Epic Games has just released an update for the iOS version of Fortnite that unlocks a niche-but-cool feature if you have the hardware to support it: a 120 frames per second mode for the la...

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/Joel Kowsky) SpaceX successfully launched one of its last big flight tests for NASA on Sunday morning, one that could ultimately pave the way for the company to fly people to space...

(NASA/Joel Kowsky) Update January 19th, 9:05AM ET: SpaceX is currently targeting 10:30AM ET for liftoff, a 30-minute delay from the previous time. The company is waiting for weather cond...

(NASA/Joel Kowsky) On Sunday, SpaceX is launching one of its last big flight tests for NASA, one that could ultimately pave the way for the company to fly people to space later this year...

Image: Sony Pictures With all the noise around how there’ll probably never be a second season of Watchmen this week, I figured I should finally get around to writing about Watchmen sin...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Lenovo hasn’t made the best bets in virtual reality so far, but it seems like the company’s about to try again — according to a new FCC ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Lenovo hasn’t made the best bets in virtual reality so far, but it seems like the company’s about to try again — according to a new FCC ...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge You might have read headlines today about how the EU is looking to force Apple to ditch the Lightning cable. That’s not really true. Since 2009, the ...

Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images Google added tiny favicon icons to its search results this week for some reason, creating more clutter in what used to be a clean interface, and seemingly w...

For practically as long as the Nintendo Switch and its removable Joy-Con controllers has existed, fans have been mocking up and wishing for Joy-Con-style GameCube controllers to use with t...

Valve Valve has put an end to rumors about Left 4 Dead 3 being in development, by stating that the studio hasn’t been working on it for years. “We’ve seen rumors to this effect for...

Microsoft is unveiling its first TV commercial for Microsoft Teams this weekend. A 30-second ad will air during Sunday’s NFL playoffs, and will also be shown in the UK, France, and Germa...

Image: Moog Moog has officially announced a new synth called Subsequent 25 at this year’s NAMM in Anaheim, California. Replacing the adored Sub Phatty synth, Moog’s made several twea...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Netflix today signaled a significant new investment in France with the opening of its new Paris office and a content roadmap that will see the...

Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images Next month, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles will release the latest batch of reports from companies testing self-dri...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Disney’s landmark purchase of 20th Century Fox last year is complete, and now the company is looking to phase out the “Fox” branding in its ...

Photo by Stefan Etienne / The Verge If you’ve been waiting on a deal for Nvidia’s RTX 2060 desktop graphics card, the entry-level model in its lineup of raytracing-capable GPUs, an o...

The Vergecast is back in the studio after the holidays and CES. The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller get together to talk about the big takeaways from the Consumer Elect...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge After a patent lawsuit against Google last week, Sonos is ready to go after Google (and potentially other tech giants) in front of Congress today. The au...

The Pokémon Company has released two ASMR videos to kick off your weekend: one featuring a Charmander peacefully snoozing beside a crackling fire, and one with a Chespin munching away on ...

Co Star Today I am going to get to the bottom of things and take myself out to dinner because I have an Android phone and there is finally an Android version of the popular Co—Star ast...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday that it is weighing whether to launch an investigation into “sudden unexpected ac...

Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images In an interview with The New York Times on Friday, former Vice President Joe Biden called for tech’s biggest liability shield, Section 230 of t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is facing a federal lawsuit from mobile app developers that allege the company revoked access to data in an attempt to stifle competition...

The worst thing about Bad Boys for Life is that it is not heralded with a chart-topping rap collab between Nelly, P. Diddy, and Murphy Lee. The era of the St. Lunatics is firmly behind us....

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Chrome OS may one day be able to play games from Steam. In an interview with Android Police, a Chrome OS product leader said that Google is workin...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge High school chemistry teacher Phil Cook (@chemteacherphil) didn’t know anything about TikTok until one Friday in August, when a student in his c...

Tinymakesthings One of the most appealing benefits of mechanical keyboards is their customizability, and artisan keycap maker Tiny is on a mission to bring some joy to the keyboard. Her ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge; Photo by YourStuffedMemories / Etsy Everyone loves Baba Yoda, but official merchandise of the character has been hard to find, since Disney ...

Leica M10 Monochrom | Image: Leica Three years after the release of the M10, Leica is finally introducing a Monochrom camera based on the M10’s design. The new M10 Monochrom has all of...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Some AirPods Pro owners have been complaining about degraded noise cancellation in recent weeks, claiming that Apple’s latest earbuds suddenly got less...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge I was quite literally riding into the sunset when I began calculating just how fast my legs would have to move in order to abandon the electric skateboa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge; Photo by YourStuffedMemories / Etsy Everyone loves Baba Yoda, but official merchandise of the character has been hard to find, since Disney ...

Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images The big news yesterday is that NBC finally made its streaming service, Peacock, official. It’s coming on July 15th with ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last summer, with misinformation swirling about the death of Jeffrey Epstein, I joined the chorus of voices calling for an end to Twitter’s tren...

BT is partnering with Google to launch broadband plans in the UK that come with access to the Stadia cloud gaming service. It’s a first for Europe, allowing BT to offer a free Google Sta...

iRobot If you’re tired of doing all of the vacuuming around the house, iRobot’s slick Roomba S9 and S9 Plus robot vacuums are up to $300 off for readers of The Verge. The high-end S9...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook has permanently cut the price of its Oculus Go VR headset. “Oculus Go is now priced at $149, which is equal to a $50 price drop,”...

New renders from Evan “Evleaks” Blass give us what may well be our best look yet at Huawei’s next flagship phone. This is the P40 Pro, according to Blass, who says that the phone wil...

A handy Redditor has made a really cool Arduino-powered toy R/C car that can dip, move, and drift almost exactly like a real car. (And it’s decked out with an awesome-looking 1963 Oldsmo...

This morning, we introduced you to The Apple Archive, an unofficial collection of the Cupertino company’s official videos, print ads, marketing images, and even some eye-opening internal...

Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Champagne Collet Taika Waititi, the director behind Oscar nominated film Jojo Rabbit and Marvel hit Thor: Ragnarok, is in talks with Disney and Lu...

Much like competitors HBO Max and Disney+, Comcast’s streaming service, Peacock, is going to be entirely reliant on hubs. Comcast and NBCUniversal gave an in-depth look at Peacock, whic...

Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google’s parent company Alphabet ($GOOG) is now the fourth US company to hit a market cap of $1 trillion. It...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook is “backing away” from earlier plans to sell ads for placement inside its enormously popular WhatsApp messaging service. Accordin...

Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is a friend to public transportation. His Green New Deal plan calls for a big boost in transit spending, a network of high-s...

Image: Apple The Banker — the first film from Apple TV Plus planned to make a major theatrical release — will be hitting theaters on March 6th, after an initial delay while Apple inv...

Shutterstock Comcast’s NBCUniversal is preparing to go head-to-head with WarnerMedia, Disney, and Netflix with the launch of its Peacock streaming service, lining up several big-time s...

Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images iPhone manufacturer Foxconn is getting into the electric vehicle game, thanks to a planned joint venture with Italian-American autom...

Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Late-night TV is going to start a little earlier thanks to NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, Peacock. Both The Tonigh...

Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images As the 2020 presidential election nears, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on Thursday that it would start not...

Photo by: Todd Williamson/Peacock/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock, will cost subscribers anywhere from absolutely nothing to $10 a month, but...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the latest “keyword targeting gone awry” experiment, the BBC was able to use terms like “neo-Nazi” and “white supremacist” in a Twi...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon’s Warehouse is the storefront’s little corner reserved for used and refurbished items that it certifies and relists for sale. And t...

Image: Guerilla Games Sony’s once steadfast approach to video game exclusives appears to be giving way to a new, more player-friendly one. According to Kotaku, the PlayStation 4 exclus...

HTC has cut the price of its high-end Vive Pro virtual reality headset by $200, making one of the most expensive big-name headsets a little more affordable. The price cut applies to three ...

Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images Total hours watched on Twitch fell steeply over the last three months, as several of the service’s top streamers signed lucrative deals to move to oth...

There are a lot of questions going into the third season of the Overwatch League, which kicks off next month. How will players cope with traveling around the world? Will teams be able to s...

Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped into Facebook on Thursday during her weekly press briefing and accused the social media company of “schmoozing” th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Subscription podcast startup Luminary, which is trying to shake up podcasting with its premium model, has lowered its monthly subscription price i...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google said today that it’s on track to bring more than 120 games to its cloud gaming service Stadia in 2020 and is planning to offer more t...

Image: Epic Games Fortnite may no longer be the most buzzed-about video game in the world. But developer Epic Games this week announced a new, rather ingenious, strategy to help its batt...

CD Projekt Red CD Projekt Red’s role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077 is being delayed from April 16th to September 17th. “We are currently at a stage where the game is complete and playa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft plans to remove all of the carbon dioxide it has ever released into the atmosphere by 2050, it announced today. The company committed to...

Photo by Ali Balikci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Turkey’s two-and-a-half-year ban on Wikipedia was lifted on Wednesday, after the country’s Constitutional Court ruled against it,...

Image: Syfy The Magicians is in a very peculiar place. In its fifth season, the Syfy show is pretty much out of material to adapt from the novels. This is something season 4 spent most o...

One of the best things about Google Chrome is its robust catalog of extensions. Microsoft’s new version of the Edge browser, which just launched for Windows 10, macOS, and mobile, is bui...

There is concern that Yoko Taro might destroy Final Fantasy XIV. And given the Nier: Automata director’s track record of endings to his games requiring players to erase all of their save...

A rendering of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon on top of the Falcon 9 rocket | Image: SpaceX Early Saturday morning, SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida that will most likely br...

The lineup of fighters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate continues to grow. Today, in a lengthy video presentation, Smash director Masahiro Sakurai revealed that Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three...

A new Silicon Valley startup is trying to build the “world’s first true smart contact lens,” putting a screen right against your eye that can enhance your vision of the world. The st...

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Actor Chris Evans attends a screening of Marvel’s ‘Captain America: Civil War’ in 2016 | Photo by Ben Gabbe/FilmMagic With our politics increasingly polarized and democracy in retr...

Image: Apple via Apple Archive A new and completely unofficial archive of all things Apple is attempting to make almost 44 years of the company’s official videos, ads, and imagery avai...

Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images YouTube has been recommending and serving ads against videos that feature denial of or misinformation about climate change, according to a new report. The ...

Overhead of the Pioneer DJ DVM-V10 mixer. | Image: Pioneer DJ Pioneer DJ has announced a new professional gig mixer for gear-heads that want more control over how mixes and tracks sound ...

Joby Aviation, a California-based aerospace company that has been working on electric aircraft for over a decade, just closed its latest round of financing with $590 million in venture cap...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Google shared an updated timeline for when Chrome apps will stop working on all platforms. June 2022 is when they’ll be gone for good, bu...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald Trump has been impeached, and his trial in the US Senate is expected to begin in earnest on January 21st. Don’t expect to see an...

Game of Thrones fans excited for House of the Dragon — the upcoming prequel series HBO announced late last year — should prepare to settle in for a bit of a wait. According to HBO’s ...

Image: Akai Akai has announced a new entry to its iconic MPC (Music Production Center) line called the MPC One. The standalone music-making workstation has a more compact form factor and...

For the last few months, Ryan Jones’ Guess My Word has offered a simple, albeit not always painless, way to breeze through downtime at work. It works in your browser, and it’s pretty s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over the past few years, there has been a considerable uptick in union organizing from workers at tech companies. If you or your fellow workers ha...

Photo by Gary Hershorn/Corbis via Getty Images Bose plans to close its entire retail store footprint in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia. The company announced the decision ea...

Photo by WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images Athletes at the Australian Open are breathing in poor-quality air polluted by bushfire smoke, making it nearly impossible for them to do their ...

Image: Wyze Earlier today, Apple confirmed it purchased Seattle-based AI company Xnor.ai (via MacRumors). Acquisitions at Apple’s scale happen frequently, though rarely do they impact ...

Photo by Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images The term “OK Boomer” has been entered into the official records of the US Supreme Court. Today, Chief Justice John Roberts used the phrase ...

Lucasfilm Ltd. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has officially crossed $1 billion at the box office worldwide, making it Disney’s seventh film in 2019 to hit the 10-figure mark, via Va...

Instagram announced in December that it was rolling out a false information warning feature that used third-party fact-checkers to reduce the spread of misinformation. But the feature is n...

Finally, Jigglypuff gets to sing under the lights... of the testing lab. | Image: FCC Filings for a Bluetooth speaker that looks like Jigglypuff made by GameStop’s ThinkGeek brand have...

Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post via Getty Images Last summer, a video of Mark Zuckerberg circulated on Instagram in which the Facebook CEO appeared to claim he had “total control of ...

Microsoft is launching its new Chromium-based Edge browser today. It comes with built-in tracking protection, a new Collections feature to grab images and content from the web, and an Inte...

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Microsoft is officially launching its new Edge Chromium browser today across both Windows and macOS. A stable version of the browser is now available for everyone to download, just over a ...

CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images 2019 was the second-hottest year ever recorded, NASA, NOAA, and the World Meteorological Organization confirmed today. It’s a fittingly disastrou...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg Today is the first time we’re seeing a price drop on the new Surface Pro X tablet, Microsoft’s reimagining of the stayed Surface Pro design that feat...

Image: Bang & Olufsen Bang & Olufsen has updated its true wireless earbuds, giving them a big boost in battery life as well as a more compact design. The new third-generation Beo...

Less than a week after news that Pokémon Sword and Shield will get new content through expansions, The Pokémon Company announced that it’s airing a new series on YouTube called Pokémo...

Fortnite is adding a Ninja skin to the game that’ll be available starting tomorrow, January 16th. Tyler “Ninja” Blevins announced the availability on a stream this morning, shouting ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Code added in the latest version of the Google Phone app suggests that it could support native call recording in the future. XDA-Developers wa...

At this point, there are vanishingly few reasons to hang on to a Wii U. Since the debut of the Switch in 2017, Nintendo has steadily been porting the Wii U’s best games to its hybrid dev...

Image: Spotify Spotify is launching a silly new playlist generator today that promises to create a playlist that both you and your pet will enjoy. The whole thing seems to be designed to...

Twitter users have been asking for the option to edit tweets ever since the service launched in 2006, but the company has always prevaricated, saying it’s looking into the problem, or co...

Yesterday’s computer news was about something old: Windows 7. After 11 years, Microsoft is officially ending support for it — though as Tom Warren notes, there’s a healthy chance the...

This morning, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch are recreating their history-making all-female spacewalk. The pair will head outside the International Space Station today to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s a relatively slow week on the platforms-and-democracy beat, so let’s talk about something small but fascinating in its own way: the arriv...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The latest update to Google’s Smart Lock app on iOS means you can now use your iPhone as a physical 2FA security key for logging into Google’s...

Logitech has been making its way into the ergonomic mouse space for a while now, with hardware like the MX Ergo and MX Vertical mice. Now it’s looking to expand its ergonomic accessories...

Zendure’s USB-C power adapter doesn’t reinvent the wheel. But it does ensure a smoother ride Continue reading… ...

In November 2018, DJI claimed that a “parts shortage” had left the Chinese drone company without the ability to produce its Phantom 4 Pro. By April, the company’s entire iconic Phant...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is introducing filters to the Subscriptions tab on its iOS app today, to make it less intimidating to figure out what to watch next (via 9t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Trump just tweeted a tweet that might escalate a sticky situation into an outright showdown between Apple and the US Department of Justice — by ...

Photo: XDA Developers Details surrounding Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S20 are starting to pick up ahead of the planned debut on February 11th, and a new leak from XDA Developers has conf...

Image: Aston Martin Aston Martin might have killed the Rapide E, its first electric car, before it ever shipped according to an Autocar report from late last week. But Aston Martin won�...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re looking to trade in your Apple product — be it a MacBook, iMac, Mac desktop, iPhone, or iPad — you stand to get a pretty good ...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Microsoft has released a new tool for identifying child predators who groom children for abuse in online chats. Project Artemis, based on a technique M...

Sony Pictures It’s kind of amazing that Jeopardy! still makes news. Maybe someone is in the middle of a 70-game winning streak, or a robot is playing, or someone is making an insane am...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon and its subsidiaries have become known for massive data breaches, privacy blunders, and oddly named web entities, but now the internet ser...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon and its subsidiaries, including Yahoo, have become known for massive data breaches, privacy blunders, and oddly named web entities, but no...

Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images Boeing ended the year with negative commercial airplane orders for the first time in decades, CNBC reports. At the end of 2019, the aerospace giant lost...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge If you were recently gifted a new iPhone, you may be wondering about the best way to sell your old phone for the best price. (As opposed to trading it ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is expanding its grasp on retailers. In a blog post today, Google announced that it’s purchased Pointy, a Dublin-based startup that helps...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has lifted its ban on FedEx Ground and Home shipping services after initially prohibiting its third-party Marketplace sellers from using th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The disastrous Democratic National Committee hack in 2016 was a wake-up call for anyone worried about international chaos campaigns, and on Monday...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verge Official “pro” controllers for Sony’s PlayStation 4 are in a perplexing category. While Microsoft’s Xbox Elite, and its second-generation versio...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge After nearly a decade, Oracle’s copyright lawsuit against Google is close to settling an important question: can you own the basic commands of ...

Image: Sony Sony today announced a new camera grip, the GP-VPT2BT, which connects to many of the company’s recent mirrorless cameras over Bluetooth and will cost $140 when it ships thi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is patching a serious flaw in various versions of Windows today after the National Security Agency (NSA) discovered and reported a secur...

Apple’s new Mac Pro has been available in a standard desktop tower configuration since December, but starting today, Apple is selling its promised rack model that’s designed to be moun...

GoDaddy via FastCompany Web services company GoDaddy has unveiled its new logo: a generic, sans-serif type accompanied by a heart shape that looks like an upside-down version of the Airb...

As drivers, we typically think of our blind spots as being to the left and right of the vehicle, not in the front underneath the bumper. But as this investigation by a local Indiana televi...

Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images Grindr is sharing personal user data in violation of the EU’s GDPR data protection legislation, a new series of complaints is alleging. The app shares d...

Image: TCL TCL’s 65-inch Series 6 TV is seeing a hefty price drop at Best Buy (via Slickdeals). Normally $699.99, it’s now $594.99 if you use the offer code TCLDOLBY15 at checkout (u...

Last week at CES 2020, The Verge’s Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn sat down with OnePlus CEO Pete Lau on The Vergecast for his first official podcast appearance. OnePlus debuted a new conce...

Illustration by Ana Kova Sending genetic material from detained immigrants to an FBI database could have consequences for both immigrant privacy protection and criminal justice in the US...

Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images On Tuesday, six Democratic presidential candidates will take the stage for their last debate ahead of the Iowa caucuses. The Democratic field has...

Image: Netflix There are two big problems that arise when you decide you’re going to tell a story about Dracula. The first one is simple: he’s the most famous vampire in all of ficti...

SpaceX’s most recent batch of 60 Starlink satellites launched in January. | Image: SpaceX The company has made changes, but some wonder if there’s more work to do Continue...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge This is the Insta360 One R. Like Insta360’s prior cameras, it’s capable of shooting 360 degrees of footage. But it’s also a standard 4K action ca...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will join Safari and Firefox in blocking third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser. However, unlike those browsers (which have already ...

Instagram Instagram is finally bringing direct messages to the web. Starting today, a “small percentage” of the platform’s global users will be able to access their DMs from Instag...

Some of Coral’s hardware products, including an AI accelerator (far right) and dev board (center). | Image: Coral AI allows machines to carry out all sorts of tasks that used to be the...

Image: Epic Games Epic has some new metrics for the Epic Game Store a little over a year after its launch. The Fortnite developer now says the store has amassed 108 million users, thanks...

Microsoft’s free upgrade offer for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users ended a few years ago, but you can still technically upgrade to Windows 10 free of charge. While Microsoft has removed ...

I hate time zones. I manage to screw up my time zone math every time I call someone in a different part of the country, to say nothing of calls abroad. True story: in reporting the very vi...

Square Enix has announced delays for two of its most anticipated 2020 games: Final Fantasy VII Remake has been pushed from March 3rd to April 10th, while the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers h...

Photo by Erin Schaff for The Verge On Tuesday, one of the Senate’s fiercest tech critics, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), called on regulators requesting that they investigate the ad-blocking i...

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via Ajunews and Samsung Now that CES is over, we turn our attention to the next big tech unveiling — no rest for the wicked! Samsung announced its February 11th “Unpacked” event ah...

Weather forecasting is notoriously difficult, but in recent years experts have suggested that machine learning could better help sort the sunshine from the sleet. Google is the latest firm...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On Monday morning I met with a group of activists who live under authoritarian regimes. The delegation had been brought to San Francisco by th...

Photography by Becca Farsace / The Verge The worldwide PC market just grew consistently for the first time in eight years, according to market research firms IDC and Gartner. IDC reckons...

A new trailer for Marvel Studios’ Black Widow finally properly introduces Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff to a fresh Marvel Cinematic Universe villain: Taskmaster, a trained merc...

Image: Universal Studios Japan Super Nintendo Land, the Mario-themed expansion to Universal Studios, is shaping up to be one of the most interesting and tech-infused theme park attractio...

Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images A Silicon Valley-based security firm called Area1 says it has found indications that state-sponsored Russian hackers have successfully hacked the Ukrani...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Around 12 percent of customer complaints made to Juul between 2015 and 2018 were due to leaking nicotine pods, Bloomberg reported. Records of cust...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony is skipping E3 again, just months before it plans to launch its upcoming PlayStation 5 console during the 2020 holiday season. This is the second y...

GoPro figured out why Karma drones worldwide have been unable to fly since the beginning of the new year, as The Verge first reported last week, and has finally released a firmware update ...

Illustration by Ana Kova Injuries like drownings, falls, and assaults could kill up to an additional 2,135 people each year in the US as climate change continues to cause unusual tempera...

Denver Post Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon Workers for grocery delivery platform Instacart are organizing a national boycott of the company next week to push for the reinstatement of a 10 perc...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig is suing The New York Times over an interview about the MIT Media Lab accepting money from sex offender Jeffr...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge As Apple squares off for another encryption fight, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered mixed messages on the encryption question. In a Monday meeting wi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Attorney General William Barr today requested Apple’s help in unlocking two iPhones connected to last month’s shooting at a Pensacola naval ba...

Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images In the wake of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States, triggered by the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, social media companies are fa...

Spectrum is discontinuing its home security service on February 5th, leaving customers out hundreds of dollars for cameras and other equipment they may not be able to reuse or return. The ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg Apple appears to have a new laptop on the way, as the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) has approved a “portable personal computer” from Apple in a ...

After failing to grab fans with his portrayal of Joker in Suicide Squad, Jared Leto is trying his hand at playing a Marvel antihero named Morbius for Sony. The first trailer, seen above, s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A man loosely linked to violent neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen has been charged with participating in a swatting ring that hit hundreds of targets, pot...

Image: Rockstar Games Rockstar has confirmed that the reason Grand Theft Auto IV is no longer available to purchase from Steam is its reliance on the Games for Windows Live (GFWL) platfo...

The Verge Yesterday, streamer Rachel “Valkyrae” Hofstetter posted a short, animated clip to Twitter — of a young girl playing a game that looks a little like Snake — that ended i...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Away co-founder Steph Korey will become co-CEO of her company, rather than moving to its board of directors, according to The New York Times. ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon’s most recent version of the Kindle Paperwhite is a great value at its regular $124.99 price, but buying one right now won’t set yo...

Image: SSL Solid State Logic (SSL) is best known in the audio realm for its huge professional consoles that cost tens of thousands of dollars. But the iconic British company is now hopin...

Still: Warner Bros. This year’s Academy Award nominations went as predictably as possible, giving Netflix another run to nab some trophies this awards season after practically being sh...

Image: Asus Asus has announced a new Nvidia RTX 2070 graphics card, which has been “specifically designed” for Intel’s new mini gaming PC initiative. The Asus Dual GeForce RTX 2070...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Apple has launched a new replacement program for its iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR smart battery cases, after charging issues were discovered in some devic...

Speaking to us last week at CES, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau confirmed that the company’s next major phones — presumably the OnePlus 8 — will feature screens with a refresh rate of 120Hz. L...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Elon Musk says that Tesla cars will “soon” be able to talk to nearby pedestrians. In a tweet announcing the functionality, the CEO shared a sh...

The last gadget I checked out at CES 2020 was Asus’ latest Republic of Gamers-branded mouse, which was announced last year and offers a pretty long, potentially compelling list of featur...

HBO’s Westworld will return for a puzzle-filled third season on March 15, the network announced tonight. The network announced the release date with a new teaser trailer that includes a...

Photo by Alessandro Di Ciommo/NurPhoto via Getty Images Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa — the first prospective rider on SpaceX’s future deep-space rocket — has launched a biza...

A “do not leak info” sticker was very optimistic, Samsung. | Images: XDA Developers There will be no Samsung Galaxy S11. Instead, Samsung is jumping ahead to the S20. Rumors had bee...

A “do not leak info” sticker was very optimistic, Samsung. | Images: XDA Developers There will be no Samsung Galaxy S11. Instead, Samsung is jumping ahead to the S20. Rumors had been...

Image: SuomiMobiili.fi We’ve already seen Samsung’s new rugged smartphone with a removable battery, the Galaxy XCover Pro, because the company revealed it on its Finnish website befo...

Photo: Claudette Barius / Warner Bros. I was excited to watch Uncut Gems the other week for a couple of reasons — for one, there’s been a ton of buzz; but also, it’s one of the onl...

Illustrator by Alex Castro / The Verge Over the past decade, our homes have filled up with more and more devices, small and large, simple and complex, all connected to Wi-Fi. Each device...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Apple TV+ may have just lost a second high-profile project that was set to appear on the streaming platform, just one month after it was announced: the O...

James Bareham / The Verge Pokémon Go, once a viral sensation all over the globe, hasn’t fallen off the map. In fact, the augmented reality game is earning more money than it ever has...

Photo by Neil Godwin/Future Publishing via Getty Images OnePlus’ next phone, the OnePlus 8, will reportedly launch on Verizon in the US, with 5G connectivity, Android Police reports. I...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s upcoming next-gen console, the Xbox Series X, will break with tradition by not launching with exclusive games only playable on the new hardware. Instead, M...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Huawei says its foldable Mate X phone is selling at a clip of 100,000 per month since it launched in China in November, according to Android Central. The ...

Alienware’s Concept UFO marries the Nintendo Switch’s portability and modular controller design with more powerful internal components. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Every Ja...

Though it seems like most people have fully embraced AirPods, let us not forget our roots, and the fact that all of us were once victims to the wired, messy cable life. These tangled Apple...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If there’s one product category that still often sees genuine technological advancements at CES, it’s screens — and these days, PC monitors in part...

Photo by BG004 / Bauer-Griffin / GC Images General Motors is readying the announcement of an all-electric pickup truck that will carry the branding of the company’s infamous gas-guzzli...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The genetics testing company 23andMe licensed the rights to a drug it developed in-house to a Spanish pharmaceutical company, Bloomberg report...

Photo by Rachel Murray/Getty Images for Casper Sleep Inc. Casper, the mattress company that cornered the market on podcast ads and got into a skirmish over online mattress reviews a few ...

Today, MIT released a 63-page fact-finding report detailing the institute’s involvement with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. MIT says that the report focused on visits that Epste...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On Friday, federal regulators announced that they are launching an investigation into wearable monitoring devices, including Fitbit and Garmin...

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Microsoft says Skype calls are now transcribed in “secure facilities in a small number of countries,” following a new report in The ...

Marvel Studios Scott Derrickson’s vision for a true horror movie in the form of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness excited MCU fans. But a little over a year before the movie�...

Google Pixel 4 | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg Today’s the day to save on Google products, as there are good deals on both the Pixel 4 and Home Mini. There’s also a gaming deal an...

Image: Instagram It’s no secret that dedicated music fans band together on social media when their favorite artist releases new material. They list out strategies for how to stream on ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Samsung Neon avatars were overhyped, Sony’s Vision-S was cool, and Lora DiCarlo made a triumphant CES return Continue reading…...

Today, NASA and Canada’s newest class of astronaut candidates graduated to full astronaut status in Houston, making them officially eligible to be assigned to upcoming missions to space....

Photo by SAEED KHAN/AFP via Getty Images After an already devastating start to its fire season, Australia is bracing for things to get worse. The Verge will update this page with news an...

Photo by Eric Piermont / AFP via Getty Images David Drummond, Alphabet’s chief legal officer and one of the longest-serving and highest tenure Google employees, is leaving the company ...

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Verizon is delaying the rollout of its in-home 5G service once again. A Verizon executive told Light Reading that it is waiti...

The Vergecast began the week in Las Vegas with a preview of gadgets, concepts, and other tech news from CES 2020 that we further analyzed in front of a live audience. In the days that foll...

Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images The survival rates for cervical and uterine cancer have been stagnant for years, even as the number of deaths from cancer in the U...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge OnePlus has more surprises to show off after bringing its Concept One smartphone with its disappearing camera to CES 2020. According to 9to5Google, whic...

So you’ve chosen to keep everything that sparks joy, and now you have all those bags of tech, clothing, books, and other stuff that you need to get rid of. Where do you go from here? Fir...

Photography by Becca Farsace / The Verge CES 2020 was a boring year for laptops — at least, it was a boring year for laptops that will be real products that you can actually buy in 202...

Yesterday, Game Freak announced expansion packs for Pokémon Sword and Shield. The first, Isle of Armor, is set to launch this June. The Crown Tundra will follow in the fall. In addition t...

Google Pixel 4 | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you’ve been holding out for a solid deal on the Pixel 4, today’s deal might be worth the wait. Google’s latest smartphones, th...

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From 8k to 5G to AI to concepts, we all saw through the hype Continue reading… ...

Left: a purported leak of Samsung’s marketing material. Right: an official Samsung concept. | via Ajunews and Samsung Could Samsung’s next foldable phone be named the Galaxy Bloom? ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales In October, Facebook made the controversial decision to exempt most political ads from fact-checking. The announcement met with a swift backlash, particul...

When are two propellors better than four? When they give your drone extra battery life, greater portability, and reduce noise, claims Zero Zero Robotics. That’s the pitch for the company...

When are two propellers better than four? When they give your drone extra battery life, greater portability, and reduce noise, claims Zero Zero Robotics. That’s the pitch for the company...

Image: Bethesda Bethesda’s has given its re-releases of Doom 1 and 2 from last year a pretty hefty update that improves performance, adds new features, and gives access to a huge amoun...

Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Boeing employees discussed the problems with the 737 Max in chats and emails that the company characterized as “completely unacceptable” in a s...

Microsoft released its new Windows Terminal command line app last year, and the company has been steadily improving it in Windows 10 ever since. The software maker is now preparing a new u...

Jonathan McIntosh / Creative Commons Today, Vice published an article about some, um, unconventional spying products marketed by a surveillance vendor that works with US government agenc...

Just weeks after PayPal acquired popular coupon-finding browser extension Honey in November 2019 for $4 billion, Amazon shoppers were served a notification that the extension was a securit...

Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images Approving new pipelines, mines, highways, and other major projects could become much easier under new rules proposed by President Trump today....

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Roomba, Intel, Byton, and Peloton wannabes catch our eye as CES draws to a close Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Dozens of subway riders in New York City are being charged extra for their transit rides, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority suspec...

Image: Twitch Hype is important on Twitch. That’s why the company is gamifying it with a new feature called Hype Train, launching on Thursday. If you donate enough to a partnered or af...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It would be easy to assume that because competition is so stiff among live-streaming platforms — for talent, for eyeballs — that the market is...

It’s been a few years since I walked over to the drone section of the CES show floor, but Autel Robotics gave me a good reason to finally revisit it this year. The company announced a to...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Reddit updated its policies about impersonation to no longer allow impersonation of an individual or entity in a misleading or deceptive ma...

Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s moving away from his annual self-reflection challenges to take a longer-term focus on what he sees...

iRobot, the maker of the popular robot vacuum Roomba, said it’s working on a version of the disc-shaped household helper that has arms. The company envisions a limbed version of the Room...

The Farewell director Lulu Wang said something during a recent roundtable with The Hollywood Reporter that neatly sums up the biggest problem facing the streaming revolution: there’s too...

Image: Roland Electronic instruments company Roland has unveiled a concept piano called the Facet, which is likely to turn heads as it makes appearances this year. The low poly (or as Ro...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meets with the family of Qasem Soleimani | Photo by Iranian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Phil Openshaw, a retired Californian den...

Samsung Galaxy S10+ | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Deals can be slow during this time of year, but there are some worthwhile phone deals available from different retailers...

1917 is a bit of a brag track, a cinematic flex by people who are really damn good with a camera. The World War I film from Skyfall director Sam Mendes is made to look like one continuous ...

Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Over the past year, there’s been a renewed sense of urgency among lawmakers to rewrite parts of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPP...

Fans of YouTube creator David Dobrik are captivated by his new digital disposable camera app, with downloads flying past the 1 million mark, The Verge has learned. Dobrik’s app, David�...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Lime, the largest electric scooter-sharing company in the world, is laying off 14 percent of its workers and exiting 12 markets, according to ...

Thanks to YouTuber MrBeast’s viral tree planting campaign, more than 21 million trees will be planted across the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Haiti, Indonesia...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge LG’s CEO says the company’s flagging mobile division will be profitable by 2021, but he didn’t provide any real details about how this w...

“We will bend it for you,” an Intel representative told Vjeran, The Verge’s video director, at our CES meeting. “Three times maximum.” This did not make me think that Intel is pa...

The PC industry had given up on Intel ever producing its own powerful desktop graphics cards after the company unceremoniously killed its Larrabee project 10 years ago last month. This is...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Uber is making serious changes to its app in California in an effort to comply with the state’s groundbreaking new gig work law that makes i...

Microsoft is adding a new Walkie Talkie feature to its Slack competitor, Microsoft Teams. Available in preview in the coming months, the feature will turn smartphones or tablets into a wal...

Another classic Pokémon adventure is being remade for the Nintendo Switch. Today, The Pokémon Company announced a new version of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team — with the unwiel...

Pokémon Sword and Shield will offer new content for players to continue their adventures with an expansion pass, Game Freak announced today during a special Nintendo Direct. The expansion...

A car with a 48-inch screen on the dashboard sounds like a distracted driving nightmare, and to be honest, that could likely wind up being the case. But two years after Byton teased the id...

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Verizon is making some changes to its home internet, TV, and phone service today. The company is announcing that it would be ...

Image: Echelon The “Peloton effect” has been several years in the making. Ever since the cult-favorite $2,249 stationary bike that can live-stream classes debuted in 2014, companies ...

As a teenager, he went to prison for selling ecstasy, but now his MDMA research is debunking the bad science that got him there Continue reading… ...

A new company called Aira thinks it can build what Apple couldn’t: a Qi-compatible wireless charging pad that allows people to charge multiple gadgets, regardless of how they’re placed...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has stood firm in the face of pressure over its policies on political ads, defending a “warts and all” approach that allows politicia...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google has announced the alternative search engines it will show to new Android users in the EU, with DuckDuckGo the most frequently offered choice ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today Facebook appeared at a Congressional hearing about synthetic and manipulated media, and so it was only fitting that the day was consumed by ...

Photo by Amy T. Zielinski/Getty Images Storied film studio Warner Bros. has signed a deal with Cinelytic, an LA startup that uses machine learning to predict film success. The studio wil...

Photo by Amy T. Zielinski/Getty Images Storied film studio Warner Bros. has signed a deal with Cinelytic, an LA startup that uses machine learning to predict film success. The studio wil...

The problem with VR headsets is that they still all look like VR headsets — glorified ski goggles that shut you off from the world. I’m not going to say Panasonic has solved the matter...

I’ve always loved toys that have more than meets the eye. Hidden spring-loaded projectiles. Secret passages in my LEGO sets. And of course, Transformers toys. But while many of the best ...

Photo: TiVo Last year at CES, TiVo said it would be launching apps for Roku, Apple TV, and Fire TV sometime in 2019 that would let users watch live or recorded video without needing a se...

Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan, announced on Instagram that they “intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family ...

Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Musician Claire Boucher, better known by her stage name, Grimes, appears to have run afoul of Instagram’s nudity ban in a recent post announcing h...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Quibi and Twitter announced some interesting news during the second full day of CES Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A month after Samsung executive Young Sohn wrongly claimed the company had sold 1 million Galaxy Fold phones, it has returned with another sal...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A month after Samsung executive Young Sohn wrongly claimed the company had sold 1 million Galaxy Fold phones, it has returned with another sal...

Today, NASA rolled out the completed core section of its massive new rocket, the Space Launch System, which is designed to take people into deep space. The core stage, manufactured at NASA...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge In a letter to lawmakers about its security practices, Amazon’s Ring admitted that, over the past four years, it has fired four employees for abusing a...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Yesterday, Sonos filed two lawsuits against Google over its wireless speaker tech. The company alleges that Google infringed on patents for syncing a gro...

Razer Blade Pro 17 | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In addition to the iPad Air and MacBook Pro deals going on today, there are also a number of deals on gaming laptops avai...

When it comes to improving external SSDs, there are usually only two things that matter: making the drives faster and adding more storage. Samsung’s new T7 Touch external SSD, which was ...

Image: Korg This week, Korg and JBL debuted new pro DJ headphones with active noise cancellation (ANC), Bluetooth, and a host of other smart options. These are not normal features to inc...

Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images Delta will spend more than $100,000 to offset the greenhouse gas emissions of every flight to and from Las Vegas, Nevada, this week. It’s an e...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Kuwait’s state news agency said its Twitter account was hacked and used to spread false information about US troops withdrawing from the country...

Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images We lost the excellent Virgin America airline a few years back, and the virtual cellular network that owes its name to Sir Richar...

Photo by Mike Pont/WireImage As of today, the venerable comedy concern CollegeHumor Media is mostly dead. In the words of Sam Reich, its chief commercial officer, IAC “has made the dif...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Only a day after Sonos officially sued Google for stealing its tech designs, House antitrust leaders have invited the speaker company to air its g...

Photo by Joe Klamar / AFP via Getty Images Chinese drone maker Ehang demonstrated its autonomous air taxi in the US for the first time. The all-electric two-seater took flight for five m...

Apple iPad Air | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Even though we’re past the holidays, there are still some good deals available on relatively new and popular devices, like the 16-inc...

Smart home tech could someday be updated with software that makes it easier for people with speech-related medical conditions to communicate with their devices. At CES, the Israeli startup...

Image: 1More Whether it’s Audio-Technica, 1More, Panasonic, or Klipsch, at times, it felt like every headphone manufacturer at CES 2020 had a pair of wireless earbuds to announce. It�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last year, at CES 2019, Google introduced interpreter mode for Google Assistant, which lets you say something in one language and have it translat...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Speaking today at a CES event in Las Vegas, Twitter’s director of product management, Suzanne Xie, unveiled some new changes that are coming to ...

Amazon executive Dave Limp | Grant Hindsley / AFP via Getty Images Yesterday morning, The New York Times broke the news that Sonos is suing Google. Under the belief that Google stole its...

A fundraiser by Australian comedian and actor Celeste Barber has raised more than $32 million (about $46 million AUS) to support fire companies fighting the massive bushfires in Australia,...

Can Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman change everything about video on your phone? Continue reading… ...

Over a year ago, images and videos of an electric scooter with enormous wheels and a slanted, off-center frame began popping up online. The self-balancing scooter concept, made by a US-bas...

Image: Samsung Samsung’s new Galaxy XCover Pro is a rugged smartphone that features a removable battery, a feature that’s almost unheard of in a modern phone. So, if you’re prepare...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On January 6th, a post appeared on Reddit’s largest Android forum with alarming news: “Chinese spyware pre-installed on all Samsung phones...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Chrome is cutting down on annoying browser notifications with its latest update. As part of this “quieter” new notification process for deskto...

Spotify Spotify is going to start using its copious amounts of user data to run targeted ads inside its exclusive podcasts. Targeted advertising remains new ground for podcasts, and the ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hype is important on Twitch. That’s why the company is gamifying it with a new feature called Hype Train, launching this week. If you donate eno...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge A real working car stuffed full of Sony tech Continue reading… ...

August has a new, smaller smart lock for the US market, and its parent company Yale is also releasing a few other new products. There’s a home safe, a tiny latch that can be used for cab...

Image: August August has announced the latest addition to its line of retrofit smart door locks: the Wi-Fi Smart Lock. The new lock is similar in appearance to the Smart Lock Pro, but it...

There’s no shortage of gadgets at CES ready to invade the last bastion of privacy at home: the bathroom. The intruders aren’t just startups hoping to revolutionize the way we use the b...

Microsoft officially unveiled Windows 10X last year, alongside its Surface Neo dual-screen device. Windows 10X is an ambitious effort to redesign the operating system for devices that have...

Segway’s newest self-balancing vehicle looks strange, but what’s new? Segways have always made riders look like technological fools. At least in Segway’s newest vehicle, the egg-shap...

The most buzzed-about company at CES 2020 doesn’t make a gadget you can see or touch. It doesn’t even have a product yet. But for reasons I’m still not entirely sure I grasp, the lea...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Project Zero cybersecurity team is trialling a new policy where it won’t make security vulnerabilities public early after a fix has b...

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence in August 2019, showing the then-new Sonos Move speaker. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Google is explicitly denying it copied Sonos’ technology ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We’re used to social networks waiting until the damage has already been done before announcing a cleanup effort. When it comes to the synthetic ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Cybersecurity research firm Check Point Research says it found “multiple vulnerabilities” within video sharing app TikTok that demonstrated it...

Image: MSI MSI is showing off its Creator 17 laptop at CES 2020, which it says is the “world’s very first” laptop to feature a Mini LED display. By using much smaller LEDs as a bac...

Linksys Wellness Pods next to a Velop mesh router. | Image: Linksys Linksys Velop mesh routers can already sense movement inside homes, now they’re adding the ability to monitor the he...

Linksys Wellness Pods next to a Velop mesh router. | Image: Linksys Linksys Velop mesh routers can already sense movement inside homes, now they’re adding the ability to monitor the he...

Photo by Nadine Rupp/Getty Images In November, the Internet Society (ISOC), which owns the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the group that maintains the .org top-level domain, announced i...

Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images We lost the excellent Virgin America airline a few years back, and virtual cellular network that owes its name to Sir Richard Br...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Razer, Intel, OnePlus and Impossible Meat made strong entries in the first full day of CES. Continue reading… ...

Image: UHD Alliance At CES 2020, the UHD Alliance, a coalition that helps define display standards, announced that Filmmaker Mode, which is designed to show films with as little motion s...

Photo by Luke Sharrett/Getty Images No one’s being drafted for World War III — yet. And if you received a text saying that you were drafted, the United States Army wants you to know ...

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner after landing in the New Mexico desert on December 22nd. | Photo by Bill Ingalls / NASA Boeing plans to work with NASA to figure out why the company’s newe...

It’s not the worst press conference mistake we’ve seen at CES this year, but Samsung revisited a classic during its keynote last night: copying Apple’s work, continuing a seemingly e...

Photo by Christoph Dernbach/picture alliance via Getty Images When it comes to self-driving cars, the general axiom for sensors is “the more the merrier.” The safest systems are the ...

Samsung’s Odyssey G9 gaming monitor is an incredible thing to behold in person. It’s on the show floor at CES 2020, and pretty much everyone who sat in front of the 49-inch 1440p displ...

Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The Communication Workers of America (CWA), one of the largest unions in the US formed initially by telecom workers, has launch...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For months, Facebook has struggled with deceptively altered videos, but late Monday evening, the company cracked, announcing that it would ban dee...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re excited about all of the new gaming laptops and PCs announced this week but you don’t want to drop a ton of money or you can’t...

Image: Cooler Master Earlier today, Intel announced its new initiative for tiny modular gaming PCs that let you swap out modular CPU cartridges (what Intel calls a “NUC Element”), an...

Facebook executive Andrew “Boz” Bosworth published a memo that looks ahead to the 2020 election. In it, he discussed how Facebook’s marketing tools were used by the Trump campaign to...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a memo obtained by The New York Times and publicly posted, a Facebook executive says the company’s platform was responsible for electing Dona...

The Vergecast live at CES 2020 | Christian Purdie The first Vergecast of 2020 is here. The Verge is back in Las Vegas for CES 2020, and we’ve already seen enough new tech to fill an en...

Photo by Thierry Monasse / Getty Images Boeing said it would recommend simulator training for pilots of its 737 Max jets after previously stating that such training was unnecessary. In ...

Image: Roland MIDI 2.0 is close to being finalized, and Roland has announced its first keyboard controller to support the new protocol, as spotted by MusicRadar. Roland’s A-88MKII MIDI...

TiVo’s latest TV product isn’t much of a TiVo at all — at least, not a TiVo like customers are used to, with a focus on DVR recordings of live TV that allows users to skip commercial...

Most people will recognize a self-driving car based on the whirling sensor perched on the roof. LIDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, uses laser pulses to build a 3D model o...

Image: Battlestate Games We’re in a brand-new decade, but that hasn’t stopped some video game developers from falling back on inexcusable explanations for why you can’t play as fem...

Fiction isn’t real life. It’s not meant to be, really, because the form is a reflection. Narratives lie because they make sense out of the nonsense of everyday life; they’re always r...

Photo by: Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images It seems bitcoin has come out swinging against fiat currency — as one of the world’s largest fiat currency exchanges ...

Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images Former Super Bowl champion Jay Ajayi is moving into a very different kind of football. Today, MLS team Philadelphia Union announced that it signed Ajayi ...

For the past few years, Google and Amazon have tussled to get the most attention for their respective digital assistants at CES. But while Amazon mainly focuses on partner announcements, G...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is “previewing” a new feature here at CES for the Google Assistant on Android phones that turns it into a supercharged screen reader. W...

Samsung’s CES 2020 press conference on Monday featured robots, exoskeletons, AI, augmented reality, smart cities, and basically every other technology category you could think of. The s...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Deals at this point in the year can be slow, but right now, that isn’t the case. There are some unusually good deals today, with Apple’s A...

Image: Delta Airlines Delta Air Lines has announced a new set of features and technologies to its inflight entertainment experience at CES 2020, including a “binge button” and the ab...

One day soon, you may walk into an airport, stand shoulder to shoulder with your fellow passengers, and gaze up with them at the same single screen to receive your personal trip informatio...

The Sonos One smart speaker | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Audio company Sonos has sued Google for allegedly copying its patented speaker technology while undercutting it at market. ...

Philips Hue Appear wall light | Photo: Signify At CES this week, three new outdoor lights are being unveiled for Philips Hue: a path light, a spotlight, and a wall-mounted fixture with l...

Skagen Falster 3. | Image: Skagen Skagen has just announced the latest iteration of its Wear OS-powered smartwatch, the Falster 3. The Falster 3’s big new features include the Qualcomm...

At a press event at CES, we got a chance to play around with a concept phone from OnePlus, appropriately called the OnePlus Concept One. It is a true concept device in that it may never be...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge OnePlus has announced a new feature called Optimized Charging, which aims to make your phone’s battery last longer by changing the way it charges. The...

Sometimes you read about all the new gadgets at CES and have FOMO because you’re not there, and other times you read about an AI cat litter box. LuluPet says that it has the world’s f...

Electric scooter company Unagi has a powerful new model to show off. The California-based startup has upgraded its flagship scooter with dual motors, enabling better torque and higher spee...

Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images While experts worry about AI technologies like intrusive surveillance and autonomous weaponry, the US government is advocating a hands-o...

Image: Razer In October, Razer announced Junglecat, a mobile gamepad with two Nintendo Switch Joy-Con-like controllers that attached to either side of your phone, but it only worked with...

Razer sells plenty of gaming mice, keyboards, headsets, and an edgy gaming laptop called the Blade, but it’s never sold its own gaming desktop PC — unless you count a few collaboration...

It might change the way mini-PCs are built Continue reading… ...

Image: PopSockets People seemingly love sticking PopSockets to their phones for the extra grip, but doing so introduces a new issue: the inability to wirelessly charge a phone when a Pop...

Back in 2018, Razer jumped into the router market with Sila, a gaming router designed to offer high-speed and reliable Wi-Fi performance for gaming. And now, at CES 2020, the company is sh...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge This is the Insta360 One R. Like Insta360’s prior cameras, it’s capable of shooting 360 degrees of footage. But it’s also a standard 4K action ca...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge That’s right: Avacar Continue reading… ...

The 6000X is “the most powerful Yeti to date.” | Image: Goal Zero Goal Zero, maker of portable batteries both big and small, is rolling out its all new Yeti X models at CES. They ran...

If you don’t know what to make, you promise to make everything Continue reading… ...

You may have heard that Impossible Foods is expanding its fake meat options beyond burgers — it’s moving into pork. So I chowed down at Kumi, a Japanese restaurant in the Mandalay Bay ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Happy New Year, everybody! I hope your re-entry into working life went reasonably smoothly. 2020 is shaping up to a big year for this newsletter: ...

Royal Mail has unveiled a set of 12 special stamps that celebrate iconic British video games from the 1980s and 1990s. The collection is designed to highlight some of the most popular game...

“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t let you do that” | Image: MSI MSI’s MEG Aegis Ti5 is a new gaming PC with one of the most ostentatious cases I’ve ever seen, with a design that’s r...

GoPro has figured out why Karma drones worldwide have been unable to fly since the beginning of the new year, as The Verge first reported on Sunday, and says a fix is coming. The company s...

Still grabbing from Neon.Life site. Samsung subsidiary STAR Labs has officially unveiled its mysterious “artificial human” project, Neon. As far as we can tell, though, there’s no ...

Photo by Ashley Carman / The Verge If it works well, a new smart lock may prove there’s a real use for the long-range wireless charging tech the industry has been striving toward for y...

Wacom Wacom is launching its $399 Wacom One creative pen display at CES, its most affordable tablet to date. The 13-inch display works with macOS and Windows devices, in addition to an u...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge With a presidential election campaign underway in the United States, Facebook announced Monday that it has banned manipulated videos and photos, o...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Mercedes-Benz has just pulled the wraps off of a wild new concept car that was inspired by the 2009 movie Avatar called — what else? — the Mercedes-...

Update January 6th, 10:20PM ET: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off at 9:19PM ET from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and deployed the 60 satellites about an hour after launch. The rocke...

Image: Samsung Samsung’s Galaxy Home Mini may finally see the light of day, with Samsung CEO and head of its consumer electronics division Hyun-Suk Kim announcing at CES 2020 that the ...

Today, at Samsung’s keynote at CES, Samsung introduced Ballie, a small ball-shaped robot intended to help you around the house. Samsung says Ballie utilizes AI to be a security robot, a ...

Image: Belkin Belkin is a company known for its wireless chargers. Devialet is known for its high-end, ultra loud speakers. And at CES 2020, the two companies announced that they’ll be...

Linksys 5G Velop Mesh Gateway. | Image: Linksys Linksys just announced an entire lineup of 5G networking gear that will begin shipping between this spring and the end of 2020. Unfortunat...

Wemo WiFi Smart Plug | Image: Wemo Wemo has a new smart plug out at CES 2020, the (aptly named) WiFi Smart Plug, which replaces the existing Wemo Mini plug with an even tinier design. Th...

Image: NIU Chinese startup NIU is bringing its Vespa-style electric mopeds in the United States. The company says it made its slick and somewhat affordable electric two-wheelers availabl...

Image: MSI At CES 2020, PC gaming hardware maker MSI announced two new gaming laptops with super-speedy 300Hz refresh rate screens and massive batteries to help power them. One of the la...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony’s CES 2020 press conference was a brief one, but it did have some interesting news. The company revealed the PlayStation 5 (aka the PS5) logo for...

At CES, huge storage in tiny flash drives is practically a tradition, and once again, SanDisk has delivered with a prototype of a new 8TB portable SSD, the biggest external SSD ever made....

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Now that most smartphones don’t have headphone jacks, there’s no shortage of complaints about Bluetooth. This year at CES, the industry group...

Image: Roland Music hardware company Roland unveiled its first consumer hardware for vloggers ahead of the 2020 Consumer Electronics show. Called Go:Livecast, the little box connects wit...

Netgear Nighthawk Mesh Wi-Fi 6 mesh router | Image: Netgear Since Wi-Fi 6 was officially ratified in September, we’ve seen a number of Wi-Fi 6 routers hit the market from companies suc...

Netgear Nighthawk M5 mobile hot spot | Image: Netgear Netgear has announced the new Nighthawk M5 mobile hot spot, a full-featured 5G hot spot that will be available through carriers and ...

This week at CES, Nikon is announcing the new D780 DSLR. It’s the long-awaited successor to the D750, which came out in 2014 and is described by Nikon as its most popular full-frame DSLR...

Image: Moshi Moshi’s accessory lineup, which includes portable batteries, adapters, and cables, now comes with a 10-year warranty, the company announced today at CES. You’ll need to ...

Canon EOS-1D X Mark III | Image: Canon Canon has just taken the wraps off of its latest high-end, professional DSLR, the EOS-1D Mark III. The Mark III follows the 1D X Mark II released i...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Sony just made what might be one of the biggest surprise announcements at this year’s CES: a car. Called the Sony Vision-S, it’s an electric concept c...

Image: Sony Sony revealed the PlayStation 5’s logo (aka the PS5) during its CES 2020 press conference on Monday evening alongside the announcement that Sony has sold more than 5 millio...

AMD’s Threadripper 3990X AMD is ready to release its first Threadripper 3990X CPU with 64 computing cores. The first chips will be available on February 7th, priced at $3,990. This isn...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge LG’s roll-up TV — the one that impressed us at CES last year — is shipping this year and could cost around $60,000. According to CNET, the 65-inch ...

Intel and AMD’s latest processors are going head-to-head inside Acer’s new Swift 3 laptop. Acer is allowing consumers to pick between a 14-inch AMD-powered laptop or a 13.5-inch Intel ...

GIF by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Asus has a new gaming laptop at CES 2020: the 14-inch ROG Zephyrus G14. It’s the smallest Zephyrus gaming laptop Asus has ever made, and it features...

Last month, Hyundai teased a “flying car” concept that it was bringing to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The full-scale prototype is now on display at CES this week, but t...

AMD’s third-generation Ryzen processors for laptops have officially arrived at CES 2020, with the announcement of the new Ryzen 4000 series of chips based on the company’s 7nm Zen 2 ar...

Microsoft revealed its Xbox Series X console last month, but the company strangely didn’t show off the rear of the device. During AMD’s CES keynote today, the chipmaker revealed the re...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge TCL plans to release new software upgrades for some TVs that could make them better for gaming and make it easier to manage your home audio se...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge We’re watching all of the gadgets and keynotes for the latest news from LG, Samsung, Roku, and more Continue reading… ...

Photo by David Peinado / NurPhoto via Getty Images The United States government will begin collecting the DNA of detained immigrants through pilot programs this week, according to a priv...

The X950H is one of three LCD TV ranges announced alongside Sony’s OLED lineup. | Image: Sony Sony has announced its first TVs of 2020, and among them is the 48-inch Master Series A9S,...

Image: Comcast Comcast announced a new version of its xFi Advanced Gateway, one of its modem / router combo products you can lease with your Xfinity internet, today at CES. This new vers...

Dell may have already announced its big laptop news with the upgraded XPS 13 last week, but the company brought two new prototype laptops to CES 2020: the foldable Concept Ori and the dual...

Alienware is best known for its beefy gaming laptops and preconfigured desktop rigs, but at CES 2020, the company showed off a wild new prototype, the Concept UFO. It’s a full Windows 10...

Photo by Mladen Antonov / AFP via Getty Images People in Thailand are stuffing their T-shirts, luggage, laundry hampers, and buckets with groceries after a ban on plastic bags in select ...

Toyota wants to give a new meaning to the term “company town.” The Japanese auto giant said it will transform the 175-acre site of a former car factory in Japan into a “prototype ci...

Image: Incipio Incipio announced a line of compostable plant-based phone cases today, joining a growing trend in eco-friendly cases. Compostable phone cases are nothing new. Several smal...

Image: LG Even if it’s not a brand-new model, if you have an LG smart TV, you’ll soon have access to Apple’s original TV content. LG announced in a release that its OLED and NanoCe...

Image: TCL During its CES 2020 keynote today, TCL announced the Alto 9 Plus Dolby Atmos soundbar, which is among the first to offer full integration with Roku TV televisions. If you own ...

Dieter Bohn / The Verge Say hello to the TCL 10 Pro, 10L, and 10 5G Continue reading… ...

In its press conference at CES today, LG presented its upcoming lines of TVs and kitchen appliances for the coming year. This year, the emphasis was on AI: in fact, the first 20 minutes of...

Image: Lenovo At Computex 2019, Lenovo teased that it was working on a 5G laptop that would feature Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx processor codenamed “Project Limitless.” At CES 2020, ...

Last year, Lenovo showed off what it described as the “world’s first foldable PC” — a prototype OLED tablet that could fold up like a book or a tiny laptop. Now, at CES 2020, Lenov...

AMD hasn’t even officially announced its Ryzen 4000 processors yet, but Lenovo is already offering us a first glimpse at a laptop that will ship in April with the new chips. The Yoga Sli...

Image: Lenovo Lenovo’s Smart Frame is a new 21.5-inch display that’s designed to mount on your wall and display your photos. The Smart Frame, which Lenovo is announcing today at CES,...

Despite obvious reasons why it wouldn’t be commercially viable, I’ve always wanted an E Ink laptop. What could be better than a reading and writing device with endless battery life tha...

Last year, in honor of its 10th anniversary, Origin built the Big O — a massive custom gaming PC that also had an Xbox One X, PS4 Pro, and a Nintendo Switch dock built into the same chas...

Image: Royole Today at CES, Royole, which is known for its flexible screens and making the first foldable phone, debuted a new smart speaker with a display. But it’s not a flat display...

Went to Las Vegas but lost everything at the craps table? There’s now a cheaper way to get from the Strip to the airport. Uber is making a big bet on public transit in Las Vegas. The rid...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube executives have warned creators over the last few months that changes are coming to the platform to comply with a federal children’s pri...

Ashley Carman / The Verge There’s something called a “Visual Visor” here at CES. It comes from Bosch, and it can detect when there’s sunlight shining on your face, directly into ...

Ikea Shortcut Button next to Home Smart Gateway. | Image: Ikea Ikea’s Home Smart product portfolio continues to grow with the first in-store appearance of the Tradfri Shortcut Buttons,...

Yukai Engineering Three years after Yukai Engineering’s headless robotic cat first wagged its way into our hearts, the therapy pillow is getting a smaller, portable sibling called the ...

Image: Corsair Elgato’s 4K 60 S+ is a new capture card that promises to make it much easier to record and stream your gameplay at the highest possible quality, meaning it can record 4K...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Now that holiday sales have ended, most deals have slowed down a bit. But we still managed to find some good deals that are active now. If you...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge An FCC filing released today suggests that Peloton is working on a new monitor of some sort. The listing classifies the product as a “consol...

Image: JBL JBL’s latest soundbar is the audio company’s first to support Dolby Atmos, and it’s taking a novel approach to its rear speakers that might make it a more convenient dev...

We all work from our phones more than ever, but typing out emails and long messages is still slow compared to using a keyboard. Samsung has a solution: use AI and your phone’s camera to ...

Asus’ ZenBook Pro Duo was one of the most interesting-looking laptops of 2019, and at CES 2020, the company announced the ZenBook Duo (no Pro this time), its smaller cousin that comes in...

Video: Samsung Samsung’s next Galaxy flagship will have a screen with a 120Hz refresh rate, a new report from SamMobile is claiming. Citing “highly reliable sources,” the publicati...

Image: Fujitsu Fujitsu has unveiled three new models of the cult-classic Happy Hacking Keyboard, an iconic ultra-compact keyboard with a layout that dates back to the ‘90s. While the k...

Getty Images With the 2020 election coming up and growing concerns about bad actors using social media sites to spread misinformation, Tumblr is launching an internet literacy campaign t...

Tonight, SpaceX is set to launch its third batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit, part of the company’s ongoing initiative to create a mega-constellation of spacecraft that will bea...

Samsung has come to CES 2020 with some high-design TVs that range from the flagship 8K QLED Q950 (with bezels that are basically nonexistent when the screen is on) to the Sero, a “lifest...

Ashley Carman / The Verge Lora DiCarlo likely didn’t intend to change CES forever, but the sexual wellness company and its personal massager accomplished just that last year. After hav...

After years of existing in a void of film purgatory, 20th Century Fox’s X-Men spinoff The New Mutants is finally gearing up to be released. The newest trailer of the movie shows off som...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Roku already has its own soundbar and speakers on the market, but today the company is announcing a new program that will let third parties release produ...

Pax is releasing an updated version of its Era vaporizer with new smart features that are meant to make vaping feel safer at a time when weed vapes have been linked to lung injuries and de...

Putting your smart TV OS on a soundbar instead of on a box, stick, or in your TV itself has gone from a small curiosity to a certified trend in the past few months. Amazon’s efforts star...

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge LifeShield has changed its name to “Blue by ADT”, but the bigger news out of CES 2020 is that it has launched three new DIY smart home security ...

Ring Video Doorbell 2 | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Ring has announced that it is adding a new privacy dashboard to its mobile apps that will let Ring owners manage their connected ...

Ring A19 smart bulb. | Image: Ring, LLC Ring has announced a significant expansion of its smart lighting product line that was first introduced last year. In addition to the various outd...

Photo by Tamara Warren / The Verge Alexa is going ultra-luxury and fully electric. Amazon announced that its popular voice assistant will be added to a handful of new vehicles. Automobi...

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images BMW and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will be the first automakers to feature seatback screens powered by Amazon’s Fire TV operating system, the tech gi...

Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge Nvidia is releasing a new GeForce game ready driver in time for CES 2020 today. While Nvidia’s 2019 driver updates have included some pretty big feature...

Kwikset Halo Touch smart lock | Image: Kwikset Door lock manufacturer Kwikset has announced the new Halo Touch, a Wi-Fi-connected smart lock that can also be unlocked with the swipe of a...

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HyperX has debuted a slight upgrade to its wireless Cloud Flight gaming headset at CES 2020. It’s called the Cloud Flight S, and its big new feature is Qi wireless charging capability. I...

The PC market is largely focused on laptops these days, so it’s unusual to see a powerful new all-in-one PC. HP is announcing exactly that at CES 2020 this week, with its new Envy 32 AiO...

Photos: Koolshare forums When Intel conducted a short-lived experiment that put AMD graphics inside an Intel processor, it led to one of the most diminutive yet capable gaming PCs ever m...

Digit can walk, carry objects, and operate semi-autonomously. | Image: Agility Robotics US startup Agility Robotics has announced that its bipedal robot Digit is now for sale, with the ...

The Golden Globe Awards kicked off a new decade of awards shows with a series of surprising wins in both the film and TV categories. Perhaps the biggest surprise was that streaming didn�...

Photo by Ashley Carman / The Verge L’Oréal is continuing to advance into the tech space with the announcement of its Bluetooth-connected Perso — a gadget that’ll mix up lipstick, ...

Image: Rad Power Bikes Rad Power Bikes makes some of the most capable and affordable electric bikes in the US, like the RadWagon cargo bike and RadRunner utility bike. On Friday, the Sea...

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Images: Samsung (two marketing images combined) There’s probably no clearer indication that vertical video is here to stay than Samsung making a TV designed to showcase it. And that’...

When Asus first unveiled a 360Hz gaming monitor last year, it was an April Fools’ prank. At CES 2020, Asus is revealing the real thing: a 24.5-inch 1080p gaming monitor that runs at 360H...

When Asus first showed off a 360Hz gaming monitor last year, it was an April Fools’ prank. At CES 2020, Asus is bringing the real thing: a 24.5-inch 1080p gaming monitor that runs at 360...

Image: Jabra Jabra is launching two new products at CES 2020. Just as it did with their predecessors, the company is following up on the well-received Elite 75t true wireless earbuds wit...

Withings For its newest smart watch, the ScanWatch, Withings pieced together two health monitoring technologies: one that detects the heart condition atrial fibrillation, and one that me...

Left to right: the Baci, Osé, and Onda. | Image: Lora DiCarlo Lora DiCarlo is unveiling two new sex toys at CES today, a year after the company was kicked out of the show. The two produ...

HP’s Elite Dragonfly was a surprisingly great laptop for a business-focused device, and at CES 2020, HP is already announcing an upgraded version: the Elite Dragonfly G2. The updated mod...

An NFC Key being inserted into Netatmo’s Smart Door Lock. | Image: Netatmo Netatmo just added a door lock to its portfolio of smart home gear. The creatively named Netatmo Smart Door ...

Image: Oral-B CES means there’s no shortage of “smart” connected gadgets, and toothbrushes are no exception. Oral-B and Colgate are launching new smart toothbrushes this year: the ...

Last year, HP overhauled the 13-inch Spectre x360 convertible laptop with some much-needed improvements: a slimmed-down design, reduced bezels, and a functional trackpad. At CES 2020, the ...

Image: Suunto You’ve probably never heard of Suunto unless you’re a die-hard fitness watch enthusiast, but the company’s latest wrist-worn gadget might have a larger audience than ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Verge is in Las Vegas checking out the gadgets and announcements from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show Continue reading&hell...

Image: Fisker Inc. Electric vehicle entrepreneur Henrik Fisker has unveiled his first purportedly mass-market EV, an SUV called the Fisker Ocean, ahead of the 2020 Consumer Electronics s...

Image: Acer Acer has updated its Spin lineup of laptops with two new models, the Spin 3 and Spin 5, powered by Intel’s Ice Lake 10th Gen CPUs. Both laptops feature the 360-degree hinge...

Image: Arlo Arlo is announcing its newest security camera, the Arlo Pro 3 Floodlight Camera, which has a plate of powerful LEDs to better light the area in the camera’s field of view. ...

Acer is announcing three new Predator monitors at CES 2020 today, and that includes a massive, 55-inch 4K OLED model. The giant Predator CG552K is a 4K OLED panel with a 120Hz refresh rate...

Photo by Ashley Carman / The Verge Acer has announced a smaller version of its creator-focused transforming ConceptD laptop following the launch of the ConceptD 9 last year. The new Conc...

TP-Link Deco X90 mesh router system | Image: TP-Link TP-Link has announced a refresh of its Deco line of mesh router systems that now includes support for the new Wi-Fi 6 protocol. The n...

Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images After ordering the assassination of a top Iranian commander without giving notice to congressional leaders, President Trump has told Congress to ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Owners of the GoPro Karma have been unable to fly their drones since the new year began, according to dozens of forum posts and tweets. The problem is ...

Image: Lenovo Lenovo is getting into the eGPU market with the Legion BoostStation, a new eGPU enclosure which can accommodate graphics cards up to 330mm in length. The company also has a...

Yummly Smart Thermometer | Image: Whirlpool This new smart thermometer is completely wire-free — so you won’t have to deal with any cords coming out of your oven door. And, it’ll e...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge The US will impose new restrictions on the export of certain AI programs overseas, including to rival China. The ban, which comes into force on...

Image: Vizio Vizio is going big at CES 2020 with a lineup of new 4K HDR TVs that are fully optimized for the current and upcoming generations of game consoles from Sony and Microsoft. Bu...

Image: Vizio Alongside a new lineup of TVs, Vizio is also announcing its latest soundbar systems at CES 2020. At the top of the heap is what the company calls the Elevate soundbar, a 10-...

Victoria Smith 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 t...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Assets belonging to defunct robot toy company Anki have been bought by an ed-tech firm named Digital Dream Labs, which promises to save Anki’s robots ...

Image: Samsung The bezel-less TV from Samsung is indeed a real product being announced here at CES 2020. However, it’s only available in an 8K set that’s guaranteed to be very expens...

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On Friday we wrote about Samsung’s mysterious ‘artificial human’ project Neon, speculating that the company was building realistic human avatars that could be used for entertainment ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The next Galaxy flagship smartphone from Samsung is indeed being announced on February 11th. After the date was discovered earlier today thanks to...

If you’re eagerly awaiting Samsung’s next flagship phone, the Galaxy S11, then go ahead and mark February 11 in your diary. According to a newly-leaked promo, this looks to be the date...

Photo: Jonny Cournoyer / Paramount Pictures I’ve been excited to write about Little Women since I saw a screening of it a few months ago. It’s one of my favorite movies of 2019 and a...

Photo by SAEED KHAN/AFP via Getty Images After an already devastating start to its fire season, Australia is bracing for things to get worse. The Verge will update this page with news an...

Image: Remute German musician Remute has made and released music on a variety of old mediums, but his newest effort marks a quirky milestone: The Cult Of Remute is claimed to be the firs...

Stop me if you’ve heard this, but: Google is discontinuing a product. This time, it’s the print replica magazines in Google News, which are the PDF versions of print pages you could vi...

Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images The 77-year-old former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is running for president, on a centrist-friendly platform that’s mainly p...

Image: Guru True wireless power transmission, without cords or charging mats, has been a white whale for the technology industry for decades. But a new startup born out of the California...

8BitDo, which is known for its high-quality third-party controllers and its retro-inspired designs, is launching a tiny, keychain-sized Bluetooth controller called the Zero 2. It’s compa...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Taking stock of last year’s big announcements and experimental products Continue reading… ...

Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge The holidays and big sale seasons are over, but that doesn’t mean that all of the deals are gone. While many items are no longer for sale, or now cos...

Apple has long offered the option to engrave text on select products purchased through its online store. And now, you’re able to engrave emoji onto the company’s AirPods cases, too (vi...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Images of strangers on a Xiaomi camera’s stream to a Google Nest Hub were due to a “cache update,” Xiaomi told The Verge. The company added that it...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is suing an iOS virtualization vendor called Corellium for trafficking under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Apple initially su...

Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images At least two Amazon employees pushing for the company to take stronger action on climate change received notices from their employer warning that they c...

Mike Winkelmann works in a room with side-by-side 65-inch TVs constantly tuned to CNN and Fox News and on computers that are suspended above a bathtub because their 12 combined graphics ca...

Photo by: Todd Antony/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Awards season is kicking off this Sunday, January 5th, with the 77th Golden Globe Awards, held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly...

For the past few weeks, a Samsung subsidiary named STAR Labs has been teasing what it calls “Neon” — an “artificial human” that will be unveiled at CES 2020 next week. But what ...

Photo by Avery White / The Verge It’s a new year, and CES 2020 is about to start, bringing with it a whole bunch of new gadgets that you’ll probably want to buy. But you know what’...

The new decade is starting with over 35 new anime shows, and more than 15 continuing from 2019. In order to help you weed through all of these shows, I’ve put together a list of six that...

S10 Lite. | Image: Samsung After weeks of rumors and leaks, Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite ahead of CES 2020. The phones are budget versions of Sam...

Segway’s newest self-balancing vehicle won’t require you to stand up. Dubbed the S-Pod, the new egg-shaped two-wheeler from Segway-Ninebot is meant to let people sit while they effortl...

Images: Segway-Ninebot Segway-Ninebot has unveiled a handful of new electric kick scooters ahead of next week’s annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, including one that the co...

Nanoleaf’s interactive Hexagon Unified Light Panels are coming this summer. | Image: Nanoleaf Nanoleaf is stepping beyond decorative light panels with a new smart lighting system. Nano...

Samsung Odyssey G9 CES 2020 hasn’t started yet, but Samsung is already getting started with a pair of new QLED gaming monitors that look to check nearly every spec box, led by the abso...

If you like to listen to tunes in the morning then Kohler has just the over-the-top product for you: a portable smart speaker with built-in Alexa that slots right into your showerhead. Th...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla sold 367,500 cars in 2019, a new record for the company, according to figures published to its website early on Friday morning. While that’s on...

Image: JLab JLab’s latest pair of true wireless earbuds, the JLab Go Air, are some of the cheapest we’ve ever come across from a named brand. They cost just $29, which is cheaper tha...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The biggest tech news yesterday is that the former Google human rights chief says he was “sidelined” over the proposed, censored Chinese searc...

Image: Zens The Zens Liberty, a Qi wireless charging pad which bears more than a passing resemblance to Apple’s cancelled AirPower charger, is now available to order for January delive...

The rear of the OnePlus Concept One and its ‘disappearing’ camera array. | Image: OnePlus OnePlus has announced new details of its Concept One smartphone, a prototype device that th...

Image: LG LG has announced eight 8K TVs, ahead of CES. There are two OLED models which are 77 and 88-inches big, and six LCDs measuring between 65 and 75-inches. LG is yet to announce pr...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Samsung sold 6.7 million 5G phones in 2019 between the Galaxy S10 5G and the Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G, the company announced today, marking better than e...

Disney+ just launched in November, but some movies are already disappearing from the service, as reported by Polygon. For example, the three Home Alone movies were available when Disney+ l...

The solar power and electric vehicles we need to stop the climate crisis pose a different threat to people and the environment: a boom in mining. Moving away from fossil fuels depends on t...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google has disabled Xiaomi devices’ access to its Nest Hub and Assistant after a camera owner reported seeing unfamiliar still images apparently from o...

Photo by George Rose/Getty Images A collection of at least 75 rare performances by the Rolling Stones briefly appeared on a brand-new YouTube account on New Year’s Eve, then vanished j...

Astrid Riecken/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Facebook removed personal injury advertisements early this week that contained misleading information about medications designed to p...

This is a review of an electric bike that I couldn’t stop riding long enough to actually write Continue reading… ...

It’s that time of year again: the Consumer Electronics Show is set to take over Las Vegas, Nevada, during the first week of January. CES 2020 kicks off on Tuesday, January 7th, and runs ...

Image: Netflix The Witcher is the most in-demand show in the world, according to Parrot Analytics, surpassing Disney+’s The Mandalorian. It also nearly topped Netflix’s most popular ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it is ordering companies to pull flavored e-cigarette cartridges from the market. The ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In 2018, Dell released its Mobile Connect app, which lets you connect your Dell computer to your phone so you can respond to phone calls and t...

Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Fortnite is still the biggest game in the world — if not quite in terms of audience, then in terms of attention and revenue. ...

Photo by Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images Television executive Richard Plepler is credited as the man who helped HBO become the prestige network it is today, helping launch titles like Game o...

Get ready for a smart fridge showdown at CES 2020, because Samsung and LG will both be unveiling fridges with added artificial intelligence capabilities this year. Samsung’s latest editi...

Photo: TechTalkTV (Twitter) Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 10 Lite has seen plenty of leaks, with renders for the phone making their way across the internet. But today’s batch from T...

Image: Dave Zatz (Twitter) Federal Communications Commissions filings for a second generation of Amazon’s Ring Chime Pro had an image of the back of the device that hinted at a brand-n...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A former high-level Google executive says he was pushed out after promoting human rights at the company, as leadership pushed plans for a censored...

Brydge will release an iPad keyboard with a built-in trackpad next month, after Apple added support for trackpads to iPadOS back in September. A $199.99 model will be available for the 11-...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple will once again license technology from Imagination Technologies, the chip designer that used to provide graphics processors for the iPhone ...

Dell’s XPS 13 has long been one of the best Windows laptops around, and at CES 2020, the company is updating it yet again with a bigger 13.4-inch display that also shifts to a 16:10 aspe...

Hello and well met! You’re reading the first newsletter we’re calling Processor. It’s a newsletter about “computers,” but I am using that term in a winky way. What I mean is cons...

Image: Samsung Last year, Samsung announced the Galaxy Book Ion and Galaxy Book Flex, a pair of new laptops that were designed to replace its Notebook 9 Pen and Notebook 9 models. Now, j...

C by GE Hubless Smart Dimmer with motion detection | Image: GE Lighting GE Lighting is introducing new smart lighting switches and dimmers to its C by GE line of connected products that ...

Image: Samsung Last year, Samsung announced the Galaxy Book Ion and Galaxy Book Flex, a pair of new laptops that were designed to replace its Notebook 9 Pen and Notebook 9 models. Now, j...

LG Display’s previous rollable TVs have all rolled upwards out of a box. The upcoming design will roll downwards from the ceiling. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge LG Display has a n...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge “Most people are posting pics of them from the begining [sic] of the decade in order to show how far they’ve progressed in life. If you fi...

Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TurboTax Earlier this year, ProPublica published a report showing how Intuit, the company behind TurboTax, was misleading users into paying to fi...

ProtonMail ProtonMail just launched an encrypted calendar beta to let users manage their schedules privately. It’s the latest tool from a company known for its encrypted email services...

Photo credit should read ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP via Getty Images Google is developing artificial intelligence to help doctors identify breast cancer, according to a research paper ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge All flavored e-cigarette pods except menthol and tobacco are expected to be banned by the Food and Drug Administration, which could announce the p...

WandaVision was one of the biggest Disney+ shows planned for 2021, but the company announced today that the Marvel series’ release date is moving up to 2020. Disney revealed the news in ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge President Trump has signed a law increasing fines on spammy robocalls and requiring phone service providers to begin authenticating calls acro...

Image: Samsung / 4KFilme Samsung may have a new, groundbreaking type of television to show off at CES in Las Vegas next week: a completely bezel-less, 8K QLED model. Dubbed by some repor...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok released its first transparency report yesterday, showing which countries have submitted requests for content removal as well as access to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The era of Google using a pair of controversial loopholes to save billions of dollars in taxes on overseas ad revenue is coming to a close, accord...

Image: USPTO Apple has just been granted a patent — concerning virtual positioning of audio — that could eventually lay the groundwork for new, more immersive audio applications. It ...

For people who want to check in on their gaming achievements in Steam or stay up to date with the latest sales, this Apple Watch app has you covered. Smoke gives Apple Watch users access ...

Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images United States Army soldiers can no longer use TikTok on government-owned phones following a decision to ban the app. The move comes amidst ongoing worries t...

Vizio says LeEco has breached the settlement the two companies agreed to last year in the $60 million lawsuit over their failed merger, and claims the Chinese tech conglomerate still owes ...

Photo credit should read DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images Times Square revelers will ring in the New Year to a theme of existential crisis tonight. Science teachers and students taking on...

Image: Netflix Netflix released its list of the most popular movies and TV shows of 2019 and, with the exception of Disney Pixar’s Incredibles 2, every title on the list is a Netflix o...

The Witcher has everything it needs to be Netflix’s next success: popular source material, a massive marketing campaign, a well-received performance by Henry Cavill, and an iconic meme i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The California Consumer Privacy Act goes into effect January 1st, and it doesn’t look like anyone, even the state of California itself, is total...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The global hacking campaign known as “Cloud Hopper” perpetrated by government-sponsored Chinese hackers was much worse than originally reporte...

Townew automatically seals the bag when full and pulls a new bag into place. | GIF: Townew Until there’s a Roomba that takes out the trash, this self-sealing bin from Townew is as clos...

The Uncharted movie, based on the massively popular Indiana Jones-like game series, has lost another director, according to Deadline. Its release date has also been pushed back. Deadline s...