Articles by The Verge from March 2020

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Airbnb has further extended its full cancellation policy due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and has set aside $250 million to help pay ho...

Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Grocery delivery company Instacart said today that a planned work stoppage by its shoppers had “absolutely no impact on Instaca...

Now that we’re spending more time indoors, we’re finding new platforms — and new ways to use old platforms — to stay in touch, whether it’s for work or with friends. This is the ...

John Krasinski, best known for playing Jim Halpert on NBC’s The Office, is back behind a desk and talking into a camera — this time, in a video on his new YouTube channel dedicated to ...

Baseball season might be indefinitely delayed, but the MLB is doing its best to fill the baseball-shaped hole in fans’ hearts with a new “MLB At Home” initiative that will see classi...

Baseball season might be indefinitely delayed, but MLB is doing its best to fill the baseball-shaped hole in fans’ hearts with a new “MLB At Home” initiative that will see classic ga...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Valve announced today that it won’t automatically update games in customers’ libraries as regularly as before to help preserve bandwidth durin...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has made good — so far — on its pledge to crack down on tweets that contain false or misleading information about COVID-19 cures. The ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge With all the uncertainty over when “shelter in place” orders will be lifted, Apple has recently been more willing to let early-stage products ...

Photo: Seamus Blackley / Twitter As more people are faced with endless hours at home due to self-quarantine and social distancing, there’s been a surge in home bread baking show-and-te...

Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Ford is the latest automaker to announce that it will start making desperately needed ventilators that are crucial for treating th...

Image: OpenTable OpenTable wants to let you reserve shopping times at supermarkets to help decrease overcrowding and make stores safer for shoppers. OpenTable’s new tool will allow you...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Voice and video calls have more than tripled on Comcast’s network over the past month since people across the US started working from home due t...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you’ve bought, flown, seen, or even thought about a drone over the last five years, it was likely one of DJI’s quadcopters. In fact, the Chinese ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch, the live-streaming behemoth, is down for a lot of people right now. More users than ever have been tuning in since the COVID-19 pandemic s...

Image: Andrew Liptak / The Verge Back in May 2019, at its I/O developers conference, Google announced that it was bringing a neat feature to its search results: augmented reality models,...

Image: Apple It looks like big updates are coming to Apple’s professional music software, Logic Pro X. Yesterday, a Reddit user noticed that Apple’s education products webpage showed...

Workers at Amazon’s Staten Island, New York, fulfillment center walked out today to protest the company’s response to COVID-19 infections among its warehouse employees. Amazon has conf...

Richard Branson’s aerospace company Virgin Orbit, which is primarily focused on developing rockets to launch small satellites into space, is shifting gears during the coronavirus pandemi...

Good Job! was one of the multiple titles Nintendo surprise-dropped in its Nintendo Direct Mini presentation last week, and it arguably couldn’t have come out at a better time. It’s a l...

Microsoft unveiled its new Microsoft 365 subscription plans today and some new Edge browser features. The biggest new addition is vertical tabs for Edge, which will allow users to stack ta...

Now that people are finding themselves working remotely or setting up virtual parties to chat with friends and family while maintaining social distance, Zoom is quickly becoming the go-to ...

Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images At 10AM ET on March 30th, the US Navy’s gigantic floating hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, arrived in New York City where it ha...

Image: Stack Overflow Stack Overflow, the popular question and answer site for developers and software engineers, announced a new dark mode today. The company says the mode has been the ...

Fans will get an opportunity to play Riot’s Overwatch-meets-Counter-Strike game Valorant very soon: today, the developer announced that a closed beta will be launching on April 7th. It�...

LockPickingLawyer (YouTube) Tapplock, a company that makes fingerprint-verified locks, has had a rough time with its locks’ security. The company’s flagship lock, which has been avai...

Microsoft is unveiling its new Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions today, which are designed to replace and enhance existing Office 365 consumer plans. Much like the Office 365...

Dominic Toretto’s 1970 Dodge Charger is one of the most iconic cars in the Fast and Furious franchise, and soon, it’ll be available as a Lego set. The model is a part of Lego’s Techn...

Photo by Kelly West / AFP / Getty Images 3D-printed firearms company Defcad has released a trove of gun-making blueprints, only to approved US residents. According to The Wall Street Jou...

The follow-up to Resident Evil 2 is a lot less substantial Continue reading… ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge At Best Buy, Amazon’s Echo Show 8 comes in a two-pack for $130, the usual cost for just one of these smart displays. To take advantage of this deal, he...

Image: @OnLeaks and iGeeksBlog The OnePlus 8 will be announced on April 14th during an online live stream, the company announced today. OnePlus says the lineup will consist of a “full ...

Asus and AMD have put Intel on notice Continue reading… ...

Acer has announced that it will release a new version of its Aspire 5 laptop this year, powered by AMD’s Ryzen 5 4500U mobile chip. The company has also revealed the release date for its...

Photo by James Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has approved a process that would clean much-needed N95 protective face masks and allow them to be ...

Gocycle’s e-bikes are being offered as part of the plan. | Image: Gocycle Key National Health Service (NHS) workers in London are being offered a three-month e-bike loan to help them c...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook has pledged to invest $100 million in the news industry at a time when the ongoing coronavirus pandemic means that accurate reporting i...

Dieter Bohn/The Verge Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Chromebook finally has an official release date. You’ll be able to buy it at Samsung and Best Buy next Monday, April 6th, starting at ...

HQ Trivia is being resurrected just a little over one month after co-founder Rus Yusupov announced that the app was shutting down. A push notification went out to HQ Trivia players letting...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images On the eve of a planned work stoppage by its shoppers, Instacart said today it would distribute independently-developed hand sanitizer to its ...

WinFuture.de/Roland Quandt A pair of leaks shows renders for the upcoming OnePlus 8 series that include a slate of new colors, including a purplish-red one called Interstellar Glow. WinF...

Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York will postpone its April 28th presidential primary election until June 23rd, as the Empire State deals with th...

Photo by James Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has approved the limited use of a process that would clean much-needed N95 protective face masks an...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is seeing a massive increase in demand for its cloud services during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “We have seen a 775 percent inc...

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 start...

The 2020 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit has been canceled as FEMA officials prepare to use its venue, the TCF Center, as a temporary field hospital for COVID-19,...

For all the debate over whether the best coffee comes from a Chemex or a French press or an AeroPress, sometimes you just want to turn on a machine and let it do all the work. We asked 14 ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge US government officials are using cellphone location data from the mobile ad industry —not data from the carriers themselves— to track America...

Photo by Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for Rent the Runway Rent the Runway, a popular clothing rental brand, laid off its entire retail staff via Zoom yesterday. The company, which primari...

Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York will postpone its April 28th presidential primary election until June 23rd, as the Empire State deals with th...

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Video conferencing app Zoom updated its iOS app Friday to remove code that sent user data to Facebook, Moth...

Abbott’s ID NOW system. | Abbott A new COVID-19 test from the medical device company Abbott can return positive results in five minutes — and it can be run in a doctor’s office. ...

Photo: Amazon Studios I’d completely expected to be writing a note this week about how the COVID-19 pandemic has largely shut down trailer production, but it turns out, my assumption w...

Image: OneWeb Space exploration firm OneWeb has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, GeekWire reports, leaving uncertainty about the 74 satellites it has in orbit and its plans to...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Google has banned the Infowars Android app from the Google Play store, the company confirmed to Wired on Friday. Google also confirmed the app’s remo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lyft is now referring drivers on its platform to jobs at Amazon in a partnership between the two companies designed to alleviate financial hardshi...

YouTube creators are performing everyday tasks or taking on crafts and activities that people can do at home because everyone is stuck indoors right now. The genre has boomed as a result o...

Image: Postmates New York’s Court of Appeals has reinstated a 2015 decision determining that couriers for on-demand delivery app Postmates should be classified as employees, making the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft says it will no longer invest in third-party facial recognition companies following a controversy around its funding of Israeli startup ...

As a growing list of states order “nonessential” businesses closed to slow the spread of COVID-19, Amazon is giving warehouse and delivery workers letters to carry saying that they are...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge One week after Tesla said it would keep up “normal” operations at the Gigafactory in Nevada, the company now plans to scale back the workforce ther...

Photo by Avijit Ghosh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The COVID-19 pandemic is on the verge of colliding with another public health threat: extreme heat, which kills more people...

Photo By Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images After weeks of negotiations, Congress approved its $2 trillion coronavirus relief package on Friday. But that measure’s final a...

Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service Disney originally aimed to reopen its various theme parks by April 1st, but in light of the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus and re...

An artistic rendering of SpaceX’s proposed Dragon XL cargo spacecraft | Image: SpaceX Despite the worsening coronavirus pandemic in the US, NASA is still looking ahead to its long-term...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Virtually everyone is ‘COVID-possible’ Continue reading… ...

Image: Nvidia Nvidia says its GeForce Now cloud gaming service will start getting new games every Thursday, starting with Remedy Entertainment’s sci-fi action title Control. The annou...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Bird is laying off about 30 percent of its staff in response to the financial uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic. The layoffs, which were...

Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images Zoom is an easy-to-use videoconferencing tool with a generous free tier. With people around the world isolating indoors to protect th...

Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images Only around half of the residents of one Washington nursing home overwhelmed by COVID-19 had symptoms when they tested positive for the coronavirus, acc...

An Instacart shopper walks past empty shelves at a supermarket in California on March 19th. | Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Instacart shoppers are organizing a work sto...

Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images A viral coronavirus rumor says taking ibuprofen, which is marketed by GlaxoSmithKline as Advil, could make COVID-19 symptoms wor...

Nilay Patel / The Verge MacBook Air models with Retina displays may have issues with their anti-reflective coating, causing the laptop’s screen to look blotchy, according to MacRumors,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge April Fools’ Day is one of the most annoying internet traditions, but this year Google — infamous for its numerous elaborate pranks that typic...

COVID-19 and its resulting social distancing measures have inspired lots of people to live stream, so Facebook says it’s going to launch various features over the next couple weeks to ma...

Image: Valve Half-Life fans have gotten used to uncertainty over the fate of hero Gordon Freeman. Gordon last appeared in Half-Life 2: Episode Two, an extension of the 2004 game Half-Lif...

Netflix/MAPPA This spring, more than 45 new shows are airing as anime season kicks off in Japan. To help you decide what to watch, we’ve put together a list of eight shows that stand o...

Games Done Quick, an organization that holds speedrunning marathons for charity, will hold a special event to raise donations for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Corona Relief Don...

In Crip Camp, the revolution begins at summer camp. The Netflix documentary, now available to stream, follows several young people who attended Camp Jened, a New York campground for people...

H.E.B. In February, while the US government was still dithering and downplaying the potential impact that the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 might have, San Antonio-based grocery chain H...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over the last decade, some of the world’s biggest entertainment and telecom conglomerates bet on streaming entertainment. The last 10 years have...

Photo by Bill Pugliano / Getty Images General Motors will manufacture ventilators that are crucial to fighting the worst symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus...

President Trump declares a national emergency in the Rose Garden on March 13th, 2020. | Photo by Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images On a sunny afternoon two weeks ago, Presid...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google CEO Sundar Pichai says that Google will work with a partner company, Magic Glove & Safety, to produce and donate “2-3 million face ma...

Image: Apple Apple today launched a website and a new app dedicated to COVID-19 screening. The resources offer an online screening tool, information about the disease, and some guidance ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Slack is working on integrating Microsoft Teams calling features into its chat app. The integration would allow users of both rival services to ca...

There are few people as beloved online as the staff of the Bon Appétit test kitchen. Nearly a month ago, in the Before Quarantine Times, a pal and I talked over a tier list at a party, ba...

Nilay Patel / The Verge Two new Apple product reviews published on our site and our YouTube channel this week: the 2020 versions of the MacBook Air and the iPad Pro, reviewed by Verge ed...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Life looks very different right now as the novel coronavirus has millions around the world stuck indoors. Festivals, clubs, and even house parties...

The Verge OnePlus fans have been demanding always-on displays for years, and the manufacturer has finally caved in. OnePlus announced on Twitter today that the feature is “on our roadm...

Photo by John Nacion/NurPhoto via Getty Images In a normal year, fourth-year medical students across the United States would have some downtime in April. They would have already found ou...

Jamie Castillo, Alyssa Lia Mancao Instagram Live therapy sessions can be jarring. An iPhone ping occasionally goes off, the therapist forgets to turn off the press conference she was wat...

Photo by Bernd Thissen / Picture Alliance via Getty Images Social distance over greater distances Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sony is working with internet service providers in the US to slow game download speeds in an effort to preserve internet capacity for users overal...

Photo by Colin Young-Wolff / Riot Games Almost every single major professional sports league across the globe is on indefinite hiatus due to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. There...

Image: Roland Quandt / Twitter Fitbit’s upcoming Charge 4 fitness tracker broke cover earlier in March, revealing a design that was virtually identical to the 2018 Charge 3 model, but ...

As one of the last movies to premiere in theaters before the coronavirus pandemic shut down social gatherings, Bloodshot has had a terrible journey to existence. Once upon a time, the Vin ...

Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images For anyone in the hardware business, the last month has brought some scary numbers. Computer shipments from China to the US dropped ...

Image: Google Google is increasing the maximum number of people who can participate in a Duo call from eight to twelve, the company’s senior director of product management announced on...

Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images To get myself through the pandemic, I’ve been summoning everything I’ve learned about surviving in a new world as an immigrant. I left...

LG’s 2020 lineup of OLED TVs will be among those to receive the service. | Image: LG Movies Anywhere — the Disney-owned movie locker service that combines your purchased films across...

Photo by Johannes Simon/Getty Images The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic arm, has committed $25 million to a research fund designed to he...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon Alexa users in the US can now use the voice assistant as a first step towards diagnosing cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel...

Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge Nilay Patel published his 2020 MacBook Air review yesterday. He calls it “the best Mac for most people” and I agree. After three iterations in its mo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google says it’s now ready to resume work on Chrome, after briefly halting upcoming releases of the browser in response to the coronavirus pande...

Photo by Natt Garun / The Verge As of Thursday, the United States now has 81,578 cases of COVID-19 — more than than any other country in the world. The disaster is unfolding. New Jerse...

Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge The Mac’s long-rumored transition from Intel processors to Apple’s own ARM designs could be swifter and more extensive than you might have expected. ...

Image: Yelp Yelp has paused an effort in partnership with GoFundMe that automatically opted tens of thousands of small businesses into fundraisers after complaints from restaurant and ba...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s creative professional apps — video editing software Final Cut Pro X and music production suite Logic Pro X — are both getting free ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has issued a set of guidelines and a helpful FAQ to website owners to try and minimize the damage being done by worldwide shutdowns, both o...

Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images The United States now has the highest number of coronavirus infections of any nation on the planet, The New York Times reports. Johns Hopkins’ tra...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Local officials have confirmed that Tesla stopped making electric cars in California on Monday, March 23rd, in compliance with a shelter-in-place order...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Airbnb introduced a new program Thursday that its CEO called “free” housing for first responders dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak. The p...

Nearly a week and a half after Google’s sister company Verily launched its COVID-19 screening and testing website, the company has published a video of its in-person drive-through testin...

Google’s second-generation Pixel Buds may have just appeared in Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filings, indicating that the company’s new true wireless earbuds could hit their...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Life looks very different right now as the novel coronavirus has millions around the world stuck indoors. Festivals, clubs, and even house parties...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch plans to put its community’s charity muscles to good use on Saturday, by hosting a benefit called Stream Aid 2020 that will feature a hos...

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 begi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced schools and workplaces to close all over the country, tens of millions of American children have started to at...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge CarPlay, Apple’s in-car interface, just got better thanks to an update that lets you use third-party map apps on its dashboard. The CarPlay dashboard ...

It’s been a tumultuous couple of weeks for residents of Earth. City 17, formerly one of our planet’s finest remaining urban centers, has been destroyed. A nearly spontaneous uprising h...

Patreon Patreon says the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have reached its platform. In a blog post today, the company said more than 30,000 creators signed up for an account in the firs...

Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / Getty Images At press conferences for the past week, President Donald Trump has continued to push the idea that the United States could relax the distanc...

Image: @OnLeaks and iGeeksBlog New leaked information about OnePlus’ next flagship phone reveals it may come in a really slick seafoam green shade and that it might be the first OnePlu...

Marion Kelly is back and still stealing her dad’s thunder in live BBC interviews. The OG of “interrupting a work-from-home parent’s video call,” Marion and her family appeared on B...

Katie Baki leads a yoga class over Zoom. Yoga looks different this week. Studios are empty, music is off, and instructors are often demonstrating forms with a couch on one side of them, ...

Dyson — the British technology company best known for its high-powered vacuum cleaners, hair dryers, and fans — has designed a new ventilator, the “CoVent,” in the past several day...

Image: Huawei Huawei has a new sporty smartwatch it’s announcing alongside its flagship P40 smartphone series. The Huawei Watch GT 2E includes 100 workout modes, like rock climbing, sk...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge If you’ve had your eye on Samsung’s Galaxy S10 Plus but haven’t fancied the $999 price tag, today is your lucky day. Verge readers can get an unlock...

Images: Rad Power Bikes Last year, Rad Power Bikes released the RadRunner, a fat-tire electric utility bike with a beguiling look, a simplified-but-not-underpowered drivetrain, and an af...

Nintendo released a surprise Nintendo Direct Mini presentation today, announcing a variety of new games, rereleases, and DLC coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2020, including classics like ...

On Scotty Sire’s YouTube channel, it doesn’t look like anything has changed. He does Q&As with friends, pranks his pals, and jokes around with them in his backyard — just about t...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge With everyone stuck at home, Nintendo’s home workout game Ring Fit Adventure has become particularly popular — so much so that it’s hard...

It’s been two years since Nine Inch Nails released its last album, Bad Witch, but today, the band dropped a surprise pair of records as part of its Ghosts collection. Ghosts V - VI are a...

Photo by Srdjan Stevanovic / Getty Images The Justice Department arrested a California man for hawking a fake COVID-19 cure, marking the first federal criminal case tied to the novel cor...

All it needed was a totally new keyboard and faster processors Continue reading… ...

Image: Duolingo Duolingo is launching a new iOS app on Thursday that is designed to teach young children how to read English. The app, called Duolingo ABC, uses short lessons made to hel...

Fortnite maker Epic Games is getting into publishing in a big way. Today the company announced the launch of Epic Games Publishing, which is exactly what it sounds like: a publishing label...

A staff member collects and transfers medical waste at the Henan Provincial People’s Hospital in Zhengzhou, central China’s Henan Province, March 3, 2020.  | Xinhua/Hao Yuan via Ge...

The United Launch Alliance is on track to launch a communications satellite for the US Space Force out of Cape Canaveral, Florida this afternoon — the company’s first flight for the ne...

The Huawei P40 Pro (pictured) sits in the middle of the P40 lineup, which also includes the P40 and P40 Pro Plus. 90Hz displays and dual zoom lenses Continue reading… ...

From ‘Polaroid Originals’ to simply ‘Polaroid’ Continue reading… ...

Bobbi Johnson, a worker at an Amazon warehouse south of Detroit, first saw the rumors on Facebook over the weekend. Kelly McIntosh-Butler, another worker at the facility, heard about them ...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The tech story that made the biggest impact on me yesterday was Sam Byford’s “Living a Google-free life with a Huawei phone.” In the run up...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On March 5th, as COVID-19 began to reshape American life, I noted here that big tech companies had responded with unusual alacrity. Where they onc...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft Teams isn’t the only business-focused chat and communications app that’s seeing a spike in demand. Slack is revealing today that it ...

AMD says that a hacker has obtained source files for some of its current and future GPUs, including details about the Xbox Series X. “In December 2019, we were contacted by someone who c...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is on track to become one of the best-selling video games of all time in Japan, according to sales figures released by Famitsu. The game managed to sell 1.88 ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple customers who didn’t pick up devices dropped off for repairs within two days of the company closing all of its retail stores will have...

Photo by J. Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday RM via Getty Images On Wednesday, Twitter briefly locked conservative site The Federalist’s account for suggesting people deliberately expose t...

Qualcomm is announcing a pair of new Bluetooth chips designed for wireless earbuds, the Qualcomm QCC514x and QCC304x SoCs. Both chipsets will support Qualcomm’s TrueWireless Mirroring te...

COVID-19 is all anyone can talk about in real life, which means it’s all anyone can talk about on the internet, which means it’s all anyone is discussing on Reddit. There’s r/Coronav...

Photo by Felix Zahn / Photothek via Getty Images When you’re in the middle of a Zoom video meeting at home and your cat suddenly decides to start bawling for its dinner, you’ll want ...

SpaceX is manufacturing its own hand sanitizer and face shields with plans to donate the materials to hospitals and places in need to help fight the novel coronavirus pandemic, according t...

Illustrator by Alex Castro / The Verge Domain registrar Namecheap on Wednesday said it would no longer be accepting any new domain applications including the words “coronavirus,” “...

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted Saturday that the company was donating “millions of masks for health professionals in the US and Europe,” to help combat...

Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images Lyft is offering free or discounted bike-share trips to workers fighting the coronavirus. The ride-hail company is inviting certain workers in New Yor...

Image: CBS The first season of Star Trek: Picard is coming to an end on March 26th, and to celebrate, CBS is offering a free month-long trial (instead of the usual seven days) of CBS All...

Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images Most people are currently relying on videoconferencing to keep in touch with work colleagues, family, and friends — and if they’re facing financia...

Image: Retromags As an entertainment industry, gaming isn’t that old — it’s been around since the ‘70s, which makes it a baby compared to radio, film, and maybe even television. ...

As well as the best ambidextrous and best budget-friendly picks Continue reading… ...

Photo by BSIP / UIG via Getty Images Two New York City hospital systems are barring anyone except the person in labor from the delivery room, including spouses, partners, and family memb...

Image: NASCAR / iRacing Fox and its sibling channel, FS1, are going to broadcast a “season” of virtual races that pit current, past, and the rising stars of NASCAR against each other...

Samsung Samsung has just refreshed the Galaxy Tab A , and the new model costs just $279.. It features an 8.4-inch screen, a 5,000mAh battery, and LTE connectivity. The tablet is availab...

Image: Nomad Nomad, typically known for making smartphone accessories, has reprioritized operations to make medical supplies like face masks amid the ongoing spread of the novel coronavi...

Image: Royole Royole beat the Samsungs, Huaweis, and Motorolas of the world to producing a smartphone with a folding screen. I suppose the company gets some credit for being first, but t...

Photo by Jonas Güttler / Picture Alliance via Getty Images Even as COVID-19 numbers explode around the country, many Americans are still experiencing the pandemic from afar. But when a ...

Illustration by Alex Castro. 2020 is a year in which we could all use an escape. There’s so much going on in the world, and so much of it is overwhelming, that even an hour away from t...

In my first weekend playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I had grand designs to pay off my initial mortgage and plant a robust orchard of fruit — but I didn’t expect my proudest acco...

Image: Zound Industries The Marshall Uxbridge Voice is the latest Bluetooth speaker from Zound Industries, and it adds AirPlay 2 support to the lineup for the first time. Along with Appl...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge It’s possible that noise-canceling headphones suddenly ended up on your wishlist due to the extended self-quarantine period many of us are experienci...

Image: ClassPass ClassPass is bringing back its previously discontinued ClassPass Live offering to allow fitness studios to stream workouts and other wellness sessions to members through...

Photo: Taeha Types Inside the burgeoning world of custom keyboard making Continue reading… ...

Spotify Spotify’s always billed itself as a platform for creators, so today, it announced that it’s going to help artists in need. The company will allow creators to link out to dona...

Half-Life: Alyx. ‘There’s an element of exotica’ Continue reading… ...

Image: DoNotPay DoNotPay is ready to help you out if you need to delay your rent, credit card, or utility bill payments as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The company, known for it...

Google is starting to take its Podcasts app a bit more seriously today: the company is reportedly rolling out a more advanced design to Android users and launching the app on iOS for the f...

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into its second month and shows no signs of slowing, President Donald Trump has pushed to relax the restrictions on...

FG Trade / Getty Images Even a favorite stay-at-home activity like watching TV can get lonely sometimes, especially if you’re used to hanging out with your friends and watching togethe...

The app lets you mirror your iOS device’s screen onto your Dell PC. | Image: Dell If you’re an iPhone user with a modern Dell computer, you can now mirror your phone’s screen to yo...

A preview of what you can expect with the new P40 flagship Continue reading… ...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verge The headline on this story — never buy hardware today based on a promise of software tomorrow — doesn’t really apply to the new iPad Pro, which I ...

The dark mode of gaming headsets Continue reading… ...

Illustrator by Alex Castro / The Verge Last week, as coronavirus marched around the world, a growing number of governments began to explore the use of our cellphone data to monitor the o...

The Single Take feature captures a number of different camera effects with a single press of the shutter button. | Image: Samsung Samsung is bringing a host of the Galaxy S20’s new cam...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Some mobile phone operators, including Vodafone and Orange S.A., have started inserting coronavirus-related public health suggestions to stay ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube Music users can now read lyrics while listening to a song on the service’s iOS and Android apps, the company announced today. To see lyr...

Image: Bandsintown Concert notification service Bandsintown has partnered with Twitch to help out artists who are unable to tour because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The partnershi...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook is seeing an extreme spike in usage across the globe due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the company outlined in a blog post on ...

Image: Zenly A Snapchat-owned location-sharing app has created a way to gamify social distancing with a leaderboard comparing who among you and your friends spends the most time at home ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple on Tuesday released a major update to its Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP), the privacy feature that allows the company’s web ...

Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images When China placed a series of cities under lockdown in January to blunt the spread of COVID-19, experts warned that other co...

Wonder Woman 1984 is the latest film to be delayed as movie theaters across the country shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The film, which was supposed to open on June 5th, will n...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify will no longer work with third-party DJ apps starting on July 1st, 2020. The news was posted by Algoriddim, the developer behind a popular...

It’s impossible to play Animal Crossing: New Horizons wrong, but occasionally, you can miss crucial steps that will open up your island’s capabilities. If you’re finding yourself s...

Plant-based meat products are bigger than ever, with the fast-food industry, grocery stores, and upscale restaurants coming on board. A recent Nielsen report found that plant-based meat al...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has released iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4, which add full mouse and trackpad support to iPads, iCloud Drive folder sharing, new nine new Memoji ...

Photo by Scott Heins / Getty Images As gyms across the United States close due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, streaming fitness companies like Tonal, FightCamp, and Mirror have tempo...

Photo by Scott Heins / Getty Images As gyms across the United States close due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, streaming fitness companies like Tonal, FightCamp, and Mirror have tempo...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Ford has announced it’s working with 3M and General Electric to make the kinds of ventilators and masks that are currently in short supply a...

The video game Plague Inc. allows you to play as a disease, with the goal being to wipe out humanity. Ndemic Creations, the game’s makers, however, are very pro-human: they’ve just don...

Image: Raiser Games With all of the chaos going on in the world, now is a great time to spend some time relaxing with new games. Maybe you need a list of games to play during the next fe...

I’m writing this story under self-quarantine for novel coronavirus exposure. I’ve been sequestered for over a week while the city outside my apartment has become America’s COVID-19 e...

Social distancing has made many people miss all of the group activities we’re used to, like watching movies with friends, but there is a way to do it online. Netflix Party, a Chrome exte...

An artistic rendering of ESA’s Solar Orbiter. | Image: ESA The European Space Agency is putting four of its space missions into “safe configurations” amid the novel coronavirus pan...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit has rolled out a new post type, polls, which lets you ask questions and vote on pretty much anything. Polls can offer up to six answers, be...

Wyze Wyze announced that both its Wyze Band fitness tracker featuring Alexa functionality and its Wyze Scale, its new connected weight scale, are available starting today. These fitness-...

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the customization options appear endless. You can make your tools pink, change your bedsheets, and remix your villager’s style with fresh haircuts and c...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Speech recognition systems have more trouble understanding black users’ voices than those of white users, according to a new Stanford study. The resea...

Anchor Anchor, the podcast-making app now owned by Spotify, is launching a feature today that’ll make it easier for friends to record shows together from afar. The feature, called Reco...

Photo: Apple The 2020 versions of the MacBook Air and the iPad Pro don’t release until tomorrow, March 25th, but you save $50 on either device right now at Amazon (via 9to5Toys). It’...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge If you’re working from home during the novel coronavirus pandemic, getting a mesh Wi-Fi system might help make the best of your home internet situation...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube has announced that it will reduce streaming quality for users around the world, according to Bloomberg. The decision comes just one week a...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony will slow down PlayStation game downloads in Europe to help preserve overall internet speeds. The change won’t materially affect multiplayer, acc...

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images New York City is offering to hire out-of-work Uber and Lyft drivers, and it’s even promising to reimburse them for their driving expenses. The appea...

The Ckoirama Observatory in Chile, while a trail of Starlink satellites pass overhead. | Photo by Rodrigo Maluenda Ever since SpaceX launched its first batch of internet-beaming satellit...

Image: Snopes Fact-checking organization Snopes has been forced to scale back its routine content production and special projects, as the amount of misinformation caused by the COVID-19 ...

Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images The 2020 Summer Olympic Games, scheduled to open in Tokyo on July 24th, have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The games will be resc...

Image: Scroll Mozilla and Scroll have made an earlier-announced partnership slightly more official today with the wider release of a browser extension called “Firefox Better Web.” It...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is ramping up its efforts to combat coronavirus-related misinformation on its platform while also giving people tools to promote healthy...

Tapping the donate button will open up a businesses GoFundMe page. | Image: Yelp You’ll soon be able to donate to local businesses struggling with coronavirus-related closures via thei...

Last week, Tom Warren argued that Apple finally admits Microsoft was right about tablets by adding trackpad support to the iPad. I knew he was working on this piece when I wrote last Thurs...

UK sms alert for coronavirus pandemic | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge The UK government has turned to mobile carriers like EE, o2, Vodafone, and Three to send an emergency coronavirus ...

Mobile banking app Revolut, which has more than 10 million customers in Europe, is launching today in the US, the company announced. Like Monzo, a UK-based banking app that made the jump ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge No one has it easy during the COVID-19 pandemic, but Amazon has it particularly hard. Google, Facebook, and Netflix all deliver their services ove...

Xiaomi has announced the Redmi K30 Pro, its latest high-spec-low-price contender. It’s the sequel to the K20 Pro (in Asia) / Mi 9T Pro (in Europe), one of last year’s most buzzed-about...

Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images Amazon will assist its hometown city of Seattle with at-home COVID-19 testing, according to a report from CNBC on Monday. The test kits are provided by ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon has announced that it is automatically adding 15GB of high-speed data to wireless plans in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Additiona...

Ryan Heffington Kristin Childers went to a dance party on Saturday in her pajamas. The clothes didn’t matter, because she never left her living room. The party took place entirely on I...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft disclosed a new remote code execution vulnerability today that can be found in all supported versions of Windows and is currently being ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge One of the next iPhone models could introduce sensor-shift image stabilization, potentially bringing image stabilization to the ultrawide camera, accord...

Apple is expanding the App Store to 20 new countries this year, the company announced on its developer portal, marking the latest expansion of Apple’s app marketplace around the globe. ...

Image: Oura A new study will evaluate a smart ring that takes people’s temperatures in an attempt to identify people who have the new coronavirus early, the San Francisco Chronicle rep...

HP HP is teasing a followup to its Reverb virtual reality headset made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. The announcement coincides with Valve’s release of Half-Life: Alyx, th...

It’s the second week of our collective, voluntary quarantine and everything is online now. The spread of coronavirus has upended the rest of society in drastic ways: many high school and...

Photo by Zhang Yazi/China News Service via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration approved the first rapid test for the novel coronavirus over the weekend. The test, made by the b...

Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for cities to remake their streets by taking space away from cars and giving...

It’s no secret that Google is looking to boost the number of games it has to offer on Stadia, and today, at the Google for Games Developer Summit, the company announced a new Stadia Make...

Photo by Ben McCanna / Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images The United States economy is grinding to a halt as the country grapples with the novel coronavirus pandemic, and on...

Hamilton is bringing back the original digital watch with the PSR, a 50th anniversary tribute to the company’s legendary Pulsar Time Computer — the first commercially sold digital watc...

A billboard in Naples reads “All together, without fear.” | Photo by Carlo Hermann / AFP via Getty Images As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the world, more governm...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verg It’s a rule that phones eventually become cheaper after they release, but few drop in price as quickly as Samsung phones. Samsung’s Galaxy S20 and S2...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge SoundCloud has teamed up with Twitch to help indie musicians who are feeling a financial strain due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. With gi...

VidCon, an annual gathering of social media influencers and content creators, is canceled this year in the US. The show was scheduled for June 17th through the 20th in Anaheim, California....

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Microsoft reorganized its Windows + Devices team last month, placing Surface chief Panos Panay in charge of both Windows and hardware. While it’s still early days for Panay, we’re star...

File this one under “Kickstarter products we can’t easily explain”: a fabricated cybernetic lynx skull that doubles as a Bluetooth speaker. The Kranio X, as it’s called, is current...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge If you’re having trouble concentrating on your work during self-quarantine, a set of quality noise-canceling headphones might be a good solution. You...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge If you’re having trouble concentrating on your work during self-quarantine, a set of quality noise-canceling headphones might be a good solution. You...

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Uber is urging the White House and congressional leaders to include financial assistance for drivers and delivery workers in the economi...

As more people are asked to stay home due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Amazon is making a portion of Prime Video kids and family programming free, including popular shows like Arthur...

T-Mobile will launch its budget Connect plan on Wednesday, March 25th. The prepaid package will deliver unlimited talk and text as well as 2GB of data for $15 per month (or 5GB for $25). T...

Photo by Charlotte Bickley / Instagram Elizabeth Savetsky, an influencer who lives in New York, has kept her Instagram feed pristine up until now. In every past photo, she wears an envia...

Hello, internet. It’s your friend TC, executive editor and blogger at The Verge. The novel coronavirus has rapidly spread across the US and darkened our daily lives, and it’s only goin...

With all of the chaos going on in the world, now is a great time to spend some time relaxing with new games. Maybe you need a list of games to play during the next few weeks. Maybe you are...

Konami had planned to release its mini TurboGrafx-16, PC Engine, and CoreGrafx consoles last week, but the production schedule has been hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic around the wor...

Photo: Feature China / Barcroft Media via Getty Images Three months into the novel coronavirus pandemic, it’s still unclear which drugs could combat the viral disease and which won’t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is planning to prioritize access to its cloud-based Azure services to first responders, emergency services, and critical infrastructure ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s difficult to try to keep things normal when the situation isn’t normal — especially during global crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. On...

The current user profile appears on the top right of the service’s interface. | Image: NDTV Amazon is rolling out user profiles for Prime Video, allowing as many as six different peopl...

Facebook and Disney are joining Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and YouTube in reducing streaming video quality in order to lighten the load on the internet in Europe, as more people start working...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has updated Siri to provide information to people who are concerned they have COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, CNBC re...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T’s networks have seen a surge of usage since companies around the United States have asked employees to work from home and schools have ...

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted Saturday that the company was donating “millions of masks for health professionals in the US and Europe,” to help combat...

Disney will delay the release of its Disney Plus streaming service in France in accordance with government requests, Reuters is reporting. The streaming service, which was supposed to lau...

Starting today, Best Buy is limiting its US stores to “contactless” curbside service, allowing only employees into its stores, according to a statement from the company. Orders placed ...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Virtual replacement races are drawing motorsports stars — and tons of eyeballs Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Virtual replacement races are drawing stars — and tons of eyeballs Continue reading… ...

GameStop is temporarily closing all its US-based retail locations and moving to “delivery only” starting on March 22nd, the company announced today. It’s an abrupt reversal for the c...

A courier wearing a respiratory mask handles an Amazon parcel in Milan, Italy.  | Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images Amazon says it has temporarily stopped taking orders on some non-es...

Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images The Federal Aviation Administration briefly halted departures from New York and Philadelphia airports after a trainee at the New York Air Ro...

Image by Alex Castro / The Verge The CDC has used Microsoft’s Healthcare Bot service to create a COVID-19 assessment chatbot to screen Americans who may be unsure whether to seek medic...

Photo by PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images Amazon said Saturday it will raise overtime pay for workers in its US warehouses between March 15th and May 9th, Reuters reports. Instead of ...

Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney Actor Greg Grunberg, longtime friend of director J.J. Abrams, says in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter that as far as he ...

As more studios try to navigate various methods of releasing their films during the coronavirus pandemic, especially now that theaters across the country have shut down, most movies have r...

Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images General Motors is partnering with Ventec Life Systems to help increase production of ventilators that are needed in hospitals dealing with patients wh...

Google’s Covid-19 information website, at google.com/covid19 One week ago, President Donald Trump held a press conference wherein he claimed Google would be building a screening websit...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Following in the footsteps of Netflix and YouTube, Amazon has announced that it will also reduce streaming quality in Europe in order to lessen th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of four US senators, including Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, have sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos asking him to...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox Live service is down again for the second time this week. Issues first began popping up some time after 7PM ET on Friday, with ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox Live service went down again for the second time this week. Issues first began popping up some time after 7PM ET on Friday, wit...

Microsoft has started testing its Project xCloud game streaming service for Windows 10 PCs this week. The software giant is making the preview version, which lets you stream Xbox games to ...

GameStop is closing its California retail stores until “further notice,” according to Kotaku, only a day after the video game retailer instructed all of its US employees to disregard c...

Rosario Dawson will be joining season 2 of The Mandalorian for Disney Plus, where she’ll reportedly be playing fan-favorite character Ashoka Tano, according to a report from SlashFilm. ...

Image: Paramount Following in the footsteps of other movie studios, Paramount Pictures has announced that it’s speeding up the digital release of Sonic The Hedgehog. The film will be a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has completely canceled Google I/O 2020, its biggest event of the year, due to the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus. The company ann...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic groups are working to help increase the number of tests for the novel coronavirus in the Bay Area by at least 1,000 tests per day in “the c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sony has issued an update to clarify its stance on backwards compatibility for the PlayStation 5, saying the upcoming console will support an “o...

Image: Google Google and YouTube have launched new resource pages to help teachers and families continue to educate students while they’re home from school due to the novel coronavirus...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T sent a notice to its authorized retailer companies in California with instructions for how to handle potential questions, including from ...

In Little Fires Everywhere, people are constantly talking about how they would never “make something about race.” They often say it with shocked indignation — they don’t see color,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Discord banned 5.2 million accounts between April and December last year, the company revealed today in its second transparency report. The most c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Much like T-Mobile’s “Netflix on Us” promotion, customers who want free access to shortform video streaming service Quibi will have to meet ...

Image: Activision Call of Duty: Warzone, Activision’s new battle royale (BR) game that released less than two weeks ago, has more than 30 million players, the publisher announced on Fr...

Walmart DTD 555 Walmart is looking to hire 150,000 additional employees to temporarily work at the company’s stores, clubs, and distribution centers to meet the increased demand from s...

A former Facebook content moderation facility in Phoenix. | Photo by Jessica Chou for The Verge Facebook is close to reaching a settlement with a group of content moderators who develope...

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: Bandsintown As more musicians kick off online concerts amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, Bandsintown is launching a new feature to support them. The concert notification servic...

As if there weren’t enough doom in the world right now, this week sees the release of not one but two new Doom games. Doom Eternal is the flashy AAA sequel with incredible graphics and a...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Best Buy is currently offering discounts on products from Apple, Samsung, and more. The retailer is holding a three-day sale that starts today and ends ...

Last night, speaking from the state’s emergency operations center in Sacramento, California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered everyone in the state to stay home to slow the spread of COVID-19, t...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A leak on Oculus’ website suggests it’s making a new virtual reality headset codenamed “Del Mar.” Recently, some Oculus developers not...

Image: Bandcamp Online music marketplace Bandcamp is waiving its revenue share on sales today in order to help musicians who are impacted by the novel coronavirus pandemic. The platform ...

People are searching for doctors on Google Maps, and the service wants to prevent them from potentially infecting offices and medical specialists with COVID-19, the disease caused by the n...

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Peloton this week announced that it will temporarily suspend the sale and delivery of its Tread, a treadmill with a touchscreen to stream live and on-d...

Image: Apple After a week of working from home, The Vergecast returns to recording remotely. There was a lot of coverage on the site this week about efforts for testing and containing th...

Photo by Mohd Daud/NurPhoto via Getty Images Electric scooters are vanishing from more cities as the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to roil shared mobility services across the worl...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Following in the footsteps of Netflix and YouTube, Amazon has announced that it will also reduce streaming quality in order to lessen the strain b...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons, like past games, allows you to invite friends to your island when you’re ready. It’s a great way to grab new items, share things you’ve made, and meet ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tinder’s team recognizes that daters might want to connect with people abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic, so starting next week, the company i...

Image: Pixar Disney has announced that its latest Pixar animated movie, Onward, will be getting a dramatically earlier release for digital download: it’ll release in the US tonight for...

A woman wears a protective mask and gloves as she walks past graffiti which reads ‘to be, to stay and to last’ (L), ‘Covid19. Government Weapon’ (C) and ‘Paranoia’ (R) in Madrid...

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Most Animal Crossing games start the same. You, a cherubic human, move into a quaint town full of talking animals. In some games, you’re simply a resident; in others, you’re the mayor....

Illustration by Alex Castro and Grayson Blackmon / The Verge A new report published by Yelp shows the changing interests of US consumers during the novel coronavirus pandemic. It paints ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Yelp is adding a collection of new features aimed at helping local restaurants and businesses that are struggling due to COVID-19, the disease...

Image: Valve It’s 2020, and the selection of VR headsets has never been more varied — or more sold out. If you haven’t been keeping up with the onslaught of news, most virtual real...

Image: iFixit Repair specialist iFixit is building a database filled with repair information for the world’s hospital equipment in anticipation of the increased demand caused by COVID-...

Photo: Tyler Demogenes / Atlanta Faze Esports leagues all over the world have been significantly affected by the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus. Many have been briefly suspended...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge YouTube is reducing the quality of its videos in Europe, as an increase in home usage strains the continent’s internet during the novel coronav...

Google is discounting its Stadia cloud gaming service for the first time since its November launch. The Stadia Premiere Edition, which includes a Stadia controller, Chromecast Ultra, and t...

By now most Americans have gotten the message that, as much as possible, they need to stay away from everyone else. In San Francisco and a growing number of other cities around the world, ...

Photo by Yichuan Cao/NurPhoto via Getty Images Twitter will not take down a tweet from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk where he said children are “essentially immune” to COVID-19,...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving car engineer and former Google executive who joined Uber via an acquisition of his autonomous truck company Ot...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If the company makes good on its word (and assuming the T-Mobile and Sprint merger successfully closes), Dish is poised to become a significant player in...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has begun rolling out the overhauled version of its desktop site. Starting today, users have the option to opt in to the new design, whic...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube will introduce a new row of verified videos to its homepage for anyone trying to find authoritative news on the ongoing coronavirus story....

Kickstarter is giving creators extra time to meet their crowdfunding goals. On Thursday, the company said any creator with a campaign live now can request a seven-day extension. To ask for...

illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Game Developers Conference, an annual gathering of game creators in San Francisco, has been rescheduled after being delayed earlier this year....

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images GameStop is instructing its retail employees to keep stores open, even in the face of local authorities who would seek to shut them down over coronavi...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Tesla will temporarily shut down its car manufacturing plant in Fremont, California, starting at the end of Monday, March 23rd, joining nearly every ot...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap is rolling out its Here For You search tool a bit earlier than planned to help users who may be feeling anxious or stressed over the coronavi...

Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system passed a billion active users earlier this week, and the company is now marking the occasion with a video that teases new features and UI changes....

Getty Images/iStockphoto As more and more workplaces transition to being remote, we’re learning how to navigate all the aspects of working digitally. Meetings are moving entirely onlin...

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Uber will stop blocking drivers in New York City from signing on to its app, which it has been doing since fall 2019. The company says it wants to giv...

Photo by Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Charter Communications is updating its work-from-home policy Thursday, following numerous reports from employees who said the company ...

Image: Nvidia Microsoft has a new version of its industry-standard DirectX 12 (DX12) gaming and multimedia graphics technology called DirectX 12 Ultimate, which promises to better unify ...

Netflix will take new actions to reduce bit rates of streams in Europe following a conversation between the European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and CEO Reed Hastings, the company an...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I’m always on the lookout for off-the-beaten-path Twitch streams, and today, a pal recommended a great one: a mechanic who streams himself fixin...

Tuft & Needle is closing retail stores and letting go of a portion of its staff due to the coronavirus pandemic. The buzzy direct-to-consumer mattress company had six retail locations ...

Yesterday, Apple announced a new iPad Pro along with an updated keyboard case — now with a trackpad. The company also confirmed that it’s bringing laptop-like trackpad and mouse functi...

Photo by Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images As many of its rival internet service providers have at least some provision in place for remote work during the coronavirus pandemic,...

Photo by John Tlumacki / The Boston Globe via Getty Images Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures, and that’s precisely how we as a society end up with something like How ...

Google is introducing a new Camera Go app for its Android Go range of entry-level devices. Android Go originally debuted two years ago as a more stripped-down version of Android designed t...

A leaked video has provided a rare insight into Microsoft’s thoughts on Zoom Video Communications. Zoom has quickly turned into a popular app for video conferencing, and some analysts es...

Mixed reality startup Magic Leap has been fairly quiet for the past few months, but the company is trying to tempt potential buyers with a package for people stuck working from home. The �...

This month, Hulu added nearly the entire library of FX television shows as a result of Disney’s recent acquisition of Fox. And aside from some uncomfortable corporate consolidation under...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber took stock of the effect the coronavirus outbreak has had on its business in a call with investors on March 19th, and the early numbers are p...

Illustrator by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re now working at home due to the COVID-19 outbreak, you may have a moment when you realize that your Wi-Fi just isn’t cutting it anymor...

HMD says its Nokia 8.3 will be able to use 5G networks around the world. | Image: HMD HMD has announced its first 5G phone, the Nokia 8.3 5G, alongside a collection of other midrange and...

Today, Sabotage, the studio behind the 2018 retro-platformer The Messenger, is announcing its next project via Kickstarter. In some ways, it’s what you’d expect. Like its predecessor, ...

Photo by Sergei Bobylev\TASS via Getty Images COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has been much deadlier in older people, but more anecdotes are popping up of young, h...

Photo by Jack Guez / AFP via Getty Images Razer has devoted some of its manufacturing lines to produce surgical masks, according to a Twitter thread from CEO Min-Liang Tan. The company w...

With all of the chaos going on in the world, now is a great time to spend some time relaxing with new games. Maybe you need a list of games to play during the next few weeks. Maybe you are...

Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted on Wednesday night that he’s willing to have his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, make crucial...

Apple has spent the past 10 years trying to convince everyone that the iPad and its vision of touch-friendly computing is the future. The iPad rejected the idea of a keyboard, a trackpad, ...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Police departments across the country are issuing warnings about scammers trying to trick people into reserving a COVID-19 vaccine over the ph...

After six years of developing a new passenger spacecraft for NASA, SpaceX is finally on track to launch its very first crew to the International Space Station in mid-to-late May — but un...

Like millions of others right now, we on the Verge Science video team are hunkered down in our homes to help slow the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. This ...

Image: Microsoft Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers are getting new in-game content as part of their subscription, Microsoft has announced. The new “Perks” vary by game, but they ra...

Each video is roughly the same: an arm reaches out for a doorknob, swings a door open, and the camera moves on through. Sometimes there are slight variations. The arm might reach for a but...

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After months of anticipation, Sony and Microsoft have started releasing concrete details for their upcoming flagship next-gen consoles, the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X. After days ...

Microsoft is revealing new Teams features today to mark three years of the service just as it experiences unprecedented growth amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Teams suffered an outa...

Photo by EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images In some US states, absentee voting is reserved for people who will be out of town on election day, and those who physically can’t get ...

Image: Apple I felt personally attacked by Apple yesterday, specifically by the marketing copy it used to promote the new iPad Pro: “Your next computer is not a computer.” This newsl...

The COVID-19 pandemic is now surging around the world, and each hour brings more developments than a full day seemed to bring just a few weeks ago. On Wednesday morning, Facebook held a ca...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Digital rights advocacy group Access Now has published an open letter to Zoom calling on the video conferencing company to release a transpare...

Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images Supermarket chains across the UK, US and elsewhere have started offering dedicated shopping hours for elderly or vulnerable customers during the coronavi...

Image: Apple The new iPad Pro’s LIDAR scanner can turn a living room into an augmented reality version of Hot Lava, a video game based on the childhood pastime where you jump on furnit...

HBO Max’s heavily anticipated Friends reunion special will be delayed as production across Hollywood shuts down amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to The Hollywood Reporter. There ...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission temporarily waived rules in a move to foster internet access for hospitals and schools stuck in...

Image: Apple Apple announced a new iPad Pro today, introducing a slew of much-needed features to the tablet, including support for the next generation of Wi-Fi, a feature that has not pr...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla will reduce its workforce at its Fremont, California, car factory after the local Sheriff’s Office said the company was not complying with a th...

You can mark yourself as available to offer help, after which you’ll appear on the map. | Image: NextDoor Nextdoor, the social networking app designed around local communities, is laun...

Image: Apple Apple just announced a new iPad Pro and a new MacBook Air, but the iPad Pro’s optional new keyboard case with a trackpad makes picking between the two a lot harder. If you...

Video games have become a powerful coping tool as the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to spread. Developers are making their games free or cheap, Pokémon Go was made easier to play i...

Apple made it official: trackpad and mouse support is coming to the iPad. You can get it on an iPad Pro by spending $299 or $349 on Apple’s new Magic Keyboard, get it on a regular iPad w...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales Facebook will put a coronavirus information center at the top of the News Feed in the United States and other countries around the world, CEO Mark Zuckerb...

Sony has finally unveiled its PlayStation 5 specs today, and there are some surprisingly big differences between the PS5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X. Both consoles are still arriving a...

Image: Valve / The Game Awards In the absence of the official Game Developers Conference (GDC), the Steam Game Festival is returning for a spring edition starting today to help shine a s...

Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images The decision by most companies to suspend AV testing during the outbreak is causing turmoil among human backup drivers ...

A Mexican wolf pup. | Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service The US population of endangered Mexican gray wolves jumped by 24 percent last year, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced y...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As millions of people adapt to working from home in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Google has decided to pause on adding new features to Chrom...

With coronavirus shutting down movie theaters in many states, major studios Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. decided to bring some of their films to digital renting platforms like iTune...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge These are unprecedented times. It’s fun to joke about the apocalypse — gallows humor being the incredible coping mechanism that it is — but ...

Credit: ProPublica The coronavirus is going to challenge industries across the globe, and among the most pressing questions is whether hospitals in the United States will be adequately e...

Image: Sony Sony’s “Road to PS5” live stream featuring system architect Mark Cerny kicked off today, and we’re learning a great deal about the technical jump the upcoming PlaySta...

Sony’s next-gen console, PlayStation 5, will support nearly all of the top PlayStation 4 games at launch via backwards compatibility. In a presentation today, architect Mark Cerny said t...

The upcoming Microsoft Surface Duo, which would benefit from the new features. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Almost exactly a month after it released the first Developer ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After months of anticipation and drips of details, Sony has finally revealed the specifications and hardware details for the PlayStation 5, its ne...

Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images The ghost of Theranos is still haunting the biotech industry, even in the middle of a pandemic. A shell company called Labrador ...

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Image: Apple Logitech is announcing an iPad case with a keyboard and built-in trackpad today, and it’s way cheaper than Apple’s new model. The “Combo Touch Keyboard Case with Track...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images The US-Canada border has closed to non-essential traffic, President Trump announced Wednesday morning, bringing ongoing coronavirus containment efforts...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images The US–Canada border has closed to nonessential traffic, President Trump announced on Wednesday morning, bringing ongoing novel coronavirus containme...

Sony is planning to reveal more about its PlayStation 5 hardware in a special event on March 18th. Tuesday, the company announced an upcoming “deep dive” on the next-gen console where ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Honda has become the first automaker to kick off an extended shutdown of its US manufacturing operations in response to the novel coronavirus ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales Bose’s Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 are $100 off right now at Nordstrom, a store usually known for deals on clothing, not gadgets. This model usually...

Image: Samsung Samsung has announced the Galaxy M21, a new handset for the Indian market, which will cost 12,999 rupees (around $175), GSMArena reports. It’s the successor to last year...

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, just like in past games in the series, players are indebted to a raccoon named Tom Nook. In order to get ahead in the game and expand your house, you’ll...

A virtual space becomes a home to real-world texts Continue reading… ...

Slack is unveiling a big redesign to its communications app that starts rolling out today to make things a lot simpler to use. If you’re a Slack user, you’re probably used to some of t...

Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Students are still unsure how (and where) they’ll finish their semester Continue reading… ...

Image: Apple Apple just announced a new generation of iPad Pros, and along with them, a brand-new style of keyboard that looks like the closest equivalent to a laptop keyboard yet. The ...

Apple is announcing a new iPad Pro, available online for either $799 or $949, depending on which size. Apple’s headline feature is that it has a LiDAR scanner to go along with its camera...

Image: Apple Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro is no longer the company’s only laptop with a reliable keyboard. This morning, Apple announced a revamped MacBook Air laptop with an improved...

One of Lynk’s test payloads attached to the nose of a Cygnus cargo capsule | Image: NASA/Lynk An aerospace startup that plans to launch thousands of satellite “cell towers” into sp...

The dangerous world of ‘pedo hunting’ stings Continue reading… ...

As the rest of the world slowly grinds to a halt amid the coronavirus pandemic, the US launch industry is still sending rockets into space, with another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to take ...

Image: Sony As we settle in to the new reality of a locked-down, socially distant world, big tech is getting ready to start talking — and maybe even releasing — new consumer tech pro...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, let’s talk about some of the front-line workers at Facebook and Google working on the pandemic: the content moderators who keep the site ...

Last week LG said its 2020 lineup of TVs will start rolling out in the US this month, but didn’t give precise dates or pricing information. Now, via CNET, we know a little more. In fact,...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Tesla is not exempt from the San Francisco Bay Area’s new coronavirus shelter-in-place order, and should suspend normal operations at its Fremont, Ca...

Image: GitHub Microsoft-owned GitHub released its new mobile app today as a free download for iOS and Android. The app for the popular code repository service is primarily designed to he...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of Google employees has sent a memo to company leadership demanding stronger commitments to protect the more vulnerable members of Google�...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook appears to be marking some posts linking to information and articles about the coronavirus and COVID-19 as spam, as observed by one Ver...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook started marking some posts linking to information and articles about the coronavirus and COVID-19 as spam, as observed by one Verge rep...

Image: Massimo Temporelli A medical device manufacturer has threatened to sue a group of volunteers in Italy that 3D printed a valve used for life-saving coronavirus treatments. The valv...

Fox Corporation has acquired ad-supported streaming platform Tubi for $440 million, bringing more than 20,000 movies and shows to the platform. Tubi, which partners with top-tier studios a...

Photo by Sergei Bobylev\TASS via Getty Images COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has been much deadlier in older people — but more anecdotes are popping up of young...

Illustration by Angie Wang Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, we’ve been advised to stay inside and to minimize human contact. One of the biggest challenges that creates...

With all of the chaos going on in the world, now is a great time to spend some time relaxing with new games. Maybe you need a list of games to play during the next few weeks. Maybe you are...

Photo by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Someone with health insurance from their employer could pay $1,300 or more out of pocket for treatment if they’re hospitalized wit...

As the rest of the world slowly grinds to a halt amid the coronavirus pandemic, the US launch industry is still sending rockets into space, with another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to take ...

Image: Google Google has launched a new “Works with Chromebook” badge for accessories that are certified to be compatible with Chromebooks (via 9to5Google). The certification will be...

Photo by Maja Hitij - Pool/Getty Images The European Union is locking down its borders with all other nations. German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced today that all external borders f...

Photo by Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via Getty Images Engineers have the technology to make it better Continue reading… ...

Image: Activision Call of Duty: Warzone, the new 150-person battle royale (BR) from Activision and Infinity Ward, is adding a solo game mode just one week after launch. Warzone, which i...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Nintendo’s online service experienced a nearly nine-hour outages, according to the company’s network status page. “All network services” wer...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has decided to keep its retail stores outside mainland China closed indefinitely as the global spread of the coronavirus continues. The ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Waymo is temporarily shutting down some of its robotaxi services in Arizona, just days after The Verge reported that its contracted safety drivers were ...

Popcorn Time disappeared a few years ago, forcing people who used the extremely easy “Netflix, but for piracy” app to search elsewhere for movies and TV shows. Today, as more people ar...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo just gave us a good look at a bunch of new indie games coming to the Nintendo Switch in its latest Indie World Showcase video broadcast. We’...

Mei Kawajiri, Belén Flores Nuñez, and Vi Nguyen Nail artist Mei Kawajiri’s nails are her canvasses, statement pieces, and sources of joy. Now they’re also potential sources of infe...

Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Benjamin Netanyahu has authorized the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, to use cellphone location data to help combat the coro...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google has decided to delay even the digital version of its largest conference of the year, the enterprise-focused Cloud Next conference, as the sev...

Image: Marvel Disney has decided to delay the release of Marvel Studios’ Black Widow following the spread of the novel coronavirus. Black Widow was originally scheduled to be released...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a new report, researchers at New America lay out a prescription for fixing Facebook Continue reading… ...

Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Living with the coronavirus is going to reveal hard truths about the digital divide. This is especially true for students, who are being told in record ...

When the sky is falling and the walls are closing in, I turn to late-night TV. Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, sometimes even Jimmy Fallon and James Corden; their...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Translate’s new transcription feature, first demoed back in January, is out now for Android users as part of an update to the artificial ...

Jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium | Photo by George Rose/Getty Images Human visitors have vanished from the halls of the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, and the penguins are taking over....

Image: The Verge Facebook is planning to give a $1,000 bonus to every employee to help them amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, according to The Information. The move was report...

Image: Samsung Samsung’s PlayGalaxy Link service, which allowed you to stream games from your PC to select Galaxy smartphones, is shutting down on March 27th, the company has announced...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Live-streaming is taking off, culturally speaking. More people than ever are familiar with the concept — whether that’s from Instagram Live (w...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla is keeping its Fremont, California, car factory open following a new order from the Alameda County government ordering nonessential businesses to...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon’s Fire HD 8 tablet is a tough value to beat at its usual $80 price, but today, that deal gets even better with a $30 price drop. You ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A good thing to do during the global outbreak of a deadly virus is to test people who think they may have it. Beyond providing important infor...

AMC Theaters, the largest theater chain in the United States, will shut its doors nationwide for between six to 12 weeks. The move complies with local, state, and federal directives to he...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Amazon has announced that it’s prioritizing stocking high-demand products like medical supplies and “household staples” in its fulfillment cente...

Helicopters are now in Fortnite. The battle royale game’s latest update added the flying vehicles as well as a handful of other welcome features, including maps changes and a redesigned ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Lime is temporarily suspending service in California and Washington, as well as Italy, France, and Spain, in response to the novel coronavirus...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images On this week’s interview episode of The Vergecast, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and policy reporter Makena Kelly are joined by Federal Com...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber is suspending its Uber Pool service in the US and Canada in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The move comes after the company expa...

reMarkable’s original oversized E Ink tablet was an interesting idea from 2017: it’s a 10.3-inch tablet that had the ambitious idea to try to replace paper entirely with a digital tabl...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge If you need proof that the Xbox has always been different from other consoles, look at the ports and plugs. From the original Xbox to the Xbox One, and...

Movies Anywhere — the Disney-led digital movie locker service that syncs up your purchased films across platforms like iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play, and Vudu — is launching a new ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Sonos is today detailing the future of its multiroom home audio strategy, which revolves around a new app and operating system called Sonos S2 that will ...

Sony is planning to reveal more about its PlayStation 5 hardware in a special event on March 18th. Today, the company announced an upcoming “deep dive” on the next-gen console where sy...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Nintendo’s online service is experiencing outages, the company confirmed today. We’ve verified that the Nintendo eShop appears to be down in bot...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Nintendo’s online service is experiencing outages, the company confirmed today. We’ve verified that the Nintendo eShop appears to be down for Sw...

Photo by Keith Mayhew/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images UK phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is closing its 531 standalone stores, its parent company Dixons Carphone announced tod...

It has been about twenty years since I sent my last newsletter, which I sent way back on Friday, March 13th. Since then, the coronavirus pandemic and various governmental responses to it g...

The Motorola Edge Plus will reportedly feature a curved display and hole-punch notch. | Image: Evan Blass Motorola’s unannounced flagship, the Edge Plus, has leaked again, this time in...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge With the Game Developers Conference not taking place as planned, Facebook is instead making a series of Oculus-related announcements this week...

Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Google has made the call to slightly delay the launch of its informational coronavirus website to “later this week.” The site, which the sear...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of the biggest technology companies in the US say they have banded together in a commitment to fight coronavirus-related fraud and misinfo...

Photo by Matthew Hatcher/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images An attempt by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to delay Tuesday’s presidential primary until June 2nd has been denied by a Frankl...

Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Regal Cinemas, the second-largest theater chain in the country, will close all of its theaters in the US starting tomorrow, March 17th, out...

Popular chat service Discord is currently experiencing widespread server outages, taking many communities offline. Discord says it’s “currently investigating an issue where a number of...

Popular chat service Discord experienced widespread server outages on Monday, taking many communities offline. During the outage, Discord said it was “investigating an issue where a numb...

Photo by Matthew Hatcher/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine wants the state to delay Tuesday’s presidential primary until June 2nd in an attempt to curb the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is looking to hire 100,000 new warehouse and delivery workers to meet increased demands for shipments as a result of the novel coronavirus ...

Peloton Peloton knows people are stuck at home, so it’s now offering new subscribers a 90-day trial, rather than 30 days, to its app. The app doesn’t require people to own a Peloton-...

Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images California public health officials will be placing six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area — about 6.7 million people — under a “shelter...

Microsoft revealed some key details about the next-gen Xbox Series X console today. Along with clock speeds, new technologies, and much more, the biggest news is that the next Xbox will su...

Universal Studios is planning to release some of its newest films that are still in the middle of their theatrical runs — including The Invisible Man, The Hunt, and Emma. on digital plat...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Apple is reportedly planning to launch a new 5.5-inch entry-level iPhone, according to evidence found in iOS 14 by 9to5Mac. It has been rumored for som...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube will rely more on AI to moderate videos during the coronavirus pandemic, since many of its human reviewers are being sent home to limit th...

Westworld built a reputation on being mysterious. This made the first season irresistible, the second incomprehensible, and the forthcoming third season... well, you might have some questi...

Image: Moog As the coronavirus pandemic has shut down clubs, parties, and festivals around the world, there are heaps of musicians (and music lovers) now sitting at home trying to find w...

The premium offering of Headspace, the mindfulness and guided meditation app, is now free for any health care provider who works in public health in the US through the end of the year. The...

Tesla has officially started delivering the first Model Ys to customers in the US ahead of its original schedule, and despite the world becoming increasingly wrapped up in the grips of the...

Image: Microsoft When Microsoft first revealed the Xbox Series X, a lot of people started comparing the console’s design to a fridge. Microsoft seems to understand the comparison, and ...

If you’re not sold on true wireless earbuds, the Powerbeats make a compelling case Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has removed several tweets by prominent accounts that made misleading claims about the novel coronavirus pandemic, as the company says it�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is planning to hold a digital press event on March 30th. While the software giant typically holds press events in the spring in New York...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Today, T-Mobile and Verizon shared pricing and availability for LG’s newest flagship, the LG V60 ThinQ 5G. LG first showed off the phone at the end of ...

illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge GDC is kicking off a week of streamed talks today. Following the conference’s cancellation, organizers announced last week that they would strea...

Photo by George Rose/Getty Images California loses up to $1 billion in crops each year because of air pollution, according to new research that looked at trends from 1980 to 2015. Table ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok directed its moderators to prevent people with “ugly facial looks” or who shot videos in “slums” or “dilapidated housing” from ...

Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images A rumor that President Trump is going to announce a mandatory two-week quarantine for the whole country is going viral, spreading primarily through ...

Image: Harley-Davidson Android Auto is finally making it to the world of motorcycles a little over two years after Apple’s CarPlay started showing up on two-wheelers. Harley-Davidson r...

The image claims to show a Motorola Edge with a hole-punch selfie camera and a screen that curves round its edges. | Image: XDA Developers Photographs of Motorola’s unannounced Edge sm...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Update 10:18AM ET, March 16th: Unfortunately, these went out of stock right as we published this post. We’ll keep an eye on Woot to see if more stock...

Two weeks with the latest Animal Crossing Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber expanded its previously announced policy on sick pay for drivers during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, drivers who test positive for COVID-19...

Microsoft is revealing today that 1 billion active machines are now running Windows 10. “Today we’re delighted to announce that over one billion people have chosen Windows 10 across 20...

OMNY will collect a significant amount of information from riders, including smartphone device identifiers and location Continue reading… ...

AMD AMD is announcing two new laptop CPUs this morning: the Ryzen 9 4900H and the 4900HS. The chips are the top-performing members of AMD’s new 4000 mobile series, which is based on th...

Microsoft is revealing the full specs for its Xbox Series X console today, and it includes support for removable storage and much faster load times for games. The software giant will be us...

Image: Beats They’ve already leaked plenty and Walmart even put them on shelves before an official announcement, but now Apple’s Beats brand is launching the new Powerbeats 4 earbuds...

Image: Beats They’ve already leaked plenty and Walmart even put them on shelves before an official announcement, but now Apple’s Beats brand is launching the new Powerbeats 4 earbuds...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge France’s competition authority, the Autorité de la Concurrence, has fined Apple €1.1 billion (around $1.2 billion) for illegally restricting ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has launched a new interactive Bing map to provide information on the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. T...

Microsoft Teams Microsoft’s chat and communications tool, Microsoft Teams, is down across Europe this morning. The outage started just as thousands of workers started to sign into the ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Steam smashed its all-time record for concurrent users over the weekend with a 24-hour peak set at 20,313,451, according to data from the PC gamin...

Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Google’s sister company Verily has launched a screening website for people who want to get tested for COVID-19. However, Verily’s website is ...

Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge The British government is opening a public consultation into the use of electric scooters in what is likely to be the first step toward legalizing them in...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox Live service is experiencing issues today, meaning a lot of homebound people who are practicing social distancing aren’t able...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox Live service was experiencing issues today, meaning a lot of homebound people who are practicing social distancing weren’t ab...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon says its Prime delivery service is experiencing delays, and it’s running out of stock on some household staples due to the coronavirus ou...

Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Saturday night, Google laid out everything it’s doing in response to the coronavirus outbreak in its own words — after days of confusion over ex...

Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden will participate in tonight’s Democratic debate in Washington, DC. It was originally schedul...

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...

Image: WinFuture Apple’s still-unannounced Powerbeats 4 earbuds were spotted at a Walmart in Rochester, New York over the weekend, confirming some specs that previously leaked includin...

Passengers wait in long lines at O’Hare in Chicago on March 14th. | Brooke Geiger McDonald/Twitter Travelers entering the US from Europe waited for hours in long lines Saturday as new ...

One of the two young testers Photo: Rachel Sturtz My husband and I have flown with our twin sons since they were infants. I’ve breastfed them next to a couple of middle-aged men w...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In an effort to ensure the “credibility” of health and safety information in its App Store, Apple is tightening requirements for all coronavir...

Apple Card customers may be able to skip their March payments without interest charges as long as they’re enrolled in its Customer Assistance Program according to 9to5Mac. The company se...

Lucasfilm On top of bringing Frozen 2 to Disney Plus three months early, Disney is also making Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker available to purchase a few days early. The Rise of Skywa...

Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images The White House continued to give conflicting information Saturday about a website Google is supposedly building to help people determine whether an...

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images A coronavirus relief package passed the House 363-40-1 early Saturday, after hours of negotiations between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Ste...

Image: Pixar If the world weren’t on lockdown, I’d suggest you all go out to see First Cow, which just came out last weekend. It’s the latest movie from Kelly Reichardt, and despit...

Photo by Wang HE/Getty Images Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma says he is donating 500,000 coronavirus testing kits and one million protective face masks to the United States, Reuters reports....

When I logged onto Joe Biden’s first-ever virtual town hall, I was greeted with one Illinois senator adjusting the angle of her webcam and another showing off an adorable (but screaming)...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is temporary closing all of its retail stores “outside of Greater China” until March 27th, CEO Tim Cook announced in a letter posted...

Disney has decided to bring its incredibly popular Frozen 2 to its Disney Plus streaming service three months early “surprising families with some fun and joy during this challenging per...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Comcast and T-Mobile have announced suspensions of their internet data cap policies in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Comcast says it will ...

Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images Elon Musk sent a memo to SpaceX employees on Friday underplaying the dangers of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, which is now co...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google is not working with the US government in building a nationwide website to help people determine whether and how to get a novel coronavirus te...

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 begi...

Both Netflix and Disney have halted productions on current films and TV shows in an attempt to prevent the further spread of the novel coronavirus. Netflix confirmed to The Verge that it ...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images While at Mar-a-Lago last week, President Trump took a picture. In it, he’s standing next to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s press secretary, w...

Photo by Saeed Adyani / Netflix Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, is stepping down from the board of the company. Gates previously served as CEO of Microsoft until 2008...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Oculus Quest untethered virtual reality headset is available on Oculus’ website. The ship date at the time of publishing is March 16th. ...

Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images The Transportation Security Administration announced that it was updating its policies concerning liquids in carry-on baggage in response to the no...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is attempting to stop the spread of misinformation about the novel coronavirus pandemic that’s surfacing through its augmented reality...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google is working with the US government in building a specialized website to help people determine whether and how to get a coronavirus test, Presi...

Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Royal Caribbean will suspend all cruises passing through the United States for at least 30 days as the country declares...

Photo: MSQRD Facebook will shut down MSQRD, its AR face-filtering app, this April, the company announced today. On April 13th, Facebook will remove the MSQRD app from both the Android a...

wAMC has emerged as the first US movie theater chain to respond to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, with plans to reduce auditorium attendance by 50 percent of the standard level to...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T is the latest enormous company to instruct its employees to start working from home if they haven’t already. The work-from-home edict d...

Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images Public transportation ridership is down sharply in some major cities, with many residents opting to work from home or avoid taking transit t...

Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images President Donald Trump declared a federal state of emergency as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread throughout the US. The move frees up addit...

Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images Delta Air Lines is reducing its flight capacity by 40 percent due to a coronavirus-related dropoff in demand, marking the biggest redu...

Photo credit should read JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images Ford, General Motors, and Fiat Chrysler have started telling non-factory employees to work remotely in order to avoid contract...

Over the last few weeks, a number of high-profile movie releases have been delayed due to the spread of the novel coronavirus. No Time to Die, the new James Bond movie, will now be release...

In the era of social distancing that many of us now live in as part of a worldwide effort to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic, tons of people are now stuck at home for day...

A recent incident in Arizona is highlighting the divide between Waymo employees and third-party safety drivers Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Airbnb is extending its extenuating circumstances policy to the US due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The policy ensures guests can canc...

Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet isn’t just a great comedy about video games, but a strand connecting an older, weirder era of its culture to the more mainstream world of workplace comedi...

Photo: Tyler Demogenes / Atlanta Faze The city-based Call of Duty League is shifting to a new format amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, the league said that upc...

Image: The Bold Type Working from home is not new for me — in fact, it’s something I’m used to. Besides spending years as a freelancer and a contract worker for several publication...

Fred Haise, James Lovell, and John Swigert after splashing down from Apollo 13 | Image: NASA The 50th anniversary of NASA’s infamous Apollo 13 mission is almost here, and a new website...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai introduced a new broadband and telecom industry measure on Friday called the Keep Americans C...

Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images Louisiana will postpone its April presidential primaries, becoming the first state to do so in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, CNB...

Activists prepping for a rally that was supposed to take place yesterday on Wall Street thought they were being careful. They would stand a few feet away from each other while protesting a...

For a certain kind of person, all I need to say is “Peggle” and “RPG,” and you’ll get excited. It just makes sense, right? Take the lighthearted play of Popcap’s classic puzzle...

Apple has announced that this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference will be held online due to the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus. Apple says the event, to start on an unspecif...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verg In yet another week dominated by coronavirus news, The Vergecast is offering an audio reprieve for 90 minutes to discuss some lighter topics in the world...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo has come out triumphant in a patent dispute with hardware developer Gamevice, which initially sued Nintendo for allegedly infringing on a pate...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Microsoft Store is offering discounts on gaming laptops, some of its own Surface lineup of PCs, and more in celebration of Pi Day tomorrow...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook and Twitter have disabled dozens of accounts tied to an elaborate Russia-linked troll network based in Ghana that targeted African Americ...

James Bareham / The Verge Pokémon Go creator Niantic is doing its part to keep players inside with temporary tweaks to the game that will make it easier to play without leaving home. Th...

YouTube YouTube has officially phased out its Trending tab for a new section called Explore on its iOS and Android apps. Similar to Trending, the Explore page includes videos that are po...

Image: @rquandt Images of what appears to be a new 007-branded Kevlar case for HMD’s Nokia 6.2 phone have leaked online, and it almost makes the midrange handset look bulletproof. The ...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon In 2011, it suddenly became much more difficult to buy a Ford in three specific shades of red. Those colors, as well as one called “tuxedo black,” ...

Last December, Jessica Luu thanked her customers for keeping her jewelry store in the top 1 percent of Etsy shops for yet another year, according to rankings from a third-party analytics s...

Image: Premier League Premier League football (soccer) matches have been suspended in England until April 3rd due to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, a group of the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has become one of the most ubiquitous methods of communication in use today. It’s where many of us follow the news (including the presi...

Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images It took a global pandemic for big tech companies to protect their hourly workers, support staff, and independent contractors with an economi...

Image: Infowars New York attorney general Letitia James has ordered radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to stop claiming that InfoWars’ products can protect against the novel...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge This week has felt like a year. One thing I’ve been thinking about is how most stories in tech — heck most news stories in general — tend to have...

A sign says that the pizzeria ‘La Fermata’ is closed due to the coronavirus emergency. The Italian government shutted down majority of stores to halt the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus ...

Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images Apple has reopened all 42 of its branded retail stores in China as of today, a company spokesperson confirmed to Bloomberg and Reuters. The ...

Image: Sennheiser A little under a year and a half after it released its first pair of true wireless earbuds, Sennheiser is back with a follow-up: the Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 2...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Slack says it will continue to pay contractors while its offices are shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement comes after five ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has asked all employees to work from home and postponed the company’s planned partner summit, according to an internal mem...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Build developer conference is the latest tech event to be affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The software giant was plann...

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images A judge has ordered the release of former US Army analyst Chelsea Manning from a Virginia jail. Manning has been imprisoned since May 2019 for refusing ...

Image: Disney Disney is delaying Mulan’s release due to the novel coronavirus pandemic spreading across the world, according to Variety. There is no new release date at this time. The ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T is suspending data caps for broadband internet customers on Thursday, as waves of employees face new work-from-home policies from US comp...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Comcast is increasing the speed of its discounted internet service for low-income households to 25Mbps down, an increase from 15Mbps down. Upload ...

Photo: Tyler Demogenes / Atlanta Faze The city-based Call of Duty League is shifting to a new format amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, the league said that upc...

Brizzly+ Brizzly, a Twitter client that first launched in 2009, is back with a new goal to serve the needs of all the world’s Twitter power users. The company is launching its Brizzly ...

Photo by Axel Heimken/picture alliance via Getty Images Juul Labs co-founder James Monsees is planning to step down as adviser and board member of the beleaguered e-cigarette company, Bl...

Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG Disney will close its Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California following concerns about contributing to the spread of the novel coronavirus. Th...

Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG Disney will close parks in its Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, and Disneyland Paris followin...

Photo by David Madison/Getty Images A list of dubious coronavirus tips is going viral on Facebook and Twitter, as well as spreading through email. It falsely claims to be from the Stanfo...

Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images During a disease outbreak, one of the best tools at the disposal of public health officials is low-tech detective work. When a person is diagn...

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images After the National Hockey League announced on Thursday that it was pausing its 2019–20 season amid growing concerns over the novel coronavirus pande...

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images After the National Hockey League announced on Thursday that it was pausing its 2019–20 season amid growing concerns over the novel coronavirus pande...

Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a state ban on most large public gatherings of over 500 people as New York wor...

Photo by John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images For anyone looking to escape coronavirus headlines last night — travel banned, Forrest Gump tested positive, basketball was canceled �...

Tag Heuer has announced the third generation of its Connected Wear OS smartwatch, with the goal of improving both the “smart” and the “watch” halves of the product. Changes include...

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Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images The American Civil Liberties Union has sued for information about the Trump administration’s controversial facial recognition p...

Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images As various sports leagues and major conferences decide to postpone seasons and events in wake of the spreading coronavirus pandemic, Disn...

Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images As various sports leagues and major conferences decide to postpone seasons and events in wake of the spreading coronavirus pandemic, Disn...

Due to ongoing concerns about viral content, The Verge is issuing new guidance regarding exposure to memes about touching one’s face. Effective immediately, please discontinue use of the...

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Photo: Universal Pictures Universal Pictures has delayed the release of F9, the ninth installment in the Fast and Furious franchise, to 2021 amid coronavirus fears. The movie was set to ...

Paramount is delaying the release of A Quiet Place Part II indefinitely due to concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus. The film follows other major film delays, including the up...

The Lil Nas X cover of the New York Times Magazine is one of three for its music issue | New York Times Magazine On Sunday, the annual music issue of The New York Times Magazine will fea...

Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling via Getty Images Carnival Corporation has announced that it’s suspending operations of the Princess Cruises line of ships after two of them became hotspots for the s...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon’s Echo Show 8 is the smart display that we recommend for most people, and now, it’s more affordable than usual. Woot (owned by Amazon) is sell...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge | Photo of Donald J. Trump by Timothy A. Clary / Getty Images He’s only making the crisis worse Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon and Alex Castro / The Verge In December 2019, a new coronavirus appeared in Wuhan, China. It has since infected thousands across the globe, and the World...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The United States has once again pushed back the date when its full ban on doing business with Huawei will take effect, the Department of Commerce...

An artistic rendering of the Rosalind Franklin rover on the surface of Mars | Image: ESA Europe and Russia have decided to push back the launch of their joint robotic rover to Mars until...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Robert Yang has just said the magic number. Twitch chat suddenly has an echo, and it sounds like “nice.” Yang, a developer and New York Univer...

Nintendo and Lego are teaming up to reveal Super Mario-themed sets that combine the traditional building blocks with digital technology, creating a new type of interactive playset somewher...

The author, in her home office, hard at work using her tray. Photo: Courtesy of Liz Carey Over the course of my career as a writer, I have probably spent the cost of my son’s futu...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon and Alex Castro / The Verge The White House ordered for dozens of top-level meetings about the novel coronavirus to be classified, a move that may have h...

Image: Shadow Cloud gaming service Shadow, from the French startup Blade, is drastically lowering its price in a bid to compete with a new wave of platforms from Google and Nvidia. Now, ...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verge The coronavirus is officially a pandemic and it has overshadowed quite a lot of other news. We’ve got stories on all the big news from yesterday, incl...

The Discord app is available across a range of devices. | Image: Discord Discord is upping the amount of people who can simultaneously view a live stream from 10 to 50 as a result of the...

EARN IT Act co-sponsor Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., talks with reporters in the Capitol on March 3rd | Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images A thing about writing a ne...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg Apple is planning to reintroduce scissor-switch keyboards to more laptops soon, according to generally accurate analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. New MacBook Pro and...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge All Twitter employees must work from home until further notice in order to help slow the spread of COVID-19, the company announced today. Twitter ...

Photo by Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images The National Basketball Association has announced that it will suspend all games after tonight until further notice, following a player o...

Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump announced that his administration would be rolling new travel restrictions, prohibiting...

Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump announced that his administration would be rolling new travel restrictions, prohibiting...

Image: Google Google can apparently revoke the software licenses from Android TV makers if they also make devices running certain forked versions of its operating system, including Amazo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has begun restricting the types of sellers on its third-party Marketplace platform that can sell health and sanitation products like face m...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon will give all employees diagnosed with the novel coronavirus or put into quarantine up to two weeks of pay, the company announced today. T...

Google has launched a new Chrome tool that allows developers to mimic visual impairments like color blindness to help them fix accessibility issues on their sites. Developers can use this...

Image: 9to5Mac Earlier leaks have already revealed a lot of the bigger changes rumored to be coming to watchOS 7 and the Apple Watch Series 6, including sleep tracking and watchface shar...

Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images EvergreenHealth hospital in Kirkland, Washington, is at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, due to the fact that the ...

Montblanc Montblanc has unveiled its first set of headphones: the wireless, noise-canceling MB 01 Smart Headphones. They’re built for luxury and long flights, and are predictably expen...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The crown jewel of Quibi’s forthcoming short form video streaming service is a piece of technology the company refers to as “Turnstyle,” whi...

Photo: Robert Paul for Blizzard Entertainment. The Overwatch League is going on hiatus amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Today, Blizzard announced that the league was canceling all ev...

Twitch is more than just a game streaming platform, and Amazon wants to use it as such by bringing more sports matches to the platform. Today, the Women’s National Soccer League announc...

Image: Activision The new game mode brings some fresh innovations to the genre Continue reading… ...

Photo by Aaron Lavinsky / Star Tribune via Getty Images Nearly everyone in the US will be affected in some way by the COVID-19 pandemic, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus — b...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google has advised all employees in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to work from home starting March 12th, expanding a recommendation sent Tuesd...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is indefinitely closing all 17 of its Apple Store retail locations in Italy due to the ongoing spread of the coronavirus, according to notic...

Photo by John Moore/Getty Images Washington state and San Francisco are banning large gatherings to help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. The bans are a way to create social d...

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today that E3, North America’s biggest gaming conference, is canceled. As effects from the coronavirus continue to ripple across th...

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Upon its release in 1998, Half-Life instantly became my favorite game of all time. That wasn’t saying much, really, since we’d only just set up our first family computer, and I’d bar...

Cleaning staff disinfects a subway station in New York City. | Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images The novel coronavirus has now reached the level of a global pandemic. That does not, ho...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The California attorney general’s office announced Wednesday that it would not appeal a federal court decision approving the $26 billion T-Mobil...

Technology! There is so much of it. And it’s good! Look, if you’re a person who likes wireless headphones, or a person who likes colors, I have good news for you courtesy of 9to5Google...

Image: Lordstown Motors One of the stranger dramas that’s played out during Donald Trump’s presidency is that of the former General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio. In a bid to cut...

Image: Ring Amazon’s Ring announced two new battery-powered doorbell video cameras today: the Ring Video Doorbell 3 and a new “plus” model, the Ring Video Doorbell 3 Plus. The Vide...

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Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images The coronavirus sweeping across the world is a pandemic, the World Health Organization declared today. There are now over 118,000 cases of ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The European Commission has announced plans for new “right to repair” rules that it hopes will cover phones, tablets, and laptops by 2021. If ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge You can get $50 off of the latest Apple iPad mini at Best Buy, bringing the starting price down to $349. This model doesn’t often see a disc...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is reassessing its policies in an effort to let some creators monetize videos they make about the novel coronavirus outbreak. A few weeks...

Photo by Aaron Lavinsky / Star Tribune via Getty Images In South Korea, health officials have been testing hundreds of people for the novel coronavirus every day at fast-food-style drive...

Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images E3 is the latest major event to be canceled in the wake of the new coronavirus. Ars Technica and Bloomberg were first to r...

Aerospace company Blue Origin has finished building its mission control center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where engineers will monitor launches of the company’s future New Glenn rocket....

By doing less than the S20 Ultra, Samsung achieves more Continue reading… ...

Verizon is launching a Yahoo-branded mobile phone service called Yahoo Mobile in an attempt to use consumers’ total apathy toward familiarity with the Yahoo brand to kickstart a new wire...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber is considering suspending the accounts of riders and drivers who have been infected or come in contact with COVID-19, the disease caused by t...

Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images Greta Thunberg is calling on other young climate activists to avoid big protests and move their demonstrations online amid efforts to contain the no...

The novel coronavirus outbreak has forced a lot more people to work from home these days, and many of them are keeping in touch via video conferencing software like Zoom. If you find yours...

Apple’s canceled AirPower charger left a vacancy in the wireless charging market, which plenty of companies have since been trying to fill. The latest is Logitech, which announced its $1...

Evan Blass Notable phone leaker Evan Blass tweeted images of billboard mockups that claim to show the Google Pixel 4A’s starting price: $399. This is the same starting price as the Pix...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan has filed a lawsuit against Clearview AI and has asked the court to order the company to stop collecting Vermonters�...

Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images If you’re starting to work from home or just got a remote position, you’re probably looking forward to not spending time on a frustrat...

LG has announced that its 2020 range of TVs will start to become available in the US and South Korea this month. We saw the lineup back at CES in January, and some of the highlights includ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The week of iOS 14-based leaks continues, with hints about new Apple hardware and a new home screen view. The rumored list for apps on the home screen vi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last week, as COVID-19 began its spread around the globe, I noted here that the epidemic had prompted a notable change in the big tech platforms. ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is currently scouting out locations for a new Gigafactory in the center of the United States, he announced on Twitter. Musk referred to the new plant as the “Cybertru...

Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images E3 is the latest major event to be canceled in the wake of the new coronavirus, according to reports. Ars Technica and Blo...

Photo by Timothy Norris/Getty Images for Coachella The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has been postponed until October due to coronavirus, festival organizer Goldenvoice announ...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google sent a memo to all of its North America-based employees recommending they work from until at least April 10th due to coronavirus, the company...

Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images US health insurance companies will waive copays for testing and cover the cost of treatment for the novel coronavirus, said Vice President Mike Pence du...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Whisper, an anonymous secret-sharing mobile app that rose to prominence more than half a decade ago, has been inadvertently exposing sensitive inf...

Photo by Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto via Getty Images Efforts to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus are changing the way people work and play — and those changes are temporarily curbing...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge After trying to establish the Chromecast and later Chromecast Ultra as affordable, flexible streaming devices, the company is now focused on p...

Photo: Epic Games The Epic Games Store now allows you to add games to a wishlist, so you can save games you are interested in buying later and eventually get notifications when they’re...

Photo by ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images The Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden campaigns have canceled events in Cleveland, Ohio Tuesday after three cases of coronavirus were confirmed in t...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In light of the novel coronavirus outbreak and its massive impact on the travel industry, Airbnb has tweaked its reservation policies to help ...

Photo By Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The New York International Auto Show is the latest big event to be postponed due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The show was supposed to o...

Photo by Johannes Simon / Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is funding a significant increase in coronavirus testing in the San Francisco Bay Area through two philanthropic group...

Photo by Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Instacart, DoorDash, and Postmates have announced new policies to help their gig workers with potential financial burdens they migh...

Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images Congress is maintaining a push for more antitrust enforcement — including new legislation and a hearing where members excoriated Google and Amazon. To...

Image: Levi’s / Nintendo We’ve known about the upcoming Super Mario-themed collaboration between Levi’s and Nintendo since last week, but it wasn’t until Tuesday morning that the...

Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images It seems obvious now that the coronavirus is going to reshape the ways we interact with each other: conferences have been canceled, the stock ...

Perfect World Entertainment Our hands-on with the game’s card game inspired gameplay Continue reading… ...

NASA is still having trouble managing the development of its next big rocket, the Space Launch System, a new audit has found. The report is the latest in a string of damning reports from N...

Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call The Federal Communications Commission’s latest plan to expand high-speed internet access across the country has come under criticism by members of Co...

illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Game Developers Conference will stream many of the talks it would have aired at its canceled event, organizers announced today. “Thanks to s...

Photo: Reddit Reddit now allows brands to pay to appear in the popular discussion site’s tending section. The ads, called Trending Takeovers, run on both desktop and mobile. Companies ...

Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Farewell “Infrastructure Week.” We hardly knew ye. The group that coined the weeklong advocacy effort-turned-perennial punch...

Photo by Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Instacart has announced new updates to its sick leave policies that give more of its workers, including part-time employees, access...

Images: Daimler Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler just unveiled the newest version of the company’s eVito commercial electric passenger van for the European market, and the company ...

Image: Guerilla Games It’s official: Horizon Zero Dawn is coming to PC. Hermen Hulst, who runs PlayStation Worldwide Studios, confirmed in an interview with Sony’s PlayStation blog t...

Before you can spend all of your time in Animal Crossing: New Horizons fishing and getting stung by wasps, you need to decide what your island will look like. Where should you put your ten...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The worst part about using YouTube as a free service is the 5- or 15-second non-skippable ads that play before many videos — but at least using ...

Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images People in the US are worried about the new coronavirus outbreak. That concern is warranted: the virus is a scary new threat, it c...

We’ve all been there: you have a sudden itch to watch a specific movie, and, after a cursory search of Netflix, you realize it’s not there. Next step: Google. Type in a search query fo...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge More details about Apple’s future hardware and software plans are leaking out, thanks to an apparent leaked build of iOS 14 (which, theoreti...

The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game. From frog detectives to adventuring fruit Continue reading… ...

TechnoLike Plus Following yesterday’s leak that allegedly showed the Google Pixel 4A in a fabric case, YouTube channel TechnoLike Plus has shared an extensive hands-on with the purport...

Modern chemistry still needs glassblowers Continue reading… ...

This year’s annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) might have been postponed amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, but that’s not stopping Microsoft from streaming what it had planned ...

Dyson today unveiled the Corrale, the latest product in its hair care collection. The Corrale is a cordless hair straightener that features a flexible copper plate designed to hold the hai...

Discounts on Nintendo Switch games, especially ones published by Nintendo itself, are rare. But they’re in full swing today, March 10th (cheekily known as “Mar10” day in celebration ...

Uber’s self-driving cars made their first appearance on the streets of San Francisco since the company scaled back its autonomous testing program in the wake of a fatal crash in Arizona....

Yelp Yelp knows its credibility is only as good as its reviews, so today, it’s releasing its first Consumer Alerts Report, which details incidents in which Yelp’s team intervened to ...

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Madden is getting some competition: today publisher 2K and the NFL announced a new multiyear, multi-game partnership for new football titles. No spec...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg Although we have no idea if Apple plans on holding a Spring hardware event or even its annual summer WWDC developer’s conference, we are starting to ha...

Jack Dorsey photographed during London Tech Week | Photo by Matt Crossick/PA Images via Getty Images On Thursday, after Jack Dorsey’s first public comments since he was targeted by act...

Cameras like the Arlo Baby should be very secure. | Image: Arlo Owners of both Arlo and Blink camera systems have been notified recently of required changes to their accounts meant to en...

The one millionth vehicle was a red Tesla Model Y. | Image: @elonmusk Tesla has produced one million electric cars, the company’s CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter. Musk made the anno...

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Google, Adidas, and EA have teamed up on a smart shoe insole that connects to your phone and can turn your kicks and movement on the soccer field in...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Yesterday 9to5Mac posted details of several new features it found in supposed unreleased iOS 14 code, and now MacRumors is adding to the delug...

Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images Italy will be placed on lockdown amid the ongoing spread of coronavirus, the country’s prime minister said. That’s a massive expansion of yesterd...

Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aimé stepped down as Nintendo of America president in February 2019, set on retiring and relaxing after more than a deca...

A batch of 60 Starlink satellites just before being deployed into orbit | Image: SpaceX SpaceX executives aren’t focused on spinning off SpaceX’s internet-from-space project into its...

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 begi...

Photo: DoNotPay DoNotPay, the company responsible for creating an AI-powered app that provides legal advice, has released a new product that allows you to privately share your login info...

Cleaning staff disinfects a subway station in New York City. | Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images SXSW, the annual event each year in Austin, Texas, was canceled one week before it was ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon told employees in New York and New Jersey that they should work from home for the month of March if they can, CNBC reports. The internet gi...

Image: BMW The BMW iX3, the company’s first long-range electric vehicle, won’t be coming to the US after all. While the German automaker had previously left the door open to a US rel...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lambda School, the controversial coding bootcamp, is threatening a former employee for speaking out about problems at the school. In an article p...

An early concept rendering of the Lyriq from 2019. | Image: Cadillac Cadillac has canceled the April 2nd debut of the Lyriq, the first electric SUV being built on parent company General ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge As multiple publishers and developers pull their games from Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud game streaming service, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney recently tweeted i...

NASA, South Korea, and the European Space Agency are working together on a “virtual constellation” of space-based instruments to document global air quality in unprecedented detail. Fo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last week, Facebook announced that it would begin “temporarily” banning the sale of medical face masks on its online marketplace “over the n...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge iOS 14 is set to have improved system-wide support for mouse cursors, according to 9to5Mac. iPadOS 13 introduced rudimentary mouse support, but you have t...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook has applied a “partly false” label to a video of former Vice President Joe Biden that was edited to make it sound like he was sayin...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Emergency Operations Center | Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Ten US states are in states of emergency over COVID-19, the disea...

Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/NurPhoto via Getty Images In Wuhan, China, where the novel coronavirus outbreak began, schools are closed, so kids have had to use an Alibaba-owned corporate ...

Photo: Firesprite Games Sci-fi survival horror game The Persistence will come to PC, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One this summer, according to an announcement trailer uploaded by the ...

A new Call of Duty battle royale game is arriving tomorrow to compete with PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Fortnite, and Apex Legends. Call of Duty: Warzone is a new free-to-play battle r...

Shelves are emptied of hand sanitizer in the UK. | Photo by Matthew Horwood / Getty Images Faced with shortages of hand sanitizer amid the new coronavirus outbreak, New York state has de...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple appears to be readying some big changes to watchOS 7. 9to5Mac reports that the next major Apple Watch update, watchOS 7, will finally include slee...

After teasing its connected bike to rival Peloton last summer, SoulCycle today released official details about its own at-home offering. By and large, it looks very similar to Peloton’s:...

Image: Robinhood Stock trading app Robinhood is currently experiencing its third outage in a week as US stocks have plummeted. (Today’s fall was so bad that the stock exchange actually...

Apple is working on a feature that will allow the Apple Watch to detect blood oxygen levels for the first time, according to snippets of iOS 14 code obtained by 9to5Mac. Currently, Apple ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge 9to5Mac has managed to obtain code for an early build of Apple’s iOS 14 update, and it has revealed a preview (albeit a small one) of the compan...

Devs is not a show that’s out to confuse you. The miniseries — which is billed as an FX show but airs exclusively on Hulu — bears a lot of the hallmarks of extremely cerebral, puzzle...

Photo: Paul de Leon/Riot Games The biggest esports events in the world, whether it’s a mid-season Overwatch League match or a major Counter-Strike tournament, almost always take place ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple has launched a repair program for its third-generation iPad Airs that recently had their screens randomly and permanently turn black. The company ...

Aerial view of NASA Ames Research Center | Image: NASA One of NASA’s research centers in California has issued a mandatory telework policy after one of its employees tested positive fo...

The tool automatically places the lyrics of your choice over hand-washing instructions. | Image: Wash Your Lyrics By this point, everyone (hopefully) knows that you should be washing you...

Image: Spotify Spotify recently announced a new look for navigation on its iOS app, and now it’s changing things up with the home screen. Starting today, all Spotify users will see a r...

The King County Health and Medical Area Command coordinates the area’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak. | Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty Images The Bill and Melinda Gates Fou...

iOttie Amazon is highlighting some price cuts on iOttie’s suite of car dashboard mounts for your phone, a practical gadget that’s worth picking up if you want to keep your phone secu...

Photo by Prakash Singh / AFP via Getty Images Jack Dorsey will remain Twitter’s CEO as part of a deal the company reached with Elliott Management, an activist investor firm that, for t...

Natasha Romanoff’s secretive past is a core part of her character’s story arc over the course of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but a final trailer for Black Widow promises to explore ...

Photo by Yana Paskova / Getty Images Our subways and buses are about to get the delousing of their lives Continue reading… ...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge The Verge’s deals team is one of the best around when it comes to finding you great discounts on the best technology products. But why buy cheap stuf...

Images that claim to be of Google’s unannounced Pixel 4A, the midrange version of last year’s Pixel 4, have appeared online for the first time. The images, which were posted on Reddit ...

The Powerbeats 4 feature a new design with their cable coming down from the rear of the earbuds. | Image: WinFuture Images of Apple’s unannounced Powerbeats 4 earbuds have appeared onl...

The Nikon D6. | Image: Nikon Nikon just announced a delay of its D6 camera for professional sports photographers. The company originally planned for a March release, but that’s been pu...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Amazon will start selling the technology behind its cashierless Amazon Go stores to other retailers, according to Reuters. Amazon reportedly has “seve...

Either Unihertz is a really fun company to work at, or it decides each new phone concept by pulling random specs out of a hat. Maybe both. How else do you explain the existence of, say, th...

Twitter screenshot Twitter has applied a “manipulated media” tag to a doctored video of former Vice President Joe Biden that was shared by White House social media director Dan Scavi...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The US State Department issued an alert Sunday urging US citizens “particularly travelers with underlying health conditions” not to travel by cr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Calling the coronavirus outbreak an “unprecedented event,” Apple CEO Tim Cook is encouraging employees at several of its global offices to “...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge A sneak peek of the product page for the upcoming Ring Video Doorbell 3 shows some upgrades over the Video Doorbell 2. Dave Zatz at Zatz Not Funny discov...

Heritage Auctions A prototype of the Nintendo Play Station, a console that never came to market, fetched $360,000 at an auction over the weekend, CNN reports. Greg McLemore, founder of P...

You may not be training for the Olympics or a marathon, but that doesn’t mean you don’t need a pair of headphones that stay put and sound great. Many athletes use headphones for an ext...

Photo by ANDREA PATTARO/AFP via Getty Images A massive region in northern Italy that includes Milan and Venice is under government-ordered lockdown as officials struggle to contain the s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Florida man who used a fitness app to track his bike rides found himself a suspect in a burglary when police used a geofence warrant to collect ...

A woman wearing a respiratory mask exits the Palace of Justice in Milan. | Photo by PIERO CRUCIATTI/AFP via Getty Images Italy’s government is considering a lockdown of the northern Lo...

Photo by David Madison/Getty Images In-person classes at Stanford University will be canceled beginning March 9th, as a faculty member has tested positive for coronavirus, and two studen...

Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images Amtrak is canceling its Acela nonstop service between Washington D.C. and New York, because of reduced demand due to the coron...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is temporarily banning ads and commerce listings for medical face masks amid growing concern over coronavirus-related exploitation, CNBC...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge You’ve made it to the weekend. Whether you’re still working or you finally have some time to kick your feet up, you may want to know about some deals...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has told its contract Flex drivers, which deliver the e-commerce company’s packages, to stay home if they get sick amid the ongoing coron...

NASA/Kim Shiflett Late last night, SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket on the company’s 20th cargo mission to the International Space Station, sending more than 4,500 poun...

Image: Sony Pictures Animation I spent last week watching through the new High Fidelity, Hulu’s adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel (and, more importantly, an update to the much-loved ...

In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film about a pandemic, Contagion, is seeing a spike in viewing. The problem is that Contagion isn’t streaming anywhere...

Photo by Mauro Ujetto/NurPhoto via Getty Images This week, a person incarcerated in King County Jail in downtown Seattle was taken to the hospital after they were suspected of having the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has told its contract Flex drivers, which deliver the e-commerce company’s packages, to stay home if they get sick amid the ongoing coron...

Image: Postmates Food delivery platform Postmates is starting what the company is calling a “non-contact delivery” initiative designed to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus wh...

Nvidia said today that game publisher 2K Games is pulling its library from the company’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service at 2K’s request. “Per publisher request, please be advised ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is slowly but steadily opening its Stadia cloud gaming service to more interested customers, with a new promotion starting this month t...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is slowly but steadily opening its Stadia cloud gaming service to more interested customers, with a new promotion starting this month t...

Numerous tech companies have asked their Seattle-based employees to work from home to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Both Amazon and Facebook have shut down offices in t...

Photo by Adi Robertson / The Verge SXSW, the annual tech, music, and film meetup held in downtown Austin, is the latest major conference to be canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, a...

Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter have all pledged to pay hourly workers their regular rate even if those staffers are asked to remain at hom...

Image: Alex Castro / The Verge As COVID-19 spreads within the United States and across the globe, public health officials are calling for fewer public gatherings — which is pushing man...

Photo: Emerald City Comic Con Seattle’s annual comic book convention, Emerald City Comic Con, has been postponed amid growing concern surrounding the coronavirus outbreak. The event, w...

Companies based in Santa Clara County, California — which includes Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and San Jose — should avoid travel and postpone or cancel mass gatherings, the c...

Photo by May James/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Restrictions on flights in and out of China wouldn’t have prevented the novel coronavirus from circling the globe, a new mod...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon disrupted the books, grocery, and shipping business, and now it’s set its sights on viral infections. The tech company has apparently tas...

Today, whales are a beloved icon right up there with polar bears when it comes to mascots for protecting the planet. That wasn’t the case in 1966 when biologist Roger Payne came upon a d...

Walt Disney Pictures Disney Plus is reportedly getting a new Beauty and the Beast prequel series based on the 2017 live-action remake, which will see Luke Evans and Josh Gad reprise thei...

Image: eBay eBay is escalating its fight against online price gouging during the coronavirus outbreak with a new outright ban on all sales of face masks, hand sanitizer, and disinfectant...

It’s a bit overwhelming to think of how many famous people we’re bombarded with every day. Ten years ago, I was content to keep a Facebook profile connected to my aunts and friends fro...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A well-hidden feature in macOS Catalina makes it simple to resize and arrange your windows without having to clumsily drag them around. Thankf...

Images: Koenigsegg Three electric motors, one combustion engine, and 1,700 horsepower Continue reading… ...

LoL Park full of fans on April 13th, 2019. | Photo by Timo Verdeil/ESPAT Media via Getty Images Fans, players, and broadcasters are all dealing with the fallout Continue readi...

What is Quibi? Is it the final frontier in the streaming wars? Is it vaporware that’s managed to secure nearly $2 billion in investment funding before it’s even launched? Is it going t...

Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images Only 1,895 people have been tested for the novel coronavirus in the US, according to reporting by The Atlantic. That’s a shockingly low number: the ...

Photo: Teami UK The Federal Trade Commission alleges that “detox tea” company Teami misled consumers with outrageous health claims and advertisements from influencers who failed to c...

Philips’ original model Hue Bridge — used by the company’s popular Hue bulbs to interface with smartphones and digital assistants — is losing support for all internet connected ser...

illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A yearlong analysis of Facebook’s Ad Library has revealed “significant systemic flaws” in the way the platform monitors and enforces its pol...

Quibi doesn’t have the same immediate brand recognition as Disney and HBO, or YouTube and Instagram, but the latest entrant in the war for people’s attention is preparing to jump into ...

Quibi is finally almost here, and in an effort to entice people who are probably already spending too much on content every month, the short form video streaming service is giving people a...

Image: Nreal Nreal is adding hand tracking to its upcoming mixed reality headsets. It’s partnering with a company called Clay AIR, which makes a camera-based system for tracking gestur...

The non-Motorola Moto costs more than it should Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Twitter’s non-chronological timeline was always a bit controversial. After all, the beauty of Twitter is that things are happening in real t...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge After weeks of teasing out our purchase of Apple’s new redesigned Mac Pro, The Verge’s reviews of the computer and the Pro Display monitor have bee...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Sony’s WH-1000XM3 wireless, noise-canceling headphones are $100 off right now at Newegg. This model is among the best that you can buy, and they usua...

Image: Konami The TurboGrafx-16 Mini, a retro revival of the classic Japanese gaming console originally set to be released on March 19th, has been delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak...

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images President Donald Trump signed an emergency supplemental spending bill Friday to aid the US’s response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The spending...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Security researchers are warning of a major new security flaw inside Intel processors, and it could defeat hardware-based encryption and DRM prote...

Murder by Numbers has just about everything you’d expect from an interactive crime drama: surprise twists, complex motives, brutal murders, and lots of clues to uncover. In some ways, it...

Pokémon spinoffs come in varying levels of success. Some, like Pokémon Quest, or Magikarp Jump, are cute adventures that feel lovingly crafted. Others, like Pokémon Pinball, Pokémon Sn...

Photo: Feature China / Barcroft Media via Getty Images Some nurses at Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, New York, are under quarantine after they were exposed to the novel coronavirus by ...

Photo by Liu Zhongjun/China News Service via Getty Images As the novel coronavirus spreads around the country, US agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are encoura...

Photo via Daria Nepriakhina / Unsplash It’s a romance story, really: boy asks girl to go to Milan for Valentine’s Day weekend. They dine, wine, ski, shop, then come ho...

Netflix Netflix’s Castlevania is the rare video game adaptation that’s actually worth watching. Executive produced by Adi Shankar and written by prolific comics author Warren Ellis, ...

Frictional Games Fantastic 2010 horror game Amnesia: The Dark Descent is getting a sequel this fall. Developer Frictional Games just announced Amnesia: Rebirth with a short trailer and a...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Samsung Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra are available, following their announcement in early February. If you didn’t preorder, you can get one...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The coronavirus justifiably continues to dominate the news, and tech news in particular. I’ve got a big section below on that, but today I w...

Sony’s WH-1000XM4 wireless noise-canceling headphones. | Image: Everton Favretto (@evefavretto) These are the first images of Sony’s WH-1000XM4 wireless headphones; the hotly anticip...

As repeatedly teased by Oppo itself, Oppo is making a watch called the Oppo Watch, and today it got revealed in full. It looks extremely similar to the Apple Watch — not just because of ...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addresses students at the Indian Institute of Technology in November 2018 in New Delhi, India. | Photo by Amal KS/Hindustan Times via Getty Images On Tuesday I la...

Today Oppo is announcing the Find X2 Pro, its first phone to use the Find name since the original Find X in 2018. Unlike that phone, it doesn’t use the still-unique motorized sliding mec...

Companies based in Santa Clara County, California — which includes Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and San Jose — should avoid travel and postpone or cancel mass gatherings, the c...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Both Apple and Google have begun cracking down on apps related to the coronavirus, according to a new report from CNBC. App developers who spo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has updated its hate speech policies to cover tweets that make dehumanizing remarks, which are remarks that treat “others as less than h...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook will remove some of President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign ads from its platform, CNN reports. “There are policies in place to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sonos is doing away with Recycle Mode, a controversial part of the company’s trade-up program that rendered old devices inoperable in exchange f...

A sign directing patients towards a Coronavirus pod at University College Hospital on March 4, 2020 in London, United Kingdom. | Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images You hate to accuse ou...

Numerous tech companies have asked their Seattle-based employees to work from home to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Both Amazon and Facebook have shut down offices in t...

If you’ve gotten used to ordering around John Legend (or his voice, at least) as your Google Assistant, be prepared for a loss: Google has announced that it will discontinue the celebrit...

Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images From toy unboxings to gaming videos, kids spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos. But if two Democratic senators get their way, YouTube and other ...

Fictional stories explain how technology and culture help bad men hide their crimes Continue reading… ...

Photo by Leon Bennett / WireImage As other notable streamers continue to leave Twitch for other platforms, one of the service’s biggest stars is staying put: today, Imane “Pokimane�...

Image: NASA SpaceX will send three tourists on a 10-day trip to the International Space Station sometime in late 2021. It’ll use its Falcon 9 rocket and its new Crew Dragon spacecraft,...

Crowbar Collective Black Mesa was once a humble video game mod — but as of today, it’s a full-fledged remake of Half-Life, newly released out of Steam Early Access. Developer Crowbar...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is suing Arizona domain name registrar Namecheap and its proxy service Whoisguard for allowing people to register domain names that “de...

NASA/JPL-Caltech After a months-long naming contest, NASA has renamed its newest Mars rover Perseverance ahead of the robot’s scheduled launch to the Red Planet in July. The new title ...

As part of its newfound quest to keep Overwatch fresh, Blizzard debuted hero pools today, which will see a number of popular characters banned temporarily from competitive play. The first ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge LinkedIn is informing job candidates that they have the option to conduct their interviews virtually or delay it until an unspecified date in ...

High-end audio company Bang & Olufsen is no stranger to expensive speakers, so it’s not really a surprise that the company’s latest product, the rather nice-looking Beosound Balanc...

Photo by Chesnot / Getty Images Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is reevaluating his plans to spend part of the year in Africa, telling a crowd at a Morgan Stanley conference on Thursday that he ...

HBO is working on adapting The Last of Us into a TV series. In an effort to make sure that the show is actually, well, good (unlike most video game adaptations), Neil Druckmann — the wri...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge OnePlus has announced a new initiative to let OnePlus customers and fans submit suggestions for new software features. Called IDEAS, the initiative will...

Images: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has unveiled a new version of its fully electric Fiat 500 with nearly 200 miles of range and a revamped design. But like most ...

Courtesy of Climate Neutral A nonprofit organization is trying to give consumers an easy way to make sense of the flood of environmental pledges that companies are suddenly making, with ...

Image: Sony Sony has announced that Ghost of Tsushima, Sucker Punch’s action-adventure game set in feudal Japan, will be coming out in just a few months on June 26th. Sony also release...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is pulling out of SXSW due to the coronavirus outbreak, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported on Wednesday. Apple is following in the footsteps...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Andrew Yang has founded a new super PAC called Humanity Forward, the former presidential candidate announced today on The View. The organizati...

Cygames/XSEED Fighting games are different than other types of video games. A lot of titles — think action games like Control or Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order — are about giving you t...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 with 256GB of storage currently costs $950 at Amazon and from Samsung, but you can get one right now for just $600....

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is pulling out of SXSW due to the coronavirus outbreak, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported on Wednesday. Apple is following in the footsteps...

The consortium behind the LinkNYC program, originally intended to create a free Wi-Fi network across the five boroughs of New York City, owes the city tens of millions of dollars and stopp...

Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images Sen. Elizabeth Warren will suspend her presidential campaign, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The Massachusetts senator’s path to...

Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images Sen. Elizabeth Warren has suspended her presidential campaign, as first reported by The New York Times. The Massachusetts senator’s path t...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge MSI’s take on the Radeon RX 5700 costs $280 (normally $340) at Newegg after you enter the offer code VGAPCRW456 at checkout and send away for a $30 mail...

Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Local Yankees fans who relied on YouTube TV for their games will officially have to find a new streaming service as the Google-operated virtual TV provider pa...

Image: Samsung Samsung is officially launching its 2020 TV lineup today, with more 8K models than in years past — including the flagship Q950TS series with barely-there bezels. That �...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s AirPods Pro truly wireless earphones cost $249.99 new, and there’s only been a few instances of that price wiggling. If you’re looking to s...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Pokémon Go is about to get a lot more competitive. Today, developer Niantic announced the launch of season 1 of the Go Battle League, which is exactly wh...

Photo: Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP If hourly news updates on the spread of the coronavirus have you constantly reaching for the Purell — and your Xanax (or anxiety remedy of choice) — you�...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge The first wave of foldable devices are here, and honestly they’ve tended to be a bit... disappointing. But even as hardware companies are still tr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Copyright law is two things: a gnostically complex rubric for deciding who can reproduce a work of art, and one of the most powerful legal forces ...

Meet BEN, the self-driving boat that’s been tasked with helping lay bare the long-lost secrets of the lakebed Continue reading… ...

Alexa is listening. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon’s Alexa quietly gained a few features in February you might not be aware of, including severe weather alerts and the abili...

Anthony Levandowski arriving at court in November 2019. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer who helped pioneer self-driving cars befor...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is starting to roll out 4K streaming support for Stadia on the web. 9to5Google reports that a number of Reddit users have spotted the n...

Realme started out aping Xiaomi’s model of selling ultra-low-cost Redmi phones in India, so why wouldn’t it follow the same path when it comes to wearables? Today the company is announ...

Realme 6 Pro. Realme has followed up last week’s X50 Pro 5G flagship with the announcement of its latest mainstream models for India, the Realme 6 and 6 Pro. The phones see Realme cont...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is pulling out of SXSW due to coronavirus concerns, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported on Wednesday. Apple is following in the footsteps of ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is pulling out of SXSW due to the coronavirus outbreak, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported on Wednesday. Apple is following in the footsteps...

Photo by Getty Images NPR has a sobering essay about living in Wuhan, China, which is the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Wuhan has been under a government-ordered lockdown since ...

Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images IBM announced Wednesday that it’s halting all domestic travel for internal meetings and cutting down on international travel because of the ongoing corona...

Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Video streaming service Quibi, which will debut next month, has raised another $750 million in funding,...

Etsy is escalating its response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak by removing merchandise on the platform that mention the virus or COVID-19, the respiratory illness it causes in human b...

Image: IGN You can now check out perhaps our best look yet at the VR-only Half-Life: Alyx, the next game in Valve’s seminal franchise, thanks to a new video with 13 minutes of uninterr...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has informed its tech support retail employees that stock of replacement iPhones will be strained for the next few weeks, according to A...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Boosted, the company that basically created the market for electric skateboards, has laid off a “significant portion” of its roughly 130-p...

Photo: Logitech Logitech G is launching support for a new app that lets you customize your gaming audio for better immersion. The app is supposed to let you hear game sounds like large-s...

Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images US Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) is harshly criticizing what he sees as Amazon’s inconsistent response to ongoing coronavirus-related ...

GM CEO Mary Barra shakes hands with President Trump in January, 2017. Automakers initially encouraged Trump to relax Obama-era fuel economy standards. | Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/A...

Image: iFixit iFixit has posted its teardown of Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 Ultra, and it reveals that the 108-megapixel camera sensor is, as you might expect, really big. You can get an...

BMW has a new logo, marking the biggest change to the company’s branding since the iconic emblem was introduced in 1917. As with many modern redesigns of logos made to chase today’s tr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Everyone wants to talk about the novel coronavirus outbreak right now, but you might hear YouTubers avoiding the subject — if they talk about it...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Apple will now allow push notifications to be used for advertising, so long as users agree to receive the ads first. As spotted by 9to5Mac, Apple updat...

Apple Maps relies upon third parties like Wikipedia and Yelp. Apple appears ready to add its own opinions about locations in its Maps app, much in the same way it curates the App Store ...

Waymo unveiled its fifth-generation self-driving system Wednesday, which the Alphabet-owned company claims can see farther and more accurately than its previous four versions. The system f...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T is finally making its faster, mmWave 5G network — which it calls “5G Plus” — available to customers this Friday, alongside the la...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Valve’s new Index VR headset has been sold out for weeks, but the company just informed customers that the product will finally be on sale a...

Photo: Google Google is expanding its internal game development efforts with a new studio located in the Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, Stadia Games and Entertainment chief Jad...

Image: 2K Games 2K Games has added a 15-year-old Make-A-Wish recipient as a playable athlete in NBA 2K20, making him the first non-NBA athlete in the series’s history (via Engadget). T...

Like most health reporters, I know what I’m supposed to be doing during this coronavirus outbreak: washing my hands, not touching my face, cleaning high-use surfaces like my phone. But w...

Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images After raging fires subside, their impact on peoples’ health will linger. During and immediately after wildfires, increased hospital visits docum...

Dispatches From Elsewhere doesn’t feel like a show so much as it does a wish. A man named Peter stumbles across an elaborate game, one that instructs him to go to unusual places and do o...

Batman’s Batmobile has always been cool, but Matt Reeves’ version in The Batman is one of the most badass. Reeves shared the photo on Twitter today, showing the vehicle from three diff...

Fisker Inc., the electric vehicle startup founded by famous designer Henrik Fisker, announced more details about its upcoming SUV this week. The company released its first footage of the S...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Reddit is announcing new tools to help with suicide prevention, offered in partnership with the Crisis Text Line. The feature will let user...

The media is full of advice about how to avoid spreading COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus. Most of it involves keeping your hands clean and not touching your face. But your hands ...

Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images During an ongoing crisis, the way that experts, officials, and leaders talk with the public matters. People rely on information from thos...

Photo by Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images for The Museum of Modern Art No Time to Die, the 25th installment of the James Bond franchise, is pushing back its planned theatrical release date in...

Microlino 2.0 electric microcar and Microletta e-trike. | Image: Micro Mobility Systems An electric microcar and three-wheeled e-trike for Europe Continue reading… ...

Steve Fecht for General Motors General Motors laid out its electric vehicle strategy on Wednesday, showcasing roughly a dozen products as part of a broader attempt to convey to investors...

The Strokes look like they’re 20 years old again in their latest music video. That’d be impressive makeup work on a group of roughly 40-year-olds, but the band doesn’t appear in the ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is beginning to roll out its article-reading feature on Google Assistant that will read webpages aloud. This was previewed back at CES ...

Since it was founded in March 2006, there has been only one type of post possible on Twitter: a tweet. But starting today, the 280-character post is being joined by an ephemeral South Amer...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is allowing and encouraging its employees to work from home as the novel coronavirus outbreak continues to spread in countries around th...

Razer Last summer, Razer’s Viper wired gaming mouse had the distinction of being the company’s most lightweight mouse yet. Now Razer has one-upped itself with an even lighter mouse c...

One half of the New Glenn payload fairing. | Image: Blue Origin Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company Blue Origin has completed the first nose cone of its future orbital rocket, the New Glenn ...

Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images On Wednesday, former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg suspended his presidential campaign. In a statement to the press, Bloomberg cited his poor show...

Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that you wash your hands with soap for 20 seconds to mitigate the s...

Crossy Road Castle. There’s often a line to use the iPad Pro in my house, and it’s all Apple Arcade’s fault. When the subscription gaming service first launched back in September, ...

Photo by Ollie Millington / Getty Images London’s Metropolitan Police force — the UK’s largest — deployed its Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology in Oxford Circus, a very bu...

VSCO VSCO, the social media network and photo / video editing app, is rolling out a new feature globally today that it thinks will set it apart from all of the other photo and video shar...

The man behind an alleged crowdfunding scam wants you to know he isn’t a scammer Continue reading… ...

The Amazfit T-Rex won’t go extinct for weeks Continue reading… ...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge The story that truly mattered in tech yesterday was, of course, the coronavirus. Another big conference got canceled, Google I/O in May. That means the b...

Hinge Hinge is going to give people in the US a $100 Visa online gift card to go on date, a decision that’ll presumably encourage them to schedule plans while also helping the company ...

Were there not a deadly coronavirus spreading across the globe, I suspect more of us might be talking about a different disruption to life as we know it: the potential end of Jack Dorsey�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is updating its Android app this week to support up to five lists as alternative timelines in the main home section of the app. You can us...

One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Disney Plus’ launch in the UK has been solved: The Simpsons will be available to stream. A Sky representative told The Verge that “The Simpson...

“What is an app? A miserable little pile of secrets!” At least, that may well apply to this particular app — Konami just released a mobile version of genre-defining side-scrolling ac...

Samsung’s big monitor push at CES this year was all about curvature. The 1000R measurement of its Odyssey G9 and G7 gaming monitors is intended to more accurately match the human eye’s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An Amazon employee in Seattle has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, as first reported by The New York Times. “We’re supporting the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge China’s most popular messaging app, Tencent-owned WeChat, has been censoring keywords about coronavirus since as early as January 1st, an analys...

Pinterest is introducing a “custom search experience” when you seek out information about the coronavirus on its platform, as a way to “connect Pinners with facts and myth-bust what�...

Image: Activision Players of Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare are getting perhaps the most tonally jarring cosmetic option in the history of shooting games with the introducti...

Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images Monday night, a powerful tornado tore through Nashville, Tennessee and its surrounding counties, killing at least 23 people and leaving power and trans...

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 begi...

Photo by Bodo Marks/picture alliance via Getty Images The ongoing coronavirus outbreak has pushed more companies and organizations to transition to remote work, and now both Google and M...

The standard Transit cargo van. | Image: Ford Ford is making an all-electric version of its popular Transit cargo van for the US and Canadian markets, slated to be released in 2021. The ...

A doctor wearing a mask while working at El Alto International Airport in Bolivia. | Photo by AIZAR RALDES/AFP via Getty Images A shortage of masks, gloves, and other protective gear �...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Facebook is altering its plans for its Libra cryptocurrency project following months of severe regulatory pressure and political pushback, accord...

Photo: Microsoft Microsoft and the NFL have renewed and expanded their partnership, making Microsoft Teams the league’s official communication platform and keeping Surface products as ...

Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images Two people who died last week in Seattle had undetected cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, The New York Times rep...

Microsoft is “exploring” a new Windows 10 Start menu design that will see the company de-emphasize its Live Tiles. The potential changes were revealed in a Windows Insider podcast toda...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s fact-checking program is designed to stop false information from spreading. But being able to decide what’s true can also be a poli...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge On Monday, Google began to roll out a substantial Android update to its Pixel phones — and then it stopped. As 9to5Google reports, Google has pulled t...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge It was a big weekend on the tech and governance beat, led by news of the spread of the COVID-19 disease in the United States and its spiraling c...

Photo: Nikola Corporation Electric trucking startup Nikola is becoming a publicly traded company. The Arizona-based outfit announced Tuesday that it’s merging with a publicly listed ac...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Ford is banning all business trips after two of its employees based in China tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is canceling its I/O developer event this year, amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Google I/O was due to take place between May 12th to...

Audio electronics company Electrosmith has launched a Kickstarter for a little audio development board called Daisy. It’s a physical board computer designed for use in DIY instruments an...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is working on a 14.1-inch MacBook Pro, according to the latest research note from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo seen by MacRumors. That note also reveals t...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Doesn’t it feel like the world is ending? This is an age of generalized anxiety, and also it’s Super Tuesday. The internet, being the modern f...

Image: Hulu Hulu is bringing its live TV service, which is separate from its standalone on-demand streaming app, to PlayStation 4 consoles now that Sony’s competing PlayStation Vue pay...

Timberline Studio Lots of people spent their time at PAX East this past weekend waiting for hours in long lines for an opportunity to play or watch demos of Animal Crossing: New Horizons...

Microsoft is bringing the original Halo campaign to Windows PCs today. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary has been remastered with 4K support for PC, and it arrives 18 years after the game d...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge On Monday, Google began to roll out a substantial Android update to its Pixel phones — and then it stopped. As 9to5Google reports, Google has pulled t...

Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Amazon isn’t shy about its push into sports broadcasting, but a recent deal to give Prime members access to 21 Yankees games this season as part-owner ...

Waymo came out with a new ad today that presents a cheerful, very Google-esque look at how the self-driving company plans to eventually make money: ride-hailing, delivery, trucking, and lo...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whether you’ve got an older iPhone with less internal storage or would rather save that space for music, photos, and other content, it’s a...

WhatsApp is finally getting a new dark mode on iOS and Android today. After months of beta testing on both mobile operating systems, the WhatsApp dark mode will be available for all users ...

Photo by Lev Radin / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images A new lawsuit claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rigged software to create a “secret no-release policy�...

A board explaining contraceptive methods at a clinic in Caracas, Venezuela. | Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images Improving girls’ access to education and reproductive health car...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Emergency Operations Center | Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Two US states, Washington and Florida, are in states of emergency...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images On Tuesday morning, investing app Robinhood experienced its second major outage in two days. The first outage lasted from around 9:30AM ET on ...

Photo by Bryan Bedder / Getty Images for Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC Hideo Kojima is a notoriously difficult figure to profile. Access alone is a huge hurdle most journalists will...

Images: Hyundai An electric car with joysticks instead of a steering wheel Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is starting to offer even faster same-day shipping in select cities. The company has built out new warehouses in Dallas, Orlando, Philadelp...

Imagine if a National Lampoon Vacation movie ended with Clark Griswold and his family having to save the world from a fleet of autonomous robots developed by an Amazon-like company. That�...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google’s Nest Mini smart speaker usually costs $50, but Daily Steals is offering an exclusive deal to Verge readers that bundles two speakers for about...

Astra’s rocket on the launchpad in Alaska. | Image: DARPA DARPA’s competition to find a rocket company that can rapidly send satellites to space ended without a winner on March 2nd w...

Volkswagen’s ID Crozz, which was first unveiled in concept form back in 2017, is growing up and shedding its awful name. The German automaker announced today that it is ditching the eye-...

The 2020 presidential election is going to kick off a firestorm of change for our country and the networks that connect us all.The internet and information economy is at an inflection poin...

Illustrated by Alex Castro / The Verge The most important law for online speech Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Every bill, every plan, every threat Continue reading… ...

Illustrated by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge We want you to be able to keep track of what matters Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook, Google, and Amazon versus the world Continue reading… ...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has announced that it will be “strongly encouraging” all of its employees around the world to work from home “if able,” as the com...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Yesterday, Google announced the latest “feature drop” for its Pixel line of Android phones. It’s part of an effort to get people to real...

Jack Dorsey in June, 2019. | Photo by Victor Boyko/Getty Images Elon Musk lended public support to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey who’s being pressured to step down by an activist investor. �...

British Satellite TV broadcaster Sky has struck a multi-year deal with Disney to bring Disney Plus to Sky Q in the UK and Ireland. The deal means a dedicated Disney Plus app will be availa...

The iPhone 11 Pro assembled by Foxconn. | Image: Apple Foxconn says it’ll resume normal production in China by the end of March and that half of its seasonal workers are now back at wo...

Images: Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz has just unveiled the 2021 E-Class, and like many of its German luxury siblings, it will come equipped with the company’s latest driver-assistance f...

Images: BMW The long-awaited EV, coming next year, will have 270 miles of range Continue reading… ...

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images DAZN, a streaming service competing with ESPN+ to build a “Netflix for sports,” has announced aggressive international expansion plans. Ahead of Ca...

Image: Geely The largest private automaker in China is getting into the satellite business. Chinese automotive giant Geely has broadened its reach to include everything from trucking, to...

Image: Geely The largest private automaker in China is getting into the satellite business. Chinese automotive giant Geely has broadened its reach to include everything from trucking, to...

Nintendo announced on Monday that Mario Kart Tour, the mobile iteration of the Mario Kart series, will finally be getting multiplayer this weekend, nearly six months after its late Septemb...

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Chris Matthews apparently just quit “Hardball With Chris Matthews” live on air. The abrupt exit of the MSNBC anchor happened after columnist Laura ...

Oppo has given us its best look yet at its upcoming smartwatch on the way — and it looks almost exactly like an Apple Watch. The new watch will be called the Oppo Watch, and more will be...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has pulled out of the upcoming SXSW conference in Austin, TX, according to a company statement given to Business Insider. “Due to conce...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google and Microsoft both announced on Monday that two smaller conferences, Google’s Cloud Next in San Francisco and Microsoft’s MVP Summit in...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google and Microsoft both announced on Monday that two industry conferences, Google’s Cloud Next in San Francisco and Microsoft’s MVP Summit i...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed computing project is seeking volunteers to help researchers develop treatment therapies for t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge North Korean hackers stole $250 million worth of cryptocurrency from an exchange and two Chinese nationals helped them launder $100 million of it ...

Photo: Epic Games Epic Games announced today that it won’t be hosting any Fortnite tournaments with cash prizes until it addresses performance issues affecting both players and the gam...

Waymo just announced a significant milestone: its first external fundraising round. The self-driving division of Alphabet raked in $2.25 billion in a funding round led by Silver Lake, Cana...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge One of the best deals from last year’s Black Friday shopping holiday was on the Google Pixel Slate tablet. That deal is back, and it’s a little bett...

Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Uber and Lyft are telling their contracted drivers how best to prevent potential spread of the coronavirus, as more than 90,000 infections have been conf...

Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images Three new deaths caused by the new coronavirus were reported in King County, Washington where an outbreak is occurring among patients at a nursing facil...

Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic The business of business is rarely a pleasure, but sometimes it gets very juicy. Last year, the story of WeWork — its improbable rise and totally predict...

Photo by Keyur Khamar/PGA TOUR via Getty Images The biggest moments in any given golf tournament broadcast can be captured by just a few cameras across a multi-acre course. But the upcom...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The world’s biggest social network is restricting social visits to its physical offices, as Facebook tries to protect its employees from coronav...

Valve’s much-anticipated virtual reality game Half-Life: Alyx debuts on March 23rd, and it just offered a little more detail on what we’ll be playing. It released three short videos to...

The exterior of CDC headquarters | Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images A tally of the number of people tested for the novel coronavirus disappeared from the Centers for Disease Control...

It’s a good idea to have a few questions in mind whenever you order a burger. Nothing too wild. Simple stuff, like: Does this burger have cheese? (It should.) Other toppings? (Knock your...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge Google is reportedly adding a useful new feature in Android 11, which will let you know when your phone isn’t properly aligned on a wireless charging...

Xinhua/Li Muzi via Getty Images Everyone agrees, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that if you want to avoid the transmission of disease, including the nove...

Japanese retailer Bauhutte sells a great deal of furniture aimed at “gamers,” but few can top its one-stop shop for sleep and gaming. Like Voltron, but made for people who refuse to us...

Can Apple’s newest display satisfy every kind of pro? Continue reading… ...

Apple’s back in the pro game, but can it keep up? Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Near the end of last year, Google outlined a new strategy of bundling together new software tricks for its Pixel phones into “feature drops” instead...

Photo by Stefan Etienne / The Verge Nvidia has announced it has shifted its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) to be online-only due to concerns from the coronavirus outbreak. People who ha...

Image: Nvidia Nvidia’s GeForce Now took yet another hit this weekend with a new publisher pulling its software from the cloud gaming service. That’s because GeForce Now, unlike compe...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook announced today that it’s starting to roll out a “faster, smaller, and simpler” version of Messenger on iOS. Facebook says the new ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A free Wi-Fi service at rail stations in the UK exposed the personal information of about 10,000 people, and the provider did not notify authoriti...

Image: 505 Games Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima’s latest game, was released on PlayStation 4 last year, and is now coming to PC on June 2nd, published by 505 Games. The PC version of th...

Apple has tentatively agreed to a $500 million settlement after admitting to slowing down older phones. The deal would provide small payouts for many iPhone owners in the US, plus greater ...

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using modified Copernicus Sentinel 5P data processed by the European Space Agency.  There’s been a dramatic drop in...

Twitter is a fast-paced world — your timeline might feel like it’s running at a mile a minute. But your tweets don’t have to be that way. It’s okay to take your time and refine you...

Hulu has launched its new “FX on Hulu” hub today, a collection of some of FX’s biggest shows that’s also Disney’s biggest overhaul of the streaming service since it acquired cont...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is the best e-reader you can buy, and today, this model is back down to its lowest price yet. Instead of $130, it...

A free PC-based tool that should be in open alpha soon Continue reading… ...

Jeep’s powerful new electric bike, which it first teased during its Groundhog Day-themed Super Bowl ad, is now available for preorder. But be forewarned: this one ain’t cheap. The all...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is canceling employee travel to the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, including CEO Jack Dorsey’s planned keynote, due to conce...

Pocket Casts BBC Studios and Pocket Casts are announcing today that the British company is investing in the American podcast player. The decision comes at a time when multiple podcast ap...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft has already released two translucent Phantom Xbox controllers in white and black, but the company now has the best color yet: magenta. The latest translucent d...

Image: Screengrab from SPadre Another test of SpaceX’s next-generation rocket, Starship, ended in failure over the weekend, after a major test article imploded at the company’s facil...

For its first competitive shooter, League of Legends developer Riot is pulling from some of the biggest games in the genre. Today, the developer officially unveiled Valorant — previously...

Ahead of the election year, we polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information — and which ones should be broken up Continue reading...

Tidal fish tracking | Image: Tidal Today Alphabet is announcing Tidal, an X division moonshot project with the goal of preserving the ocean’s ability to support life and help feed huma...

Oppo has announced the Reno 3 Pro, the latest entry in the ever-more-convoluted Reno series. It’s a mid-range model that’s altogether separate from the Reno 3 Pro 5G released in China ...

Image: Square Enix Blending the best elements of prior games into one cohesive system Continue reading… ...

In the original Final Fantasy VII, Midgar can often feel more like an idea than a place. It’s billed as a metropolis torn by ecopolitics and economic disparity, yet players have little c...

If you have a PS4, you can now play Final Fantasy VII Remake, which is a sentence that a lot of people have been waiting forever to hear. Square Enix just released a demo of the upcoming g...

Image: AT&T TV AT&T TV is launching nationwide today after initially rolling out to over a dozen markets last year. The subscription TV service — not to be confused with AT&...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Sharp plans to start making face masks at one of its factories in Japan in response to surging demand sparked by the coronavirus outbreak, The Associated ...

Evergreen Health Medical Center, where two patients have died from the novel coronavirus | Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images A second person died of the coronavirus in Washington, accord...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign purchased primetime ad space Sunday night — reportedly worth at least $1 million — so the former...

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...

Molleindustria There are simulation games that try to be neutral. SimCity never lays out its philosophy of urban planning. Democracy lets you rewrite its rules to role-play any democrati...

Looking for eco-friendly condoms is complicated. Kim Marks, the owner of As You Like It, a nontoxic and environmentally conscious sex shop in Eugene, Oregon, describes the concept as a Cat...

A do not enter sign has been taped to the door at Bothell High School in Bothell, Washington. It is closed for disinfection after a family member of a staffer was put in quarantine for poss...

A do not enter sign has been taped to the door at Bothell High School in Bothell, Washington. It is closed for disinfection after a family member of a staffer was put in quarantine for poss...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 series of phones will release this coming Friday, March 6th. This leaves you with a whole week to decide whether you want to ...

Sports fans don’t have to worry about their local teams disappearing from YouTube TV after all. Not yet, anyway. Last night, YouTube tweeted that it has agreed to a temporary extension w...

Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images For years, I have been getting inundated with physical junk mail from my internet service provider (ISP), Charter Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Ca...

Image: Amazon As the leader of The Verge’s Pride & Prejudice (2005) fan group, I obviously went to go see Emma last weekend. It was great! The trailer made me worried that the film...

Between 2006 and now, Disney spent around $100 billion to become the unbeatable giant it is today, snapping up Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, BAMTech, and 21st Century Fox. While the ac...

A researcher works on developing testing for the novel coronavirus at a lab in New Jersey. | Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images A second case of COVID-19 with an unknown origin was ide...

1More’s earbuds sound great, but the fit might not be for everyone Continue reading… ...

Photo by: Aaron Poole/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images New Disney CEO Bob Chapek has only been on the job for a few days, and he’s already got a controversy to deal wi...

Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images The Internet Archive, perhaps best known for the extremely handy Wayback Machine you can use to find older versions of webpage...

This year’s annual Game Developers Conference has been postponed amid growing concern about the international coronavirus outbreaks. The event, which has run since 1988, was expected to ...