Articles by The Verge from April 2020

Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk called the shelter-in-place orders in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the US “fascist” actions that are stripping ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Lime is planning to lay off between 80 and 100 of its workers, according to Axios, an indication the company has run into financial troubles d...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Qualcomm expects smartphone shipments to fall 30 percent in the comings months due to the coronavirus pandemic, the company said today, cutting it...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is not pleased with the decision from the Trump administration to list a number of its foreign websites as havens for counterfeit products ...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft says more than 10 million people now subscribe to Xbox Game Pass, its subscription service offering access to a growing selection of PC and Xbox...

Reddit is introducing a new chat room tool, in a throwback to the old days of the internet when those were a thing. The feature, called “Start Chatting,” will randomly sort users of po...

Microsoft Teams Microsoft said last month that Teams usage had grown to 44 million daily active users during the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s now jumped another 70 percent. During an...

The ThinkPad mouse nub — i.e., the TrackPoint — is a controversial piece of technology. People tend to either despise the red dot-shaped substitute for a real mouse, or adore it as the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s business is booming, thanks to worldwide shelter-in-place and quarantine orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic that have everyone using...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is seemingly thriving during the global pandemic, and today, analytics platform Sensor Tower reported that the social media platform has be...

Ubisoft has officially announced the next game in its long-running Assassin’s Creed series: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, which adds vikings to the world’s preeminent historical murder ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla turned a surprise profit in the first quarter of 2020 of $16 million, despite factory shutdowns in China and the US, the company announced on Wed...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft posted the third quarter of its 2020 financial results today, and all eyes are on the early impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. ...

On my TV screen, Logan Marshall-Green is listening intently. I know of Marshall-Green, the actor, but I have no idea who Marshall-Green, this unnamed character, is just yet. He shifts in h...

Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images Top tennis players including Serena and Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova, and (known Overwatch fan) Naomi Osaka will compete in a live-streamed Mario Tenn...

John Nacion/NurPhoto via Getty Images Regal Cinemas owner Cineworld has joined AMC Theaters in declaring that it will not show Universal movies — or films from any other studios that �...

John Nacion/NurPhoto via Getty Images Regal Cinemas owner Cineworld has warned Universal that it will not show films that “fail to respect” the theatrical window after the studio dec...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Twitch is getting an esports directory because esports are bigger than ever. As the world is largely stuck inside and traditional sports ha...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s latest beta version of iOS 13 comes with a much-needed improvement to lock screen authentication for those who now spend a majority ...

It’s time to party in Fortnite. Epic just launched a new, violence-free mode for the game, dubbed “party royale,” which removes two of the biggest elements from the experience: weapo...

Microsoft is planning to bring music controls to its Your Phone app that will allow Android owners to see and control what songs are playing on their phones. The software maker has started...

Apple and Google’s joint effort to help public health authorities track the spread of COVID-19 will begin testing today, the companies said. The companies will deliver an initial version...

I’ve spent a good chunk of my workday so far creating memes thanks to this amazing website from Imgflip that automatically generates captions for memes using a neural network. I’m addi...

Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images For months, Elon Musk has been spreading doubt, confusion, and outright misinformation about the deadliest pandemic of our time. Sin...

Image: Focus on Sport / Getty Images Amazon has carried NFL Thursday Night Football games on its Prime Video and Twitch platforms for the last few years, but an extension of that deal wi...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Interested in improving the video quality of your own Zoom frame tenfold? If you’ve got a recent Canon mirrorless, DSLR, or PowerShot camera...

May 4th is the annual Star Wars-themed holiday, and several sales have already begun to celebrate the franchise. One of the most notable so far is the PC version of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen ...

Image: GMC General Motors is delaying the upcoming reveal of the new all-electric Hummer truck, which was originally scheduled for May 20th because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The automake...

Trolls World Tour is the best proof yet that Hollywood might not be as reliant on theaters as it has been for more than a century. The film made nearly $100 million in the past three weeks...

Some of the JPL team posing with the VITAL ventilator. | Image: NASA From spacecraft to medical craft Continue reading… ...

Image: iRobot iRobot, the company behind the autonomous Roomba vacuum, says it’s scrapping its plans to release its lawn-mowing robot, the Terra, because of the pandemic. The company s...

Illustration by Ana Kova Public health experts around the globe are scrambling to understand, track, and contain a new virus that appeared in Wuhan, China, at the beginning of December 2...

‘It’s not an experiment’ Continue reading… ...

Marco Polo Marco Polo, an app that became popular for staying in touch with friends while social distancing, is looking to make some cash. The free app is launching an expanded premium p...

Photo by Mariel Flickinger As classes move online, many students aren’t coming with them Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon We’ve got to be ready for the long haul Continue reading… ...

Image: Google Google’s Area 120 incubator is shutting down Shoelace, a local event organizing app that it’s been trialing in New York City for the past year, 9to5Google reports. The ...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge As schools go remote, so do tests and so does surveillance Continue reading… ...

The race to respond to Zoom’s popularity is well and truly on Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge People are changing how they listen to Spotify as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced in its latest earnings release t...

Google is opening up its Google Meet videoconferencing service to anybody who wants to use it, instead of just offering it to enterprise and education customers via G Suite. The company sa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Oh hey, today is our 500th issue! Thanks to everyone who has been with us from the beginning, and each of you who has joined along the way. We can...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung and LG just reported their first quarter results for the three-month period ending in March, with earnings largely unaffected by the COVID...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple Maps will now show COVID-19 testing sites in all 50 states and Puerto Rico (via TechCrunch). When you search using terms like “COVID-1...

AMC Theatres will no longer play Universal films effective immediately after “unacceptable” comments were made from NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell on its decision to bypass a traditional ...

Photo by Robert Paul / Blizzard Entertainment Overwatch’s top professional player is moving on to a new game. Today, Jay “Sinatraa” Won left the Overwatch League’s San Francisco ...

Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z has become an unlikely source of inspiration within the budding community of artificial intellige...

Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z has become an unlikely source of inspiration within the budding community of artificial intellige...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Meet teleconferencing service is now adding about 3 million users per day, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on the company’s first qu...

Photo By Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images Thuan Pham, Uber’s chief technology officer, is stepping down, the ride-hailing company said in a filing with the Securities and E...

Matt Petit - Handout/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science will allow some movies released on streaming platforms and via digital release to qualify ...

AMD posted its Q1 2020 financial results, and quarter-to-quarter revenue is down by 16 percent. Its quarterly operating income also took a dive, as revenue slowed and R&D costs went up...

Image: Epic Games Epic Games will occasionally require users to enable two-factor authentication before redeeming free games on its digital storefront between now and May 21st. The goal ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google parent company Alphabet managed to weather the storm caused by COVID-19 in its first quarterly earnings that take into account the society-...

Image: Ford Ford is pushing back the launch of its forthcoming robotaxi and autonomous delivery services from 2021 to 2022, the company announced today, due to the economic impact of the...

Netflix Netflix has announced that the creative team behind Orange Is The New Black has created a new series centered around social distancing. The show, called Social Distance, will be...

Wally Skalij/Los Angles Times On June 9th, 1990, a young Damien Patton took part in a drive-by shooting against the West End Synagogue in Nashville, Tennessee, alongside a leading member...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Ford and its luxury brand Lincoln have canceled an all-electric SUV that was going to be powered by technology provided by EV startup Rivian, ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google on Tuesday announced a planned update to the permissions window for its Docs, Drive, and Sheets apps that is designed to make sharing files...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Apple Support app has been updated to version 4.0 and now has dark mode, an updated user interface, and offers support for Apple services and ...

Lucasfilm Ltd. Yesterday, the Disney Plus Twitter account encouraged fans to share their favorite Star Wars memory, promising it might show up “somewhere special” on May 4th. But a f...

Instagram Instagram is making it easier for people to raise money for nonprofits today by building a feature that’ll allow Live viewers to directly support approved organizations. Live...

Photo by Robin Utrecht / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images The United States has confirmed more than 1 million cases of COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Coron...

Image: Anchor Anchor, a podcast-making app owned by Spotify, will now let you take recordings of your video calls and chats and turn them into podcasts (via TechCrunch). If you’ve been...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Over the weekend, Tesla told some of its employees in California to get ready to return to work this week. But by Monday, the company reversed course a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As more businesses, creators, and artists turn to internet live-streaming tools during the pandemic, Facebook has announced that it’ll be adding...

Last week, Japanese techwear firm Acronym released a new version of its iconic J1A-GT jacket, one based on Hideo Kojima’s PS4 game Death Stranding. Like most Acronym gear, the jacket was...

Image: HTC HTC’s Exodus blockchain smartphones will soon receive their own mining app, letting them mine Monero cryptocurrency when plugged in and idle, The Block reported earlier this...

Illustration by Alex Castro When people were ordered to stay home during the pandemic, online shopping became a vital resource for basic goods like toilet paper, groceries, and clea...

Image: Google Google is bringing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) to Stadia today, and it’s promising to launch several EA games later this year. PUBG will be free for Stadia Pro...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube will begin adding informational panels containing information from its network of fact-checkers to videos in the United States, the compan...

No gods, no canon Continue reading… ...

Faze Clan is expanding beyond platforms like Twitch and YouTube. Today the esports and lifestyle company announced the launch of Faze Studios, alongside producer Michael Sugar’s Sugar23 ...

Affinity Serif’s Affinity Photo desktop application is $25 per license right now directly through Serif itself, B&H Photo (via Slickdeals), and through the respective app stores on...

Photo by Cynthia Johnson/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images It’s been two weeks since Verge politics reporter Makena Kelly dove into the IT tangle that has taken ...

This affordable home security camera has a few long-term costs associated Continue reading… ...

Photo by Sarah Silbiger / Getty Images Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is calling on federal prosecutors to open a criminal antitrust investigation into Amazon, as laid out in a letter released ...

The website defined frat culture in 2010, but can it survive a decade later? Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge WhatsApp video calls can now include up to eight people instead of just four. In order to reach the new upper limit, everyone on the call will...

Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images Students around the world are going to miss their opportunity to have an in-person graduation ceremony, so Facebook has decided to host its own version...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge From mesh networks to lap desks, here’s how The Verge’s staffers create their workspaces Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft has explained why its range of Surface laptops and tablets don’t have Thunderbolt ports or removable RAM: security concerns. That ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge in sales for consumer technology in the US, even as spending declines overall, an NPD analyst is repo...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon and Alex Castro / The Verge On Monday the six Bay Area counties announced that they would extend stay-at-home orders through May, citing ongoing difficul...

Image: TikTok TikTok creators can now add Donation Stickers to their videos and live streams to encourage followers to donate to charitable causes during the coronavirus pandemic, the co...

Oppo’s latest flagship is sleek and luxurious Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s emerged that the new iPhone SE, which started shipping last Friday, has a curious feature missing: unlike every other modern iPhone, you’re una...

The DJI Mavic Air 2 | Image: DJI Two and a half years after introducing the first Mavic Air, DJI is announcing its successor: the Mavic Air 2. It comes with a bigger image sensor, ditche...

Unlike most phones released these days, Apple’s new iPhone SE has just one 12-megapixel rear camera lens. But it turns out that one camera is still pretty good, at least in well-lit situ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T, Comcast, Cox, and Verizon have all extended their policies to not charge late fees or cancel service for customers and small businesses ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A mislabeled battery that allegedly caused a fire in a Minnesota man’s garage last year is the subject of a new lawsuit against Amazon. Farm Bur...

The Library of Congress has launched a new website that allows you to create short remixes of royalty-free audio clips. Citizen DJ is an open-source hip-hop project created by New York-ba...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is currently experimenting with adding chapters to “a small selection” of videos on Android, iOS, and desktop devices. Instead of find...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon has extended its policy to not charge late fees or cancel service for customers and small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic thr...

Short-term home rental platform Airbnb is introducing a new “enhanced cleaning initiative” that will take effect in May and include a 24-hour vacancy period between bookings, according...

Photo by Sean O’Kane/The Verge Tesla is rolling out a software update to some of its newest cars that will allow them to see and respond to traffic lights and stop signs, a feature tha...

WarnerMedia and Apple have reached a deal that will give free HBO Max access to existing HBO customers who subscribe to the service through Apple. Free access begins when the new streaming...

Photo by Kim Raff / Getty Images for NRDC The COVID-19 crisis hasn’t stopped the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back key environmental protections in the US, alarming both en...

Image: Netflix Netflix announced today that a new documentary about former first lady Michelle Obama will be available on the streaming service starting Wednesday, May 6th. The documenta...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Samsung released its second version of truly wireless earbuds, the Galaxy Buds Plus, earlier this year, and now it’s bringing some of their ...

Photo by Mikhail Japaridze / TASS via Getty Images Even during a pandemic, Walmart’s supply chain managers have to make sure stores and warehouses are stocked with the things customers...

Image: Naughty Dog Sony announced today that Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II will now be released on June 19th. Earlier this month, Sony had said that the PlayStation 4 exclusive ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Live-streaming isn’t a wilderness, but it can feel that way sometimes: even if you know what you’re doing, finding your way to someone new can...

Google’s new earbuds finally go truly wireless and have improved sound quality Continue reading… ...

Photo: Riot Games With people stuck at home looking for things to watch, some of the biggest esports leagues in the world are seeing a big spike in viewership. That includes professional...

Image: Curzon British cinema chain Curzon is partnering with Uber Eats to offer a selection of snacks from its concessions stand for your home movie night. The limited edition home cinem...

Image: Bose At Best Buy and Amazon, you can get Bose’s excellent Noise Cancelling 700 Headphones for $299 in the white soapstone color. This model usually costs $400, and if the white ...

Photo by Monty Brinton / CBS via Getty Images On April 21st, CBS aired Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince, a concert special recorded to commemorate the fourth anniversary of ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Reviews of the new 2020 iPhone SE are here and so is iFixit’s teardown of the device. While the $400 handset has a design similar to that of an iPhone...

UPS and CVS are teaming up to deliver prescription medicine via drone to residents of The Villages retirement community in Florida. The service, which will use Matternet’s M2 drones, is ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For the most part, you can no longer use Twitter as it was originally built to be used: over text message. Last week, Twitter turned off the abili...

In the past decade, 3D printing has occupied some interesting niches. It’s an invaluable prototyping tool for countless industries and has found regular use in architecture, biotech, pro...

Lucasfilm Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will debut on Disney Plus on May 4th — “Star Wars Day,” of course — the company announced today, bringing the final Star Wars film to t...

DuPont Registry If you really want an Apple car and have half a million bucks to spend, there’s a 1979 Porsche 935 K3 Apple-themed racecar up for sale, according to Apple Insider. Appl...

SpaceX’s fourth Starship prototype prior to cryogenic proof testing. | Photo by Elon Musk This weekend, SpaceX successfully passed a big milestone in the development of its next-genera...

Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge The spread of “highly forwarded” messages on WhatsApp has dropped by 70 percent as a result of the company’s new forwarding limits, TechCrunch re...

iPhone 11 lineup | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is reportedly delaying mass production of its upcoming iPhone 12 handsets by around a month. The Wall Street Journal ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is testing using video calls to verify third-party sellers as it attempts to minimize the amount of fraudulent accounts and listings on its...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is testing using video calls to verify third-party sellers as it attempts to minimize the amount of fraudulent accounts and listings on its...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Vivo shipped more smartphones in India than Samsung for the first time ever last quarter, according to data from Canalys. The company’s sales to vendors...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon and Alex Castro / The Verge Australia launched a coronavirus contact tracing app on Sunday, drawing over a million downloads within a just few hours, the...

Photo by Saeed Adyani / Netflix Microsoft founder Bill Gates expects his foundation to work “almost entirely” on the coronavirus pandemic in the near future, the Financial Times repo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla plans to call some workers back to its assembly plant in Fremont, California staring April 29th, despite a shelter-in-place order in the San...

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...

Coursera Online learning platform Coursera will make 3,800 of its courses available for free to people unemployed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Gizmodo reported. The Coursera Workforc...

After spending about $25 million on the project, British technology company Dyson says the UK government doesn’t need the ventilator it developed to help treat COVID-19 patients, Reuters...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Chinese government has ordered ByteDance to take down its Feishu workplace messaging tool from app stores in China for a month because it let ...

Nathalie Lawhead Have you installed the latest version of Mackerelmedia Fish? No, not Macromedia Flash. Mackerelmedia Fish. The piscine rich media plugin, created by experimental game de...

Photo by Florence Ion for The Verge We’ve pulled together a few exclusive deals this weekend for readers of The Verge. First, the Google Nest Hello wired video doorbell is down to $170...

Amazon has lost its appeal of a French court ruling that requires the company to temporarily stop delivering nonessential items in France or face hefty fines, the New York Times reported. ...

Photo: Justina Mintz / TNT With Parasite still on my mind, I decided to go back and rewatch Snowpiercer the other week since both Bong Joon-ho movies deal with such similar themes around...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber has informed residents of San Francisco’s Treasure Island neighborhood it will no longer make Uber Eats deliveries to the area because of n...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is changing its unpaid leave policies starting next month, according to a report from Bloomberg. On May 1st, hourly employees — a vast ma...

Photo: Sony Pictures Entertainment Like almost every other studio, Sony is moving around its film schedule because of the novel coronavirus. That means its two biggest Spider-Man movies ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge OnePlus launched its latest flagship phones, the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro, less than two weeks ago, but the Chinese phone maker is now laying off emp...

Image: Imran Chaudhri The original Apple Watch was released five years ago today — April 24th, 2015 — and Imran Chaudhri, a designer who worked on the team for the first Apple Watch,...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge John Legere has formally cut ties with T-Mobile US, the company he led as CEO for over seven years. After steering T-Mobile through a dramatic turnaround...

Many industries have been negatively impacted by the novel coronavirus, including the cruise industry, with cruise ships deemed some of the most dangerous places due to the limited airflow...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is extending its increase in the hourly pay rate of warehouse workers through May 16th, according to a report from CNBC. The company origin...

Image: The Verge Facebook’s CEO on building Rooms now, virtual reality later, and the massive acceleration in virtual connections Continue reading… ...

Facebook is rolling out a suite of new products to expand its capabilities in video chat. The company today announced Messenger Rooms, a tool for starting virtual hangouts with up to 50 pe...

Photos by Brian Schwarz ‘Boosted USA’ will sell boards, e-scooters, spare parts, and do some service, too Continue reading… ...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verge Samsung and Google are offering free phone repairs to health care workers and first responders to help support those frontline workers in the fight agai...

Happy Birthday Hubble! To celebrate the telescope’s three decades in space, the team of researchers behind the Hubble have released an amazing new image of two nebulas in the Large Magel...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon and Alex Castro / The Verge On Friday, Apple and Google revised their ambitious automatic contact-tracing proposal, just two weeks after the system was f...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon lost 84,000 Fios TV subscribers and 68,000 postpaid mobile phone subscribers during the first quarter of 2020 as the telecom company conti...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Two US lawmakers spearheading an antitrust investigation into Amazon are looking into whether a top company official lied before Congress about wh...

Intel’s latest NUC computer takes on the small form factor gaming PC world Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Last week, we saw Apple announce an addition to its smartphone lineup as well as a new keyboard case for the iPad Pro. This week on The Vergecast, co-ho...

Dreams, the latest game-meets-game-making toolkit from Media Molecule on PS4, is down to $25 at Amazon, GameStop, and Best Buy. It normally costs $40, and if you’re spending a lot of tim...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has announced that he’ll be stepping down from his position, with current AT&T president and COO John Stankey set t...

Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images The makers of Lysol, the Washington State Emergency Management Division, and the Environmental Protection Agency all scrambled t...

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Amazon tech workers are calling out sick today in protest of the company’s treatment of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The action, which will...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Messaging app Telegram is developing a group video calling service that’s due to be launched later this year, the company announced today. It sa...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The iPhone SE 2 is now available. If you were thinking about getting one, or are just curious about the various improvements over the 2016 model, check ...

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...

Microsoft has settled the great space debate, and sided with everyone who believes one space after a period is correct, not two. The software giant has started to update Microsoft Word to ...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo is disabling the ability to log into a Nintendo Account through a Nintendo Network ID (NNID), after 160,000 accounts have been affected by hac...

Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has the confirmation we’ve all be waiting for: Apple will reportedly use a 12-core 5nm ARM processor in a 2021 Mac. There’s ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A new iOS text bug has been discovered that causes iPhones to crash. The flaw involves several characters from the Sindhi language that cause ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In November 2018, more than 20,000 Googlers briefly walked off their jobs to protest the company’s lax treatment of executives who sexually hara...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has found no evidence that recently discovered security flaws in the native iOS Mail app were exploited by hackers, the company said in ...

LG’s new flagship phone, the Velvet, will be revealed in full on May 7th. The company posted a teaser video clip to its Korean YouTube channel evoking raindrops and a catwalk — a refer...

Travis Scott’s first virtual performance wasn’t just spectacular — it also broke a record. This evening developer Epic Games revealed that the concert, which took place inside of For...

If there’s one thing you can say about Fortnite’s live events, it’s that they keep getting more ambitious. From the original rocket launch to the mech vs. kaiju battle to the black h...

Image: NBC NBC’s Parks and Recreation will be returning for a half-hour scripted special next week to raise money for Feeding America’s COVID-19 Response Fund, NBC announced today (v...

Photo credit should read Michael Brochstein / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Over the last few days, a fake Joe Biden campaign ad has gone viral across Twitter, boosted in p...

Image: Nickelodeon All three seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender will be hitting Netflix in the US on May 15th, the streaming platform announced today. The beloved animated show follow...

At the end of May, NASA astronauts are slated to launch to space from the United States once again, after nearly a decade of launching on Russian rockets from Kazakhstan — but NASA does ...

Image: Jessa (@directedbyrian) The stalk market in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is bringing the internet together. After one user shared her incredible turnip prices on Twitter today, i...

An Instacart shopper in Washington D.C. prepares to fulfill a supermarket order | Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Grocery delivery platform Instacart s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon employees have accessed sales data from independent Marketplace sellers to help the company develop competing private-label products, accor...

The auto industry is promising to dramatically expand “vehicle-to-everything” communication technology, but only if the Federal Communication Commission rolls back its decision to take...

Photo credit should read Michael Brochstein / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Over the last few days, a fake Joe Biden campaign ad has gone viral across Twitter, boosted in p...

Photo by Nicolas Liponne/NurPhoto via Getty Images Bill Gates thinks most countries will fight COVID-19 with interview-based contact tracing and a central database to track exposure. Gat...

Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Doctors say one of the best ways to monitor patients with COVID-19 is by tracking their blood oxygen levels, which can...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge The Polestar 2, the first all-electric car from the Volvo Car Group, will start at $59,900 when it comes to the United States later this year. Equipped wi...

Netflix has spent years trying to become the new go-to home for kids’ and family entertainment, investing billions in original content and licensing popular series from some of the bigge...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro is a pretty expensive accessory — the 11-inch version costs $299, while the 12.9-inch version costs $349...

Porsche is introducing new head units that combine vintage design with more modern conveniences, like high-resolution touchscreens, Bluetooth, DAB+, and Apple CarPlay. There are two versi...

Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The travel industry is in shambles. Now that going places has become very ill-advised at best and contagiously...

Image: EarthCam I started becoming obsessed with EarthCam’s Times Square live stream a few weeks ago. Instead of habitually opening Instagram or Facebook when I was bored, I’d check ...

Too Hot to Handle’s premise is hard to see as anything other than desperate. A collection of hot people are promised a hedonistic island getaway, then surprised with a big catch: a $100,...

Fallout 76 was always missing something. Sure, it had lots of other problems — frustrating bugs and glitches, and vastly overpriced microtransactions — but what always stood out the mo...

Rapper Travis Scott is hosting five concerts inside of Fortnite over the next three days, and Epic promises the show, titled “Astronomical,” will be “an other-worldly experience” w...

Inside the electric scooter startup with big workplace problems Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has removed “pseudoscience” from the list of categories advertisers can use to target people, following an investigation from The Mar...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a few months, there’s going to be a lot more Wi-Fi to go around. The Federal Communications Commission voted today to open up a plot of spect...

Enforcing social distancing during the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic is a tough thing to do, but the suburban town of Westport, Connecticut, might have found the most over-the-top sol...

The Mandalorian’s second season is still a few months away, but a new trailer for Disney Plus’ eight-part documentary series on the making of season 1 promises to fill the gap. Each e...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will now require all of its advertisers to verify their identities and countries of origin. The new rule expands a policy previously reserv...

Apple Music is getting an app on Samsung’s most recent smart TVs, the two companies announced today. It’s the latest expansion of the bizarre partnership between Apple and Samsung for ...

Microsoft is bringing Red Dead Redemption 2 to its Xbox Game Pass subscription for Xbox One consoles. It’s a big addition that will see subscribers gain access to the action-adventure ga...

IMDb TV — the Amazon-owned free streaming service that’s part of the popular online movie database — is getting its first major original TV series: a reboot of the 2008 TNT crime sho...

Google is adding a new feature to search today that will let you know when it thinks the search results it’s offering aren’t that good. “It looks like there aren’t any great match...

Image: Otter.ai Automated transcription service Otter.ai now integrates directly into Zoom calls to transcribe meetings on the fly. During a meeting, anyone on the call can click the “...

Photo: Boston Dynamics Robot maker Boston Dynamics announced on Thursday that its quadruped Spot robot is already in use at one Boston hospital to help with coronavirus treatment. The co...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple will release its first Mac powered by an ARM processor in 2021, Bloomberg reports. The company is thought to have three Mac processors in de...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is testing a new option that shows you all the times a post has been retweeted with a comment, the company has confirmed to The Verge. In ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One challenge with writing about vast multinational corporations that have unfathomably large user bases is that they occasionally wade into subje...

Zoom has hit the headlines recently for a growing number of security and privacy concerns, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped people from flocking to the video conferencing app. Zoom ...

Eeyo is the new Gogoro e-bike brand. | Image: Gogoro Electric scooter company Gogoro, founded by two former senior HTC designers and technologists, is about to launch its first electric ...

The coronavirus pandemic has hit the tourism industry hard, including in Japan — ninety percent of ryokan inns in the famous Arima hot spring resort town have been closed since the prefe...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has updated its COVID-19 policies to require users remove tweets making unverified claims that “incite people to action and cause widesp...

Image: Google Google’s Duo video chatting app is about to get a big bump in call quality, thanks to a new video codec technology the company plans to roll out in the next week. The cod...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon announced today that it’s extending its pledge to provide an additional 15GB of high-speed data to customers with a wireless plan throug...

Image: Nikola Electric big rig startup Nikola received a $4.1 million loan from the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) meant to help small businesses kee...

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Active 2 has taken another big step toward offering blood pressure monitoring, a feature Samsung has been promising since the original Galaxy Watch Active was rele...

Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images Federal researcher and vaccine development expert Rick Bright says he was removed from his position in the Department of Health and Human Servic...

John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Joe Biden won key environmental endorsements this week as the 50th anniversary of Earth Day focuses attention on climate...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Chinese operatives helped amplify a viral text message that falsely claimed President Trump was going to instate a nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19,...

Photo by Ethan Miller/FilmMagic Russian Doll co-creator and showrunner Leslye Headland is reportedly working on a new Star Wars TV series for Disney Plus, according to a new report from ...

Image: Netflix The most pressing issue entertainment companies around the world are facing is what the rest of their year looks like. Production on sets around the world has completely s...

Facebook Facebook says today, it’s going to display the location of “high-reach” Facebook pages and Instagram accounts on every post the owners share in order to give people “mor...

Left: YouTube when unfolded / Right: split-screen when folded | Image: Samsung YouTube has released a new update to take advantage of the Galaxy Z Flip’s “Flex Mode,” allowing the ...

Update April 22nd, 3:48PM ET: SpaceX successfully launched and deployed all 60 Starlink satellites into orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket also successfully touched down on the company’s drone s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T is nearly doubling the number of markets in which it offers its 5G network, with coverage in 90 new areas starting today. The new additio...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Security researchers say the iPhone has a severe flaw in the native iOS Mail app that makes it vulnerable to hackers, according to a report pu...

Nuro, the autonomous vehicle startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, is using its small fleet of road-legal delivery robots to transport medical supplies around two California stadiums...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If there’s anything I’ve learned from working on the internet, peddling writing for a number of years, it’s that the content must flow. Or m...

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A Nintendo Switch is hard to come by these days; the limited Animal Crossing edition, even harder. Players who failed to snag the island-themed console can either fight over marked-up cons...

Call of Duty: Mobile has quickly grown to become one of the biggest games in the world, and soon it will have a competitive tournament to match. Today, Activision revealed the Call of Duty...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Chinese EV startup Byton is furloughing more than 200 workers at its North American headquarters in Santa Clara, California due to the coronavirus pand...

Photo: HBO Westworld has been renewed for a fourth season, HBO announced today, meaning that the sometimes infuriatingly complicated science-fiction / Western series will continue to ent...

Google Meet’s new Zoom-like gallery view is rolling out across the globe “gradually” starting today, the company said in a blog post. Previously, you were only able to see four peopl...

Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns Punk acts like Pussy Riot and Idles will be logging into Minecraft on Saturday to play sets for the Block by Blockwest online music festival to raise m...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Mixed reality company Magic Leap is reportedly laying off around 1,000 employees and abandoning its focus on consumer headsets. Bloomberg reported the ...

Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, prides itself on being one of the few autonomous vehicle companies to use...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A group of scholars and nonprofit organizations have asked web platforms to keep track of the content they’re removing during the coronaviru...

A Loon balloon as it takes off. | Image: Loon Project Loon, the Alphabet division that aims to use high-altitude balloons to supply internet to remote communities, could be just weeks aw...

In my sixth week of self-isolation, my favorite pastime has become judging the homes of celebrities over grainy Zoom calls and low-quality Instagram live streams. The more trouble they see...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Motorola is making flagship phones again. The company’s new Edge Plus (along with the slightly less powerful Edge) marks Motorola’s reentry into th...

Spotify Spotify is now giving musicians the ability to highlight their fundraising efforts right on their dedicated artist landing pages. The company is launching its Artist Fundraising ...

DELHI, INDIA - 2020/04/19: A cyclist rides on an empty street during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Photo by Amarjeet Kumar Singh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Air quality dramatica...

When it comes to incredible, elaborate collector’s editions of books, it’s tough to beat The Folio Society, which has in recent years began to expand out into the worlds of fantasy and...

Image: Arlo Arlo’s Video Doorbell is down to $110 at Woot, which is far below its usual $200 price. This smart home gadget released in late 2019, and its standout features are a 1:1 as...

Zoom promised a 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues, and the company is delivering on some of those promises. A new Zoom 5.0 update is rolling out today that’s desig...

Polar Polar has announced its latest fitness watch, called the Grit X, and it’s made for the outdoors. The company claims that this is the ultimate outdoor watch, taking every feature ...

Photo: Sepah News Iran claims to have launched its first military satellite into orbit on Wednesday, according to The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. If true, the mission would be Ira...

Photo: Blizzard Entertainment The third season of the Overwatch League was always going to be a production challenge. After spending two years in the comfy confines of the Blizzard Arena...

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The first three seasons of Sailor Moon, the landmark anime series which originally aired between 1992 and 1995, are releasing for free on the franchise’s official YouTube channel, Crunch...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is detailing how it handles bugs in its software and services using machine learning models. “47,000 developers generate nearly 30,000...

Image: Facebook Facebook is launching its Messenger Kids app in over 70 new countries today, the company has announced. A help page on Facebook’s website lists Brazil, India, Japan, an...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge If you are an average person having a customer service problem with a large social network, historically your best recourse has been prayer. Oh s...

Image: Warner Bros Warner Bros’ new animated Scooby-Doo movie Scoob! has become the latest major film to skip its theatrical release as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic forces cinemas to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Vivaldi is launching the 3.0 version of its browser, and it includes an integrated tracker blocker made in partnership with DuckDuckGo. The compan...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook has made a huge bet on India by investing $5.7 billion into Jio Platforms, the tech subsidiary of multinational conglomerate Reliance...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom is adding a way for hosts to report meeting participants, according to the app’s release notes published on April 19th (via PC Mag). In the...

Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images Palantir, an analytics company co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel, is supporting the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in building a...

Image: Patreon Patreon has laid off 30 employees, or 13 percent of the company’s staff, due to economic difficulties created by the COVID-19 pandemic, as first reported by TechCrunch o...

April 22nd, 2020, marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the annual celebration of the environmental movement. In 1970, according to EarthDay.org, about 20 million Americans assembled to...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Despite employees adapting fairly well to working from home during the global pandemic, Netflix is reducing the number of product features it expe...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Adobe is now bundling Photoshop for iPad and Fresco Premium into one package. The bundle allows iPad owners to gain access to both for just $9...

Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images In-flight internet provider Gogo is placing more than 600 workers on unpaid leave, or about 60 percent of its workforce, the company announced on T...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge IFA announced on Twitter that its upcoming 2020 conference will be affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but it’s not canceling the show. The Be...

A work of lantern art to commemorate Earth Day at April 22, 2017 in Bali, Indonesia. | Photo by Muhammad Fauzy/NurPhoto via Getty Images The 50th anniversary of Earth Day marks a new...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap has been building a product optimized for the pandemic. It features more original content than ever before, as well as games and augmented re...

Courtesy of NETFLIX Tiger King was already one of Netflix’s most viral shows, but now, the streamer has confirmed it’s also one of the biggest: it tied Stranger Things’ third seaso...

Image: Evan Blass Motorola is hosting an online event tomorrow, April 22nd, at 12PM ET, and it appears the company will be announcing a new flagship called the Edge Plus at the event, ac...

Ernesto S. Ruscio/Getty Images for Netflix Netflix is one of the rare companies benefiting from the global pandemic, which has kept billions of people at home with nothing to do but stre...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Cryptocurrency company Ripple is suing YouTube for its “inexplicable failure” at stopping scammers from impersonating its CEO. In a complaint ...

Seattle-based gaming convention PAX West will still take place during Labor Day weekend, organizers announced today. The event is planned for September 4th–7th, with more information to ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Some of Apple’s iPhones rumored to launch in the fall and a larger iPhone SE model apparently slated for 2021 could be delayed, according to...

Nilay Patel / The Verge The Verge’s Nilay Patel deemed the 2020 Apple MacBook Air “the best Mac for most people” in his review. And if you need or want to upgrade, you can grab thi...

Google is starting to “roll out gradually” a feature allowing you to customize voice detection sensitivity on Google Assistant devices, a spokesperson confirmed to The Verge. Although...

Photo by Stefan Etienne / The Verge Epic Games has released its battle royale hit Fortnite through the official Play Store on Android, 18 months after releasing the game as third-party s...

Photo by Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images Across Idaho, the number of people getting tested for sexually transmitted infections and HIV has cratered. The Department of Hea...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge General Motors is shutting down Maven, the car-sharing service it launched in 2016, the company tells The Verge. It joins a small but growing list...

Photo by Alex Wong / Getty Images For weeks, President Trump has been giving daily briefings on the US pandemic response, often running more than two hours and often lashing out against ...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge The Nintendo Switch sold more than double the number of consoles in March 2020 in the US than in March 2019, according to data from The NPD Group, show...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s good to be aware of what graphics card you have in your computer for several reasons. First, it will help you know if your machine meets the reco...

Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images As we stumble into the second month of quarantine in many US cities, it’s clear that by and large, we’re starting to adapt. Thi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Communications Commission rejected calls from city governments on Monday asking for the agency to extend the comment filing period for...

The internet is littered with zombie websites: forums that most users have long abandoned, novelty pages whose cultural moments have passed. This Website Will Self-Destruct will not have t...

Image: Sony If you’re in the market for an extra PS4 controller, the rose gold DualShock 4 is $45 at GameStop today only. Sony makes a lot of different color options of its controllers...

Photo by Stefan Etienne / The Verge If you’re finding that background noise is disrupting voice or video calls made from your computer, then a new piece of software from Nvidia might h...

Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Editor’s note, April 21st, 2020: Donald Trump tweeted on April 20th that he would sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigra...

AT&T is giving tens of millions of eligible customers who are already using its various internet, mobile, and video plans free versions of HBO Max when it launches on May 27th. In mos...

Peloton today announced that it will resume live workout classes after finally closing its studios on April 3rd when an employee tested positive for COVID-19. Classes will now be streaming...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile and Sprint are taking the first steps toward combining their networks after the two companies completed their landmark merger earlier in ...

If you managed to get your hands on a TurboGrafx-16 Mini, you might be on the lookout for a wireless controller option: and as per usual, 8BitDo has just the thing. Today, the company reve...

Image: Razer Razer has announced the early 2020 edition of its Blade Stealth 13. The new model replaces last year’s GTX model and starts at $1,799. It will be available in the second q...

Photo: The Indie Projects Theo Gove-Humphries and Bee Roper had their next two years planned out. They would fly — with their van, naturally — from the UK to Canada. They’d make th...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge Screen recording is helpful for a number of things, from creating a tutorial to grabbing a clip to post on Twitter to share with friends. On Windows 10...

HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s new streaming service combining HBO with Warner Bros. movies and Turner TV shows, will launch on May 27th, the company announced today. HBO Max’s big selling po...

Microsoft is launching the consumer versions of its Microsoft 365 subscriptions today. The software giant unveiled Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions just a few weeks ago, and...

Photo by Sylvain Lefevre / Getty Images The US Food and Drug Administration has issued the first authorization for an at-home COVID-19 test kit. LabCorp, the diagnostics company producin...

This week, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting a big update that adds a number of welcome features, including two new businesses and a slate of upcoming seasonal events. The most nota...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The 2018 OnePlus 6T phone is as low as $280 right now at Woot, an online store owned and operated by Amazon. This particular model being sold ...

Marco Polo Ice T loves the app Marco Polo. So does P!nk, who shouted out the app on Instagram, and Amy Poehler, who mentioned it during a Late Night appearance. All three celebrities hav...

Image: Sonos Sonos has always been the neutral manager of streaming services on its multiroom audio platform, but the company is about to take a big step into creating some of that conte...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is making a significant change to its Google Shopping platform by letting any business owner that sells products online list their inventor...

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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge I’m writing this newsletter out to you on the new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro. I used to not be able to write the newsletter with the iPad — my ...

The Spiro Wave is a “bridge” ventilator that can help patients to breath. | Image: Newlab, 10xBeta, Boyce Technologies and Otherlab Last Friday, the Food and Drug Administration appr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Thanks to the Morning Brew for recommending us as an “Essential” read. Here’s hoping all of you who signed up over the weekend find The Inte...

Image: Apple Apple is launching its major services, including the App Store, iCloud, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Arcade, in 20 new countries today. In addition, Apple Music is expanding to...

Sharp Sharp announced last month that it would begin making face masks at its TV factory in Japan, and this morning they became available to order — at least, that was the plan. Demand...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify’s officially trying to solve the podcast discovery problem while also trying to help podcasters reach new audiences. The company announc...

Nintendo has announced what it describes as the final update to Super Mario Maker 2, and it comes with a huge new feature: a World Maker mode that lets you design a map and string multiple...

Image: Nvidia Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service is losing access to more titles later this month, the company announced on Monday. Starting April 24th, GeForce Now will no long...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It can be frustrating to accidentally tap a button and mess up playback when watching Netflix on your phone. Thankfully, Netflix is rolling out a ...

Yes, some of these are wrong, don’t judge me. | Image: Jay Peters I never knew I wanted online co-op in a crossword app, but The New Yorker has added the feature to its online puzzles....

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Hot off the soft launch of its Peacock streaming service, NBCUniversal is welcoming another streaming service into its family, but this one is designed to help movie ticket seller Fandango...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The day is upon us; the hour draws near. Today is the 20th of April, 2020. Today, stoners the world over will gather as best they can, spark up some bud...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit experienced an outage on Monday, and while the site was experiencing issues, it would return an error page when you tried to access subredd...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Electric vehicle startup Faraday Future has obtained a $9,176,800 loan from the Small Business Association’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which...

Photo by Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto via Getty Images With limitations on COVID-19 testing making it hard to know how many people actually have the disease, some public health experts are ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whole Foods, which is owned by Amazon, is using a heat map to track stores that may be at risk of unionization, according to report from Busin...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Kickstarter announced in an internal memo today that it’s likely going to lay off employees. CEO Aziz Hasan writes that the crowdfunding com...

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite — the Pokémon Go-esque augmented reality Harry Potter game — is a game uniquely unsuited to the current world of self-quarantining people looking to help p...

Warner Bros. is delaying Matt Reeves’ highly anticipated Batman movie by four months as the studio shuffles its broader DC film lineup. The Batman was originally supposed to hit theater...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The 2019 iPad mini is $70 off today at Best Buy, marking the lowest price that we’ve seen yet for the 64GB model. It usually retails for $40...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is launching a self-screening tool for people to check whether they qualify to donate their plasma in the hopes of creating a treatment ...

Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images Facebook is banning promotions for protests that violate social distancing rules, the company has confirmed. CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan w...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft is getting ready to unveil its Surface Book 3 and Surface Go 2 hardware. Recent retailer leaks have hinted that Microsoft is planning to use Int...

SteelSeries has unveiled a fleet of Cyberpunk 2077-inspired gaming headsets as well as a lineup of themed accessories made for its Arctis Pro wired and wireless headsets. First up, though,...

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Astroworld is heading to a virtual world. Today, Epic Games revealed that the next in-game Fortnite concert will be headlined by rapper Travis Scott, and it’s set to take place across se...

A good webcam, let alone any webcam, is tough to find these days. Just to put a time marker on this post: the coronavirus pandemic has moved much of America’s workforce into a work-from-...

Photo by Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images With the league on indefinite hiatus, England’s Premier League is making a return of sorts with a weeklong FIFA tournament that wil...

The gadget discounts you need to know about today range from Vizio’s P-Series Quantum X TV and handy USB hubs to microSD cards. For the most part, we’re leaning on practicality for the...

There’s something soothing about watching a bunch of vampires be absolute morons on television every week. They’re undead, capable of incredible feats, dark magic, and, in most cases, ...

YouTube’s lo-fi hip-hop community has for years offered a place to virtually gather, do homework, and find comfort in the random messages of strangers that populate in live chats. Now, a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber is launching a pair of new services called Uber Connect and Uber Direct as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic minimizes demand for its traditional...

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Image: Apple Apple announced its new Magic Keyboard with trackpad for the iPad Pro last month, but the company has so far refused to reveal the weight of the accessory that’s now shipp...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Two weeks after beginning to survey users about disease symptoms in an effort to track the spread of COVID-19, Facebook said Monday that early r...

Image: LG LG has released a short teaser trailer for its upcoming Velvet smartphone that gives us a clearer look at its design, which is a refreshing change from LG’s recent devices li...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge OnePlus announced the 8 and 8 Pro phones early last week, but didn’t share pricing information for India, one of its most important markets. Now we ha...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Treasurer of Australia has ordered that country’s competition watchdog to create a code of conduct for Facebook and Google which would force...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge E-scooter-sharing company Lime is reactivating small fleets of scooters in about a dozen cities and will offer free 30-minute rides for health...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch and YouTube don’t have much competition when it comes to streaming platforms for the gaming community, but Facebook wants to change that ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon will extend the closures of its fulfillment centers in France until at least April 22nd, Reuters reports. The e-commerce company closed six...

Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Some workers for grocery delivery platform Instacart are still waiting on the safety kits the company promised two weeks ago, acc...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon With New York’s marriage bureaus closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday that the state will begin allowing marriag...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Using data from the Covid Tracking Project, the cofounders of Instagram created a website to track the state-by-state spread of COVID-19 in th...

Amazon is now using thermal cameras at its warehouses to help screen workers for fevers, Reuters reports. The thermal imaging cameras are faster to use than the standard forehead thermomet...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Welcome to the weekend. GameStop is hosting a one-day deal on video games, consoles, accessories, and more. If you’ve had a few titles, a spare contr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A federal judge has ruled that Twitter can’t reveal surveillance requests it received from the US government, putting an end to legal battle tha...

Photo: Lara Solanki / Netflix I finally got around to watching The Lighthouse the other week, or, as my wife later joked it could have been called, Look How Good Willem Dafoe is at Actin...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google searches for terms related to COVID-19 will now display information for more than 2,000 COVID-19 testing centers across 43 states in the US...

Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images President Trump has spent the week fumbling to lay out his vision for “reopening” the US economy during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Firs...

Being stuck in an endless Zoom or Skype call can often feel like you’re trapped in an Imperial holding cell, but thanks to the official Star Wars website, you can make your next conferen...

Custom art is a point of pride for many Animal Crossing: New Horizons players. With a little artistic ability, players can create everything from clothing to elaborate floor tiles unique t...

Microsoft has created a limited-edition Xbox One X console that’s styled in the theme of Cyberpunk 2077. The console includes decals that glow in the dark, laser etchings, a blue LED lig...

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Image: TechCrunch Google is reportedly testing its own Google-branded smart debit card that will help customers make and track purchases made online and in stores, according to a report ...

San Diego Comic-Con, one of the world’s biggest comic book conventions, is officially canceled. The convention will instead run next year, from July 22nd through July 25th, 2021. Comic-...

NASA and SpaceX are now targeting May 27th for the first crewed flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon — a newly developed vehicle designed to take astronauts to the International Space Statio...

Several of Netflix’s nature documentaries, including the critically acclaimed Our Planet and Babies, are streaming for free on the streamer’s YouTube page. Netflix normally allows tea...

Image: Samsung Samsung has added a hand-washing app to its Galaxy smartwatches that can send you reminders to wash your hands and time you while you do so (via SamMoblie). Google added s...

Photo by Stephane Cardinale / Corbis via Getty Images Amazon will provisionally be allowed to invest in UK-based food delivery startup Deliveroo, the UK’s Competition and Markets Autho...

Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images Even if you don’t think you spit when you talk, you definitely do — and a new video highlights that spit with lasers. The video, published in...

Image: FX In American politics, the Equal Rights Amendment is among one of the quieter embarrassments in United States history, a proposed legislation that, incredibly, has never been pa...

Image: Samsung TVs are large items, and they come with a heck of a lot of packaging. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could use that packaging for something such as, I don’t know, a cat ho...

Image: Games Done Quick Games Done Quick (GDQ), an organization that raises money for charity with speedrunning events, is hosting an online-only speedrunning marathon all weekend in sup...

Image: Apple Apple had a few surprises for us this week: a new version of the fan-favorite iPhone SE and the early availability of its Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro. This week on The ...

Tribeca Film Institute The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival was postponed because of the novel coronavirus, but you can watch its virtual reality films on the Oculus TV app from now until Apri...

Instagram Instagram Live launched in 2016, but it took a pandemic for the feature to really take off. The company says Live usage is up over 70 percent in the US, so it’s rolling out a...

Concept design for Microsoft’s new PowerToy | Niels Laute Microsoft is currently building a new Spotlight-like launcher app for Windows 10. Designed to replace the existing Win + R sho...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google’s Nest Wifi mesh routers and extenders have been discounted plenty of times since they launched last year, but Bed Bath & Beyond (originall...

Image: Facebook Facebook is expanding its like reactions with a “care” reaction to help people show support. Facebook says it hopes the reaction, which shows a face hugging a heart, ...

The Intelsat 901 satellite as seen by MEV-1 before docking. | Image: Northrop Grumman An old communications satellite in orbit around Earth is back in service again after being nudged in...

Image: Apple Preorders have begun for the iPhone SE 2, and the phone will be available on Friday, April 24th. Since Apple Stores around the US are closed, your only option at the moment ...

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The device attaches to the lid of a regular Ball jar. | Image: Twilio Baking sourdough can be a tricky business. Unlike other breads, where you can reliably use off-the-shelf dried yeast...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Whether you want to save a video of what’s playing on your screen, share what you’re looking at with friends, or film a tutorial, recording your Mac...

The Apple Music web interface looks a lot like the service’s Mac app. | Image: Apple Apple Music’s web interface has left beta, MacRumors reports. Heading to beta.music.apple.com now...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A few years ago, Facebook became aware that Russia kept posting misinformation all over the network. The misinformation was designed to rile peopl...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge A security lapse at controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI meant that its source code, some of its secret keys and cloud storage ...

Bill Gates in 2019 when things were simpler. | Photo by Mike Cohen/Getty Images for The New York Times Bill Gates is now the favorite target for coronavirus misinformation according to d...

When someone says “gaming phone,” you probably know what to expect. Aggressive design. LED effects. Maybe a vent or two. The proscribed gamer aesthetic is unsubtle and, despite the wid...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Scooter sharing company Lime is scooping up assets of defunct electric skateboard startup Boosted, The Verge has learned. At least five of Boo...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Scooter sharing company Lime is scooping up the assets of defunct electric skateboard startup Boosted, The Verge has learned. At least five of...

Image: DroneFriendly Drone company DJI released the compact $799 Mavic Air in January 2018, and The Verge’s Vjeran Pavic thought it was a great drone, though not the best option for se...

Image: Roblox One World: Together At Home, the unprecedented all-remote benefit concert airing this Saturday to show support for healthcare workers worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic...

J.J. Abrams is taking on the popular comic book series Justice League Dark as a new producing project under his Bad Robot production label, adapting it into a series for WarnerMedia’s up...

Microsoft is releasing the final version of its Windows 10 May 2020 Update today. While the update won’t roll out automatically to machines until next month, Windows 10 testers can get i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is introducing a new speaking style for Alexa and adding some speaking styles for other AI voices, the company said today. The longform spe...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said that conspiracy theories linking the rollout of 5G to the spread of COVID-19 are false in an interview with CNBC to...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s wireless network, Google Fi, can now be activated on an iPhone via eSIM, as spotted by 9to5Google. That means you can use a Google Fi num...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google says it saw more than 18 million daily malware and phishing emails related to COVID-19 scams just in the past week. That’s on top of the ...

Microsoft has signed a multiyear deal with National Basketball Association (NBA) to become the official AI, cloud, and laptop provider for the league. The deal will see the NBA using Micro...

Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge Facebook is canceling any physical events with more than 50 people through June 2021. CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted the news as part of an update on Facebook...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google plans to add a Zoom-like gallery view to its business- and education-focused Meet videoconferencing service and let users take calls right ...

Couch gags play an instrumental role in each episode of The Simpsons, and this Sunday’s episode is one of the most ambitious in the show’s 31-season history. The new couch gag is a no...

Image: Apple Yesterday, Apple announced that it’s now selling individual wheel kits for its Mac Pro — and like the computer it’s used for, these are some pricy rims. If you are li...

Blade Runner: The Lost Cut is described as “a radical re-envisioning of Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi classic,” it’s created by filmmaker Leon Chase, and it’s about 20 minutes long....

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is introducing a new feature in most modern MacBooks called “Battery health management.” It’s going to be available today for developers and...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple said on Thursday that it would reopen its retail store in Seoul, South Korea, this week as part of a broader push to resume physical ret...

Photo by Samir Jana/Hindustan Times via Getty Images There’s yet another new study out this week on hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug championed by President Trump (without evi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has announced a series of new policies to make Android’s in-app subscriptions more transparent to users. Starting on June 16th, apps will...

Image: Samsung Samsung’s Galaxy S10 Lite will be available in the US starting tomorrow, April 17th, and it will cost $650, the company announced today. You’ll be able to buy it unloc...

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images One of the few bright spots during the pandemic has been the outpouring of support for hospital and other frontline workers, like in Spain, where citi...

Riot is continuing to expand beyond League of Legends with the acquisition of a new studio. Today, the developer announced that it has acquired Hypixel Studios, the team behind Hytale, an ...

The new HP Envy 13. | Image: HP Today, HP announced several new laptops in its Envy lineup, adding affordable alternatives to the company’s more expensive Spectre lineup. This includes...

On Thursday afternoon, three astronauts on board the International Space Station will load into a Russian Soyuz capsule and embark on the more than three-hour journey back home to Earth �...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verge An in-depth analysis of the iPad Pro’s camera array has given us our best idea yet of what Apple’s first LIDAR-equipped device is capable of right n...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon announced on Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire videoconferencing and event platform BlueJeans Network. The compani...

Facebook Facebook will start putting anti-misinformation messages in the News Feeds of people who have engaged with fake coronavirus stories. The company offered an update on its fight a...

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Alex Castro / The Verge Playlists on Spotify are often the easiest way to start listening to music, given that the tracklist is already set. Today, the company’s giving Premium users m...

Lenovo’s new Legion 7 gaming laptop. | Image: Lenovo Lenovo has announced several new products to join its fleet of Legion gaming products, and as you’ll notice throughout this post,...

On Friday, Apple and Google announced an unprecedented project to track and halt the spread of the novel coronavirus — and we haven’t stopped talking about it since. The project would ...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is amping up its parental controls today with a feature that lets parents remotely set restrictions on their kids’ accounts. The new feat...

A new leak has revealed that Crysis Remastered is coming to the Nintendo Switch. If you’ve ever asked the question “can the Nintendo Switch run Crysis?” then it looks like we’re ab...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s unannounced high-end over-ear headphones will reportedly come with interchangeable parts. Bloomberg reports that Apple is developing new...

Image: Apple $399 for a phone that will last for years Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon and Alex Castro / The Verge Most days in this column I try to bring you one big story about the intersection of tech and democracy, but reading the news ...

Sony isn’t expecting to delay the PlayStation 5 launch planned for this holiday season, according to a new report from Bloomberg, but there will likely be fewer machines available than t...

Photo by Brent Rose for The Verge GoPro is laying off more than 20 percent of its workforce, over 200 employees, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company has announced. The move...

Graphics by Michele Doying / The Verge The United States Internal Revenue Service launched a website for tracking coronavirus stimulus checks today, but some users are getting told their...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google says it will slow hiring for the remainder of 2020 and adjust its investments in areas like data centers and marketing amid the COVID-1...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s AirPods Pro came with a set of replacements for the newly removable ear tips that come in one three different sizes. But in the event you lost ...

Today, Russia conducted another test of its missile system designed to destroy a satellite in orbit around Earth, according to US Space Command. It is believed to be the 10th test of this ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Self-driving startup Zoox has admitted that four of its employees took confidential documents from their previous employer Tesla, according to a statem...

Image: Apple Apple’s new iPhone SE 2 combines some of the best components of the premium iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro with the design of the iPhone 8, all for under $400. But one key co...

Image: Apple Apple will donate a portion of sales from Product Red products to a COVID-19 relief fund, the company announced today. Product Red donations normally go toward fighting HIV/...

Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images After endorsements from Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and President Barack Obama, Joe Biden is now presumptive Democratic nomi...

Apple iPhone SE 2 | Image: Apple It’s been a bad year for small phone lovers. It’s no secret that the average size of new smartphones has increased dramatically over the past few yea...

Customers who currently subscribe to HBO through Charter, including those who pay for Charter’s Silver and Gold video packages, will get access to WarnerMedia’s new HBO Max streaming s...

Photo by PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images Amazon has decided to shut down all of its fulfillment centers in France after a French court ruled the company could be fined €1 million p...

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Image: Google Google is launching a new Kids section for the Google Play Store, which will offer a selection of so-called “Teacher Approved” apps. The search giant says these are app...

Illustration by Alex Castro Mindy* listened to the rabbi preside over her uncle’s funeral on Zoom. The virtual event has become commonplace during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it st...

Image: Apple Apple is now selling the wheels and feet separately from the 2019 Mac Pro via individual kits, but like the Mac Pro itself, both kits are pretty expensive (via 9to5Mac). If ...

Singapore’s contact tracing smartphone app. | Photo by CATHERINE LAI/AFP via Getty Images Apps have to be part of a bigger public health strategy Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lyft is launching a new delivery service aimed at helping drivers earn money during the novel coronavirus pandemic. As demand for ride-hailing col...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Facebook wants to stop people from abusing its system, so it’s making a world of bots that can imitate them. Company researchers have released ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge All-electric racing series Formula E is launching a nine-week sim racing competition after having to put its sixth season on pause due to the novel cor...

As the novel coronavirus pandemic has swept across the world over the last few weeks, a pro-Iranian influence operation has spread disinformation over social media suggesting that the US g...

Image: Apple Apple’s newly announced second-generation iPhone SE (or iPhone SE 2 as we’ll be calling it) is the company’s first phone with a single rear camera since 2018’s iPhon...

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Neon Genesis Evangelion, Hideaki Anno’s seminal anime about traumatized child pilots, is branching into friendlier offshoots with a Tamagotchi crossover. In Japan, they’ll launch on Ju...

Image: Apple After months of rumors, Apple has finally announced a new iPhone SE. The new phone looks a lot like the iPhone 8, as it has a 4.7-inch LCD screen, Touch ID, a glass back, an...

Image: Apple Apple announced the successor to its beloved iPhone SE: the iPhone SE 2. The specs are a mix of what you’ll find in the iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone XR, and the iPhone 8. It has ...

Apple is shipping its new keyboard case for the iPad Pro ahead of schedule. The company just announced that the Magic Keyboard is now available for preorder and will start arriving to cust...

Image: Apple Apple has officially announced the new iPhone SE, a lower-cost iPhone that starts at $399 for a version with 64GB of storage. It has the same basic shape and look as the iPh...

I keep writing about live-streaming like it’s accessible and easy to do — which it’s not. It’s actually quite difficult to get started. Sorry! My bad. I didn’t mean to lead you a...

When I was a kid, I spent almost as much time reading about games in magazines as I did actually playing them. There was always so much that was beyond my grasp: a role-playing game from J...

For the first time in a month, I had somewhere to be on a Saturday night. It was a mini-music festival where emo fans and electronic music aficionados gathered, staring up at a handcrafted...

The Interface Live is back! To kick off 2020, we’re hosting a virtual discussion between The Verge’s Casey Newton and Bloomberg reporter Sarah Frier, author of the new book No Filter: ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Recording your iPhone screen can be super helpful, whether you want to save a clip of the game you’re playing, record part of a live stream ...

The Mandalorian is Disney Plus’ breakout show, and now it’s set to receive an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look in a new eight-part documentary series exclusive to the streaming platfor...

Niantic has been tweaking Pokémon Go in an effort to make it more playable from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, and today it’s announcing one of the biggest changes yet: raid battles...

Dell improves upon an already winning formula Continue reading… ...

The coding platform Glitch is formally launching its first paid product today: a subscription that lets you pay to upgrade the bite-sized apps you can run on its platform. Since it launche...

Ecobee SmartCamera | Image: Ecobee Smart thermostat maker Ecobee has announced its first indoor security camera, the $179 SmartCamera. The device is actually just one piece of a new home...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge We got both the announcement and the embargo lift for OnePlus’ new top-tier smartphones yesterday. Here’s my review of the OnePlus 8 Pro and here is...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today let’s take a break from discussing our global pandemic to talk about one of my favorite books of recent months: Sarah Frier’s No Filter:...

Image: Riot Games Riot will make it easier to gain access to the closed beta of its popular new tactical shooter Valorant, the game developer announced late Tuesday. Now, not just select...

Google may start adjusting the quality of video captured by your Nest security camera to help ease the strain put on broadband networks. The company is making the changes at a time when mo...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Amazon is planning to make dramatic cuts to commission rates for its affiliate marketing program, which allows media organizations, e-commerce compani...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Wear OS, Google’s operating system for smartwatches and wearables, now sends periodic reminders to wash your hands, one of the best ways to...

There’s a scene in Touchstone Pictures’ 1984 movie Splash where a young Tom Hanks watches a beautiful naked mermaid run off into the ocean from which she came. In the original version,...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google has given its Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL unlocked phones a big price cut that lasts until May 9th at 11:59PM PT, or until supplies last. Ea...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The passionate customers who helped lift up electric skateboard company Boosted are now rallying to help each other in the wake of the startup...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A court ruled yesterday that Mashable can embed a professional photographer’s photo without breaking copyright law, thanks to Instagram’s term...

Image: Epic Games Epic is extending the current season of Fortnite by another month, with the third season of Chapter 2 now slated to launch on June 4th instead of May 1st. Epic made the...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google may be developing its own processor that could power the company’s Pixel phones as early as next year, while later versions of the pr...

One of the weirdest things to me about Twitch is how it’s a social site that doesn’t incentivize much community-building. Part of this is obviously because it’s a place for broadcast...

GameMaker Studio 2 | YoYo Games Making a video game is much less daunting than it might seem. While you likely aren’t going to go from having no experience to making the next Grand The...

Sling is providing free TV from 5PM to midnight each night, as part of a new initiative to encourage Americans to stay home. Starting today, new Sling TV customers can register for the ser...

With much of the United States forced to stay inside and looking for any kind of entertainment to make the days go by faster, NBCUniversal couldn’t have picked a better time to launch it...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge OnePlus has announced two new phones, the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro. They both have fast refreshing displays, and in the case of the OnePlus 8 Pro, yo...

Sony is offering two free games to PS4 owners for a limited time as part of an initiative to encourage people to stay at home. As part of PlayStation’s “Play At Home” initiative, Pl...

Microsoft Teams While Zoom has had its problems — quite a few problems, actually — the videoconferencing app remains popular for its ease of use and features such as the ability to p...

Tamir Kalifa for The Washington Post via Getty Images Two dozen state attorneys general are asking the Trump administration to crack down on Defense Distributed’s Defcad site for selli...

Microsoft is providing IT admins with an extra six months of support for some older versions of Windows. The software giant has been working with businesses impacted by the coronavirus pan...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook’s NPE Team, its experimental app division designed to play around with new mobile ideas, has a new product out called Kit, short for ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple and Google have announced a hugely ambitious — and potentially controversial —contact tracing system designed to help users prevent spre...

Image: Apple Apple is now sharing aggregated mobility data from Apple Maps to help public health officials better understand changes in how people are moving in their communities, the co...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon On March 20th, an article about the novel coronavirus started to spread. “Evidence over hysteria — COVID-19” crystallized a viewpoint conservatives...

Image: Asus Asus has officially launched its ZenBook Duo, a portable laptop with two screens. The device will MSRP for $1,499. The product is listed on Amazon, but it’s currently out o...

Photo: GitHub GitHub, the Microsoft-owned software hosting site, said on Tuesday it will reduce prices on one of its most popular paid tiers and also moving a key feature of all its paid...

It’s finally taking the Samsung Galaxy on feature-for-feature Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The newly announced OnePlus 8 Pro is OnePlus’ first phone with wireless charging, and the company is adding the feature in a big way, with up to 30W s...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The newly announced OnePlus 8 Pro is OnePlus’ first phone with wireless charging, and the company is adding the feature in a big way, with up to 30W s...

Image: OnePlus OnePlus announced the OnePlus Bullets Wireless Z wireless headphones at its OnePlus launch event today. They’re the latest model in OnePlus’ Bullets line of headphones...

The traditional strengths, plus the traditional omissions Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Verizon will sell the OnePlus 8 for $799 starting April 29th, marking the first time that the carrier has directly offered a OnePlus device. Phones from...

Bumble Bumble is launching two new features today to make it easier for people to date while social distancing. The company announced that people can now expand their distance filters to...

OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge After months of teasers and leaks, OnePlus is launching the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro today. Both are powered by Qualcom...

You plug the wireless charger into a spare USB-C port, and place your AirPods case on it for wireless charging. | Image: Satechi Wire-haters of the world, rejoice! Satechi’s latest wir...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have worked a new routine into our lives: temperature taking. It’s understandable since fever is an extremely common symptom of the d...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo’s Labo is a fun DIY project that lets you build things, and then play with them in the Labo game for the Nintendo Switch that is included wi...

VanMoof Electrified S3. | Image: VanMoof Images and details of VanMoof’s new S3 and X3 e-bikes have leaked ahead of the April 21st announcement. The company’s third-generation electr...

image: Adobe Adobe is launching a new feature in Premiere Pro today called Productions, making it easier to work on the same project with multiple people. Adobe previewed the feature at ...

Image: Microsoft / Nvidia Minecraft’s cherished but rudimentary pixel art sandboxes are about to get a massive visual overhaul, as Microsoft and Nvidia are announcing RTX-powered ray t...

States have been starved of modernization funding for years Continue reading… ...

Image: WinFuture It appears as if big tech companies have found some level of footing and are gearing up to see if they can sell some new phones in the middle of the pandemic. Today, One...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has fired two Seattle-based employees who publicly criticized safety and working conditions at its warehouses during the COVID-19 pandemic,...

While tech companies have had to stop showing their new devices in front of live, cheering audiences, that doesn’t mean they’re not going to introduce their products with as much fanfa...

Last week, Apple and Google surprised us with an announcement that the companies are spinning up a system to enable widespread contact tracing in an effort to contain the COVID-19 pandemic...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge The Nintendo Switch’s 10.0.0 firmware update, which is available now, adds the ability for you to transfer your downloaded games directly from system...

You can’t claim to be a flagship phone in 2020 without having a high-refresh-rate display, and a new benchmark has been set. RedMagic, a sub-brand of ZTE sub-brand Nubia, is putting its ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has confirmed that it will use the Google Play Services infrastructure to update Android phones with the upcoming COVID-19 contact tracing ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit is launching a new subreddit that will list all political ad campaigns that have run on the site since January 1st, 2019, the company annou...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom will let paying customers pick which data centers calls can be routed through starting April 18th, the company announced in a blog post today...

Image: Augustin Fievet In recent weeks, modular synth jam videos have started popping up more frequently on YouTube. The videos center on the gear, with hands coming in and out of frame ...

Photo by David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images NASCAR driver Kyle Larson has been indefinitely suspended by the series after he said the n-word during a sim racing stream over...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Apple has responded to a Senate letter asking questions about its COVID-19 screening tools. The company sought to allay concerns around an app and ...

Razer is selling wireless earbuds perfect for Pokémon fans. In addition to Pikachu-stamped yellow buds, the set comes with a charging case shaped like a pokéball. They’ll be launching ...

Image: Lumberjanes / Boom Studios Netflix has announced a first-look deal with comics publisher Boom Studios for new TV series based on Boom’s comic book franchises, giving the streami...

Photo by Adisorn Chabsungnoen / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images COVID-19 research is advancing at an unprecedented speed, but one strategy doctors are leaning on to treat COVI...

Image: thatgamecompany Journey, thatgamecompany’s classic game that first released on PlayStation 3 in 2012, will be available on Steam on June 11th. Journey was previously only availa...

Instagram Instagram is updating its IGTV app today, likely in the hopes of getting more people to use the service and promote creators making longform videos. The company tells The Verge...

Image: ESRB The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), which is the organization that rates the content of video games, announced a new label today to indicate that a game will offe...

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Google is replacing some Android apps for Chromebooks with Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). A PWA is essentially a webpage that looks and feels like a tradit...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T is providing three months of free wireless service on the FirstNet network to physicians and nurses dealing with the coronavirus response...

Major League Soccer is the latest sports organization to move its games to a virtual format, launching a month-long tournament starring both professional athletes and EA Sports’ FIFA 20 ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge After all of the hype and a barrage of TV advertising, Quibi tallied over 1.7 million downloads in its first week after launch. CEO Meg Whitman revealed ...

Photo by Olivier Douliery / AFP via Getty Images The Supreme Court will start conducting oral arguments over teleconference, a major change spurred by the novel coronavirus pandemic. For...

Image: Evan Blass Motorola’s planning to make its biggest flagship phone announcement in years on April 22nd, the company announced today. The event will, of course, take place virtual...

Photo by Brent Rose for The Verge Whether you’re looking for a capable action cam for outdoor use or want to upgrade your vlog setup, GoPro’s Hero 8 Black is a recommended option. It...

On Sunday, small satellite launcher Virgin Orbit did an intricate dress rehearsal of how it plans to launch rockets into space — without actually sending any rockets anywhere. The succes...

Photo by Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images New customers signing up for Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods Market home delivery will now need to make it through a waitlist before they can ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon is launching a new tool to help customers troubleshoot issues remotely, the company announced on Monday. The tool should allow Verizon to ...

Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Being able to stay in touch while social distancing is really important, which is why we’ve come to re...

Oppo has announced its first ever phone with wireless charging. The Ace 2 is the follow-up to last year’s Reno Ace, which still holds the record for the world’s fastest wired charging ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Bloomberg has published a new report detailing much of Apple’s product roadmap for 2020, including the four new iPhones that have been widel...

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...

“Live from Zoom, it’s Saturday Night Live” isn’t a phrase people ever assumed NBC’s quintessential late night show would ever open with, but then again, most people likely weren�...

Tiny apartments are the running joke of New York City real estate. If you live in one, you know that every little square foot counts. So making it a functional yet still open space does re...

LG’s upcoming smartphone will be called the LG Velvet, breaking with its tradition of alphanumeric names for its devices, “in favor of familiar and expressive names that will help the ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Best Buy is hosting a one-day sale on tech, including big discounts on a few different models of the 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro, which Apple no longer se...

The Foxconn “innovation center” in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on April 10th, 2020 | Photo by Matt Jewell The company’s promised statement or correction has never arrived Con...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Later this year Samsung will finally kill off its S Voice assistant, which never really caught up to Apple’s Siri. A note on Samsung’s support...

Photography by Becca Farsace / The Verge Research firm Canalys has released its quarterly estimates on global PC shipments for Q1, and despite a surge in demand, “severe delays in prod...

A contact tracing app distributed in Singapore | Photo by CATHERINE LAI/AFP via Getty Images What the technical documents tell us about the project’s privacy and security measures ...

The Apollo 13 astronauts | Photo by Time Life Pictures/NASA/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 13 mission that never m...

Around here we say that The Interface comes out Monday through Thursday, and on particularly newsy Fridays. Well, today was a particularly newsy Friday. Here’s your emergency newsletter ...

Image: Square Payments platform Square is now suggesting users deposit their COVID-19 stimulus payments through its Cash App for faster and easier access to the funds, in the event someo...

Image: Leica Camera makers Leica and Olympus have announced initiatives to offer free courses and talks for photographers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Many companies that cater to creativ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Earlier today, Apple and Google announced a Bluetooth-based COVID-19 contact tracing platform that could alert people if they’ve been expose...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon quietly introduced a new email marketing feature yesterday that it ominously calls “View Time Optimization,” which is a fancy euphemis...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon quietly introduced a new email marketing feature yesterday that it calls “View Time Optimization,” which the company says automaticall...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon quietly introduced a new email marketing feature yesterday that it calls “View Time Optimization,” which the company says automaticall...

Following The Lion King, Mulan, and Aladdin, to name a few, Disney’s 1973 classic animated film Robin Hood is the latest movie to get a live-action remake. This one, however, is going st...

The newly launched Quibi is a streaming service with shows meant to be watched in short bursts wherever you are — and, today at least, that includes inside of Fortnite. Today sees a limi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox Live service is currently experiencing issues affecting online multiplayer, the company has confirmed. “We’re aware that so...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox Live service experienced issues affecting online multiplayer earlier today. “We’re aware that some users may have trouble j...

Image: Activision Call of Duty: Warzone, the new battle royale (BR) mode from developer Infinity Ward, now has more than 50 million players, publisher Activision announced on Friday. The...

Celebrities, they’re just like us: stuck at home and watching old movies to help pass the time while social distancing. Although, if you’re Taika Waititi and you’re choosing to rewat...

Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro, the world’s most expensive cheese grater — if you were going to use it for that, which you shouldn’t — is now available o...

Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty Images During an infectious disease outbreak, one of the best tools public health experts have is old-school detective work: finding each sick pers...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Chat service Discord is adding a new noise suppression feature in beta as part of a partnership with Krisp.ai, according to a company blog post. ...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google is making changes to search results to make it easier for people to find virtual health care options, the company said in a blog post publish...

YouTube has updated its desktop site to make it more touchscreen-friendly. The updated site makes tweaks to the three-dot menu and enlarges icons to make it easier to use the site from a t...

“I am tired of bringing food to the Queen to justify my existence,” a poster writes. “When does it end? When can I have some of the food I bring home? When will I see the value of my...

Image: Apple/Google Apple and Google announced a system for tracking the spread of the new coronavirus, allowing users to share data through Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) transmissions and ...

Image: Apple HBO has decided to continue supporting second- and third-generation Apple TV set-top boxes after initially saying that HBO Go and HBO Now would no longer work on them as of ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Consistent topics The Vergecast has covered in the past couple of months have been laptops and Quibi. This week is no different; however, this is finally...

Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon / Denver Post Instacart workers are being wooed by orders with large tips only to find them dropped to zero after a delivery has been made, according to a new re...

Microsoft closed its physical stores on March 16th | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Like many other retailers, Microsoft shut down its physical stores around the world on March 16th. A...

Image: CBS All Access One of the benefits of having a TV show on a streaming platform is something few actually take advantage of: you can more or less do anything. Freed from the shackl...

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images After missed warnings, haphazard quarantines, and a fired protest organizer, Amazon is finally instituting new safety measures Continue rea...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge UK health officials are partnering with Facebook to put Portal video calling displays in hospitals, care homes, and other facilities. Facebook will donat...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Samsung Galaxy Active smartwatch is $150 at Best Buy, matching the lowest price we’ve seen just a few times, usually around big shopping holidays l...

Photo by Nick Garbutt / Barcroft Media / Barcroft Media via Getty Images The COVID-19 pandemic that’s currently ravaging the world started with a simple virus in an animal. Viruses lik...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The free tier of Google Stadia’s cloud gaming service recently launched, allowing those who didn’t purchase the Premiere Edition to finall...

Instagram Instagram’s making it easier for people to send direct messages from their browser. The company announced on Friday that it’s rolling out access to DMs on the web to everyo...

Snapchat released a new lens to support COVID-19 relief efforts on April 7th. The augmented reality lens scans paper money and shows you an animation about the COVID-19 Solidarity Response...

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...

An interview with author Geoffrey Cain Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon and Alex Castro / The Verge Yesterday, we talked about the things that need to happen before we can begin to slowly re-open our cities: hospital bed supp...

Apple is making a selection of its Apple TV Plus original shows available for free to help make staying at home just a little bit easier. The free collection is available now via this link...

Image: Amazon Amazon is building a lab to test its workers for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. It’s the latest effort by the company to protect workers who are gro...

Image: imisstheoffice.eu Even though I’ve worked from home for more than three years, it can still get lonely at times. My apartment is usually very quiet and almost all of my conversa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge DoorDash will be reducing commission fees by 50 percent for orders placed on DoorDash and DoorDash-owned Caviar for all of its local restaurant pa...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook announced an all-new “Quiet Mode” for its main mobile app on Thursday, which will pause “most” push notifications and remind ...

Motorola Motorola’s foldable Razr phone now comes in a blush gold color variant. The gold version features a black-and-gold color scheme, with the bottom back portion of the product fe...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has officially removed the Hangouts brand from its enterprise G Suite offering with the rebranding of Hangouts Chat as Google Chat, the com...

An artistic rendering of BepiColombo as it swings by Earth. | Image: ESA / ATG medialab On Friday, an interplanetary spacecraft will slingshot around Earth in the super early morning hou...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch announced today that it’s bringing its beta version of Watch Parties, which allows streamers to broadcast Prime Video content, to all of ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google announced today that it’s extending free access to some advanced features in its teleconferencing service Google Meet until September 30t...

Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Being able to stay in touch while social distancing is really important, which is why we’ve come to re...

Image: James Strommer A prototype smart toilet that can identify you by your “analprint” and monitor your trip to the loo has been created by researchers at Stanford University. It�...

Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Saturday Night Live adheres to a couple of basic principles: the show is shot in front of a live studio audience at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, ...

Amazon-owned Ring today announced a second generation of its home security system that comes with a set of sleeker, smaller hardware. The updated keypad now has buttons for quick access to...

Photo by BENOIT DOPPAGNE/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images Since late March, President Donald Trump has been promoting the antimalarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as treatment...

Back in March, Blizzard introduced hero pools to Overwatch, a rotating list of heroes that would be banned from competitive play. The idea was to shake up the game and keep any one charact...

Photo by Aidan Loughran / NurPhoto via Getty Images Uber will start distributing face masks to drivers and delivery workers, focusing first on the cities hardest hit by the coronavirus p...

Google announced on Thursday that it now offers a Braille keyboard integrated directly into Android. The company says the new feature will make its operating system more accessible for peo...

Photo by Ross Miller / The Verge Few questions are as divisive as the hot dog / sandwich debate. I’ve certainly had it more times than I can count. But what’s unique about the contr...

Just a few weeks after a new Simpsons short film hit theaters alongside Pixar’s Onward, Disney is bringing the short to Disney Plus starting on Friday, April 10th. “Playdate with Des...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple may let you try out parts of third-party iOS apps without installing them on your iPhone by scanning a QR code, according to code in an ...

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images The American Civil Liberties Union has sued to stop Baltimore police from launching a sweeping “eye in the sky” surveillance program. The initia...

Google’s Nest Learning Thermostat can automatically adjust the temperature in your home, making you more comfortable while you’re there and saving you money on energy costs when you’...

Image courtesy of Twitter user @wcharleyw Shortly after noon on a Tuesday, I popped into Animal Crossing: New Horizons to check on turnip prices. Today’s number? A tasty 439 bells, fou...

Zoo Miami Lo, unto you, four cheetah cubs and two clouded leopard kittens have been born. Cat lovers on the internet can now coo over the rare infant cats, thanks to Washington, DC’s N...

The pandemic is even affecting emoji. The Unicode Consortium, the group behind emoji releases, announced today that it’s delaying its version planned for 2021, meaning that devices won�...

Photo by Evan Blass There have been rumors and leaks aplenty about the Google Pixel 4A, but they’re starting to bubble up even more today. 9to5Google published what it claims is a comp...

Image: Yelp Yelp laid off 1,000 employees and furloughed an additional 1,100 workers today as it struggles with reduced spending from restaurants. Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppel...

VENN, otherwise known as the Video Game and Entertainment News Network, wants to succeed where G4TV failed by launching a television channel entirely dedicated to gaming that appeals to bo...

Airbnb announced that it will now offer Experiences that are entirely digital so people who are practicing social distancing and staying at home can find activities to do remotely. The new...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Online conspiracy theories have been trying to link the novel coronavirus pandemic to the rollout of 5G technology recently. Despite there being n...

Photo by Steve Pfost / Newsday RM via Getty Images As the rate of COVID-19 testing slowly creeps up in the US, public health experts have a new concern that many people with negative tes...

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Image: Logitech Most laptops come with a built-in webcam, but if you’re working at home from a desktop or maybe just looking to touch up the mediocre quality of whatever camera you’r...

Photo by AMANDA SABGA/AFP via Getty Images In a letter to Zoom CEO Eric Yuan today, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) raised new concerns about the service’s safety an...

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Every computer I’ve called my own for work or personal use has been a laptop. I love the portability of a laptop. It’s great to do work while lounging in my favorite chair or at a coff...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok has announced a series of relief funds and initiatives to support those fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, and to help other individuals and o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The perils of fixing a hardware problem with software Continue reading… ...

Image: Wing Alphabet’s drone delivery company Wing has seen a “significant” increase in demand in recent weeks as people adhere to social distancing rules during the COVID-19 pande...

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Illustration by Grayson Blackmon and Alex Castro / The Verge As of Friday, I’ll have been self-isolating at home for 30 days. Thanks to quick action on the part of city officials to lo...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Surface Neo, Microsoft’s dual-screen PC that runs a new operating system called Windows 10X, will miss its planned release date of holid...

LG’s flagship phones over the past couple years have all looked extremely similar to each other: good luck picking out the G7, the V40, the G8, the V50, the G8X, or the V60 from a lineup...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s automated, artificial intelligence-powered calling service Duplex is now available in more countries, according to a support page updat...

Disney Plus has surpassed 50 million subscribers — up more than 22 million since the last time Disney disclosed numbers two months ago. Disney’s new subscriber numbers follow a series...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge There’s a lot of music — and storytelling and news — on YouTube, and so it stands to reason that you’d want to be able to play it in the b...

Twitter is the social media world’s most reliable doubled-edged sword. One minute, you’re retweeting a funny meme account and enjoying some wholesome discussion around your current TV ...

Remote workers, meeters, streamers, and hangers-out, take note: Google’s Hangouts Meet is no longer called Hangouts Meet; it’s now called Google Meet. The rebrand was made apparent ye...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon and Alex Castro / The Verge Experts hope the pandemic is ‘a wake up call’ Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Trying to describe Quibi’s essence to people is difficult. There are shows where food explodes in chefs’ faces, series about flipping mur...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom’s latest update might help keep more meetings secure. The videoconferencing software now hides Meeting ID numbers from the title bar, meani...

On a live YouTube stream on Wednesday, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan apologized to users for a string of security lapses that have rocked the app in recent weeks. Speaking to viewers for more than tw...

In the ongoing quest to one day reuse its rockets after launch, Rocket Lab has successfully tested out a way to catch a rocket falling out of the sky using a pair of helicopters. A few wee...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is issuing a ban on the use of the Zoom teleconferencing platform for employees. The company is citing security concerns with the app that ...

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Oakland-based band Thao & The Get Down Stay Down had a problem. Their plan to shoot a music video for their single “Phenom” was abruptly cancel...

Image: Riot Games Riot’s new video game, Valorant, is both a breath of fresh air and completely unoriginal at the same time. The first-person shooter opened its closed beta on Tuesday ...

Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images Fiat Chrysler is recalling more than 365,000 vehicles in North America after discovering that the video feed from their bac...

Every computer I’ve called my own for work or personal use has been a laptop. I love the portability of a laptop. It’s great to do work while lounging in my favorite chair or at a coff...

Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games Inc. via Getty Images League of Legends’ 2020 Championship Series (LCS) Spring Split Playoffs have a new home in the United States: ESPN. The network annou...

Microsoft previously shipped a full Linux kernel in Windows 10, and now the company is planning to fully integrate Linux file access into the built-in File Explorer. A new Linux icon will ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix now lets you protect your profile with a PIN, keeping other people on your account from accessing your home screen and personalized experi...

Ivan Vagner (left), Anatoly Ivanishin (center), and Chris Cassidy (right). | Image: NASA In the wee hours of the morning on April 9th, three astronauts are set to launch on a Russian Soy...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is temporarily extending return windows due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced today. If you live in the US or Canada, most it...

Photo by Loren Grush / The Verge Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged Americans to cover their faces in public, even if it’s with something as simple as a...

Riot’s latest game had a record-breaking day on Twitch — despite the fact that it isn’t even out yet. Yesterday the studio’s new shooter Valorant launch in a limited closed beta, a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has removed a privacy feature that allowed all users to stop sharing some private information with advertisers. The setting prevented Twit...

Image: Google Google is launching the free version of its Stadia game streaming service today. Anyone with a Gmail address can sign up, and Google is even providing a free two-month tria...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Two employees of controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI have been found to have ties to white nationalism, according to an exhausti...

Image: Sony The next-gen console rollouts from Sony and Microsoft this year have been, for lack of a better word, soporific. But after weeks of spec comparisons and hardware boasts, Sony...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If an Apple Watch Series 5 has been on your tech wishlist, Amazon and Best Buy are offering the best deals yet on both the 40mm and 44mm sizes of Apple�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Easter for college student Kayley Ng usually means a big family gathering. Her mom’s five siblings come up to the Chicago area with their kids a...

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I’ve been on enough video calls this week to know that everyone could use a little help looking their best. From virtual weddings to work meetings, we all suddenly have to be on camera i...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Instacart is introducing a pair of new delivery options in an attempt to deal with the increased demand the grocery shopping service is seeing...

Samsung Samsung is refreshing its Galaxy A-series midrange phones for 2020. The lineup consists of a whopping six phones, all of which are aimed at people who want high-end features with...

Photo by Jay Peters / The Verge With much of the world stuck inside due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are turning to Animal Crossing: New Horizons to recapture the feeling of int...

Maingear is known for building custom, high-end gaming PCs, but it’s responding to the novel coronavirus pandemic in a noble way by developing ventilators to help patients who suffer fro...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge We always have at least some reason to worry about the spread of misinformation, but we worry more about misinformation during a public health...

Photo by Joshua Lott for The Verge Foxconn’s Wisconsin plant, the controversial recipient of billions of dollars in tax subsidies and the focus of multiple Verge investigations, will p...

Tim Dunk Lockdown has disrupted everyone’s lives to varying degrees, and wedding photographers are some of the unluckier ones in terms of the impact on their careers — there aren’t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Starting April 13th, Tesla is cutting pay for all salaried employees in the US, and placing hourly workers who can’t work at home during the nov...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google is rolling out a refreshed user interface for its Google Fit apps for iOS, Android, and Wear OS that puts a bigger focus on step tracking. Th...

Microsoft is unveiling some significant changes to its Xbox Game Bar on Windows today, including new custom widgets that any developer can build. We’ve seen Microsoft gradually improve t...

Photo by Amal KS/Hindustan Times via Getty Images Jack Dorsey, the CEO of both Twitter and digital payments platform Square, said on Tuesday that he will donate $1 billion worth of equit...

When it comes to Windows laptops, Dell’s XPS 13 is the laptop to beat. But the XPS 15 and XPS 17 are exciting upcoming releases as well, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we see them offi...

Image: Nuro Nuro, the self-driving startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, was approved to test its driverless delivery robots on public roads in California. The company is the secon...

Sony still hasn’t shown off what the PlayStation 5 will look like, but it just unveiled the controller for its next-gen console: the DualSense, which marks the biggest departure for Sony...

Image: Apple If you have an iPhone or MacBook, then you have probably used FaceTime, Apple’s built-in video and voice-calling app. While FaceTime has always been useful for keeping in ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon is canceling scheduled appointments for internet installation and repairs, according to some customers and two Verge reporters with persis...

Image: Motion Twin The excellent indie roguelike hit Dead Cells is coming to Android on June 3rd, according porting company Playdigious. Original developer Motion Twin first announced an...

Image: Serato Popular DJ and music production software company Serato has released an update to its Serato Studio DAW, and it comes with a big change: there’s now a free edition. This ...

Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Over the weekend, a man in North Dakota was arrested for coughing at a local Walmart. The store, like all Walmart stores, was li...

Apple published support guidelines and a fitting video for health care workers who may eventually use the company’s new face shields. The simple plastic devices are designed to be an add...

A still from Tesla’s original Sentry Mode video, which has since been deleted. | Image: Tesla Tesla is revamping its “Sentry Mode” security camera feature in an upcoming software u...

This week for our Vergecast interview series, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel chats with Microsoft chief technology officer Kevin Scott about his new book Reprogramming the American Drea...

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Chrome OS hasn’t always been the best fit for tablets, despite the uptick in 2-in-1 Chrome OS devices out there that can work in tablet-style configura...

First, Facebook launched a dating feature, and now, a small group within the company has launched an app designed for couples. The New Product Experimentation team’s app, called Tuned, e...

Netflix is rolling out a series of new tools that parents can use to filter what content their kids see while using the service, including the ability to remove titles entirely. The compa...

The scenes that make The Office special aren’t overly zany but are extremely relatable, like Dwight Schrute making an obnoxious sales call at his desk, while Jim and Pam roll their eyes ...

Photo by Hakan Nural/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The New York Times has released a new report on the ways the COVID-19 pandemic has changed internet use in the United States. The dat...

Facebook Gaming is launching a feature today meant to bring people together virtually while they can’t be in the same place physically. It’s called Tournaments, and it does exactly wha...

Materia is Final Fantasy VII Remake’s magical eight ball — at least, in terms of size. These iridescent orbs grant users the power to perform magic. Each appears first as a cue ball-si...

No Man’s Sky is continuing its post-release update renaissance with yet another free content update, which adds a new vehicle to the game: the Exo Mech. Because why explore new planets ...

Moment, the maker of lens-friendly phone cases that can help you up your mobile photography game, is hosting a sale. Most of its cases are just $20, and if you want four for some reason, i...

Microsoft is making further tweaks to its Xbox One dashboard, just months ahead of the Xbox Series X launch. The software maker is now improving the Guide part of the Xbox One dashboard, w...

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Illustration by Alex Parkin Coyotes are not generally the first things that come to mind when you picture urban wildlife. Pigeons, rats, raccoons, squirrels — they’ve burrowed deeply...

Working from home certainly has its perks: good coffee, pajamas all day, freedom to adjust the thermostat as you see fit. However, as you sit hunched over a small desk typing to your co-wo...

OnMail is a new email service from Edison (the company behind Edison Mail, one of the better email apps around). It’s described as “first permission-based email service” that’s des...

Movies Anywhere is bumping up the open beta for its new Screen Pass movie lending feature from May to today. You’ll still need an invite to use the feature, but unlike the closed beta th...

The most popular games on Twitch don’t exactly scream “relaxation.” Instead, it’s action-heavy, competitive games like Fortnite and League of Legends that typically dominate the st...

The original fold had a 7.3-inch screen and a fairly big display notch. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Samsung’s successor to its ill-fated Galaxy Fold could be availabl...

Image: WinFuture In an interview last week, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau told me that his next so-called “ultraflagship” phone — which we all know will be the OnePlus 8 Pro — will indeed...

The Bowser’s Castle Boss Battle Expansion Set | Photo: Lego / Nintendo After Lego and Nintendo’s surprise announcement in March that the two companies were working on interactive Sup...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Today is Tuesday. Yesterday was Monday. It has gotten confusing. My colleague Chaim Gartenberg made a Twitter account that can help. Otherwis...

Facebook An unexpected outcome of the current pandemic is that big tech companies, which have spent the past three years on the defensive over their data collection practices, are now pr...

Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for AT&T In an attempt to support and celebrate healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization and international ad...

Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for AT&T In an attempt to support and celebrate healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization and international ad...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is planning to make all of its internal and external events digital-only until July 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The so...

Hinge A pandemic has taken over the world, but people are still dating. Today, Hinge is launching a new feature, called Date from Home, that the team thinks will make it easier to transi...

Microsoft is starting to open up its xCloud game streaming beta to countries across Europe. The software giant originally launched the xCloud preview in the US, UK, and Korea back in Septe...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge With heightened scrutiny on the potential of private message apps to spread misinformation related to the coronavirus pandemic, WhatsApp on Tu...

Photo by Avery White for The Ver Samsung Electronics is one of the first major tech giants to announce earnings figures since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, and so far at least the ...

Roku is bringing its free, ad-supported Roku Channel to the UK. The service, which is available starting today, will give access to over 10,000 on-demand movies, TV episodes, and documenta...

An artistic rendering of Boeing’s Starliner vehicle. | Image: Boeing Boeing has decided to refly its new passenger spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner, for NASA this fall without a crew ...

Malayan tiger cub in its enclosure at the Bronx Zoo. It’s unclear whether this is one of the tigers that was exposed to the novel coronavirus. | Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via...

Photo: 100 Thieves Apparel drops from 100 Thieves, a lifestyle and esports organization, are notoriously hard to get in on. Whenever the company releases a new hoodie or jersey, it sells...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google released an update for the Pixel 4 today requiring users to have their eyes open when using face unlock to open the phone. The update i...

Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images Hospitals in Cincinnati are furloughing and cutting hours for nurses and other health care workers. Nurses at a New York City hospital strugg...

New York City is empty these days. The streets have quieted; the normal pedestrian bustle is nonexistent, and the noise of traffic has turned mostly into near-constant ambulance sirens. Mo...

The cast of CBS drama All Rise (presumably before social distancing went into effect) | CBS CBS drama series All Rise will produce a “virtual” episode themed on the COVID-19 pandemic...

A number of bands and artists are coming together to put on a virtual benefit concert in Minecraft to raise money for coronavirus research. Chiptune band Anamanaguchi is teaming up with i...

Photo by Stefan Etienne / The Verge Update 3:45PM ET, April 6th: Added a link to Streamlabs’ new OBS software for macOS, which recently launched. Also, this post has been updated to re...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Mobile video app Quibi, which just launched today, experienced a one-hour outage this afternoon, the company confirmed. Quibi first announced on T...

Autonomous shuttles are being used to move COVID-19 tests from a Jacksonville, Florida testing site to a nearby Mayo Clinic processing location, in what the medical nonprofit is calling a ...

Bose is bringing an end to the long-running saga of complaints regarding noise cancellation issues with its Quiet Comfort 35 and Quiet Comfort 35 II Bluetooth headphones. After spending mo...

A Facebook co-location map for the United States. It could help illustrate the likeliness of the disease to spread. | Facebook Facebook is expanding a program that grants researchers ac...

Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images Zoox, the ambitious self-driving startup said to be worth over $3 billion, laid off almost all of its contract workers last week...

Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images The Call of Duty League is making its comeback very soon. Today, the league announced that play would resume on April 10th, several weeks after the s...

Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission will not pursue misinformation complaints against broadcasters who air President Trump’s daily press conferen...

This week, Square Enix is releasing Final Fantasy VII Remake — a complete retelling of the series’ most iconic game. The first episode, set in Midgar, blows out the world introduced in...

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. | Image: Blue Origin Three Blue Origin employees have now tested positive for COVID-19 in Washington, according to emails from the company seen by The...

Headspace is giving people free access to some of its mindfulness exercises, meditations, and sleep experiences. The company launched a new landing page today designed with New Yorkers, wh...

Just in case Frozen 2 on Disney Plus isn’t enough to keep kids entertained while they’re stuck at home, Disney animator Hyrum Osmond and actor Josh Gad have teamed up to produce a new ...

If you enjoy experimental video games and milling around art installations but find yourself stuck at home during the pandemic, one Pittsburgh arcade has swapped physical space for a littl...

ASUS Asus has released its Chromebook Flip C436, a lightweight, premium laptop it previewed at CES in January. As expected, the new 13-inch Flip has a similar magnesium alloy body as its...

How was your first weekend with Persona 5 Royal? Right now, I, for one, am pretty happy about having a new version of a game that is not only one of my favorite ever but also happens to be...

The Nintendo Switch has too many great games to afford buying them all at once. If you recently bought a Switch to play Animal Crossing: New Horizons or you just haven’t had a chance to ...

Photo by Jan Thijs / Amazon Studios Tales from the Loop is so pretty it breaks your heart. Based on the work of Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag, famous for his scenes of pastoral tranqui...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton has announced that it will stop producing and airing live cycling and running classes until April 30th after an employee tested positi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge eBay. HP. Governor of California (well, almost). Quibi? Meg Whitman’s last act is her biggest bet yet Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Demand for ride-hailing in cities is down severely due to the coronavirus pandemic, and as such, drivers are struggling to find work. Uber is roll...

TCL — best known for its well-received and wallet-friendly TVs — announced at CES earlier this year that it would be entering the mobile phone business. And now, we’ve finally got th...

Image: Google Google has tweaked its Maps app to highlight restaurants that are offering takeout and delivery options during the COVID-19 pandemic, 9to5Google reports. When you open the ...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge It’s far too easy to make fun of Quibi. That’s the first problem. You can start with the name: an overly cute mashup of “quick bites.�...

A headset with a head-tracking gyroscope seems cooler than it is Continue reading… ...

More features, but more problems Continue reading… ...

He wants a fish, but let’s face it, he’s probably just gunna get another egg. | Image; Nintendo A new patch has been released for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and according to the ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla has shared an update on the ventilator it’s developing to address the shortage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a new video posted on t...

It answers old questions and asks new ones Continue reading… ...

Photo by Muhammed Selim Korkutata/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The top four UK mobile operators have issued a joint statement asking for help to stop people burning 5G towers. Multipl...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After months of publicity, Quibi — the mobile phone app that’s centered on short, bite-sized original programming — is launching today on iP...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Quibi is the latest streaming service to launch in an increasingly crowded market — and it might be the weirdest one yet. Instead of relying on ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook has provided an update on the company’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. In a video posted to Twitter, Cook says Apple has sourced more than 20 million masks through i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube said it would reduce the number of videos it recommends to users on its platform which spread false claims that 5G technology is linked to...

Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images Appearing before a background that said “we care” over an image of a heart-shaped planet Earth, Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan said Sunday on CNN that desp...

Illustration by Alex Castro Quibi was never supposed to compete with Netflix or Disney Plus. The novelty was shortform video for people as they waited for coffee or the bus. The space Qu...

Etsy sellers have sold hundreds of thousands of cloth face masks in the past few days, the company says, and demand is likely to outstrip supply soon now that the Centers for Disease Contr...

Etsy sellers have sold hundreds of thousands of cloth face masks in the past few days, the company says, and demand is likely to outstrip supply soon now that the Centers for Disease Contr...

Instead of an app or gadget that claims to jump-start your productivity, this year, you should invest in a good paper planner. After all, there’s plenty of research showing that actually...

Illustration by Alex Castro The Entertainment Software Association has notified partners that E3 2021 will be held June 15th to 17th, 2021, according to GamesIndustry.biz. The ESA cancel...

A 5G cell tower | Photo by Mikhail Pochuyev\TASS via Getty Images 5G phone masts are being set alight in the UK, after online conspiracy theories have misleadingly linked the cell towers...

A 5G cell tower | Photo by Mikhail Pochuyev\TASS via Getty Images 5G phone masts are being set alight in the UK, after online conspiracy theories have misleadingly linked the cell towers...

Last week, we made the case that tech manufacturing was uniquely vulnerable to pandemic problems, from a combination of just-in-time manufacturing practices and a far-flung network of supp...

Welcome to the weekend. The best deals you can currently get on tech are a mix of new offers and ones that we’ve collected during the past week. All of them should hopefully make your se...

One of the few small upsides to the current global mess is that a bunch of movies are hitting streaming services and rental platforms earlier than they otherwise would have: Emma., Onward,...

Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images An employee at Peloton’s New York City-based production studio has tested positive for COVID-19, the company said in a Facebook message to members lat...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Zoom will soon turn on passwords and waiting rooms by default for all meetings in an effort to help prevent “Zoombombing,” or the recent t...

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new guidelines today recommending that people in the US wear homemade face coverings to ...

ESPN is set to air 12 hours of esports coverage on April 5th, turning to NBA 2K, Madden NFL 20, and Rocket League tournaments to fill the programming void left behind by traditional sports...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Seemingly everyone knows about Zoom now: parents, co-workers, friends, grandparents, and neighbors. The videoconferencing software company that we...

Skype is trying to make it as easy as possible to use its video calling software and remind people that using the app isn’t complicated. The company tweeted a reminder today that users c...

As more people seek solutions for working out at home during the global measures to self-quarantine and social distance, another connected fitness equipment enters an increasingly crowded ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge With the launch of Chrome 80 in February, Google began gradually rolling out an update that changes how third-party cookies work on websites, call...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Thousands of Zoom cloud recordings have been exposed on the web because of the way Zoom names its recordings, according to a report by The Washing...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Federal prosecutors are now warning pranksters and hackers of the potential legal implications of “Zoombombing,” wherein someone successfully ...

Image: Marvel Disney is making a number of changes to its upcoming theatrical release dates in order to accommodate delayed films like Black Widow and Mulan. The studio’s upcoming Arte...

Amazon is planning to delay Prime Day until at least August due to the ongoing pandemic, according to internal meeting notes viewed by Reuters. Amazon expects it could lose $100 million �...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On The Verge’s flagship podcast of working from home, co-hosts of The Vergecast Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller talk to Verge senior e...

Methane-consuming serpulid worms on the seafloor off the coast of Costa Rica. | Image: Alvin, WHOI Scientists exploring deep-sea seeps, where methane bubbles up out of the seafloor, have...

Photo by Natt Garun My family never really had many traditions. Before moving to New York from Bangkok, we didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving or Christmas, and after my father passed away a...

Courtesy of NETFLIX Even if people haven’t seen Tiger King, Eric Goode’s seven-part documentary series about private zoo owners with an affinity for large cats (lions, tigers, leopar...

Image: Respawn Respawn’s battle royale title Apex Legends will add a permanent duos playlist to the game starting April 7th, the developer announced on Thursday. The decision is a welc...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Fi has temporarily increased its high-speed data cap to 30GB per user. Customers who have either a Flexible or Unlimited plan will have acc...

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...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge A few popular noise-canceling headphones are discounted today, including the new Beats Solo Pro over-ear wireless headphones. These usually cost $300, an...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verge Recent MacBooks have included a security feature that shuts off the microphone at a hardware level when the lid is closed. Apple has now introduced the ...

When the current season of Fortnite debuted, one of the most curious elements was the appearance of Deadpool. The Marvel anti-hero was present in various elements of the game — you could...

Image: Wizards of the Coast Godzilla is coming to the Magic: The Gathering trading card game, Wizards of the Coast has announced. 16 Godzilla-themed cards will be available in the Englis...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch is difficult to describe, to understand, and to start using. It is also incredibly rewarding once you get the hang of it, which is the way ...

Photo by Hendrik Schmidt / Picture Alliance via Getty Images Public health agencies are losing trust, which may be hard to win back Continue reading… ...

Image: Screengrab from LapPadre livstream A third prototype of SpaceX’s next-generation rocket, Starship, broke apart during a pressure test at the company’s test site in Boca Chica,...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Lyft will provide free electric scooter rides to essential workers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While most scooter-sharing programs i...

Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images - Illustration by Alex Castro How a 79-year-old scientist became a beloved meme Continue reading… ...

A good effort, but Apple’s Magic Keyboard looms Continue reading… ...

Apple needs Amazon to help its TV ambitions Continue reading… ...

Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Uber Eats is adding an in-app donate button for customers who want to contribute some extra cash to their favorite restaurant to help durin...

Image: Marvel Marvel is offering a selection of free comics through its Marvel Unlimited subscription service until May 4th, providing a source of much-needed entertainment for the legio...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sometimes it takes years of criticism to get a company to do the right thing. Every once in a while, it can happen overnight. Wednesday night was...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Grocery delivery company Instacart says it will provide its full-service shoppers with health and safety kits days after some workers walked o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is using location data gathered from smartphones to help public health officials understand how people’s movements have changed in respon...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Apple’s upcoming 4.7-inch iPhone is likely to be announced imminently and looks set to be called the iPhone SE. A Belkin screen protector is currentl...

Image: Epic Games Fortnite creator Epic has revealed a new mobile game developed in collaboration with J.J. Abrams’ game development company Bad Robot Games, a spinoff of his productio...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An automated tool developed by security researchers is able to find around 100 Zoom meeting IDs in an hour and information for nearly 2,400 Zoom m...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images After it initially made restaurants participating in a discount program foot the bill, Grubhub on Thursday said it would be changing the progr...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge SoundCloud has introduced a new donation button artists can add to their profile to help offset the financial repercussions of the COVID-19 pa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After firing Chris Smalls, who helped organize a warehouse worker strike at Amazon’s Staten Island, New York facility over novel coronavirus saf...

Image: Facebook Facebook Messenger finally has its own desktop app, making it easier to message and video chat with friends and family from your computer. The app, which is now available...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’ve used Android for quite some time, it’s likely you’ve mistakenly swiped away a notification or two for one reason or another. M...

Steve Fecht for Genreal Motors General Motors and Honda are joining forces to develop two new electric vehicles, the companies announced on Thursday. They’ll have Honda nameplates but ...

HBO is making a number of its original series and popular movies available for free beginning April 3rd to non-subscribers, including The Wire, Detective Pikachu, and The Sopranos. The mo...

As COVID-19 forces schools, offices, and social groups to move their daily operations online, video calling service Zoom has become the new centerpiece of many people’s daily life. But t...

Image: Grimes Grimes recently released a new music video for “You’ll Miss Me When I’m Not Around,” and it came with a surprise: a content dump containing assets from her new albu...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla was able to avoid a huge sink in first quarter sales despite coronavirus-related shutdowns in China and the US, according to new figures tha...

Image: Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac We’ve known that Apple has been working on a Tile-like tracking tag system for months, but the biggest confirmation of the upcoming product yet has com...

One of the biggest complaints Disney Plus received at launch was The Simpsons not being available to stream in the correct 4:3 ratio. Disney has worked on a solution, and the company is ho...

Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images Amazon Prime Video is partnering with South by Southwest to launch what it’s calling a film festival collection, which will include works from filmmak...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon and Alex Castro / The Verge Where to find the curve and how to see if it’s flattening Continue reading… ...

Image: Google Google has added another entry to its long list of discontinued products on Thursday with the planned shutdown of Neighbourly, its short-lived crowdsourced Q&A platform...

A new feature in Google’s Arts & Culture app allows you to turn your boring old photos into works of art — or at least, reasonable approximations — the company announced in a blo...

eBay is launching a new “Up & Running” program today that aims to help physical retailers move some of their business online if they’ve been shutdown or are struggling due to the...

Image: Naughty Dog Sony announced on Thursday that it has delayed Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II “until further notice” because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The game had been pr...

Photo by Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Amazon has stopped selling N95 respirators, paper surgical masks, face shields, surgical gowns and gloves, and large-volume con...

Photo: Xinhua / Shen Bohan via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has issued its first authorization for a COVID-19 test that looks for antibodies in the blood, rather than fo...

Zoom is facing a variety of privacy and security issues this week, and the company is already responding to some of them rather quickly. Software engineer Felix Seele discovered earlier th...

Photo by Blue Origin / Illustration by Alex Castro Blue Origin wants workers to travel from Washington to rural Texas for the mission Continue reading… ...

Image: Cards Against Humanity Cards Against Humanity has announced a new Family Edition of its popular phrase-matching card game, and you can download and print the public beta of the ga...

Photo: Jim Bridenstein / Twitter NASA is officially bringing back its iconic “worm” logo from the 1970s for SpaceX’s upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon launch, NASA administrator Jim Br...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Slack, the instant messaging app of choice for many companies, has probably become an even bigger part of your life if you’re working from home....

Photo by Lars Ronbog/Getty Images for Copenhagen Fashion Summit Last week, Everlane’s consumer experience team was gutted by layoffs in the middle of its union drive, a huge blow to th...

Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Watch users can now ask Siri to play music through Spotify. With an update to Spotify’s app today, spotted by 9to5Mac, you can now ask Siri to play music ...

Image: Google Google has rolled out a new technology to improve audio quality in Duo calls when the service can’t maintain a steady connection called WaveNetEQ. It’s based on technol...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will start to lift its ban on coronavirus-related advertising this week after its policy caught fire from Democratic lawmakers who feared i...

Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images New York’s status as a stubborn holdout against electric bikes and scooters appears to finally be over. Included in the state’s tentative...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Quibi, a mobile streaming service that is set to launch next week, and T-Mobile are partnering to give the telecom’s customers free access to Qu...

Image: Amazon The latest addition to Amazon’s Blink lineup of home security cams is the Blink Mini, a compact indoor camera that supports two-way audio. It’s available for preorder t...

Photo by Fiona Goodall / Getty Images With grocery stores being one of the few places still open during COVID-19 lockdowns, disposable plastic bags are making a comeback as some people f...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Nikon has made its entire curriculum of online photography classes free until the end of April. Now through April 30th, all 10 classes available at the N...

The Patriots custom plane, landing in Atlanta in 2019 for Super Bowl LIII. | Photo by Rachel Bowers / The Boston Globe via Getty Images If you had “NFL team plane brings N95 masks from...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Sonos Beam soundbar is $50 off at Amazon and includes a free $20 gift certificate that you can use for future purchases. This model is Wi-...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has pledged new health protections for its workers in fulfillment centers in the US and Europe, as first reported by Reuters. Under the new...

Alex Castro Viewership is up, but so is the sense of having a responsibility to the people watching Continue reading… ...

Riding on the uptick of people seeking home workout solutions during the pandemic, Peloton has launched an app for Android TV so you no longer have to stream from a mobile app to a Chromec...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will provide 4,000 Chromebooks and fund the use of 100,000 Wi-Fi hotspots for rural students in California, who are studying from home as a...

Sprint Flatiron Logo It’s done. We now have just three major cell phone carriers in the US: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, which just completed its merger with Sprint. It’s been su...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge [Ed. note: Today’s newsletter and column was written and distributed before Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan published his 1,300-word plan to address the s...

Image: Warner Bros Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, which was released as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in the US, is now free to stream on Audible. It’s part of a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom’s recent growth has put it in the spotlight over a series of privacy and security issues, and the company is now promising to address them ...

The Razer Blade 15 (advanced model) | Razer Razer’s new Blade 15 gaming laptop is a refresh both inside and out, with powerful new specs from Intel and Nvidia, as well as a few small a...

It’s a big day in the mobile-computing world. Intel has unveiled its new H-series chips, Nvidia has announced its RTX Super GPU lineup for mobile devices, and just about every major lapt...

Image: Gigabyte Gigabyte has introduced three new versions of its Aorus gaming laptops: the Aorus 15G, 17G, and 17X. Each features the newly announced Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake H-series ...

The Asus GX701. Some of Asus’s new gaming laptops will include the new RTX chips. | Nvidia Nvidia has announced its new RTX 2080 Super and RTX 2070 Super mobile GPUs. These are the co...

Intel is announcing the next wave of its Core processors, and it’s finally bringing out the big guns, with its first 10th Gen Comet Lake H-series processors for laptops. They’re Intel�...

MSI has announced some of the first laptops to include Intel’s new 10th Gen processors from its Comet Lake H series. The company has announced specs and release dates for its GS66 Stealt...

G-Mode, a company that churned out countless Java-based games for Japanese feature phones in the 2000s and beyond, has announced that it will be releasing some of those games on the Ninten...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook and Fox News will be hosting a virtual town hall tomorrow at 7PM ET about the coronavirus pandemic using Facebook’s Portal video-ca...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple on Wednesday confirmed the existence of a program for streaming video providers that allows those platforms to bypass its standard 30 percen...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission is suing to unwind Altria’s $12.8 billion investment in Juul Labs, alleging that the two companies worked together ...

Image: Tesla A Panasonic employee at Tesla’s solar panel factory in Buffalo, New York tested positive in March for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to i...

A New York judge has ruled that publisher Activision isn’t infringing trademark by featuring Humvees in its Call of Duty series. The decision, handed down yesterday, is a mark in favor o...

Photo by Justin Heiman / Getty Images Marriott says a security breach may have exposed the personal information of 5.2 million guests. This marks Marriott’s second data breach in recen...

Photo by Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Zoom videoconferencing app has become a highly popular means of keeping in touch for a world increasingly in isolation during the coro...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge YouTube used to be the cool kid on the block, but then TikTok showed up and everything changed. Now, YouTube is looking to compete directly with ...

Photo: Everybody House Games Hey Robot, the immensely clever board game from designer Frank Lantz’s Everybody House Games, now has a free digital version on the web for anyone to play....

Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Spotify and Warner Music Group announced in a short statement that the two entities have renewed their global licensing agreement. This news comes about tw...

Image: Apple Apple and Goldman Sachs have allowed Apple Card users to defer their March 2020 credit payments due to the financial impact that the coronavirus is having on many people. Ac...

HBO Max is key to the future of AT&T’s entertainment empire, which helps explain why former Hulu chief Jason Kilar was just named WarnerMedia’s next CEO. Although Kilar will overs...

Image: IndyCar / iRacing NBC is joining Fox in televising online sim racing in the absence of real-world races during the novel coronavirus pandemic. The network and IndyCar announced on...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Color Factory CEO Jeff Lind knew his Instagram pop-up experience had to close when the NBA canceled the remainder of its season. He was watchi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s Prime Video iOS and Apple TV apps now let customers make in-app purchases, including renting and buying films and TV shows. The change ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After years of negotiations and legal battles, Sprint and T-Mobile have finally completed their merger into a single carrier. While the shift from...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s native iOS password manager may be getting an overhaul later this year with the presumed release of iOS 14 that will make it more compet...

Image: Apple Apple recently released iPadOS 13.4 with a big new feature: full trackpad support for iPads. And now, it’s started updating its major productivity apps, including Pages, N...

Photo by Andrew Liptak / The Verge The refreshed version of the Chevy Bolt has become one of the first electric vehicles to be delayed by the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to Aut...

Tiger King is one of the strongest contenders for most watchable TV show of the year, and it’s a problem. A documentary miniseries comprising seven quick episodes, each under an hour, yo...

Jack Black has joined TikTok, and his first video shows him doing a goofy dance he calls the “Quarantine Dance.” The 50-year-old celebrity debuted on the popular video-sharing app on ...

Cloudflare’s WARP VPN service began its life last year as a free add-on to the company’s 1.1.1.1 app — which itself is a DNS resolver application that promises faster internet — an...

Image: WinFuture New leaks for the OnePlus 8 Pro reveal that the phone may come in a good-looking deep blue color that might be exclusive to the Pro model of the OnePlus 8, reports WinFu...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images SoulCycle is cutting employee pay by 25 percent in response to studio closures across the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada due to the...

Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press via Getty Images If you’re a weather geek, you must already know that Dark Sky, one of the most popular weather apps around, has been acquired by App...

Image: Twelve South Y’all, I can’t even. Just look at this thing: Image: Twelve South It looks like your typical purse, right? Except... Image...

Boyfriend Dungeon. The job involves a lot more than just tweeting Continue reading… ...

YTMND has returned. Nearly a year after being brought down by a server failure, YTMND is back online and somewhat modernized, removing the need for Flash to view its archive of looping GIF...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon The day — her day — was finally here. As Lisa Kabouridis walked down the aisle with her two sons, accompanied by a 19th century waltz played on bagpi...

If you are looking for a great film to watch, Parasite from director Bong Joon-ho is $9.99 to own in 4K HDR through iTunes. This movie swept the 2020 Academy Awards, picking up big awards ...

Undertakers rehearse an online funeral in Vienna, Austria. | Photo by Thomas Kronsteiner / Getty Images Funerals are for the living. They’re an occasion for a community to recognize a ...

Amazon workers at a fulfillment center near Detroit, Michigan, plan to walk out over the company’s handling of COVID-19. Workers at the facility, called DTW1, say management failed to no...

Image: Zatz Not Funny Amazon-owned smart home company Ring appears to have a new product on the way called the “Ring Doorbox,” according to an image discovered by Dave Zatz over at Z...

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...

Slack is launching a new app to integrate Microsoft Teams calling features into its chat app today. The Microsoft Teams Calls app comes just days after Slack revealed it was working on the...

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 T-Mobile officially owns Sprint. The merger was formally completed today after clearing a number of legal hurdles over the last year, including a ...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Motorola announced that presale has begun for the Moto G Stylus and Moto G Power, and both phones will be available on Monday, April 16th. These are th...

Image: Sony Sony’s high-end 1000XM3 earbuds offer noise cancellation and some of the best audio quality you’ll find in a truly wireless set, but today, the company is announcing a si...

Photo by John Nacion/NurPhoto via Getty Images Reyhan Harmanci is feeling better. After cycling through an illness she thinks was COVID-19, with headache, fever, and nausea, her symptoms...

Zoom has exploded in popularity as people turn to video calling software amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The moment of huge growth has seen Zoom rocket to the top of iOS and Android...

Image: Uber Uber Eats is launching a series of partnerships with supermarkets, convenience stores, and other businesses to offer home deliveries of essential items, Reuters reports. In F...

Dan Seifert / The Verge When Amazon bought Eero just over a year ago, I wrote that the whole thing felt disappointing. It was a small, independent company that made a tech product people...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s been clear for weeks that Amazon faces an unprecedented challenge in coping with the fallout from COVID-19. With tens of millions of Americ...

Image: Facebook Facebook is expanding its Community Help feature to let neighbors request and offer assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, the company has announced. The feature first ...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verge Samsung phones are notorious for dropping in price quickly — the S20, for example, went on sale for $200 below its MSRP within weeks of its first rele...

Image: Endlesss Collaborative music-making app Endlesss is now available for iOS. The app’s been in beta for quite a long time, so newcomers will find that there’s already a communit...

Mobile developer King is adding free, unlimited lives to Candy Crush Saga and a swath of other games this week, removing the timers that make players wait or pay if they fail too many leve...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom is apparently leaking some email addresses, user photos, and allowing some users to initiate a video call with strangers because of an issue ...

Image: Wyze Smart home gadget maker Wyze has released a firmware update and set of instructions for turning its low-cost security camera into a working webcam at a time when proper webca...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla announced on March 19th that it would temporarily shut down its electric car factory in California, after back-and-forth with local officials abo...

The Future Today Institute We’re continuing our Vergecast interview series remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic and this week, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel sits down via Skype wi...

Movie posters and billboards are useless right now, so marketing teams all seem to have landed on the same solution: Zoom backgrounds. Yesterday, Pixar tweeted out backgrounds for Toy Stor...

Team Cherry If you’ve been wanting to support organizations that are helping to supply those fighting on the front lines against the novel coronavirus, the latest Humble Bundle is a go...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge With schools closed and governments issuing orders for people to stay at home, a lot of kids have no choice but to turn to their screens for schoo...

Image: Activision After years of speculation, a remastered version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s single-player campaign is finally here, bringing an enhanced version of one of th...

Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Uber is ramping up its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, pledging 10 million free rides and food deliveries for health care wo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge While many companies are already using the videoconferencing app Zoom for business meetings, interviews, and other purposes, individuals who are f...

Like every other sports league, the NBA is paused right now. However, the fact that there aren’t any actual games airing hasn’t stopped some people from wondering how the rest of the s...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Zoom states on its website and in its security white paper that it supports end-to-end encryption for its meetings. But new research from The ...

Image: Dark Sky Apple has acquired popular weather app Dark Sky and will be shutting down the Dark Sky Android and Wear OS apps in July, Dark Sky announced in a blog post today. “Our ...

Photo: ZeniMax Media QuakeCon, the annual fan convention and tournament dedicated to the legendary first-person shooter game, has been canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. T...

Last week, the Internet Archive launched a “National Emergency Library” offering access to 1.4 million free books during the coronavirus pandemic. The library aims to serve people who ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Phone providers will be required to implement call verification technology by the end of June 2021 under rules approved today by the Federal Communicatio...

Image: Samsung AKG, one of Samsung’s many audio brands, has quietly announced its first pair of true wireless earbuds, the AKG N400, via a product page posted on Samsung’s South Kore...

Today is the last day you can submit your application to become a NASA astronaut, in case you have an overwhelming urge to fling yourself off the planet for a while. The deadline to get yo...

Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images Donald Trump has finally gotten one of the longstanding wishes of his presidency: the weakening of an Obama-era fuel economy standard that made new c...

Photo by Brooke Palmer / Warner Bros. Entertainment For nearly two decades, brands around the world have gathered each year to celebrate two occasions: the anniversary of the September 1...

Photo by Pearse Anderson. Being stuck at home has forced everyone to be creative Continue reading… ...

Rafael Rivera (Twitter) Microsoft has created a scrolling news bar app for Windows 10. It sits above the Windows taskbar and provides scrolling 24/7 news from more than 4,500 publication...

Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Grubhub announced last week that, between the hours of 5 to 9 PM, customers could order takeout or delivery ...

The Outer Worlds’ Switch port will launch on June 5th, bringing the popular space RPG to Nintendo’s hybrid console. The Outer Worlds’ physical release will include a day one patch th...

Streaming is bigger than ever now that staying inside is a requirement; you’ve probably noticed friends start posting links to their newly created Twitch and YouTube channels, and maybe ...

Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images As the tech industry braced for another round of China tariffs last summer, Tim Cook was making the case directly to the agenc...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Slack is a popular workplace instant-messaging tool. But that doesn’t mean it only has to be for work. You can use Slack for whatever you’d like — ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Some days yield more deals than others, and today is one of those days. Starting things off are the Master & Dynamic MW07 Plus truly wirel...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images As the social distancing efforts push everything from school to socializing into video chat, networks have seen huge surges in traffic — and new ...

Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, it has mutated in tiny, subtle ways. Those mutations aren’t cause for concern, and so far, don’t appear...

Part of a 3D printed face shield sits on a 3D Printer | Jenny Sabin, Jenny Sabin Studio “We’re doing everything we can, and every single visor counts” Continue reading&h...

Image: Roku Roku is today announcing the latest software update that’s coming soon to Roku streaming devices and Roku TVs. Roku OS 9.3 will expand the company’s voice command system ...

Image: Grammarly Grammarly, a service designed to give you advice on improving your writing, is getting an add-in for Microsoft Word’s Mac app, as well as for Microsoft Word online. Pr...

The first Fitbit after Google announced it intends to buy the company last fall looks... well, like every other Fitbit that came before it. And it’s apparently intentional, as the compan...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Google has officially stopped selling its Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones, as spotted by Android Police. The product page for the phones now simply ...

Skype is missing out to Zoom and others during the coronavirus pandemic Continue reading… ...

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post As more people bake their blues away while stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, yeast is reportedly becoming harder to find on grocery sto...

Spotify Spotify’s expanding the rollout of its kids app, just as more kids are at home with nothing to do. The company announced that it’s bringing Spotify Kids to the US, Canada, an...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung Display will stop producing LCD panels by the end of the year. The display maker currently runs two LCD production lines in South Korea and two i...

Photo by Avery White / The Verge Even if you would never see yourself buying a gaming laptop, you should take the time to read Monica Chin’s review of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14. There ...

A near-perfect city bike with innovative ‘Click & Roll’ accessory system Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last week, we talked about the case for the government using location data gleaned from our smartphones to manage the response to the COVID-19 pan...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Huawei’s revenue grew by 19.1 percent last year to around $121 billion, but the company says those numbers would be far higher if the United Sta...

Sony is the latest movie studio to announce major changes to its release slate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as reported by Variety. Tentpole movies like Uncharted, Ghostbusters: Afterlife...