Articles by The Verge from May 2020

Nearly two hours after NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley became the first astronauts launched to space on a privately-owned rocket, they also became the first to pilot a spaceshi...

Image: SpaceX / NASA After nearly two decades of effort, Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, successfully launched its first two people into orbit, ushering in a new age of human sp...

Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley had some company on their historic flight to space today: a stuffed dinosaur tucked into one of the seats on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. The toy was spo...

Image: SpaceX / NASA After nearly two decades of effort, Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, successfully launched its first two people into orbit, ushering in a new age of human sp...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers at its Microsoft News and MSN organizations. The layoffs are part of a bigger ...

Bad weather at Cape Canaveral forced SpaceX to postpone its first launch attempt on Wednesday, May 27th. | Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA With less than 20 minutes to go before SpaceX’s f...

The Falcon 9 rocket set to carry SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to the ISS. | SpaceX On Saturday, May 30th, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is set to become the first private spacecraft to carry humans ...

Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images Waymo’s self-driving cars are returning to Bay Area roads for the first time since the company halted its public testing in ea...

Follow along as the astronauts suit up and board the Crew Dragon Continue reading… ...

Putting things in jars is a surprisingly therapeutic activity. | Photo by William Poor / The Verge If you’re anything like us, over the past couple of months you’ve probably finishe...

Zoom will add stronger encryption to its paid customers’ video calls, but isn’t planning to offer the enhanced security to all accounts, Reuters reported. A security consultant with th...

Normally $80, the Lenovo Smart Clock is 50 percent off | Image: Google Memorial Day deals are a tough act to follow, and we’ve definitely seen the frequency of sales this week slow dow...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google had been planning to unveil new features coming in Android 11 on June 3rd, but it has decided to delay the unveiling. In a tweet on Friday ...

Images: Ben Geskin / Twitter OnePlus accidentally pushed an over-the-air update that disables a filter that can see through some thin black plastics and, in certain cases, clothes. ...

Facebook will not remove or take any other action on a President Trump post that Twitter removed for “glorifying violence,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday. “I know many people are u...

TikTok has a new competitor: Zynn, a nearly button-for-button clone of TikTok that differentiates itself with one key twist — it pays users to sign up, watch videos, and convince others ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Facebook’s decision not to take action against recent posts about mail-in ballots and the Minnesota protests by President Trump is roiling employees, s...

A screengrab from SPadre’s livestream of the engine test | Image: SPadre A fourth prototype of SpaceX’s next generation Starship rocket exploded right after a test at the company’s...

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images The United States will terminate its relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO), President Trump said in a press conference today. “China ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Amazon is discontinuing its Echo Look camera, a standalone device that gave owners fashion advice using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Th...

Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to regulate...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge As the president rages, Twitter finds its courage Continue reading… ...

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images In 2010, Bruno Mars famously sang that he wanted to be a billionaire “so fucking bad,” working to wind up on the cover of Forbes magazine. Kylie Jenner, ...

Image: Beats Beats today announced four new colors of its Powerbeats Pro true wireless earbuds. The new hues are much brighter and more vibrant than the original lineup and include yello...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge On Tuesday, Tile sent a letter to European competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, accusing Apple of anticompetitive behavior. Tile, best known fo...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Former Vice President Joe Biden still wants to repeal the pivotal internet law that provides social media companies like Facebook and Twitter with broa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has released a new Xbox One update that brings a number of changes to the Guide menu, which gives you quick access to things like your f...

Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images As President Donald Trump rages against Twitter for moderating his tweets, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is calling for a federal investigation into the compa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The PlayStation 5 will have one selling point Sony thinks might be important to fans who are on the fence about upgrading to a new generation of g...

Students describe a surreal sendoff to their time at college Continue reading… ...

Whether you’re on team wired or team wireless, here are the best gaming mice to get Continue reading… ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge British car manufacturer McLaren has confirmed that its partnership with OnePlus has reached its “scheduled conclusion” in what is likely to mean the...

Image: Hulu The United States is a difficult country to live in if you believe in anything. Our nation’s institutions fail us frequently and disastrously; our politics favor corporatio...

Image: Summer Game Fest Even though E3, Gamescom, and other summer gaming events have become online-only or outright canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems there’s still going...

The pandemic has been a strange time for Kickstarter. Over the past month, the company laid off nearly 40 percent of its workforce as projects on the platform dropped off, causing a “sha...

It’s been a while since we’ve heard much about League of Legends: Wild Rift, the mobile and console spinoff of the long-running strategy game. Today, as part of the ongoing Summer Game...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google rescinded offers to more than 2,000 contract and temporary workers in an effort to curtail new spending as the pandemic continues to sink a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has suspended thousands of third-party sellers for price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic, but sellers have found a loophole to avoid d...

Photo by Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post via Getty Images Instacart’s tipping system is getting some new scrutiny from Congress. In a pair of letters today, a group of senator...

Venue will attempt to curate fan discussion while an event takes place. | Image: Facebook Facebook’s Venue is a new app that’s designed to make the process of watching live events mo...

Sony is officially confirming its next PlayStation 5 event will be held on Thursday, June 4th. The event will begin at 4PM ET / 1PM PT, and Sony is promising “a look at the future of gam...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spoiler: you can’t nationalize Twitter Continue reading… ...

Photo by Doug Mills-Pool / Getty Images Twitter limited the reach of a second tweet from President Donald Trump this morning, as the White House and its allies sought to escalate their f...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge With its ride-hailing business at rock bottom as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Uber is introducing a new feature aimed at riders who need to ...

If anyone steps inside the circle you’re legally allowed to fight them. | GIF: Google As lockdown measures are eased around the world, it’s more important than ever to observe prope...

Photo by Kim Shiflett / NASA Takeoff is scheduled for 3:22PM ET on May 30th Continue reading… ...

Give Dad something to make him glad Continue reading… ...

Image: Tesla Well, I was going to write about the historic crewed launch and SpaceX, Tesla’s overachieving older sibling, but then the launch got scrubbed. Instead, let’s discuss mo...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge You can now buy a refurbished iPhone XR from the Apple Store, MacRumors reports. It’s a cheaper way of getting the bestselling phone of last...

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office before signing an executive order related to regulating social media on May 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. | Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Gett...

Twitter’s notice, which says that the tweet broke its rules about glorifying violence. | Screenshot: Twitter Twitter has placed a public interest notice on a tweet from President Trump...

Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for Wired Rony Abovitz, the co-founder and CEO of lavishly funded augmented reality company Magic Leap, will step down from his position, reports Business...

Image: Paramount Pictures A sequel to the Sonic the Hedgehog movie is in development, as first reported by Variety. It’s unclear when the film might be released, but Sonic the Hedgehog...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter says you can now schedule tweets right from the main web app. When composing a tweet, you should see a little calendar icon on the bottom ...

Xinhua/Ding Ting via Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk has unlocked the first of 12 possible stock option awards from the massive compensation plan he signed in 2018, and it’s worth nea...

Image: Electronic Arts Electronic Arts and the National Football League have renewed the exclusivity contract that gives the game publisher exclusive rights to make so-called simulation ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google and Microsoft have worked together to improve the spellcheck experience in Chrome and Edge. The latest versions of Chrome and Edge are now ...

As part of HBO Max’s launch, WarnerMedia included a list of titles currently available to stream on day one, but after discrepancies were discovered between what WarnerMedia advertised a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge DoorDash on Thursday launched a new initiative called Storefront to help restaurants create websites and directly manage online pickup and deliver...

Image: Apple During a group call, FaceTime automatically enlarges the window of whoever’s speaking. This means when you have four or more people on a call, the windows will resize, flo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will soon let G Suite customers with Google Voice licenses make Google Voice calls right from their Gmail inbox. The new feature seems like...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Facebook will now require people behind individual profiles with “high reach” to verify their identity, the company announced today. Facebook...

Photo by Doug MIlls-Pool / Getty Images President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday targeting tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google and the pivotal internet ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon.com was down for many people in the US for a short while Thursday afternoon. A number of Verge staffers were unable to access the site, and...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Owners of the excellent Jabra Elite 75t (and Elite Active 75t) earbuds can now customize controls for the physical buttons on each earbud. With a new upd...

Image: Netatmo Netatmo has released an updated version of its outdoor security smart camera with a powerful alarm to scare off uninvited guests. The revised security camera remains mostl...

Photo by Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images The internet is a magical place, somewhere where you can, for the right price, get anything you want. And if that something i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google announced on Thursday that it will bring its SameSite cookie update back starting July 14th, alongside the launch of Chrome 84. The update ...

As promised, Disney now gives subscribers of Disney Plus the option to watch over 19 seasons of The Simpsons in the show’s original 4:3 aspect ratio. When the subscription streaming serv...

Photo by Erin Schaff for The Verge Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is calling Donald Trump’s proposed executive order “plainly illegal” in a new statement on Thursday. The draft executive or...

Elon Musk often brags about how he’s built up Tesla with “zero advertising spend.” But advertising is just one form of marketing, and the billionaire CEO sure knows how to market his...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube sparked widespread speculation about its moderation policies this week after it admitted to accidentally deleting comments that contained ...

Earlier seasons of The Simpsons are finally available to stream in its proper 4:3 aspect ratio, a task Disney Plus’ product team had to spend some time figuring out. Aspect ratios are a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th The American Civil Liberties Union is suing controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI for violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privac...

On mobile, YouTube’s new chapters feature provides haptic feedback when you reach a new chapter | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge YouTube is releasing its new video chapters feat...

Plus Codes consist of six digits, and can represent locations when street addresses aren’t in common use. | Image: Google Google Maps is launching a new feature that generates a uniqu...

Image: HP HP and Microsoft have announced a new version of their high-resolution Reverb virtual reality headset, aimed at VR gamers rather than businesses. The Reverb G2 is slated to lau...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will change how its algorithms rank websites in search results, the company announced today. Starting sometime early next year, if your web...

Tidal is vastly expanding its support for Dolby Atmos Music today to include living room set-top boxes, TVs, and speaker systems for subscribers to its $19.99-per-month Tidal HiFi service....

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Qualcomm is announcing its first chips with support for Wi-Fi 6E, the brand-new version of Wi-Fi that should be faster and more reliable thanks to...

Sony’s WH-1000XM3 can lay flat, and also fold up into its compact hard case. | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Sony’s WH-1000XM3 over-ear headphones and the truly wireless WF-1000...

While we’re waiting for the eventual release of Monument Valley 3, developer Ustwo has just launched another surprise: a cyberpunk climbing game called Go Go Bots. Perhaps the biggest su...

The Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition is a pricey laptop for creative professionals. | Image: Razer Razer has announced its new Blade 15 Studio Edition, a high-powered, high-priced laptop fo...

Many VR games are about portraying impossible exaggerated versions of reality, whether it’s sci-fi table tennis or a shooting range with actual zombies. The new Topgolf-branded Oculus Qu...

Photo by Olivier Douliery / AFP via Getty Images Today, President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order that would give the government huge new powers over the internet. As repor...

Depending on who you ask, WarnerMedia confirming a Snyder Cut version of Justice League will arrive in 2021 is either a win for a cluster of Zack Snyder devotees or a disturbing precedent ...

Photo: Evercade It’s not exactly hard to play old games. There are plenty of ways to get a retro fix outside of collecting the original hardware: plug-and-play consoles, classic game c...

Image: Crestron Crestron, which offers services to help people customize their smart homes, has teamed up with Logitech and Zoom to make an at-home video conferencing setup using technol...

Image: Nuro Nuro, the autonomous vehicle startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, will use its small fleet of road-legal delivery robots to transport pharmaceuticals to CVS customers ...

Microsoft is planning to automatically add HDR support to games played on its upcoming Xbox Series X console. While existing games will automatically play better on the Xbox Series X, Micr...

Aside from having more RAM, the new miniature PC is functionally unchanged. | Image: Raspberry Pi Foundation The Raspberry Pi Foundation has doubled the maximum amount of RAM available i...

Image by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft surprised everyone with its new Windows Package Manager (winget) last week, but it looks like the company copied the core mechanics from a deve...

Images: Gogoro Five years after Taiwanese startup Gogoro debuted with a slick electric scooter at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, the company has now unveiled the Eeyo 1 and Eeyo 1S,...

Scammers are trying to sell a $350 USB key with just 128MB of storage as an anti-5G solution. The “5GBioShield” went on sale recently in the UK priced between £280 and £330 ($343 and...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published a report about Facebook’s efforts to fight polarization since 2016, based on internal document...

Image: Signify The box that syncs Philips Hue lights with whatever’s on your TV is getting a big update today: it now supports two major HDR standards: HDR10+ and Dolby Vision. At laun...

HBO is no longer available as an Apple TV Channel for people who want to subscribe to it though the Apple TV app (via 9to5Mac). The change follows today’s launch of the new streaming ser...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has filed a lawsuit against Google over allegations the company illegally tracked Android users’ location...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge HBO Max has arrived, bringing with it a precious few new original shows and an absolutely stuffed back catalog of terrific TV and movies. In addi...

Image: Nvidia Nvidia announced a new policy for its GeForce Now cloud gaming service on Wednesday that means publishers and developers will have to opt into the platform to have titles r...

From ultraportables to high-powered editing machines, here are the best laptops to get right now Continue reading… ...

Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images Boeing said it would resume manufacturing the troubled 737 Max airplane after a nearly five-month hiatus. The aerospace company said it would restart pr...

twitter censorship Social media sites can legally ban users for nearly any reason. They can ban users for off-color jokes. They can ban users for being white supremacists. They can ban u...

Image: Sony Sony and Naughty Dog showed off nearly 24 minutes of new footage for the highly anticipated The Last of Us Part II in a State of Play video today. The Last of Us Part II seem...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge From time to time a really bad post on a social network gets a lot of attention. Say a head of state falsely accuses a journalist of murder, or su...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge The annual Pokémon Go Fest will be held online from July 25th to July 26th this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The event is usually held in select...

Image: SpaceX Just 17 minutes before its planned launch, SpaceX postponed its first crewed flight to space on Wednesday afternoon due to bad weather over the launch site in Florida. The ...

GOG.com has kicked off its summer sale on DRM-free PC games, filled with deals on new and old titles. This sale lasts until June 15th. A few of the highlights include Metro Exodus for $20 ...

CA Attorney Gen. Becerra responding to Trump revoking the state’s emissions waiver | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The Trump administration was sued by attorneys general from 2...

Apple is acquiring Fraggle Rock’s past TV seasons ahead of a new reboot set to land on Apple TV Plus, signaling a potential strategy shift for a service that has thus far relied entirely...

Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images For years, Donald Trump’s fight against social media companies has been a one-man boxing match. He calls them out over bias, and they rewrite ...

Photo: Bikeshare Museum Uber is sending tens of thousands of its electric Jump bikes to the scrap yard, weeks after offloading the money-losing bike-share division on Lime. The news of t...

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images The White House has set its sights on a single Twitter employee after the company attached a fact-checking link to two of the president’s tweets contain...

HBO Max has arrived. Combining the vast content empire of AT&T’s WarnerMedia — HBO, Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, DC Entertainment, TBS, TNT, CNN, Cartoon Network, The CW, Crunchy...

Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge Microsoft’s Mixer streaming platform is making a bigger splash in the live event game with a new tournament series starting this week featuring Fortnite...

Microsoft is releasing its Windows 10 May 2020 Update today. It’s the latest “major” update to Windows 10, and its big features include the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 and Cortana ...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is adding new abilities to Outlook’s “Play My Emails” feature, allowing you to use voice control to organize your emails and day-to-day schedule. The com...

Instagram Instagram is continuing to build out its augmented reality effects, and today, it’s announcing that creators can build effects that react to music through Spark AR, the compa...

2015’s detachable in a 2020 world Continue reading… ...

The Surface Book 3 is still a unique machine for a unique audience Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Twitch has a new home for gaming news: the channel Twitch Gaming, which will showcase everything from new game reveals to Twitch drops. In ...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s Xbox Family Settings App is a new way for parents and guardians to manage how their children spend their gaming time. Available in preview today on Android...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Accessing the plethora of settings hidden in Gmail can be a pain, but it’s about to get a little easier. Google is rolling out a quick settings ...

Image: Sony Sony is reportedly planning a PlayStation 5 game event for June 3rd. Bloomberg reports that Sony’s virtual event is tentatively planned for next week but that “plans have...

Image: Netflix A universal experience when it comes to dating: after a while, it’s hard to go out without getting roped into a murder mystery. The Lovebirds, a new Netflix movie starri...

Image: Instagram For the first time in its history, Instagram will start sharing revenue with creators through ads in IGTV and badges that viewers can purchase on Instagram Live. The com...

All eight Harry Potter movies are streaming on HBO Max, which is surprising considering executives were clamoring to bring the Boy Who Lived home to the newly launched streaming service bu...

Just like nearly everything else on the internet, streaming services are ruled by recommendation algorithms that are designed to predetermine what people want before they ask for it. Warn...

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

Image: Facebook Facebook’s experimental app division has a new product out today called Collab that promises to deliver a new approach to collaborative music making. The app, launching...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google will soon let businesses add additional descriptors to their listings that appear in Google Search and Maps results to better help potential ...

Samsung has announced further details for its upcoming debit card program: it’s called Samsung Money by SoFi (which, as previously announced, is partnering with Samsung on the program), ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Mobile gaming achieved a record-breaking high during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from App Annie and IDC. With people world...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube Kids, Google’s video streaming service aimed at children, can now be viewed on Apple TV streaming boxes, the company announced. The YouT...

Image: Texas Instruments Texas Instruments has removed the ability for some of its most popular calculators to run programs written in assembly or C, Cemetech reports. Hobbyists are not ...

Exclusive: Chat is Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess | Artists: Garret Beard and William Joel Sadly, the time has come for me to write about Rich Communication Servi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube says it’s begun fixing an error in its moderation system that caused comments containing certain Chinese-language phrases critical of Ch...

The entry-level Tesla Model 3 (pictured) is receiving a smaller price cut of $2,000. | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Tesla has reduced the price of the Model 3, Model S, and Model X...

Image: Skullcandy Many true wireless earbuds now let you “find” them by either playing a sound (if they’re powered on, out of their case, and nearby) or pulling up the location whe...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Fujifilm has released new software that lets you use certain X-series and GFX-series mirrorless cameras as ultra-high-quality webcams. The app is called ...

Image: Zipline Zipline’s drones are delivering medical supplies and personal protective equipment to a Novant Health Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, the two companies anno...

A new collection of Samurai Shodown games is coming out in a couple of weeks, and it marks another notable exclusivity deal for the Epic Games Store. Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection wil...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Short-form mobile video service Quibi now supports Apple’s AirPlay protocol, which means you’ll be able to stream content from Quibi on your p...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Apple released macOS Catalina 10.15.5 today, adding a new battery health feature and new FaceTime options. That battery health feature could extend the l...

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images On Tuesday, Twitter labeled two tweets from President Donald Trump making false statements about mail-in voting as “potentially misleading.” It’s th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has been successfully feeding talking points, video footage, and other corporate messaging to local television news stations ahead of its a...

Photo by Andrej Sokolow / Picture Alliance via Getty Images Google will begin reopening offices starting on July 6th for a limited number of employees. In a blog post published on Tuesda...

Photo By Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call On Tuesday, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) introduced a bill that would upend political advertising on platforms like Facebook and Google. The Banning M...

Image: Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard Entertainment will not host its annual BlizzCon event this year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The event is usually held later in the year,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch has re-signed popular streamers Jaryd “Summit1G” Lazar, Brett “Dakotaz” Hoffman, and Josh “JoshOG” Beaver, ensuring they will s...

Photo: Apple Apple will reopen around 100 retail stores in the US by the end of the week, the company confirmed to The Verge. That will put Apple’s active retail locations in the count...

‘Planet of the Humans’ executive producer Michael Moore with director Jeff Gibbs and producer Ozzie Zehner at the Traverse City Film Festival. | Photo: Planet of the Humans The contr...

Poolside.fm, an online radio station, might be the chillest place online: a place where it’s perpetually the summer of 1997, and where, as the intro copy says, “safety comes second and...

Lenovo Yoga Duet 7i. | Image: Lenovo Lenovo is adding two new devices to its Windows 10 lineup — the Yoga Duet 7i and the IdeaPad Duet 3i — both of which are detachable 2-in-1 device...

Photo by Presley Ann / Getty Images for WarnerMedia At launch, new streaming services prompt the same question: what can I watch? But HBO Max also elicits a different line of questioning...

Photo by Xavier Bonilla / NurPhoto via Getty Images Audi has dropped driver Daniel Abt in the all-electric racing series Formula E after he had a pro sim driver surreptitiously race for ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An internal Facebook report presented to executives in 2018 found that the company was well aware that its product, specifically its recommendatio...

Photo by Paul Chinn / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, Sandra Quinn asked hundreds of Americans if they’d be willing to take a hypothetical v...

On the surface, Diablo isn’t exactly what most people would call comforting. It’s a series about exploring dark realms and fighting all manner of undead and demonic monsters. But there...

Microsoft created a fun Easter egg for its Edge browser to reveal the new logo last year, and it’s now available for everyone to play. The Edge surf game is very similar to SkiFree, a cl...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile subscribers can now send RCS messages to people on other phone networks, so long as everyone involved has an Android phone and support fo...

J.K. Rowling will stagger the release of her new children’s novel The Ickabog over the next seven weeks, publishing the book in tiny chapters online and making it available to readers fo...

DJI’s first action camera is almost as good as the best GoPro, says reviewer Brent Rose. | Photo by Brent Rose for The Verge Today’s deals are a mix of low-priced gadgets made even m...

Image: Facebook Facebook is renaming Calibra, the digital wallet it hopes will one day be used to access the Libra digital currencies, Novi. In a blog post the company said that the new ...

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield claimed earlier this month that Microsoft Teams isn’t a competitor to Slack. In an interview with The Verge, Butterfield has revealed that, inside Slack, th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Slack is exploring a wide variety of new features that could be making their way to the popular messaging platform, including scheduled messages, Instagr...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Niantic Labs is adding a new augmented reality feature to Pokémon Go next month that will make the virtual creatures look even more realistic. The new fe...

Image: OnePlus The OnePlus 8 series can now run Fortnite at 90fps, thanks to a collaboration between OnePlus and Epic Games. The update makes these devices the first phones to run Fortni...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Spotify has finally removed its 10,000-song cap on library sizes, allowing users to add as much music as they’d like to their personal libraries withou...

Photo illustration by William Joel | Photography by Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images A conversation on The Vergecast Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is automatically deleting comments that contain certain Chinese-language phrases related to criticism of the country’s ruling Communist ...

Sony Sony has officially announced the ZV-1, a compact camera designed specifically for shooting video. Even more specifically than that, it’s designed for vlogging. It’s based on es...

SpaceX It’s been a long road to get here Continue reading… ...

Instacart promises a safer way to shop, but workers tell a different story Continue reading… ...

Photo by Kim Shiflett / NASA Takeoff is scheduled for 4:33PM ET on May 27th Continue reading… ...

ARM has announced its latest high-end mobile designs, the Cortex-A78 CPU and the Mali-G78 GPU, which will be used to power the next flagship smartphones of 2021 and beyond. ARM isn’t us...

The most fun you can have with a door Continue reading… ...

The feature is intended for use with smart speakers and displays, according to Google. | Image: Android Police Google Assistant’s Voice Match feature can now secure purchases made thro...

Realme has a new high-end phone, and for the first time ever the brand is bringing it to Europe before its usual stomping ground of India. The Realme X3 Superzoom is launching in Spain and...

XRSpace XRSpace, a company led by former HTC head Peter Chou, plans to launch a new virtual reality headset later this year. The headset is dubbed the Mova, and it’s supposed to ship i...

Virgin Orbit’s 747 Cosmic Girl and rocket LauncherOne | Image: Virgin Orbit Update May 25th, 5:20PM ET: Virgin Orbit’s test flight ended in failure shortly after LauncherOne dropped ...

Adam Sandler hasn’t acted in many dramas, but those he stars in tend to exceed expectations. Uncut Gems is no different. Josh and Benny Safdie’s critically acclaimed independent film,...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge A new version of the Motorola Razr foldable could launch this year, and it might have 5G, a bigger battery, and improved cameras (via 9to5Google). Thos...

Photo: Amazon Amazon’s Lab126, the hardware group responsible for developing the company’s Kindle e-reader and its Echo smart speaker, is hiring engineers to work on its COVID-19 tes...

A screenshot of Project Challenge, a project management simulator. | Thinking Tools Popular “simulation games” like SimCity aren’t literally training players to run something like ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom has temporarily disabled the integration of GIF platform Giphy in its chat feature, the company said in a blog post. “Once additional techn...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Wikipedia plans to crack down on harassment and other “toxic” behavior with a new code of conduct. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Massive PPE shortages pushed DIY volunteers to get creative Continue reading… ...

The last time a rocket launched from US soil, nearly one million people gathered to watch | Photo by Carla Cioffi/NASA via Getty Images Ahead of this week’s launch of SpaceX’s Crew D...

Virgin Orbit’s 747 Cosmic Girl and rocket LauncherOne | Image: Virgin Orbit Small satellite launcher Virgin Orbit — the sibling company to Richard Branson’s space tourism venture V...

Renders of the Note 20 Plus come from leaked CAD drawings. | Credit: @OnLeaks / Pigtou Last year’s Galaxy Note 10 Plus was truly a thing of beauty, with an amazing screen and superlat...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If your iPhone or iPad has dozens of apps needing unexpected updates, don’t worry: you’re not alone. For some reason, Apple appears to be ...

Realme’s explosive performance in India has made it one of the fastest growing smartphone brands in the world, and today the company is expanding into the nebulous “lifestyle tech” m...

Image: Sony Sony’s new flagship smartphone, the Xperia 1 II (pronounced “mark two”), will ship in the US starting July 24th for $1,199, the company announced. Pre-orders start on J...

Samara Ginsberg rocks the Knight Rider theme song on the cello | Samara Ginsberg/YouTube The 1980s show Knight Rider was about a guy who drove a talking car and solved crimes. I think. I...

Photo: Aaron Epstein / Netflix One of the new streaming shows I’ve been looking forward to most, Netflix’s Space Force with Steve Carell, debuts this week. I definitely need somethin...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new tool by hacking group Unc0ver can jailbreak iOS 13.5, the just-released version of Apple’s mobile operating system, Wired reported. The g...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An analysis of the latest update to Google Messages suggests it may be moving closer to having end-to-end encryption for RCS, according to 9to5 Go...

President Trump held a “social media summit” at the White House last summer. | Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images President Trump wants to create a panel that would look into complaints...

Image: Warner Bros. I forgot to write about Westworld after its third season wrapped up the other week. In a lot of ways, I enjoyed the third season more than the earlier ones — it was...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After resisting pressure from the US for months, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is apparently preparing to phase out the use of Huawei equipment fro...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge It’s Memorial Day weekend in the US. Several retailers are offering some of the best deals that we’ve seen in months, spanning several categories o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is testing a new feature that lets users decide who can reply to their tweets, the company announced on Wednesday, and some accounts are a...

Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images/Visual China Group via Getty Images Seven months after he filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to deal with $3.6 billion in personal debt, the reo...

Glitch laid off “a substantial number of employees” on Thursday in an effort to cut costs and ensure “long term viability,” the company confirmed in an email to The Verge. Glitch s...

After two days of intense reviews, NASA is giving its commercial partner SpaceX the thumbs-up to launch its first astronauts to space next week. There’s still more work to be done by bot...

A new leak hints at what to expect from Sony’s WH-1000XM4, the upcoming successor to the WH-1000XM3, one of the best wireless headphones on the market. The details come from Twitter user...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox Live service is experiencing issues today, marking the fourth time in recent weeks. Xbox One users are currently reporting prob...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox Live service experienced issues today, marking the fourth time in recent weeks. Xbox One users were reporting problems earlier ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge They’re pulling the plug on the New York Auto Show. The show, which is typically held in April and draws over 1 million attendants, was del...

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Netflix Ali Wong and Tiffany Haddish are returning for a new season of Tuca & Bertie, set to air on Adult Swim two years after Netflix’s decision to cancel the series. The network...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Security researchers, hackers, and bloggers have had access to an early version of iOS 14 since “at least February,” according to Vice. Th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A large-scale study suggests chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine don’t help treat COVID-19, and it may even be harmful. Today, peer-reviewed jour...

Image: CW Here’s something that can be easy to forget about comic book superheroes, given how popular they’ve become over the last decade: they’re really quite old. This is especia...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s Friday, which means there’s a new episode of The Vergecast to fill you in on all of the news from this week. Join Nilay, Dieter, and a ro...

Joe Rogan is largely moving on from YouTube, a site that helped transform his podcast into a viral video-making factory, earning him nearly 10 million subscribers in the process. It’s th...

Disney released a surprise new series on its Disney Plus streaming service today: Zenimation, an ASMR-style series of short videos that take clips from classic animated Disney movies and r...

Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge The Verge is a place where you can consider the future. So are movies. In Yesterday’s Future, we revisit a movie about the future and con...

Wool means robot in Rocos’ video of a Boston Dynamics Spot unit herding sheep. | Image: Rocos It’s certainly an arresting image: a four-legged robot trots across a grassy hillside, s...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft is finally bringing cloud support to Outlook for Windows email signatures. It’s a feature that Outlook users have been requesting for more tha...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google’s midrange Pixel 3A and Pixel 3A XL are more affordable than ever today. Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo have discounted the 3A with 64GB o...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge If you’ve just bought a new laptop, one of the first things you’re probably going to want to do is personalize how it looks. Windows has plenty of ...

Illustration by Ana Kova Here are some of the other options Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A grandmother in the Netherlands has until this weekend to remove photos of her grandchildren from her Facebook page, or she’ll face daily fines...

Now at a much more sensible price Continue reading… ...

The next expansion for The Sims 4 introduces a brand-new location, called Evergreen Harbor, where, for the first time, players’ actions will have a direct impact on the environment. The ...

Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images Nvidia is best known for its graphics cards, but the company conducts some serious research into artificial intelligence, to...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Researchers based out of Australia’s Monash, Swinburne, and RMIT universities say they’ve set a new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps, according ...

Image: Bandai Namco and Amazon Games Pac-Man will be a playable game on Twitch starting this June, Bandai Namco and Amazon Games announced today. To play the Twitch version of the game, ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Meltdown May is continuing apace, as Elon Musk and his newest baby’s grandmother engage in online beef. But we’ll get to that in a minute. What do...

Microsoft’s Windows operating system has been a major presence in the computer industry for decades. Currently, PCs loaded with Windows 10 are being manufactured and sold by a variety of...

After I recently wrote about Oppo’s “oddly familiar” new smartwatch, Oppo got in touch with me to ask whether I’d be interested in checking it out for myself, even though it’ll o...

Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge WhatsApp’s latest beta version lets you add contacts by scanning their QR codes, WABetaInfo reports. The feature, which is available in beta on both ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The latest stable version of Microsoft’s Edge browser finally adds support for extension syncing, meaning you won’t have to manually re-instal...

Credit: World Video Game Hall of Fame / The Strong Museum Microsoft’s Solitaire game is turning 30 years old today. Microsoft is celebrating the occasion with a world record attempt of...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter made it easier to see quote tweets on iOS on May 12th, and that new functionality is now available on Twitter for Android and for the web,...

Christopher Nolan, one of Hollywood’s biggest proponents of the theatrical experience, is the latest director to see his movie get the Fortnite treatment. The latest trailer for his upc...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook has long believed in the promise of virtual and augmented reality extending well beyond entertainment, and we’re now getting a clea...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook has long believed in the promise of virtual and augmented reality extending well beyond entertainment, and we’re now getting a clea...

A group of Thomson Reuters shareholders says the company’s technology databases are being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “track and arrest immigrants on a massive scale...

Melinda Sue Gordon The outdoor theater on Fortnite’s new party royale island is finally being put to use. Tonight, at 8PM ET, the virtual space will be home to the latest trailer for C...

ViacomCBS is licensing John Krasinski’s heartwarming weekly YouTube series Some Good News, making a once totally free and accessible show now locked behind a streaming paywall. New epis...

Microsoft is making some improvements to its Windows 10 accessibility features, specifically centered around making the text cursor easier to see and follow using the built-in Magnifier fe...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Some Apple AirPods Pro cases now say the headphones are assembled in Vietnam, according to a Twitter user, multiple reports on the MacRumors forums, and ...

Avatar: The Last Airbender is back on Netflix after a seven-year absence, and if you never caught the show, now is a perfect time. Avatar isn’t just one of the best animated series aroun...

Rare’s open-world pirate game, Sea of Thieves, is sailing to Steam on June 3rd, Microsoft announced today. For the past two years, Sea of Thieves was available on Xbox One and the Window...

The PS4’s last big release Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s Workplace, its Slack-like collaboration and chat tool targeted at businesses, now has more than 5 million paid users, up from 3 milli...

Chorus Productions The hyperlink reaches my inbox a few minutes before 10PM on Saturday night. I click the link and enter a password. And at precisely 10PM, a video pops up on the page, ...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Up to half of employees could work remotely within five to 10 years, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says in an interview Continue reading…...

Photo illustration by William Joel | Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images ‘We’re going to be the most forward-leaning company on remote work at our scale’ ...

Image: Samsung Samsung is a dominant force when it comes to TV market share in living rooms, and now, the company wants to extend that success to the outdoors. Today, Samsung is announci...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is trying to make it easier for people to cancel their service with a new automated prompt that will ask subscribers if they want to conti...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Starting today, Google Maps will feature a new mode called Accessible Places that, when toggled on, will more prominently show wheelchair accessibil...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Google is announcing a few updates to its suite of accessibility features for Android. The biggest one...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge One year ago today, Facebook released the Oculus Quest, its first headset to deliver a credible standalone VR experience — true head trackin...

Screenshot: Civilization 6 Sid Meier’s Civilization VI is available free on the Epic Games Store, meaning you can now claim a free copy that’s yours to keep. The offer is available u...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile’s offer of free mobile service for first responders for 10 years is now available, CEO Mike Sievert announced today. The program, offic...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon may delay its Prime Day promotional event until September as it tries to regain its footing amid a surge in demand caused by the coronaviru...

Riot’s hotly anticipated tactical shooter Valorant is launching on June 2nd. The game, which has been in a closed beta since April, will be available on PC for free and “across the maj...

The new Blade Pro 17 will be available later this month. | Image: Razer Razer has announced the 2020 version of its Blade Pro 17. Like last year’s model, there is a 4K 120Hz touch disp...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you’ve been looking for a deal on Sony’s latest high-end truly wireless earphones, the WF-1000XM3, today’s your day. They usually cost $230, but...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey is donating $5 million to Andrew Yang’s Humanity Forward nonprofit, the former presidential candidate announced...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge The Joe Rogan deal makes the company’s big ambitions known Continue reading… ...

Tinder Tinder no longer sees physical closeness as a necessity for dating. The company announced today that it’ll soon be testing Global Mode, a new option for daters to opt in to that...

Photo by Noah Berger / AFP / Getty Images With a $6 billion content budget, Hollywood’s biggest names, and hundreds of millions of potential customers, Apple TV Plus launched in Novemb...

Photo: SpaceX NASA’s new way of business could spark a shift in the spaceflight paradigm Continue reading… ...

Twenty-something Kasio, star of new game If Found, is struggling. Over the period of a month, she fights with her family, falls in and out of love, bounces around different couches, and is...

Microsoft’s original Xbox console source code has leaked online, alongside code for a version of Windows NT 3.5. The Xbox source code includes the kernel for the operating system on the ...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge As students around the world continue to study from home as a result of the pandemic, Google’s Classroom software has fast become an invaluable re...

Last month, before Google and Apple announced their joint effort to enable COVID-19 exposure notifications, I wrote about the trouble with using Bluetooth-based solutions for contact traci...

Image: Buzzfeed BuzzFeed has introduced a multiplayer version of its classic quizzes called Quiz Party, which lets you and up to three friends complete them simultaneously in your browse...

Image: EA EA plans to release the source code for its classic real-time strategy games Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and Command and Conquer: Red Alert, the studio announced today. ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram has posted its guidelines for using copyrighted music during live videos, Stories, and other posts on the platform, and part of the anno...

Samsung has announced yet another version of the Galaxy S20: the Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition, which promises a “mission-ready military smartphone.” It’s designed for a slightly diffe...

Image: Lego/Nintendo Lego and Nintendo had already announced that their interactive Super Mario Lego starter set and two expansion packs would launch on August 1st, and the two companies...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against Alameda County “without prejudice,” according to documents filed in a California court Wednesday �...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Intel has acquired Rivet Networks, the maker of Killer-branded NICs (network interface cards responsible for managing your connection) found in so...

Photo by David Bush for The Verge Tesla is raising the price of the top tier “Full Self-Driving” version of its Autopilot driver assistance package by around $1,000 on July 1st, CEO ...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook will begin reopening its offices worldwide on July 6th with stringent safety measures in place, according to a new report from Bloomber...

Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images A group of Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), is calling on the Trump administration Wednesday to launch an antitrust investigation int...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nick Bryner, a high school senior in Los Angeles, spent hours completing his AP English Literature and Composition test last week. But when he...

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge In the majority of Verizon’s 5G markets, uploads have so far remained on LTE and been unable to match the blistering downlo...

Demonstration of UV disinfecting technology at the Corona Maintenance Facility on Tue., May 19, 2020. | Photo: MTA New York City Transit The Metropolitan Transportation Authority launche...

Disney announced today that episodes from the first 19 seasons (and parts of the 20th season) of The Simpsons would be available to stream on Disney Plus in their original 4:3 ratio starti...

Warner Bros. The long rumored “Snyder Cut” of director Zack Snyder’s Justice League is very much real, and it’ll be streaming on HBO Max as an exclusive in 2021. “I want to tha...

If you tuned into Microsoft’s Build developer keynote yesterday, one of the things you may have seen was a mysterious “RGV2cw” 3D-printed object on the shelf behind CEO Satya Nadella...

Image: Call of Duty League The Call of Duty League (CDL) announced on Tuesday that you’ll soon be able to earn in-game rewards, or “drops,” for watching CDL broadcasts, and the Ove...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T’s actual 5G network is rolling out to major parts of the US this year, but the company’s fake 5G network — which it calls “5G Evo...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple released iOS 13.5 today with two new features that are a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic: changes to Face ID to make it easier to...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is testing a way to let you limit how many people can reply to your tweets. If you’re part of the test, when you compose a tweet, you’...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Wednesday, Apple and Google rolled out support for their coronavirus exposure notification system, as implemented in an update to iOS and Andro...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube on Wednesday announced a new bedtime reminders feature to help even the most dedicated of extremely online types log off late at night. Th...

GIF: Hulu Hulu’s grand experiment to reinvent the user experience of a streaming app is coming to an end. Today, starting on Apple TV and Roku, the company is rolling out a revamped ho...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Signal has added PINs to its secure messaging service. It’s a move that’s intended to make the company less reliant on phone numbers as its users’ p...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro keeps getting a little more affordable. B&H Photo is offering $300 off the cost for the base model, which brings it do...

Sphero’s best-known products include its line of Disney toys, including the remote-controlled BB-8. Consumer robotics firm Sphero, best known for making remote-controlled BB-8 and R2-D...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When you buy a new Windows 10 computer, out of the box, it will default to having you enter your Outlook or Microsoft account password every t...

They’re super comfortable and have lengthy battery life, but the style won’t be for everyone Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge DoorDash is launching a new feature to let customers share their location so restaurants can better know when to have an order ready for pickup. ...

The new colors include red (pictured) as well as light blue, yellow, and pink. | Image: WinFuture Apple looks set to release its true wireless Powerbeats Pro in four new colors if a seri...

Over the past few weeks, the occasional breathless news reports have warned that the novel coronavirus is mutating or that there are multiple strains of the virus circling around the globe...

Photo: Oshin Tudayan/Riot Games The League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) is expanding to Friday nights and eliminating the Monday Night League (MNL) broadcast in the process. Earl...

Microsoft surprised Windows users with a new package manager yesterday. It’s a command line tool that allows developers, power users, and really any Windows user to install their favorit...

Image: Some Good News Lil Nas X’s “Panini,” NASA’s social media presence, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line, and John Krasinski’s Some Good News YouTube show are among the winners ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s misinformation policy doesn’t cover a widely shared article claiming without evidence that the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s misinformation policy doesn’t cover a widely shared article claiming without evidence that the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine ...

A different kind of shared electric scooter has landed in a small suburb outside Atlanta, Georgia. These scooters look bulkier than your average shared two-wheelers, with extra components ...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon | Photos: NASA Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are longtime colleagues and friends Continue reading… ...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft’s annual developer conference has officially kicked off, the first yearly developer conference in the consumer tech world we’ve experienced ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google is letting users register their interest to start transferring their music from Google Play Music to YouTube Music early, 9to5Google reports. The ...

Illustration by Michele Doying / The Verge A recurring theme of this column has been that we have no meaningful antitrust enforcement in the United States. But last year, lawmakers and f...

Tier plans to deploy thousands of scooters with built-in helmet compartments. | Image: Tier Micromobility rental company Tier is introducing new electric scooters which come with a helme...

Vivo has started teasing its next flagship phone, the X50. A video posted to Weibo shows off the camera module, which includes a periscope telephoto, two normal-looking lenses, and one muc...

Image: SD Association The SD Association, the group that sets the standards for memory cards, announced a new SD 8.0 specification for SD Express memory cards today that will allow the c...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge The Google mobile app is getting a dark mode, with Android and iOS users gaining the option to enable the feature by the end of the week. After the ...

Apple is joining other streamers in becoming a foster home for movies that studios are looking to unload in the middle of this global pandemic. Tom Hanks’ Greyhound will land on Apple T...

Image: Tesla Panasonic is restarting production at Tesla’s Buffalo, New York solar panel factory this week after some businesses in the Western New York region have been given the gree...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is rolling out the ability to use Google Fi via eSIM for existing customers of the cellular service on iOS, assuming their iPhone supports ...

The head of NASA’s human exploration program, Doug Loverro, has resigned less than six months after assuming the position within the agency, according to a NASA memo. The drastic change ...

Image: Call of Duty League The Call of Duty League (CDL) announced today that you’ll soon be able to earn in-game rewards, or “drops,” for watching CDL broadcasts, and the Overwatc...

Photo by Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images Joe Rogan, comedian and host of one of the most popular podcasts in the world, is taking his show to Spotify. The Joe Rogan Experience will soon...

Image: Disney Animated Disney movies are known for their incredible music, but not until the heroic Twitter-threaded efforts of Justin McElroy (a reporter for CBC Vancouver, not to be co...

Sony Alpha just tweeted out a teaser for a camera announcement coming on May 26th. All Sony will say is that it’s a “new compact camera” along with a hazy outline of some sort of cam...

Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission has received over 2,000 complaints related to the novel coronavirus pandemic, FCC chairman Ajit Pai said in a st...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is launching what it’s calling a “universal product recognition model” that uses artificial intelligence to identify consumer goods...

Photo by Buda Mendes / Getty Images Teardown and repair website iFixit has just posted what its CEO Kyle Wiens says is “the most comprehensive online resource for medical repair profes...

Image: Facebook Facebook is making a major new push into e-commerce. The company today announced the launch of Shops, a way for businesses to set up free storefronts on Facebook and Inst...

Jet.com Walmart is shutting down Jet.com, the online shopping site it bought in 2016 for $3 billion as part of its attempts to better compete with rival Amazon online, an area that Amazo...

The Jaguar I-Pace racing series, which launched in 2018, will come to an end this year after just two seasons due to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy, a...

Image: Sony Sony is selling a limited edition PlayStation 4 Pro bundle in honor of The Last of Us Part II’s upcoming release. The $399.99 package includes a console engraved with a rep...

Like many YouTube creators, Faze Apex goes through periods where his productivity can waver. He might spend six months making videos regularly, and then he needs to take a break before pic...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The next version of Chrome for desktops is shaping up to be a much bigger update than usual. In addition to tab grouping and automatically blockin...

The Galaxy S20 (pictured) originally launched without support for Verizon’s mmWave network. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Verizon is releasing a new version of the 5G Galaxy S20 ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Notion, the workspace and note-taking app, just became much more appealing to individual users. The company said today that people on its free...

Max Bittker Many of our worlds have gotten smaller in 2020. Tiny spaces — a well-tended box garden, a stocked-up kitchen — have become more important and more satisfying. Orb Farm is...

Photo by Jesse Grant / Getty Images for Disney Kevin Mayer, once heir apparent to the Disney throne, is leaving the House of Mouse to run a different kind of entertainment company: TikTo...

Over the weekend, Best Buy began offering a big discount on the Razer Huntsman full-sized wired mechanical gaming keyboard and the Razer Mamba Elite wired gaming mouse. Instead of paying $...

Microsoft is promising to dramatically improve its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with GUI app support and GPU hardware acceleration. The software giant is adding a full Linux kernel to...

Microsoft is creating a new lists app for businesses that use its Microsoft 365 services. Not to be confused with To Do, Microsoft’s consumer lists app, Microsoft Lists is designed to be...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sony says 2.2 million people are subscribed to PlayStation Now, its cloud gaming subscription service that offers access to a growing selection of...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Microsoft’s new 13.5-inch Surface Book 3 looks exactly like the 2017 model — all the changes are on the inside. The big updates include 10th Gen Inte...

Samsung’s new T7 portable USB-C SSD in titan grey. It also comes in metallic red or indigo blue. | Samsung Samsung’s T7 portable SSD is now available following its introduction earli...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is reopening its six distribution centers in France beginning today, according to a reporter from CNN. The company shut down the warehouses...

Today sees the not-exactly-long-awaited release of The Wonderful 101 Remastered, following a Kickstarter campaign that concluded less than three months ago. The game is already good to go ...

Image: Adobe Adobe is updating Photoshop for iPad with two key features today: more flexibility for the Pencil stylus and the addition of curves. Photoshop now lets you adjust pressure s...

Image: Amazon Game Studios You may not think the world needs another free-to-play hero shooter, but Amazon does. The e-commerce giant’s game development arm, Amazon Game Studios, is re...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge IFA 2020 will be taking place as an in-person event in Berlin this fall, conference organizers announced. However, it’ll look very different than previo...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai responded to a report that Google has dramatically scaled back diversity and inclusion programs to appease conservative criti...

Photo by Michael Kappeler / Picture Alliance via Getty Images British airline EasyJet says that it has been the victim of a cyberattack that exposed the email addresses and travel detail...

Cut corners don’t ruin the experience Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of senators, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), is demanding that all calls between the Senate and the House of Representatives be encrypted, a...

Graphic by William Joel | Photography by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The CEO of Google and Alphabet joins The Vergecast Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg Small things now, hopefully bigger things later. Continue reading… ...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference kicks off today, where the company will focus on Windows, Office, and cloud announcements. Microsoft...

It’s just a prototype — for now. | GIF: Google From touch-sensitive jean jackets to radar controls in smartphones, Google has always had a penchant for weird and wonderful user inte...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Friday, Facebook made its fifth-largest known acquisition ever. The company bought Giphy, a database and search engine for the short looping vi...

Images: Ben Geskin / Twitter OnePlus will temporarily disable a camera filter on the OnePlus 8 Pro after users discovered they could use it to see through certain plastics and cloth...

Self-driving cars are having a really rough time gaining our trust. This is not a total shock considering autonomous vehicles remain theoretical and elusive for most people. The limited n...

Samsung has announced a new 50-megapixel camera sensor called the ISOCELL GN1. It’s Samsung’s first sensor to include both dual-pixel autofocus and Tetracell pixel-binning, which the c...

Image: Asus Asus has announced new videoconferencing hardware designed to run Google Meet meetings (via 9to5Google). The new gear includes a small computer that runs the calls, an extern...

From ultraportables to high-powered editing machines, here are the best laptops to get right now Continue reading… ...

Image: BBC BBC is launching a new experimental tool, BBC Together, that will let you watch or listen to BBC programming with others over the internet, with everyone seeing the same thing...

HTC appears to be close to releasing new wireless earbuds called the U Ear, and they look very similar to Apple’s AirPods. Photos of the earbuds leaked through regulatory agency filings...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday he is “worried” that other countries may be trying to imitate China’s approach to regulating the ...

Photo by Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images President Donald Trump said he’s taking antimalarial medication hydroxychloroquine and zinc because he believes the drugs could prevent COVID-19...

Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images Elon Musk has always had a certain manic energy on Twitter, but in the past week, his output has taken a more troubling turn. Musk’s ongoing standof...

Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Kevin Mayer is leaving his post as the head of Disney’s streaming efforts to become the CEO of the shortform video app TikTok, Disney annou...

Image: City of Columbus, OH French self-driving vehicle company EasyMile will add seatbelts to its shuttles in order to be able to once again carry passengers in the US. EasyMile’s shu...

I didn’t go into today thinking that I would be awed by a sudoku puzzle. But after a tweet popped up on my timeline promising that I would not only watch a man spend nearly half an hour ...

Instagram is launching a new Guides feature today that lets creators curate content together in a single location, with the first ones set to focus on wellness content in light of the ongo...

Image: Josh Constine Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 could have a new augmented reality app that can read Apple-branded QR codes and might have new features baked into the Find My app, accordi...

Photo by Paul Jeffers/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images Square employees will be able to work from home even after the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders end, Jack Dorsey tol...

Podcast Addict Podcast Addict, an Android podcast app with millions of users, was suspended over the weekend because it lists COVID-19 content. The app’s creator, Xavier Guillemane, te...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A court in Texas is holding the first jury trial on Zoom. The news comes as court systems across the country face a choice between postponing tria...

Onn Tablet Pro 10.1-inch | Image: Walmarr Walmart has released new versions of its Onn tablets, starting at $99 and including some uncommon features for Android tablets in that price ran...

Photo: DoorDash There are many things that don’t make sense about global capitalism that I enjoy anyway — the clearly inadvisable, venture-backed monstrosities like dockless scooters...

In short clips filmed in what looks like a home office / basement bunker, director David Lynch has been reporting the weather in Los Angeles and they’re... sort of soothing? The Twin Pea...

Image: TNT Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho’s gripping sci-fi film, doesn’t seem like a natural fit for television. A tense post-apocalyptic story where the remnants of humanity succumb to ...

Image: Riot Games Riot Games will host a 48-hour League of Legends charity stream to raise money for COVID-19 relief, the studio announced today. The stream, called the Mid-Season Stream...

Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images After months of trying, the FBI successfully broke into iPhones belonging to the gunman responsible for a deadly shooting at Pensacola Naval Air Stati...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Adobe is releasing a new update to Premiere Pro this week that includes hardware acceleration for Nvidia GPUs. The 14.2 update includes GPU-accelerated en...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Comcast is introducing new data plans for its Xfinity Mobile customers that add free 5G service, the company announced on Monday. 5G access will b...

Photo by Presley Ann / Getty Images for WarnerMedia One of HBO Max’s big advantages is WarnerMedia’s massive catalog of classic movies, and today, it’s unveiling the full list of t...

Image: Apple Apple has released two new colorful watch bands and faces to commemorate Pride month, which begins in June. One Apple Watch Pride band features a light-colored rainbow stri...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit claiming Facebook provided “material support” to terrorists by hosting their content. It declined to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber is laying off 3,000 employees in the latest round of COVID-19-inspired cost-cutting, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an email to staff. The new...

Image: Lenovo Lenovo’s upcoming Smart Frame — a 21.5-inch digital photo frame meant to hang on your wall — is getting an unusual release strategy: the company will sell it through ...

Magnopus Oculus is bringing the Quest’s experimental hand tracking system out of beta, making it an official feature of the VR headset. The Quest got hand tracking options late last ye...

The Surface Pro X with a Type Cover attached. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge One of today’s best deals is on Microsoft’s Surface Pro X, a tech product that’s only seen small p...

Photo: Logitech Logitech is unveiling a new version of its Circle security camera today called the Circle View. Spec-wise, it’s nearly identical to its predecessor, the Circle 2, but t...

Minecraft sales have officially topped 200 million, with 126 million people playing the game monthly. Microsoft is detailing the latest sales figures just as Mojang Studios celebrates 11 y...

Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company battled it and Linux for years at the height of its desktop domination. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously...

The SunnyFive team with their artificial window and companion app. | Photo: Samsung / SunnyFive The latest crop of startups backed by Samsung’s in-house incubator C-Labs includes Sunn...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Huawei rotating chairman Guo Ping has hit back at the US government’s stricter export controls intended to stop the Chinese tech giant from obta...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s head of retail Deidre O’Brien has posted a letter on the company’s website detailing how it plans to safely restart operations a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Secret Service says it is investigating a Nigerian crime ring that has been using Americans’ stolen identities to file fraudulently for u...

Janelle Monae in Homecoming | Amazon Studios If you’re caught up on all your binge watching (my current obsession is The Good Fight because a) Diane’s wardrobe and b) what the hell i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Users of videoconferencing platform Zoom were reporting problems hosting and joining meetings on Sunday. “Our team is investigating the root cau...

CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP via Getty Images Dyson’s canceled electric vehicle was known internally as the N526, would have had a 600-mile range per charge and could go from zero to 62 ...

All across the country, people are finding ways to adapt to our new stay-at-home normal, and for some, that means adopting a furry friend. Shelters in the US have reported an increase in a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Friday letter from Amazon to members of Congress looking into the company’s third-party seller practices was “unacceptable,” House Judicia...

Edison Mail has rolled back a software update that apparently let some users of its iOS app see emails from strangers’ accounts. Several Edison users contacted The Verge to report seein...

Update May 16th, 10:26AM ET: Bad weather forced ULA to push back the launch to Sunday, May 17th, with liftoff scheduled for 9:14AM ET. Live coverage will resume at 10:03AM ET. Original Sto...

Update May 17th, 9:30AM ET: The X-37B successfully took off at 9:14AM ET on Sunday, though ULA ended live coverage of the mission early at the request of the Air Force. Original Story: The...

Facebook is buying Giphy, and that means how you send and receive GIFs on the internet could change forever. The service claims that more than 700 million people see Giphy content every da...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge You can get two of Amazon’s Echo Show 5 smart displays for $90 today at Best Buy. To break down why exactly that’s a deal worth highlighting, that’...

Update May 16th, 8:31AM ET: Bad weather forced ULA to push back the launch to its second 10-minute launch window, which begins at 10:13AM ET. Live coverage will resume at 10:03AM ET. Origi...

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Image: Fitbit Fitbit, which makes fitness-tracking wearables, will be shifting supply chain resources to make emergency ventilators, Fitbit CEO James Park said to CNBC. The ventilators w...

Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images A bipartisan group of senators are sounding the antitrust enforcement alarm Friday over Facebook’s newly announced acquisition of Giphy, a GIF-maki...

Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images GrubHub has come under intense scrutiny of late for what critics and some restaurant owners say are exploita...

The Buffalo, New York solar panel factory. | Image: Tesla Panasonic has resumed its work making battery cells at Tesla’s Gigafactory outside Reno, Nevada, the company tells The Verge. ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft’s Surface Duo is meant to be a showcase for its unique, dual-screen design, so it may be a bit more forgivable that its specs don�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Justice Department and a coalition of state attorneys general are likely to file antitrust charges against Google in the coming months, accord...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge American consumers spent more this past quarter on video games than they ever have before, to the tune of $10.9 billion — up 9 percent from the year ...

Today, NASA announced the creation of the Artemis Accords, a new set of standards on how to explore the Moon. The agency hopes that other countries will agree to the terms, which lay out h...

Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images Though many people are pinning their hopes on a COVID-19 vaccine, another option is available: preventive treatment. At a Senate hearing this ...

The TurboGrafx-16 Mini will launch in North America on May 22nd. Konami’s miniature console was initially set to come out on March 19th through Amazon for $99.99. However, Konami delayed...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Electric racing series Formula E posted a loss of €10.6 million on record revenues of €161.5 million across its fifth season, or about $11.6 millio...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Buying a refurbished tech product will save you money compared to buying it new. It also gives a device a second life instead of sending it of...

Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images While treats like chips, popcorn, and ice cream (and for some reason, oat milk) topped grocery purchases during the first few weeks of COVID-19...

2K Games Epic Games has launched a month-long Mega Sale for its online store. You’ll be able to get some very popular games, including Control, Borderlands 3, and Red Dead Redemption ...

One of the largest unlicensed Club Penguin fan servers, Club Penguin Online, says it will shut down at the end of the month after receiving a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedo...

Grab your earbuds, and listen to the iconic theme song from Animal Crossing: New Horizons performed at home by the musicians who created the catchy tune. Nintendo uploaded a video today s...

CBS All Access is getting another Star Trek series, with this one focusing on three fan-favorite characters: Captain Christopher Pike, Number One, and Science Officer Spock. Star Trek: St...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is working to restore streaming quality in various European countries following government requests for the company to reduce bandwidth us...

Image: Postmates Postmates is launching new feature for its on-demand delivery platform called curbside pickup, which the company says is an industry first that could help more restauran...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Commerce Department has taken another step toward cutting off Chinese telco Huawei from the overseas companies that make its semiconductors...

Illustration by William Joel / T On this episode of The Vergecast, hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn welcome on a few of our colleagues to discuss the week’s important stories. First u...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Samsung’s T5 USB-C solid-state drive is one of the most compact portable drives that you can buy, and it’s even more affordable than usual...

Making video games is a difficult endeavor at the best of times, but spare a thought for the people behind Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories, which finally came out last month for the PC,...

Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty Images New York City’s subway system has a new app to help essential workers get around during nightly subway closures. Earlier this month, the Metrop...

Facebook is buying the popular GIF-making and sharing website Giphy for a reported price of $400 million, with plans to integrate the massive GIF library into Instagram and other Facebook ...

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The Air Force’s mysterious spy spaceplane, dubbed the X-37B, is headed back to space on Saturday morning for its sixth mission in Earth orbit. As usual with this spacecraft, its exact pu...

Elon Musk intends to make himself immortal by inserting himself into history books as best he can: electric cars will do, but so will a private mission to Mars. At times, it seems that he ...

Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), which makes Apple’s A-series chips, plans to build an advan...

Nzugu Kitenge and Souphaphone Phetsomphou wait for vehicles to drive up to CityTestSF this week in San Francisco. | Santiago Mejia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Live in Si...

Seeing into the guts of an Apple TV box. | Images: Ben Geskin / Twitter Well, here’s a camera trick we’ve not seen in a smartphone before: X-ray vision. Or, at least, something ...

Nintendo has announced the addition of four more games to its Switch Online subscription service. Nintendo Switch Online lets you play Switch games over the internet as well as providing ...

Ubisoft is offering free downloads of its educational tours of ancient Greece and ancient Egypt, which are based on the studio’s recreations of those worlds in Assassin’s Creed Origins...

An Amazon warehouse worker in Indianapolis, Indiana, has died of COVID-19, the company confirmed. The death brings the known total of COVID-19 deaths at Amazon warehouses to seven, but Am...

Image: Rockstar After a more than eight-hour outage, the Epic Games Store appears to finally be back online, meaning you should finally be able to claim Rockstar’s smash hit Grand Thef...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is planning to launch a new 10.8-inch iPad and a new iPad mini with a screen that could be as large as 9 inches, according to a new investor note ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s global supply chain is making safety changes to better protect workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, as outlined in the company’s 2020...

Rick Riordan’s beloved young adult fantasy series, Percy Jackson, is getting another shot at the live-action treatment seven years after the last film was released — but this time, as ...

Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), which makes Apple’s A-series chips, plans to build an advan...

Sucker Punch Productions has released a new 18-minute gameplay trailer for its upcoming open-world samurai game Ghost of Tsushima, showcasing exploration, combat, and customization element...

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images The United States Postal Service (USPS) is pushing back the deadline for official bids to make its next-generation mail truck because of “the curren...

Image: Facebook Facebook’s new video chat product, Messenger Rooms, is now available to everyone on both mobile and desktop, the company announced on Thursday. The product is a more fe...

The most upsetting thing about The Eddy is that it’s already over. Netflix’s latest bingeable show is a limited series, an eight-episode run about a jazz club in Paris. Produced by Aca...

The Senate has voted to reauthorize the USA Freedom Act, bringing the surveillance bill closer to becoming law. The USA Freedom Reauthorization Act restores government powers that expired ...

Photo: NextVR Apple has confirmed it did indeed purchase virtual reality company NextVR, which specializes in recording live events like concerts and sports matches to be experienced in ...

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Sunrise Movement co-founder Varshini Prakash is ‘cautiously optimistic’ Continue reading… ...

Cruise, the self-driving car startup that is a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors, is laying off 150 employees, or about 8 percent of its workforce, to cut costs amid the novel co...

The face shield design | Amazon A team of Amazon engineers from its drone delivery unit worked with a group of 3D printing volunteers to develop reusable face shields for frontline worke...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Chrome browser will begin blocking resource-heavy ads starting in late August, the company announced today (via VentureBeat). By not di...

It’s the early 2000s. You stay up late to watch anime on your TV hoping your parents don’t hear. Next thing you know, you hear the iconic intro to Cowboy Bebop play, and all is well in...

Tetris Effect, the trippy musical VR take on Tetris that won plaudits in 2018 from people like... me, is now available on the Oculus Quest headset. The game was originally released for the...

A team of programmers and songwriters from Australia have won the inaugural (and unofficial) AI ‘Eurovision Song Contest’, using a neural network trained on noises made by koalas, kook...

Photo by Sean O’Kane/The Verge Tesla is getting ready to introduce a long rumored lower-cost, longer-lasting battery for its electric vehicles in China sometime later this year or earl...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile and Sprint are preparing to take the next step in merging their wireless companies, with the two brands reportedly planning to merge thei...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Twitch is announcing the formation of its new Safety Advisory Council, a group made up of streamers, academics, and nonprofit leaders that ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of child privacy advocates has filed a complaint against TikTok with the Federal Trade Commission, claiming the video app violated an agre...

Image: Rockstar The Epic Games Store has been counting down to the launch of an unnamed free title at 11AM ET today, and we learned last night that game would be Rockstar’s smash hit G...

Image: Rockstar The Epic Games Store has been counting down to the launch of an unnamed free title at 11AM ET today, and we learned last night that game would be Rockstar’s smash hit G...

Headspace Headspace is making its premium mindfulness and meditation app free for all people who are now unemployed in the US. The deal is available through headspace.com/unemployed and ...

Animal Talking is achieving what hosts like Kimmel and Colbert can’t Continue reading… ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge The Ring Stick Up Cam is down to $85, matching its lowest price yet. Today’s deal goes a step further by including a free third-generation Amazon Echo ...

Fans are using Zoom to connect with people they’ve never met before Continue reading… ...

Bicyclists on the Rue de Rivoli as Parisians emerge from lockdown. | Photo by Stephane Cardinale / Corbis via Getty Images Returning to a car-dominated city after the pandemic lockdo...

The Switch’s 2020 lineup has looked a little thin, but it just got a nice boost with the announcement of Paper Mario: The Origami King. It marks the series’s debut on the Switch, and i...

People stuck in quarantine who might want to watch Game of Thrones or Watchmen with friends and family have the option to do so using Scener. Scener, an online video chatting tool that al...

Nvidia is unveiling its next-generation Ampere GPU architecture today. The first GPU to use Ampere will be Nvidia’s new A100, built for scientific computing, cloud graphics, and data ana...

Sidewalk Labs The death and life of techno-utopias Continue reading… ...

Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Intel unveiled its environmental goals for 2030 today, committing to cut down its greenhouse gas emissio...

A great-looking device without the internals to match Continue reading… ...

Here’s a giant dictionary that, unfortunately, wasn’t written by AI. | Photo by Stefano Guidi / Getty Images Want to impress friends and family with your amazing vocabulary? Don’t ...

Image: Summer Game Fest Even though E3, Gamescom, and other summer gaming events have become online-only or outright canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems there’s still going...

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Marcus Hutchins, right, rose to fame after helping to stop the WannaCry ransomware attack. | Image: Joshua Lott/AFP via Getty Images When he was just 22, Marcus Hutchins rose to fame by ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge There’s a lot of discussion going on right now about what will be forever changed by the pandemic. Over at Amazon, though, the company is promis...

Sony’s new image sensor could one day appear in cameras like this one. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Sony has announced the world’s first image sensor with integrated...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Spotify is offering two new deals, starting today, to bring more people over to its premium subscription service. New users can get three free months ...

Samsung’s Galaxy A51 was one of the best selling phones in the first quarter of the year. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge People are increasingly buying midrange Android devices ov...

The Boring Company’s test tunnel in Hawthorne, California. | Image: The Boring Company Elon Musk’s Boring Company has completed digging a second tunnel underneath the Las Vegas Conve...

Image: Zipcar Car sharing service Zipcar will now allow people in the US to access a car within minutes of signing up, which Zipcar is calling Instant Access, the company announced today...

Image: Razer Gaming accessory maker Razer says it will place 20 face mask vending machines in Singapore by June 1st to help the city-state, where the company’s global operations are ba...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has requested that Congress pass a law that would make price gouging illegal during times of national crisis, in light of inflated prices o...

Image: Embodied The latest educational tech comes in the form of a seven-pound robot that looks like something ripped out of a Pixar movie. Moxie, an adorable educational robot, is desig...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Nintendo Switch, like everything else that can lighten the mood during this incredibly tough time, is in short supply. And as soon as reta...

Image: Amazon Finding TV shows and movies that you can stream on Amazon’s Fire TV devices for free without any subscriptions is about to get much simpler. The company is adding a new �...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge President Donald Trump has extended his executive order banning US companies from working with or buying telecommunications equipment from compani...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is the latest company to resort to layoffs during the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. ...

Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Uber outlined a series of measures it is taking Wednesday to adapt its ride-hailing and delivery businesses to a world changed by COVID-19. Chief among t...

The New Mutants, a movie that feels like it’s never going to actually come out, has a new release date: August 28th. Like Mulan and Black Widow, The New Mutants was delayed because of t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is adding a new tab grouping feature to Chrome, the company announced today. I, for one, am extremely excited for it. I can already see how...

Centr Multiple people say Chris Hemsworth’s workout app, Centr, charged them up to a $99 or more subscription fee without warning, even after they attempted to cancel a free trial. The...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon’s Eero announced today that its routers are now for sale on Apple’s website. The full product line, including the Eero and Eero Pro...

Within, the maker of VR fitness app-slash-game Supernatural, has announced new annual pricing plans for the service. Until June 1st you can sign up for a $149-a-year subscription, and the ...

Photo by Mehdi Taamallah/NurPhoto via Getty Images The scooter sharing industry is getting killed by COVID-19, but something better may emerge Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The FBI alongside the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have formally accused China of f...

Two key Pixel execs, including the computer researcher who led the team that developed the computational photography powering the Pixel’s camera, have left Google in recent months, accor...

Photo by Samuel Corum / Getty Images On Wednesday, Democrats escalated efforts to ban major corporate mergers during the coronavirus pandemic, penning a letter to the Treasury Department...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Slack is making its big mobile redesign official today by pushing the changes live on the public versions of both its Android and iOS apps. The re...

Epic Games today announced the next iteration of its game engine, the Unreal Engine 5 (UE5), with a stunning demo running on the PlayStation 5. Epic says the demo shows off what next-gener...

Image: Epic Games Epic Games today said its massive battle royale hit Fortnite would be available on Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and Sony’s PlayStation 5 consoles at launch later this ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says next-generation gaming consoles, in particular Sony’s PlayStation 5, will bring about changes in game development that...

Best Buy is hosting a one-day sale on tech in practically every category. We’ve picked out a few that are currently in stock, including a bundle containing Microsoft’s new Surface Go 2...

Image: Facebook Facebook is now rolling out its customizable avatars in the US after first launching them internationally last year. Like Bitmoji or Apple’s Memoji, avatars offer a way...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge These days, while many of us are working from home and quarantining, it’s become more important than ever to keep in contact with colleagues, fr...

Apple is reportedly asking publishers for permission to record audio of their stories to include in its News Plus app, according to Digiday. The publication says it spoke with four publish...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Alienware has announced the second generation of its flagship Area-51m gaming laptop, the Area-51m R2. It’s largely similar on the outside to the orig...

If you use an iPhone or Mac and you want to cast a video from a specific app on your iPhone or Mac to your TV, you can use AirPlay. However, if you want to cast your whole screen — with ...

Image: Dell Dell is making some big changes to its XPS lineup today, with a redesigned XPS 15 and a new XPS 17. The design updates see Dell ditching legacy ports in favor of USB-C and 16...

It’s upgrade season for Dell’s Alienware laptops, with the company’s entire lineup of portable gaming machines — the Area-51m, the m17, and the m15 — getting overhauled with upda...

Image: Sony Sony says PlayStation 5 sales will prove whether its quiet promotion of its next-gen console will beat rival Microsoft. Sony has remained relatively quiet about its PlayStati...

Beauty guru and YouTube creator James Charles is well-versed in the apology video, a staple of YouTube culture that many of the platform’s top personalities have had to film, and he’s ...

The Long March 5B, which launched for the first time on May 5th. | Photo by STR / AFP via Getty Images On Monday, a massive, out-of-control Chinese rocket fell out of the sky off the wes...

Photo: Vivos COVID-19 is fueling a boom in the doomsday bunker market, thanks to some dubious marketing claims Continue reading… ...

The Fire HD 8. Amazon has announced a new update for its Fire HD 8 tablet, adding a faster processor, more RAM, and USB-C charging. These are all welcome updates for the 8-inch tablet, w...

The keyboard is fixed, the rest is exactly what you’d expect Continue reading… ...

Video: Braille Skateboarding Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past month, you’ll know that Apple has started selling a set of standalone wheels for the Mac Pro for $700. Y...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge In November 2018 I received a message that changed my life. A person working as a moderator for Facebook in Phoenix through a company called Cognizant...

Image: Wink Users of the Wink smart home platform now have until May 20th before they’ll have to start paying a $4.99 a month for functionality that was previously free, the company ha...

GIF: Shane Wighton / YouTube Robotics and AI are supposed to make people’s lives better, so why don’t they help me suck less at sport? Engineer and YouTuber Shane Wighton has tackled...

Users in the test can react to messages by long-pressing on them. | Image: u/radtheoristmango Google is testing a new feature in its Messages app that lets you react to messages using em...

Sony says that the PlayStation 5 is “on track for launch in this holiday season” despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The company made the announcement as part of its fiscal 2019 earnings re...

Photo: Riot Games Esports organization Cloud9 and health care company Kaiser Permanente have announced a new initiative focused on increasing awareness about mental health. This initiati...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla is fully reopening the Gigafactory in Nevada, where it makes batteries for its electric cars and energy storage products, as well as parts for th...

GM’s Ariv Merge folding e-bike in Amsterdam. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge GM has killed its first electric bike. The automaker’s Ariv e-bikes, pronounced like “arrive” an...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th No, it’s not just you. Slack is indeed down due to an outage of some sort that appears to have begun happening some time around 7:30PM ET. User-reporte...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th No, it’s wasn’t just you. Slack indeed went down due to an outage of some sort that appeared to have begun some time around 7:30PM ET. User-reported ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th No, it’s wasn’t just you. Slack indeed went down due to an outage of some sort that appeared to have begun some time around 7:30PM ET. User-reported ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Some Apple employees will return to the company’s global offices soon, according to Bloomberg. Apple’s decision to bring employees back to its...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has added a new way to see how many people have retweeted a tweet and added a comment, the company announced today — but it’s only ava...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google’s new Nest Aware pricing model is rolling out starting this week, the company announced today. The new model means that a single subscription n...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Hot on the heels of updating the foldable Razr to Android 10, Motorola has announced that the soon-to-be-released Edge Plus will also get at least two ...

Photo by Graeme Jennings-Pool / Getty Images On Tuesday, House Democrats unveiled their latest coronavirus response bill, including a number of measures to keep families and businesses o...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge After years of drama with the SEC, Telegram is calling it quits on its crypto-focused subsidiary, Telegram Open Network (TON). “Telegram’s active inv...

A new high-resolution scan of The Night Watch lets you zoom in close enough to see all its small details: brushstrokes, small cracks around the eyes and noses, and even the facial expressi...

Image: Belkin Computer and phone accessory maker Belkin is developing an emergency ventilator in partnership with the University of Illinois to be used to treat COVID-19 patients, the tw...

There’s a new iPad-related case in town from Pad & Quill: a case for Apple’s newly released Magic Keyboard, which is itself a $350 case for your iPad Pro. It’s called the Coperti...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a landmark acknowledgment of the toll that content moderation takes on its workforce, Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to current and for...

Later this month, SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon spacecraft will take its first human passengers to the International Space Station — and now you can get a firsthand view of what they’ll b...

The latest is Volibear, a polar bear that can control lightning Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Internet Archive is alerting users when they’ve clicked on some stories that were debunked or taken down on the live web, following reports ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter will now let its employees work from home indefinitely, which was first reported by BuzzFeed News. CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly informed emp...

Waymo’s first external fundraising round, initially expected to bring in $2.25 billion for the self-driving company, just grew to $3 billion, thanks to the addition of some new investors...

Twobird is a new email application from Ginger Labs, the company behind popular note-taking application Notability, that wants to make email simpler and more powerful. Today, it’s launch...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On our Vergecast interview series, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and Silicon Valley editor Casey Newton spoke with Alex Stamos, former chief s...

Image: Instagram Instagram is launching and testing multiple new features starting today that are aimed at making the platform a more positive space. The company says it’s rolling out ...

A view of Google office in Chelsea New York City | Photo by John Nacion/NurPhoto via Getty Images Google is bringing its Grow with Google courses online for everyone in the US and Canada...

You’ll be able to shred as Tony Hawk and friends again very soon. Today, Activision announced a new remastered collection that brings together the first two Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game...

The Moment Rugged Camera Sling in 6L and 10L capacities. | Photo: Moment Moment built its brand on making photographic accessories for smartphones, but over the past couple of years, the...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook on Monday released a new report detailing how it uses a combination of artificial intelligence and human fact-checkers and moderators t...

Uber has made an offer to buy Grubhub, with the potential for a deal to be reached as early as this month, according to a report from Bloomberg. The offer is said to be an all-stock takeov...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google is taking one of its biggest steps yet toward permanently phasing out Google Play Music in favor of the company’s newer YouTube Music service. B...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Play Music is going away at the end of the year, leaving YouTube Music as Google’s only streaming music service. But before that happens,...

Image: Apple Apple released a big update to Logic Pro X today, adding Live Loops, a beat sequencer, a revamped sampling tool, and more. Apple calls it the app’s “biggest update” si...

Image: RavPower RavPower is extending a deep discount on its 61W USB-C wall charger to readers of The Verge. Normally $30, it’s just $21 for a limited time. To get this price, you have...

Google’s virtual stadium doesn’t have crowds yet Continue reading… ...

The new lock’s smaller size, improved motor, and upgraded connectivity add up to a better overall experience Continue reading… ...

Sony has announced a new PlayStation Studios brand that it’ll be using for its first-party exclusives going forward as a way to let customers know that a game comes from one of Sony’s ...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Huawei is rereleasing its flagship phone from last year as the P30 Pro “New Edition.” The device now ships with Android 10 preinstalled, and it’s go...

Image: SteelSeries SteelSeries has announced the Nimbus Plus, a new controller designed for gaming on Apple devices. The Nimbus Plus improves on its predecessor with some new features, ...

Spotify Spotify first released its Spotify Kids app in October last year, and now it’s introducing two new features to give parents more control over what their kids consume. Starting ...

Disney is bumping up the release of its recording of the hit stage musical Hamilton by over a year. Instead of the planned theatrical release set for October 15th, 2021, it’ll be out on ...

I’m reviewing two very different computers right now: the new 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro and the new 2020 Surface Go 2. You can click the links in the previous sentences for some first imp...

Photo courtesy Google In a likely effort to stop the videoconferencing powerhouse that is Zoom, Google has expanded its Meet communications app to be available to anyone with a Gmail acc...

A mockup of how the “Wing” phone’s screen could rotate to reveal a second. | Image: ETNews LG has a new dual-screen phone on the way, with a main display that swivels sideways to r...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon and Alex Castro / The Verge Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the big social platforms have generally been quicker than usual to intervene in the spread...

Hackers have registered domains posing as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet-related URLs, according to a new report from Check Point Research. As significantly more people are using t...

Image: Logitech Sales of Logitech’s keyboards, PC webcams, tablets, and video collaboration products are booming as a result of shelter-in-place orders during the pandemic, the company...

Fuji TV The broadcaster of the world’s longest-running cartoon has said it will have to switch to reruns from next week due to disruption to production caused by the coronavirus pandem...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Slack announced a redesigned iPhone app with a new navigation bar at the bottom of the app in update notes today. However, it seems the redesign is still...

Image: Twitch Twitch is now selling official gift cards you can use to buy items on the popular streaming platform, the company announced today. Despite being a free service, Twitch offe...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge To say that Quibi is off to a disastrous start would be an understatement. Co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg attributes “everything that has go...

Motorola is rolling out the Android 10 update for the foldable Razr and adding a host of new features for the external “Quick View” display and some new visual customization options fo...

Makena Kelly No one knows exactly what the Democratic National Convention will look like this year, with social distancing restrictions still in place in Wisconsin and across the country...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that he’s reopening his company’s car factory in California in violation of a local shelter-in-place order, as The Verge previously reported. Musk sai...

Photo by Marie De Jesus for The Verge Doug Monahan, the creator of the failed iBackPack crowdfunding project, is settling with the Federal Trade Commission and has agreed to never crowdf...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Tesla began making cars again at its Fremont, California plant over the weekend despite an ongoing battle with local officials about whether it should ...

Photo by David Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images PepsiCo, the insanely big multinational food and beverage giant, wants in on the direct-to-consumer action: they’ve bought the (in...

Sunday morning, I woke up feeling productive and decided to pull the hose out and give the house a good wash, cleaning the gunk and grime that littered the front porch and blasting away di...

Image: Industrial Light & Magic and Lucasfilm Ltd. With production shut down on sets around the world, studios like Disney are being asked about upcoming seasons of highly anticipate...

For former NASA astronaut Garret Reisman, SpaceX’s May 27 launch of the company’s first human passengers to space is going to be a very personal moment. Reisman worked at SpaceX for ye...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is launching a dedicated new app, Family Safety, designed for managing kids’ screen time and app usage. The app is available now in pr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is introducing new labels to mark tweets with COVID-19-related misinformation, the company announced today. The labels should make it easi...

Lenovo has released the Duet Chromebook, a 10-inch 2-in-1 that runs Chrome OS. The base model, which has 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a MediaTek processor, costs $279, but only the $29...

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If you take out The Office’s physical interactions between characters, and try to tell the same jokes over Slack, does The Office still work? It’s a question that creative collective M...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Spotify is giving premium users a new feature that’ll allow them to share DJ duties with anyone in their immediate vicinity. Group Sessions,...

Photo by Albert L. Ortega/WireImage Chris Parnell is a normcore comedy assassin. After a career in improv, two stints on Saturday Night Live, and countless roles on sitcoms like 30 Rock...

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Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft is working on a new text prediction feature for Outlook that’s similar to Gmail’s Smart Compose. The text predictions will allow Outlook.com...

Vulnerabilities discovered in the Thunderbolt connection standard could allow hackers to access the contents of a locked laptop’s hard drive within minutes, a security researcher from th...

Newton Mail is returning to life once again under new ownership, marking the unexpected third life for the premium email app. Newton Mail was originally set to shut down on April 30th afte...

Shanghai Disneyland has reopened, but with new health and safety measures. | Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images Mickey Mouse has returned to Disneyland: capitalism is healing....

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The first phones with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765 processor are just starting to trickle out, but that isn’t stopping the company from announcin...

Intel Core i7-6950X | Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge The Trump administration is reportedly in talks with major processor manufacturers to build factories in the US, according to a repo...

A relatively small group of superstars dominate attention and money on Twitch, but it’s still a place dominated by a vast underclass of lonely hearts looking for viewers. Twitch Roulette...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is rolling out a new reply-all protection feature for Office 365 and Exchange Online. It’s designed to prevent email storms (reply all...

Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge Using tech to keep children safe and occupied Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After Alameda County health officials cautioned Tesla against reopening its California car factory yesterday, CEO Elon Musk tweeted today that the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After Alameda County health officials cautioned Tesla against reopening its California car factory yesterday, CEO Elon Musk tweeted today that the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Food and Drug Administration has granted the first emergency use authorization to diagnostic healthcare company Quidel Corp. for the first COV...

Photo by Shaun Clark / Getty Images Los Angeles FC forward Adama Diomande is bored. With professional sports on indefinite hiatus throughout most of the world, he misses being on the fie...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Former Google engineer James Damore, who sued Google in 2018 for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men, has asked a court to dis...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Tomorrow is Mother’s Day, and while the ongoing pandemic continues to be a nuisance that is probably preventing you from making special plans this ye...

Photo: Aaron Epstein / Netflix I watched HBO’s new film Bad Education last week. The whole thing felt a bit like a heist movie in reverse — it’s about a superintendent who’s stea...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Razer is hosting a promotion at Best Buy that bundles its Huntsman Tournament Edition wired gaming keyboard with the Razer Viper mouse. The ke...

HP puts its best ideas in a laptop that few can afford. Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In the months since the Surface Laptop 3’s October 2019 launch, some users have reported cracks appearing on their laptop’s screen for no ...

Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images In one of a series of wild tweets posted last week, Elon Musk stated he would be “selling almost all physical possessions” and t...

Photo by Emmanuele Ciancaglini/NurPhoto via Getty Images Food and beverage delivery services like DoorDash, Postmates, and Uber Eats aided in a surge of alcohol deliveries to underage mi...

Melinda Sue Gordon Warner Bros. was always betting that Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, his espionage-meets-time-travel film that marked his first since Dunkirk in 2017, would be one of the...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s US retail stores have been closed since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the company is going to start opening some of th...

Image: Facebook Facebook’s redesigned desktop site is now available globally, the company announced on Friday. Prior to this change, the new version of Facebook was available only if y...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Duo video chat app will soon let you make group video calls on the web, the search company announced today. That could be a handy way t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has extended its work-from-home policy for the remainder of 2020. After previously telling employees that they would be working remotely un...

Photo by Megan JELINGER/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Ohio asked employers to report workers who stay home during the novel coronavirus pandemic, but at least one person is trying to c...

Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images A combination of heat and humidity so extreme that it’s unendurable isn’t just a problem for the future — those conditions are already here, ...

Image: Detroit Lions / Twitter All 32 NFL teams unveiled their schedules for the 2020 season yesterday. However, the Detroit Lions got a little more creative in how they did it, announci...

MTV’s first ever broadcast on August 1st, 1981 starts with footage of the Apollo 11 rocket launch. As the rocket lifts off, the footage cuts to an astronaut jumping on the moon, an acid-...

Andy Serkis, perhaps best known for his CGI-enhanced performance as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings movies, is reading The Hobbit live on YouTube as a benefit for UK charities providing CO...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Deals on the Apple Watch Series 5 have mostly dried up for the time being, but if that model was still a little out of reach price-wise, Walmart and Bes...

There were a lot of announcements in the consumer tech world this week, with new hardware from both Microsoft and Apple, plus some promising early gameplay videos for the Xbox Series X con...

Taylor Walker worked hard during her time at Salem State University. She was her class’s homecoming queen, she sang in the university’s Grammy award-winning choir, and she completed a ...

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Samsung’s $399 smartphone gives you what you pay for Continue reading… ...

At a time when simply sharing space with a fellow human being can be a dangerous activity, many governments, airports, and hospitals are discovering the non-contagious delights of robots, ...

Image: NASA ‘Recommit to the things that you know keep you healthy and sane’ Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft is planning to update Office for iPad with support for Apple’s latest iPadOS trackpad and mouse support. The software maker has always been ...

Tesla Fremont factory in 2018. | Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla plans to resume “limited operations” at its Fremont car plant on Friday, bringing back about 30 percent of i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last month, after Apple and Google announced some changes to their forthcoming attempt to track the spread of COVID-19, I noted the surprising deg...

The organizers of Tokyo Game Show have announced that this year’s event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. TGS 2020 was due to take place from September 24th to 27th at the ...

KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images A National Treasure TV series for Disney Plus is now in development, producer Jerry Bruckheimer told Collider in an interview today. Bruckheimer also r...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Controversial facial recognition provider Clearview AI says it will no longer sell its app to private companies and non-law enforcement entities, ...

Image: Yahoo Much of the cast of Community will reunite for a virtual table read to support COVID-19 relief, according to Variety. The table read and a fan Q&A will be live streamed ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung plans to launch a Samsung Pay debit card this summer, the company announced today in a blog post by Sang Ahn, vice president and general m...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Waymo is planning to resume testing its autonomous vehicles in Arizona on May 11th, nearly two months after pausing its robotaxi service as a result of ...

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

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Read Along Android app, which helps teach reading skills to elementary school students, is now available in early access in 180 countries...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge New York’s attorney general and Zoom have reached an agreement over the videoconferencing company’s security practices. Attorney General Letitia Ja...

Illustration by Ana Kova The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is still rising, even though people are driving and flying less during the COVID-19 pandemic. CO2 reached an all-t...

Image: Elon Musk / Twitter On May 4th, 2020, Elon Musk and his partner Claire “Grimes” Boucher welcomed their first child together and soon after revealed the baby’s name: X Æ A-1...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber lost $2.9 billion in the first quarter of 2020, its biggest loss in three quarters. The company also reported $3.54 billion in revenue. Gross...

Netflix is trying to become a dominant presence in the anime streaming space, but AT&T-owned WarnerMedia is leveraging its dedicated anime streaming service Crunchyroll to help sway su...

Lyft is making face masks mandatory for drivers and passengers, the company announced Thursday. Using the app, drivers and passengers will be required to confirm that they are wearing a ma...

Tinder Tinder is now testing a new interactive video feature in the form of live trivia, the company confirmed to The Verge on Thursday. The test will be rolling out to an undisclosed pe...

Photo: iFixit iFixit hasn’t been able to do its traditional teardown of Apple’s new Magic Keyboard yet (citing “social distancing and teardown schedules”), but the company has do...

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Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images ‘This lawsuit will be the first of more to come around the country’ Continue reading… ...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook will allow most of its employees to continue working from home through the end of 2020, and the company doesn’t expect to reopen most...

Image: Bungie Destiny 2 will be coming to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, developer Bungie announced on Thursday. Exactly when those next-gen versions will be released, or if they w...

EA’s upcoming Madden NFL 21 is coming to the Xbox Series X, and owners of the game for the current-gen Xbox One will be able to upgrade to the Series X version for free, the company anno...

In October of last year, Google hired Javier Soltero to be the VP and GM of G Suite, its set of office apps and — importantly for today’s news — Google Meet and Google Chat. Now, the...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Nikon has made its entire curriculum of online photography classes free until the end of May. The classes were originally made free throughout April, but...

Nine Democratic senators are calling on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to provide information on the firing of workers who called for greater protections from COVID-19. In a letter, the senators ci...

Photo by Erin Clark / The Boston Globe via Getty Images On Thursday, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) announced a new bill that would require the Federal Communications Commission to study how the ...

Valorant is still in closed beta, but Riot’s new tactical shooter is already making waves in the competitive gaming scene. Despite the fact that the game isn’t widely available and tha...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Sometime around 6:30PM ET on May 6th, popular iOS apps from major companies like DoorDash, Spotify, TikTok, and Venmo suddenly starting crashing....

When you scroll through your Instagram feed today, you might have to keep scrolling... and scrolling... There’s a new glitch that lets people post extra-long images onto their feeds. It�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Now that we’re all inside and online a brain-breaking amount of time per day, Twitch is looking to fund a slate of new unscripted series to help...

A UV scrubber at Pittsburgh International Airport. | Photo: Pittsburgh International Airport Pittsburgh International Airport has put UVC fixtures on its floor-cleaning robots, making it...

Alamo Drafthouse wants to bring the feeling of independent movie rental stores to people in their homes, launching a video-on-demand service completely curated by Alamo Drafthouse employee...

Microsoft is detailing the first games that will be optimized for its next-gen Xbox Series X console today. All of the games included in Microsoft’s Xbox 20/20 show will sport a new Xbox...

Microsoft is detailing the first games that will support the company’s upcoming Smart Delivery program for cross-generation games between the Xbox Series X and Xbox One. Smart Delivery i...

Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s smart city subsidiary, is walking away from its ambitious plan to transform a slice of Toronto’s waterfront into a high-tech utopia. The plan, which was proj...

After months of hardware reveals, spec reveals, and hype, Microsoft is finally doing a proper first look at gameplay footage for its upcoming next-gen console, the Xbox Series X, showing o...

Apple has announced that it’s giving $10 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a company that produces COVID-19 testing kits that are critical to monitor the...

Gif: Google Google has added a very useful feature to Google Lens, its multipurpose object recognition tool. You can now copy and paste handwritten notes from your phone to your computer...

Netgear A three-pack Netgear’s Orbi mesh Wi-Fi system is $70 off right now at Best Buy. This brings the bundle down to $280. This isn’t Netgear’s latest Wi-Fi 6-compatible model, t...

Photo by STR / AFP via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has authorized a COVID-19 test that uses the gene-editing technology CRISPR and returns results in around one hour. ...

Streaming is one of ViacomCBS’s fastest-growing divisions, and to meet that demand, the company is accelerating significant changes to CBS All Access. Major changes are coming to the com...

After a mid-season hiatus, Rick and Morty returned on May 3rd with the first of five episodes to close out its fourth season. The series is as good as it’s always been — shockingly cra...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom has acquired Keybase, an encryption and security service meant to serve as a secure home for your online identities. The acquisition is meant...

Image: AMD AMD has announced its Ryzen Pro 4000 series of mobile business processors. The chips sport new security features and improvements to battery life and performance, according to...

Image: Lenovo In case you were worried that there weren’t enough ThinkPads out there, Lenovo has announced two more. Say hello to the ThinkPad E14 and ThinkPad E15; you can buy both in...

Image: Sony Sony is introducing its latest set of truly wireless earbuds today. The WF-SP800N earbuds cost $199.99 and are now available to order. They slot into the lineup as the middle...

TiVo’s Stream 4K is an HDMI dongle that plugs into the back of your TV. | Image: TiVo TiVo’s Stream 4K, the company’s new attempt to compete with Roku and Amazon’s streaming devi...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge The 10th Gen Intel processor is a noticeable upgrade Continue reading… ...

There’s still a lot we don’t know about COVID-19 Continue reading… ...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is hosting an event today where it will show off the first gameplay footage from several games launching on its upcoming Xbox Series X console. One of those ga...

A few days ago Marques Brownlee declared 2020 “the year of the ultraminor Apple update.” He’s got good evidence for doing so: the iPad Pro, iPhone SE, and even the new 13-inch MacBo...

Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images When Viacom and CBS closed their merger in December 2019, the latter company gained access to a plethora of networks — networks the newly merged company,...

The Alby are the cheaper of the two sets of earbuds at just $69. | Image: UrbanEars Swedish audio brand UrbanEars has announced its first pairs of true wireless earbuds, the Luma and the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For many internet users, the EU’s cookie consent policies are an aggravating and unavoidable experience when browsing the web. Introduced in 201...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today let’s talk about Facebook’s independent Oversight Board, which just announced its co-chairs and initial membership. The board will allow...

Image: LG The LG Velvet has finally officially launched in South Korea, following weeks of teases and announcements. As expected, the phone features a “raindrop” triple rear camera a...

Nintendo Switch sales were up 34 percent year-on-year last quarter as the company moved 3.29 million units, despite acknowledging that production has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemi...

Image: Wink Smart home platform Wink will require customers to pay a $4.99 per month subscription fee starting May 13th, the company announced today. That gives Wink users just seven day...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Countless iOS apps are having problems launching right now, according to multiple reports on Twitter and crowdsourced user reports on Downdete...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Countless iOS apps experienced problems launching Wednesday evening, according to multiple reports on Twitter and crowdsourced user reports on...

Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images Today, as America faces a difficult debate about “reopening” state economies during the coronavirus pandemic, The New York Times seem...

Paul Hennessy / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Movie theaters across the country are closed, but some drive-ins are seeing a resurgence in the wake of social distancing prac...

Etsy began pushing homemade masks in early April, and the results panned out in a big way: total sales on the platform doubled last month, by and large thanks to a surge in face mask sales...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lyft’s ride-hailing business is down 70 percent, year over year, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company’s chief executives said in ...

NFC Contactless Payments stock (1020) The NFC Forum has announced an update for the short-range wireless technology that adds a form of wireless charging to the standard. Future NFC devi...

Image: Sonos Sonos is refreshing its best-sounding music speaker today, but the new product is so similar to its predecessor that there’s zero reason for anyone with a Play:5 to consid...

Image: Sonos Sonos is finally making its long-awaited push into Dolby Atmos home theater audio. That effort starts with the new $799 Arc, a premium soundbar that replaces the Playbar in ...

Image: Sonos The new app that Sonos announced in March will be released on June 8th, and with it will come the launch of the S2 platform that exclusively powers the new Sonos Arc, Five, ...

Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Blizzard Entertainment Heading into 2020, the Overwatch League’s Vancouver Titans were heavy favorites to avenge their 2019 grand finals loss —...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Authenticator, the company’s code-based authentication app, has received its first update in three years, updating the app’s interface ...

Image: Epic Games Epic’s Fortnite has more than 350 million registered players, the game developer announced on Wednesday. That makes the free-to-play battle royale game one of the mos...

Photo by Ashley Carman / The Verge Spotify is now testing video podcasts in its app, starting with two YouTube stars: Zane Hijazi and Heath Hussar, hosts of Zane and Heath: Unfiltered. T...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Wednesday, Facebook’s oversight board announced the names of its first 20 members, who will independently oversee moderation disputes on the ...

Twitch is getting a new look — sort of. Starting today you’ll see the site’s channel pages slip into something more comfortable, to borrow a phrase; streamers will now have way more ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Android’s real-time captioning feature, Live Caption, could be coming to Google’s Chrome browser on computers and to Chrome OS, as spotted by ...

Image: Boya Sun / Magic Puzzle Company There’s nothing new about 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles, so when a jigsaw puzzle goes on Kickstarter, creators have to think outside of the box. Now...

A watercolor adventure launching next year on PC and Switch Continue reading… ...

Image: NASA NASA is working with Tom Cruise to film the first movie shot in space, according to NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine. The details of the project aren’t clear, but Bridens...

Ring Today’s best deals are, as usual, a mix of returning favorites and some new ones that we’ve picked up along the way. While we featured some big-ticket items yesterday, today’s...

Photo: Facebook Facebook is testing a new app to expand internet access in developing countries. The app, called Discover, provides users with a balance of free browsing data provided by...

The Oregon Zoo shared a video of one of its bears taking a dip in a tub. | Oregon Zoo The animals at the Oregon Zoo, like many of us, are taking life during coronavirus-induced lockdown ...

Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images Lawmakers have introduced a multibillion-dollar plan to fight child sexual abuse, particularly on the internet. The Invest in Child Safety Act would ...

ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have discovered what they think is a new black hole, and if they’re right, it’s not that far away from Earth. At a mere 1,000 light-years away, the small ...

Naughty Dog’s new trailer for The Last of Us Part II, the sequel to its much loved 2013 game, does not bode well for Ellie. Released today, the trailer teases a bloody journey filled wit...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Back in March, 9to5Google reported that Google’s next streaming device will run Android TV and thus offer a more traditional user experience that�...

Volvo says Luminar’s LIDAR will be “seamlessly integrated” into its vehicles. | Photo: Volvo Most new cars sold today include a bevy of sensors such as cameras and radar to help p...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will announce the first public beta for Android 11 in a live stream at 11AM ET on June 3rd, according to a promotional video spotted by And...

Photo by Philip Cheung for The Verge Uber will lay off 3,700 full-time employees, or around 14 percent of its global workforce, the company said in filings with the US Securities and Exc...

Ring’s $99.99 Video Doorbell with new $49 solar charger. | Image: Ring Ring is relaunching its original Video Doorbell, first introduced in 2014, with features found in its more expens...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft has announced the Surface Go 2, an upgrade to 2018’s Surface Go, and this new version packs a lot of new features, including a larger 10.5-inch display, a ca...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s new Surface Book 3 is here, with an update that keeps the design largely the same as the previous model but overhauls the internal specs up to the top stan...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s second-generation Surface Headphones were announced today alongside the new Surface Book 3 and Surface Go — and these come in black. Like the original mo...

Image: Loon Loon, a division of Alphabet focused on providing internet access using floating balloons, has partnered with AT&T to help provide internet more quickly to disaster-stric...

Jay Y. Lee bowing in apology on May 6, 2020. | Photo by KIM HONG-JI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images The heir-apparent to the Samsung Group, Jay Y. Lee, has apologized for his role in a success...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is offering hackers up to $100,000 if they can break the security of the company’s custom Linux OS. The software giant built a compact...

Image: Huawei Huawei’s latest pair of earbuds are the FreeBuds 3i. Like their predecessor, the FreeBuds 3, they’re truly wireless, offer noise-cancellation, and bear more than a pass...

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Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge HyperX teamed up with popular mechanical keyboard maker Ducky to make a new limited edition colorway of its compact, 60 percent-sized Ducky One 2 Mi...

Photo by CBS via Getty Images The biggest story of today is the creeping sense that April was in many ways another lost month in the COVID-19 response, with the average number of new cas...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is showing some iOS and web users a new interface to make it easier to follow threaded conversations, the company has announced. A gif pub...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google’s Stadia Controller will finally work wirelessly with laptops and desktops starting this week, the company announced today (via Engad...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said he expects longtime rival Apple will “open up” iOS and its platforms more in the future as a result of contention w...

Image: Roland Quandt Sonos may be close to releasing a new soundbar called the Arc, as apparent marketing images of the device have been shared on Twitter by leaker and WinFuture writer ...

NBC’s The Blacklist is another show whose producers and writers are finding intuitive ways to end the season while on-set production has come to a halt amid the coronavirus pandemic. The...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If your region is under stay-at-home guidelines, it’s best to avoid using ride-share apps like Uber and Lyft. But not everyone has that option. ...

Image: XDA Developers Lenovo’s first gaming phone, the Lenovo Legion, has leaked in a series of promotional videos showing off the device. A “trusted” anonymous source provided the...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge :Slack’s mobile apps have always valiantly tried to replicate the desktop and web experience with a single home screen and a reliance on swi...

Image: NASA NASA is working with Tom Cruise to film the first movie shot in space, according to NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine. The details of the project aren’t clear, but Bridens...

Space tourism venture Virgin Galactic lost $60 million in the first quarter of 2020, down from the $73 million net loss it suffered at the end of last year, according to the company’s ea...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tinder is going to launch its own in-app, one-on-one video chats later this year. Match Group, the brand’s parent company, announced the feature...

Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Disney was at the top of the world at the end of 2019: a record-breaking year at the box office, the launch of Disney Plus, and a releas...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Airbnb is laying off around a quarter of its employees today, or about 1,900 people. The company has been struggling over the last couple mont...

A worker at Amazon’s Staten Island, New York, fulfillment center has died of COVID-19, the company confirmed. Workers at the facility, called JFK8, have been calling for greater safety p...

A worker at Amazon’s Staten Island, New York, fulfillment center has died of COVID-19, the company confirmed. Workers at the facility, called JFK8, have been calling for greater safety p...

NASA NASA is working with Tom Cruise to film the first movie shot in space, according to NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine. The details of the project aren’t clear, but Bridenstine sa...

Facebook removed a small cluster of groups and pages promoting the QAnon conspiracy in April, calling it part of a “coordinated inauthentic behavior” campaign around the 2020 US electi...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California’s attorney general and a group of city attorneys sued Uber and Lyft Tuesday, alleging that the companies misclassified drivers as indep...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s Forza Street, a free-to-play racing title from Forza creator Turn 10 Studios, is available now for iOS and Android after launching for Windows 10 last year...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is bringing Halo 2: Anniversary to Windows 10 PCs on May 12th, as part of the Halo: The Master Chief Collection, the company announced today. Halo 2: Anniversa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Countries around the world are scrambling to create contact-tracing apps that will help track the spread of COVID-19. But a beta app launched by t...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Twitter is experimenting with a new moderation tool that will warn users before they post replies that contain what the company says is “har...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Half of all COVID-19 cases and nearly 60 percent of deaths due to the disease in the US occurred in counties that are disproportionately back, acc...

Image: 2K Games ESPN will air live NBA 2K League matches on ESPN2 on three Tuesdays in May, the sports network announced today. It’s the first time that the NBA 2K League, which is ope...

The Long March 5B lifting off from Wenchang on May 5th. | Photo by STR / AFP via Getty Images Early this morning, China launched a pivotal new rocket, carrying a prototype deep-space spa...

Wunderlist Chrome Christian Reber, founder of the beloved productivity application Wunderlist, announced today that he’s got a new company called Superlist in the works. Its goal, as s...

Photo by Kelly Sullivan / Getty Images for the WeWork Creator Awards WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann is suing investor SoftBank for scrapping a $3 billion stock buyout agreement. The New ...

Image: Netflix There’s a scene in the trailer for The Greatest Showman, a musical about the life of P.T. Barnum, where Hugh Jackman grins at Zach Efron for saying he does not know what...

Photo by Martin Sylvest / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty Images YouTube is hosting an online graduation event to give seniors whose ceremonies have been canceled something to tune into. ...

Image: Apple Apple announced today that its online-only Worldwide Developers Conference will take place starting June 22nd. The company said back in March that WWDC, which is typically a...

Google Podcasts Google Podcasts is going to give podcasters a better idea of how their episodes perform. The Google Podcasts Manager tool will provide more data on listeners, potentially...

If you’ve already streamed your favorite series for the third time, and you’ve hit a wall with your latest game, what should you do while you’re sheltering at home? Well, maybe pick ...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Today’s best deals include all sorts of tech at different price ranges, including noise-canceling headphones, e-readers, gaming laptops, and even a 4...

Civilization VI: Gathering Storm. As environmental breakdown intensifies, the games industry needs to ask itself tough questions Continue reading… ...

Photo Illustration by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Yesterday morning, the Supreme Court heard its first remote oral argument and streamed the event live online for the first time. The case ...

Image: Epic Games Epic Games’ Unreal Engine game development platform now supports Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and Sony’s PlayStation 5, Epic announced today. The support comes as pa...

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a sledgehammer to the economy — and the space industry is no exception. While some major space companies are still in operation, considered essential by t...

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Spotify The first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, is becoming even easier to access. Various celebrities, including Daniel Radcliffe, Stephen Fry, and Eddi...

Aaron Epstein/Netflix What if Michael Scott from The Office was given a team of scientists and astronauts and free rein to develop a program that would give the United States complete do...

Microsoft is revealing the Xbox Series X boot screen animation today and is promising to focus on first-party Xbox Game Studios games during a July event. In a teaser video for Thursday, M...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook is reportedly developing a second-generation version of its standalone Oculus Quest headset, with the successor potentially set to be...

Vizio’s Elevate Dolby Atmos soundbar | Image: Vizio Vizio’s next big plan is to put a high-end soundbar in every home Continue reading… ...

Image: Amazon Game Studios / Relentless Crucible, a new free-to-play PC game from Amazon’s original game development arm, is launching later this month, the e-commerce giant announced ...

Everything you’ll need and want when you leave one school and start another Continue reading… ...

Microsoft confirmed yesterday that it’s reprioritizing its Windows 10X development to focus on regular single-screen devices. The Windows variant was originally intended to run on new du...

The successor to the Sonos Play:5 will reported by called the Sonos Five (2020). | Image: Roland Quandt Images of what appear to be a new Sonos speaker and subwoofer have leaked online, ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Nest will start enabling two-factor authentication by default for its accounts in May, the company has announced. When a user tries to log in using thei...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the latest instance of unrest at the company, several thousand Amazon workers walked off the job Friday. The occasion was International Workers...

Billy Mitchell (left) is taking Twin Galaxies to court after it stripped him of his record. | Photo by David Greedy/Getty Images Billy Mitchell, who rose to fame hunting high-scores in c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tumblr on Monday announced an update to its hate speech policy, announcing on its blog that it would start cutting down on the reach of posts cons...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Samsung’s new Galaxy Book laptops are now available for purchase in the United States. All three laptops — the Galaxy Book Flex, Flex Alpha, an...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Verizon has its own exclusive version of the OnePlus 8, the “OnePlus 8 5G UW,” designed specifically for its network with additional mmWave radio fe...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s seventh-generation iPad with 32GB of storage is $80 off at a couple of retailers, including Best Buy and Amazon. This price drop puts it at $2...

A newly built concrete seawall in Kesennuma, Japan, one of the towns hit by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Researchers think that parks may offer an alternative to walls like this....

Photo by JC Olivera/Getty Images In a move that seems utterly obvious as soon as it was announced, Nicholas Cage will be playing the eccentric zookeeper Joe Exotic in a new TV series, vi...

With today’s announcement of a new 13-inch MacBook Pro, Apple has finally stopped trying to fix one of the most controversial and problematic hardware designs in its history: the butterf...

Image: ILMxLAB Vader Immortal — the formerly Oculus-exclusive VR Star Wars experience from ILMxLAB — is coming to PlayStation VR this summer. The three episodes of the series are set...

Intel moved deeper into the world of smart mobility and autonomous driving by announcing Monday its plan to acquire Israel-based urban transit data startup Moovit for $900 million. Moovit...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge People are doing a lot more video conferencing now that they’re stuck at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These sessions can be a great way to stay...

Photo by Toni Anne Barson / WireImage Taika Waititi will direct and co-write a new Star Wars movie for theatrical release, Disney announced today. It won’t be Waititi’s first brush w...

PewDiePie/YouTube Felix Kjellberg, the YouTuber better known as PewDiePie, has signed an exclusive live-streaming deal with YouTube. The move comes almost exactly one year after Kjellber...

Meet, in Gmail Google has wasted no time integrating its Meet videoconferencing into Gmail, with some users already seeing a link to launch Meet in the left sidebar of the Gmail interfac...

Photo by Jose Perez / Bauer-Griffin / GC Images New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which is dealing with record-low ridership on subways and buses, is trying to she...

Today, Apple and Google shared more information on their automatic exposure notification system, including sample interface designs for potential apps and restrictions on how the system wi...

Windows 10X running on the Surface Neo. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft is confirming today that it’s planning to refocus Windows 10X on single-screen devices. ...

Lucasfilm It’s May 4th, which means that there are plenty of Star Wars-themed deals out there today. We’ve settled on covering just a few discounts on acclaimed video games and movie...

Google today rolled out the new Privacy Screen feature for Google Drive on iOS and iPadOS, which allows you to require Face ID or Touch ID authentication whenever anyone tries to open the ...

Apart from burning through VC money and educating the public on how frighteningly large emperor penguins are, what is augmented reality actually good for? Here’s one answer: real-life co...

Photo by Sam Greenwood / Getty Images Carnival has announced that it will resume some of its cruises on August 1st. Trips will resume on eight ships leaving from Miami and Port Canaveral...

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Eric Schmidt, who was Google’s CEO between 2001 and 2011 and served on its board until last year, has reinvented himself as a technology adviser and inv...

Tim Bray, a senior engineer and vice president at Amazon Web Services, has quit his job because he was “dismayed” that the company fired whistleblowers who were trying to draw attentio...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge SoundCloud is joining Twitch. The popular music streaming service is set to launch a slate of original live programming on Wednesday, May 6th,...

Image: Apple Apple announced a new version of its popular 13-inch MacBook Pro, replacing the much-maligned butterfly switch keyboard with its new “Magic Keyboard” that’s used on th...

Down-ballot candidates are starting to look a lot like influencers Continue reading… ...

Image: Samsung Samsung’s Galaxy A51 is now available as an unlocked device in the US following its release via Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and Xfinity Mobile. The unlocked 4G handset ca...

Image: Apple Sooner than expected, Apple has announced a new 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Magic Keyboard. It features optional Intel 10th Gen processors and starts at $1,299. In one sense,...

HP There isn’t much about the new HP Omen 27i that I haven’t seen before in a gaming monitor, but it’s packed full of specs that HP hasn’t offered until now. The 27-inch QHD (256...

HP’s new Omen 25L (left) and the 30L | HP HP has debuted a fresh lineup of Omen desktops, the 25L and 30L, with improved specs and a clean new design that ditches the edgy gamer aesthe...

It’s hard to understand just how much money the top 0.001 percent own, but this data visualization helps. Jeff Bezos is rich. This much we know to be true. But exactly how rich he is,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. is financing Eko’s patent lawsuit against streaming service Quibi, The Wall Street Journal reports. Eko’s ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber is planning to implement a new policy in the coming weeks requiring drivers and riders in the US and certain other countries to wear face mas...

Its nickname is ‘murder hornet’ | Washington State Department of Agriculture As The Verge’s weekend editor, I endeavor to find a good mix of stories for our Saturday and Sunday sit...

Echidna Walkabout and Koala Clancy Foundation Koalas lick tree trunks to quench their thirst when it rains, scientists just learned. It upends what biologists long thought abou...

US Capitol In a joint statement on Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) declined President Trump’s offer to provide rapid coron...

Dave Zatz/Zatz Not Funny The Sonos Playbar may finally, at long last, be getting an upgrade, according to an image discovered by Dave Zatz over at Zatz Not Funny. The renders don’t sho...

Disney Disney is selling non-medical face masks in the US featuring characters from across its multiverse, including Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars, the company announced. Disney will dona...

The union for Kickstarter employees reached an agreement with management on Friday which provides protections for laid-off workers, the union said in a press release. The crowdfunding comp...

Image: Epic Games Fortnite’s new no-guns “party royale” mode just launched on Wednesday, and the new map played host to its first live concert Friday evening. DJ and producer Diplo...

Photo: HBO I finally caught up on the Amazon series Undone, which I’ve been wanting to watch since getting a glimpse of its wonderful rotoscoped style. I think I complained in one of t...

Image: Sam Sheffer Sam Sheffer, a tech YouTuber and former staffer at The Verge, posted a video on Friday revealing some unreleased products from the now-defunct electric skateboard star...

Image: Epic Games Fortnite’s new no-guns “party royale” mode just launched on Wednesday, and the new map will play host to its first live concert tonight at 9PM ET. DJ and producer...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An emergency edition of This Week in Elon Continue reading… ...

Photo by Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images Congress has opened a probe into Carnival Corporation, the operator of the Princess Cruises line of cruise ships, over its handling of COVID-19 ...

Image: EVO The annual Evolution Championship Series (EVO) fighting game tournament will be held as an online event this summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event’s organizers anno...

If you told everyone exactly how high school would play out, odds are many would opt the hell out. High school in America is a bizarre and unkind time, a collective coming-of-age story tha...

Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times/Pool/Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration just authorized the emergency use of remdesivir, an experimental anti-viral drug, to treat COVID...

The Environmental Protection Agency denied Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claim that the agency made a mistake in its test of the Model S sedan, which resulted in a lower range than Musk thought ...

A Fujifilm X-H1 mirrorless camera used as a webcam. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge If you’ve been working from home for the past few weeks, you’ve probably had to join more than ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Steam will no longer support SteamVR on macOS. RIP! It is the end of a very short era. Steam introduced SteamVR for Apple computers way back in th...

Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images A group of Senate Republicans is planning to introduce a privacy bill that would regulate the data collected by coronavirus contact t...

The Verge art team in group flight. It’s been more than a few weeks now that many of us have been forced to use Zoom for communication. In that time, really creative backgrounds for Zo...

Automatic has announced that it’ll be abruptly shutting down on May 28th because “the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted our business.” As such, the company is discontinuing it...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield thinks Microsoft Teams isn’t a competitor to Slack. Questioned on the ongoing battle between Slack and Microsoft T...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales It’s earnings season and The Verge has been paying close attention to the impact of COVID-19 on the tech world. This week on The Vergecast, co-hosts Nil...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Automakers are letting hundreds of thousands of customers around the country defer loan and lease payments during the pandemic, offering a small b...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that Tesla’s stock price is “too high imo,” and the stock fell immediately after. Tesla’s stock is down more than 10 percent. Last year, Musk mad...

Image: Samsung AT&T and Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile are bringing Samsung’s $399 Galaxy A51 to their networks this month. The phone, which is the successor to the incredibly popular ...

Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images The House Judiciary Committee called on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Friday to testify before the body after Democratic leader accused company official...

Consumer Reports has analyzed the privacy policies of Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex and discovered that they may be collecting more data than you realize. To be clear: Consumer R...

Consumer Reports has analyzed the privacy policies of Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and WebEx and discovered that they may be collecting more data than many people realize. To be clear: Co...

Switching from HBO Now to HBO Max is a decision that incoming AT&T CEO John Stankey once said will be an “IQ test.” Now, AT&T and WarnerMedia are trying to make that upgrade ev...

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...

Spotify ESPN and Netflix are looking to Spotify for ancillary content to complement their newest docuseries about former Chicago Bulls player Michael Jordan. The Last Dance tells the sto...

Summer Game Fest, a new “industry-wide celebration of video games” that will span from May through August, was announced today. It will bring “breaking news, in-game events, and free...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Best Buy is hosting the best deal we’ve seen on the Apple Watch Series 5, and the savings extend across the entire lineup. The 40mm GPS version is the...

DJI’s latest midrange drone has a better camera, improved connectivity, and longer flight time Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On May 1st, workers from Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart, FedEx, Target, and Walmart joined together in a series of work stoppages to protest condi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Mobile carriers, network suppliers, and analysts are warning that the rollout of 5G networks could be delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Grayson Blackmon Trying to decide on a gift for a parent or significant other can be difficult even during the best of times. So with the help of The Ve...

Microsoft’s Xbox chief, Phil Spencer, says the company’s next-gen Xbox Series X console is still on schedule for later this year, but game production is a little more of an unknown. In...

Photo by MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images The organization that oversees internet domain names has rejected a proposal to transfer management of the .org top-level domain from a nonprof...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge The coronavirus pandemic has caused the smartphone market to suffer its fastest ever first-quarter year-on-year decline, according to new data from ana...

Walmart store Walmart is launching a new delivery service, called Express Delivery, that will get purchased items to a customers’ home in less than two hours, the company announced on ...

Photo by Hu Chengwei/Getty Images One of the biggest esports events in the world has been indefinitely delayed amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Developer Valve announced on Thursday that...

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

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple expects to start reopening more of its stores in May, after shutting down locations outside of China due to the coronavirus pandemic. St...

Disney’s live-action remakes are on a roll, and news of yet another project broke today: a version of the 1997 Hercules movie, produced (but not directed) by Joe and Anthony Russo of Mar...

Microsoft is opening up free registrations for its Build 2020 developer event. It’s typically one of Microsoft’s biggest events of the year, but the software maker is doing things diff...

Remember how Reddit announced just yesterday that it was introducing built-in subreddit chat rooms? Yeah, never mind on that. Alex Le, Reddit’s vice president of product and community, ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon expects to spend $4 billion or more — the predicted operating profit for the company’s entire coming quarter — just on COVID-19-relat...

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla — the new viking-based iteration of the popular franchise — will support Microsoft’s upcoming Smart Delivery program for cross-generation games between th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) sent a letter today to Google, YouTube, and Twitter urging the platforms to explicitly notify users when they’ve engaged...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple today reported its second quarter earnings, which showed resilient growth for the company despite the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had o...

NASA has chosen SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics to design and build three lunar landing systems that can take humans to the surface of the Moon. The three companies will work on their de...

illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge GDC Summer, an event scheduled after the conference’s cancellation in March, will take place as a fully digital event, organizers announced toda...

Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images The Fortnite World Cup is the latest event to be canceled because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Today, Epic Games revealed the upcoming roadmap for c...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google’s Stadia now runs on the new OnePlus 8 series of smartphones, Google said today in a blog post. Google has slowly made more Android smartphones...

Photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images If it gets a piece of the stimulus pie Continue reading… ...

Photo: OpenAI Artificial intelligence research laboratory OpenAI today debuted a new generative model that’s able to make music called Jukebox. It’s technologically impressive, even ...

Today is April 30th, which means in the modern Gregorian calendar system — and in the immortal, misquoted words of NSYNC member Justin Timberlake — it’s gonna be May tomorrow. And to...

Dan Seifert / The Verge Microsoft delayed its new Surface Earbuds from a 2019 release to spring 2020 in November, and although we’re still waiting to hear exactly when they’ll finall...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Quibi has posted the first full episodes of three of its original series — Most Dangerous Game, The Stranger, and Dummy — to watch for free on...

For a little while it seemed as if Fortnite had lost some of its luster. Following the impressive black hole event that kicked off a new chapter for the game last September, the pace of ch...

Photo by Erin Lefevre/NurPhoto via Getty Images The New York City subway, a 24/7 behemoth that rarely shuts down, is shutting down — but just at night. The Metropolitan Transportation...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Lime has laid off 13 percent of its workforce due to financial difficulties presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the scooter startup announced ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 Plus with 256GB of internal storage is $740 for readers of The Verge. We’ve teamed up with Daily Steals to bring ...

Microsoft is planning to show off some Xbox Series X gameplay next month. The software maker will hold a special Inside Xbox stream on May 7th, with the focus squarely on games for the Xbo...

Microsoft has a range of Microsoft Teams-certified headphones from its partners, and now, some are getting the ability to integrate more deeply into the chat app. A new button feature will...

Cries at desk. Every once in a while, I hear a cascade of “bleeeeats” from my laptop speakers. For the past several weeks, I’ve been leaving a live stream of goats running while I ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge With theme parks and movie theaters closed and major sports events canceled, there were few parts of Comcast’s business that didn’t feel the i...

Video games get sequels all the time, but it rarely happens more than two decades after the original trilogy concluded — and it’s even rarer when that sequel is as faithful as Streets ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Public health officials are working to limit the spread of the virus Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Despite pandemic-related hardware shortages, Facebook’s virtual reality business exploded at the start of 2020. The company revealed yesterd...

Ubisoft is adding Vikings to its Assassin series. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, revealed yesterday, is adopting a Norse-inspired setting. The game’s first trailer offers a cinematic look ...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Microsoft appears to be getting ready to launch Surface Headphones 2. A new Bluetooth SIG listing, spotted by 91 Mobiles, reveals an updated version of...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Several PC components and gaming accessories are discounted today at Best Buy. Whether you are piecing together your next PC build or just wan...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zack Moore, state epidemiologist in North Carolina, can’t say how many people in the state have COVID-19. He knows how many people test positive...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Chrome Web Store is the biggest catalog of browser extensions around, but as with any successful chunk of the internet, more things on ...

Intel has rolled out its 10th Gen chips to almost all of its laptop lineup at this point, and now, it’s time for desktops to get a turn. The company has announced its latest Comet Lake-S...

When great just isn’t good enough Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft now has 10 million subscribers to its Xbox Game Pass service, the company confirmed during an investor call yesterday. It’s the first ...

You can now use your Sonos speaker to listen to free audiobooks from your local library, thanks to a new integration with OverDrive’s Libby app. After downloading the Libby app, you’ll...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter usage spiked to 166 million daily users in the first quarter of 2020, as more people flocked to the site to keep up with news on the coron...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The process Quibi used to verify new users’ email addresses sent them to multiple third-party advertising and analytics companies including Goog...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Programming note: The Interface will be off on Thursday. Today Apple and Google released an initial version of the API that represents the first ...

Image: Facebook Facebook is rolling out a new tool today allowing users in the US and Canada to transfer their photos and videos to Google Photos. The tool can be accessed by heading to ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new camera board that should dramatically improve the photographic capabilities available to the popular DIY computer’s enthusiasts and hobbyi...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 is a new standard from the Video Electronics Standards Association that allows USB 4 to offer all the bells and whist...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom has admitted it doesn’t have 300 million daily active users. The admission came after The Verge noticed the company had quietly edited a bl...

The Nintendo Switch may not have a proper Virtual Console, but it’s still a great system for classic games, and today sees one of its most unusual retro releases in a while. To celebrate...

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have all partnered with iHeartMedia to deliver thousands of phone chargers to hospitals so that COVID-19 patients can charge their phones. The companies wil...