Articles by The Verge from June 2020

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Watching 4K Netflix video on a Mac seems like it’s about to get much easier, as the forthcoming macOS Big Sur includes a Safari update that repo...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google Photos will no longer backup images and videos saved from folders created and managed by social media apps by default (via Android Police). Previ...

Amazon is giving its Prime members the ability to watch TV shows and movies on Prime Video with friends using its new Watch Party feature. The feature is slowly rolling out, according to ...

Mirror Lululemon, the company behind trendy fitness apparel, is getting into the hardware business with Mirror. The fitness lifestyle company announced on Monday it would spend $500 mil...

Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began a series of test flights on Monday to determine whether the 737 Max should be allowed ba...

A blood drive in Chicago at the Field Museum of Natural History. | Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images The American Red Cross is testing all donated blood for novel coronavirus antibodies ...

‘Xbox Series S’ concept. | jiveduder on Reddit A leaked Microsoft document recently hinted at the company’s second next-gen Xbox, and now rumors suggest it will be fully revealed i...

Photo by Eduardo Sanz / Europa Press via Getty Images If you’re a weather geek, you probably already know that Dark Sky, one of the most popular weather apps around, has been acquired ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube has banned several prominent white supremacist channels, including those belonging to Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, and Richard Spencer. O...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge The New York Times has announced that, as of today, it will no longer be distributing articles in the Apple News app, making it one of the largest publ...

The 2021 Geneva Motor Show has been canceled because of the “financial consequences” of this year’s event getting the axe, but also because of concerns about the pace of the COVID-19...

Image: Activision Popular battle royale shooter Call of Duty: Warzone is upping its already large 150-person lobbies to let 200 people compete in Quad mode contests, publisher Activision...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has banned TikTok, WeChat, and several dozen other China-based apps it views as “en...

Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images Twitch has temporarily banned President Donald Trump, in the latest surprise and high-profile suspension from the streaming service. Trump’s accoun...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit will ban r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse, and about 2,000 other communities today after updating its content policy to more explicitly ban h...

Image: Universal Studios Japan Universal Studios Japan is delaying the opening of Super Nintendo World, the new Mario-themed expansion of its Osaka amusement park, NHK reports. Universal...

With longer continuous battery life than the 1000XM3s — and proper sweat resistance Continue reading… ...

How close are deepfakes to being used in big-budget films and TV shows? Pretty damn close, if a new demo from Disney is anything to go by. In a video and paper being presented at a compute...

Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images COVID-19 has caused libraries around the US to stay closed since mid-March. Less than two-thirds of Americans in rural areas have broadband internet co...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Mercedes-Benz is suspending its two-year-old subscription service after mediocre sales, Automotive News reports. Mercedes-Benz USA head of sa...

GIF by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 can now be configured with a LED dot-matrix display hidden in its lid, with a new model costing $1,999.99, Asus announced to...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Amazon’s Fire HD 8 tablets are $30 off today at Amazon and Best Buy. The base model with 32GB of storage costs $60 (usually $90). If you want the opti...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Amazon’s Fire HD 8 tablets are $30 off today at Amazon and Best Buy. The base model with 32GB of storage costs $60 (usually $90). If you want the opti...

Four workers describe the stress and chaos of the new H-1B proclamation Continue reading… ...

Surprise! There’s a smart lock in there Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Earlier this month, the Russian authorities lifted their ban on the Telegram messaging app, citing the company’s willingness to help with its co...

Microsoft is releasing its own Windows File Recovery tool, designed to retrieve files you’ve mistakenly deleted. Windows File Recovery is a command line app that will recover a variety o...

GitHub went down for thousands of software developers this morning. The Microsoft-owned service, which provides version control via Git and hosting for software development, experienced is...

American Airlines will soon remove the booking limits it placed on flights back in April. | Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images American Airlines will resume booking its flights to capa...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This year’s new iPhones might not have as much in the box as you’re used to. According to well-connected analyst Ming-chi Kuo, Apple is pl...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon workers at six sites across Germany plan to strike Monday because dozens of staff members at its logistics centers have been infected with ...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge After launching a dark mode for its desktop interface, Facebook confirms it is testing a dark mode for its mobile apps as well. As first noted b...

Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images Starbucks will join the growing list of corporate entities pausing advertising on social media platforms, the company said in a blog post Sunday. The c...

WireImage As I put together this latest list of what’s new on streaming this week, I realized a theme running through the selections: bad-ass women. There’s a documentary about crime...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge After launching a dark mode for its desktop interface, Facebook reportedly is testing a dark mode for its mobile apps as well. It’s only avail...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter says it’s working on improving how it labels tweets with problematic 5G or coronavirus content, after users reported their tweets were b...

Photo by Bobby Quillard What you’ve probably heard: three months after signing an exclusive two-year contract with Twitch for a “life-changing” amount of money, Twitch has nonethel...

An inside joke about a TikTok meme among a group of friends on Twitter grew into a minor social media mystery before morphing into a fundraiser for anti-racism causes. Yes, that might be t...

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images The Coca-Cola Company is pausing all digital advertising on social media platforms globally for at least 30 days starting July 1st, the soda giant announ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter says it’s working on improving how it labels tweets with problematic 5G or coronavirus content, after users reported their tweets were b...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Meet is working on several new features that will match its competitors, including allowing users to add images or a blur effect to backgro...

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images As the coronavirus spread across the US this spring, authorities warned people not to purchase N95 respirator masks, lest they contribute to a shortage o...

Image: Apple TV Plus I’ve been making my way through Studio Ghibli films now that they’re up on HBO Max, and last week I got around to watching Kiki’s Delivery Service for the firs...

GameStop is hosting several deals on video games and gaming accessories like controllers and headsets that last until the end of the day. The discounts apply both in stores around the US t...

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images The Coca-Cola Company is pausing all digital advertising on social media platforms globally for at least 30 days starting July 1st, the soda giant announ...

Image: ZA/UM There’s a TV series based on the 2019 indie game Disco Elysium possibly coming, Variety reports. Disco Elysium launched in October 2019 exclusively on PC, set in the same ...

Disney has delayed Mulan for the second time this year, moving the film from July 24th to August 21st. The move follows Warner Bros.’ decision to delay Christopher Nolan’s Tenet for a ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Multiple employees at Ubisoft, including two executives, have been placed on administrative leave as the company conducts a corporate investigatio...

Photo Illustration by Alex Castro | Photography by Bobby Quillard Dr Disrespect disappeared from Twitch this afternoon, with his account vanishing from the site, leading to rumors that h...

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images Some critics of President Donald Trump have spent the last few days trying to lock up Trump-branded merchandise by leaving thousands of products from hi...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Trump administration has sent letters to social media companies requesting they take action on posts calling for people to take down statues, commi...

Photo by Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Facebook is placing new restrictions on hateful content in ads, explicitly banning ads that encourage racial divisions. Specifi...

Doctors in the COVID-19 unit at a Houston hospital. | Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Strategies to stop transmission may be harder to implement now than they were i...

Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Consumer goods giant Unilever said Friday that it would halt all ad spending on Facebook, Instagram, and...

Photo by David McNew/Getty Images California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) has passed a new rule that says all commercial trucks and vans sold in the state in 2045 must be zero-emission...

Photo by Neil Lupin/Redferns TikTok has signed a deal with Prince’s estate to bring the late artist’s “full catalog” to its app, starting today. Price was long protective of his ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok says it will stop accessing users’ clipboard content on iOS devices, after a new privacy transparency feature in iOS 14 revealed the vide...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge TCL’s 10 Pro phone is nearly $70 off at Amazon for the first time since it released recently in May 2020. You can pick one up for $382 (normally $450...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Phone app appears to be getting a new Verified Calls feature that will show you a business’ name, logo, and the reason it’s calling y...

Melinda Sue Gordon Warner Bros. has announced that it’ll be delaying the release of Tenet — the studio’s mysterious time-manipulating summer blockbuster from director Christopher N...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Vergecast’s annual WWDC episode is here. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference started on Monday, and The Verge’s Nilay Patel and Diet...

For the past week, I’ve spent most of my evenings wandering around a picturesque, nearly deserted island in search of Jigglypuff. It’s been a nice change of pace. “Isle of Armor,” ...

Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Microsoft is giving up on physical retail. Today the company announced plans to permanently close all Microsoft Store ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook in front of a silicon wafer platter | Screenshot: Sean Hollister / The Verge Earlier this week, on what Tim Cook called a “historic day,” Apple announced that it�...

Photo Credit: Bob Mahoney / 2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Most TV shows aren’t weird enough. Weird things happen on them — everyone’s seen Twin Peaks and loves an homage �...

Image: Facebook Facebook is rolling out a new feature globally that will warn users if they’re about to share an article that’s over 90 days old. The feature, which was announced in ...

LG steps away from the specs arms race — but is it one step too far? Continue reading… ...

Image: Astell & Kern Astell & Kern says its latest audio player is the first in the world to come with DACs from two separate manufacturers, letting you switch between them to cu...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge To close out the week, let’s talk about some of the recent efforts in the United States to settle longstanding questions about moderation and en...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has been planning a second, cheaper and less power next-gen Xbox console. Codenamed Lockhart, it’s designed to take most of the key ne...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is acquiring self-driving car startup Zoox in a deal estimated to be worth over $1 billion, The Information and The Financial Times are rep...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is acquiring self-driving car startup Zoox in a deal estimated to be worth over $1 billion. The deal will give Amazon control of the nearly...

Image: @OnLeaks / 91Mobiles “Where is Google’s Pixel 4A?” That’s the question we asked two weeks ago, bringing you up to speed on how Google had seemingly missed the typical wind...

Images: Ford Ford has revealed the 2021 model of the F-150, and many buyers will find the newest version of the automaker’s super popular pickup truck stuffed with technology. The new ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has a fringe conspiracy theory problem, and it’s getting worse by the day. According to a new investigation from The Guardian, the far-...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon is the latest, and far and away largest, company to join an ongoing advertising boycott of Facebook and Instagram, the cell carrier announ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge You’d think that months of reading about overflowing hospitals and mounting death statistics would scare almost anyone into following the curren...

Amazon Seattle’s NHL team doesn’t have a name yet, but its arena does, after Amazon secured the naming rights to the former Key Arena. But if you guessed the new name would be Amazon...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is reclosing 14 more of its retail locations in Florida due to a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. Of the 18 Apple Store locations in Florida, o...

Some of League of Legends’ most popular characters are getting a medical-themed makeover. Today, developer Riot revealed a new line of cosmetics for the strategy game, sales of which wil...

Some of League of Legends’ most popular characters are getting a medical-themed makeover. Today, developer Riot revealed a new initiative featuring a line of cosmetics for the strategy g...

Cadillac will reveal its first electric vehicle, the Lyriq SUV, during a virtual event on August 6th. The vehicle’s original April 2nd debut was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic....

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge California EV startup Lucid Motors gave up majority ownership to Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in exchange for the $1.3 billion investment it ...

Google Street View car with an Aclima air pollution sensor. | Photo: Aclima Google and Aclima, a company that maps hyperlocal air pollution, announced today that researchers can now acce...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The $999 Skydio 2 self-flying drone is one of the most incredible gadgets I’ve ever touched, but it’s got its fair share of limitations. Two of them...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Dozens of people shared stories of sexual harassment and assault Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US House Committee on Oversight and Reform has opened an investigation into how data broker Venntel collects and sells data from Americans’ ...

Waymo is the “exclusive global L4 partner” for Volvo Car Group, the two companies announced Thursday. That means that Volvo will integrate Waymo’s autonomous driving technology, wid...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile has filed a petition asking California’s Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to par back some of the conditions that CPUC insisted on wh...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Disney Channel, Disney XD, and Disney Junior will cease to exist in the UK come October 1st, as Disney moves those channels’ titles exclusiv...

Ohio EV startup Lordstown Motors revealed its first electric pickup truck, the Endurance, for the first time today at an event that featured Vice President Mike Pence. The truck, which is...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th On Thursday, Democrats introduced a new bill that would ban federal law enforcement from using facial recognition technology and make it more difficult f...

Valve has kicked off its 2020 summer sale on Steam, knocking prices down for a huge number of PC games until July 9th at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. To name a few especially great discounts, Residen...

A group Google Duo call on a Nest Hub Max smart display | Photo: Google Google is expanding the ways you can make video calls on smart displays powered by Google Assistant with new suppo...

CD Projekt Red has debuted two new gameplay trailers for the highly anticipated (and recently delayed again) Cyberpunk 2077. One trailer, “The Gig” shows off some of the game’s prolo...

Image: CD Projekt Red Studio Trigger, the anime production company made up of former members of the legendary studio Gainax, is producing a Cyberpunk 2077 anime for Netflix set to premie...

After taking a decade-long break from space tourism, Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos plans to send two paying tourists to the International Space Station in 2023 on a short fl...

Photo by Yu Chun Christopher Wong/S3studio/Getty Images PUBG Mobile has managed to become one of the most popular — and lucrative — games in the world by adapting the battle royale g...

Netflix The estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has sued Netflix over its upcoming film Enola Holmes, arguing that the movie’s depiction of public domain character Sherlock Holmes having ...

Image: CD Projekt Red The first few hours of Night City ask you to make a lot of important decisions Continue reading… ...

Image: WaterField Designs If you want to add a Wild West aesthetic to the extremely pricey yet powerful Mac Pro, there’s now a leather saddle you can buy for $399 to give it that cowbo...

Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge The deals are a little slower today than we’ve seen so far this week, but there are still a few that we want to tell you about. In case you missed out,...

Earth-observing satellites monitor a variety of physical parameters on Earth’s surface and atmosphere globally and periodically. | Image: JAXA / NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NA...

Google Photos’ new search interface. | Image: Google After five years as the dominant solution for photo storage across platforms, Google Photos is getting a big new redesign. The refr...

In some ways, yesterday’s announcement of Pokémon Unite felt a few years too late. There was once a period of time when it seemed every major publisher was experimenting with the then-b...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lyft has reached a settlement agreement with the US Department of Justice over allegations that the ride-hailing platform discriminated against pe...

Yes, that’s Goldman Sans. And yes, that happened. | Image: The Verge Investment bank Goldman Sachs has released its very own typeface: an inoffensive set of sans-serif fonts dubbed Go...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s new operating systems — like iOS 14 and tvOS 14, which are due to be released later this year — include numerous features that s...

Image: Hey.com Hey — the new email service from Basecamp that’s been the subject of the latest fight over Apple’s App Store policies — has announced that starting today, it’ll ...

A whopping 7.5 billion light-years from Earth, two black holes, each about the size of Long Island, rapidly spun around each other several times per second before smashing together in a ca...

Hattie McDaniel (right) portrayed the servant Mammy in Gone With the Wind, a character that embodies insulting stereotypes. | Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images Gone with th...

The oceans of Animal Crossing: New Horizons are opening up. Today, Nintendo revealed a summer update for the Switch game, which will be launching on July 3rd and adds a very important feat...

Many people are faithfully wearing masks in order to prevent others from being infected with COVID-19. But while mask-wearing is important for public health, it’s also a big adjustment f...

When NASA sends astronauts back to the Moon, they’ll need a place to go to the bathroom when they reach the lunar surface. And in order to create the best Moon toilet the Solar System ha...

Through fire and fear, Paradise, California’s teens take control of their lives Continue reading… ...

Among the new AI features Apple announced at WWDC is hand washing detection for the Apple Watch. | Image: Apple AI has become an integral part of every tech company’s pitch to consume...

The Tesla Model 3 sold well enough for Tesla to be included in this year’s survey. | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge JD Power scored Tesla vehicles the worst among 32 major brands i...

Apple is greatly improving its gaming support in iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS. The biggest additions are support for controller button remapping, haptics, rumble, motion, and even the abili...

A member of the far-right militia, Boogaloo Bois, walks next to protestors demonstrating outside Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department Metro Division 2 just outside of downtown Charlotte,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will pay for news content from select publishers as part of a new licensing program announced today. It says the content will form part of ...

Jackson’s career at NASA began at the then-segregated West Area Computing Unit. | Image: NASA NASA has announced it will name its headquarters in Washington DC after the agency’s fir...

LG has announced a new pair of wireless earbuds that makes use of the company’s “UVnano” cleaning technology. The company previously debuted the concept last year with its Tone+ Free...

Image: Apple Apple announced at WWDC this week that you’ll be able to add a digital car key to your iPhone or Apple Watch to wirelessly unlock and start your car. The feature is part o...

Customers shop at a mall in Glendale, Arizona. | Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images There were 38,672 positive COVID-19 tests reported in the United States today, a new record hig...

Maciej Luczniewski/NurPhoto via Getty Images Cults prey on lonely and desperate people looking to belong to something, and as people migrate a bigger portion of their lives online, somet...

Photos by Sean O’Kane / The Verge As Tesla made its first public pitch to bring its Cybertruck factory to Austin, Texas on Tuesday, the company faced concerns from citizens about its t...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Amazon has announced that it’s launching a new Counterfeit Crimes Unit as the latest effort by the online retailer to fight counterfeit products on ...

Apple will start switching its Macs to its own ARM-based processors later this year, but you won’t be able to run Windows in Boot Camp mode on them. Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on...

Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images California is seeking to force Uber and Lyft to reclassify their drivers as employees, in a dramatic escalation of the state’s months-long war with the...

FuboTV announced that it signed a multiyear distribution deal with Disney to bring ESPN to its service, filling in the missing link that could make it one of the best over-the-top live TV ...

Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images A new bipartisan Senate bill is taking aim at the liability protections enjoyed by internet platforms like Facebook and YouTube. The Platform Account...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a formal complaint against Detroit police over what it says is the first known example of a wr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When you think of Slack, you probably think of a chat app that’s growing in popularity for businesses large and small. Originally designed by ac...

Netflix is set to introduce 59 new original things in July, including several new seasons of popular TV shows, entirely new series, new movies, new documentaries, and even some new anime. ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg Thinking about picking up a new Apple Watch? It’s never a bad idea to wait until there’s a good deal, and thankfully, those happen with some regulari...

Times Square on June 23, 2020 | Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images People traveling into New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut from states with high rates of positive COVID-19 tests will b...

Photo by Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images Twitter has banned a group that appeared to leak years of records from 200 police departments. The platform removed the account of Distribut...

Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Safari 14, the version of Apple’s browser that will ship with iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur, will let you use Face ID or Touch ID to log in t...

Tesla’s earliest Model S electric sedans shipped with a flawed battery back design that was prone to coolant leaks which could lead to fires, according to Business Insider. The report de...

Image: 林嘉雯 / Facebook Chen San-yuan, the Taiwanese “Pokémon Go grandpa,” has evolved his bike into a new form: a peacock-esque contraption with 64 smartphones mounted on the f...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google is rolling out the ability to have different Voice and Fi numbers on the same Google account. That could be handy if you want to use one service ...

The best Chromebooks for every type of user Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a formal complaint against Detroit police over what it says is the first known example of a wr...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you, like me, prefer typing on your laptop’s keyboard rather than the tiny iPhone keypad, or you just don’t want to switch devices to a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Wednesday, Google announced broad changes in its default data practices for new users, including a significant expansion in the company’s wil...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched an investigation into touchscreen failures on older Tesla Model S vehi...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Sonos plans to eliminate 12 percent of its global workforce. The company says the la...

You can catch up on all of the Witcher games on PC, and snag a preorder copy of Cyberpunk 2077 for $88 altogether at GOG.com. This special bundle is called the Ultimate RED collection, as ...

Full-length movies are coming to Fortnite’s new party royale island. Today, Epic Games announced that it will air three different Christopher Nolan movies in the island’s theater on Ju...

Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images The war on ‘Big Tech’ is more complicated than it looks Continue reading… ...

General Motors’ OnStar is branching out beyond the car. The automaker is launching a new smartphone app called Guardian for customers who want to access OnStar’s remote assistance serv...

Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge Nvidia is releasing a new driver update today that will support Microsoft’s DirectX 12 Ultimate and the latest GPU scheduling feature of the Windows 10 ...

Photo by Erin Schaff for The Verge After an abrupt takeover of the Open Technology Fund (OTF) last week, pressure is mounting against Michael Pack, the newly appointed CEO of the US Agen...

The latest pokémon adventure is a real-time, team-based strategy game called Pokémon Unite. The game is being developed by Tencent’s TiMi Studios, the same studio behind massive free-t...

An artistic rendering of Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base. | Image: Relativity Space Rocket startup Relativity Space is expanding its launch ...

Apple made a quiet and significant change to iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 this week, allowing users to set default email and browser apps. It’s a move that means iPhone and iPad owners will be a...

The Lumix G100 includes a 12-32mm lens and tripod for a special preorder price of $799.99 until August 1st | Panasonic Panasonic has announced the new Lumix G100 mirrorless camera (known...

Dieter Bohn / The Verge Widgets, hideable pages, App Library, and App Clips: a lot of new concepts for one update Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A coalition of AI researchers, data scientists, and sociologists has called on the academic world to stop publishing studies that claim to predict...

Photo by George Rose/Getty Images Ford pledged today to become carbon neutral by 2050, a goal that would bring the automaker in line with targets set by the landmark Paris climate agreem...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A weird thing about running a tech company is that if you are very successful, at some point you will also be operating a vast quasi-legal system....

Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Brazil’s Central Bank has suspended Facebook’s WhatsApp payments feature in the country, just over a week after the messaging service announced its...

Olympus has announced plans to get out of the camera business entirely, selling off its imaging division to an investment fund. Japan Industrial Partners, the company that bought the VAIO ...

Star Wars Episode 1: Racer, the unwieldily titled podracing video game that was maybe the second best thing to come out of the prequel trilogy after “Duel of the Fates,” has been relea...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon could be planning to bolster its Prime Video service, which is mostly known for its on-demand video offerings, with live TV, according to a...

After browsing for a new movie or TV show to watch on Netflix, people may throw something on before deciding 10 minutes in they’re just not that interested. Netflix’s new “remove fro...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is adding a new feature as part of its newly announced iOS 14 that will extend the lifespan of your AirPods. Apple says the operating sy...

Photo by Noah Riffe/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Twitter has continued its policy of labeling — but not removing — rule-breaking tweets from President Donald Trump. The company re...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The best streaming services for your buck Continue reading… ...

The PULSE algorithm takes pixelated faces and turns them into high-resolution images. | Image: Twitter / @Chicken3gg It’s a startling image that illustrates the deep-rooted biases of A...

Bungie is providing a novel way for Destiny 2 players to show their support for Black Lives Matter inside the game. Today, the developer started preorders for what it calls a “be heard�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The European Union plans to ban travel from the US when it reopens its borders on July 1st because of the Trump administration’s poor handling o...

iOS 14 is here, and it brings a bunch of big new features to Apple’s operating system — including a few that should look pretty familiar to Android users who have had similar functiona...

Mercedes-Benz is teaming up with Nvidia to develop a next-generation computing platform for vehicles that will support everything from over-the-air software updates to automated driving. T...

Apple and Twitter have joined the ranks of tech companies decrying the abrupt halt on a range of guest worker visas proclaimed yesterday by President Trump. The new restrictions would fall...

In a major policy shift for NASA, the space agency is making it possible for its own personnel — including astronauts — to fly on commercial suborbital spacecraft. These rockets are de...

For years, Apple has steadily revealed how the ARM-based chips in its mobile phones were catching up in performance to the beefier silicon you’d find inside a laptop or desktop — in 20...

Microsoft is launching a preview version of its antivirus software for Android today. The software giant revealed that Windows Defender was making its way to both iOS and Android earlier t...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Apple is bringing back the Mac’s iconic startup chime in macOS Big Sur. The company hinted it might return by playing the chime very prominently during...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Oculus is ending sales of its budget Oculus Go virtual reality headset and opening its Quest headset to a wider range of software. The company...

WireImage Hamilton uses three instances of “fuck” in its original Broadway incantation, but the movie adaptation heading to Disney Plus next month will drop two uses of the word to a...

Image: Signal In this week’s edition of our Vergecast interview series, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and policy editor Russell Brandom talk with cybersecurity expert and founder o...

Photo by Taylor Hill / Getty Images Segway announced Tuesday that it is ending production of its signature self-balancing scooter, the Segway Personal Transporter (PT). Manufacturing at ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Let me count the ways Continue reading… ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the co-founding of The Climate Pledge at the National Press Club on September 19, 2019 in Washington, DC. | Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Amazon A...

Image: Crown Channel If you’re not sure what to watch on Twitch, the team behind Twitch Prime hopes you’ll try tuning in to their new channel. The Crown Channel is meant to look a li...

Several movie theater chains are preparing to open their doors to the public over the next few weeks, and Fandango is launching a new feature to make it easier for people to find proper he...

Image: Wyze Wyze’s first outdoor camera — the appropriately titled Wyze Cam Outdoor — is a battery-powered, water-resistant, Wi-Fi security camera designed to be used outside. It ...

Image: OnePlus OnePlus is working on a “more affordable smartphone product line,” CEO Pete Lau confirmed in a forum post today. Although Lau doesn’t specifically name the new range...

Former OTF CEO Libby Liu. | Photo: Flickr / USC Public Diplomacy One of the US government’s strongest forces for internet freedom is in danger, and supporters are calling on the public...

Acer Enduro N3 rugged laptop. | Photo: Acer Acer has released Enduro, a new line of laptops and tablets designed to be used outdoors. The company claims the products can survive drops, e...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft showed off the future of mobile home screens a decade ago with Windows Phone. The key to the vibrant interface was Live Tiles, animated widgets ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’ve been looking for a high-capacity microSD card to give you a lot of storage space for game downloads on the Nintendo Switch or stor...

The Dell G7 17 is available now. | Image: Dell Dell announced a number of new gaming PCs and peripherals today, including an RGB keyboard, a curved monitor, and even a desktop. But the h...

The company’s new 27-inch curved gaming monitor costs $279.99. | Image: Dell Dell has announced a new 27-inch curved gaming monitor called the S2721HGF, which, at $279.99, is more affo...

Two of FX’s most anticipated shows, Y: The Last Man and American Horror Stories, are forgoing traditional TV airing to become FX on Hulu exclusives. Brian K. Vaughan’s popular comic bo...

Jack “CouRage” Dunlop and Tyler “Ninja” Blevins at the Fortnite World Cup in 2019. | Photo by Eric Ananmalay/ESPAT Media/Getty Images Mixer, the soon-to-be-shuttered streaming pl...

Acer’s new line of ConceptD products. | Image: Acer Acer is expanding its line of creator-targeted ConceptD computers to now include desktop PCs, monitors, and more standard laptop des...

Acer has announced its newest Chromebook today, the Chromebook Spin 713, which is verified as part of Intel’s Project Athena program. The Chromebook Spin 713 will contain 10th Gen Intel ...

A man holding a definitely real Swift 5 in a completely normal fashion | Photo: Acer Acer has a new version of its Swift 5 laptop, and it appears to be the first announced laptop powered...

Acer’s Predator Helios 700 is now configurable with the latest Intel and Nvidia components. | Image: Acer Acer has refreshed its lineup of Predator Helios and Triton gaming laptops wit...

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Superhuman is one of the most in-demand startups right now, with the invite-only app considered one of the most exclusive services in the tech industry. That’s impressive, for an email a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge “Passwords are one of the worst things on the internet,” Mark Risher, Google’s senior director for account security, identity, and abuse tol...

You can double or triple tap the back of your phone to activate certain commands. | Image via Federico Viticci / Twitter Yesterday at WWDC, Apple announced iOS 14, the latest version of...

The most famous Apple keynote slide in recent memory is one giant, single word with a period that slammed down with a little puff of dust in 2018: “No.” It was software and engineering...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Online harassment remains one of the internet’s hardest problems to fix, and new data suggests the problem is only getting worse for minority gr...

Illustrator by Alex Castro / The Verge Happy Worldwide Developer Conference to those who celebrate. I spent the weekend watching three stories unfold at the intersection of social networ...

A Japanese supercomputer has taken the top spot in the biannual Top500 supercomputer speed ranking. Fugaku, a computer in Kobe co-developed by Riken and Fujitsu, makes use of Fujitsu’s 4...

Rad Power Bikes, one of the top electric bike manufacturers in the US, is out with a new slimmed- and stripped-down city commuter called the RadMission Electric Metro Bike. This bike is no...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Monday, President Trump issued a proclamation suspending a range of visa programs — including the guest worker visas, like the H1-B, commonly...

Mac OS X is finally finished, with Apple confirming that it’s officially moving to macOS 11 with the newly announced Big Sur update after almost 20 years of OS X (or macOS 10.) That mean...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple today announced two major changes to how it handles App Store disputes with third-party developers. The first is that Apple will now allow d...

Photo by Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images Over 1,650 Google employees have signed an open letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding the company stop selling its technology to police forc...

At WWDC, Apple announced its latest software for all its devices: iOS 14, iPadOS 14, watchOS 7, and macOS Big Sur. But that new software won’t be coming to all of Apple’s currently sup...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple plans to extend its Find My network for locating real-world devices to third-party companies, the iPhone maker announced this afternoon during its...

Following in the footsteps of Trolls World Tour and Scoob!, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run will skip its theatrical release and head straight to video-on-demand marketplaces before...

Apple is finally allowing iPhone and iPad owners to alter default email and browser apps in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. The company briefly revealed the major change during a slide in the WWDC k...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge One of the biggest upgrades coming to tvOS 14 is one that Apple didn’t mention during today’s WWDC presentation. Buried on the preview page for the u...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge One of the biggest upgrades coming to tvOS 14 is one that Apple didn’t mention during today’s WWDC presentation. Buried on the preview page for the u...

Based on my Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok feeds, practically everyone is streaming Avatar: The Last Airbender on Netflix — and based on those feeds, practically everyone is putting up w...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge iOS 14 will finally let you search for emoji right from the emoji keyboard, according to Apple’s site listing all of the new iOS 14 features. Ri...

Michael Keaton is reportedly in talks to pick up the cowl again and reprise his role as the Dark Knight in Warner Bros. and DC Comics’ upcoming Flash movie, according to The Hollywood Re...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s WWDC 2020 was unique before it even began. It’s the first time Apple’s developer conference has been streamed exclusively online wit...

Image: Apple After it confirmed that future Macs will be powered by Apple Silicon, the company also announced that developers will soon have access to a Developer Transition Kit that wil...

At the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple announced a range of new privacy features that will be bundled into iOS 14, including new protections against user tracking on apps ...

Apple has announced that its new Macs that are powered by the company’s newly-announced Apple-built chips will be able to natively run iPhone and iPad apps, thanks to the shared architec...

Here’s a preview of what the new hover action looks like in Safari on macOS Big Sur | Apple Apple unveiled macOS Big Sur, its next major desktop software update, and its Safari browser...

Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware. Calling it a “historic day for the Mac,” Apple CEO Tim Cook detailed the transitions to PowerPC, OS X ...

Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and moving most of its streamers to Facebook Gaming as part of a strategic partnership it’s entering with the socia...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is closing its Mixer service on July 22nd and plans to move existing partners over to Facebook Gaming. The surprise announcement means M...

Image: Apple Apple today announced the latest version of its smartwatch operating system, watchOS 7, during its digital-only WWDC keynote. The update comes with some major new additions ...

Apple Apple announced iPadOS 14 today and with it comes multiple new features, including updates for the Apple Pencil. A new feature called Scribble makes handwriting on the iPad more se...

Apple is finally allowing iPad owners to alter default email and browser apps in iPadOS 14. The company briefly revealed the major change during a slide in the WWDC keynote today, noting t...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple has announced new features coming to its AirPods earbuds at WWDC: automatic switching between devices and a new “Spatial Audio” feature for 3D ...

Apple has announced at this year’s WWDC that the company’s adding a long-awaited feature to its default Maps app when iOS 14 drops: cycling directions. But Apple is only launching in N...

Image: Apple Apple has announced iPadOS 14, a new version of its operating system for the iPad that comes with a focus on improving app designs to take advantage of the tablet’s large ...

Swedish icebreaker Oden mapping in previously uncharted areas of Northern Greenland during the 2019 Ryder Expedition. The data were contributed to the Seabed 2030 Project. | Martin Jakobsso...

Image: Apple Apple today announced CarKey, a way to wirelessly unlock your car with your iPhone, at its at Worldwide Developers Conference. The feature is part of the newly revealed iOS ...

Image: Apple With iOS 14, Apple is introducing a couple of interesting new features for its Messages app. The biggest of these will benefit your group messages, with support for inline r...

Apple unveiled its latest iOS 14 operating system during WWDC today, and Siri is getting a big update. Siri will pop up with a new, larger cartoonish icon that appears when you summon the ...

Microsoft is launching the personal version of Microsoft Teams today in preview. It’s part of a broader effort by Microsoft to remain relevant with consumers and win them back after a se...

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After making a name for himself on YouTube by giving away lumps of cash to his friends, family, and unsuspecting strangers around the country, Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson is opening his ...

Image: Activision After a more than 20-year wait, a true sequel to 1998’s Crash Bandicoot: Warped is coming to PS4 and Xbox One on October 2nd for $59.99. Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s Ab...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Eero’s three-pack of mesh Wi-Fi routers is down to $200 at Amazon, which is $50 off the cost of the bundle. As far as complete mesh Wi-Fi systems are c...

Protestor throws a tear gas canister back towards police officers. | Photo by Stanton Sharpe/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Sarah Trad and Christina Lower were both caught by ...

Two of Nintendo’s fighting game series are crossing over. Today, the company announced the latest fighter to join the gigantic cast of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Switch: Min Min f...

A new look with familiar highs and familiar lows Continue reading… ...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images After rejecting an update last week, Apple has approved a new version of the subscription email app Hey. The approval, which came last week, ahead o...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Andrew Yang wants people to get paid for the data they create on big tech platforms like Facebook and Google, and with a new project launching...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple will start removing thousands of games from its Chinese App Store in July as a result of a policy that requires all paid games or games with...

Spotify Spotify wants to ensure you never forget a podcast advertiser’s promo code again. The company announced today that it’s testing a new feature called “In-App Offers” that ...

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is going to be entirely virtual this year, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be some really interesting stuff to see. The keynote will ...

Richard Branson’s space tourism venture, Virgin Galactic, will start coordinating private astronaut trips to the International Space Station for NASA — a new partnership aimed at incre...

The Galaxy Watch 3 is expected to feature a similar rotating bezel to the original Galaxy watch (pictured). | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Less than a week after getting a glimpse ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Fujifilm recently joined Canon and Panasonic in developing an app to let you use its high-end cameras as high-quality webcams, but Mac users have been le...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Apple is set to unveil its long-awaited Mac transition from Intel to ARM processors today at its online WWDC 2020 keynote, and analyst Ming-chi Kuo has i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Android’s upcoming AirDrop-style sharing feature, called Nearby Share (and referred to also as Nearby Sharing), may also come to Chrome on numer...

Photo by MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images [extreme Stefon voice]: This story has everything: A high-speed super-yacht, a secret disaster strike force, a Google co-founder, ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap’s vice president of diversity and inclusion apologized this weekend for the distribution of a Juneteeth filter that many people found offen...

The upper section is seen partially empty during President Trump’s campaign rally June 20 at the BOK Center in Tulsa. | Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images As part of a coordin...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon is ending support for its Dash Wand, an Alexa-enabled device that let shoppers scan grocery barcodes and order household essentials fro...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Monday, Apple will kick off its annual developer conference in the strangest and most contentious climate it has faced in many years. Not only ...

Photo: HBO In an era where everything is up for grabs for rebooting, Perry Mason is one of the strangest. The show takes its name from a 1957 CBS series that focused on the eponymous cri...

The upper section is seen partially empty during President Trump’s campaign rally June 20 at the BOK Center in Tulsa. | Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images As part of a coordin...

Photo by Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images Neighborhood social networking app Nextdoor says it is discontinuing its Forward to Police feature which let users send message board posts dir...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung Blu-ray players appear to be malfunctioning for hundreds of users, and no one is sure what the issue is, ZDNet reported. Some users report...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Friday that the company’s “Battery Day” event and its shareholders meeting, which was slated for July 7th, will bo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is ending the trial program of a service that sent users algorithm-selected prints from their Google Photos libraries, Droid Life reported....

Photo: Hulu I watched Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods over the weekend, and it’s just such a good reminder of the kind of film it sometimes feels like only he can make — where a bunch of p...

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote is happening on Monday, June 22nd, but in a very different form than usual, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The show must go ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Comcast will continue to offer free access to its 1.5 million public Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspots through the end of 2020, the company announced. “We ...

Alex Wong/Getty Images Facebook has removed a manipulated video posted on President Trump’s account after receiving a copyright complaint from the rights owners. The manipulated video...

Photo by Ben McCanna / Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) has announced that its members are voluntarily suspending operati...

Hulu is partnering with IMAX to exclusively carry 16 of the technology company’s documentaries in the United States, including A Beautiful Planet, Destiny in Space, and Into the Deep —...

Photo by Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images In an abrupt about-face, the movie theater chain AMC said Friday it would require guests to wear face masks when its theaters reopen, after CE...

Apple is closing several recently reopened retail stores in four US states after a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, Bloomberg reported. A total of 11 stores in Florida, Arizona, North Carolin...

Apple is closing several recently reopened retail stores in four US states after a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, Bloomberg reported. A total of 11 stores in Florida, Arizona, North Carolin...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snapchat is apologizing for a controversial Juneteenth filter that allowed users to “smile and break the chains,” saying the filter had not go...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla has told its workers they are allowed to take Juneteenth off as an “excused absence” after some had already showed up for work on the holiday...

Image: Disney Disney Plus has appeared to have quietly stopped offering new subscribers a free seven-day trial of the streaming service, as spotted by French pop culture site Numerama. ...

Photo courtesy Google Google is expanding its .new browser shortcuts to Google Meet, its video conferencing service that the company has heavily expanded in recent months due to a huge i...

Guinness World Records has reversed its 2018 decision to strip Billy Mitchell of his Pac-Man and Donkey Kong world records, according to Ars Technica, in what is the latest twist in a long...

Photo by Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images The AMC Theaters CEO Adam Aron says the chain would not require patrons to wear face masks —where not required by local governments— when ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snapchat’s controversial Juneteenth filter that allowed users to “smile and break the chains” appears to have been removed from the app. The...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Verge’s flagship podcast The Vergecast is split into two parts this week: WWDC predictions and a discussion on tech policy. First half ...

 A collection of art that’s kept me sane Continue reading… ...

Image via Filmgrab 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 consider the things it tells us...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In its latest filter blunder, Snapchat has debuted a Juneteenth filter that allows users to “smile and break the chains.” The filter was panne...

A strong processor and fast SSD don’t make up for a weak GPU Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft believes it’s time for antitrust regulators to fully investigate Apple’s App Store. Speaking during a Politico interview this week, ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has been working on a combination of AR and VR wearables for at least the last five years, and it’s this development process that’s been...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge You can now trade-in your old Mac at Apple Stores in the US and Canada. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman notes that Apple’s site has been edited to remove a d...

Google’s Area 120 team, an internal incubator that creates experimental apps and services, has launched Keen: a would-be Pinterest rival that draws on the search giant’s machine learni...

Image: Google In celebration of the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, Google has produced a video Doodle set to the first verse of the poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” often called �...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Japan’s government today released its coronavirus contact tracing app for iOS and Android. The apps rely on Apple and Google’s co-developed ex...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has labeled a video tweeted by President Trump as “manipulated media,” as first reported by The Washington Post. The label is primaril...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter doesn’t have a team dedicated to accessibility, instead relying on employees who volunteer their time above and beyond their usual dutie...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge A small group of Tesla employees and community organizers are holding a rally on Friday in the parking lot of the company’s Fremont, California car f...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This year, Electronic Arts, like many of the giant video game publishers, switched from what would normally have been a massive E3 press conferenc...

After a teaser trailer earlier this week, EA has finally shown off some actual gameplay footage for Star Wars: Squadrons, its new starfighter dogfighting game. As promised, the new title i...

Image: Respawn EA announced today that popular battle royale shooter Apex Legends will be coming to the Nintendo Switch and Steam this fall. The game has only been available on PC via Or...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook will spend $200 million to support black-owned businesses and organizations in the US, COO Sheryl Sandberg said in a blog post. It is one...

Image: Canoo The founder and first CEO of EV startup Canoo is leaving, the company has confirmed to The Verge. Stefan Krause, the former chief financial officer at both BMW and Deutsche ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is standing behind its decision to reject future updates for the iOS app of new email service Hey. In a letter sent to Hey creator Basecamp ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Like many social media platforms and apps, TikTok feeds are built using a recommendation algorithm that uses a number of tools and factors to pers...

Verily Life Sciences has announced an app-based health screening service for businesses and schools trying to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. The product, called Healthy at Work, wil...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Lime is expanding its subscription service LimePass to include daily and monthly passes. It’s an attempt by the scooter company to lock in c...

The highly anticipated Disney Plus streaming service, which will likely prove as essential as Netflix to many consumers, is now available. Disney Plus combines content from Disney, Marvel,...

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images Facebook has removed more than 80 ads placed by the Trump campaign for use of imagery linked to Nazism. The ads used the imagery of an inverted triangle...

Photo illustration by William Joel | Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call, Brian Cleary/Getty Images “30 percent is unconscionable,” says Congressman David Cicilline Continu...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TwitchCon San Diego, the streaming platform’s big annual conference in the US, has been canceled due to the pandemic. “Due to restrictions on...

Image: Alex Castro / The Verge OnlyFans allows social media influencers, including sex workers and adult content creators, to sell photos and videos to their audience through a subscript...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge EA’s Play Live event is happening exclusively online this year, along with every other in-person event that was supposed to happen at E3 2020, w...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge All-electric racing series Formula E has announced plans to resume and conclude its pandemic-interrupted sixth season in August. The series will put on...

Photo by Dante D’Orazio / The Verge If you’ve been wondering what could knock out one of the United States’ three big cellular carriers’ ability to deliver calls and text message...

Photo by Dante D’Orazio / The Verge If you’ve been wondering what could knock out one of the United States’ three big cellular carriers’ ability to deliver calls and text message...

Zack Snyder’s “Snyder Cut” of Justice League is expected to get its first big reveal at DC’s FanDome event in August, but the director tweeted out a tease from the upcoming HBO Max...

Image: Unit 2 Games Google Stadia’s upcoming exclusive game Crayta launches July 1st with support for a beta version of State Share, the cloud gaming service’s experimental tech that...

Image: Insomniac Games Insomniac Games has confirmed its upcoming PlayStation 5 launch title, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, will be about half the length of the original game. In a blog pos...

Image: HBO Watchmen premiered nine months before the recent mass protests against systemic racism and police brutality happened around the world, but the show feels more timely than ever...

Cyperpunk 2077 — the highly anticipated open-world RPG — has been delayed again and is moving from its planned September 17th release date to November 19th, developer CD Projekt Red an...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Russia will lift its nearly two-year ban on messenger app Telegram, Reuters reported. The country’s telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor said the compa...

There are too many streaming services, and all of them are fighting over content that feels like it’s bouncing back and forth between streaming sites on a daily basis. This has made site...

Photo: Picturehouse You’re kind of setting yourself up for failure when you tell someone a movie is surprising. The moment you say that, the person you’re talking to has no choice bu...

The new X1 Extreme (pictured) can be equipped with an Nvidia GeForce 1650 Ti GPU. | Image: Lenovo In case you were worried we might go a month without Lenovo announcing some new ThinkPad...

Pandora Pandora is giving podcast hosts more information about the listeners they reach on its platform starting today. The company just announced its new Podcast Analytics feature with ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is $100 right now ($30 off) for the 8GB version in black. If you fancy one of the other colors, like plum, twilig...

The original founders of World View Enterprises — a company aimed at using giant balloons to send payloads into the stratosphere — are launching a new venture together, one that will u...

A $110 tablet that’s good for watching Prime video and not much else Continue reading… ...

Apple’s series of macOS (and iOS) devices aren’t just part of a technology ecosystem — they’re part of a lifestyle. From iPhones to iPads to Mac laptops, the constellation of tech ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google is rolling out a software update that improves network performance for Nest Wifi and Google WiFi routers on slow network connections, the company...

Image: Nvidia Select Square Enix titles are returning to Nvidia’s cloud gaming service GeForce Now, Nvidia announced on Thursday. The new library of Square Enix games consists of 14 PC...

Spotify Spotify has a new podcast deal that’ll allow it to make narrative shows around DC Comics characters, like Batman and Harley Quinn. The company announced the multi-year, first-l...

Djay’s NeuralMix feature. | Photo: Algoriddim Algoriddim is adding an impressive new feature to its Djay app for iOS: a set of sliders that let you instantly fade out certain portions ...

There isn’t much downtime in The Last of Us Part II. As Ellie, driven by loss and trauma, players will spend hours shooting, stabbing, and strangling their way to vengeance. Ellie is a s...

Photo by Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images Parents are supporting their kids through intense but potentially lucrative careers Continue reading… ...

Microsoft is getting ready to launch its xCloud game streaming service later this year as part of Xbox Game Pass. The service will initially be powered by Xbox One S consoles in server bla...

A chart produced by Amazon shows the scale of the attack. | Image: Amazon Amazon Web Services recently had to defend against a DDoS attack with a peak traffic volume of 2.3 Tbps, the lar...

An image allegedly showing Lore Elisabeth Blumenthal throwing burning debris into a police sedan during protest in Philadelphia on May 30th. | Photo: US District Court for the Eastern Distr...

Images: Ford Ford announced late last year that the Mustang Mach-E will be the company’s first car to allow hands-free driving in certain situations. Today, the company is opening up a...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales Programming note: The Interface is off on Thursday. Back on Monday. It seems hard to believe now, but there was a time when political advertising was rela...

Photo by Matt McNulty - Manchester City/Manchester City FC via Getty Images Amazon will start streaming live Premier League football (soccer) games free on Twitch later this month. Twitc...

The extension links to specific text on a web page, highlighted yellow. | Screenshot: Web.Dev Link to Text Fragment is a new Chrome Extension from Google that lets you generate URLs to s...

Samsung has released its Health Monitor app in South Korea, enabling blood pressure tracking for the Galaxy Watch Active 2 smartwatch. The rollout is slightly ahead of schedule; Samsung pr...

In the image above, a field of pulsating blue spheres rearranges itself into geometric patterns. If that looks familiar, that means you probably watched Sony’s PlayStation 5 reveal last ...

In the image above, a field of pulsating blue spheres rearranges itself into geometric patterns. If that looks familiar, that means you probably watched Sony’s PlayStation 5 reveal last ...

With a huge chunk of the working world now working remotely, conference calls in Zoom or Skype have become a central part of day-to-day life. So Dell is adapting with a new Mobile Adapter ...

Kim Kardashian West has entered into a deal with Spotify to produce and host a new exclusive podcast based on her work with the Innocence Project. The deal follows Spotify’s landmark con...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is committing to spending more than $175 million on racial equity initiatives with a focus on financing black-owned businesses and supporti...

Image: VWIDtalk Volkswagen’s first all-electric SUV, the ID 4, has broken cover thanks to leaked images from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that were picked ...

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images The Department of Justice has released a proposal for changing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, urging Congress to pass a dramatic reduction...

Zynn is no longer paying users to watch videos and refer friends to the app, a practice that quickly rocketed the TikTok clone to the top of both Apple and Google’s app stores. The payme...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is testing a new method of selling subscription services with select Android developers that will allow customers to buy a subscription fro...

Horizon Forbidden West — the sequel to 2017’s Horizon Zero Dawn — won’t arrive on the PlayStation 5 until 2021, game director Mathijs de Jonge confirmed in a new video that offered...

Alex Castro Today, Twitch launches its proprietary streaming software, Twitch Studio, on Mac in open beta, according to a blog post on its website. It’s a smart move. The original vers...

Twitter is rolling out the ability to record audio snippets and attach them to your tweets. The new feature is available first on iOS and launching today for “a limited group of people,�...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google Assistant Smart Displays will be able to access AMP web articles starting later this summer, Google says. Alongside the AMP news, Google has also ...

Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP via Getty Images Over the last several weeks, social media has been filled with videos of police officers pepper-spraying, bludgeoning, and shooting protes...

Photo by Bradley Kappel for The Verge Lyft announced a plan on Wednesday to transition to “100 percent” electric or zero-emission vehicles by 2030. By working with automakers and ren...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom says it will begin allowing users of its videoconferencing software to enable end-to-end encryption of calls starting with a beta next month,...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Lucid Motors has announced that it will reveal the production version of its first all-electric luxury sedan, the Air, in an online event on S...

Hikaru Nakamura in 2017. | Photo by Andrew Halseid-Budd / Getty Images One of the fastest-growing games on Twitch is also one of the oldest. Over the past few months, the ancient board g...

Google Calendar has added Juneteenth as a holiday in the United States. Juneteenth dates back to June 19th, 1865, when Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to read feder...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge More companies are vocalizing their support for an antitrust case against Apple filed in the EU yesterday. Both Match Group, the owner of dating apps like...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T has confirmed that it’s cutting thousands of jobs and closing hundreds of stores, Axios reports. While the company has not confirmed th...

The Zendure SuperTank is loaded with ports, and its display shows the current battery level. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Zendure’s SuperTank portable battery that’s...

In addition to announcing a new version of Pokémon Snap and a game where pocket monsters help kids brush their teeth, today, The Pokémon Company also announced an adorable new puzzle gam...

Photo by Leigh Vogel for The Verge On Wednesday, a group of Senate Republicans introduced a new proposal to limit the immunity granted by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, s...

There’s a new Pokémon game out today. No, not the Isle of Armor expansion for Pokémon Sword and Shield (although that’s also available today). It’s called Pokémon Smile, and it’...

It’s finally happening: Pokémon Snap is making a comeback. The classic N64 game where players simply capture photos of pocket monsters is on its way to the Nintendo Switch. We don’t k...

Employees at Crisis Text Line tried telling the board about a pattern of racial insensitivity at the company — but when that didn’t work, they went to Twitter Continue readi...

Game developer Zynga is launching a revised version of its once-popular Scrabble-like web game Words with Friends exclusively for Amazon Alexa today. The new game, called Word Pop, is a vo...

An artistic rendering of Rocket Lab’s upgraded Photon spacecraft, with CAPSTONE attached | Image: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab is known for launching tiny satellites into Earth, but the compa...

Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images As protests against racial police violence have spread across the US, we’ve seen how video captured on mobile devices ...

GE Energy 1.5 megawatt wind turbines mounted on 80 meter towers  | Photo by Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images GE announced today that it’s developing skyscraper-sized wind tu...

Images: Arrival Arrival’s all-electric delivery vans have won the UK startup a lot of buzz and ample funding from grownup companies like UPS and Hyundai, all before any of those vehicl...

I started this morning all riled up and ready to write a newsletter about how Google is using its market power in one segment — Gmail — to give itself a potentially unfair advantage in...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I. Say your company makes a new email platform. In 2020, that means building not just a website but also an app — several of them, actually. Yo...

Facebook’s new political information center will give users information on how and where to vote. | Image: Facebook Critics say Facebook is actively enabling the spread of political m...

The design of the Galaxy Watch 3 appears similar to the original Galaxy Watch (pictured) released in 2018. | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Images of Samsung’s unannounced Galaxy W...

The new season of Fortnite is finally here — and it brought with it a flood. Today Epic Games released the long-delayed third season for Fortnite: Chapter 2, following a massive event ea...

Image: Logitech Logitech announced today that it plans to put labels communicating the carbon impact of products on all product packaging and on its website. The company says it expects ...

Photo by Dante D’Orazio / The Verge If you’ve been wondering what could knock out one of the United States’ three big cellular carriers’ ability to deliver calls and text message...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook aims to improve the resources it providers American voters and will attempt to help more people register to vote ahead of the 2020 US ele...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook aims to improve the resources it providers American voters and will attempt to help more people register to vote ahead of the 2020 US ele...

Qualcomm is launching its next 5G chipset today, the Snapdragon 690, the first product in its 6-series chips to get support for the next-generation networking standard — although it’ll...

PS4 and Xbox One owners now have the chance to play the PC version of The Witcher 3 at no extra cost. The Witcher 3 originally released in 2015 on all three of those platforms, but the PC...

Image: Hey.com Apple is threatening to remove Hey.com from the App Store if the ambitious new email service doesn’t begin offering an in-app subscription and sharing a cut of its reven...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images United and American Airlines said Monday that they will temporarily ban passengers who don’t comply with a new industry-wide mandatory mask policy...

Photo: DoorDash DoorDash, the high-flying food delivery startup, was sued by San Francisco’s district attorney Tuesday for alleged unfair business practices and worker misclassificatio...

Image: @Onleaks and Pigtou Renders for an unannounced Samsung tablet, the Galaxy Tab S7 Plus, show that the device could have a big 12.4-inch screen (via 9to5Google). That screen size wo...

Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images A new study analyzing COVID-19 contact tracing apps conducted by Amnesty International has found that Bahrain and Kuwait are using th...

Image: Bose Bose is giving up on its augmented reality project, two years after debuting the idea at SXSW. As first reported by Protocol, employees working on AR at the company have left...

Photo by Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto via Getty Images Microsoft is being a little warier than other companies when it comes to welcoming consumers back to its retail stores. Just today, App...

Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images Google says it’s banning the site Zero Hedge from its Google Ads program for racist content — but it reversed plans to ban a second site, The Fe...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Only a couple months after the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint was completed, the enormous combined telecom company has now announced layoffs a...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google is partnering with Parallels to bring native Microsoft Office applications and other legacy enterprise Windows applications to Chromebooks. Googl...

Neopets The first Neopets animated series will launch in fall 2021, according to JumpStart CEO Jim Czulewicz. JumpStart acquired the Neopets franchise from Viacom in 2014, and the new TV...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge You don’t need Google’s own gamepad or dongle to try its Stadia cloud gaming service, particularly now that it works on practically any An...

Seattle gaming convention PAX West will not be happening this Labor Day weekend. Instead, it will shift into a nine-day online conference that takes place in the middle of September, the c...

Neo Cab is one of the many games you’ll get when you donate to this Humble Bundle Humble Bundle has launched its Fight for Racial Justice Bundle, which contains over $1,200 worth of PC...

Image: Hey Hey, the newly announced email service, has a unique product on its slate of offerings: a rare, exclusive two- or three-letter email address, like [email protected] or [email protected] fo...

This archive is cataloging what New York streets look like throughout every day | images: New York City’s Department of Transportation Since time machines are still not a thing, there�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is planning to build its new Chromium-based Edge browser into Windows 10 later this year. The new browser has been available since Janua...

For six years, a mysterious group has used forged documents and a network of burner accounts to spread misinformation promoting Russian national interests, according to a new report from G...

Etsy Etsy is giving iOS users the ability to see what art will look like on their wall before they buy it. People can pull up any painting, photograph, or print that’s available on Ets...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In 2020, almost anyone in America has the ability to record and instantly share high-definition video at the press of a button. Smartphone cam...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is taking another step toward its Meet integration with Gmail today, bringing the videoconferencing service directly into Gmail for iOS and...

Triumph, the premium British motorcycle brand most preferred by James Bond, is out with a new two-wheeler of a different sort. The Trekker GT is the world-famous motorcycle maker’s first...

Photo by BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images A cheap, common steroid improves survival rates for COVID-19 patients on ventilators, according to a press release from the research team. The...

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DC Comics is preparing to host a 24-hour event this August that will include teasers and announcements for upcoming comics, games, TV shows, and films, including The Batman, Shazam!, Aquam...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge A few weeks ago, I highlighted a $100 deal on a refurbished set of Jabra Elite 75t headphones. That price remains unbeatable, though if you aren’t want...

Image: Sonos Sonos has announced a new color option for its portable $399 Move speaker: it now comes in a “lunar white” design in addition to the grayish-black color the company alre...

Image: Boston Dynamics Robotmaker Boston Dynamics has finally put its four-legged robot Spot on general sale. After years of development, the company began leasing the machine to busines...

Calendar app Fantastical is getting its first major update since developer Flexibits rebooted the app with a new subscription model back in January, and it’s focused on adding a variety ...

Photo illustration by William Joel | Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images A Vergecast interview Continue reading… ...

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

Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz, who stepped down as CEO in May. | Photo by Scott Olson / Getty Images The dream of mixed reality is on life support Continue reading… ...

Image: HTC HTC’s ailing smartphone division has unveiled a pair of new handsets, including the company’s first 5G phone. The HTC U20 5G and HTC Desire 20 Pro are coming to the Taiwan...

Riot Games just took a big step toward turning its team shooter Valorant into the next big competitive game. Today, the developer announced the Valorant Ignition Series, a competitive circ...

Image: Adobe Adobe is making it easier to move images between its two biggest iPad apps. After an update today, Lightroom on iPad will have an “Edit in Photoshop” button that will se...

Image: Dropbox Dropbox is launching a bunch of new features today, many of which are security-focused, including the password manager that was first spotted earlier this month; a “vaul...

Turning down Pittsburgh’s lights might help the city see stars — but first, astronomers need a map of the city’s light pollution Continue reading… ...

Amazon, which is currently being sued for allegedly failing to protect workers from COVID-19, has unveiled a new AI tool it says will help employees follow social distancing rules. The com...

Image: Yelp As restaurants across the US begin to reopen, Yelp is rolling out new tools to allow business owners to share the safety measures they’re taking to keep both customers and ...

Image: Nintendo Jump Rope Challenge is a charming new free game from Nintendo that uses a pair of Joy-Cons to jump a virtual rope. You hold the Joy-Cons as though they’re jump-rope han...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The European Commission is opening two antitrust investigations into Apple’s App Store and Apple Pay practices today. The first investigation wi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last week I wrote about a set of predictions that I got spectacularly wrong. Today, to soothe my fragile ego, let’s talk about a case where I wa...

Microsoft is launching a new Money in Excel feature that’s designed to help the millions of people who use Excel to track budgets and personal finances. Money in Excel is a template and ...

Photo by David Bush / The Verge The Tesla Model S Long Range Plus now has an EPA-rated range of 402 miles, making it the first electric vehicle to receive a rating of over 400 miles from...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is facing yet another European antitrust complaint, after Rakuten’s Kobo subsidiary complained to the European Commission about Apple’s ...

Photo: Lego Mario is making the jump from the digital worlds of the Mushroom Kingdom to a new — but fitting — collaboration with Lego that lets players build their own IRL Super Mari...

Zynn, the Chinese video sharing app that’s a near button-for-button clone of TikTok, has been removed from Apple’s App Store. The app was previously taken down from Google’s Play Sto...

The Hue A21 White bulb. | Photo: Signify The Philips Hue line is getting a few new products today, the most popular of which is likely to be a new bulb that’s much brighter than typica...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T customers were mystified on Monday when their calls stopped going through, in what turned out to be a nationwid...

Akili Interactive It might not look like much of a video game, but Akili Interactive’s EndeavorRX, formerly Project EVO, may go down in history: it’s the first video game that can le...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple on Monday touted the findings of a new study from economic consulting firm Analysis Group that says the App Store was responsible for $5...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple on Monday touted the findings of a new study from economic consulting firm Analysis Group that says the App Store was responsible for $5...

Ferrari has released a six minute video called Le Grand Rendez-Vous, a modern spin on C’était un Rendez-vous, the classic 1976 single-take short film that features a driver recklessly t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said Monday that the platform is taking steps to “better support the black community” and will review how it recomm...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton announced today that users now have the option to select nonbinary as their gender, as part of the company’s broader commitment to P...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton announced today that users now have the option to select nonbinary as their gender, as part of the company’s broader commitment to P...

Image: Apple Apple has released a Mac version of its Apple Developer app, a week before its Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off. Apple initially launched the app in late 2019, but ...

The US Department of Transportation launched a new voluntary program to collect and share data from autonomous vehicle operators. Companies testing AVs on public roads are invited to submi...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google is opening up its Google Maps Platform to everyone so developers can incorporate Maps data into their games, the company announced on Monday....

Microsoft is expanding the number of participants visible during a Teams meeting to 49, the company announced in a blog post Monday. The maximum number of participants in a private Teams m...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon are experiencing network issues across the US, according to user reports on Downdetector and on social media. ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T customers are experiencing issues placing calls across the US, according to user reports on Downdetector and on...

Photo courtesy Google Many years ago, when I was studying ASL (American Sign Language), my teachers used to depend on separate devices that would hook into their TV sets to supply closed...

Matt Petit - Handout/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has decided to delay the Oscars by two months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 93r...

Things are getting weird on the Fortnite island. Today’s much-anticipated event, called simply “The Device,” was a confusing yet thrilling ride, and one that hints at some big change...

ThePsychicArtist It’s been 87 days since Governor Andrew Cuomo issued social-distancing guidelines in New York. Eighty-seven days trying to read the books gathering dust on my shelves ...

eBay new logo STOCK Six former eBay employees have been charged with a bizarre stalking campaign against an e-commerce newsletter. The Department of Justice alleges that James Baugh, Dav...

I don’t think of streaming services as heroes, mostly because streaming services are not real people, and most of them are owned by multibillion-dollar conglomerates with no interest in ...

Photo by GEORGE FREY/AFP via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration is withdrawing emergency authorization for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as treatments for COVID-19, the a...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s back-to-school promotion for 2020 is an especially good one if you’re in need of some headphones. At Apple’s education store, students and...

The kit comes with instructions on how to build five robots. | Image: Lego Lego’s Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit is a new set that lets kids build and design robots. You get 949 pieces ...

EA has announced a new Star Wars game, Star Wars: Squadrons, a first-person space combat game that will have players flying the series’s famous starfighters in head-to-head single-player...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon’s Echo Studio is its first great-sounding smart speaker, and you can get it for $170 today. That’s $30 off its regular price, which we only sa...

WhatsApp After testing a beta version in India, WhatsApp has launched in-app payments in Brazil, the company announced in a blog post on Monday (via TechCrunch). The payments are enabled...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge Apple will begin selling an SSD kit for the Mac Pro that allows buyers to add more storage to the high-end desktop computer. The kit, which Apple tells...

Cameo Cameo has a new way for fans to interact with celebrities: Zoom calls. The company launched a video call option over the weekend, called Cameo Live, where people can, instead of a ...

Niantic has announced more information about this year’s Pokémon Go Fest, which is shifting to an online event because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tickets go on sale today for $14.99 thro...

The Samsung Galaxy A71 5G is coming first to T-Mobile and Sprint. | Image: Samsung Samsung’s Galaxy A71 5G, which sits at the top of its midrange A-series lineup, will launch in the US...

The 49-inch Samsung Odyssey G9 gaming monitor | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung has opened up preorders for both of the new, curved QHD gaming monitors that debuted at CES 2020....

Image: Epic Games Fortnite’s next big in-game event is happening soon. An ominous countdown in the Fortnite lobby, in Midas’ room in the battle pass menu, and above the central Agenc...

It’s not as grainy as the original, but it’s an otherwise authentic re-make. | Screenshot: Lee Carvello’s Putting Challenge In season 7 episode 11 of The Simpsons, everyone’s goi...

Sony showed off its PlayStation 5 console design last week and briefly teased the OS, now Sony’s VP of UX design at PlayStation, Matt MacLaurin, is promising an overhauled user interface...

With the world now in a seemingly permanent state of crisis, you may not be in the market for a new email address. And why would you be? Even in the best of times, getting a new email addr...

Samsung is no stranger to themed special-edition smartphones, having offered Galaxy phones emblazoned with Batman logos and Star Wars themes in the past. The latest collaboration is a Gala...

Photo by Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance via Getty Images After four commercial publishers filed a lawsuit earlier this month, the Internet Archive ended its National Emergency Librar...

Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Germany’s health minister said Sunday that its contact tracing smartphone app will be launched this week, Reuters reported. The app...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge After initially postponing it from June to September, organizers have now canceled Computex 2020 due to the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has restored custom Xbox Live gamerpics, Windows Central reported. The software giant turned off the ability to upload gamerpics, club p...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Tesla has started adding a wireless phone charger and USB-C ports to Model 3 vehicles built at its Fremont, Calif. factory, Elektrek reported. As first...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It might not necessarily make that early Monday morning video call more fun, but Microsoft Teams will now let users upload their own photos for cu...

Persona 4 Golden, the enhanced version of Persona 4 for PlayStation Vita, is launching for PC via Steam. The game is available as a standard version for $19.99 or a deluxe edition — whic...

Image: Summer Game Fest Even if the world’s biggest video game expos have been canceled this year, we’re being treated to an unprecedented array of virtual events in their place — ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has reinstated the account for markets blogging site Zero Hedge, and says its decision to suspend the account for “platform manipulation...

Falcon 9 launched 58 Starlink satellites and three Planet Skysats to orbit, then returned to Earth. | SpaceX SpaceX launched 58 new Starlink satellites on its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturda...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Father’s Day in the US is coming up on Sunday, June 21st. That’s next week, so you still have time to do some shopping. Given that the COVID-19 pand...

Photo: Patti Perret / Orion Pictures I watched Spirited Away a few weeks ago for the first time in years, and it was just such a stunning encapsulation of how good Studio Ghibli is at bu...

Photo illustration by William Joel | Photography by Michael B. Thomas/AFP via Getty Images,  Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Amazon, Apple, Facebook and their peers put out stateme...

Wonder Woman 1984 and Christopher Nolan’s Tenet are being delayed as studios grapple with when they can start releasing their biggest movies in theaters around the world. Tenet will now ...

Dieter Bohn / The Verge There’s a new episode of The Vergecast to fill you in on all of the news from this week. Join Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and a rotation of other reporters and ed...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Light, the company behind the Nokia 9’s unique array of five rear cameras, has given up on its unconventional effort to revolutionize the cameras in ...

Just weeks after the launch of HBO Max, which added to the already confusing HBO product lineup of HBO, HBO Go, and HBO Now, WarnerMedia is making some changes in an attempt to reduce some...

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Elon Musk’s Boring Company is already looking to dig more tunnels in Las Vegas, Nevada, after it finished excavating the first two under the city’s...

Sony has finally shown off what the PlayStation 5 will look like, but there’s one very big question about the design that’s still unclear: just how big is the PlayStation 5? We’ll l...

Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Images of police officers using bikes to violently suppress protests have prompted a forceful reply from the cyclin...

Insomniac Games has confirmed that the newly announced Spider-Man: Miles Morales will be a standalone title for the PlayStation 5, quashing rumors that the title was simply a remastered ve...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The state of New York has the most confirmed cases and deaths of COVID-19, and a new report by The Wall Street Journal details how the state’s p...

Photo by Ezra Shaw / Getty Images Peloton enjoyed huge demand for its high-end exercise bikes in the first quarter of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, which kept gyms closed and ant...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has announced the results of its first Deepfake Detection Challenge, an open competition to find algorithms that can spot AI-manipulated ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Beats Solo Pro wireless on-ear headphones with active noise cancellation are $230 at Best Buy and Amazon, which is $20 cheaper than the best deal we�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon has a new student discount offer for college students, offering a $10-per-month discount on a single line or $25-per-month discount on two...

COVID-19 testing at a pop-up site in New York City. | Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images In January, early reports out of China started to hint that people infected with the co...

via IMDb 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 consider the things it tells us about tod...

Image: Sony Sony finally revealed its PlayStation 5 console hardware this week, and while the console design will undoubtedly be labeled divisive, the real surprise was Sony’s plans fo...

Image: Sony Ahead of the long-awaited arrival of the next generation of video game consoles, Microsoft had clearly grabbed the initiative. Its reveal of the Xbox Series X at the Game Awa...

Zoom says it’s working on new features that will allow it to block users based on their geographical location after admitting it recently suspended three user accounts based in Hong Kong...

Planetary Leland Melvin never thought he would be a NASA astronaut when he was growing up in Lynchburg, Virginia. “I didn’t think about becoming an astronaut because I didn’t see s...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge YouTube has warned against videos that try to game its Adsense system by encouraging viewers to repeatedly watch the video or click its ads to dr...

Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP via Getty Images Sports are gradually returning to our TV screens after the coronavirus pandemic brought virtually all competition around the world to a sud...

On Thurssday Snap held its second-ever partner summit as a virtual event, announcing a new suite of products and developer tools for Snapchat. The inaugural event was one of the more memor...

Jim Keller is an industry veteran who previously worked at Apple, AMD, and Tesla. | Image: Intel Veteran chip designer Jim Keller has left Intel after just two years at the firm. Intel s...

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Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images T-Mobile’s new CEO tweeted “Bye-bye Tucker Carlson” multiple times this week and said his company will no longer sponsor Carlson’s Fox Ne...

Image: Volkswagen Volkswagen is delaying the release of certain versions of the all-electric ID 3 because the car’s software isn’t ready, confirming months of reports from German out...

Image: Petrana Radulovic Sony finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5 today and it certainly... stands out. You won’t be able to miss it next to your TV or your on your desk. ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap CEO Evan Spiegel told employees that it would keep its diversity numbers private because they might perpetuate the belief that Silicon Valley...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over on Reddit (and as highlighted by Android Police and 9to5Google), someone has posted a simple way of watching YouTube videos in a web browser ...

In case you weren’t watching the live-streamed event, Sony showed off a slate of games, including a few exclusives, coming to the PlayStation 5. The wait for details on next-gen games ...

Image: Extremely OK Games Indie gaming storefront Itch.io is currently offering arguably the best video game bundle in history: more than 1,500 games and counting for just $5, with all p...

Sony officially revealed what the PlayStation 5 console will look like. Alongside it, the company also announced a range of accessories for the new console, including a wireless headset, a...

Image: Sony Sony had one big surprise it snuck into the final minutes of its PlayStation 5 reveal event: a digital-only version of the upcoming next-gen console. Simply called the PS5 D...

Image: Sony Sony announced Resident Evil Village, the eighth entry in Capcom’s Resident Evil series, during its PlayStation 5 event today. The game will be released in 2021. Village ap...

A remake of Demon’s Souls, FromSoftware’s punishing action roleplaying game, is coming to PlayStation 5, Sony announced today. Bluepoint Games, which also developed the PlayStation 4 r...

Sony is finally revealing what the PlayStation 5 looks like. After nearly an hour of PS5 game announcements, Sony revealed the hardware design after teasing it for the duration of its PS5 ...

A Horizon Zero Dawn sequel, titled Horizon Forbidden West, is coming exclusively to PlayStation 5. Guerrilla Games is working on a follow-up, announced today, to the 2017 action roleplayin...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is adding its Voice Match and default speaker selection features to all Google Assistant-compatible devices, the company announced Thursday...

Image: Sony The co-creators of indie hit Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP are back after nearly a decade with a new game, called Jett: The Far Shore, coming to Sony’s PlayStation...

Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the sequel to 2018’s PS4-exclusive Spider-Man, is officially heading to the PS5, Sony announced today at its PlayStation 5 gameplay event. The original Spider-...

Photo By Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images After widespread outcry over racist moderation systems, Nextdoor is reshaping its policies on how its communities deal with discussi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch plans to start automatically scanning clips of live streams for copyrighted music following a wave of takedown requests on years-old videos...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service is still riddled with limitations, but one of the biggest hurdles to adoption may have just disappeared...

Dieter Bohn / The Verge One of the Android 11 beta features that I was most looking forward to was accessing the media controls in the quick menu. But after my Pixel 3 updated, I was sur...

A year after quitting the company over differences with CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the company’s direction, Chris Cox is returning to Facebook as its chief product officer. The company sai...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has followed competitors Amazon and IBM in restricting how it provides facial recognition technology to third parties, in particular to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is launching a $100 million fund to “amplify” the voices of black creators on its platform by developing talent and funding new shows....

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Research lab OpenAI, which started as a nonprofit with the goal of mitigating the potential harms of artificial intelligence, has announced its fi...

Snap today announced Minis, a suite of miniature applications made by third-party developers that run inside of Snapchat. Minis are built using HTML and enable a range of experiences from ...

John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images In an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is urging t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ford has spent the last few years promising it will make an all-electric version of its extremely popular pickup truck, the F-150. Now the company...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is launching a $100 million initiative to promote racial equality for people of color with a focus on “education, economic equality, and c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s virtual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote will take place on Monday, June 22nd at 1PM ET, the company announced today. Apple has a...

Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to limit face-to-face association, most of us are relying on video calls to keep in touch with work colleagues, fam...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Amazon and eBay to stop selling pesticides that falsely claim to kill the novel coronavirus. Th...

A still taken from Selma. | Image: Paramount Pictures Several films that feature a cast of predominantly black actors — many of which were directed by black filmmakers — are availabl...

Image: Activision / Infinity Ward Some Xbox players hoping to download Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s much-anticipated fourth season today have discovered that the patch is 40GB larger...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge Samsung’s Galaxy S20 Ultra is $300 off for the first time at Amazon. This phone usually costs $1,400, and today’s sale brings it down to $1,100, le...

Image: Activision Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s latest season launches today, bringing with it a slew of changes to its Warzone battle royale spinoff and the addition of fan favorite ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of tech platforms has announced a new initiative aimed at combating online child sexual abuse, CNBC reported. Facebook, Google, Microsoft,...

Nintendo is hosting one of the biggest sales yet on Switch games, knocking 30 percent off the regular $60 price of titles that rarely see much of a discount, like New Super Mario Bros. U D...

If you’ve been longing to learn more about the PlayStation 5, Sony’s new console, you’ll want to tune into the company’s live stream event that starts at 4PM ET / 1PM PT, Thursday,...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge How Boston Dynamics’ engineers are upgrading the company’s four-legged Spot from their basements and backyards Continue readin...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The European Union is set to file formal antitrust charges against Amazon over its use of third-party seller data, The Wall Street Journal reports...

Motorola’s least expensive phones give you what you pay for Continue reading… ...

A man raises his fist during “Justice for Black Lives,” at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, MA on June 06, 2020. | Photo by Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images ...

Image: Adobe Adobe is launching a new app today called Photoshop Camera that’s filled with a bunch of very elaborate filters that can change your face and the world around you. Some of...

Writing, as represented in pop culture, is often shown in one of two ways, both a fantasy. It is either a lucrative vocation that affords free spirits a comfortable lifestyle where they ar...

The Hemp Headphone is a ‘slow burn,’ according to the company. | Image: Grado Grado is no stranger to building headphones out of weird and wonderful materials. Alongside its regular ...

Our faces have never been more vulnerable. Facial recognition algorithms make it easy to identify individuals from a single snap — a fact that’s particularly relevant at a time of prot...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge The official beta for the next version of Android is out now, and if you have a spare Pixel phone, I really do recommend you check it out. If you don’t...

Artist: William Joel One of the big rules on Facebook is that you have to use your real name. This policy has created some controversy over the years, since it makes life harder for some...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The EU is stepping up efforts to combat online disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, requesting that US tech giants produce monthly repor...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The EU is stepping up efforts to combat online disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, requesting that US tech giants produce monthly repor...

A shocked face emoji is shown as one of the potential reactions. | Image: Apple Twitter is developing a new feature that would let users react to tweets with emoji, according to app rese...

Pocket Casts for iOS. | Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Apple has removed Pocket Casts, the popular iOS and Android podcast client, from the App Store in China. The Cyberspace Administra...

Image: Amazon Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite now comes in two new colors, plum and and sage (via The Digital Reader). That means the Paperwhite is now available in four different colors �...

After nearly a month of back-and-forth, Grubhub has walked away from a potential acquisition from Uber and will instead merge with European company Just Eat Takeaway. The all-stock deal is...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is announcing a one-year moratorium on allowing law enforcement to use its controversial Rekognition facial recognition platform, the e-com...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla’s stock price hit $1,000 for the first time on Wednesday, meaning the Silicon Valley company has now passed Toyota in market capitalizatio...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Here’s all the news about the Android 11 beta Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Wednesday, Twitter announced that it will begin testing a new feature that will prompt users to think before they tweet articles they haven’t...

Standard Samsung Galaxy S20 | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung released a new model of the Galaxy S20 with support for Verizon’s Ultra Wideband millimeter-wave 5G network last...

Image: Google Under normal circumstances, Google would have introduced its Pixel 4A smartphone by now. Last year’s Pixel 3A and 3A XL upended what consumers could expect from a $400 ph...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook is partially lifting its advertising ban on face masks and will now allow third-party businesses to advertise cloth masks and other non...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge Android 11’s first public beta has arrived today, and it brings a bunch of big new features to Google’s operating system — including a few that s...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Android 11’s developer preview phase has been kicking around for the past few months, but now it’s in public beta. My colleague Dieter Bohn got an in...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hackers for hire have targeted thousands of individuals as part of campaigns against environmental advocacy groups, journalists, and others, accor...

Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Tracking the spread of COVID-19 could help fight the pandemic — but a lot of people aren’t answering the phone when contact tracers call. To g...

Image: Warner Bros. Following a scathing opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times by 12 Years a Slave writer John Ridley in which he called for the removal of Gone with the Wind from HBO M...

Photo: Change.org A Change.org petition demanding accountability for the killing of George Floyd has come under criticism for a misleading fundraising feature. In a Medium post on Tuesda...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Intel’s 3D-stacked Lakefield processors are finally getting an official debut after months of previews, promising to bring a smaller, more versa...

Bowers & Wilkins Bowers & Wilkins’ PX5 on-ear wireless headphones with noise cancellation are $80 off at both Best Buy (available for delivery or curbside pickup) and Amazon. Y...

Photo by Andrej Sokolow / Picture Alliance via Getty Images Cruise’s self-driving cars are back on the road in San Francisco, but the company may be skirting the city’s shelter-in-pl...

No Man’s Sky is heading to Xbox Game Pass on June 11th, along with a Windows 10 version. Developer Hello Games announced that, beginning tomorrow, the game will be available with cross-p...

Chinese video app Zynn, a clone of the hugely popular Chinese video app TikTok, has been removed from Google’s Play Store following accusations of plagiarism. As reported by Wired this ...

Babylon Health, one of the biggest players in the growing telehealth market, has admitted that a data breach in its app allowed a small number of users in the UK to view recordings of othe...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge We knew ARM-based Mac processors were coming, but Mark Gurman is reporting at Bloomberg that Apple will announce the transition at its online-only WWDC ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today felt like an unusual lull in the intersection of our many unfolding national and global crises, and so I thought I’d take the opportunity ...

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images AMC has reiterated its hope to reopen the company’s cinemas in July after posting a staggering loss, The Wall Street Journal reports. On an earnings ca...

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images AMC has reiterated its hope to reopen the company’s cinemas in July after posting a staggering financial loss, The Wall Street Journal reports. On an e...

Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch Reddit has named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors. In addition to running the well-known accelerator, Seibel ...

“Fleets,” Twitter’s take on Snapchat/Instagram-style stories, just became available in India. The feature is gradually rolling out around the world; after initially launching in Braz...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Honda’s global operations have been hit with a ransomware attack and the Japanese automaker is still working to get everything back online. ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Streaming service Quibi has updated its iOS app to support streaming to a television using Google Chromecast. The update, released Tuesday, arrive...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Four United States senators have called on the Federal Communications Commission to take a “fresh look” at Section 230 of the Communications De...

Image: Facebook Facebook is launching its revamped news tab in the US today, reports TechCrunch, and the launch will include a dedicated local news section among other topics, including ...

HP The need for a home / office printer has increased as more of us are working or schooling from home. You could be a parent who needs to print out workbooks for your child. Or you may ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Panasonic is making it easier to use its mirrorless cameras as webcams via a USB cable, thanks to a new beta version of its Lumix Tether app (via Engadge...

Photo by Alfredo Martinez/Getty Images The 3M corporation has filed suit against a third-party Amazon seller called KMJ Trading Inc, which allegedly sold more than $350,000 worth of N95 ...

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Image: Bungie Game developer Bungie detailed the future roadmap of its sprawling online shooter Destiny 2 on Tuesday in a Twitch live stream packed with news about where the game is goin...

Destiny 2 is coming to the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, and today Bungie has given additional details on just what that transition will look like when the ports release this holiday se...

Signal’s new transfer feature in action. | Image: Signal Encrypted messaging app Signal now lets you transfer your account data, including your conversation history, to a new iPhone or...

Photo: Faze Clan Faze Clan is taking a page out of Marvel’s playbook. Today, the organization announced that it will release a feature-length film later this year, starring Faze talent...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo said 300,000 Nintendo Network ID (NNID) accounts were broken into as part of a hacking attempt in April, which is nearly twice as many as init...

It’s been nearly 30 years since the last movie in the series, but Bill and Ted Face the Music — the third film in the wacky, time-traveling comedy series — is finally concluding the ...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge A Google employee has acknowledged the issues some users are having with their Pixel Buds, 9to5Google reports. “I just wanted to let all of you know ...

Samsung’s midrange Galaxy A51 is $110 off at Amazon, bringing the price down to just $289. For context, this phone released just a few months ago, and it’s worth checking out if you wa...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge 5G internet has been one of the biggest buzzwords in the tech world over the past few years. As the next generation of cellular technology, the fa...

Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge | Photo By David Fitzgerald / Sportsfile via Getty Images How the app is adapting to no in-person dates Continue reading…...

Xenoblade Chronicles was always an ambitious game. The sci-fi RPG, which debuted on the Wii in Japan in 2010, takes place in a massive open world set on the backs of gigantic creatures. Wh...

Confirmation before permanently deleting docs or books. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Amazon now supports permanent document and book deletion from personal libraries directly fro...

Image: Google Google Meet’s new AI-powered background noise cancellation has started rolling out, VentureBeat reports. Google announced the feature back in April for its G Suite Enterp...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Each day, workers at the wastewater treatment plant in New Haven, Connecticut, siphon off a bit of sewage and put it in a cooler. Then, resear...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple will announce that it’s shifting from using Intel processors to its own ARM-based chips this month at WWDC 2020, Bloomberg reports. The de...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I. Recently the president did a bad post, and a lot of people got mad. Twitter hid the post behind a warning. Snap said it wouldn’t promote the...

Two of Planet’s SkySat satellites hitched a ride on this December 2018 launch of one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets. | SpaceX In the coming weeks, satellite operator Planet will hitch...

The AI editors confused Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock (left) and Jade Thirlwall (right). | Image composite: Getty Microsoft’s decision to replace human journalists with AI to run ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is now fact-checking tweets that link 5G and the COVID-19 pandemic by adding a label that promises to get users “the facts about COVID-1...

Photo by Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has escaped arrest after a court in Seoul denied prosecutors’ request to detain him while they conduct an invest...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter to Congress today. The c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Duo video calling platform now has invite links on mobile, making it even more of a viable competitor to Zoom and other videoconferenci...

German air taxi startup Lilium said on Monday it has raised an additional $35 million to fuel its goal of launching an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle by 2025. That�...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Digital assistants from Amazon, Apple, and Google state their support for the Black Lives Matter movement when prompted (via Business Insider). As peo...

Nintendo Switch styluses aren’t exactly a common accessory for the hybrid gaming system. Sure, there have been a few attempts, but nothing has come close to making a stylus a practical a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is working on a new system for verifying users, according to a tweet by reverse engineer and online sleuth Jane Manchun Wong. She discover...

Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images The American Civil Liberties Union sued Los Angeles Monday over the city’s requirement that electric scooter rental companies provide anonymized real-t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over the last few days, a furor has been brewing on Twitch: out of the blue, streamers started seeing copyright takedown notices appear in their i...

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, there’s still going to be a ...

HP has announced its Chromebook x360 14c, which it says is its most premium Chrome OS product yet. It starts at $499 and will be available in June. The 3.5-pound convertible device has a ...

Steve McFly/@OnLeaks OnePlus will release a midpriced phone called the OnePlus Z in India in July, Android Police reports. Several leaks of the phone, first identified as the OnePlus 8 ...

Image: Sony Sony announced today that its upcoming PlayStation 5 event has been rescheduled to June 11th at 4PM ET. The event was originally scheduled for June 4th but was postponed due ...

Photo: Joshua Roberts / Blizzard Entertainment The Overwatch League’s third season has been a bumpy one. Like every other professional gaming league, OWL has been forced to cope with t...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Can Nextdoor really be a social network for communities if black people don’t feel safe on it? Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube offered more transparency into which videos can run ads and which can’t, including pranks and videos that fall under hateful content, in...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sony’s popular noise-canceling true wireless earbuds, the WF-1000XM3, are on sale for $178 today on Amazon. That’s $51.99 off the typical $229.99 ret...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google is continuing to build more helpful new features into Google Maps to assist people trying to navigate around cities that have begun emerging ...

Image: EA Need for Speed Heat will become EA’s first title with cross-platform multiplayer, thanks to an update that will be available tomorrow, EA announced in a blog today. The new c...

Image: Motorola Motorola has announced the One Fusion Plus, its second phone with a pop-up selfie camera, just six months after first including one on last year’s Motorola One Hyper. L...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sony’s popular noise-canceling true wireless earbuds, the WF-1000XM3, are on sale for $178 today on Amazon. That’s $51.99 off the typical $229.99 ret...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Brave, the open-source browser designed to prioritize privacy by blocking third-party ads and trackers, is facing criticism from users for redirec...

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BioShock Remastered (Nintendo Switch) | Image: 2K Games It’s still rare for the Switch to get blockbuster games that weren’t made by Nintendo, but there has been a trend in recent mo...

The Sonos Arc is one of the first products to be released for the S2 platform. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sonos is releasing its new app and S2 platform today. The new app (now w...

GIF: Université de Sherbrooke We’ve always had a soft spot for supernumerary robotic limbs here at The Verge, but this latest example of the genre is one of the most impressive we’v...

Black Lives Matter Plaza as seen in Apple Maps app on MacOS. | Screengrab Apple Maps Apple has updated the satellite imagery in its maps app to include Washington DC’s new Black Lives ...

Black Lives Matter Plaza as seen in Apple Maps app on MacOS. | Screengrab Apple Maps Apple has updated the satellite imagery in its maps app to include Washington DC’s new Black Lives ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge More people are booking local holidays in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloomberg reports. According to Airbnb’s CEO, the number of nig...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge More people are booking local holidays in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloomberg reports. According to Airbnb’s CEO, the number of nig...

Photo by Jong Hyun Kim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Lee Jae-yong, Samsung Electronics vice chairman and the de facto leader of the Samsung Group conglomerate, may soon find himself ba...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has just been granted a patent for software that would generate “synthetic group selfies,” which as Protocol points out, could be a way ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Facebook has removed almost 200 accounts connected to white supremacist groups that were trying to rally supporters to attend protests over police violen...

Ian Tuttle/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize More than 140 scientists who receive funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Saturday ...

Apple will allow customers to buy products including iPads, Macs, and AirPods, via monthly installment payments on the Apple Card, Bloomberg reported. Payments will be managed through the ...

Screenshot by Tom Warren / The Verge Destiny 2’s first ever Fortnite-style live event just wrapped earlier today, and it was unfortunately not quite what some players were expecting. I...

The beloved online game Neopets is launching an open beta for a new mobile site, the company announced on Twitter Friday. “The Neopets Mobile Beta has arrived! Now you can explore the br...

Photo: Michele Doying / The Verge Facebook published new recommendations for group admins yesterday evening in an attempt to help them facilitate conversations about race and inequality....

Photo: HBO HBO Max is here, and while I’ve been dreading the ways AT&T will inevitably ruin HBO, I actually like a lot about the new service. The app is far nicer to browse than Ne...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have all removed a Trump campaign video from their platforms after receiving copyright complaints, Reuters reporte...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon and Alex Castro / The Verge When you’re stuck at home because of pandemics, bad weather, or just because you don’t feel like going out, there’s not...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is limiting the spread of pages and groups linked with the word “boogaloo,” an internet slang term used in some far-right extremist c...

Photo by Elif Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos issued a public pledge of support to the Black Lives Matter movement on Friday. The chief executive did so in r...

Photo by Elif Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos issued a public pledge of support to the Black Lives Matter movement on Friday. The chief executive did so in r...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a lengthy statement on his personal page on Friday saying he supports the Black Lives Matter movement and w...

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A protester takes a photo with her phone in Martin Place during a ‘Black Lives Matter’ rally on June 02, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. The event was organized to rally against aboriginal d...

Harriet Lander/Copa/Getty Images The English Premier league is set to restart in the coming weeks, and Sky Sports is working with EA Sports’ FIFA division to create simulated chants an...

Photo illustration by William Joel | Photography by Michael B. Thomas/AFP via Getty Images,  Stephen Maturen/Getty Images This week, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and their peers put ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Yelp is launching a new tool to allow businesses on the platform to identify themselves as black-owned, CEO Jeremy Stoppelman announced in a b...

Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Instacart is adjusting how it handles customer tips following the announcement last week of a congressional inquiry int...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Vergee Chinese EV startup Nio announced its first-quarter results last week and, by most accounts, the Tencent-backed company appears to have weathered the i...

The Lenovo Chromebook 3 is available now for $229. | Lenovo Lenovo has announced a new 11-inch Chromebook 3, which is now available on the company’s website for $229. The device joins...

Photo by Kainoa Little/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Mythical buses full of bloodthirsty antifa protestors are causing panic in rural counties throughout the country — even ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Instagram says its terms of service don’t grant websites a sublicense to embed other people’s posts. Ars Technica reported yesterday that ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian — the co-founder of Reddit — resigned from Reddit’s board of directors today. He announced the mov...

Image: Harry Potter/Warner Brothers Harry Potter is one of the most popular franchises in the world. Warner Bros. — which owns the film rights to J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World — i...

iPad deals are more common than you might think. Whether you’re after the most affordable iPad, the high-end iPad Pro, or something in between like the iPad Air or iPad mini, there’s u...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram has released a new update adding video editing tools and allowing you to add animated stickers to any photo or video you send on the mobi...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whether you’re shopping for your first iPad or upgrading from a previous generation, figuring out which Apple-made tablet is best for you ca...

James Bareham, The Verge Sony is discounting the cost of its PS Plus online subscription and PS Now cloud game streaming service at Amazon, so now is the time to top off your account. Su...

Photo by Bill Ingalls / NASA This week on The Verge’s flagship podcast The Vergecast, co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn welcome back senior science reporter Loren Grush and Silicon ...

Screenshot: SimRefinery SimRefinery, an all-but-forgotten oil refinery simulator from the studio behind SimCity, has been rediscovered and uploaded to the web as a playable game, ArsTech...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will be making Currents, its Google Plus replacement, generally available to G Suite users beginning July 6th, the company announced in an ...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Infighting, deleted comments, and drama Continue reading… ...

Image: Riot Games Riot’s new, esports-ready game raises important questions about balancing competition with casual play Continue reading… ...

Police push an elderly man to the ground in Buffalo, NY | Mike Desmond / WBFO-FM Buffalo Police violence against people peacefully assembling in the United States is being documented acr...

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics has an extremely boring name, but also an extremely accurate one. It gathers together a few dozen classic ...

The Moto G Fast (left) and Moto E (right) Motorola has a pair of new budget smartphones: the entry-level $149.99 Motorola E, and the $199.99 Moto G Fast. The two new phones help solidify...

Screenshots: Dropbox / Google Play Store Dropbox has quietly launched a new password manager named Dropbox Passwords. The app is only available in a private beta on Android, and although...

An electric car charges in Germany. | Photo by Janine Schmitz/Photothek via Getty Images Gas stations in Germany will be required to provide charging for electric vehicles as part of the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Let’s conclude what turned out to be Free Speech Week on The Interface with a look at a case involving the co-chairman of Facebook’s new Overs...

By default the button is now an oblong with the word “Compose” written in it. | Screenshot: Gmail Google has tweaked the appearance of the compose button in Gmail’s Android app. Fi...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is working on a way to make it easier to change iPad keyboard brightness, according to new code analyzed by 9to5Mac. A beta version of iPadOS 13.5...

Infinity Ward just released an update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare that adds a splash screen message in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Players are being told they need to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A pair of alarming videos appeared to show at least one Caviar delivery worker being arrested by New York City police on Thursday, allegedly for v...

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US President Donald Trump on January 9, 2020 announced sweeping changes to an environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), that would speed up the construction of highwa...

Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images Senators Ed Markey (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CO) have written a letter to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson criticizing the com...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Slack is partnering with Amazon in a multi-year agreement that means all Amazon employees will start to use Slack. The deal comes just as Slack fa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge General Motors is working on an all-electric delivery van, according to Reuters. If true, GM would the latest automaker to hone in on what’s exp...

Photo by GEORGE FREY/AFP via Getty Images A recent large study on the controversial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine was just retracted by The Lancet, the scientific journal that...

HBO Max launched last week without any Roku support and integration, and new numbers from multiple research firms show just how much of a problem that might be for the new streaming servic...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Foreign hackers targeted the personal email accounts of staffers on the presidential campaigns of Democratic primary candidate Joe Biden and Presi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hulu will no longer be supported on some older Roku devices as of June 24th, according to a Hulu support page (via Ars Technica). The affected mod...

Image: Kitty Hawk Secretive Larry Page-backed “flying car” startup Kitty Hawk has pulled the plug on its Flyer electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, and will lay of...

Image: Facebook Facebook’s Google Photos transfer tool, first announced for the US and Canada back in April, is now available globally, the company announced on Thursday. The new data...

Photo by Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images Americans in all 50 states are protesting against police brutality. That alone should be all anyone needs t...

Photo by Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Mangrove forests aren’t moving fast enough to escape rising sea levels and could disappear by 2050, according to new r...

Facebook Facebook has begun labeling media outlets that are “wholly or partially under the editorial control of their government,” following an announcement of the policy in 2019. It...

Eric Espada/Getty Images Police in Scottsdale, Arizona have charged popular YouTuber Jake Paul for his alleged participation in a mall riot over the weekend. Paul was charged with two mi...

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, there’s still going to be a ...

Sony’s unannounced WH-1000XM4 noise-canceling headphones have leaked in full thanks to a new listing on Walmart’s website that reveals basically everything else there is to know about ...

Boston-based micromobility startup Superpedestrian is launching a shared electric scooter-sharing service called Link, which is built around the super durable and smart e-scooters the comp...

Google recently rolled out Google Meet, a revamped version of its video chatting program Hangouts Meet, and made the app available to anyone with a Google account. You can start or join a ...

Image: EA We regret to inform you that a newly released patch for The Sims 4 seems to be making some sims pee fire. RockPaperShotgun brought the reports to our attention, with users post...

Photo by Greg Doherty/Getty Images Or: how aim assist has changed the game Continue reading… ...

Capcom’s remake of Resident Evil 3 landed on the PS4 and Xbox One in April, and it’s already $20 off at Best Buy. Instead of paying $60, you’ll just pay $40 for the disc version of t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge US internet service providers can continue to charge customers a device rental fee — even if they have their own equipment — at least until De...

Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images People are taking to the streets to organize for justice and protest against systemic racism and police brutality. If you’re attending or even...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge In the US, it’s already harder for them to access care Continue reading… ...

A cardinal takes flight from a barn-style bird feeder in a backyard in Pembroke, MA on Feb. 28, 2019. | Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Black birders took to Twi...

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Laptops, laptops, laptops. | Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge The new 13-inch MacBook Pro hit shelves on May 4th. Kate Kozuch, a journalist, ordered one to replace her old, broken 2015 m...

Image: Fitbit Wearable company Fitbit has officially unveiled the Fitbit Flow, a new ventilator with FDA approval for use during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ventilator has been granted em...

You can’t understand the protests through mainstream media alone. | Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images It’s impossible to properly understand the protests happeni...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Sunday, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sent employees an unusually personal note reflecting on the events of the past several weeks. Many brands took th...

Image: Twitch Live-streaming platform Twitch has removed an emote from its platform called “TwitchCop.” The emote shows a cartoon character in a nondescript police uniform blowing a ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is trying to make it easier to find the information you’re looking for on external websites by highlighting relevant sections in yellow, ...

Signal’s new blur tool will automatically locate and blur faces. | Image: Signal Encrypted messaging app Signal has announced a new face-blurring tool that will be incorporated into t...

Namco has a new range of Famicom (NES) games coming out for the Nintendo Switch this month, and it includes an unexpected bonus: a NES demake of Pac-Man Championship Edition, the incredibl...

Image: Epic Games Epic Games has delayed Fortnite’s next in-game live event and the start of the game’s next season due to widespread outrage over the death of George Floyd and ongoi...

Photo by Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge Fear not: a large Donkey Kong statue at Nintendo’s New York City store has not gone missing after the building was broken into on Monday evening...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of three Amazon warehouse employees who work out of the company’s New York fulfillment centers have filed a lawsuit alleging the company...

Images: Dyson Luxury vacuum magnate James Dyson has revealed new photos and a little more information about his company’s failed electric vehicle — a project into which he recently r...

Less than a week after sending its first astronauts into space, SpaceX is already preparing for another launch of its Falcon 9 rocket, though this flight will only carry satellites to orbi...

Update June 3rd, 9:43PM ET: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully took off at 9:25PM ET and deployed all 60 satellites into orbit. The rocket also landed on the company’s drone ship in...

Photo by Tobias Hase / Picture Alliance via Getty Images Pressure is mounting from all directions on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for his refusal to take action against posts from Presid...

Game developer Paradox Interactive, known best for publishing countless PC strategy games, has signed a collective bargaining agreement with two Swedish unions, Unionen and Saco, with over...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As protestors square off against police across the country, California is readying a bill that could expand the state’s use of facial recognitio...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Some of Reddit’s most frequented and active subreddit communities are participating in a collective action this week to protest the platform’s...

There’s no such thing as too much of something this good Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge New York commuters will have to wait just a bit longer before they can use their smartphone or contactless credit card to pay for bus and subw...

Aaron Epstein/Netflix On Wednesday, May 27th, Donald Trump got mad about a mild fact-check from Twitter. The president of the United States made false claims about voter fraud, and a not...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Video calling company Zoom confirmed this week that it won’t enable end-to-end encryption for free calls in part because it wants to give law enforce...

Image: Yubico Google account owners can finally take advantage of the recently added built-in support for physical security keys on iOS. It allows customers to use their USB-C, NFC, or L...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verge Apple’s 2021 iPad Pros could have 5G, thanks to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X55 5G modem, according to Apple leaker L0vetodream on Twitter. If Apple does ...

Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty Images AMC Theaters is warning investors about its incredibly uncertain future as financial fallout from the pandemic continues, blatantly stating that �...

At 9:30AM ET on Tuesday, three American astronauts symbolically rang the Nasdaq opening bell from space — a celebration of SpaceX’s historic launch that sent astronauts into orbit thre...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge President Trump’s verified Snapchat account will no longer be promoted within the app after executives concluded that his tweets over the weeken...

One version of the Honor Play 4 Pro (pictured) is available with an infrared temperature sensor. | Image: Honor One of Honor’s newly announced smartphones, the Honor Play 4 Pro, is ava...

Illustration by Grayson Blacmon How an exodus of tech workers could reshape Silicon Valley Continue reading… ...

Protestors march in California on June 2nd. | Photo by Philip Cheung for The Washington Post via Getty Images Gatherings in every state in the country this week to protest police brutali...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The group behind CES plans to hold the enormous tech convention in person in Las Vegas next January, despite concerns that the coronavirus pan...

Photo by Avery White / The Verge There are two deals on refurbished truly wireless earphones that we want to share with you. First, the Jabra Elite 75t are $100 at Newegg for a refurbish...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is starting to roll out its new Edge browser through Windows Update. The new Chromium-based version of Edge launched in January, but Win...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The fight between a group of LGBTQ YouTube creators and the video platform’s parent company, Google, over censorship faced its first real test o...

Lack of Google software hampers incredible hardware Continue reading… ...

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Conspiracy theorists say 5G causes novel coronavirus, so now they’re harassing and attacking UK telecoms engineers Continue reading… ...

Image: BBC The BBC’s in-house voice assistant, ‘Beeb,’ has been released in beta, allowing Windows Insiders in the UK to test the software on Windows 10, the UK broadcaster announc...

The rumored next version of Google’s TV dongle | XDA Developers If at first you don’t succeed, try try try try try again Continue reading… ...

A sampling of K-pop content from the #BlueLivesMatter hashtag on Instagram. | Photo: The Verge K-pop stans have a fearsome reputation online, able to mobilize in vast numbers in support...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge On Tuesday morning, Mark Zuckerberg held a meeting with employees over video chat to address concerns related to the company’s decision not to...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Google has removed a popular Indian-developed app from its Play Store that promised to find and remove Chinese apps from smartphones. The search ...

Sega has now revealed full details of its just-announced Game Gear Micro portable console — or, I should say, consoles. It turns out that the four color variants are different systems ea...

Sega is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year with another retro console, and it looks like it might be the tiniest yet. The Game Gear Micro is a revival of Sega’s 8-bit handheld sy...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s iCloud service is experiencing an outage right now, causing errors with account sign-in, iCloud Mail, and web apps via iCloud.com. The i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s iCloud service experienced an outage on Tuesday evening, causing errors with account sign-in, iCloud Mail, and web apps via iCloud.com. ...

Photo by Tobias Hase/picture alliance via Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held an extended conference with employees today, addressing accusations that Facebook allowed electio...

Amazon-backed EV startup Rivian has laid off about 40 employees at its engineering and design center in Plymouth, Michigan, The Verge has learned. The cuts, which the company has confirmed...

A Tesla employee has tested positive for COVID-19 at the company’s solar panel factory in Buffalo, New York, according to an employee at the factory who spoke to The Verge on the conditi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom had a blockbuster quarter as its app became the hottest videoconferencing service of the pandemic. In an earnings report today, Zoom reported...

Photo by Saul Martinez/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting social media companies faced its first legal challenge Tuesday, claiming that Trump violated the ...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge You can try out the Android 11 developer preview software right now if you have a Pixel 2 or later, but it’s understandable if the idea of flashing y...

Image: Humbolt Hublot is taking another crack at the smartwatch market with the Hublot Big Bang e, a high-end watch running Wear OS that will set you back thousands of dollars. The Big ...

Instacart will expand its COVID-19 sick pay to include more gig workers as part of an agreement with the attorney general for Washington, DC. Under the agreement, the company is also launc...

With the success of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon launch this weekend, NASA now has the capability to launch its own astronauts from the US once again — and that means changes are in store for ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Streaming platform Roku has removed a channel dedicated to the QAnon conspiracy theory movement after facing criticism for letting it slip through its re...

Photo by Zoe Schiffer / The Verge The protest was peaceful. Then the police shot tear gas. At least 10 canisters went off, according to The Guardian’s Julia Carrie Wong. Officers clad ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google may be close to launching its next streaming TV device, and now XDA Developers has got its hands on marketing material that gives us our fi...

The “out of context bojack horseman” account usually tweets memes and screenshots to its nearly 180,000 Twitter followers. But recently, the account’s feed has looked a lot different...

Pokémon Sword and Shield’s upcoming expansion, Isle of Armor, will be available on June 17th. The Isle of Armor, along with The Crown Tundra, which was announced in January, add new cha...

Photo: 9to5Mac The latest iOS 13.5.5 beta has revealed a new audio feature for the company’s Apple News Plus service that adds podcast-style recordings of longform articles to the app,...

Image: The Video Game History Foundation Digital archivists working with the Video Game History Foundation have discovered a previously lost NES game based on the 1990 film Days of Thund...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge Lenovo’s C740 14-inch laptop is one of the best laptops you can buy, and it’s also the most affordable option in our buying guide. Now, at Best Buy...

The new tool lets you filter which posts you want to delete. | Image: Facebook Facebook is launching a new feature called Manage Activity that lets users delete their old posts. It can b...

Image: Peloton Peloton is making its app available on one more device: Apple TVs. The company announced its partnership with Apple today, which will bring the workout streaming app to Ap...

Image: Activision Activision is postponing new content updates for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Mobile, and Call of Duty: Warzone. “Right now, it’s time for those spea...

The incredible Ghibli library is available to stream, and it’s a good time to dive in Continue reading… ...

Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge | Photo by Rich Polk / Getty Images for Xandr An interview with AT&T’s Tony Goncalves on The Vergecast Continue reading&he...

HBO Max, AT&T’s big bet on the future of streaming, will be excused from AT&T’s mobile data caps, while competing services like Netflix and Disney Plus will use up your data. T...

Photo By Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call President Trump and his allies are now openly threatening violence against Americans — it’s time to remove them from the internet Cont...

The Intel system is black, and the AMD system is silver. | HP HP has released the newest version of the Omen 15, its powerful entry-level gaming laptop. You can choose an AMD or Intel sy...

HP’s new Omen Vector mouse comes with an 25g worth of weights that you can add for a custom feel. HP has announced a fleet of new gaming accessories, including new gaming mice and HP�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is crediting a developer after he accused the company of copying the core mechanics of its new Windows Package Manager. AppGet developer...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Major streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music have pledged their support for Blackout Tuesday (also cal...

Instagram’s #BLM hashtag is now full of posts of black squares. | Image: The Verge As part of a Blackout Tuesday protest originally organized by workers in the music industry, users o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Some Google Pixel owners have received the Android 11 Beta early, revealing yet more details about this year’s version of Android. In a tweet, M...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I. The CEO On Friday afternoon, Facebook made one of its most controversial content moderation decisions in company history. After President Trump...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images I. The CEO On Friday afternoon, Facebook made one of its most controversial content moderation decisions in company history. After President Trump ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify will add an 8 minute and 46-second moment of silence to select playlists and podcasts on the platform to honor George Floyd. The length of...

Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Twitter has restricted a tweet from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for violating its policies against glorifying violence, following a similar action taken agai...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok on Monday laid out a series of actions it plans to take to address criticisms that its recommendation algorithm suppresses black creators. ...

Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM After the Dallas Police Department asked people to send videos of “illegal activity from the protests” happening in the city over the weekend usin...

Volunteers in Boston helping to clean up. | Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images If you’ve been participating in the recent protests and want to do more, or if you�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge At this moment, more than 104,000 Americans have died of the coronavirus and more than 1.8 million have been infected. It can be hard to wrap your...

Bad Scooter / Twitter An apparent Twitter joke got out of control this weekend, falsely convincing some users — and possibly even the leader of the QAnon conspiracy theory — that MSN...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In order to comply with local curfew orders, food delivery platform DoorDash and ride-sharing companies Lyft and Uber are temporarily suspending s...

Image: Grindr Grindr, a popular gay dating app, will remove ethnicity filters from its app, the company tweeted today. The decision is meant to show solidarity with protests in the US ov...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has released iOS 13.5.1 today, which the company says “provides important security updates and is recommended for all users,” albeit wit...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Apple has doubled the price to upgrade the RAM on the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro, as spotted by MacRumors. The upgrade now costs $200 to move from 8...

Photo by SETH HERALD/AFP via Getty Images Law enforcement’s brutal response to this weekend’s protests may fuel mistrust in the health care system as the COVID-19 pandemic continues ...

Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on North Carolina’s Outer Banks on September 6, 2019  | Photo by NOAA via Getty Images The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins June 1st, an...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sony is postponing its PlayStation 5 event that was scheduled for June 4th due to ongoing protests. “While we understand gamers worldwide are ex...

Four major book publishers have filed suit against the Internet Archive for copyright violations relating to the Open Library project, setting the stage for a major legal fight over one of...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Dozens of Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout on Monday in protest of the company’s decision not to take action against incendiary posts...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google is adding its Advanced Protection Program to Nest devices, the company announced in a blog post Monday, giving added security to its smart home d...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google is today announcing the next batch of new software features coming to its Pixel smartphones. After adding car-crash detection last year, the comp...

Pax is launching a web app today capable of controlling its lineup of connected weed vapes. The launch comes six months after Pax’s app was banned from the Apple App Store, when Apple de...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Images from leaked developer documentation have just given us our best look yet at Android 11’s new power button menu. The menu can include a se...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung is rolling out Samsung Access, a monthly premium upgrade program in the US for users who purchase new Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20 Plus, or Gala...

In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, you assume the role of Byleth, a full-time teacher and soldier. One of today’s best deals is on one of last year’s best games. Fire Emblem: Three Houses...

Vivo has officially announced its first flagship phones of 2020, the X50 series. As previously teased, the key feature is the primary camera’s heavy-duty stabilization system, which Vivo...

The Last of Us Part II’s high-contrast mode. A look at how the studio is trying to expand the audience for the PS4 game Continue reading… ...

Images: Samsung Samsung’s Sero TV, which rotates between landscape and portrait orientations depending on what kind of content you’re watching, has gone on sale in the US and UK. Sam...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A bug in Android means that setting a certain image as your phone’s wallpaper could be enough to crash it. The issue gained widespread attention...

Microsoft is preventing a large number of devices from updating to the Windows 10 May 2020 Update. While the software company released the update last week, Microsoft has quietly acknowled...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit and Twitter have filed supporting evidence in a lawsuit against the US government, which challenges the requirement that nearly all visa ap...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Owners of Google’s new Pixel Buds are reporting a variety of connection issues with the true wireless earbuds. 9to5Google reports that issues have been...

Image: Sennheiser In celebration of the company’s 75th anniversary, Sennheiser is releasing a limited edition version of its HD 25 headphones. While they usually feature a nondescript ...

Photo by Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images Amazon, Target, and Apple all made modifications to their business operations over the weekend in light of demonstrations in cities across the...

Photo by Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images Amazon, Target, and Apple all made modifications to their business operations over the weekend in light of demonstrations in cities across the...

Royal Palace Renesse/Instagram A restaurant in the Netherlands has introduced new robot waiters as a way to reduce human-to-human contact in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The re...

Royal Palace Renesse/Instagram A restaurant in the Netherlands has introduced new robot waiters as a way to reduce human-to-human contact in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The re...

Royal Palace Renesse/Instagram A restaurant in the Netherlands has introduced new robot waiters as a way to reduce human-to-human contact in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The re...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube says it will donate $1 million to the Center for Policing Equity, to demonstrate “solidarity against racism and violence.” The Alphabe...

Eric Espada/Getty Images Jake Paul is denying that he took part in looting captured on video at an Arizona mall after backlash about his appearance sprung up online. In multiple videos ...

Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Over the past 72 hours, people across the US have captured what may be the most comprehensive live picture of police brutality eve...

Crew Dragon Endeavour approaches the ISS. | Image: NASA / SpaceX This morning, SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station, bringing the c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon says it has removed images with racist language from some listings for headphones on its UK site, The Financial Times reported. Users poste...

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images Twitter finally flagged several of Trump’s tweets that violated its policies Continue reading… ...

On Saturday afternoon, SpaceX launched its first human crew to space for NASA on the company’s new Crew Dragon spacecraft — but the mission isn’t over yet. After spending nearly a fu...