Articles by The Verge from January 2021

With all of its recent licensed characters, which includes everyone from Sarah Connor to The Mandalorian, the virtual battlefield of Fortnite is starting to resemble a playgrou...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) is in turmoil following the announcement of an international alliance on Monday. The alliance, ...

Photo by Timothy Norris/Getty Images for Coachella Health officials have ordered the Coachella music festival scheduled for April to be canceled due to the coronavirus ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s no secret that the US is struggling to distribute coronavirus vaccines; some states haven’t received enough doses, and ...

It has been a wild week for the stock market, with amateur traders from Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets subreddit battling traditional investors. The past several days have been fu...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has started posting Status messages to users about its “commitment to your privacy.” T...

According to analysts, Chromebooks had an incredible 2020, with the last quarter being the strongest ever for Google’s laptops (via 9to5Google). According to research firms G...

A lightweight laptop that doesn’t cut too many corners Continue reading… ...

Image: Apple Apple has notified subscribers of its Apple TV Plus streaming service that they’ll continue to get refund credits on their accounts until June, following...

A pharmacy tech holds a dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine during a clinical trial in December. | Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images Experts have been...

The Magic Keyboard for 11-inch iPad Pros and the new iPad Air is $100 off. Scroll down to find the deal | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge January 2021 has been full o...

Photo by NASA/Robert Markowitz via Getty Images NASA will make another attempt next month to test-fire its massive Space Launch System rocket after its first try was cu...

Image: Nvidia Nvidia’s GeForce Now game streaming service has launched for the Chrome web browser and M1 Macs in beta (via XDA-Developers), bringing resource intensiv...

Photo by Loren Elliott / Getty Images SpaceX’s first high-altitude test flight of its Starship rocket, which launched successfully but exploded in a botched landing a...

Image: Warner Bros. Pictures Apple’s television adaptation of the podcast adaptation of the real-life soap opera that was WeWork now has some major talent attached. J...

Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge Robinhood only wants users to have a limited number of shares of companies like GameStop, and that number keeps getting smaller...

The revival of G4, a network focusing on video games with programs like X-Play and Attack of the Show!, is underway. The company announced today that it’s launching weekly se...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s Oversight Board, the independent body empowered to review the social network’s most complex platform moderation d...

Tesla’s redesigned Model S and Model X will have a very unconventional and possibly controversial feature: automatic shifting between park, reverse, neutral, and drive (or PR...

The markets are not okay. If you’ve paid any attention to internet chatter this week, you’ve probably seen the names RoaringKitty or DeepFuckingValue — the bullish trader...

Robinhood only wants users to have a limited number of GameStop shares, and that number keeps getting smaller and smaller. Yesterday, the company halted users’ ability to buy...

The Asus ROG Flow X13 was one of the most-hyped announcements of CES 2021, with good reason — how often do you see a 13-inch convertible gaming laptop, especially one that lo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook content moderators in Ireland met with Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar today to demand work-from-home rights. They s...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge For many, gaps in communication have only worsened Continue reading… ...

Courtesy of Marvel Studios Certain names have popped up again and again over the first few episodes of WandaVision, but there’s one organization we haven’t discusse...

LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX Netflix is launching a global test today on Android devices that will allow subscribers to set a timer for their viewing period. The new feature le...

Image: Wonderland / Twitter Zack Snyder’s Justice League — known to fans as the mythical “Snyder Cut” — hits HBO Max on March 18th, and Warner Bros. is celebr...

Photo by PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP via Getty Images Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts have cautioned that the first batch of vaccines created against the ...

Students head to class at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. | E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images The University of I...

GameStop photo The Verge had extensive coverage this week of how the subreddit r/WallStreetBets sent GameStop’s stock skyrocketing, and the chaos that ensued thereaft...

Zack Snyder’s Justice League (aka “The Snyder Cut”) will hit HBO Max on March 18th, the director announced on Twitter today. The original theatrical release of Justice L...

Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images A single shot of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine can prevent 85 percent of severe cases of the disease, the company...

For almost a decade and a half, the Yakuza franchise was all but exclusive to Sony’s PlayStation consoles. Other than a Japan-only Wii U remaster of the first two games, ever...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Samsung’s new line of smartphones the S21 line — the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra are now available for purchase at var...

Robinhood has started restricting trading in cryptocurrencies this morning, just as the price of joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin has soared more than 300 percent in 24 hours. CNBC...

Image: Tesla Tesla CEO Elon Musk says production for the company’s upcoming Roadster isn’t due to begin until “next year,” roughly two years after the car was i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is planning to offer newsletter tools for independent journalists and writers, The New York Times reports. These are th...

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The latest version of Signal for both iOS (5.3.1) and Android (5.3.7) brings a number of ...

Xiaomi has announced “Mi Air Charge Technology,” a wireless charging system that the company claims is able to charge devices “within a radius of several meters.” Multi...

Jon Stewart has just joined Twitter, and is now the proud owner of a verified account. And, of course, his first tweet was about the redditors on r/WallStreetBets and their sto...

Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images No, Robinhood tells The Verge, it didn’t sell off full shares of GameStop, AMC, and other buzzy stocks without perm...

Students head to class at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. | E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images The University of I...

Google is actively removing negative reviews of the Robinhood app from the Google Play Store, the company confirmed to The Verge. After some disgruntled Robinhood users organiz...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge An upcoming change to Google’s Play Store policies will allow gambling and betting Android apps that use real money in 15 more c...

Crayta’s timed Stadia exclusivity is coming to an end soon, with developer Unit 2 Games confirming that the title will be making its way to PC “very soon.” Originally ann...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games Store released a bevy of stats to show off how its game storefront grew in 2020 compared to 2019, its launch year. It...

Robinhood has announced that, beginning on Friday, January 29th, it will allow “limited buys” on restricted stocks, potentially signaling the end of a brutal day-long hold ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Wall Street Journal has written an excellent profile of the man who started r/WallStreetBets, the subreddit that’s been em...

Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Financial services company E-Trade has restricted purchases of GameStop and AMC stock, a source tells Bloomberg. The two stocks ...

Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Financial services company E-Trade has restricted purchases of GameStop and AMC stock, the company has confirmed to The Verge �...

Alleged leaked renders of the upcoming flagship show Sony sticking with a minimalist design and tall form factor. | Image: OnLeaks An early look at Sony’s next flagsh...

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), the incoming chair of the Senate Banking Committee, announced Thursday that he plans to hold a hearing on the “current state of the stock market”...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge For the early adopters of next-gen hardware Continue reading… ...

The revival of G4, a network focusing on video games with programs like X-Play and Attack of the Show!, is underway. The company announced today that it’s launching weekly se...

Image: Brian Mueller Carrot Weather — the entertainingly antagonistic weather application from developer Brian Mueller — just got its latest version 5.0 update, whi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the wake of Robinhood’s surprise trading block, a new class of Reddit investors are looking for apps that will let them plo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Discord is now helping the r/WallStreetBets team moderate its new server. The company originally banned the group yesterday due ...

One year after pledging to remove all of its historic and future planet-heating emissions within a few decades, Microsoft says it has already slashed its carbon footprint by 6 ...

The Verge YouTube is introducing clipping — the ability to make short clips of live streams or videos — starting today with a small group of creators. Those clips c...

Photo by Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called on Congress to investigate the Robinhood app after it banned small investors from bu...

Apple’s AirPods Pro wireless earbuds | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple AirPods are among the most popular headphones on the market. They’re compact, easy to ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple overtook Huawei to reclaim its spot as the second-bestselling smartphone manufacturer in the world in 2020, according ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the wake of Robinhood’s surprise trading block, a new class of Reddit investors are looking for apps that will let them plo...

Clapper After this month’s deadly attack at the Capitol, QAnon has been widely banished from the internet. Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok have all banned Q-related con...

In Steve Gaynor’s attic, there is a box that does not belong to him. He bought his Portland home from a family who put the house up for sale after the death of its elderly ow...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s Oversight Board has issued its first round of rulings, upholding one removal and overturning four decisions involvi...

The Razer Viper 8K weighs two grams more (71g) than the original Viper (69g). | Image: Razer Razer’s Viper 8K is a refresh of the 2019 true ambidextrous Viper. For th...

Xinhua/Joel Lerner via Getty Images General Motors, an automotive company that sells hundreds of thousands of giant gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs every year, says it wil...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you are in the market for a new pair of wireless earbuds and want something with an unconventional design, Master & D...

Microsoft released its annual sustainability report today, and Minecraft developer Mojang decided to turn it into something interactive. Called simply “Sustainable City,” t...

Robinhood has added new limits to its app to restrict users from buying or trading any of the popular Reddit r/WallStreetBets stocks, including GameStop ($GME), AMC ($AMC), Bla...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An online casino Continue reading… ...

There are plenty of great 2D action games about exploring dark, mysterious worlds. Think Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, or anything inspired by Castlevania. Aside from similar them...

comcast NBC Universal’s Peacock streaming service hit 33 million signups in the fourth quarter, parent company Comcast reported Thursday, an addition of 11 million si...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Faraday Future is going to become a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq stock exchange and is raising around $1 billion in the proc...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new web standard is playing off of California’s powerful privacy law Continue reading… ...

Photo by Alexander Sayganov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Cyberpunk 2077’s big new 1.1 patch introduced a game-breaking bug earlier this week, and now Deve...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram has added the ability to import your chat history from WhatsApp, meaning you won’t loose past conversations if you wa...

Pac-Man celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, and to commemorate the occasion, Cook and Becker is releasing a history book later this year — and it looks incredible. Whi...

The Pixel 5 and 4A 5G (pictured) can enable Night Sight mode automatically. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Thanks to its latest update, the Google Camera...

Image: Vivaldi Vivaldi is releasing version 3.6 of the Vivaldi browser with a great and terrible power today: you can now create two-level tab stacks, so that grouped t...

Linking your WhatsApp account to your computer’s web browser or desktop app is getting a little more secure. Soon, if you’ve got biometric authentication enabled on your ph...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung Electronics has reported its fourth-quarter earnings, confirming that the company made more money in 2020 than the year before...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s new privacy feature requiring developers ask for permission to track iOS users for ad targeting is at last going live...

Garmin has released a new smartwatch called the Lily, and its main selling point is that it’s designed by women, for women. The Sport Edition, which is made of aluminum and h...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The r/WallStreetBets subreddit’s own moderators made it private for a little less than an hour on Wednesday evening, Reddit co...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The story of r/WallStreetBets Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The WallStreetBets subreddit, which has seen a significant increase in attention in recent days following the meteoric rise in G...

If you can’t find a PS5 or Xbox Series X, how about an $80,000 electric sports car with comparable performance? Tesla just announced its refreshed Model S today, and a new �...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Discord has banned the r/WallStreetBets server, the company confirmed to The Verge. Reddit’s WallStreetBets subreddit is the d...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Apple says there are now more than 1 billion active iPhones, an enormous milestone for the company that speaks to the phones’ co...

Cyberpunk 2077 creator CD Projekt Red would kindly like modders to stop making Keanu Reeves into a sex object. Following a fan mod that allowed players to have sex with Reeves�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The history of cinema is littered with racist stereotypes. (Call it the long tail of minstrel shows.) As cultural preferences ha...

Sling TV, Dish’s live TV streaming service, announced that it’s raising the prices on its packages and add-ons for new customers starting today. Both the Orange and Blue ch...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Facebook finished 2020 much stronger financially than at the beginning of the year, proving its business could weather the coronavir...

Images: Tesla Tesla has just announced the first major redesign of the Model S since it launched the electric sedan in 2012. This new version, which will launch later t...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple today reported its fiscal Q1 2021 earnings, which cover the final calendar quarter of 2020 and the holiday sales season. That me...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla’s record sales in 2020 helped the Silicon Valley company turn its first annual profit, according to financial figures release...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge There are many moving parts involved in the Biden administration’s goal to administer 100 million vaccine doses in its first 1...

Image: Baidu Baidu has gotten the green light to test fully autonomous vehicles on public roads in California. The Chinese search giant is the sixth company to receive...

5G in the US isn’t mind-bogglingly fast, but it is going to get better | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Your guide to the current state of 5G carrier pla...

Users caught between Apple and Microsoft may now have an easier time managing passwords: it looks like iCloud Keychain is coming to Windows 10 as a Chrome extension (via MacRum...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge This isn’t new information but more of a PSA that you only have one more day to preorder the Galaxy S21, which will get you a few pe...

An aerial view of a Russian nuclear icebreaker clearing a path in ice to North Pole. | Photo by Per Breiehagen / Getty Images President Joe Biden signed a sweeping exec...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The United States Department of Justice announced today that it has charged a Twitter user who allegedly spread misinformation d...

Photo: Amazon Amazon’s new motorized Echo Show 10 — announced last fall at its annual hardware event — finally has a release date of February 25th, with preorders...

Photos by Britta Pedersen-Pool, Elif Ozturk / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The satellite feud between Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon spilled out into ...

Schell Games is making a sequel to its massively successful virtual reality game I Expect You to Die, and it’s expected to come out later this year. Along with the announcem...

YouTube If you’ve ever used Windows 10 before, I need you to stop what you’re doing and go listen to this a cappella group’s terrifyingly accurate covers of Windo...

Instagram Instagram is making its Stories feature more complete on the desktop. In a small interface refresh today, the company is updating its Stories feature so that ...

The processor is updated. The rest? Not so much. Continue reading… ...

Image: Netflix Netflix has a new worldwide mega-hit on its hands with the Regency-era British drama Bridgerton, which the streaming service says is its biggest show eve...

Image: IO Interactive The most accessible, cohesive Hitman game to date Continue reading… ...

A screenshot from Control. | Image: Remedy Entertainment Control: Ultimate Edition, which bundles the original game with all of its post-launch content, will be downloa...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge For the early adopters of next-gen hardware Continue reading… ...

Intel launched its first Iris Xe desktop graphics cards yesterday, but you won’t see them appearing in AMD-powered systems. While Nvidia and AMD’s desktop GPUs typically wo...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple could start manufacturing iPads in Vietnam by the middle of this year, marking the first time a “significant number” of the ...

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Google announced today a new feature for electric vehicle owners that uses artificial intelligence to sort through thousands of publ...

Image: CD Projekt Red CD Projekt Red has added modding tools and resources to Cyberpunk 2077 for players to adjust their experience. The developer announced the news on...

Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Netflix is working on yet another video game adaptation with a new Tomb Raider anime in the works. We don’t know much about the series just...

Walmart is planning to increase the number of local fulfillment centers across the United States, it announced on Wednesday. Walmart’s approach of more localized fulfillment ...

Spin, the scooter company owned by Ford, is testing a new scooter that can be controlled by a remote operator. The scooters, Segway’s T60 model, look different than Spin’s ...

gamestop The Reddit meme that bludgeoned a hedge fund Continue reading… ...

Amazon’s Ring has debuted its latest video doorbell, the (blandly named) Ring Video Doorbell Wired which, at $59.99, is the cheapest and smallest doorbell that the company ha...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge HBO Max has nearly 40 million US subscribers, AT&T disclosed in its first quarter earnings report on Wednesday. Combined wit...

Photo by Victor J. Blue/Getty Images Reddit traders who have successfully profited off GameStop (GME) stock are now turning their attention to struggling movie theater ...

With Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury for the Switch, Nintendo is once again giving a great Wii U game a second chance on a more successful platform. But it’s also more...

It can be clunky, but a chilling, gruesome atmosphere makes it work Continue reading… ...

General Motors, which only a few months ago was forced to ditch its plans to acquire an equity stake in troubled hydrogen truck startup Nikola, is ready to move on. Today, the ...

Fujifilm has announced the X-E4, which it describes as the most compact interchangeable-lens camera in its X-series lineup. At 121.3mm x 72.9mm x 32.7mm, it’s more than a cen...

As buttons go, there are few as well-known as Staples’ “Easy Button” — a bright, Staples-red button that was featured in a series of ad campaigns beginning in 2005. The...

Fujifilm has announced a new medium format camera, the GFX 100S. This new model is essentially a smaller, more accessible version of the GFX 100, which was released in 2019 for...

A promotional image featuring Daniel Craig using an HMD device. | Image: HMD Global The latest James Bond movie’s pandemic-related delays are reportedly causing probl...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) is calling on the European Commission to investigate Nintendo Joy-Con drift complaints. The...

The bike arrives at a time when many people want to work out at home Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung’s latest flagship, the Galaxy S21 Ultra, is its first phone to feature Samsung Display’s new power-efficient OLED panels. ...

Lime is adding a new member to its family of shared electric vehicles: mopeds. The mopeds are being offered as part of a pilot program to test whether Lime’s customers prefer...

Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images A group of 75 activist groups and nonprofits have urged against sweeping changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency ...

Nothing’s official logo. | Image: Nothing Carl Pei, the OnePlus co-founder who parted ways with the company last year, has announced the name of his next venture: Not...

Dan Seifert / The Verge Samsung is expanding its Health Monitor app to 31 new countries, including 28 European countries, and people in those countries will be able to ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge DJI is now offering flyaway coverage for its Mini 2 and Mavic Air 2 drones, should they develop a mind of their own and take off. The ...

Image: Bloodhound LSR For sale: a rocket-powered car named Bloodhound built specifically to break the land speed record. Theoretical top speed of 1,000 miles per hour. ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is continuing to attract people to its Xbox Game Pass service. The “Netflix for video games” service now has 18 mi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple just released iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4, and the update notes contain some worrying language (via TechCrunch). Under kernel...

Tweetbot has long been one of the best third-party Twitter applications around for the iPhone and Mac, and today sees the launch of the latest version for iOS: Tweetbot 6, whic...

Image: Google Google is ending development on the virtual reality painting app Tilt Brush — one of the most well-known VR applications — and making it open source. ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon has big 5G plans for 2021 after formally launching its next-gen network in October of last year, and close to the top of...

Asus’ first Intel Iris Xe graphics card. | Image: Intel Intel is launching its first Iris Xe desktop graphics cards today. Originally codenamed “DG1,” these new d...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge For the early adopters of next-gen hardware Continue reading… ...

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Gaming laptops that have Nvidia’s powerful RTX 30-series graphics chips inside are now shipping. I have a first look at MSI’s ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon says that it has resolved issues with Fios, its fiber-optic network, that affected many locations in the Northeastern US...

Image: Byte Byte, a TikTok competitor, has been purchased by Clash, another TikTok competitor. It sounds as though Clash may be merged into Byte, but the details are va...

AMD is firing on all cylinders these days: it’s the guts of every modern PlayStation and Xbox, it has the desktop CPUs to beat, it’s nearly caught up to Nvidia in GPU perfo...

Microsoft posted the second quarter of its 2021 financial results today, reporting revenue of $43.1 billion and a net income of $15.5 billion. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Google has released the latest version of Chrome OS, with a few new features for Chromebook owners to try out. If you’re a Chromebo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Three weeks after Google promised it would add Apple’s mandatory app privacy labels “as soon as this week,” none of the co...

Image: Apple Apple has officially released iOS 14.4 and a matching update for its HomePod mini speaker, adding the long-promised ultra-wideband (UWB) handoff feature th...

Image: Vizio Vizio’s P-Series Quantum X remains the company’s flagship line of QLED televisions. If you are in the market for a new TV and have room to fit a 75-inc...

Illustration by Alex Castro Twitter on Tuesday announced a significant shift in the type of data it makes available for free to third-party academic researchers interes...

An American real estate investor, a Canadian investor, and a former Israeli Air Force pilot are paying $55 million each to be part of the first fully private astronaut crew to ...

Plex, well known as a service for streaming movies, music, and TV shows from your own computer, is now adding another thing you can stream: video games (via Protocol). Plex ann...

A Cypriot man pleaded guilty to hacking and blackmailing several US companies. Joshua Epifaniou admitted to computer fraud and paid $600,000 in restitution to his victims. He w...

Photo by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images In a hearing on her nomination for Commerce Department secretary on Tuesday, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo t...

Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles was the biggest COVID-19 testing site in the United States, with the ability to test over...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In Apple and Epic’s ongoing court battle over App Store fees, one of the key sticking points has been Apple’s insistence on ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon Fios, the company’s fiber optic network, appears to be experiencing outages in many locations on the US East Coast. Th...

Image: Sony Sony has today announced its most advanced mirrorless camera yet: the $6,500 Alpha 1 features a new 50.1-megapixel full-frame sensor, is capable of continuo...

The Xperia Pro can be used as an external monitor for a camera. | Image: Sony The Xperia Pro, Sony’s first smartphone with 5G in the US, is launching today for $2,499...

Disney has released the second trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon, giving the best look yet at the upcoming animated fantasy film, which is set to hit both theaters and Disne...

Photo: Vizio Super Bowl Sunday is less than two weeks away! Sure, the game itself won’t be streaming in 4K resolution, but that doesn’t mean you can’t spoil yours...

Apple is launching a limited-edition Apple Watch for Black History Month, with a unique watch band, new watchface, and some of the proceeds going toward civil rights organizati...

The next in-game event for Animal Crossing: New Horizons will bring a little more color to your island. Today, Nintendo revealed its next big update, the highlight of which is ...

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Cybersecurity reporter Joseph Menn on the massive breach the US didn’t see coming Continue reading&helli...

A top-notch convertible with a pricey sidecar Continue reading… ...

Francois G. Durand/Getty Images YouTube has paid out more than $30 billion to creators, artists, and media organizations over the last three years, according to a new l...

Pinterest now displays a row of stories at the top of its home screen when you open up the app. It’s an interface that should look familiar to anyone who has used a social me...

Horizon: Zero Dawn performed favorably at QHD resolution with the GS66 Stealth. A first look at the next trend in gaming laptops Continue reading… ...

Step-up performance at the right price Continue reading… ...

Photo: Lego Lego is launching a new, augmented reality social video service called Vidiyo that will let users create their own music videos and dance clips and share th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is acquiring Revue, an email service that lets writers publish newsletters. The move allows Twitter to capitalize on its...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Government-backed hackers based in North Korea are targeting individual security researchers through a number of means including...

Celeste was one of the most acclaimed games of 2018, but what you may not have known is that the tightly designed platformer was an expanded version of a smaller project develo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Someone has gotten their hands on a database full of Facebook users’ phone numbers, and is now selling that data using a Teleg...

Image: Apple’s App Store It looks like Amazon is rolling a new app icon on iOS, and unlike countless other recent app redesigns, it isn’t just a logo dropped inside...

Image: Apple’s App Store It looks like Amazon is rolling a new app icon on iOS, and unlike countless other recent app redesigns, it isn’t just a logo dropped inside...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The fast-growing encrypted messaging app is making itself increasingly vulnerable to abuse. Current and former employees are...

Grindr will be fined 100 million Norwegian kroner, or about $11.7 million, by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority for illegally sharing private information about Grindr use...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amnesty International has launched a new campaign against facial recognition titled Ban The Scan — and is launching with a dem...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s News tab will go live in the UK on January 26th in its first launch outside the US. The company says the section wi...

John Ternus, Apple’s new senior vice president of hardware engineering | Photo: Apple Apple’s hardware team is getting its biggest shakeup in nearly a decade, as Da...

President Joe Biden will start the process of phasing out the federal government’s use of gas-powered vehicles and replacing them with ones that run on electricity. The annou...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon is enabling a new feature today that allows Alexa to proactively complete tasks around the house, such as turning off lights, ba...

Nerf’s got a new trick up its sleeve: Hasbro’s latest foam-flinging sidearms can curve their shots, possibly letting you hit targets you can’t even see. (Think Angelina J...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When most people look out their windows in the morning, they likely aren’t expecting to be surprised by a chest freezer-sized ...

Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images When pharmacist Erin McCreary moved to Pennsylvania in 2018, she didn’t anticipate ever having to administer vaccines. She’d t...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge 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...

The Echo Show 5 (left), Echo Show 8 (middle), and the Echo Show (right) | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge When it comes to the Echo smart speakers, Amazon has a slew o...

Image: OnLeaks / Voice Sony is reportedly set to bring back its “Compact” line of phones in 2021 with a new Xperia Compact model. It will offer a 5.5-inch display a...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When it comes to finding a device to use to read your ebooks, you have a few options to choose from. You can always buy a ta...

Wind turbines pictured during evening light on November 23rd, 2020, in Oschersleben, Germany. | Photo by Florian Gaertner / Photothek via Getty Images Renewable energy ...

Verizon’s 5G UW delivers truly impressive speeds. | Verizon Verizon is extending access to its fast mmWave 5G network to its prepaid customers for the first time. A n...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verge Deals on Apple’s iPad are more common than you might think. Whether you’re after the affordable iPad, the high-end iPad Pro, or so...

Image: Apple Apple is adding celebrity-guided walking workouts to Fitness Plus today, with new walks to be added every Monday through the end of April. The new feature...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has launched its Birdwatch program, meant to address misinformation on the platform by allowing users to fact-check twee...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After pressure from activist group Sleeping Giants, Amazon has banned groups tied to the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters m...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge When it comes to whether MagSafe-enabled iPhones are safe around pacemakers or other implanted medical devices, Apple and medical devic...

Photo by Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The market, like Soylent Green, is made of people. That’s never more clear than when there’s somethin...

Cyberpunk 2077’s big new 1.1 patch has introduced a game-breaking bug. Eurogamer reports that the “Down on the Street” quest appears to be broken for some players. The qu...

Image: 7-11 If you reside in Dallas County, Texas, you have a chance to spend the night in what I think is the ultimate gamer’s paradise: a 7-Eleven complete with sna...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A consumer advocacy group in Europe has filed the latest class action lawsuit against Apple saying the company intentionally thr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A consumer advocacy group in Europe has filed the latest lawsuit against Apple saying the company intentionally throttled older ...

Spotify Spotify isn’t limiting its audio ambitions to podcasts and music. Today the company announced it’s furthering its audiobook experiments with the release of ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The competition for streaming services is playing out in the same way the tech industry has over the past decade: a small handfu...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you’ve found yourself wanting some peace and quiet, whether it’s from the upstairs neighbor’s kid stomping around above you or...

Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images AMC Theatres has raised nearly $1 billion in funding since December 14th, staving off bankruptcy for several more months, the company annou...

Apple’s AirPods Pro wireless earbuds | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple AirPods are among the most popular headphones on the market. They’re compact, easy to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WWE Network, the standalone video service from World Wrestling Entertainment, won’t be going it alone for much longer — at l...

8BitDo is best known for its affordable retro controllers, but its latest product is quite a bit more ambitious. It’s a wireless arcade stick for the Nintendo Switch and PCs,...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Microsoft has a habit of reigniting the Mac vs. PC conflict for its Surface ads, and this time it’s going after Apple’s Touch Bar...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix has detailed an upgrade to its Android app which should reduce buffering and make audio sound better and easier to hear ...

Google workers across the world are coming together to form a global union alliance. The newly formed coalition, called Alpha Global, is comprised of 13 different unions repres...

Newell during a recent interview with 1 News. | Image: 1 News Valve co-founder and president Gabe Newell talks about Valve’s exploration of brain-computer interfaces ...

Google Google is launching an initiative to provide more than $150 million to promote education and equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines, the company announce...

Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images ESPN Plus says it will issue partial refunds to customers who paid for a UFC pay-per-view event Saturday only to run in...

Godzilla vs. Kong | Warner Bros. I finally finished Ted Lasso last night and I get why everyone loved it so much. I was totally prepared to not like the earnest, goofy ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla is suing a former employee for allegedly stealing company information, CNBC reported. The company says software engineer A...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber has laid off about 185 Postmates workers, and plans to further integrate Postmates’ infrastructure within its Uber Eats s...

143 spacecraft inside Falcon 9’s payload fairing | SpaceX SpaceX launched a batch of 143 spacecraft to space from Florida on Sunday morning under the company’s new...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft’s flagship Xbox Series X is one of the most powerful gaming consoles available right now. If you are having difficulty fin...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Italy’s data privacy authority has ordered video sharing app TikTok to temporarily block the accounts of any users whose ages ...

Image: HBO The year is kicking off with what’s becoming a loose tradition: a documentary about a renowned ‘90s athlete that aims to shade in a more complete picture...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook says some users were logged out of their accounts unexpectedly Friday due to a “configuration change,” and the issu...

Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images A year ago this week, The Verge published our first story about the virus. It was January 21. The first case had arrived in th...

Image: Vizio In news that’s likely to be devastating to people who are looking for any and all reasons to upgrade their TV, CBS announced that Super Bowl LV won’t b...

Photo by: Peter Kramer/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Longtime TV and radio host Larry King died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles....

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has reversed its controversial Xbox Live price increase. The company announced a price hike on Friday that would have ...

SpaceX is locked in a legal fight with a Texas oil company for a plot of land it wants to use to drill for natural gas, according to public records. The 806-acre site in southe...

Image: CD Projekt Red Cyberpunk 2077’s first big update is available now, and it’s packed with bug fixes for the notoriously buggy game. In a tweet, developer CD Pr...

Photo by Johnny Louis/Getty Images Trading in stock of video game retailer GameStop (GME) was halted briefly Friday, as it soared more than 70 percent, due partly to th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An intelligence agency has just confirmed that the US government does indeed buy location data collected by its citizens’ smar...

Vicarious Visions, the studio that developed Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and the remake for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, has been reassigned within Activision Blizzard, ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Adequate COVID-19 vaccine distribution still seems like the greatest obstacle to slowing the spread of the pandemic, but if you�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The European Parliament is being investigated by the European Data Protection Supervisor after allegations that its COVID testin...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is trying to delay a union vote in Bessemer, Alabama, appealing a US labor board decision to allow 6,000 warehouse worker...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google is redesigning how search results look on mobile, the company announced in a blog on Friday. “We wanted to take a step ba...

Photo by Dave Simpson/WireImage The Federal Trade Commission issued multimillion-dollar fines against three bot-powered ticket scalping operations. The FTC says these o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft spent most of 2020 building up goodwill for its Xbox Game Pass service and next-gen consoles, but a new Xbox Live Gold...

Apple may finally be bringing an integrated SD card slot to its upcoming 2021 models of its MacBook Pro laptops, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, in a ...

Apple’s AirPods Pro wireless earbuds | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple AirPods are among the most popular headphones on the market. They’re compact, easy to ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge This week on The Verge’s flagship podcast The Vergecast, The Verge’s own Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Julia Alexander, and Chaim Gart...

If you haven’t found time to watch Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max — and you still want to see what all the fuss is about — there are only a couple more days to do so. Wond...

Away CEO Stuart Haselden will step down in February, according to a company press release. The luggage brand’s president and co-founder, Jen Rubio, will take over as interim ...

Image: Razer Razer’s DeathAdder V2 wired gaming mouse is one of the best wired gaming mice you can buy right now, according to my colleague Cameron Faulkner. But if y...

Microsoft is increasing the prices of its Xbox Live Gold subscription soon. The software giant has started notifying existing Xbox Live Gold members of the changes in certain m...

Photo Illustration by The Verge Marques Brownlee on how he is scaling his brand Continue reading… ...

Photo Illustration by The Verge Marques Brownlee on how he is scaling his brand Continue reading… ...

Photo by Andrew Marino / The Verge It’s been nearly eight years since Radiotopia executive producer Julie Shapiro noticed that 70 percent of the most popular podcasts...

It’s just a jump to the left and a step to the right for Wanda and Vision, who have time warped from the ‘50s and ‘60s to the 1970s. The third episode picks up right whe...

Newell during a rare interview. | Image: 1 News Valve co-founder and president Gabe Newell has given one of his famously rare interviews with New Zealand’s 1 News. In...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge YouTube is finally enabling HDR support on Microsoft’s Xbox consoles. The HDR support works across existing Xbox One S / X devices a...

The new MacBook Air with the M1 chip. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is reportedly working on a new design for its MacBook Air that will include the return o...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Another company in the electric vehicle industry is going public by merging with a so-called SPAC, or special purpose acquisition com...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung is considering spending over $10 billion to build an advanced new logic chipmaking plant in Austin, Texas, Bloomberg is ...

Honor has announced the new V40 5G flagship phone, its first since Huawei sold the company off to a Shenzhen-based consortium of Chinese partners. The phone is exclusive to Chi...

Photo: DANJAQ and MGM / Nicola Dove Hollywood has decided tonight’s the night to shove back their slate of films — including James Bond’s latest outing No Time To...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google is threatening to pull its search engine from an entire country — Australia — if a proposed law goes into effect that w...

Image: Alphabet Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its division that provides internet from floating balloons, according to a post on the blog of Alphabet’s X moonshot d...

Image: Capcom If you’ve got a PlayStation 5, you probably know there’s not a lot to play right now — particularly if you’ve already finished the likes of Miles ...

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Photo by Greg Nash-Pool / Getty Images Only hours after gaining full control of Congress, House Democrats are going after Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for the platfor...

We’ve put him somewhere warm. You may have seen the many memes of Sen. Bernie Sanders sitting at President Joe Biden’s inauguration (we even did a rundown of the be...

The eighth mainline Resident Evil game now has a release date. Today at a live-streamed event, developer Capcom announced that Resident Evil Village will be coming to the PlayS...

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Image: Raspberry Pi Foundation The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s tiny computers can be used for anything from homemade cameras to cucumber sorters, and now, the group is ...

Photo by Gary Hershorn / Getty Images President Joe Biden issued an executive order Thursday requiring masks to be worn on public transportation. It was the latest abru...

A render showing how Otter.ai’s Chrome extension works in Google Meet. | Image: Otter.ai You can now use automated transcription service Otter.ai to transcribe and pr...

Photo credit should read Carlos Tischler / Eyepix Group/Barcroft Media via Getty Images President Joe Biden will direct federal agencies to use the Defense Production A...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A Washington judge has denied social network Parler’s demand to be reinstated on Amazon W...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Bluesky, Twitter’s decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019. The Bluesky team r...

Photo by Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call President Joe Biden has appointed Democratic commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the Federal Communications Commission until a...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge If you are looking for a smartphone with a good camera but don’t want to spend a ton of money, B&H Photo is selling a 64GB unlo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Mark Harris, writing for IEEE Spectrum, has come out with a chilling report about how military testing is leading to confusion a...

The Predator in Fortnite. | Image: Epic Games Starting this week in Fortnite, you can have the Predator doing a Pelé victory dance while wielding TheGrefg’s gamepad ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The PS5 and Xbox Series X have been on sale for over two months, and they continue to be some of the most desirable gadgets in the wor...

Instacart is laying off every employee who voted to unionize, Motherboard reports. The news comes as the company shuts down in-store operations at some grocery stores amid the ...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Former FCC chairman Ajit Pai has left the building, but not without giving the telecom industry one last pat on the back: i...

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The 2021 Super Bowl won’t be available to stream in 4K or HDR this year when it airs on February 7th, CBS Sports Digital has confir...

Microsoft is introducing new colorful themes for its Edge browser this week, alongside updated icons and a new sleeping tabs feature that improves the browser and overall PC pe...

A screenshot from PUBG. | Image: PUBG Corporation PUBG’s latest update adds a reputation system intended to encourage players to be less toxic toward each other. Thou...

Photo by VCG Wilson / Corbis via Getty Images For the past hour, I’ve been avoiding work by browsing this amazingly high-resolution scan of Johannes Vermeer’s iconi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook vice president Nick Clegg says the company is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend former President Trump fro...

Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images On Thursday, the House Oversight Committee called for an FBI investigation into Parler’s involvement in the deadly...

Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for ESSENCE Spotify is continuing its pursuit of podcasting talent. Today, the company announced that it’s partnering with filmmaker A...

Fortnite creator Epic Games is turning its attention to film. Deadline reports that Epic will lend its Unreal Engine tech to animation studio Hook Up, as well as firms DuermeVe...

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Photo by Norbert Barczyk/PressFocus/MB Media/Getty Images Counter-Strike players could be returning to in-person competition soon thanks to a new agreement on safety pr...

Image: Vizio The 65-inch P-Series Quantum X from Vizio is the company’s flagship 2020 model, sitting just beneath its debut OLED in terms of picture quality. You can ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Anchor promised to find sponsors for small podcasts, but Spotify is footing the bill Continue reading… ...

Almost a great gaming gadget Continue reading… ...

Beeper’s website promises “a single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other networks.” | Screenshot: BeeperHQ.com Beeper is a new universal chat app that�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is reportedly working on a VR headset that will include a fabric design, a fan, and an expensive price tag. Bloomberg News...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge A new Linux port allows Apple’s M1 Macs to run Ubuntu for the first time. Corellium, a security firm that offers a virtualized versi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has locked the official account for China’s US embassy, over a tweet it said violated its policy against dehumanizatio...

Samsung’s 2020 Galaxy Chromebook. | Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Samsung Display has announced plans to mass-produce the world’s first 90Hz OLED screens designe...

Demonstrators rally near Trump Tower while protesting the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline on February 4, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. President Donald Trump had recent...

Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Tim Apple, as Trump once called him, didn’t just give Donald Trump the opportunity to lie about bringing an Apple factory to...

Image: Innersloth Among Us was one of the smash hits of 2020 — it reportedly had nearly half a billion players in November — and there are some exciting updates ann...

Image: L-DI-EGO on Lego Ideas If you want a Metroid Lego set, you have the power to bring the idea closer to reality. User L-DI-EGO has submitted a design on Lego’s I...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Conchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images In one of his first acts as president, Joe Biden walked back the former administration’s ...

Joe Biden speaks about climate change and the wildfires on the West Coast at the Delaware Museum of Natural History on September 14th, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware.  | Ph...

Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images Hours after taking his oath of office on Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed several executive orders overturning actions taken b...

Image: Disney Our desperate plea for a Muppets adaptation of The Great Gatsby has been answered: documentary filmmaker Ben Crew has taken the public domain novel and tu...

Captain Andrea Hall speaking and signing the Pledge of Allegiance during the presidential inauguration. | Photo by Erin Schaff / Pool / AFP via Getty Images Firefighter...

Image: JBL JBL’s Google Assistant-powered smart display, the Link View, is on sale for $80 on Harman Audio’s (JBL’s parent company) eBay store. While its original...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch has “indefinitely” banned former President Donald Trump from its platform. The action comes two weeks after the site ...

The official website of the White House, WhiteHouse.gov, has been completely replaced with a new version for the Biden administration, and it comes with some unexpected accessi...

Today’s US presidential inauguration brought many good things, but the thing Twitter seems most excited about is a new crop of Bernie memes. The meme started with a wire phot...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has offered to help the Biden administration meet its goal of completing 100 million coronavirus vaccinations within the ...

Photo by Bill Ingalls / NASA At 12PM ET today, Jim Bridenstine officially stepped down from his role as NASA administrator. During his time at the agency, the former Ok...

Photo by Miquel Benitez/Getty Images Volkswagen Group boss Herbert Diess joined twitter Wednesday, and his first tweet was a light trolling of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. “...

The official website of the White House, WhiteHouse.gov, has been completely replaced with a new version for the Biden administration, and it comes with some unexpected accessi...

Photo by Joshua Roberts / Getty Images President Biden is going to need some Twitter followers. Twitter wiped out all followers from the @POTUS and @WhiteHouse accounts...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Streaming services are slowly turning into cable TV — complete with bundles, an ever-growing list of channels, and a reinvente...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Last October, Lenovo unveiled its new Google Assistant-powered alarm clock, the Smart Clock Essential. At just $50, the Lenovo Smart Cl...

vrbo Vrbo has changed its stance on people making reservations in the Washington, DC area during the week of the inauguration. The company announced on January 19th, th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix’s Shuffle Play feature, which the company was spotted testing last year, is getting a widespread launch in the first h...

Microsoft may have killed off its flagship MP3 player nearly a decade ago, but these fans are keeping their enthusiasm alive Continue reading… ...

An ultrathin notebook with fantastic battery life Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia is updating its Shield Android TV software to include support for the latest next-gen console controllers. If you own a S...

Photo by Stefani Reynolds / Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are set to make history today when they will be sworn into off...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Valve and five PC video game publishers have been fined a total of €7.8 million (around $9.5 million) by the European Commissi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is releasing a new version of Chrome this week that will improve its dark mode support, alongside removing FTP and Adobe ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is investigating artificial intelligence researcher Margaret Mitchell, who co-leads the company’s Ethical AI team, and ...

LG’s Wing smartphone. | Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge LG is considering exiting the smartphone market in 2021. After losing around $4.5 billion over the past ...

Images: Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz threw back the curtain on the EQA crossover, its latest electric vehicle as part of a slate of new EVs that are being planned for th...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images One of President Trump’s final acts in office is to pardon a former Google engineer who was convicted of stealing trade secrets....

Photo by random stranger in the crowd Mark Harris has put together an amazing report for TechCrunch on the legal troubles that have befallen buyers of the Boring Compan...

Minecraft Dungeons’ dedicated launcher on PC is being retired in favor of a new “Unified Launcher” that lets you launch Dungeons and Minecraft: Java Edition from the same...

Photo: Aviron Last week, we told you how Wattpad has become a place where budding authors can sometimes turn their work into Hollywood film and TV, with Hulu, Netflix a...

Image: ColourPop Nintendo has announced that it’s collaborating with cosmetics brand ColourPop on a makeup collection inspired by Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The c...

The brand-new HP Elite Folio has a 3:2 display. | Image: HP One of the biggest trends coming out of this year’s CES wasn’t something people will necessarily notice ...

vrbo Vrbo has changed its stance on people making reservations in the Washington, DC area during the week of the inauguration. The company announced on January 19th, th...

Photo by Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Ripples from the Capitol riots could be spreading across the country Continue reading… ...

Image: The CW For the first time since October 13th, 2017, The CW’s app sat atop the list of free apps available on iOS devices, passing YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, a...

Image: The CW Some people may have been surprised to see The CW’s app sitting atop the list of free apps available on iOS devices, passing YouTube, TikTok, Instagram,...

The Tab Active 3 is IP68 rated and, with the included case, can withstand a 1.5 meter drop. | Image: Samsung The Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 3, announced globally in Sept...

LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX Netflix has surpassed another major milestone: 203.6 million subscribers around the world. The achievement comes after Netflix saw spectacular grow...

Image: Warner Media Much has been made of Search Party as a uniquely millennial show, like it’s a brunch line you can watch other people stand in. It’s true that th...

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge A few weeks ago, our furnace (technically a ductless heat pump) stopped working at the worst possible time of the year. But at least...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Despite a whirlwind of electric vehicle SPAC mergers in the last few months, there’s still one startup flying solo that’s arguabl...

Image: DC Comics DC is shaking up its comics app on January 21st and relaunching it as DC Universe Infinite. The original DC Universe featured television shows and comi...

Someone had to do it: there’s now a bot that turns Reddit arguments into scenes from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, complete with music and the iconic “OBJECTION!” intercu...

Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images Fortnite developer Epic says that, for 2021, the game’s competitive scene will have a prize pool of $20 million. That’s a step up f...

Look at this bat’s little backpack! | Image: dulog Bats are elusive little creatures, which makes them the perfect subjects for scientists to try out new animal track...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge I picked up a new MacBook Air with Apple’s M1 chip, and I’ve absolutely loved it so far. It’s really speedy and the battery is f...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Brave has just taken a step towards supporting a decentralized web, by becoming the first browser to offer native integration wi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Brave has just taken a step toward supporting a decentralized web by becoming the first browser to offer native integration with...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verge Deals on Apple’s iPad are more common than you might think. Whether you’re after the affordable iPad, the high-end iPad Pro, or so...

All five seasons of The Muppet Show will stream on Disney Plus beginning February 19th, Disney announced today. With the addition, Disney Plus is now home to nearly every Muppe...

iFixit praises Apple’s use of screws to attach key components. | Image: iFixit iFixit’s long in the making AirPods Max teardown is finally complete, giving an exhau...

Image: Rivian Amazon-backed electric vehicle startup Rivian has raised another $2.65 billion, bolstering its position as one of the most well-funded EV startups in the ...

Photo by Alexander Kramer for The Verge Apple’s MacBook Pro with the new M1 processor is one of the best-performing laptops on the market for the cost, and that cost ...

Image: Instagram Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, isn’t thrilled with the platform’s TikTok competitor Reels. He discussed the format, which launched in the US ...

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

With an ongoing pandemic and an unprecedented lockdown of the nation’s capital, Joe Biden’s inauguration will look different from those that came before it. The Biden inau...

Epic has partnered with some of the biggest soccer clubs in the world for its latest set of Fortnite skins. Today, the developer unveiled the new “kickoff set,” which lets ...

Samsung’s 860 SSD has been one of the standards for PC parts since it was released in 2018. Now, the company is announcing its successor, the 870 Evo, its latest SATA SSD des...

ViacomCBS is set to relaunch its CBS All Access service as Paramount Plus on March 4th, with a special event to introduce the new streamer on February 24th, the company announc...

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

Illustration by The Verge The head of Instagram on where social media goes from here Continue reading… ...

With each new satellite that reaches orbit, the space above our heads gets a little more congested. There are about 3,000 active satellites in use today, but that number is cha...

Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images Microsoft is joining forces with Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, to help speed up the c...

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic took everyone, including the IRS, by surprise. Because of the issues people were dealing with last spring, the filing deadline for federal tax pa...

The Chromebook Spin 512 comes with a 3:2 aspect ratio display. | Image: Acer Acer is announcing five new laptops aimed at schools today, consisting of four Chromebooks ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The latest update to ubiquitous open-source media player VLC is here, and it comes with native support for Apple silicon Mac computers...

Image: CD Projekt Red If you’ve already nabbed a next-gen PlayStation or Xbox — or are willing to give developer CD Projekt the benefit of the doubt that it’ll ev...

In 2016, a team of modders released a game they developed a game in their spare time to nigh-universal acclaim — a mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that they called Endera...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amid rising political tensions in the United States, Telegram founder Pavel Durov says his chat service has taken down hundreds ...

One year ago at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, Alienware made waves with a modular gaming PC that worked like a Nintendo Switch, with a pair of gamepads flanking a powerful Windows 10 ...

On Sunday, The New York Times published an article about the risks of sky-rocketing teenage device usage during quarantine — and as you might expect, they went straight for t...

Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images A capitol rioter may have stolen Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop with plans to sell it to the Russian government, according to a...

2020 Game draws inspiration from the biggest trends of last year. | Screenshot: 2020 Game I get it, there’s absolutely no part of you that wants to relive the terribl...

Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ProPublica has published a new interactive resource of over 500 videos taken in Washing...

Jay Y. Lee arrives at the Seoul High Court on November 09, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea | Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images Lee Jae-yong — known as Jay Y. Lee in the...

Jay Y. Lee arrives at the Seoul High Court on November 09, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea | Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images Lee Jae-yong — known as Jay Y. Lee in the...

Virgin Orbit’s airborne rocket-launching system during a previous test. | Image: Virgin Orbit Update January 17th 5:34PM ET: Virgin Orbit’s rocket reached orbit and...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Social media platform Parler was all but wiped off the internet last week, but on Sunday, s...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Social media platform Parler was all but wiped off the internet last week, but on Sunday, s...

Andra Day stars in The United States vs. Billie Holiday | Hulu I’m getting to the point where there’s so much to stream that I don’t know what to watch first, old...

Photo Illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images GitHub is admitting that a Jewish employee was fired in error and is offering him his job back. The news comes after the comp...

Amazon is facing a new lawsuit alleging that a deal between the company and five book publishers has created higher prices on e-books, The Wall Street Journal reported. The la...

Virgin Orbit’s airborne rocket-launching system during a previous test. | Image: Virgin Orbit Virgin Orbit — the sister company of billionaire Richard Branson’s s...

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images After experiencing technical difficulties Friday, the Signal messaging app appears to be ...

A critical NASA rocket test ended with a shutdown on Saturday, a little over a minute into what was planned to be an eight-minute test. This trial run was a vital checkpoint fo...

A critical NASA rocket test ended with a shutdown on Saturday, a little over a minute into what was planned to be an eight-minute test. This trial run was a vital checkpoint fo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has updated its Inauguration Day preparations to include a temporary ban on ads that promote weapon accessories and pro...

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Ford will delay deliveries for hundreds of its Mustang Mach-E vehicles to perform quality checks, Electrek reported. The automaker b...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Some Twitter employees have set their accounts to private and scrubbed their online biographies over concerns they may be target...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Rating the all-digital Consumer Electronics Show Continue reading… ...

vrbo Short-term rental site VRBO does not plan to cancel reservations in the DC area during the inauguration next week, even though competitor Airbnb has already done s...

Image: Razer Another CES is in the books. Going all-virtual meant that it was a smaller show than usual — and since it was already a show that’s been on the decline...

The B-2 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. | NASA Four huge rocket engines will roar to life on Saturday, in a crucial test fo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Millions of people in the US started buying face masks in 2020, and companies, unsurprisingly, rushed to take advantage of the s...

Image: CD Projekt Red A new report looking into what went amiss with the rollout of Cyberpunk 2077 points to overconfidence from management at CD Projekt Red as a key p...

Image: Logitech Welcome to the weekend. If I’m being honest, this week’s assortment of deals was just as spotty as last week’s. So, to make it a little better, we...

Driving around a car that looks like it’s made from the fabric of space is now slightly more possible, as demonstrated in this modified black paint job that DipYourCar applie...

In October, the FAA took a major stride towards letting increasingly smart drones fly themselves, letting Skydio’s self-flying drones inspect any bridge in North Carolina for...

Medium has announced its acquisition of the social-based ebook company Glose. Glose is a platform where users can buy and read books, then share notes and highlights with frien...

Photo by Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images Facebook won’t let people create events that take place “in close proximity” to the White House, the US Capitol building, o...

The error message in macOS 11.1. | Screenshot: Jay Peters Apple has turned off users’ ability to unofficially install iOS apps onto their M1 Macs (via 9to5Mac). While...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple has started work on a foldable phone, and it’s begun prototyping foldable screens internally, according to Bloomberg. A final ...

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Image: Disney When times are tough, the sitcom is a refuge. Like late-night talk shows, the multicamera sitcom is one of the oldest formats in television. It’s afford...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge This year’s Consumer Electronics Show was unsurprisingly all virtual. Typically, The Verge is in the thick of it in Las Vegas, b...

Photo: Belkin Getting a MagSafe car charger for your iPhone seems like a simple process, but the current landscape is one of trade-offs: there are no all-in-one solutio...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A discount on HBO Max that was supposed to end today, January 15th, has been extended until March 1st, 2021. The fine print of t...

Image: Apple According to 9to5Mac, Apple will be extending its free year-long trials of its TV Plus service to customers until July 2021. The trials were originally inc...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge WhatsApp on Friday announced a three-month delay of a new privacy policy originally slated to go into effect on February 8th...

The Pixel 4a 5G’s 6.2-inch touchscreen has been acting up for some users. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google says it’s aware of a problem with Pix...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge In addition to revamped MacBook Pros that ditch the Touch Bar and resurrect MagSafe, Apple is also said to be planning to announce its ...

A screenshot from Hitman 3. | Image: IO Interactive Hitman 3 and the World of Assassination trilogy launch on January 20th, and at launch, Google Stadia players will be...

The Humble Store has kicked off its winter sale. Starting today and lasting until January 28th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET, the digital storefront is running a slew of discounts across...

Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images GitHub employees are protesting the firing of a Jewish colleague who was let go two days after he warned co-workers in Washington, D...

One of the miracles of any good television show is that it even works at all. First consider the countless people working across departments and disciplines needed to make a si...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Spending on video games set a new record of $56.9 billion in 2020 in the US, according to a new NPD Group report, a 27 percent increa...

If you’re having trouble sending messages in the secure messaging app Signal, it may be due to technical difficulties the company says are affecting the app on Friday. Signa...

A California man is facing jail time for hitting a police helicopter with his drone. Andrew Hernandez pleaded guilty yesterday to unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, a ch...

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WandaVision, the first original television series produced by Marvel Studios, isn’t quite like anything Marvel has released before. It’s absurdist and pays authentic tribu...

Briana became Storymodebae when she started her Twitch channel in January 2018. Back then she was still a year away from graduating from college, and in her own words, got the ...

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Image by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft says it’s planning to fix a bizarre Windows 10 bug that could corrupt a hard drive just by looking at an icon. Security res...

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Medical appointment company Zocdoc is offering to handle COVID-19 vaccine scheduling logistics for hospitals and health systems, man...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon will now allow third-party companies the unprecedented privilege of accessing the core artificial intelligence underpinni...

Let’s face it: some of us are so busy these days — what with pandemics and presidential elections and attempted overthrows of the government — that we don’t pay enough ...

Intel’s new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, doesn’t start his new role until February, but he’s already prepping the company to take on Apple’s M1 chips. The Oregonian, a local new...

Image: Bumble Dating app Bumble has temporarily disabled a feature which allowed users to filter potential matches based on their political leanings, the service has an...

Photo by Alexander Kramer for The Verge Apple is planning a major MacBook Pro redesign for the third quarter of 2021, according to a research note written by TF Interna...

Image: Patr10tic A developer going by the name of Patr10tic has created an interactive map using GPS metadata and videos from the app Parler to offer a glimpse of what ...

Image: Samsung Samsung’s future phones will also not come with charging bricks, the company has revealed, but it’s leaving itself some wiggle room. In a Q&A abo...

A photo of Spotify’s Car Thing, taken from FCC filings. | Image: FCC filings Back in May 2019, Spotify announced that it would be publicly testing a voice-controlled ...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Samsung just revealed the new Galaxy S21 Ultra would be its first Galaxy S phone to support the S Pen stylus, but the company is a...

Image: Xiaomi With six days left in office, the Trump administration has decided to put one more Chinese electronics giant in its sights: Xiaomi, the world’s number t...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge During Samsung’s Unpacked event, the company unveiled three new phones as part of the Galaxy S21 lineup — the Galaxy S21, S21 ...

The Galaxy A32 5G offers a 6.5-inch display and 5,000mAh battery. | Image: Samsung Echoing a theme that will be repeated a lot more this year, Samsung has announced a v...

BMW is suspending its two-year-old car subscription service, The Verge has learned. Access by BMW was launched in 2018 in Nashville as a pilot project to test out whether cust...

Image: Intel Intel is updating its Next Unit of Computing (NUC) lineup of miniature computers with its 11th Gen processors, and it’s again including a gaming-focused ...

Photo: Marvel Studios WandaVision is the Marvel universe’s most comic book show yet, if not in content at least in concept. It’s a dense-looking storyline that will...

What Samsung used to advertise, but not anymore. | Photo: Samsung (via 9to5Google) There was a time I would have railed against a gadget maker for daring to ship a phon...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A coalition of health and tech companies, which includes Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle, is working on an initiative that aim...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge During Samsung’s Unpacked event, the company unveiled three new phones as part of the Galaxy S21 lineup — the Galaxy S21, S21 ...

Image: Samsung Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra no longer support the convenient Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) feature of Samsung...

Image: Razer One of the biggest announcements at CES 2021 seemed to come and go without much fanfare. Overshadowed by Nvidia’s debut of its RTX 3000-series graphics c...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Instacart will give its shoppers — the workers who pick and fill grocery store orders for customers — a $25 stipend for ...

There’s no questioning the benefits of Twitter. It’s a convenient way to get your memes, world news, and pop culture hot takes all in one place. But being an active Twitte...

Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images For its first three years of existence, the Overwatch League has kicked off early in the year. But that’s going to change in 2021....

Image: Samsung Samsung’s just announced a ton of new products: the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G is the company’s latest flagship and SmartTags are a Tile and (maybe) Apple A...

Image by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft will soon let you upload even bigger files to OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint, increasing the limit from 100GB to 250GB. The ...

The dream of using your phone to unlock your car door (instead of carrying around a bulging key fob) may be one step closer today: Samsung has announced partnerships with Audi,...

Image: Samsung Samsung revealed new One UI 3 details at today’s Unpacked event, including an interesting new photo trick called object eraser, which lets you delete p...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge During Samsung’s Unpacked event, the company unveiled three new phones as part of the Galaxy S21 lineup — the Galaxy S21, S21 ...

Icebergs near Ilulissat, Greenland. Climate change is having a profound effect in Greenland with glaciers and the Greenland ice cap retreating. | Photo by Ulrik Pedersen / NurP...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Samsung just finished its first Unpacked event of 2021. The headline announcements were the three new phones in its S21 lineup, bu...

Image: Samsung Samsung’s new Galaxy Buds Pro are aimed right at Apple’s AirPods Pro wireless earbuds in terms of features. They feature active noise cancellation, a...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge It’s official: Samsung is ditching the microSD card on all three of its Galaxy S21 models. We asked Samsung about this, and the...

Photo: Riot Games For years, competitive gaming has done its best to mimic professional sports, whether it’s players wearing Nike jerseys, big-name celebrity investor...

Samsung’s Galaxy S-series 2021 updates are here, and they’re debuting a little earlier in the year than usual. Interestingly, the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra repres...

Samsung got its S21 flagship phones out into the world a little sooner than usual this year, and the Galaxy S21 base model will appeal to a lot of folks with its balance of fla...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge It’s official: Samsung’s new flagship phones will ship without a charging brick in the box. The phones will include a USB-C to...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Alongside the new Galaxy S21 phones and Galaxy Buds Pro, Samsung is announcing a small Bluetooth gadget you can use for locating l...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Samsung’s new Galaxy S21 Ultra supports the company’s S Pen stylus. Support for the accessory has been a staple of Samsung’s...

Image: Samsung Samsung is announcing the $199.99 Galaxy Buds Pro today, its most premium set of true wireless earbuds yet. They feature an in-ear design similar to the ...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Wattpad’s plan to become the A24 of teen dramas Continue reading… ...

Image: Nintendo New Pokémon Snap, a sequel to the 1999 N64 classic that tasked you with taking pictures of pokémon, is coming to Nintendo Switch on April 30th, Ninten...

Image: Disney If Marvel Studios has its way, people will get a new entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe nearly every week. Everything starts with WandaVision. Marvel...

Photo: Sean O’Kane / The Verge Samsung will be presenting its latest flagship phone, the Galaxy S21, today at the streaming event titled Galaxy Unpacked 2021. The com...

The new Philips Hue Wall Switch Module make the switch smart, not the bulb. | Image: Philips Hue Signify is introducing three new Philips Hue products today: an in-wall...

Windows 10X running on a single-screen device. After years of waiting, it looks like Microsoft now has a true answer to Chrome OS. A new and near-final version of Windo...

BMW’s all-electric iX will be first to support the Digital Key Plus feature. | Image: BMW BMW has announced an upgraded version of its mobile car key technology dubbe...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Today, Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21 Plus, and Galaxy S21 Ultra (I’ll take the Zune-inspired brown one thanks). It�...

The technology makes for smaller bezels, without having to relocate the laptop’s webcam. | Image: Samsung Display Samsung Display has released a teaser for its under-...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Oculus Quest headsets will soon support multiple users, Facebook has announced. The functionality will allow Quest owners to...

Universal Studios Japan has announced that Super Nintendo World will not be opening next month as planned. The Nintendo-themed zone of the Osaka park was supposed to open on Fe...

The Pixel 4a 5G’s 6.2-inch touchscreen has been acting up for some users. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google says it’s aware of a problem with Pix...

Image: SQFMI If you’ve ever wanted to be like Steve Wozniak and have your own custom-made, geeky watch, Squarofumi (stylized SQFMI) may have the product for you: an o...

On January 8th, Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump, and proceeded to play whack-a-mole as he attempted to dodge that ban by using different Twitter accounts, eac...

Photo by Hannah McKay-Pool/Getty Images Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, in a series of Tweets, explained that he felt banning US President Donald Trump’s account was the rig...

Photo by Go Nakamura/Getty Images Snapchat will permanently terminate President Trump’s account, Snap announced on Wednesday. Snap had indefinitely suspended Trump’...

Image: @We_The_Techies You’ve seen the leaks, renders, and leaked renders. Now, only a day before the launch, you can see what the entire Galaxy S21 lineup looks like...

Photo by Lee Quinones The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked Tesla to recall some 158,000 Model S and Model X vehicles that could suffer from fail...

Image: Asus Asus has announced a new fanless addition to its family of Chromeboxes: the Asus Fanless Chromebox. Like Asus’ previous models, the Fanless Chromebox’s ...

Asus announced its new ZenBeam Latte at CES 2021 today, and it’s kind of cute. It’s a mobile movie projector that looks like a one-eyed, fabric-covered mini-robot of sorts....

Samsung All of the things we’re expecting to unpack on January 14th Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Qualcomm has just made a splashy acquisition in the chip market that’s sure to shake up the semiconductor industry in a substa...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge 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...

Image: CD Projekt Red Following the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red says it will release the first update within the next 10 days, with “a larger,...

A popular period and fertility tracking app has settled with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that it lied to users about sharing private health information with t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Valve is doing its part to illustrate gaming’s growth last year with its Steam 2020 Year in Review report. It includes some ra...

Last week, Twitch deleted the face of its extremely popular PogChamp emote, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, after he called for further violence at the Capitol just after a mob ...

Image: Belkin Belkin is voluntarily recalling its Portable Wireless Charger + Stand Special Edition that was sold in Apple retail stores and online on Apple and Belkin�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google says it’s working to investigate issues with Android apps that use the Android Exposure Notifications System to track t...

Photo by Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images For months, Nextdoor moderators have struggled with the challenge of addressing QAnon content on its neighborhood sites — b...

The rumored Galaxy S21 Ultra lineup. | Image: WinFuture Samsung’s next Unpacked event is less than a day away, kicking off on January 14th at 10AM ET, and thanks to c...

Image: Asus Asus’ new Chromebook CX9 is a powerhouse of a Chromebook built for professionals. Pricing is still to be announced, but it’s coming to North America in ...

The Zenbook Pro Duo 15 OLED is coming in April. | Asus Asus has announced two new dual-screen ZenBook Duo laptops as part of its slate of CES 2021 announcements. The 15...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Beginning today, Google smart speakers like the Nest Hub and Nest Mini will have a new option called “Guest Mode.” When enabled by ...

Here’s Asus’ big XG43UQ. | Image: Asus We covered Asus’ announcement of the 32-inch ROG Swift PG32UQ earlier this week as part of CES 2021, but the company waited...

Image: LG LG has unveiled three new gaming monitors as part of its CES 2021 announcements, following its introduction of a new flagship entry in its UltraFine series ea...

The HU810P includes support for AirPlay 2 and other streaming standards. | Image: LG LG’s HU810P is a new $2,999 4K laser projector which supports Apple’s AirPlay 2...

Rich Fury/Getty Images for Visible Attending an actual concert still isn’t a good idea in the United States, so Bandsintown is launching a monthly subscription servic...

Leaked images show a case for the Galaxy S21 Ultra with space for its optional stylus. | Image: WinFuture Samsung is announcing its Galaxy S21 smartphones tomorrow, but...

One of the year’s biggest games has been delayed. Today, Warner Bros. announced that Hogwarts Legacy — an open-world, action roleplaying game set in the Harry Potter univer...

Photo by GLENN CHAPMAN/AFP via Getty Images Facebook Reality Labs head Andrew Bosworth on evolving for a new medium Continue reading… ...

Image: CD Projekt Red Cyberpunk 2077 released in early December 2020, and — controversy surrounding its notoriously poor performance on consoles aside — it’s a fu...

The Pokémon franchise celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion, The Pokémon Company International is launching a series of musical events. Pop sing...

The GP66 Leopard starts at $1,799. | MSI MSI has introduced its early 2021 lineup of portable gaming laptops during CES on Wednesday. The big news is that all the new r...

Photo: Ring Ring is starting to add support for end-to-end encryption to its cameras. The feature will keep video streams encrypted from the camera all the way to the d...

Here’s the lid of the GE76 Raider Dragon Edition, which MSI says represents “the fusion of old and new spirits.” | MSI MSI has announced the GE76 Raider Dragon Ed...

This is the touchscreen model of the MSI Creator 15. | MSI MSI has introduced its 2021 Creator 15, a portable laptop designed for creative work. It includes Nvidia’s ...

Airbnb is blocking all reservations in the Washington, DC metro area during inauguration week after regional officials asked people not to travel to the city due to concerns of...

It’s hard to think of a licensed game that fit its source material better than Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game. First released in 2010, the game felt exactly like an in...

The Echo Show 5 (left), Echo Show 8 (middle), and the Echo Show (right) | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge When it comes to the Echo smart speakers, Amazon has a slew o...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images In the aftermath of the Great Deplatforming of the past week, we’ve seen a thoughtful deb...

capitoldome-congress On January 13th, Congress will begin proceedings for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, based on his incitement of the January 6th mob atta...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google says it’s working quickly to investigate issues with Android apps that use the Android Exposure Notifications System to...

Photo by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The studio behind The Division is making a game set in a galaxy far, far away, according to a report fr...

The Neat Microphones Beecaster and Bumblebee (not all of its mics are bee-themed) | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Gaming peripheral company Turtle Beach i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over a dozen devices including the original OnePlus 1 and Sony Xperia Z3 won’t be able to connect to T-Mobile’s network from...

Razer Blade 15 Advanced | Razer Yesterday, AMD and Nvidia took to the CES virtual stage to announce their respective updates. AMD headlined with a new series of CPUs, t...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Which tech made it to our homes, and which will stay only in our hearts Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When a young teenager signs up for TikTok, their account will now be more private by default. TikTok said today that it’s upda...

Nvidia and AMD addressed the great GPU shortage today, revealing it may take many months before you’ll easily find a card like the RTX 3080 on shelves. They didn’t say how ...

Joshua Roberts/Getty Images YouTube has removed a new video uploaded to President Trump’s account for violating the company’s content policies on inciting violence....

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge DarkMarket, reportedly the world’s largest dark web marketplace, has been taken offline by a Europol-coordinated international...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images You should go read this Gizmodo report that uses Parler’s leaked GPS data to show that it...

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Nvidia’s new RTX 3080, 3070, 3060 Ti and 3090 and the AMD RX 6800 and 6800 XT are all incredibly hard to find, selling out instant...

The Galaxy S21 Ultra lineup. | Image: Roland Quandt on Twitter Samsung’s next top-of-the-line smartphone may come in brown, according to leaked marketing renders of t...

There aren’t many good ways to lose $220 million, but this New York Times article highlights a particularly egregious one — losing millions of dollars in bitcoin because yo...

Image: AMD If you’ve yearned for the power of the Threadripper Pro, but haven’t wanted to buy a ThinkStation, you’re in luck: starting in March, AMD will begin se...

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images Anyone traveling to the United States on an international flight will have to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test within three days ...

Image: Canoo Apple held meetings with California EV startup Canoo in the first half of 2020 as part of the Silicon Valley giant’s secretive effort to advance its own ...

Here’s the Origin EVO15-S, now available with RTX 3000 graphics. | Image: Origin Origin has upgraded its EVO15-S and EVO17-S gaming notebooks and its NT-15 and NT-17 ...

Photo Illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images GitHub reportedly fired a Jewish employee after he posted a message in Slack that said “stay safe homies, Nazis are about�...

No, not like this. (This is Arlo’s previous doorbell.) | Image: Arlo “Finally, a doorbell for the pandemic era,” we remarked, as Alarm.com introduced its sub-$200...

Tesla’s vehicles have been acing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) crash tests for years, and the Model Y is now the latest to join those ranks, ...

Photo by Sarah Silbiger / AFP via Getty Images The Justice Department has received over 100,000 pieces of digital evidence following last week’s deadly attack on the ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Weber has acquired June, a smart oven startup that sells countertop ovens with a camera and temperature sensor built in so t...

Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP via Getty Images Buggy websites and complex online tools are being used to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments across the United States....

Here’s the Zephyrus G15 in “moonlight white.” | Image: Asus The ROG Zephyrus G14 is one of the best laptops we saw in 2020, in part due to its exceptional Ryzen 9...

Alienware m15 R4 | Photo: Dell Alienware is upgrading its m15 and m17 gaming laptops with some boosted specs at CES 2021, with the new R4 models offering Nvidia’s lat...

If you’re interested in learning about the Lenovo Legion 5i gaming laptop, I now have much more than a mere written review to share with you. Swedish metal band Iron Savages ...

AT&T TV Now is no more. New customers can no longer sign up for telecom’s skinny bundle TV service, similar to YouTube TV or Hulu with Live TV. Instead, customers can on...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The first Vergecast of 2021 focuses on the topic we’re thinking about the most at The Verge this month (and probably the fores...

Razer claims to have made the world’s smartest mask: its new reusable N95 respirator called Project Hazel. It’s a concept design with a glossy outside shell made of waterpr...

Image: Asus Asus announced a new mechanical keyboard at CES 2021 called the ROG Claymore II. It’s designed for gamers, with customizable macro keys and per-key RGB ba...

ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images Created “exclusively for the U.S. Hispanic audience,” PrendeTV is Univision’s entry into the streaming wars, offering a collection...

The ROG Swift PG32UQ will be a G-Sync-compatible gaming monitor | Asus Asus is gearing up to release its first gaming monitor to support HDMI 2.1, which boasts enough b...

That’s right — this is for gaming. | Image: Asus Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) has unveiled its varied, eclectic, and very cool-looking lineup of new gaming laptops...

The Soundcore Liberty Air 2 earbuds are one of our best options in the budget category, and now the Anker brand has returned with a more advanced model. The Liberty Air 2 Pro b...

Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images A group of Uber and Lyft drivers in California filed a lawsuit Tuesday in state supreme court to overturn a ballot measure th...

Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images The second season of the Call of Duty League will begin play next month. Today, Activision Blizzard announced that the CDL regular ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AMD says customers eager for a new gaming laptop should be able to buy the first RDNA 2 GPU-powered notebooks some time before J...

The Acer Aspire 7 in the wild. | Image: Acer Acer’s Aspire 5 often receives high praise as one of the best budget laptops you can buy. But reviews were split this yea...

Image: Acer Intel and Nvidia have both announced new PC parts that promise a new wave of ultralight gaming PCs with unheard of power. And Acer is already here to make t...

The Gigabyte G7 includes up to a 10th-Gen Intel Core i7. | Gigabyte Gigabyte makes some of the best gaming- and creator-focused laptops you can get. But some of its mos...

A top-down view of the 2021 Razer Blade 15 Advanced | Razer Razer is bringing a heap of spec improvements to its 2021 lineup of Blade 15 and Pro 17 gaming laptops. The ...

Acer ditched a few of the red highlights seen on previous models for a more subdued look. | Acer Acer’s Nitro 5 gaming laptop has never been much of a technical or de...

Get the Aero 17 HDR with up to an Intel Core i9. | Gigabyte Following Nvidia’s announcement of its RTX 3000 mobile series, Gigabyte has announced additions to its Aor...

Bethesda’s next project is a big surprise: today, the publisher teased a new Indiana Jones game. While we don’t know anything about the title just yet — the announcement ...

Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge WhatsApp has published a new FAQ page to its website outlining its stances on user privacy in response to widespread backlash over an...

Samsung has announced the Exynos 2100, the mobile processor that’s expected to power its upcoming Galaxy S21 flagship across much of the world outside the US. Like the Exynos...

Snow covered mountains at Billefjorden at sunset and clouds reflected in the Arctic sea, central fjord of Isfjorden, Svalbard / Spitsbergen, Norway. | Photo by: Sven-Erik Arndt...

Super Mario 3D World, an enhanced version of the original game that bundles in a new expansion called Bowser’s Fury, will launch on February 12th for the Switch. Nintendo ann...

Image: GM CES wouldn’t be CES without some bonkers, far-out vehicle concepts. And thankfully, General Motors brought two. The automaker showed off a luxury egg-shape...

The Echo Show 5 (left), Echo Show 8 (middle), and the Echo Show (right) | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge When it comes to the Echo smart speakers, Amazon has a slew o...

Apple’s AirPods Pro wireless earbuds | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple AirPods are among the most popular headphones on the market. They’re compact, easy to ...

One of TCL’s many display concept prototypes. | Photo: TCL TCL has never been shy about showcasing its display concepts at trade shows, and this year is no different...

General Motors announced Tuesday it will be spinning out a new delivery and logistics business called BrightDrop, the first products of which will be an electrified pallet and ...

Regulation expert Daphne Keller on where moderation goes after banning Trump Continue reading… ...

Condé Nast Entertainment Condé Nast had big plans for podcasts in 2020. It launched its new, eponymous podcast network and three initial shows — The Pitchfork Revie...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber Green, the feature that allows customers to request rides in electric vehicles, is coming to more cities. After initially l...

DOMINIC MILLER/NETFLIX © 2021 If you’re a Netflix subscriber, the company wants you to know there’s a lot of new movies coming. Netflix has 70 movies on its r...

Image: Sonos Sonos will help customers get more longevity out of its $399 Sonos Move wireless speaker by offering a new battery replacement kit. The Move is Sonos’ fi...

Image: TCL One of the things that usually happens at CES in Las Vegas is you get a sense that one company or another is really going hard. A few years ago Google starte...

A green tick will be shown if users report a business is following the measures. | Image: Yelp Yelp is adding a new option that lets customers provide feedback on wheth...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge GM says that two new versions of the Chevy Bolt are set to be unveiled in February 2021. The company has released a new teas...

LG teased its Rollable phone yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show, and now the company is confirming it’s a real product that will be available in 2021. The LG Rollable...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has permanently suspended over 70,000 accounts since Friday in an attempt to clamp down on QAnon-fueled conspiracies on ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ubiquiti, the company I bought networking gear from because I wanted Wi-Fi that’s totally under my control, now tells me somet...

Salesforce has “taken action” to stop the Republication National Committee (RNC) from sending emails that could incite violence, though the company won’t say what that ac...

Image: Citrus County Chronicle Last week was a cacophony of horrible Trump-related news, but this is the one that hit home hardest for me: a manatee with his name scrap...

Rare pro-Trump protester Rebecca Brooks came to show her discontent toward Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey who is “silencing conservative voices.” 30 police officers we...

Sony’s new line of Bravia XR television sets will allow customers to watch and stream movies at some of the highest quality available in the consumer market through its new B...

Image: PopSockets PopSockets is announcing that it’s making its iconic phone holders compatible with MagSafe. When Apple announced that accessories would be able to a...

Mode says its smart cannabis device lets you control your dosage | Mode For people who use cannabis for medicinal purposes, such as pain management, anxiety, and sleep,...

Image: Sony Sony is getting into the drone business, with the company showing off a brief first look at its new Airpeak drone at CES 2021. The new drone is said to be t...

iBuyPower iBuyPower announced a new 18.34-liter small form factor PC case at CES 2021 called the Revolt 3 MK3. I’m not sure what I find so enthralling about it, but i...

Image: Vuzix Wearable tech and augmented reality provider Vuzix is back at CES 2021 with another pair of its smart glasses, this time with a new advancement. The latest...

Image: Vuzix Wearable tech and augmented reality provider Vuzix is back at CES 2021 with another pair of its smart glasses, this time with a new advancement. The latest...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is cracking down on potentially violent sedition ahead of the January 20th inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, i...

Image: Targus Targus is an accessory manufacturer that’s been around for a long time, and its slate of CES products this year center on three main themes: portability...

After releasing its first wave of 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors last year, Intel is kicking things up a notch at CES 2021 with its first H-series 11th Gen Core chips, which wi...

Two of Lenovo’s upcoming laptops will be the first to feature Dolby Voice, an audio technology that’s aimed at making it easier to hear people during conference calls. The ...

Intel took the time at CES to offer a preview of its next major chip release: its hybrid Alder Lake chipsets, which — like its Lakefield predecessor — will utilize an appro...

The ThinkPad X1 Titanium supports Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos. | Lenovo Lenovo announced a bunch of additions to its ThinkPad line today, headlined by the new X1 T...

Image: Lenovo Lenovo is introducing a new ThinkPad — with a twist. The ThinkPad X12 Detachable is a 12.3-inch business laptop with a screen that you can pop off and u...

Intel’s new flagship Core i9-11900K processor will arrive in the first quarter of 2021. The chipmaker has provided the latest preview for its first 11th Gen (Rocket Lake-S) d...

Photo by Amy Sussman / Getty Images Netflix has signed a multiyear deal with Kevin Hart and his production company HartBeat Productions for four exclusive films starrin...

Today, Spanish streamer and EU Heretics team owner David “TheGrefg” Martínez is showing off his Icon series Fortnite skin. With just over an hour to the reveal, it appears...

The rumored Galaxy S21 Ultra lineup. | Image: WinFuture Samsung’s next Unpacked event will kick off on January 14th at 10AM ET, and thanks to copious leaks, we have a...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Qualcomm has just announced the 3D Sonic Sensor Gen 2, the latest version of its ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with photo storage app Ever that it says used customers’ photos to devel...

Image: Hulu Keeping up with every single streaming service is an expensive affair, but Hulu is offering US college students a special discounted plan at $2 a month. Typ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The PC was supposed to die 10 years ago, but it’s just experienced its first big growth in a decade. Market research firm ...

Image: D-Link D-Link is trying to make it simple to give your computer a Wi-Fi upgrade. The networking company has announced what it’s calling an “industry-first”...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton, a company known for its internet-connected bikes and treadmills, is wading into the Stop The Steal mess. The compan...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The creators of social network Parler have sued Amazon for ending a web hosting agreement after last week’s riot at the US Cap...

Image: Lutron Unlike indoor smart home gadgets, connected outdoor appliances have an extra problem to deal with in the form of unpredictable weather. Lutron aims to add...

Photo: ColdSnap We’ve had pod coffee, pod juices, pod lipstick, pod weed, pod cocktails, pod cookies, pod tortillas, and so much more thanks to the VC- and Kickstarte...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) passed 700 members on Monday, growing from roughly 230 at launch on January 4th. The group, whi...

Image: Vizio Vizio’s latest TV firmware update is full of features and improvements for people who game on a PS5, Xbox Series X, or PC with the Nvidia RTX 3080 (or an...

Since Apple’s reveal of its new MagSafe charging standard, officially approved wireless chargers that use the standard have been few and far between. But Belkin is boosting t...

The Linksys AXE8400 Wi-Fi 6E router Linksys Aware — the company’s subscription service that uses its mesh Wi-Fi systems to detect motion in your house — is gettin...

Image: OtterBox As part of OtterBox’s CES 2021 announcements, the consumer electronics company announced the first line of products under its gaming portfolio, releas...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook announced Monday that it would pause its contributions to political action committees after last week’s deadly attack...

Image: LG LG has announced a new entry in its high-end UltraFine monitor lineup, the LG UltraFine OLED Pro, as part of the company’s CES 2021 announcements. LG is pit...

The fourth-gen Amazon Echo Dot looks more like a ball and less like a dot. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge The new ball-shaped fourth-gen Amazon Echo, which was rele...

Four new colors will join the earbuds’ existing titanium and black model. | Image: Jabra Jabra’s Elite 85T true wireless earbuds, which we called its “best earbud...

TCL’s aptly named Wearable Display. | Image: TCL For CES 2021, TCL is showing off a wearable display prototype that’s been in the works for years and is now close t...

The TCL NXTPAPER will in April to European customers. | Image: TCL TCL has announced the NXTPAPER 8-inch tablet using technology it teased with its IFA 2020 announcemen...

Image: TCL TCL makes some of the best under-$1,000 TVs you can buy, and it was also early to adopt the Mini LED technology that TV makers like Samsung and LG are only s...

The TCL 20 5G offers a 6.67-inch display with HDR10 video playback. | Image: TCL The TCL 20 5G is one of many affordable 5G phones we’ll see this year, and at €299,...

Image: Samsung Samsung is working on a robot that can pick up laundry, load the dishwasher, set the table, pour wine, and even bring you a drink. The robot is called Bo...

Image: Alarm.com Alarm.com has announced a new device for anyone worried about visitors catching COVID-19 from, of all things, their doorbell. Rather than using a butto...

Reah Keem is just like you and I — she loves working on music, vacationing abroad, and is pretty bummed out about not being able to visit any cool places right now. The bigge...

L’Oreal L’Oreal debuted a gadget at CES last year that promised to make lipstick shades in whatever color wearers wanted. This year, we’re learning what that devi...

Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 7 Plus. | Microsoft Microsoft is updating its Surface Pro line today with a refreshed Surface Pro 7 Plus model that is only available to b...

Image: Spotify Parents can now influence more of their kids’ music taste through Spotify. The audio streaming platform announced a new feature for Spotify Kids today ...

LG is once again teasing its rollable phone. While we’ve seen brief hints in the past, at CES today, LG provided the best look at the device so far. Named LG Rollable, the de...

Image: TP-Link TP-Link is announcing a bunch of new smart home gadgets as part of its Kasa line today, headlined by the brand’s first smart doorbell. The Kasa Smart D...

Image: LG There’s really not much of a resemblance between the webOS software that runs on LG TVs and the Palm smartphones where the operating system had its beginnin...

Archer AX206 router. | Image: TP-Link TP-Link is announcing its first routers with support for Wi-Fi 6E, a huge new upgrade to Wi-Fi that quadruples the available airwa...

Image: LG According to LG, 2021 represents a major leap for its OLED TVs thanks to a new “OLED Evo” panel that outputs a brighter picture. Brightness has remained a...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge LG has announced that it’s bringing two of the leading cloud gaming services, Google Stadia and Nvidia’s GeForce Now, to...

The Consumer Electronics Show officially begins this week. Thankfully, the Consumer Electronics Association capitulated in July and switched the whole thing over to being onlin...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Nvidia has started teasing its RTX 3000 series launch for laptops. The GPU manufacturer is holding a virtual press event for CES tomorro...

The HyperX Alloy Origins 60 | HyperX Most major gaming peripheral companies have already introduced 60-percent mechanical keyboards, which are more compact than full-si...

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Source: OnePlus OnePlus has announced its first fitness tracker, the OnePlus Band, featuring heart rate and blood oxygen saturation monitors, fitness and sleep tracking...

HP has announced the Elite Folio, a new convertible laptop with an Arm CPU. Like 2019’s Spectre Folio, this device has a design that lets you pull the screen forward to rest ...

Parler has been taken offline | Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images After Parler was banned by Apple and Google for failing to curb violent and threatening c...

V-Moda has announced a new version of its M-200 headphones at CES 2021 — the M-200 ANC, which bring both Bluetooth and active noise cancellation to the classic V-Moda design....

LG Display LG Display has provided some details on the OLED panels it’ll be shipping to TV manufacturers this year. The lineup includes a 42-inch panel, the smallest ...

HP’s new Elite Dragonfly Max laptop. | HP HP is refreshing its business-focused Elite Dragonfly range this year with an updated G2 model and a new Dragonfly Max optio...

Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images The CEO of the conservative-friendly social app Parler said that all of its vendors have abandoned the company following...

LG Display has shared video of its new 48-inch OLED gaming TV that can bend from a flat display to a curved one with the push of a button, and seeing it in motion is fascinatin...

LG Display is continuing its trend of reimagining the future of screens at CES 2021 with a new transparent TV. The panel is a 55-inch OLED, but its transparent design lets you ...

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Anne Hathaway star in Locked Down | HBO Max So with all the chaos of the past week, you may have missed that Friday was the final episode of Jeopar...

The Ratatouille TikTok musical will return for an encore performance Sunday night on the platform where it all started. TikTok is hosting another showing of the streaming music...

Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Clearview AI’s CEO says that use of his company’s facial recognition technology among law enforcement spiked 26 percent the ...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Ford will idle its plant in Kentucky for a week as the automotive industry grapples with a shortage of semiconductors, ABC News reporte...

Image: John Legere John Legere, former T-Mobile CEO and aspiring Batman, has reacted to the mob that attacked the Capitol like many other political and business leaders...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the latest blow to social app Parler, Amazon said Saturday it was suspending the company from its web hosting platform effect...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has removed Parler from the App Store, following accusations that the social media app was fostering calls to violence ahe...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of Amazon employees is demanding the company sever its relationship with social networking site Parler and stop providin...

A mob of President Trump’s supporters rioted at the Capitol | Photo by ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images Ah, what a year this week has been! Our entire perception of...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When Twitter banned President Trump from its platform permanently on Friday, the thousands of tweets he put forth from his realD...

Rioters breached security at the Capitol on Wednesday January 6th | Photo by Olivier Douliery / AFP via Getty Images Sen. Mark Warner (D-Virginia), incoming chair of th...

Oh hey, it’s all of my PC games available to play on the Quest 2, wire-free, from within a virtual room. This is getting weird. One of the best features of the Oculus...

Photo credit should read Adam Gray / Barcroft Media via Getty Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images Sports betting company DraftKings and the Drone Racing League (DR...

A drive-in testing site at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on January 4th, 2021. | Photo by Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images I regret to inform y...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge After a brief hiatus over the holiday, we’re back with another Verge Deals dispatch. Since we last sent one of these out, ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon has updated Alexa in the last month with a modified version of its popular reminders skill. You can now ask Alexa to “Tell me ...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Twitter permanently banned Donald Trump today. For a brief moment, he managed to tweet anyhow — not from @realDonaldTrump, his sus...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Twitter permanently banned Donald Trump today. For a brief moment, he managed to tweet anyhow — not from @realDonaldTrump, his sus...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has suspended Parler from the Play Store, as first reported by Politico reporter Cristiano Lima and New York Times report...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Discord has banned a server called “The Donald,” a pro-Trump community linked to banned subreddit r/The_Donald and TheDonald...

Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump on Friday, days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capi...

Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Apple and Google are facing new pressure to deplatform Parler, a social network founded as a less moderated and more cons...

Sony’s SRS-RA5000 speaker. | Image: Sony Earlier today, Sony announced that it would be releasing two new speakers compatible with 360 Reality Audio, its spatial audi...

Photo by Alex Wroblewski / Getty Images Twitter has suspended prominent backers of the QAnon conspiracy theory, citing a potential for “offline harm.” NBC News repo...

Photo by Artur Widak / NurPhoto via Getty Images Consumers should not buy or use individual 18650 lithium-ion battery cells due to possible fire risk, according to a wa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More than 300 Twitter employees have signed an internal petition calling for President Donald Trump to be permanently banned fro...

Smoke from two fires in Colorado and one in southern Wyoming covers the sky in Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday. September 30th, 2020. | Photo by Hyoung Chang / MediaNews Group /...

Image: John Legere John Legere, former T-Mobile CEO and aspiring Batman, has reacted to the mob that attacked the Capitol like many other political and business leaders...

The upcoming Galaxy Buds Pro collection. | Image: Evan Blass Samsung is widely expected to announce its Galaxy S21 lineup of phones at its upcoming January 14th event, ...

In 2020, more mobile users downloaded Among Us than any other game worldwide. Data released by Apptopia ranks the year’s breakout hit at 41 million downloads in the US and 26...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge According to CNBC’s analysis, Apple’s App Store made $64 billion in revenue in 2020, which is a 28 percent increase from the...

The A02S offers a 6.5-inch display and 5,000mAh battery. | Image: Samsung Unlocked and carrier versions of the budget Samsung Galaxy A02S appear to be coming to the US,...

Illustration by Alex Castro The Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) is calling on YouTube to permanently ban President Trump following a raid on the US Capitol on January 6th....

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch removed its popular PogChamp emote a couple of days ago after the person on which it was based — Ryan “Gootecks” Gu...

Photo by John Moore/Getty Images Reddit has banned r/donaldtrump for encouraging and glorifying violence after Wednesday’s mob attack on the US Capitol. Axios reporte...

The new phone has an extra rear camera compared to its predecessor. | Image: Steve Hemmerstoffer / Voice Renders of what’s believed to be the Nokia 6.3 or 6.4 have le...

Sci-Hub’s homepage. | Sci-Hub Twitter has suspended the account of Sci-Hub, a website that provides free access to paywalled academic papers. The account was being u...

Madden now has a SpongeBob SquarePants-themed field so you can live out your dreams of playing football in a virtual Bikini Bottom. The SpongeBob Reef-Top, which will only be a...

Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Apple and Google are facing new pressure to deplatform Parler, a social network founded as a less moderated and more cons...

Image: Substack Substack is adding a long-awaited new feature today: the ability to change the look of newsletters. Writers will now be able to choose their background ...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has ended a year-long review of claims that some Tesla vehicles were accelerating ...

General Motors debuted a new logo meant to convey the automaker’s renewed commitment to the production and sale of electric vehicles. The company is also launching a new mark...

Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge The OnePlus Nord line of smartphones will debut in the US on January 15th with two cheaper, midrange entries: the Nord N10 5G and t...

Fans in North America will be able to play League of Legends on their phones very soon. Today, at a big event detailing what 2021 will look like for League, developer Riot reve...

WandaVision is Marvel Studios’ first big Disney Plus release, and the show will circumvent Disney’s typical episode release structure by premiering two episodes at once. T...

Plug it in, and you’re good to go. Thunderbolt 4 is here, and so is the first fully powered Thunderbolt 4 docking station. Kensington’s SD5700T includes a whopping ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Roku has acquired defunct streaming service Quibi’s library of content, the company announced today. Content from the short-fo...

Amazon has announced that it’s discontinued its Amazon Pantry (originally known as Prime Pantry) service, instead rolling those household goods and shelf-stable pantry items ...

Microsoft is updating its Teams service with a new Dynamic View in March. This new view allows Teams users to share content side by side with participants. It looks ideally pos...

(Left to right) The Moto G Play, G Stylus, and G Power. | Image: Motorola Motorola is kicking off 2021 with refreshes for its midrange Moto G lineup of phones with new ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Roku says its Roku TV line was the top-selling smart TV OS in the US and Canada throughout all of 2020, using NPD data to illustrate th...

JLab is introducing a new Bluetooth audio gadget designed to be clipped onto your existing glasses or sunglasses. The JBuds Frames are two modules with downward-firing speakers...

Image: Kohler Kohler has revealed a new smart bath that lets you use an app, or your voice, to fill up the water. That by itself seems pretty handy to me, but depending...

The new Standard Range model sits alongside the existing Long Range and Performance versions. | Screenshot: Tesla.com Tesla is now taking orders for a cheaper Standard...

Overwhelmed by life? Shove your head in a Gengar. | Image: P-Bandai.jp Pokémon has an illustrious history of beautifully bizarre merch including a human-sized Metapod ...

Amazon’s Echo Studio speaker, which supports Sony’s 360 Reality Audio format. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Sony has announced an expansion of its 360 Reality ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Earlier this week, we reported that Google could be working on an updated Nest Hub that had Soli technology, and a report from 9to5Goog...

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images On October 15th, FCC chairman Ajit Pai promised that the FCC would “move forward with a rulemaking” to clarify the “meaning” of ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok will remove videos of President Trump’s speech inciting supporters to mob the US Capitol on Wednesday, saying they viol...

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Twitter has lifted its ban on President Donald Trump, and his latest tweet is very different than the ones we’ve seen for many months....

Image: Intel Intel launched RealSense ID yesterday, a facial recognition solution that relies on its RealSense depth-sensing technology (via Gizmodo). RealSense started...

While Monster Hunter World was a huge success, becoming one of Capcom’s bestselling games in history and exposing far more people to a series that had only ever been truly po...

Amelia Krales / The Verge Just about any account you own on the internet is prone to being hacked. After numerous widespread breaches through the past few years, tech c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The list of companies and agencies discovering that they’ve been affected by the SolarWinds hack is still growing, and they’...

Photo by Lev Radin / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images For years, police have been warning about the dangers of crowdsourced detective work — but on Thursd...

Image: Simple Online-only bank Simple is shutting down, its parent company announced in an email to customers Thursday. BBVA USA, which acquired Simple in 2014 for $117...

Tomb Raider: 10th Anniversary, a remake of the original Tomb Raider game for Sony’s PSP that was canceled in 2006, has recently resurfaced as a playable alpha, according to P...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch is experiencing a partial outage as of Thursday afternoon. “We are investigating an issue causing various features on T...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch experienced a partial outage on Thursday afternoon. During the outage, I was able to navigate to the site’s homepage, b...

Image: Studio Trigger HBO Max is continuing its strong anime streak with the addition of four new films, two documentaries, and an upcoming Studio Ghibli movie this mon...

Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Boeing has been criminally charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States by the Department of Justice and will have to pay...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge “Xbox Controllers Still Use AA Batteries Due to ‘A Constant Agreement’ with Duracell,” Stealth Optional’s headline reads. The ...

Up until this point, Google’s unlocked Pixel 4A 5G has only been available in black for those who want the unlocked phone. A white option was exclusive to Verizon’s more ex...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge “Don’t Build a High-End Gaming PC Right Now,” Tom’s Hardware declared in November. “This Is a Bad Time to Build a High-End Gam...

Image: Lenovo Every year at CES, we see devices meant to bridge the worlds of handheld and PC gaming. This year, it’s Lenovo and NEC that are still chasing that dream...

Boxes line the sidewalk on Green Street in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston on February 28th, 2018. | Photo by Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe via Getty Images ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch has disabled President Donald Trump’s account indefinitely following his encouragement of a pro-Trump mob’s attack of...

Photo by Christoph Dernbach / picture alliance via Getty Images Encrypted messaging app Signal says it’s seeing a swell of new users signing up for the platform, so m...

The Echo Show 5 (left), Echo Show 8 (middle), and the Echo Show (right) | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge When it comes to the Echo smart speakers, Amazon has a slew o...

Photo credit should read Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Chinese search giant Baidu plans to make electric vehicles with help from Geely, the country’s large...

Photo By Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Yesterday, a mob of Trump supporters overran the US Capitol, causing widespread chaos in an attempt to nullif...

Image: Sony Last year’s TV lineup from Sony took a bit of criticism since several sets were unable to take advantage of next-gen gaming features on the PlayStation 5 ...

Acer CES is just days away, but plenty of laptop companies are already unveiling their 2021 lineups. One of Acer’s first new releases is the Chromebook Spin 514, powe...

The Nitro XV28 is Acer’s first monitor with HDMI 2.1 | Acer As the first part of Acer’s CES 2021 announcements, the company shared that it has three new gaming moni...

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Photo by Joshua Roberts / Getty Images YouTube will temporarily restrict channels that post videos containing widespread misinformation about 2020 election results — ...

Shopify has taken down e-commerce sites from the Trump Organization and Trump campaign in response to Wednesday’s violence at the US Capitol building, The Wall Street Journal...

On January 4th, 2021, Google workers and contractors announced they were forming a union with the Communications Workers of America. It’s the latest move in an ongoing fight ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a blog post Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would ban President Donald Trump from its platform...

Photo by Britta Pedersen / Pool / Getty Images Elon Musk has become the wealthiest person on the planet, surpassing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, thanks to the continued rise ...

The Bar 5.0 Multibeam comes a year after JBL’s first Atmos soundbar. | Image: JBL JBL’s Bar 5.0 Multibeam is a new soundbar which is its first to offer Virtual Dolb...

The SA750 looks straight out of the 70s. | Image: JBL The JBL SA750 is a new stereo amplifier pairing modern streaming technologies like Airplay 2 and Google Chromecast...

IO Interactive released a trailer that shows off what the VR mode in Hitman 3 actually looks like. In short, it’s probably like what you imagined if you’ve played the recen...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon is offering a good deal on the 44mm-sized Apple Watch SE (GPS). Normally $309, it’s $270 for the model built with space gray a...

The Yoga AIO 7 in its rotated configuration | Image: Lenovo Lenovo has a new Yoga computer out, but it’s not a laptop — it’s the new Yoga AIO 7 desktop. But while...

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Lenovo Lenovo has announced a new lineup of IdeaPad laptops for 2021. But American readers should note that only one of them is coming to the US: the 16-inch IdeaPad 5 ...

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There are big infotainment displays. And then there’s Mercedes-Benz’s “Hyperscreen.” The German automaker just unveiled a mammoth, pillar-to-pillar, 56-inch touchscreen...

Illustrator by Alex Castro / The Verge Wi-Fi is about to get a lot better. Many of this year’s new phones, laptops, TVs, routers, and more will come with support for ...

TikTok has released its first augmented reality filter that can utilize the iPhone 12 Pro’s LIDAR sensor for an enhanced confetti effect that realistically settles on people ...

Image: The Verge A recent beta update for Steam has added new features for gamers using Xbox controllers. One of the more interesting additions is for Xbox Elite contro...

February 12th marks the first day of Lunar New Year, with 2021 ushering in the Year of the Ox and saying farewell to the Year of the Rat. To celebrate, Apple is releasing limit...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images On January 6th, 2021, President Donald Trump, the former reality television star of NBC’s The Apprentice, escalated his assault on ...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images On January 6th, 2021, President Donald Trump, the former reality television star of NBC’s The Apprentice, escalated his assault on ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch banned the popular PogChamp emote Wednesday after the person depicted in it published tweets “encouraging further viole...

Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Facebook has blocked President Trump from posting on the site for 24 hours, the company said Wednesday evening. The decision comes...

LG LG has announced its 2021 lineup of Gram laptops, which feature a new design as well as some internal upgrades. There are five models. They include three clamshells ...

Image: Sony Electronics Sony has announced that it’s going to start selling a series of modular displays that can be used to create digital movie sets (via The Hollyw...

Photo by Samuel Corum / Getty Images He incited a riot against Congress — Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube should remove him Continue reading… ...

Photo by Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images Twitter is locking President Donald Trump’s account for 12 hours after removing three tweets that contained “repeated and se...

Photo by Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images Twitter is locking President Donald Trump’s account for 12 hours after removing three tweets that contained “repeated and se...

Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest inside the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021, in Washington, DC. Demonstrators breached security and entered the Capitol as Congre...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As rioters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, Facebook removed a video from President Donald Trump responding to the violence....

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube has removed a video from President Donald Trump addressing a mob attack on the Capitol today because the president repea...

Photo by Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images In the wake of an unprecedented mob attack on the Capitol building, Twitter has restricted a tweet from President Donald Tru...

Photo by Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images In the wake of an unprecedented mob attack on the Capitol building, Twitter restricted and then removed a tweet from Preside...

Photo by Ringo Chiu / AFP via Getty Images The concept of “petro-masculinity” was on full display Wednesday as Trump supporters and extremists like the Proud Boys h...

Photo by Samuel Corum / Getty Images A mob of President Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building this afternoon, and the event was live-streamed. On YouT...

Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images Pro-Trump protesters have stormed the US Capitol building, effectively halting a vote to certify the results of the 2020 election. T...

Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Pro-Trump protesters have stormed the US Capitol building, effectively halting a vote to certify the results of the 2020 electio...

Image: Mint Mint, the free personal finance app from Intuit, is receiving an update today, adding more automated features like subscription tracking and new “insights...

Teachers who have found themselves holding class over Zoom have probably already figured out clever hacks to show their students documents, but there’s now an app designed sp...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you were gifted a PS5 over the holidays or still own a PS4 and need to renew your PlayStation Plus membership, you can snag two one...

The new Windows 10 taskbar feature. | Microsoft Microsoft is making a big change to its Windows 10 taskbar soon, with the addition of a news and weather widget. The new...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox consoles are considered a pillar of the industry, part of a trifecta that makes up modern gaming. The first X...

Nintendo is winding down support for the Netflix app on the Wii U and 3DS. The app will be shut down for existing users on June 30th, and if you’ve never downloaded it, it is...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The US Department of Labor has finalized a decision that could make it easier for “gig economy” companies to classify th...

Charlie Harding, the host of the podcast Switched On Pop, noticed something strange when he searched his podcast name on Amazon yesterday: a price tag. An $8.95 price, to be ex...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Waymo is saying so long to “self-driving.” The Google sister company says it is through using the term “self-driving cars” t...

Image: NBC Chances are if you’re looking into signing up for Peacock (“Ugh, another streaming service!”), it’s because you’re trying to watch The Office — a...

Windows 7 appears to still be running on at least 100 million machines, despite Microsoft ending support for the operating system a year ago. ZDNet has been analyzing the propo...

Samsung is today announcing its upper tier of 2021 8K and 4K HDR TVs. And like TCL and LG before it, the company is moving to a more precise backlighting system that uses Mini ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge With its 2021 lineup of 4K and 8K QLED TVs, Samsung is introducing a new Eco Remote Control that the company claims will “reduce tons...

If you’re feeling swept up in New Year’s resolutions for getting fit and want a device that’s going to hold you accountable to meet your goals, Amazon’s Halo tracker is...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has pledged to spend more than $2 billion over the next five years to build tens of thousands of affordable housing units...

With 2020 consumed almost entirely by the COVID-19 pandemic, more than half of US residents turned to video games to fill the time. According to Nielsen company SuperData’s 2...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has been ordered to pay €3.83 million (around $4.72 million) in damages to an Italian developer over the social netwo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is finally starting to roll out history and tab sync for its Edge browser. After nearly a year since its initial relea...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is developing a new Alexa-powered device that can track and monitor for signs of sleep apnea using radar, according to a ...

The charging stand can also store its accessories. | Image: LG LG’s new vacuum cleaner, the ridiculously named LG CordZeroThinQ A9 Kompressor Plus, should be a little...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Nest Cam IQ Outdoor is no longer available to buy, Google has confirmed to 9to5Google, after the site noticed that the camera was ...

Photo by: Cristiano Minichiello/AGF/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Gabe Teninbaum, a professor at Suffolk University Law School, is calling on ExamSoft to fix ...

The Apple Watch’s ability to act as a camera remote for your phone got a mention in its announcement keynote, so it’s been around a while, but I’ve only ever used it once...

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images President Trump has signed a new executive order prohibiting transactions with the companies behind eight Chinese apps, including Ant Gr...

A photo from the CIA’s Corona spy satellite program. | National Reconnaissance Office US spy satellites inadvertently collected vital environmental data at the height...

Apple’s MagSafe charging system offers a whole new way to charge iPhones, and third-party companies like Anker are jumping at the chance to make their own magnetic chargers �...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Five days into the new year, and TikTok’s hottest 2021 trend is teens using enterprise software to go viral. As if the corona...

Image: Tile Tile is working on a new tracker that relies on ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, which would put the company in direct competition with Apple’s yet-to-be-...

Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images GitHub says it will now offer its full range of services in Iran, after imposing restricti...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon is indefinitely delaying the shutdown of its 3G network, pushing back the original plan for the network to shutter at th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has been granted two patents that describe adding two-way wireless charging to its devices (via 9to5Mac). The patents, fir...

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Image: Warner Bros. Wonder Woman 1984 and Hamilton were two of 2020’s biggest films — at least where streaming was concerned. Recent third-party data suggests both ...

Microsoft Teams While Zoom remains popular for its ease of use and features such as the ability to pop in different backgrounds, it’s not the only video meeting app o...

Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images Amazon announced it purchased 11 used Boeing 767-300 jets from Delta and WestJet, a first for the e-commerce giant. ...

By sitting above rather than inside the ear, the earbuds let you hear what’s going on in your environment. | Image: Bose Bose’s latest true wireless earbuds, the Sp...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Monday, roughly 230 Google employees announced they were forming a union with the Communication Workers of America (CWA). It�...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge The Xbox Series X feels like a huge PC-like upgrade for your Xbox games, but a fraction of buyers have been experiencing an unusual down...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is closing down its Minecraft Earth mobile game in June, due to the ongoing pandemic. The ambitious game had aimed to rival Pokémon Go and c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When Facebook lifted its ban on political ads in Georgia, local News Feeds became dramatically more partisan and less informativ...

Photo by Thomas Krych/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Health care providers in the United States should stick to the two-dose schedule for both authorized COVI...

If you recently purchased a Nintendo Switch or received one as a gift during the holidays, and you want to start building out your game library, Hades is on sale for $20 at Bes...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Just over a year ago, I spent some time in Austin meeting with Google contractors. They had been hired through Accenture to modera...

Qualcomm is getting a new CEO: Cristiano Amon, who already serves as president for the company, will replace Steve Mollenkopf, who took over as CEO in 2014. Amon has already se...

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The OnePlus Nord N10 5G. | Image: OnePlus The original OnePlus Nord skipped North America, but OnePlus is finally bringing two cheaper, mid-range options from its Nord ...

Dell is launching three new monitors next month, and all of them come with a dedicated Microsoft Teams button. Dell claims it has created the “world’s first video conferenc...

The new Dell Latitude 9420 | Image: Dell CES has almost arrived, and Dell is kicking things off with some new versions of its Latitude laptops (designed for business cu...

Cync Indoor Camera | Photo: Cync C by GE is starting to see some big changes. The smart lighting brand is getting a new name, Cync, and it’s expanding beyond lighting...

Nintendo has announced plans to acquire Canadian developer Next Level Games, a studio that has worked on some of the company’s major franchises. Next Level is already a secon...

Xiaomi has announced the Mi 10i, a new phone in its 10 series intended for the Indian market and manufactured in the country — that’s what the “i” stands for, apparentl...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge As part of its January Pixel updates, Google might have fixed an issue that meant Pixel 5 system sounds could be a lot loude...

Apple has been shutting down loads of retail stores as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to peak — on December 20th, it temporarily closed every single location in California, ...

Industrial sensor giant Teledyne will acquire FLIR, an Oregon-based company that makes thermal-imaging and night vision technology, the companies announced Monday. The deal is ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter and Square, isn’t happy about the new proposed cryptocurrency regulation. He emphasized how th...

Image: Games Done Quick Games Done Quick (GDC), the charity event series that raises money while expert players blast their way through classic games, kicked off its fi...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge 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...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Fortnite developer Epic Games is moving its Cary, North Carolina headquarters across town to a large shopping mall, the company ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Slack went down on the first full work day of 2021. The company said Monday morning “Customers may have trouble loading channels or c...

Image: @HEYimHeroic If you’re Nintendo and you need a bunch of non-playable characters (NPCs) for your soon-to-be smash-hit Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, what ...

Photo by Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Health departments in many Florida counties are using event management website Eventbrite to schedul...

Photo by Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images As the Georgia runoff election nears, Facebook’s messy political ad rules have created new opportunities for operatives an...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google’s Nest Hub may be getting an update for the first time since its debut in 2018. The company registered a new “interactive de...

The leaked prototype of the OnePlus 9. | Photo: PhoneArena The OnePlus 9 Pro is rumored to feature faster 45W wireless charging and reverse wireless charging for fillin...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verge Deals on Apple’s iPad are more common than you might think. Whether you’re after the affordable iPad, the high-end iPad Pro, or so...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Chinese EV startup Byton has signed a manufacturing deal with iPhone-maker Foxconn, which according to Bloomberg could be worth aroun...

Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images PayPal-owned banking app Venmo is launching a check cashing feature for both its Android a...

Image: Platinum Games Nier: Automata, the mind-bending roleplaying game from legendary Japanese director Yoko Taro, has one last magnificent secret, discovered nearly f...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Slack is down on the first full work day of 2021. The company said Monday morning “Customers may have trouble loading channels or con...

Persona-heads rejoice: it looks like all the original soundtracks for most of the games are coming to Spotify tomorrow at midnight. That’s right. The news comes courtesy of A...

Image: u/TomaccoTastesLikeGma The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are very large consoles — in fact, the PS5 is the biggest game console in modern history. Their size...

Apple’s AirPods Pro wireless earbuds | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple AirPods are among the most popular headphones on the market. They’re compact, easy to ...

Microsoft’s One Outlook app. Microsoft is testing a new Outlook app that will replace its built-in Mail and Calendar apps on Windows 10. Codenamed Monarch and “One ...

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

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When it comes to finding a device to use to read your ebooks, you have a few options to choose from. You can always buy a ta...

Image: Discovery Discovery Plus, the new streaming channel from Discovery, launches today and does so on both Roku and Amazon’s Fire TV. That means it’s avoiding th...

The Echo Show 5 (left), Echo Show 8 (middle), and the Echo Show (right) | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge When it comes to the Echo smart speakers, Amazon has a slew o...

Image: Hisense Now that we’re past the winter holidays, deals are a little slower than usual. Still, we found a few promos worth telling you about today. One is on Hi...

A teaser image from OnePlus India suggests it has a fitness tracker on the way soon. | Image: OnePlus OnePlus’ Indian Twitter account is teasing what appears to be th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Slack is down on the first full work day of 2021. The company said Monday morning “Customers may have trouble loading channels or con...

Qualcomm has officially announced the Snapdragon 480 5G, the company’s latest 5G-capable processor and the first in its Snapdragon 4-series of chips which power budget Androi...

Image: Marvel For the first time in what feels like ages, the entertainment I looked forward to most was a handful of monthly comic books about the X-Men. Week after we...

Spongebob Squarepants More than 14 ViacomCBS networks, including Nickelodeon, BET, MTV, and Comedy Central are coming to Hulu with Live TV, the company announced today....

Image: Digital Slang Samsung’s upcoming true wireless earbuds, the Galaxy Buds Pro, have leaked again in a hands on video from YouTuber Digital Slang. As well as conf...

A case for the S21 Ultra with space for an optional S Pen. | Image: WinFuture Images of what appears to be an S Pen stylus and carrying case for Samsung’s upcoming G...

Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images Google workers have announced plans to unionize with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The Alphabet...

Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images A judge in the United Kingdom has denied Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, where he faces espionage charges for his w...

Microsoft is planning a “sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows” that is designed to signal to users of the operating system that “Windows is BACK.” That’s according...

Curved screens can offer a more immersive experience while gaming. | Image; LG Display LG Display’s latest prototype is a 48-inch flexible OLED panel that can be bent...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Failed mobile-first streaming service Quibi is in advanced discussions to sell the rights to its content library to Roku, a...

Image: Android Police Samsung will officially be announcing its latest lineup of Galaxy flagship phones — rumored to be the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra — on...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile suffered a security breach in December that may have exposed call-related information and phone numbers for some of its...

Robin Wright in Land | Focus Features The best thing I have watched in 2021 so far is the Ratatouille TikTok musical, it’s charming and the performances —by some bi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Russia-linked SolarWinds hack which targeted US government agencies and private corporations may be even worse than official...

Titus Burgess as Remy in Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical The TikTok Ratatouille musical— aka the Ratatousical— debuted online on New Year’s Day and has already so...

Amphetamine’s developer says Apple told him to change the app’s name and remove the pill from its logo The developer of Amphetamine, an app that prevents Macs from ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla fell just shy of hitting CEO Elon Musk’s goal of delivering 500,000 vehicles in 2020, the company announced Saturday, ha...

Image: CD Projekt Red In my opinion, Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t quite the disaster some have suggested. The game is fun. The bugs are fun! The bugs that really, really were...

Image: Wing This past week, the US government made the single biggest, most impactful set of changes to drone law we’ve yet seen — ruling that almost every drone in...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge With all the mental burdens that came with living in 2020 — including gyms closing their doors — many have found it toug...

Photos: Samsung / 91mobiles Samsung seems to be close to launching a new Tile-like device for tracking lost items. The tracker, likely called the Galaxy SmartTag, has b...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge You can now gain entry to any station of the New York City Subway with the tap of a phone, instead of the (famously finicky)...

As Microsoft continues to investigate the massive SolarWinds attack, the company says it has discovered that its systems were infiltrated “beyond just the presence of malicio...

Adobe Flash Logo Adobe scheduled to end support for its famous Flash on December 31st, 2020, and today is the day. While Adobe won’t start blocking Flash content unti...

The CueCat barcode scanner | Tomkinsc In a hopeless attempt to overthrow an American election, a ridiculous cast of characters has heeded outgoing President Donald Trum...

It’s New Year’s Eve, which means that your Instagram feed — if it’s anything like mine — is probably filled with people posting “top nine” grids of their most lik...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge If you just got a brand-new Android phone for the holidays, you probably want to play some games on your shiny device. Luckily,...

Image: Disney When the clock strikes midnight this New Year’s, The Great Gatsby and other works copyrighted in 1925 will enter the public domain, becoming freely avai...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This time last year, Apple Arcade was still a fledgling service, but one with a lot of potential. For $5 a month, you could ...

Built IRL If you’ve ever watched a Batman movie or played Just Cause, you’ve probably thought “wow, using a grappling hook would be so much fun.” YouTuber Built...

The cost for an annual subscription for ESPN Plus subscribers will increase from $49.99 to $59.99 in 2021, according to Variety. ESPN raised the monthly price of ESPN Plus earl...