Articles by The Verge from February 2021

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has authorized the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is finalizing its Xbox Game Streaming app for Windows PCs, which includes access to streaming games from the company�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is finalizing its Xbox Game Streaming app for Windows PCs, which includes access to streaming games from the company�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A federal judge on Friday gave final approval to a $650 million Facebook class action privacy settlement and ordered the 1.6 mil...

WandaVision’s first season is just about to end, but Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Black Widow, Loki, Justice League, Suicide Squad, The Batman, GCPD, and Peacemaker are jus...

Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images The best picture I’ve seen this week was a selfie from my father-in-law who just got his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccin...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge An outage of Sony’s PlayStation Network that began Friday afternoon appeared to be persisting on Saturday morning. According to an u...

Image: Square Enix This week’s batch of deals runs the gamut of gadgets and games. Whether you’re a music fan who’s looking to outfit their tech repertoire with n...

Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images A new report from The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs digs into how mask policies on tech platforms that have allowed novelty masks ...

Image: Re-Logic Earlier this month, Terraria co-creator Andrew Spinks announced that his studio Re-Logic would cancel a Google Stadia port. However, the developer annou...

Image: Re-Logic Earlier this month, Terraria co-creator Andrew Spinks announced that his studio Re-Logic would cancel a Google Stadia port. However, the developer annou...

Not pictured: Tom Cruise | Image: @deeptomcruise on TikTok What’s better than an ultra-high-tech, Mission: Impossible-style mask? The deepfake technology this TikToke...

Atlus is a master of weird spinoffs. In the past, the developer has revamped its RPG series Persona as dungeon crawlers, brawlers, and rhythm games. Heroes have bounded through...

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 ...

Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images An independent committee of vaccine experts has unanimously recommended that the Food and Drug Administration authoriz...

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: TriStar Pictures Netflix is pairing up with renowned Japanese anime studio Production I.G for an animated TV series set in the Terminator universe. The company i...

Image: BARS Despite being an annoying hipster, I definitely did not see this one coming: Facebook is releasing an app that will let users post and share videos of them ...

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...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Two new reports from Bloomberg and Wired have shed light on some of Google’s failures in building its Stadia cloud gaming ...

Volunteers with the Living Hope Wheelchair Association distributed water and supplies to people after Texas’ deep freeze. | Image: Living Hope Wheelchair Association ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re moving from LastPass (or another password manager you’re dissatisfied with), you may be tempted to simply go with ...

Henrik Fisker has abandoned his electric vehicle startup’s effort to create a solid-state battery, the Fisker Inc. founder told The Verge in a recent interview. “It’s th...

Photo by Cheriss May / NurPhoto via Getty Images Celebrated author and essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing a new Superman film that will be produced by J.J. Abrams, Sh...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Update February 26th, 2021 12:30PM ET: Best Buy currently has PS5 and PS5 digital editions in stock. You can find more information on ...

Sony PS5 | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony’s latest gaming console, the PS5, is one of many gaming gadgets that are pretty hard to find in stock right now due ...

The path to WandaVision hasn’t been an easy one for Kevin Feige and the Marvel Studios team. Well, at least the path to Wanda Maximoff. Wanda Maximoff, one of the most power...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Update February 26th, 2021 12:05PM: Best Buy still has both consoles in stock, but the retailer is releasing small waves of inventory ev...

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio This week, NASA released a grim four-minute timelapse of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, a mesmeriz...

DC Comics and Fortnite developer Epic Games are joining forces on a new Batman and Fortnite-themed crossover comic book. The six-issue miniseries, titled Batman / Fortnite: Zer...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Update February 26th, 2021 11:26AM ET: Best Buy has stock available for both the Xbox Series X and Series S. You can find additional i...

Netflix is constantly looking for its next big franchise hit — a new Stranger Things or The Witcher. And the trailer for Shadow and Bone teases that the upcoming fantasy seri...

During today’s Pokémon Presents presentation, the company unveiled new gameplay footage for New Pokémon Snap, the long-awaited sequel to the N64 classic. The new footage sh...

A virtual symposium on the internet’s most important law Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast The Vergecast, our chat show to discuss this week in tech news featuring ...

At a special live-streamed event today, The Pokémon Company revealed something fans having been waiting a long time for: an open-world Pokémon adventure. The next major entry...

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl will be remade for Nintendo Switch. The Pokémon Company announced the news today during a special Pokémon Presents broadcast. Pokémon Brilliant Di...

Image: Square Enix Yesterday, Square Enix announced that it plans to release an enhanced version of Final Fantasy VII Remake for PS5, and there is a free next-gen upgra...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to adopt a program that provides emergency discounts of up t...

Citizen Citizen, the app that turns everyone into a crime reporter, now wants to track helicopters. The company announced today that it’s introducing helicopter track...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Get some peace and quiet with the best noise-canceling headphones for a variety of uses Continue reading… ...

Capcom finds itself in an interesting position with Monster Hunter Rise, its new title for the Nintendo Switch. 2018’s Monster Hunter World was a huge triumph, bringing the s...

Final Fantasy VII Remake, the modern retelling of the 1997 PlayStation classic, will be free for PlayStation Plus subscribers beginning March 2nd. It is important to note the P...

Its built-in stylus is useful and enjoyable, but the Stylo 6 is too slow to recommend Continue reading… ...

Image: LastPass A security researcher is recommending against LastPass password manager after detailing seven trackers found in the Android app, The Register reports. A...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Nvidia has started to roll out support for Resizable BAR, a feature of PCI Express that can boost frame rates in certain games by up to ...

The repairability score can be seen on the lower right of the product page. | Screenshot: Apple.com Apple has added iPhone and MacBook repairability scores to its onlin...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony will allow the PlayStation 5 to make use of expanded SSD storage from this summer, according to a report in Bloomberg. The functi...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony has confirmed that Japan Studio, its internal video game developer based in Tokyo, will essentially wind down and refocus around ...

Image: Square Enix Square Enix just announced Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, a PS5-enhanced version of FF7 Remake that includes graphical improvements like “imp...

Image: Activision The latest Call of Duty game collection may now be too big to fit the base 500GB PlayStation 4 hard drive (via IGN). According to the official Call of...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram is updating its messaging app with options for auto-deleting messages, expiring invite links, and new unlimited groups,...

Full-size image here. | Image: 343 Industries We got our first look at Halo Infinite, the next game in Microsoft’s huge franchise, back in July, and the results were....

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is once again releasing an update to prevent a charging problem from killing MacBooks — this time it’s to fix a problem wher...

Image: Square Enix Final Fantasy VII Remake’s soundtrack will be available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, and other music subscription ser...

Image: Square Enix Square Enix announced two mobile games set in the Final Fantasy VII universe today. One is a battle royale game aiming for a 2021 release, and the ot...

The enhanced version of Final Fantasy VII Remake for the PS5 wasn’t the only Midgar-related news today. Square Enix also revealed an even bigger surprise: a battle royale for...

The world of Final Fantasy VII Remake is getting bigger with a new episode featuring new characters — like Yuffie Kisaragi — and big quality-of-life changes for the PlaySta...

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

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T today announced plans to spin out its various video businesses — DirecTV, AT&T TV, and U-Verse — into a new com...

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: Nikola Motors Zero-emission trucking company Nikola has shuttered its so-called Powersports division and is pausing work on an electric personal watercraft and o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok has agreed to pay $92 million to settle a class action lawsuit over alleged privacy violations, which included claims tha...

Hulu has released the first trailer for MODOK, its upcoming animated show that will see Patton Oswalt voice the titular Marvel villain in a more light-hearted, Robot Chicken-st...

Image: EA The next Dragon Age game will no longer have multiplayer aspects, according to a new Bloomberg report. The game, made by EA-owned studio BioWare, had reported...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Oxford University disclosed on Thursday that one of its research labs dedicated in part to studying COVID-19 suffered a cyberatt...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has decided whether to adopt recommendations the Facebook Oversight Board made last month when the board decided its fi...

Image: Bungie Destiny 2, Bungie’s long-running online sci-fi shooter, has a year of substantial changes ahead of it, according to a new roadmap the studio detailed in...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Facebook has introduced a new “Hey Facebook” wake word for its family of Portal smart displays and the Oculus Quest platform. The c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox Live service is down, preventing users from signing in to the service. The Xbox Live problems started at arou...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Fisker Inc. quietly settled a previously unreported trade secret lawsuit with Volkswagen-backed solid-state battery company QuantumSc...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Valve has been compelled by a California court to provide sales data on more than 400 Steam games to Apple and possibly reveal i...

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...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch is removing the anti-union ads that its parent company, Amazon, was running on the platform. The ads showed Amazon employ...

Microsoft’s Xbox Series X | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you missed Target’s early morning Xbox Series X restocks today, you have another chance today to se...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Update February 25th, 2021 12:36PM ET: Walmart plans to restock both the Xbox Series X and Series S today. You can find additional inf...

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Nvidia supposedly launched a $329 graphics card today, the GeForce RTX 3060, but I’ve yet to see much proof. Orders began today a...

Last year, House Judiciary Committee lawmakers topped off a yearslong investigation into anti-competitive behavior in the tech industry by bringing in some of the most powerful...

An operator works during the mooring of an undersea fiber optic cable at Arrietara beach near the Spanish Basque village of Sopelana on June 13, 2017. | Photo by Ander Gillenea...

An illustration showing Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket standing on its launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | Blue Origin Blue Origin is delaying the debut launch of...

Twitter safety mode mockup. | Image: Twitter Twitter plans to introduce a way for you to automatically block and mute abusive accounts, the company announced at its Ana...

EVGA’s RTX 3060 graphics card | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Nvidia’s new RTX 3060 will be available to purchase starting on Thursday, February 25th at 9AM P...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Update February 25th, 2021 12:48PM ET: Both GameStop and Target have run out of stock. If you are looking to buy the Xbox Series X, Walm...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Update February 25th, 2021 12:36PM ET: Walmart plans to restock both the Xbox Series X today. You can find additional information here...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge City pop is a genre defined by nostalgia. Though, as Cat Zhang writes, that nostalgia is algorithmically generated — and its r...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you missed Target’s early morning Xbox Series X restocks today, you have another chance today to secure Microsoft’s next-gen co...

The Virtual Desktop app for the Oculus Quest has been updated to enable the wireless streaming of PC VR games natively over Wi-Fi, eliminating the need to go through the comple...

Spotify Spotify’s making it easier to parse your liked songs. The company is rolling out a new feature today that’ll let users filter their liked songs by genre and...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Behind the claims of sexism and racism at Atlanta’s premier tech startup Continue reading… ...

Image: USPS Only 10 percent of the United States Postal Service’s new fleet of mail trucks will be battery-powered despite President Biden’s desire to convert the e...

Photo-Illustration: by Vulture; Photo by Mario Perez/ABC An oral history of Lost’s daring, divisive finale, our last truly communal broadcast TV experience. C...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge A starter pack for exercise Continue reading… ...

Something my mom said about the recent streaming landscape stuck with me while watching a three-hour event for Paramount Plus. “I’m sometimes searching on Netflix, Amazon P...

A photo of the nightside of Venus taken by the Wide-field Imager on Parker Solar Probe. | NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallag...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Coinbase has publicly filed paperwork to list its stock on the NASDAQ exchange, a huge step forward in the first major public of...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge India has announced new regulations for social networks and other web services in the country, particularly “significant socia...

Amazon Music is finally coming to Google’s set-top box operating systems, with a new app rolling out for Google TV (currently just available on the latest Chromecast) and And...

Framework A San Francisco-based startup called Framework has just launched an ambitious project: a thin, lightweight productivity laptop that it claims can be “upgrad...

CLAY ENOS/NETFLIX Netflix’s next big-budget action movie is almost here: Army of the Dead from director Zack Snyder sees a squad of mercenaries battling their way int...

On Saturday, Post Malone will hold a virtual concert to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise. If that combination wasn’t strange enough, today, he reveale...

Trying to find friends can be stressful on its own, but when you’re a sea monster trying to blend in with the residents of an Italian town who just so happen to hate sea mons...

A new seaweed-based supplement could reduce a potent greenhouse gas released in burps — sheep burps, that is. Diana Zlotnikov is a farmer in New York with plenty of burping ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge PlayStation fans, rejoice. Sony is hosting the first State of Play live stream of 2021 today. The 30-minute presentation will fe...

Wynn Resorts Podcast studios are now a Las Vegas attraction. Wynn Resorts announced today that it’s investing $3.5 million in Blue Wire, a sports podcasting network, ...

No Founder’s Edition this time, so say hello to EVGA Continue reading… ...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Pokémon might be renowned for its cooperative gameplay, delightful spinoffs, and making an intimidating genre approachable, but the fra...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Update February 25th, 8:03AM ET: Sony’s PlayStation 5 with the disc drive is currently available for purchase at Target, while suppl...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Ever since Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville recorded an almost undecipherable version of the French song “Au Clair de la Lune” in...

Nerf maker Hasbro has heard you loud and clear, Adam Savages of the world: you want to be able to shoot foam projectiles for days, without carrying around a belt full of magazi...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The PlayStation 5 is Sony’s latest gaming console and just like Microsoft’s Xbox Series X / S it’s in high demand and limited su...

Image: Valve Steam’s Remote Play Together feature, which lets you stream local multiplayer games with friends over the internet, will no longer require every player t...

Zoom has previously supported AI-generated closed captions for paid accounts. | Image: Zoom Zoom plans to roll out support for automatic closed captioning to free accou...

The basic TV option reportedly appears at setup. | Image: Google / 9to5Google Google TV, the search giant’s latest attempt at TV software, will include a new “Basi...

A new update to popular podcast player Overcast includes a major overhaul of its Apple Watch app. The Apple Watch support is notable at a time when third-party app development ...

The PUBG universe is expanding with a new mobile title for iOS and Android called PUBG: New State, which catapults the battle royale ahead in time for a more futuristic take on...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Australian government has passed a new law requiring Google and Facebook to negotiate with news outlets to pay for their con...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Activating the Google Assistant by saying “Hey Google” has been broken for months, according to a report from 9to5Google. Google t...

DARPA Wired has done an amazing piece on Margaret McKinnon, a researcher who survived a traumatic plane crash, then went on to become a leader in the field of memory an...

In just over a week, CBS All Access will become Paramount Plus, a rebranded version of the streaming service launching on March 4th. Paramount Plus will use combined franchise...

In just over a week, CBS All Access will become Paramount Plus, a rebranded version of the streaming service launching on March 4th. Paramount Plus will use combined franchise...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia has shared its Q4 2021 earnings, and despite the company’s GPUs being in extremely low supply, it didn’t seem to hurt...

Image: Nickelodeon A Rugrats reboot is headed to the new streaming service Paramount Plus this spring, ViacomCBS announced today. The show is described as a “reimagin...

Photo: Nickelodeon ViacomCBS has announced a new studio based entirely around Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. Avatar Studios will create “origina...

Paramount Plus is getting another Star Trek show, the company announced at its kickoff event: Star Trek: Prodigy, the animated kid-friendly spinoff of the iconic franchise. Pro...

Image: Paramount Pictures Paramount is dramatically shortening the space between theatrical and streaming releases for some of its biggest films, with the company annou...

Frasier is coming back — this time to Paramount Plus. Kelsey Grammer will play the famous psychiatrist that found a legion of fans when the show aired on NBC in the ‘90s i...

Image: CD Projekt Red Cyberpunk 2077’s next big patch has been delayed following developer CD Projekt Red’s disclosure that it fell victim to a ransomware attack ea...

Niantic Pokémon Go creator Niantic has published a blog post detailing some of its anti-cheat efforts, and it seems the company has been busy. Since the start of 2020,...

A series based on Michael Caine’s 1969 Italian Job is in the works for Paramount Plus. The original film was remade in 2003 and starred Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Ed Nor...

President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday addressing growing concern over a global semiconductor shortage hampering the production of goods like automobiles and smart...

Photo by Yuzo Koshiro / Twitter It’s not hard to listen to your favorite video game soundtracks online. Just load YouTube or some other music streaming services, and ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit’s status page currently shows a major outage, and many of The Verge’s staff are unable to load it. Loading the site r...

Image: Microsoft/343 Industries Showtime’s upcoming Halo TV series is getting a new home — the live-action adaptation of the popular sci-fi shooters will now debut ...

Image: Joe Weisenthal GameStop is up... again, by a lot. Before market close on Wednesday, the video game retailer’s shares started to soar, and GME just closed at $9...

With CBS All Access morphing into Paramount Plus in just over a week, the company is announcing a new subscriber milestone for its streaming platforms: nearly 30 million global...

Singularly focused but cool under pressure Continue reading… ...

Tubi, the free streaming service run by Fox Entertainment, has struck a deal with Toei Animation to bring some of the studio’s work to the platform. The deal includes six One...

AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge AMD has announced a new hardware event for next month, where the company plans to unveil the next GPU in...

AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge AMD has announced a new hardware event for next month, where the company plans to unveil the next GPU in...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Woot is offering the best sale price we’ve seen yet on the Beats Solo Pro noise-canceling headphones. Normally $300, the light blue a...

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge The best Chromebooks for every user Continue reading… ...

Image: BioWare After putting a pin in short-term updates and expansions to focus on a “longer-term redesign” of the game, EA announced today that it will be canceli...

An unprecedented winter storm swept across Texas and left many of its residents without power and water for multiple days in Houston, Texas in February, 2021. Many residents ar...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lyft is admitting that some part of traditional taxi services are worth emulating today by letting people in select Florida citi...

Disney Plus is getting a ton of new shows in the next few months, with Disney releasing the schedule of premiere dates for new original shows for March through July. Along wit...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Health care company One Medical gave COVID-19 vaccines to people who were ineligible under local guidelines, including frien...

Image: iRobot iRobot, maker of the robotic Roomba vacuums, has confirmed to The Verge that a software update has been causing issues for some users of its i7 and s9 rob...

The next Spider-Man movie starring Tom Holland will be titled Spider-Man: No Way Home. The movie will be out only in theaters on December 17th, 2021. The announcement was revea...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Facebook said it plans to invest an additional $1 billion in the news industry over the next three years as a sign of commitment to ...

Loki, the Tom Hiddleston-starring series about Asgard’s god of mischief, will land on Disney Plus on June 11th, Marvel Studios announced today. The series was described by M...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Hyundai is finally recalling some 76,000 Kona EVs built between 2018 and 2020 after more than a dozen reported fires related...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Update February 24th, 2021 11:48AM ET: Both the Xbox Series X and Series S are currently available at GameStop starting at $299.99. Yo...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge The Xbox Series X and Series S consoles have been available to purchase since last fall, but actually finding one to buy has been extrem...

Image: CD Projekt Red Cyberpunk 2077’s next big patch has been delayed following developer CD Projekt Red’s disclosure that it fell victim to a ransomware attack ea...

Photo illustration by William Joel | Video by Daniel Valls The cyberpunk dystopia is here! (If you weren’t aware: I’m sorry. You’re living in a cyberpunk dystopia...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the most frustrating tasks for many of us these days is finding how and where to get an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccin...

Joby Aviation, the electric aviation company based in Northern California, is the latest futuristic mobility company to go public via a reverse merger with a special purpose ac...

This lens-shaped webcam has some tricks up its sleeve, but at a high cost Continue reading… ...

Johnson & Johnson vaccine vials at the Klerksdorp Hospital in South Africa. | Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images The one-dose COVID-19 vaccine made by Jo...

Image: Aspyr Media Star Wars: Republic Commando, the mid-2000s cult classic tactical first-person shooter, will get a new life on modern consoles when an HD remaster re...

When Diablo II launched in 2000, it was praised for its grittiness, injecting a sense of realism into an otherwise dark, fantastical realm. With Diablo III, things went in a mo...

Image: Fisker Inc. iPhone-maker Foxconn has agreed to build electric vehicles for Fisker Inc., the eponymous EV startup of automotive designer Henrik Fisker. In a memor...

Electric bikes can transform the way we live by replacing car trips, encouraging cities to improve their infrastructure, and decreasing the amount of carbon we emit into the at...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile created a lot of buzz this week when it announced it was bringing back an unlimited plan without data throttling. In th...

Image: YouTube YouTube is announcing “supervised experiences,” a new set of restrictions that allows parents to better control what content their children can acces...

Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2. | Image: Ring Ring has announced the latest model in its line of video doorbells, the Video Doorbell Pro 2. The Pro 2 is a new top-of-the-lin...

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge HP has announced that it is acquiring gaming peripheral company HyperX for $425 million. The purchase will give HP a major foothol...

Photo by Dani Deahl / The Verge Still haven’t caught ‘em all Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Roleplaying games represent some of the most beloved titles ever created. Series like Final Fantasy or The Elder Scrolls are...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has started to label some tweets with a warning about materials “obtained through hacking.” This new label is appear...

Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Microsoft is now allowing Word for web and OneNote users to embed Pinterest Pins into their documents. The new feat...

The new Show is the first smart display that can follow you around Continue reading… ...

Image: Nothing Swedish electronics house Teenage Engineering, best known for its range of beautifully designed audio products, is working with Nothing on its upcoming p...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok removed over 340,000 videos in the US for breaking the platform’s rules on election misinformation, manipulation, or di...

Image: Amazon Amazon’s cloud-gaming service, Luna, is now available to try for free in the US on select Fire TV devices without an invitation, the company has announc...

The Economic Security Project is trying to make a point about big tech monopolies by releasing a browser plugin that will block any sites that reach out to IP addresses owned b...

President Biden is set to sign an executive order Wednesday to address growing concern over a global semiconductor shortage hampering the production of goods like automobiles a...

Fry’s Electronics, one of the last big brick-and-mortar electronics store chains in the United States — and a Silicon Valley institution in particular — is permanently cl...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A new Oculus Quest feature expands the headset’s Guardian mode by letting you mark your real couch as an object that’ll ...

Image: LG LG tonight announced that the company’s webOS smart TV platform will soon be found on TVs from other brands. RCA, Ayonz, and Konka are some of the companies...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Net neutrality died a horrible death in 2017, but things have just turned around: California’s landmark net neutrality law —...

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge GameStop CFO Jim Bell has resigned, and will be leaving the video game retailer for good on March 26th. That’s just over a month f...

Image: ConcernedApe Stardew Valley has been adapted into board game form and is available to purchase now for $55, according to the game’s developer Eric Barone (Conc...

Screenshot: Solax Archive on YouTube If you’ve spent the day playing through Persona 5 Strikers and noticed the voice of the in-game digital assistant sounded familia...

Image: USPS The United States Postal Service (USPS) has revealed its new mail truck after a years-long competition. The new truck will be built by Wisconsin-based defen...

Image: Disney WandaVision’s seventh episode started to answer some of the biggest questions of the series, and — in line with its sitcom trappings — the show drop...

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images LinkedIn is back up after a worldwide outage affecting users on both mobile and desktop. The Microsoft-owned social ne...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Square has just made another colossal investment in bitcoin, more than tripling its last investment in the cryptocurrency with...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung is extending the return period for its newest foldable phones to 100 days, the company announced on Tuesday. That means buyers...

Photo by Bobby Bank/Getty Images You know, when I think about the stock market, I don’t really think about Michael Bolton. But I guess Public — which refers to itse...

Benjamin, the last captive thylacine. | Photo by John Carnemolla / Corbis via Getty Images There was some excitement online yesterday as word spread that a family of th...

Image: Techland In 2018, game development studio Techland announced it would be developing a sequel to its survival horror hit Dying Light. The game was previously slat...

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images LinkedIn is currently down worldwide, affecting users on both mobile and desktop. The Microsoft-owned social network f...

Image: Anker Anker has released a new MagSafe-compatible battery pack that can attach directly to your iPhone to offer charging without the need for a cable, 9to5Google...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ever since LastPass announced that it was tweaking its free tier to only allow a single category of device — mobile or compute...

Image: Alex Moukala While the Nintendo Wii might be most famous for ushering in an era of motion-based controls for console games, one of its most lasting legacies is t...

Qualcomm Haptic feedback on Android phones running the Snapdragon 888 chipset might get noticeably better starting in the second half of 2021. Qualcomm recently announc...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Konami’s Frogger game series is apparently getting turned into a game show, set to be streamed on NBC’s Peacock. The show’...

Here’s the ThinkPad T14s Gen 2. | Lenovo Lenovo has announced a number of updates to its ThinkPad line. We’re getting upgrades to the lightweight ThinkPad X13 and c...

Image: NBC In mid-2020, Friends moved to HBO Max exclusively. On January 1st, 2021, The Office made a similar move, leaving Netflix to stream solely on Peacock. The sho...

The most powerful companies on the internet have never been less popular in Washington, and industry-wide regulation has never seemed to close. So on March 1st at 2PM ET. The V...

The view of NASA’s Perseverance rover looking up at its parachute, which reads “Dare Mighty Things” in a hidden code, while zooming through the Martian atmosphere before ...

Tony Hawk in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2. | Image: Activision The very good remaster of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 is hitting next-gen consoles and the Ninte...

The Google Maps app is getting a true dark mode, at least on Android. The company announced today that it is finally widely releasing the dark theme option that it’s been tes...

Photo illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge | Images: Dominion Energy The race is on to build them Continue reading… ...

Google is expanding its Password Checker feature to older devices, the company announced today. Now, phones and tablets running Android 9 or newer will have access to the featu...

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2021 is a big year for competitive Valorant, with developer Riot kicking off an ambitious, yearlong esports circuit called the Valorant Champions Tour. But the company is also ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sony is planning to bring more of its PlayStation games to PC. First up will be Days Gone this spring, Sony president and chief ...

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Sony is encouraging PS4 and PS5 owners to stay at home during the pandemic by bringing back its “Play At Home” initiative, allowing PlayStation owners to redeem free games ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony’s PlayStation 5 (alongside the Xbox Series X and S) has been nearly impossible to buy since its launch back in November. Those ...

RODE Rode has released a sequel to its Wireless Go mobile microphone system, the Wireless Go II, which is meant to offer an easy way for video creators to record audio ...

Image: Sony The next entry in Polyphony Digital’s long-running Gran Turismo franchise has been delayed to 2022, GQ reports. In a statement, Sony said Gran Turismo 7 h...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales There’s a wide variety of deals happening in the tech space, including TVs, computer components, and more. Starting with a gadget that...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lately, the consumer internet — that set of products devoted to building and monetizing large networks of people — has start...

Evil Geniuses CEO Nicole LaPointe Jameson on reinventing the industry Continue reading… ...

Qualcomm Chip maker Qualcomm has introduced a new reference design for augmented reality glasses: an AR “smart viewer” you can tether to a phone or PC via USB-C. Ca...

Brent Rose for The Verge Fitbit is launching an exclusive wellness program for Fitbit Premium subscribers called Mindful Method. The program is created by alternative m...

Photo Illustration by Alex Castro | Photography by Spotify The company wants to be at the center of creator monetization Continue reading… ...

Today marks the launch of Star. It’s a new section of Disney Plus for international audiences that will offer more mature R-rated films, TV shows from FX, and other shows and...

Image: Google Google is struggling to fix one of its new Stadia games, after closing down its own in-house game studios earlier this month. Journey to the Savage Planet...

Oppo has teased a new wireless charging solution that works when a phone is up to 10 cm (3.9 inches) away from a charging pad. The company has shown off its Wireless Air Chargi...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has posted an interactive 360-degree view of the Perseverance landing site on Mars in 4K resolution. It’s the latest jaw-dropping imagery t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook will restore news content to its platform in Australia after the government agreed to amend its proposed News Media Bar...

Photo by Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge More that 4,300 SpaceX employees volunteered to be part of a COVID-19 antibody study co-authored by CEO Elon Musk in 2020. The s...

Image: LG LG Electronics has told The Verge that the company’s phone with a resizable screen, the LG Rollable, has not been put on hold. “I can firmly deny that any...

Screenshot: The Verge Google has finally added Apple App Store privacy labels to its Gmail app, almost a month after we ran an article wondering what was taking so long...

Image: SpaceX Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite-based internet provider, will double in speed “later this year”, according to a tweet by Elon Musk, posted as a reply t...

Image: SpaceX Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite-based internet provider, will double in speed “later this year”, according to a tweet by Elon Musk, posted as a reply t...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Lucid Motors is going to become a publicly-traded company on the New York Stock Exchange in a deal that will leave the elect...

Image: Twisted Metal Wiki Sony is bringing back its Twisted Metal franchise, but this time it’s going to be a TV show, not a video game. According to Variety, the sho...

Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen wants to make American wireless great again. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Dish Network co-founder and chairman Charlie Ergen u...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Update February 22nd, 2021 4:55PM ET: The Xbox Series S is currently available at Best Buy for $299.99. You can find more information he...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Last November, Microsoft debuted two next-gen consoles — the Xbox Series X and the more affordable Xbox Series S. If you are looking...

Hayley Arceneaux | Image: St. Jude Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, will join the first all-civilian trip to space, S...

Image: Marvel New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will allow movie theaters in New York City to open with a limited audience capacity for the first time in nearly a year. As pa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games will give Fortnite players 1,000 V-Bucks if they ever purchased an in-game loot box, presented within the game as “...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Samsung has announced that it’ll be extending the amount of time that its Galaxy smartphones and tablets will be getting securit...

Image: Instagram Instagram is announcing that it’s adding resources for people affected by eating disorders to its social platform. If users search for hashtags or co...

Photo by NASA via Getty Images NASA on Monday released a trove of video footage showing its Perseverance rover landing on Mars after plunging through the planet’s atm...

Velodyne, which makes LIDAR sensors crucial for the operation of autonomous vehicles, has removed its founder, David Hall, as chair of the company’s board following an invest...

Images: Karma Automotive Electric vehicle startup Karma Automotive has fully revealed its newest hybrid car, the GS-6. While it shares the same design as the company’...

Valheim is on a trajectory like nothing we’ve ever seen. The Viking-themed indie survival game has been shooting up the Steam charts, selling 3 million copies in an unheard-o...

The best gaming laptops at every size and price point. | Photo by Avery White / The Verge The best gaming laptops at every size and price Continue reading&he...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is adding a new mobile feature that will automatically download show recommendations and movies based on viewer history....

Image: Netflix Netflix’s next Sherlock Holmes project, The Irregulars, just got a new teaser highlighting the dark, supernatural adventures yet to come on the eight-p...

Image: MySmartPrice Sony’s upcoming WF-1000XM4 earbuds may have been shown off in a leak, with a slimmed-down design. The leak from MyDrivers (via MySmartPrice) claim...

Photo by MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images A Malaysian news site was fined the equivalent of nearly $124,000 for five comments below an article. News outlet Malaysiakini...

Smoke rises from an illegally lit fire in a section of Amazon rainforest, south of Novo Progresso in Pará state, Brazil, on August 15th, 2020. | Photo by Carl de Souza / AFP v...

Russia’s Progress 77 cargo resupply ship is seen approaching the International Space Station through the window of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. | NASA SpaceX’...

Image: Spotify Barack Obama is getting into the podcast game. Today, Spotify announced that the former president and rockstar Bruce Springsteen — yes, you read that r...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile has just announced a new monthly phone plan called Magenta Max that the company says is designed for the era of 5G. Acc...

Anthony and Joe Russo’s AGBO production company is entering the audio space in a new multiyear deal with Spotify, following its massive success with Extraction on Netflix and...

DC is launching another universe to tell its superhero stories — but this time, it’s not on HBO Max or Cartoon Network: it’s on Spotify. The publisher is working on nine...

Spotify is going hi-fi. Well, “HiFi.” It’s taken longer than competitors like Tidal and Amazon Music, but today, the leading subscription music service announced a new lo...

In the US, 5G remains a work in progress, despite carriers waving “5G Mission Accomplished” banners for years | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The four...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the most frustrating tasks for many of us these days is finding how and where to get an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccin...

If all goes according to plan, in a few years, Toronto’s esports teams will have a futuristic new home. Today, Overactive Media — the ownership group behind the Toronto Def...

Image: MSCHF At least one future is here right now. The prankster art / marketing collective MSCHF recently spent $74,500 to purchase a Spot robo-dog from Boston Dynami...

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Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for NARAS The Paris-born electronic music duo Daft Punk are no more. The group, consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Ch...

All five seasons of The Muppet Show arrived on Disney Plus this past Friday. And depending on which episode you are streaming, you may receive a content disclaimer warning of p...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung released its Galaxy S21 phones in late January, and it isn’t taking long for its original price to plummet. The Galaxy S21 P...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Samsung has launched support for electrocardiogram (EKG) readings and blood pressure monitoring on its Galaxy Watch Active 2 and Galaxy...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is planning to add text predictions to Word in March. The new feature will work similarly to Google Docs’ Smart Compose option, using machi...

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Image: TikTok TikTok is announcing today that it’s taking a couple small steps to try and help people who are affected by eating disorders. To do this, it’s partner...

Image: Motional Add Motional to the very short list of companies that have tested fully autonomous vehicles on public roads. The Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture announced t...

The Mate X2 has an 8-inch screen that folds inward. | Image: Huawei Huawei has announced the Mate X2, its first all-new foldable device since 2019’s Mate X. The new p...

Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Clubhouse has confirmed one of its users was able to siphon off audio feeds from the invitation-only app ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WhatsApp has detailed what will happen to users who don’t accept its new privacy policy in an FAQ on its website. Starting May...

Image: Hayden Smith / speedbird5280 (Instagram) Airlines in Japan and the US have grounded dozens of Boeing 777 aircraft after the dramatic engine failure that United A...

You would think the entire world would know how Zoom works by now. Lawyers can be cats, congressmen are sometimes inverted, but pants are not actually optional. That didn’t k...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge There’s a popular stereotype that Apple’s computers are largely immune to malware. Not only is is that incorrect, it appears that ...

Samsung has been toying with AR glasses for years, most recently trotting out an extremely basic set of image-projecting goggles on the CES 2020 stage, but I’ve never seen th...

Photo by Avery White / The Verge Pop quiz: which is the better deal, $500 off a Razer Blade laptop, or $150 off an Asus Zephyrus G14? It might hinge on whether you need...

The FAA seems satisfied with its investigations into Elon Musk’s last two SpaceX Starship tests, each of which ended in an explosive crash, and the conclusion of those invest...

Image: Hayden Smith / speedbird5280 (Instagram) A United Airlines flight experienced a dramatic-looking engine failure just after takeoff from Denver International Airp...

Image: Forest of Illusion Dinosaur Planet is an unreleased Nintendo 64 game by Rare that ultimately evolved into Star Fox Adventures for GameCube. But thanks to the pre...

That disclaimer at the bottom would prove relevant. | Image: Blizzard Despite its later-than-usual timing and going completely virtual for the first time, yesterday’s...

Over at The Markup is an alarming story about a rash of phishing scams that have been targeting gig workers for Postmates. Drivers are receiving phone calls from people claimin...

Healthcare workers wait for their first dose of the  first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in Bogata, Colombia. | Photo by Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Ima...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This is the first time in recent memory where several deals we’ve written about through the week are still available. It�...

Photo by Daniel Knighton / WireImage The creator of The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman, released a new cat-themed mobile word game called Kitty Letter earlier this week that fe...

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The other day, I saw a game named Valheim atop the Steam Early Access sales charts, with overwhelmingly positive reviews. Polygon seemed to like the $20 Viking-themed survival ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Images by Daft Punk, Alex and Martin, and Alterian Inc. As a visual artist who also makes beats in the anonymity of my bedroom, I’ve alw...

Blizzcon happened a little later than usual due to the pandemic, but the first virtual version of Blizzard’s games convention still had some interesting news and trailers. Th...

Diablo II is getting a big overhaul in a new remaster. After a few leaks, Blizzard officially announced Diablo II Resurrected at its online-only edition of Blizzcon 2021. The n...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has fired Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of the ethical AI team, after she used an automated script to look through her email...

At Blizzcon 2021, Blizzard revealed the latest glimpse at its upcoming RPG Diablo IV. The cinematic trailer introduced a previously-unannounced character class to the game: the...

Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer convicted of stealing self-driving car secrets, is closing his artificial intellig...

As part of BlizzCon Online’s opening ceremony, Blizzard Entertainment announced a new video game anthology that includes some of the earlier titles created by the World of Wa...

Image: Epic Games Famous video game fighter Chun-Li may not be in the new Mortal Kombat movie, but she and fellow Street Fighter icon Ryu will be playable characters in...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is changing its policies related to research and diversity after completing an internal investigation into the firing of ...

It’s only been a few days since Netflix announced that it was working on an anime series based on DOTA 2 — DOTA: Dragon’s Blood — but in that time, the streamer has alr...

Photo by Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Postmates spent over $200 million campaigning for Proposition 22, the most expensiv...

The first image showing Perseverance being lowered to the Martian surface by its rocket-powered Skycrane. | Photo: NASA/JPL NASA just released a cache of tantalizing ph...

Image: ABC News The Australian Broadcast Company’s ABC News app shot to the top of Apple’s App Store charts in Australia over the course of the last few days, not l...

A power substation is surrounded by snow in Waco, Texas, on February 18th, 2021. A deadly winter weather system that brought record-busting cold to the southern and central Uni...

If you live in one of the last states where Comcast hasn’t rolled out its data caps, you’re getting another reprieve: the company has announced that it’s now pushing back...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple subpoenaed Valve in November as part of its ongoing litigation with Fortnite developer Epic Games, and it’s demanding th...

The lock screen and always on display may be getting a redesign in Android 12. | Images: XDA-Developers It’s been a big couple of weeks for Android fans. First came t...

Image: NASA Yesterday, NASA landed a rover named Perseverance on Mars. I, along with 2 million other people, watched the landing happen live on YouTube. It was beautifu...

Photo by APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images If you know where to look, you can see COVID-19 vaccines starting to save lives in the United States. It’s not in the overall...

Alex Parkin A series of accidentally posted office videos has become an unexpected viral hit on TikTok. The most popular shows a series of municipal employees bidding f...

Some Disney Plus users trying to watch WandaVision the minute it landed were met with loading issues as outage problems affected the streaming platform. A number of accounts m...

Blizzard After canceling BlizzCon 2020 due to the pandemic, Blizzard is back — earlier than usual in the year — for BlizzCon 2021. Blizzard is actually calling it �...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Volkswagen confirmed that its next electric vehicle, the ID 5, will start production in Germany in the second half of 2021. ...

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 James Bareham / The Verge Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast The Vergecast, our chat show to discuss this week in tech news featuring our r...

Image: Disney Let’s cut to the chase: a couple of really big things happened on WandaVision this week. Most of it is still in line with WandaVision’s current strat...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the most frustrating tasks for many of us these days is finding how and where to get an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccin...

Animal Crossing New Horizons Volume 1 Deserted Island Diary | Image: Viz Media Animal Crossing: New Horizons is one of the most popular titles on the Nintendo Switch ri...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge With the right keyboard accessory, you can transform your iPad into a laptop. Apple’s Magic Keyboard for the 11-inch iPad Pro and fo...

All of those obnoxious marketing emails that crowd your inbox aren’t just pushing a product. They’re also tracking whether you’ve opened the email, when you opened it, an...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge You can get a great smartphone at this price, whether you want an iPhone, a big screen, or a great camera Continue reading&...

The Oppo Find X3 Neo. | NieuweMobiel.nl Images of the unannounced Oppo Find X3 Neo have leaked again, this time giving us our best look yet at the third phone in Oppo�...

The iPhone 12 was announced alongside a range of MagSafe accessories last year. | Image: Apple Apple is reportedly developing a new iPhone charging accessory in the for...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge John Carmack has proposed an auction system for popular gaming products like GPUs, the PS5, and Xbox Series X. Carmack, the co-founder o...

Acast Acast, a podcast host and ad network, is looking to improve its tech and broaden its reach. The company announced today that it’s acquiring RadioPublic for an u...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber has lost the final appeal in a long running UK legal battle over whether its drivers are self-employed or legally-recognize...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge YouTube’s permanent Spaces locations, which were designed to offer resources and networking opportunities to its creators, wo...

Apple is said to be lobbying the Indian government in a move that could see the company manufacture iPads in the country for the first time. Reuters reports that the government...

YouTube has removed one of Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg’s recent videos, a diss track aimed at popular children’s channel Cocomelon, for violating guidelines around cybe...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge This morning, Nvidia announced that it would artificially reduce the performance of its upcoming $329 GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card whe...

illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Game Developers Conference is changing course from its original (potentially risky) plan of hosting a hybrid in-person / dig...

Image: Blackmagic Blackmagic is releasing a new, “Pro” version of its Pocket Cinema Camera 6K, which looks to fix a lot of the pain points we found in the original....

Vaio Vaio is known for making laptops that pack a surprising amount of power into unbelievably thin form factors. The Vaio Z may be the company’s most ambitious produ...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Weeks after Reddit community r/WallStreetBets shitposted GameStop stock up to more than $400 a share, the House Financial Services Co...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge The Android 12 developer preview is out, and the internet is busy poring over it to find any new features or hints at the O...

Photo by GRAEME JENNINGS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images The House Energy and Commerce Committee has called a new hearing on platform misinformation to include testimony from...

WhatsApp has a new plan to explain its contentious privacy policy — the one that came under fire when users grew concerned the platform would share their messages with parent...

The first image taking by NASA’s Perseverance rover after touching down on Thursday. | NASA/JPL NASA’s Perseverance rover has successfully touched down on the surfa...

Image: Rudeism Hades, Supergiant Games’ Greek-themed roguelike, can be a pretty tough game. But one intrepid Twitch streamer took it upon himself to up the challenge ...

The issue appears to affect the Pixel 2 series, but may be spreading to newer phones. | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Some owners of previous-generation Pixel phon...

A coalition of tech and business groups have joined together for a lawsuit challenging Maryland’s newly passed digital services tax, as first reported by The Washington Post....

Microsoft is announcing two new versions of Office today: a consumer Office 2021 version and Office LTSC for commercial customers. Office 2021 will be available later this year...

NASA is landing a rover on Mars today, February 18th, but if you’re looking for a different perspective than the traditional live stream, the space agency is currently stream...

Image: Netflix Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 will be available for free on its YouTube channel for 48 hours, starting on Friday, February 19th, at 12AM PT, acc...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Update February 18th, 2:10PM ET: Google released the first of its Android 12 developer previews, so we’ve updated the info in this ...

For YouTube TV customers who subscribe individually to HBO Max, Showtime, and Starz, the company is rolling out a new entertainment bundle that will save people $5. The option...

A warming center in Houston, Texas. | Photo by Thomas Shea / AFP via Getty Images Power outages and freezing temperatures continue to throttle Texas. People without hea...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook is now rolling out multiuser support as an experimental feature for Oculus Quest 2 headsets, the company announced ...

After calling FX home for several years, Atlanta creator Donald Glover is reportedly moving to Amazon with an overall deal worth eight figures, according to multiple publicatio...

GIF: Chris Torres Nyan Cat turns 10 this year, and to mark the occasion, a one-of-a-kind edition of the iconic GIF is going up for auction. Chris Torres, the artist beh...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Google is releasing a developer preview for the next version of Android, Android 12, for Pixel devices today. As is the norm fo...

Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images Last November, California passed Proposition 22, which made it so that companies like Uber and Lyft could classify their work...

Image: teamcoil Puss might be the strangest video game I’ve ever played. In Puss, you play as a small pixelated cat head navigating short mazes. The mazes are often ...

Image: Google The Apple TV app is now available for Google’s 2020 Chromecast. It was announced in December that Apple’s streaming app, which offers access to its Ap...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is reorganizing its responsible AI teams in the wake of Timnit Gebru’s firing. The ethical AI team will now roll up to ...

I am so tired, and there are so many things happening. Days like today have become the norm over this last, lost year; there is a tragedy happening every second of every day, a...

The rebooted Mortal Kombat movie has debuted its first trailer — and, much like the games it’s based on, the upcoming film looks to be very violent. (Warner Bros. has actua...

Image: Devolver Digital The indie gem Minit, released back in 2018, felt like a breath of fresh air. The monochromatic adventure game took a seemingly absurd time const...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Some Facebook employees believed they were promoting “deeply wrong” data about how many users advertisers could reach, a...

An illustration showing NASA’s Perseverance rover making its way toward the Martian surface. | Image: NASA / JPL On February 18th, NASA will make a daring attempt to ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s a good thing that Nintendo’s Switch supports microSD because prices for the expandable storage format just keep get...

A double-sided projection to show off our 3D planet in 2D. | Image: Gott, Goldberg, Vanderbei A trio of scientists have devised a new way to try to represent our spheri...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia is purposefully making its new RTX 3060 graphics cards less efficient to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency. New drivers that w...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge On February 16th, I wrote that Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code threatened to splinter the internet. On February 17th, the...

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, Mediatonic’s charming platformer battle royale title, is coming to Xbox Series X / S and Xbox One this summer, Microsoft announced in a blog pos...

Photo by Kaitlin Hatton / The Verge Getting my license at age 16 was a breath of fresh air. It was me, my used 2007 Mazda6, and the open road. As anyone who knew me at ...

Image: Devolver Digital The indie gem Minit, released back in 2018, felt like a breath of fresh air. The monochromatic adventure game took a seemingly absurd time const...

Alex Parkin Out on the high seas, more than 200 miles from shore, seafood companies can operate with almost no oversight. These are ungoverned, international waters whe...

When Masashi Takahashi, a producer at Square Enix, started working on Bravely Default, he had a very specific audience in mind. Takahashi had grown up playing classic turn-base...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton is fighting to have the terms “spin” and “spinning” treated as generic terms, arguing that they’ve entered...

Facebook is expanding its “Climate Science Information Center.” | Image: Facebook Facebook will start labeling posts about climate change with a banner that directs...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US government has released updated figures on the number of companies and federal agencies it believes were impacted by the ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The next major update to Windows 10, version 21H1, will be delivered in the first half of 2021 and focuses on improving remote w...

Huawei has posted another teaser for its upcoming Mate X2 folding phone on Weibo, offering the strongest hint yet that it’ll move away from the original Mate X’s design. Th...

Photo by Brennan King / The Verge Samsung has announced that its latest One UI 3.1 software update is rolling out to some of its older phones. The update will trickle d...

Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Google removed former president Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign app from Google’s Play Store earlier Wednesday. It wasn’t rem...

Google Google has announced that a built-in screen recorder is coming to Chrome OS in March. Google hopes the tool will make it easier for students and teachers to reco...

Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge For the first time in over a year, Nintendo hosted a full-fledged Direct presentation. The latest presentation was focused most...

The Facebook pages of many Australian government agencies seem to have been caught up in the social media network’s ban on news posts by users and media organizations in the ...

Transmission towers and power lines lead to a substation after a snowstorm on February 16th, 2021, in Fort Worth, Texas. Winter storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and ...

Image: Aspyr Media If you ever wanted a zombie game where you played as the undead instead of fending off against it, you’ll have another chance soon. Stubbs the Zomb...

Image: Velan Studios Velan Studios, the studio behind the mixed-reality racer Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, has revealed its next title: Knockout City, a team-based on...

Nintendo ended its Direct live stream on Wednesday with a surprise announcement of Splatoon 3. Very little about the game was shown in the introduction trailer beyond customiz...

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is getting an HD rerelease on the Nintendo Switch, the company announced today during its Nintendo Direct event, set to release on July 16th....

Nintendo In celebration of Mario’s 35th anniversary, Nintendo is adding Mario-themed items to Animal Crossing: New Horizons. New content will be available on February...

Screenshot by Nick Statt / The Verge Nintendo is bringing back its Mario Golf series for the Switch with a new entry, Mario Golf: Super Rush, arriving June 25th. The ga...

Image: Dbrand Skin company Dbrand is now selling its blacked-out PlayStation 5 “Darkplates” for the digital edition of the console. The company released the panels ...

The RetroN Sq comes in two colors: “black gold” and “hyper beach.” | Image: Hyperkin Hyperkin is best known for making gaming peripherals, but it also creates c...

This case has been recalled, which is a shame as it looks stunning | NZXT PC case and peripheral maker NZXT has recalled its H1 mini-ITX case due to the possibility of ...

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images AMC Theatres has announced another extension for subscribers of its Stubs A-List membership who are mulling over when to reactivate. No...

With orders for new shows, specials, and movies from some of Cartoon Network’s biggest franchises — including Ben 10, Teen Titans Go!, and The Amazing World of Gumball — ...

The $1,099 iPhone 12 Pro Max is currently the top 5G phone in the US, according to research firm M Science. | Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Some new data report...

Director Tim Burton is making a new live-action Addams Family spinoff series for Netflix: a coming of age series focused on Wednesday Addams that will fittingly be called Wedne...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s new Mac mini with the M1 chip is on sale at select retailers. If you are looking to buy the base configuration, which has 8GB...

Image: Roaring Kitty/Keith Patrick Gill “Roaring Kitty,” also known as u/DeepFuckingValue on Reddit and Keith Patrick Gill in real life, is now the target of a laws...

Image: Andy Baio XOXO Festival co-founder Andy Baio unveiled his newest project on Tuesday: a new platform for virtual events called Skittish. Skittish looks like a ver...

Image: Zillow Zillow’s 3D Home app can now generate home floor plans based on scans a user uploads, the company announced today. The new feature, powered by the compa...

Nomad has updated its lineup of rugged leather iPhone cases for the iPhone 12, 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max, and 12 mini with the much-anticipated addition of support for Apple’s MagSa...

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The world’s largest phone show, Mobile World Congress, is moving forward with an in-per...

One of the internet’s foundational laws just turned 25 years old, and it’s never been more controversial. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects websites an...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is announcing a swath of new features for its education-focused products today, including that G Suite for Education is b...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook has decided to block both Australian users and media companies from sharing links to news articles and related cont...

Photo by Alix Diaconis / The Verge iHeartMedia, the company behind podcasts like Stuff You Should Know and hundreds of radio stations across the US, announced today tha...

The other day, I saw a game named Valheim atop the Steam Early Access sales charts, with overwhelmingly positive reviews. Polygon seemed to like the $20 Viking-themed survival ...

The Justice Department unsealed charges Wednesday for three North Korean computer programmers accused of conspiring to extort over $1.3 billion from banks and other businesses ...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is launching a new FPS Boost feature for its latest Xbox Series X and Series S consoles that’s designed to make existing games run better. ...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Brydge has announced a new firmware update for its Pro Plus iPad keyboards that promises to hugely improve the trackpad experience. The ...

Image: Ring The Los Angeles Police Department requested access to Amazon Ring footage while investigating vandalism during last summer’s anti-racism and police brutal...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For many of us, Google storage is the modern-day hard drive. It’s the place where our most important thoughts, documents, and ...

Ford will only sell electric vehicles in Europe by 2030, it said Wednesday. The automaker said it will spend $1 billion to convert its factory in Cologne, Germany, into its fir...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As part of its ongoing fight over an Alabama warehouse’s efforts to unionize, Amazon reportedly changed the timing of a traffi...

Photo by Scott Olson / Getty Images From the start of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, experts warned that it would take careful attention to make sure it was distributed ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s new Mac mini with the M1 chip is on sale at select retailers. If you are looking to buy the base configuration, which has 8GB...

As of yesterday, it’s been 20 years since “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” was uploaded to Newgrounds. Let that sink in. And while you’re doing that, feel free to watch...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Amazon in the state’s supreme court on Tuesday, claiming the c...

There’s a moment in the first trailer for Disney’s live-action Cruella movie when Emma Stone utters in a terrible faux British accent, “I am woman, hear me roar.” It fe...

Ecobee SmartCamera. | Image: Ecobee Ecobee has updated its SmartCamera home security camera with a few new features that make it easier to use as a baby monitor. The ne...

Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re into gaming, you’ll want to know that Nintendo is hosting a 50-minute live stream today that it calls Nintendo Di...

YouTube is gearing up to launch a beta version of its TikTok competitor, Shorts, in the United States beginning in March, chief product officer Neal Mohan announced today. In ...

Hello Games is adding companion animals to No Man’s Sky. Today, the developer announced a new update that allows players to tame wild creatures, bond with them, and even bree...

Image: YouTube TV If the monthly price for all of these streaming TV services is going to keep going up, the least they can do is throw in some new features and better ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google Maps is adding a couple of new useful features: the ability to pay for parking or buy a train ticket right from the app. Google...

The first three gadgets in Amazon’s Build It program. | Image: Amazon Amazon is launching a new consumer outreach program it’s calling Build It. The idea is a safer...

Image: Sonos Sonos will announce its next new product on March 9th, the company confirmed today. The invite for the launch shows a person out in a field — strongly hi...

Pike Electric service trucks line up after a snowstorm on February 16th, 2021, in Fort Worth, Texas. Winter storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and power outages to Tex...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has rolled out support for voice direct messages on iOS and Android in India starting today, the company has announced. ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It seems like the days of free apps are slowly grinding to a halt. Just recently, password manager LastPass announced that it wa...

Microsoft’s new Xbox Wireless Headset appeared in the company’s Xbox Series X and S launch commercial all the way back in October. British actor Daniel Kaluuya picked up th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Fortnite developer Epic Games has made a formal antitrust complaint about Apple to the European Commission, the company announce...

SpaceX has reportedly raised $850 million in a round of funding, in transactions that would value shares of the company at $419.99 each. According to CNBC, this would mean the ...

Image: Netflix Netflix is making an anime series based on Valve’s hugely-popular game Dota 2. The 8-episode series, titled Dota: Dragon’s Blood, launches on March 2...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google made the surprise announcement on February 1st that it would be shuttering its in-house Stadia game development studi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is expanding its accessibility efforts with a new program for evaluating Xbox and PC games. Today, its gaming accessib...

As part of iOS 14.5, Apple is updating its emoji with new variations from the Unicode Consortium’s 13.1 release, including new skin tone options for popular emoji, several ne...

As part of iOS 14.5, Apple is adding new emoji from the Unicode Consortium’s Emoji 13.1 release, including skin tone options for some popular emoji and several new smiley fac...

The monitor in question is on the left-hand side. Taken for the “What’s on your desk?” series | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge PC gaming is an expensive ho...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A North Dakota bill that would have drastically altered the way app store operators like Apple and Google manage their digital m...

Image: German Patent and Trademark Office Sonos has long been rumored to be developing a premium set of noise-canceling headphones to join the company’s ecosystem of ...

The Motorola Moto G30 is available now in European markets. | Image: Motorola Motorola has announced two new budget phones coming to European markets: the Moto G30 and ...

Image: Nintendo If you are interested in testing out Pokémon Unite, a spinoff that has gameplay similar to League of Legends, you may be in luck. Today, the Pokémon C...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is trying a new solution for the persistent “would you like to allow notifications from this website” requests that you see across the in...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon is opening its first manufacturing line in India in a partnership with Foxconn-owned Cloud Network Technology, an India-based su...

Photo by Fritzchens Fritz / Flickr While the world continues to wait for a chance to buy the PlayStation 5, we’re continuing to put Sony’s next-gen console under th...

Roku is looking to create its own original “episodic and feature productions,” according to a recent (and now closed) job listing posted by the company (via Protocol). The ...

Photo by Montinique Monroe/Getty Images A freezing winter storm passed through Texas and parts of the Midwest over the weekend, straining parts of the state’s electri...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is updating its Edge browser with a Kids Mode that should make browsing safer and more customizable, in a kid-friendly...

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Amazon’s open-world MMO, New World, has once again been delayed. The developer now expects the game to launch August 31st. “We’ve been hard at work on compelling end-game...

Photo by Mark Felix / AFP via Getty Images Winter storms paralyzing the United States have left millions without power and sent health officials scrambling to protect f...

Free is always nice, and when a free app is no longer free (or when the free version becomes so limited it is virtually useless), then you have to decide whether to pay up or m...

Inside IBM Research Headquarters IBM plans to get rid of its planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions from its operations by 2030, the company announced today. And unlik...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook addressed false election information with understated warnings like “missing context” rather than more direct flags...

Image: Trello Productivity app Trello, a virtual whiteboard-style platform for organizing and managing projects, is announcing a major redesign today in addition to new...

Microsoft Flight Simulator UK update. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft Flight Simulator is getting a big update today focused on the UK and Ireland. The World Update III, a...

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Update February 16th, 11:21AM ET: The bullet list at the bottom now reflects that Asus and Gigabyte have updated all of its produc...

Image: Sennheiser Sennheiser announced on Tuesday it’s looking for a new partner to buy its consumer audio business, which consists of headphones and soundbars. It’...

Today, gaming peripheral brand Corsair is announcing that it has purchased streaming visuals company Visuals by Impulse (VBI), which it’s organizing under its other streaming...

Image: LastPass LastPass is adding new restrictions to its free subscription tier starting March 16th that’ll only allow users to view and manage passwords on one cat...

2021 is going to be a really big year for electric vehicles. Car-buying experts at Edmunds expect US sales to grow to 2.5 percent from 1.9 percent in 2020. That’s thanks to m...

Following in the footsteps of The Mandalorian and Frozen 2, Disney is giving WandaVision a behind-the-scenes documentary that will air on Disney Plus on March 12th. Assembled:...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the most frustrating tasks for many of us these days is finding how and where to get an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccin...

Image: Levi’s The Pokémon franchise is turning 25 this year, and to celebrate, the brand is teaming up for a number of collaborations, from McDonald’s cards to Pos...

Fortnite’s violence-free mode, party royale, will soon be the home of a short film festival. Today, developer Epic announced “Short Nite,” which will feature multiple ani...

Microsoft is launching a new $99 Xbox Wireless Headset next month. It’s the first wireless Xbox headset since the Xbox 360 days, and it’s designed to connect with Xbox One ...

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge If you’re hunting for a capable gaming laptop without spending too much, now’s a good time to check out this deal at Dell’s ...

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Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook 2, previously stated to be coming in “Q1 2021,” finally has a release date. You can preorder it sta...

If a gadget has a processor in it, then there’s a decent chance someone’s tried to hack it to run Doom. A Nintendo Game & Watch? Naturally. A MacBook Pro Touch Bar? Sur...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung has a pair of new laptops in development — the Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro 360 — which include OLED displays...

GIF: Hyundai Hyundai is teasing the first interior photos of the Ioniq 5 ahead of its world premiere on February 23rd. It’s Hyundai’s first EV to utilize the Electr...

Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Microsoft has updated its unified Office mobile app to work on Apple’s iPad devices. The new Office app combines ...

Electric moped rental company Revel is expanding its product lineup to include monthly e-bike subscriptions for residents of New York City. It’s the latest company to try to ...

A screenshot for the new PC version shows the upgraded ray tracing technology. | Image: 4A Games Metro Exodus developer 4A Games has revealed the free upgrades that are...

E-reader company PocketBook has announced and released the InkPad Color, a 7.8-inch device that uses E Ink’s latest color technology. PocketBook tells The Verge that it’s t...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge We’re eagerly awaiting to hear official news about Android 12, Google’s next major update to its mobile operating system, a...

Roku is testing a new version of its remote control for its set-top boxes, the Roku Voice Remote Pro, which ditches the AAA batteries for a built-in rechargeable battery instea...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple released watchOS 7.3.1 on Monday, and it could help fix an issue that prevents some Apple Watch Series 5 or SE smartwatches from ...

Illustrator by Alex Castro / The Verge Much of Texas has been hit by a historic winter cold front, leaving many without power and affecting internet and cell phone serv...

The Nothing brand logo | Image: Nothing Nothing, the recently-launched startup from former OnePlus executive, Carl Pei, has acquired the Essential brand, according to a...

Image: Team17 (via the PlayStation Blog) Overcooked All You Can Eat, which bundles all of the content from Overcooked and Overcooked 2 into one big package, will be rel...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The alternative social network Parler has reopened after a month offline. The company announced in a press release that the ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge UK automaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) says its Jaguar luxury brand will be all-electric by 2025. Meanwhile, its Land Rover brand will ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is rolling out a new update for its two-factor authentication prompt on Android, which adds support for dark mode (along ...

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Microsoft has started testing its xCloud game streaming through a web browser. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s Xbox plans tell The Verge that employees are now testing a we...

The Galaxy F62 will be available in blue, grey, and green. | Image: Samsung Samsung’s Galaxy F62 is a new affordable handset that’s releasing in India on February 2...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Nissan has issued a statement denying that it’s in discussions to work with Apple on the US company’s long-rumored autonomous car pr...

The original hatchback Bolt EV is also getting a refresh Continue reading… ...

M. Night Shyamalan’s Old | Universal Today’s big drop was the premiere trailer for Zack Snyder’s Justice League which, fortunately for weekend editors everywhere,...

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The developers of audio chat room app Clubhouse plan to add additional encryption to prev...

With Zack Snyder’s Justice League set to release nearly a month from now, Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for the film. Set after the events of Batman v Superman: Da...

DJI’s first-ever FPV (first-person-view) drone hasn’t been much of a secret for months — but an unboxing video now shows off the new quadcopter, controller and FPV goggle...

Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Mercedes-Benz USA is recalling 1.29 million vehicles because of a failure in its eCall software which may not provide a v...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has provided a bug fix to its iOS YouTube app, the first update to a major Google iOS app since December, 9to5Google repo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last year, the pseudonymous writer behind the SlateStarCodex blog abruptly shut it down, claiming a forthcoming story from The N...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, Robinhood co-CEO Vlad Tenev, and Keith Gill (aka Roaring Kitty) a...

Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover at the 2019 British Academy Britannia Awards | Photo by Frazer Harrison/BAFTA LA/Getty Images for BAFTA LA Phoebe Waller-Bridge a...

An image from the Mario Kart 64 listing on the Edge extensions store. Microsoft’s Edge extensions store was hosting likely illegal copies of a number of iconic games,...

Earlier this week, Netflix dropped a surprise announcement that it’s adapting author Brian Jacques’ iconic Redwall books into a new animated movie and TV franchise. Based o...

Dr. Michelle Chester, right, rolls up the sleeve of Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, before she is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vac...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously on Friday to approve an ordinance banning the use of facial recognition software ...

That’s The Verge’s Chris Welch wearing Bose’s Noise Canceling Headphones 700 | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge You wouldn’t know it from looking at ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Earlier this month, Aaron Epstein spent $10,000 to buy an ad in The Wall Street Journal to tell AT&T’s CEO he wasn’t hap...

In 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion, turning it into the way you’d buy and get paid for items you sell on the ginormous auction site. But the once-happy couple has b...

An image from the Mario Kart 64 listing on the Edge extensions store. Microsoft’s Edge extensions store appears to be hosting illegal copies of a number of iconic gam...

An image from the Mario Kart 64 listing on the Edge extensions store. Microsoft’s Edge extensions store was hosting likely illegal copies of a number of iconic games,...

Amazon’s Ring has so many different video doorbells in the market it’s getting hard to keep track, but one of them is apparently about to get a big bump with some brand-new...

Photo by Daniel Slim / AFP via Getty Images You might not have to ride public transit to work right now, but if you’re one of the many workers who still commutes in N...

On January 6th, the day a riot of pro-Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, Twitch removed the iconic PogChamp emote because the person it depicted made statements calling f...

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Image: NOAA Let’s be honest, when most people think of places to get good Valentine’s Day cards, the US government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook is building a smartwatch as part of its ongoing hardware efforts, according to a new report from The Information. The...

Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge Fitting a lot of tech into a small space Continue reading… ...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Amazon built its own in-house mobile app called Mentor that it uses to track the location and rate the performance of third-party de...

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Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm have been raising concerns to regulators about Nvidia’s Arm acquisition, according to reports by CNBC ...

Photo by Patrick Pleul / picture alliance via Getty Images Elon Musk says he pitched the Biden administration on instituting a carbon tax as a way to encourage a faster...

A YouTuber claims to have the unannounced Mi 11 Ultra featuring a 1-inch rear-facing screen. | Photo by Tech Buff PH A YouTuber has posted a video featuring what he cla...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We already knew Nvidia was making a $329 RTX 3060 graphics card, and today, the company announced that it will make its most aff...

Apple is gearing up for the release of For All Mankind season 2 on Apple TV Plus. It’s kicking things off with a new augmented reality app, For All Mankind: Time Capsule, tha...

Image: HBO A newly remastered version of Sex and the City is now available to stream on HBO Max, WarnerMedia announced on Friday. Thanks to the remaster, you can watch ...

Nintendo Switch Mario Red & Blue Edition | Image: Nintendo Alongside the release of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury for the Nintendo Switch, several retailer...

Photo illustration by William Joel | Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images Can Facebook meaningfully have a Supreme Court? The title of a new featur...

This shows what Notion looks like when it is working | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales Online organization app Notion was experiencing technical difficulties this morni...

Blue natural gas flame on a domestic cooker gas hob. | Photo by: Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images I spend a lot of time fretting about how my home might ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has filed a lawsuit against the New York state attorney general’s office as a preemptive effort to prevent legal action...

iPhone 12, Galaxy S21 Ultra, Galaxy S21, iPhone 12 Mini, Galaxy Z Fold 2, and Pixel 4A 5G Buying a new phone can be a chore, but we’ve done the work for you ...

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...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast The Vergecast to discuss this week in Verge headlines. Here’s what The ...

Photo illustration by Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Getty Images Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and musician Jay-Z have pledged 500 bitcoin (around $23.3 million) toward ₿trust,...

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 Update February 12th, 10:05AM ET: When this was written, Amazon and Walmart were selling the AirPods Pros for $180. While th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify is jumping on the remote work bandwagon in a big way with an announcement on Friday that it will let its employees choos...

Nintendo Switch Mario Red & Blue Edition | Image: Nintendo Alongside the release of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury for the Nintendo Switch, several retailer...

Disney / Marvel Studios WandaVision is moving closer to its endgame, as SWORD clashes with Wanda, Vision continues to question his reality, and the mystery of who is ac...

Apple, Spotify, and the impossible problem of moderating shows Continue reading… ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Beats Flex wireless earbuds are $10 off at Amazon in the black or neon green colorways. This might not sound like a big price cut, ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the most frustrating tasks for many of us these days is finding how and where to get an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccin...

Nintendo Switch Mario Red & Blue Edition | Image: Nintendo Alongside the release of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury for the Nintendo Switch, several retailer...

Screenshots of the new interface shown off in 2019. | Image: VideoLAN / FOSDEM Version 4.0 of VLC, the popular cross-platform media playing software, is planned for rel...

Dave Chappelle reclaims his namesake. | Photo By: Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Dave Chappelle says that his long running beef with Comedy Central ove...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is testing a new privacy feature to its Chrome browser for iOS that can lock incognito tabs behind Face ID. Apple’s fac...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has permanently suspended the account of conservative activist group Project Veritas, after the organization released a ...

It’s fair to say the PlayStation 5’s huge, two-tone industrial design is not for everyone, and now Dbrand says it has a solution. The company best known for its custom phon...

Stardew Valley’s 1.5 update delighted a lot of us when it came out for PC in December, and now it’s finally arriving for consoles. The game’s developer announced on Twitt...

The Ring Video Doorbell Pro can now talk to your visitors with Alexa. | Image: Amazon Amazon is announcing that it’s adding Alexa to its Ring Video Doorbell Pro, givi...

Today Epic revealed the latest crossover for its battle royale hit, which brings the retrofuturistic world of Tron into the game. There are ten different Tron-themed skins ava...

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Okay, screenwriters, directors, authors, and production companies — we get it. You have some experience telling stories about Wall...

Image: Tesla Elon Musk has said for years that he wants to offer a rocket thruster package to increase the already ludicrous speed of the second-generation Tesla Roadst...

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Several US government agencies are investigating the GameStop stock brouhaha to determine whether there was market manipulation invo...

Image: LG Several of LG’s 2021 Gram laptops are now available for purchase. LG announced the new lineup earlier this year but had not yet announced pricing or availab...

Photo by NASA/ Joel Kowsky via Getty Images NASA is planning to buy an astronaut seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft through Texas-based aerospace firm Axiom Space, acco...

Maverick Sure, you can drink at home with some music on, but that doesn’t replicate the feeling of being out at a bar among friends and total strangers. As it turns o...

Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd. Disney Plus reached a new high of 94.9 million subscribers around the world, the company announced in its Q1 2021 earnings report. Hulu now has 39...

Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images Uber and Lyft reported their quarterly earnings this week, and while both companies are showing signs of improvement, the COVID...

Matthew Inman, the creator of The Oatmeal webcomics and popular card game Exploding Kittens, has released a free mobile word game called Kitty Letter. Inman describes it as “...

A leaked press render of the upcoming midrange Galaxy A52 5G. | Photo by Evan Blass Samsung may be getting closer to refreshing two popular midrange devices: the Galaxy...

PCWorld has confirmed that Nvidia is planning on releasing stock of GTX 1050 Ti and RTX 2060 GPUs to its board partners in an attempt to deal with the stock shortages and sky-h...

Medium workers have announced they’re forming a union with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 9410. The Medium Workers Union says more than 70 percent of eligi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Beginning next week, Twitter will add labels to the personal accounts of heads of state as it expands its policy on government-a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators and showrunners of HBO’s Game of Thrones, have a new project in the works with Netf...

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 When it comes to true wireless earbuds, Apple’s AirPods Pro are possibly the best option out there. If you have been holdi...

My preferred way to surf Reddit is via the mobile website. It lets me quickly check a few of my favorite subreddits to see which posts are bubbling up. Since I’m not usually ...

Clapper Clapper has moved to ban accounts spreading QAnon conspiracy theories and vaccine misinformation in the wake of a Verge report last month. Clapper CEO Edison Ch...

Kingdom Hearts, Square Enix’s action roleplaying mashup of Square Enix, Disney, and Pixar characters, is coming to PC for the first time. The series will be available as an E...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Fiction author, sourdough bread lover, and former Twitter executive Robin Sloan is answering a question you may have never t...

Photo by Francesco Prandoni/Getty Images Jack Black is set to play snarky robot Claptrap in the upcoming Borderlands movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Deadlin...

Photo: Intel The White House has pledged to help address the ongoing global semiconductor shortage, with President Joe Biden said to be signing an executive order to co...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On Thursday, Facebook released a new moderation transparency report showing a marked uptick in bullying and harassment enfor...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge You might want to change your Slack password if you used the app on Android. According to an email sent out by the company and p...

DJ Steve Aoki and his Dim Mak record label and fashion brand have teamed up with Capcom on some cool Street Fighter-themed items: a limited edition countertop arcade cabinet, a...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google is adding some of its fancy, Pixel-exclusive editing features to Google Photos today for all Android users to enjoy, but there�...

Post Malone is joining Pokémon’s 25th anniversary celebration with a virtual concert. The rapper will perform on February 27th in a digital event kicking off at 7PM ET. On Y...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge HBO Max will finally make its international debut in June, with the streaming service set to launch in Latin America and the Car...

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Image: PlayStation We already knew Insomniac Games was working on a sequel to the 2016 reboot of Ratchet & Clank. And today, Sony announced that Ratchet & Clank...

Image: CD Projekt Red Hackers have reportedly sold the game source code and other information stolen from Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 studio CD Projekt Red (CDPR)....

CGV’s branding for the new AzitX service that lets gamers rent out screens | CGV It’s no secret the pandemic has taken a huge toll on the theater industry, but some...

It looks the same, but it flies and shoots much better Continue reading… ...

Unsurprisingly, there was much less autonomous vehicle testing in California in 2020 compared to years prior. The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns forced many AVs off th...

Image: Highwire Games Six Days in Fallujah, a controversial third-person shooter set during the Iraq War, is back in development over a decade after being canceled foll...

Mackenzie Scott and her ex-husband Jeff Bezos. | Photo by Jörg Carstensen / picture alliance via Getty Images It’s no secret MacKenzie Scott has committed some stunn...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge eBay is hosting a President’s Day sale specifically on refurbished products. One of the best offers we’ve spotted is for...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft is dropping the price of its foldable Surface Duo device to $999, and launching it in Europe and Canada next week. The Surfa...

There are as many ways to make it on Twitch as there are streamers. Even so, there is a culturally recognized type. And you can picture him — yes, him — now, can’t you? A...

Astronomers discovered the stars closest to our Solar System more than 100 years ago. There’s the three-star Alpha Centauri system about four light-years away and Barnard’s...

Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images The Call of Duty League kicked off its inaugural season last year with a bang. The CDL launched with an ambitious vision to merge e...

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Photo by Joe Scarnici/Getty Images Facebook-owned Instagram has permanently banned Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a prominent anti-vaccine activist who had over 800,000 follower...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meme thieves rejoice! Discord’s latest update on iOS adds a new option to make it easier to save images from Twitter embeds, h...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has reportedly held talks with Pinterest in an attempt to acquire the social network. The Financial Times reports that...

Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Pedro Pascal, who you might recognize as The Mandalorian himself, has been cast as Joel in HBO’s TV adaptation of The Last of Us...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google hasn’t updated many of its iOS apps in weeks, perhaps to avoid potential criticism from what might be revealed from Apple...

Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic Disney has severed ties with Gina Carano, who played Cara Dune on The Mandalorian, the company announced on Wednesday evening. “Gin...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony’s PlayStation Network experienced a global outage on Wednesday evening that appeared to last for more than an hour. On the Play...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony’s PlayStation Network is currently experiencing a global outage. On the PlayStation Network status page, every service except P...

Image: HBO HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation is set to feature a familiar face: Bella Ramsey, the actor who played the young ruler Lyanna Mormont on Game of Thrones, wi...

Image: HBO HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation is set to feature a familiar face: Bella Ramsey, the actor who played the young ruler Lyanna Mormont on Game of Thrones, wi...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images NASA chose SpaceX’s heavy-lift Falcon Heavy rocket to launch the first two elements of the agency’s Lunar Gateway, a planned outpos...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google hasn’t updated many of its iOS apps in weeks, perhaps to avoid potential criticism from what might be revealed from Apple...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge By now, you’ve probably heard the theoretically scary story of how hackers managed to infiltrate the computer systems at a wat...

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge The best Chromebook for every type of user Continue reading… ...

Toyota will finally introduce its first mass-market all-electric vehicles in the United States later this year, the world’s leading automaker announced Wednesday, though it o...

Wearing a mask is one of the easiest things individual people can do to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is partnering wi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Security researcher Alex Birsan has found a security vulnerability that allowed him to run code on servers owned by Apple, Micro...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge You should change your Slack password if you used the app on Android, according to an email sent out by the company and publishe...

Google is testing a dark mode for desktop search, Google confirmed to The Verge. If the test has rolled out to you and your system is set to dark mode, the background of Google...

Rep. Tom Emmer tunes into a House Financial Services markup upside down. Like plenty of other congressional committees this week, the House Financial Services Committee...

Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images People who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and don’t have any symptoms don’t have to quarantine if they’re e...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The hackers who targeted video game developer CD Projekt Red (CDPR) with a ransomware attack are now auctioning off the stolen s...

Asus Is there anything worse than repeatedly dropping the super tiny screw that lets you install an M.2 solid-state drive in your PC? Yes, but it’s definitely up ther...

Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images Demand for Pokémon cards has been high the last few weeks as the series celebrates its 25th anniversary. To accommodate the high dema...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has refused an order from the Indian government to block certain Twitter accounts, including ones from politicians, acti...

Photo: HP HP announced today that it has refreshed its Pavilion x360 line of 14- and 15-inch convertible laptops, making them smaller, lighter, and more geared toward s...

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...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new bill introduced in the North Dakota Senate might have far-reaching consequences for app store operators. The bill, Senate ...

Google appears to be rolling out a dark mode for desktop search, but only some people have it right now. If the change has rolled out to you and your system is set to dark mode...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook, a company known for ripping its ideas from competitors, has reportedly set its sights on social audio. The New York Ti...

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 ...

Image: Google Google’s News Showcase, a program wherein the search giant pays to curate news content from publishers, has launched in the UK and Argentina. In the UK,...

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 Instagram is toughening its stance on hate speech in direct messages. The company announced today that it’ll start disabling t...

The FitBit Charge 4 gets a healthy feature boost with a new update | Image: FitBit Fitbit is offering a major update for some of its current smartwatches. As detailed b...

David Santiago/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images A US appeals court has ruled that Customs and Border Protection agents can conduct in-depth searches o...

Tianwen-1’s first image of Mars, captured Feb. 5 | China National Space Administration China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft successfully rolled into Mars orbit Wednesday mo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Former President Donald Trump will not be returning to Twitter at any point in the future, according to the company’s chief fi...

Image: Rebecca Black Rebecca Black has released a 10th anniversary remix of her viral hit “Friday.” Yes, somehow, the original song came out 10 years ago, and I hav...

Photo by Erin Schaff for The Verge Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) put out a new bill Wednesday that would overhaul the US’s crumbling unemployment benefits systems. Over the l...

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...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis receives the second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. | Photo by YANNIS KOLESIDIS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Vaccine selfies — vaxxi...

Image: Psyonix Rocket League developer Psyonix announced today it's partnering with an auto company to add an actual truck into the game. Sadly, no, it is not the Tesla...

Epic Games has announced a new, browser-based software tool powered by its Unreal Engine called the MetaHuman Creator that can craft highly realistic human faces and help power...

Redwall, Brian Jacques’ fantasy novels about heroic anthropomorphic animals, is coming to Netflix in a new film and TV show. The company announced on Twitter that Over the Ga...

Starting at $329, Apple’s most affordable iPad model comes at a very attractive price — but if you have been holding off in the hopes of buying it at an even better price, ...

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Update February 10th, 10:31AM ET: The bullet list at the bottom now reflects that Gigabyte has updated all of its product pages wi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nearly five months after it was announced, a proposed hosting deal between Oracle and TikTok is on permanent hold, according to ...

The latest absurd YouTube video to do the rounds is that of a lawyer named Rod Ponton who accidentally attended a civil hearing on Zoom wearing a cat filter (and couldn’t fig...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I. Blocking is having a moment. Last month, Tracy Chou announced that she had raised a little under $1.5 million to launch Block...

Ever since the open green fields of Super Mario 64, Nintendo has experimented with the best way to transport Mario into three dimensions. From the bite-sized planetoids of Gala...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook plans to test how people respond to seeing fewer posts about politics in the News Feed. Starting this week, Facebook wi...

Relax, Ikea’s wooden gamer hand is here to take care of your gaming gear. | Image: Ikea In an ideal world, we’d always keep a hand free to protect our precious gami...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is working with TSMC to develop ultra-thin and energy-efficient micro OLED displays for its upcoming augmented reality dev...

Nintendo has announced the next SNES and NES games coming to its Switch Online service. Depending on your perspective, the selection shines a light on some underappreciated gem...

The new reporting interface in Apple Maps. Apple is bringing accident, hazard, and speed check reporting to Apple Maps. The feature is currently only available to users...

Apple has launched a new, free battery replacement program for 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pros that won’t charge past one percent. The issue affects “a very small number of cust...

Image: Satechi Satechi has launched a double-sided charger that can wirelessly charge an Apple Watch or AirPods — but not both at once — while hopefully saving you ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey imagines a future where you get to choose what you see on social media by picking out your favorite reco...

The original Prepear logo, compared to Apple’s. Last August, the routine story of a trademark opposition captured the world’s imagination, when Apple declared that ...

Hyundai Who needs an Apple car when you’ve got one with four legs? Hyundai, which recently acquired a controlling stake in robot maker Boston Dynamics, rolled out a n...

Tesla, led by Elon Musk, confirmed that it purchased about $ 1.5 billion in bitcoin in January and expects to start accepting it as a payment in the future.  | Photo by Ar...

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images Cloud computing company Salesforce is joining other Silicon Valley tech giants in announcing a substantial shift in how it allows its e...

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images Cloud computing company Salesforce is joining other Silicon Valley tech giants in announcing a substantial shift in how it allows its e...

CBS All Access is set to transform into Paramount Plus on March 4th, but you won’t be able to watch it if you own a second- or third-generation Apple TV. The company announce...

Photo by Karwai Tang/Getty Images South Africa announced this week that it’s stopping the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine after a small study found tha...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Twitter doesn’t need Donald Trump to keep growing. The company said today that it ended 2020 with 192 million daily users, and the f...

Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge Nicolo Laurent, the Riot Games CEO, is under investigation following gender discrimination and sexual harassment allegations, a...

One of the first Android apps — ZXing Team’s Barcode Scanner, an app that predates the first official release of Android itself — is currently getting review-bombed on th...

Image: Adobe Adobe is making it easier for multiple people to work on the same file in Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fresco. The three apps are getting a new feature calle...

Image: Weber Weber is expanding its line of internet-connected grills to encompass its popular gas models, including the company’s entry-level Spirt lineup, offering ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Disney is shutting down Blue Sky Studios, the animation house responsible for the Ice Age movies, according to Deadline. The rea...

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images SpaceX started accepting preorders for its Starlink satellite internet service late on Mo...

Screenshot by Nick Statt / The Verge As Rod Ponton awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed during a live Zoom hearing into an adorable pet fe...

Image: Vanity Fair The Joker is such an elemental comic book villain that any new version is bound to be compared to previous iterations. It’s rare, then, that an act...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The same people who originally brought Android to the Nintendo Switch, the Switchroot team, are back with an Android 10 upda...

Images: Audi Starting at a cool $100,000 Continue reading… ...

Image: Instagram Instagram’s newest guidance for creators makes one thing clear: the platform wants people to stop posting recycled TikToks to Reels. Today, Instagram...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Huawei has asked a court to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s designation of it as a national security threat. ...

It’s 2021 and we’re still finding unique ways to pair up to develop self-driving cars. The latest is between Toyota, AV startup Aurora, and auto part supplier Denso. The th...

Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump begins today. Trump was charged with incitement of insurrection by th...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google launched a VPN for its Google Fi cell service in beta back in November 2018, allowing Fi subscribers to route their phone’s i...

Photo Cliff Welch/Getty Images | Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Super Bowl 2021 will go down in history for a few things, including being the mos...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Over the past couple of months, I’ve been playing a lot of games on my Xbox Series X, and following the release of the iOS 14.5 beta, ...

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Photo by Brennan King / The Verge Sony has applied for a patent for its Back Button Attachment, the add-on accessory for the DualShock 4 announced back in 2019 that add...

UAE’s Hope probe sits in a clean room before launch. A probe from the United Arab Emirates successfully reached Mars on Tuesday, earning the country a spot in a small...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Companies looking to make a name in podcasting have mostly done so by spending lots of money on flashy names, big acquisitio...

Photo: Getty Images Much has been said and written over the years about the post-Steve Jobs era of Apple and whether CEO Tim Cook’s operations-heavy approach to runni...

Trees, pandas, earbuds, and Abe Lincoln Continue reading… ...

eSIM makes it possible to activate your device with a new carrier without waiting for a physical SIM card. | Image: Visible Visible, the Verizon-owned MVNO, is adding s...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Zendure’s SuperTank power bank is $100 at Wellbots today, which is the lowest price we’ve seen that doesn’t require a ...

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge An interview with Charlton McIlwain, author of Black Software Continue reading… ...

Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/Pool After last month’s deadly pro-Trump attack on the Capitol, lawmakers are investigating the role DLive, o...

Illustration by William Joel | Photo by Franziska Krug / Getty Images Jeff Bezos announced on February 2nd that he’d be leaving the CEO job at Amazon. In the announc...

Microsoft is improving the dark mode in Word to make it even darker. The software maker has started testing an update to Word that will color entire documents in a dark canvas....

The unannounced device is likely to be much slimmer than previous devices like the Echo Show 10 (pictured). | Photo: Amazon Amazon is developing a thin Echo device for ...

Qualcomm has announced its latest 5G modem — the Snapdragon X65, a successor to last year’s Snapdragon X60 which just started to hit devices as part of the Snapdragon 888 c...

Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Belgian e-bike maker Cowboy has delivered on its promise to help riders avoid pollution on their commutes with a new air quality navi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit will double the number of employees it has over the course of this year to around 1,400 after raising $250 million in a n...

Image: Nothing Nothing, the new venture from ex-OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, plans to release a pair of wireless earbuds this summer, with other products following late...

Android 12 rumored UI and features. | Image: XDA-Developers A series of leaked images may offer a first look at Google’s Android 12 update. XDA-Developers has publish...

A robotic probe owned by the United Arab Emirates is preparing to jump into Mars orbit on Tuesday after launching from Earth last year. For mission managers in Dubai, it’s a ...

CD Projekt says it’s been hacked by attackers who’ve been able to access its internal network, encrypt some devices, and collect “certain data” from the Polish video ga...

Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei has called for a reset in relations between the US and the Chinese tech giant. Speaking to international media in China for the first time i...

Snap is introducing a new feature it’s calling Friend Check Up. On Snapchat, having someone friended could give them access to your story and even possibly your location, dep...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last June, 20-year-old Alex Kearns died by suicide, blaming stock trading app Robinhood for his death. He mistakenly believed he...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Though the international version of Steam has been available in China for years, an official Chinese release of the the popular ...

What are we actually looking at here? A rock? An enemy? Does it even matter compared to the glory of running Horizon Zero Dawn at the eye-watering resolution of 128 pixels wide...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is expanding what false claims it will remove from its platforms related to COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, and vaccines i...

While Zoom was originally created as a serious meeting application for businesses, it has since become one of the most-used services during the pandemic for anyone who wants to...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The parent company of a West Virginia newspaper chain has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook and Google parent company ...

Expanscape A company called Expanscape has created the most Inspector Gadget-like device that I’ve ever seen. It’s a laptop prototype called the Aurora 7 (a working...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hackers successfully infiltrated the computer system controlling a water treatment facility in the city of Oldsmar, Florida, acc...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Justice Department dropped its 2018 lawsuit challenging California’s state net neutrality rules on Monday, removing one of...

EA is making a big move into the world of mobile gaming with the acquisition of Glu Mobile, a developer best known for its work on celebrity-focused titles, based on stars like...

Salad vending machine company Chowbotics is now part of DoorDash DoorDash has acquired salad-making robot startup Chowbotics, the companies announced Monday. Financial ...

Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images On Monday, California state Senator Connie Leyva introduced the Silenced No More Act, a bill that advocates say will p...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Mobile app developer Kosta Eleftheriou has a new calling that goes beyond software development: taking on what he sees as a ramp...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Mobile app developer Kosta Eleftheriou has a new calling that goes beyond software development: taking on what he sees as a ramp...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An Amazon warehouse in Alabama could become the first to unionize in the US Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro The Entertainment Software Association has announced that E3 2021 is happening this year, and it could be going digital, according to Video ...

‘Is meatball an fruit?’ Continue reading… ...

The Pokémon Center is selling a Gigantamax Meowth that, while not true to size, is still pretty damn big. This Long Meowth measures 65 inches, which is just over five feet, an...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge The real questions behind Section 230 reform Continue reading… ...

Microsoft is bringing Forza Horizon 4 to Steam on March 9th. It marks the first time the Forza franchise has been available on Steam, and it will include crossplay with players...

Photo: Apple Apple’s former hardware leader, Dan Riccio, is now overseeing the company’s still-secretive work on augmented and virtual reality products, according t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, TikTok and Universal Music Group (UMG) have announced the formation of what they’re calling an “expanded global allia...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge iOS 14.5 looks like it will be packed with features, including the ability to use your Apple Watch to unlock an iPhone with Face...

Andrew Spinks, the co-creator of Terraria, announced that his studio would no longer be working on a Google Stadia port of the game, he announced on Twitter earlier today. The ...

Photo by Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call Rep. Ron Wright (R-TX) has died after two weeks in the hospital with COVID-19, his office announced today. Wright was the first sit...

Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/Pool Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), chair of the House Oversight Committee, is demanding documents from the free ...

Mark Cuban is getting in on the audio and podcasting hype. Alongside co-founder Falon Fatemi, he’s planning to launch Fireside, a “next-gen podcast platform” that facilit...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Samsung’s new line of Galaxy S21 smartphones launched less than two weeks ago, but Amazon, B&H Photo, and Best Buy have alre...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Teams inside Twitter are researching ways for the company to offer paid subscriptions, which could include charging money for ac...

While most of us wouldn’t say no to a $6,000 Apple Mac Pro or a $1,100 electric bike, sometimes it’s just as much fun to be gifted a low-cost gadget that is just fun or use...

If you’re lucky, you can save on both the LOTR Trilogy and The Hobbit Trilogy on 4K Blu-ray Amazon and Target are hosting “buy two, get one free” promotions on vi...

Marvel/Disney Plus We had an inkling that there might be big movie news during the Super Bowl and there was: Marvel released a new trailer for The Falcon and The Winter...

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...

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 ...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla says it has invested $1.5 billion in the bitcoin cryptocurrency. The electric car manufacturer filed its annual 10-K repor...

Xiaomi is announcing the international version of its Mi 11 flagship phone today after an earlier release in China. No wild waterfall displays or sci-fi wireless charging here ...

The test shows the maximum resolution your internet connection can stream. | Image: Ookla SpeedTest’s iOS app can now benchmark your internet’s video streaming qual...

Image: Dave2D Leaked images of the unannounced OnePlus 9 Pro suggest the flagship smartphone will include a Hasselblad-branded camera array. The images shared in a rece...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The PC industry response to Apple’s new M1 chips has been rather quiet, until now. Intel is hitting back at Apple’s new M1 MacBook...

Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images Elon Musk is putting up $100 million as part of a new X Prize Foundation competition focused on carbon removal technology. The contest,...

You could have been forgiven for missing Reddit’s Super Bowl ad tonight — it was only five seconds long. The ad mostly consisted of a text message that would’ve been pret...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge After weeks of speculation, Hyundai and subsidiary Kia have again sought to downplay rumors and reporting that they are work...

CBS All Access app appeared to be having problems as users tried to watch Super Bowl LV on Sunday. Users reported seeing an error message that read the app was “experiencing ...

Marvel/Disney Plus We had an inkling that there might be big movie news during the Super Bowl and there was: Marvel released a new trailer for The Falcon and The Winter...

Pacific Rim: The Black | Netflix So I watched the latest episode of Servant and can’t decide whether it’s the slow pacing or the suspension of disbelief (how long c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Police in Minneapolis got a search warrant that ordered Google to provide account data on people who were near a protest that tu...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Every DualSense controller has 40,000 tiny PlayStation symbols Continue reading… ...

Photo: Motto. How Ninjas in Pyjamas created a new identity Continue reading… ...

Super Bowl 2021 — the 55th Super Bowl — is happening today. The championship game pits the Kansas City Chiefs, the defending Super Bowl champs, against the Tampa Bay Buccan...

Photo by: Michael Siluk/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Look I know this pandemic has been a long, depressing slog, and even if you’ve masked...

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is investigating money transfer app Venmo over the...

A protester makes three-finger salute as another holds up a poster of de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an anti-coup march February 6th in Yangon, Myanmar | Photo by Gett...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A billion years ago last summer, people were getting antsy about vaccines. They wanted thin...

Square-Enix Final Fantasy XIV is coming to PlayStation 5, developer Square-Enix announced Friday. An open beta will start April 13th. A teaser trailer shows the game r...

A screengrab from Destruction All-Stars, a PS5 game you can get for free with a PS Plus subscription | Image: Sony How has the first week of February been for you? Good...

Image: The Boring Company Elon Musk told Miami’s mayor Friday that The Boring Company could dig a two-mile tunnel under the city for as little as $30 million — a fr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets has grown significantly due to the community’s role in driving up the stock prices of companies li...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Sonos is preparing for the release of a new product that, according to FCC documentation, is likely to be the company’s second portab...

SAN PEDRO SULA, CORTES, HONDURAS - 2020/11/07: In the aftermath of Hurricane Eta, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced due to flooding. | Photo by Seth Sidney Be...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge The wonderful thing about bitcoin is many of its apparent benefits, like the ability to be anonymously owned and securely transferre...

Image: Otto Climan Most people who have used the Apple TV Siri remote have probably craved something that isn’t so darn frustrating to use — but most of us haven’...

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Okay, screenwriters, directors, authors, and production companies — we get it. You have some experience telling stories about Wall...

Characters from Destruction AllStars. | Image: Sony Sony released the car-smashing game Destruction AllStars exclusively for the PlayStation 5 on Tuesday, but it shippe...

Illustration by Ana Kova Patients of two US hospital chains had their names, birthdays, and colonoscopy results posted on the dark web after a hack, reported NBC News. ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Department of Justice (DOJ) has closed a nearly two-year investigation into the process Ford uses to evaluate the emissions ...

You’re being tracked — around the web, sure, but also in real life: the apps on your smartphone are constantly feeding data into the digital advertising market, where it’...

Image: Maytree In January, South Korean a cappella group Maytree wowed us with their spot-on vocal interpretations of Windows sound effects, and on Friday, the group re...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has announced that it will suspend all donations for the upcoming 2022 election cycle for any members of Congress, sta...

A fleet of spacecraft from three countries will reach Mars in February. A small fleet of spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates, China, and the United States will rea...

Apple’s iOS 14.5 beta is out, and with it comes the ability to have your Apple Watch unlock your Face ID-protected phone if you happen to be wearing a mask. If you really wan...

Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge Robinhood has finally lifted all the restrictions on WallStreetBets-fueled stocks like GameStop and AMC, according to a report ...

We already knew a remake for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was in the works, and it was supposed to come out next month. But if you are waiting to play this long-awaited ...

Image: CD Projekt Red On Tuesday, Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red cautioned against installing mods or custom save files due to a vulnerability that could be us...

Photo by Erin Schaff for The Verge Senate Democrats unveiled a new bill Friday that could force tech giants like Facebook and Google to be held more accountable for har...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has denied a set of motions from Amazon that sought to delay a union election at a com...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge It turned into a car week here on The Vergecast. Transportation reporter Sean O’Kane and video director Becca Farsace joined Vergec...

Dril, esteemed shitposter and published author, is developing “the next great Gaming Classic”: a 2D action-adventure called copgame about the “quest of a silent protagoni...

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

Johnson & Johnson released data from its vaccine clinical trial last week. Johnson & Johnson announced yesterday that it had officially asked the Food and Drug ...

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Nvidia is now requiring, not just encouraging, companies selling laptops with its new RTX 30-series graphics chips to be more tran...

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 in its price range. If you a...

WandaVision’s fourth episode finally brought the sitcom world of Wanda Maximoff and Vision into its broader Marvel context, and this week’s fifth episode (titled, in sitcom...

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

Image: Nintendo Fans are remastering the soundtrack to Super Mario World, creating uncompressed versions of the original tracks that were never possible on the Super Ni...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Laura Sneade Jordan’s Peloton journey sounds like many others’. She and her husband had been thinking about buying the c...

Photo by Phil Esposito / The Verge Along with news, features, opinions, and tech reviews, video has become an increasingly important part of The Verge’s content. But ...

Screenshot: GoldenEye 007 A remake of the Nintendo 64 classic GoldenEye 007 has leaked online, and it’s playable on PC using an emulator, Video Games Chronicle report...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s more important than usual to update to the latest version of Chrome. Version 88.0.4324.150 of Google’s browser released...

Xiaomi has announced its latest phone concept: a “quad-curved waterfall display.” This means that the unnamed phone’s screen not only has deep 88-degree “waterfall” c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Baltimore, Maryland city officials have unanimously voted to end the city police department’s spy plane surveillance program, ...

The Thunderbolt 4 dock is littered with useful ports | Razer If you’ve been hunting for a Thunderbolt 4 dock for your new laptop, Razer has a new option for you to co...

Image: Razer Razer’s latest mechanical keyboard, the $250 Huntsman V2 Analog, looks similar to the company’s previous models, but the biggest differences lie in the...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge With the upcoming release of iOS 14.5 and watchOS 7.4, Apple will let you use your Apple Watch to authenticate and unlock your iPhone ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Ford is increasing its investment in electric and autonomous vehicles to $29 billion, the company’s top executives said in an earni...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Like other online platforms, Pinterest reaped the benefits of an uptick in e-commerce advertising during the holiday season....

There’s a great deal to gawk at in Serena Williams’ house, from the perfectly shined wood floors to furniture made of Elmo dolls. But there’s one item that feels out of p...

Blizzard has two huge sequels in the works, but it looks like neither will launch this year. During its most recent earnings call, Activision Blizzard revealed that it doesn’...

When GameStop’s stock price fell by over 50 percent on Tuesday, closing at $90, we weren’t sure if it was going to pick back up or keep going down. It seems we now have our...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) has filed an unfair labor charge against Adecco, a subcontracting firm that provides data cente...

Niagara Launcher puts your apps within easy striking distance of your thumb. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge After a couple years of beta testing, Niagara Launch...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap says its TikTok competitor, Spotlight, had 100 million users in January 2021, just two months after it launched. The figure...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is considering developing an Android alternative to Apple’s upcoming App Tracking Transparency, a new planned opt-in re...

Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images Voting tech company Smartmatic has sued Fox News, former Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, and TV host...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Home DNA-testing company 23andMe will go public via special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) backed by Virgin Group founde...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has apparently blocked The Great Suspender extension from Chrome, with existing users now receiving a message that it has...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram has disabled hundreds of accounts that were stolen as part of online hacking operations designed to gain access to and...

Many companies have had to scale back car production due to a global computer chip shortage, but CNBC is reporting that the shortages are finally hitting America’s most popul...

A Lightning to USB-A cable. | Image: Apple Apple’s charging cables aren’t exactly known for their durability. They often fray after a year or two and can even break...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Two Google engineers have quit over the treatment of Timnit Gebru, former co-lead of the ethical AI team. David Baker, an engine...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you have been having a hard time finding PS5 or Xbox Series X / S consoles in stock, you have another chance to get your hands on o...

Image: Alex Castro / The Verge In an open letter on Thursday, dozens of Democrats called on Federal Communications Commission Acting Chair Jessica Rosenworcel to expand...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon recently told workers at its in DCH1 warehouse in Chicago they had to take 10-hour overnight shifts at a new warehouse or...

Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos speaks to the media on the companys sustainability efforts on September 19, 2019 in Washington,DC. | Photo credit should read ERIC BARADAT/AFP...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Data from multiple COVID-19 vaccines makes it clear that the shots protect against the most severe outcomes of the disease: hosp...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is adding heart and respiratory rate monitors to the Fit app on Pixel phones this month, and it plans to add them to ...

Not long ago, Logitech’s Brio webcam (along with almost any other kind of webcam made by reputable companies) was impossible to find. We’re now at the point where you can g...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Rad Power Bikes just announced a $150 million investment to expand its retail footprint and improve its maintenance and repa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s no secret Apple is hard at work on augmented and virtual reality devices, with a report from Bloomberg in January claimin...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Clearview AI’s facial recognition amounts to mass surveillance and the company should delete the faces of Canadians from its d...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Will people saddle up for the ride? Continue reading… ...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge A college student Googled his remote instructor and found an obituary Continue reading… ...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Myanmar’s government has blocked access to Facebook in the country, after users turned to the company’s services to protest ...

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A $139.95 wireless charger that looks like a cross between a bonsai tree and the decor from 2001: A Space Odyssey might seem like a niche product. But if you have an iPhone 12 ...

The third-generation Apple TV was first released in 2012. | Image: Apple Starting next month, YouTube will no longer be natively available to stream on the third-gener...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s incoming CEO, Andy Jassy, says he’s committed to Amazon’s video game development efforts, in response to a damnin...

The Beosound Level is available with wood or fabric finishes. | Image: Bang & Olufsen Bang & Olufsen’s Beosound Level is the Danish brand’s latest battery-p...

Not the familiar dark blue. The feeling of opening Twitter and noticing that something’s off probably isn’t a new one, but it usually isn’t related to the site’...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon added a few abilities to Alexa last month, introducing a variety of Super Bowl-related skills and the ability to do home automat...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge The quality of Tesla’s cars suffers any time the company dramatically scales up production, CEO Elon Musk admitted in a February 2n...

Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images After his social media platform was largely wiped off the web, Parler CEO and co-founder John Matze says he has been fir...

Photo by Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Amazon plans to install high-tech video cameras in its delivery vehicles in order to better monitor the...

Today, the fan site Universal Parks News Today dropped a slew of videos from inside Japan’s Super Nintendo World that show what the whole experience of going to the park is l...

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...

If you live in one of the twelve states where Comcast is planning to roll out 1.2TB data caps, we have some moderately good news: you won’t have to start monitoring your bill...

A blue whale’s tail above the water. | Photo by Jeff Gritchen / Digital First Media / Orange County Register via Getty Images An eye-catching animation ricocheted acr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram might try to emulate another element of TikTok’s design with a new vertical feed for Stories, TechCrunch reports. Na...

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into whether misinformation posted on social media was used to boost the stocks of...

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Swiss watchmaker H. Moser has returned with another cheeky spin on the iconic Apple Watch design with the Swiss Alp Watch Final Upgrade. It’s a $30,800 Vantablack-infused cre...

Image: The Verge A number of Apple’s cloud services are currently dealing with disruptions and partial outages, according to the company’s system dashboard. Photos,...

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Image: Tik Tok TikTok has come to Google’s Android TV platform, marking the short video app’s latest expansion to big screens, according to 9to5Google. Though the a...

Credit: Jeff Bezos / Twitter Jeff Bezos’ departure from the day-to-day responsibilities of running Amazon will be the first time the founder hasn’t driven the compa...

Image: Sony Players who have jumped into Sony’s new car-smashing PS5 game Destruction AllStars may have run into a rather obnoxious issue: voice chat in the game’s ...

Andy Jassy speaking at the 2019 CERAWeek Conference | Photo: Getty Images The exec helped Amazon soar in the cloud, and now he’ll determine the company’s future...

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The newly refreshed Android TV home screen | Image: Google Google is rolling out a new update for Android TV that gives its smart TV OS a fresh new look — one that’...

The Pinnacle Station, a training facility added to the first Mass Effect, won’t appear in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition alongside over 40 other pieces of downloadable conten...

Photo by Jack Guez / AFP via Getty Images Facebook has designated Myanmar a “temporary high-risk location” after a coup earlier this week, saying it will remove “...

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Amazon’s new electric delivery vans will hit the road in more than a dozen cities starting this year, the company announced Wednesday. The vans, which are being designed and ...

We already knew Sony’s beloved sports exclusive MLB The Show would release on “additional consoles” as early as 2021. Today, Sony announced that MLB The Show 21 will rele...

Tracy* kept it together when her mom died in mid-March in New York. She kept it together when she came back from the funeral on an Amtrak rather than an airplane because th...

You have another chance today to pick up Vizio’s 55-inch OLED TV at a discount. Normally $1,300 for this size, it’s down to $1,000 at Best Buy. The best price from late 202...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Robinhood is running its first Super Bowl ad, just as the company faces a growing brand crisis. CNBC reports that the commercial...

Microsoft is updating its OneDrive app for Android this week with a new home screen, Samsung Motion Photos support, and the ability to play 8K videos. The new home screen inclu...

Photo by Phillip Faraone / Getty Images for Revolt Four months after ending his exclusive Spotify deal, Joe Budden is bringing his podcast to Patreon and has been made ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok will start displaying warnings on videos that contain questionable information that couldn’t be verified by fact-checke...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify now boasts 155 million premium subscribers and 345 million monthly active users, according to its latest earnings report...

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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony shipped 4.5 million PlayStation 5 units worldwide in 2020, as revealed by information published alongside the company’s latest ...

Huawei will announce a new flagship foldable phone later this month, according to a Weibo post on the company’s official page. Based on the name, the Mate X2 sounds like it s...

Image: Silk EV A new engineering and design startup called Silk EV headquartered in Italy’s venerable Motor Valley is more than just another attempt at making an elec...

Image: CD Projekt Red CD Projekt Red has warned players that installing Cyberpunk 2077 mods or custom save files on the PC could pose a security risk (via Kotaku). Acco...

It hasn’t been a good day for WallStreetBets, as GameStop’s stock has plummeted today. AMC, the community’s other bet, dropped as well. But unlike previous dips, the stoc...

Photo by Alexander Kramer for The Verge aApple just yesterday released its latest update for macOS Big Sur with improved Bluetooth reliability and a handful of bug fixe...

SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype launched on Tuesday, soaring miles above its South Texas facilities in a successful flight demonstration before exploding during the landin...

Apple’s rocky rollout of iCloud password sync on Windows has hit another bump: you can no longer download the version of the app that allowed syncing passwords from your Appl...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is disabling the ability to share (and reshare) posts from your feed to stories as part of a test to see how it change...

A user browses TikTok in Tehatta, India. | Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images More than seven months after India issued a countrywide ban on TikTok, the...

It can be difficult to figure out how you’re coming across in a videoconference, especially if you want to make sure everything works before you start the meeting. How is you...

Apex Legends is coming to the Nintendo Switch very soon. Today, EA announced that the portable version of its sci-fi battle royale will debut on Nintendo’s tablet on March 9t...

It was September 2018, while Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was testifying before Congress for the first time, when sitting lawmakers had their first confrontation with the wild natur...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon founder and soon-to-be-former CEO Jeff Bezos is stepping down from his role, making way for Amazon Web Services CEO Andy ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple and Samsung have been quietly contributing to a new technology to find and seamlessly unlock your car with your phone, wi...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google parent company Alphabet weathered the tail end of 2020 to post better-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter of the ...

Wikipedia has introduced a Universal Code of Conduct that looks to create a global standard for the site and ensure a “diverse, inclusive, and accessible” community of cont...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO and transition to a new position at the company as executive chair of the Amazon boa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge HarmonyOS is Huawei’s alternative operating system that was created after the company was banned in the US and lost its Androi...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Oculus has detailed what’s coming in its v25 software update for Quest and Quest 2 headsets. The most notable change for b...

The unusual LG Wing is one of only a few devices approved to use C-band 5G so far. | Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge LG Wing and Pixel 5 owners have something to ...

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The McPlant burger. | Image: McDonald’s McDonald’s new plant-based burger, which the company announced in November, has debuted for a trial run in Denmark and Swede...

NCAA Football 14 After being missing in action for years, Electronic Arts announced today that it will be making college football video games again. EA is working with ...

Image: Amazon Amazon is no stranger to Super Bowl ads, and the company has another one ready for this year’s big game. The 2021 ad stars actor Michael B. Jordan, who ...

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Instagram Instagram is making it easier to bring back deleted posts. The company is rolling out a “recently deleted” feature in the app that’ll allow you to revie...

Millions is a new startup with a big promise: simply pick six numbers on its website, follow the @Millions Twitter account, and you could win $1 million. It’s not some kind o...

When the enhanced remake of the Mass Effect trilogy arrives, it won’t include multiplayer. According to longtime Mass Effect developer Mac Walters, the team would have had to...

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Mass Effect: Legendary Edition will stick to a faithful retelling of the game’s story and already-made DLC, with no new narrative elements on the way. Speaking about the enha...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon will pay $61.7 million to Flex drivers to settle allegations of stolen tips, after an extensive investigation by the US F...

The Helix proposal at Amazon’s Arlington, Virginia campus. | Image: Amazon Amazon has unveiled the design for the next portion of its Arlington, Virginia headquarters...

Uber announced today that it’s buying alcohol delivery service Drizly in a deal worth $1.1 billion, as the ride-sharing company continues to build out its stable of food and ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Black Friday 2020 saw many great deals, especially on Eero’s products. If you are looking to improve your Wi-Fi situation at home, Am...

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Disney’s latest bundle combining Disney Plus, ad-free Hulu, and ESPN Plus for $18.99 per month is now available. This package was first announced in December 2020, and it act...

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Mushrooms are helping architects and engineers solve one the world’s biggest crises: climate change. These fungi are durable, biodegradable, and are proving to be a good alte...

The Pink Cloud. | Photo: Sundance Institute. Like most recent events, the 2021 edition of the Sundance Film Festival has shifted from an in-person showcase to a virtual...

Logitech Logitech sold enough keyboards, mice, and PC webcams during the pandemic that it can afford its first-ever Super Bowl commercial. The 60-second spot, titled �...

Photo by Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The famed animation studio returns with its first 3D CG movie, Earwig and the Witch Continue rea...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Cheaters in Call of Duty: Warzone are ruining the game and forcing professional players to abandon it. Game hacks and cheat soft...

Image by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is planning a series of news events over the coming months that will focus on categories like gaming, cloud, and Windows. The...

Art: Alex Castro / The Verge Gaming was already popular when the pandemic hit in early 2020; with a large number of people stuck at home, it has become close to a natio...

Boston Dynamics will sell an arm to allow the robot to interact with objects in its environment. | Image; Boston Dynamics There’s also new browser based controls ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge TF Securities analyst Ming-chi Kuo has corroborated reports that Apple and Hyundai are working together on an electric car. ...

Remedy’s supernatural thriller Control was one of the best games on the previous generation of consoles, but it’s also one that clearly struggled on the hardware. In 2019, ...

Lady Dimitrescu. | Image: Sony If you’ve been following recent news about Resident Evil Village, the next game in the hit horror video game franchise, you may have he...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hey, did you hear Elon Musk went on Clubhouse? The media and venture capital worlds were abuzz this weekend in advance of, durin...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge After fourteen months, Google has decided it doesn’t want to be a game company anymore. Where once it had its own cloud-ba...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has agreed to pay $2.5 million to more than 5,500 employees and job applicants impacted by alleged systematic pay and hir...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It looks like we’ll be spoiled for choice when it comes to movies about the WallStreetBets / GameStop saga: Deadline is report...

Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge Investment app Robinhood has plummeted back down to a one-star rating on Google Play, thanks to a flood of thousands of new neg...

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Stock trading app Robinhood is facing dozens of lawsuits after the company restricted several stocks popular on the r/WallStreetBets...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is planning to send its first “all-civilian” crew to space at the end of 2021 in a charity-focused mission commanded by tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacma...

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images A new report finds that claims of anti-conservative bias on social media platforms are not only untrue but serve as a ...

Image: Guy Dupont Classic iPods have their fans, but they’re not built for the modern age of music streaming — except for this one, which has been turned into a Spo...

Photo by Matt Kennedy / Marvel Studios Writer-director Ryan Coogler is making a new Marvel TV show for Disney Plus that will be set in the Kingdom of Wakanda as part of...

Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) issued a joint statement Monday saying they would work together to advance comprehensive cannabis reform le...

The upcoming patch will allow the game to run at 60fps on PS5. | Image: Sony Sony’s reboot of God of War, one of the most popular first-party exclusives released on P...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is shutting down its internal Stadia game development division, the company announced today, as it refocuses Stadia t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s latest watchOS 7 and iOS 14 beta releases indicate a new casting feature for Apple Fitness Plus subscribers is on the ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is releasing its iOS 14.5 update to beta testers today, and one of the welcome changes is support for the new PS5 DualSense and ...

Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s latest iPhones stuck with Face ID as the singular method of biometric authentication in an era when people are wearing face masks ev...

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Google is updating its search results with a major new feature: an “about this result” menu that will let you pull up information from Wikipedia about a website in your sea...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Demand for Microsoft’s latest Xbox Series X console is high, but supply isn’t likely to keep up until at least through June now. In ...

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Cryptozoo. | Photo: Sundance Institute. Like most recent events, the 2021 edition of the Sundance Film Festival has shifted from an in-person showcase to a virtual one....

Image: Samsung Samsung has dropped the price of its folding flip phone, the Galaxy Z Flip 5G, by $250. It’s now $1,199.99, which, on its face, looks like a fairly big...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook will begin showing a prompt on its mobile app for the iPhone and iPad that’s designed to convince users to allow ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Ford is the latest automaker to turn its vehicle operating systems over to Google. The Dearborn, Michigan-based company said it will ...

Prisoners of the Ghostland. | Photo. Sundance Institute. Like most recent events, the 2021 edition of the Sundance Film Festival has shifted from an in-person showcase ...

Image: Nike Nike is pushing the envelope of shoe technology further with today’s announcement of the Go FlyEase, a contact-less $120 shoe for both athletic and everyd...

Photo by Doug Mills-Pool / Getty Images Just a few years ago, it would have been unthinkable for a major political party to call for decriminalizing marijuana — but i...

We already knew Sony’s beloved sports exclusive MLB The Show would release on “additional consoles” as early as 2021. Today, Sony announced that MLB The Show 21 will rele...

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 ...

Sundance Institute Like most recent events, the 2021 edition of the Sundance Film Festival has shifted from an in-person showcase to a virtual one. Despite the change, ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s AirPods Pro are, once again, selling for $190 through Woot. These truly wireless earbuds with noise cancellation originally c...

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...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge 23 great gift ideas for your significant other Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If your PlayStation Plus membership is about to expire or you want to extend the subscription for another two years, Eneba is offering...

Users are reporting seeing Froggy as a screensaver option on their smart displays. | Screenshot: Jay Boromeusz / YouTube Google is testing a new background for Assistan...

The new interface shows tabs in a grid layout, and includes the option to group them. | Screenshot: Chrome Chrome’s Android app is being updated with a new interface ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nintendo has posted earnings for a huge holiday quarter in which the Switch sold more consoles than ever. 11.57 million cons...

Apple has released an official extension for the Windows and Mac versions of Chrome that lets you use passwords stored in your iCloud Keychain. For anyone who uses Chrome as th...

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Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images NASA last week quietly delayed its plan to award two high-profile crewed lunar lander contracts, moving the finish...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge All but two US states — Montana and Wyoming— now have police or fire departments participating in Amazon’s Ring network, which le...

Screenshot: Lego The quest to get one of the most popular toymakers in the world to make a little space for bicycles Continue reading… ...

The Ace offers a large screen and massive battery, but it falls short in some key areas Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On November 10th, a Facebook employee sent out an unusual email to an unknown outside party, hoping to arrange a conversation ab...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Valve’s latest Steam Game Festival begins Wednesday, giving access to playable demos of more than 500 upcoming games from indi...

Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images The first two months of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign have been chaotic: local health departments and hospitals are strug...