Articles by The Verge from May 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook-owned Instagram has made changes to its algorithm after a group of its employees reportedly complained that pro-Palesti...

Go Vilnius Weary of pandemic travel restrictions and aching to get out and see new people? The city of Vilnius, Lithuania has interesting solution: A real-time “porta...

Chris Pratt in The Tomorrow War | Amazon Prime Video So tonight is the finale for Mare of Easttown and there are so many threads that need to be tied up that I legitima...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla is building a factory in Texas to make some of its cars, but when it’s up and running, the cars made there may have to g...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Unredacted documents in Arizona’s lawsuit against Google show that company executives and engineers were aware that the search...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19th, the 3,063rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. The image is made up of 21 indiv...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge US soldiers stationed in Europe may have accidentally exposed information about the United States’ nuclear weapons stockpile w...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Fitbit may soon add snoring and noise detection to its devices, a move that will likely please the spouses and partners of t...

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Our COVID-19 vaccines have passed their first tests with flying colors. They work unbelievably well, and they’re helping to slow th...

If you have an iPhone, you owe it to yourself to get accessories that allow for fast charging. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Memorial Day is Monday, May 31st, bu...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that deliveries of the automaker’s Model S Plaid would be delayed until June 10th because the car needs “one more week of tweak.” �...

Image: Venmo Venmo has added new privacy controls for friend lists following a jaw-dropping incident where BuzzFeed News was able to track down President Joe Biden’s ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is delaying the launch of its upcoming Podcasts subscriptions until June, the company announced in an email sent to creato...

Photo by: Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images You have reached a significant moment, perhaps not in history, or even in the grand scheme of your life’s lo...

Illustration by Alex Castro Twitter could be adding some new emojis to augment its formerly star-shaped, currently heart-shaped Like button, according to app researcher...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Earlier this month, Facebook-owned WhatsApp said that users would lose functionality over time if they didn’t accept its new p...

Image: West Midlands Police Police in the United Kingdom raided an industrial unit outside Birmingham under suspicion it was housing an indoor marijuana growing operati...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter relaunched its verification program last week, allowing anyone to apply for a blue check mark, but the company is pausin...

Photo by Nhat V. Meyer/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images The lawyers of Elizabeth Holmes, ex-CEO of disgraced blood testing startup Theranos, have 112 q...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The Verge is deeply invested in doing service journalism; we report on companies’ misdeeds, we review expensive products to t...

In this photo illustration, screens display the old and new logos of MGM Studios. | Photo by Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Amazon just dumped an $8 bi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch has received a “batch” of new takedown notices from music publishers over copyrighted songs in recorded streams (know...

Our favorite smartwatch, the Apple Watch Series 6, is $70 off at multiple retailers this weekend. | Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Memorial Day weekend has officially arrived...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge New patent applications submitted by Tesla in 2020 but published Thursday have revealed a bit more information about the Cybertruck, ...

Uniqua, Pablo, Tasha, Tyrone, and Austin, The Backyardigans | Amazon When you are a parent, you quickly learn that your kids will inevitably get into shows or videos or...

NASA/JPL NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its sixth flight test on Mars earlier than planned last week after bugging out mid-flight, the rotorcraft’s chief pilot w...

Burlington, Vermont, Church Street downtown with restaurants and tourists | Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Burlington, Vermont h...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s AirPods Pro cleverly solve one of the trickiest parts of earbud design with a unique button — even if it’s not technical...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As the COVID-19 pandemic scales down in the United States, debates around the origins of the virus — and speculations that it ...

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The Base Station Pro can recharge up to three devices simultaneously. | Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Memorial Day is Monday, May 31st, but many of the best dea...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has raised the alarm over a “sophisticated” ongoing cyberattack believed to be from the same Russia-linked hackers...

The current AirPods Pro from 2019. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s second-generation AirPods Pro will launch next year, following the release of...

A built in Micro HDMI port lets the tablet work as an external monitor. | Image: Lenovo Lenovo’s Yoga Pad Pro is a new 13-inch Android tablet that can easily double ...

Here’s something you don’t see every day: a brand-new Sony product launching first on Indiegogo. Motion Sonic is, in the words of Sony’s campaign, “effects gear to cont...

Photo by Amy Sussman/FilmMagic Merle Dandridge, an actor who’s had a long career in television and theater, will be reprising her role of Marlene in HBO’s The Last ...

In 2018, we marveled over the Spyra One, an attempt to crowdfund a modern Super Soaker that could blast veritable bolts of water; refill itself from a pool; and maintain a digi...

Tesla is starting to use the camera above the rear-view mirror in the Model 3 and Model Y to help make sure people pay attention to the road while using Autopilot, the company�...

Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage Marvel has confirmed that Oscar Isaac will star in the Disney Plus Moon Knight series, bringing the Star Wars star to another highly lucr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Four women who used to work for Google have won class-action status for their gender equity lawsuit against the search engine co...

US wireless carriers plan to shutter their old 3G networks next year. Major US wireless carriers are gearing up to shut down their old 3G networks — a process that ha...

You don’t need a PS5 for this trick. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The DualSense controller for PS5 has great haptic feedback for games like Returnal and Demon�...

Image: Sony Sony showed off 14 minutes of Horizon Forbidden West gameplay on a PS5 in a new State of Play presentation on Thursday. In the footage, protagonist Aloy fou...

Photo by Janie Osborne/Getty Images A company looking to build a massive solar project in Butte, Montana claims it would provide 300MW of renewable power and cost $250 ...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Two tech industry organizations have sued Florida over its newly passed rules for social networks. NetChoice and the CCIA — which rep...

After three years of production, Ian Hubert, king of the one-minute Blender tutorial, has uploaded the first episode of his sci-fi series, Dynamo Dream. And it’s been worth t...

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Acer just announced a new iteration of its Chromebook Spin 713 2-in-1 laptop, and we’ve already reviewed it. Perhaps by coincidence (...

Instacart In the crowded food- and grocery-delivery space, Instacart is hoping that shaving off a few minutes makes all the difference. To that end, it’s creating a n...

You played us all, Charlie | Image: HDCYT on YouTube It’s hard to describe the absolute chaos around NFTs (non-fungible tokens) right now; tech reporters’ inboxes a...

What appears to be an official photo of the Sony WF-1000XM4s. | Image: WinFuture We heard earlier this month that Sony may be planning to launch its next noise-cancelin...

Image: Kellog’s Kellogg’s — legal guardian of such cereal mascots as Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam — has partnered with DoorDash-owned Chowbotics to launch a ne...

A truck drives down the street during a power outage in McKinney, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Blackouts left almost 5 million customers without electricity that day...

Image: Innersloth Among Us, the multiplayer game that soared in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, is the latest free title on the Epic Games Store. If you have a...

Sonic Colors Ultimate. One of the most beloved Sonic the Hedgehog games is making a return. Sega announced today that a remaster of Sonic Colors — called Sonic Colors...

The Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite. | Image: Samsung Samsung has officially announced two long-rumored tablets: the Galaxy Tab S7 FE and the Galaxy Tab A7 Lite. The company...

Hot Vax Summer is fast approaching: vaccination rates are rising, and many people are ready to get out there and party hard — except Airbnb. It’s extending its global party...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon’s Prime Day for 2021 may happen on June 21st and 22nd, according to Bloomberg. Last year’s Prime member-exclusive shopping h...

It’s been just over three weeks since the Epic v. Apple proceedings kicked off, and the news has been relentless. So as we wait for a verdict to roll in, we’re taking a qui...

The newest Chromebook Spin 713 is just as good as last year’s model Continue reading… ...

The Acer Predator Triton 500 SE. | Image: Acer We asked CEO Jason Chen about the company’s path to innovation Continue reading… ...

It doesn’t actually look this polished, but this is the general idea. | Image: Acer Acer has announced SpatialLabs, a new 3D technology that will debut on the company...

Take it in. There’s a new Acer Predator in town: the 16-inch Predator Triton 500 SE. It has a new subtle design with a touch of RGB as well as the latest chips from I...

Borderlands 3 is set to get crossplay support soon, but not on Sony’s PlayStation consoles. Gearbox, the developer of Borderlands 3, has revealed it was ready to enable “fu...

Image: Bird Bird is out with a new electric scooter that’s designed to be the Santa Monica, California-based company’s most durable and sustainable vehicle yet. Th...

Art for the 2021 Pokémon Go Fest. | Image: Niantic Pokémon Go Fest is just a few weeks away, and this year, the annual event is also going to be a music festival, dev...

Splatoon 2. Nintendo is expanding its esports efforts by moving into high schools. The company has announced a new partnership with PlayVS, which will see games like Su...

Apps are put into five categories, each represented by a color in the live wallpaper. | Image: OnePlus OnePlus’ new Digital WellPaper app turns your app usage into on...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In April 2019, amid growing questions about the effects of social networks on mental health, Instagram announced it would test a...

Photo by Michal Fludra/NurPhoto via Getty Images Lime is rolling out a new monthly subscription service for its electric scooters that’s called — no joke — Lime P...

Privacy International (PI) and several other European privacy and digital rights organizations announced today that they’ve filed legal complaints against the controversial f...

The Save to Photos option. | Image: Google Google is adding a new “Save to Photos” button to Gmail which you can press to automatically save an emailed image to Goo...

Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge Nintendo could release its heavily rumored new version of the Switch in September or October, according to a report by Bloomber...

Square Enix has announced the latest mainline entry in the Dragon Quest series. Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate was revealed on a livestream to celebrate the series’ 35t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook won’t remove claims that COVID-19 was man-made anymore, according to a report from Politico that cites a Facebook spo...

LeBron James wearing what appear to be Beats Studio Buds. | Image: LeBron James on Instagram Earlier this month, an unannounced pair of Beats wireless earbuds, apparent...

Twitter Spaces on the web. | Image: Twitter You’ll be able to join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces from desktop and mobile web browsers starting Wednesday, the comp...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge In February, Sony revealed it was selling the PlayStation 5 at a loss — but that’s imminently about to change. The PS5 should hit ...

Photo illustration by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images Uber has finally recognized a union of its own drivers. Allow yourself that single moment of elation before we get to...

Image: Sandisk Western Digital, owner of the SanDisk brand, has announced a new product called the Pro-Dock 4, and it’s all I’ve ever wanted in a card reading solut...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Clubhouse has hired Justin Uberti, creator of the WebRTC standard and the Google Duo video chat app. He leaves Google after near...

Members of the environmental group MilieuDefensie celebrate the verdict of the Dutch environmental organisation’s case against Royal Dutch Shell Plc, outside the Palace of Ju...

Elon Musk’s Boring Company started shuttling passengers through the twin tunnels it built underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) this week, as part of a test to ge...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Iran is temporarily banning cryptocurrency mining after some of the country’s major cities experienced repeated blackouts. Preside...

Photo By Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images On Tuesday, Amazon announced that it had reached a deal to purchase the film and TV goliath MGM for $8.45 billion — and leadin...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple, a company notorious for making its products difficult to repair, has given us a real head-scratcher of a repair situation with i...

Image: Google After first proposing it in 2017, Google has received unanimous approval from the San Jose City Council to move forward with its Downtown West development...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s big E3 event to showcase upcoming Xbox and Bethesda games will kick off on Sunday, June 13th at 1PM ET. It will be...

The Wiko Ride 3 offers a 6.09-inch display and Android 11 out of the box. | Image: Wiko Mobile With T-Mobile’s older CDMA network shutdown looming and no sign of a de...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In Facebook’s protracted efforts to be remembered as something other than the largest misinformation megaphone in history, it�...

A new chip and some futureproofing, but no huge changes Continue reading… ...

Andy Jassy will officially become the CEO of Amazon on July 5th, the company announced at a shareholder meeting on Wednesday. The company picked that date because it marks 27 y...

A screenshot from Diablo IV. | Image: Blizzard BlizzCon, Blizzard’s annual fan convention, has been canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, like it was last ...

If you use 1Password in your browser, it’s getting a big upgrade: support for biometrics — like Touch ID or Windows Hello (and even some Linux biometrics systems) — dark ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge The future of search is a conversation — at least, according to Google. It’s a pitch the company has been making for years, and it...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Nvidia is teasing a GeForce event for May 31st, the same day the company is rumored to be launching its new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics...

Mark Wahlberg in the Uncharted movie. | Image: Sony After more than a decade in development and several directors, release dates, and scripts, the Uncharted movie incre...

Autonomous flight startup Merlin Labs is coming out of stealth mode to announce that it’s raised $25 million in funding from Google Ventures and First Round Capital. The comp...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has made a deal for access to patient records from HCA, which which operates 181 hospitals and more than 2,000 healthcare...

Image: Ford Ford will spend $30 billion on electric vehicles by 2025, and says 40 percent of its global fleet will be all-electric by 2030. The company is working on an...

A company illustration shows astronauts staring at a fleet of conceptual lunar rovers. | Image: Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin and General Motors unveiled plans on Wed...

Activists outside demanding a vote to pass ‘The Green New Deal’ in Washington, D.C. March 26, 2019. | Photo by Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images Nearly two-...

Photo: Netflix Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth is a comic book about a young boy surviving in a world ravaged by a pandemic. He also happens to be a “hybrid,” a new bre...

Photo by Richard Bord/Getty Images Airbnb doesn’t want you to forget about Airbnb, especially when you’re planning post-pandemic vacations. So on Monday, the compan...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Waze has a new CEO: Neha Parikh, the president of Hotwire and a board member of Carvana. Parikh replaces Noam Bardin, who st...

Possibly the most ambitious Pokémon game to date will be available early next year. Today Nintendo announced that Pokémon Legends: Arceus will be launching on the Nintendo Sw...

Walk walk fashion baby | Disney It will delight you even as you question its need to exist Continue reading… ...

You can now hide like counts on Instagram and Facebook. After years of testing on both platforms, Facebook and Instagram have settled on an opt-in experience for hiding like co...

Image: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Amazon has reached a deal to acquire the film and TV company MGM for $8.45 billion, the companies announced today. It’s a significant acqui...

The S2721DGF boasts everything you need in a gaming monitor, including a 165Hz refresh rate and HDR. | Image: Dell Dell’s Summer Sale Event is officially underway, an...

A selection of app reviews detailing the scammy behavior. | Image: Kosta Eleftheriou / App Store App developer and scam app hunter Kosta Eleftheriou’s latest discover...

China is a key market for Tesla. | Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images Tesla says it’s established a data center in China to store and process information produ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is now claiming the performance crown in the desktop browser battle. The software maker has been gradually adding new ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp is suing India’s government over new internet rules it claims are unconstitutional a...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge In 2019, Sony quietly established a subsidiary dedicated to researching artificial intelligence. What exactly the company plans to do ...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge The US has formally removed Xiaomi from its trading blacklist. The US District Court for the District of Columbia issued a final order y...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amnesty International is teaming up with 38 other human rights groups and individuals to call for a halt to Google’s plans to ...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Soon, the majority of portable PCs won’t need to be equipped with an ugly barrel jack and a proprietary power brick to charge. The USB...

Image: Eero Owners of Amazon’s Eero 6 and Pro 6 routers will now be able to isolate their HomeKit IoT devices from the rest of their home network and the wider intern...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More than 500 Amazon employees have signed an internal letter to Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy calling for the company to acknowledg...

Google finally has its first all-electric vehicle for capturing Street View. The tech giant and Jaguar Land Rover announced today that they have collaborated to rig up an all-e...

Philo’s streaming service on various devices. | Image: Philo Philo has become the latest live TV option for cord-cutters hoping to skirt cable contracts to ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Hello again, it has come to my attention that Republican Senator Ted Cruz and I are in perfect alignment on one issue: if you enter yo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hundreds of Amazon tech workers are pressuring Amazon to quit polluting — especially in communities near its warehouses. More...

Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images The hack of the Colonial Pipeline — which kneecapped oil availability on the East Coast for almost two weeks — was...

Turntable.fm, the social platform that lets people collaboratively build and perform DJ sets, has raised $7.5 million in venture capital funding, according to a Medium post by ...

For the last year, FlyQuest has been on a mission. Though the team competes in the League of Legends Championship Series, it has steadily become as known for its socially consc...

Image: iFixit iFixit has published a detailed teardown of Apple’s newly redesigned M1 processor-equipped iMac, and it contains bad news about how easy the new all-in-...

Image: Tesla Tesla has stopped building forward-facing radar sensors into its Model 3 sedans and Model Y SUVs in North America, after CEO Elon Musk publicly expressed a...

An early version of the Steam Controller. Nearly a decade after introducing an ill-fated line of Linux gaming PCs dubbed “Steam Machines,” PC gaming giant Valve is ...

The HMD Nokia G10 offers big battery life and two years of Android OS platform updates. | Image: HMD HMD’s Nokia G10 is coming to the US with a big battery, a low $14...

Drawn by Vicki Behringer Eight of the artist’s favorite sketches from the three-week court proceeding Continue reading… ...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Employees say the recent leaks might have changed the tech giant forever Continue reading… ...

A screenshot from Knockout City. | Image: EA Knockout City took me back to childhood games of dodgeball with a single sound: “whumphf!” That one noise, which you’...

Image: Lordstown Motors Electric vehicle startups have raised an absurd amount of money in the last year by merging with special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs...

Wind turbines, of the Block Island Wind Farm, tower above the water on October 14, 2016 off the shores of Block Island, Rhode Island. The first offshore wind project in the US ...

Image: Focus Features Being a young person in the city is hard enough without being haunted by a cabaret singer from the 1960s, but that’s exactly what Thomasin McKen...

Image: Asus Asus’ ROG Phone 5 is now available in the US from its official store, with a price tag of $999.99. It’s Asus’ latest maxed-out gaming phone, with all ...

Microsoft isn’t talking about its big Windows plans at Build 2021 this week, and that’s because the company is preparing to detail what’s next for its PC operating system...

David Hall, the founder of leading lidar manufacturer Velodyne, is going to war with the SPAC that acquired his company. In a letter, Hall is calling for the resignation of two...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Tuesday, DC Attorney General Karl Racine sued Amazon on antitrust grounds, accusing the e-commerce giant of suppressing compe...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Sonos is refreshing its One SL speaker, which doesn’t have always-on microphones or integrated voice controls, to make it more power ...

Image: Tidal Music streaming service Tidal is now available on the Apple Watch, allowing subscribers to stream music directly to Apple’s wearable or download it for o...

Compared to competitors like YouTube TV and Hulu, Sling TV has never had the flashiest app, and the overall user experience leaves something to be desired. It’s been easy eno...

Image: Panasonic Panasonic has announced not one but two follow-up cameras to the Lumix GH5, a camera that’s been popular with videographers since it launched in 2017...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft first let developers build third-party apps into Teams last year, but the company is going a step further at Build 2021 today. In a push to g...

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule is seen docked to the International Space Station on May 5th, 2021, shortly before returning four astronauts back to Earth. | Image: NASA / Johns...

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - JULY 19: Swimmers cool off at 31st Street Beach as temperatures climb into the 90’s with a heat index expected to reach as high as 115 degrees on July 19,...

In September 2020, Microsoft purchased an exclusive license to the underlying technology behind GPT-3, an AI language tool built by OpenAI. Now, the Redmond, Washington-based t...

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne has a lot in common with the rest of the cult roleplaying series — namely a focus on everything demonic and post-apocalyptic. And despite a p...

Flexibits — best known for its popular calendar application, Fantastical — has a new, overhauled version of its contact management application Cardhop out today, which upda...

Photo by Erin Schaff for The Verge Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is calling on the Treasury Department to fund broadband projects in communities without access to 100Mbps uploa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok has changed the voice on its text-to-speech feature, just weeks after an actor claiming to be the original voice filed a ...

A vial of the Mo | Photo by Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is effective in 12- to 17-year-olds, the company announced...

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of many first-party Nintendo games on sale right now at GameStop. If you’re a Nintendo Switch owner, you’re probably ...

Public Public, the trading and social networking app, is the next app to get into live audio. Like many apps before it, the company says it’s planning to roll out liv...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Arm has introduced its latest CPU and GPU designs, including its flagship Cortex-X2 and Cortex-A710 CPUs and Mali-G710 GPU. The ...

The Arctis Prime headset alongside the Prime Wireless mouse. SteelSeries has announced the new Prime lineup of high-performance gaming accessories designed alongside es...

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Flex CEO Revathi Advaithi on the complicated politics of manufacturing Continue reading… ...

Microsoft has teamed up with Qualcomm to create a Windows on ARM-based dev kit for developers. The miniature PC will be sold at the Microsoft Store this summer, and is designed...

A screenshot from Samsung’s 2017 trailer. | Image: Samsung In a new blog post, iFixit heavily criticizes Samsung’s recently announced Galaxy Upcycling program (via ...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft Build, the company’s annual developer conference, is kicking off today, May 25th. Just like last year, the conference is happening in an on...

People like to argue that technology is value neutral; that it’s neither inherently good nor inherently bad, but can simply be put to different uses. As a rebuttal, I’d lik...

The Google Nest Hub. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google’s long-awaited Fuchsia OS is starting to quietly roll out on its first consumer device, the first-gener...

Xinhua/Cao Yang via Getty Images Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei has reportedly urged the Chinese tech giant’s staff to turn the company into a major software for...

“It’s been a long time. How have you been?” J.J. Abrams has said that a movie based on Valve’s Portal is still in the works, and that a script is finally being ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix has dipped a toe in gaming on occasion, with perhaps the hugely-successful “choose your own adventure”-style film Bl...

Google has added a way to put a password on your Web and Activity page, which shows all your activity from across Google services, including your searches, YouTube watch histor...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sure, “hot-tubbing” sounds fun, but in a court context, it’s just a judge encouraging lawyers to argue — which is how Ep...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor tweeted Monday that after a weekend meeting with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and “leading Bitcoin min...

Photo Illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is a man who says what’s on his mind, even if it’ll ruffle a few feathers. And apparently the fi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A security unit within the US Commerce Department monitored Americans’ Twitter accounts for posts critical of the US Census an...

Each model in Sony’s X950H series is known for its impressive color accuracy and wide viewing angles. | Image: Sony If you’re looking for a behemoth 4K TV with impr...

Image: Samsung The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE (Fan Edition) could be officially launching soon according to a new German product page spotted by WinFuture. The tablet app...

Are you planning to stick with Google Photos when its free unlimited storage disappears on June 1st? If you’re anything like me, you’re probably still struggling to figure ...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Last November, Google — which until now has offered unlimited storage for what it called “high quality” (read: compressed) photos ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Tesla Model Y was photographed in Florida sporting rooftop lidar sensors made by buzzy sensor manufacturer Luminar. The sighti...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton has announced plans to invest $400 million in a US factory to produce its connected bikes and treadmills, located in...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Apple is releasing its latest iOS 14.6 update today, and it’s largely focused on audio improvements. This new OS update will allow ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Qualcomm has announced a second-generation Snapdragon 7c Arm-powered processor that’s designed to be used inside entry-level W...

Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that bars social media companies like Twitter and Faceboo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Police in India raided the offices of Twitter India in Delhi and Gurgaon on Monday as part of an investigation into why tweets a...

Image: Google Google announced last Tuesday that it developed a new artificial intelligence tool to help people identify skin conditions. Like any other symptom-checkin...

Police analyzed the palm and fingerprints in the photo to identify the suspect. | Image: Merseyside Police It’s generally a good idea to be careful about the photos y...

Image: Anker Anker’s GaN (gallium nitride) chargers are some of the best around, offering tiny sizes but powerful charging capabilities. Now, the company is introduci...

Twitter lists can be a wonderful resource: they can help you categorize different companies, track what’s happening with your friends or family, follow accounts that you enjo...

OLED screen movie machine Continue reading… ...

Xbox games on the Surface Duo. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft teased the potential for an Xbox handheld-like experience with the Surface Duo during its unv...

Image: Netflix Netflix is announcing a new week-long virtual event, “Geeked Week,” where it will share information about upcoming titles like The Witcher, The Sandm...

Our top picks from Asus, MSI, Razer, and more. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales/ The Verge The best gaming laptop at every size and price Continue reading&h...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T CEO John Stankey said Monday that the company’s focus on its connectivity business in the US meant it didn’t have t...

Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images Tesla has been ordered to pay 136,000 kroner ($16,000) each to thousands of customers in Norway for slowing down charg...

Robert McDaniel’s troubles began with a knock on the door. It was a weekday in mid-2013, as he made lunch in the crowded three-bedroom house where he lives with his grand...

After a brief teaser earlier in May, Marvel has finally revealed a full-length trailer for Eternals, set to hit theaters on November 5th. In addition to being the latest entry ...

The Block Island wind farm, from Montauk Point on Long Island, New York, on April 16th, 2021. | Photo by Mark Harrington / Newsday RM via Getty Images GE shared some ne...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon has a new deal for new and existing unlimited plan subscribers starting May 25th: up to a year of Apple Arcade or Google...

SiriusXM SiriusXM wants to reach the youth, and starting today, it’s going to do so through the cultural cachet of TikTok. Sirius, which owns Pandora and the podcasti...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Metro Exodus has become one of the first PC games to support the PS5 DualSense controller’s haptic feedback and adaptive triggers th...

Image: Ford Ford has revealed a version of its new F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck aimed specifically at commercial customers. It’s called the F-150 Lightning P...

Samsung’s Smart Monitor range is expanding. The company’s line of Tizen-powered smart computer displays now includes a 43-inch 4K M7 model as well as a 24-inch 1080p M5, ma...

Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A social media campaign by pro-Palestine activists has pushed down the ranking for Faceboo...

Trese comes to Netflix in June | Netflix Still reeling from that shocking ending to last week’s Mare of Easttown? Me too! I have literally no idea what to expect in t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Securing a PS5 is not easy, and it feels like it could be. With a combination of greed and incompetence, the stores selling PS5s...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge India’s government has sent notices to social media platforms ordering them to take down content that refers to an “Indian v...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge Once again, Google is hitting the reset button, combining with Samsung’s Tizen wearable operating system for a new wearable OS, ten...

This machine plays marbles. | Image: Wintergatan Swedish band Wintergatan may be widely known for its Marble Machine music video (which featured a machine dropping marb...

VSS Unity in space over New Mexico on May 22nd. | Virgin Galactic Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic completed its first successful space flight in more than two years...

Flying off into the sunset | Aerion Aerion Supersonic, which had plans to build silent business jets that would travel twice as fast as most commercial airplanes, is sh...

Getty Images Chinese autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai has received a permit from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles to test its driverless cars without human...

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity gliding home during a previous test flight | Image: Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic completed its first successful space flight in more th...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge In a new support document on its website, Apple dives a little deeper into the details around the upcoming launch of lossless audio o...

The Epic v. Apple trial was bookended by Tims. Epic Games called its CEO Tim Sweeney as the first witness nearly three weeks ago. Yesterday, Apple called Tim Cook as the last t...

Riot Games The 2021 League of Legends World Championship will be held in Shenzhen, China, Riot Games announced late Friday. The Worlds Final will be at the Universiade ...

Comics have never been bigger: with Marvel TV shows, DC movies, and indie adaptations growing by the day, comic books have never been more prominent in pop culture. This biweek...

The Tile Mate features excellent Bluetooth range and, unlike AirTags, Android compatibility. | Image: Tile At The Verge, we strive to bring you the best deals we can fi...

A woman at a vaccination site in Florida. The site in Immokalee, FL was set up to reach seasonal farmworkers, and other people who might not have as much access to traditional ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Starting next week, streaming platform Twitch will add more than 350 new community tags to its platform related to gender, sexua...

An image taken by the navigation camera of China’s Zhurong rover on the surface of Mars when it landed on May 15th. | Photo by CNS/CNSA/AFP via Getty Images China bec...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge It’s safe to say that no company in existence today that has more than a couple of employees can exist without a knowledgeable IT s...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge We have poked a considerable amount of fun at the Apple TV’s Siri Remote over the years, and we’re pleased to say it’s finally fi...

Image: Kotaku Kotaku has revealed an Easter egg that’s been hidden on the original Xbox for almost twenty years, after a developer who worked on the console sent in a...

Tim Cook is seen through a window of the federal courthouse in San Francisco | Photo by Philip Pacheco/Getty Images Apple called CEO Tim Cook to conclude three weeks of...

The Dell XPS 13 is one of the best laptops for high school and college students. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Shopping for a laptop can be stressful �...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge A quarter of the deep links in The New York Times’ articles are now rotten, leading to completely inaccessible pages, accordi...

A screenshot of Twitch’s new hot tubs category. Twitch is launching a dedicated category for hot tub streams after claiming that it has received pushback from adverti...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whenever we use an app continuously, any change to the UI of that app can cause stress — and during these stressful times,...

This morning, The Verge published a story about how Citizen — an app that appears to encourage vigilante justice — encouraged its users to hunt down the wrong person and pr...

Photo: HBO / WarnerMedia There’s a quality that some long-running chat podcasts have that can feel like a brick wall for new listeners. Existing relationships, in-jok...

Image: Penn Executive Chairs It started with a tweet from Roadshow editor-in-chief Tim Stevens. A picture of a chair that seemed to effortlessly skim the line between o...

Pregnancy apps could use some new features. | Photo by Philip Cheung for The Washington Post via Getty Images A great scholar once noted that “there’s an app for th...

Elizabeth Kari at the AAP(I Belong) exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City. | Photo by Cindy Trinh A video of her mom’s assault went vira...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge India’s government has criticized Twitter for applying its “manipulated media” label to some Indian politicians’ tweets ...

Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images For months during the union drive, Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, felt like they were being watched. The...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Apple might have discontinued the original, full-size HomePod smart speaker, but the company is continuing to add new functionality t...

Image: Fisker Inc. EV startup Fisker Inc. says it will make the first all-electric popemobile, using a modified version of its forthcoming Ocean SUV. Automotive designe...

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Twitter will launch its Ticketed Spaces in the next couple weeks. | Image: Twitter Twitter’s getting ready for the launch of its Ticketed Spaces feature, and today, i...

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Photo by Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress Tensions between Google and its AI brain trust DeepMind have always been fascinating. To put the relationship in crude terms: De...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Last November, Google — which until now has offered unlimited storage for “high quality” (read: compressed) photos — announced t...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Jack Edwards doesn’t want to be praised for doing what he considers the bare minimum: making his videos accessible to his deaf a...

Spotify Spotify is adding the ability to download playlists, albums, and podcasts on Apple Watch to play offline, the company announced Friday. Users will be able to st...

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Snap’s fourth-generation Spectacles. | Photo: Snap Snap has agreed to acquire WaveOptics, the supplier of the augmented reality displays that power its new Spectacles...

The Normandy in No Man’s Sky. No Man’s Sky players who are fans of the beloved sci-fi series Mass Effect will soon be in for a treat: Mass Effect’s legendary SSV ...

Microsoft is outlining its vision for the future of meetings today. After a year that’s seen more people dialing into the office remotely, the company is once again banging t...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The colorful, 2021 iMac might become the desktop of choice for most people, however, when it comes to flexibility, few products rival t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Wired has published an in-depth feature on the 2011 hack of security company RSA, in which hackers stole the so-called “crown ...

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Microsoft is finally adding a dark mode to its Office app for Android. While the Office app has been available on iOS and Android for more than a year, only the iOS version has...

Tinder’s profile vaccination badges. | Image: Tinder A group of the USA’s biggest dating apps are encouraging users to get vaccinated, just in case the health benef...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is shutting down its standalone Prime Now delivery app, with its speedy two-hour delivery options moving exclusively into...

Yesterday OnLeaks released CAD renders of what is supposedly Google’s next flagship phone, the Pixel 6 Pro, and now the noted leaker has followed up with details and images o...

Kensington’s StudioDock, the high-end $399.99 desktop hub for the iPad Pro that was released earlier this year, isn’t compatible with the new 12.9-inch model hitting stores...

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart brings alternate realities to the beloved PlayStation franchise on June 11th, and along with leveraging the PlayStation 5’s SSD, Insomniac Gam...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge CNA Financial, one of the largest US insurance companies, paid $40 million to free itself from a ransomware attack that occurred...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Slack has added a small but very welcome new feature: when you’re setting a status, you can check a box in that same menu to p...

Blizzard’s two-hour Overwatch 2 stream showed off the best look yet at the much-anticipated sequel to the competitive team shooter. And while there’s still no release date,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Treasury Department said Thursday it will require any cryptocurrency transfer worth $10,000 or more to be reported to the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple employees are circulating an internal letter calling on Tim Cook to put out a statement supporting the Palestinian people....

Image: Belkin Belkin’s new SoundForm Connect Audio is a $99 dongle that lets you turn any pair of speakers with either a 3.5mm or optical port into an AirPlay 2-compa...

Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency feature in iOS 14.5 doesn’t seem to be a difficult concept to grasp; initial estimates suggest as many as 96 percent of US users are l...

The PopGrip for MagSafe is bulkier than the regular PopGrips, but is easy to take off. MagSafe PopSockets are finally here, after the famous phone handle company announ...

Newly leaked renders suggest that Google isn’t playing it safe anymore with its next generation of Pixel devices. | Image: OnLeaks and digit.in New images from reputa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Update May 20th, 2021, 3:44PM ET: The PS5 seems to be out of stock at Walmart, as the retailer hasn’t refreshed its pages in a...

A mural in Rome celebrates the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines. | Photo by Marilla Sicilia/Archivio Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images Our emotional ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Slack experienced frustrating issues for many on Thursday, including for some of us here at The Verge. For me, some messages jus...

Image: Ford Ford has revealed its first all-electric F-150, the Lightning, and on paper it looks like a really compelling truck. It’s priced aggressively for an elect...

Snap’s new Spectacles glasses are its most ambitious yet. But there’s a big catch: you can’t buy them. On Thursday, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled the company’s first t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Slack has been experiencing some frustrating issues for many on Thursday, including some of us here at The Verge. For me, some m...

Snapchat is introducing a new type of augmented reality lens, called “Connected Lenses,” which allows Snapchat users to connect and enjoy an AR experience or game together ...

Snap’s forthcoming iOS app Story Studio will allow people to handle more complicated videos edits from their mobile device. | Snap Snap wants to be the company people...

phone The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously Thursday to lower some of the rates incarcerated people and their families pay to speak over the phone. Fo...

Rich people are jockeying for a seat on Blue Origin’s first crewed New Shepard mission, bidding as high as $2.8 million for a ten-minute experience at the edge of space. A s...

 PUERTO CABEZAS, NICARAGUA - NOVEMBER 16: Palm trees blow by wind as Nicaragua prepares to receive hurricane Iota on November 16, 2020 in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. Less t...

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Image: CD Projekt Red Epic Games’ month-long Mega Sale for the Epic Games Store is back, offering a bunch of discounts on hit games, free titles, and $10 Epic Coupons...

Cover art from the original TimeSplitters 2 released in 2002. | Image: Free Radical Design TimeSplitters, the acclaimed PS2-era first-person shooter franchise, is being...

Hot off the heels of the public debut of the F-150 Lightning pickup truck, Ford announced that it will form a joint venture with South Korea’s SK Innovation to manufacture ba...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is relaunching its public verification program, allowing anyone to apply for a coveted blue check mark. The company also...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge About once a month, Sony’s flagship WH-1000XM4 noise-canceling headphones get a $72 price cut at a few retailers. But today, there’...

HP HP made an almost overwhelming bunch of gaming announcements today, which include systems equipped with Intel’s 11th Gen H-series processors: a new 16-inch Omen ga...

Image: Tesla Tesla’s ultra-fast Model S Plaid, which the company has been teasing since 2019, is finally ready for its public debut. The company will hold a “delive...

Google is opening its first physical retail Google Store, the company announced today, which will debut in New York City this summer. The new store will be located in Chelsea, ...

Tinder is launching Are You Sure?, a feature that asks users if they’re positive they want to send a possibly offensive message. | Tinder Tinder’s newest safety fea...

Apple’s software engineering head Craig Federighi had a tricky task in the Epic v. Apple trial: explaining why the Mac’s security wasn’t good enough for the iPhone. Mac c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Three years after Chrome OS first started offering support for Linux apps, the feature is leaving beta, the search giant announc...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar is back with a bill to protect consumer data privacy when collected by large tech platforms like Facebook and Google. Klobuchar (D-MN) has teamed up with a ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is making it much easier for creators to quickly report harassing comments. With an update that starts rolling out today,...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter communicates telemetry over Zigbee to the NASA’s Perseverance rover. | Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech Today I learned that the Ingenuity d...

Users follow sites through the browser’s menu, with an aggregated feed shown when they open a new tab. | Image: Google Google is testing a new feature for its Chrome...

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Image: Riot Games Spotify is adding a weekly news show about League of Legends esports to its roster of Spotify Original podcasts. The show, Rift Reaction, is set to be...

The renders show the earbuds alongside their charging case. | Image: Evan Blass Sony’s unannounced WF-1000XM4 true wireless earbuds have leaked once again in a series...

The new speaker is IP67 water resistant. | Image: Bang and Olufsen Bang and Olufsen’s latest Bluetooth speaker is the Beosound Explore, a $199 (£169) speaker that’...

Image: Zagg Zagg has announced a new selection of iPad keyboards: the Pro Keys with Trackpad, a case with a detachable Bluetooth keyboard; the laptop-style Rugged Book ...

ByteDance’s CEO has announced he’s stepping down from his role leading the company whose success with TikTok led it to become the world’s most valuable startup. Zhang Yim...

Kobo has a new e-reader out, and its the company’s biggest yet: the Kobo Elipsa, which features a 10.3-inch, 1404 x 1872 resolution (227 ppi) E Ink display, a bundled stylus,...

Image: Sphero Sphero, a long-time maker of robotic toys, has announced a robotic toy car that’s designed to teach young children about the fundamentals of programming...

Ford just unveiled the F-150 Lightning, its first electric pickup truck. And as has become tradition in the EV world, a mere $100 deposit can get you in line for one when these...

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If you told me you’d found an OLED laptop for just $800, I’d have warned you against refurbished computers and deep-discount closeout sales. The inky blackness and gorgeous...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google is one of the major companies behind the upcoming interconnected cross-platform smart home standard Matter, and today, the compa...

Nintendo is releasing the HD remake of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on the Switch on July 16th, and in the run up to the return of the — checks Hyrule Historia — curr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Five female Amazon employees filed discrimination lawsuits against the company Wednesday, Recode reports. The women worked at va...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Slack is now rolling out a new field for profiles that will let you list your pronouns right under your name and job title. Once...

Image: Yee, Tantipongpipat, Mishra Twitter is phasing out its image cropping algorithm in favor of showing larger previews, and the company has announced that it’s be...

Photo: Netflix The ’90s are back in Netflix’s latest horror movies. A trilogy of movies based on R.L. Stine’s classic Fear Street book series is coming to the str...

Apple Watch with the Assistive Touch cursor. | Image: Apple Apple announced a variety of new and updated features for people with disabilities today. Beginning May 20th...

The antitrust case between Apple and Epic continued today, and it brought Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, to the stand. Federighi’s ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge GameStop has released some precious stock of the PS5 consoles, both for the $499.99 disc-based version and the disc-less model t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Update May 19th, 2021 5:03 PM ET: GameStop has sold out of both PS5 bundles. GameStop has released some precious stock of the PS...

Image: Anker/Eufy Eufy has put out a statement apologizing for a glitch that occurred two days ago, allowing some Eufy home security camera users to see video from othe...

Yesterday brought the momentous news that Google and Samsung will merge together their Wear OS and Tizen-based smartwatch platforms into a single operating system. The new soft...

HBO Max is getting a pair of new animated DC shows: Batman: The Caped Crusader and My Adventures with Superman, WarnerMedia announced today. The two shows appear pretty differ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Early Monday morning, AT&T announced a sudden change in direction: it reached an agreement to spin off WarnerMedia — the c...

Ford is getting ready to pull the curtain back on its latest electric vehicle. The F-150 Lightning, the electric version of the automaker’s bestselling pickup truck, will tak...

Image: Consumer Reports If you’re ever annoyed by a website or app trying to trick you by using small text, brightly colored buttons, or tricky toggles, there’s a n...

Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount has confirmed that his company did in fact pay $4.4 million to the hackers responsible for the ...

Photo by Amy Osborne/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images In 2010, the San Francisco Bay Area introduced a single tap-to-pay NFC card for practically all its public...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge When it comes to truly wireless earbuds, there are a ton of brands and products to choose from. Whether you enjoy the unconventional ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge HBO Max will launch an ad-supported tier in June for $9.99 per month, offering a cheaper option than the full $14.99-per-month a...

Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer next year, after more than 25 years. The aging web browser has largely been unused by most consumers for years, but Microsoft is...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Yesterday at Google’s I/O developer conference, the company outlined ambitious plans for its future built on a foundation of a...

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Image: Sony The Last of Us Part II is getting a long-awaited PlayStation 5 patch on Wednesday that lets you play the game at a targeted 60fps frame rate, Sony announced...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apps lie at the heart of one of the most enduring conflicts in the trans community Continue reading… ...

Image: Roku Roku’s Streambar is one of the few double-duty soundbars out there that can also connect to your TV to stream TV shows and movies in 4K HDR from all sorts...

Image: Lofelt Haptic feedback on Android phones is usually terrible, at least compared to devices that have Apple’s Taptic Engine. You know it, I know it, and a hapti...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Most people in the United States don’t want their digital data used to control the spread of COVID-19, a new study found. More...

Qualcomm’s 700-series Snapdragon chipsets are popular among midrange and premium midrange phone manufacturers. | Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm has announced a new 700-seri...

Spotify is hosting virtual, prerecorded concerts starting in May. Spotify is entering the virtual concert business, just as in-person concerts are becoming more of a po...

China’s Zhurong rover has beamed back its first images from the surface of Mars after landing on a vast plain called Utopia Planitia. The rover plunged through the Martian at...

Soon you’ll be able to fight to the death in Fortnite while representing your favorite NBA team. Today, Epic revealed the latest collaboration for its battle royale game, whi...

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Photo by JC Olivera/Getty Images Summer Game Fest is back this year, and it will start on June 10th with an event called “Kick Off Live!” that’s billed as a “sp...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is experiencing a “partial” outage this morning for its entire site and application. Additi...

Let’s talk about some big changes announced to the platform where many of us get a lot of work done: Google Workspace, home to the suite of cloud-based tools that includes Do...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom is announcing an expanded live events product today that’s launching this summer. Zoom Events builds on Zoom’s previous...

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Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge As of June 1st, 2021, all of the new images and videos that you save to Google Photos will count toward your free 15GB of storage....

Image: Deezer Music streaming service Deezer has revamped its Apple Watch app to let you listen to music without an internet connection, the company has announced. Prev...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge IFA 2021’s physical event has been canceled just weeks after promising it would return as an in-person show in Berlin in September. Th...

One of Google’s cryostats, which keeps a quantum computer cold enough to reduce errors. | Image: Google Google is aiming to build a “useful, error-corrected quantum...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nintendo has hit a milestone with the ever-growing library of retro games included in its Nintendo Switch Online service. The ne...

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Image: Google Spotify’s product lead for cars and wearables teased an exciting new feature coming to Wear devices during Google’s Developer Keynote on Tuesday: the ...

Amouranth during an ASMR stream. | Image: Amouranth / Twitch Twitch has removed the ability for Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, one of the most popular streamers on i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of Jewish Google employees is calling on the company to increase its support of Palestinians amid Israel’s deadly bomb...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has extended its moratorium on law enforcement use of its facial recognition software “until further notice,” accordi...

Photo composite by Amelia Holowaty Krales and Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google unveiled Android 12 at its opening I/O 2021 keynote, and now you can try the new update y...

Image: Google Google just finished its live Google I/O 2021 keynote, where the company unveiled a huge number of announcements, including a new look coming to Android, ...

Google says its tweaked image processing will avoid over-brightening black and brown faces. | Image: Google It’s a long-standing problem that dates back to the days o...

Photo composite by Amelia Holowaty Krales and Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google unveiled Android 12 at its opening I/O 2021 keynote, and now you can try the new update y...

Project Starline | Image: Google Google is working on a next-gen video chat booth that makes the person you’re chatting with appear in front of you in 3D. You can see...

Google developed a tool to help people identify skin conditions. | Image: Google Google’s latest foray into health care is a web tool that uses artificial intelligenc...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / 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...

Google Photos will soon have a cool new trick: if you take two similar images with your phone’s camera, the app will be able to create an animated, moving shot that combines ...

Image: Google Google announced a bunch of new features for Google Maps at its 2021 I/O developer conference today, including upgrades to its handy Live View tool, which...

In yet another sign of the growing alliance between Google and Samsung, today both companies announced that they are essentially combining Wear OS — Google’s operating syst...

The BMW iX, which will support seamless unlocks with UWB tech. | Image: BMW Nearly a year after Apple announced the iPhone would become your digital car key, Google is ...

Ford has revealed the all-electric F-150 pickup truck one day ahead of schedule. The truck, dubbed F-150 Lightning, was on display Tuesday at Ford’s Rouge Electric Vehicle Ce...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft is confirming today that it no longer plans to release Windows 10X. The operating was originally supposed to arriv...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge At the I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced a range of new privacy measures, including a new partition within A...

Image: Google Artificial intelligence is a huge part of Google’s business, and at this year’s I/O conference, the company highlighted its work with AI language unde...

Image: Google Google is adding a feature to its Chrome password manager that allows you to change a compromised password with a few button taps. If its security check f...

After four years of hearings and publisher complaints, Republicans have gotten awfully quiet about Section 230. Prominent conservatives may still tweet in all caps to repeal th...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s next major Windows 10 update is starting to roll out to devices today. The Windows 10 May 2021 Update focuses on i...

ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/SoloHI team/NRL One of the instruments aboard Solar Orbiter, a probe built by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, caught its first vi...

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One of the best third-party camera apps for iOS, Halide, is coming to the iPad, its developer Lux announced today. The iPhone app has a reputation for the amount of control it ...

Wood and furnishings lie outside a private seaside residence January 17, 2013 damaged during Hurricane Sandy in the Rockaways January 17, 2013 in the Queens borough of New York...

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

One of the bestselling games of all time is coming to next-gen consoles at the end of the year. Today, Rockstar announced that Grand Theft Auto V and its online spinoff will bo...

What exactly is lost in translation when TV shows and films are subbed or dubbed into a new language? It’s a hard question to answer, but for the team at AI startup Flawless,...

Spotify says it plans to generate transcripts for all podcasts on its app. | Image: Spotify Spotify announced multiple updates to make its app more accessible across iO...

Ford is set to unveil its next major electric vehicle, the F-150 Lightning, at 9:30PM ET on Wednesday, May 19th. But this isn’t just another EV event. An electric version of ...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia is extending its cryptocurrency mining limits to newly manufactured GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards. A...

Apple’s first computer with its new M1 in-house chip, the 2021 MacBook Air, exceeded our expectations. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The performance of Apple�...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Woot is hosting a good deal on the iPhone 11 Pro, 2019’s high-end iPhone model. It debuted for $1,000, but Prime members c...

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Even though the iPhone arrived as a harbinger of doom for phones with physical keyboards well over a decade ago, the fanatical enthusiasm for BlackBerry isn’t something that ...

Echo Frames with Classic sunglass lenses. | Image: Amazon Amazon is launching new lens options today for its Echo Frames smart audio glasses: two types of polarized sun...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s been over a year since Google last held I/O thanks to the pandemic, but with the COVID-19 outlook slightly more positive ...

Electric scooter company Gogoro continues to expand outside its home country of Taiwan in a big way, as it just announced new partnerships with a pair of China’s leading two-...

Image: Anita Maric / SWNS In March this year, Nintendo opened its Super Nintendo World theme park in Osaka, Japan. Now, just a few short months later, the Birmingham Ma...

The first all-electric Lamborghini is on the horizon. The Italian automaker finally unveiled its electrification plans, which will proceed in two distinct phases over the next ...

James Bond, The Handmaid’s Tale, Rocky, Stargate, Robocop, Legally Blonde, Vikings, a historic catalog of films dating back many decades, an array of production and distribut...

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 Dan Seifert / The Verge Today, we learned that Apple’s ultra-premium $550 AirPods Max headphones aren’t ready for the new lossless audio catalog coming to ...

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Oculus Oculus will soon roll out its v29 software for Quest and Quest 2 headsets, and this one adds more features and functionality to the lineup. The most exciting one...

Electric scooters have become a common sight on London’s roads, even while their use has remained illegal. | Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images London’s long-awaited e...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Fox has announced its upcoming animated comedy Krapopolis, from Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon, will be “the first-ever ani...

Fossil A new tweet from the official Wear OS Twitter account is teasing an update tomorrow at I/O 2021 to Google’s frequently forgotten smartwatch operating system. G...

Fossil A new tweet from the official Wear OS Twitter account is teasing an update tomorrow at I/O 2021 to Google’s frequently forgotten smartwatch operating system. G...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Facebook’s vice president of AR and VR Hugo Barra is leaving the company, he announced (where else) on Facebook Monday. “Tod...

Image: Canoo The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into newly public electric vehicle startup Canoo, CEO Tony Aquila shared on a conference...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Streaming music might be entering a new era of hi-fi audio, but Apple’s AirPods Max aren’t technically ready to go along for the ri...

A screenshot from Pac-Man Live Studio. | Image: Amazon Games and Bandai Namco In May 2020, Amazon announced Pac-Man Live Studio, an interesting new version of Pac-Man t...

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Apple is trying to convince a judge that it’s not milking the App Store for all it’s worth, and today the company dropped some big numbers to help make its case. Apple clai...

Samsung’s display division is working on a bi-folding OLED panel suitable for folding phones. | Image: Samsung Display This year has seen no shortage of rollable disp...

Oculus Oculus will soon roll out its v29 software for Quest and Quest 2 headsets, and this one adds more features and functionality to the lineup. The most exciting one...

Photo by Robert Paul / Blizzard Entertainment Professional Valorant player Jay “Sinatraa” Won has been suspended for six months by Riot Games for “failing to full...

Image: Amazon Amazon is launching a new series of health programs called WorkingWell designed to prevent workplace injuries in the company’s expansive system of wareh...

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar, who was appointed to the role in April 2020, is negotiating his departure from the company following AT&T’s announcement that it would be mer...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Aside from churning out some limited edition colors, Beats has been in a bit of a quiet period since the release of the Beats Flex last...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is rolling out a new feature for the Google Phone app that announces who’s calling when the phone rings, according ...

Consumers lost over $2 million in cryptocurrency to scammers impersonating Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk over the last six months, the Federal Trade Commission reported Monday...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Public health experts and communities around the country are still struggling to make sense of the Centers for Disease Control a...

California EV startup Canoo has finally announced pricing for the electric van it announced back in 2019. The “lifestyle” van, as Canoo calls it, will start at $34,750 and ...

Nreal Epic Games has sued smart glasses maker Nreal for infringing on its Unreal Engine trademark. Epic, which filed the case late last week, claims it’s “no coinci...

Hank being a good boy with an AirTag sleeve fitted to his existing dog collar. One seemingly obvious use for Apple’s new $29 AirTag tracker is for pets. As a new dog ...

For the next two weeks, the virtual realm of Roblox is getting a dose of high fashion. Currently, fashion house Gucci is hosting an artsy garden space, which will be available ...

If you live in a major metropolitan area with great high-speed internet, you will be forgiven for forgetting Redbox exists. But the company that rents new releases from big red...

The Razer Viper comes included in the Power Up bundle. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge At Walmart, the Power Up Bundle from Razer, which contains its Vipe...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Faced with new competition from Apple, Amazon today announced that it will no longer charge an added fee for the “HD” tier o...

Apple Apple Music is getting two big updates next month: support for high-quality, lossless audio and for spatial audio through Dolby Atmos. But even more surprising, t...

Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The iOS app for conservative-leaning social media platform Parler is back in the Apple ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch is announcing a big change to subscription prices — but not for users in the US. Most countries outside of the US will ...

Microsoft is launching the personal version of Microsoft Teams today. After previewing the service nearly a year ago, Microsoft Teams is now available for free personal use amo...

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 3 from last year. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Samsung seems ready to ditch its own Tizen operating system in favor of Google’s Wear OS...

Image: HDCYT on YouTube The creators of the classic “Charlie bit my finger - again !” video are now auctioning it off as an NFT, but with a twist. At the end of the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T announced this morning it’s spinning off its media business WarnerMedia and merging it with TV company Discovery, cre...

The Cell Alpha. | Image: Syng Christopher Stringer, an ex-Apple designer who worked on everything from the HomePod to the original iPhone during his 22 year-stint at th...

A screenshot of the teaser in Apple Music’s web app. | Screenshot: Apple Music Apple is teasing a major Apple Music announcement. “Get ready,” a post in the servi...

It appears that Leica has found a new mobile camera partner, following Huawei’s sanctions-induced retreat from the international smartphone market. Sharp just announced the A...

The first project from Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata’s new studio JP Games will finally be released next month, the company has announced. The Pegasus Dream Tour is...

Photo by Indraneel Chowdhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images Some of Microsoft’s board members concluded that Bill Gates should step down last year as an investigation was ...

Photo by Indraneel Chowdhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images Some of Microsoft’s board members concluded that Bill Gates should step down last year as an investigation was ...

Dev Patel stars as Sir Gawain in The Green Knight | A24 So since The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t dark enough (honestly give us something, show writers), I also started wa...

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Officials in Puerto Rico are reportedly investigating an incident involving YouTube star Jake Paul, after he was seen in a now-delete...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images After launching its Android app a week ago, social audio platform Clubhouse said Sunday it ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T and Discovery are in talks that would combine AT&T’s media business with Discovery’s reality-TV dynasty to crea...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has launched an ad-supported, free video streaming service called MiniTV within the Amazon India app, TechCrunch reports....

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Just ahead of Google I/O, which gets underway on Tuesday, a new leak purporting to be a preview of what’s coming during t...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Cloudflare, which you may know as a provider of DNS services or the company telling you why the website you clicked on won�...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Anyone who’s spent more than five minutes on social media can tell you that most platform...

Colonial Pipeline said Saturday that all of its systems are back to operating normally, including the pipeline it shut down a week ago amid a ransomware attack. The pipeline is...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has reportedly upheld a ban on many organizations in Myanmar that have joined forces to resist the military coup that o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has previously confirmed that it’s exploring a paid subscription model for some features, and app researcher Jane Manc...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge The Verge’s Infrastructure Week focused partly on how dire the broadband problem currently is for Americans. On Monday, w...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge President Biden on Friday revoked several of former President Trump’s executive orders, including one that would have changed ...

Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images This week, the FDA authorized the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for people 12-15, a moment that many families have been eagerl...

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launches from New Zealand on Saturday, as seen on the company’s live video feed. | Rocket Lab Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket failed to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro On Tuesday, a noted Palestinian-American journalist reporting live from protests near Jerusalem was suddenly and mysteriously silenced on Tw...

Apple will keep its mask mandate in place at its US retail stores | Getty Images Despite new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Apple will ke...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When you’ve been through tough times — and we all have — sometimes you just need a distraction or something that just ...

This week brought some unexpected bargains by way of an eBay sitewide code that can knock up to $100 off a pricey purchase, such as a 4K TV, as well as an excellent Humble Bund...

A photo of Mars captured by China’s Tianwen-1 probe in February. | Photo: Xinhua via Getty Images China landed its first pair of robots on the surface of Mars on Frid...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As part of iOS 14.5, Apple’s App Tracking Transparency forces developers to ask permission for something they used to be able ...

Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images If you’re hoping to turn a dollar on that extremely explicit hentai you picked up in college, you won�...

Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images If you’re hoping to turn a dollar on that extremely explicit hentai you picked up in college, you won�...

Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick-Pool/Getty Images Venmo has a major privacy flaw that’s been well-known for years: there’s no way to keep your list of Venmo contacts priv...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ireland’s health service, the HSE, shut down all of its IT systems on Friday following a “significant” ransomware attack w...

Image: Roblox Massively popular game creation tool Roblox is now a massively popular experience creation tool Roblox, possibly in response to the ongoing Epic v. Apple ...

A photo of Mars captured by China’s Tianwen-1 probe in February. | Photo: Xinhua via Getty Images Sometime between tonight and next Wednesday, China will attempt to l...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge If you want a space gray Apple accessory, such as a Magic Mouse, Keyboard, or Trackpad, now is the time to get one because they’re ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ireland’s High Court has dismissed Facebook’s bid to block a European Union privacy regulation — created by the Irish Data...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple might have bigger plans for next week than initially thought. The new iMac, iPad Pro, and Apple TV 4K are all set to start...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge One of Waymo’s fully autonomous minivans got stuck at an intersection in Chandler, Arizona, prompting the company to send a roadside...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge BuzzFeed News has published a great story that looks at the cultural phenomenon that was on display when that picture of a mile-...

Images show what could become Samsung’s least expensive 5G phone, nabbing the A32 5G’s title. | Image: 91mobiles A new batch of leaked images shows what could becom...

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 ...

Indie game storefront Itch.io is waiving sales fees on everything today, May 14th, as part of the company’s first Creator Day. Anyone selling things on the diverse storefront...

Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in t...

Walmart DTD 555 Contrary to published reports, Walmart confirmed in an email to The Verge on Friday that it has not suspended the sale of any trading cards, including t...

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There’s something about the Nintendo Switch that makes it a great fit for murder mystery stories. Just like a good novel, these are games best enjoyed while curled up in a co...

Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge Great gift ideas for those graduating into college and adulthood Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google I/O, the company’s big developer conference, is back after being canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The k...

Starlink’s Dishy McDishface satellite dish. SpaceX’s satellite internet service is a technological marvel — when it works Continue reading… ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The second-generation Apple Pencil, released in 2018, that can magnetically attach to the iPad Pro and iPad Air tablets that...

The new DualSense controller comes in two iterations: Midnight Black and Cosmic Red (pictured). | Image: Sony With the PlayStation 5, Sony opted for a less traditional ...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge The biggest government fleet is about to start turning over — but the replacements aren’t as green as many hoped ...

Katy Perry’s latest video features an electric rat. The pop star released her new video for the single “Electric,” which is a surprisingly charming coming-of-age story ab...

Veritone’s Marvel.AI platform will let celebrities and influencers create AI copies of their voices. | Image: Veritone Recording advertisements and product endorseme...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Dolby Vision gaming is arriving on the Xbox Series X and S for testers who are a part of the Xbox Insider’s “alpha ring” g...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has filed an amicus brief to protect a program that allows the spouses of H-1B visa holders to work in the United States....

Balmuda, a Japanese design company known for its stylish appliances, has announced plans to make a smartphone. There aren’t many details on the device itself yet, but it’ll...

Image: Google Google is rolling out the ability to access Chat messages right from Gmail to more iOS and Android users, after introducing it as a feature for Google Wor...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Expert testimony continues Continue reading… ...

Image: Netflix Netflix announced that it’s partnering with Tsuburaya Productions to create a new CG Ultraman movie, in the hopes of bringing the popular Japanese char...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice, Bloomberg r...

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 ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is being sued by a voice actor who claims to be behind its viral text-to-speech feature, but says she never authorized Ti...

The Google Pixel 3 was one of the best Android phones of 2018, and though it might not be the showstopper it once was, it’s a standout if you can find it for the right price....

Disney has confirmed that its upcoming releases Free Guy and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will be the company’s first two films to debut exclusively in theaters ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Can you imagine being able to actually search Twitter to find a conversation, instead of just scrolling through endlessly to hop...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An Oregon man who authorities say stole and resold customers’ credentials for Netflix and other streaming services has been in...

SpaceX plans to have its first Starship test flight to orbit launch from Texas and splash down off the coast of an island in Hawaii, according to a document the company filed w...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge There’s been some buzz recently about how Apple is having problems getting rid of its HomePods, with the now-discontinued Siri spea...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Italian Competition Authority (ICA) handed Google an approximately $120 million (€100 million) fine today for not lett...

Illustrative image of two commemorative bitcoins seen in front of the Tesla car logo. On Saturday, February 27, 2021, in Dublin, Ireland. | Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Ge...

A woman receives a vaccine in a Pennsylvania clinic. | Photo by Preston Ehrler / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images People who are fully vaccinated can shed the...

Image: William Joel/The Verge The best laptops for you, from ultraportables to high-powered editing machines Continue reading… ...

Photo by Hanna Lassen/Getty Images At the end of March, Netflix acquired the rights to two Knives Out sequels in a blockbuster deal reportedly worth more than $400 mill...

The 2720 Flip is a feature phone with a classic design and access to modern apps. | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge Have you been dreaming of consciously uncoupling fro...

Image: HBO The Friends reunion special finally has a release date: Thursday, May 27th. The episode was was meant to launch with HBO Max in May 2020 but was delayed due ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has announced new text-to-speech and speech-to-text features for Xbox Party Chat, which aim to help make communication...

Framework The modular Framework Laptop is now available for preorders, with prices starting at $999 for a fully assembled computer or $749 for the DIY Edition, which ad...

Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images After a devastating and deeply embarrassing cyberattack on one of the United States’ largest oil pipelines, one that forced m...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge The beauty and misery of private RSS feeds Continue reading… ...

Image: 343 Industries Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios is teaming up with Tencent’s TiMi Studios, developer of the wildly successful mobile hits Call of Duty: Mobile a...

Photo: Alex Bailey/Legendary Sherlock’s kid sister is making a return. Today, Netflix announced Enola Holmes 2, a sequel to last year’s crime caper that took the Sh...

TCL 6-series Roku TV | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge There are a lot of 4K TVs available to choose from, complete with a wide variety of prices and performance. Bu...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Qualcomm has announced that it will skip Mobile World Congress’ in-person show in Barcelona this year, making it the latest ma...

Thursday is Discord’s sixth birthday, and to celebrate, the company is announcing some new features — including one coming in June to help people discover its new Clubhouse...

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

Google said on Thursday that it signed a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use the space company’s growing satellite internet service, Starlink, with its cloud unit. SpaceX w...

Go to any drugstore or supermarket, and it’s easy to find wipes and other supplies labeled “flushable.” It’s totally fine to flush those wipes down the toilet, the pack...

Sony has announced its first new colors for PlayStation 5’s DualSense controller: a “cosmic red” model that features a two-tone red and black design, and an all-black “...

Photo illustration by William Joel | Photo by Juana Arias for the Washington Post The giant inflatable rodent that became the face of America’s labor movement ...

If you’ve been curious about checking out the Microsoft Surface Duo foldable Android phone but didn’t want to pay its original $1,399 price — first off, I get you. The go...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Epic v. Apple trial will deliver a verdict on whether Apple is suppressing competition. But if you were watching Wednesday�...

Amazon’s second-gen earbuds are improved in almost every way Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro The world’s biggest gaming showcase, E3, is going all-virtual for the first time in its history, with organizers revealing today how they ...

Lenovo is starting a new line of accessories, called Lenovo Go: a lineup of chargers, mice and keyboards, and audio products designed for the new world of hybrid workers who’...

Image: Roku The Roku Channel is getting its first batch of Quibi shows on May 20th, Roku has announced. There’ll be 30 so-called “Roku Originals” available to str...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Ford is finally ready to start rolling out over-the-air (OTA) software updates to its vehicles at scale. While Tesla and other automa...

The ZTE Axon 30 Ultra features a large 6.67-inch screen with 144Hz refresh rate. | Photo: ZTE ZTE announced the Axon 30 Ultra alongside two other devices last month, an...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram removed and restricted posts related to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem after its moderators confused its name with a ...

Photo by Jeff Bottari/NBAE via Getty Images Amazon and the Women’s National Basketball Association have announced a multi-year deal that’ll see several games stream...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Antonio García Martínez is no longer working at Apple hours after employees circulated a petition calling for an investigation...

Illustrator by Alex Castro / The Verge The security researcher who discovered the Krack Wi-Fi vulnerability has discovered a slew of other flaws with the wireless proto...

One of the more impressive aspects of Grand Theft Auto V is how closely the game’s San Andreas approximates real-life Los Angeles and Southern California, but a new machine l...

Millions of young children are using platforms years before they turn 13 — and their presence could put many of them in danger. An alarming new study has found that minors in...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday implementing new policies aimed to improve national cybersecurity. The exe...

Target has decided that it’s had enough: the company has officially confirmed to Bleeding Cool that it will halt the sales of Pokémon cards throughout the US, starting Frida...

Target has decided that it’s had enough: the company has officially confirmed to Bleeding Cool that it will halt the sales of Pokémon cards throughout the US, starting Frida...

Image: Tesla Tesla has stopped accepting bitcoin as payment for its cars out of concern that it will contribute to greater consumption of fossil fuels, according to a s...

Photo By Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images A senior lawmaker proposed a controversial piece of legislation on Wednesday that directs NASA to pick a second...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony is apparently looking to release more than 25 PlayStation 5 games under its PlayStation Studios brand. And “nearly half” of t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of Apple employees has written a petition asking for an investigation into the hiring of Antonio García Martínez — a...

Photo by Hanna Lassen/Getty Images At the end of March, Netflix acquired the rights to two Knives Out sequels in a blockbuster deal reportedly worth more than $400 mill...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok launched a new feature today that combines the existing duet and green screen formats, letting people use other TikToks a...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says the new “EUV” version of the 2022 Chevy Bolt will travel an average of 247 miles on a full battery pack — three miles shy o...

LG’s CX series of OLED TVs offer stunning black levels and plenty of smart features. | Image: LG There’s a great site-wide deal happening for a limited time at eBay...

The Xbox has gone through several visual periods during its life span, from an edgy and yet somehow dorky green alien thing, to a modern look that could be described as “I kn...

Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images Spotify’s adding another big name to its list of exclusive podcasts: Dax Shepard and his show Armchair Expert, which is one of the m...

Some of what’s in the Humble Heal: COVID-19 Bundle. | Image: Humble Bundle Humble Bundle is launching a new bundle to raise money for COVID-19 relief in India and Bra...

The larger, pricier ZenFone 8 Flip includes a camera module that rotates forward for selfies. | Photo: Asus Asus is taking a slightly different turn with this year’s ...

The ZenFone 8 delivers flagship-level build quality and performance in a small package Continue reading… ...

Slate is now selling audiobooks that can be listened to in the podcasting app of listeners’ choice. Slate is getting into the audiobooks business. The online magazine...

Insomniac’s Mike Fitzgerald talks ray tracing, SSDs, and more Continue reading… ...

Smart grids were supposed to come to the rescue a long time ago Continue reading… ...

The past year, a lot of people were laid off or otherwise unable to pay for basic necessities. So the stimulus package passed by Congress in December included a provision to pa...

Image: Razer Best Buy is hosting a one-day flash sale on a few items, and its small assortment of gaming laptops stood out from the rest. The Razer Blade 15 Base seems ...

Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images One of the biggest esports tournaments in the world is coming back for 2021. Today, Valve announced that The International, the annual D...

Amazon is refreshing a handful of products in its Echo line: the Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 5, plus it’s adding a Kids Edition of the Echo Show 5. The big new feature on both ...

Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge I’ve been locked out of the vast invisible system that determines creditworthiness — all because I have a twin ...

It features a similar design to the old iOS calculator app. | Image: Sabec / Nintendo We’re in a relatively quiet period for Switch releases while we wait for Skyward...

Images from Yolo’s now-removed App Store listing. | Image: Yolo Technologies Snap will suspend two anonymous messaging integrations from Snapchat after a lawsuit soug...

It’s not perfect, but it’s practical Continue reading… ...

Image: VW Volkswagen will start testing its new autonomous vehicles in Germany this summer, the company announced Wednesday. The German automaker’s electric ID Buzz v...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Judges from the European Union’s second-highest court have rejected a €250 million ($300 million) tax bill lodged against Am...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge The US has agreed not to put Xiaomi on a blacklist blocking investment in the Chinese tech company, undoing a move made in the last week...

Photo by Natt Garun / The Verge Ever get a text message informing you that you’ve won a prize — from Amazon itself? I certainly have, and I’ve even known a person...

Photo by SILVIO AVILA/AFP via Getty Images The US Patent Office issued utility patent number 11 million today, granting the milestone number to a patent entitled “rep...

Image: Bungie Some Destiny 2 players have been able to play with people on other platforms after developer Bungie inadvertently switched the feature on. Bungie previous...

The Emergency Connectivity Fund Program helps schools and libraries outfit students and patrons with remote learning equipment | Illustrator by Alex Castro / The Verge ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Last week, the judge in Epic v. Apple asked whether Epic really had an antitrust case against Apple, or whether it just wanted to help...

Nine CryptoPunks sold together at Christie’s. | Image: Christie’s / Larva Labs Another huge NFT sale was made at Christie’s tonight: a collection of nine CryptoPu...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile promised its $26 billion merger with Sprint would add new jobs to the economy literally every single day, but a report ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung and Lenovo representatives won’t show up in person to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, according to statements ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung and Lenovo representatives won’t show up in person to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, according to statements ...

Block Island, R.I.: Deepwater Wind offshore wind farm at Block Island, Rhode Island on August 14, 2016. | Photo by Mark Harrington/Newsday RM via Getty Images The first...

Image: Wyze Wyze, maker of $20 smartwatches and $30 video doorbells, has announced a new pair of wireless earbuds that include active noise cancellation and a Qi wirele...

Instagram Instagram is making it easier to address people by their defined pronouns. The company announced today that it’s allowing people to add up to four pronouns ...

The past year, a lot of people were laid off or otherwise unable to pay for basic necessities. So the stimulus package passed by Congress in December included a provision to pa...

Instacart is shifting to a primarily remote-first workplace, but employees say the company has arbitrarily chosen which teams have to come into the office in a way that hurts j...

In January, the future looked bright for net neutrality. After a surprise victory in the Georgia special elections, Democrats gained a majority in the Senate, opening the door ...

eBay is now allowing NFTs to be sold on its platform, making the digital collectibles available side by side with physical ones. Whether you’re looking for a physical Dogecoi...

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Blizzard has been relatively quiet of late when it comes to Overwatch 2. The developer teased some new character designs in February at Blizzcon, but there hasn’t been much n...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft is introducing a new “Console Purchase Pilot” program that will give selected Xbox Insider members the chance to registe...

The starting model is roughly one millimeter thinner than the previous generation. | Razer Razer has just announced new versions of its Blade 15 workhorse gaming laptop...

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Last November, Google — which until now has offered unlimited storage for “high quality” (read: compressed) photos — announced t...

Bose SoundControl hearing aids. | Image: Bose Bose announced today that it will begin selling direct-to-consumer SoundControl hearing aids for adults with mild to moder...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung representatives won’t show up in person to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, according to a statement obta...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok’s next move to compete with Facebook might be to add an in-app shopping feature, according to a new report from Bloombe...

Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP) — the ambitious smart home partnership that will see Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, the Zigbee Alliance, and dozens of other companies ...

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is holding a hearing this week to contest the results of the Amazon union election. Organizers say the retail giant int...

Onshore wind turbines and electricity transmission pylons at the Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm near Camber, UK, on October 26th, 2020.  | Photo: Bloomberg / Cont...

YouTube Shorts. | Image: YouTube YouTube plans to pay $100 million to creators who use YouTube Shorts, its TikTok competitor, throughout the next year. The goal is to e...

HTC is revamping its Vive Focus standalone virtual reality headset, adding a 5K screen, a 120-degree field of view, and a swappable battery. The Vive Focus 3 follows HTC’s Vi...

HTC has unveiled the new Vive Pro 2, an update to its high-end virtual reality headset that adds a host of small but worthwhile improvements. The biggest change is the new dis...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games has been trying to convince Sony, Microsoft, and other publishers to bring their titles to the Epic Games Store and i...

The Razer Blade 15 Advanced, one of the numerous laptops announced today with Intel’s new chips. | Image: Razer Over half a dozen manufacturers have announced new...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge The president’s plan to take EVs mainstream will first need to contend with a fractured charging network Conti...

Journalist Brad Stone says Nina Rolle is the original voice of Alexa. | Image: Nina Rolle Amazon’s Alexa has a voice familiar to millions: calm, warm, and measured. ...

Photo: Scott Garfield/Netflix When an Army of the Dead star got called out, Zack Snyder called on Tig Notaro to save a role. Continue reading… ...

Logitech’s keyboard alternative is nearly half the price of Apple’s Magic Keyboard. | Image: Logitech Unless you’re willing to shell out for the Apple Magic Keybo...

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Facebook moderation expert Kate Klonick weighs in Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The more hospitals cooperate, the better they’ll fare in an emergency Continue reading… ...

The new Rival 5 costs $59.99 and is available now. | SteelSeries SteelSeries has debuted its Rival 5 wired, right-handed gaming mouse that is available right now for $5...

Photo: Pok Pok Snowman is best-known for games like Alto’s Adventure and Skate City, but soon the company will be exploring a very different realm: children’s apps....

Image: Asus If you’re wondering why every company under the sun has released new gaming laptops today, it’s because Intel has announced its newest flagship mobile p...

This is the GL66 Pulse, which starts at $949. | Image: MSI MSI has announced a number of gaming and creator laptops that include Intel’s brand-new Tiger Lake H proces...

QHD, 16:10 aspect ratio, 165Hz. So many buzzwords. | Lenovo Lenovo is banking hard on 16-inch QHD displays in the taller 16:10 aspect ratio with its new lineup of Legio...

Dell’s new (familiar looking) XPS 17 for 2021 | Image: Dell Intel has just announced its new 11th Gen processors for more powerful laptops, and Dell is ready with ref...

Nvidia Nvidia’s RTX 30-series lineup of mobile graphics chips has two new members joining today: the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and 3050. They sit beneath the GeForce RTX 30...

After 17 years, billions of newly hatched cicada nymphs are burrowing up from their earthen lairs right now to party. They will molt, sing, and mate like a society emerging fro...

An elegant-looking work/gaming laptop. | HP HP’s ZBook workstations are designed primarily with creators and enterprise users in mind. Two of the three new ZBook G8 l...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Intel has added five consumer processors and five commercial processors to its 11th Gen Core H-series generation (codenamed “Tiger Lak...

The starting model is roughly one millimeter thinner than the previous generation. | Razer Razer has just announced new versions of its Blade 15 workhorse gaming laptop...

An image teasing the earbuds’ design. | Image: Nothing Nothing, the tech startup from ex-OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, will reveal its debut pair of true wireless earb...

Image: Peak Design Peak Design, the bag and accessory maker that created one of our favorite backpacks, is launching a new online exchange in the US for people to buy a...

A legit flagship from one of China’s biggest brands Continue reading… ...

Mario Kart in real life is a commonly shared dream, one that doesn’t typically live up to your imagination — but we’re definitely not giving up. Recently, Nintendo launch...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a two-page preliminary report on the deadly crash of a Tesla Model S in...

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Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The group behind the ransomware that took down Colonial Pipeline late last week has apologized for the “social consequences,...

LiveWire, the first electric motorcycle from Harley-Davidson, will now become its own standalone brand. The Milwaukee-based company announced that it would be spinning out its ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube has run the numbers and discovered what greeting its vloggers most use to open videos: “Hey, guys.” Those findings m...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In an open letter today, the National Association of Attorneys General called on Facebook to abandon plans for an Instagram plat...

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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Bird, the electric scooter company that helped launch the global micromobility boom, is planning to go public via a reverse merger wit...

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Image: Ford Ford announced the name of its upcoming electric pickup truck: the F-150 Lightning. The new electric vehicle is set to debut on May 19th at an event held at...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sony is nearing the release of its next set of noise-canceling true wireless earbuds, according to a post at The Walkman Blog. There ar...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge For years, “infrastructure week” was a kind of running joke in Washington — a stand-in for all of the boring but popu...

Venom: Let There Be Carnage, the extremely on-the-nose sequel to 2018’s Venom, has gotten its first trailer ahead of its pandemic-delayed September 24th release date. It prom...

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Corning manufactures glass for Apple and many Android device makers. | Image: Apple Apple is awarding Corning another $45 million investment from its Advanced Manufactu...

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The online bank Simple shut down on Saturday and was supposed to seamlessly transition customers’ accounts over to its parent company, BBVA. But instead, many users found the...

SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket in February 2021. | Photo: SpaceX SpaceX is now accepting Dogecoin, and it’ll be paid exclusively in the cryptocurrency to launch an...

The champions of the first season of the Call of Duty League are being honored in a unique way: with their faces plastered at the stadium in Call of Duty: Warzone. Today, Activ...

Clubhouse After more than a year of iOS exclusivity, social audio platform Clubhouse is releasing its Android app. It will be available in beta on Google’s mobile OS ...

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Image; Paramount I’m sticking with The Handmaid’s Tale for now; in the latest episode we see a lot of very improbable situations that need to happen in order to mov...

Apple’s Shortcuts app is a fantastic piece of iOS, a nearly limitless corner of the operating system that lets users automate almost anything they can think of, limited only ...

While Elon Musk hosted Saturday Night Live, Dogecoin investors sold. When SNL first went live, the cryptocurrency hovered around 69 cents (nice). But as the show wore on, the p...

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Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images The 100-foot-tall, 22-metric-ton Chinese Long March 5B rocket that launched the first chunk of Beijing’s new space station last mont...

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Last May, TiVo attempted to muscle in on Roku and Amazon with an HDMI streaming dongle of its own — the $70 TiVo Stream 4K, which traded in the company’s traditional live T...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri has tweeted an apology about a bug that deleted users’ story posts on Thursday. The timing was ...

Asa Mathat/Recode Tesla CEO Elon Musk — the first or second richest man in the world, depending on the phase of the Moon — will host Saturday Night Live this weeken...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More than 200 Alphabet employees have signed a petition from Google childcare workers asking for a commute stipend. The petition...

Google’s Nest Mini hits an all-time low — at least price-wise. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Whether you’ve fully committed to the smart home ecosystem or ar...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Many of us are excited that COVID-19 vaccines are now widely available in the US, and it seems like Google Assistant is joining ...

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NASA just released video and audio of its mini Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, flying around the Martian surface during its fourth flight test, as captured by the craft’s robotic...

Tile has announced that it’ll be launching support for Amazon Sidewalk — the company’s local, Bluetooth network — on June 14th, allowing Amazon’s Echo devices to stre...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok announced two new integrations for its app on Thursday: sharing audio back into TikTok using the new Sound Kit, and using...

Image: Getty Images New cars are getting more expensive thanks to the global semiconductor shortage. And the price of used cars is going up, too. About 13 percent of pe...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a new statement posted on its website, WhatsApp says users won’t lose any functionality if they fail to accept its new priv...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As the first week of the Epic v. Apple trial comes to a close, Apple is picking a fight over one of Epic’s witnesses. The figh...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new phase of the historic union vote by Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama begins today. The news kicks off with an...

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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google Photos’ free, unlimited storage is going away on June 1st — which means that you’ve only got a few weeks left to upload al...

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Video site LiveLeak, best known for hosting gruesome footage that mainstream rivals wouldn’t touch, has shut down after fifteen years in operation. In its place is “ItemFix...

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A pair of Sennheiser HD 800 S headphones. | Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Sonova, a Swiss company best known for its medical audio products like hearing aids and coc...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has started rolling out a new Tip Jar feature on its Android and iOS apps, which (as rumored) will allow users to send m...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has announced that it’s awarding Pennsylvania-based optical technology company II-IV with $410 million from its Advanced...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton expects it to be a number of months before either of its treadmills are offered for sale again after a recall was is...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge In what feels like an increasingly rare occurrence, Google announced that it’s updating Wear OS with a new feature today — but do...

Photo by STR / AFP via Getty Images Another “out-of-control” Chinese rocket stage in orbit has spawned a news cycle. But for people on Earth, there’s not much to ...

IBM IBM has revealed what it says are the world’s first 2nm process chips, giving a brief preview of the technology that might eventually power the smartphones, lapto...

Photo by Toby Scott/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images According to a Vice report, some Amazon delivery drivers are instructed by their employers to turn off Amaz...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple made it more difficult to upgrade your Hulu subscription plan — say, to add live TV — after it realized the company wa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has started rolling out a new Tip Jar feature on its Android and iOS apps, which (as rumored) will allow users to send m...

Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images Things may be starting to open up, but for now, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to limit face-to-face association and most of us are...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The elusive PS5 console is in stock at Best Buy. The retailer is offering both the disc-based and digital editions of the console, sta...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Xbox games were refusing to open or launch for many across Europe today, with an error message being presented instead. “The p...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Update: Walmart’s restock of the PS5 and Xbox Series X seems to be over. If you’re looking for some accessories to go with a conso...

Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft announced that it’s developing a free-to-play game set in The Division’s universe, called The Division Heartland. The company also announced ...

Apple’s Night Shift feature, which it says “may help you get a better night’s sleep,” doesn’t appear to live up to its claim, according to new research. Because expos...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you use your phone in portrait lock all the time, it can be frustrating trying to get YouTube videos into full screen with th...

Newsletter publishing platform Substack has introduced publication sections for its newsletters, which will allow writers “to create and manage multiple newsletters or podcas...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Starting next year, apps on Google Play will show details about what data they collect, as well as other information about their...

Image: Google Google is announcing some improved Assistant features for families, including improved broadcasts, new bells, and some new stories that can be read to kid...

The PlayStation 5 now has a YouTube TV app, arriving more than six months after the console launched. That means anyone lucky enough to actually buy Sony’s latest console now...

Graffiti outside the Valley Generating Station, a natural gas power plant reported to have been leaking methane in California since 2019. | Photo: Citizen of the Planet//Educat...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s new item-tracking AirTags have arrived, and they come with a surprise addition: a hidden menu in the Find My app that reveal...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The New York attorney general’s office issued a report Thursday confirming that some of the US’s largest broadband providers...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge A Microsoft executive has admitted that the company doesn’t earn any profit on sales of Xbox consoles alone. The admission came as p...

Photo: Jonny Cournoyer / Paramount Pictures Over a year after A Quiet Place Part II was set to release, Paramount has dropped the final trailer for it. It looks pretty ...

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It’s been a long time since Netflix first announced Stranger Things 4 — the upcoming fourth season of the streamer’s hugely popular series — but there’s finally a new...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Owners of Apple’s HomePod and HomePod mini can now connect their smart speakers directly to Deezer and make the music streaming servi...

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The Zenfone 8 Flip. | Image: 91Mobiles Asus’s successor to last year’s Zenfone 7 has leaked online, pointing to a return for the phones’ flipping camera array on ...

Safari just doesn’t support key features — and Safari’s the only option Continue reading… ...

Microsoft is finally preparing to refresh its Windows 95-era icons. The software giant has been slowly improving the icons it uses in Windows 10, as part of a “sweeping visua...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google expects 60 percent of its approximately 140,000 global employees to spend around three days in the office per week post-p...

Nintendo Switch sales fuel full year profits. | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo Switch sales were up 44 percent percent from January to March compared to t...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Internal emails revealed during the Epic Games v. Apple lawsuit show that employees at Apple were considering giving Netflix spe...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Is an iPhone more like a PC or an Xbox? That question was asked — implicitly and explicitly — over and over on the third day of Epic...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The acting head of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said Google “arguably violated” US labor law by illegally firin...

SN15 on the landing pad after landing | SpaceX SpaceX launched a high-altitude Starship prototype rocket and successfully landed it for the first time on Wednesday, ov...

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The young attractive royal couple that is not Harry and Meghan has dropped a truly chaotic intro video for their shiny new official YouTube channel. In the video, the presumed ...

Nintendo’s next game for the Switch is one you build yourself. Today the company revealed Game Builder Garage, a new software title that’s designed to teach beginners the b...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it supported waiving patent protections on COVID-19 vaccines, calling the p...

Image: Twitter Twitter is finally rolling out a long-awaited feature: bigger images that don’t crop in so darn much. Now, image previews should show way more of the i...

Image: Twitter Twitter is finally rolling out a long-awaited feature: bigger images that don’t crop in so darn much. Now, image previews should show way more of the i...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge An old version of Peloton’s API, the software that allows the company’s bikes and recalled treadmills to communicate wit...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is infamous for tightly controlling its workers and contractors, but a report from Bloomberg shows that it also tries to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In 2020, Microsoft was battling to bring xCloud or Xbox Game Streaming to the iPhone and iPad, and the conversations had an unli...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After months of waiting, today Facebook’s Oversight Board finally handed down the biggest ruling of its short existence — th...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is updating its “be nice, think twice” system that prompts users to reconsider when they’re about to tweet a “po...

Netflix is taking a different route for its new Zack Snyder-directed zombie heist movie, Army of the Dead. Rather than skip theaters and drop the new thriller directly in subsc...

A excavator operates next to a dump truck on a mine floor at the Bald Hill lithium mine site, co-owned by Tawana Resources Ltd. and Alliance Mineral Assets Ltd., outside of Wid...

Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Clubhouse is funding the creation of 50 audio shows made by creators on its platform. The concepts includ...

Image: Disney Loki, the upcoming Disney Plus show about the trickster god and brother of Thor, will be coming out slightly earlier than originally planned: the premiere...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump’s Facebook ban is sticking around for now, following the decision from Facebook’s Oversight Board to ...

Image: Apple The new 11-inch iPad Pro with the M1 processor costs $799 to preorder at most retailers, but not at Walmart. You can reserve an 11-inch model with 128GB of...

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is aiming to launch its first crew of humans to the edge of space on July 20th aboard its suborbital space tourism rocket, New Shepard, ...

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Google is today announcing a new feature on Android tablets that plays to one of their greatest strengths: media consumption. The simply named “Entertainment Space” will be...

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Photo by Marcus Brandt/picture alliance via Getty Images The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the remote testing company Proctorio on be...

Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images The US Department of Labor withdrew a Trump-era rule that would have made it easier for “gig economy” companies like Uber and Lyf...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton is issuing a voluntary recall for all of its treadmill products — including both the Peloton Tread and Tread Plus ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap can be sued over a Snapchat speed filter that allegedly encouraged reckless driving, despite the generally broad legal prot...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Online game subscriptions are quite common in the gaming industry. Whether it's a subscription for an online service for multipl...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Whether you own a PS4 or PS5, you probably want to have PS Plus service to be able to play games online and to get complimentary offer...

Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images Things may be starting to open up, but for now, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to limit face-to-face association and most of us are...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s Oversight Board has upheld Facebook’s ban on former President Donald Trump, as announced by the organization on W...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new report from The Intercept has shed light on a worrying new technology that lets law enforcement agencies extract personal ...

Facebook, which never saw a social network it couldn’t copy, says its Nextdoor-clone Neighborhoods is now available across Canada and is coming soon to four US cities. Accord...

Image: PlayStation Nike, Sony, and basketball player Paul George have collaborated on another pair of sneakers, the PG 5, with help from PS5 designer Yujin Morisawa. Ac...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the Epic v. Apple trial’s big keywords is “cross-wallet play.” In Epic’s Fortnite, “cross-wallet” means you c...

Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge WhatsApp is again rolling out its payments service in Brazil, after the service was suspended by Brazil’s Central Bank in June of 2...

Image: Boost Mobile In what looks to be a first in terms of subscriber perks, Boost Mobile has announced that its $60 per month Unlimited Plus cellphone plan will come ...

Basecamp’s CEO published a blog post about policy changes — it may have broken the company Continue reading… ...

Image: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum May Fourth is informally the Star Wars Day holiday, which random brands typically use to hawk their wares. Although it�...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images An AT&T policy that bars employees from recording conversations with managers or collea...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge HTC is planning to unveil two Vive virtual reality headsets at its ViveCon 2021 conference that’s happening on May 11th an...

Lenovo A new Show Mode feature from Amazon is now rolling out to some Lenovo laptops. When you activate this, it will change your home screen to look like the home scre...

Apple Watch | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Apple Watch Series 3 was first released in September 2017, bringing fitness improvements and a faster proc...

Alex Castro/The Verge In a new blog post, Basecamp CEO Jason Fried apologized after the “policy changes” he announced last week ultimately led to a third of the com...

Image: Google Google seems to be getting a little ahead of itself. This afternoon, as noticed by 9to5Google and others, the official Android account on Twitter tweeted ...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images After months of promising his own social media network for banned posters, former President...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images After months of promising his own social media network for banned posters, former President...

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Dell has released a security patch that fixes a security vulnerability affecting many Dell computers going back to 2009, along with ins...

Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images Things may be starting to open up, but for now, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to limit face-to-face association and most of us are...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tinder wants to give you more info on what you and a match have in common, so it’s launching a new quiz feature to help out. T...

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asking Apple to open its phones to other app stores as early as 2015, according to new emails made public as part of the companies’ antitrust t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia appears to be getting ready to launch its RTX 3080 Ti graphics card later this month. Over the past few weeks, RTX 3080 T...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit had a bit of a blip on Tuesday afternoon, going down for almost an hour. According to Reddit’s status page, the issues ...

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Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Uber announced that it was teaming up with delivery startup Gopuff to expand its delivery business. Gopuff, which acqu...

The British Royal Navy has apparently been testing using jet suits to board ships like a scene out of some scrapped Christopher Nolan film, according to a new video released by...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic pushed Microsoft to open up its Xbox network for free multiplayer gaming just weeks before the Apple and Fortnite battle. I...

Japreece Dean of the Minnesota Lynx handles the ball against the Atlanta Dream. | Photo by Dale Zanine/NBAE via Getty Images For its upcoming 25th season, the Women’s...

After four years of support, the S8 and S8 Plus will no longer receive security updates. | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Four years after its launch, the Samsung G...

A routine mammogram | Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, as people avoided doctors�...

Will Smith has a new fitness show coming to YouTube. | Image: YouTube YouTube announced a new slate of original series today that includes some huge stars at the top of...

Two companies that have built their businesses on computer accessories are coming together. Targus, a company best known for its laptop cases and bags, today announced that it�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Robinhood ran into issues processing cryptocurrency trades this morning, during a spike in the price of Dogecoin that sent users...

Image: Instagram Instagram now has a captions sticker for Stories, which will automatically transcribe speech in videos. The sticker will be available only in “Englis...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Epic Games v. Apple trial started on Monday, and if you wanted to follow along and listen to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney talk about...

Image: Lucasfilm Ltd. The Bad Batch has arrived today as the latest Star Wars spinoff series for Disney Plus. It’s a different, smaller show than preceding animated s...

In the Earth. | Photo: Neon An unsettling film that evades the genre’s usual tropes Continue reading… ...

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 ...

MacBook Air (late-2020). With multiple configurations and various MacBook models available for purchase, including ones equipped with the new M1 processor, finding a de...

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein on competing with the tech giants during the pandemic Continue reading&hell...

Disney has finally showed off a first look at its “real” retractable lightsaber, which the company started teasing in April, with a new video showing the saber in action �...

You probably knew already that it’s May 4th, or the Star Wars-themed May the Fourth (be with you) day. Lots of retailers are discounting their Star Wars stuff, and it’s led...

Walmart’s unannounced cloud gaming service, codenamed Project Storm, has been detailed in new confidential emails. An exhibit in the Epic Games v. Apple trial reveals Walmart...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is adding a new Reading Progress feature to Microsoft Teams, designed to help students improve their reading fluency. Reading Progress works ...

Image: Scroll Twitter’s acquisition spree continues today with Scroll, a $5-a-month subscription service that removes ads from participating news sites (including The...

Moment’s cold shoe and 1/4” threaded MagSafe mount is $59.99. There is nothing better than tech that just works. The satisfying joy that comes with transferring fil...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Phil Schiller, the Apple executive in charge of the App Store, raised the possibility of the company cutting its 30 percent comm...

Photo: Skydio US dronemaker Skydio has begun shipping its first enterprise drones today with prices starting at an enterprise-worthy $10,999. Skydio is best known as a ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new document released as part of Epic’s legal battle with Apple has revealed how much Epic paid developers to give away thei...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Epic Games launched its courtroom war against Apple in an extremely on-brand way: with CEO Tim Sweeney describing the metaverse fr...

The company’s senior leadership wanted to quell employees’ concerns, and only made things much, much worse Continue reading… ...

Images: Arrival UK-based EV startup Arrival is working with Uber to develop an electric car that will be “purpose-built” for ride-hailing. Arrival plans to put the ...

Close-up shot of the Impossible Foods Company’s product Impossible Burger in Walnut Creek, California, January 11, 2021. | Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images ...

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Amazon made history as the first all-digital streamer to acquire exclusive rights to the NFL’s Thursday Night Football, and n...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After a meteoric rise to popularity in 2018, Fortnite generated more than $5 billion in its first year for Epic Games, new finan...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I know there’s a ton of other Apple news happening today, but if you’re reading it on a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch (o...

Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Robin Hood Bill Gates and Melinda Gates have announced that they’ll be ending their marriage after 27 years together, explaining...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Both Apple and Epic have released their opening presentations on why they feel they should win this week’s trial, which is set...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge General Motors has finally revealed its plan to fix the issue at the center of last year’s Chevy Bolt recall, which the au...

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&...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s no secret that Sony held back PS4 cross-platform play for years, but new confidential documents and emails reveal just ho...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After a meteoric rise to popularity in 2018, Fortnite generated more than $5 billion in its first year for Epic Games, new finan...

An internal Epic document from June 2020 shows plans to “announce the first-ever sports event in Party Royale” An internal presentation at Epic Games showed ambitio...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge PlayStation is now partnering with Discord, the popular online communication service, with a promise to “bring the Discord and...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Beginning Monday, Twitter will bring the ability for accounts with 600 or more followers to host Spaces, its Clubhouse-like soci...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is enabling its Xbox FPS Boost mode on 74 more games today, bringing the total up to 97 games. Titles getting an FPS B...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Epic Games v. Apple trial is starting today, and it has begun with a court conference call full of kids screaming for Fortnite to ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Dronemaker DJI says a firmware update is coming to fix a battery discharge issue in its DJI Mini 2 drone. According to TechRadar, the ...

G4’s newest host looks a little different from the rest of its lineup: it’s hired CodeMiko — one of the biggest virtual streamers on Twitch — to bring her eccentric int...

Sony’s PlayStation 5 is still incredibly difficult to find. Whether you got lucky with a launch unit, or are still trying to snag one for yourself, picking up additional acce...

The new tech improves contrast. | Image: Lancer Brigade The US Army’s Lancer Brigade showed footage of the world as seen through the latest in night vision technology...

The long-awaited League of Legends animated series is coming to Netflix. The streaming service confirmed today that the show, called Arcane, will be available later this fall. ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Xbox Series X and Series S consoles launched in November 2020. Whether you were able to secure one in time for launch day, or if y...

MacBook Air (late-2020). With multiple configurations and various MacBook models available for purchase, including ones equipped with the new M1 processor, finding a de...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whether you’re a new or not-so-new Switch owner, everyone needs some good games to play. If you want some of the best titl...

ArtStation As it prepares to do battle in court with Apple over App Store fees, Epic Games has acquired ArtStation, an online marketplace for digital artists, the compa...

Verizon has sold its AOL and Yahoo properties to Apollo Global Management in a deal said to be worth $5 billion, about half of the nearly $9 billion Verizon originally paid for...

Kroger is partnering with Drone Express on deliveries of packages up to five pounds. | Image: Kroger Kroger is joining rival Walmart by launching a drone delivery pilot...

Castlevania | Netflix Just started watching season four of The Handmaid’s Tale and I remember why I prefer the weekly release schedule for this show: Bingeing it is u...

iFixit did a teardown of Apple’s AirTags | iFixit The team over at iFixit has done its teardown thing again, this time examining Apple’s AirTag trackers. Part one o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is continuing its campaign against Apple’s iOS 14 privacy updates, adding a notice within its iOS app telling users t...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Neuralink President Max Hodak tweeted Saturday that he has left the company he co-founded w...

An open office, 1960s-style. | Photo: United Artists So it seems that Google, the exemplar of the open-office concept, is trying now to figure out how to keep its desig...

NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. | Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images Four astronauts retu...

NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. | Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images Four astronauts retu...

A sleek, but slow, Chromebook Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has been planning to cut its Xbox store cut to just 12 percent, according to confidential documents filed in the Epic ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft had been planning to cut its Xbox store cut to just 12 percent, according to confidential documents filed in the Epic ...

Just two days before Apple gets dragged into a California court to justify its 30 percent App Store fee — and two days after Microsoft axed its 30 percent cut on PC — we’...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Conservative news channel Newsmax has posted an apology to an employee of Dominion Voting Systems, after it reported without evi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An expert witness for Epic Games testified that Apple’s App Store had operating margins above 70 percent in fiscal years 2018 ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An appeals court in California has ruled that Amazon can be held liable for products sold through its marketplace by a third-par...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A former Netflix executive was convicted of taking bribes and kickbacks from vendors doing business with the company, according ...

A screenshot from Disco Elysium. | Image: Studio ZA/UM At some point during my time with Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, after I read yet another minutes-long dialogue se...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Florida is on the verge of passing legislation that would fine social media companies like Twitter and Facebook that “knowingl...

A woman gets a COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccine clinic in Texas on April 30, 2021. | Photo by CECILE CLOCHERET/AFP via Getty Images If you’re one of the few thous...

Apple We’ve reached the weekend, and the start of another month. Sayonara, April, and hello to May. The past few days at The Verge have been some of the best tech dea...

Sony’s newest lenses are three new compact primes lenses that each cost $600. The new Sony 24mm f/2.8, 40mm f/2.5, and 50mm f/2.5 are three new compact prime lenses t...

Microsoft shook up the PC gaming industry this week with the announcement that it was cutting the fee it takes from game sales on the Windows store. On the surface, it’s a we...

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images A report from Vice has opened my eyes to just how big the Pokémon trading card collecting market is getting — apparently to t...

If you’d like a visual of one way that doom could overtake Earth almost immediately, then YouTube user Anselo La Manna has just the video for you: a large asteroid impact sim...

A screenshot from Onward. | Image: Downpour Interactive Facebook’s Oculus division has snatched up yet another popular virtual reality game developer. On Friday, the ...

A digital illustration of SpaceX’s Starship lunar lander sitting on the Moon’s surface, as proposed to NASA under its Artemis program. | Image: SpaceX NASA has susp...

The Biden administration’s version of a COVID-19 vaccine-finding website launched today, along with a Spanish-language version, text messaging tool, and phone hotline. The n...

Image: Apple If you’re hoping to get one of the new 12.9-inch iPad Pros with a Mini LED display, you may be waiting a while — the delivery times for even the base m...

The Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. | Image: NASA/JPL After acing a set of historic test flights on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter will embark on a new, more advance...

After a controversial blog post in which CEO Jason Fried outlined Basecamp’s new philosophy that prohibited, among other things, “societal and political discussions” on i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Friday morning, Roku pulled YouTube TV from its channel store. Its removal came after Roku’s distribution agreement for the...

Image: Instacart Some Instacart shoppers claim that the company has wrongfully terminated their accounts in response to fraudulent activity, locking them out of future ...

Photo: Flickr Due to an issue with QuickBooks processing direct deposits, some people had a very unpleasant morning, waking up to see either that their paycheck hadn’...

Facebook Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where host Nilay Patel discusses the week in tech news with the reporters and editors co...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hulu’s live TV service is finally getting nine new ViacomCBS channels — Comedy Central, BET, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., VH1, CMT...

Photo by Tom Flathers/Manchester City FC via Getty Images English soccer teams and organizations are all shutting down their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts f...

Image: Capcom We’re just a week out from the release of Resident Evil Village, and as part of the game’s promotional campaign, Capcom has uploaded an absolute treat...

Harebrained Schemes I woke up feeling a little strange this morning, but I didn’t think much of it. It’s just another day living in the pandemic. But after I got so...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Trade groups representing some of the largest telecom companies, including AT&T and Verizon, are suing New York over a new s...

Deepfakes use AI techniques to generate or manipulate videos and pictures. | Artist: William Joel Last week, numerous news outlets reported that a string of European p...

The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion Continue reading… ...

The latest iPad Pros are powered by the M1 chip. | Apple Following the official reveal last week of the new model refreshes for the iMac and iPad Pros, all of which are...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic will put Apple’s business under a microscope Continue reading… ...

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

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Roku has pulled YouTube TV from its channel store. The distribution agreement between Roku and Google for YouTube TV has expired as of ...

Elon Musk says ‘significant mistakes’ were made in how Tesla calculates solar roof costs. Customers are irate Continue reading… ...

The new iPad Pro | Apple Apple announced a 2021 refresh to its iPad Pro lineup, which now includes the same powerful and efficient M1 processor that’s in its MacBook ...

Image: Apple Apple’s colorful new M1-powered iMacs, refreshed iPad Pros, and updated Apple TV 4K (with a not-terrible-looking remote) are now all available to preorde...

Photo by Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress Google is redesigning its offices for the post-pandemic world, and The New York Times has a big report full of pictures and vide...

An example of the kind of listing that will be prohibited under the new policy. | Image: Google Google has announced new Play Store policies and guidelines designed to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The European Commission is issuing antitrust charges against Apple over concerns about the company’s App Store practices. The ...

PayPal is now available as a payment method for US Coinbase users. | Image: Coinbase Coinbase has added the option for users to buy cryptocurrency using their PayPal ac...

Apple has added a new App Store search suggestions feature in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK, that might make it easier to find apps. Now, after typing in a search term,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge All the news about the huge trial Continue reading… ...

I wish I’d had this to test with Samsung’s Odyssey G9 Continue reading… ...