Articles by The Verge from July 2021

If you’re invested in the story of Master Chief, Cortana, and the fate of the Halo universe, you might want to keep your head down and start muting some keywords on social me...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More disturbing allegations of Activision Blizzard’s reported culture of sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination hav...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is holding a competition in hopes that hackers and researchers will be able to identify biases in its image cropping alg...

Decentralized social network Mastodon now has an official iPhone app. The nonprofit behind Mastodon launched the app on iOS today, supplementing an existing web version and sev...

A rendering of what the “Victorian Big Battery” will look like when completed. | Image: Neoen A Tesla Megapack caught fire today during initial testing of a highly ...

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors c...

Smoke rises over the mountains in Lytton, as firefighters battle the fires in British Columbia, July 6, 2021. | Photo by Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images ...

The ridiculous sounds of social sites Continue reading… ...

Photo By: Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Elon Musk has had a busy Friday on Twitter. After flatly denying that he has ever spoken to Apple CEO Tim Cook...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly demanded to become Apple’s CEO in a 2016 phone call with current Apple CEO Tim Cook, according to an upcoming book about Tesla. The story, shar...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The sweeping federal antitrust case against Google has given rise to a significant fight over data held by Microsoft, and the co...

Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Blue Origin’s protest against NASA’s decision to pick just one company to build its first human lunar lander in decades was denied...

Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images The Government Accountability Office squashed Blue Origin’s protest over NASA’s decision to pick a single lunar lander contractor,...

Photo: Marvel Studios How the team at Digital Domain destroyed a world Continue reading… ...

Normally $50 a pop, BuyDig is offering a trio of Google Nest Minis for nearly 60 percent off. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Like Amazon’s Echo Dot, the Google Ne...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the company used a software update to reduce the maximum battery voltag...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lawmakers cling to flawed evidence while restricting care for trans youth Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re a TikTok creator, then you know how quickly those minutes of video can fly by. One of the ways you can move storytel...

Roscosmos Russia’s space agency blamed a “short-term software failure” for yesterday’s engine mishap with its new science module. The module’s thrusters unexp...

Fireside The Mark Cuban-funded and co-founded audio app Fireside has yet to publicly launch, but already it’s asking the limited creators on its platform for money. I...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Now that Amazon’s Q2 earnings are in, it has submitted a 10-Q filing with the SEC that includes additional details like this e...

If it’s approved, the bipartisan infrastructure deal announced this week will make it easier for Americans to buy and own an electric car. But it won’t help meet President ...

Illustration by Ari Liloan for The Verge ‘We are delivery boys who want to raise our voices’ Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This week, the dam broke. With COVID-19 surging around the United States and vaccination rates stagnating, federal agencies and ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is a notoriously secretive company, and a cease and desist letter recently acquired by Motherboard sheds new light on exac...

Photo credit should read JULIO CESAR AGUILAR/AFP via Getty Images The Beatles seminal Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is set to receive another Dolby Atmos mix,...

An AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU from Asus | Image: AMD AMD has a new entry-level RX 6000-series GPU: the $379 RX 6600 XT, which is still based on the same RDNA 2 architect...

Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Following a prolonged standoff between Dish Network and AT&T over licensing terms to c...

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 ...

Verizon’s hotspot plans offer mobile data that can be shared with other devices in your luxury camper van, er, house. | Image: Verizon Verizon has introduced new mobi...

A screenshot from Destiny 2. | Image: Bungie Destiny 2 developer Bungie revealed a whole lot of information about the game’s upcoming crossplay support in a blog post...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snapchat is experiencing a massive issue as of Thursday evening, with more than 125,000 users reporting problems on Downdetector...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snapchat experienced a massive issue Thursday evening, with more than 125,000 users reporting problems on Downdetector. I tried ...

Photo: Turn 10 Studios Forza Motorsport 7 will no longer be available to purchase from the Microsoft Store or play on Xbox Game Pass after September 15th, 2021, as it�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Robinhood started trading at $38, dropped about 10 percent, recovered, but still closed down 8 percent at $34.90 on its first da...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The first major system update for Sony’s PlayStation 5 is arriving in beta form today, finally letting you expand the console’s 66...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon has updated the Alexa app on iOS so that you can access the voice assistant right from your home screen via a new widget. Everyo...

Photo: Getty Images As stores reopen and in-person shopping picks back up, the surge in demand for Amazon purchases has finally started to wane — not much, to be clea...

A haze of wildfire smoke and clouds is seen at sunset in an aerial image taken during a flight from Seattle to Los Angeles as Western wildfires, including the Bootleg, Dixie, a...

The Biden administration wants states and local governments to give $100 to “every newly vaccinated American,” the Treasury Department said in a statement today. It’s the...

Russia’s Nauka module | Roscosmos The International Space Station unexpectedly shifted in orbit on Thursday when thrusters on a newly docked Russian module began firi...

Stray. Thanks to games like Florence, Gorogoa, and What Remains of Edith Finch, Annapurna Interactive has steadily become one of the most exciting indie game publishers...

Microsoft has released the first beta of Windows 11, available to those enrolled in its Windows Insider Program. Until today, getting access to Windows 11 meant installing the ...

Image: Apple If a year inside convinced you to shoot your shot at becoming an international DJ, Apple is updating GarageBand for iOS and iPadOS on Thursday with a low-s...

Image: Marvel Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over the simultaneous streaming release of Black Widow, which debuted the same day in theaters and on Disney Plus throu...

The Motorola Edge 20 Pro, Edge 20, and Edge 20 Lite all support 5G and come with a 6.7-inch OLED. | Image: Motorola Motorola is keeping its return to flagship devices r...

Sunisa Lee of Team United States competes on the balance beam during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. | Photo by Amin Mohammad Jamali/Getty Images Figuring...

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images The NBA and iHeartMedia, which owns iHeartRadio, will be launching more than 20 new co-produced podcasts as part of a multiyear ...

Amazon’s Kindle e-readers with built-in 3G will begin to lose the ability to connect to the internet on their own in the US in December, according to an email sent to custome...

Image: Amazon Amazon has announced that its second-gen Fire TV Cube is now able to participate in two-way Zoom video calls. The company rolled out support for videoconf...

Image: Marvel Studios Marvel’s Hawkeye spinoff show is officially debuting on Disney Plus on November 24th, the company announced today. The announcement comes with t...

Images: Arc Electricity and water don’t mix — well, actually, they mix really well, which can be problematic for humans. So the thought of an electric boat may seem...

A new sports add-on from Hulu with Live TV. | Image: Hulu Hulu is adding two big channels for football coverage to its live TV service. The NFL Network will be included...

The Flex 5 is built for its price range Continue reading… ...

The next big Fortnite concert is happening very soon — but who will be performing remains a mystery. Developer Epic announced an event called the Rift Tour, which will take p...

Airbnb is adding a new tool for hosts that will let them easily test and list their Wi-Fi speeds on listings. The new addition is in recognization of the fact that — particul...

Image: BBC The Thirteenth Doctor is set to step away. Today, the BBC announced that Jodie Whittaker, who took over as the first female lead in Doctor Who in 2017, will ...

Every summer, hundreds of diamondback terrapins crawl over to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to lay their eggs. In past years, the turtles have been so obst...

The PS5 software beta now supports M.2 SSDs. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Sony has started beta testing the first software update for the PS5 today, and it include...

In Southern District of New York federal court on Thursday, Nikola founder Trevor Milton was charged with securities fraud. The charges allege that Milton made a series of mate...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber is teaming up with popular language service Rosetta Stone to provide free classes to drivers and couriers, the company anno...

Standout design, noise cancellation, and wireless charging for $99 Continue reading… ...

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge This 8-liter desktop upgrades in a snap Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Ari Liloan for The Verge ‘Documented Dreamers’ have few good options after aging out of dependent visas Continue reading… ...

The Huawei P50 Pro. | Image: Huawei Huawei has announced its latest flagship phones for the Chinese market, the P50 and P50 Pro. They’re the company’s first major p...

Apple MacBook Air with the M1 processor | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s latest MacBook Air with the M1 processor is an excellent, lightweight productivity...

What exactly the glasses will look like or how they will function is unclear. Facebook’s next hardware launch will be its long-awaited Ray-Ban ‘smart glasses,’ C...

Looking back a year later at Intel’s worst summer, and how it’s been fighting its way back since Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony’s PS5 system software beta program is starting to roll out today, and it include access to the long-awaited M.2 SSD slot. The f...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge “Sugar dating” apps will not be allowed on the Android Play Store from September 1st, Google has announced as part of a seri...

The Beoplay EQ are available in gold (pictured) and black. | Image: Bang and Olufsen Bang & Olufsen’s Beoplay EQ are the Danish audio brand’s first pair of nois...

Engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober has created a robot that can make domino murals at lightning speed, and has shown it off with a video of it arranging 100,000 dominoes into a S...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung Electronics has released its second-quarter earnings, reporting 20 percent higher revenue and 54 percent higher operating prof...

MacBook Air (late-2020). With multiple configurations and various models to choose from, including some equipped with Apple’s new M1 processor, finding a deal on a Ma...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix will require the casts and some crew on its productions in the US to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a measure that come...

Amazon’s Kindle e-readers with built-in 3G will begin to lose the ability to connect to the internet on their own in the US in December, according to an email sent to custome...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In May, I wrote here that the child safety problem on tech platforms is worse than we knew. A disturbing study from the nonprofi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook will require its US employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 when they return to the office, the company confirmed t...

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge The best Chromebook laptop or two-in-one for every Chrome OS fan Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Workers at a Houston, Texas facility that processes repairs for Apple, Dell, and Lenovo reportedly say they are working in “sw...

Apple will be requiring customers and staff at most of its more than 270 US retail stores to wear masks even if they are vaccinated, according to a new Bloomberg report, bringi...

Photo illustration byJakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images You may be switching jobs, or maybe you’ve decided to stop using a specific email account, or maybe you ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. | Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images If you pay even the slightest attention to tech news, you’ve probably recently seen nonstop critic...

Photography by Zoe Schiffer / The Verge ‘Until these demands are met, we won’t stop fighting’ Continue reading… ...

On Wednesday, bipartisan Senate negotiators reached a deal on an infrastructure package after weeks of tense discussion. The package includes billions in new funding, including...

Image: Google Google announced it’s adding new caller ID, missed call, and SMS message features to Google Voice on Wednesday. The otherwise minor update is notable be...

As employees walk out of Activision Blizzard today over allegations of “constant sexual harassment” and workplace discrimination — and how poorly they felt the company re...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Robinhood is scheduled to price its stock today before trading begins tomorrow, and yesterday, it disclosed a new investigation:...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla CEO Elon Musk has, for years, talked about opening up his company’s vast Supercharger network to other electric vehicles. But...

United Airlines announced a new option for passengers to preorder food, snacks, and beverages online up to five days before their scheduled flight. Orders can be made either on...

Photo by Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images Test-launching its astronaut capsule a second time, Boeing needs a success now more than ever Continue reading&hel...

Image: IGN Valve president Gabe Newell has given a rare interview to IGN, where he talks about why the company’s upcoming Steam Deck handheld exists and the philosoph...

I have nothing against Google’s Meet videoconferencing platform — in fact, I’ve used it a few times — but I can’t help being annoyed when the feature is pushed at me ...

T-Mobile is offering customers who switch from an MVNO a discount on an unlimited Metro plan with 5G. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile is introducing ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will require that employees be vaccinated before they’re allowed to return to the company’s offices, CEO Sundar Picha...

Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine’s protection against severe cases of the disease holds steady after six months, ...

Would you pay $10 for the privilege of strapping rocket boosters to James Bond’s iconic Aston Martin DB5 automobile and using it to score spectacular gravity-defying goals wi...

The Oppo Watch 2 has launched in China, featuring the same Apple Watch-style design as the original Oppo Watch but with improved internal hardware. That includes Qualcomm’s l...

Image: Blizzard California’s suit alleges a toxic culture, discrimination, and retaliation Continue reading… ...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images In a new letter, Activision Blizzard employees said that CEO Bobby Kotick’s note addressi...

Google rolled out Google Meet, a revamped version of its video chatting program Hangouts Meet, in April 2020, and made the app available to anyone with a Google account. You ca...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google announced that Gmail would natively support email scheduling in April 2019, and the feature became available in desktop a...

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is the kind of engrossing murder mystery that’s perfect for a long vacation — it just happens to be a video game. As a prequel of sorts, C...

The section gives a summary of data collected, and security practices. | Image: Google Google has revealed an in-progress design for the Play Store’s upcoming safety ...

GameStop and Arden Cove are two of the brands piloting the feature. | Image: Twitter Twitter is piloting a new feature that allows businesses to add a shopping section ...

People wait to buy ice cream from a vender on the National Mall as the DC area experiences a heatwave on June 30, 2021, in Washington, DC. - Climate change is causing record-se...

Snap More than 250 million people use Snapchat’s built-in map to see where their friends are in the world. The map interface was recently upgraded to a main tab insid...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Great gifts for high schoolers and the college bound Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony has now sold more than 10 million PS5 consoles. That’s up more than 2 million sales from the 7.8 million Sony previously reveal...

In a rare move, Wellbots is offering the standout Sonos Arc for $50 off MSRP. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sonos products are an easy sell, at least when the pric...

Illustration by Ari Liloan for The Verge Young people can make real money selling vintage clothes online — if they can stay on the right side of the algorithm ...

Researchers from Oregon State University have coaxed a bipedal robot off the couch to successfully complete the first ever robotic 5 kilometer outdoors run. The bot, Cassie, co...

Researchers from Oregon State University have coaxed a bipedal robot off the couch to successfully complete the first ever robotic 5 kilometer outdoors run. The bot, Cassie, co...

The Poco X3 GT looks very similar to the Chinese version of Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 10 Pro. Xiaomi spin-off Poco has announced yet another X3 phone. The X3 GT follows the...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WhatsApp is developing a way for its users to transfer their chat histories from iOS to Android, according to reports from WABet...

ZTE’s Axon 30. | Image: ZTE Last year’s Axon 20 5G from ZTE was the world’s first commercially-available phone to put a front-facing camera underneath its displa...

Krispy Kreme’s new Xbox doughnut. | Image: Krispy Kreme Krispy Kreme has created an Xbox doughnut. The fluffy doughnut is a marketing collaboration with Microsoft to ...

Spotify’s latest subscriber numbers. | Image: Spotify Spotify now has 165 million premium subscribers and 365 million monthly active users according to a new earnings...

The first Halo Infinite multiplayer technical preview will start tomorrow, July 29th. The beta will run until Sunday August 1st, offering a short chance for those invited to te...

Nintendo has announced that Dr. Mario World, a mobile take on the puzzle game series, will go out of service on November 1st, with sales of its in-app “diamond” currency en...

Photo by J. Emilio Flores/Corbis via Getty Images The evening before a proposed employee walkout at Activision Blizzard, one that at least part of the company is now ac...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Workers at a Houston, Texas facility that processes repairs for Apple, Dell, and Lenovo reportedly say they are working in “sw...

Image: Apple Apple is expanding which devices can use one of its previously M1-chip exclusive features in the fourth macOS Monterey beta. Live Text, the company’s new...

A screenshot from World of Warcraft. | Image: Activision Blizzard The World of Warcraft team has vowed to remove “references that are not appropriate for our world”...

Photo: Blizzard On Wednesday, Activision Blizzard employees will walk out of work to protest the company’s response to a giant sexual harassment and workplace discrim...

TikTok has announced a slew of new live video features coming to the popular video app platform for both creators and viewers, including scheduled “events,” picture-in-pict...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s string of record-breaking earnings reports continued on Tuesday, with the company posting a strong fiscal third quarte...

Former eBay security manager Philip Cooke has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in an intense stalking campaign against a pair of eBay critics. A Massachusetts...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last quarter, Google roared out of the post-pandemic-peak period with a record $17.9 billion in profit, finally joining other te...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft posted the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2021 financial results today, reporting revenue of $46.2 billion and a net inc...

Fast charging and elegant software offset a so-so camera Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter will be bringing on the team building Brief, an app that summarizes news, the company announced Tuesday. The Brief team,...

Twitter’s new banners informing users their account has been suspended or locked. | Image: Twitter Twitter is testing new notices that tell you if your account has be...

Apple’s current tab design squashes tabs and the search window into a single row. Apple has started trickling out its fourth iOS and iPadOS 15 betas, taking additiona...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new recommendations today that people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 ...

If you bought Resident Evil Village on PC but put off playing it due to horrible performance issues, you may be in luck. Over three months after the port’s release, Capcom ha...

T-Mobile crafted an underdog image for itself, but its recent moves have looked a lot more mainstream. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lately, T-Mobile has be...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Instagram Reels can now be up to one minute long, double the previous 30-second time limit. Instagram initially debuted Reel...

Land surface temperatures in Tokyo show that it’s an urban heat island. | NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geologic...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images The sole copy of a Wu-Tang Clan record, forfeited by the infamous “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, has been sold by the US government...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok’s Text-to-Speech is both a great accessibility feature for people with visual and reading impairments and a tool to cre...

PAX West will now require attendees to prove they’ve been vaccinated for COVID-19 or received a negative test result before they’re allowed to enter the convention, organiz...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Activison Blizzard employees are staging a walkout on Wednesday, July 28th in response to t...

Disney The adventure flick based on a ride has lofty and often entertaining aspirations Continue reading… ...

Google TV for Android shown on a mobile device. | Image: Google The Android app for Google TV is getting new discovery features and support for a handful of entertainme...

Facebook is pausing worldwide sales of the Oculus Quest 2 while it upgrades the headset’s storage and replaces its foam facial covers with a new silicone design. Starting Aug...

Sony There’s a new trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife that gives away more of the setting and plot than anything we’ve seen to date — and boy, does it look good....

Microsoft Flight Simulator is getting its biggest update ever on PC today, thanks to a new patch that delivers significant performance improvements. The game has been notorious...

Imagine Linguini from Ratatouille stuck in endless Zoom meetings. | Image: The Verge Want to make your next quarterly Zoom check-up a little more interesting? Feel lik...

Master & Dynamic has announced the latest addition to its distinctive lineup of true wireless earbuds. The new MW08 Sport noise-canceling earbuds are available today for $3...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Discord is launching its Threads feature today to allow servers to improve the back-and-forth of conversations on the service. T...

A chat with localization director Janet Hsu Continue reading… ...

Facebook is making Instagram safer for young people while developing Instagram for under-13s. | Image: Instagam Facebook-owned Instagram is introducing changes designe...

Fortnite’s next big live event appears to be very close. After the game’s most recent update, a new alien ship can be found hovering over the center of the battle royale is...

An Ear (1) earbud perched atop its charging case. | Image: Nothing Nothing, the consumer tech startup led by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, has officially announced its E...

The second-gen Echo Buds surpass their predecessors with better noise cancellation and sound. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Unsurprisingly, Staples isn’t the onl...

Apple Watch | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A Harvard biostatistician is rethinking plans to use Apple Watches as part of a research study after finding i...

A solid, affordable business notebook Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Ari Liloan for The Verge From Tumblr to TikTok, young disabled people are deciding how to represent themselves Continue reading… ...

Spotify wants to be the place you listen to all your podcasts, even the ones you pay for outside the app, so today’s it’s making that a possibility. The company announced m...

Pinterest Pinterest is going after the influencer market. The platform announced its first set of tools today to let content creators earn money by promoting items from...

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Personality-driven journalism applies to traditional media, too Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has denied a report that claimed it plans to start accepting Bitcoin as payment before the end of the year. “Notwithsta...

Citizen alerts users to local crime and emergencies based on their location. | Image: Citizen Citizen, an app dedicated to blasting people with notifications about eme...

Laura Chase de Formigny for The Washington Post via Getty Images; food styling by Lisa Cherkasky for The Washington Post via Getty Images Tiramisu is a deliciously simp...

A leaked image of the upcoming Realme Flash and its MagDart magnetic charger | GSMArena Realme has teased a new device called the Realme Flash, which it claims will be ...

A blue icon will indicate when new content has released. | Image: Spotify What’s New is a new section in the Spotify app that collects together new music and content ...

It’s the same size as last year, but with plenty of changes behind the panel. Samsung’s follow-up to the excellent Odyssey G9 curved gaming monitor is nearly here: ...

I recently re-watched Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. It mostly held up — except for Lucasfilm’s attempt to bring Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia and Peter Cushing’s Grand ...

Dieter Bohn / The Verge Last week iOS 14.7 appeared, adding features including support for Apple’s magnetic battery pack. Unfortunately, the update also interrupted t...

Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission told SpaceX and other companies on Monday that the billions in rural broadband subsid...

The XR20 includes a 6.67-inch screen and dual rear-facing cameras. | Image: HMD Global HMD Global’s newest Nokia device is the XR20, a rugged phone with 5G connectivi...

Samsung Unpacked invitation | Samsunng Samsung isn’t looking to have many surprises at its August 11th Unpacked event. Leaks have already revealed the Galaxy Z Fold 3...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla is weathering the global chip shortage by rewriting its vehicle software to support alternative chips, CEO Elon Musk said durin...

Image: Evan Blass on Twitter New leaks suggest Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Z Fold 3 will both have IPX8 water resistance, which would put them more on par ...

Photo Illustration by Guillaume Payen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images More than three years after initial reports of a federal investigation into the cryptocur...

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

Intel has announced its first major customer for its new Intel Foundry Services business: Qualcomm. Best known for designing the Snapdragon chips that power most major Android ...

Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Hundreds of Activision Blizzard employees have signed a letter (published by Bloomberg, Po...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Intel is rethinking how it releases — and brands — its semiconductor innovations, CEO Pat Gelsinger announced today at the c...

Image: Tesla Tesla sold enough cars and energy products to turn a profit even without counting the sale of emissions credits to other automakers — a milestone for the...

The 55-inch Samsung Crystal TU-7000 is on sale at Best Buy for $450. | Image: Samsung There are a lot of 4K TVs available to choose from, complete with a wide variety o...

If you’ve been at home for over a year, you may have taken the opportunity to go through all those tech devices, books, old clothes, and other detritus that has piled up over...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A few options for each platform Continue reading… ...

A thermometer reading 116 degrees Fahrenheit during a heatwave in Portland, Oregon, U.S., on Monday, June 28, 2021. | Maranie Staab/Bloomberg via Getty Images Even more...

People may know Rayssa Leal from a Vine that showed her landing an incredible heelflip while dressed in a pixie outfit, but today she’s wearing something different: the silve...

Photo: Warner Bros. Entertainment Detective Pikachu might not be the last time you see real people interacting with fictional (but real in my heart) pokémon. Netflix i...

Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Jeff Bezos is offering NASA a discount of at least $2 billion for the agency to give his space company a lucrative human lunar l...

Playground Games is sharing more about the places you’ll visit in the game Continue reading… ...

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Electric vehicle startup Lucid Motors is now a publicly traded company, following the completion of a merger where it fetched an eye...

Photo by Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images The electronic health record company Epic offers financial incentives to healthcare systems that use its proprietary ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The US is slowing moving toward adopting policies that would put more electric vehicles on the road, but for Toyota, it’s ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A cross-platform counterterrorism program will start targeting white supremacist and far-right militia material, flagging co...

Illustration by Ari Liloan for The Verge The Verge is always interested in the future — so this week, we’re taking a look at the people who will live there. All wee...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Staples is hosting some stellar back-to-school deals this week, especially if tech is on your checklist. The AirPods Pro are $179 (visi...

Illustration by Ari Liloan for The Verge A new tool for an older kind of gaming Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Ari Liloan for The Verge Looking for the thrill of live music during lockdown, I turned to NPR Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Ari Liloan for The Verge I am tormented by the specter of Duo the Owl Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Ari Liloan for The Verge Looking beyond my local library, I found a new way to think about writing Continue reading… ...

Surface Duo 2. | Tech Rat (YouTube) Microsoft is readying a Surface Duo 2 for release later this year. Leaked images have revealed the dual-screen device will include a...

LG’s Tone Free FP8 wireless earbuds. | Image: LG LG’s new Tone Free FP true wireless earbuds feature a “Whispering Mode” where you can hold the right earbud nex...

Alexa routines now support up to seven custom phrases. | Image: Thomas Ricker / The Verge Alexa routines can now be triggered using multiple custom phrases making it ea...

Nothing has pushed my PC further than Microsoft Flight Simulator. That might sound odd for a “game” that’s largely about flying around empty skies by yourself, but Asobo�...

A promotional image for Amazon Key for Business. | Image: Amazon Amazon’s Key for Business, a system that allows its delivery drivers to gain access to apartment buil...

Twenty years ago, when photorealistic games were still just a faraway dream, companies like Square sent our imaginations soaring before we played, with big-budget intros and cu...

Baseball has a sign stealing problem — or at least, a technological one, seeing how reading another team’s pitches is technically legal, but using Apple Watches or telephot...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge After months of government bans on DJI drones, with lawmakers questioning whether the company was sending information to the Chinese g...

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed Doctor Who to do something it hasn’t done in the modern era — dedicate an entire season to a single story. That’s the word from showrunne...

When Amazon started cracking down on mobile electronics companies with shady reviewer programs, Aukey and Mpow were the first to get whacked — and yet Aukey is still selling ...

When Valve and IGN revealed last Thursday that the new Steam Deck handheld will target 30Hz gameplay, not everyone was impressed with that low bar — but Valve’s Pierre-Loup...

Zendaya and Timothee Chalamet in Dune | Legendary Happy Saturday! Posting the trailers roundup a day early this weekend since I’ll be on vacation starting Sunday (and...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge “What’s your favorite planet?” is a real question that Robinhood execs really picked to answer during the Q&A section ...

GM is suing Ford over the BlueCruise name for its hands-free driving system | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge General Motors has filed a lawsuit to try to preve...

Amazon may be testing the cryptocurrency waters | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is hiring a digital currency and blockchain product lead for its paymen...

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A bill that would offer Americans a refundable tax credit on the purchase of a new electric bicycle was just introduced in the Senate by Ed Markey (D-MA) and Brian Schatz (D-HI...

A new lawsuit alleges widespread sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard | Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The president o...

A screenshot from Super Mario 64. | Image: Nintendo Earlier this month, a sealed copy of Super Mario 64 sold for $1,560,000 at auction, a staggering price that nearly d...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The best deal available today is on the 40mm Apple Watch Series 6 with Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity. Usually $399, it’s just $279 at B...

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...

Image: Nintendo The Nintendo Switch was, like most consoles during the pandemic, once in short supply. Thankfully, retailers like Best Buy, Amazon, and Walmart now rout...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook announced a new API that will let developers incorporate video from the Quest 2’s sensors into their games and ap...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Throughout the past week, we’ve seen story after story about a company called NSO Group, and a piece of spyware called Pegasus...

Image: NASA NASA’s Europa Clipper will start its journey to Jupiter’s icy moon aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket built by SpaceX. NASA will pay SpaceX $178 million to la...

Electric vehicle startup Rivian has raised another massive round of funding, this time to the tune of $2.5 billion, bringing its total raised to date over the $10 billion mark....

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The United Steelworkers Union (USW) said Friday it has reached a tentative contract deal with a sub-contractor for Google Pittsb...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After deciding to release its full slate of 2021 Warner Bros. films on HBO Max under a hybrid streaming and theatrical model, it...

Apple may be removing iDOS 2, a popular (or, at the very least, popular for a DOS emulator designed to run decades-old software and games) emulation app that allows users to ru...

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge A major bug in a recent Chrome OS release (91.0.4472.147) left some users bricked out of their Chromebooks. Reddit, in due course, has ...

Illustration by Alex Castro & Grayson Blackmon / The Verge But Instagram downplays the changes Continue reading… ...

Games like League of Legends and Dota 2 are massively popular, and have been for the better part of a decade. But they can also be impenetrable to new players and viewers: ther...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The United Steelworkers Union (USW) said Friday it has reached a tentative contract deal with a sub-contractor for Google Pittsb...

Image; Blue Origin Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where our editors discuss the biggest stories in tech news this week. This we...

A man takes a picture of German icebreaker and research vessel “Polarstern” upon arrival at the harbour of nothern German town of Bremerhaven, on October 12, 2020, after a ...

Illustration by Alex Castro Starting Friday, Facebook is bringing its nascent cloud gaming service to iPhones and iPads through a web app people will be able to add to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon will investigate allegations of discrimination and harassment within its Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit, following an emp...

Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge General Motors is recalling 2017-2019 model year Chevy Bolts a second time because of a risk that the battery packs could catc...

The opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics kicked off this morning, and tunes from classic video games played as all of the athletes from participating countries were welc...

Archer A federal judge in San Francisco rejected air taxi startup Wisk Aero’s request for a preliminary injunction against rival startup Archer Aviation, as Silicon V...

Based on wallpaper by Michael Gillett (Wallpaper Hub) TikTok’s algorithms can be very perceptive when it comes to the types of videos you want to see in your For You ...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Despite having to weather a variety of controversies having to do with its content and its ownership, TikTok persists as a popul...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon will investigate allegations of discrimination and harassment within its Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit, following an emp...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Music listeners on Android can now take advantage of the Dolby Atmos spatial audio and lossless-quality streaming features...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge It’s sometimes easy to dismiss the previous generation of a product in favor of the latest version. In most cases, that’s smart t...

Photo: Apple TV’s nicest guy is back, as Ted Lasso and its eponymous, eternally optimistic American football coach-turned-English Premier League gaffer (played by a g...

Google’s parent-company Alphabet has a birth to announce: a new company called Intrinsic which will focus on building software for industrial robots. The subsidiary will be o...

Evernote It can take a lot of work for an app like Evernote, one of the first major note-taking apps to hit the market, to survive in an ever-changing and fickle market...

Users can be blocked by right clicking on a file they’ve sent you. | Image: Google Google Drive is adding the ability for users to block other accounts from sharing f...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Green screens used to be reserved for those with access to, well, a green screen. This method has been around for a long time: a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced long-awaited guidelines in May for when vaccinated people could st...

Photo by Ryan Loughlin Every single recreational pilot in the US needs to take it ASAP Continue reading… ...

Perfectly designed for the iPhone, but not a lot of charge Continue reading… ...

Screenshot: Charger Lab A teardown of Apple’s new $99 MagSafe Battery Pack from Charger Lab has given us our best look yet inside the new accessory, and revealed more...

Plastic chips would be flexible and cheap; meaning they could be printed pretty much anywhere. | Image: PragmatIC If you think microchips are ubiquitous now, appearing...

The 2020 MacBook Air. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple plans to announce a redesigned MacBook Air with a 13.3-inch Mini LED display in the middle of 2022, acc...

General Motors’ Super Cruise, one of the best advanced driver assist systems on the market, is getting a big upgrade for 2022 and will be available on way more vehicles — i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Just ahead of the July 4th holiday weekend, a ransomware attack targeted organizations using Kaseya VSA remote management softwa...

Frankly, now that we’ve seen a leather case for your MagSafe charging puck, it’s all uphill from here. At least Apple’s new $99 MagSafe Battery Pack is something you’ll...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Here’s (yet another) argument against using third-party embeds on your respectable website: Porn company 5 Star HD Porn bought...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Intel has struggled recently with getting its more advanced chip architectures out the door, but that might be changing soon. CE...

The Moto G100 offers respectable midrange specs like 5G and a Snapdragon 870 processor. | Image: Motorola Motorola is now selling the Moto G100 in the US, after introdu...

Image: Corning Corning has announced a new set of glass composites to protect the ever-growing number of camera lenses on the back of smartphones and capture more ambie...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Just a couple of years ago, there were concerns that Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, wouldn’t survive as a standalone co...

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The 2020 Summer Olympic Games are set to begin this week in Tokyo, with the opening ceremony kicking off Friday, July 23rd. While NBC...

Some important details have emerged about Valve’s Steam Deck handheld console-meets-PC — particularly about its target performance level and whether you can actually instal...

It doesn’t appear that Verizon’s Smart Assistant can do a whole lot. | Image: Amazon We got our first look at Verizon’s Smart Display last month thanks to an FCC ...

The Amazon Echo Dot with clock (4th gen) | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Alexa’s pleasant, feminine voice has filled the homes of millions over the past few years,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook content moderators in Europe and the US are calling on the company to put an end to overly restrictive nondisclosure ag...

Laura Miele. | Photo By Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images Today, Electronic Arts announced a handful of new projects, including a remake of Dead Space and a ...

Battlefield Portal. At EA Play Live, the game publisher spent around an hour detailing the future of some of its biggest franchises. And while much of the news was to b...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As coronavirus cases rise in unvaccinated populations, Democratic senators are introducing a new bill Thursday that would strip ...

One of survivor horror’s most iconic games is getting a next-gen facelift. At its EA Play Live event, Electronic Arts revealed that a remake of the original Dead Space is in ...

EA has announced a new feature coming to Battlefield 2042. Called Battlefield Portal, it’s a customizable creative mode that will let players create and share their own uniqu...

Critically acclaimed and Oscar-winning director Jordan Peele’s next “terror” is officially called Nope, according to a poster the director shared on Thursday. The details...

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Lucid Motors is on the precipice of completing a merger that will give the Saudi-owned electric vehicle startup $4.5 billion in fres...

Photo by Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images Many websites — including banking pages, brokerages, and gaming services — were affected for just over an h...

Google is updating its “about this result” feature for search results with an interesting new addition: context about how and why the company’s algorithm landed on the sp...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is launching a new beta tester program for Android Auto, giving users the chance to get early access to features if t...

Google has finally given its new, unified smartwatch platform a name — and it’s an obvious one: Wear OS 3. That little detail was part of what may be a more contentious set...

Image: Nasdaq Electric vehicle startup Faraday future is a publicly traded company. It’s okay, I’ll give you a moment. I’ve been reporting on Faraday Future for ...

Twitter may be introducing voice effects to Spaces | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter may be adding voice effects to its audio chat platform Spaces, a po...

Illustration by Ana Kova AI research lab DeepMind has created the most comprehensive map of human proteins to date using artificial intelligence. The company, a subsidi...

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Touchscreens have taken over smartwatches. But it didn’t have to be this way. For a few short years, Pebble showed a different way forward with a purely hardware-based user i...

Mercedes-Benz says it will go all-electric by 2030, but with conditions. The German automaker says it will only sell electric vehicles “where market conditions allow,” impl...

Image: OnePlus OnePlus today announced its third set of true wireless earbuds, the OnePlus Buds Pro. Dubbed as the company’s “most advanced listening device” yet,...

OnePlus has officially announced the Nord 2, a successor to last year’s excellent midrange debut. Like the original, the Nord 2 is releasing in Europe and India, and there ar...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple and Sony have teamed up to offer PS5 owners a great promotion on the Apple TV Plus streaming service. New and existing sub...

Image: Google The 2020 Olympic Games are currently still on in Tokyo, Japan — against all odds — and in celebration of Japanese culture and sports in general, Googl...

Epic Games is partnering with Ferrari to bring one of the carmaker’s legendary sports cars to Fortnite, the two companies announced on Thursday. (They teased the collaboratio...

Examples of new Smart Layouts. | Image: Carrot Weather Carrot Weather, the charmingly irreverent app from developer Brian Mueller, is gaining smart layouts and the abil...

Illustration by Alex Castro Facebook’s CEO on why the social network is becoming ‘a metaverse company’ Continue reading… ...

After months of delays, director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is actually coming out on October 22nd. That means that it’s time for the marketing to start spinning up for the fi...

Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment Through August 18th, a vast selection of digital PS4 and PS5 games are discounted through Sony’s online store. You can get these...

Arrival board in Hong Kong International Airport, China, on September 4, 2020.  | Photo by Marc Fernandes/NurPhoto via Getty Images One way jet-setters can cut dow...

The buy button for the Pixel Buds has disappeared from the US store. | Screenshot: store.google.com We’re not saying they’ve been discontinued, but if you head over...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I counted: 31 tweets. That’s how many I could see in my traditional TweetDeck window the other day. But at that same moment, T...

The Intel NUC 11 Extreme. | Image: Intel After teasing a new version of its miniature PC back at Computex 2021, Intel’s new NUC 11 Extreme is now available to preorde...

The Sprint acquisition deal included too few requirements and put too much trust in a big corporation to do the right thing. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge W...

LG claims the battery-powered, air-filtering mask is comfortable to wear for up to eight hours at a time. | Image: LG LG has announced an updated version of its high-te...

Photo: Blizzard California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) says that renowned game publishing studio Blizzard Entertainment, and its owner Activisi...

A screenshot from New World. | Image: Amazon Update July 21st, 8:11PM ET: After we first published this story, Amazon provided the following statement confirming it is ...

GOTY. | Image: Sucker Punch Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut will let you pet even more animals than you could in the original version of the game, developer Sucker P...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Cloud computing giant Salesforce has completed its acquisition of Slack, a $27.7 billion dollar deal that adds the messaging app...

A screenshot from New World. | Image: Amazon The closed beta for Amazon Games’ new MMO New World has been marred by reports that the game has bricked some players’ ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amnesty International — part of the group that helped break the news of journalists and heads of state being targeted by NSO�...

Distance runner Galen Rupp is using blood flow restriction during the Tokyo Olympics. | Photo by Cliff Hawkins / Getty Images Athletes love a good wellness trend. Anyth...

Grammy-nominated singer Khalid has a new album coming out, and the first single, “New Normal,” is as smooth and breezy as a summer afternoon, which is weird because the vid...

Image: Twitter Twitter is working on new upvote and downvote reactions for tweets to accompany the usual options to retweet and reply. Twitter confirmed it was testing ...

“SpaceX, Tesla, and I own Bitcoin,” Elon Musk said at a Bitcoin conference today. Though Tesla no longer allows people to pay for cars using Bitcoin, the automaker hasn’t...

Oculus Oculus is rolling out its v31 software update to Quest and Quest 2 headsets starting today, and it’s filled with some nice quality-of-life improvements. The bi...

As Netflix’s streaming rivals like Prime Video and HBO Max’s WarnerMedia focus on consolidation and studio acquisitions, Netflix is instead prioritizing its own service and...

The Federal Trade Commission formally pledged to take on unlawful “right to repair” restrictions in a new policy statement issued Wednesday. The new policy could spell trou...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok users often express awe or dismay at the seemingly uncanny accuracy of the app’s recommendation algorithm. The Wall Str...

Photos by Joey Roulette / The Verge After years of preparation and billions of dollars spent on the project, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos got to be one of the first people...

VAN HORN, TEXAS - JULY 20: Jeff Bezos walks near Blue Origin’s New Shepard after flying into space on July 20, 2021 in Van Horn, Texas. Mr. Bezos and the crew that flew with ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon has quietly started rolling out a new masculine-sounding voice option to its Alexa virtual assistant along with a similarly masc...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Joseph O’Connor, a 22-year-old UK citizen who goes by the handle “PlugWalkJoe,” was arrested in Spain on Wednesday fo...

Clubhouse Clubhouse is going wide. Co-founders Paul Davison and Rohan Seth announced today that the app is no longer invite-only. Around 10 million people are currently...

Photo by Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images Olympic athletes in Tokyo continue to test positive for COVID-19 by the dozens, the United States gymnastics...

When a foreign language is detected, an option to ‘See Translation’ now appears. | Image: Instagram Instagram is adding a new option to automatically translate text...

Amazon’s Alexa devices are ambient computers, not the kind you use all day. When you do ask your Echo a question or glance at your Echo Show’s diminutive screen, the voice ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, and dozens of other firms have agreed to try to make setting up smart homes easier with Matter, a cross...

Image: Netflix Part of what made She-Ra and the Princesses of Power so good was the way it completely reimagined the classic cartoon. It was still set in a magical real...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verg If your out-of-warranty Pixel 4 XL has been exhibiting some problems, you might be able to get a free repair. Google recently posted a ...

Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for WeWork A new book explains how the failed IPO truly took a village Continue reading… ...

Tumblr’s Post Plus feature lets blogs offer a subscription for exclusive posts. | Image: Tumblr Tumblr is finally offering its writers a way to make money off their w...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When you start using TikTok, you’re asked for a profile name and a username. If you’ve been using TikTok for a while, though...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you’ve been waiting for a sizable deal on the new M1 processor-equipped 12.9-inch iPad Pro or the 10.9-inch iPad Air released las...

One of the most exciting things about Fantasian — a Final Fantasy-style roleplaying game that debuted on Apple Arcade earlier this year — was how it reunited two industry l...

White House / Adam Schultz Last week, the White House declared war on anti-vaccine misinformation and Facebook’s moderation system. President Joe Biden said that Face...

Netflix has dropped the latest teaser trailer for its animated Witcher prequel, giving us a better look at the film’s characters and allowing us to hear its English-language ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom is furthering its ambitions to be your go-to app for virtual meetings and events by making Zoom Apps and Zoom Events widely...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge So you’ve started posting videos on Tiktok, and now you’re ready to up your game. One of the easiest ways to make your video...

Lyft customers in Miami will be able hail a robotaxi from Argo AI, an AV startup backed by Ford and Volkswagen, by the end of the year, the companies announced Wednesday. Next ...

Where available, users can report on how busy a transit option is. | Image: Google Google is expanding the number of cities where Maps offers information about public t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge To sell regulators on their $26 billion mega merger, T-Mobile and Sprint executives told anyone who’d listen that the deal wou...

The third-generation AirPods will reportedly have a shorter stem than current models (above). | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple will start production...

Big Picture, the mode that converts Steam’s user interface into a more console-like design better suited to TVs and controllers than monitors and mice, may not be long for th...

Image: Miles Three years ago, a startup called Miles launched a free app with the goal of becoming a sort of rewards program for all travel — with an emphasis on clea...

Vehicle bodies on the production line of the manufacturing plant for Zeekr Co., an electric-car unit of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China, o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Location data from a cell phone, obtained and sold by data brokers, has lead to the alleged outing and resignation of a priest w...

Samsung has officially announced when it will hold its next Unpacked product event: August 11th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT. It is widely expected to announce the next version of the G...

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge A bad update to Chrome OS, version 91.0.4472.165, has left some users unable to log in to their accounts, or reportedly with boot-loopi...

Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark and Oliver Daemen walk off New Shepard’s landing pad as Wally Funk, 82-year-old aviation icon and the mission’s fourth passenger, remains in aw...

Image: Nintendo After months of speculation and a sea of rumors, Nintendo officially announced the next iteration of its popular gaming console: the Nintendo Switch OLE...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Chrome’s latest update for iOS will let you secure your incognito tabs with Touch ID, Face ID, or a passcode (via MacRumors). ...

Facebook is announcing a new setting that allows you to limit how much potentially sensitive content shows up in your Instagram Explore tab. According to Facebook, the new Sens...

HBO Max Minis shown on a mobile device. | Image: HBO Max HBO Max has partnered with Snapchat to bring full-length episodes of its series to the social media platform. W...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix revealed that its initial efforts in gaming will be focused on mobile games and that the games will be included with use...

Image: Square Square is launching a new free banking service on Tuesday that connects to the payment and point-of-sale products the company already offers to small busi...

Fortnite is hosting a second round of its animated short film festival, dubbed “Short Nite 2,” — a successor to the game’s original Short Nite festival that developer E...

Jason Alexander as Jeff Bezos. | Image: Jon Stewart Jon Stewart shared a video promoting his upcoming Apple TV Plus show, The Problem with Jon Stewart, and it’s an od...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony sleuths just stumbled onto a surprise in Japan: the company has quietly kicked out a new version of the PlayStation 5 Digital Edi...

The updated Venmo app without the global social feed. | Image: Venmo Venmo announced it's removing its global social feed on Tuesday, the payment app’s notorious feat...

Photo by Adam Schultz President Joe Biden will nominate Jonathan Kanter, an ardent Google critic and competition lawyer, to lead the Justice Department’s antitrust di...

Dutch startup Lightyear has found a manufacturing partner to build its solar-powered electric car, the Lightyear One. Finnish contract manufacturer Valmet Automotive signed a l...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google has started selling a new bundle that gives you some premium entertainment to go along with the company’s Chromecast streaming...

Team Great Britain trains ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. | Photo by Harriet Lander / Getty Images The Olympians streaming into Tokyo this week are about to be faced with ...

Starting on August 9th, Canada is planning on opening its borders to vaccinated Americans after the country stopped allowing nonessential travel in March 2020 (via The Washingt...

GIF: Blue Origin After landing from his little jaunt to the edge of space, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos thanked the people who let him do it. “I want to thank every Amaz...

Mobileye, the company that specializes in chips for vision-based autonomous vehicles, is now testing its AVs in New York City — a difficult and rare move given the state’s ...

Google is updating Chrome for Android’s permissions controls to make per-site permissions easier to access and manage. The update, available to Chrome on Android users, makes...

When Microsoft announced Windows 11 in June, it revealed that Microsoft Teams would be integrated directly into the operating system and that you’d be able to connect with ot...

Apple Arcade’s recent expansion means that the subscription service is now home to plenty of classic games — and things don’t get much more classic than Tetris. Today, Ap...

Asus There are a number of excellent Chromebooks out there, but the race to make the one true successor to Google’s $999 Pixelbook is still very much on. Asus is thro...

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge YouTube viewers will soon have a new way to throw their support — and money — behind their favorite creators. A new tool calle...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Kayvon Beykpour said in a March interview with The Verge that Twitter does know Tweetdeck still exists and the company is workin...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re a video creator on TikTok, then your comment section could be really frustrating, especially if somebody leaves a co...

Presentation director Masato Miyazaki on animating the likes of Lady Dimitrescu Continue reading… ...

Image: Sony Sony has just announced two new high-end home theater audio systems, both of which include HDMI 2.1 passthrough ports that offer full support for features l...

Beginning next year, Verizon will join AT&T and T-Mobile in preloading Android Messages as the default texting app on all Android phones it sells. It’s the final step for...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Jeff Bezos launched to the edge of space Tuesday morning with three fellow passengers and landed safely in a Texas desert aboard his sp...

Camera uploads should now be faster and more reliable. | Image: Dropbox Dropbox is getting a slew of interface tweaks alongside new tools and features. One of the more ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Adobe’s Premiere Pro is now ready for everyone using an M1 Mac. Support for Apple’s new chips is rolling out today, after launchin...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Apple’s AirPods Max over-ear headphones are more affordable than ever today at Best Buy and Amazon. Normally around $500 in recent ...

Illustration by Maria Chimishkyan DuckDuckGo is launching a new email privacy service meant to stop ad companies from spying on your inbox. The company’s new Email Pr...

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge An outdoor cooking company with an influencer staff and a Roku app Continue reading… ...

The RadRover, Rad Power Bikes’ flagship electric bike, is getting another major upgrade. The bike will be the first from the Seattle-based company to feature a semi-integrate...

The Google TV interface first appeared on last year’s Chromecast. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google TV, the new smart TV interface that debuted on Google’s ...

Apple is delaying its plan to return to mandatory in-person work because of the increase of COVID cases driven by the Delta variant, according to Bloomberg. The company had lai...

SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 01: A container ship enters the Port of Los Angeles on February 1, 2021 in San Pedro, California. As of January 28, a record 38 container ships...

A screenshot of HalloApp. | HalloApp Two of the earliest employees behind WhatsApp have emerged with a new private social network called HalloApp. Starting Monday, anyo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has informed workers that it will end on-site COVID-19 testing at its US warehouses, as first reported by The Information...

Louis Vuitton has revealed its next foray into tech products: the $2,890 Horizon Light Up Speaker, which looks less like either a gadget or a piece of high fashion, and more li...

A man cools off at a mist station installed at Shiokaze Park during the beach volleyball test event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo on July 25, 2019. - Tokyo 2020 Oly...

Dish is on a mission to become the US’ fourth wireless carrier. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Dish Network has a new network operator partner for its MVNO...

Snap and Gucci recently partnered to let users virtually try on a limited edition pair of shoes. | Snap Snap is making a big bet on AR shopping. The parent company of S...

Image: Blue Origin Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, is flying to space Tuesday morning on his company’s suborbital rocket. He’s riding with a motley crew o...

Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images Things are starting to open up, but for now, the COVID-19 pandemic is still with us and many are still relying on video calls to kee...

Some Bitmoji in 3D. | Image: Snap Snap is introducing the ability to pose your Bitmoji avatar on your Snapchat profile in 3D, the company announced on Monday. For your ...

Image: Apple Apple has released iOS 14.7, an update which lets iPhone 12 owners fully utilize the MagSafe Battery Pack, HomePod users manage timers from their phone, an...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge As we approach the release of Google and Samsung’s joint smartwatch operating system later this year, Google today outline...

Photo by Steven Russell Apple’s first official MagSafe Battery Pack is beginning to arrive on shelves (alongside a new IOS release), and one iPhone owner has now...

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Nvidia’s elusive RTX 30-series graphics cards are almost never in stock (for their MSRP cost, at least), but they’ll be available to purchase fair-and-square tomorrow, Tues...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images On Monday, President Joe Biden said that vaccine misinformation on Facebook harms people, while partially walking back a statement he...

Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images Two years ago, Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf became the first — and so far, only — Fortnite World Cup champion. Now he’s being immor...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon Web Services (AWS) has banned NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware program. Vice reported the ban this morni...

Android TV is finally getting a watchlist. | Image: Google Android TV is swiping some of the best content discovery tools from the Google TV platform, including a watch...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WhatsApp is rolling out a new joinable calls feature which will let you hop onto group calls after they’ve started, the Facebo...

Velodyne, a leading manufacturer of lidar laser sensors, announced that CEO Anand Gopalan would be stepping down. The news comes as the sensor company has been embroiled in a b...

Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images An all-virtual version of the annual Game Developers Conference kicks off on July 19th, but the organizers say that next year t...

Image: Warby Parker Warby Parker is updating its Prescription Check iOS app on Monday with a new name and the ability to renew glasses and contact lens prescriptions on...

Zoom buys Five9 for $14.7 billion to ‘deliver even more happiness’ Videoconferencing platform Zoom is acquiring cloud contact center software company Five9 for $14....

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Uber has more than doubled the number of cities where it delivers groceries, marking the fi...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Whether you’re gearing up for the back-to-school season or just looking for some extra charging kits to make your vacation go a litt...

Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Cable news behemoth CNN said Monday it is joining the ever-crowded streaming marketplace, adding its CNN Plus servi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia is working on expanding its RTX GPU support in a big way, with a new demo at GDC 2021 showcasing high-end gaming technolo...

Peloton Peloton is entering the video game business. Today the company announced its latest idea to get people to exercise: an in-app video game tentatively called Lane...

An inside look at how the beloved electric skateboard startup fell apart Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The United States and key allies have accused the Chinese government for the first time of hiring gangs of hackers to carry out ...

Images show a very similar pair of headphones to Bose’s existing QC35s. | Image: FCC Bose appears to be on the cusp of releasing a successor to its much loved QuietCo...

Huawei has previously teased the design of the flagship’s rear cameras. | Image: Huawei Huawei’s next flagship phone, the P50, is set for launch on July 29th, the c...

The Wall as a massive in-store display. | Image: Samsung Samsung is releasing a new version of The Wall, its massive modular MicroLED display. Measuring in at over 1,00...

Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Tencent has announced plans to buy British video game company Sumo Group for $1.27 billion. The Chinese tech giant already has ...

Image: Nintendo Nintendo has issued an unusual statement denying a report that said the upcoming OLED version of the Switch would have higher profit margins than the re...

Jason Momoa stars in Sweet Girl | Netflix Season one of Loki is a wrap and while I know not everyone loved the finale, the show is my favorite of the Marvel/Disney stre...

Steam Deck will start shipping in December 2021 | Image: Valve If you’re looking to reserve a Steam Deck and haven’t managed to secure a reservation yet, it looks l...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge A new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says the 2021 iPhone may have an always-on display similar to Apple’s Watch, and which ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A sweeping investigation by 17 media outlets found that NSO Group’s Pegasus software was used in hacking attempts on 37 smartp...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook continued its pushback Saturday against President Biden’s comment that social media platforms were “killing people�...

Photo by James Vincent / The Verge Online-only British supermarket Ocado has had to cancel some customers’ delivery orders after a Friday robot collision at one of it...

You’re not having deja vu. Six years after launching a line of Linux game consoles that went down as one of the biggest tech flops of the past decade, Valve is trying once ag...

One of the most powerful new features in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey, is Focus mode. At its core, a Focus mode is a more customizable version of Apple’s existing D...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook continued its pushback Saturday against President Biden’s comment that social media platforms were “killing people�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Since 2019, Amazon has sold nearly 400,000 hair dryers that could shock someone if they fell into a pool of water, 24,000 carbon...

TurboTax parent company Intuit has opted out of the IRS Free File Program. | Getty Images Intuit, the parent company of tax filing software TurboTax, is exiting an IRS...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla has started offering a monthly subscription for its Full Self Driving package for $199 per month (h/t Electrek). Tesla own...

Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images The spectacle of launching billionaires into space is the beginning of a long road ahead Continue reading&hel...

Zoom weddings soared during the pandemic | Illustration by Grayson Blackmon Virtual weddings, one of the more endearing traditions to emerge during last year’s pandem...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge California’s legislature has voted unanimously to approve a $6 billion plan to build a statewide open access fiber network (h/...

A good camera system and top-notch features, but it’s priced too high to recommend Continue reading… ...

Photo by Andrew Marino / The Verge A cornucopia of audio tech spread across two desks Continue reading… ...

The second-gen Google Nest Hub | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Though we’re hitting the sleepy, dog-days of summer and there aren’t any big sale events on the ho...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When you’re using WhatsApp your messages are encrypted end-to-end, which means prying eyes can’t easily see what’s in them...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Fakespot, known for its web browser extensions that try to weed out fake product reviews, suddenly no longer has an iPhone or iP...

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The White House escalated its fight against vaccine misinformation on Friday, with President Biden directly criticizing Facebook ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Two California residents have been indicted for allegedly planning to firebomb the offices of California’s Democratic governor...

My face when I sniff gas...perfume. | Photo: Ford, Christopher Ison So you just dropped a cool $59,000 on a Ford Mustang Mach-E GT, your own sporty slice of our electri...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg Sometimes you want the text in your app to be smaller, so you can fit more content on a single screen. Sometimes you want it to be bigger, esp...

Image: Alex Castro / The Verge On Friday, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) announced that the state plans to invest $700 million in American Rescue Plan funding to reach...

Steam Deck multiplayer | Image: Valve Valve officially revealed its handheld PC gaming machine only a day ago, but that was apparently enough to spread the word — whe...

992 of Google’s emoji designs are receiving tweaks. | Image: Google Google is tweaking 992 of its emoji designs to make them more “universal, accessible, and authen...

The headline feature for Apple’s fall updates (including iOS 15, iPadOS 15, tvOS 15, and macOS Monterey) is SharePlay. It’s a new software feature on top of FaceTime that a...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Rivian has delayed the first deliveries of its long-awaited electric pickup truck again, this time until September. Rivian CEO RJ Sca...

Image: Apple Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the re...

Photo by studioEAST / Getty Images Google parted ways with a cloud services executive after he published a LinkedIn manifesto about Israeli-Palestinian relations and hi...

Image: US Customs and Border Protection The number of counterfeit wireless earbuds seized by US border customs in 2021 has already surpassed last year’s total, accord...

Residents at a cooling center during a heatwave in Portland, Oregon, U.S., on Monday, June 28, 2021. | Maranie Staab/Bloomberg via Getty Images The heatwave that scorc...

Kiana Madeira and Gillian Jacobs in Fear Street Part 3: 1666. | Image: Netflix In order to keep her roles straight, Fear Street star Kiana Madeira kept a big Five Star ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber has agreed to pay $9 million to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) after refusing to hand over data about ri...

Pocket Casts Pocket Casts has a new owner. Automattic, which runs WordPress.com and recently purchased Tumblr, announced today that it’s acquired Pocket Casts, the we...

An ancient language and one of the most popular video games of the past year have collided with the launch of the official Irish localization of Among Us. The hugely popular sc...

Amazon’s big, cheap tablet can now be had many different ways Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Forget long Clubhouse convos, these founders see voice notes as the future Continue reading… ...

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Whether you’d like to admit it or not, school is quickly approaching. And if you’re in need of a reliable laptop that won’t force...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The United States surgeon general published a report this week calling for a whole-of-society response to health misinformation,...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Shaquille O’Neal and Melissa McCarthy are the latest celebrities to lend their voices to Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, the compan...

The NT68 is designed to sit on top of your laptop’s existing keyboard. | Image: Epomaker If you can’t stand to type on a Macbook’s scissor switch keyboard, let al...

A phone repair store at a technology market in Shenzhen, China. | Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Xiaomi is now the second largest smartphone vendor based on worldwide ...

Captions on a voice tweet. | Image: Twitter Twitter is now rolling out captions for voice tweets, the company announced Thursday. Twitter first launched voice tweets in...

Valve’s Steam Deck and its carrying case. | Image: Valve Catch up on our coverage of Valve’s new device Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In 2008, chipmakers Intel and AMD took two distinct paths: Intel kept manufacturing its own chips to maintain full control, whil...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Jack Dorsey, CEO of both Twitter and Square, is enough of a fan of cryptocurrency that Square’s push into the area won’t stop at re...

A mural in support of England footballers Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka was unveiled in Manchester. The three were targeted with racist abuse online after the E...

Images: Valve Valve’s surprising new Steam Deck has been officially announced, promising to let players take their whole Steam library of games on the go. But how doe...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple employees say it’s harder than ever to get remote work requests approved after the company rolled out a new hybrid model...

Elgato’s new Stream Deck, which is different from Valve’s Steam Deck. | Image: Elgato Elgato’s Stream Deck is a popular tool for live-streamers, letting them set ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is launching a new privacy feature for search that lets you instantly delete your last 15 minutes of search history on mo...

One of the photos from this Cannes photo shoot has been widely memed. Please make it stop. | Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage Twitter said Thursday it was hearing from ...

Steam Deck. | Photo: Valve When the beloved PlayStation Vita eventually died out, many blamed the rise of mobile gaming. “I think the PS Vita, while ahead of its time...

Self-driving technology startup Aurora, which was founded by the former head of Google’s autonomous vehicle program, is the latest company to announce that it’s going publi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Online shoppers will eventually see another option listed next to the usual payment methods, now that Facebook Pay will expand b...

The Facecam includes a monitor mount, but you can also mount it to a tripod with its quarter-inch thread. | Photo: Elgato Elgato has attempted to be the brand of choice...

Image: Nintendo After months of speculation and a sea of rumors, Nintendo officially announced the next iteration of its popular gaming console: the Nintendo Switch OLE...

Photo: CNN In a new documentary, Roadrunner, about the life and tragic death of Anthony Bourdain, there are a few lines of dialogue in Bourdain’s voice that he might ...

Valve’s new Steam Deck. | Image: Valve Valve just announced its new handheld Steam Deck, powered by a custom Linux operating system. The 7-inch device will play the l...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A facial recognition algorithm used by a local roller skating rink in Detroit wouldn’t let teen Lamya Robinson onto the premis...

Image: Emojipedia The draft list for the next round of new emoji was announced today, two days ahead of World Emoji Day on July 17th. Contenders include a melting smile...

Image: Samsung Samsung’s new entry-level Chrome OS laptop, the $299 Galaxy Chromebook Go, is available to purchase now at Samsung’s website and other retailers. Whi...

Image: Valve Valve just announced the Steam Deck, its long-rumored Switch-like handheld gaming device. It will begin shipping in December and reservations open July 16t...

A walkway at the Tidal Basin leads to a flooded sidewalk from the rising high tide on July 2nd, 2019, in Washington, DC. The Tidal Basin’s crumbling seawall and sidewalks are...

googleglass,glassenterprise,google glass enterprise Google Meet videoconferencing is adding fuller support for Google Glass, the company’s frequently overlooked augme...

Facebook is adding emoji with sound to Facebook Messenger. The name for them, of course, is Soundmojis. To access Soundmojis, tap the emoji button while you’re in a Messenge...

Crossclip’s interface. | Image: Streamlabs Logitech-owned Streamlabs, maker of the popular livestreaming app Streamlabs OBS, is releasing a new tool today called Cros...

Climb The Giant Man Obby. Creators are putting their own spin on the virtual realm Continue reading… ...

Photo by Matthew Busch for The Washington Post via Getty Images The Tennessee Department of Health is suspending outreach for all types of childhood and adolescent vacc...

Images: Aston Martin Two years after Aston Martin debuted the striking but clumsily titled AM-RB 003 concept, the final production version has arrived with a much simpl...

Don’t kill me, please. | Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge SoftBank’s Pepper robot is dead, and The Wall Street Journal is dancing upon its grave with a thorough acco...

Microsoft announced its new Windows 365 service yesterday, but the company said it wouldn’t discuss pricing options until the Cloud PCs launch on August 2nd. Now, Microsoft h...

The fourth passenger to ride with Jeff Bezos on his space company’s suborbital rocket next Tuesday is a dutch teen named Oliver Daemen, Blue Origin revealed Thursday. Daemen�...

Photo by Caroline Brehman-Pool / Getty Images On Thursday, the surgeon general published a new report calling on social media platforms to make new investments in comba...

PREMIUM SILICONE! | Image: Elago Apple’s new Siri Remote arrived without a built-in locator chip, so Elago has created the next best thing: the R5 silicone case with ...

Image: Nintendo Preorders for Nintendo’s new OLED Switch model will start today, July 15th, at 3PM ET / 12PM PT, the company announced today. The console is set to be...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge An Ugly Truth tracks the last five years of Facebook scandals Continue reading… ...

Photo by Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images Candace Parker has become the first WNBA player to appear on the cover of an NBA 2K game. The Chicago Sky forward, a six-time...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is adding support for AirPlay 2 and HomeKit to two of its Fire TV Edition TVs in a free update, the company announced on ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A report this spring from The Information said that Netflix was seeking an executive to lead its push into gaming, with an eye t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) reported on Tuesday that SolarWinds software was attacked with a zero-day explo...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge The OnePlus 9 Pro went on sale on April 2nd, but to date, the $969 base model, which comes with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, hasn...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge General Motors said Wednesday that two recent Bolt EV fires happened in vehicles that had already received the fix meant to ...

Image: Plex Plex, the popular build-your-own streaming service, has added 15 new channels to its ad-supported streaming offering for free TV. All of the new channels av...

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...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Until now, using WhatsApp web on your desktop or any other device has required having a phone that’s powered on and connected,...

Facebook’s prototype brain-computer interface headset. | Image: Facebook Reality Labs A Facebook-backed initiative aiming to let people type by thinking has concluded...

YouTube now supports creating clips from live streams. | Image: YouTube YouTube is adding a trio of new features for live-streaming today that are all standbys for stre...

Apple has released its third developer betas for the upcoming iOS 15 and macOS Monterey, and they bring some much-needed fixes to Safari — namely, undoing some of the more co...

Wata Games, the company that graded the recent record-breaking copies of The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario 64, has been acquired by Collectors Universe, which grades coins, t...

How Half-Life and Deus Ex laid the foundation for a Wikipedia-style murder mystery game Continue reading… ...

The Product Red edition of the Series 6 is one of many Apple Watches currently on sale. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Thinking about picking up a new Apple Watch?...

Microsoft is threatening to bring back its annoying loveable Clippy character. The software giant claims it will replace the paperclip emoji in Microsoft Office with Clippy if ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon toyed with yet another way of ingratiating itself into the lives of you and your family through an Alexa-enabled wearable...

The company is partnering with Boingo to deploy 5G Plus in parts of US airports. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T has announced a partnership with Boi...

Apple’s AirPods Pro wireless earbuds | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s AirPods are among the most popular headphones on the market. Both the AirPods and Ai...

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Twitter just rolled out Fleets to everyone in November. | Twitter Say goodbye to Fleets, the row of fullscreen tweets at the top of the Twitter timeline that expire aft...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook plans to pay out $1 billion to creators over the next year and a half as part of an effort to court content makers to i...

Backchannel, Clubhouse’s messaging feature | Image: Clubhouse Now, you can slide into people’s Clubhouse DMs. The social audio company is launching its direct messa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is working to make browsing more secure by soon offering an HTTPS-first option, which will try to upgrade page loads to H...

Google is releasing the latest beta for Android 12 right on schedule. Beta 3 for Android 12 continues adding features, including scrolling screenshots, faster on-device univers...

Wildfires in the West can lead to power outages. There are around 20 federally qualified health centers in the areas touched by the Lava, Tennant, and Salt fires, which...

Frans Timmermans, vice president of the European Commission, Adina Valean, transport commissioner of the European Union (EU), Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Co...

Image: LG LG’s futuristic rollable OLED 4K TV is coming to the US for an eye-popping price of $100,000. First introduced as a stunning prototype at CES 2018 (and then...

Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 has one of the most iconic synthesizers around since it was first released over a decade ago, but the music-making machine is still getting new fea...

Photo by Michael Kappeler / picture alliance via Getty Images The European Union has proposed phasing out gas-powered internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035, part ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re just starting to explore TikTok and you want to do a live video (as opposed to the usual recorded TikTok video), I�...

Image: Razer Razer’s largest laptop is getting big upgrades. The new mid-2021 refresh of the Blade 17 will add newer CPUs, higher-powered GPUs, and an updated webcam....

Solar panels that were installed on four buildings on the Microsoft Corp. campus in Mountain View, California, Wednesday, April 25, 2007.  | Photo by Tony Avelar/Bloomberg...

Microsoft is putting Windows in the cloud. Windows 365 is a new service that will let businesses access Cloud PCs from anywhere, streaming a version of Windows 10 or Windows 11...

Photo by Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images Facebook has asked recently confirmed Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan to recuse herself from the agency’s antitrust figh...

The urban heat island effect can be deadly Continue reading… ...

Loki’s signature gadget, reviewed Continue reading… ...

Netflix Kids will now have its own top 10 row. | Image: Netflix Netflix is launching two new tools this week that should help make finding age-appropriate content a lit...

Learn how to draw yourself as a Peanuts character in the first “Today at Apple” YouTube session. | Image: Apple Apple is bringing its educational “Today at Apple�...

Breath of the Wild changed a lot about The Legend of Zelda. Most importantly, it made the fantasy realm of Hyrule more open, increasing the sense of pure adventure. If you saw ...

Amazon is launching the next line of products for its Build It crowdfunding platform. The company has collaborated with fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg on a range of Ech...

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge The gaming industry saw explosive growth in 2020, with more than half of US residents turning to video games as a way to pass the ...

An artistic rendering of a satellite in orbit. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has acquired a team of employees from Facebook focused on delivering int...

Disney’s Loki TV show is getting a second season, according to a scene appended to the sixth and final episode of its first season. The confirmation, first spotted by Variety...

Disney’s Loki TV show is getting a second season, according to a scene appended to the sixth and final episode of its first season. The confirmation, first spotted by Variety...

More than 35 organizations are demanding top US retailers cease using facial recognition to identify shoppers and employees in their stores, which companies have used to deter ...

Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images On Wednesday, Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) released a discussion draft of...

Last year’s iPhone 12 Pro. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s flagship 2021 iPhones will come in the same sizes as last year’s models, but with...

MagSafe Battery Pack | Image: Apple Apple surprised us Tuesday by simply putting its latest iPhone accessory on sale. The $99 MagSafe Battery Pack isn’t the first pow...

Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday charged embattled space infrastructure startup Momentus Space and its founder,...

Image: Google Google has brought an end to its effectively “unlimited” group video calls in Meet for free Gmail accounts, according to support pages spotted by 9to5...

Large touchscreens are commonplace in new cars these days, and the bigger these rectangular screens get, the fewer things you can do with the hardware to really differentiate f...

Image: Facebook Facebook is introducing a new feature called “Group Experts” today, which will allow admins to designate which members are highly knowledgeable abou...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo Switch owners have been experiencing problems with the console’s removable Joy-Con controllers for years now, with users r...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is being charged with a historic €500 million ($589 million) fine from the French Competition Authority (FCA) for faili...

Tap the three dots menu to change who can reply to your tweet. | Image: Twitter Twitter is rolling out the ability to let you change who can reply to a tweet after you ...

General Motors is dropping wireless smartphone charging from some new SUVs because of the global microchip shortage. It’s the latest feature to get the axe at the company due...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Discord has purchased a company working on AI tools to help detect harassment online. The company, Sentropy, monitors online net...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Quibi wasn’t long for this world, but its spirit refuses to let us move on from its chaotic memory. Despite shutting down in D...

A trader monitors offers in the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on August 24, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.  ...

Image: Apple Even if you haven’t signed up for the Apple Card, you may soon be able to put your purchases on Apple’s tab. Apple is teaming up with Goldman Sachs yet...

Instagram’s Security Checkup | Image: Instagram Instagram introduced a new security check today for any people whose accounts have been hacked before. People with pre...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Workspace Individual, the company’s Workspace plan designed to give one-person businesses access to some premium featur...

If you’ve ever purchased inflight Wi-Fi in the United States, there’s a good chance you’ve cursed Gogo’s name. But now, you’ll have to direct your anger at Intelsat i...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is revising how much of a cut it takes from Stadia games in a bid to try to attract more developers. Starting on Octo...

Apple’s new MagSafe Battery Pack. | Image: Apple Apple has launched the MagSafe Battery Pack for its iPhone 12 lineup. One of the magnetic batteries costs $99, and yo...

Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images Republicans are questioning Amazon’s relationship with the Pentagon after newly released emails show that defense officials prais...

Image: Microsoft Design Microsoft’s Windows 11 preview has been available for a couple of weeks now, but I’m still discovering new animations and details in this ne...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge While we usually look for major features in a device — speed or sound quality or picture sharpness — sometimes it’s the little t...

Instagram Instagram doesn’t want you to spam your friends with all of the posts you come across and like. So today, it’s starting a test to make sharing to Stories ...

A weather forecast on iOS 15 compared to the rounded forecast on iOS 14.6 | Photo: Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge If you’re an iPhone user, the weather is always a part...

A weather forecast on iOS 15 compared to the rounded forecast on iOS 14.6 | Photo: Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge If you’re an iPhone user, the weather is always a part...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A centralized repository of COVID-19 health records built last year is beginning to show results, starting with a new paper publ...

The Barracuda X borrows the sleek design of Razer’s Opus headphones. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Razer has introduced the Barracuda X, a multiplatform wir...

Tango Gameworks Ghostwire: Tokyo, the paranormal action game from Japanese studio Tango Gameworks, is being delayed to early 2022. Tango Gameworks posted the news in a ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is a brand-new type of social media platform. Unlike more traditional platforms like Instagram or Twitter where you manua...

The latest Symfonisk collaboration is another attempt to camouflage tech in the home Continue reading… ...

Photo: Marvel Studios Production designer Kasra Farahani explains the show’s distinct look Continue reading… ...

The Federal Aviation Administration approved Blue Origin’s license to launch its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos and three other passengers to the edge of space next Tuesday, ...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Ring’s end-to-end encryption for video streams is leaving technical preview, is now available to US users, and is currently rolling o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Firefox 90 introduces the next version of SmartBlock, the browser’s tracker blocking mechanism built into its private browsing...

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath wants the freedom of an auto startup with the benefits of an established player ...

Mei Lee is an ordinary 13-year-old in the first trailer for Turning Red, the next film from Pixar — unless she gets stressed out or overexcited. Then she turns into a giganti...

Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine awaits use in a freezer. | Photo by Matthias Bein / picture alliance via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration added a warning...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge For many, the best smart display is the one that features whichever virtual assistant they prefer, whether it be Amazon’s Alexa or Go...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge And the financial system only has itself to thank Continue reading… ...

The speaker features a “candlelight mode.” | Image: Sony Sony is releasing another one of its glass lantern speaker hybrids, and it comes in at $100 less than its p...

Image: Alex Castro / The Verge You don’t always get what you pay for in internet access. Most places only have one option, so you’re stuck picking the good plan or ...

Image: YouTube YouTube’s TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, is now rolling out globally. The service launched first in India last year, before expanding to around 26 ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The PC market is showing early signs of its growth slowing down, after an impressive run of shipments throughout 2020. Both ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter says it has permanently suspended a “small number” of fake accounts it mistakenly verified just weeks after re-launc...

A few days ago, Tag Heuer posted a teaser for a Super Mario-themed watch. You might have assumed that a Swiss-made mechanical timepiece was in the works, but now the news is ou...

Lola Bunny, LeBron James and Daffy Duck in Space Jam: A New Legacy | Photo: Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures On the same day we learned that Fortnite is adding a LeBron J...

ESPN Plus monthly and annual subscription costs will go up beginning August 13th, the second price increase for the service in 2021. The new price hike has made the service’s...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google announced its plans to transition users of its consumer file syncing desktop service, Backup and Sync, onto a new unified a...

Verizon rolls out new Neighborhood Filter tool to help curb spoofed calls. | Image: Verizon Verizon wants to help curb those obnoxious “spoofing” calls from similar...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Last Tuesday, AnandTech caught OnePlus doing the previously unthinkable — throttling the performance of its new flagship smartphone...

Samsung’s S Pen and S Pen Pro. | Image: Samsung After many teases, it seems as if a Samsung foldable is finally going to get support for an S Pen stylus. FCC filings ...

Bukayo Saka of England in a penalty shoot out during the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship Final between Italy and England on Sunday. | Photo by Shaun Botterill / UEFA via Getty Imag...

AT&T’s Unlimited Elite plan will remain $85 per month for a single line, but it gets a few more perks. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T is addin...

Blake Masters, a close ally to billionaire Peter Thiel and current Thiel Capital executive, launched a bid for the Arizona Senate Monday. As a Republican, he’ll be seeking to...

Richard Branson and a barefoot Elon Musk hang out on the morning of Branson’s launch to space. | Richard Branson’s Twitter Space billionaire Elon Musk bought a tick...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge All-electric racing series Formula E very nearly turned its first profit during the 2019–2020 season, its sixth, despite canceling ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge You can create a great TikTok video by doing nothing more than simply talking to the camera. However, if you want to do somethin...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon is interested in using radar sensors to enable sleep tracking and gestures on its smart devices, according to new permissions gr...

SecretLab says it has improved both its polyurethane and SoftWeave materials. | Photo: SecretLab SecretLab’s new line of 2022 gaming chairs have a renewed focus on pa...

Photo by STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images One fun (?) thing about cryptocurrency is that it’s newer than regular money — or as the cryptocurrency enthusiasts call it, ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft says it’s gone door-to-door replacing routers compromised with the Trickbot malware in Brazil and Latin America, hop...

Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images TikTok parent company ByteDance is not planning an initial public offering anytime soon, and...

One of the more interesting new features available with iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey is iCloud Plus, Apple’s upgraded iCloud subscription service that adds a few key...

Google is announcing a big new feature for its upcoming Android 12 update on Monday: you’ll be able to play games as you’re downloading them. For particularly large games, ...

LeBron James is the latest celebrity to enter the Fortnite metaverse. Starting on July 14th, players will be able to purchase two different versions of the NBA star: a regular ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Authenticated brand logos in Gmail, a security feature that was first announced last July, will be rolling out over the coming w...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is officially acquiring RiskIQ, a security software vendor. RiskIQ provides management tools and threat intelligence g...

Death Stranding: Director’s Cut is coming to the PS5 on September 24th — but don’t call it a director’s cut, according to director Hideo Kojima (spotted by Eurogamer). ...

Image: TikTok TikTok is now available on Fire TV devices in the UK, France, and Germany, the video platform announced today. The app, which will be available starting t...

Five toys based on iconic startup failures. | Screenshot: Dead Startup Toys For its latest drop, internet collective MSCHF is releasing five famous startup failures as ...

In an aerial view, houseboats whose owners chose to leave them in the lake, float at a water level nearly 200 feet below normal at the Lime Saddle Marina for Lake Oroville near...

Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids and Kids Pro tablets | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Summer is here, and for many families, that means it’s finally time to take the vacatio...

Disney Marvel’s latest film thoroughly skewers the franchise’s portrayal of Black Widow... far too late Continue reading… ...

The fifth-generation iPad mini from 2019. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple plans to release a new iPad mini featuring “the biggest redesign in [its...

Photo by SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images Foxconn and TSMC, two Taiwanese giants of the international tech supply chain, have agreed to buy 10 million COVID-19 vaccine dose...

The Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Z Fold 3, from GIFs shared by leaker Evan Blass. | Images: Evan Blass on Twitter We might now know a lot of what’s coming at Samsung’s next ...

Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow. | Image: Marvel Studios Black Widow is the first Marvel movie to debut on Disney Plus the same day it hit theaters, and based on fina...

On Friday, when I wrote about how a sealed copy of The Legend of Zelda for the NES sold for an eye-popping $870,000 at auction and set a new record for the most expensive video...

Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson and a crew of Virgin Galactic employees nailed a clean touchdown in New Mexico o...

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Image: TED Clubhouse has another partnership, and this time, it’s with one of the most popular podcast networks. The company announced today that it’s partnering wi...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nearly four years after the lights went out at AlphaBay, the feds are still charging people with criminal activities linked to t...

Bo Burnham in Bo Burnham: Inside | Photo: Courtesy of Netflix If you can’t get “Bezos I” out of your head, then you’re in good company as a soundtrack to Bo Bur...

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Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Tesla began sending out over-the-air software updates for its long-awaited “Full Self-Driving” beta version 9, the definitely-not...

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Nintendo revealed a new model of the Switch this week that adds an OLED screen, enhanced speakers, and a much-improved kickstand. One thing it seems the OLED Switch won’t bri...

The Acer Swift 3, one of picks for the best student laptops, is on sale at Costco for $490. | Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge The weekend has arrived, bringing with it...

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Earlier today President Biden signed the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, and in it there were several provisions relating to net neutrality. T...

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images A sweeping executive order aimed at promoting economic competition and signed Friday by President Joe Biden called on the Fe...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into Amazon’s acquisition of MGM, The Information reported Friday. Th...

As Richard Branson (left) prepares for his flight to space, the rivalry between his space company Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, owned byJeff Bezos (right) is heating up. | L...

Photo by Dave Reginek/Getty Images This year’s League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) finale is the latest esports event to welcome an audience to attend in pers...

Photo by Lucas Jackson / Reuters Managers at Amazon are instructed not to warn employees that they are being monitored under the company’s “Focus” performance man...

Photo by Visual China Group / Getty Images Tencent, the biggest game company in the world, is rolling out facial recognition technology that will likely scan many gamer...

Photo Illustration by Omar Marques / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images A licensing deal between Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Amazon will broaden Pr...

The first trailer for The Witcher season 2 has arrived, hot on the heels of Netflix’s announcement that the show will be returning on December 17th, at the inaugural WitcherC...

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s free update optimizing the game for next-generation consoles, which is set to hit later this year, will include DLC “inspired by” the Netflix s...

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The fantasy world of The Witcher is going to expand later this summer. At WitcherCon — a new event dedicated to, obviously, The Witcher — Netflix announced that the animate...

A sealed copy of The Legend of Zelda for the NES just sold for $870,000 at Heritage Auctions, breaking the previous record for the most expensive game ever sold (as far as I am...

Image: News Corp Knewz, the news aggregation site created by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp to attempt to gain some leverage against Google and Facebook’s control over ...

The US Department of Commerce has sanctioned 14 Chinese tech companies over links to human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, including one backed by a top Silic...

Sharpen your swords and get your coins ready to toss: Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) is finally back for The Witcher’s second season on December 17th, revealed at the inaugur...

The case for Tag Heuer’s upcoming Mario-themed watch. | Image: Tag Heuer Nintendo, which is often associated with being a toy maker, is teaming up with, of all compan...

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Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge iPhone builder Foxconn is dangling a massive electric vehicle project in front of Wisconsin after burning the state with promises of ...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is trying to speed up its moderation process by removing human reviewers where its automated systems can do the job about...

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Photo: Marvel Studios Black Widow was released at the wrong time, in multiple ways. The new Marvel prequel was one of the most high-profile films to be displaced by the...

The new Nintendo Switch OLED model. | Image: Nintendo Sitting down in Nintendo’s offices in Redwood City, California, yesterday, I already knew all of the main detail...

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Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images The White House has issued a “fact sheet” listing the industries and policies it’s addressing via ...

Apple’s premium on-ears are becoming more affordable with each passing week. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Not every day is chock-full of deals on the devices ...

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Renders of the Google Pixel 5A based on leaked designs. | Image: OnLeaks The Pixel 5A 5G, Google’s midrange counterpart to last year’s Pixel 5, has been spotted in ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A future version of WhatsApp will give more control over the amount of compression it applies to sent images and videos. WABetaI...

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Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Square is going to make a hardware wallet for bitcoin, the company’s hardware lead, Jesse Dorogusker, announced on Thursday. CEO Jack...

An image from Deathloop. | Image: Sony Sony showed off a lot of PlayStation games during its latest State of Play event, including more details about the remastered ver...

Image: Apple Apple announced Thursday that it will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with the release of a new documentary in September. 9/11: The Pr...

Last month, Hideo Kojima revealed that a director’s cut of Death Stranding for the PS5 was on the way — and now we actually have some details on what it will include. Like ...

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Image: Marvel Studios Marvel Studios is practically synonymous with post-credit scenes, so it’s no surprise that Black Widow — the MCU’s first movie in almost two...

Qualcomm — the company behind the Snapdragon processors and modems that power almost every major Android smartphone — is making its own phone. Or rather, the company is par...

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Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty Images The online grocery startup Instacart just announced its new CEO will take over on August 2nd. Fidji Simo ...

Riot Games is announcing a big summer event, Sentinels of Light, that will take place across all five of its currently available games: League of Legends, League of Legends: Wi...

BTS’s “Butter” is one smooth song, and “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” might be a monster hit with a sweet lo-fi remix to boot. But how is anything going to compete ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Massively popular Chinese social platform WeChat quietly deleted the accounts of several LGBTQ groups organized at major Chinese...

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Image: Alex Castro / The Verge Since 2015, the Federal Communications Commission has maintained that minimum broadband speed should stay the same: 25 megabits per secon...

A demonstration in Rome in support of freeing Kurdish political leader Abdullah Ocalan. | Photo by Matteo Nardone / Pacific Press / LightRocket / Getty Images Instagram...

Bentley’s Flying Spur Hybrid. | Image: Bentley Luxury carmaker Bentley has announced details about its Flying Spur Hybrid sedan, its second Bentley hybrid, which the ...

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Microsoft is gifting its employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus. In an internal memo seen by The Verge, the software giant says this one-time...

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The first trailer for Encanto, the latest animated film from Walt Disney Animation Studios, is full of magic. The upcoming movie is set in a magical village in Colombia, and it...

Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling via Getty Images The National Football League is signing on to use Twitter Spaces. As part of a new deal with Twitter — which will see the social n...

A single Vilo router costs $19. | Image: Vilo Vilo is a new mesh Wi-Fi company that promises a three-device system that covers up to 4,500 square feet for just $59. Tha...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has outlined how it intends to “fully comply” with India’s new social media rules after the government said its la...

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Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler spent years illegally colluding to slow the deployment of cleaner emissions technology, says the Europe...

The deals are thin today, but there are a few that are worth sharing with you. If you already have a Switch or are planning to get the OLED model launching in October, you’ll...

PodcastOne PodcastOne, the podcast network behind shows from people like Mike Tyson and Tom Green, is looking to make more money off shows outside its network. The comp...

Harley-Davidson is renewing its push into electric motorcycles with the reveal of its latest battery-powered product, the LiveWire One. While the new bike will roughly have the...

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A frame from Ingenuity’s navigation camera during its ninth flight over Mars’ Séítah region. | Image: NASA / JPL The Séítah region on Mars, filled with rocks an...

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Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Jeep says it will have “zero-emission” SUVs in every category of its lineup by 2025, the automaker announced Thursday. That same...

Photo: Netflix Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness is a show that’s made for people who love lore. The most recent games in the series, Resident Evil 7 and Village, have...

Dodge announced it would make an all-electric muscle car in 2024. The news came as part of an event Thursday covering electric vehicle strategy by the automaker’s parent comp...

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Image: Google Google Meet is getting new video filters, effects, and augmented reality masks for personal calls on iOS and Android, the search giant has announced. They...

DJI’s Pocket 2, now in white. | Image: DJI DJI’s latest handheld stabilized vlogging camera, the Pocket 2, is now available in white. The camera released last year ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google used anticompetitive practices in an attempt to “preemptively quash” Samsung’s Galaxy Store, and prevent it from be...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge OnePlus has confirmed that it deliberately reduces performance in “many of the most popular apps” in order to improve battery lif...

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Swedish electric performance automaker Polestar made a more powerful version of its electric fastback sedan for the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK, which kicks off today,...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge That the machine learning-driven feed of YouTube recommendations can frequently surface results of an edgy or even radicalizing ...

If you’re in the market for a new charger or cable, you might find fewer brands on Amazon than you’d expect — because at least six of them have mysteriously disappeared. ...

Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images Dota 2’s prestigious The International tournament will now be taking place in Bucharest, Romania in October, Valve announced on Wednes...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Wednesday, a coalition of state attorneys general launched a new antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As companies large and small settle on how they’ll return to working in-person, a hybrid work future, where working from home ...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is testing a job application tool that allows its users to directly apply with video resumes to companies like Chipotle, ...

Water Resistance Tester is designed to check waterproofing, which can degrade over time. Water Resistance Tester, available on the Google Play store and spotted by Andr...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Roblox is one of the biggest apps in the world, and you’ve probably been hearing its name: the company recently went publ...

Photo credit should read SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP via Getty Images Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates recently announced their divorce plans but largely left the question o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge You know spatial audio is having quite a moment when wireless carriers decide to create their own implementations of it. Verizon...

Photo by James Devaney/ GC Images Former President Donald Trump has filed proposed class action lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google subsidiary YouTube as wel...

Facebook’s Harry Potter-themed AR masks for Portal. | Image: Facebook Facebook’s Portal video calling device is getting a Harry Potter and the Cursed Child crossove...

What if MagSafe, but covered in leather? | Image: Nomad I’m not going to pretend to understand how product development meetings work, but there must have been somethi...

Final Fantasy VII Remake isn’t a complete story. Instead, the game explores the beginning of the classic RPG, with later chapters planned to finish the narrative at some poin...

Image: BMW BMW has been warning us for years that it wants to make and sell a radical electric city scooter, and now it’s following through. On Wednesday, the German ...

Grubhub and Russian self-driving startup Yandex are teaming up to use robots to deliver food on US college campuses. It represents the latest deal that envisions hundreds of si...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ubisoft has officially confirmed the existence of a new Assassin’s Creed game codenamed “Infinity,” after a report from Bl...

Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Moderna gave its mRNA-based seasonal flu vaccine to the first set of volunteers in a clinical trial, the pharma...

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Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Cowboy’s third generation electric bike, the appropriately named Cowboy 3, has received another discount. Going forward, it will no...

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The new Office UI. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft has started testing its new Office design today. The software maker originally teased its design changes to Office last ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok videos aren’t what you would call long, but sometimes you might want to skip a few seconds ahead — especially now tha...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Just days after GitHub announced its new Copilot tool, which generates complementary co...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok videos aren’t what you would call long, but sometimes you might want to skip a few seconds ahead — especially now tha...

The OLED Switch will be released this October. At least in many of the corners of the internet I’ve been reading all day, the response to the OLED Nintendo Switch has...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The TikTok app “should be returning to normal” after it experienced issues on Tuesday, according to the app’s support acco...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Russian state hackers affiliated with the group Cozy Bear were reportedly behind an attack last week on Synnex, a contractor tha...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has started rolling out an emergency Windows patch to address a critical flaw in the Windows Print Spooler service. Th...

The Nintendo Switch is fine. Like Alex says, there’s no pressing reason for Nintendo to replace it right now. But does that mean today’s new OLED variant has utterly dashed...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Even though Pokémon Go is turning five years old this week, it’s still going strong with upcoming events, some notable fans, and w...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The TikTok app is currently “experiencing some issues,” according to the app’s support account on Twitter. The app’s tea...

Beginning next year, Universal theatrical releases will head to Peacock as exclusives no later than four months after they premiere in cinemas — a clear bid to win over subsc...

Peugeot’s new hypercar, the 9X8. | Images: Peugeot French automaker Peugeot has revealed the new hybrid hypercar that it will race in the World Endurance Championship...

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Microsoft is adding support for smaller gatherings to its Together Mode feature of Teams, which uses AI to place all of the participants in a meeting into virtual environments ...

Apps on macOS are usually well-behaved, but there are times when they can stop working or freeze and slow down your entire Mac. If that happens to you (and it might happen ofte...

The Alphabet company is doubling up on simulation as it gets closer to commercialization Continue reading… ...

Michelle Yeoh is joining the cast of The Witcher: Blood Origin, Netflix’s six-part spinoff of its live-action television adaptation of the novels by Andrzej Sapkowski. The st...

NEW JERSEY, USA - APRIL 21: Phillips 66 oil refinery is seen in New Jersey, United States on April 21, 2020. Brent crude oil dived below the threshold of $20 per barrel as the ...

Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The US Defense Department has canceled the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing project it awarded to Microsoft in 20...

The OLED Nintendo Switch. | Image: Nintendo It has a bigger OLED screen, but not much else has changed Continue reading… ...

Image: Nintendo Nintendo finally did it! There’s a new Nintendo Switch coming in October! Over a year of rumors have amounted to the Nintendo Switch OLED model, featu...

Image: Roblox Virtual world-building platform Roblox has signed a deal with Sony Music Entertainment. The deal extends an existing collaboration that included a 2020 Li...

Nintendo just announced a new model of the Switch that has an OLED screen, but it won’t bring major changes to the CPU or RAM currently used in other iterations of the consol...

Nintendo Nintendo’s new Switch with an OLED screen seems promising for people who’ve wanted a bigger, more vibrant display to play games. That’s worth getting exc...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nintendo finally announced the Switch with an OLED screen that comes out in October, but right now, GameStop is hosting a bi...

Nintendo is announcing a new Switch model today with a larger 7-inch 720p OLED display. While rumors had suggested this new Switch would ship with a new Nvidia chip inside, it ...

Congressman Ken Buck, R-Colo., at his office in the Rayburn Office Building in Washington, D.C., on June 30, 2021. | Photo by Lexey Swall for The Verge Meet the Rep...

The StudioCaddy has USB-A and USB-C charging ports on the side. Following the recent release of the StudioDock, an opulent stand that turns the iPad Pro into a mini des...

A teaser image for the design of the earbuds. | Image: Nothing Nothing’s debut earbuds, the Nothing Ear (1), will cost $99 / €99 / £99 and will feature active nois...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is now legally liable for content posted by its users in India after failing to comply with the country’s new IT rules...

Image: Geek With Social Skills Karateka, an early martial arts side-scroller published in the US by Broderbund in 1984, was a little before my time. It was created by J...

Supporters of democracy in Hong Kong protest outside the Chinese embassy in London on July 1st | Photo credit should read Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media via Getty Images ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Three days after ransomware attackers started the holiday weekend by compromising Kaseya VSA, we have a clearer idea of how wide...

The OnePlus 9 misses some of the high-end features on the more expensive Pro model, but it’s a better overall buy for most people. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge ...

Croatian electric supercar startup Rimac announced that it was taking over Bugatti from Volkswagen to form a new company called Bugatti Rimac. The news was first reported by th...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Airbnb has blocked over 50,000 suspicious bookings across 15 US cities as part of a crackdo...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Airbnb has blocked or redirected “potentially risky reservation attempts” from over 50,...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is finally admitting that he underestimated how difficult it is to develop a safe and reliable self-driving car. To which the entire engineering community r...

A road that buckled in the recent heat. | Washington State Department of Transportation North via Twitter During last weekend’s deadly heat wave, some roads in the P...

Jeff Bezos, who has served as the CEO of Amazon since founding the company exactly 27 years ago on July 5th, 1994, has officially stepped down from the role. Andy Jassy is now ...

The new Microsoft Store on Windows 11. Microsoft’s dysfunctional app store for Windows, the Microsoft Store, is finally improving under Windows 11. While there’s a ...

A new day is coming. | Photo by Nguyen Tran A car that gets cheaper every time you share it Continue reading… ...

Xiaomi’s Mi 11 Ultra is finally going on sale in India in limited quantities. The company had announced its latest flagship smartphone all the way back in March, but it’s b...

Michael Gandolfini stars as Tony Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark | HBO Max The Good Fight returned to its very weird and funny roots this week and introduced Mandy...

‘Apex Legends’ | Respawn Respawn Entertainment’s battle royale shooter Apex Legends has proven to be a hit, with over 100 million unique players, and counted over...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A security researcher has found that certain Wi-Fi networks with the percent symbol (%) in their names can disable Wi-Fi on iPho...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Several verified profile pages on Gettr, the new social media platform from Jason Miller, once an advisor to former President Tr...

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...

Earlier this year, I did something weird: I bought an iPod 5th generation, originally manufactured back in 2006. I got it mostly as a fun thing to mod, but I’ve actually been...

TikTok’s parent company has started selling its AI to other companies | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of video s...

The 20 Pro 5G includes premium features you’d be hard-pressed to find in another $500 phone Continue reading… ...

Didi has some 377 million users in China | Getty Images The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has ordered app stores to remove Didi Chuxing’s app, claiming the...

SGDQ is You. | Image: Games Done Quick Games Done Quick’s weeklong summer speedrunning event for charity begins on Sunday, and looks to have a whole bunch of good run...

At an Anime Expo Lite panel, LucasFilm revealed the very first look at Star Wars: Visions, an upcoming anthology of short anime films set in a galaxy far, far away. The sneak p...

Trump supporters stand on the U.S. Capitol Police armored vehicle as others take over the steps of the Capitol on January 6th. | Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Just in time to ruin the holiday weekend, ransomware attackers have apparently used Kaseya — a software platform designed to h...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A court in Amsterdam ruled that privacy litigation against Facebook in the Netherlands can proceed, rejecting the social network...

Earlier this year, I spent a month covering the trial for a dispute between Apple and Epic. The case was one of the biggest antitrust suits in recent memory, and it brought to ...

Photo: Wise Owl Outfitters After over a year of indoor living, people are finally able to go out and enjoy the outdoors: beaches, sports, hiking, camping, bird-watching...

Bird is piloting a mobility scooter rental program in New York City | Bird Scooter company Bird is partnering with mobility vehicle company Scootaround on a pilot progr...

If you’re in the US, you might be prepping for some exciting Independence Day plans. Whatever you’re getting up to — whether it be drinks with close friends and family or...

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling venture, pitched an underground transit system to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the town’s ...

California Highway Patrol A California Highway Patrol officer stopped a Toyota Prius on Friday that had what looks like a Starlink dish fastened to its hood, the agency...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Just in time to ruin the holiday weekend, ransomware attackers have apparently used Kaseya — a software platform designed to h...

In March, Sony received widespread backlash for announcing plans to shut down the PS3 and Vita stores and remove the ability to purchase PSP games from both storefronts. The cr...

Image: WD After a security vulnerability led to some WD NAS owners having their data wiped, a new vulnerability has been discovered in more of WD’s devices (via Krebs...

NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock will stream every remaining 2021 Stanley Cup Final match, just as the service’s parent company will stream the games on broadcast N...

Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm’s new CEO, Cristiano Amon, has big plans for competing with Apple when it comes to laptop performance, thanks to the ex-Apple employees Qualc...

The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into troubled electric vehicle startup Lordstown Motors, which is backed by General Motors and went public late last year ...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The US Federal Trade Commission has sued chip maker Broadcom for allegedly abusing a monopoly on semiconductor components. A newly...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Following last month’s announcement that OnePlus was integrating with Oppo, effectively becoming a sub-brand of the phone manufactu...

Image: CD Projekt Red The Witcher: Monster Slayer, an upcoming Pokémon Go-like augmented reality game for mobile devices set in The Witcher universe, will be released ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An internal survey designed by Apple employees shows respondents want the option to work from home and fear their colleagues may...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Porsche is recalling its first EV, the Taycan, to fix an issue where some cars suddenly lose power while in motion. The automaker has...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s latest diversity report shows that despite some gains in the number of Black employees, the company is lagging in its...

League of Legends developer Riot is making something new — and very chill. The company just released an album called Sessions: Vi, which is packed with 37 lo-fi tracks from p...

@meiselasb A high-end Tesla Model S Plaid caught fire Tuesday night in Haverford, Pennsylvania, briefly trapping the driver inside, according to the local fire departme...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Tesla delivered 201,250 vehicles in the second quarter of 2021, a record for the company but still falling slightly short of Wall Str...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge By locating the battery in the floor of the vehicle, auto companies are making it difficult to convert EVs for wheelchair us...

Right now, Dell’s G15 Ryzen Edition is perhaps the most affordable gaming laptop that has a powerful Ryzen 7 5800H processor and an Nvidia RTX 3060 graphics chip inside (via ...

Photo by: Jose More/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Right now, anyone rolling up their sleeve for a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States is supposed to ...

Photo: Netflix Something special happens when you marathon horror movies. On their own, slasher flicks like Friday the 13th or Halloween can seem like nothing more than...

Photo by David McNew/Getty Images General Motors has struck a deal with a mining company to source lithium, a key ingredient in electric-car batteries, from geothermal ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is warning Windows users about an unpatched critical flaw in the Windows Print Spooler service. The vulnerability, dub...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A bipartisan group of lawmakers have asked that the FTC continue its antitrust lawsuit against Facebook after setbacks in court....

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is testing prompts that will link users to anti-extremism support and resources if the company believes the user knows ...

Nike The Olympics are back on this summer in Japan — despite local opposition — and athletes will of course find themselves outfitted in the lightest, slickest gear...

Humble Bundle has announced that it’s going to change how payment sliders will work in its storefront by removing the ability to donate all of what you spend to charity and s...

Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images Space tourism firm Virgin Galactic will fly its founder Richard Branson on its next test flight slated for July 11th, the ...

Windows 11’s new Black Screen of Death. Microsoft is changing its famous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to black in Windows 11. The software giant started testing its ne...

Apple is reportedly working on a program called “Retail Flex,” which will give its store employees the chance to work from home some weeks, according to Bloomberg’s Mark ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The next big software update for Apple TV will arrive with tvOS 15. While it won’t become widely available until later this year, use...

Image: Amazon Amazon is bringing the conclusion to the Rebuild of Evangelion film series — adaptations of the beloved anime Neon Genesis Evangelion created by Hideaki...

A mockup of what the new trusted friends feature could look like. | Image: Twitter Twitter has shared three early design concepts for new features it’s considering fo...

The hottest album of 2021 is about to drop. The soundtrack of the hit ‘90s sitcom Seinfeld will be released on Friday, July 2nd (via Variety) on “all digital platforms,” ...

Apple’s iOS 15 is now available in public beta, which means that today you can try out all the biggest features coming to the iPhone this fall. That includes Live Text, the m...

Photo by Sergei Fadeichev\TASS via Getty Images A new Russian law will require large social media companies to open offices in Russia if they don’t want to face adver...

Image: USPS EV startup Workhorse has accused the United States Postal Service of bias in choosing defense contractor Oshkosh to build the next-generation mail truck, an...

If you downloaded and installed the macOS Monterey public beta, there’s a chance that you may want to return to Big Sur, which is currently the stable macOS version. There ar...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When you can be in the right place at the right time, you can really make some things happen for yourself. Take, for instance, V...

Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge The moment that some of you have been waiting for is here — Robinhood’s S-1 filing to go public has been revealed, laying b...

The Xperia 1 III puts an emphasis on advanced camera features and high-end display specs. | Image: Sony Sony’s next flagship phone, the Xperia 1 III, will ship on Aug...

Photo by Marco Bello / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Amazon demands that suppliers let it buy up to 30 percent of their company at a fixed rate often below market val...

Need a quick note? There’s an app for that. The public beta of macOS 12 Monterey, Apple’s next big macOS release, is now available for download. The operating syste...

Chair Khan, appearing at the hearing via Zoom In an open meeting on Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission passed a pair of pivotal measures expanding its power to regu...

Image: Apple Apple has launched the public beta for macOS Monterey. This is the next big update coming to Mac computers (the final version is expected later in 2021) an...

Image: Sony Sony and Sucker Punch’s hit game Ghost of Tsushima is getting an enhanced director’s cut edition for both the PS4 and PS5 that will include a new island...

Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images At the UN Generation Equality Forum in Paris on Thursday Twitter, TikTok, Google, and Facebook committed to tackling online abuse and impr...

Illustration by Maria Chimishkyan Earlier this week, Australian developer Chris Lacy tweeted about a curious experience while logging into a rarely used Google account....

Image from the Anti-Police Terror Project A confrontation Tuesday between a police sergeant and member of the public didn’t start out unusually. James Burch, policy d...

Image: Google TV Evidently acknowledging our collective content fatigue, Google TV has announced a new celebrity-curated Watch With Me series that should make finding s...

Windows 11 running on a Windows Phone. | Gustave Monce (YouTube) The Windows 11 preview only got released earlier this week, but a student has already managed to get Mi...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Pinterest said Thursday it is updating its ad policies to “prohibit all ads with weight loss language and imagery.” The ...

The Google app on iOS appears to have gotten a new Easter egg: a rather entertaining little pinball app hidden away in the “Tabs” menu. The game appears to have been added ...

The Apple Watch Series 6, in Product Red color. | Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple has now released public betas for iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, tvOS 15, and soon macOS...

The European Union’s digital COVID-19 certificate officially launched today. The certificate allows people to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination, a recent negative test resul...

Wally Funk in an undated photo provided by Blue Origin Wally Funk, one of the “Mercury 13” pilots who fought to open NASA’s early astronaut program to women, will...

Unfortunately, the batteries won’t look as cool as this one. | The Battery Issue | Artist: William Joel Batteries don’t usually come cheap, so if you have lots of b...

The Ace Attorney series is one of gaming’s great pleasures, mashing up courtroom drama with anime sensibilities into something dramatic, heartwarming, and silly in equal meas...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikToks are about to get longer. The app is now rolling out the ability for everyone to publish videos up to three minutes in le...

Image: Sony The latest patch for Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart has given the game a small but significant performance boost when playing using its fidelity mode on 120H...

Microsoft Flight Simulator is a notoriously demanding PC game, but a big patch is arriving later this month that promises significant performance improvements. Asobo, the devel...

The Galaxy Watch 4 Classic in black, gray, and white. | Image: Android Headlines Images of Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 Classic have leaked online, giving us our first lo...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images A Florida internet law is on hold while a lawsuit contesting it continues. Judge Robert Hinkle has issued a preliminary injunction bloc...

A digital COVID vaccine card in Android. | Image: Google Google is opening up Android’s built-in passes system to let Android users store a digital vaccine card, whic...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In March, Twitter said it would soon let you use a security key as your only two-factor authentication method, and on Wednesday,...

Image: Netflix Netflix has shared the first five minutes of its upcoming horror movie trilogy Fear Street, inspired by R.L. Stine’s Fear Street series of young adult ...

Way back in 2005, Apple released Mac OS X Tiger, and with it, the original implementation of widgets on the Mac through its Dashboard software. One of those widgets was a now-d...

iOS 15 comes with a number of new features and tweaks | Image: Apple Beta versions of new software are great to try out, but sometimes you realize that they’re not so...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram appears to be exploring a new feature that shares some similarities with Twitter’s Super Follows, according to TechC...

Image: Instagram Instagram is no longer a photo sharing app, according to Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram. In a video posted to his Instagram and Twitter accounts, ...

Messaging app Discord has added the ability to customize your profile just a little bit more than you could before: you can now fill in a short “About Me” blurb, and, if yo...

Volvo unveiled a new concept car that forecasts the Swedish automaker’s all-electric future. The vehicle was revealed during a “Tech Day” event held Wednesday during wh...

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images The latest mega-auction of an NFT tied to a piece of internet history is complete, with Sir Tim Berners-Lee selling a digital item repr...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge T-Mobile announced on Wednesday that it is fully compliant with the FCC’s new anti-spoofing protocol, telling the FCC that its now ce...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge T-Mobile announced on Wednesday that it is fully compliant with the FCC’s new anti-spoofing protocol, telling the FCC that its now ce...

Iketsj/YouTube Have you ever been using a recently updated Mac computer and thought, “Man, I would love to use this operating system with a really tiny keyboard and a...

Dozens of satellites launched to space on Tuesday in SpaceX’s second in-house “ride-share” mission from Florida, bringing the total number of orbital objects carried by E...

Amazon is pushing back against Lina Khan, the newly confirmed chair of the Federal Trade Commission, by filing a recusal motion against the longtime antitrust advocate, as firs...

The newest Revvl phone offers 5G, a massive 6.8-inch screen, and a rear-facing triple camera. | Image: T-Mobile The year of cheap 5G phones is upon us, and T-Mobile is ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon-owned Twitch is rolling out its Watch Parties feature, which lets streamers host viewing parties for movies and TV shows ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced on Wednesday that it’s fining Robinhood almost $70 million to se...

Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Right now, you could wake up and turn on Wimbledon. By the afternoon, there will be EuroCup matches. And then, in the evenings, we...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The state of Maine now has the most stringent laws regulating government use of facial recognition in the country. The new law p...

Image: Disney Disney’s IP has once again fully synergized with the arrival of a new Marvel-themed Simpsons short titled “The Good, The Bart, and The Loki.” Disney...

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg Apple’s iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 won’t launch fully until later in 2021, but you don’t need to be a developer to test the public beta right ...

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Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Microsoft and Google have reportedly ended a six-year truce on legal battles. The Financial Times and Bloomberg are both reporting that ...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Google has announced a big change for developers who want to list their apps on Google Play that could have an impact on the An...

Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images The World Health Organization released a guidance document outlining six key principles for the ethical use of artificial...

PUBG Mobile is currently one of Tencent’s biggest titles. | Image: Tencent Games Tencent’s sprawling games empire just grew one studio bigger. Uncapped Games is a n...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge AT&T and Google have announced that all Android phones on the network will use Google’s Android Messages app for SMS a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called for an investig...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge The auto industry is holding its fire — for now — over the new requirement to report crashes involving vehicles equipped with par...

J.J. Guest and G.C. Baccaris Does anybody else remember Excalibur? You know, Excalibur: the British TV show that ran for two seasons in the mid-1970s, mixing ...

Wing, the drone delivery arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has launched a free app in the US to help pilots fly their drones legally. OpenSky has been available in Aus...

Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Virgin Orbit is in the middle of its debut commercial mission from Southern California, five months after the company fi...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Slack gets new features born out of the pandemic Continue reading… ...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft’s first Windows 11 preview looks promising Continue reading… ...

Looking through a microscope, doctoral candidate Simón(e) Sun takes a tiny glass pipette and gently attaches it to a neuron in a petri dish. She’s taking recordings of synap...

Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Virgin Orbit is gearing up for its debut commercial mission from Southern California, five months after the company firs...

Photo by Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images Sports streaming service DAZN announced today that it has acquired exclusive rights to stream the UEFA Women’s Champi...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge There’s a fantastic discount happening on the previous generation Sony WH-1000XM3 wireless, noise-canceling headphones at Best Buy....

Spam texts can be incredibly irritating — you get a notification and stop what you’re doing to check your phone, only to find somebody is trying to sell you something you d...

LG’s Mini LED use an array of thousands of tiny LEDs as a backlight. | Image: LG LG’s new range of Mini LED TVs, which it’s branding “QNED,” are releasing wor...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple isn’t backing down from its hybrid work model that will require most employees to return to the office three days a week...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom has announced that it’s acquiring a company known as Kites (short for Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions), which ...

The Demi Lovato Show will debut July 30th. | Image: Roku The first of a dozen-plus Roku Originals to premiere on the Roku Channel will kick off July 30th with The Demi ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WhatsApp’s Spanish language content moderators and customer service representatives are pushing the company for equal pay, acc...