Articles by The Verge from August 2021

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple plans to let you connect your iPhone to satellites so you can contact emergency services in areas that don’t have cellular cov...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Chrome Beta 94 announcement mentions that Google is implementing some new web standards that could make browser-based...

Image: Spectrum TV Two of the biggest players in streaming, HBO Max and YouTube, have officially arrived on Spectrum TV. It’s the first time the apps have been suppo...

Image: Chevrolet General Motors is halting production of the Chevy Bolt EV after a number of battery fires prompted a massive recall that has already cost the company n...

First responders prepare to launch rescue boats to transport residents out of floodwater left behind by Hurricane Ida in LaPlace, Louisiana, U.S., on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021 | Lu...

Image: Apple Apple’s upcoming show starring Jon Stewart, The Problem with Jon Stewart, will debut on Apple TV Plus on September 30th, the company announced Monday. Ap...

Image: Instagram If you haven’t given Instagram your birthday, it’s about to start asking for it a whole lot more — and it’ll eventually be required for you to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The next platform to host a rush on stocks like GameStop and AMC could be PayPal, as CNBC reports the company hired a brokerage ...

Photo by Matt King / Getty Images Streamer Ben “DrLupo” Lupo has signed a deal to stream exclusively on YouTube Gaming, following in the footsteps of other well-kno...

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

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Music is pushing more extensively into classical music. Today, Apple announced that it has acquired Primephonic, a service...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The company has taken a strong stance on safeguarding its customers’ data — but some employees don’t believe it protec...

TikTok parent company ByteDance is acquiring Chinese virtual reality headset maker Pico. CNBC confirmed the news today after it was rumored last week and verified by Chinese pu...

Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images For years, we’ve been told that electric autonomous taxis can help fight climate change by reducing air poll...

In the annals of gaming history, there’s no controller better known than the three-pronged piece of plastic that shipped with the Nintendo 64. That’s likely for a few reaso...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s almost unspoken wisdom at this point that you should think twice about buying some costly Apple products in the late summer mon...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge ATF investigators used a controversial technique to investigate arson incidents connected to the 2020 police protests ...

Fossil Gen 6 watches | Fossil Fossil has announced its fall 2021 smartwatch lineup running Wear OS, which it is calling the Gen 6 Touchscreen. As with the Gen 5 Fossil ...

Image: Gumroad Gumroad is announcing a new pricing structure today that streamlines the fees and features of its platform, making it easier for creators to get started ...

A child plays an online mobile game. | Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images Chinese gaming platforms like Tencent and NetEase must limit online gaming to minors...

You might have heard that Neon Genesis Evangelion, the seminal 1995 anime series seemingly about giant mech battles but far deeper and more disturbing than that, is coming to B...

Leah Lamarr is currently featured as the Clubhouse icon. | Image: Clubhouse Clubhouse began rolling out a iOS app update on Sunday that enables spatial audio support. T...

The GoPro Hero 10 Black leaks in full. | Image: WinFuture Images and specs of the GoPro Hero 10 Black have apparently leaked in full. According to WinFuture, which accu...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The upcoming Apple Watch will feature its first new hardware design in years, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman’s Power On...

A satellite image of Hurricane Ida over the Gulf of Mexico. | GOES-East NOAA Hurricane Ida is pummeling Louisiana as an “extremely dangerous” storm after strengthen...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Finally a fun iPhone 13 rumor! If Apple holds to its traditional schedule we’re mere weeks away from a new iPhone, and until n...

The Astra LV0006 sliding across the launch pad after an engine failed to fire. | NASASpaceflight Astra’s first rocket launch since it the company went public wasn’t...

A satellite image of Hurricane Ida over the Gulf of Mexico. | GOES-East NOAA Hurricane Ida is about to pummel Louisiana as an “extremely dangerous” storm after stre...

A satellite image of Hurricane Ida over the Gulf of Mexico. | GOES-East NOAA Hurricane Ida is about to pummel Louisiana as an “extremely dangerous” storm after stre...

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole Tinder doesn’t quite work for those living a ‘nomadic’ lifestyle Continue reading… ...

An easy way to upgrade your headphone microphone Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge A new PS5 model started appearing in Australia, Japan, and parts of the US earlier this month, with a new stand design and a mysteriou...

A recent T-Mobile data breach coughed up the information of more than 50 million people, including some who aren’t current customers or never were. The 21-year-old hacker who...

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes leaves the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building with her defense team in downtown San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. | Photo by Nhat V. ...

Yesterday, we wrote how Microsoft’s Windows 11 won’t technically leave millions of PCs behind — the company told us it won’t actually block you from installing Windows ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An antitrust lawsuit filed against Google and its Play Store by several state attorneys general echoed the Epic vs. Apple battle...

MagSafe makes for a convenient charger around the house The ecosystem of MagSafe chargers for the iPhone 12 might not be very expansive, but it’s hard to go wrong wit...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple made waves this week by announcing a $100 million settlement with small app developers who sued the company. But despite t...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple has announced a service program to fix failing receivers on iPhone 12 and 12 Pros (via 9to5Mac). The company says that non-Mini ...

Image: ViacomCBS Paramount Plus has ordered a new documentary-style comedic series titled Players that will delve into a fictional professional League of Legends esport...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The city of Chicago has sued food delivery services DoorDash and Grubhub for allegedly using deceptive and unfair tactics that h...

Ivermectin tablets. | Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images TikTok, Reddit, and Facebook are dealing with waves of content about ivermectin, an anti-parasi...

In June, we wrote that Windows 11 will leave millions of PCs behind, seemingly because their processors aren’t as new and fully featured as Microsoft would like. This mornin...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton has said that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have subpoenaed it for do...

A liquid oxygen tank parked outside a field hospital in New York in April, 2020 | Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images Demand for oxygen to treat COVID-19 patie...

Microsoft At times, Twitter can be a bad place, amplifying some of the worst opinions and people on the internet. But on some days, the platform can remind us there are...

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

Lordstown Motors has hired a new CEO, Daniel Ninivaggi, just two months after its previous chief executive and founder resigned after misleading investors. Ninivaggi comes from...

Microsoft is announcing today that it won’t block people from installing Windows 11 on most older PCs. While the software maker has recommended hardware requirements for Wind...

Astell & Kern Astell & Kern’s latest portable music player is as high-tech as it is extravagantly expensive. The $2,399 A&ultima SP2000T releases in Octob...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton has dropped the price of its original Bike by $400, making it $1,495. This price reduction comes alongside the compa...

Image: Rivian Buzzy (and extremely well-funded) EV startup Rivian has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. Rivian will be doing a t...

Toyota has halted its autonomous shuttle service in Tokyo’s Olympic village after one of its vehicles collided with a visually impaired athlete, Reuters reported. Technically...

A laptop that knows its business Continue reading… ...

Yesterday marked the release of Google’s $449 Pixel 5A with 5G, and the company has just released a two-minute video that celebrates one of the phone’s very best hardware f...

The Razer Basilisk Ultimate is just one of many big sales in today’s roundup A wide variety of Razer gaming accessories are a featured deal of the day today at Amazon...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Waymo is getting out of the lidar selling business. The Alphabet-owned company said it would no longer sell its laser sensors to othe...

Illustration by Alex Castro For slackers west of the Appalachians there was some bad news — Twitter went down. An outage unplugged many people beyond the East Coast o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When paying for porn gets complicated Continue reading… ...

More details on the collaboration between George R.R Martin and FromSoftware Continue reading… ...

Image: Twitter Twitter is beginning its rollout of Ticketed Spaces, or paid live audio rooms. The company announced yesterday that it’s “experimenting” with the f...

Nintendo Nintendo debuted a new trailer for Metroid Dread ahead of its October 8th launch on the Switch. Whereas the E3 2021 trailer was claustrophobic, featuring the E...

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole There are built-in calculator, camera, and to-do apps — but small devs can make them better Continue reading&hellip...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Being original on Facebook doesn’t pay, according to its own data Continue reading… ...

Elon Musk has criticized fellow centibillionaire and space cowboy Jeff Bezos for filing lawsuits against the former’s aerospace company SpaceX. Earlier this month, Bezos’ ...

Another day, another major Microsoft vulnerability. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has warned thousands of its Azure cloud computing customers, inc...

I was having a good time with No More Heroes 3 until I somehow lost my save file. I don’t think it was the game’s fault, but unfortunately since it’s coming out today for...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A proposed agreement between Apple and a class-action lawsuit representing US app developers includes a $100 million payout from...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As part of a proposed agreement to resolve a class action lawsuit from US app developers which includes a $100 million payout fr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A person claiming to be behind the T-Mobile data breach that exposed almost 50 million people’s info has come forward to revea...

Data-mining firm Palantir invested $25 million in Faraday Future shortly before the electric vehicle startup became a publicly traded company in July, according to a previously...

Nintendo The Switch still doesn’t have apps like Netflix or Twitch, but Nintendo decided to do us one better by announcing that Pokémon TV — the media app devoted ...

Image: Streamlabs Streamlabs, the popular livestreaming software company owned by Logitech, is rolling out a “monthly tipping service” as an alternative way for str...

Disney Disney Plus subscribers will finally be able to watch the Queen of Mean on the service at no additional cost beginning Friday. The live-action origin story of Di...

Disney Disney Plus subscribers will finally be able to watch the Queen of Mean on the service at no additional cost beginning Friday. The live-action origin story of Di...

Photo by Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images United Launch Alliance won’t be selling any more of its workhorse Atlas V rockets, and it has stop...

The gunslinger character in Overwatch. | Image: Activision Blizzard Blizzard says it plans to change the name of Overwatch’s gunslinger character following the explos...

Photo courtesy Stewart Volland for Blizzard Entertainment. The 2021 Overwatch League playoffs have hit a slight snag. Yesterday, the League announced it will no longer ...

Location sign for the ‘CO2 to pipeline’ apparatus at the Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery Plant, operated by Saudi Aramco, in Hawiyah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, June 28,...

Image: Nuro Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, announced a dramatic expansion of its physical footprint. The company said it will...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google has announced that Google Sheets is getting the ability to intelligently suggest formulas and functions for your spreadshee...

We recently wrote how Panasonic maybe went a little overboard with wacky promotional images for its new SoundSlayer wearable gaming speaker. Fun, right? Here’s something less...

Image: Apple Apple has a new offer for publishers: join Apple News, and it’ll only take 15 percent out of your in-app purchases and subscriptions instead of 30. Publi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is taking its next step into gaming by allowing subscribers in Poland on Android to play two Stranger Things games insid...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is taking its next step into gaming by allowing subscribers in Poland on Android to play two Stranger Things games, the ...

Video still by Weston Reel for The Verge The next generation of a feature called Scan can identify similar clothes, dog breeds, plants, cars, and more Contin...

Schell Games You’re not really a secret agent until you put on a funny hat and fake mustache while you’re trying to stop an evil conglomerate from filling a theater...

Arkane’s next game is part immersive sim, part captivating mystery Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TSMC is the biggest chipmaker in the world and the company responsible for the processors used by Apple, AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, ...

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge If you’re looking for a Chromebook that rises above many other models in terms of build quality, features, and performance, you shoul...

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole It’s a lucrative opportunity many don’t want to take Continue reading… ...

It’s normal food, blitzed into a pulp, and compressed into 50 gram squares. | Image: SquarEat Slap bang in the middle of a Venn diagram with two circles labelled “s...

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole Generative profile picture NFTs are all the rage, but creators say it’s not just about the money Continue reading&he...

Capitalism is all about fairly distributing wealth based on hard work and personal merit, which is why Jeff Bezos earns in 20 seconds what the median US worker makes in a year....

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It was just last February that Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay was promoted to lead the company’s entire Windows softw...

James Bareham / The Verge Niantic announced Wednesday that it’s going back on at least one of its controversial gameplay changes to Pokémon Go. The company is perman...

Google’s Wear OS app for YouTube Music. | Image: Google Google has finally released a Wear OS app for YouTube Music, which could seem like welcome news for people who...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s Halo-themed Xbox Series X — one of the many announcements to come out of Gamescom Opening Night Live — is set to arrive on November 1...

Image: Facebook A manual uploaded to the FCC gives us a look at Facebook’s experimental Project Aria AR glasses, which apparently go by the codename Gemini (via Proto...

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Tech companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft promised to help bolster US cybersecurity after a meeting with President Joe Biden a...

Image: Instagram Instagram plans to more prominently feature photos and videos in search results in the future, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Wednesday. The ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is considering creating a commission that would weigh in on global election-related issues on the platform, according t...

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge If you’ve had an Android phone for any length of time, it’s easy to get used to living with, well, chaos. If you’re anything li...

Xbox kicked off Gamescom a little early, but the show got its proper start with Opening Night Live hosted — as always — by Geoff Keighley. It was a lengthy event clocking i...

Panasonic knows that gamers want to be blown away. But maybe not quite this literally? That looks a little painful. So does this: I’m not sure I’d want ...

Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge Starting September 18th, Microsoft will end support for the Office and Outlook Android apps on Chrome OS and start pushing Chrome...

Amazon Games’ New World. | Image: Amazon Amazon’s upcoming PC MMO, New World, is getting an open beta ahead of its September 28th release date, Amazon Games announc...

Horizon Forbidden West, the sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn, has officially been delayed until February 18th, 2022, according to a PlayStation blog post and Guerrilla Games. The ga...

A screenshot from Horizon Zero Dawn. | Image: Sony Sony has released a new update for Horizon Zero Dawn enabling 60fps on PS5. The game was previously locked to 30fps o...

Microsoft’s first custom Halo-branded Xbox Series X console will arrive on November 15th. The $549.99 console includes dark metallic paneling, gold accents, and a star patter...

Morgana can’t catch a break | Sega In an effort to build up excitement for Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania that’s releasing on October 5th, 2021, Sega has been pluck...

Marvel’s Midnight Suns is a newly revealed tactical RPG from Firaxis Games that was just announced at Gamescom’s opening night event. The game is said to take place in the...

A screenshot from Saints Row. | Image: Volition As teased by Geoff Keighley last week, Saints Row is the next video game series to get a reboot. Developer Volition has ...

A year of chaotic movie releases made the future of theaters look uncertain. But as cinemas reopen, hybrid releases that studios so warmly embraced amid COVID-19 are now having...

Image: Emma Hardy, Airbnb Airbnb and Airbnb.org announced on Tuesday that they will temporarily house 20,000 Afghan refugees for free. The effort, an evolution of the h...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that 19 of the 24 US government agencies surveyed are using f...

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

Kanye West revealed a new music gadget called the Donda Stem Player that will let you “customize any song,” according to the device’s website. It’s available for preord...

Wind turbines in front of a coal-fired power plant on the outskirts of the new city area of Yumen, Gansu province, China, on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. | Wind turbines in front...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Controversial new cryptocurrency tax requirements are likely to become law through the bipartisan infrastructure bill. The cry...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Walmart is offering gamers a chance to get a PS5 and Xbox Series X today, Wednesday, August 25th, at 12PM ET / 9AM PT. That’s ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Update August 25th, 1:06PM ET: Walmart appears to have sold out of the Xbox Series X and both iterations of the PS5 for the day....

Netflix is hosting its own online fan event for the first time on September 25h. The event is called “Tudum” (as in the onomatopoeia of Netflix’s iconic logo sound), and ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge My friend (and occasional writer for The Verge) JR Raphael has a newsletter in which he recently wrote about cleaning up your Go...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia’s RTX 30-series graphics cards are next to impossible to find in stock, but Best Buy is offering PC gamers an opportunity to bu...

The latest version of August’s lock is smaller and more discreet. | Photo: August August’s latest Wi-Fi Smart Lock is on a special discount today through Wellbots....

Wing, the drone delivery company operated by Google-parent Alphabet, is about to rack up 100,000 deliveries. The company says it will pass the threshold in the next few days, a...

Gamescom is usually the biggest in-person video games conference, but it’s happening virtually for the second year straight due to the pandemic. That may be disappointing to ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge | Photo by Vivian Zink/NBCUniversal via Getty Images A Verge investigation shows how going exclusive stunted Rogan’s power...

“Project Windless” concept art. | Image: Krafton Krafton’s ‘Project Windless’ is still in its earliest stages Continue reading… ...

Fitbit’s new Charge 5 in gold. | Image: Fitbit It costs $179.95 and will be out this fall Continue reading… ...

Otter.ai is available on iOS, Android, and via the web. | Image: Otter.ai Otter.ai is one of our favorite transcription tools thanks to the accuracy of its machine lea...

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole Viral fame, IRL customers Continue reading… ...

Image: Alex Castro / The Verge In an abrupt tweet, video and image sharing site OnlyFans announced a reversal of the shocker announcement that it would ban sexually exp...

Halo Infinite, the next game in Microsoft’s long-running franchise, will launch on December 8th. The date appeared on the Microsoft Store today and will likely be officially ...

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole But the risk of trading means anyone can lose money trying Continue reading… ...

Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Google is expanding the scope of its AI-powered Smart Reply feature to suggest responses to comments in Google Docs...

Spencer Elden, now 30, is suing over the iconic Nevermind album art. | Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images The iconic nude baby photographed for the cover of Nirvana’...

Samsung says the feature is “already pre-loaded on all Samsung TV products.” | Image: Samsung Samsung has revealed its TVs can be remotely disabled if the company f...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In June, YouTube announced it would be bringing picture-in-picture to iOS. Now, it seems the much-demanded feature is finally av...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Activision Blizzard’s leaders have promised to work to make the company a safe place for women to work — but California has ...

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...

Alaska Airlines airplanes. | Image: Alaska Airlines A cell phone caught fire in the cabin of an Alaska Airlines flight that had landed in Seattle from New Orleans on Mo...

Airplanes sit on the tarmac at Charlotte Douglas International Airport with the city skyline in the background on April 21, 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina.  | Photo by ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission proposed an over $5 million fine against conspiracy theorists and conservative activi...

At CES 2021, LG Display announced that it intended to produce a 42-inch OLED TV panel sometime in 2021. You weren’t alone if, like me, you got really excited, and also expect...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Samsung seems to be trying to discourage users from modifying the software on their new Galaxy Z Fold 3s, giving them a message that un...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is experimenting with a way to make it easier to find Spaces that you might be interested in. Some users on iOS or Andro...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google-owned YouTube is starting to crack down on Discord music bots. The search giant has sent a cease and desist to the owners...

Image: Walmart Walmart plans to offer its logistics and delivery services to other companies as part of a new last-mile delivery business, the company announced on Mond...

A player uses the Ping System in Apex Legends to alert their team of the presence of a “Shield Battery”. | Image: Electronic Arts Electronic Arts is pledging to ope...

Paradox Games Gamescom doesn’t officially start until Wednesday, but Xbox got a head start on the festivities with an announcement of all the new games coming to Xbox...

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Looking back at a decade without Jobs — Apple’s biggest decade ever Continue reading… ...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft revealed a colorful new custom Xbox Series X / S controller to celebrate Forza Horizon 5 during its Gamescom 2021 Xbox stream. Much of the co...

Microsoft had a good showing at this year’s iteration of E3, and the company returned to show off its upcoming slate of games at Gamescom 2021. There were the usual suspects ...

Microsoft has revealed the next major additions coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator later this year, including the Volocopter VoloCity air taxi; updated maps for the Germany, ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft its bringing its Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) service to Xbox One and Xbox Series S / X consoles this holiday. The integ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In August 2020, Google decided to add a tab for its Meet videoconferencing platform to Gmail. Not a big deal for the desktop ver...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok announced it’s piloting a new in-app shopping experience on Tuesday as part of its ongoing partnership with Shopify (vi...

Apple Maps’ built-in ratings and photos system is rolling out to the US and Canada, letting users add their own information to points of interest on the map (via MacRumors). ...

The best gaming laptop is the Asus ROG Zephyrus G15. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales/ The Verge The best gaming laptop at every size and price Continue rea...

Bungie has officially taken the wraps off of the next major expansion for Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, which will continue the story of the sci-fi space series and see players f...

Military personnel on an inflatable boat ship past a destroyed house on the Ahr river in Rech, Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany, on July 21, 2021, after devastating floods...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Somehow, it is 2021 and Hulu is only just now adding HDR support — to some of its original shows and movies. The addition was...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge You can now buy the Oculus Quest 2 again following a nearly monthlong pause in sales to outfit the headsets with new silicon...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Waymo is going to start shuttling a wider group of passengers around in its autonomous vehicles in San Francisco, California — thoug...

Peloton Tread | Image: Peloton In May, after a series of accidents linked to multiple injuries and one death, Peloton announced recalls for its Tread Plus treadmill and...

Image: Alex Castro / The Verge OnlyFans founder and CEO Tim Stokely says banks were behind the online fundraising platform’s recent ban on sexually explicit content. ...

The Frame camouflages itself as wall art when you’re not using it as a TV. | Samsung The Frame, Samsung’s HDR-compatible QLED that pulls double duty as wall art, is...

Photo by David Lee/Riot Games/Riot Games Inc. via Getty Images The 2021 League of Legends’ World Championship, the end-of-year tournament for arguably the biggest esp...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Some of the biggest Gamescom 2021 announcements are likely to happen during the Xbox stream. The stream will be a 90-minute blas...

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole The hidden costs behind your favorite apps, games, and more Continue reading… ...

Spotify Spotify is broadening the number of people who can offer subscription podcasts and have their shows play on its service. Today, the company announced that all U...

Movies Anywhere is best known as the service that syncs together purchased movies across different retailers (so that you can, say, watch movies you bought on iTunes through Go...

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Building a career on pushing buttons and seeing what happens Continue reading… ...

One of the first things you might notice when you get Android 12 on your phone is that a standout Android feature is no longer where you expect it. I’m talking about the devi...

As good as foldables get, but is that good enough? Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole TikTok tour guides will show you their city — and the places hooking them up Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Default permissions settings in an app-building tool from Microsoft have been blamed for exposing the data of 38 million people ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is testing an experimental set of developer tools that might one day let creators build augmented reality effects for the...

A Mi Home store in Beijing. | Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Xiaomi is phasing out its “Mi” product branding, a spokesperson tells The Verge. Products including fl...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Once again, Google is headed back to the drawing board to rethink its healthcare strategy. As first reported by Business Insider...

Google Meet now warns you with a red dot and alert message if it thinks you have an echo. | Image: Google Google Meet will soon tell you when it thinks you’re creatin...

A player uses the Ping System in Apex Legends to alert their team of the presence of a “Shield Battery”. | Image: Electronic Arts Electronic Arts is pledging to ope...

After it leaked over the weekend, Sony Pictures has released the first official teaser trailer for the upcoming Spider-Man: No Way Home, the third Spider-Man movie to be part o...

President Joe Biden plans to host a meeting on Wednesday to discuss how companies are improving cybersecurity after the waves of recent security breaches and ransomware attacks...

Spotify’s Wear OS app. | Image: Spotify Support for offline playback in Spotify’s Wear OS app is rolling now, the company confirmed to The Verge. As spotted by Andr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is testing adding voice and video calls to the main Facebook app, Bloomberg reports. The features are currently part of...

Disney Disney has filed a motion to have Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit against the company moved to private arbitration, the latest in the ongoing saga of her complain...

Image: @_snoopytech_ on Twitter A leaked video seems to show off the rumored Fitbit Charge 5, just over a week after we saw renders of it hit the internet. The video sh...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Oculus has begun rolling out a set of new software features for Quest and Quest 2 virtual reality headsets. The v32 update i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google announced changes to how it calculates and displays app ratings on the Play Store on Monday that could make them more use...

Graphic by James Bareham / The Verge Pressure from payment processors is leaving OnlyFans creators with nowhere to turn Continue reading… ...

Photo: iFixit The Playdate is one of the most interesting pieces of new gaming hardware in years, with a fun, colorful design that evokes old handhelds like the Game Bo...

Photo: iFixit The Playdate is one of the most interesting pieces of new gaming hardware in years, with a fun, colorful design that evokes old handhelds like the Game Bo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The hacker that stole around $600 million worth of crypto coins from Poly Network has now finished returning them after starting...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Oculus has begun rolling out a set of new software features for Quest and Quest 2 virtual reality headsets. The v32 update i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As the Michigan governor’s race heats up, a handful of candidates are turning to TikTok to build followings ahead of the 2022 ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple employee organizing took another step this morning with the launch of a website called AppleToo. The goal is to collect st...

Image: Netflix If there’s one thing that ties the many iterations of The Witcher together — whether it’s the original books, the hit games, or more recently the l...

Instagram The swipe-up will be no more. Instagram is planning to retire the feature, which allows people to visit external webpages by swiping up, starting August 30th,...

Google’s upcoming Android 12 update has plenty of eye-catching features, but don’t let yourself be fooled: sometimes, it’s the smaller, less obvious elements that are mos...

A woman protects her head from the sun during a heatwave in Athens on July 29, 2021. | Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images During a summer of punishing heat...

With official Food and Drug Administration approval, the Pfizer / BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine can now be marketed as Comirnaty in the US, great news for general vaccine acce...

Vanessa Hudgens in The Princess Switch. | Image: Netflix Netflix has released a lot of information about its movie lineup through the end of the year, including details...

The best gaming laptop is the Asus ROG Zephyrus G15. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales/ The Verge The best gaming laptop at every size and price Continue rea...

Image: Ample Battery swapping has long been a dream solution for the infrastructure problem standing in the way of wide electric vehicle adoption. Tesla famously tried ...

Image: Apple Apple has shared a new trailer for the second season of The Morning Show, one of its premier series for Apple TV Plus. The new 10-episode season debuts on ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An early analysis of the informal Apple pay equity survey shows a six percent wage gap between the salaries of men and women, ac...

Simu Liu takes on a whole lot of bad guys on a bus. | Courtesy of Marvel Studios I’m ready for Shang-Chi to meet Thor Continue reading… ...

Photo by LMPC via Getty Images After prodding Nike with a Lil Nas X collaboration for “Satan Shoes” and memorializing iconic failed startups as toys, the internet c...

Photo: Apple T-Mobile has announced a new promotional perk for its customers: starting on August 25th, both new and existing subscribers to its Magenta and Magenta Max ...

Photo by Hugh R Hastings/Getty Images Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit, a satellite-launching spinoff of the billionaire founder’s space tourism firm, is going public...

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole The Verge presents a second edition of Making It Work, a special issue about how small businesses and creators have found clever ...

The Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to the Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, another landmark in the historic immunization campaign. The vaccine was previo...

The Bose QuietComfort 35 Series II, often referred to in shorthand as the QC35 II, are just about the cheapest they’ve ever sold for today. Woot has new, black-colored units ...

Photo: Geoffrey Short / Netflix Four years after news broke that work had begun on a live-action adaptation of beloved sci-fi anime Cowboy Bebop, the series finally has...

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead Continue reading… ...

YouTube’s Partner Program has passed the 2 million creator mark | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube’s Partner Program, which allows users to make mone...

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole The pandemic brought rampant growth for local food distribution platforms Continue reading… ...

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Supercell, the Finnish developer best-known for mobile hits like Clash of Clans and Brawl Stars, announced its next game today — and it looks to be a big departure. Called Ev...

A DIY Simpsons TV that plays 11 seasons of episodes. | Image buba447 Reddit user buba447 has created an iconic Simpsons TV with working dials that plays episodes of th...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony has quietly launched a revised PS5 model in Australia. Press Start, an Australian-based gaming site, reports that the revised PS5...

The port configuration on the current M1 Mac Mini. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple is planning a new model of the Mac Mini that will replace the pro-focused In...

Angelina Jolie stars in Eternals, coming to theaters November 5th. | Marvel I think I have found the max number of streaming shows I can keep up with/commit to at once ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As conditions in Afghanistan continue to deteriorate and the Taliban gain control of its major cities, it’s been a challenge f...

American Airlines is one of six commercial airlines ordered to assist with evacuations from Afghanistan | Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Secretary of Defense Lloyd Au...

Facebook has released a content transparency report it initially withheld | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook released a report (.pdf) late Saturday abou...

This is the Saygus V2, which authorities say was never released. A Utah man who touted a revolutionary new smartphone for several years but failed to produce one, has b...

Samsung now lets you store your vaccine card in Samsung Pay | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung devices that support Samsung Pay can now store digital ver...

Aaliyah attends the 2000 MTV Movie Awards | Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage The 1996 album “One in a Million,” by Aaliyah finally came to streaming platforms on Fri...

China has passed a user data privacy law | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge China has passed a new privacy law aimed at protecting users’ personal data, state ...

Clubhouse has removed some info from users in Afghanistan as a safety measure | Clubhouse Social audio app Clubhouse has joined other social platforms in taking steps t...

Drivers held a protest against Prop 22 in October. The measure passed in November, however. | Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images California’s gig workers...

This weekend, it’s not just the red Apple Watch Series 6 getting a discount. | Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The red Apple Watch Series 6 has already seen an array of big ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton’s rumored rowing machine may finally be on the way, according to text that 9to5Google discovered in the Peloton An...

The Pixel 5 (top) and 4A 5G (bottom) will likely sell out soon. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amidst the news of a new Pixel phone this week, Google qui...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Wednesday, Facebook released a report about what content was most viewed by people in the US last quarter. It was the first t...

Image: Alex Castro / The Verge On Thursday the video and image sharing site OnlyFans announced plans to ban “sexually-explicit content” starting October 1st. While ...

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge General Motors is expanding its recall of the Chevy Bolt to include all models — including the two new versions released e...

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Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images Amazon has developed electronic tracking technology for the trucks used by its partners to monitor their movement and h...

Photo composite by Amelia Holowaty Krales and Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Android 12’s public beta is now available, following Google’s deep dive into the new software...

Remember when Nvidia’s CEO warned yesterday that buying Arm might take “longer than initially thought,” but that it was no big deal and “not one particular delay”? It...

Privacy is probably one of the biggest buzzwords in tech these days, and even the data-loving Google is getting in on the action. The Android 12 update boasts a handful of priv...

A screenshot from Halo Infinite. | Image: Microsoft Halo Infinite is set to release this holiday season, but at launch, you won’t be able to play the campaign mode co...

Image: VidCon VidCon announced that its US convention, scheduled in late October, has been canceled due to concerns over the increasing number of COVID cases. The organ...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Hate raids happen with little warning. A streamer will get a follow notification and instead of feeling joy that a new person h...

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Facebook has started hiding friends lists from accounts in Afghanistan | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s head of security policy said the company i...

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

After a dense presentation about the undeniably impressive work Tesla is doing with AI, the company’s self-anointed Technoking, Elon Musk, capped the evening by bringing out ...

Image: Duolingo At Duolingo’s virtual conference, the company is announcing that it will add a family plan to its app, along with new games and puzzles to help people...

Stitch Fix stylists — who choose outfits for its customers — quit in droves after the company ended its flexible scheduling policy, according to a new report from BuzzFeed ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The news about T-Mobile’s latest data breach is only getting worse, as the company announced new details from its investigatio...

Tile Mate trackers feature replaceable batteries | Image: Tile Whether you use iOS or Android, the Tile Mate (2020) is a great Bluetooth tracker that’s designed to he...

The WarioWare series has always been about chaos. Its self-described micro-games are so fast and strange that by the time you understand what’s going on, the game has already...

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Epic liberally borrowed ideas from Among Us for its Impostors mode. | Image: Epic Games This week, Epic Games added a new mode called Impostors where players complete t...

When American experts first started to worry that COVID-19 vaccines weren’t working quite as well against delta as they did against earlier coronavirus strains, they didn’t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has confirmed it’s shutting down the standalone “Android Auto for Phone Screens” app with Android 12. Instead, anyo...

The MagDart charger has a hefty cooling fan. Earlier this month Realme launched MagDart, its MagSafe-a-like ecosystem of magnetic wireless charging products. The headli...

“Set your working location to make scheduling easier.” | Image: Google Google is adding an option to its Calendar service to let you show where you’re working on ...

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is delaying its mandatory return to offices until at least January 2022, citing a surge in COVID-19 cases. The company wil...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his company is working on a humanoid robot and that it will build a prototype “sometime next year.” The humanoid robot will leverage Tesla’s expe...

Image: Alex Castro / The Verge Video sharing site OnlyFans, best known for its creators’ adult videos and photos, will prohibit sexually explicit content starting Oct...

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Image: Frame.io Adobe announced on Thursday that it’s acquiring the company behind popular collaborative video production software of the same name, Frame.io, for $1....

Steven Spohn at The Game Awards in 2017. | Image: Greg Doherty/Getty Images Steven Spohn passed a goal this week that he’s been chasing for nearly a year. He raised o...

Image: DirecTV AT&T TV and its defunct AT&T TV Now sibling will officially become DirecTV Stream, a new unified service spun out of a deal between TPG Capital a...

There was never any question what Epic Games wanted when it took Apple to court: the 48-second “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite” made it clear App Store hypocrisy was the agenda. ...

Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images SpaceX’s $3 billion contract to build a lunar lander for NASA was put on hold for a second time on Thursday a...

Skyrim was first released in 2011. | Image: Bethesda Nearly a decade after its original release, Bethesda Softworks is announcing new updates coming to its acclaimed hi...

Twitter is making some small updates to its direct messages | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter on Thursday said it’s introducing several new updates to...

Policy groups have asked Apple to abandon plans to scan iPhones for images of abuse | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An international coalition of policy and c...

Just try not reading it as “SuperDrive.” | Image: Supdrive on Twitter Dom Hofmann, one of Vine’s founders and the creator of Byte and Peach, has a new project cal...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple products are often leaked because they’re immensely popular, the company is protective of its plans, and people are will...

Motorola has a new version of its $700 Edge smartphone, bringing better cameras, a more modern processor, and an updated design. As with last year’s Edge, the new model does...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is announcing its first price increase for its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 services in a decade. The price increases ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Newly unredacted sections of Epic’s antitrust complaint against Google reveal new details on the lengths to which Google w...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Google quietly paid game developers hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives to keep their games on the Play Store, a newl...

A screenshot from Grand Theft Auto V. | Image: Rockstar Games In May 2020, Epic Games offered Grand Theft Auto V for free on the Epic Games Store, a deal that proved to...

Image: Alex Castro / The Verge Video sharing site OnlyFans, best known for its creators’ adult videos and photos, will prohibit sexually explicit content starting Oct...

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Image: Prime Video Prime Video is giving users more options for personalizing their user profiles with the addition of characters from its original series. Amazon intro...

As expected, Sledgehammer Games officially announced the next Call of Duty with the reveal of Vanguard, which will be launching in November. The new shooter is set during World...

Alongside its reveal of Call of Duty: Vanguard, Activision Blizzard announced that Call of Duty: Warzone, its popular, free-to-play battle royale, will receive an update later ...

QuakeCon, the annual fan convention for the legendary first-person shooter, was canceled last year during the pandemic, but it’s back today with a nailgun-like bang. Machine ...

A fugitive who Justice Department officials say had scammed more than 20 people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday, after b...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is testing a feature that makes it even more enticing to use its recently acquired Revue newsletter platform: the abilit...

Razer did the Razer thing and put RGB lighting on its latest earbuds Continue reading… ...

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Toyota’s supply chain has been disrupted | Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Toyota said Thursday that it would reduce production in Japan and North Amer...

Apple’s Mac has long been an afterthought for the video game industry, and few think of Google as a games company — despite running Android, one of the biggest game platfor...

Image: Apple Apple has released a new trailer for Foundation, its upcoming epic sci-fi show for Apple TV Plus based on Isaac Asimov’s series of novels, and I’m gett...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission has filed an amended antitrust complaint against Facebook, alleging that the company violated feder...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today is Tesla’s AI Day, a sequel of sorts to the company’s Autonomy Day event held in 2019. The event, which will be held a...

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Facebook Facebook in the US is going to look slightly more like TikTok for some users. Today, the company announced that it’s testing Facebook Reels stateside, which ...

Shared electric scooter company Bird is branching out into new two-wheeled vehicles, namely electric bikes. A few months after it introduced its first shared e-bike, the compan...

Title screen of The Vale: Shadow of the Crown. | Image: Falling Squirrel The Vale: Shadow of the Crown, an audio-based adventure game by indie studio Falling Squirrel, ...

Three former Netflix engineers charged with insider trading | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged three for...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One year after getting diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, a heart condition that causes an irregular heartbeat, a 70-year-old w...

An iPhone 12 mini. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge In 2011, rumors swirled that Apple was working on a so-called “iPhone nano,” a new iPhone that would be small...

#4721 In May, the world watched as Epic Games dragged Apple to court, challenging the most profitable company in the world in the name of app fairness (and securing mo...

Photo: Mission Workshop It’s surprisingly how attached you can get to a bag — especially the bag that you use to carry your laptop, your sweater, your lunch, your n...

Microsoft has unveiled a refreshed Xbox stereo headset, a $59.99 wired model that’s more affordable than its stellar $100 wireless headset that launched earlier in 2021. It�...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A year after The Wall Street Journal reported Amazon had an interest in using empty mall spaces as fulfillment centers, the busi...

The iPad mini is Apple’s smallest tablet | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The latest iPad Mini is back at Cyber Monday-level pricing, offering the best d...

Corsair Corsair impressed me last year with its $150 HS75 XB Wireless, an Xbox-exclusive wireless headset that looked and felt more like a high-end set of headphones th...

Dell Dell has announced a 14-inch portable USB-C monitor that’s priced at $349.99 and will be released globally on August 31st. It has a 1080p LED-backlit IPS panel (...

Intel has spent much of 2021 announcing plans for its future: a new IDM 2.0 strategy, new naming schemes for its process nodes, and new desktop GPUs. At Intel’s Architecture ...

Since the PlayStation 5 debuted, we’ve seen lots of novel uses of its DualSense controller. Game developers have utilized the haptic vibrations to simulate weather like falli...

Fossil’s Gen 6 smartwatch. | Image: WinFuture Fossil’s upcoming Gen 6 smartwatch has leaked thanks to a retailer listing spotted by WinFuture. Notably, it appears t...

Facebook Facebook is bringing the office to VR with Horizon Workrooms Continue reading… ...

Image: DTS Play-Fi, the multiroom audio platform from DTS, is getting a home theater upgrade with Play-Fi Home Theater, a new set of wireless audio features designed to...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is censoring words and phrases customers can engrave on products in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, according to a new report by t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge You’ll likely be able to verify yourself twice on Tinder before you can do it once anywhere else Continue reading&h...

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 GPU. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia warned earlier this year that the great GPU shortage would last throughout 2021, and now the c...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted for the first time that the company’s planned acquisition of British chip designer Arm ma...

The Jabra Enhance Plus. | Image: Jabra Jabra’s Enhance Plus are a new pair of true wireless earbuds aimed at helping people who experience “mild-to-moderate” hear...

Oppo has held a “Future Imaging Technology Launch Event” online today to make some camera-related announcements, following the reveal of its “next-generation” under-dis...

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Half a decade ago, dronemaker DJI realized its miniature aerial steadicams might be handy to carry around on foot — but it’s not the only company monopolizing on the shrink...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Netflix is beginning to roll out support for Apple’s spatial audio feature on iPhone and iPad, the streaming giant said to 9to5Mac on...

The new Paint design in Windows 11. Microsoft is redesigning its Paint app in Windows 11. The app will be updated with a new command bar that borrows most of the same o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook announced plans to delay employees’ return to the office until 2022 earlier in August, but CNBC writes that some Face...

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Photo by John Lamparski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images T-Mobile has released more information about its most recent data breach, and while the company’s fin...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has released a report to show what content was most widely viewed by Americans in the last quarter, and the list includ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is updating its API v2 so that developers can look up its Spaces social audio rooms, the company announced Wednesday, wh...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Last week, the Senate approved a massive infrastructure package making serious investments in building out the US’s roads...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have asked new Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to investiga...

Photo by John Moore/Getty Images The US military created a vast database of biometric data — one report suggests it had a goal of 25 million entries — as part of it...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s been almost a year since Apple first debuted the iPhone 12 lineup, and introduced its MagSafe accessory system. So wh...

“Together the distance between (us)” by thatgamecompany and FIELD.IO. | Photo: Marina Bay Sands. At Virtual Realms: Videogames Transformed, game designers tackl...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The memory machines that Apple, Facebook, and Google have built to remind us of our favorite moments can, like any algorithm...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Waymo announced plans to build a hub for its autonomous semi-trailer trucks on a nine-acre site near Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The Alp...

I’m not sure I could’ve solved the intricate mystery of Twelve Minutes on my own. The interactive thriller — which boasts a star-studded cast including James McAvoy, Dais...

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Pinterest’s new hair pattern search feature. | Image: Pinterest Pinterest is launching a search tool to help people narrow their hair inspiration searches by hair pat...

In an aerial view. an empty water trough in the desert that has been recently visited by wild burros is seen on July 7, 2021 near Yucca, Arizona. Large portions of the West are...

Photo by Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images Everyone in the United States who got a COVID-19 vaccine will need a booster shot to keep protection from fading, the B...

Nintendo Nintendo announced a ton of new information for the hotly anticipated Pokémon Legends: Arceus during today’s Pokémon Presents showcase. In addition to cove...

Photo by John Lamparski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images T-Mobile has released more information about its most recent data breach, and while the company’s fin...

It’s Google’s new smartwatch OS, but it’s Samsung’s watch Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Researchers have produced a collision in iOS’s built-in hash function, raising new concerns about the integrity of Apple’s C...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Recruitment, robots, and really powerful supercomputers Continue reading… ...

Image: Nintendo Pokémon Unite, the five-versus-five MOBA game that released in July for the Nintendo Switch, will debut on iOS and Android devices on September 22nd. T...

Can you spot the Alan Walker logo? If there’s one company I trust to do a good job with utterly ridiculous computer ideas, it’s Asus. Last fall, the company worked ...

At a Pokémon-focused livestream, Nintendo revealed a trailer showing off the absolutely adorable new look for Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. The clip gave a goo...

Image: Samsung Samsung announced the Galaxy Buds 2 wireless earbuds last week, so it’s a surprise that Woot is already offering a sizable discount on them. Normally p...

Pinterest’s new hair pattern search feature. | Image: Pinterest Pinterest is launching a search tool to help people narrow their hair inspiration searches by hair pat...

Microsoft’s upcoming release of Windows 11 will make it even harder to switch default browsers and ignores browser defaults in new areas of the operating system. While Micros...

Epic Games launched Fortnite: Impostors yesterday, a new mode that copies the Among Us game mechanics. While Among Us, the multiplayer game that soared in popularity at the sta...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ubisoft Singapore, the lead studio on Skull & Bones and co-developer of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, is being investigated b...

The $1,199 Galaxy S21 Ultra, which showed ads in its default apps. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung has confirmed that it will stop showing ads in default ap...

The ROG Phone 5S Pro has a small display on its rear. | Image: Asus When you’re selling high-spec gaming-focused phones, it makes sense to have the most powerful proc...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google has started to push out the silent upgrade to its new Fuchsia operating system on first-gen Nest Hub devices (known as the Googl...

Intel’s RealSense computer vision tech will soon be going away, as the company is “winding down” the business, according to CRN. If you don’t remember the tech from Jan...

Roku users who’ve been unable to get Charter’s Spectrum TV app through the platform’s channels store can once again do so after months of being unable to download it. Rok...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Update August 17th, 6:04PM ET: Sony appears to have sold out of PS5 consoles for the day. We’ll make sure to let you know when...

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge For the first time in many years, August will come and go without the introduction of a new Galaxy Note smartphone from Samsung. Instea...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is offering a new promotion to YouTube Premium subscribers — three free months to try the games included in Stadia ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For over a year, Anti-Defamation League researcher Daniel Kelley has been finding re-creations of a horrific mass shooting on Ro...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has updated Safari’s design in the latest iOS 15 beta (Developer Beta 6), making the address bar look and act more like ...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge EVgo is changing how it prices the electricity that gets doled out on its electric vehicle charging networ, and is launching a nation...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Tuesday, Twitter announced that it will begin testing a new reporting feature for users to flag tweets containing possible mi...

Photo: Alderwoman Rossana Rodriguez Amazon has removed two of its Hub lockers from parks in Chicago after public outcry over blocked sidewalks, Book Club Chicago writes...

That huge carry handle, pump-action underbarrel grenade launcher, and digital ammo counter on the side: is there a more iconic sci-fi weapon than the Aliens M41A Pulse Rifle? N...

Image: Apple One of iOS 15’s marquee new features, SharePlay, has been delayed and now won’t be rolled out until after the major update is released this fall. Apple...

Image: Disney Disney has shared an impressive trailer for Star Wars: Visions, its anime anthology series premiering September 22nd on Disney Plus. The trailer oozes sty...

Image: WinFuture After first surfacing last month in an FCC filing (which Bose quickly withdrew), the company’s upcoming QuietComfort 45 headphones have now been leak...

After an online-only event this year, the CTA is still planning to put on CES 2022 as a hybrid event with in-person and digital components. Today the CTA announced that if you�...

Taliban fighters patrol a road in Kabul | Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images Social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are coming under new scru...

Google joins Apple and Samsung by ditching the in-box charger. | Image: Google Google is the latest manufacturer to bid farewell to the in-box charging brick, saying it...

The Google Pixel 5A features a 6.34-inch display and IP67 water-resistance rating. | Image: Google Google has officially revealed the Pixel 5A 5G, a phone it kind of an...

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Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Microsoft is hiring Manik Gupta, the former head of product at Uber, in a renewed effort to boost Microsoft’s consumer apps. Gupta wil...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is announcing some new features for search to make it easier to find what you’re looking for amid the huge amount of c...

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Boston Dynamics has published a pair of new videos showcasing its bipedal Atlas robot. The first is typical Boston Dynamics flash, with two Atlas units demonstrating an extreme...

This dizzyingly gorgeous gamepad is a costly investment. | Scuf Scuf has introduced two pricey controllers, the $170 Instinct and the $200 Instinct Pro. They’re made ...

Zendure’s latest “portable” charger is the SuperBase Pro 2000, a hulking power station equipped with a 2,096Wh battery that’s designed to get you through everything fro...

Fortnite: Imposters is a new, limited-time game mode that’s rolling out today, one that might sound a bit familiar to anyone who’s played Among Us (one of the other incredi...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is introducing an option to fully disable Night Mode on an iPhone camera in iOS 15. While you’ve always been able to turn off ...

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Argo AI CEO Bryan Salesky on a new partnership with Lyft and setting realistic expectations for self-driving cars...

I always think this guy looks like Ed Helms. | Image: CD Projekt Red If you’ve ever said to yourself “I think I’ll wait to buy Cyberpunk 2077 until it’s like $1...

Selecting objects from a flat background is easier with the Magic Wand. | Image: Adobe Adobe has announced it’s updating Photoshop on iPad today with a classic deskto...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Roku is adding more than a dozen new channels to the Live TV Channel Guide on the Roku Channel, its free streaming service. Roku’s li...

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Gigabyte is offering a return and exchange service for two of its power supply units (PSUs), following complaints that the products were “exploding” or failing. PSU reviewe...

A card with an EMV chip and contactless, but not magnetic stripe. | Image: Mastercard Mastercard is phasing out the use of magnetic stripes on its credit and debit card...

Astro Astro’s latest set of products are a bit outside of its usual lane. Instead of releasing a new gaming headset or controller, it has worked with reputable bag an...

The California Public Utilities Commission is displeased with T-Mobile. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge According to a ruling published on Friday, T-Mobile ma...

Intake towers for water to enter to generate electricity and provide hydroelectric power stand during low water levels due the western drought on July 19, 2021 at the Hoover Da...

The recently-announced Galaxy Buds 2. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge People always look at me weirdly when I say that I use Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Live with my iPh...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing issued a statement saying Riot Games has failed to inform its employees...

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge OLED has been commonplace in high-end TVs for quite a while, but it’s still making its way into the laptop mainstream. That’s good ...

T Mobile data breach | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Following a weekend report that its servers had been breached, T-Mobile said Monday that unauthorized acc...

If you sync your iCloud Passwords with Windows, Apple’s new, dedicated iCloud Passwords app is going to give you some much-needed new abilities. The app, which comes with the...

Image: Activision Activision has officially announced Call of Duty: Vanguard, the next title in the hugely popular series, with a short teaser video on Monday. While th...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nearly 2 million terrorist watchlist records, including “no-fly” list indicators, were purportedly exposed online. The l...

If you’re a blind or low-vision iPhone user who relies on the FlickType keyboard to type, I’ve got some bad news — you’re about to become a casualty of the fight betwee...

Image: Bluesky Bluesky, the Twitter-funded effort to create a decentralized social network standard, has finally found a project lead — the creator of Happening, Jay ...

Tinder is adding ID Verification option for all users | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tinder said on Monday that it will make its ID Verification feature ava...

Peloton Peloton is ready to address at least one of its treadmill recalls. Regular Tread owners can now get their equipment fixed, which will involve a technician comin...

Yik Yak — the anonymous, local social media app that only shows posts from people in your immediate area — has returned from the grave with new ownership after shutting dow...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft is starting to test a new 4K dashboard for the Xbox Series X today. Xbox Insiders in the Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead rings will...

OpenTable is adding a new feature that will let restaurants tag diners as “verified” for meeting entry requirements. The initial — and obvious — use of the verification...

Walmart is looking to hire a new senior director to develop new digital currency products, possibly including cryptocurrency payments, according to a listing on the company’s...

Photo by Horst Galuschka/picture alliance via Getty Images Google Maps users will be able to find and rent Spin’s electric scooters after the Ford-owned company annou...

Public health data systems in the United States are out of date, underfunded, and can’t communicate with each other. Those issues left states unable to keep track of COVID-19...

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Kitfox Games Boyfriend Dungeon is getting an update, but not to its gameplay. In response to players’ concerns that the current content warning doesn’t go far enoug...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin brought its fight against NASA’s Moon program to federal court on Monday, doubling down on ac...

Intel Arc is the new branding for Intel’s GPUs. Intel is branding its upcoming consumer GPUs as Intel Arc. This new Arc brand will cover both the hardware and softwar...

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Image: Amazon Amazon refreshed its Fire HD 10 tablets in late April, and it added a faster processor and more RAM to make its biggest budget-friendly model a better val...

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a probe into Tesla’s Autopilot software, citing the cars’ repeated collisions with parked emergency...

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Fitbit is apparently preparing an update to its line of Charge fitness trackers, and newly-leaked images offer our best look yet at what will likely be the refreshed design. T...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is developing a new accessibility feature for Android that lets you control a phone using facial expressions like a smile...

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Michael Keaton stars as a doctor who prescribes OxyContin to his patients in Dopesick | Hulu In addition to keeping up with The Good Fight and Ted Lasso (seems like peo...

T Mobile may have suffered a customer data breach | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile confirmed Sunday that it’s looking into an online forum post that...

An Asian giant hornet attacking a paper wasps’ nest is all kinds of nope. | Washington State Dept. of Agriculture The Washington State Department of Agriculture has ...

Twitter has reinstated several Indian politicians’ accounts, after suspending them for a tweet about a child murder. | Illustration by Alex Castro Twitter has reinst...

An improved ThinkPad X1 Yoga with an updated screen Continue reading… ...

Apple ordered to pay $300 million in a patent dispute | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple must pay $300 million in royalties following a retrial in a patent...

Ford seeks to have GM’s lawsuit over the name “BlueCruise” dismissed | Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images Ford has filed a motion asking the US District ...

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The HBO Max app has suffered glitches | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An upgraded Max app is in the works Continue reading… ...

The new Samsung Galaxy z Flip 3 | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google Fi new and existing customers can get the new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 for $400 off, a signific...

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In June, we got wind that DJI was about to release its most affordable drone yet: the $299 DJI Mini SE. It appeared to be a revamped Mavic Mini for $100 less — or depending o...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amplitude Studios’ upcoming strategy game, Humankind, will be the first Stadia release to feature a new touch-focused cont...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge You could be forgiven for forgetting about Motorola’s folding phones in light of new shiny ones announced by the likes of Samsung, ...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Google has infringed upon Sonos’ patents, according to an initial ruling from a US International Trade Commission judge. Sonos has ...

Locals use water hoses to extinguish burning trees in Mugla on August 3, 2021. Turkey’s struggles against its deadliest wildfires in decades came as a blistering heatwave gri...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you opened your Reddit app today and noticed a new video button next to the search bar, you could be a tap away from experien...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is readjusting the contrast on its buttons following feedback about its design updates from earlier this week. Some peop...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has filled in more details around its upcoming plans to scan iCloud Photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) via user...

Image: Nikola This week hydrogen trucking startup Nikola announced that it won a $2 million grant from the Department of Energy. While the DoE announced the grants in J...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is once again putting a halt on applications to its verification program, saying that it needs to work on the applicatio...

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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sonos might be developing a voice assistant alternative to Alexa or Google Assistant for its speakers, according to a customer survey s...

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Immunocompromised people should get a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee recom...

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Somebody get a doctor, this Lambo is sick Continue reading… ...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Phones have become so much a part of our daily lives that it can be immediately traumatic if you suddenly can’t find your phone — ...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook is adding end-to-end encryption for voice and video calls in Messenger. The company announced in a blog post that i...

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With the exception of an anime series on Netflix, the last few years have been quiet when it comes to the gothic action series Castlevania. It looks like that’s about to chan...

A Snopes editor reportedly plagiarized other news sites | Image: Snopes A startling new report from BuzzFeed News finds that the co-founder of Snopes, a website known f...

Matter — the upcoming smart home standard that looks to help unify Google, Apple, and Amazon’s separate smart home systems into a single cross-functional standard — has b...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge During the course of the pandemic, the future of movie theaters looked grim. Cinema owners teetered on the edge of bankruptcy am...

Apple executive Craig Federighi says iCloud Photos’ plans to scan for child sexual abuse material (or CSAM) will include “multiple levels of auditability.” In an intervie...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Researchers at AlgorithmWatch say they were forced to abandon their research project monitoring the Instagram algorithm after l...

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

Razer’s PBT keycaps can now be bought with a matching USB cable. | Image: Razer Razer is expanding its range of mechanical keyboard accessories with new keycaps, cabl...

Airbnb is updating its arbitration policy | Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Airbnb said Friday it will change its terms of service so that its arbit...

Lionheart. | Image: Netflix The streaming giant meets one of the world’s biggest film industries Continue reading… ...

A midrange phone with a big screen, huge battery, and all kinds of 5G connectivity Continue reading… ...

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Screenshot: GTA3 Rockstar Games’ Dundee studio is working on remastered versions of three classic PS2-era Grand Theft Auto titles: Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Aut...

Amazon has decided to produce its upcoming Lord of the Rings TV series in the UK from the second season on. Although the first season was filmed in New Zealand, as with Peter J...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Food and Drug Administration will allow people with compromised immune systems to get a third dose of the Pfizer / BioNTech ...

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images The US Attorney won’t be filing any charges against Jake Paul, according to TMZ and a statement sent to The Verge by Paul’s la...

Image: Marvel Following a high-stakes lawsuit over Disney’s day-and-date release of Marvel’s Black Widow on its Premier Access streaming platform and the company’...

Image: Amazon Your Amazon packages may be getting an express ticket — Amazon has finished building its $1.5 billion air hub, located at the Cincinnati / Northern Kent...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge 15 months ago, Facebook said it was buying the popular GIF search engine Giphy for about $400 million. Now the acquisition may b...

Apple rolled out a small but meaningful update to senior executive Eddy Cue’s job title on Thursday that features an area of interest the company has long been focused on: se...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Specifically citing concerns about a rise in cases of the delta variant of COVID-19, Facebook confirmed a Bloomberg report tha...

Bill Gates, billionaire and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks during the One Planet Summit in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. | Mark Kauz...

Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images WhatsApp and other apps are reportedly blocked in Zambia during ongoing general elections being held in the country Thursday...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge I’ve often wondered if part of the reason that there is so much venom spewed on Twitter and other social media is that it’s diff...

Every PC graphics card we’ve reviewed in months has come with a disclaimer — if you can find one at all, you won’t be able to buy it for anywhere near its MSRP. And yet s...

The updated Mail app for Windows 11. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is improving some of the built-in apps available in Windows 11. Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel ca...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 4 has a feature that can calculate body fat percentage and muscle mass, the company announced yesterday....

Audi released details of a new concept car this week called the Skysphere, a self-driving roadster that can change shape at the touch of a button. The sleek, villainous-lookin...

Epic Games It’s another day ending in -y so Fortnite is having a new crossover event. Today, Fortnite players can complete quests in order to earn a new Free Guy skin...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Thursday, Verizon announced a range of new public commitments to protect low-income consumers in connection with its proposed...

Hummingbird’s second-generation electric bike gets a lot right Continue reading… ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has banned a company that sold Android users’ location data for COVID-19 mapping and other purposes, Motherboard report...

Image: Nikola Hydrogen trucking startup Nikola has won a $2 million grant from the Department of Energy just two weeks after founder and former chairman Trevor Milton w...

Image: ToneStone ToneStone is an app designed to make producing music easy, even for users without any musical experience, and it’s created by people who worked on Gu...

Photo: Nickelodeon It’s been some time since we’ve heard news about Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but today the streaming compan...

Microsoft has been the subject of many memes about its Xbox naming decisions in recent years. The Xbox Series X follows the Xbox One X, and the Xbox Series S is the successor t...

Good looks, but average performance Continue reading… ...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge This week was supposed to be the first day of Google’s big reentry into flagship smartwatches. Samsung is back on board after years...

The Honor Magic 3 Pro. | Image: Honor Honor has announced its first flagship smartphones since being sold off by former parent company Huawei: the Magic 3 series. The l...

With decent sound and a stable connection, the Elite 65t were once our go-to alternative to the AirPods. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales It seems like the market for ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit, the self-declared ‘front page of the internet,’ says it is now valued at more than $10 billion after raising an addi...

Google is adding a bunch of new features to Google Meet, making it easier for users to control and direct meetings. However, exactly which controls will be available depends on...

Image: Spotify Spotify’s updated Wear OS app is releasing “over the coming weeks,” Spotify has announced, and it’ll support offline playback on smartwatches run...

Roboute Guilliman, primarch of the Ultramarines, takes on the Black Legion. | Image: Games Workshop Games Workshop is preparing to launch Warhammer Plus, a niche subscr...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom has announced a new Focus mode, which it says is meant to keep students from getting distracted while in a virtual classroo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Three prominent Blizzard employees have been let go from the company, as first reported by Kotaku, marking the latest departures...

Lordstown Motors is looking to essentially loan out some space at the massive former General Motors factory it owns, as the troubled startup gets closer to building its first p...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, Twitch has issued a statement announcing the steps it’s taking to protect its marginalized streamers. “We’ve seen a...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Three prominent Blizzard employees were let go from the company, reports Kotaku, marking the latest departures from the studio f...

Image: Nestflix, Lynn Fisher It’s been notoriously difficult to watch lost classics like Vincent Chase’s Aquaman or The Rural Juror — in part because they’re no...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Like in previous years, Samsung used its latest Galaxy Unpacked event to announce a slew of new devices, including the Galaxy Z Fold 3 ...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s been easy to dismiss folding phones as the stuff of science fiction, even after they became a reality two years ago. They were t...

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into a recent partnership between Uber and grocery delivery service Gopuff, according to a new report from The Information. Gop...

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

Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images The Criterion Collection has announced plans to release a six-film slate of classics on 4K Blu-rays for the first time, i...

Twitter has changed the way the platform looks, including changing the font to its Chirp font. | Image: Twitter Twitter is rolling out its Chirp font to the Twitter app...

Test Wireless Emergency Alert message | Image: FEMA At approximately 2:20PM ET, FEMA conducted a test of both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and the Wireless Emergenc...

A few weeks after 1Password started rolling out the Windows version of the redesigned 1Password 8, the company is now showing off the Mac version of the update, which is also a...

There’s a new bill introduced in the Senate Wednesday targeting the power dominant tech firms like Apple and Google have over the app store market. The bipartisan “Open Ap...

Test Wireless Emergency Alert message | Image: FEMA At approximately 2:20PM ET, FEMA will conduct a test of both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and the Wireless Emerg...

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge As expected, Samsung took the wraps off the Galaxy Watch 4 and the aptly titled Galaxy Watch 4 Classic during its Galaxy Unpacked eve...

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Google released the first public beta for Android 12 during its I/O event in the spring, and now Beta 4 is rolling out to c...

Google Pay on Wear OS. | Image: Google Today’s smartwatch news has been dominated by Samsung’s new Wear OS 3-powered wearables, but Google wants you to know it hasn...

Image: Enhance Games The greatest Tetris game of the last decade is finally coming to the Switch. As a part of today’s Indie World Showcase, Nintendo announced that T...

Instagram Instagram has been in the news this summer after Black soccer stars in England were bombarded with racist messages following their team’s Euro 2020 final lo...

The National Institutes of Health is giving a booster dose to 200 kidney transplant patients who did not have an immune response to the COVID-19 vaccine in a new trial that lau...

Boyfriend Dungeon. Nintendo’s most recent Indie World Showcase was full of lots of cool games, as per usual. But the best part is that many of them are out today. Tha...

Google search now has an interactive periodic table you can check out to learn a lot more about the elements. You can find it by searching for “periodic table” and clicking...

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s official: Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Plus are now considered last-gen. During today’s Galaxy Unpacked event, the company announce...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has settled its copyright lawsuit against Corellium, a company that sells virtual iPhone environments for security testing...

Image: Samsung Samsung has finished up its Galaxy Unpacked event, where it announced the next generation of its foldables (it called them the new mainstream of smartpho...

The hinge and sweeper brushes on a Galaxy Z Fold 3. | Image: Samsung Are the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 strong enough for everybody? Continue reading&helli...

Illustration by Alex Castro Facebook’s massive business was built on its ability to track users across the internet. But now, thanks to looming regulation and other m...

The transfer process. | Image: WhatsApp WhatsApp is adding the ability to bring your chat history with you when you switch from iOS to Android — including all voice n...

When the entry-level earbuds are this good, why go Pro? Continue reading… ...

Image: OnePlus Samsung’s August Unpacked event took place today with foldables and wearables tossed about, but it appears that OnePlus has a thirst for attention that...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s estimated that over $600 million worth of cryptocurrency has been stolen as the result of a hack on a protocol called the...

Start11 includes an old style of the Windows Start menu. | Image: Stardock Stardock is back again with another app to skin the appearance of the Windows Start menu. Thi...

The flagship foldable now has a 120Hz cover screen Continue reading… ...

Image: Samsung In addition to launching two new foldable phones and a pair of smartwatches, Samsung today announced its latest set of wireless earbuds. The Galaxy Buds ...

What a difference a usable secondary screen can make Continue reading… ...

The Galaxy Watch 4 Classic, featuring a chunky rotating bezel. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Samsung and Google’s smartwatch collaboration is here C...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Facebook Oversight Board has ordered Facebook to restore a post from a user in Myanmar criticizing the country’s new regim...

Samsunng Samsung is holding its Galaxy Unpacked event today at 10AM ET / 7AM PT, where it’s expected to show off its next generation of folding phones. The foldable n...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s second-gen AirPods are more of a refinement than a revolution, but if you’ve been waiting for the price to come ...

Courtesy of Marvel Studios Marvel’s What If...? is the first of its kind in a lot of ways for the MCU. It’s the first animated project in the interconnected web of ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is now complying with the Indian government’s new internet rules, a lawyer representing the federal government has tol...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge NortonLifeLock and Avast are merging in a deal worth more than $8 billion. The deal will see NortonLifelock acquire all of Avast...

Commodore’s Amiga 500, a home computer that became a popular game system, is receiving a remake. The A500 Mini is being developed by Retro Games Ltd, which previously release...

Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images After spending years battling over the Defense Department’s $10 billion JEDI cloud services contract, Microsoft and Amazon are...

The company is exploring adding fiber as a complement to its fixed wireless home internet offering. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile has quietly start...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX has agreed to pay a $100 million civil penalty as part of a settlement with the US Commodity Futu...

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Ford’s F-150 was hit by the global semiconductor shortage, and now its flagship Mustang Mach-E electric vehicle is seeing a serious...

I wish the token had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. | Image: JRR Token I hate to be the one to tell you this, but there’s a cryptocurrency themed...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple stakes its reputation on privacy. The company has promoted encrypted messaging across its ecosystem, encouraged limits on ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook Dating, the company’s dating service, doesn’t appear to be as popular as other dating apps, but the company is intr...

AMC and Warner Bros. have struck a deal to have the studio’s movies stay exclusive to theaters for 45 days, instead of being immediately available digitally (via The Hollywoo...

Knuckles the Echidna is set to make his live-action debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 next year — and now we know who’ll be voicing him: none other than Idris Elba (Cats and al...

Blizzard is giving players a couple of chances to try out Diablo II: Resurrected, a remastered version of one of the studio’s most popular titles, ahead of the game’s relea...

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images AMC will begin accepting Bitcoin payments for concessions and theater tickets as soon as ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, one of Activision Blizzard’s shareholders released a letter saying that the company’s proposed remedies for the perva...

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Mercedes-Benz has confirmed that the EQS sedan, its flagship electric vehicle, will cost at least $100,000, as it began taking order...

T-Mobile plans to shut down Sprint’s legacy CDMA network on January 1st 2022, a move that Dish Network calls anti-competitive. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has announced a new policy to pay customers directly for claims of property damage or personal injury under $1,000 caused...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter claims identity verification wouldn’t have prevented the torrent of racist abuse against Black players on England’s ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Encryption and consumer privacy experts break down Apple’s plan for child safety Continue reading… ...

A24 A24’s The Green Knight will make its virtual debut much earlier than expected — on August 18th, you’ll be able to buy a $20 ticket to stream the film through ...

Image: OnePlus Samsung’s August Unpacked event is scheduled to take place tomorrow with foldables and wearables tossed about, but it appears that OnePlus has a thirst...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AI research company OpenAI is releasing a new machine learning tool that translates the English language into code. The software...

The person in the white suit is wearing a prototype of NASA’s new xEMU in 2019, whose development has been delayed, an inspector general report found. | Photo by Joel Kowsky ...

Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images After weeks of negotiations, the Senate approved a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure package Tuesday authorizing over $500 bil...

Nvidia’s A2000 is nearly half the size of the RTX 3090. | Image: Nvidia Nvidia is launching its new RTX A2000 GPU today, designed for professional workstations. It’...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The surge in COVID-19 cases around the United States, driven by the highly contagious and fast-moving delta variant of the coron...

Daversa, the firm tasked with getting adults in the room in Silicon Valley, had no adults in the room, according to a recent lawsuit Continue reading… ...

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Google is expanding the VPN service that it provides as part of its Google One subscription to seven new countries: Mexico, Canada, ...

A view of the Houston skyline after heavy rains broke during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey August 29, 2017. Harvey, swirling for days off Texas and Louisiana, dumped m...

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has unveiled a quadrupedal robot named CyberDog: an experimental, open-source machine that the firm says “holds unforetold possibilities.” CyberDo...

Democrats are calling on some of the largest gaming companies to better protect children by extending new UK design rules to children in the US. The regulations could ban compa...

Ten years ago, a handful of friends who wanted to build the next generation of tech coverage launched The Verge. Now, thanks to you, we’re the front page of the future with a...

TCL has long been the flag bearer of Roku TVs. The company’s 6-series is one of the best-performing sets you can buy for under $1,000. It features a fantastic picture with th...

Typically $150, Amazon and Walmart are both taking $20 off the recently-released earbuds. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Beats name carries quite a bit of clout...

Xiaomi has announced the Mix 4, the first phone in the Mi Mix series to be announced in nearly three years. The Mix phones have always been about bezel-less designs with seamle...

The Icepop is compatible with the G Pro X Wireless, the G Pro X, G Pro, and Astro A40. | Image: Logitech Not content with cornering the market with its USB microphones,...

The HP Chromebase AiO all-in-one computer. HP has just announced three new Chrome OS-focused products: a detachable tablet, a new all-in-one, and a Works With Chromeboo...

Image: YoYo Games GameMaker Studio 2, the game development software used to create indie darlings like Hyper Light Drifter and Undertale, is introducing new pricing opt...

The HP Chromebase AiO (left) and Chromebook x2 11 (right) Chrome OS computers. | Photo: HP HP is announcing two new Chrome OS computers for its consumer-focused lineup....

Rumored Galaxy Watches | Image: Android Headlines On Wednesday, August 11th Samsung is expected to announce a couple new smartwatches: the widely rumored Galaxy Watch 4...

Last year’s iPhone 12. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s upcoming flagship iPhones, likely to be called the iPhone 13 line, will be able to automatically...

Photo: Sean O’Kane / The Verge Starship Technologies is expanding its footprint, deploying dozens of its pint-sized six-wheeled delivery robots on college campuses th...

Twitter has announced the results of an open competition to find algorithmic bias in its photo-cropping system. The company disabled automatic photo-cropping in March after exp...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Samsung has announced the Exynos W920, a new processor designed for smartwatches and other wearables. The company says it’s the world...

Windows 11 is coming to Macs, even those without Boot Camp. Parallels Desktop 17 will allow Mac users to experience Microsoft’s next version of Windows in a window on their M...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, a noted superfan of Bitcoin, claimed on Monday that the cryptocurrency will eventually unite the wo...

Countach LP 5000 S | Image: Remi Dargegen / Lamborghini The official announcement that “the new Lamborghini Countach is coming” aims directly at anyone who had a p...

Roku is putting much of its massive Quibi content haul to work beginning Friday. On August 13th, nearly two dozen Roku Originals will debut on the Roku Channel. Many have not p...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch’s suspensions are about to get a little clearer for streamers: starting on Monday, the company announced that it will i...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s been a rocky couple of weeks for Peacock. NBC positioned its streaming service as the place to go if you wanted to stream...

Image: Google Google announced updates to its Titan security key lineup on Monday, simplifying it by removing a product and bringing NFC to all its keys. The company wi...

Image: Netflix The next season of the hit anime JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure will premiere exclusively on Netflix in December, the company announced on Monday. The premie...

Sony officially owns AT&T’s Crunchyroll. Sony’s deal to acquire Crunchyroll was first announced in December 2020 and sees Crunchyroll join Funimation, Sony’s existing...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The company bans surveys that include diversity data Continue reading… ...

36 SpaceBee smallsats launch to space aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in January 2021, during SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission with 107 other satellites on board. | Photo by ...

Netflix is tripling down on its reality TV programming by renewing its most popular shows and opening up casting for future programming to anyone over the age of 18 in the US, ...

The camera is not a counterfeit. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Last June, Amazon created a Counterfeit Crimes Unit to fight the knockoffs plaguing its gigantic s...

Dish aims to cover 70% of the US population by mid-2023 with wireless service. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On an earnings call today, Dish Network execs s...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Gigabyte has been the victim of a cyberattack, which was reportedly the work of a ransomware outfit called RansomEXX. According ...

Image: Instagram If you thought Instagram had run out of ad real estate, think again. The company confirmed to TechCrunch today that it’s starting a new test that’l...

Image: A teaser for one of James Tynion IV’s Substack projects | Michael Avon Oeming Substack is trying to put a new spin on webcomics. The newsletter platform announ...

Image: Facebook Facebook has updated its data transfer tool, Transfer Your Information, with two new destinations for information associated with your Facebook account:...

Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images A bipartisan group of senators reached an agreement Monday on a cryptocurrency tax reporting requirement that c...

When Fantasian, a beautiful roleplaying game from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, first debuted on Apple Arcade, it wasn’t actually the full game. Instead, it was d...

It’s hard to overstate just how weird Fortnite is. At one point, while I was waiting for the game’s virtual Ariana Grande concert this weekend, three identical versions of ...

A new car available in Rocket League’s fourth season. | Image: Psyonix Rocket League’s fourth season kicks off on Wednesday, bringing some big changes to tournament...

Image: Workhorse Ohio-based startup Workhorse says it has to redesign its flagship electric van to meet customer needs, after finally getting the vehicle into productio...

Netflix’s anime Witcher spinoff film — The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf — is almost here, and a new full-length trailer shows off a lot more of the epic monster fightin...

Image: Eike Schroter/Netflix The mind behind one of Netflix’s most unsettling shows is back with a new series. Midnight Mass is a new seven-episode show from Mike Fla...

Serial 1, the electric bike company that spun out from Harley-Davidson last year, is making one-of-a-kind, custom-built e-bikes and auctioning them off online. The first one is...

Microsoft is bringing xCloud to Windows PCs through its Xbox app today. Xbox Insiders will be able to access a new updated Xbox app with Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) built in. Mu...

Jay Y. Lee, head of Samsung will be released from prison August 13th | Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images Samsung vice chairman Lee Jae-yong —known in the West as J...

Photo by Michael McNerney/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Vodafone has announced it will reintroduce roaming charges in Europe for UK mobile customers from Jan...

The 2020 iPad Pro 12.9 | Photo by Brennan King / The Verge If you’ve been waiting for a sale on last year’s iPad Pro now that the new models have been released, tod...

Image: Evan Blass on Twitter The next Galaxy Unpacked event is fast approaching on August 11th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT — but you might’ve already seen what Samsung has ...

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Valve is aiming to make its Steam Deck handheld gaming PC ready for Windows 11. While we’ve known for weeks that the Steam Deck ca...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a new FAQ, Apple has attempted to assuage concerns that its new anti-child abuse measures could be turned into surveillance t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As of its latest beta release, Valve’s SteamVR software can add floating desktop windows inside VR games, letting you keep an ...

A home is surrounded by floodwater after torrential rains pounded Southeast Texas following Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey on August 31, 2017 near Orange, Texas. Researche...

Woody Harrelson and Tom Hardy star in Venom: Let There Be Carnage | Sony So in addition to watching Ted Lasso, missing Loki on Wednesdays, and keeping my Paramount Plus...

Tesla will reportedly require masks as its Nevada plant | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge All Tesla workers at the company’s battery factory in Reno, Nevada w...

Vaccine misinformation appears rampant on a social media site for doctors | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A social media site for doctors is seeing “hundred...

Tesla Cybertruck production delayed to 2022 | Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Production on Tesla’s Cybertruck, the automaker’s first electric pickup truck, has ...

Some Amazon third-party sellers find ways to contact customers who leave bad reviews | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When you buy something on Amazon, the e-c...

Synchronized space swimming aboard the International Space Station | ESA/Thomas Pesquet The Tokyo Olympics have ended, with the closing ceremonies wrapping things up Su...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Prosecutors in Beijing are suing Chinese tech giant Tencent, claiming the “youth mode” on its WeChat app is against laws pro...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google plans another campus in Silicon Valley which will include a new center for some of its hardware products, CNBC reported. ...

Photo by Robert Reiners/Getty Images Riot Games announced Saturday that the final two matches of the League of Legends US Championship Series (LCS), which are slated fo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The chorus of voices expressing concern and dismay over Apple’s new Child Safety measures grew louder over the weekend, as an ...

Photo by Robert Reiners/Getty Images Riot Games announced Saturday that the final two matches of the League of Legends US Championship Series (LCS), which are slated fo...

An unopened Super Mario Bros. game from 1985 sold for $2 million | Rally An anonymous buyer paid $2 million for a never-opened copy of Super Mario Bros., according to c...

Several record labels are suing an ISP for copyright infringement | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A group of major record labels has filed a new lawsuit again...

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Vaccine misinformation appears rampant on a social media site for doctors | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A social media site for doctors is seeing “hundred...

Twitter has hired a grievance officer in India | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has appointed two new executives in India in an attempt to comply with ...

Nomad It’s time for another roundup of this week’s best deals. You may have already seen some of these if you’ve been keeping up with our deals coverage every day...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify still hasn’t added AirPlay 2 support to its iOS app — but despite the delay, it’s still “working to make [it] a ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is working on a new night mode for Xbox consoles. The software giant has started testing this night mode with Xbox Ins...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WhatsApp won’t be adopting Apple’s new Child Safety measures, meant to stop the spread of child abuse imagery, according to ...

Photo by Ronny Hartmann / AFP via Getty Images Amazon informed US warehouse employees on Friday that it is once again requiring them to wear masks to work in response t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More and more, I find myself wondering why we built a world in which so much civic discourse takes place inside a handful of gia...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify still hasn’t added AirPlay 2 support to its iOS app — and now, it seems like it might never happen, according to a f...

Image: Razer Razer announced today that its lit-like-a-gaming-PC N95 mask has a new name and a beta program set up ahead of the planned fourth quarter launch. The futur...

Image: FCC The Federal Communications Commission has launched a new map designed to show consumers what kind of cellular coverage they can expect in a given area from A...

An employee wearing a protective face mask inspects Sapphire Technology Ltd. AMD graphics processing units (GPU) at the Evobits crypto farm in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on Wednesda...

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

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Image: Google 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 r...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s forthcoming feature that will scan iOS devices for images of child abuse is an “important mission,” a software vic...

Photo by Neal Waters / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The nights have gotten hotter and drier in the Western US, which is making it harder to stop wildfires. Fires bur...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google considered buying Epic Games as the companies sparred over Epic’s Fortnite Android app, according to newly unsealed cou...

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Ongoing efforts to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill could reshape the cryptocurrency world, as lawmakers debate new tax-r...

Image: Netflix Perhaps the most emblematic image of Netflix’s take on The Witcher is Henry Cavill as Geralt, giant shoulders sunken, muttering a raspy “fuck” as h...

Stranger Things season four teaser | Image: Netflix The pandemic-delayed return of Netflix’s flagship nostalgia series Stranger Things has a release window: 2022. A b...

Gaming monitors can be a very expensive component of building or upgrading your PC. If you don’t want to shell out $500 or more, Best Buy has an attractive deal on a monitor ...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge Shopping for a phone plan doesn’t have to be painful Continue reading… ...

It’s well-known that filling in a form with your email address — say, to get a discount on a product, receive a newsletter, or get the results of a quiz — means you are g...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s browser vulnerability research team is working on a mode to make the Edge browser more secure, and it’s given it...

Image: GingerOfOz GingerOfOz, the console modder you might remember from his excellent Game Boy-sized portable Wii, is back with another home console-turned-handheld. T...

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th When Facebook banned the personal accounts of academics researching ad transparency and misinformation on its platform this week, it ju...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Microsoft is planning to integrate Spotify into a new Windows 11 feature. Panos Panay, Microsoft’s head of Windows and device...

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Overwatch League sponsors Coca-Cola and State Farm are re-evaluating their support of the c...

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...

Image: IMDb TV Amazon’s free streaming service IMDb TV now has its own dedicated app for the iPhone, iPad, and Android after launching on other major platforms earlie...

Image: CNN Bill Gates said that spending time with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was “a huge mistake” in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. The int...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A former Tesla employee won a $1 million award from the automaker after an arbitrator found the company failed to prevent his su...

Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is reopening ticket sales for its SpaceShipTwo spaceplane, the space tourism firm an...

Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is reopening ticket sales for its SpaceShipTwo spaceplane, the space tourism firm an...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is updating Spaces to allow hosts to designate up to two co-hosts for its social audio rooms, making it easier for hosts...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a briefing on Thursday afternoon, Apple confirmed plans to deploy new technology within iOS, macOS, watchOS, and iMessage tha...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram scammers have developed a lucrative “banning” racket, according to a new report from Motherboard. For around $60, ...

Image: Amazon Amazon is updating its Halo fitness band today with the ability to share live heart rate information with third-party devices and fitness apps over BLE (B...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Update August 5th, 3:14 PM ET: The Xbox Series X appears to be out of stock, however, as we mention below, Walmart often rolls o...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Update August 5th, 4:07 PM ET: The Xbox Series X is no longer in stock at Walmart and the rolling restocks appear to have conclu...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you haven’t been able to secure a PlayStation 5, you might be in luck. Walmart has opened orders for the PS5 (online only);...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Update August 5th, 4:07PM ET: Walmart is sold out of PS5 consoles for the moment. We’ll make sure to let you know when the nex...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s corporate workers won't be returning to its offices until January 2022, the company has confirmed to The Verge. This ...

Image: Marvel Studios This summer’s biggest Hollywood attraction is a multimillion-dollar battle between two of the industry’s best-known players: Scarlett Johansso...

The new OneNote visual refresh. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is planning to unify its OneNote and OneNote for Windows 10 apps into a single OneNote app. The software ma...

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

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple plans to scan photos stored on iPhones and iCloud for child abuse imagery, according the Financial Times. The new system could h...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Update August 5th, 3:21PM ET: Apple has announced more about what the Financial Times reported and revealed new tools coming to iMessa...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over a month after the recall, people who rely on ventilators, CPAPs, and BiPAPs are unsure what to do Continue read...

A working Apple AirPower prototype unit. | Image: Giulio Zompetti Apple’s AirPower wireless charger was supposed to arrive with the unique ability to charge an iPhone...

In April, AMD announced versions of its Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs with integrated graphics cards, but it only made them available for prebuilt OEM systems, promising that it woul...

Photo by Alan Markfield In Free Guy, Millie (Jodie Comer) is a game developer on the outs working to prove that publisher Antwan (a strutting Taika Waititi) illegally s...

Moderna says a third shot of its COVID-19 may be needed against variants | Photo by Ivan Damanik/NurPhoto via Getty Images Pharmaceutical company Moderna said its COVID...

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

Staff label and package items in the on-site dispatch hall inside one of Britain’s largest Amazon warehouses in Dunfermline, Fife. | Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty ...

If you have a solid internet connection, you owe it to yourself to get a mesh Wi-Fi system. It’ll help to cover more of your apartment or home in fast Wi-Fi. You can get Goog...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lyft is boosting its $19.99-per-month Lyft Pink membership program with new bike-share benefits and an annual option that’s ch...

The new Nest Cam | Photo: Google Google has announced a new line of home security cameras and a video doorbell under its Nest brand. The new models, which include an in...

Users can search via the new attributes. | Image: Yelp Yelp will let businesses share their policies on COVID-19 vaccinations, the company announced today. There are a ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is being criticized by politicians and researchers for banning the accounts of academics who analyzed political ads and...

Asus is making a range of its motherboards ready for Windows 11. The motherboard manufacturer has released BIOS updates for a variety of chipsets, including ones that support I...

Musk has an interesting relationship with his self-image, as evidenced by his appearance on SNL as Wario. | Image: SNL Like most of the super-rich, Elon Musk has one e...

President Biden at an event before the launch of the all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning in May 2021. | Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images President Biden wants ...

Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge Nintendo has released its earnings for the April-June quarter, and while the figures would normally be strong for what’s usua...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Free TikTok has arrived on some of American Airlines’ flights, according to a press release put out by the company (via CNET). Passen...

Kid Pix, an iconic piece of kid-friendly desktop art software, has been ported to Javascript and HTML by Vikrum Nijjar. The web version of Kid Pix is based one the original 1.0...

The latest version of Apple’s iOS 15 beta seems to be making subtle improvements to photos by processing out the green lens flares that can show up in outdoor pictures (via 9...

The old Facebook settings page compared to the new one on mobile. | Image: Facebook Facebook is streamlining the settings page on mobile in a new redesign that’s roll...

Two since-destroyed Starship prototypes stand erect at SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas Starship facilities. | Elon Musk Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking a “Spaceport Mixo...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has placed senior engineering program manager Ashley Gjøvik on indefinite administrative leave after she tweeted about se...

Photo: Panic One of the most intriguing aspects of Panic’s Playdate — besides its lovely crank — is the unique game delivery method that will bring 24 free games ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Wednesday, a surreal TikTok ad from an advertiser posing as Amazon confused users into thinking the e-commerce giant was taki...

Photo by Clive Gee - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images People will no longer be able to play the digital version of The New York Times daily crossword puzzle in thir...

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...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton owners will again be able to use their treadmills without a subscription to the Peloton All-Access Membership, accor...

Image: Matt Navara / Twitter On a long enough timeline, every social media app trends to adding stories, and now it’s apparently TikTok’s turn: the popular video ap...

A screenshot from Amazon’s New World. | Image: Amazon Amazon Games has delayed New World, its upcoming MMO, from August 31st to September 28th, the studio announced o...

Facebook Reality Labs Facebook Reality Labs wants to help people see your eyes while you’re in virtual reality — even if the results sit somewhere between mildly un...

Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO The HBO Max team wants its app to not just be the place people find big movie premieres but podcasts, too. The company announced...

Photo: Sundar Pichai / Twitter Google’s Pixel 6 is shaping up to be the company’s most ambitious smartphone in years, largely due to the new, custom-designed Tensor...

Disney has been teasing its upcoming Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel for years now, promising an almost Westworld-style immersive experience (complete with “real” lig...

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...

Sony’s original PSVR. More and more details for Sony’s planned next-generation PlayStation virtual reality headset appear to be popping up. According to YouTube cha...

The University of Alabama will be the first school to exclusively issue mobile student IDs this fall. | ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Apple Wallet has ...

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks at a press conference urging the inclusion of the Civilian Climate Corps., a climate jobs program, in the budget reconciliation...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Some Facebook users stymied by the company’s seemingly impenetrable support channels have turned to an interesting — and...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The 2021 New York International Auto Show has been canceled as the delta variant of COVID-19 continues to spread throughout ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’ve ever hit “Send” on a Gmail email and regretted it ten seconds later, you’ll know how handy — even necessary ...

Employees at Code for America (CFA) announced today they are unionizing with the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 1010. Organizers say 62 peo...

Ghost of Tsushima: Legends’ new Rivals mode. | Image: Sony Ghost of Tsushima’s multiplayer mode, Legends, is getting some new free content and a standalone release,...

Image: Square Enix If you haven’t yet played the Final Fantasy VII Remake, now is a good time to jump in since you can get the game for up to half off its usual cost....

 Aerial view of rescue team using inflatable rafts evacuate residents from flooded area after heavy downpour, on July 26, 2021 in Weihui, Xinjiang City, Henan Province of ...

The Tab S7 FE comes with a stylus in the box. | Image: Samsung Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S7 FE is officially coming to the US starting on Thursday for the 5G version with ...

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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you plan to get some typing done on your iPad, Apple’s Smart Keyboard might be a good accessory to pick up. Right now, it’s $11...

The entry-level Nissan Leaf now starts at $27,400. | Image: Nissan Nissan’s Leaf 2022 range starts at just $27,400, making it the cheapest mass market electric car cu...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Losing access to your Google / Gmail account can be an incredibly frustrating and unhappy experience. When researching this arti...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony’s $499 PlayStation 5 console is no longer selling at a loss. Bloomberg reports that Sony chief financial officer Hiroki Totoki ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has banned the personal accounts of academics who researched ad transparency and the spread of misinformation on the so...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If your PS5 is already running out of speedy solid state storage, there’s a fix on the way. Sony’s new beta update for the PS5 all...

Image: Microsoft Microsoft launched its new cloud PC Windows 365 service earlier this week, and the company has already had to pause free trials due to demand. Windows ...

A prototype phone with Oppo’s latest under-screen camera tech. | Oppo Oppo has announced the latest iteration of its under-screen camera technology, claiming it allow...

Street Fighter’s Cammy and Guile in Fortnite. | Image: Epic Games Epic Games is adding two more Street Fighter icons to Fortnite. Playable Chun-Li and Ryu skins were ...

Apple’s new Apple Store layout. | Image: Apple The Apple Store was mysteriously down on Tuesday for just about an hour, but it has emerged from the downtime with a br...

T-Mobile has wasted no time consolidating Sprint’s network and spectrum with its own. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As reported by Light Reading and confi...

Photo Illustration by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images AT&T announced earlier this year that it would spin its video properties DirecTV, AT&T TV, and...

Photo by Joey Roulette / The Verge SpaceX’s Starlink mobile app got a refreshing upgrade this week that makes it easier to find clear patches of sky and monitor conne...

An image from Google’s online store that shows off a new Nest Cam and Nest Doorbell. | Image: Google Google has apparently leaked some unannounced Nest security camer...

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...

HBO Max is offering free content to potential users. | Image: HBO Max HBO Max is offering free episodes to potential new subscribers in-app and free of charge so they c...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Sony released its first PS5 software beta last Thursday, and with it came the much-anticipated support for adding an M.2 SSD, letting yo...

Image: WhatsApp WhatsApp is rolling out its “View Once” feature today, which deletes photos or videos from your chat after they’ve been opened by the recipient. W...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Despite how things may seem, Snapchat hasn’t learned your birthday or birthplace on its own — you likely told it yourself. T...

Just five days after Nikola founder Trevor Milton was indicted, in part, for allegedly misleading investors with footage of a moving truck that was secretly rolling downhill, t...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Blizzard president J. Allen Brack isn’t the only executive leaving the company today after presiding over a culture now accuse...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Thunderbolt 4 is still relatively early on, but that isn’t stopping Intel from working on its next version of the connecti...

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 ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio announced details of the “Key to NYC Pass,” a plan to require proof of vaccination against C...

Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images Epic Games only released the v17.30 update for Fortnite early Tuesday morning, but data miners have apparently found a new file within i...

Master Chief can now tell you when to turn left or continue straight, thanks to Microsoft and Google teaming up to add Halo Infinite-themed content inside Waze. The promotion w...

Image: OtterBox OtterBox’s latest gaming controller clip is MagSafe-compatible for iPhone 12 devices, and it costs $39.99. Compared to its previous $30 gaming clip th...

On Tuesday, chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission Gary Gensler called on Congress to expand the agency’s authority in regulating cryptocurrency trading, lending,...

Photo by Avery White for The Verge Apple is updating to the Mac Pro with new graphics card modules on Tuesday, featuring options based on the AMD Radeon Pro W6000 serie...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Sunday, a bipartisan group of Senators published draft text of a massive new bipartisan infrastructure bill, proposing more t...

Here’s the Google Meet app on Chrome OS. | Google With Chrome OS’s latest update, Google has announced that its Google Meet app will be preinstalled on all Chromebo...

Image: Inspiration4/John Kraus The first “all-civilian” mission to space is set to blast off on a SpaceX rocket in mid-September, and the process of getting those a...

Image: Fandango Fandango has announced that it will phase out the branding of its “FandangoNOW” streaming service and focus on Vudu as its lone app for rentals and ...

Microsoft’s new Aqua Shift Special Edition Xbox controller. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft has just revealed its newest Xbox controller — the Aqua Shift Special Editi...

Photo by Aubrey Gemignani /NASA via Getty Images Boeing postponed the test launch of its uncrewed Starliner astronaut capsule on Tuesday, the company said in a statemen...

Image: YouTube YouTube will pay creators up to $10,000 per month for making popular videos on its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts. The company plans to pay $100 milli...

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge A peek behind the curtain at the creator economy and what’s next for YouTube Shorts Continue reading&hel...

Google Maps’ dark mode on iOS. | Image: Google Google Maps will finally be getting a dark mode on iOS, nearly two years after Apple rolled out dark mode as part of iO...

Microsoft has informed employees that it will require proof of vaccination for anyone entering a Microsoft building in the US starting in September. Employees who have a medica...

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Online retailer Antonline is hosting bundles that include Microsoft’s Xbox Wireless Headset and one of the new first-party Xbox ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Having already brought it to pretty much every other streaming device and platform, today WarnerMedia announced that HBO Max is ...

It’s taken a few months, but Apple is now selling the new, Touch ID-equipped version of its Magic Keyboard for anyone to buy, starting at $149 for the standard version and $1...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) walks back to his office after a bipartisan group of Senators and White House officials came to an agreement over the Biden adm...

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge There are a smattering of deals happening across the web. Some products we’ve covered are seeing some of the lowest prices yet. Like ...

Citizen The crime-tracking app Citizen is now launching its own emergency response service, promising access to agents who can call 911 or keep tabs on a potentially da...

Illustration by Ari Liloan for The Verge Facebook groups have become a gray market for the country’s weed dealers Continue reading… ...

Boeing’s Starliner capsule sits atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket | NASA/Kim Shiflett Boeing is set to launch its Starliner astronaut capsule to the Intern...

Image: Amazon Amazon and Best Buy are continuing on with their TV partnership that started three years ago. Today, the companies announced new Insignia and Toshiba TVs ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the last week or so, we’ve learned about the state of California filing a lawsuit against Blizzard citing numerous stories ...

As The Verge reported last week, Realme is working on a magnetic wireless charging system for its Android phones, and today it’s revealed a full range of products that’ll u...

Twitter’s added context for content on its platform. | Image: Twitter Twitter is working with news agencies the Associated Press and Reuters to more proactively comba...

The X34 1440p monitor sits in the middle of the fleet of new models. | HP HP has gone on a tear and announced seven new gaming monitors in its X lineup, featuring a ran...

Amazon’s delivery drones have gone through many iterations, including the design above. | Image: Amazon A new report from Wired into Amazon’s drone delivery progra...

The Xiaomi Mi 11 offers similar features to Samsung’s S21 ultra for much less money. | Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is continuing ...

Amazon One identifies unique patterns in your palm to confirm payments in Amazon stores. | Image: Amazon Amazon is offering $10 in credit if you enroll your biometric ...

Not everything needs Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Case in point is Amazon’s new Smart Soap Dispenser, the latest let’s-stick-a-chip-in-it replacement for ordinary objects. And becau...

Not everything needs Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Case in point is Amazon’s new Smart Soap Dispenser, the latest let’s-stick-a-chip-in-it replacement for ordinary objects. And becau...

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates in 2019. | Photo by John Cordes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates filed for divorce on May 3rd a...

‘Unlimited skips and on-demand listening’ for $0.99 a month. | Screenshot: Spotify Spotify Plus is a new $0.99 subscription tier being piloted by the streaming serv...

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 An initial assessment from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has recommended workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer,...

Pearson Pearson, the largest publisher of college textbooks in the US, has announced Pearson Plus, a new subscription service for digital textbooks. The Pearson Plus ap...

Vizio’s free streaming service WatchFree Plus. | Image: Vizio Vizio has revamped its WatchFree streaming experience, given it a brand new look, and tacked a “plus�...

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?...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook announced on Monday that all employees will be required to wear masks when offices reopen. The policy goes into effect ...

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...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today Microsoft opened availability for Windows 365, the cloud PC setup that lets businesses stream Windows 10 or Windows 11 via...

James Bareham / The Verge Niantic reverted some of the pandemic-era changes made to Pokémon Go in the US and New Zealand on Sunday, including reducing the distance you...

One type of the new Twitch ads looks like a banner ad. | Image: Twitch Twitch is experimenting with a new type of ad format for streamers that appears to be much less d...

Twitter has introduced third-party login support, letting users create accounts and log in to the social network with their Apple or Google accounts (via 9to5Mac). Currently, t...

The first image from Amazon’s yet-untitled Lord of the Rings series. | Image: Amazon Studios One of Amazon’s most anticipated originals to date, a yet-unnamed Lord ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tech earnings this quarter were, to the surprise of no one, high. But amid the record-settling revenues, the looming specter of ...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is yeeting Fleets, its Stories-like ephemeral posts, on August 3rd, meaning that depending on when you read this, you ma...

Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images An Ohio man harassed his estranged wife through a shared Napster account, evading a no-contact order by changing th...

Cormac McCarthy at the premiere of the film adaptation of his novel The Road in 2009. | Photo by Jim Spellman/WireImage Twitter’s verification process is notoriously...

Google’s new Pixel 6 phones, regular and Pro | Google Google’s new Tensor SoC is the heart of its next phone Continue reading… ...

On Sunday, a bipartisan group of senators released their over $1 trillion infrastructure package after weeks of negotiations. As written, the bill authorizes over $500 billion ...

The White House’s core space policy body will be led by Chirag Parikh, a veteran intelligence official and senior director for Microsoft’s space-based cloud services, Vice ...

The remotes will ship in September. | Image: 8BitDo 8BitDo has a new pair of officially licensed media remotes for the Xbox Series X, Series S, and the Xbox One, which ...

R2-D2 — Star Wars’ beloved droid — is now officially a Tamagotchi toy, letting you take a pocket-sized, pixelated virtual pet version of the iconic astromech with you whe...

Govee’s Immersion TV LED backlights can elevate your TV watching experience by syncing its lights to what’s on your 55-inch or 65-inch screen. The effect makes it look like...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Libertarians built a Bitcoin economy in a small New Hampshire town — then feds tore it down Continue reading&he...

Photo: For Colored Nerds hosts Eric Eddings and Brittany Luse | SiriusXM/Stitcher The co-hosts of The Nod are back, and this time, they’ve separated from Gimlet Media...

Premium Lite offers ad-free viewing at a lower price. | Screenshot: YouTube Google is piloting a more affordable premium subscription tier for YouTube that offers ad-fr...

The door that may lead to Super Nintendo World’s Donkey Kong-themed area. | Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Super Nintendo World, the Super Mario-themed area of Unive...

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge If you still have a device running Android 2.3.7 (the final version of Gingerbread) or older, Google won’t let you sign in to...

Somebody using a Square product on their phone. | Image: Square Square plans to acquire Australian company Afterpay, which offers a “buy now, pay later” service tha...

Photos of the rumored Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. | Image: 91mobiles We’re a little over a week away from Samsung’s next Unpacked event, but new photos from 91m...

Image: Epic Games Last week, Epic Games teased that a “record-breaking superstar” would be performing in Fortnite’s upcoming Rift Tour concert series, and now we ...

Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in Disney’s Jungle Cruise. | Image: Disney Disney’s Jungle Cruise debuted in theaters and as a Disney Plus Premier Access title this ...

Illustration by Ari Liloan for The Verge To combat online polarization, Polemix aims to make young people ‘listen to the outside’ Continue reading&hellip...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Earlier this week during Apple’s earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said that the iPad had experienced its most successful June quarter in ...

Image: Google Google has recently been selling a combo-package of the Stadia Controller and 2020 Chromecast as a limited-time promotion. But as spotted by 9to5Google, t...

Photo by Bernd Muller/Redferns The official video for Rick Astley’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” has surpassed 1 billion plays on YouTube. The song became a...

Nanoleaf’s canvas light panels are easy to set up and can display more than 16 million colors. | Image: Nanoleaf If you like your lighting to be on the adventurous si...

Image: Telegram Telegram has announced the latest new features and improvements making their way to the popular messaging app. Video is the focus this time around. Afte...

Illustration by Ari Liloan for The Verge Digital fan clubs are turning into single-purpose social networks Continue reading… ...