Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s been a rough couple of months for Disney Plus subscribers. First came news of yet another price hike — which will take effect on October 17th — followed by Disney’s announcement that it will begin charging $6.99 a month to add an “extr … | Continue reading
CNN chairman Mark Thompson announced plans to introduce a digital subscription business in July. | Image: CNN CNN will put some of its digital content behind a subscription paywall starting next month, The New York Times reports. The experiment will test similar subscription mode … | Continue reading
Trains are cool but aren’t always cheaper to ride. | Image: Amtrak Amtrak fares and trip suggestions are getting integrated into Google Search as part of Google’s efforts to offer greener ways of travel over flights. Now, when you search for airline fares on Google or Google Flig … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Thanks to Qi2, there are way more great chargers for your MagSafe phone than ever before. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Image: The Verge Steam just removed its forced arbitration policy, opening the door for lawsuits against its parent company, Valve. In an update on Thursday, Steam says its subscriber agreement “now provides that any disputes are to go forward in court instead of arbitration.” Ma … | Continue reading
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge You can’t buy Meta’s most impressive new product, the smart glasses codenamed Orion. You might be able to buy something sort of like them, a few years from now, but most of us will never get to so much as wear them. That doesn’t necessarily make the … | Continue reading
The new ULL-supported controller (seen right) was tested against an unspecified standard Bluetooth gamepad (left). | Image: LG LG has teamed up with Razer and MediaTek to develop a new Bluetooth gaming controller that could greatly reduce the input lag for cloud-based gaming. Acc … | Continue reading
Automated responses in Gmail can now provide more detail and context for some users on iOS and Android. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is rolling out a Gemini-powered update to Gmail for Android and iOS that will tailor smart replies more specifically to emails. … | Continue reading
The EufyCam S3 Pro security camera has a built-in spotlight but can also display nighttime footage as if it were daytime without the spotlight. | Image: Eufy The newest security camera from Eufy — Anker’s smart home company — can see clearly in the dark, uses radar motion sensing … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge For the third year in a row, Amazon is ringing in the fall with a second Prime Day event. This year’s two-day shopping event — dubbed Prime Big Deal Days — will kick off on Tuesday, October 8th, and run through Wednesday, October 9th, giving Amazo … | Continue reading
Zillow will now display climate risks and make insurance recommendations for listings in the US. | Image: Zillow Zillow has announced that its real estate property listings in the US will soon feature details about climate risks, including the potential for wildfires, flooding, e … | Continue reading
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. | Image: Sony If you thought you’d buy a new copy of Horizon Zero Dawn on Sony’s digital storefront for a smooth $20 and just pay an extra $10 for the new remastered version when it arrives on October 31st, think again. Sony has quietly doubled the p … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge NotebookLM, Google’s AI note-taking app, can now summarize — and help you dig deeper into — YouTube videos. The new capability works by analyzing the text in a YouTube video’s transcript, including auto-generated ones. Once you add a YouTub … | Continue reading
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked document that’s alleged to be the Trump campaign’s research into vice presidential candidate JD Vance. The journalist who wrote the newsletter, Ke … | Continue reading
Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge Ford is releasing a new version of its BlueCruise hands-free driving software, version 1.4, which it claims will let you keep your hands off the wheel twice as long. In fact, the company tells us it can now run an average of five times longer compar … | Continue reading
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia is reportedly planning to ship its upcoming GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card with 32GB of GDDR7 memory. Hardware leaker Kopite7kimi has published rumored specifications for the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 today, and both cards will reportedly be mor … | Continue reading
Image: Edmund McMillen / The Verge Pretty soon, Twitch users will no longer be able to express their sadness with the BibleThump emote. According to Twitch, on September 30th its rights to display the popular crying pink blob will expire after over a decade of being one of the fo … | Continue reading
Image: Michael Straight via Facebook Michael Straight, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, was left unable to walk for two months after the company behind his $100,000 exoskeleton refused to fix a battery issue, as reported earlier by the Paulick Report and 404 Media. … | Continue reading
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took a Zoom call with someone using deepfake technology to pose as a top Ukrainian official, the New York Times reports. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) received an email last T … | Continue reading
Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge The recently launched Google Nest Learning Thermostat has its first notable discount, as Wellbots is offering it in all three color options for $259.99 ($20 off) with checkout code NLT4VERGE. Google took nearly nine years to replace the last model … | Continue reading
Image: Volvo Earlier this month, Volvo became the latest automaker to announce that it was delaying its plans to sell only electric vehicles. The decision was a reflection of the stark reality of the market: the demand was just not there. “We reduced the ambitions we had set to g … | Continue reading
Courtesy of Lionsgate The first trailer for director Len Wiseman’s awkwardly named From the World of John Wick: Ballerina spinoff film is here, and while it doesn’t feature a premiere date, it does have an unhinged spin on Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” that honestly kinda works. Set … | Continue reading
An integrated USB-C hub allows accessories like external drives to be attached to an iPhone in the SuperCage while still powering it. | Image: Moment Moment’s SuperCage is a new smartphone accessory that improves the functionality and ergonomics of using a smartphone as a pro vid … | Continue reading
A couple days after prematurely revealing the phone on its website, Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy S24 FE. It starts at $649.99 with 128GB of storage, and Samsung’s also offering a 256GB model for $709.99. Design-wise, we’re looking at a phone that’s very similar to … | Continue reading
Image: Disney Plus / Marvel To make the show’s spells feel real, showrunner Jac Schaeffer prioritized practical effects over green screens. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Image: Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery has debuted an official teaser trailer for the second season of The Last of Us, and it looks like it’s going to be a rough one for Joel and Ellie — which, if you’ve played The Last of Us Part II, should be no surprise. “After f … | Continue reading
The new 2025 Rav4 “Plug-in Hybrid.” | Image: Toyota Toyota’s Prius had its full glow-up redesign for 2023, and now the automaker is switching up what it’s called, too. The 2025 Prius Prime will now go by a more straightforward name: the Prius Plug-in Hybrid. The same goes for the … | Continue reading
Here’s an example of what the new screensaver ads look like. | Image: LG Ad Solutions LG’s smart TVs are starting to display full-screen ads before the conventional screensaver kicks in when entering idle mode. The native screensaver ads started rolling out to LG’s smart TVs earl … | Continue reading
Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law (AB 2426) to combat “disappearing” purchases of digital games, movies, music, and ebooks. The legislation will force digital storefronts to tell customers they’re just getting a license to use the d … | Continue reading
The standard PS5 Pro may not look as cool as its 30th anniversary counterpart, but it will likely be much easier to get your hands on. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge We’re inching ever closer to a mid-cycle refresh for the PlayStation 5, as the PS5 Pro’s staggered preorder … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Google took a page out of a familiar playbook in court this week, defending itself from claims of anticompetitive conduct by raising security concerns. While the government argues it locked up the ad tech market to make more money, G … | Continue reading
Now there are two of them! | Image: Leica Camera Leica’s Q series of full-frame compact cameras have had the same 28mm f/1.7 lens since the original in 2015, but now the company is shaking things up. The Leica Q3 43 launching today is nearly identical to the 60-megapixel Q3, but … | Continue reading
Photo by Tommaso Boddi / Variety via Getty Images Meta has cut deals for high-profile actors to lend their voices to its Meta AI chatbot, with Kristen Bell among the initial set of voices. Bell lending her voice is a bit of a surprise. Back in June, she openly expressed oppositio … | Continue reading
If a place is caught using fake reviews, Google will temporarily limit its reviews entirely. | Image: The Verge Google Maps is reeling in business pages engaging in fake reviews, and highlighting such activity to its users. Google will now impose restrictions against business pro … | Continue reading
Image: SteelSeries SteelSeries has created new earbuds that are designed to pair with Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch consoles, or even PCs and mobile phones. The $159.99 Arctis GameBuds include active noise cancellation (ANC), Qi wireless charging, and the ability to instantl … | Continue reading
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Get ready for another wave of urgent motherboard updates for your desktop PC. Intel has just announced a new microcode update for its 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake processors — the ones that could possibly get permanently damaged and begin to crash … | Continue reading
Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket hit a significant milestone this week, completing its first second-stage hot fire test that validates the interactions between the subsystems, its two BE-3U engines, and the ground control systems. The test lasted for 15 seconds … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images OpenAI describes its business structure as “a partnership between our original Nonprofit and a new capped profit arm,” which has been a contributing factor in last year’s short-lived board coup against CEO Sam Altman and a recent law … | Continue reading
Photo: David Pierce / The Verge Pour one out for the Rabbit R1. Only 5,000 people of the 100,000 who bought the orange AI gadget are still using it daily, five months after it launched. That’s straight from the mouth of Rabbit founder Jesse Lyu, who gave the number to Fast Compan … | Continue reading
The new Moonwalkers Aero are lighter than the originals and can be customized in different colors. | Image: Shift Robotics Shift Robotics has launched a new version of its Moonwalkers shoes / motorized roller skates that claim to boost the speed of your natural walking gait. Unli … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge DoNotPay, a company that claimed to offer the “world’s first robot lawyer,” has agreed to a $193,000 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the agency announced on Tuesday. The move is a part of Operation AI Comply, a new law enforcement ef … | Continue reading
Palworld | Screenshot: PlayStation (YouTube) Sony included the PS5 launch of Palworld as one of its news items during Tuesday evening’s State of Play presentation, but it left out a detail. While the game has launched on PlayStation platforms in 68 countries and regions worldwide … | Continue reading
Image: Sony Sony is launching shiny new “Chroma” console covers for the PlayStation 5 Slim that come in pearl, indigo, and teal. And if having an iridescent console isn’t eye-catching enough, you can also get new DualSense controllers to match. The Chroma console covers will cost … | Continue reading
Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Sony has just revealed seven additional games that’ll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it previously revealed. New titles include Stellar Blade, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, F1 24, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake … | Continue reading
Image: Sucker Punch To close out Sony’s State of Play presentation, Sucker Punch debuted a first look at its next game in its award-winning Ghosts series. Dubbed Ghosts of Yotei, players will inhabit a new female protagonist who wields a shamisen in addition to a samurai’s tradit … | Continue reading
Image: Guerrilla Games Sony is releasing a remastered version of Horizon Zero Dawn. The company announced the news during its State of Play event on Tuesday and says the game will be available on PlayStation 5 and PC starting October 31st with “stunning new visuals and enhanced f … | Continue reading
Image: PlayStation Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is one of those series of games that has always felt unjustly left behind to me, and at Sony’s State of Play today, it’s finally getting its due, at least a little. The two classic Crystal Dynamics games, which I enjoyed in their pen … | Continue reading
Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge Microsoft is launching a new feature called “correction” that builds on the company’s efforts to combat AI inaccuracies. Customers using Microsoft Azure to power their AI systems can now use the capability to automatically detect and rewrite incorr … | Continue reading