Musk has chosen lawfare over free speech. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A group of advertisers, called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), have “discontinued” activities, Business Insider reports, citing an email sent to members. The group said it … | Continue reading
Nanoleaf’s Essentials Matter line, which includes an A19 bulb and light strip, will be one of the first Matter products to work with Apple Home’s Adaptive Lighting feature. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge A major feature of Apple Home will soon work with Matter dev … | Continue reading
Image: Oculus Studios Meta is closing Ready at Dawn, the first-party studio behind VR games like Echo VR and Lone Echo, Android Central reported on Wednesday. The shutdown is effective immediately. Meta acquired the studio in 2020. As for why Meta is shutting down the studio, her … | Continue reading
250 lumens of illumination isn’t super bright, but the light is cheap enough to group several of them together. | Image: TTArtisan Even if you switched to a digital camera decades ago, TTArtisan’s Mini LED Light is a fun reason to carry around a film cartridge. Instead of a roll … | Continue reading
One of the classic problems of looking into a palantir was correctly interpreting what the viewer saw... | Image: The Verge Palantir, the company named for the dangerous seeing-stones that tended to mislead their users, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver servic … | Continue reading
Image: ADT Security company ADT disclosed in an SEC filing that hackers obtained “some limited customer information, including email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses.” TechCrunch reports that ADT’s disclosure follows a seller on a cybercrime forum claiming last week … | Continue reading
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA) are calling for answers on how OpenAI handles whistleblowers and safety reviews after former employees complained that internal criticism is often stifled. “Given the discrepancy between your public comments and reports of … | Continue reading
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is expanding the number of photos and videos that can be added to a single grid post, the company said today. Each carousel post can now have up to 20 photos or videos. Users could previously add up to 10 pieces of content to each c … | Continue reading
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s smallest Mac is in for some major changes, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. A new version of the Mac Mini coming later this year will undergo the product’s most significant redesign in over a decade. Gurman says “the device will be fa … | Continue reading
Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo by Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images AAG Jonathan Kanter says the Google monopoly verdict belongs on the ‘Mount Rushmore of antitrust.’ Continue reading… | Continue reading
2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack, two-door version. | Image: Stellantis Dodge has put a price on its first all-electric vehicle, the Charger Daytona, and it won't be cheap for the mean, clean, neighborhood-disturbing machine. The 2024 Daytona two-door models will start at $59 … | Continue reading
Cyclists have quick access to two of eight selectable alert tones. | Image: Trek The quiet ding of many bike bells isn’t always enough to alert pedestrians or vehicles of a cyclist’s presence. Trek’s new BellBeats is a compact Bluetooth speaker that can be mounted to a bike’s han … | Continue reading
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Asus and MSI have both released beta BIOS updates today to address Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake desktop processors. While the BIOS updates won’t fix CPUs that are already damaged, they include Intel’s new microcode update that sho … | Continue reading
The Chromecast, in The Verge’s first review. | Image: The Verge When I was still a starry-eyed 20-something living with my then-fiancée, the only way I could stream video on my TV was through its HDMI ports and my laptop. This had served me well for years — and still does, when I … | Continue reading
Image: Getty Images The Kia Boys may have met their match. A software update that first rolled out last year to owners of Hyundai and Kia vehicles without electronic immobilizers has cut theft rates by more than half, according to a new analysis from the Highway Loss Data Institu … | Continue reading
Anti-immigration protests have quickly escalated into violent riots across the UK, spurred in part by misinformation spread via online platforms. | Photo by Christopher Furlong / Getty Images The UK communications regulator Ofcom has raised concerns regarding social media being u … | Continue reading
Two words: headphone jack. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Although Apple’s tablet lineup has undergone several shakeups over the last several years, we long considered the ninth-gen iPad to be the best budget iPad you could get. That changed when Apple dropped the price of th … | Continue reading
Mobile filmmakers can boost their smartphone’s storage capacity by up to 2TB. | Image: Lexar A terabyte of storage can disappear quickly when you’re capturing 4K footage on an iPhone 15 Pro or 15 Pro Max. Lexar’s new Professional Go Portable SSD with Hub not only adds up to an ex … | Continue reading
Image: Getty This week’s earnings reports make two things clear about the viability of the electric vehicle future: EV-only companies are continuing to struggle and lose lots of money, and having wealthy investors who are willing to pour money into your money-losing operation is … | Continue reading
Image: Google Google is expected to launch a new weather app alongside the Pixel 9 — but you don’t have to wait to try it out. As highlighted by 9to5Google and Android Authority, the Weather app is now on APKMirror, where you can sideload it on devices running Android 14 or newer … | Continue reading
Image: The Verge TikTok will now create in-app hubs for movies and TV shows and place them directly on fan-made videos. The feature, called TikTok Spotlight, will automatically add links to “applicable” videos on the platform, leading to landing pages that provide more informatio … | Continue reading
For a camouflage-style pattern, it’s far from the most try-hard. | Image: Corsair I’m rarely a sucker for camouflage-print anything, but put it on a game controller and turn it black-and-white and suddenly it warms my heart — especially if it’s a solid deal. That’s just the case … | Continue reading
You can fill an entire wall with Nanoleaf’s new glowing display cases, which simply need to stack to connect to each other. | Image: Nanoleaf Nanoleaf’s new Expo Smart Display Cases are an eye-catching way to make a carefully curated collection the focus of any room. Each case fe … | Continue reading
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Meta and Google teamed up to run a secret campaign that deliberately targeted 13 to 17-year-olds with Instagram ads on YouTube according to the Financial Times, breaking the search giant’s own rules against advertising to child … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images It started with a “rage tweet.” “Gonna start ‘VCs for Democracy,’” Leslie Feinzaig, founder and general partner at Graham & Walker, wrote on X in late July. “Who’s in?” Turns out more than 1,300 “techies,” including 750 accredited in … | Continue reading
Image: Boeing During a press conference today, NASA representatives confirmed they have a contingency plan to bring astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams home from the International Space Station (ISS) early next year. If they’re unable to leave sooner aboard the Boeing St … | Continue reading
Image: Visit Jackson Hole Wyoming’s Jackson Hole Travel & Tourism Board has created an open-source Instagram filter to help visitors gauge if they’re at a safe distance from wildlife to take photos. The board hopes the tool will help better protect tourists visiting wildlife dest … | Continue reading
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sonos CEO Patrick Spence said the new Ace headphones helped spur “year over year revenue growth” that slightly exceeded the company’s expectations as part of its third quarter earnings on Wednesday afternoon. But he quickly moved on to address the … | Continue reading
The Verge You might have to pay to access some subreddits in the future. During an earnings call on Tuesday, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman hinted at “new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive content or private areas.” “I think the existing, altruistic, free ve … | Continue reading
Image: Tim Walz Vice President Kamala Harris’ pick for running mate is Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a former teacher and football coach whose straightforward manner of speaking has endeared him to many and helped launch his name into the public consciousness. Walz’s public person … | Continue reading
An Intel Core i9-13900K CPU, one of the first types identified to sometimes crash this way. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake desktop processors. If your chip isn’t yet damaged, please apply motherboard BIOS updat … | Continue reading
Characters from the Chapter 5: Season 3 battle pass. | Image: Epic Games Epic Games is making a major change to Fortnite’s battle passes that should remove some angst if you can’t buy or complete a pass before the end of a season. Fortnite’s battle passes offer a bunch of exclusi … | Continue reading
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Image: The Verge / Getty Images Last year, when Minnesota’s progressive politicians coalesced around a bill to raise the minimum pay for Uber and Lyft drivers in the state, their ostensibly left-of-center governor surprised them all by pulling a move he had yet to use while in of … | Continue reading
A dial can be used to select one of four charging modes on Anker’s new desktop Prime Charger. | Image: Anker Anker announced several additions to the company’s Prime line of chargers today, including a new desktop version that allows the power output of its six USB ports to be cu … | Continue reading
The Chromecast is going away after more than a decade in Google’s hardware portfolio, with the company phasing it out to make room for the new Google TV Streamer. In 2013, the timing was perfect for the Chromecast’s success. Most TVs of that era had rudimentary entertainment apps … | Continue reading
Bleached coral in the Great Barrier Reef in 2024. | Photo: Ove Hoegh-Guldberg The Great Barrier Reef and surrounding waters have reached hotter temperatures over the past decade than they have in at least 400 years because of climate change, according to new research published in … | Continue reading
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Shortly after Humane released its $699 AI Pin in April, the returns started flowing in. Between May and August, more AI Pins were returned than purchased, according to internal sales data obtained by The Verge. By June, only around 8,00 … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is making “views” the primary metric across all of its formats, meaning that creators will be able to track the same metric across Reels, Stories, photos, and more. The change will roll out in the coming weeks, according to a post … | Continue reading
A new joint venture between three streaming leaders could create a monopoly problem in sports television, three lawmakers warn US regulators in a letter first reported by The Athletic. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) are asking … | Continue reading
Illustration by Erik Carter Thousands of families have witnessed fake obituaries of loved ones crowd Google search results. As The Verge reported in February, the obituaries — which often appear to be AI-generated — target everyday people, not just celebrities, and are written to … | Continue reading
Image: LocalThunk Balatro, the delightful poker roguelike that’s one of my favorite video games of this year, will be getting a free “major gameplay update” in 2025, according to developer LocalThunk. The update will “bring new ideas and strategies to the game” and will be releas … | Continue reading
Anker included thicker prongs and an improved center of gravity on its new 100W wall charger. | Image: Anker The most notable upgrade on Anker’s new Prime Charger isn’t how much power it can deliver; it’s the redesigned folding plug that now has thicker prongs with a “frosted fin … | Continue reading
Fitbit’s rolling out Tap to Pay in time for the new school year. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge It’s officially back-to-school season, so Fitbit’s updating its kids-focused Ace LTE smartwatch with some helpful features for parents and children. Namely, it’s adding a Tap to … | Continue reading
Elgato’s Stream Deck Neo is designed to be accessible to everybody, not just streamers. | Image: Elgato Here at The Verge, we’re big fan Stream Deck fans. However, Elgato’s programmable macro controllers can be pricey, with the Stream Deck XL and Deck Plus retailing for $249.99 a … | Continue reading
Image: Roku Roku is preparing to launch a new 24/7 sports channel across its devices, apps, and on its website. Starting on August 12th, the new Roku Sports Channel will start showing sports-themed content that includes live events and original content. Joe Franzetta, who heads R … | Continue reading
Image: HBO House of the Dragon ended its second season with a reminder that this is all just one part of a much larger story. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Image: Rad Power Bikes Rad Power Bikes announced a new more affordable, lighter-weight e-bike for urban commuters who just want a cheap, simple way to get around. Dubbed the RadKick, the new bike starts at $1,199, making it the Seattle-based company’s most affordable model yet. A … | Continue reading