Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit from the Republican National Committee that claimed Google’s Gmail inappropriately filtered its emails to users’ spam folders leading up to the 2022 midterm elections. The case was dismissed … | Continue reading
Photo by Michael Reaves / Getty Images At prime time each night, NBC airs the day’s highlights from the Paris Olympics to tens of millions of people. Viewers have watched the US women’s gymnastics team clinch gold in a “redemption tour” after winning silver in Tokyo; they’ve been … | Continue reading
The roof of the stadium is made with polygonal shapes. | Image: Saudi 2034 Saudi Arabia has revealed the 11 soccer stadiums it plans to build as part of its bid to host the 2034 FIFA World Cup — and one of them looks like it came out of a video game. The Neom Stadium would be loc … | Continue reading
Stranger Things. | Image: Netflix San Diego Comic-Con may have just wrapped up, but there’s still more entertainment news on the way — this time from Netflix. The streamer has confirmed that its now-annual Geeked Week event will take place the week of September 16th, wrapping up … | Continue reading
Image: Marvel / Nick Dragotta, Steve Epting, Chris Sotomayor, Paul Mounts Victor von Doom is one of Marvel’s most iconic characters for a reason, and his MCU debut could easily be Kevin Feige’s most fantastic or dreadful idea yet. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge We may be well into the M3 generation of Mac laptops (and even M4 for iPad Pros), but if you’re on a budget, the M2 MacBook Air is a great deal for $799 ($200 off) — available now at Best Buy and Amazon. This is the base model of Apple’s laptop … | Continue reading
Jacques Slade is a sneaker influencer and content creator. I met sneaker influencer and creator Jacques Slade at a party to celebrate The Verge’s 10th birthday. Immediately, I was struck by his radiant joy. He had a huge smile on his face as he told me I could totally rock a pair … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Over 300 high school students converged on Congress to urge lawmakers to vote against KOSA. The bill passed in a landslide. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge We’ve been talking about AI a lot on Decoder lately; it’s unavoidable. But there’s one piece of feedback we’ve gotten that I really wanted to spend some time on: how the lightning-fast explosion of AI tools affects the climate. After all, to run … | Continue reading
Image: Venu Sports Venu Sports, the upcoming live sports streaming service from Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery, will cost $42.99 per month. The three companies say anyone who signs up for the service at launch will be able to lock in this price for one year, hinting at t … | Continue reading
Functionally, copying Apple works for the Galaxy Watch Ultra. It’s just disappointing. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Image: The Verge It’s been a couple of days since OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT’s new advanced voice mode, and the small group of ChatGPT Plus subscribers given access to it seem pretty impressed so far. Various clips of the feature in action have appeared online, demonstrating its a … | Continue reading
Image: Netflix Squid Game’s second season will debut on December 26th with a newly-announced “final season” to follow sometime in 2025, Netflix said on Wednesday. Netflix also shared a brief trailer to accompany the news. It’s been nearly three years since the first season of Squ … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta’s second quarter earnings continue the same story from the previous quarter: generative AI may be here, but it’s going to take a long time to make money. The good news for Meta is that, unlike pretty much ever … | Continue reading
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge A source told The Information that TikTok was paying Microsoft almost $20 million per month to access OpenAI’s models as of March, making up nearly a quarter of the revenue generated by its increasingly lucrative cloud division. Microsoft’ … | Continue reading
The 2024 Microsoft Surface Laptop, currently the least expensive available with a Qualcomm X chip. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Currently, the $999 Microsoft Surface Laptop is the cheapest way to get a Windows machine that runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus chip, with all … | Continue reading
The perfect shape for a car — and a mouse. | Image: Honda Take a look at this HP-X concept from 1984 that has been restored, seemingly so Honda can show the world how cool futuristic cars used to look. As a car born in the Knight Rider era, the HP-X placed advanced tech within th … | Continue reading
Leaked photos of the DJI Neo drone suggest it may cost just $329 to buy a bundle. | Image: Jasper Ellens DJI’s 4K-ready Neo drone has leaked — and according to the photos, box, specs, and leaked Walmart price we’ve now seen, it could be the lightest and cheapest full-featured DJI … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site’s data. “Without these agreements, we don’t have any say or knowledge of how our data … | Continue reading
Siri’s big upgrade starts now, but you’ll need the right iPhone to access it. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge In iOS 18’s latest developer preview, Siri gets a glow-up. Like, the whole phone actually glows around the edges when you invoke Siri. A splash screen reintroduces yo … | Continue reading
Image: Google Google’s earlier-than-expected Pixel hardware event is just around the corner — it’s scheduled for Tuesday, August 13th. Thanks to the relentless flow of leaks that have emerged over the past few weeks, we have a pretty good idea of what to expect. Google has alread … | Continue reading
Image: Taco Bell Your next Taco Bell drive-thru order might be handled by AI — and AI may have helped you get a Chalupa already. Parent company Yum! Brands has been testing its “Voice AI” technology at more than 100 Taco Bell drive-thru locations in the US, and now Yum! aims to b … | Continue reading
Photo by David Berding/Getty Images A group of over 200 tech leaders and investors are pledging their support to Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race, countering a opposing group from Silicon Valley who have backed former President Donald Trump. Shark Tank star a … | Continue reading
Image: Bungie Another round of layoffs has hit Bungie. Bungie CEO Pete Parsons made the announcement on the studio’s website citing the increasing costs of development and economic conditions as the reason for the reduction of staff — a refrain that’s become common in the last tw … | Continue reading
What if Cybertruck light bar but on the back? | Image: Reddit user Abomb1997 Tesla’s Model Y will look a lot different on the back and inside after its rumored redesign if new photos of the leaked “Juniper” model are to be believed. A user on Reddit shared the images, which inclu … | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Microsoft and Discord are greatly improving the integration of the communication platform into Xbox consoles. While you’ve been able to stream your gameplay to friends over Discord since last year, you’ll soon be able to watch your friends’ streams whether … | Continue reading
Image: Sonos The hits just keep on coming. As Sonos works to get its app back to a better place, it managed to introduce a pretty nasty iOS battery drain problem with last week’s update. Customers were quick to notice and were none too happy with the company for yet another foul- … | Continue reading
Image: Uber Uber is teaming up with BYD to bring 100,000 of the Chinese automaker’s electric vehicles to the ridesharing app. The multiyear partnership will roll out in Europe and Latin America first, giving drivers “best-in-class pricing and financing” for BYD vehicles used with … | Continue reading
Image: Microsoft I’m fairly confident Microsoft has created more Xbox controllers than I’ve eaten hot dinners at this point, but I’m always happy to see another translucent option. This time, it’s the new “Sky Cipher Special Edition” controller, which includes a translucent blue … | Continue reading
Amazon’s largest e-reader to date is also the only Kindle specifically built for taking notes. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge From AirPods to the Echo Pop, we’ve seen a handful of recent Prime Day standouts resurface as part of Best Buy’s latest sales event. The re … | Continue reading
Photo by Jamie Squire / Getty Images As part of a new partnership with the NFL, Sony is developing a new set of headphones for NFL coaches that will debut during the 2025 season. The new headphones are being built “from the ground up,” Sony Electronics’ Matthew Parnell tells The … | Continue reading
Improved incident reporting UI and new Destination Guidance in Google Maps. | Image: Google Google is updating its two navigation apps — Google Maps and Waze — with a slew of new features, including some changes that bring the two closer together. One of the big updates here cont … | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Google is rolling out new online safety features that make it easier to remove explicit deepfakes from Search at scale and prevent them from appearing high up in search results in the first place. When users successfully request the removal of explicit non … | Continue reading
Image: Álvaro Bernis / The Verge Wix is releasing new generative AI tools that can produce entire SEO-optimized blog posts, right down to the imagery. Available now for English-speaking users of the website builder, Wix says its new tools can create “AI-generated drafts or outlin … | Continue reading
Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify has stopped trying to make users pay for song lyrics. After expanding a test that put the feature behind a Premium paywall, Spotify is now reversing the change. A Spotify spokesperson tells Engadget that the company will be “expanding Lyric … | Continue reading
Image: Audi Audi’s got some new E-tron EV models, and this time around they aren’t SUVs. Instead, we’re getting electric versions of the A6, the automaker’s popular midsized sedan, and it’s coming in both a Sportback and an Avant station wagon style, along with performance S6 var … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is making Skype ad-free in an update that will rollout to users across all platforms soon. The update also includes improved AI image creation tools on Skype for Windows and macOS, and the ability to sign in automatically on iOS i … | Continue reading
The Nothing Phone 2A Plus will be available in the UK first, followed by limited availability in the US a few days later. | Image: Nothing A little more than four months after the Phone 2A’s debut, Nothing is already introducing a follow-up with the Phone 2A Plus, which has a han … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images StubHub is facing a new lawsuit that accuses the ticketing service of hiding fees from customers until the very end of the purchasing process. In the lawsuit filed on Wednesday, District of Columbia Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb … | Continue reading
Former President Donald Trump. | Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Meta’s AI assistant incorrectly said that the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump didn’t happen, an error a company executive is now attributing to the technology powering its chatbot an … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Monday evening, Amazon Web Services sent a notice about issues in the US-EAST-1 region of its server networks, which support many of the internet’s services. So far, the only problem we’ve seen that appears to be linked to the problem is … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon, not third-party sellers, is responsible for properly recalling hazardous items that were sold on its marketplace, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) decided on Tuesday. The CPSC says Amazon failed to adequately notify … | Continue reading
Image: Meta Meta has shut down its AI chatbots that let you have conversations with alter-ego versions of celebrities, as reported by The Information. The celebrity chatbots were a big part of Meta’s announcements at its Connect event last September, now, you can’t talk with them … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AMD just announced its second quarter 2024 earnings today, and the highlight was this: nearly half the company’s sales are now data center products — not chips for personal computers, not game consoles, not embedded chips for industry or ve … | Continue reading
There’s a custom case for this and everything. | Image: Samsung Samsung’s advertising for its Galaxy Z Flip series typically revolves around Gen Z photo shoots and showing off specific features like interpreter mode. But today, the company has taken quite a turn by highlighting t … | Continue reading
Image: Activision Activision is sharing an open-source dataset for Call of Duty: Warzone’s Caldera map for researchers to study and to help support AI model training. “This first-of-its-kind data set release for Call of Duty, now available in OpenUSD, contains the near-complete g … | Continue reading
Image: Mojang Studios Two of the best-selling games of all time are joining forces for some very strange downloadable content in Minecraft. It involves visiting the “Tetris universe” inside of the game... which has taught me that there is something called the Tetris universe. Not … | Continue reading
The Verge Microsoft just posted the fourth and final quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $64.7 billion in revenue and a net income of $22 billion during Q4. Revenue is up 15 percent, and net income has increased by 10 percent. Microsoft’s Intelli … | Continue reading