Image: Disney / Warner Bros. Discovery The Disney Plus, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle jointly assembled by Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery is now available in the US. Prices start from $16.99 per month for an ad-supported tier (as opposed to the monthly $25.97 price to pay for … | Continue reading
It’s not so much a standalone health tracker or a smartwatch alternative as an accessory for your Galaxy Watch. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Image: Abigail Bassett When you think of the Cannonball Run, you probably think of a group of people making the trip from New York’s Red Ball Garage to the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach in the shortest (and usually most dangerous) amount of time. Police encounters, lack of sle … | Continue reading
The first true Steam Deck competitor has arrived. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge I have six Amazon Echo smart speakers in my house, and I’ve tested more, but my favorite is the Echo Dot with Clock. I love how the fabric-covered LED dot matrix display makes time unobtrusively accessible, beaming its gentle white lig … | Continue reading
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images FBI director Christopher Wray said on Wednesday that the person who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump searched the web for “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?” one week before the rally shooting, as reported … | Continue reading
Photo by Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Amazon’s Prime Video has inked an 11-year deal that will bring NBA and WNBA games to the streaming service starting with the 2025-2026 season. Prime Video will air a total of 66 regular-season games and 20 playoff ga … | Continue reading
A new Nest Learning Thermostat appears to be imminent. | Image: MysteryLupin via X Leaked images posted on X by @MysteryLupin show a 4th-generation Nest Learning Thermostat and new temperature sensors, as well as several other thermostats: Nest E, Nest Learning Thermostat (3rd Ge … | Continue reading
A graphic representation of a laser communications relay between the International Space Station, the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration spacecraft, and the Earth. | Image: NASA/Dave Ryan NASA researchers have successfully tested laser communications in space by streaming 4 … | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Bing’s new search experience puts AI-generated answers front and center while pushing traditional search results to the side. The new layout, which is rolling out for a small number of queries, fills your search results page with AI-generated summaries add … | Continue reading
An image representing AMD’s new Ryzen 9000 desktop parts. | Image: AMD AMD was set to launch its new Zen 5 processors on July 31st, including the 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X, a chip it’s calling “the world’s most powerful desktop consumer processor.” Instead, it’s now announ … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More than 500 developers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on World of Warcraft have voted to form a union. The World of Warcraft GameMakers Guild, formed with the assistance of the Communication Workers of America (CWA), is composed of em … | Continue reading
Little phone, how I miss you. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge We’ve already heard rumblings about an iPhone Slim model taking the place of the iPhone Plus in 2025, making it the iPhone 17 Slim. Now, a new report from Apple supply chain expert Ming-Chi Kuo corroborates earlier … | Continue reading
A screenshot of Apple Maps on the web. | Screenshot: The Verge Apple Maps is finally available on the web. Through a beta that launched Wednesday afternoon, you can now get driving and walking directions, as well as view ratings and reviews from the web version of Apple Maps in a … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images The vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee is a cipher on many tech issues — here’s what we’ve been able to piece together. Continue reading… | Continue reading
The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman can now be ordered with plant-based upholstery made from bamboo. | Image: Herman Miller Can you finally feel guilt-free about buying an iconic piece of furniture that starts at $6,395? For the first time in 68 years, Herman Miller is offering it … | Continue reading
Photo by Samuel Corum / Getty Images The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday letting victims of nonconsensual intimate images created by AI — or “deepfakes” — sue their creators for damages. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE) Act le … | Continue reading
Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple might start using Samsung camera sensors as soon as 2026, marking the end of Sony’s decade-plus run as the sole supplier of the phones’ camera sensors. The phones are expected to use a Samsung-made “1/2.6-inch 48MP ultra-wide CMOS image … | Continue reading
You won’t find (most) of these on Apple’s official iOS App Store. | Image: Riley Testut / AltStore PAL The first batch of third-party apps are making their way onto AltStore PAL, just over three months after the alternative iOS app marketplace first launched in the EU. Three out … | Continue reading
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta shut down 63,000 Instagram accounts based in Nigeria that it says were engaged in financial sextortion scams and connected to what Meta calls a “loosely organized” group of cybercriminals known as Yahoo Boys. Meta has been getting ser … | Continue reading
Image: Apple \ RapidSOS First responder networks are lining up to support a major new emergency feature in iOS 18: Live Video support. Now 911 support platforms, including RapidSOS’ Unite and Prepared, are integrating with Apple’s Emergency SOS Live Video, which was announced at … | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Reddit is ramping up its crackdown on web crawlers. Over the past few weeks, Reddit has started blocking search engines from surfacing recent posts and comments unless the search engine pays up, according to a report from 404 Media. Right now, Google is th … | Continue reading
Canadian soccer coach Bev Priestman will miss the Olympic team’s opening match against New Zealand. | Photo by Vaughn Ridley / Getty Images A member of the Canadian Olympic women’s soccer team was caught using a drone to spy on New Zealand’s practice session on Monday. It’s said … | Continue reading
Image: Google Google has updated the suspicious file warnings Chrome displays for why it might have blocked a potentially suspicious or dangerous file download to hopefully give users clearer explanations. For people who turn on the anti-phishing Enhanced Protection feature, opti … | Continue reading
Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The latest PlayStation beta lets you create personalized 3D audio profiles on your PS5 that could help you “better sense the positions of characters and objects in a game world.” If you’re wearing headphones or earbuds with your PS5, y … | Continue reading
The Ace have an understated design that’s very sleek, especially in white. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you’re looking to be an early-ish adopter of some fancy headphones and you like the color white, you’re in luck. The porcelain-colored Sonos Ace are on sale for $409.9 … | Continue reading
Apple executives Greg Joswiak and Craig Federighi have made it well known that the company has little interest in getting the iPad prepared for macOS software. During an event following Apple’s 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference in June, Federighi said, “We want to keep making … | Continue reading
Sunny the robot has a very expressive face. | Image: Apple The murder mystery was a chance for showrunner Katie Robbins to imagine a different kind of sci-fi vision. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Samsung’s flagship foldable is as good as ever, but it feels anything but fresh. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is bringing a handful of new features to its Google Play store on Android today. There are new categorized “Collections” that highlight content from apps you’ve already installed. The company’s reward program is adding more prizes in … | Continue reading
In addition to iOS and Android mobile devices, the GameSir G8 Plus works with the Nintendo Switch. | Image: GameSir GameSir’s latest mobile controller has an added bonus — it also works with the Nintendo Switch. In addition to turning iOS and Android smartphones into handheld con … | Continue reading
In venture capital, you are what you fund. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Two of Silicon Valley’s famous venture capitalists made a case for backing Trump: that their ability to make money is the only value that matters. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch has introduced new policy and moderation updates that aim to help curb sexual harassment. The streaming platform announced in a blog post that it has made its sexual harassment policy “easier to understand” by more clearly outlining … | Continue reading
Image: The Verge CrowdStrike has published a post incident review (PIR) of the buggy update it published that took down 8.5 million Windows machines last week. The detailed post blames a bug in test software for not properly validating the content update that was pushed out to mi … | Continue reading
Trucks near a warehouse in San Bernardino County, California | Image: Wes Reel / The Verge The data is in, and it shows a significant rise in air pollution where e-retailers build their warehouses, and the neighborhoods hit the hardest have more people of color living in them. Wa … | Continue reading
Image: The Verge Years after Twitter replaced the pistol emoji with a green-and-orange water gun, X has decided to change it back to a regular handgun. An X employee announced the change in a post last week. The company hasn’t explained the change, but it feels on-brand for Elon … | Continue reading
Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) will finally get its moment on the Senate floor this week after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced he’d move for a procedural vote on the bill as soon as Thursday. It fulfills a promise Schume … | Continue reading
Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images Will the Tesla robotaxi have a steering wheel or not? Elon Musk won’t say. The Tesla CEO dodged several questions during an earnings call Tuesday about the status of the company’s long-promised autonomous vehicle, including whether it would hav … | Continue reading
Image: TP-Link TP-Link has debuted the Archer BE3600, a $99 Wi-Fi 7 router that is the cheapest one we’ve seen released in the US so far since the first routers supporting the new standard started arriving last year. It doesn’t have the new 6GHz band like its pricier cousins or e … | Continue reading
Image: Jay Maidment / Marvel Studios Beneath the dick jokes and solid X-Men cameos, Deadpool & Wolverine feels like Marvel’s way of admitting how much of a mess its multiverse era has been. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Google made nearly $85 billion over the past few months as revenue from its Search and cloud computing businesses soared. That’s according to the quarter two earnings report released by Google's parent company, Alphabet, on Tuesday, which says Search alone … | Continue reading
Photo by Osmancan Gurdogan / Anadolu via Getty Images Tesla published its second quarter earnings report, in which the company said it earned $1.48 billion in net income on $25.5 billion in revenue. That represents a 2 percent increase year over year compared to $24.9 billion in … | Continue reading
You won’t need to stuff an AirTag inside ESR’s Geo Wallet to find it. | Image: ESR With its own integrated tracking module compatible with Apple’s Find My network and a traditional bifold design, ESR’s Geo Wallet can be located using an iPhone if it goes missing, and without the … | Continue reading
Every Korean, Korean American, or K-pop fan you know probably has the KakaoTalk app. | Photo: Getty Images Kakao Corp. founder Kim Beom-su was arrested Tuesday in Seoul, South Korea. That might not mean much to Westerners, but the story is a bizarre tale of how a celebrated, self … | Continue reading
Image: Kamala HQ On Sunday, President Joe Biden shocked the country with his announcement that he would not seek reelection in November. He threw his support behind vice president Kamala Harris. If elected, Harris would be the first Black and Asian American woman to become presid … | Continue reading
Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Spotify The saga of Spotify HiFi has many twists and turns. First announced over three years ago, the music service’s higher-quality streaming tier has still yet to materialize. Recent reports have said lossless audio will be … | Continue reading
Image: Wooting Earlier this month, Razer beat Wooting to a speedy new keyboard feature that lets players counter-strafe more quickly in a variety of competitive PC games. Now, Wooting has implemented the same feature. Normally, to switch strafe directions in a first-person shoote … | Continue reading
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) plans to announce in a speech that he will bring the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children’s and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) to the Senate floor this week for a procedural vot … | Continue reading