Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, accusing the company of a breach of contract and allegedly abandoning its mission of creating AI technology to benefit humanity. As reported earlier by CNBC, … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Following weeks of discussions, Paramount’s potential merger deal with Skydance has fallen apart, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. In a statement on Tuesday, Paramount’s parent company, National Amusements, said the companies … | Continue reading
With Apple Intelligence features coming to older MacBooks, you shouldn’t feel the need to wait for Apple’s M4 chips. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s not surprising that the M3 MacBook Air’s value is strengthening the longer it’s been out, but the laptop is becoming increa … | Continue reading
This is probably how the fool would look thinking they’re getting away with a steal. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is now testing Android 15’s automatic theft detection features announced at the I/O developer conference in May. The company tapped Brazil to play … | Continue reading
The URSA Cine Immersive might be what the Vision Pro needs. | Image: Blackmagic Design Blackmagic announced a new camera yesterday that it says is part of a new Vision Pro-specific workflow that involves its DaVinci Resolve software. Called the URSA Cine Immersive, Blackmagic say … | Continue reading
Image: Voodoo BeReal, the app known for its fleeting photo sharing window, has been acquired. On Tuesday, the French app developer Voodoo announced that it purchased the company for €500 million (about $537.23 million). Launched by French developers Alexis Barreyat and Kévin Perr … | Continue reading
Image: Best Buy Best Buy carried out another round of layoffs and job restructurings last week, with the company cutting some of its sales staff and reducing the pay for others, according to current and former employees who spoke with The Verge. Multiple people said their new pay … | Continue reading
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Online shopping changed how we buy things — and social media platforms are reshaping shopping again. TikTok Shop, the company’s in-app shopping feature, is quickly becoming a key retailer for the beauty industry, according to a report by D … | Continue reading
Image: Flow Computing Flow Computing is making a tough to believe claim: it says it can 100x the performance of any CPU by shifting work to a special parallel processing unit (PPU) inside or outside the chip. And, it claims, it can double the performance of any existing computing … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is finally rolling out the ability for creators to test and compare how multiple video thumbnails perform, the company announced on Tuesday. The feature was first announced last June, but at the time, it was only available to a few … | Continue reading
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images X is rolling out private likes as soon as today, according to a source at the company. That means what users like on the platform will be hidden by default, which is already an option for X’s Premium subscribers. A few week … | Continue reading
The Apple HomePod will soon support SharePlay with Apple Music. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s SharePlay is expanding to include speakers in your home. Soon, the HomePod, HomePod Mini, Apple TV, and any Bluetooth speaker will work with SharePlay and Apple Music, meani … | Continue reading
Doom: The Dark Ages. | Image: Bethesda Softworks Doom, Dragon Age, Civilization, Star Wars, and a whole lot more. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Image: Cruise General Motors is investing $850 million into Cruise to help cover the company’s operational costs after it was forced to shut down its robotaxi service when one of its driverless cars struck a pedestrian. GM chief financial officer Paul Jacobson announced the inves … | Continue reading
The newer second-gen Backbone One looks much like the original (pictured here). | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Apple talked about big-budget games coming to the iPhone at its recent WWDC 2024 keynote, but if you choose to play upcoming titles like Resident Evil 7 on your … | Continue reading
Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge Late last year, seven automakers — BMW, Honda, General Motors, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, and Stellantis — announced plans for a joint venture to build easy-to-access public DC fast charging infrastructure in the US and Canada. The resulting comp … | Continue reading
Screenshot: Apple Soon, you’ll be able to create you own emoji and generate custom images with new AI features on Apple devices. I hate to be the bearer of bad news (and I’m guilty of grossly overusing emoji myself) — but those images could have the biggest environmental impact o … | Continue reading
Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Google’s latest feature drop for Pixel devices is a big one for people who want to run its AI tech on cheaper phones, folks who constantly misplace their phones, and photographers who want a little more control. The latest update, which starts … | Continue reading
Car crash detection rolls out on the Pixel Watch 2 starting today. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Starting today, Google’s Pixel Watch lineup is getting some new and improved safety features. The Pixel Watch 2 will get car crash detection, while both Pixel Watches … | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Apple is rebranding Apple accounts from Apple ID to (the arguably more straightforward) Apple Account. “With the releases of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and watchOS 11, Apple ID is renamed to Apple Account for a consistent sign-in experience across A … | Continue reading
Some of the best features just got hints in the feature breakdown at the end. | Image: Apple Apple mentioned a few new features coming to the Vision Pro during its WWDC 2024 keynote presentation on Monday, such as the ability to turn your 2D photos into 3D ones and support for us … | Continue reading
Image: Netflix After showing us a couple of brief teasers, Netflix has finally dropped a full trailer for the second and last season of Arcane. According to Netflix, the final chapter of the League of Legends adaptation sets up a “dire escalation” between the cities of Piltover a … | Continue reading
Image: BioWare It has a new name and now a first gameplay trailer: here’s your first proper look at Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The clip was released as the final portion of Summer Game Fest and followed an announcement from BioWare that the next Dragon Age would no longer be call … | Continue reading
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge New York has become the next state to introduce a mobile ID program, giving residents the option to digitize their driver’s license or non-driver ID. Beginning today, the New York Mobile ID app is available from Apple’s App Store and Google Play. … | Continue reading
Image: BioWare Game director Corinne Busche talks about the next entry in the RPG franchise. Continue reading… | Continue reading
The Light Phone 3 is a little bigger and more phone-looking than the last model. | Photo: Light Five years after the Light Phone 2 launched, co-founder Kaiwei Tang says it’s selling better than ever. This is both extremely unusual for a phone and kind of the point of the thing: T … | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Microsoft is announcing some changes to Outlook for consumers that will further safeguard accounts. The software maker plans to end support for Basic Authentication for Outlook personal accounts starting on September 16th, it’s removing the light version o … | Continue reading
Illustration: Beatrice Sala Security researchers are reporting that a “significant volume of data” has been stolen from hundreds of Snowflake cloud storage customers via compromised login credentials, with the incident being linked to massive data breaches at Ticketmaster and San … | Continue reading
Image: Rythm Three years ago, YouTube turned its attention to Discord music bots that were using the video service to stream music into Discord voice channels. Groovy was one of the first to be forced offline, followed by the most popular Discord music bot, Rythm. YouTube soon la … | Continue reading
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Even Apple CEO Tim Cook isn’t sure the company can fully stop AI hallucinations. In an interview with The Washington Post, Cook said he would “never claim” that its new Apple Intelligence system wo … | Continue reading
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge After a long and exciting event, Apple has introduced the developer beta of iOS 18 — and, as with its predecessor, it is accessible to everyone, non-developers included, for free. If you want to try out an early version of the new OS, we’v … | Continue reading
Image: Netflix The Rebel Moon saga on Netflix was an attempt from Zack Snyder to craft a sci-fi epic on the level of Star Wars — and now the director is taking another stab at making it work. Netflix just announced that the director’s cuts of both Rebel Moon films will be streami … | Continue reading
The Orbi 770 Wi-Fi 7 mesh system. | Image: Netgear Netgear announced two new Wi-Fi 7 routers today: the Nighthawk RS300 and the Orbi 770. Both routers will come with 2.5Gbps ports and the benefits of Wi-Fi 7, such as 320Mhz channels that can potentially double wireless bandwidth … | Continue reading
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge There were almost two different WWDCs this year. First, Apple did its classic platform whiparound, detailing all the new ways you can add stuff to your homescreen, share stuff with your friends, watch stuff on your TV, calculate stuff on your tablet … | Continue reading
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify is getting ready to launch a premium add-on that offers access to high-fidelity audio, according to a report from Bloomberg. The new tier will reportedly cost $5 extra and will also come with tools to help users create playlists an … | Continue reading
Image: Yahoo Yahoo is updating Yahoo Mail on the desktop with new AI capabilities and other features to help simplify email and task management. One of the highlights is brief AI-generated summaries of emails. These summaries come complete with bulleted lists that highlight propo … | Continue reading
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge As slick and polished as macOS is, it can slow down over time, as you add file after file and program after program to your Apple system. After a few years of heavy use, the idea of wiping your Mac and starting again from a factory-fresh c … | Continue reading
Nintendo Switch users can no longer link the console with their X accounts. | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge As of June 10th, Nintendo has officially discontinued support for the Switch console’s integration with X (formerly Twitter), making it the last of the current-gen con … | Continue reading
We’ve all had at least one flight where this really would’ve saved the day. | Image: Jabra Jabra is refreshing its earbuds lineup today with upgraded versions of the Elite 10 and Elite 8 Active. Both, now known as “Gen 2,” come with the expected improvements to sound quality, noi … | Continue reading
People are watching this stuff, and advertisers can now buy targeted ads on Google TV channels. | Image: Google Google is launching a new advertising network that serves targeted ads to Google TV-powered streaming boxes and smart TVs. The ads service, known as the Google TV netwo … | Continue reading
The open-world Outlaws could be the biggest single-player Star Wars game ever made. | Screenshot: Star Wars Ubisoft announced in April that Star Wars Outlaws will launch on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on August 30th. If you’ve been on the fence about buying it in a … | Continue reading
Image: Apple Apple will let you record and transcribe phone calls in iOS 18. The company announced the feature during its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday and says it will automatically tell call participants that they’re being recorded. The image shared by Apple shows a … | Continue reading
Image: Summer Game Fest The hype is real, the hype is here, but Geoff Keighley has warned viewers not to get too hyped for what to expect during the showcase. Continue reading… | Continue reading
The Steve Jobs Theater. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge The WWDC keynote may be over, but we still have lots of questions about the state and future of Apple Intelligence. And in a somewhat unusual move, Apple is here to answer some of them: Craig Federighi and John Giannand … | Continue reading
Image: Ubisoft The reveal of Assassin’s Creed Shadows mostly focused on its story, characters, and setting. But a new trailer gives a better idea of how the game will actually play. The lengthy gameplay overview, which clocks in at around 12 minutes long, shows off the game’s spr … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Adobe is overhauling the terms customers must agree to when using its apps in an effort to win back trust — and clarify that it won’t train AI on their work. The change, announced via a new blog post, comes after a week of backlash from use … | Continue reading
Image: Ubisoft We’re getting very close to the launch of Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft’s GTA-style take on a galaxy far, far away. Which means it’s a good time for another trailer detailing the sorts of criminal escapades players can get into. The new overview focused primarily on t … | Continue reading
Screenshot: The Verge Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote has come to a close — and the company had a whole lot to share. We got our first look at the AI features coming to Apple’s devices and some major updates coming across the company’s operating systems. If you mi … | Continue reading