BROOKSHIRE, TEXAS - APRIL 25: Solar cells are run through a PV cell soldering stringer at Elin Energys solar panel manufacturing facility. | Photo: Getty Images The US has quadrupled its capacity for manufacturing solar panels in just a couple of years since passing the biggest f … | Continue reading
Image: Bluesky Bluesky, the decentralized X alternative, now supports video. The platform announced on Wednesday that you can share videos up to 60 seconds long on its desktop site and mobile app. The videos will autoplay by default, but Bluesky says you can turn this feature off … | Continue reading
Don’t want to commit to a new color of paint? Glasst’s Unpaint can be peeled off after a couple of days. | Image: Glasst Glasst has come up with an unusual solution for DIYers struggling to commit to a new wall color. Its Unpaint is a paint alternative that can be applied using s … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In case you missed the news, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions recently went up in price with the rollout of a new “Standard” tier, which doesn’t include day-one access to first-party Xbox games. Thankfully, if you’re still keen on an U … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile, which is working with SpaceX to let people text and make phone calls over satellite, says it has successfully sent a test emergency alert via a Starlink satellite. Satellite alerts can help ensure that people receive critical comm … | Continue reading
Image: the Internet Archive Google Search is now adding links to archived websites in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. That’s a bit of good news for anybody lamenting the disappearance of the cached pages link from Google’s results. The Internet Archive hosts billions of a … | Continue reading
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images Following last night’s debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, several users on X homed in on the Vice President’s earrings — speculating that she was using them to get her talking points. Echoing a long history of political conspiracy the … | Continue reading
A Ram 1500 truck assembly process at Stellantis’ Sterling Heights, Michigan plant. | Image: Stellantis Stellantis, the European parent company of American brands Ram, Dodge, Chrysler, and Jeep, is retooling its Michigan plants to enable more electric vehicle production. The autom … | Continue reading
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Want a PS5, but don’t want to spend $700 on a PS5 Pro? Thanks to Sony’s new refurbished website for PS5s, you’ll soon be able to buy an older version of the console for a lot less money than the PS5 Pro’s eye-watering cost. You can see everything … | Continue reading
Photo: Emilio Madrid Talking with writer Max Wolf Friedlich about his Broadway play that confronts the horrifying work of online content moderation. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After previews at Google I/O 2024 and months of testing, the finished version of Android 15 is now available for developers. That doesn’t mean it’s out for users just yet: according to Google, it’ll be a few weeks before it arrives on Pixel … | Continue reading
The PS5 Pro’s announcement yesterday wasn’t a surprise. What was a surprise was the price: at $699.99, it debuts as Sony’s most expensive console ever. It brought back memories of the PS3’s controversial price tag, a console that when adjusted for inflation is the same $779 price … | Continue reading
Image: A24 We’re in a pretty great period for established actors doing weird shit. Obviously, there’s Nic Cage, playing everything from an ancient vampire to a deranged satanist to an average man who haunts your dreams. But the likes of Amy Adams (mom who transforms into a dog) a … | Continue reading
Even in shadow, the new SUV looks like any SUV. | Image: Lucid Lucid revealed new information about the EV charge port of its upcoming Gravity SUV and teased an all-new, more affordable vehicle at Tuesday’s Technology and Manufacturing Day event. The Lucid Gravity, slated for its … | Continue reading
Image: The Verge A federal judge halted a Utah child safety law requiring social platforms to verify the ages of their users. In an order on Tuesday, Judge Robert J. Shelby issued a preliminary injunction in favor of NetChoice, saying the law likely violates the First Amendment. … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Google’s tool that lets publishers sell ad space on their websites is ubiquitous, but that’s largely a testament to how hard it is for customers to get out of it, one former publishing executive testified in federal court on Tuesday. … | Continue reading
Adobe’s new text-to-video and image-to-video AI features will be available in beta later this year. | Image: Adobe Adobe has teased some of its upcoming generative AI video tools, including a new feature that can produce video clips from still images. This latest preview builds o … | Continue reading
Nuro wants to put its technology into a range of vehicle types. | Image: Nuro Nuro, the delivery robot company created by veterans of Google’s self-driving car project, is taking the bold — and risky — step to expand its business model to include robotaxis and personally owned au … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images SB 1047 aims to regulate AI, and the AI industry is out to stop it. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Hugs and kisses! | Image: Cody Peterson (Each Other) Though I’d heard this XOXO festival would be the last one, many people I spoke to seemed not to believe it. I was told by previous attendees that festival organizers Andy Baio and Andy McMillan — affectionately called “the Andy … | Continue reading
The Dirigera hub and Ikea's Home smart app. | Image: Ikea Two years after announcing support, Ikea’s Dirigera hub can now be updated to act as a bridge between Ikea’s smart home devices and Matter-enabled systems. The software update builds upon early beta support by letting Ikea … | Continue reading
The display creases are prominant at certain angles, but are barely noticable when looking at the Huawei Mate XT straight on. | Screenshot: Fixed Focus Digital Now that Huawei has officially launched the Mate XT Ultimate Design in China, demonstration videos are popping up online … | Continue reading
Photo by Noam Galai/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift said on Tuesday that she plans to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election — and that AI-generated images circulating of herself pushed her in part to make her support p … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Less than 30 minutes into the presidential debate, former president Donald Trump brought up a viral racist lie about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio — and repeated it after fact-checkers asserted that it wasn’t true. “In Spring … | Continue reading
This little gadget keeps getting better and better. | Image: Flipper Devices Inc. One of our favorite hacking gadgets, the Flipper Zero, received its first major firmware update today. It includes a bunch of features the developers have been working on stabilizing for the last th … | Continue reading
Image: The Verge Disney was ready to turn part of its feed back on for DirecTV customers tonight — but DirecTV wasn’t interested. Disney-owned ABC News is hosting tonight’s presidential debate, and Disney offered to make the channel available to DirecTV subscribers for three hour … | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Google just landed a deal to capture planet-heating pollution at a huge bargain: $100 per ton of CO2, the price climate tech startups around the world are racing to achieve in order to make their technologies commercially viable. The company announced the … | Continue reading
A photo of the disc drive on the slim PS5. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Today may have marked the beginning of the end for game console disc drives. Sony finally announced the $699.99 PS5 Pro, and while it looks to be an impressive machine, it’s the first PlaySt … | Continue reading
Popsicles or lightsabers — your choice. | Image: Lifx Lifx has a new smart “Polychrome” Tube light that can glow with multiple colors and transform your home lamps and fixtures into fun light-up popsicles. The bulbs are made of a frosted glass tube and contain 104 LEDs with 52 co … | Continue reading
The standard Galaxy Buds 3 can’t go toe-to-toe with the pro-grade model, but they do offer many of the same features. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s forthcoming AirPods 4 might be the latest pair of wireless earbuds to pique our interest, but if you’re a Galaxy phone … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple heavily sprinkled mentions of AI throughout its iPhone 16 event on Monday. However, generative Apple Intelligence features won’t be ready for the public launch of iOS 18 on September 16th or the new iPhones when they’re released on September … | Continue reading
Photo by Bruce Bennett / Getty Images This week, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stunned safety advocates by proposing new vehicle rules that it says will help reduce pedestrian deaths in America. The new rules appear aimed directly at the trend of i … | Continue reading
Image: Microsoft Microsoft is launching its Xbox Game Pass Standard tier today. After briefly testing it with Xbox Insiders last month, the new $14.99 per month Game Pass Standard subscription is launching with the usual Game Pass library for Xbox and online console multiplayer a … | Continue reading
Cath Virginia / The Verge A startup funded by the co-founder of Yahoo and CTO of Intel is suing Nvidia and Microsoft for allegedly infringing on its patent for a key innovation in AI chips, and being part of a buying cartel that allegedly sought to artificially fix lower prices f … | Continue reading
Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge Tesla updated the roadmap today for its out-of-beta Full Self-Driving (FSD) advanced driver-assist system. The automaker says it will launch the feature in the Cybertruck later this month, roll out a more robust v13 update in October, and launch it … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is developing new tools that aim to give creators on the platform more control over content that copies their voice or likeness using generative AI. In its announcement post, YouTube said the new likeness management tech will help t … | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Google is testing its new “Ask Photos” feature that lets you explore your library of pictures in new ways. The feature, which Google first previewed in May, is rolling out to select Google Labs users in the US and will let you ask things like, “Where did w … | Continue reading
Apple Pay hasn’t changed much since 2014, and maybe it hasn’t needed to. | Image: The Verge When Apple launched Apple Pay in 2014, at an event 10 years to the day before this year’s iPhone launch, Apple promised the feature would “change the way you pay.” The company didn’t just … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snapchat is the app of choice for criminals targeting kids for sextortion or child sexual abuse material (CSAM), New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez alleges in a new lawsuit filed against the app’s owner, Snap. The suit accuses Snap of … | Continue reading
Image: Flic Shortcut Labs has been openly working toward the goal of turning its smart home hubs — the Flic Hub LR and the Flic Hub Mini — into Matter controllers for quite a while, and now the company tells The Verge it has done it. On Friday, Shortcut will release an update tha … | Continue reading
Nanoleaf’s Blocks come in two sizes and can integrate with fabric panel covers, pegboards, and shelves. | Image: Nanoleaf Nanoleaf is giving its popular smart lighting panels a major refresh. The Nanoleaf Blocks (starting at $199.99) feature edge-to-edge lighting that the company … | Continue reading
Image: Waymo How do you convince a skeptical public that your autonomous vehicles are not only safer than human drivers but also a better way to get around? If you’re Waymo, the answer is data — and lots of it. The Alphabet-owned company revealed a new safety hub today, complete … | Continue reading
Image: SwitchBot Air purifiers are great and all, but they only really do one thing, and they usually don’t look elegant doing it. SwitchBot is trying to change this by making an air purifier that also serves as a table, a wireless charger, and a light source. The device, aptly n … | Continue reading
Welcome to the future of laptops. | Image: Lenovo Lenovo is back with another twisting laptop, and this time, it can twist itself. Today at IFA, the company showed off its Auto Twist AI PC concept, which has a motorized hinge. It can track your movements and rotate its display to … | Continue reading
Image: Microsoft Microsoft is holding a OneDrive digital event on October 8th that will cover the “latest innovations in AI across Microsoft 365 and OneDrive.” It’s the second annual event after Microsoft held a similar stream last year to introduce a big new design update for th … | Continue reading
The Nest Cam with floodlight comes in just one color, so hopefully white goes well with your home’s exterior. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge If you’re looking for a nice discount on a great outdoor smart home camera right now (and you don’t mind Google’s ecosystem … | Continue reading
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The next generation of Bluetooth could make it easier to track down lost tech. On Tuesday, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the release of Bluetooth 6.0, which includes a new precision tracking feature that could improve the F … | Continue reading
Govee’s chip-on-board strip light is just one of its many new colorful Matter lights coming soon. | Image: Govee At IFA 2024, Govee revealed launch dates for a veritable rat king of Matter-enabled decorative lighting. These include smart string lights, curtain lights, and Govee’s … | Continue reading