My “We Are Not For Sale” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeWarner Bros. Discovery’s CEO David Zaslav seems to be ... read more

Nick Barclay / The VergeTwitch will begin testing a way for its users to boost their chat messages on the platform. Called “Elevated Chat,” the “experiment” is meant to let users elevate their chat messages ... read more

Google announced the shutdown of Stadia with little warning. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeNews that Google would be closing down Stadia was a big surprise for everyone, including the developers making ... read more

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25211 went live on September 29th. | Image: MicrosoftIn 2019, Microsoft finally introduced support for Win32 games on the Microsoft Store for Windows. But if you downloaded the games, you ... read more

Adorable and ethically questionable. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeEarlier this year, Bandai America announced that the TinyTan Tamagotchi, a new handheld game featuring the members of BTS, was on its way. ... read more

Nielsen is trying to maintain its status as TV measurement’s currency. Over the summer, Nielsen launched its Four-Screen Ad Deduplication tool to help buyers reduce repeat impressions on YouTube across linear TV, connected TV (CTV), ... read more

Now, your posts can have a little verified check mark to prove you didn’t just right-click, save, and post. | Image: MetaMeta announced on Thursday that it’s giving everyone in the US the ability to ... read more

The PO-80 has an arm to play music with, and another to carve it in. | Image: Teenage EngineeringTeenage Engineering is known for its playfully designed audio synthesizers you can digitally make music with, but ... read more

Image: GoogleGoogle is shutting down Stadia, its polarizing cloud gaming service, only four weeks after the company’s target audience of me, Makena Kelly, actually started using it. When Stadia was announced in 2019, Google ... read more

Anker’s Soundcore VR P10 earbuds are designed to provide lag-free audio for gaming. | Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeAnker announced its latest wave of wireless earbuds yesterday, and the products indicate that Anker ... read more

In this Handout Photo provided by Swedish Coast Guard, the release of gas emanating from a leak on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea on September 28th, 2022, in At Sea. ... read more

A screenshot from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. | Image: UbisoftStadia may be shutting down next year, but if you’ve purchased Ubisoft titles on the cloud gaming platform, you’ll be able to transfer those purchases to PC ... read more

States are forcing medical professionals to make false confessions of racism. I refused to go along. ... read more

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Watch ‘Captain Blood’ and ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ and ask yourself which movie speaks to your heart. ... read more

Adrien Brody as the playwright Arthur Miller and Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe in Blonde. | Image: NetflixDirector Andrew Dominik’s experimental Marilyn Monroe biopic gets downright weird and borderline offensive in its discussion of ... read more

Stadia is shutting down in January. Here’s how to get a refund for your games and hardware. | Image: GoogleGoogle Stadia is shuffling off this mortal coil on January 18th, but thankfully, Google is offering ... read more

A lever counts as a button, right? Roll with me on this one. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeIt took me joining a baking club to realize just how good my KitchenAid ... read more

Community Season 6 Episode 609 “Grifting” Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, and Ken Jeong | Photo by Justin Lubin / Yahoo / Courtesy of Sony Pictures TelevisionAfter making improbable returns for its ... read more

The MacBook Air models with both 256GB and 512GB of storage are on sale. | Image: Dan Seifert / The VergeIf the deal on the 512GB M2-powered MacBook Air we featured earlier this week was ... read more

Arrival’s first production verification van at its microfactory in southern England. | Image: ArrivalArrival, an electric vehicle startup based in the UK, announced that its so-called “microfactory” based in southern England has produced its first ... read more

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The VergeLet’s face it: many of us don’t pay enough attention to what streaming services we are subscribed to — and paying for — especially now, when there are more ... read more

The VergeThe NSA, as a rule, wants to employ people who are good at spying. But according to the FBI, one former employee tried to turn the tables on the agency and was caught in ... read more

Nick Barclay / The VergeThursday morning, I woke up in a haze and decided to listen to ambient music while I drank my first cup of coffee. The night before, I’d saved an album to ... read more

Guillermo del Toro presents his Cabinet of Curiosities. | Image: NetflixGuillermo del Toro is finally ready to show off the first proper trailer for his intriguing Netflix anthology called Cabinet of Curiosities. The series is ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeStadia will shut down on January 18th, 2023. Here, you’ll find the latest developments on the service as its winds down as well as pieces from our writers ... read more

Photo by Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesRising sea levels and increasing storm intensity will put more and more hospitals in danger of flooding, just like the ones facing Hurricane Ian this week, a new ... read more

Elon Musk said he expects to show off a prototype of the Tesla Bot. | Image: TeslaTesla’s AI Day kicks off today, September 30th, at which Elon Musk has said he hopes to show off ... read more

Each option (except for the Hori Split Pad Pro and 8BitDo USB Adapter) is compatible with all Switch models, including Switch Lite. The best controllers for your Nintendo Switch aren’t the ones that come with ... read more

A New York-based cop show comes to prime time so fully formed that it fits as comfortably into the CBS universe as the proverbial old shoe. ... read more

USB-C, the cable that (sometimes) does it all. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeThe SuperSpeed USB branding is no more thanks to a new set of guidelines currently being rolled out by ... read more

Company will be "somewhat smaller" by year-end, CEO acknowledges during Q&A with employees. ... read more

A bipedal robot named Cassie has set a new Guinness World Record for the 100 meter dash, clocking in a time of 24.73 seconds and an average speed of 4m/s (9mph). That’s much slower ... read more

Image: ZendureZendure’s SuperBase V is the largest and most powerful portable battery yet. Not only can the 6.4kWh battery-on-wheels be expanded to 64kWh via stackable modules, it stores electrons in what the company calls the ... read more

Image: GoogleI’ve had a love-hate relationship with Google Stadia, but I’m certainly going to miss it now it’s shutting down. While the writing has been on the wall for Stadia pretty much since it launched, ... read more

The 2x lens is a 12-megapixel crop of the main sensor... not actually a lens at all. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeOne of the iPhone 14 Pro’s big new features is ... read more

In the end, were we not the ones getting played? | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeCome January, Google will be shutting down its Stadia cloud gaming service. In some ways, the move ... read more

The Wing delivery drone on the power lines. | Image: Energex via ABC Radio BrisbaneA food delivery drone operated by Alphabet subsidiary Wing landed on overhead power lines in Brisbane, Australia, and caught fire. As ... read more

The chargers were designed to stack to offer up to 1600W of charging power. | Image: HyperHyper is officially recalling its stackable 100W and 65W GaN chargers and a 130W battery pack, following reports that ... read more

An interview withJill WittkoppVP of Product Jill Wittkopp, VP of product at the IAB Tech Lab, will be speaking at Programmatic I/O, taking place in New York City from October 17-18. Click here to register. ... read more

Jeffrey L. BowmanCo-founder and CEO“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jeffrey L. Bowman, co-founder and CEO ... read more

Forget the post-cookie future. For Dailymotion, user-based targeting is already a thing of the past. Hamza Kourimate, VP and global head of sales marketing and data solutions at Dailymotion, spoke to AdExchanger on how the ... read more

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem… The post Comic: InstaTikSnapTokTube appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. OneView, Meet ONE AdExchanger has previously referred to Roku and Nielsen’s relationship as a “strategic accord.”   Roku was the first streaming media platform ... read more

This article was first reported on, and published by, Digiday sibling Glossy On Sunday, February 12, 2023, three megastars, the NFL Super Bowl, Rihanna and her brand Fenty, will come together to form one of ... read more

For the first time, the City of New Orleans is experimenting with virtual reality marketing by way of an immersive experience viewed through Oculus headsets or YouTube. It’s a move made in hopes to boost ... read more

Joining a building brand marketing trend, Sunglasses brand Quay has retooled its marketing strategy to be more “full funnel” rather than relying on performance marketing tactics. The shift followed iOS 14 (and Apple’s subsequent operating ... read more

Connected TV remains on the rise in programmatic advertising, fueled by the popularity of Roku, Samsung and Amazon devices. In a 2022 report published this month on the global CTV ad supply chain, Pixalate, a ... read more

After the mourning period for Queen Elizabeth II elapsed, the newly minted U.K. government unveiled a series of policies prompting a wholesale sell-off of sterling, a.k.a. GBP, resulting in historic lows for the currency. For ... read more

To avoid potential blowback from a skeptical audience, retailers as well as media and entertainment companies are learning to invest in their homegrown intellectual properties while building virtual brand activations inside Roblox or Fortnite. Take, ... read more

Even as it shuts down its own stores, the struggling D2C brand is moving into 100 Dick's Sporting Goods locations. ... read more

With the launch of its Marketplace, Macy's takes a giant step toward the Amazon approach to ecommerce. ... read more

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty ImagesElon Musk’s deposition for the Twitter v. Musk suit may have been rescheduled for next week, but the public got some more inside dirt about his plans ... read more

The purchase is part of a broader set of recent developments at Substack. ... read more

Soundcore Liberty 4 earbuds | Image: SoundcoreToday Anker is adding a new entry to its line of Soundcore earbuds with the Liberty 4. While this set keeps the brand in the budget earbud category with ... read more

4A's President and CEO Marla Kaplowitz says that agency executives should focus on three key areas as they prepare for the next year, including talent, business development and financial stewardship and operations. ... read more

Image: Eufy Smart home company Eufy’s new wireless security camera, the EufyCam 3, bumps up the resolution to 4K and adds a built-in solar panel to extend the year-long battery life even further. But its ... read more

The Hubble Space Telescope | Image: NASASpaceX and NASA have agreed to figure out whether or not a SpaceX ship could visit and potentially breathe new life into the iconic Hubble Space Telescope. They announced ... read more

JFK came to understand the need to be ‘disciplined in self-restraint,’ as he put it in a 1963 speech. ... read more

Truss grapples with the crisis big-government conservatism made. ... read more

Even short of NATO membership, the West should commit to investment, arms provision, intelligence sharing and training. ... read more

Delay in delivering Himars to Ukraine reflects U.S. shortfalls. ... read more

The latest bad idea to keep successful people from public office. ... read more

Despite his corruption conviction, Lula is leading in the polls. ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeGoogle had big plans for its cloud gaming service, but it never tipped the scales. Soon, Google will be shutting it down. Continue reading… ... read more

A faithful restoration inspires challenge, and passion, in France and across the world. ... read more

Public disclosure of cyber attacks shows weakness to enemies. ... read more

Tiffany Smiley, Patty Murray’s rival, gets nastygrams from Starbucks, the Seattle Times and the Seahawks. ... read more

The cost of borrowing is near untenable levels. If we aren’t already in a ‘doom loop,’ we’re getting close. ... read more

Intel’s Arc A750 arrives next month. | Image: IntelIntel surprised PC gamers earlier this week with $329 pricing for its top Arc A770 GPU, matching Nvidia’s RTX 3060 retail pricing. While it’s still difficult to ... read more

Peloton continues to expand outside of its own marketplace. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeIn August, Peloton partnered with Amazon to sell its bikes and other accessories and apparel via the retailer’s website ... read more

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The VergeApple’s vice president of procurement, Tony Blevins, has been fired from the company after his crude remarks in a TikTok interview went viral, according to a report from Bloomberg. ... read more

TikTok removed over 113 million video clips from April-June this year -- an 11% increase over Q1. The company says the removal of content is mostly proactive, occurring before users see harmful content. ... read more

Google announced plans to shut down its cloud gaming service Stadia on January 18, 2023, to shed costs. ... read more

Image: Epic GamesEpic Games is partnering with industry design software giant Autodesk to bring game-like graphics to architecture tools in order to visualize design concepts and plans as more immersive environments. While Autodesk architecture ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeThe Federal Trade Commission is facing mounting pressure to block Amazon’s proposed $1.65 billion purchase of iRobot, the company behind Roomba autonomous vacuums. In a letter to FTC Chair ... read more

Swipe up for more videos — where have I heard that before? | Image: TwitterTwitter is joining the bandwagon of social media companies copying TikTok’s everlasting scroll of videos. In a blog post on Thursday, ... read more

Nick Barclay / The VergeMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Thursday that the company is enacting a company-wide hiring freeze and warned them that more downsizing is likely coming. First reported by Bloomberg’s ... read more

Google’s text-to-speech tech is getting new voices across Android apps to improve clarity and sound more natural. | The VergeThe speech engine Speech Services by Google is being upgraded to improve clarity and make text-to-speech ... read more

Maybe the President won’t get away with the student loan scam. ... read more

Concept art from Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes | Image: 20th Century StudiosThe next entry in the Planet of the Apes saga will start filming soon — and it has yet another very ... read more

History and math tell us that the extraordinary market expansion that we've been experiencing isn't likely to continue. ... read more

Research conducted by cybersecurity group Ghost Data shows that 30 advertisers including Disney, NBCUniversal, Coca-Cola and a Texas-based children's hospital appeared on the pages of Twitter accounts promoting links to child pornography, according to a ... read more

Image: Ustwo Games / NetflixThe quality of Netflix games has gone from simple, cotton candy-like fluff suitable for short bursts in a waiting room to bespoke, narrative experiences that require hours of strategic thinking. Desta: ... read more

Don’t believe it when companies spin social activism as having benefits to shareholders. ... read more

A storm like Ian creates opportunities and risks and can upend the electoral landscape. ... read more

Cut out your pet and paste it into the group chat. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The VergeWhile the lock screen is one of iOS 16’s marquee features, there’s another fun addition that’s a ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeAn app appealing to the nostalgia of an Instagram without Reels and recommendations was pulled from the App Store just as developers say it was taking off. The OG ... read more

Worlds 2021 champions Edward Gaming in Iceland. | Photo by Clive Rose/Riot Games Inc. via Getty ImagesThe weather is cooling down, leaves are starting to change color, and PSLs are everywhere, which can only mean ... read more

Bowers & Wilkins’ new PX8 headphones in tan | Image: Bowers & WilkinsOn paper, there’s little to separate Bowers & Wilkins’ new PX8 headphones from the PX7 S2 model released earlier this year. Battery life ... read more

Image: AppleThe third season of Mythic Quest, the Apple TV Plus show about a group of dysfunctional video game developers, will premiere on November 11th, Apple announced on Thursday. The company’s tweet didn’t share much ... read more

Google is shutting down Stadia, its cloud gaming service. The service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023. Google will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchased through the Google Store as well as ... read more

By now, you’ve likely heard the term “data clean room.” In fact, you’re probably sick of it. But data clean rooms, like the goings-on within regulatory and self-regulatory organizations, remain largely unknown, if not downright ... read more

Waymo says it has created a new benchmark to measure the safety of its autonomous vehicles. | Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesWaymo’s latest effort to prove that autonomous vehicles are safer than silly, ... read more

Pikachu is the star of one of the biggest entertainment franchises around, and as such, he’s unsurprisingly friends with a lot of other celebrities. The electric rat includes the likes of Katy Perry and Post ... read more

LG’s OLED Flex, fully curved. | Photo by Jon Porter / The VergeLG’s OLED Flex (LX3), a bizarre 42-inch TV that can transform between a curved and flat TV at the push of a button, ... read more

Bitcoin Mining Data Centers computers are provided energy from natural gas at Renegade Oil & Gas Company site in Elizabeth, Colorado on July 15th, 2022. | Photo by Hyoung Chang / The Denver PostThe environmental ... read more

Sponsored post byRémi Lemonnierco-founder and president, ScibidsScibidsSPONSORED BY:Advertisers’ increasing reliance on paid digital advertising channels to drive brand and sales growth, coupled with looming macroeconomic uncertainty, is urging them to understand how to get more ... read more

Samar Haddad / The VergeWhether you’re recording a podcast, an interview, a message to a friend, or notes to yourself, audio recording is very easy to do on Windows. There are various third-party apps you ... read more

Photo by Edward Smith / Getty ImagesMental health technology company Headspace Health is calling for researchers to submit proposals for studies on the impact of the company’s tools. The company’s products include both the meditation ... read more