Costs, data accuracy, security and privacy remain some of businesses' biggest concerns around generative artificial intelligence, according to a new report. ... read more

Figma, the platform that specializes in collaborative interface design, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO). The company will trade under the ticker symbol “FIG” as it prepares to ... read more

X is launching a way for developers to create AI bots that can write Community Notes that can potentially appear on posts. Like humans, the “AI Note Writers” will be ... read more

X has named Nikita Bier as its head of product, hoping that Bier can help steer the struggling social media platform toward success using his skills as a viral app designer. ... read more

Google Home’s latest update will make it easier to decide who in your household can control your smart home. It comes with a new feature, which Google first started testing ... read more

T-Mobile is bringing some of its Uncarrier energy to Ultra Mobile, the carrier’s international-focused MVNO that operates on its network. It announced that its plans now have slightly higher data ... read more

Senate Republicans today passed a sweeping spending bill that narrowly avoided punitive tax measures on renewable energy but still threatens to stall its growth in the US.  After wrangling over ... read more

"Google charges the customer for alleged clicks on keywords that Google refuses to disclose and for which the customer is unable to tell what it paid for," PVC Fence alleges in a class-action complaint filed ... read more

Grammarly plans to acquire the buzzy email app Superhuman, according to a press release.  Email is already the “number-one use case” of Grammarly for professional users, the company says, with ... read more

Earlier this year, Sonos permanently dropped the price of its Era 100 speaker to $199, making it more affordable for people looking to build a multiroom wireless speaker setup. Now, ... read more

The MLS Season Pass grants access to this summer’s All Star-Game and Leagues Cup tournament. Major League Soccer (MLS) is now nearly halfway through its 2025 season, and Apple is ... read more

Laptop Mag is shutting down after nearly 35 years of providing consumers with in-depth information about laptops and other technology. In a staff meeting seen by The Verge, Faisal Alani, ... read more

CANNES – With more than 100,000 active communities, social platform Reddit has become a digital ecosystem where authentic conversations thrive, and where marketers must tread carefully if they want to connect with consumers. “People come ... read more

The headphones lay flat in their case, which is pretty slim. | Photo: Owen Grove / The Verge Nothing's first pair of over-the-ear headphones has arrived, bearing the company's signature ... read more

Nothing has launched its first pair of over-ear headphones, imaginatively named the Headphone 1. At $299, these are priced to compete with flagship fare, distinguished primarily by their distinctive Nothing ... read more

“The Glyph interface is not a gimmick,” Nothing founder and CEO Carl Pei told the press as he revealed the Nothing Phone 3 for the first time, shortly before announcing ... read more

CANNES — In a media landscape flooded with fleeting trends and fragmented audiences, Fandom’s Chief Revenue Officer Jeremy Steinberg says the wiki platform offers something marketers crave: direct access to the heart of pop culture, ... read more

CANNES – YouTube presents a unique challenge for marketers. It’s television, radio, retail media, and creator commerce all rolled into one platform. As John Cobb, CEO and co-founder of VuePlanner, most advertisers aren’t set up ... read more

Apple is suing a former employee for allegedly stealing confidential Vision Pro headset research before leaving to join Snap’s product design team. In the complaint filed in Santa Clara County ... read more

AT&T is launching a new Account Lock feature that’s designed to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks. The feature, which you can enable from the myAT&T app, prevents unauthorized ... read more

Threads has officially launched direct messaging for everyone. You can now privately message other users on the Meta-owned X rival, though Threads will only allow DMs between your followers or ... read more

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington in March. | Image: Andrew Harnik / Getty Images Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s dysfunctional cycle of fighting ... read more

Casio’s $120 CRW001-1 (AKA the Ring Watch) is back in stock on Casio’s website for the first time since it launched — then swiftly sold out — in December. The ... read more

As previews for Donkey Kong Bananza come in ahead of the game’s July 17th release date, one tidbit has stood out on the development of this game. It’s been several ... read more

Attorneys for California resident Michael Salazar are urging the Supreme Court to leave in place a ruling that revived his video privacy claims against the National Basketball Association. ... read more

The Federal Communications Commission will suspend the enforcement of a rule that would lower the price of prison phone and video calls. On Monday, the Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr ... read more

The security measures for Australians are based on an online safety regulation, which the eSafety Commissioner developed with tech companies, and will affect advertising and media buying. ... read more

Allison Johnson is a reviewer for The Verge who writes about phones and mobile technology. “Occasionally,” she adds, “I yell at your wireless carrier.” I asked her if there were ... read more

And more ads are coming to AMC’s preshow. | Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images AMC Theatres is making it easier for moviegoers to know the actual start time of ... read more

The US Senate has voted overwhelmingly to remove a moratorium on states regulating AI systems from the Republican “big, beautiful bill.” Legislators agreed by a margin of 99 to 1 ... read more

As promised, the first trailer for director Edgar Wright’s take on Stephen King’s novel The Running Man is here — and it looks like a playful throwback to ‘80s action ... read more

One way to think about the tech industry is just as a series of people trying to build stuff they saw in movies. Ready Player One helped kick of a ... read more

Several moments of my two-hour hands-on preview of Donkey Kong Bananza felt like I was playing the gritty 2009 action game Red Faction: Guerilla - except this time I was ... read more

Google hasn’t shown Keep much love since bringing it to Apple Watch in 2019. The Google graveyard has claimed another victim: the company has killed the Apple Watch version of ... read more

Nice generative AI platform you have there. Would be a real shame if the RIAA… happened to it. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Sure, everyone hates ... read more

Elon Musk announced last week that X will begin charging brands based on the size of their ad. ... read more

In what might be the most drawn-out run of a TV show in history, "The Comeback" is coming back next year for only its third season in 21 years. ... read more

In-theatre advertising, according to long-held research, has been a plus for marketers: a captive audience that cannot fast-forward or skip commercial content results in higher overall revenue. ... read more

On June 2nd, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy traveled to Newark Liberty International Airport to celebrate the reopening of runway 4L-22R. This was unusual: few runway openings are glamorous enough ... read more

The major internet architecture provider Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or compensation,” according to an announcement on ... read more

Tinder is trialing mandatory facial recognition security features in the US to verify profiles and crack down on impersonation and fake accounts. New users in California are now required to ... read more

Sources tell Digiday that Integral Ad Science has entertained suggestions of splitting from Publica, amid further speculation of take-private plans. At the same time, there is consistent speculation that Criteo is considering a potential ... read more

Welcome to the era of the ad network arms race. Over the past year, retail media and other ad networks have been pulling out all the stops to convince media buyers that they’ve evolved from ... read more

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. TV and streaming are one and the same in the eyes of today’s consumers, and, therefore, marketers. As a ... read more

Advertisers aren’t feeling the direct blow of generative AI on traffic the way publishers are. But they see what’s coming. Tripadvisor, for one, is already adjusting its strategy as the foundation of search starts to ... read more

Valve has added a new performance monitor to Steam that can help you understand why a game may or may not be running smoothly. Not only does it break out ... read more

AT&T believes its network wasn’t at fault for a conference call where President Donald Trump accused the company of being “totally unable to make their equipment work properly.” Instead, AT&T ... read more

Apple is considering enlisting the help of OpenAI or Anthropic to power its AI-upgraded Siri, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. As Apple continues to struggle with the ... read more

Finding a Nintendo Switch 2 hasn’t been easy since its launch on June 5th, with sporadic availability over the past few weeks at various retailers. Luckily, if you’ve missed chances ... read more

This is what a Switch 2 looks like with a glossy glass protector attached to its screen. | Image: Cameron Faulkner/The Verge A glass screen protector is one of a ... read more

The US Department of Justice notched an initial win in its antitrust case against Apple today, with a federal judge rejecting Apple’s attempt to dismiss the lawsuit outright. The government’s ... read more

Later this summer NASA Plus’ live programming will be available on Netflix. | Image: NASA Since it launched in November 2023, you could catch everything from rocket launches to documentaries ... read more

In a memo to Meta staff, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s new “Meta Superintelligence Labs” group that will head up its AI work, Bloomberg reports. Former Scale AI CEO ... read more

A summer camping trip is the perfect excuse to stop staring at screens, but it doesn’t mean you need to go completely off the grid. Jackery’s Explorer 1000 Power Station ... read more

Microsoft will soon no longer let you use its Authenticator app to store or autofill passwords. Starting in July, you won’t be able to autofill saved passwords using Authenticator, and ... read more

Michael Silberman, evp of media strategy, Piano Between AI search summaries and declining referrals from social media, publishers are feeling the pressure when it comes to site traffic. Piano’s data backs this up: Between 2022 ... read more

CANNES – Retail media continues to evolve at breakneck speed, and according to Epsilon’s Austin Leonard, the future of the space depends on one thing: identity, powered by AI and fueled by creative innovation. Leonard, ... read more

CANNES – Best Buy is betting on its deep customer relationships, high-quality data and expanding partnerships to grow its retail media business, said Jen Jensen, vice president of agency partnerships at the electronics chain. She ... read more

CANNES – Nearly a decade after helping pioneer dynamic creative in advertising, Diaz Nesamoney, founder and chief executive of Jivox, says retail media is redefining the industry, and his company is evolving to meet the ... read more

Date Everything! isn't the dating sim it appears to be. Though the game's cutesy art style and lighthearted premise indicate an unserious game that's making yet another joke at the ... read more

Kallie Plagge, The Verge’s senior copy editor, has been working in the media for over 10 years now, mainly at gaming websites. She was primarily a video game critic for ... read more

The Insta360 Link 2 is more than just a webcam — it’s a smart camera that actively follows your movements whether you’re presenting, streaming, or pacing during a call. It’s ... read more

The Supreme Court will hear Cox Communications' appeal of a decision holding it responsible for illegal music downloads by broadband subscribers. ... read more

Google’s watchOS Calendar app isn’t as robust as the Apple Watch’s native one. | Image: Apple After retreating from watchOS several years ago, Google now only offers a handful of ... read more

The most recent executive order issued by Trump pushes the deadline to sell or ban the app in the U.S. another 90 days, until September 17. ... read more

Epistemic insecurity is the condition we're all living in -- where people no longer know whom to trust or what to believe. ... read more

Automattic’s plan to move Tumblr’s backend over to WordPress is now “on hold,” Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg says in a Decoder episode published today. The company announced the ... read more

Apple Music users may see this notification message inviting them to listen to the new Replay All Time playlist. Apple Music is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its streaming service ... read more

Canada has scrapped its tax targeting Big Tech companies in the US after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off trade talks in response to the fee. On Sunday, the ... read more

It's been more than a decade since Apple unveiled the original version of CarPlay. In that time, the system has become indispensable for countless drivers all over the world. But ... read more

Stocklytics, a platform that provides insights for stock market analysis and investments, and Emarketer have released bold predictions for generative AI growth and use. ... read more

The U.S. ad market improved slightly in May, which expanded 4.4% over the same month a year earlier. While an improvement over April's 3.4% expansion, U.S. ad growth remains tepid and in line with recent ... read more

Today, I’m talking with Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, Tumblr, and a whole host of other products like the new cross-platform messaging ... read more

The new Gemini tab for educators in Google Classroom. Google is announcing a variety of new features for its Classroom software suite, including free Gemini AI tools for educators and ... read more

The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a ruling that threw out the Children's Health Defense's claims against Meta over alleged censorship. ... read more

Apple is rumored to launch a lighter — and cheaper — version of the Vision Pro. Apple seems to have big plans to expand its lineup of extended-reality (XR) devices ... read more

In this mid-year update, AI brand whisperer Josh Lovison shares his most recent findings probing what AI really thinks about big consumer brands, with some surprising results. ... read more

Snapchat users sent more than 2.5 billion voice notes during the first quarter of 2025. ... read more

CFS is building its pilot fusion plant in Devens, Massachusetts. Google has agreed to purchase electricity from a forthcoming nuclear fusion power plant, the so-called holy grail of clean energy ... read more

In Project Hail Mary Ryan Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a science teacher who finds themselves a reluctant astronaut on a mission to save Earth’s dying sun. | Screenshot: YouTube Following ... read more

Industry veterans Krish Kuruppath, Jeremy Flynn and Allan Johnson, all in new roles, report to Domenic Venuto, executive vice president-Chief Product & Data Officer. ... read more

AI is being hyped as the magic tool to give SMBs a lift in competition, but a recent study of 750 small and medium-sized businesses suggests otherwise. ... read more

AI is being hyped as the magic tool to give SMBs a lift in competition, but a recent study of 750 small and medium size businesses suggest otherwise. ... read more

Canada withdrew its digital services tax set to take effect Monday that would have affected companies such as Google, Microsoft and Meta Platforms. DST had been in the works for years. ... read more

Check your Anker power banks to see if they carry any of these model numbers. Anker has issued its second product recall so far this month, warning customers that five ... read more

Integral Ad Science on Monday announced a partnership with Snap and Lumen Research to launch Snap Attention Measurement, a tool that brings attention metrics, not just viewability, to Snapchat ads. ... read more

Jimmy Fallon's new ad-biz reality show might be of keen interest to the industry, but can it draw the interest where it matters most - the general public? ... read more

Integral Ad Science on Monday announced a partnership with Snap and Lumen Research to launch Snap Attention Measurement, a tool that brings attention metrics, not just viewability, to Snapchat ads. ... read more

When Ela Darling began performing in porn at the tail end of the 2000s, tube sites like Pornhub were relatively new, and major studios like Vivid and Digital Playground still ... read more

Joby Aviation is getting ready to take flight. The electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) company has delivered its first production aircraft to Dubai, where it plans to launch a ... read more

Serious security flaws have been found in hundreds of Brother printer models that could allow attackers to remotely access devices that are still using default passwords. Eight new vulnerabilities, one ... read more

Spotify is adding new personalization features to Discover Weekly, the popular and influential playlist streamed by millions of users. The regularly updated playlist will now have buttons for genres like ... read more

Faceless creators are taking over social media. Now, they’re coming for brands’ influencer marketing dollars. Influencer and creator marketing is steadily gaining ground in ad budgets — Unilever, for example, plans to significantly boost spending ... read more

Roblox is officially the home of the most popular video game of all time — but marketers are still unsure of the platform’s value as an advertising channel. This is despite a recent boom in ... read more

Today’s teens and twentysomethings are the future of TV audiences. So it’s always worth keeping current on what’s keeping — or has lost — their attentions. At this year’s VidCon — the annual Comic-Con for ... read more

Integral Ad Science, a publicly listed ad tech company with a market capitalization exceeding $1 billion, is the subject of a potential takeover by private equity, according to recent reports — but interest is wavering. ... read more

Two years after its launch, The Trade Desk’s Kokai tool has acquired a mixed reputation among the agency media buyers it was designed for. Kokai was supposed to be the DSP titan’s next shield against ... read more

While TikTok’s U.S. lifespan remains uncertain, the entertainment app is firmly focused on its future. “When I met with TikTok last week, they were talking me through their product roadmap for the rest of the ... read more

The movie bested the Apple-produced 2023 film debuts "Killers of the Flower Moon," with a $34 million opening, and "Napoleon," which came in at $30.8 million. ... read more

The movie bested the Apple-produced 2023 film debuts "Killers of the Flower Moon," with a $34 million opening, and "Napoleon," which came in at $30.8 million. ... read more