The app now suggests which speaker you might like to use. | Screenshot: YouTube MusicYouTube Music will now attempt to suggest which of your Cast-enabled speakers you want to stream music to. It’s a nice ... read more

The word “cookieless” crops up in virtually every conversation about the future of online identity. But what exactly do people mean when they say “cookieless”? Although the definition seems simple enough – the absence of ... read more

Dyson has shown off a series of prototype robots it’s developing, and announced plans to hire hundreds of engineers over the next five years in order to build robots capable of household chores. The images ... read more

Real estate franchise Coldwell Banker, like the rest of the housing biz, has been targeting buyers who might be in the market for a new abode. But due to various macroeconomic factors, the company launched ... read more

“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 Marilois Snowman, CEO and founder of Mediastruction. Let’s be honest: ... read more

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Michael Jaconi, CEO & co-founder of Button.  Customer acquisition rates are up and ROAS ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Oh, Snap Snap warned investors this week that it will miss its one-month-old revenue target, tumbling shares by more than 40% in what may ... read more

Marketers may be aware of the looming demise of third-party cookies, but they generally still seem stuck in second gear when it comes to finding new alternative solutions. That’s what a recent report from marketing ... read more

Three months after Vox Media and Group Nine’s branded content studios merged, the newly combined Vox Creative is using its different podcast ad formats to integrate audio advertising into advertisers’ campaigns or to upsell advertisers ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how Amazon, Roku and YouTube stand to play a bigger role in this year’s upfront market after leveling up in the last couple years. Upstream TVStreaming viewership ... read more

Does the red-hot world of e-commerce — estimated to be in the neighborhood of $100 billion according to Boston Consulting Group — even need its own “upfront”? Horizon Media’s topical Night Market unit certainly thinks ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeDuring its WWDC 2021 event, Apple laid down a slew of policy changes for the App Store, adjusting the rules for everything from bounty hunting to whether or not ... read more

A Black Sea mission to escort commercial ships may be needed to prevent a global food shortage. ... read more

A judge and a special master defend their revised Congressional districts. ... read more

Democrats are forcing gas stations to help in their re-election. The stations are suing. ... read more

Students discuss gun control and the Second Amendment. ... read more

A progressive Democrat seems to have defeated Kurt Schrader, one of the last Blue Dogs. ... read more

Why Elon Musk ties his free-speech fight to the collusion hoax and Hunter’s laptop. ... read more

The White House insists the border isn’t a problem, but concern is rising fast among Democrats. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeA lawsuit that accuses Tesla of fostering a workplace with “rampant” sexual harassment will continue in court after a California judge denied the company’s motion for arbitration, as first ... read more

More useful commentary from Twitter’s possible next owner. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeA group of more than 40 Democratic members of Congress has asked Google to stop collecting and retaining “unnecessary” location data out of fear that it could be used ... read more

Signaling a wider macro-view of a possible slowdown in advertising, traditional TV-based media companies' stock prices declined sharply after Snap said on Tuesday it is seeing a sharp deceleration of its digital ad revenues. MoffettNathanson ... read more

This is supposed to be pink. | Image: u/A_Giant_Baguette on RedditGoogle Pixel 6 and 6 Pro users aren’t impressed with Google’s $30 first-party cases. Looking at Reddit and reviews on Amazon, there are dozens of ... read more

Sony has had slightly more frequent restocks of its flagship console lately. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeThe latest restock of hard-to-get PlayStation 5 consoles has arrived. Sony has opened a public queue ... read more

DroneUp can deliver packages within a mile-and-a-half radius of a Walmart. | Image: WalmartWalmart announced on Tuesday that it’s planning on expanding the number of stores that offer drone-delivered packages; by the end of the ... read more

At long last.When Google and Samsung announced Wear OS 3 last year, I had lots of questions about how well Google services would run on Samsung hardware. Of Google’s expansive suite of apps, I was ... read more

Image: StellantisStellantis, the parent company of Dodge, Jeep, and Chrysler, has selected Kokomo, Indiana, as the site for its next electric vehicle battery factory. The plant will be built in partnership with South Korea’s Samsung ... read more

Trees sway in the wind from Hurricane Ida in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 29th, 2021. | Image: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesForecasters expect a busy 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, with a 65 percent ... read more

NianticNiantic made a name for itself in the mobile gaming industry through the enduring success of Pokémon Go. Now the company is hoping to become something else: a platform for other developers to build location-aware ... read more

Play the new game beginning May 31st. | Image: NetflixNetflix’s Exploding Kittens — The Game, a new mobile title based on the popular card game, will be available for free for Netflix subscribers on May ... read more

The Detect COVID-19 test is an at-home molecular test. | Image: DetectThe at-home molecular COVID-19 testing company Detect is partnering with healthcare provider Carbon Health to give customers who test positive easy access to antiviral ... read more

Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagicAfter bottomless headlines about podcast licensing deals, I guess getting acquired is cool again. Or maybe Conan is just tired. I’m tired, and I didn’t even spend three decades as the “good ... read more

The administration reacted far too slowly, but reforms can stop this from recurring. ... read more

Intended to punish Chinese panel makers, the import taxes are crushing U.S. companies and consumers. ... read more

Intended to punish Chinese panel makers, the import taxes are crushing U.S. companies and consumers. ... read more

The Microsoft Store for Windows 11. | Image: MicrosoftMicrosoft is finally adding restore apps to the Microsoft Store on Windows 11. The software maker will soon start testing a new feature that allows you to ... read more

Image: WazeWaze has finally introduced support for Apple Music on iPhones, allowing you to control your music through the navigation app’s built-in audio player. This should make it easier for you to pause, play, and ... read more

The Logitech G435 wireless headset comes in three unique colorways. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeToday’s deals kick off with some great prices on Logitech gaming and streaming gear from Amazon’s deal ... read more

The new panel will appear to the right after a Lens search. | Image: GoogleGoogle Lens, the search giant’s powerful image recognition software, is becoming slightly less cumbersome to use within the Chrome browser on ... read more

Google announced the latest updates to its shopping ad products at Google Marketing Live on Tuesday, with changes on the backend to how advertisers use its tech and on the consumer side. These changes are ... read more

The flagship Google Marketing Live conference is underway this week in which the ad industry’s largest name typically showcases its wares. This year’s installment is taking place as lawmakers and potential interlopers dial up the ... read more

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge; Photo by Oliyarnyk / CC-BY-SA-4.0With Michael Chobanian, the president of the Blockchain Association of Ukraine Continue reading… ... read more

Chris Evans as Lloyd Hansen. | NetflixIn both the Mark Greaney book, The Gray Man, and Netflix’s forthcoming movie adaptation by the Russo Brothers, one of the CIA’s most highly-trained and valuable agents becomes its ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeIt’s all about developers Continue reading… ... read more

Microsoft’s Project Volterra device. | Image: MicrosoftMicrosoft is working on native Arm64 versions of Visual Studio 2022 and VS Code. A preview version of an Arm native version of Visual Studio 2022 will be available ... read more

Windows 11 widgets. | Image: MicrosoftMicrosoft is planning to support third-party widgets inside Windows 11 later this year. At its annual Build developer conference today, the software giant says it will open up access ... read more

The new OneNote design. | Image: MicrosoftMicrosoft has started testing its new OneNote design refresh. The software maker first teased the visual update last year, revealing that it will unify its OneNote and OneNote ... read more

Image: MicrosoftMicrosoft put PCs in the cloud with Windows 365 last year, and now, it wants to entice developers to use a cloud-powered developer workstation. Microsoft Dev Box is a new cloud service that includes ... read more

Image: MicrosoftMicrosoft is adding a new Live Share feature to Microsoft Teams, which will allow participants to start co-editing or co-creating during Teams meetings. Live Share will be available through apps that integrate into Microsoft ... read more

Mike Calabro urbancamper.comSerial 1, the e-bike company spun out of Harley-Davidson nearly two years ago, unveiled another premium model designed to make you open your wallet in helpless surrender. The Bash/Mtn is the company’s first ... read more

The new game will be released one day before Amazon’s big new show. | Image: Daedalic EntertainmentThe Lord of the Rings: Gollum, the upcoming video game starring Gollum that was first revealed in 2019, will ... read more

illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeIf you’ve finally given up on the world’s most popular social media network, it’s not too complicated to remove yourself from the service. But before you delete all of ... read more

Estimate assumes Netflix can gain about 10 million paid U.S. subscribers and realize about $7 in ad revenue per AVOD subscriber. ... read more

In the new role Hagedorn is tasked with designing what the company described as "agile" and "complex' go-to-market solutions for clients. Separately, Publicis confirmed that Samantha Levine Archer, also formerly of Omnicom Media Group, joins ... read more

The standard Nova Pro is a compelling wired option, too Continue reading… ... read more

The multicultural campaign utilizes multimedia, including CTV, online video, audio, social and grassroots marketing. ... read more

The multicultural campaign utilizes multimedia, including CTV, online video, audio, social and grassroots marketing. ... read more

The multicultural campaign utilizes multimedia, including CTV, online video, audio, social and grassroots marketing. ... read more

The growing number of people who watch ad-supported streaming video gives marketers more ways to reach consumers who spend less time with traditional linear television. With the right tools, brands can gain sharper insights into ... read more

More than a quarter after a newly-public Innovid acquired TVSquared for $160 million, the companies are busy aligning their tech to offer customers a best-of-both play. TVSquared helps brands learn how TV advertising is driving ... read more

Mobile ad platform LifeStreet released a new version of its DSP on Tuesday that shows developers what’s happening behind the scenes when they make a programmatic buy. “Supply transparency is table stakes,” said CEO Levi ... read more

Conservative-leaning TV news stations and networks are coming clean with how they feel about the monetization of news as billions of political ad dollars -- destined to hit record amounts this year -- are poured ... read more

You can’t summarize the webcomic Mr. Boop better than its first panel, which emerged out of what felt like the raging id of the internet on February 28, 2020. “My wife Betty Boop is really ... read more

Remember, the x360s are the flippy ones. | Image: HPHP’s newest budget laptop, the Pavilion x360 14, will be available this summer for a starting price of $599, the company has announced. The clamshell, higher-end ... read more

Sample images from Google’s new text-to-image AI. | Image: Google (collage by The Verge)Imagen what else this thing can do Continue reading… ... read more

George Carlin's American Dream" represents a rare, in-depth look at Carlin's world, both public and private. ... read more

Microsoft’s Build social media profile template has a cute cat as a placeholder. You can download it here (warning: 75MB zip file) along with themed wallpapers and Teams backgrounds. | Screenshot: Umar Shakir / The ... read more

Probabilistic attribution is just a “stopgap,” says Simon “Bobby” Dussart, newly appointed CEO of AppLovin-owned mobile measurement and attribution company Adjust. Depending on who you ask, “probabilistic” could simply be a synonym for “fingerprinting,” but ... read more

Asus’ ROG Swift 500Hz monitor | Image: AsusNvidia and Asus are announcing the world’s first 500Hz G-Sync display at Computex 2022 today. While we saw a prototype 500Hz gaming monitor earlier this year, Asus is ... read more

Photo by Annette Riedl/picture alliance via Getty ImagesGrocery app Gorillas, which promises to deliver goods in as quickly as 10 minutes, is laying off half of its office staff. In a press release, the company ... read more

Leaked renders of Motorola’s rumored smartphone. | Image: WinFutureMotorola could have not one, but two very interesting smartphones launching in China next month. The company has teased the first in a Weibo post, which promises ... read more

See how a location has changed over time. | Image: GoogleGoogle Maps’ Street View feature is getting a couple of upgrades to celebrate the service’s 15th anniversary, the search giant announced today. The first is ... read more

Logitech’s latest computer accessories offer a quieter or more tactile way to use your computer, depending on your preferences. The new MX Master 3S is a minor update to the existing MX Master 3 mouse ... read more

“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 Marc Rossen, SVP investment and activation analytics at Omnicom Media ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Game On TikTok is testing in-app games in Vietnam and plans to push further into gaming, starting with Southeast Asia, sources tell Reuters. People ... read more

Brands pushing the envelope on social media isn’t a new concept. But as the social landscape has become more crowded and advertisers look for ways to stand out, it’s a marketing strategy that’s become even ... read more

If you start an agency in ninth grade with your buddy, and it’s still going strong decades later, you might be onto something. So it was with MichaelAaron Flicker and his agency XenoPsi, although his ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify In the roughly two years since Jason Webby joined Future plc as chief revenue officer for North America, the U.K. publisher has acquired eight companies — including ... read more

Brands are increasingly spending their gaming marketing budgets to build immersive activations inside metaverse platforms such as Roblox and Fortnite. But although these platforms can deliver tremendous traffic and engagement, actually getting those users ... read more

Almost every downturn presents an opportunity to take advantage of change and win — even for publishers. For Bloomberg Media, that opportunity is to become a bit more mainstream.  No, it’s not a new goal. ... read more

A rack full of these could hold so much liquid (and computing power). | Image: NvidiaNvidia has announced its new plan for reducing the energy use of data centers crunching massive amounts of data or ... read more

Thor: Love and Thunder | Image: MarvelThe first full trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder has arrived, and somehow found a new angle on the journey of Chris Hemsworth’s titular hero. This time around we’re ... read more

The university claims it fired me for a long-past offense—for which I was already punished—but the truth should worry everyone. ... read more

Image: StarlinkSpaceX’s Starlink is still scaling up its constellation of internet satellites, and the service is only intended for use at the specific location where the user is registered. But as we noted earlier this ... read more

Image: RodeRode is introducing a new version of its portable audio mixer console, the Rodecaster Pro, with upgraded hardware, new preamps, a load of new software features, and a subtly sleeker design. The Rodecaster Pro ... read more

The big blunder is not including the island democracy in the new Indo-Pacific economic framework. ... read more

And for doing so, Stuart Kirk was suspended by HSBC. ... read more

Klarna lost about one-third of its valuation since last year. | Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty ImagesKlarna, the Swedish “buy now, pay later” service (BNPL), announced that it’s laying off 10 percent of its ... read more

Undated ballots are the new hanging chads, as a GOP recount nears. ... read more

SpaceX President Gwynne ShotwellSpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell sent a company-wide email last week responding to a report of allegations of sexual assault against CEO Elon Musk, claiming she doesn’t believe the allegations to be true. ... read more

No more automatic leniency for the most prolific criminals. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeTikTok has announced a program that lets viewers pay to subscribe to specific live streamers they want to support. Dubbed Live Subscription, it gives fans access to perks like ... read more

Google TV profiles are now available to all users — including kids | Image: Google TVAfter being delayed for months, Google is finally rolling out its personalized profiles for Google TV “over the next few ... read more

Stare decisis is too important to be defined by such a poorly reasoned case. ... read more

The $40 billion Ukraine aid package, the latest legislation cobbled together outside the committee process, reveals a lack of trust in Washington leaders. ... read more

A Wisconsin school district opened a Title IX sexual-harassment investigation against 8th graders for calling a student ‘her’ instead of ‘them.’ ... read more

A Wisconsin school district opened a Title IX sexual-harassment investigation against 8th graders for calling a student ‘her’ instead of ‘them.’ ... read more

Biden’s foreign policy revs up but observers abroad are skeptical of an economic plan that has caused record inflation and high gas prices. ... read more

With inflation raging, the famous ‘Fed put’ to save the day with cheap money might not be available. ... read more